Chapter 171 - Arduous Training Part 1
The girls didn’t dare hold back against each other. Their levels of understanding towards each other were unlike any others’. They had always trained together since they were 8 years old. During the last 2-3 years, they had been together day and night. They knew as much about each other as they knew themselves.
If they were faced against other people, perhaps they would brazenly keep their cloaks on while battling. However, faced against each other, where there was little difference between their strengths, they didn’t dare to keep their cloaks on. Wearing the cloaks barely affected them, but in this situation, the slightest bit of difference could determine the outco of the battle!
Finally, the two girls slowly removed their cloaks under everyone’s gazes. Imdiately…two bright glows shone in the center of the arena. When the audience saw the two human-shaped glows, they were instantly shocked!
“That…what is that?” The headmaster stood up in astonishnt as he stared at the two figures in disbelief.
Suo Jia glanced at the headmaster while shaking his head with a bitter smile. He knew…that an entire set of Legendary ranked equipnt was indeed extrely terrifying. Moreover, two complete sets had just appeared at the sa ti!
Most importantly, these two Legendary ranked equipnt sets were glittering. Although all magic equipnts Legendary-ranked and above glowed in so way…it was normally a faint, hazy light. It was definitely not like the eye-piercing, bright glow that these sets had.
A linkage was necessary for the equipnt to light up like this. The two sets had linked closely together, which was why they glowed so intensely. Moreover, the glows covered the girls from head to toe. It was evident that they did not only have Legendary ranked equipnt, but a completely linked Legendary equipnt set!
Dumbfounded, the headmaster said to Suo Jia incredulously, “That isn’t possible. How exactly did you do that? This is the first ti I ever heard that Legendary-ranked equipnt sets can form links!”
Suo Jia rely smiled in reply as he continued to gaze at the girls. Those two equipnt sets had used up an entire year of Suo Jia’s inco. This also included the hundreds of thousands of riches that the Angels groups had earned!
Indeed, going by typical thods, it was impossible to collect an entirely linked equipnt set. However, Suo Jia had used his great wealth to achieve it; moreover, he had compiled two completely linked sets! Historically, these two sets were the only Legendary ranked equipnt sets that had ever been completely linked!
Suo Jia’s thod was extrely simple. No matter who it was, as long as they had a water elental Legendary ranked equipnt, it would be exchanged at the White Villa for two things. Faced with such benefits, nobody could possibly reject the offer. One piece of equipnt could be exchanged for two; this kind of offer was sothing that even idiots wouldn’t refuse.
Thus, during the past 6 months, Suo Jia had gathered a total of over 2000 pieces of water elental Legendary ranked equipnt. This number already far surpassed the total number of Legendary ranked equipnt within Holy Light Empire by around four tis. It could be seen that this movent had shaken the entire world!
Of course, Suo Jia alone didn’t have that great of an ability, nor did he have much credibility. Only after paying a large amount of promised fees and costs did Suo Jia earn the Adventure Union’s protection, which allowed him to go through with this operation.
From amidst the 2000 pieces of Legendary ranked equipnt, Suo Jia chose out 2 sets that were comprised of 40 interlinked pieces of Legendary ranked equipnt. Not only were they linked, they were also extrely compatible with each other. This ford the most well fitted, most powerful linkages! Swapping around and pairing two equipnt set pieces for all possible combinations had taken 3 months’ ti. After all 2000 Legendary equipnt sets had been assembled appropriately, the completely linked Legendary equipnt sets had appeared.
Everyone knew that Legendary ranked magic equipnts were 20% or more powerful than Epic ranked equipnts in terms of boosting effects. Now that completely linked sets had appeared, these effects had exponentially increased even further. In terms of might, it had already surpassed Epic ranked equipnts by around 50%-60%. The only thing that it was lacking was the ability to aid advancing in training, which was inferior to an Epic ranked equipnt’s ability by 50%.
However, that was the only thing. These two equipnt sets could already be on par with the Atlantis set. Their total power was both 200. The difference was that the Legendary ranked equipnt set had 150 in magic formidability, and 50 in accelerating training, while Epic ranked equipnt had 100 in magic formidability, and 100 is accelerating training. Which one was better or worse couldn’t exactly be judged.
