Volume 7, Chapter 21 – Tianyin’s Skill Copying Journey

The “much-anticipated” tournament had officially begun.

Under the eager gazes of countless players, the curtain was raised.

Quite a few famous players joined the tournament. Of course, the vast majority of players were still just spectators for this competition.

Because Xingyu Muxi had already separated the match categories in advance, at the very start it was warriors facing warriors.

As a melee damage dealing class, a warrior’s skills were basically all physical damage.

Of course, this class also had so-called “control” skills, but those so-called control skills were really just taunt skills that were one level weaker than a knight’s.

The opening warrior matches were basically a brawl between brutes.

Taunting each other, trading blows that landed hard.

Even though warrior fights didn’t have the kind of dazzling skills that made your eyes spin, warrior fights were filled everywhere with the brutality of cold weapons.

And right as the tournament started, Tianyin also joined the crowd watching the battles.

After all, according to the plan she intended to learn some powerful skills from these players, so once the opening ceremony ended, Tianyin joined the spectators as she pleased.

“Mm, a taunt skill, a skill that forcibly pulls aggro. It’s pretty strong, but against me it feels like it wouldn’t be very useful. Still, it counts as a control skill, so copying it isn’t a bad idea either…”

With the thought of copying combat skills in her mind, Tianyin commented to herself about the warriors’ skills in the matches while copying the skills the players released.

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Taunt.

Charge.

Whirlwind Slash.

War Cry.

War Stomp.

Deadly Strike.

In short, as long as Tianyin saw a warrior skill, she copied it without hesitation.

Of course, besides warrior skills, Tianyin also unexpectedly saw some hidden jobs among the warriors. For example, Berserker, and also Bloodthirsty Warrior.

A hidden job’s skills were worlds apart from ordinary jobs, and hidden job skills were far stronger than ordinary job skills, so in battle, it was generally the hidden jobs that held the advantage.

“It feels like if I learn these skills, I’ll become stronger than before~”

These players never imagined that in some corner, a loli named Tianyin was quietly copying their skills.

Of course, only Tianyin and Samael in her mind knew about this. After all, Envy’s copying ability was way too bugged, and Tianyin didn’t bring it up in front of people like Xingyu Muxi.

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Very soon, the battles in the warrior category were basically over. Of course, it wasn’t that all matches were finished in one go. What ended was only the qualifiers.

And on the other side, the battles for the Mage category also began.

And unlike the warriors’ blow-for-blow fights. In a certain sense, mage battles showed what it meant to be gorgeous.

Weaker mages tossed out fireballs, ice shards, and the like as if it was nothing. Powerful mages could casually unleash splendid spell barrages.

The battles between mage lords were just that flashy. Countless fireballs, or countless ice shards, formed a barrage that covered the sky, and the dazzling scene alone was enough to make people’s eyes spin.

Of course, it was also because of these dazzling looking barrages. So while mages had strong offensive power, their agility was much lower than most classes.

And that was also why mages couldn’t dodge the “barrages” fired by opposing mages, so in mage battles, there could be an extremely ridiculous and hilarious scene.

That is… while throwing all kinds of skills at each other, the mages also tried their best to dodge the magical attacks their opponents released.

And like that, they forcibly turned the fight into a “dodge” game of weaving through barrages.

“A mage’s agility really is ridiculously low, but with the Seven Original Sins boosting me, I’m not worried about that. Still… this way of attacking like a barrage looks really strong, I think I can use it…”

Watching the mage lords’ barrage battles, Tianyin became extremely interested in this way of turning magic into dense barrage attacks.

Think about it. If powerful magic was launched at the enemy in barrage form, leaving aside the momentum that already beat them by a mile, the enemy would probably be intimidated before the battle even started when they saw that dense barrage.

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「Xiaoyin, that kind of idea isn’t too good. A mage’s role is mostly higher in large-scale wars. After all, once AoE magic reaches the level of forbidden spells, it almost becomes world-destroying, and even Legendary-tier can’t withstand forbidden spells head-on.」

『Mm… is that so?』

What Samael said in her mind also made sense.

After all, barrage style spell attacks really did look powerful, but this fighting style was actually flashy without substance.

It might have a miraculous effect on some weak ordinary people, but if it was against a powerful existence, like one on the same tier as Tianyin… Tianyin wouldn’t gain anything at all.

And it was precisely because she considered this point about being flashy without substance that Samael advised her right away.

『So that’s how it is… I get it, so there’s actually no need to force a fighting style like this. But Samael, I’m not a mage myself, so I think it doesn’t really matter.』

Tianyin actually quite liked this “gorgeous” barrage attacking.

After all, in Tianyin’s eyes, these barrage skills could at least be described as good-looking.

And those gorgeous barrage attacks, Tianyin felt they might be able to confuse opponents in battle.

Confuse them with the way she acted.

When fighting an existence of the same tier, rely on a barrage attack that was flashy without substance, yet looked overwhelming, to confuse the opponent. Make the opponent unclear about Tianyin’s true strength for a while, and become wary of Tianyin’s attacks.

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“Mhm… I really am a genius~”

Thinking of that, Tianyin felt that mages turning magic into dense barrages actually had their uses too.

So in the end, Samael’s words didn’t persuade her. Following Tianyin’s own thoughts, the barrage style attacks used by mage players were all secretly learned by Tianyin.

And before long, players would see a Tianyin who could casually release a sky-covering barrage of magic attacks like “rain”.

Mm… that was for later. For now, Tianyin was still secretly stealing these mage players’ skills.

Fire Rain, copy…

Frost Nova, copy…

Flame Impact, copy…

Lightning Strike, copy…

Copy, copy, copy!

As the tournament unfolded further and further, the skills Tianyin copied using the power of Envy also became more and more.