Not long after Rorschach joined the Game Church and revealed his innate ability, a four-man strategic team plan had been formed.
The theoretical guidance was to use Rorschach's innate ability of honesty as the core to create a team that would fight in the wild for a long time. However, the team would always receive the support of the Gods, allowing them to fight for a long time and have a unified command.
From a combat perspective, Rorschach would assume the role of a frontline command center. His ability was similar to a battlefield antenna, which could greatly increase the combat ability of his companions around him, as well as their continuous combat time, logistical support, and combat coordination.
Now, after Lori's divine descent, the battlefield antenna had become a command tower. He was no longer a middleman, but a source.
"… This is practically cheating."
The battle had just begun, but there was already no suspense.
This wasn't a fair duel from the very beginning. One side was an individual. Even if he was experienced, had excellent battle tactics, and was truly a match for ten thousand men, it didn't mean that he could really face a fully-armed army and the country's machinery behind him.
"This is a battlefield with no fairness at all."
Isabella, Grandmaster, and Su Nanna were all outstanding Descended Ones. In the past few years, their growth wasn't any worse than Rorschach's.
If Rorschach's command tower was one condition, then the divine power reserves of the entire Church was the second condition.
Now, what Rorschach needed to do was to use Lori's divine power as the material to create steel bodies similar to automatic magic armor for them.
The third condition was also in front of them. The network of the virtual gaming world allowed the souls of "Rorschach", "Grandmaster", and "Isabella" to be linked together.
It wasn't their souls that had truly descended. They were only operating the same physical body in the virtual world and making the same combat decisions. In the end, their decisions were perfectly reflected on their steel bodies.
Perhaps their individual special abilities would be slightly weakened, but the magic armors and war machines that Rorschach had custom-made for them with the support of his divine power were much stronger than their physical bodies. The result was that these "virtual descenders" were not only stronger in terms of overall strength, but they also had various war machines and special abilities.
In the previous virtual world, Rorschach had repeatedly negotiated with them. The war machines embedded in the cards were the Divine Artifact Book of Ten Thousand Spells. The spell cards that Rorschach used to create the steel puppets and war machines had been sealed up, and now they were quickly being released in a template.
Yes, repeated and fast. This was the most shameless part of this tactic.
The "card" that had been released was once again in a state of charging. With Lori's unstinting input of divine power, it could be used again very quickly.
Then, even if Isabella of Steel was smashed to pieces, she would be summoned again in the next moment and enter the battlefield.
"Unafraid of death, armed with a body of steel, and able to learn from failure … How much more cheating can there be?"
The audience in the stands exclaimed. But the answer to this question was …
"There's no limit to cheating. The only thing that can stop the gods from fighting is a barren imagination. Sixth card: [Pleasant's Steel Knights. 1 Attack, 1 Defense, 1 Effect: Summon 10 duplicates.]
The first few cards had summoned the elite descenders of the Game Church. They were already hunting down the prey that had been beaten up. But now, as the heavy and cumbersome magic armors entered the battlefield, the situation was completely out of control.
Yes, it was pieces and not individuals. This card charged unusually quickly. Every time it charged, ten standard models of magic armors would enter the battlefield, and after five seconds, another ten would enter the battlefield.
Those elite descenders could still be explained as the God of Games forcefully descending without sparing any effort. But now, these obviously rookie knights had entered the battlefield with their magic armors, and it had completely devolved into a war of attrition with no limit to talk about.
On the other hand, what the Game Church had prepared before was to let the knights and rookie warriors log into the virtual world and operate the magic armors.
Now that the battle had reached this stage, the outcome was obvious.
Gray Venom Blade had been chased to the ends of the earth, but he still couldn't put a safe distance between them. The venom and corrosive magic he was adept at was effective against living creatures, but it was much less effective against inanimate objects such as steel and ores.
This wasn't a coincidence, but a targeted choice. Since the Game Church wanted to use this opportunity to establish their dominance, they would naturally choose an opponent that could be countered.
"No matter what he's hiding, there's only a wrong name and not a wrong nickname. He must have some skill in poison-type abilities. It's better to have a natural counter than to choose an opponent that can't be countered."
And now, the ability that Gray Venom Blade displayed perfectly illustrated what a natural disaster was.
The Steel Behemoth of the Grand Master displayed astonishing fighting skills. It crossed space and attacked Gray Venom Blade directly, but was directly melted the moment it got close.
Isabella's bat battle group carried fuel bombs as they whizzed through the air, but they were turned into scrap metal by the corrosive fog that filled the entire sky.
The hordes of Steel Knights stepped into the swamp that suddenly appeared in the arena and never got up again.
"He's so strong. Perhaps he really can take on an entire Church by himself, but …"
Rorschach, who was in a "safe zone," shook his head. He didn't comment on Gray Venom Blade's stubborn resistance. However, the audience in the stands wasn't so kind.
"… What's the point of dragging this out? Gray Venom Blade, why are you still resisting? Why don't you just surrender? Do you really think that your mana alone can compare to the divine power reserves of an entire Church?"
"In Cape Town, the Game Church has at least one hundred thousand deep believers and two hundred thousand shallow believers. With a perfect God's Descent, this power of faith can be converted into an endless amount of combat strength … I don't think that it can be used up in a short period of time."
"The only way to turn the tables and win is to kill Rorschach's main body. However, from the very start, we've been restricted from directly attacking the Only Law of this world. In order to shatter the Only Law of the Gods, we'll need to use the same level of divine power … Only by preventing Rorschach from using this technique from the very start will we have a chance of winning."
"There's no need to use Deification to descend. There are conditions for using Deification. There'll definitely be a lot of preparations beforehand, and there'll definitely be restrictions in real combat …"
"… But right now, we're in a duel in the arena. Preparations won't be a problem."
"If we're in a duel with one of our own …"
"I'll say this first: I don't want to fight at all. This is completely cheating."
"But I can't deny that this is indeed the peak of combat strength. It's only been a few years …"
At this point, the Church of Game could be considered to have made a name for itself. These arrogant churches were finally looking at this new star in the eye.
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