“Did you deliver them all?” Seeing that Little Squirrel had also returned safely, Qin Lun relaxed and leaned back on the sofa, smiling as he looked at the surveillance projection in front of him. He had played all the cards in his hand now; the outco depended on what happened next.
He originally had five Treasure Map Fragnts left, then he tore the two larger ones into smaller pieces, making seven fragnts in total. Besides giving three to three of the six top fighters, he sent the four smaller ones to other directions in the Domination War area.
Qin Lun chose two ideal opponents to fight each other, but he couldn’t just go to them directly. First, his own combat strength wasn’t high enough. Second, he had to consider whether soone else might try to take advantage and intervene mid-fight.
So before joining any battle, he had to fulfill two conditions. First, weaken his opponents. Then, try to eliminate any interference that might occur during the fight, creating the most ideal duel environnt for himself.
With the resources Qin Lun currently had, he could pull this off. Through days of surveillance, he had observed the daily activity areas of the six top fighters and the gathering spots of the other surviving Apostles.
This gave him a chance to arrange for the six top fighters to fight each other in pairs. While weakening them, he could also create opportunities to swoop in and benefit.
As for the other surviving Apostles, Qin Lun’s plan was simple. Use the remaining Treasure Map Fragnts to lure them away from the six top fighters’ battle locations, trying to create a relatively fair duel setting for the top fighters.
Currently, there were about fifty-so surviving Apostles left in this Domination War area. The central area was dominated by the six top fighters, who were closest to the surveillance zone of the Underground Research Facility. The other Apostles were scattered in the four corners of the Domination War area. Besides searching for the legacy of Atlantis, most Apostles had started avoiding fights to prevent losing everything at the last mont.
Qin Lun set off several small explosions at the drop-off points of the last four Treasure Map Fragnts, using up the few hand grenades he had taken from the warehouse.
Apostles who still had the will to fight would inevitably get caught up in the chaos over these Treasure Map Fragnts and wouldn’t be able to interfere with the duels of the six top fighters. Those who only intended to hide until the last two days naturally wouldn’t act as opportunists. No matter what, Qin Lun achieved his goal.
Qin Lun didn’t randomly choose the duel pairings among the six top fighters. He had to judge which two, when brought together, would have a reasonable chance of engaging in an intense duel.
Take the Assassin and the bald MT, for example. The Assassin was undoubtedly stronger. But the bald MT, Liu Biao, had extrely high Constitution and also possessed a thorns aura, making him a natural counter to close-combat classes. Even against the strongest Assassin, he wouldn’t easily back down.
If these two determined that there were no third parties or traps around, the chance of a duel was over 70%. It wasn’t easy for others to act as opportunists, mainly because timing was hard to control.
Arrive too early, and they might both turn on the newcor. Arrive too late, and it would be pointless. Only Qin Lun, constantly watching the surveillance feed and with Little Mute guiding him through the sewer network, could be that opportunist.
Then there was the other pair, nlo and the Female Knight. The Kung Fu Girl, nlo, still had two companions with her, so she wasn’t likely to back down from a single opponent. Their trio was actually quite sharp. Seriously speaking, among the six top fighters, only two wouldn’t fear this three-person team.
One was the strongest Assassin, the other was the Female Knight!
The Assassin goes without saying—the number of opponents ant nothing to him. The Female Knight was unwilling to retreat and couldn’t retreat from the start. She had high defense and high attack, plus her summoned beast mount, giving her incredible Explosive Power. As long as her opponents didn’t include a strong MT, she wasn’t afraid of fighting outnumbered.
Moreover, once the three got within a certain distance, the Female Knight actually couldn’t avoid the fight imdiately. Due to her very distinct combat style, she had high terrain requirents, so her usual activity area was that park and the nearby wide streets.
If she didn’t create distance from the trio beforehand and chose to avoid battle, she might end up being forced by nlo’s group into ruins full of obstacles. Then her chance of failure would be high—not from dying in battle, but from sheer foolishness.
If the Female Knight didn’t avoid nlo’s trio upon sight, her most likely choice would be to unleash her full power right from the start, aiming to kill nlo’s two followers.
Although nlo was strong in combat, the Kung Fu Girl was an agile type of Martial Artist. Faced with the Female Knight’s fighting style, she really had no way to protect her two weaker companions.
Qin Lun estimated that the chance of these two top fighters battling was about 50%. If a fight did break out, it would be extrely intense from the very beginning, probably even more so than the duel between the Assassin and the bald MT.
