TOMWDET Chapter 205

Battle Against the [Tiger] (2)

 

This was a battle that, whether viewed from a cognitive or practical perspective, was meant to kill each other.

 

And this battle officially began at this moment.

 

Unlike what others might have thought—that Clemens might not deliver fatal blows—when Su Li stood in opposition to the [Tiger], he knew this was a life-and-death battle.

 

Clemens was filled with fighting spirit, and Su Li was not to be outdone.

 

Although there was one thing Su Li had never spoken of in this already blood-soaked world, he was actually quite clear that human nature inherently possessed destructiveness.

 

Su Li’s desire to kill Clemens, beyond the rational judgment of his mission objectives and the emotional desire to avenge other humans, was still largely driven by Su Li’s own personal desire to kill him.

 

The dark elements, black as thick ink, after being gathered by Clemens, spread out again not long after.

 

However, this time the spread was not to block light elements—this time he was simply trying to obstruct Su Li’s vision.

 

Su Li was human, a human who, despite having advanced combat awareness, could not escape certain natural limitations.

 

For instance, he had never been able to directly stare at the sun like the humans of this world could…

 

As soon as the scene before his eyes went black, Su Li’s mind had already constructed a complete model of the environment he and his opponent occupied.

 

Dark elements covered Su Li’s vision, yet Clemens did not choose long-range elemental attacks.

 

The possibility of evasion was too great; long-range attacks, unless unavoidable, were merely a waste of elements.

 

Daylight prevented Clemens from having powerful suppressive firepower.

 

Therefore, Clemens would only choose to engage Su Li in close combat after Su Li could no longer see.

 

With his vision completely black, Su Li treated himself as if he were blind.

 

He did something that seemed, in Clemens’ view, completely inappropriate.

 

Su Li had cheated.

 

Su Li chose to remove his glasses.

 

Clemens never expected Su Li would do this!

 

Because in his view, Su Li removing his glasses essentially meant ignoring his existing elemental intensity characteristics.

 

Su Li’s body stored massive amounts of different elemental systems, and these elements should have been the most suitable weapons for Su Li.

 

Whether humans or monster beasts, their judgment of Su Li was unanimous: Su Li’s greatest advantage was not close combat, but ranged output.

 

Su Li himself thought so too.

 

After all, being in a game-related profession, one had to understand the popular game IPs on the market.

 

And in PVP game battles, Su Li was indeed more skilled with various ranged output characters.

 

But being skilled didn’t mean Su Li was completely ignorant of close combat.

 

Creating games was an interesting process. Although Su Li mostly worked on storylines and character development, during the 996 work schedule, other colleagues didn’t mind Su Li observing when they designed skills for characters in martial arts games and tested skill effects.

 

Those tests, those gorgeous yet graceful combat processes with tremendous destructive power, all went through computer human body calculations.

 

In other words, those were combat techniques that didn’t violate human physical characteristics.

 

This meant Su Li could do them too.

 

Elements made Su Li’s body a tool for Su Li’s consciousness.

 

Moreover, this body was originally constructed based on the elemental foundation of this world.

 

During the process of being manipulated by elements, while being guided by Su Li’s will, the young man evaded the [Tiger]’s direct attack aimed at his neck with a posture that he himself had somewhat anticipated, but which left Clemens with an expression of obvious surprise upon completion.

 

This was a life-and-death battle.

 

So from the very beginning, Clemens had already constructed various methods to kill Su Li in his mind.

 

Su Li’s response to this was that he had no response.

 

Because Su Li also wanted to kill him, and felt his blood boiling at the thought of killing him.

 

This wasn’t excitement, but Su Li could feel that compared to his usual calm composure, his body temperature was rapidly rising.

 

Su Li grabbed Clemens’ wrist, forcefully twisted it, then desperately bent it upward.

 

At this moment, Su Li wasn’t even clear whether his brain had defeated reason, or if reason and his brain had fallen out and both given up.

 

Reason: Feline joints are obviously different from human ones.

 

Brain: What do feline joints have to do with Clemens in human form?

 

But in the end, reason won over the brain.

 

Su Li actively pushed back Clemens’ originally stressed hand.

 

Not knowing if his brain’s reaction speed had been enhanced to the point where the CPU was about to burn out, Su Li could even see Clemens’ slightly widened eyes and his subsequently slightly opened mouth.

 

In human terms, he first showed disbelief with a surprised expression, then raised his guard, wary that Su Li might use this action to launch other attacks…

 

Su Li’s reaction speed at this moment had already surpassed Clemens’ by three times.

