Chapter 491: High-Frequency, Low-Damage, Multi-Hit Attacks Are Cheng Tian's Favorite
Another new ability!
This was the first reaction of those who were specifically watching Cheng Tian throw his knives, but when the orange-gold throwing knives all struck the silver throwing knives from the other side, an absurd feeling, as if they were looking at a mirror image, permeated their minds.
Both sides… they look so similar!
Not only the audience, but even the Head Maid paused.
This further confirmed the news about the 'Daddy' counterpart!
The opponent's throwing knives were not only almost identical in texture to her own, but their throwing force and accuracy were also impeccable, successfully completing a standard exchange of blows!
Outside of the combat system, the Head Maid's seemingly infinite throwing knives were actually retrieved by her after she threw them, by accelerating herself or pausing others. But here, they could be continuously generated with enough MP… completely identical to Cheng Tian's side!
Regarding the force and accuracy of the throwing knife barrage, Cheng Tian had actually trained through long-term use of the sunfire mask. These throwing knives, materialized from MP, still maintained a link with his mind, so they could be finely adjusted during flight.
The Head Maid's throwing knives were incredibly swift, but in Cheng Tian's mental scan, once they left her hand, they were like enemy forces on a battlefield, all targeted by the Freedom Gundam's multicolored cannons, with none escaping.
Such a mirrored first skill invocation, however, further ignited the Head Maid's competitive spirit.
Throwing knives, more throwing knives… but they were strangely fast and slow knives.
Under the Head Maid's control, more throwing knives flew out, but each wave, and even each individual throwing knife, had either obvious or subtle differences in flight speed.
The first flying knives seemed like paper airplanes, leisurely drifting forward in the air, but the later knives easily overtook the earlier ones, flying off in all directions at a distinct scattered angle.
This was not a missed aim; it was intentional on the Head Maid's part, because along those seemingly empty flight paths, an invisible energy barrier would occasionally flash into existence. The throwing knives that struck these energy barriers would exhibit astonishing elasticity, comparable to a bouncy ball, and then, as if pre-calculated, they would all fly towards Cheng Tian's location—
Illusion Sign: Killer Doll!
Silver Sign: Silver Bound!
Almost instantly, the entire arena was filled with a dazzling array of silver throwing knives, a magnitude beyond the mere probing attack from before.
This was no longer about riddling someone with holes; it was entirely aimed at shredding someone into a paste!
Upon witnessing this massive generation of throwing knives, even Cheng Tian, who had a good understanding of the person before him, couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
To be able to achieve such a terrifying volume of bullet hell with a single entity, it truly lives up to its Touhou origins... But I can't lose either!
Two crystalline, evil-glowing, multicolored psychic crystals emerged from Cheng Tian's side, immediately splitting into four. Then, a dizzying number of orange-gold throwing knives generated directly in front of Cheng Tian, forming a solid wall of throwing knives, like a densely packed nail board suspended in mid-air—
Throwing Knife Barrage * 5!
The 'Throwing Knife Barrage' skill from the DIO template allowed Cheng Tian to instantly summon up to 15 throwing knives. Each knife consumed 5 MP from Cheng Tian, and the single-target damage of each knife was equivalent to his Mental attribute. Theoretically, if all of them could hit the same target simultaneously, it would deal 750 damage in one burst.
The five waves of throwing knives provided by the four psychic crystals materialized through Magic Burst, plus his own body, resulted in an MP consumption of 375 and actual damage of 3750, instantly depleting more than a quarter of Cheng Tian's blue bar.
Unlike Izayoi Sakuya's elegant, wide-area, multi-angle, fast-and-slow bullet hell, Cheng Tian could only do one thing: crudely unleash a massive number of throwing knives by replicating the remote skills of his Crystal Magic Eye!
The terrifying swarm of orange-gold throwing knives roared as they charged, instantly knocking away a large number of silver throwing knives attacking from the front. But at the same time, other throwing knives from different angles and directions pierced through the knife wall, bringing with them a deadly wind of destruction.
Facing the incoming swarm of orange-gold throwing knives, the Head Maid, holding a silver throwing knife in each hand, took a deep breath, and then her three fixed card slots were consumed.
Limited time acceleration appeared on the Head Maid.
She was seen waving her hands, creating countless multi-layered illusions that were almost impossible to achieve in the conventional sense, and each swing represented at least one orange-gold throwing knife being knocked away—
Wound Sign: Engraved in Red Soul!
More plainly, it was Sakuya's dual-knife version of Muda Muda!
On Cheng Tian's side, at the moment he was about to be riddled like a "Blackbeard Crisis," his entire body was enveloped in a sacred radiance, and at the same time, a similarly shimmering holy light shield directly covered the outside of his body.
All throwing knives attacking Cheng Tian's main body were intercepted outside the shield—
Heart Barrier: Holy Radiance Protection Barrier!
The fact that a massive number of silver throwing knives all hit the protection barrier caused Cheng Tian's blue bar, which was substituting for HP loss, to plummet again… But what followed was an immediate surge in Cheng Tian's MP recovery speed, visibly climbing rapidly like water being poured into an empty bottle!
The Head Maid's throwing knives were a typical type: low single-target damage + numerous bullet hell. The protection barrier loved to see this kind of attack, because each throwing knife represented an effective attack judgment.
Cheng Tian, with 50 Mental attribute, had a normal MP recovery rate of 5 points per minute. One effective judgment would double his MP recovery, up to 6 times. At the same time, last night Cheng Tian had also preemptively played his 'monkey business' to raise both his Holy Radiance Purification bar and Demonic Corruption bar to 100%. This meant that at this moment, Cheng Tian's MP recovery speed reached an astonishing 10.67 per second, and it could last for a full minute!
This minute was enough for Cheng Tian, with an MP cap of 1250, to recover a full half of his blue bar!
However, Cheng Tian in the protection barrier state also had a weakness: as long as he maintained it, his main body could not move or use casting skills other than the barrier. But if he actively canceled it, there would also be a full 60-second skill cooldown, during which Cheng Tian could not easily withstand the throwing knife barrage from the opponent… But the Stand, which was closely combined with his soul and mental power, was an existence outside the norm!
"Wryyyyyyyy!!!!"
With hands flying, the Head Maid knocked down all the throwing knives attacking from the front, but amidst the dense array of throwing knives, the imposing figure of The World suddenly appeared, along with a punch that came with a whistling gust of wind!
But just as The World's fist was about to hit the Head Maid, a peculiar sound of a mechanical clock hand moving, as if from fast to slow until it stopped, echoed in the ears of everyone in the arena—
The clock hanging from the Head Maid's waist stopped turning, and the surrounding flow of time also paused with it.
Almost instinctively, the Head Maid paused time at the moment she was about to be injured, but… "Muda!"
The fist, which should have been paused along with everything else, continued to smash down mercilessly!
The Head Maid, who only had time to assume an arm-raising defensive posture, felt a terrible pain in her arm, and then her entire body flew directly out.
Boom!
The Head Maid, flying at high speed, slammed heavily into the spectator wall outside the arena!