Chapter 53 Pas de deux
In any competition, there are winners and losers, and every victory or defeat makes people care, otherwise the competition itself will be meaningless.
After the exciting competition and confrontation, there is no language or vocabulary more disgusting than the seemingly generous comments from the winner.
Gavins is like this now. He teamed up with Calvin in the previous 2v2 and easily defeated the opposing duo with the latter's psychic support.
As the winner's privilege is also the loser's obligation. He is now proudly contaminating the loser's ears with words:
"Don't be so nervous. You care too much about victory or defeat. Learn from me, Tariq. This is just an experiment. No matter the outcome, it has nothing to do with honor!"
"The winner has the right to speak! No matter if it's gold or shit in his mouth." After hearing Gavins' words, Tariq, as the loser just now and now a participant in the new round of confrontation, responded angrily.
"Don't be distracted, Tariq! Have you forgotten how you lost just now?" Alex, his comrade-in-arms, was also one of the victims, but his relatively stable character allowed him to quickly get over the defeat. , and did not forget to remind his comrades not to fall into the opponent's trap again.
Rather than dwell on the failure of the previous game, it is more in line with Alex's philosophy to focus on the battle in front of him and do his best to win the next victory.
On the large fighting stage in the training ground, Calvin and Gavins were facing back to back, facing the four paladins surrounding them.
But unlike the situation of being surrounded, among the two sides fighting on the field, the one facing a formidable enemy is the one with more people. The four paladins stared closely at the two people who were still chatting and joking in the encirclement, fearing that another surprise attack would turn the numerical advantage on the field into a source of shame and conversation off the field later.
Just now, the 2V2 confrontation that decided the winner in less than 30 seconds made the Paladins put away their contempt. Such an easy defeat made these elite members of the Gray Knights no longer blindly proud and confident.
"Can I use psychic powers?" This was the first time Amonks spoke on the field. He was so dull that he only used words where they were most needed.
"Is it okay?" Gavins asked Calvin with his eyes.
"Of course, we also need to know the limit of the anti-interference ability of this psychic channel. Except for weapon enchantment, if you don't want to kill me and Gavin." Calvin replied with a smile.
"Then I have no problem." Gold, the last person on the field and the deputy of the guard, patted his chest.
"Can I do that too?" Gavins asked again.
"Yes, but I'm not sure whether your skills will be affected by mine." Calvin said to Gavins. After all, the anchor point of the psychic channel is placed in the middle of such a sensitive forehead, and most of the psychic initiation processes are transferred from here to the eyes and finally released.
"Okay, let's begin." After receiving the confirmation, Gavins turned back to look at the opponent in front of him, shook the scimitars in his hands and said.
And Calvin behind him, after getting the look that the confrontation was about to begin, clasped his hands together and shouted: "Holy Carla connects you and me!..."
Okay, the above sentence is just a guess.
The real situation is that Calvin didn't make any big moves. He just summoned the silver sun in the spiritual world between his breaths and opened the authority of the spiritual channel. Gavins, who had been anchored by Calvin in advance, just muttered Calvin's name silently deep in his heart, and the psychic signal between them was established instantly in a time shorter than breathing. .
This process is like the relationship between a server and a data terminal that has signed a data agreement in advance.
Gavins' thinking and vision are transmitted to Calvin's brain in real time, and Calvin's role is to carry out this foreign thinking while completing efficient information communication with him and transmitting the results back.
The entire workflow is not complicated, but if Calvin wants to use this set of things that are more of a command system than skills on a larger scale, then how can he ensure that he can be "multiplayer online" at the same time? The smooth flow of thinking information will be a problem that he cannot get around.
But in the current "local area network" with only two people, all Calvin has to do is "turn on".
The battle alarm was also sounded at this moment: the two people's thinking flow came to an answer invariably after docking:
"Turn around! Only by spinning can you give full play to their advantages!"
After a millisecond of communication, the two of them uniformly ignored the opponents on the flanks and launched a powerful and heavy jump attack towards the enemy in front.
And when the opponent hurriedly used all their strength to parry, and based on their rich combat experience, they were always ready to support their teammates on the flanks in time after being deceived. Only then did they discover that the opponent was not only jumping in the first round. A feint, even the rebound that uses the opponent's strength is also a feint! .
With their backs to each other and no communication, Calvin and Gavins invariably used the first round of attacks to distance themselves from the opponent in front of them while breathing, and then continued to rush forward with inertia. With Gold on the left side of Gavins, he launched a death spin consisting of two people and four scimitars!
They are all Astartes, they are all superhuman warriors who have undergone heavy transformations!
If the target of an attack with such coexistence of strength and speed was a mortal, then the latter might not even have time to react and his body would be torn to pieces on the spot.
But Gold is not! He is not fundamentally different from the other party! At least, in front of Calvin and Gavins who deliberately restrained their strength for the sake of fairness, he is not qualitatively different!
Faced with such an attack that could not be solved by dodging, the blood of the veteran made him decide not to retreat. He wanted to fight for the remaining three comrades who were striding over!
Since death is already doomed, how to maximize the value of a qualified Emperor's gold coin is the last thought of this veteran.
Gold did not hesitate. He could not leave the attack range of the other duo after two steps back. He immediately stopped retreating. He held his head high and looked straight at the false but real death, holding the halberd in his hands high and slashing forward.
Death, yes. But even if you die, the direction of the halberd must be the direction of victory!
Gold's behavior was too obvious, and the other five people present immediately felt the intention of his behavior.
But unexpectedly, no one stopped for this, including Calvin and Gavins who were at the point of Gold's halberd. On the contrary, they were grateful for such behavior.
Such a mutually-destroying fighting style may not be suitable for the internal competition among comrades. But isn't the original purpose of this skill experiment to simulate the most cruel situation on the battlefield?
If such a mutually-destroying fighting style cannot be dealt with, then what practical significance does it have? And if Gold made such a choice on the battlefield, who would he protect with his life?
Calvin and Gavins were full of respect for Gold's choice, but since he was an opponent, the best way to respect him was to give him a decent exit!
The high-speed rotation of the two was like one person operating two bodies, and under Gold's full-strength slashing, they separated and merged smoothly like flowing water.
Gold, who had exhausted his strength and had no chance to dodge, could only watch Gavins, who turned around and left, and Calvin, who followed closely, calmly slashed with a knife, splitting the necklace on Gold's helmet into two.
At this time, the three people who arrived late also stopped when they saw this.
In the absence of a surprise attack and with twice as many people, the short time for the casualties to occur is enough to explain too many facts.
Such communication efficiency is far higher than the maximum efficiency that can be achieved by language in the electronic communication channel in the power armor, and the real-time battle vision sharing between each other is not comparable to the tactical command vision that only a few commanders can have.
Since the advantages and disadvantages are so clear, the remaining question is how many people can Calvin, the inventor and initiator of this new system, maintain online at the same time?
And can such a tactical system that relies on Calvin's psychic power resist all kinds of external interference in real battles in the future?
These are all things that Calvin needs to prove one by one, and if these are proven to be reliable and pure, this system may mean a completely different way of fighting for this guard.
And such a change will obviously not be the first time, let alone the last time. How to adapt to the changes brought about by the Primarch will be a problem that they cannot avoid if they still want to serve the Emperor.
"Emperor, are we, your humble servants, really that old?" The paladins on and off the field all had the same thought in their minds.