 

After this series of thoughts flashed through the young man’s mind, he used the [Tiger]’s upward lifting force to press down on Clemens’ upper arm, lifted his own body, and forcibly attacked the [Tiger]’s eyeball.

 

Clemens indeed shook off Su Li and quickly retreated, the wary expression on his face becoming increasingly obvious.

 

At this time, even the air was filled with various dangerous scents.

 

Su Li stood in place, methodically putting his glasses back on, while keeping the corner of his eye focused on Clemens’ movements. Then Su Li noticed his hand moved.

 

Even before the clear gesture was made, Su Li already knew he intended to launch a long-range dark element attack on Su Li.

 

To dodge or not to dodge?

 

Su Li’s choice was not to dodge.

 

Su Li’s body contained too many elements, and they were too complex. Once they collided with dark elements, although they wouldn’t easily obscure Su Li’s vision like they did to Clemens, these elements would also clearly interfere with the [Tiger]’s vision.

 

Especially since Su Li could simultaneously control light elements and water elements.

 

When chopsticks are inserted into a water cup, what people see has obvious displacement.

 

Su Li made contact with that attack, Su Li deviated from the [Tiger]’s sight point, Su Li aimed at his ankle…

 

This time Su Li’s target wasn’t to directly kill him, but to first reduce his mobility.

 

Inappropriately, Su Li thought of the image of a cat toying with a mouse.

 

The difference was that Su Li was now human, not a cat, nor a mouse, while what Su Li faced was a tiger among felines.

 

Su Li restrained his thoughts that no one could detect.

 

He approached Clemens at lightning speed.

 

Only when Su Li was right before him did the [Tiger] accurately discover Su Li’s figure.

 

Those violently contracting pupils were truly interesting.

 

Su Li first feinted an attack on his chest, then after his left arm’s offensive was blocked, his right hand directly condensed a short sword, attempting to stab the [Tiger] in the abdomen.

 

But this attack was forced to deviate due to Clemens aiming at the young man’s lower body.

 

The [Tiger] thought he had dodged this attack and was counterattacking.

 

But in fact, Su Li was aiming neither at his chest nor his abdomen—but at his ankle.

 

The elemental blade that had condensed into solid form began to fall. In just an instant, less than half a second, Su Li had already used Clemens’ attack on his lower body to jump up forcefully.

 

Until that short sword fell to a height ten centimeters above Clemens’ ankle.

 

Bicycle kick.

 

For Su Li, who didn’t watch much soccer, this was still a relatively impressive and cool move.

 

Su Li’s choice was to use the back of his foot to drive that elemental short sword firmly into his ankle before Clemens could connect with his next move.

 

To ensure he could truly restrict his movement, during this period, Su Li used a large amount of elements. The purpose of these elements was simply to allow the short sword formed by less than one-tenth of those elements to, through the refraction of water and light elements, prevent Clemens from judging the accurate drop position.

 

Of course, the sound of falling objects might only be heard by humans when they hit the ground, but for monster beasts, this sound was obvious enough for Clemens to locate by sound, so—

 

Su Li needed a second elemental short sword.

 

It had to form in an extremely short time, had to have sufficient elemental density to penetrate Clemens’ ankle, also had to make Clemens only able to receive the second blade’s attack at close range, and had to restrict his other limbs so he couldn’t defend in time.

 

Su Li accomplished all of this.

 

Just when Clemens thought the falling blade would be picked up by the tumbling Su Li in the air and gripped in his hand to attack his neck from above, the second blade formed and shot fiercely toward his ankle.

 

The distance between them was very close.

 

Clemens’ muffled groan sounded in Su Li’s ears. Su Li guessed that perhaps all his bones and tendons were broken, maybe there was also obvious bloody explosive damage.

 

After all, although the elemental short sword was a sword, it was still essentially an element.

 

However, shortly after, Su Li was also forced to bear the close-range attack of a monster beast’s inhuman constitution.

 

Clemens aimed at Su Li’s chest.

 

Without any acting or calculation, he directly slapped Su Li flying with one strike.

 

Of course, Su Li stabilized his body.

 

Not only was his posture not disheveled, he even cleanly suspended himself in the air more than two meters high.

 

Su Li could fly.

 

Elements had extremely strong plasticity; massive wind elements were enough to lift Su Li, an underaged person weighing less than one hundred pounds.

 

His reaction was also quick.

 

After achieving his goal, he instantly wrapped himself with a large amount of elements, so even when knocked flying, it only made Su Li’s hair somewhat disheveled.

 

To prevent obstructed vision, Su Li condensed water elements into water and forcefully swept his hair back.

 

What he didn’t know was that in the eyes of all the spectators and his opponent, they all discovered a quality in Su Li that the young man had never shown before.

