Chapter 117 — The Survival Trial Assessment Concludes

At this moment, the hardened matter flowed and coalesced onto Eleven's palm, forming a metal sphere the size of a ping-pong ball. Eleven squeezed hard, his Super Vision locking onto the somewhat dazed Voidcrystal Butterfly not far away, and hurled it straight!!!

BOOM!!!

The hardened sphere hurtled toward the Voidcrystal Butterfly like a cannonball. Empowered by Eleven's strength, though not quite as fast as the earlier wind blades, it was by no means slow.

"Mii!"

A black meteor came crashing down, frightening the Voidcrystal Butterfly into immediate Void Concealment. The hardened sphere passed straight through the Voidcrystal Butterfly's body and slammed into the mountain behind with a thunderous boom—a cratered, shattered hollow was blasted into the mountainside, and countless fragments of rock came tumbling down.

The tremendous noise reached Yin Huan's heart, making him snap his head up to look at Shi Jin across from him.

At this moment, Shi Jin had in fact already delivered checkmate.

Yin Huan sensed this too.

"I underestimated them..." He understood this clearly, and his heart grew exceedingly heavy, yet he had no intention of giving up just like that.

Watching from behind the scenes, Yin Chuanqi and the examiners all sensed it as well.

The Voidcrystal Butterfly's spatial shackles could not break through the absolute defense of Mastery-level Hardening.

That meant the Voidcrystal Butterfly could not inflict any harm on the Iron-Eating Beast.

And although the Iron-Eating Beast likewise seemed unable to harm the Voidcrystal Butterfly, which possessed Void Concealment and Instant Teleportation—

these two skills had one very significant drawback.

In the Void Concealment state, the Voidcrystal Butterfly could not use any other skills, and Instant Teleportation drained too much.

Was this going to devolve into a war of attrition between the Voidcrystal Butterfly and the Iron-Eating Beast?

A war of attrition was absolutely not a good choice for the Voidcrystal Butterfly.

Sweat instantly beaded on Yin Huan's forehead as he felt the immense pressure radiating from his opponent.

"Am I going to lose?" Yin Chuanqi gripped his cup tightly, still staring at the screen.

At this moment, aside from the Eye of the Heavenly Curtain, which possessed the Heavenly Eye, no one realized that the Voidcrystal Butterfly was facing the combination of Mastery-level Hardening and Perfect-level Super Vision!

In a sense, this could even be considered an ultimate technique!

On screen, the battle between the two continued.

Locked on by Perfect-level Super Vision, the Voidcrystal Butterfly had barely been out of Void Concealment for less than 0.5 seconds...

Bang!

Eleven flung the hardened matter, condensed into a sphere, from a distance with one hand, forcing the Voidcrystal Butterfly into a hasty teleport—

The next second, the instant the Voidcrystal Butterfly's post-teleport figure appeared, another black meteor came hurtling in, and the Voidcrystal Butterfly was once again forced into Void Concealment to dodge!

On the field, Eleven seemed rather at ease against the Voidcrystal Butterfly, suppressing his opponent the entire time.

For the Voidcrystal Butterfly to cast the spatial shackles, the only thing that posed any threat to it, took three seconds—and during that window, it was more than enough for him to counter.

Using only the two skills, Hardening and Super Vision.

Shi Jin's expression didn't change. So then—could the Voidcrystal Butterfly force out Eleven's third skill?

"Chirp..." The Green Fluffworm shed tears, as if seeing its own future.

Across from them, Yin Huan stared fixedly at the shifting situation, his mind ceaselessly searching for a way to break the deadlock.

Yet all he could feel was the mounting pressure from Shi Yan's little Iron-Eating Beast growing stronger and stronger.

Under the reconnaissance and locking of Perfect-level Super Vision, even though the Voidcrystal Butterfly possessed the spatial element, it felt as if it had plunged into an infinite abyss.

The more it struggled, the deeper it sank, unable to escape that great hand poised on high.

This was not suppression by attribute, not suppression by power, but suppression by technique—looking down upon one's opponent through sheer mastery of skills.

The Voidcrystal Butterfly, freshly evolved and not yet proficient in its skills, was like a mere child before the little Iron-Eating Beast, which had honed its techniques to the peak.

"This examinee..."

At this point, Yin Chuanqi felt there was no need to watch any further.

He spoke up: "Sky Eye, that Iron-Eating Beast—besides Hardening, it must also have used a skill that locks onto its enemy."

The Eye of the Heavenly Curtain answered Yin Zhongrong the Legend through subtitles.

A mid-tier mental-type skill: Super Vision.

Inferior to its own Sky Eye, but still a rather decent skill.

Above all, this Iron-Eating Beast's Super Vision had been developed to an absurdly high degree.

...

Several minutes later.

The Void Crystal Butterfly could hold out no longer; unable to withstand the pressure, it was exhausted of stamina.

Shi Yan Eleven did not press the attack, for how much stamina the Void Crystal Butterfly had left had always been within Eleven's grasp.

"I lose."

After the Void Crystal Butterfly signaled it could no longer fight, Yin Huan conceded at the first moment.

His expression was dazed, unwilling to accept it.

Stifled. Tormented.

That was what this battle had felt like to him.

Apart from landing that first blow on the Iron-Eating Beast, the Void Crystal Butterfly had been suppressed by it the entire rest of the way.

That feeling left Yin Huan barely able to breathe.

By the time the battle ended, he was drenched in sweat.

"I concede," said Shi Li. "If the Void Crystal Butterfly's skill proficiency had been a bit higher, perhaps the situation would have turned out differently."

He was telling the truth.

And yet it made Yin Huan feel as though he were seeing Shi Jin—the one who had been chatting and laughing with him earlier—for the first time.

Yin Huan had lost his earlier smile.

With peers weaker than himself, he could chat and laugh.

But facing a peer stronger than himself, his heart instantly turned exceedingly heavy.

He was a man of unparalleled pride, and his goal was first place in this examination. Although this was not a formal battle, at this moment Yin Huan still had to admit that the Shi Yan kid's little Iron-Eating Beast was truly strong.

"Roar—" The Maned Rock Colossus now looked at the weary Void Crystal Butterfly and the dejected beast tamer, and rose slightly, its four-meter-tall frame standing like a small hill.

It was asking whether it should take up the fight.

It looked at the tiny Eleven. Had it been in its place, it would never have dodged those skills; with a defense dozens of times greater than the Void Crystal Butterfly's, it could take those Hardening strikes head-on without suffering serious injury, and could crush any opponent with sheer brute force.

"Chirp?" Eleven also lifted its head to look at the big fellow.

Are we fighting some more?

"Jee!" Watching the big Maned Rock Colossus rise, Buggy, spectating from the sidelines, sighed that even the Void Crystal Butterfly big sister could not force out the leader's full strength, then advised the Maned Rock Colossus not to go asking for trouble.

Do you think that is all the leader's combat power?

"No need." Yin Huan waved his hand to signal the Maned Rock Colossus that the battle was already over.

With that, he put on a resolute expression and looked toward Cen Yu and the others.

"I lost this time, but when the ranking battles come, the winner will definitely be me."

"When that time comes, it will be 2VS2." Shi Qi looked at the Maned Rock Colossus and the Void Crystal Butterfly, wondering what sparks the coordination of these two beasts would produce.