Chapter 625

Chapter 625: Powerless to Turn the Tide

Determined, Terry made up his mind.

On the surface, he continued to relentlessly chase after Yi Chen.

But secretly, he began subtly weakening the power of his defensive shield, intentionally lowering his own speed and reaction, while forcing his ability to boost his strength.

Meanwhile, as the distance widened, Yi Chen could not only keep using Sword Energy attacks to pressure Terry, but he could also unleash the fire laws.

Terry maintained his facade of weakness.

Under the intentional slowdown of his speed and reaction, he found it even harder to evade the dual attacks; he could only barely avoid the Sword Energy assaults and could not completely escape the engulfing sea of fire.

In fact, even if he hadn’t intentionally reduced his speed and reaction, he would still have struggled to evade the Sword Energy attacks and could not completely avoid the flames at all.

With the sea of fire continuously wearing him down and him further reducing the strength of his defensive shield, the shield steadily became thinner.

The audience in the stands watched, anxious and burning with worry.

Before the battle began, they could never have imagined that the duel would evolve into such a situation.

Using a large number of extraordinary pills, Yi Chen, who had dropped three small realms, was actually overpowering Terry, who also had plenty of immortal materials and treasures.

It was simply unfathomable.

But the reality was right before their eyes.

Moreover, as time passed, Terry’s disadvantage became increasingly clear.

No one could understand where Yi Chen got so many extraordinary pills.

Or how he could take them simultaneously without the effects interfering with each other.

The entire arena grew a bit quiet.

The vast majority of the audience had an unsettling feeling.

Only a very small part of the audience clenched their fists, their eyes shining with excitement.

They had all bet on Yi Chen’s victory.

Although the bets were not high, if they won, the odds of over fifty to one would be a significant surprise.

Boom!

After a stalemate that lasted over ten minutes, Terry’s defensive shield finally could not withstand the continuous consumption of the sea of fire.

It completely collapsed due to exhaustion of energy.

The audience in the stands showed horror, and their hearts sank to the lowest point.

Meanwhile, the situation on the ring developed in a direction they did not want to see.

With the loss of his defensive shield, Yi Chen’s sea of fire began to burn Terry’s massive body.

His golden fur scorched black under the flames.

Terry’s cries of pain and roars of anger echoed out from time to time.

What made the audience’s hearts race even more was that Terry’s speed, as his burns worsened, continued to slow down.

As a result, avoiding the Sword Energy attacks became more and more difficult.

Swish…

Finally, one moment of carelessness led to a Sword Energy striking Terry’s body.

Without the protection of his defensive shield, a deep wound was instantly sliced into his chest, exposing bone.

This was just the beginning.

This strike caused the already exhausted Terry to find it even harder to withstand Yi Chen’s two types of attacks due to the intense pain affecting both his speed and reaction.

Boom!

He could only hold on for another four or five minutes.

Badly injured and charred by the flames, Terry finally could not endure any longer and crashed heavily to the ground.

The deafening sound was like a heavy hammer pounding on the hearts of all the spectators.

“He’s about to lose, he’s actually going to lose…”

“This guy, even though he’s from the Time Tribe and three small realms higher, how could he be defeated?”

“It’s not that this Terry is too weak; it’s that the extraordinary pills Clay possesses are far too powerful.”

“If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have bet on Clay to win; those odds were fifty to one.”

“Who could have guessed that Terry, who originally had absolute advantage, would end up in such a disastrous defeat?”

Everyone felt incredibly frustrated, sighing deeply.

Some audience members even stood up, cursing under their breath, preparing to leave the stands.

Desperate counterattacks had happened on the ring before, but they were extremely rare.

It was hard to believe that Terry, going from an advantage to a disadvantage and then to being heavily injured, could actually launch a comeback.

What no one knew was that Terry was secretly brewing a desperate counterattack.

If the stalemate continued, this state of heavy injury would eventually happen.

But he had intentionally lowered the strength of his defensive shield and gradually reduced his speed and reaction without revealing his intentions, which accelerated his injuries.

His goal was to deliver a powerful blow and counter-kill Yi Chen when he got close, using the forcibly enhanced power he had at all costs.

However, after he truly fell heavily injured, he was shocked to discover that he had unknowingly made a huge mistake.

That was, he had forgotten about his opponent’s attack methods.

To suddenly rise up and counter-kill the opponent, the first condition was that the opponent must be careless and approach him.

But Yi Chen had done the exact opposite.

He remained floating at a distance, constantly swinging his sword and launching attacks.

With each Sword Energy, Terry’s already injured body faced further collapse.

His opponent clearly intended to keep attacking until he was killed.

“Damn it, have the guts to fight me up close!”

Enduring the intense pain, Terry clung to a flicker of hope, roaring and trying to lure Yi Chen closer.

“Why would I fight you up close when I can kill you from a distance?”

Yi Chen scoffed.

Terry fell into complete despair, feeling his life rapidly slipping away.

He could only gather all his energy and suddenly leap into the air.

With a punch, he struck towards Yi Chen.

This punch, brimming with energy and accompanied by a deafening sound as it sliced through the air, shattered several Sword Energies in succession without losing its might.

The spectators in the stands couldn’t help but widen their eyes.

Their mood, which had sunk to the bottom, suddenly soared.

Unfortunately, just as it rose, it was plunged back into despair.

Because Terry’s life-burning strike, though seemingly unstoppable, had a fatal flaw.

That flaw was speed.

Yi Chen clearly recognized the terrifying power of that punch.

He decisively chose to slice through the air with Sword Energies while swiftly retreating backward.

His speed matched Terry’s full explosive force perfectly.

In just over ten seconds,

Terry’s explosive energy was completely spent.

With his energy exhausted, he again crashed down from the air.

Before hitting the ground, he fell into unconsciousness due to consecutive heavy injuries.

Sword Energies ruthlessly struck his body.

In the moment his body collapsed, Terry’s spirit burst forth from within, only to be casually severed by Yi Chen’s Sword Energy.

As Terry’s spirit was destroyed, the defensive barriers around the coliseum instantly activated.

The match was over.

Yi Chen achieved victory in this coliseum battle.

He kept his expression calm, waved, and took the Space Stone from Terry’s body before tossing it into his storage ring. Then, he flew out of the coliseum.

Soon, he disappeared from the arena.

In the stands, over three hundred million spectators fell silent.

“If only Clay had personally stepped forward to behead Terry after he was heavily injured.”

“That way, given the explosive power Terry demonstrated, he could have unexpectedly killed him in one blow.”

“Terry probably thought of this too. I felt his injuries took effect far too quickly. He must have been pretending to be weak, knowing that eventually, he would be exhausted. It was better to conserve energy for a comeback.”

“Unfortunately, Clay’s Sword Energies and flames are both long-range attack methods; he didn’t need to get close. From start to finish, he never gave Terry a chance for a comeback.”

“It’s over, this time I took a big loss.”

“If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have bet all my money on Clay to win; with fifty to one odds, I could have made a fortune in one match.”

“What good is it to say if I had known? If we really knew, wouldn’t any duel be a guaranteed win?”

The spectators in the stands were reluctant to leave.

They found it hard to accept this reality.

Clearly, it had been a money-making opportunity, but instead, there was a stunning upset.

And it was an enormous upset.

With fifty to one odds, such a level of upset might only happen once in hundreds of matches.

What was most outrageous was that it had happened to them.