As soon as Scarlet Fox attacked, he entirely disrupted the initial balance of the battlefield.
Both parties began the next stage of battle proper.
With regards to this stage, Lin Huang felt there would be no real suspense to it.
After all, there were three upper-rank Lords in the Raiders’ group. What was more, one of these was Nine Snake, who was a powerhouse nearing the level of an ultimate-rank Lord.
However, Lin Huang still continued to watch the battle with great interest.
On the Raiders’ side, after Scarlet Fox’s attack, Nine Snake remained expressionless and silent throughout.
Silver remained where he was. He did not have any intention of taking a hand.
Scarlet Fox rubbed his nose and had no choice but to step forward.
After all, he was the one who had intervened earlier, not Silver or Nine Snake.
On the Bug Tribe’s side, the middle-rank lord-level Bug Queen that was the core of the Divine Magic Winged Bug felt slightly relieved when it saw Scarlet Fox standing out there on his own.
When it saw him attacking earlier, its biggest concern was that a war would fully break out, and the three upper-rank Lords would attack together.
Fortunately, such a situation had not happened.
Seeing Scarlet Fox coming forward, it immediately controlled the Divine Magic Winged Bug to shrink it down to a smaller size.
“My apologies, I was curious. I was wondering if I could experience for myself how powerful your bug formation really is.” Scarlet Fox’s tone remained polite.
The Divine Magic Winged Bug said nothing; instead, it immediately made its move.
Its one hundred and eight pairs of scale-covered wings vibrated at high speed. Countless blade-like rays rained down like a storm, deluging the entire area in an instant. They filled the sky as far as the eye could see, and all of them surged toward the lone figure of Scarlet Fox.
Although Nine Snake and the rest were standing not far behind Scarlet Fox, the Divine Magic Winged Bug still did not dare to include them in its attack. It only dared to target Scarlet Fox alone.
It knew very well that if it dared to attack anyone other than Scarlet Fox, it would definitely be met by combined suppression from the three upper-rank Lords.
It was not even sure if it could defeat Scarlet Fox, so of course, it was unwilling to face the combined forces of all three Lords.
Scarlet Fox watched as the blade-like rays that filled the whole sky headed toward him. Remaining utterly calm, his figure moved continuously, forming tens of thousands of shadows in the air. For a while, the spectators had some difficulty differentiating which figure was real and which was false.
“This fellow is definitely something.” Lin Huang was also staring at Scarlet Fox’s display of movement skill.
This was a lord-level movement skill that clearly combined shadow rule and illusion rule.
Cultivators who had weaker God’s soul strength than Scarlet Fox were entirely unable to counter movements like this because there was no way at all to differentiate the real from the false.
On the outer perimeter of the battlefield between the two combatants, the eyes of the six middle-rank Lords in the Raiders’ team widened at this point. On the Bug Tribe’s side, the ten lower-rank Lords who were the core of the mutated bugs looked completely dumbfounded as well.
The truth was when one’s movement skill had reached this level, the shadows were not totally illusory—they were clones that could be made tangible. Not only that, Lin Huang could tell that Scarlet Fox was probably even able to switch his own position with that of the shadows as he pleased.
This set of movement skills was so subtle and exquisite that even Lin Huang felt a slight urge to learn it.
In a little while, Scarlet Fox’s figure and the tens of thousands of shadows were completely swallowed up by the massive torrent of blade-like rays.
Any of the spectators watching with Divine Telekinesis could clearly see that the illusory figures were rapidly destroyed by the attacking blade-like rays. However, many more illusory figures consolidated to take their place.
Eventually, when all the blade-like rays had faded, Scarlet Fox’s figure was still standing where it had been all along as if it had not moved at all from the beginning until the end.
“This round at least has some sort of standard to it. Thumbs up for you,” Lin Huang commented, smiling.
Naturally, he had clearly seen that Scarlet Fox did actually move, switching his position with the shadows at least ten times. However, in the end, he had gone back to his initial position on purpose.
It was just that he had performed all of this with extreme subtlety. If not for the fact that Lin Huang possessed a more powerful God’s soul than Scarlet Fox, it would have been hard for him to notice this.
Since the first round of attack had failed, the Divine Magic Winged Bug launched a second assault without hesitation.
It did not know what kind of rules its opponent had mastered or what kind of abilities Scarlet Fox possessed. Therefore, it chose to attack first to subdue him and not give him a chance to attack.
The one hundred and eight pairs of scale-covered wings on the Divine Magic Winged Bug’s back mutated abruptly, spawning countless tentacles which surged toward Scarlet Fox like a tsunami.
However, on the other side of the battlefield, Scarlet Fox’s hair swiftly grew out at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. In an instant, it had already reached his waist.
As Lin Huang watched in shock, Scarlet Fox’s chest began to expand like an inflating balloon, and the lines of his facial features began to soften…
One by one, fiery red, furry tails rapidly sprouted from his coccyx—nine in total.
“What’s happening?!” Lin Huang’s expression was full of shock.
This was a scenario he had obviously not anticipated at all.
Lin Huang was not the only one—on their side, the Bug Tribe was rather stunned as well.
Even on the Raiders’ side, the eyes of the six middle-rank Lords widened too. Clearly, it was their first time seeing this as well.
Some of them might have heard about Scarlet Fox’s abilities and were aware that he could change gender whenever he wished. However, this was the first time they were seeing it with their very own eyes.
Even Nine Snake, who had been calm all this while, had a faint, startled expression flash through his eyes upon seeing Scarlet Fox in a female body.
The only one who remained unmoved was Silver, the mechanoid.
To him, gender was quite obviously something completely immaterial.
After the transformation, it was very evident that Scarlet Fox’s aura was no longer the same. It was much more ferocious now.
Her nine tails transformed into nine bright red flames. They increased dramatically in size in the face of the opposition and attacked the tsunami of tentacles surging toward her.
This time, she did not dodge the attack at all, meeting it head-on instead.
Lin Huang kept his gaze intently on Scarlet Fox. “This fellow’s character seems to have changed as well after the transformation. Is that a different personality?”
It was not just Scarlet Fox’s aura that had changed. Even his style of fighting and his demeanor were completely different from before.
Previously, he had always given the impression that he was indolent, unable to rouse up much enthusiasm to do anything. His style of fighting had also always seemed to concentrate on frontal attacks.
However, right now, he was very clearly on the warpath and full of energy. His current style of fighting was full of animosity as if he had swallowed dynamite—eager to fight tens of thousands of rounds to vent his internal rage.
After observing him for quite a while, Lin Huang was almost certain that this was Scarlet Fox’s second personality on display.
“His personality changed after he transformed… I wonder if he would display more personalities and fighting styles if he transformed into other appearances…”
When Lin Huang was delving into this issue, someone from the Raider’s camp was thinking about matters outside the battlefield.
‘Lord Rose is so lucky…’
On the battlefield, the clash between both parties swiftly produced an outcome.
Scarlet Fox was obviously more powerful. She attacked continuously with her nine tails, inexorably vanquishing the tsunami-like wave of tentacles and subduing her opponents by direct confrontation.
Not only that, her figure continuously flickered from point to point as she approached the Divine Magic Winged Bug, attempting to fight it at close range.
The Divine Magic Winged Bug’s one hundred and eight pairs of wings finally displayed their ferocity as well.
One by one, the pairs of wings began to transform into different Dao Weapons for attack, control, and defense…
The single mutated bug abruptly transformed into a team formed from hundreds of mutated bugs…
Even Lin Huang’s eyes lit up as he observed how it utilized its abilities. He rapidly began thinking about how he could construct a similar fighting style.
