"The little tricks are over, let's end this battle too." Tartaglia activated his Devil King Armed.
His handsome armor clung to him, and the two lightning blades in his hands merged into one lightning sword.
The surging Electro element power in the cape behind him became even more turbulent, even turning his scarf into a cape.
"Are you trying to say…" Lin Qiu said.
"I don't want to say anything!" Tartaglia interrupted Lin Qiu.
"Alright, then let's end it." Lin Qiu spread his hands.
Since you've activated your Devil King Armed, there's no need for me to conserve stamina.
As Lin Qiu spoke, water began to condense around him, gradually forming a suit of armor.
Even after condensing into armor, the water continued to flow, looking as if he was wearing turbulent currents.
Seeing Lin Qiu and Tartaglia enter their decisive battle state, Ying and Rosalyne tacitly ceased fighting.
After clashing for a while, they also realized that their strength difference was not significant, and trying to determine a winner would likely take a very long time.
Because the incident where Venti's Gnosis was stolen did not occur, Ying and Rosalyne were actually meeting for the first time and held no deep grudges.
So, the two stopped, intending to first observe the outcome of Lin Qiu's battle.
"Partner, you truly surprise me." Tartaglia was ecstatic, feeling incredibly exhilarated.
As long as he could enjoy the fight, whether he won or lost in the end didn't matter.
Tartaglia, holding his lightning sword, instantly appeared in front of Lin Qiu, the blade imbued with terrifying Electro power, and he swung it out.
Violent lightning roared, leaving behind Electro elements in the space it cut through.
Then, these Electro elements would re-condense into attacks, striking towards Lin Qiu.
This attack was so fast that Lin Qiu had no time to react; fortunately, he had activated his water armor beforehand.
His armor had no amplification or defensive capabilities; it only had one ability.
That was, the water would flow in the opposite direction when the opponent attacked, performing an evasion maneuver along the opponent's attack.
Because the immortal art, Divine Speed Technique, was applied, the evasion speed was incredibly fast.
The blade's speed was very fast, but under the wrapping of the water, Lin Qiu had already drifted far away.
Tartaglia hadn't discovered the secret of the armor yet, thinking Lin Qiu had predicted his movements in advance.
He wanted to continue attacking, but then noticed a fireball flying straight towards his face.
Tartaglia froze for a moment; he didn't understand where this fireball came from. Aren't you a Hydro Vision user?
The momentary Stunned prevented him from dodging, so he could only block the blow with his arm.
The flame attack wasn't strong enough to break through the Devil King Armed, but after the flame, there was also a water gun.
Tartaglia's flame-covered arm was directly hit by the water gun, and the DMG from Vaporize made even Tartaglia, in his Devil King Armed, feel pain.
Why does Lin Qiu like to hide his techniques so much when fighting... However, it's also interesting that he can always surprise me.
"Hahaha, how many more tricks do you have? Continue, let me see more!"
"I'm not a delicate Ying; I have plenty of tricks." Lin Qiu even had the mood to play on a meme.
"?" Ying indicated, when was I delicate? How many monsters have I killed?
Tartaglia didn't understand, he just felt more and more exhilarated as he fought, ignoring the pain. Tartaglia spun his long sword and swung it twice.
Two water blades slashed out, heading straight for Lin Qiu.
Lin Qiu made a horizontal swipe with his finger, and a similar water blade met the attack.
The two water blades collided, turning into a sky full of flying rain that poured down.
Then Lin Qiu saw a long sword enlarging before his eyes.
Tartaglia copied his tactic, using the water blades to conceal his figure.
Under the cover of the colliding water blades, Tartaglia had already reached Lin Qiu's front.
Fortunately, the water armor didn't require Lin Qiu's operation; it carried Lin Qiu to perform an evasion maneuver, shifting backward.
Lin Qiu's water dragon timely intercepted Tartaglia's path and bit down, forcing Tartaglia to stop.
"Hmm?" Tartaglia noticed something unusual.
Lin Qiu's movement just now was very abnormal; he seemed not to have reacted, yet his body performed an evasion.
Tartaglia's keen combat intuition led him to some conjectures about Lin Qiu's armor.
As Tartaglia was thinking, a water dragon swept towards him.
The water dragon was fast, but it was still too slow in front of the Devil King Armed, not enough to hit Tartaglia.
Tartaglia dodged the attack and swung out two more water blades.
"Repeating the same trick?" Lin Qiu was puzzled.
Given Tartaglia's combat wisdom, if this move didn't work, he shouldn't continue using the same technique.
Because for Tartaglia, new techniques were just flashes of Khvarena during battle.
There was simply no possibility of him running out of tricks.
Lin Qiu once again used a water blade to block Tartaglia's attack, and a lightning sword shot straight towards Lin Qiu's face, just like last time.
The armor carried Lin Qiu to dodge, and the water dragon intercepted between the lightning sword and Lin Qiu.
Just then, Lin Qiu felt a surge of Electro element behind him. The lightning sword in front was stuck inside the water dragon, but there was no one holding the sword.
"A weakness!" Tartaglia condensed two lightning blades in his hands and attacked Lin Qiu's back, imbued with lightning.
The momentum of the armor didn't change as quickly; although it performed an evasion maneuver, it couldn't completely avoid the blow.
Two lightning flashes struck Lin Qiu's back. Fortunately, Lin Qiu was very cautious and had always kept a water shield close to his body.
However, even with the water shield protection, that hit was a bit painful.
"Was it too shallow?" Tartaglia felt that Lin Qiu had still dodged some of that last blow at the last moment, and it hadn't fully connected.
If that hit had fully connected, Tartaglia was confident he could shatter Lin Qiu's water shield defense with one blow.
Suddenly, Tartaglia had a premonition. Without time to pursue, he dodged with a flash.
However, Tartaglia was still a step too slow, and a water dragon grazed his side.
Lin Qiu's attack also failed to connect fully, only giving Tartaglia a minor injury.
Two water dragons circled Lin Qiu, their dragon eyes fixed on Tartaglia.
"Two?" Tartaglia hadn't expected that Lin Qiu could control two dragons simultaneously.
Summons like these have no wisdom; they can only be controlled by the user.
The difficulty of controlling one summon and simultaneously controlling two summons is on completely different levels.
With Lin Qiu's current element mastery, although he could control two simultaneously, it was still not as effortless as controlling one, so Lin Qiu had never used the second one.
This, in turn, caught Tartaglia off guard.
Tartaglia adjusted his stance and said, "Stop holding back. Where's the fire you used earlier? Use that too."
Tartaglia was a bit impatient. Whatever tricks you have, hurry up and use them; let me have some fun.
"Alright then." Lin Qiu wasn't coy either.
He struck a pose, "I shall ignite the sea!"
With a wave of his hand, flames began to spread, extending all the way behind Tartaglia.
Lin Qiu couldn't directly ignite the entire ground; only the outer circle was Burning.
Within the range of this fire circle, the Pyro element would become more active, allowing Lin Qiu's attacks to be unleashed faster.
"That's more like it, this is much more interesting." Tartaglia smiled.
"Just like this…"
Lin Qiu interjected, "Are you trying to say, 'Just like this, let me enjoy myself…'"
"I don't want to say it anymore!" Tartaglia interrupted Lin Qiu.
Lin Qiu spread his hands; he had already figured out Tartaglia's strength in his Devil King Armed state, and it was time to end it.
Time is almost up.
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Character Voice · Rosalyne: About Lin Qiu's Strength
"He surprisingly has some strength, it seems it will be a bit difficult to whip him."