Greed: All For What? - Chapter 1755: The Privilege Of The Audience.

He couldn’t use any special physical skills or moves, but his movements were smooth and perfect because even though he is alone in this match, the clones watching by the side can see the entire movements of both parties clearly and are feeding their vision and thoughts to him. The clones are bystanders, so they have the privilege of watching and making analysis without the threat of death. Most audiences feel that they can do better because of this privilege. Since Legion-1 is able to gain the privilege from the clones, he can actually do better. He followed up the attack with a kick. His leg smashed into the wolf, but it didn’t do any harm. Still, the shift in weight allowed him to swing the axe around for another hit.

Unfortunately, despite how perfect the timing of his actions were, the wolf was faster at dodging. It has a speed of 7, which is not up to Legion-1’s 8, but it has the advantage of its speed stat being for its whole body instead of being for just its foot like Legion-1’s.

Legion-1 can surely move his feet faster than the wolves, but his hunting shoes don’t boost his attack speed with his hands, so the wolf was able to dodge the axe. It even managed to shift itself sideways to attack him from his left side, far away from his axe.

The clones thought to themselves, “We need speed.”

They knew that the axe was likely to be dodged. That’s why they led with the kick first. Legion-1’s movement speed was fast, so it would have been impossible for the wolf to escape at such a distance.

They were right to think that. They were also right not to hope to damage it with that attack. A stun would have been enough for the follow up attack to connect. Unfortunately, the disparity between their stats was too wide for the wolf to be affected by the kick. Now it is retaliating. All of this appeared in their eyes, so Legion-1 wasn’t caught off guard. The wolf had attacked from his left. His left hand is also the hand he is using to hold the shield, so it will be easy for him to shift his hand to block the attack. But he didn’t. Instead, he whirled his axe horizontally from right to left in a circle.

This elaborate movement further exposed him to the attack of the ice wolf. There was a thunk and a notification as the claws of the ice wolf clashed with his armored torso. -You Have Been Hit By Ice Wolf.

-Endurance (328) vs Strength (5). -Judgement: Defense Successful.

-Damage: 0 DE.

The attack bypassed his shield, but he was still protected by heavy armor and had an innate defense of 318, so there was no damage. There wouldn’t even be damage if he were naked.

Meanwhile his spinning attack landed on the wolf. The axe blade struck it on its torso too. The wolf was struck with so much force that it lost its footing and fell to the ground. There was a large gash on its torso, which showed just how successful that attack was on it.

-You Hit Ice Wolf with Large Axe. -Strength (11) vs Endurance (6)

-Judgement: Attack Success.

-Damage: -6hp.

Despite all the force he put into the attack by shifting his weight and rotating how whole body, the attack did the same damage as his first successful one. It made them realize that no amount of skill or technique can overcome the influence of divinity.

At best, technique and skill can make their attacks connect, but once it does, the rest is up to the interaction of divinity. But this wasn’t a bad thing because it means they don’t have to over extend themselves in an attack. A single light hit with little effort will be more efficient than spinning their whole body. They learned this just as they used insight on the ice wolf to learn its condition. What they saw showed that its hits points had fallen from 52 to 40 after it took a damage of 6 twice. This was in line with what their angel told them, “As long as defense is not greater than attack, damage will be taken. If defense is equal to attack, -1 point of damage will be taken. But as long as defense is greater than attack, then no amount of fancy moves or skill will lead to damage.”

If he had a total strength of 6, he would have succeeded with causing -1hp damage to the wolf. The additional 5 stats of strength above defense translated to extra 5 points of damage. This is what it means to be divine. Mortals have no such thing. They have constitution which affects only their hit points and stamina. Divine beasts and gods have endurance which affects their defense. They and gods don’t have stamina. They can fight for all of eternity if they need to. Plus, they have no physical weaknesses, so only a complete drain of their vitality or divine energy can kill them. Not even a beheading can kill them. It won’t even weaken them. So the wolf was still in peak fighting conditions despite the large hash on its body. The wolf snarled and lunged again. Legion-1 didn’t dodge. He angled his shield and rushed towards the wolf in the air to bash it. He decided to do so because the wolf had already done something like this before so its actions could be predicted. His also led with his axe this time, not a kick. The wolf was in the air so it couldn’t dodge. But the wolf wasn’t helpless. An icicle formed in its mouth and shot towards him. It crashed into his shield and brought up a notification.

-You Have Been Hit By Ice Missile.

-Endurance (338) vs Elemental Power (8).

-Judgement: Defense Successful.

-Damage: -0 DE.

The elemental power of the wolf was 8 while his divine body had the help of his armor and shield, so the elemental attack couldn’t break his defense. Meanwhile his axe managed to score a hit on the wolf.