Child of Destiny

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Immortal finally caught Shin with his spell and was trapped in the middle of the two dragons. But he still didn’t dare to let his guard down, not until he saw the system notification saying that he really won the match.

On the other hand, Shin still had the calm look on his face despite being in the middle of the two dragons. In fact, he even grinning from ear to ear when he saw the incoming dragon’s breaths that were planning to take his life.

First, he took a deep breath to clear his mind while also controlling the flow of mana inside his body according to his breathing technique.

‘Calming Technique: White Dawn Boundary’

After that, he entered an absolute tranquil state which made him able to perceive his surroundings much clearer than before. And due to this special state alongside the effects of his ‘Sensing Circle’ and ‘True Sight’ skills, the world around him seemed to have slowed down from his perspective.

He then waited for a couple of moments and tried to read the timing of the incoming breaths. And when he got the right timing in mind, he immediately executed the plan that he formulated earlier.

‘Equipment Skill (Leg Armor: Megumi’s Shadow): Spirit Immunity’

A warm light suddenly enfolded Shin’s body, removing the shackles wrapped around his body and preventing him from moving.

Shin didn’t immediately move away from the incoming breaths despite freeing himself from the dark shackles and regaining his movements.

Instead, he remained unmoved and even adjusted his position midair so that he could hover in the air much longer. In fact, he even used one of the skills attached to his cloak.

‘Equipment Skill (Cloak: Dawn’s Mantle): Flight’

From the look of it, he was waiting for the incoming dragon’s breaths to come after him. And at the very last moment, Shin suddenly surrounded his body with a brilliant light barrier to enhance his defenses even for a little.

‘Equipment Skill (Body Armor: Maximillian): Life Forcefield’

BOOM!

Right after that, the two dragon’s breaths finally arrived and collided against each other with Shin being squeezed in the middle.

The spectators who were watching the match couldn’t help but shake their heads the moment they saw Shin being devoured by the two dragon’s breath. Especially when they saw that the destruction of the barrier that he set up and his health bar went down to the critical level which almost reached zero.

But despite being burned alive, he still didn’t die instantly as his Health Bar stopped dropping when it reached the 1% mark.

‘Equipment Skill (Body Armor: Maximillian): Death Exemption’

The collision of the two dragon’s breaths lasted for at least three seconds but Shin was still alive despite being roasted by the opposing powers.

And when the two breaths finally exhausted their remaining powers, Shin immediately used the second ability of ‘Death Exemption’ and sacrificed all of his remaining MP which was below 25%, before converting it to his HP.

At the same time, one of the passive abilities of his equipment was also triggered and healed 50% of his total HP.

‘Equipment Skill (Leg Armor: Megumi’s Shadow): Life Recall’

*(Apocalypse Equipment Set Skills – Descriptions are in Chapter 125)

On the other hand, Immoral seemed to be expecting that Shin was still able to survive that attack and quickly raised his bone scepter in the air before pointing it to his opponent.

But before he could even cast a spell to finish off Shin, he suddenly noticed that his target was already ducking right in front of him while stabbing the [Yamato] straight to his chest. 𝘣𝘦𝑑𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝑙.𝘯𝑒𝘵

‘Equipment Skill (Leg Armor: Megumi’s Shadow): Death Travel’

Immortal was caught off-guard at the sudden appearance of Shin as he didn’t expect him to be this bold despite having a sliver of health and was on the verge of death.

All Immortal needed to do was to swing his scepter at Shin and he could kill him in an instant.

But despite having that thought in mind, and even if he had the means to execute it in an instant – Immortal failed to do anything as his opponent already considered everything and used a series of skills in an instant.

‘Equipment Skill (Foot Armor: Death Boots): Death Bite’

This was the first skill that hit Immortal. It was a skill that immobilized his body for a moment which was why he quickly tried to cast a CC-removing skill.

Unfortunately, instead of freeing himself from being stunned, he suffered a backslash from his own skill due to ‘skill-execution failure’ – it was a system penalty where the player used a CC-removing skill even if they were not under any effects a Crowd Control Skill.

Immortal was taken aback at that time since he didn’t expect Shin to remove the effects of his skill without any hesitation.

After all, that kind of move was quite risky since Immortal could kill him in an instant if he messed up with the timing even for a little.

