Bab 39: The Simulation Skill
"Simulation! Oh my God! It's the Simulation skill!!!"
On the stands for distinguished guests and teachers, the guests looked at each other in surprise, some could not help but stand up, trying to wide their eyes, looking at the arena ground.
"Can't believe that it's Simulation... The number of people who can use this skill is no more than five nationwide, today there's another one! And that's a first-year student!" The one who spoke was the Principal of Military Academy – Walter Kang, a General of the Army, belonging to the Water-style Tide race. This person used to be one of the best-performing underlings under the Commander in Chief Raymond Maximus. He was both a talented general and a passion for understanding and researching about dragonmen races, therefore, later on he was appointed to the position of Military Academy Principal. With background from the Army, obviously Mr. Walter's information was much more accurate than that of the general public.
Sitting one row ahead of Principal Walter, the Commander-in-Chief Raymond nodded in agreement: "This year's competition has really brought a lot of surprises! What's the family name of this child again?"
"Farley! Angus Farley!" Principal Walter immediately replied.
"Oh!" Commander-in-chief Raymond slightly narrowed his eyes, muttering: "Farley? Well, have I heard of this family name before?..."
Speaking of which, even guests had such reactions, then how the crowd of civilians and students watching the match would react? So, after a moment of silence due to surprise, the stands gradually became noisy.
"Really?? Is it really the Simulation skill?"
"What is Simulation?"
"Look at that appearance! Exactly the same! How can it be wrong?"
"But there's a rumor that it's lost right?"
"Who knows..."
"Can anyone tell me what the hell is Simulation skill?"
At this moment, the trembling voice of the match commentator sounded, as an affirmation for the crowd's question: "I, I have to say that... Even me myself can't believe it... but it's the truth! What we are seeing here is actually the Simulation skill! May I help to recall you what the previous generation said about this skill: Simulate the other - Deceive the world. Yes! That's it! One of the eight legendary skills belong to Water style – Simulation!"
This time the stands officially exploded.
"I told you! It actually is the Simulation skill!!!"
"Genius! Both of these boys are geniuses!"
"Phenomenal! This year's competition is phenomenal!"
"Definitely! This is the third legendary skill now! Are they really first-year students???"
...
Indeed, the skill that Angus had just performed was one of the legendary skills of Water style that had not been seen for a long time – Simulation.
As mentioned, in relation to the Water System in particular, Ocean and Tide were considered to be the two most formidable races. Ocean possessed the most resilient vitality and the most abundant internal power source of the Dragonmen races, like a deep ocean without a bottom, while Tide was famous for their excellent ability of controlling the flow of water. Similarly, while Tide possessed the legendary skill "Water Mastery", Ocean was no less competitive when possessing the legendary skill "Simulation".
However, while the skills like "Clone" and "Water Mastery", "Blood Mastery" still had someone who could give people a chance to see those skills by their own eyes, "Simulation" belonged to the list of long lost legendary skills. Every time it was mentioned, it would bring about the thick sense of legend and ancient breath.
But today, that ancient legendary skill appeared in this arena, performed by a very young boy, how could people be calm?
The "Simulation" skill had three levels.
At level one, "Simulations" helped the performer to simulate the appearance and external temperament of the subject, which helped to deceive enemies of average strength or lower. Slightly higher, at level two, "Simulations" the performer to simulate the aura of internal power style of the subject, which helped to deceive strong enemies. The condition to perform of these two levels was that the performer must have exposed to the subject. Finally, up to level three, "Simulations" would help to change such features as: the vitality, internal power style, and combat skills of the performer. At this level, if within three seconds before or after the execution, there was a little blood of the subject to be simulated fell into the blue magic circle, the performer could immediately simulate all the features of the subject, including appearance, vitality, internal power, and combat skills. This was the powerful feature making the researchers give this legendary skill six words: Simulate the other - Deceive the world.
However, not everyone could reach this level three. Of the five people who possessed the "Simulation" skill that Principal Walter knew of, only one person could perform it at level three.
So... in the memory of a few people who had ever heard of the "Simulation" skill, this was a particularly useful skill for a spy, like pretending to be a member of enemy's side, blending in the enemy base to collect information. Very few people used this skill for face to face fighting! Most of them were at level one or two, which could not help them to change their real energy style and strength. Using "Simulation" level one or two while fighting only consumed more internal power, not brought any benefit.
Everyone was very curious about what Angus intended to do with this skill.
Currently – There were... three "Drake" standing on the arena ground.
After a moment surprised, Drake calmed down a bit, trying to encourage himself.
As the future heir being fostered by the Atticus clan for some years, in addition to understanding about his own race, Drake was also taught about the attributes and abilities of other races, and how to deal with them. The Atticus was a long-standing big clan, of course the archives in their hands was enough to foster Drake. Therefore, Drake knew about the "Simulation" skill, including both advantages and disadvantages of the three levels of this skill. Based on Angus' age and the mixed bloodline, Drake guessed that "Simulation" of Angus could only be at level one.
No problem Drake! He just wanted to disturb you! Even if he could perform "Simulation", he was still a Water dragon! Yes, he's a Water dragon! So just sense a little bit to know who was true and who was fake! Drake told himself.
But after having concentrated internal power to sense the "air" radiating from Angus' natural energy, Drake was even more horrified.
Who was from Water style? No one! "Drake" standing far away from him was releasing the air of a Fire dragon! So this meant... his "Simulation" was already at level two???
While Drake was in his inner monologue, the other side Angus who was in the appearance of "Drake" did not waste the time. Two fire bombs suddenly appeared on his hands, but he did not use them to attack Drake. He tossed them high up on the sky.