 

That was wildness.

 

Wild and unrestrained, which could also be described as uninhibited.

 

But Su Li didn’t care about those things; all he cared about was how to kill the enemy before him.

 

As a modern person, the young man shouldn’t have had such heavy killing intent, but once truly in this life-or-death battlefield, rational thinking and judgment in the brain were all connected to instinct.

 

Their purpose was all to keep Su Li alive.

 

And the best way to keep Su Li alive was to kill his opponent.

 

Lan Zhe in the distance sighed. “What a fearsome battle.”

 

Roy: “Looking at how you’re trembling all over, this fear has been filled by excitement too, hasn’t it?”

 

Egbert: “I’ve never seen Lord Su Li in such a dangerous state; even Su Li has become excited.”

 

Qi: “Su Li only feels that approaching means being killed…”

 

Raven: “To be precise, any guy who threatens Su Li’s life safety and intentionally shows threat to his life will trigger this instinctual self-survival consciousness. Afterward, it allows Su Li to become a powerful warrior with comprehensive qualities in an extremely short time.”

 

Long-range offense, close-range defense, without any flaws.

 

Raven praised. “Any negligence or underestimation will become the root of the [Tiger]’s defeat.”

 

During these people’s conversation, Su Li and Clemens engaged in dozens more rounds of combat.

 

The brain’s processing speed and the terrifying plasticity of elements both greatly enhanced Su Li’s reaction ability.

 

The former let Su Li understand how to attack, while the latter maximally realized all the former’s various concepts.

 

Su Li’s body was like being divided into three entities.

 

Brain, body, and elements.

 

Su Li condensed elements into a long sword; he didn’t create any elemental characteristics on it.

 

This sword wasn’t metal, but it was very much like an ordinary metal sword.

 

Because it had no magical elemental effects.

 

Almost as Su Li gripped the sword in his hand and prepared to charge forward, Clemens said: “Such a weapon can’t break through my defense.”

 

“You can try it,” Su Li revealed a smile that didn’t indicate happiness.

 

Just as Clemens would use different speech speeds and some subtle body movements to attract attention, Su Li could actually do these things too, and even better than him.

 

Like Su Li’s current smile, like Su Li seemingly not considering how wind pressure would cause deceleration effects on wide-open movements during rapid charging, and also like Su Li’s hair that had long been soaked with water.

 

He knew all of these things.

 

Like now, Clemens thought Su Li wanted to engage in close combat with him.

 

Because all of Su Li’s posture and consciousness, even that mysterious aura, were conveying this information.

 

But once they truly engaged, Clemens discovered that Su Li used unimaginably little force.

 

That sword, which looked no different from a metal blade, instantly became elements again, and even transformed into chains in a moment, restraining the foot he had previously blown up.

 

Very frustrating.

 

This was the ability to read people’s expressions that Su Li had finally acquired—understanding the meaning of pie charts in others’ eyes.

 

Although it was only for an instant before Clemens hid all his emotions.

 

The subsequent combat, due to his full-power violent actions, made it impossible for Su Li to perform overly delicate operations.

 

The saying “overwhelming force defeats ten skills” had its own logic and reasoning.

 

So Su Li could only directly confront Clemens head-on, like the gaming term “mid-lane showdown.”

 

Collision, explosion.

 

Elements entangled, figures concealed.

 

No one knew how long this battle lasted. Su Li’s strength showed no obvious consumption, but Clemens’ recovery speed obviously couldn’t keep up with this level of energy waste.

 

However, the [Tiger] wasn’t entirely without advantages—

 

For instance, now it was getting dark.

 

Darkness meant the entire world would become Clemens’ simple domain.

 

You should know that during the high-speed combat movements of daylight, in the process of continuous mutual combat lasting several hours, Clemens only found one opportunity to jump out from Su Li’s shadow.

 

Then he directly collided head-on with a net woven by Su Li using light elements.

 

Su Li guessed that the daytime actions should make the [Tiger] not dare to jump out from Su Li’s shadow position at night.

 

But now Clemens possessed the possibility of jumping out from any position. Su Li’s feet, the sky, the full 360 degrees around him…

 

All of these became dangerous indicators.

 

But it still wasn’t enough; the [Spirit] hadn’t appeared yet.

 

Clemens also hadn’t been forced to reveal his true form.

 

Su Li needed to use sufficient, powerful force that Clemens couldn’t resist to bring him a kind of impact.

 

To make him unable to even raise the will to resist.

 

To make him only able to watch helplessly as his weapon was about to penetrate his divine core…

 

Only this way could make the [Spirit] appear.