69 Chapter 69 - Gu Familys Sword Style (2/2)
No one dared reply to Gu Fei this time. The boss simply waved his hand and everyone lunged toward Gu Fei.
The game had different job classes with different fortes, after all. Right now, the ones rushing toward Gu Fei possessed melee job classes. He swept his eyes over the surging tide of players and saw many Warriors among them. Warrior was the job class Gu Fei was most wary of. Firstly, a Warrior's heavy attack was not something Gu Fei dared to block forcefully. Secondly, Gu Fei's attack was significantly ineffective against a Warrior since he or she wore heavy armor.
Alongside the rushing Warriors were the Thieves. These players craftily hid using Stealth behind the Warriors, thinking that Gu Fei was not aware of their ploy. Gu Fei of course had a fairly good estimate of where they were, he just could not sense their exact positions or numbers due to the chaotic environment. While the Warriors and Thieves were rushing toward Gu Fei, the Mages and Archers from afar unleashed their attacks on him.
Their teamwork is amazing! Gu Fei could tell at least this based on his accumulated melee combat experiences in-game so far.
The Archers' arrows, some on Snipe and the rest on Double Shot, arrived first…
The Archers' arrows on Snipe would have posed a serious challenge to Gu Fei had this ambush been staged an hour earlier. Right now, however, he had Moonlit Nightfalls and a higher level. Gu Fei's recent level up had allowed him to add more stat points into Agility, which improved his speed by leaps and bounds. So by tilting his body sideways, Gu Fei was able to dodge the arrows whizzing by effortlessly. As for the Mages' fireballs, he could not dodge those with a simple twist of his body as they were able to slightly track his movements. Thus, he ran across the PvP field and caused the fireballs to lose their target.
This won't do! Gu Fei anxiously thought to himself. The situation unfolding before his eyes was different from what had happened in Yunduan City. The Warriors in front were acting as meat shields for their teammates, and Gu Fei stood no chance against them when it came to frontal assault. Unfortunately, he must break through their defenses to eliminate the Mages and Archers in the rear. Aside from this bunch of attackers, there were still the Thieves on Stealth to consider; those guys were definitely waiting for an opportunity to strike at him.
Gu Fei suddenly recalled the ragged cloth tied to a bamboo pole that he had seen in one of Yueye City's grinding maps. The players currently attacking him were definitely tempered by group battles, as their solid formation showed the meaning of strength in numbers.
I can't face them head on, Gu Fei thought as he sprinted toward that alleyway he had chosen earlier.
”Ah! He's fleeing again!” someone from the mercenary group yelled. Earlier, everyone had assumed that Gu Fei was trying to get away when he headed to that alleyway. However, against their expectation, he readily returned when their leader shouted, ”WAIT!”. And right now, when he seemed to be taking on their group, he suddenly bolted away again. Why is he so unpredictable?! He's so shameless! everyone thought.
”Quickly pursue him!” the boss ordered and everyone rushed to the alley.
Gu Fei madly dashed forward for a bit. After a while, he faced backward and revealed a victorious smile.
Gu Fei observed the group's formation slowly changing. This change was due to the opponents' varied speed in accordance to their stat point allocation. While the formation was still orderly, the composition itself had changed.
The ones running ahead of the pack were now the Thieves on Fleetfoot. If the job classes were to be ranked based on speed, an Archer would be first, a Thief would be second, a Knight would be third, and a Mage would be fourth. The Knight job class in Parallel World had a very balanced stat point distribution, with nothing exceptionally good or bad. This resulted into a situation where the ideal stat allocation for Knights to be undetermined. Some Knights had focused on Agility, which allowed them to run faster than Mages. As for the Mages, they were obviously not crazy enough to allocate most of their stat points into Agility unlike a certain guy.
At the moment, the Warriors were the slowest among the bunch of players chasing after Gu Fei. These meat shields had basically been demoted to rear guards along the way.
Gu Fei kept looking back as he ran. The Thieves on Fleetfoot were indeed amazing, gradually managing to catch up to him. The Thieves chasing after Gu Fei saw him as a trapped mouse; naturally, they never expected him to turn back and confront them.
Gu Fei roughly measured the pace of the Thieves behind him while silently counting, One, two, three... Turn!
Gu Fei suddenly stopped running away and turned around. He then wielded his sword and unleashed a horizontal chop – the first move in Gu Fei's inherited sword style, the Fuyun Chop.
Chopping was not up the alley of a sword, yet Gu Fei's move actually brought the blade's specialty into play: its two sharp edges.
Some said that the move should be executed while resembling a drifting cloud. This was to make the attack's trajectory be unpredictable to an opponent. Gu Fei as a young child did not understand this concept and simply thought that it sounded cool. Now that he was quite proficient at kung fu, he felt that this statement was somewhat nonsensical. If one wanted to chop an opponent, then one should just do so. Why should one waste energy coming up with a way to instill doubt about the cut's trajectory? The statement might still serve a purpose if a sword's two edges possessed a slight incongruity. And yet, a sword would be considered as defective if that were to be the case. Gu Fei reckoned that the move's creator must have been bullied a lot by saber wielders, prompting him to create a move that could not be executed using sabers.
Whatever the case might be, Gu Fei's sword attack right now was like a drifting cloud, formless and unpredictable. The two Thieves did not even have time to defend against that single chop and were swiftly cut quite deeply by it.
The two cried as they retreated. Gu Fei followed his chop with a stab as he rushed toward them. Suddenly, the stab slowed down halfway and pierced a Thief somewhere inconsequential instead.
I still have some PK points left from before! If I go on a killing spree, I'll never be able to clear them off! Gu Fei suddenly thought.The saber and sword mentioned here look like this.
have a clearer idea of how this traditional Chinese martial arts salute is done, you can check this picture. Gu Fei did the one on the bottom left.