The crisp clash of blades rang out beneath the neon night sky. Su Sui's offensive pressed in step by step, the Great Tachi lifted high and chopping down with the force of a thousand pounds. A Willow Leaf Blade rested lightly on the fingertips of Four-leaf Phoenix Tree's hand, tracing a cross in front of his chest. In the storm of blades and sword-light, the two weapons crashed and contested; at first you could still see the trajectory of their moves, but soon there was only a rain of sparks and afterimages, the whistling wind etching shallow marks into the walls.

The silver-haired girl's figure leaped across the gap between buildings, diving down into the neon abyss. Her long silver hair whipped wildly in the gale, the black trench coat flaring with it, ashes drifting past the pale red of her gaze.

The entire city was coated in a cold-toned filter of rain. Angelina crossed her arms in front of her, letting her body plummet at a speed of over a hundred meters per second, slicing past giant screens, and in an instant slamming into the roof of a Hovercar, caving it in and blowing it apart, the screams of the crowd erupting around her.

Angelina ignored the panicked people around her, gave them a glance, then sprinted toward the distant megatower named "Cyan Divine Tree."

On the other side, the pursuit targeting Xu Xiaoyou was still ongoing. Yu Lan held the Giant Scythe one-handed behind her, her speed at one point even outstripping the sports car. Wind howled, thunder and lightning raged, and Xu Xiaoyou saw the other girl sprint up to appear on the car's right side.

Yu Lan rested the Giant Scythe on her shoulder, her other hand bracing the shaft. The scythe's grotesque eyeball suddenly snapped open, its size swelling by more than a full circle. Against the backdrop of the girl's slender arm, it was utterly out of place, like the reaper of death itself.

The Giant Scythe slashed out, and a sky-filling sheet of blade-light instantly blanketed the entire sports car. From a distance, the blade-light shot up to the heavens; the suspension bridge span was first skewered diagonally through by it, then in the next instant split in two, whole sections dropping away into the void.

Some viewers' nerves were completely hooked, their eyes glued to the screen, even forgetting to breathe.

Under the gaze of the masses, a pitch-black knight rode a roaring warhorse out of the curtain of rain, drifting into view at the very last moment before the suspension bridge span fully collapsed.

"The Dark Gold Rose player is fine!" the host cried out.

"We can see the Dark Gold Rose player has looped around and is driving back toward the Cyan Divine Tree megatower. What is she trying to do, why is she going back to Cyan Divine Tree?"

Far off on one side, Lu Shuhang quickly calmed down.

"Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, can you still hold out?"

Faced with Su Sui's fierce assault, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree decisively abandoned the idea of defending. He no longer tried to use Divine Speed Power to shake off the girl, but instead unleashed Divine Speed Power to the max. Since the opponent could track his speed, then he'd meet her head-on with even more speed!

A lightning-like figure darted and sprinted, rice ears swaying in the rain severed one after another. Another figure also turned into lightning, sticking tight to the young man's back and refusing to let go.

Su Sui's Small Tachi swept forward in a series of horizontal cuts and Upward Slashes, clashing with Four-leaf Phoenix Tree's Willow Leaf Blade and forcing the young man back a few steps. Before he could react, she raised the Great Tachi high, the rear of the long scabbard pressing against Four-leaf Phoenix Tree's neck, restricting his movements. With a slight twist of force, she drove his body into a spin.

Caught off balance, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree almost got thrown to the ground by Su Sui's巧力, wanting to counter but unable to use any of his strength. The girl had woven Judo's "using softness to overcome hardness" straight into her Suixin Style, channeling her entire body's power through the Great Tachi by subtle control of waist and shoulders, moving a thousand pounds with four ounces.

Crushed hard under the Great Tachi, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree could barely move, half-kneeling on the ground in a rather sorry posture, while Su Sui stood above, blade held across, looking down on him.

