Four Split Personalities

"So what do you suggest?"

Scarlett readjusted her faceplate, licked her chapped lips, and said seriously: "Maybe I should retreat first. The demands on me are not high, and I’ve already done my part. If I leave now, Master Shuangye probably won’t chase me down."

To her surprise, the other party nodded gently after hearing her complaint and replied, "You’re right, if you retreat now, there shouldn’t be much danger. Let’s do this, my companions and I will hold off the next round of attack for you to make your escape."

"Huh?"

Scarlett was taken aback. While instinctively casting [Scenery] to block several treacherously angled [Frost Rays], she exclaimed, "Are you guys suicidal? Do you think we’ve lasted this long just because of luck? I’ve been desperately helping to share the damage for you all this time."

"I know."

The blood qi surged from the man’s body again as he swung heavy slashes to break through the dense ice cones and said in a deep voice, "That’s why I think it’s only fair to help you hold the other side a bit."

"That’s not what I meant... Ahhh... Damn it..."

Scarlett almost screamed in frustration, but thanks to the knightly spirit of the Diesel family, she still couldn’t make up her mind to leave. Catching the returning shield and throwing it again, she said angrily, "I shouldn’t have talked with you!"

The hidden implication was that if they were merely unfamiliar collaborators, it would be fine. But having communicated and fought side by side for a while, they had formed a relationship that was more than strangers but not quite comrades. Under this relationship, Scarlett truly couldn’t bear to leave these people to be bombarded to death by Shuangye!

The visibly exhausted man smiled, walked heavily to stand side by side with Scarlett, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, lady. But we may not need to be too pessimistic. Although the plan I received was just to conduct indiscriminate containment here, given my superior’s nature, she wouldn’t send people on a mission doomed to die. Even if it was necessary, she would brief us beforehand."

"What are you trying to say?"

Intercepting a lightning strike aimed at the goblin engineer, Scarlett crashed to the ground clumsily, stood up with smoke wafting off her, and shouted, feeling she couldn’t hold on much longer.

"What I mean is... Ugh!"

Rushing to Scarlett’s side and getting hit in the back by a fireball at least five times the size of a normal [Fire Blast], the man nearly got ’embedded’ in the ground by the violent explosion, but painfully supported himself, and said with a harsh cough, "If nothing unexpected happens, a turnaround should appear soon."

Scarlett looked around, watching the overwhelming barrage of large area multi-elemental magic cast by Shuangye and her mirror clones, and smiled wryly, "I think so too, but I really can’t imagine how to take her down without epic tier combat power. Moreover, if we have epic assistance, why not act earlier and suppress her with tier suppression!"

"I don’t know the answer to the first question either..."

The man staggered to his feet, lifting a corner of his comical mask to spit out clotted blood: "But personally, I think that even if we have epic tier power, we may not be able to suppress her solely based on tier."

Shuangye is too strong.

Really too strong.

So strong that the theories of ’epic absolutely suppressing high-order’ and ’legend absolutely suppressing epic,’ which were almost tantamount to truth, have become unknowns with her!

It’s incredibly difficult to kill her head-on before the Miracle City Delegation and the Academy City Elder Council take action. Look at the current battle situation: nineteen high-order pinnacle desperados were all killed in less than a minute, a highly coordinated professional assassin team suffered two deaths and three escapes; Scarlett, renowned in high-order domains, especially excelling in defense, suppression, and containment, is struggling to keep up, twenty powerful, perfectly configured [Bee Sting] are pressed to the ground and bombarded. For them now, even ’surviving’ is problematic, let alone seizing the opportunity to kill her.

And this...

[Of course I know, we can’t fight them, definitely can’t, there’s no reason to win~]

Protected behind Shuangye and her five real mirror clones, Motan sighed softly in his heart. His worried expression remained unchanged throughout, still flawlessly portraying the nonexistent ’Frank Hughes’, making no moves or even bothering to make any.

He understood Shuangye, so aware of the immense strength of this girl who was certainly striving to enhance her abilities, consistently maintaining a T0 player strength, he had a good grasp. Though he wasn’t aware of the cards she held until recently, he accurately judged their weight, hence not being surprised by the current scene.

Thus, in his strategy, the option of killing Shuangye head-on with strength never existed from the start.

Indeed, some powerful epic strong people might achieve this, but within the resources at Motan’s disposal, the only one who could accomplish this was one of the Violet Empire Delegation leaders, the unfathomable dwarf girl beside Shu, Little Na. Yet, she definitely wouldn’t strike because of her intersection with Shuangye, and with Diana’s presence, the Violet Empire wouldn’t take such a risk. Deploying twenty [Bee Stings] to assist Motan was already the limit...

Additionally, the epic resources in Motan’s hand were limited: Kordo knowing Shuangye could be dismissed outright, Yizou’s realm had just stabilized and had too many ties to Hei Fan to be involved, Liz only had an epic body, lacking matching realm and experience, while Lian might be an epic-tier assassin, but even with her strength, instantly killing Shuangye was very challenging, and a failed assassination would be an absolute disaster.

In sum, despite seemingly having many cards, Motan had none to effectively resolve Shuangye head-on by strength.

So he simply abandoned that plan.

After all, killing someone doesn’t necessarily require being stronger than them.

More complex plans are prone to more errors, reducing fault tolerance, thus limiting remedial measures and escape routes. Hence, this time the setup is quite simple with only four steps.

First, let three assault teams mainly composed of [Bee Sting], including Scarlett, directly gank her, trying to uncover as many bottom cards as possible.

Then, once the above plan succeeded enough, "Frank Hughes" would observe Shuangye during the process, identify weaknesses as much as possible; this was Motan’s task.

Next, employ some method to disturb Shuangye’s mind, causing her to lose composure, expand her weakness, and thus create excellent kill opportunities.

Finally, adapt on the fly, have the most suitable person strike at the most opportune moment to strive for a one-hit kill.

Admittedly, it is a rather crude, simplistic plan, differing greatly from Motan’s previous scheming style. But when it comes to Shuangye, a plan filled with potential and variabilities is the most suitable!

By now, the first two phases were almost completed perfectly. While not uncovering all bottom cards, Motan believed Shuangye had little reserve left.

So...

Bzzzt!

An arrow suddenly streaked through the air, directly aiming for Shuangye standing at the center of the real mirror clone. Perhaps due to the weakness of the shot, Shuangye, focused on Scarlett and [Bee Sting] bombardment, didn’t react in time.

Of course, she didn’t need to react because the arrow was directly evaporated by the arcane energy surging around her as it neared her body.

It was only after that when the belated girl bewilderedly turned her head, instinctively commanded three [Eye of the Mage] to investigate the source of that laughably weak attack.

The next moment, all sounds disappeared, and Shuangye’s world bizarrely fell silent instantly.

The girl slightly parted her mouth and widened her beautiful eyes.

As if moisture was filling her eyes...

After an unknown period, she finally regained control of her vocal cords, instinctively stepping towards that slender figure in the distance...

"Sister Yina?"

Chapter 1357: The End