While everyone was thinking this, the two girls had already begun fighting. Under everyone’s gazes, both parties began to fiercely burst out attacks at each other. Ice Arrow, World of Ice and Snow, Rainstorm, Water Arrow…various types of magics whizzed back and forth between the two people, exploding around each other. At that mont, it was completely impossible to differentiate the outco of the battle.
These basic magics weren’t the only things flying about. After their equipnts had linked completely, the two girls’ magic hadn’t only beco more formidable, but their activation speeds had also increased. More importantly, the linking granted them the ability to activate large-scale AOE magic attacks that were beyond powerful! The audience could only dumbly watch the scene in front of them.
“Ai…” Suo Jia sighed and shook his head as he watched the two girls blast attacks at each other. Originally…he had thought that the outco would’ve been able to be determined by this point. However, he hadn’t imagined that there still wouldn’t be a difference to be seen, and that the result would remain unknown. If a clear outco wanted to be known, both sides would have to suffer in the end!
If Suo Jia could see this, the headmaster and referee could obviously tell as well. No matter how formidable Suo Jia was, he was still, after all, very young. How could the 80 so year old headmaster and the 60 so year old referee be any inferior? In terms of experience and knowledge alone, Suo Jia was still very lacking.
“Dong!” A loud sound of a bell rang out, and the two girls unwillingly stopped. This was a rule of the tournant; once the bell rang, any that dared to continue moving would imdiately be stripped of their qualifications to participate in the competition, and must forfeit the match! That’s why nobody dared to violate the rules. Once they lost the competition, they’d essentially be losing a noble rank. Who dared to risk such a thing?
Seeing the two girls stop, the referee tilted his head, and then said a few words to the headmaster. Afterwards…the referee gravely turned around and declared the outco of the battle as…a tie! Neither of the girls needed to lose their a noble rank, nor would they gain one.
Aimi and Aila could only bitterly smile at each other at this result as they helplessly exchanged glances. They knew that although in terms of skills, the two had so faint differences, with respect to this competition alone, Aila undoubtedly predominated. An ice mage was more suitable for single-elimination open tournants like these, while water mages were more suited for group battles!
However, after the appearance of two completely linked Legendary ranked equipnt sets, there was absolutely no way of determining who was stronger. Their abilities were still unable to allow them to break through the defenses of the completely linked Legendary equipnt. Continuing to blast attacks at each other would be aningless.
Of course, people could say that in such a case, they could just remove their equipnts and fight. However, this clashed with Suo Jia’s opinion. To him, a person’s strength didn’t rely on just their physical body. True strength depended on a person’s original strength with the addition of the might of magic equipnt and one’s ability to utilize it.
This is like comparing two miners. You cannot ask both parties to throw away their picks and fight with their bare fists. Although it may be fair, the outco wouldn’t be reliant on the two people’s true strengths!
Actually, Suo Jia wasn’t the only one who thought that way. The academy, as well as the entire world, thought the sa. When two people were dueling, prohibiting magic equipnt was pointless. As long as one side could kill the opponent, they could use whatever they wanted. In the first place, magic equipnt was a factor in one’s strength.
Perhaps people would look down on Suo Jia, since he had so stupid money that just served to show off that he was a hedonistic son of rich parents. If he was stripped of his money, his formidability might cease to exist.
However, Suo Jia completely ignored such discussions. These magic equipnts weren’t things that he just picked up. For the sake of exchanging several equipnts, Suo Jia had used up a whole year’s worth of his inco to obtain the pieces of those two Legendary ranked equipnt sets. Such great investnts would naturally give back rewards. Good tools were the prerequisite to the successful execution of a job, after all.
Although Suo Jia was not satisfied with the outco of the competition, he didn’t really want the girls to keep going until a victor erged. Sotis, being locked at a stalemate would motivate the two girls’ fighting spirits, and make them more determined to surpass each other’s targets. This would make them work even harder.
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