Chapter 20: Weeping Fire Blade (2/2)
Gui Guzi
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Undead Knight
Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand
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Undead Swordsman
Roaming Dragon
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Magic Knight
Clear Perfume
21
Archer
Cool! The Heavenly Ranking is like a public bus to me, I can get on whenever I want! Haha!
Undead Swordmaster Suren patted my shoulder, admiration in his eyes. “You’re strong, kid. Way stronger than all the other newborn undead trash!”
I nodded in agreement. Gui Guzi should be sneezing right now, right?
Suren then lifted his sword and started walking back to Frost Mound Camp. I followed him and checked out if the sentinels there had any quests to give. Just grinding monsters alone wasn’t as fast as grinding while doing a quest.
After returning to Frost Mound, I sold all my magic stones, my funds soaring again. All in all, I had a total of 1 gold and 41 silver!
A fierce sense of accomplishment immediately washed over me. At the undead warehouse manager NPC, I used 5 silver to open a personal storage and placed the Weeping Fire Blade and Cyanfire Cloak inside. If I accidentally died and dropped it, I would cry myself to death.
A round of equipment repairs and potion buying later, I was ready. It was time to tackle Level 25!
I left the camp brimming with excitement. A figure suddenly ran out from the blood pool area clutching a spear, looking rather battered and worse for the wear as he rolled to a stop in front of me. It was Gui Guzi. He had not even a third of his health left.
Did someone attack him?
Stunned, I quickly drew my sword and ran over while shouting, “What happened?”
Gui Guzi gritted his teeth and got back up. He drank a health potion before yelling in response, “There’s a group of humans coming from Floating Ice City, claiming that they’re going to purge all the Night Creature players in Frost Mound. Fuck, they’re here…”
Whoosh!
The leaves in the forest separated and a spear user rushed out. A row of text floated above his head—Roaming Dragon!
Mad Dragon guild!
My eyes turned chilly in a second. Nice timing. Mad Dragon’s been way too arrogant as of late. How can trash like them qualify to purge Frost Mound?
Even though Gui Guzi wasn’t exactly a friend, Mad Dragon was my enemy so I had to help him!
“You!”
Roaming Dragon roared in rage when he saw me coming before turning around to look at his subordinates. Two warriors shot out from behind him and charged over, each with a Common-grade iron sword in hand. A glossy sheen appeared on their longswords. It was the Level 10 Warrior skill, Heavy Slash!
My expression sunk and I stomped, sending grass flying everywhere. My figure turned into an afterimage as I executed a perfect Z dodge no more than three meters away. The two warriors completely whiffed their attacks. They looked at each other in shock. “H-how’s that possible, what the hell were those mechanics?”
Crack!
The green blade heavily struck a stunned warrior’s neck. The blade glowed with green light as Slayer Slash nested itself in the other warrior’s head with a mountainous force.
274!
311!
The warrior on the left collapsed with a scream. The one on the right wanted to flee due to his critically-low HP, but also died after I shot forward to finish him off.
Gui Guzi’s voice came from behind. “Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand, watch out for their Assassin’s sneak attack! Their Assassin’s really strong!”
My heart froze. It’s coming!
Swoosh!
A sharp gleam came over; it was the proud Level 10 skill of Assassin—Cold Blade!
My body was like a falling feather as I fluttered half a step to the right in an instant. Cold Blade’s power hit empty air with a huge “MISS” as I dodged the blow.
“Fuck, how’s this possible?!”
Mad Dragon’s ace assassin, Unyielding Mad Dragon, hollered in shock but he still retreated at top speed. He had to be experienced to know that an Assassin should fall back and look for another opportunity after failing a sneak attack on a Warrior. However, in the early stages of the game, a low-level Assassin couldn’t turn invisible, nor did he have skills like Eviscerate or Shadow Strike. A failed surprise attack meant that his entire strategy had collapsed. Not retreating would mean death.
Just as I was about to give chase, I felt an intense surge of pain in my shoulder. I was shot!
Two archers appeared at the edges of the forest, Level 17 and Level 18. Even though they held Common-grade bows, I couldn’t ignore their damage. Full Agility Archers had high attack speed, so another four arrows had already been loosed from their bows!
45!
41!
27!
31!
Damage numbers popped into view. Although my defense was high, I couldn’t take such a beating. My HP was limited and I wouldn’t last more than half a minute if this were to continue.
I quickly turned around and dashed toward Frost Mound Camp like an arrow in flight. The only way for me to survive was to ask NPC for help. Who knew how many people Mad Dragon had dispatched for their plan? Being able to handle three people was probably my current limit.
“He’s running away, after him!” Roaming Dragon swung his spear and began to raise his team’s morale.
The two archers immediately chased after me with longbows in hand. Agility-based players were relatively fast and they caught up to me in no time. More than ten meters in front of me, Gui Guzi ran as he kept on looking back. He angrily yelled, “What do we do? Are we going to let these bastards destroy our camp?”
“Hmph!”
I chugged down a health potion, instantly restoring more than half of my health points. Then, I swiftly turned around and sprinted toward the frontmost archer. I easily attacked with Slayer Slash and and followed it up with a basic attack!
Crack! Crack!
The sound of my sword ripping apart the leather armor sounded especially soothing to my ears. The archer froze. He had no time to defend himself as consecutive damage numbers bounced above his head before he quickly tumbled to the ground.
I charged toward the second archer without making a sound. After skillfully sliding a semicircle around him, I smashed a two-hit combo of basic attacks into his chest!
210!
224!
Another insta-kill!
“Nice!”
Although Gui Guzi was shocked, he couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Before he could finish laughing, a dagger tore through the air. The assassin!
Crack!
247!
Cold Blade’s damage was high. Gui Guzi lost much HP but he unhesitantly stabbed horizontally—Flame Thrust!
274!
His attack power wasn’t bad, especially against a leather armor class.
It only took one attack to kill that sneaky assassin, but Gui Guzi’s HP was really low. Instead of following up, he ran toward the sentinel NPCs.
I followed right behind him. Roaming Dragon brought along 7 Archers, 5 Mages, 3 Priests, 1 Bard, 1 Tactician, and 2 Wanderers, all members of Mad Dragon. That bastard, he could rule a corner of the world with a lineup like that. At least for now, it isn’t something Gui Guzi and I can handle.
“Charge!”