189 Chapter 189 - Blink (1/2)
”Where did you get this?” Gu Fei asked, dumbfounded.
Svelte Dancer pouted indignantly, ”It's the crappy game company's fault. They did not explain things properly… I thought I could create a unique skill tree through the use of the permanent skill scrolls. After purchasing this Blink Scroll, I was told by the system that I have to become a Lightning Mage to use it.” For the players, game companies would always be the ones at fault whenever there was something that did not go as intended.
Gu Fei asked, ”So how many skill scrolls did you manage to collect?”
”Why would I buy more after getting tricked into purchasing this one?” Svelte Dancer knocked Gu Fei's head dismissively.
”So you've only gotten one skill scroll, and it happened to be Blink. Are you sure you're not MY lucky star, instead?” Gu Fei said as he placed his hands on the scroll. Light flashed between Gu Fei's fingers and entered his body. The system then notified Gu Fei that he had learned a new spellㅡTranslocation: Blink.
”You've used it?” It was Svelte Dancer's turn to be flabbergasted this time.
”Yup!” Gu Fei answered as he opened up his skill window and read the following description: [In exchange for a certain amount of mana, the caster can bend time and space to instantly appear at the place he or she is thinking of...]
Killing intent! Gu Fei felt shocked at the intense killing intent emanating from someone near him. He turned his head and saw Svelte Dancer glaring at him with murder in her eyes, as if she was moments away from tearing Gu Fei apart.
”What?” Gu Fei hurriedly asked.
”Who said you could use it?!” Svelte Dancer asked angrily.
”Then why did you pass it to me?” Gu Fei was at a loss.
”I just wanted to show it to you!” Svelte Dancer replied.
”But you can't use it!” Gu Fei reasoned.
”I could sell it! That's still money!” Svelte Dancer screamed in frustration.
”Why don't you sell it to me, then?” Gu Fei bargained.
Svelte Dancer immediately stuck her hand out, ”2000 gold coins.”
”So expensive…” Gu Fei stuck his tongue out in defeat.
”I bought it for 1800 gold coins, so I'm only earning 200 gold coins from you,” Svelte Dancer was quite transparent when it came to doing business.
Gu Fei nodded his head and stuck a hand inside his dimensional pocket. He retrieved his coin purse and passed it over to Svelte Dancer.
His casualness about the whole affair surprised Svelte Dancer. Taking the purse, she muttered, ”I didn't know that you're actually a wealthy man...”
Gu Fei sheepishly smiled, ”There are only 200 gold coins inside that. Consider that as the profit you've made. As for the scroll's purchase price, I'll pay you back in installment since I don't have that much money on me.”
Svelte Dancer grudgingly accepted the payment from Gu Fei after she counted the money in the pouch and confirmed that there were indeed only 200 gold coins inside. As for whether Gu Fei would really fork out the other 1800 gold coins eventually, she could only hope that he truly was a man of his word.
”I'll appear in their formation and cast a spell while they are still confused. Cover me a little,” Gu Fei smoothened his robe. At this moment, the Archers of Traversing Four Seas were still peppering them with arrows, yet those did not pose any threat to the two given their fast speed. Once Svelte Dancer fully recovered her HP, the two leaped out of the trench once more.
”Translocation! Blink!” Gu Fei promptly chanted once he regained his balance. To use this defensive skill, Gu Fei had to point at the direction he wished to teleport to as he chanted. In this case, the location was the very center of the Traversing Four Seas' archer formation.
Meanwhile, Svelte Dancer darted in front of Gu Fei and used her body and dagger to block the arrows heading their way.
Gu Fei felt the space around him distort upon completing the incantation. While the Thieves would become blurry and transparent when using Stealth or Vanish, Mages would appear as if they were torn apart when using Blink. Right now, the nearby players saw Gu Fei's figure shatter like pieces of glass that faded into nothingness in the next moment.
When Gu Fei completed his spell chanting, a second spatial distortion also appeared at the same time at some place else on the PvP arena. Compared to how his figure cracked and disappeared into thin air at his initial location, the enemies could witness the sight of the shattered pieces of glass reforming into Gu Fei's figure over in that location.
Translocation: Blink was truly instantaneous. Gu Fei barely blinked his eyes and the scenery before him had already changed to that of another location. He turned around to look at where he had originally been and saw that Svelte Dancer was still blocking the arrows over there. That was also when he realized one big problem: His Blink did not allow him to reach the intended location that he had pointed to moments ago.
Gu Fei was behind Svelte Dancer moments ago, and yet he was now barely five meters in front of her even after he had casted Blink – a long way off from the position he had pointed to just then!
”Why did you blink there for?!” Svelte Dancer fumed.
”I don't know!” Gu Fei was at a loss. He was certain that his finger had not pointed wrongly, so why was he only teleported at such a short distance?
The skill description for Blink did not mention a limitation for the distance that a player could travel; it only mentioned that the distance one could travel would be proportionate to the mana consumed. Glancing at his mana pool, he saw that it had barely been reduced. Therefore, it was definitely not an issue of insufficient mana that had caused the disparity in the distance he had traveled.
Before he could make sense of what had happened, the enemies had already launched their second volley of arrows. And this time, the arrows were fired off under the effect of Homing Projectile that traced after its enemies. Compared to the other skills, the distance covered by this skill was actually shorter, but these five meters that Gu Fei had suddenly advanced to had effectively brought him into a range where Homing Projectile could reach him.