The fighter in front of him was still dressed in white and as calm as an immortal.
It's just that the light red straps around the waist and right arm still have traces of the last time, and the tired look on the face cannot be concealed.
And tied around his waist was a pair of stone gloves...or rather, petrified taboo weapons.
The entire left half of the body has a layer of gray skin, which seems to be the product of some kind of spell.
"Huh? Are you in a bad state?"
"...Well, I just met Ke Ke. She is a bit troublesome, very troublesome..."
Keke, one of the remaining third-level professions, seems to be a "sculptor" in the second-level profession. Lu Ping'an understands.
Lu Ping'an sighed. He was a little disappointed that Wang Hai was not in good condition.
"...Although my situation is very bad, there is no problem at all in sending a first-order kid out who stabs someone in the back."
Well, it seems that Wang Hai still holds a grudge.
In fact, if it weren't for the injury to his right half of his body, which made him slower at critical moments, he wouldn't have been almost turned into a living sculpture by Ke Ke.
After all, due to professional restraint, his original chance of winning was quite high, and he might even be injured.
Hearing this, Lu Pingan smiled...then quickly flew back without hesitation, and sowed the seeds of a big wave.
The next moment, the room turned into a jungle, a dark forest full of dangerous second-level magical plants.
For the first time, Lu Pingan unabashedly demonstrated his ability to "accelerate plant ripening", which aroused exclamations from the audience outside.
But what surprised them even more was the strange development on the battlefield.
Lu Ping'an's twisted poisonous beards, as soon as they were born, used their poisonous tentacles to attack the humans in the room.
Yes, everyone, not just Wang Hai.
"Xiao An."
Whispering, Lu Ping'an awakened his magic plant, and gray snake-like tentacles suddenly appeared, blocking the slender poisonous tentacles tearing at him.
These second-generation Twisted Poison Beards are all Xiao An's children, their seeds. They instantly recognized their mother... and then became even more violent.
If it was just waves before, after Xiao An appeared, it instantly turned into a typhoon coming ashore.
Magic plants do not talk about loving mothers and filial piety. On the contrary, since living space is equal to the right to survive, the biggest and most dangerous survival competition for most offspring plants is their own mothers.
In normal nature, plants that are farther away from their parents have higher survival rates.
"Boom!"
The newly born black forest went berserk in an instant, with a large number of tentacles whipping everything around it crazily. Sensing their "mother", they fell into a violent rage.
But this kind of attack is of little significance to Lu Ping'an and Xiao An who "activated" them.
Xiao An's huge and strong tentacles are enough to easily resist the resistance of his children, and the most dangerous poison of the twisted poison tentacles is meaningless to it... For Wang Hai, another survivor in the black forest, it is just Not necessarily.
This time, Wang Hai still moved quickly in the forest, like a light dancer, as if there was no doubt about his injury.
But just the fact that he didn't approach Lu Ping'an made the sower who did all this smile.
"These hit points are worth it. Our guess is correct. He is the 'Awakened One' path and is not good at dealing with irregular attacks! He... is very fragile. He has been avoiding injury. His ego Curse, I know!”
In the first battle, Lu Ping'an could be said to have gone all out and used several killer tricks, but in the end, it seemed to end in defeat, and Wang Hai didn't expose anything.
But in fact, in just that short confrontation, with the help of Big Cat, Lu Ping'an completed the intelligence collection and analysis.
He really wants to win and is prepared to win, rather than "fight and see" as most professors think.
"With Tier 3 as my opponent, I am obviously the weaker side, so I must gain intelligence and tactical advantages."
If you want to defeat Level 3, you must at least know what Level 3 is.
"Chris, what is the difference between the third level and the first and second level? Why do 95% of people never become the third level in their lifetime?"
Obviously, the third level is the real threshold for mortals to become supermen. If ordinary people do not have channels, it is impossible to obtain deeper forbidden knowledge.
But in Big Cat's eyes, that's just some low-level "common sense."
In the eyes of real masters, the first three levels are actually the same thing, which is the so-called "curse of copper and iron". Professionals at this stage use "curse power".
But in fact, these are actually two types - "Dark Iron Curse" and "Brass Curse".
"The difference, actually there is no difference... Well, let me think about it, I remember using textbooks when teaching children. Well, the difference between spells and curses actually lies in the subjectivity and objectivity of the user. ..."
Spells are the use of specific rituals and procedures to complete certain behaviors to obtain certain supernatural effects.
It is often a fixed "template", that is, if you do A, you will get the result of B. It is an objective existence, and the curse...
"Curse is a kind of malice based on spells... Just like the boy who yelled 'burning' to you before, it was not actually a spell, but a curse that put you into 'burning' In this state, he used his 'spell' to turn his ill will towards you into your burning reality."
In Chrissy's explanation, curses are not necessarily stronger than spells, but they are more subjective, more personal, and more free.
