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Chapter 920: Chapter 495, Deadly Blood Fight_2

This isn’t holding back or deliberately not using the most familiar weapons; rather, it’s about strategically choosing the right gear.

Because the opponent Kalduce isn’t wearing Terminator Armor, just a set of regular Tactical Powered Armor—although the model is a bit rare, the ‘Majestic’ Powered Armor is something many Battle Groups would be envious of.

Using a Thunder God Hammer, which is more than enough to take down heavy units, against an opponent in Regular Powered Armor isn’t suitable. Something more flexible like a Powered Sword would be much more appropriate.

To be honest, the gear Cao Boyang is wearing is far more expensive than what Kalduce has on. If this were a war, Cao Boyang, in such attire, could play a much stronger role than Kalduce by many folds. Suppressing firepower, charging into the fray… he could do it all.

But a duel is another matter.

Terminator Armor is heavy, allowing for equipment that regular Tactical Powered Armor can’t accommodate. However, its bulkiness and lack of agility are simply irremediable.

If both users are of low skill, then without a doubt, the person outfitted with the Terminator set could simply crush the opponent with superior equipment; however, if both are experts, then it’s not so clear-cut.

The Alliance isn’t poor, and Kalduce isn’t someone of insufficient status within the Battle Group to be denied access to good gear. It’s a confrontation with an archenemy; there’s no holding back or underestimating the opponent. Whatever Cao Boyang has equipped, Kalduce could have it too if he wanted.

If he didn’t bring it, it’s surely for victory.

Agility and skill are crucial for Kalduce to seize victory today.

Yet at the onset of the battle, Kalduce was immediately met with a grave crisis.

The arena for the duel is vast, encompassing about two kilometers in diameter of city ruins. However, for Interstellar Warriors who can sprint at full speed, even complex terrains can be crossed in mere minutes.

If the distance is closed, many of Cao Boyang’s long-range heavy weapons would lose their effectiveness.

Almost the moment the broadcast announcing the start of the battle sounded, he crouched with legs apart, assuming a horse stance. The built-in scanner had roughly locked onto Kalduce’s location, and the two Rocket Nests mounted on his shoulders began launching rockets.

One after another, the rocket, trailing long plumes of flame, shot forth. They drew beautiful arcs in mid-air, flew over numerous ruins, and precisely targeted the area where Kalduce was.

He didn’t launch all the rockets in one go, but fired them in a controlled rhythm. He precisely calculated Kalduce’s position and potential movements, sealing off many of his paths. The main objective was to prevent the Phoenix Veteran from taking shelter in the building ruins to avoid the blast damage.

No way! He would be blasted to bits en route!

And Kalduce could only keep moving nimbly amid the bombardment.

Of course, his speed was not enough to completely avoid the blast range, but Tactical Powered Armor is still Powered Armor. As long as he could evade the explosive core of the precise rocket hits, the threat from the outskirts of the blasts was relatively low.

However, during this process, he could hardly close the distance between them and couldn’t afford any mistake whatsoever. Otherwise, a direct hit from the rocket would mean severe injury, if not death.

Kalduce’s disadvantage from not choosing heavy equipment manifested just as expected.

Although he was still unscathed thus far, the problem was that Cao Boyang’s means of attack were almost risk-free, whereas Kalduce could only passively take the hits.

A mistake meant defeat; without any slip-ups, it was merely a matter of Cao Boyang running out of rockets. He surely had more than twenty rockets in his two Rocket Nests—how much energy would Kalduce have to expend to dodge all of them?

While pondering this, all the spectators witnessed a blue beam shoot across the dueling ground, striking right at Cao Boyang’s left shoulder-mounted Rocket Nest!

The audience were all elite Interstellar Warriors; they immediately recognized that this shot came from a Plasma Gun, and it was a charged shot at that.

But when did Kalduce draw the gun to charge it? Wasn’t he scrambling to avoid the rockets just moments ago? How did he find the time to do this?

And with nearly two kilometers separating them, not to mention countless obstructing ruins, how did Kalduce manage to hit the target?

Watching from a distance, Kazimir Ersu’s face had gone completely grim.

There was no magic to it; the man was simply capable of charging the Plasma Gun while distracted, all the while analyzing and adjusting his position as he dodged, finding a gap free of obstacles between them.

The gap was extremely narrow, even more terrifying, Kalduce was constantly under bombardment, dodging explosions while adjusting his position, which was extremely difficult, let alone seizing the fleeting moment in that instant to make an accurate shot, surpassing a distance of two kilometers.

Erso could only say, this was nothing short of divine skill.

Erso asked himself, within the entire Fury Flame Battle Group, was there anyone who could do this?

A few top-notch experts who had gone through specialized training and drills might be able to pull off this ‘performance’.

But unfortunately, this was not a performance, it was a real combat, a matter of life and death.

Even in this real combat, Phoenix was at a disadvantage. This territory was under Furyflame’s control, even the duel location was their choice, they were able to come in advance to observe and study the terrain, but Phoenix didn’t have that condition.

To fire such a shot in the nick of time during real combat, Erso didn’t even have confidence in himself.

But this man, whose name had not stood out in the wars a hundred years ago, actually did it!

Just an old soldier?

Impossible.

Even Company Commander Champion didn’t have this ability!

Yet the Company Commander of the first Company of Phoenix could actually demonstrate such strength!

He couldn’t help but look worriedly at Cao Boyang.

From the beginning of the battle to now, Old Cao’s firepower suppression had shown extremely outstanding tactics, but Kalduce’s godlike shot directly overtook him in terms of performance.

However, Old Cao’s actions were actually quite decisive.

The moment his Rocket Nest was pierced by the plasma, he violently detached the Rocket Nest from its connection to his body and flung it far away.

The Rocket Nest exploded in mid-air.

Had Old Cao’s decision been just a bit slower, he would have suffered severely from the sympathetic explosion of the Rocket Nest.

Kalduce also took this opportunity to swiftly advance by using the cover of the urban ruins.

Clearly, he intended to close the distance between them, even wanting to enter close-quarters combat.

Old Cao was not afraid either.

This Company Commander of the Fury Flame Battle Group, taking heavy steps, also delved deep into the urban ruins.

However, the watching Erso couldn’t relax his tense anxiety.

Kalduce’s performance was too frightening; now he could only hope that this Phoenix Veteran was a master specialized in long-range shooting, with his close combat swordsmanship not being outstanding, at least not that harsh.

It was possible; otherwise, Kalduce’s capability wouldn’t be just that of a Company Commander.

But seeing Kalduce’s eagerness for close combat, Erso didn’t dare to fully trust his own judgment.

He could only watch as the distance between the two sides got closer and closer…

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