Chapter 179: Revolutionary Techniques

Chapter 179: Revolutionary Techniques



The crowd outside watched as Oath managed to land the first hit.

His friends laughed among themselves, not even really keeping eye on the match as they knew how it would end.

It would most likely end in a couple of seconds.

Alice bit her nail nervously.

"See," the person behind her shook his head. "It's not a shame to lose to Oath. He is the champion of the Highlands. There is no one in this country that is better than him."

Alice ignored him and focused her gaze on the screen.

...

Oath started his famous rush attack.

It was an ever-changing series of attacks that usually left his opponents scrambling to keep up until finally the attacks landed with a devastating blow.

Adam moved his swords as fast as possible, barely able to block the strikes that were coming at him from every angle.

Some of the attacks aimed at his legs, so he had to jump and dodge in order to avoid being hit, which ended up making the fight quite awkward.

At last, one of the swords cut into his light armor, but luckily it only left a shallow cut on his

arm.

Oath shot his right arm forward, the sword stabbing through the air like a blade of wind.

It was heading straight to Adam's chest, but then, with a reverse grip of his sword, he brought the blade down on the incoming sword and slammed Oath's blade into the sandy ground, causing a loud clang to echo through the arena.

Then, with his other sword, he slashed towards Oath's face, but he also had his own second sword and brought it up to block the attack just in time.

Adam pushed Oath a step backward with all his might, then took a step forward to enter the close combat and grabbed him by his wrists to try to disarm him.

Oath didn't let go of his swords and instead kneed Adam in the abdomen with full force.

Adam gritted his teeth and slammed his forehead against Oath's face, causing both of them to stumble back.

The blood dripped down Oath's face as he growled with an uncomfortable look.

After a second of stumbling, they rushed towards each other again and entered another exchange of blows-blade against blade-each strike more fierce and determined than the last.

...

Oath's friends quieted down, and one of them dropped their cigarette on the ground that lost its flame.

The crowd's jaws hung low in awe of the intensity of the fight happening before them.

"Come on, come on..." Alice tiptoed closer to the screen, her heart beating like a drum.

...

Adam's stayed stern while avoiding Oath's sword strikes. He wasn't swinging his swords anymore and was just dodging.

'It didn't work.' He thought to himself.

As he headbutted, he tried to use influence on Oath.

It failed, and Adam knew why.

'Oath wholeheartedly believes that he is better than me. He doesn't think that even in a million years I could beat him, so the influence didn't work because of that.

"No one could move like that!" Oath's friends shouted. "It's obviously cheats!"

The crowd also seemed suspicious at the way Adam won.

"Enough."

At that moment, Oath rose from the machine and told his friends to quiet down. He then walked around the machine and looked straight at Adam, who was also climbing out of the

machine.

"How," Oath asked. "You didn't cheat. So how did you do it?

"I call it the Speed Step." Adam said, not planning on hiding anything since he wasn't even planning to play Arena Online after this.

"Speed Step?" Oath frowned.

"If you tap the ground three times-exactly three times-so quickly that it only looks like one step, the game misunderstands your real speed, allowing you to move like I did just

now."

The crowd exclaimed, and then fell silent in awe of that discovery.

They hadn't heard about it, and since even the fourth-ranked player in the world didn't know

about it, it must be a very new discovery!

They looked at the machines, wanting to test it right away!

"Wait, for real?" Oath looked shocked. "Three times. Not two or four?"

"Two is too little, and if you do four, it's a thousand times harder to do." Adam said.

Oath touched his chin, then nodded and went to one of the machines and went straight back to

Arena Online, wanting to test it.

Then, one member of the crowd ran to the other machine while the rest of the crowd surrounded the screen, excited to see whether Oath could do it.

While they were busy with that, Adam walked away with Alice, humming a song under his

breath.

"Did you discover that by yourself?" Alice asked curiously. "It sounded like a revolutionary

technique."

Adam just smiled.

In fact, it was discovered by him in his past life.

It was one of his proudest moments of his life, as his discovery completely changed how

Arena Online was played.

While in Mortal Online, he was mostly taking credit for other people's discoveries in this life.

However, he didn't have to do that in Arena Online, as in his past life, he was one of the

greatest legends there as he discovered a total of four revolutionary techniques.

Speed Step was just the first one.

He doubted that Oath's mind would be able to handle the other three.