It's like a test taker taking a test. Spells are just multiple-choice questions, while curses are subjective and question-and-answer questions.
Doing the subjective questions well may not lead to a higher score, but it will definitely test the candidate's upper limit and personal ability.
Brass curses often originate from the transformation of black iron spells and the conscious investment of the curser. It is also a process of a higher level of "law".
"So, the ability to obtain the Brass Curse is a prerequisite for becoming Level 3?"
"No, it starts at the second level. Doesn't the second-level chess player have a curse? The advancement to the third level is a bit difficult. There are many prerequisites required, but one of them must be to complete the curse on himself."
A curse on yourself? If it was a day ago, Lu Ping'an would still be a little confused.
But after obtaining the "body of all spirits", he also knew the reality that "those who play with life will be cursed by life", and also understood that obtaining powerful power often requires enduring the corresponding curse, or to be precise... .....
"That curse is the essence of power."
Lu Ping An's life bank, isn't it just like that?
After having this understanding, Lu Ping'an really understood what the third level was.
"Is the self-curse of becoming a third-level person important?"
"It's average, but it's very important for the new third level. It must hide its weaknesses."
Therefore, Lu Ping'an carefully analyzed his possible paths and "weaknesses" on the premise of meeting Wang Hai again, but due to lack of experience, he found that he could not do it.
At this time, Big Mao taught Lu Ping'an a very useful general method.
"Looking for a professional's weaknesses? Just look for the strengths he shouldn't have. That's probably his biggest weakness."
At this moment, Lu Ping'an suddenly understood.
"Wang Hai, it's too fast."
Being fast is not a problem. Lu Ping'an is very fast, but the problem is that Wang Hai is not a runner! And his exposed talents cannot provide acceleration support!
From Equan, Lu Pingan learned that quite a few fighting types have part-time runners. The main reason is that space abilities such as "Shokuchi" are so good. The basic abilities are used to increase the most important speed of the fighting type, which is not a loss.
But from the beginning to the end, Wang Hai never used "shrinkage" once, let alone any ability on the runner path.
He just calmly blocked any attacks against him, easily defeating opponents one after another, with steady accuracy, speed and ruthlessness.
"I don't think a third-level fighter can refuse the temptation of 'Shuchi' if conditions permit. So, does he have a part-time job in a certain profession, and that profession conflicts with being a runner?"
Just like the conflict between the healer/tamer and the gardener, there are several professions that conflict with the runner.
One of them is the "Awakened One" route guessed by Lu Ping'an.
This is not the route of the death system, but the route of the "enlightened person". Its holder is good at meditation and good at controlling emotions, which is a prerequisite for some rare "monk" paths.
From the big cat, Lu Ping'an knew that this kind of "monk" was good at playing slow against fast, good at fighting various curses and pollution, good at fighting against evil... but it was definitely not fast! The path of enlightened beings belongs to the tortoise!
"Kris-chan, if you make yourself faster, what kind of curse will you usually endure?"
"There are many types, and they are completely different depending on the way to get faster. But the most common and most useful one is Ping An Lu. Do you know why birds can fly?"
"...His bones are brittle?"
A rhetorical question, combined with previous experiences, Lu Pingan will understand.
The "hollow" bones and "light" feathers enable it to fly at high speeds, but they also make it the most fragile, most susceptible to fractures, and the most afraid of fractures.
Horses that are also good at running are not only prone to fractures, but also often die due to fractures. There are a lot of examples of this in nature.
Wang Hai's light and gentle figure blocking all his whippings appeared in Lu Ping'an's mind. He blocked everything easily. Does this mean...
"Any whipping could cause harm to him."
"He cursed himself, making himself faster, lighter, and brittle!"
In actual combat, the fact that he easily jumped on top of Lu Pingan's head also verified this guess.
"Is there a way to verify this?"
"As long as the premise is correct, it's enough that he is an awakened person. This is very simple. The awakened person is the 'mage killer' path, and their curse resistance is quite ridiculous."
So, when Wang Hai honestly showed part of his 'petrified' body, Lu Ping'an, who was laughing in his heart, decided on a battle strategy.
The opening summons the black forest of magic plants and makes a big gamble.
"In this way, we can judge whether it is the route of the Enlightened One."
The awakened person is not fast, what is fast is Wang Hai's own body, and he does not have the "nervous response" that the runner's path improves.
He has accelerated hardware but no corresponding software. He needs to build and collect everything around him, and then respond in a targeted manner.
Therefore, when faced with the sudden burst of irregular thorn fruits, his response was actually much worse than that of runners at the same level... He did not react!
"If there are more than a dozen magic plants that attack randomly, he shouldn't be able to deal with it... No, this is an underestimate of the third level, but at least it can contain most of his energy."
And when the expected scene really turned into reality, Lu Pingan also knew that his more threatening trump card might really be able to help him get a miraculous victory point.
"Wang Hai, this next move is specially developed for you. I hope you like it."