He must admit that Shin really had a nerve of steel for taking that gamble and even executed it quite perfectly.

But in truth, Shin only risked doing such a plan because of the unique effects of the equipment skill. And that being able to remove the stun provided by that skill just by moving his body.

Due to these factors, Immortal couldn’t do anything when the [Yamato] pierced through his chest. But such a simple stab would be not enough to kill him even if he got hit by it directly.

Unfortunately, that simple move was not as simple as it seemed. In fact, it was the very reason why Immortal stopped resisting the moment he got stabbed.

BOOM!

A powerful blast suddenly exploded from the blade of the sword and instantly devoured Immortal’s body in an instant.

‘Equipment Skill (Body Armor: Maximilian): Life Revenge’

This was the final skill of Shin’s armor and could only be triggered when the ‘Death Exemption’ was activated.

Its main ability was to return 10% of the total damage he received during the duration of the ‘Death Exemption’ at the time when he got the fatal strike. And alongside it, additional damage was going to be added into it from the health that he healed during the MP to HP conversion.

During that last moment of the ‘Death Exemption’ earlier, Shin used all of the remaining MP that he had and converted it to HP. So, adding it with the health that he healed from the ‘Life Recall’ skill, the extra damage of this explosion would surely be quite destructive.

But that was not the real factor that caused such a devastating power-…

Instead, it was the combined powers of the opposing Dragon’s Breaths earlier. Even getting grazed by it could already lead to instant death for anyone, so it was not hard to imagine how powerful it was if you get hit by them directly.

And even if Shin could only use 10% of the total power of those blasts, that ‘little’ bit of power alone was more than enough to kill Immortal in an instant.

And with Immortal’s death, the victor of this match had finally been determined.

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Victory – Angel of Death!

These words were fully displayed on the virtual screens of everyone which indicated the winner of the match.

But despite seeing the result, all of the spectators of this match were still staring blankly at their screens as they didn’t know how to react. Their hearts and brains couldn’t keep up with the rollercoaster ride that they just experienced.

First, they witnessed a very intense battle between the two before seeing them summon a pair of powerful dragons that gave all of them a goosebump.

After that, was an epic battle of the two dragons followed by the strange scene of Immortal being chased by Shin which they didn’t know how to react.

Not long after, Immortal turned the situation around and cornered Shin at the final moments. And it didn’t take long for them to witness a sight of Shin being devoured by the powerful breaths of the two dragons.

At that time, everyone thought that everything was already over and Immortal proved that a veteran player with a lot of experience was still better than a rising star who recently became famous and just building up his reputation.

In fact, they all forgot that it was just the second round of the match with a best of three series.

But their hearts almost stopped beating once again when they saw Shin created yet another miracle by surviving the devastating powers of the two Dragon’s Breaths.

Moreover, he even made an epic comeback at the final moment of the match and pulled off a counter kill on Immortal instead to snatch the victory from the latter’s hands.

Experiencing all of that made everyone dumbfounded and left their mouths agape as they stared at their virtual screens. And they only recovered themselves when they saw the close-up look of Shin’s signature mask displayed on their screens.

And even if they couldn’t believe that Immortal suffered yet another defeat, they had no other choice but to accept reality since the result was already displayed right in front of their eyes.

Uproar!

Different online platforms were flooded by that news as everyone started discussing the match. Even the broadcasts and live streams were even bombarded by the excited players.

On the other hand, the hosts, broadcasters, and live streamers started being busy since they were discussing the result of the match and even breaking down the details that they got.

Some of them were even praising how amazing this match was and how it would end up if both fighters had their Awakening Skills. And one of those guys was Arthur, or rather Mr. Casanova, who was currently commenting about the result.

He was not too biased nor indifferent about it. Instead, he was judging the match equally as he was looking at it from a different perspective.

At the same time, there were also some people who were quite uncomfortable at discussing the result of this match – just like Mr. Cool Guy and Ms. Marry who were currently in a very awkward spot.

The two of them were currently ashamed to look at the camera in front of them. It was because of the result of the match being the complete opposite of what they were expecting.

In fact, they even felt a burning sensation on their cheeks which made them unconsciously rubbed it with their hands, as if Shin gave them an invisible slap after achieving the 2-0 sweep victory.

Regardless, all of these indicated a single thing – and that was Shin becoming an even brighter star than he ever been before.

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