After a moment of silence, the stands erupted into a roar like the crashing of a tsunami, becoming a chaotic mess.

"Impossible," Shang Jiliang's pupils dilated in shock, suddenly standing up from his seat, "How could anyone deplete a force field shield with a broadsword?"

Beside him, his awe-struck comedic apprentice, Ye Feng, was so astonished he could not utter a single word.

Any nitpicking would not be an insult to the other party but to one's own intelligence; Kill One Every Ten Steps' performance had gone beyond the limits of his understanding of mechas.

...

Gu Qingyan and Shen Yuning were dumbstruck as statues.

For a while, both of them lost the courage to challenge.

The gap between them was too large; their skills might be higher than Wu You's, but they also couldn't utterly dominate their opponent the way that person did. Who on earth was he?

...

The battle ended.

Duge exited the arena mode, and his message panel went crazy with notifications.

He clicked to check and saw a swarm of requests for battles, as well as even more friend requests.

Above the messages, was the count of spectators for his room---over two million.

And more.

The number kept increasing steadily. Duge then opened the news page, and all the hot topics were about him.

The effect was really great!

Duge smiled slightly, full of emotion. In a world where information spread so quickly, it was perfect for an alien warrior's survival to start a hot topic and, within minutes, extend their influence across the entire world.

Since his previous action of taking down Blade with ten consecutive shots in the same spot had already caused such a huge sensation, drawing the big shots out,

this fight, where he defeated Phantom with a single strike, should have an even greater impact.

It was about time!

Duge ignored the many battle invites, and under the expectant eyes of the crowd, silently went offline and left the battle network.

This move stunned everyone.

...

"What's going on? Why did he log out?"

"Another fight, come on!"

"He fought five battles in a row, he must be tired. Even an ace pilot, after maneuvering Sea Swallow to counter-kill Phantom without injury, must have nearly drained his spiritual power, right?"

"Makes sense."

"But that guy at least should have said goodbye to us, too impolite."

"He's probably exhausted his spiritual power and can't even speak..."

"Exactly, exactly. To witness such a feast like Gluttony, I'm already content. It's easy to overeat if you have too much in one day. Take it slow; I've already set up an online alert. As soon as he logs on, I'll rush over immediately. Starting now, I'm his super hardcore fan."

"I hope the media will put in some effort to dig out his real-world identity..."

...

"Master, since we can't fight him now, why don't you use your connections to find him? Let's meet him in person!" Ye Feng, finally recovering from the shock, suggested to his master.

"With the commotion he's caused, many people will have reported it upwards; I won't beat them to it," Shang Jiliang shook his head, "Come, join me in the training field, let me try how Sea Swallow breaks through being cornered by three homing missiles."

"Master, is that necessary? You already struggle with one homing missile," Ye Feng looked at his master, who was brimming with enthusiasm, with a helpless expression, "Maybe, you could try evading bullets with Black Tortoise and replicate Sea Swallow's maneuver..."

Shang Jiliang glared at him and said, "It's Sea Swallow I'll use. Kill One Every Ten Steps' fighting style has inspired me. I feel that it's precisely the over-reliance on the capabilities of the armor that has caused our technology to stagnate for so many years.

From him, I see the future of pilots.

Changing our pilot training methods, if we can cultivate a group of pilots at his level within two years, even if they only have half his ability, we will still have hope of victory even if the Hilven civilization's army comes."

...

Back in reality, Duge took off his helmet.

Lin Hong's body remained fragile.

Despite causing such a huge disturbance in the battle network, Lin Hong's attributes had hardly improved.

It made sense, as his fame had indeed spread across the country, but what he did in the battle network had nothing to do with the keywords. His actions were the opposite of being low-key; it was good enough that it didn't lower his attributes.

This discovery also let Duge know that whatever the starting physique of the body he had taken over, it would stay the same.

Even if one deliberately acts against the keywords, it wouldn't decrease the initial attributes.

Duge opened his personal panel to check his data.

As expected, his ranking had leaped to first place. His spiritual power had increased by twenty thousand, which was probably the reward from Pan-Universe Entertainment for being ranked first.

The awarded spiritual power was a drop in the ocean but better than nothing.

Ranking related to social influence, becoming first was within Duge's expectations.

However,

simply boosting the ranking without increasing attributes was not a good thing for an alien warrior.

When the rankings are announced a month later, such attributes would be crushed in seconds, and no alien warrior would do something like that.

...

He set an example, and a large number of alien warriors might imitate his model, leveraging the battle network to boost their keywords because, compared to the battle network, it's too slow to do so in the real world.

But the battle network will lock individual IPs. Once they surface, they might get discovered by others.

Thus, to be able to protect themselves upon being discovered, alien warriors must accelerate their process of boosting both their fame and skills...

So, there's a high chance that this alien battlefield will once again become tumultuous.