157 Chapter 157 - Gallantry and Tactics (1/2)
Just as a row of Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno sprouted before Gu Fei, a series of Descending Wheel of Flames ignited in the sky. Looking beyond the wall of fire separating him and the opposing guild, Gu Fei saw that a familiar-looking Priest was currently leisurely bestowing Heal on the nearby Carouse's players. When this Priest saw that Gu Fei had spotted him, he performed a curt bow toward him with a flourish of his left hand.
”Thieves, no need to enter Stealth. Archers, don't fire arrows together; instead, keep a steady stream of arrows coming to pester him. Mages, continue what you're doing,” Young Master Han threw Gu Fei a smile as he issued these instructions to the members of Carouse. Since the ladies had all retreated at Gu Fei's behest, the opposing players were able to focus their firepower on him.
The ladies who were now standing at a safe distance looked on to see what Gu Fei meant by his ”leave them to me” declaration, yet they merely saw him getting zoned to the side by the opponents.
”Fireball! Shoot!” Gu Fei could only cast this most basic spell under the enemies' intense suppression.
The damage that his Fireball spell could cause was shocking, but because of its extremely weak Verdict, the enemy Warrior was able to cleave the ball of fire with his sword as if it was nothing.
Gu Fei dealt with all the incoming arrows as he waited for the wall of AOE spells to dissipate. Given that the average Mages had much higher mana pool than Gu Fei, these Mages before him were unlikely to run out of mana after casting just four or five AOE spells. While Gu Fei was being zoned in a corner, the men from both ends of Carouse's single file formation stealthily made their way toward the Amethyst Rebirth's ladies. Standing atop the hill, Gu Fei saw that a number of opponents were in the process of encircling Amethyst Rebirth to annihilate everyone in one go.
At this moment when advancing or retreating was not possible, Gu Fei actually received a message from Young Master Han: ”Compared to your gallantry, tactic is certainly more useful!”
He is really sadistic! Gu Fei spitefully thought to himself. Despite the steadily increasing number of opponents, Carouse continued to deal with Gu Fei by zoning him and did not dare engage him in a melee.
The enemies that were not dealing with Gu Fei moved to assault the ladies, and although the ladies retaliated at the incoming enemies, they would still occasionally look at Gu Fei's direction, hoping that he would do his ”leave them to me” declaration again.
With the situation becoming worse as time dragged on, Gu Fei knew that it was only a matter of time before the ladies were decimated. If that happened, he would have to deal with a seven-hundred-man encirclement by himself. No matter how much Gu Fei loved PvPing, he still did not wish to deal with such an insane situation.
Looking around and spotting a sizeable boulder at his rear, Gu Fei sprinted toward the rock and hid behind it. As the Archers grew nervous at the realization that the boulder would shield Gu Fei from their arrows, Young Master Han merely smiled, ”Don't worry about that. Any spell he chants over there won't hit us. That boulder has long been included in my calculations.”
The Mages of Carouse paused for a bit as they realized that the range of their spells, be it their Descending Wheel of Flames or Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno, would indeed not be able to reach that rock. Meaning, Gu Fei's attack would not be able to reach them as well.
As the men of Carouse thought up to this, they spotted Gu Fei peeking from behind the boulder. A raging inferno sprouted before them in the next moment, yet it was a good two meters away from their nearest player. All of them laughed heartily at this and praised Young Master Han's brilliant calculations.
It was at this moment that Gu Fei had dashed recklessly out of the rock and into the wall of fire zoning him.
”Is he surrendering to his desires? That's suicidal!” Young Master Han laughed coldly. Gu Fei had dived head-first into the burning conflagration and was instantly lost in the flames. The time he had to spend within the flames was but a moment with his fast speed, yet he had no means to withstand the damage output of several Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno and Descending Wheel of Flames.
Young Master Han and the rest of Carouse thought that they would not see Gu Fei in this PvP arena again, yet the sight of Gu Fei making it through the wall of fire with soot streaks and burned marks on his body gave them a thorough shock.
”How is that possible?!” The Mages whose spells had formed the wall of fire separating Gu Fei from them involuntarily stopped their spell-casting as they gawked at one another.
When the bombardment stopped, only the scorched ground, a few raging infernos, and one flame wheel were left on the PvP field.
”Whose flame wheel is that? Why haven't you made it descend yet?” These players indeed lived up to their reputation as experts of a large guild as they very quickly found the reason for the anomaly, questioningly eyeing the few Mages in charge of zoning Gu Fei.
As the Mages suspiciously looked at one another, Gu Fei suddenly laughed, ”Do you mean that flame wheel? Sorry about that… That's actually mine.” With Gu Fei uttering the word ”descend”, the flame wheel finally explosively landed on the ground.
”You…” Everyone finally realized what had happened, ”That's too sneaky!”
”You're not just a musclehead, after all!” Young Master Han could not help but praise Gu Fei's ingenuity.
That one flame wheel Gu Fei had casted effectively disrupted the Mages' chain of spells. The thing was that the coordination of these Mages who were casting Descending Wheel of Flames was actually flawless, as they would all take turns casting that spell, and each of them would only cast the next flame wheel after the previous one had descended. Gu Fei's Descending Wheel of Flames had deceptively stayed suspended mid-air amid the enemies' casted spells, giving the Mages the wrong idea that one of them had yet to drop the casted flame wheel on the ground, and thus buying enough time for Gu Fei to safely breakthrough their spell cordon that was only made up of several Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno.
This foolhardy method only worked because the Mages of Carouse had been coordinating with one another so expertly. Had they been the Amethyst Rebirth's ladies, they would surely have unleashed spells on the targets at their convenience without a care about coordinating their attacks with others.
The originally excellent coordinated attacks of the enemies were thus exploited by Gu Fei.
”Quickly attack!” Coming back to reality, the players of Carouse realized that Gu Fei was already upon them and quickly organized themselves for a frontal assault.
”Too late!” Gu Fei said as he closed in on his most hated enemies, the Mages. Before the Mages could raise their magic staves to cast spells, Gu Fei's Twin Incineration had already insta-killed a full circle of them.
”F*ck! What kind of Mage is he?!” The remaining players were dumbfounded. The Archers had originally assumed that Gu Fei would cast a spell to attack them, so they had readied their arrows to interrupt his incantation. Who would have thought that Gu Fei would instead dart toward them while dodging the incoming attacks to insta-kill the Mages with his Twin Incineration?
”His Spell Damage alone is already monstrous!” Everyone finally realized why Young Master Han had treated this Mage so specially and tried to prevent him from getting near them or completing his spell-casting. Truly, the Spell Damage he had just displayed was too shocking.
Several Archers split up and ran as they fired off arrows on Homing Projectile at Gu Fei.
Although Gu Fei did not fear this archer skill, the need to knock the arrows on Homing Projectile singly still made him feel very annoyed as it somewhat disrupted his fighting tempo. While Gu Fei weaved his sword to deal with the arrows on Homing Projectile, several opposing melee job classes were moving onward to surround him.
Gu Fei had casted one Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno and one Descending Wheel of Flames just now before he managed to blitz through the enemies' ranks. Moreover, that Twin Incineration he had used to cut down several Mages almost depleted him of his low mana. He had yet to eat any fruit to recover his mana as well, so insta-killing these players that were moving to surround him was not possible.
Young Master Han seemed to also be aware of Gu Fei's dilemma as he sniggered over by one side.