ess, Flash was still someone to be feared; he was also known as the "War Machine" because his battle strategies was always able to counter his opponent’s movements, not to mention he was also able to adjust the details in every single existing battle strategy and make it into his own original strategies with completely different effects. Moreover, his attacking timing, choice of battlefield, and army formation were as perfect as the Ivantians. This was why Bisu was no match for him, even though he was better in terms of controlling maneuvers.

Flash was incredibly gifted, and even though his battle strategies didn’t look majestic, they always managed to crush his opponents badly. Thus, people soon began to acknowledge his strength.

Halmond had been keeping quiet since the beginning of the match, Flash was one of his favorite disciples. That kid was unique as he was able to turn every piece of strategy into something else. In the beginning, teachers used to complain about this bad habit of his and his unwillingness to change; his winning rates were low, and he seemed to have a lot of crazy ideas and feelings that wouldn’t work. However, Halmond soon found out that this was actually Flash’s talent and immediately recruited him, turning him into one of Earth Confederation’s best candidates. Flash’s extraordinary sense of timing was definitely a gift from G.o.d; he was definitely a precious rare talent throughout the past decades. Furthermore, Flash was very hardworking. He had been training extremely hard ever since he was recruited by Halmond. People now knew him as the genius and unrivaled Flash, yet no one knew about his hectic past.

However, Halmond soon realized how terrifying w.a.n.g Tong’s talent was. At first, he was amazed by w.a.n.g Tong’s victory against Bisu by demonstrating amazing controlling maneuvers, but this time, he was shocked to find out that w.a.n.g Tong was even able to control the overall pace.

w.a.n.g Tong’s level of strength was totally absurd!

Halmond then looked towards Samantha. He had never thought of underestimating her, yet, she was apparently still being underestimated by him!

Flash also realized that he had finally met his strongest opponent since his debut. Halmond knew that Flash would be able to obtain a groundbreaking confidence if he was able to win, but it would be very difficult.

Flash was on the pa.s.sive side in this match instead of w.a.n.g Tong, and if he were unable to stay focus, he would be toasted for sure.

Meanwhile, Samantha was very proud. She was absolutely convinced by w.a.n.g Tong’s dominance!

w.a.n.g Tong was in his best condition, demonstrating something that was completely different from his Art of the Soaring Heaven. Art of the Soaring Heaven specialized in using offense as its defense and taking control of the attacking pace. Yet, what he was doing now was turning defense into offense, pressuring his opponent with an iron defense. This was definitely a good strategy against strong players like Flash, and at this point, he was still hoping for Flash to take the bait.

Yet, Halmond seemed to notice that w.a.n.g Tong might be talented, but he wasn’t a natural player, as he required stimulation to fire up his engines. Halmond learned about this while watching his previous match with Bisu, and Flash’s level of strength too had triggered his amazing performance at the beginning.

w.a.n.g Tong got the idea for this strategy after watching the footages of Flash’s previous battles. Originally, he was planning to pump up his defense and drag the game into a dogfight since he was quite confident about his Cloning Technique. But as the match progressed, he suddenly realized that he was able to pressurize his opponent with this sort of defensive strategy, and he was given more options because of that, including finis.h.i.+ng the match without a final showdown. However, w.a.n.g Tong chose to play it safe as his opponent was the amazing Flash, and that person’s operating maneuvers were perfect and spot on. Flash had even tried to lure w.a.n.g Tong to attack by creating a few loopholes on purpose. w.a.n.g Tong could’ve attacked if he were his previous self, and the one who would have been doomed would be him if he had responded carelessly.

It seemed like Flash’s battling method and style was kind of artsy.

w.a.n.g Tong was learning Flash’s methods of controlling the situation as he battled, and wanted to combine it into his defensive strategy. Somehow, w.a.n.g Tong felt great and motivated to learn his opponent’s advantage for his own good.

On the other side, Flash seemed to look nervous for the first time, because so far, he had never launched any real attacks against w.a.n.g Tong. w.a.n.g Tong still had a few loopholes in the beginning, but as the match progressed, Flash noticed that w.a.n.g Tong’s strategy was getting better and better. And although he had been trying to counter with a few methods, his methods didn’t work in the end.

At that point, Flash realized that w.a.n.g Tong was as good as him, which also explained why w.a.n.g Tong’s perspective was never disturbed and his strategy was unaffected. Flash could tell that w.a.n.g Tong’s actions were getting more and more proficient.

Flash’s serious expression slowly turned into a gentle grin. He was well aware that things would be different if he were able to win this match. In fact, he had been longing for an opponent like this.

Flash had no intentions to pursue fame and glory, all he wanted was an improvement! Now that the opponent he had been longing for had finally arrived, it was time for him to unleash one hundred percent of his strength.

Both players were gradually closing the gap between each other. For the first time, players were focusing on expanding army instead of technology development.

Only about ten people amongst all spectators were able to tell what was going on. Even Kal had begun to understand this intense battle between two commander-like players! It took Kal quite a while, but he also had eventually noticed that instead of focusing on area controls, both of them had always been focusing on situational controls!

Meanwhile, Best and Carl happened to be the only ones that were able to tell what was going on. Since Best was skilled in operating maneuvers, he could easily smell the pressure within w.a.n.g Tong’s strategy. Clearly, the opponent would fall into w.a.n.g Tong’s trap if he or she were to attack. But if the opponent followed to go defensive, w.a.n.g Tong, who had been doing it first, would obtain the advantage for sure; if his opponent chose to expand, the opponent would also need to constantly look out for any signs of disturbance. Keeping in mind the interfering attacks from someone with an APM of five hundred and above was very tense.

Perhaps, Best knew better that Bisu, as all he saw in w.a.n.g Tong’s strategy was nothing but despair. Suddenly, Best remembered one of the strategies of war, which was to win without any confrontation.