Chapter 227 (1/2)
Chapter 227: One Sword Stroke
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Wei Yan Er was rolling on the floor, laughing. She was completely out of breath, and she leaned against Sun Xin Yu1, clutching her stomach as she continued laughing silently, her mouth twitching wordlessly.
On the contrary, the people of Imperial Sky had turned as white as snow. Some of them looked as though they were about to get sick!
Fire Fountain was regarded as being second only to One Sword Stroke, a masterful player whose looks could be compared to the pretty boy, Blooming Ichor! Having brought in by One Sword Stroke to become an irreplaceable asset of the party, not only was he superb in managing his damage output, he shone best in PK battles!
But for such a superb player to die by the hands of of an idiotic healer who does nothing but heal herself while leaving all the work to {Putrefying Poison}? Anyone’s pride would be ripped to shreds!
Fire Fountain was still struggling to stay alive, constantly moving around the area while manipulating the 30 meter range rule, but Han Ying Xue had already suffered once and had learned from it. Currently all she did was to refresh the {Putrefying Poison} DoT on her opponent while keeping her HP constantly refilled!
‘-721!’
As the effect of the [Magician’s Brooch] had already faded, Han Ying Xue reverted to her regular magic damage. The damage of {Putrefying Poison} which kicked in every three seconds had been reduced to 700 points, but 15 seconds was enough to inflict an approximate damage of 3600 on Fire Fountain.
{Putrefying Poison} kicked in once again. It didn’t require any targeting at all on the part of the caster. Even if Fire Fountain ducked and roll, activated a 30 meter, or a 31 meter long ranged spell, nothing prevented the Poison from kicking in.
30 seconds later, the {Putrefying Poison} was triggered for one last time, causing a damage of ‘-752!’, Fire Fountain’s final humiliating struggle to keep his last drop health points came to an end, and he crumpled, dead on the ground. A pair of Gray-Silver gloves fell to the ground which was instantly picked up by a member of the Imperial Sky. Meanwhile, Han Ying Xue activated a {Brilliant Light}, her health back at its full state!
“Wow, cousin sister is mighty!” Wei Yan Er was still guffawing like a drunken old man.
Fatty Han and the rest were also showering her with endless praise. A healer killing anyone in battle was unheard of, and with full HP too, to add on to that.
Soul Striker of the Imperial Sky quickly revived Fire Fountain. Their party members were looking sickly, avoiding eye contact. Fire Fountain looked like one of the spectre-type monsters. He was dying for another round with Han Ying Xue. It had really been too embarrassing and depressing for him to lose like that!
Fire Fountain is a person who can accept failures, but to lose to Han Ying Xue in such manner, he wanted to bang his head against the wall just thinking of it!
But he also knew that even if he was given another chance, he would still be poisoned to death, it was inevitable as the difference in magic damage between the two of them was just too much. Furthermore, the opponent was a terrific healer, with loads of HP restoring skills! He could not help himself but to suspect, that even if both of them had the same magic damage output, would he stand a chance after all?
The second round had ended, but the two players from the first round were still playing hide and seek with each other!
One Sword Stroke stepped forward atop his Battle Wolf, and he said, “Brother Zhan Yu, let’s get started!”
Zhang Yang laughed evenly, riding on his Whitey and said, “Bring it on, let us have a good fight!”
The fellow members of the Imperial Sky had their uttermost faith in One Sword Stroke at securing his win of this battle at the beginning, but after seeing Zhang Yang producing a mount of his own, they figured that the opposition also possessed a Battle Mount. It diminished their hopes, but One Sword Stroke was still their leader!
“It isn’t capturing a Gray-Silver battle mount, Zhan Yu’s Battle Mount must be a Green-Copper grade, or even a Black-Steel! Can’t you see how lethargic that white bear is? It’s such a lazy animal!” the gang tried to comfort themselves, coming up with whatever reason they could come up with.
The two opponents locked eyes, sizing each other up. Nobody moved.
In a short period of 3 seconds, Zhang Yang initiated the first attack of the battle. Whitey let loose a loud roar, charging straight towards One Sword Stroke.
20 meters, 15 meters, 10 meters!
{Wild Charge}!
Whitey was charging like a stream of meteorite, rushing at the Battle Wolf at blinding speed!
In an instant, the body of the Battle Wolf suddenly flew into action. A miniature sonic boom formed as exploded off the ground at high speed, moving 3 meters to the side, evading the charge attack of Whitey!
“Impressive!” Zhang Yang was praising his opponent from the bottom of his heart. Although both of them did not have any knowledge on the attributes of their opposition’s Battle Mounts, they were able to obtain certain extent of understanding by comparing the Battle Mounts to the monsters they were apparently derived from. Therefore, One Sword Stroke had deduced that Whitey possessed some sort of {Charge} skill, and had used ‘Agility of the Wild’ to counter it.
[Agility of the Wild]: Increases movement speed by 50%, last for 5 seconds. Cool down time: 30 seconds. Consume: 20 focus points.
This was a universal skill, possessed by any wolf type, leopard type, tiger type and lion type monsters!
Both of them wielded their battle axes and charged forward!
Missed!
Missed!
Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke were both currently mounted, so they avoided each other’s attack at a greatly increased speed! Normal attacks were easily telegraphed and anticipated. Zhang Yang for instance must pull his axe back before he can swing it out in an attack!
Weapons with a longer time interval of attacking will be far slower and cumbersome, as their wielders needed to gain inertia by swinging such weapons back before they could be swung towards the enemy! On the contrary, lighter and shorter weapons such as daggers can stab a person in the blink of an eye, without any warning signs!
An attack from a heavy weapon was easy to read, with the movements basically being exaggerated! For Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke, dodging enemy players’ normal attacks were just a walk in the park!
Everything came down to their respective in-game skills now!
Skills had no signs that gave them away prior to activation, as long as all the criteria to activate a skill were ready, players could just activate them and use their skills. Speed, that was one of the many advantages of using a skill! Some Skills even have an auto targeting system, making it impossible for players to dodge even if they intended to!
{Blood Rage}!
Instantly boosted with 30 rage points, Zhang Yang now 36 rage points in total.
One Sword Stroke had realized that Zhang Yang was definitely a master level player, as evidenced by how he evaded his normal attack, so he too immediately activated his {Blood Rage}.
The two guild leaders were on a collision course once again.
{Block}! +30 Rage points.
{Block}! +30 Rage points.
‘-0!’
‘-0!’
With both of them activating {Block} at the same instant, they successfully defended themselves. The reflective damage from {Block} on the other hand, was like a gnat trying to penetrate their defenses! Both players made the decision not to activate {Shield Bash} as the damage would be negated nevertheless!
The sheer speed of their mounts had sent them on an impasse, and they broke off, heading in opposite directions!
What an opponent!
With both parties know that the other had {Block}, they used {Cripple Defense} which not only consumed a negligible amount of rage points and only had one second of cool down to trick their opponent into using {Block}.
Shoof, both of them circled around to face each other again, and similar to jousting knights, they charged at each other again.
{Blast Wave}!
{Blast Wave}!
The similarity of their tactics was eerie. Both of them had been sent into stunned states. As the moment passed however, Zhang Yang and One Sword Stroke both used {Warrior’s Will} to recover, and they once again charged towards each other.
‘-4600!’ Zhang Yang ‘s {Destructive Smash}, critical attack!