Using his posture, Su Sui smoothly drew out the Great Tachi, sweeping it horizontally across before her in a motion as graceful as a dance. Her feet tapped the ground in a light spin, her body rotating with it, and in that sudden instant, the blade's murderous aura climbed step by step. That graceful softness was replaced by a tyrannical force, the blade bending to the verge of snapping as it pressed in toward Four-leaf Phoenix Tree's face!

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree clenched his teeth in secret and finally broke free of the restraint at the last instant, Divine Speed Power fully igniting. His body turned to lightning and blinked away, barely avoiding having his head taken in a single stroke by the girl.

"I can probably hold on a bit longer."

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree maintained top movement speed Running, while Su Sui clung to him like a ghostly shadow.

Lu Shuhang stared at the red dot's position on the map. At this critical juncture, everyone on the team was waiting for his next command, yet he fell into silence.

"Hang..." Nanjia Wood stared at the screen.

At the opponent's current speed, even without linking up with Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, there was a high chance she could reach the battlefield and join Yu Lan and Xiao Xinzhu in besieging Dark Gold Rose. The price would simply be Four-leaf Phoenix Tree getting cut down by Su Sui. If they could trade their roaming slot's life for the enemy's absolute core Commander, it would be a deal as cost-effective as they come.

But he knew exactly what the other man was hesitating over.

"Hold on a bit longer, I'll come support you soon." Lu Shuhang finally made his decision.

In Assassin's Creed's exclusive lounge, the analysts all let out soft sighs, shaking their heads without a word.

Xu Xiaoyou felt this was just fine.

No extra small talk; aside from her, nobody trash-talked. Everyone simply wanted to kill each other.

Xiao Xinzhu's Spirit Charm body twisted in the air, the silk threads she flicked out weaving into a giant net, blocking the direction Xu Xiaoyou was heading. Each silk thread snapped taut at a finger's flick, its edges reflecting a razor-sharp cold gleam.

She jerked the wheel hard. If the sports car crashed into that giant net at its current speed, she and the vehicle beneath her would be instantly sliced into countless equal-sized segments.

And on the other end, Yu Lan, wielding the Giant Scythe, charged out, intercepting the path she had to take as if she'd predicted it in advance.

On the left was the giant net, on the right the abyss, front and back both blocked—Xu Xiaoyou was driven into a dead end.

Seeing the blonde girl with nowhere to run, the viewers who'd long been fed up with her all erupted into cheers.

Some analysts narrowed their eyes. "The odds have been pulled high enough. Dark Gold Rose, what are you waiting for?"

"You don't think she's lost her mind and bet on herself to lose, right?" someone half-joked.

The analysts beside him shot him looks of disdain.

"Dark Gold Rose is greedy, but she won't abandon her arrogance."

"The Chairman would only ever bet on herself to win."

"Is there another possibility," someone said, spreading his hands casually, "which is that Dark Gold Rose really has no way to fight back?"

Everyone was stunned.

"Didn't Chairman Lu ban Light Chasing Garden's Artifacts right at the start?"

"So tell me, could that bizarre set of abilities Dark Gold Rose has be related to Artifacts?"

Seeing he hadn't gotten any response for a long while, that analyst looked up in confusion, only to find everyone in the room staring at him in shock.

The analysts looked at each other. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"Hey, hey, no way, I was just talking off the cuff."

The man had a faint premonition that if this were proven true, the impact would be like dropping a nuclear bomb on the Oasis forums.

The Dark Gold Rose's Mysterious veil would be torn away. She would be dragged off the altar—no, dragged into an abyss of eternal damnation.

"Ahem." Someone gave two dry coughs. "Don't jump to conclusions. Let's keep watching a bit more."

That was what he said, but the way these analysts looked at the blonde girl had clearly changed—repressed, feverish. Once doubt takes root, they could no longer hold back their hunger for the truth, their desire to see the high-and-mighty Dark Gold Rose dragged down from her altar.