401: The first to finish the battle

Lin Qingyan's opponent was a mysterious black-robed man from the Russia team, a Peak Sixth-Order Mage-type Martial Artist whose strength far exceeded that of ordinary Prodigies. When he fully unleashed his magic power, a phantom of a white-robed saint appeared behind him. The faint sense of oppression it radiated left many watching Mage-type Martial Artists feeling stunned and shocked.

"That looks like a Mage demigod from a hundred years ago! The Dragon-Slaying Saint who once slaughtered a Dragon."

"Has he obtained his Legacy?"

"The Russia team was actually hiding such an expert!"

"His strength is probably only below Christina's."

As both sides remained silent, the battle commenced.

The crowd was shocked once again to discover something.

The black-robed mage could not only perform instant-cast skills without chanting, but he could also use dual-casting for combination magic. His equipment was entirely comprised of top-tier gold-grade sets, including an epic-grade mana recovery necklace. This was almost the optimal Mage-type setup that a Sixth-Rank Martial Artist could equip and fully utilize.

It combined power, casting speed, and recovery speed.

For some guilds, this was simply the strongest turret capable of handling all fire output!

As long as the consumable potions were sufficient, he could maintain full output alone.

[Withering Wind]

[Hunting Claws of the Dark Prison]

[Forty-Six Pillars of Imprisonment]

As the black-robed mage waved the staff in his hand, terrifying magic circles appeared out of thin air, stacking layer upon layer.

Whoosh!

Boom!

Swish!

Various powerful dark-element spells descended upon the battlefield, crashing toward Lin Qingyan on the hill from all directions, with enough power to destroy an entire mountain range.

"Cancel."

Lin Qingyan spoke; it was as if her words were law, and reality followed her speech.

A giant black hand, whose single fingernail was larger than her entire body, dissipated into thin air before it could even fall, turning into pure dark particles.

The black wind that turned everything to withered dust stopped, and the black pillars of light capable of imprisoning enemies shattered.

All because of a single word from her.

The method of counteracting was so simple, yet it shocked countless people into staring wide-eyed, calling her a monster.

"This is too exaggerated, isn't it? She can erase the opponent's attacks just by moving her lips?"

The legendary class Divine Speaker is a bit Heaven-Defying."

"Does this mean all spell-type skills are ineffective against her? Can she only be fought in close quarters?"

"A bug-like ability like this can't possibly have no cost, right?"

The entire internet was in heated discussion.

Meanwhile, in the spectator stands, the White Elephant Country's Blood Buddha, Rama IV, saw through the secret.

"Idiots, how could there be no cost? It's just that she consumes Mental Energy."

"As long as the attack exceeds the limit her Mental Energy can withstand, she won't be able to erase it so easily."

Hien said, "There is no such thing as an invincible class, only invincible Martial Artists."

These words caused Jiang Yuan's heart to stir slightly, and he expressed his agreement.

Oleg said, "Even so, this class is powerful enough. It's strange and unpredictable, capable of suppressing all bizarre abilities."

"No wonder Jiang placed a heavy bet on this beautiful girl," Flame Demon Disa chuckled.

"You think she is the strongest among this year's contestants? You have that much confidence in her?"

Everyone was slightly surprised upon hearing this, and their gazes fell upon Jiang Yuan one after another.

"Correct," Jiang Yuan said indifferently.

"Ridiculous, she's just a legendary class, do you really think she can defy the heavens? There are more than ten contestants with legendary classes in this National War. You'd be better off picking that thunder kid than her," Sturmheide sneered.

In his view, Sikong would be Edward Sheen's opponent, not this slender girl.

Jiang Yuan didn't pay any attention, or rather, he couldn't be bothered to.

A Rebirth Empress who possessed an SS-grade ice talent and an SSS-grade space-time talent—if she couldn't even reign supreme over a battlefield like this, she might as well kill herself... On the battlefield.

The situation changed in an instant.

One moment the black-robed mage seemed to have the upper hand and be unstoppable, but the next moment he was suppressed.

Lin Qingyan suppressed all of his magic skills using only her Divine Speaker talent skills and rushed in front of him with a longsword. She used various Perfection-level combat techniques and Cultivation Techniques to beat the black-robed mage until he could only use all his magic power for defense and movement spells to resist and flee.

During this period, Lin Qingyan didn't even use her ice talent, only using an A-grade recovery talent once to replenish her consumption.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the outcome of this battle was already decided.

On several other battlefields.

Yan Runan, holding a short blade, was fighting a Sixth-Rank Martial Artist whose half-body was molten lava. His attack power was very strong, he had awakened an embryonic form of Martial Will, and he possessed an S-grade elemental talent. He was a very well-rounded combat-type Martial Artist.

Yan Runan fought him intensely; lava fists and dagger shadows crisscrossed, leveling the surrounding hundred meters.

Yan Runan was using him to hone her combat techniques, making it difficult to determine a winner in a short time... The opponent Chen Xi encountered was a dark-skinned bald woman with white makeup on her face, giving off an indescribable sense of eeriness.

She was a summoning-type Martial Artist who summoned many tombstones to press down on Chen Xi. Each tombstone would explode, and after the explosion, undead summons would appear from within, generally at the third to fourth order in strength.

They weren't particularly strong, but they would explode, and the toxic mist produced by the explosion could corrode a person's Qi and blood, causing mental illusions.

But for Chen Xi, who possessed the SSS-grade Killing Growth talent and the legendary class [Death Envoy], this was completely insufficient.

"Blood River!"

He pressed down with one hand, summoning a massive river of blood to submerge the undead army.

All dead things turned into dark shadows of death, which in turn pierced the shadow of the dark-skinned bald woman, causing her a massive amount of damage.

Finally, she was decapitated by Chen Xi's blade.

This was something many spectators hadn't expected.

Within the unassuming Great Xia team.

Among the several ongoing duels, he was actually the first to end the battle.