255 Chapter 255 - The Map’s Underlying Inten (1/2)

Royal God Call understood the reason behind Gu Fei's action once he heard their explanations. Since he no longer thought badly of Gu Fei's action, he cared not whether he got paid by him or not for the Electric Wall Scroll. Brother Assist's analysis was spot on; Gu Fei indeed had good grasp of their personality and treated them in different ways depending on it.

As Gu Fei sprinted away from the bar, he read the description for his newly acquired skill:

[Electric Wall

Skill effect: Construct a barrier that blocks everything using the destructive properties of lightning.

Skill duration: 20 seconds]

Blocks everything… The system's description for a skill was often exaggerated. Take the Fireball spell as an example; it was stated that the spell could burn everything! Gu Fei paid little attention to this and merely chanted, ”Electric Wall! Fall!”

Lightning spells were indeed true to their nature; Descending Wheel of Flames' speed of descent could not even hold a candle to Electric Wall's. Just as the incantation went past his lips, the air in the direction he had pointed to swiftly crackled and distorted, causing the passers-by to gawk at the unexplainable phenomenon. Thunder pealed, and thin, electric current could be seen weaving a web before everyone's eyes, looking absolutely terrifying and destructive. When it came to appearance, the Lightning Affinity spells looked far more impressive than Fire Affinity's or Water Affinity's. At the moment, Electric Wall was indeed quite a dazzling sight to behold.

Although this wall of electricity spanned for three meters, it was not long enough to block off the entire street before Gu Fei. Nonetheless, many pedestrians stopped by to inspect this never-before-seen spell.

A bold individual even stepped close to the wall of electricity and lightly touched its crackling surface. A zapping sound was heard as electricity sparked from where his finger and the wall of electricity touched. The player yelped and instinctively drew his finger back. Looking at his status, he exclaimed, ”G*d*mn! Paralyzed!”

The crowd clamored in surprise for twenty seconds. When the spell disappeared, they all realized that none of them had seen the spell-caster and began to look around for the Mage. Unfortunately for them, Gu Fei had long since vacated the area.

”This spell consumes so much mana!” Gu Fei exclaimed. Electric Wall halved his mana with just that one cast. Casting this spell gave him the same feeling when casting Blink; meaning, Electric Wall was also a spell that a Mage could adjust the mana consumption of to tweak its effect. Just like Blink, this spell's effect was dependent on how much mana he invested on it.

It appeared that Lightning Affinity did not have spells, such as Fireball and Descending Wheel of Flames, where the mana consumption could not be adjusted. This was an aspect of the skill tree that set it apart from others.

Gu Fei pondered on this uniqueness and wondered if he could incorporate it to his kung fu as he headed toward the teleportation array by the Hall of Mercenaries.

At exactly 7 P.M., all the mercenaries participating in the finals of the PvP tournament were gathered by the teleportation array. Young Master's Elite and The Black Hand were not the only groups fighting today, as Water Flower, under Brave Surge's leadership, was also vying for third place against Rainbow betwixt the Clouds.

In truth, the fight for third place was far more intense than the fight between Young Master's Elite and The Black Hand. This was because the system had a special reward for the top 3 mercenary groups. Young Master's Elite and The Black Hand would receive this reward no matter which group won the finals; at most, their final reward would be separated by a grade. As for the loser between Water Flower and Rainbow betwixt the Clouds, it would receive nothing. Therefore, both groups were hell-bent on securing victory.

Young Master Han and company happened to meet Brave Surge and his men when they got near the teleportation array. All of them amiably exchanged words of encouragement with one another before teleporting into their respective PvP arenas.

The six men would usually discuss the members of the opposing mercenary group before a match, but The Black Hand's secretiveness made it harder for Brother Assist to do so today. Without much intel, what he shared about The Black Hand was unusually succinct.

”Mmm. The Black Hand has one hundred members, and their levels are quite high. It is foolish to consider them as weaker than Four Seas mercenary group of Traversing Four Seas Guild. After ranking first for the amount of system-assigned missions The Black Hand has completed, the group recently began engaging in some player-requested missions. From what I've gathered, the group is very professional when doing missions, quotes a reasonable price for every client, and is known for being trustworthy.”

What Brother Assist said thus far could be considered as information, yet it lacked the essential information that could contribute to their upcoming fight, which was the detailed breakdown of the enemy group's job class composition, status of high-ranking members, and preferred PvP maneuver. It would have been great if they could get a good read of the personality of certain key figures as well.

While Young Master Han's strategy seemed to always be made on the spot, it was actually set in accordance to the gathered information about the enemies. Take that match with Water Flower mercenary group as an example; seizing victory against the group of over eighty players without much suspense was entirely due to Young Master Han's familiarity with its members.

Brother Assist was undoubtedly the King of Information with his ability to postulate certain things from the scant amount of gathered information.

”From their style of executing tasks, this mercenary group's cohesion is high. It is possible for them to show explosive bouts of power, so let's be careful when dealing with them. This is the final match, so let's seriously fight this time!” Brother Assist concluded.

”How can you say this, Assist?!” Royal God Call was dissatisfied, ”We've always been trying our best all this while; do you think this is a shounen manga where we shout, 'Let me show you what's true power!' after being beaten black and blue? We've already been doing all we could every match!”

”That's the spirit; keep up the good work!”

”Since the information is insufficient…” Young Master Han finally deigned to speak, ”Let's collect information as we fight the match, then. Miles, Royal, Sword Demon, you three have the clear speed advantage; close in on the opponents once the match begins and find out if there's anything we can take advantage of!” As the three men nodded their heads, Young Master Han continued, ”The rest of us will stay behind to conceive a strategy!”

”Don't expect anything from me; I'm just the bodyguard,” War Without Wounds spat sarcastically.