Chapter 41 – Cang Tong (1/2)
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I could see a group of people approaching. In the front was Tyrant of Western Chu! When he saw my lone shadow, he could not help but laugh, “Xiao Yao, where are you going to hide this time? Nobody can help you now.”
”…..”
The leaves next to Tyrant curved downwards even though nobody was stepping on them. It had to be Ageless Beauty, because invisibility didn’t mean that one wouldn’t affect their surroundings. An assassin’s stealth would be especially useless in water since the water would make ripples, clearly showing their position.
When I looked behind Tyrant of Western Chu I saw more than a hundred people. As a lone player, I had no chance against them.
I turned around and ran through a thorny field. It would be a waste of time to respond to their nonsense. My main focus should be to finish the quest as quickly as possible and rush towards level 30. My [Heal] skill had risen to level 4, which meant it now healed 600 health, and Baby Bobo was almost able to solo a bandit at this point.
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Whush…
A few shadows flew over me, and before I could respond, arrows started flying towards me.
I tried to dodge them, but I still ended up getting hit by two of the arrows. I used [Hemostasis] to return to full health, before looking up and seeing three wind elf archers. The archer at the front sneered, ”Xiao Yao, with us Wind Elves scouting, do you still think you can escape? Did you think that [Wrath of Heroes] would let you escape so easily?”
I cried inside, I had no chance to escape from the Wind Elves; after all, out of the 5 races, they were the only ones who could fly. They could control the situation with long ranged attacks, and Liu Ying had brought more than 10 of them with him.
Behind me, Liu Ying and his men came running. I also knew that somewhere out there, Liu Ying’s lover, Ageless Beauty, was approaching to take my life.
I clenched my teeth, I knew that I had to let them attack first, but getting killed without returning something wasn’t my style. But if I waited for the attackers to attack me and have their names grayed, I could kill them without worrying that I would have a red name.
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Shuaaa!
Baby Bobo flew into the air, stinging one of the archers and instantly killing him. They had a grey status, since they had attacked but their attacks had not killed. Which meant they could be killed without the killer getting chaotic, so Baby Bobo auto retaliated. He moved onto the next archer and made another hit.
412!
One of the main weaknesses of the Wind Elves was that when they lost more than 20% of their max health, their wings would break, and thereby losing their flight ability.
I rushed forward with my Ancient Spear, stabbing directly into the abdomen of the archer. I dealt 237 points of damage, it was enough to successfully kill him.
In the air Baby Bobo chased down the last wind elf, it didn’t take long with his superior agility before he made 2 normal attacks. The three Wind Elves had turned to ash as they died.
“Go!”
As I was about to move further away I heard the familiar sound of gunshots, shortly afterwards I felt the pain from two bullets impaling into my back from a musketeer.
257!
224!
Immediately afterwards, I used [Hemostasis] on myself, returning some of my health, while Baby Bobo was sent to attack Piggy!
”Assassins go!”
Tyrant of Western Chu shouted loudly, Baby Bobo suddenly stopped midway, he got hit by [Gouge] from Ageless Beauty! Seeing this, Tyrant of Western Chu shouted: “ Mages, Cast [Chilling Wind]!”
There were about 10 mages that simultaneously cast [Chilling Wind] and [Rock Spikes] towards Baby Bobo, a total chaos of spells.
198!
219!
187!
……
I didn’t even have a chance to heal Baby Bobo before he was killed.
Liu Ying leaped forward, swinging his sword at me as he shouted: “Xiao Yao, it’s time for some payback.”
Clang!
I held my Ancient Spear horizontally to block against Liu Ying’s slash. My strength was clearly inferior to a swordsman’s, as I got forced backwards with each strike. Suddenly my back reached a thorn bush, and I was unable to move further back. Two berserkers surged forward with their battle axes using their [Fire Axe] skill toward my right and left shoulder.Unable to defend, a pain erupted from my sides and I slipped into the afterlife.
371!
344!
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Shuaa!
My soul form appeared in the nearby cemetery. I received quite a shock when my hands were empty… This could only mean one thing, that my Ancient Spear had dropped.
I clenched my teeth as I attempted to remain cool, and not explode in anger. As a healer facing so many high leveled players, what could I do? They had 5 Wind elves and could basically one-shot Baby Bobo, my only source of damage now that my Ancient Spear was gone.
With my current level and pet, I would at most be able to take on 3 people, but it would be impossible if one of them had a pet or they had good teamwork.
In spirit form, I sprinted back to my corpse. Like I thought, both Liu Ying and Ageless Beauty were standing guard over my corpse.
Liu Ying was carrying my Ancient Spear with a pathetic expression on his face: “Unexpectedly, such a trash player like Xiao Yao carries such a good weapon, this Ancient Spear is now in better hands.”
Ageless Beauty smiled charmingly: “Yeah, that Xiao Yao kid, humph, besides looking handsome he doesn’t have a single good point…. such a weak and cowardly kid….”
Piggy frowned and disagreed: “Not necessarily, think about how he faced all of us without fear. We should not underestimate him, think of how he’s been able to turn the previous situations around.”
“Bah！”
Liu Ying stepped on my corpse and said:” See how I’m stepping on him? Who did you say was the most powerful?”
Piggy held the musket against the ground without uttering a single word.
……
“Ding!”
I waited for almost an hour, but they showed no signs of leaving. But a bit later, I received a message from Yue Qing Qian: “Xiao Yao ge-ge, is your corpse being camped by Tyrant of Western Chu?”
Me: “ Yeah, how do you know?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll gather some people to help you respawn!”
“No!” I hurriedly said :” There is no need for you and [Prague] to challenge Tyrant of Western Chu because of me, it’s simply not worth it. Qing Qian let me handle it.”
“No” she insisted: “ Relax, I won’t rely on [Prague] for this, it’ll be me and my friends. I know where you are, so just wait 20 minutes for me”.
”Well I can’t stop you, so thank you Qing Qian.”