The audience widened their eyes. What was the meaning of this move???
On the air, two fire bombs hit each other and exploded! Just in a moment, the area where "three" Drake were standing was full of dust and smoke. After that, a "Drake" took the chance to rush into the other two.
Seeing the three shadows chaotically fought in the smoke, everyone finally realized the intention of the boy named Angus.
Drake was a genius, however, he was still young, which meant he still lacked of experience in real fighting! He performed the "Clone" skill completely based on the instinct of a young genius, not at the level of a master. One of the masters of this skill was his grandfather – The first head of the Atticus clan. At this level, he could realize which were his clones and which was not within just a glance.
But Drake could not!
Not being able to sense the energy of Angus via internal power, as well as the sight was blurred with dust and smoke from the two fire balls, Drake could not know which "Drake" was his "half"! Just look at the arena ground and see: All three "Drake" were fighting chaotically! There was not any signal of a "two on one" match as Drake's plan!
In the situation where Drake did not know who was real, who was fake, surely Angus the was the one having the advantage! – On the arena ground, people could see there was a "Drake" whose attacks and dodges were such smooth and skillful.
It was no exaggeration to say that up to this moment, whether the spectators sitting on the stands or the audience watching via live broadcast, all were convinced by Angus. They absolutely did not expect that the "Simulation" skill could be used like this!
Ten minutes later, the dust and smoke cleared away, one "Drake" was standing with his hands on his knees, gasping for breath, another "Drake" was sitting on the ground pathetically, both of their clothes was a little tattered, and their face had some scratches. On the contrary, a "Drake" was standing not very far, his face showed a calm expression, his back was straight as a lance. Needless to say who was this one!
Looking at the straight back shadow in the middle of the arena, even the people closest to Drake in his family had to admit that this kind of temperament had never appeared on Drake, or it could be said that Drake had not reached the level of Angus.
On the stands, contrary to the leisurely state of the previous two days, now Drake's father face was turning between blue and red. If it was not because of the competition rules, he would have stood up and shouted at Drake, asked his son to take his clone back. Why? Because if leaving it like that for some more seconds, he might lose half a life! Half a life literally!! Literal meaning!!!
Similar to "Simulation" which had many levels of performing, the "Clone" skill was also decentralized, including two levels!
At level one, after performing the skill, according to the number of clones created, vitality and internal power were equally divided among each entity. If one of the those entities died, the divided vitality and internal force would disappear forever. It could be said that at this level, this skill existed both advantage and risk at the same time. That's why there was level two to strengthen the advantage and eliminate the risk of level one! At the level two, all created entities were both original and clones, and could be able to switch to each other as the will of the performer. If there was one entity dead, the divided vitality and internal power would return to the original, and loss for the performer was just a little of internal power. This was the powerful feature that helped it step into the rank of legendary skills.
Currently Drake had only mastered level one of "Clone", so Drake's father had told him not to use this skill until he could learn and master level two. However, after Angus showed his Fire power, perhaps Drake became a little afraid and impatient.
Seeing how pathetic Drake was on the arena ground, the hands of Drake's father tightened even more, the blood vessels were visible on the back of his hand.
He should have thought of this sooner!
From the first day when all first-year students assembled in the capital, seeing the ordinary teenager boy who was the first rank of the National Ranking, all the speculations were towards on Eugene. Because not only Angus made the miracle but all the freshmen of Base Five made a spectacular breakthrough, those who had witnessed the ability Eugene when he was young all agreed that: Eugene must have "done something" for Base Five!
Light hair color, normal physical figure, Angus never looked like a fierce and dangerous dragon.
But everyone had forgotten: If he was just a normal student, how could the super picky Lieutenant General Eugene select him to be the first disciple over the past thirty years!
On the arena round, Drake also understood his situation. He helplessly took back his clone. Now it was useless to keep Drake's form, so Angus relieved the skill and restored his form. Just like that, the fight between the two legendary skills which challenged countless geniuses ended up in less than fifteen minutes.
Having consumed so much internal power, Drake decided to put all energy left into one last blow. He took a breath, concentrating all the remaining internal power and then shouted:
"Great blaze!"
"Multi fire balls!"
Drake launched two consecutive attacks, one of which was the specialized skill "Great Blaze", which caused Cheryl to admit defeat to him in the previous match. The extremely hot flame spread on the ground accompanied by fireballs in the air rushing towards Angus in the hope of blocking all of his paths.
Angus frowned. Drake was really a strong opponent. At least the "Great Blaze" skill of Drake made him feel unsure. Currently, except for "Simulation", the highest skill of Water style that he could perform was "Water Rampart". But "Water Rampart" was a high-level technique, compared to the specialized skill "Great Blaze" performed by a strong Fire dragonman like Drake, it was not possible for "Water Rampart" to win. Beside that, the spreading speed of "Great Blaze" was super fast, while Angus could not directly perform "Water Rampart" but had to perform "Water Wall" first, and use it like a conductor to perform "Water Rampart". Then even though "Water Rampart" could be reluctant to resist for a while, the aerial fireballs had already hit him.
Angus' eyes gradually became sharp and cold, the moment he threw a glance at the number and direction of the fireballs, he shouted: "Fire Arrows!"
On the air, the fire arrows formed behind Angus' back with the same number of Drake's fireballs, then immediately launched. All the spectators on the stands and viewers watching through the live broadcast could see clearly the fire arrows with the head in blue and the tail in red coming to Drake's fire balls. Those fire arrows carried some kind of power accurately hit and penetrated the fire balls.
At the same time, on the ground...
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