The cheering returned, and Shang refilled his life energy with the shrimp's corpse.
Then, the wheel returned.
"Wait a second," Shang said.
The wheel stopped descending and just paused.
"Yes?" the jester asked.
"If my armor breaks and becomes useless, will it be repaired?" Shang asked.
"Depends on if you lose or win," the jester answered. "If you win, no, your armor is the price you've paid to win. If you lose, it will be repaired."
Shang nodded. His armor was extremely important. Without it, he would have died to the Serpent, and he was sure that it would also save him in the Mage category.
"Then, I won't fight," he said.
"Smart move," the jester said.
There were three possible ways the next fight could have gone.
First, Shang died, and his armor broke.
Second, Shang won, and his armor broke.
Third, Shang won, and his armor survived.
If the first case happened, Shang would lose out.
If the second case happened, Shang would also lose out. After all, Shang wouldn't be able to rely on his armor during the Mage category since he couldn't just reforge it like his sword.
His armor would have been traded for exactly one point since level 15 would be absolutely impossible for Shang to beat.
However, if Shang had access to his armor, it would very likely pay out with more than one point in the Mage category.
Shang's armor had already paid two points in the beast category by helping him win against the Serpent. His next opponent also wasn't a big problem, but Shang would have never reached that opponent without his armor.
Shang was most worried about the powerful Mid High Mage. The Mages before that opponent shouldn't be that difficult, but just like the Serpent, the powerful Mid High Mage represented
beat the powerful Mid High Mage, he would definitely beat the
armor, Shang wasn't confident in beating the powerful Mid High
the first two options happened, Shang would sacrifice more than he would
way to go forward without a loss was
chances of his armor
Not very high.
that the Magic Circles on his armor wouldn't even
die, and Shang believed that he very likely wouldn't be able to win without
speed of his opponent would
Path Stage. If Shang had to block a physical attack with it, it would
to be a
kind of opponent you would have fought," the jester said with a smirk as the
was also interested in what his opponent would have
and the image of
the image,
was a smirking cheetah
would've been bad for you,"
very fast beast with a Wind Affinity, huh?" Shang
"Yep," the jester said.
how that fight would
He would prepare himself.
cheetah would run
would move its claws past Shang's sword, and it would cut him
to get Brilliance off, he would survive the attack, but he doubted that his
opponent symbolized the worst-luck
category is over," the jester said as he jumped off the
"13 points."
"Very impressive."
Reaching such a high Battle-Strength in this level is commendable, but it will become useless if you can't create an
strong, turns to above-average, turns to average, turns to below-average,
answer,
such a powerful Path had opened up the way to the very top, but every additional step had to be just as outstanding as
could hold until it led
my Path right now?" Shang
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