“pow, yeah i'm Leth to the B. pow, i got the top grime dawgs with me. pow, if you don't know about me”

“u! n! d! e! r! g! r! o! u! n! d!”

“I want to give you ninety-nine roses! I want to sing the words from my heart for you to hear~”

From the luxury shopping bags Li Ang was carrying came a vibrant, earthy song. Three high-fidelity French Devialet home audio systems, worth tens of thousands, were looping the brainwashing music.

The light strips glued to the coarse-tread off-road tire rims of the electric scooter emitted a dazzling, seven-colored light, resplendent and dazzling.

Such a flamboyant act naturally became the focus of the dead city.

Juque stood on the rooftop looking down, momentarily unable to figure out whether the other party was putting on a show or using bizarre behavior to mask murderous intent.

The [Ladder Cloud Step] skill activated, creating invisible steps under Li Ang's feet. He leaped up to the rooftop, carrying the electric scooter and luxury shopping bags.

Bang.

The electric scooter slammed onto the cement floor, its oversized off-road tires vibrating.

Li Ang slowly placed all the luxury shopping bags on the scooter's platform, clapped his hands, and looked at Juque, his voice coming from inside the dragon head mask: "Sorry, I'm late. I wasted a bit of time shopping."

Since the other party didn't immediately attack, Juque didn't draw his sword. He narrowed his eyes and said cautiously: "Is the shopping you speak of taking merchandise directly from unattended shops?"

"Zero-dollar purchases are still purchases."

Li Ang laughed, "I just took a tour around the edge of the city. The entire district is deserted, probably a combat-specific map randomly generated by the [Domain Corridor].

There's no interaction with the real world.

I can't even find a cashier to pay."

"..."

Juque glanced at the luxury shopping bags on the scooter's platform. The exchange rate between game currency and real-world money was very high. One hundred game coins was equivalent to more than a million in savings.

Top-tier supercars and mansions in metropolitan areas might be difficult to afford, but any random player could easily afford ordinary luxury goods. There was no need to indulge in consumption in this map.

Could it be that the other party was acting?

Were those luxury bags actually filled with special props like Demon Seal Wave-specific rice cookers, disguised as luxury goods to lower his guard?

Or perhaps, was the earthy music played by those speakers actually a form of attack?

A large number of equipment and prop effect descriptions flashed through Juque's mind. As a player aiming to advance to the third round of the Doorway Contention, reading and remembering most of the equipment and prop information in the auction house was basic cultivation.

"Don't worry, these bags are just filled with ordinary merchandise."

Li Ang looked at Juque's pondering expression and smiled: "The reason I was wandering around was to measure the city's available space, with the goal of winning the match. Therefore, I wasn't judged by the system to be playing passively."

"Available space?"

"That's right. My power system requires a certain amount of space to be utilized."

Li Ang nodded, pointing to the circling birds in the sky. "You are the vice president of the Sword King's Court, Lv23, a powerhouse ranked seventy-seventh on the individual combat power list.

But unfortunately, my ranking is a bit higher.

The environment generated by the [Domain Corridor] should provide some exploitable 'momentum' in certain subtle areas for both players, especially the one with weaker overall strength.

My ranking is higher than yours, but the environment is suitable for me to exert my strength. This doesn't match the characteristics of the [Domain Corridor].

So, there is only one answer - you actually have the ability to maneuver at high speed in a broad environment. Your helplessness against the birds just now was a disguise, with the purpose of luring me to appear at close to medium range..."

Before the words finished, Juque's towering figure disappeared from the spot.

The birds patrolling in the sky instinctively dilated their pupils, trying to lock onto Juque's position, but even they, whose visual systems had been modified, could only see a blurry afterimage flashing across the rooftop in an instant.

The thirty-meter distance was covered in an instant.

Juque's eyes clearly reflected the undefended figure in the dragon head white coat. The door-sized sword in his hand slashed through the air, horizontally towards the dragon head.

[Skill Name: Instant Step]

[Type: Combat]

[Effect: Instant. Provides short-term explosive leg power through special force exertion techniques, allowing for rapid movement invisible to the human eye]

[Consumption: 100 Stamina Points]

[Cooldown Time: 10 seconds]

[Learning Conditions: Strength attribute greater than or equal to 12 points, Agility attribute greater than or equal to 12 points]

[Note: Do not use in indoor environments, football games, soccer games, underwater, maid cafes, etc.]

This skill, called Instant Step, came from a perfect-quality learning-type skill scroll, purchased by the Sword King's Court guild leader Zhan Lu from the game store, using the guild treasury, in order to enhance Juque's combat power.

[Instant Step] had a short cooldown, low consumption, and a high-speed movement skill effect that was almost like teleportation for players below Lv20 - the only problem was that each time the skill was activated, the distance had to be calculated in advance, to prevent his nervous reaction speed from failing and crashing into a wall.

Juque was tall and clumsy, wielding a two-handed greatsword weighing a hundred pounds,

The sudden use of the Instant Step technique could completely achieve a first-encounter kill against enemies deceived by his appearance – he had never used the [Instant Step] skill before, precisely to hide his tactics until he encountered a powerful enemy who could not be defeated by conventional means.

Li Risheng's individual combat power ranking might be even higher than his, but since the other party had come to the rooftop, to this location, he couldn't blame him for using his ultimate move...

Clang!

The sound of metal clashing erupted on the rooftop. In the nick of time, Li Ang actually activated the [ftL Interstellar Pirate Sodium Ring] effect a split second before Juque's greatsword struck.

A rectangular block of alloy steel material appeared in the right hand wearing the ring, blocking his front.

The alloy steel material, a basic spellcasting material for alchemy, was merely a mundane object. Under the cutting of the sword-qi-filled two-handed greatsword, it broke apart like thin paper.

However, this short delay of less than half a second was enough for Li Ang to take out the Hegemon's Horizontal Barrier Spear, using the middle section of the long spear to barely block the two-handed greatsword.

Clang!

Weapons clashed, energy surged, sand and dust flew.

Spear, a long-handled weapon...

Thoughts surged through Juque's mind. An inch longer, an inch stronger, but when the distance between the two sides was shortened to this extent, the nearly four-meter-long Hegemon's Horizontal Barrier Spear lost its advantage.

Press!

The left arm holding the two-handed greatsword squeezed inward, the right arm lifted upward, the wide blade pressing against the spear shaft, the tip of the blade pointing directly at Li Ang's chest.

Li Ang rotated the long spear to the left, deflecting the greatsword's edge, but the simple and heavy greatsword followed the momentum, sliding down the spear shaft, cutting towards his left hand's fingers.