As a standard cyberneticist, Caroline was well aware of her strengths.
Based on her observations, she had already made preliminary deductions about much of the old man's information.
"Energy fluctuations are irregular. Every time he blocks an attack, the white jade tip of the cane releases a dark energy field, with some frequencies similar to those of Star Beasts."
"Chen Xing's blood flame can burn Star Energy, but it was directly disintegrated by this energy, suggesting it possesses an 'Energy Stripping' characteristic."
While quickly analyzing, Caroline slid her finger across the screen of her tactical tablet.
Every time the old man raised his hand and every time his cane exerted force, she dissected it into various precise parameters in an extremely short time, which rapidly refreshed on the screen of the tactical tablet.
"...Preliminary hypothesis: if we can sever his connection with the cane, we might be able to limit his strength to a certain extent."
"However, based on Chen Xing's attack just now, the material hardness of his cane completely meets the Association's standard for S-class Star Energy Alloy. Therefore, the recommended tactic is mainly disarming."
As she spoke, Caroline suddenly zoomed in on the tactical tablet's screen.
The optical zoom function of the tactical tablet magnified every detail of the old man infinitely.
The image she had currently frozen and enlarged for observation was the instant the old man's sleeve was lifted by the wind when he raised his cane a moment ago.
In the picture, a section of skin, pale to the point of being almost translucent, was briefly exposed. Faint ink-black patterns were visible beneath the skin, spiraling like vines toward his wrist.
Although Caroline was not yet sure what these patterns represented, she still offered a preliminary judgment.
"The Star Energy trajectory distribution of the patterns beneath his skin has an 80% similarity to the special vines from the Long Life Island in the data records."
"In conclusion, this person might have some kind of symbiotic relationship with the island itself, and his body is suspected to possess partial plant characteristics."
After stating this, Caroline looked up at Tendo beside her.
This was all the useful 'data' she could collect in the shortest time possible.
As for other subtle but less critical data, Caroline temporarily withheld them, only relaying the important points to Tendo.
Shortly after Caroline finished speaking, a crisp sound suddenly rang out from the center of the distant battlefield.
The old man lightly swung the cane in his hand, and Mirror Glaze's dream constructs began to vanish into thin air, one after another, as if erased by an eraser.
Jeremiah's condensed thick ice was even more fragile, disintegr disintegrating into tiny ice shards in the mere airflow from the swinging cane. They fell onto the grayish-blue sand and were quickly melted by the warm grains.
After completing all this, the old man raised his hand and dusted the ice shards off his tailcoat, his movements as elegant as if he were just brushing off dust.
Then, he tapped the cane on the sand, and an invisible energy wave immediately spread out from his body, sweeping across the entire scene.
The next second, the entire beach seemed to have been paused.
The Star Energy arrows still flying in mid-air, the stone fists of the rock golems, and even the intangible energy released by the Mental-type Star User were all utterly solidified before this power. After a brief stagnation, they turned into scattered light dots and completely dissipated.
Having finished this, the old man's gaze behind his monocle swept over the crowd, finally settling on Tendo.
"Still not planning to make a move?"
Although there were many people in the direction of the old man's gaze.
Both the students on the beach and the dimension viewers on Site 13 knew whom the old man was addressing.
Not long after he finished speaking, a 'rustling' tremor suddenly came from beneath the sand.
Subsequently, the grayish-blue sand on the beach began to surge constantly, and countless thick purple vines burst out of the sand.
The surfaces of the roots were covered in sticky sap, and their tips bore barbs. Not only did they cause a stinging sensation on contact with a student's skin, similar to a strong acid burn.
More bizarrely, the Star Energy within the students' bodies began to be frantically devoured by these vines, starting from the point of contact.
"Damn it!"
A male student whose ankle was ensnared by a vine struggled, but the harder he fought, the tighter the vine coiled, and his face visibly turned pale.
In just a few seconds, dozens of students were bound like sticky rice dumplings, their faces visibly paling, clearly unable to hold on for much longer.
The range of the vines' attack was extremely wide; even Tendo and Caroline, standing further away, were not spared.
More than a dozen thick vines suddenly shot out from the sand beneath their feet, making a 'shasha' sound as they wrapped around Caroline's waist and Tendo's legs, respectively.
Caroline moved like lightning. With a draw from her waist, three silver-white throwing darts were already in her palm.
She flicked her wrist, and the darts shot out with a whistling sound, accurately embedding themselves into the vines.
Sizzle!
Fine blue circuit patterns were etched on the surface of the darts. The instant they pierced the vines, silver-white electricity immediately began to spread along the vines.
Soon, the vines violently trembled as if struck by lightning.
More strangely, the vines hit by Caroline actually let out a wailing sound similar to a wild beast.
Accompanied by a large amount of dark red sap flowing out along the darts' edges, several vines quickly withered and eventually slumped onto the sand, dissolving into a pool of viscous liquid.
The vines attacking Tendo did not even cross the five-meter radius around him before being blocked by an invisible Vector Field.
The invisible Vector Field flashed in the air. The moment the tips of the vines touched the field, they were instantly sliced into countless small segments, like hitting a high-speed rotating saw blade, and fell onto the sand, faintly twitching.
In just one brief exchange, the formidable strength of Tendo and Caroline was clearly revealed.
Gazing at the old man not far away, Tendo, who had remained motionless, finally took action.
He slowly walked toward the old man. As he passed, countless vines that had burst forth from the sand turned into powder and drifted away.
As Tendo walked, the dimension viewers on Site 13 were able to see the 'tragedy' on the beach in the corner of the camera's view.
Out of over two hundred students, more than half were now incapacitated.
And this so-called incapacitation was not merely losing combat ability; it was genuinely paying the price of 'life.'
Such a brutal intensity of combat was undoubtedly far beyond the imagination of the dimension viewers on Site 13.
After all, although they had anticipated this assessment would be difficult, what kind of assessment could cost over a hundred students their 'lives' in a single session?
Was this still an assessment?
This was clearly sending them to 'die'!
Unreasonable. Whether it was the sudden appearance of the old man or the beach that had now turned into a bloodbath, the dimension viewers felt that this assessment was strange and unreasonable through and through.
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