The hardest outco to predict was the last pair of top fighters, Long Feng and the Puppet Master. This Puppet Master’s fighting style was sowhat similar to the Summoner Qin Lun encountered in the selection matches. His puppets included both close and long-range types, and his combat modes were varied, making him almost unafraid of any class of opponent.
However, compared to that Summoner, this Puppet Master had rich combat experience and was extrely cautious. Qin Lun had watched a few of his battles and couldn’t find any flaws, whether in combat or ntally. For the first ti, Qin Lun felt like he was a mouse trying to bite a turtle—no way to start.
Left with no choice, Qin Lun targeted Long Feng. Not only did he use a Treasure Map Fragnt as bait, he also deliberately used a one-eyed man’s eyepatch, hoping to provoke Long Feng’s fighting spirit. The goal was to make the swordsman persistently harass the Puppet Master and provoke his anger.
But even after all these arrangents, Qin Lun thought the chance of these two fighting was less than 30%. Both were smart people. Long Feng’s sword energy could cause great damage to puppets, so the Puppet Master was highly likely to avoid battle.
And even if Long Feng was eager to fight, he had t Qin Lun. Although he didn’t know who killed his sniper companion, Qin Lun was the pri suspect. When he saw that his opponent was the Puppet Master, not Qin Lun, he would inevitably beco suspicious. If the two exchanged any words, they would surely see through Qin Lun’s plan.
Because of this, Qin Lun placed their battlefield in a corner, far from the other two pairs’ battlefields, to prevent them from interfering with the others’ fights.
After thinking for a while, Qin Lun turned off most of the surveillance projection, leaving only the feeds for the three expected eting spots of the top fighter pairs. After several days of continuous monitoring, the device’s energy was nearly depleted. Before the final battles, he needed to conserve so power.
Those six top fighters wouldn’t clash imdiately; it was almost dark. Plus, the three groups that received duel invitations would need to scout the duel locations marked on the Treasure Map Fragnts. The actual entry into the duel grounds would probably happen tomorrow morning.
And that ti was exactly when Qin Lun, based on his days of observation, estimated the other three were most likely to pass through the duel locations. They would need to go out hunting then to gather food for the day.
As for whether they would actually et and engage in duels, that would depend on a bit of luck.
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Yin Shi slowly opened her eyes and sat up from leaning against her warhorse. The first rays of sunlight from the horizon shone on her face. The Female Knight squinted slightly, raised a hand to block the sun, and lazily yawned.
The Female Knight had delicate features, but her facial lines were sowhat stern. She had phoenix eyes, blade-like eyebrows, and tightly pressed lips, presenting a kind of androgynous beauty.
Generally, few won chose to beco plate-armor knights. But Yin Shi ca from a knight family. Before becoming an Apostle, although she wasn’t a family knight, she was constantly exposed to knights’ combat styles and codes of conduct, so she naturally took the Knight career path.
Perhaps due to her family’s influence, or perhaps Yin Shi truly had the potential to be a knight, this profession surprisingly suited her well, quickly putting her on the path to becoming a true top fighter.
After entering the Domination War, Yin Shi didn’t search everywhere like other Apostles. Her activity range was very fixed, centered around the park. She knew her own strengths and weaknesses.
Because she had such a clear understanding of her own position, she quickly secured a place for herself in the Domination War. Almost all Apostles who challenged her in this area were defeated by her, sotis even two or three at once.
But precisely because Yin Shi rarely left this area, she often had to give up chasing defeated foes, missing many chances to obtain Invitation Letters. Thus, she had the fewest Invitation Letters among the six top fighters—only five.
Seriously speaking, if you remove the terrain factor, Yin Shi was also the weakest link among the six top fighters.
“One last day and night!” Yin Shi stood up, patted her mount, and took the helt hanging from a tree branch.
Just as she was about to put on the helt, her body suddenly stiffened. She abruptly turned her head to the left. She was currently at an intersection in the park—a spacious area that made it easy for her to attack or retreat, the terrain most advantageous for her to fight in.
Now, bathed in the morning sun, an Apostle was cautiously approaching her from the left.
The Female Knight’s mind raced. She quickly sensed two other presences slowly closing in from her right and back.
Three sides surrounded, one left open! Had she been targeted? The Female Knight’s expression darkened. She imdiately put on her helt and leaped onto her horse in one swift motion.
“Neigh!” The tall warhorse reared up on its hind legs. The Female Knight leveled the lance beside her saddle, crouched low, and without hesitation charged toward the enemy on the left.
Rider and horse shot like lightning across a hundred ters. The steel lance extending before her reflected the morning sun’s glow, its sharp tip gleaming with a chilling cold light.
A Knight never had the habit of retreating without a fight!
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