269 Chapter 269 - Reflect Damage (1/2)
Every time a match ended in the two tournaments, the system would calculate the result while the victors remained inside the PvP arena map before sending them out in a short while. The Black Hand mercenary group had long been outside the PvP arena. When it was time to confirm their losses, most of them quickly departed from the square outside the Hall of Mercenaries. Not one of them was in the mood to look at the happy expressions of the victors. At the moment, the teleportation array by the Hall of Mercenaries was devoid of players.
When Gu Fei was sent out of the PvP arena, the only person he saw was Xi Xiaotian who had died together with him. At this moment, the system announced the final result. Naturally, Young Master's Elite emerged victorious. The Black Hand's players assumed that their plan to prevent Young Master's Elite from causing them further embarrassment by achieving 'perfect victory' had failed.
When that did not happen, the perplexed members of The Black Hand quickly checked the result of the mercenary PvP tournament's finals.
Total Score
Young Master's Elite - 87
The Black Hand - 1
”Someone among us managed to kill one of them?!” Even the members of The Black Hand found this hard to believe. After Black Index Finger had instructed the remaining players to spread out, hide, or run from Young Master's Elite, they had seen each of those players rapidly get methodically eliminated. The entire mercenary group was absolutely gutted when this happened, so none stayed behind to wait for the shameful result.
Hence, they did not know who had managed to kill off one member of Young Master's Elite. Black Index Finger was still ecstatic at such a result and clamored on the mercenary channel, ”Who is it?! Who among us managed to kill one of their players?! Also, which one did you kill?!”
Not one person spoke up.
”What the heck?! Is it a trend to remain anonymous after doing a good deed now?” Black Index Finger criticized. He knew that only twenty-one players had remained in the PvP arena from his mercenary group after his death. Only these twenty-one players had had the chance to prevent Young Master's Elite from seizing a 'perfect victory', so only someone among them could have done the killing. Black Index Finger unfortunately did not know each of these remaining twenty-one members; he found it rather strange that no one was claiming the honor for the feat of killing an enemy at the moment, though.
The mercenary channel was filled with chattering about the matter. There were hundreds of different guesses, but the final conclusion they came to was that perhaps someone among Young Master's Elite had accidentally died from falling down the mountain. No one would have believed such a bizarre death to be a feasible explanation, but after quite a few of them had suffered such a fate from today's match, everyone was more than happy to accept such a reason for their enemies failing to achieve 'perfect victory'.
”It is retribution!” everyone cheered on the mercenary channel.
At this moment, the five other members of Young Master's Elite exited the PvP arena. They felt quite surprised upon seeing that no one was by the teleportation to receive them. Before the others could react to this, Young Master Han coldly asked while sweeping his gaze around, ”Miles, where the hell did you die off to?!”
The five hurriedly sent Gu Fei a message when they could not find him.
”Wait a moment. I have something on!” was Gu Fei's reply.
”We'll be waiting at Ray's Bar,” Young Master Han coldly replied before leaving with a blackened expression.
”Isn't your reaction a bit too much?” Royal God Call asked. While they felt somewhat saddened for not achieving 'perfect victory', none of them was incensed about it like him. It was already a miracle that their six-man mercenary group managed to defeat an eighty-seven-man mercenary group, so what more could they ask for?
”Young Master is too much of a perfectionist!” Brother Assist sighed.
”A man who's not content is like a snake that tries to swallow an elephant whole,” War Without Wounds philosophized.
”Sword Demon, go appease him or something,” Royal God Call said to Sword Demon.
”Let's get to the bar first!” Sword Demon simply said.
Gu Fei was actually not far from the teleportation array and had merely followed Xi Xiaotian to an adjacent street.
”What happened? How did I die?” Gu Fei could not stop himself from blurting out this question. This question ricocheted in his head a hundred and eighty times in just this short walk; he considered every small detail and was absolutely certain that Xi Xiaotian had not done any strange motion and that he had not received the slightest bit of damage from any angle earlier.
How did I die? Gu Fei asked this question to himself numerous times as he chased after Xi Xiaotian.
”'Reflect damage',” Xi Xiaotian only replied to his question when they reached this particular street.
”'Reflect damage'? What's that?” Gu Fei asked.
”Haven't you played MMOs before? Why don't you know of this?” Xi Xiaotian rolled her eyes.
”I seldom play games, actually,” Gu Fei confessed.
Xi Xiaotian felt exasperated and began to lecture Gu Fei about it, ”It's really simple. All the equipment I currently have reflects damage with a 32% proc rate at a degree of 47%. This means that there's a 32% chance of reflecting damage by 47% when someone attacks me. This 47% reflected damage ignores all defense and resistance. So, expert, you have essentially just insta-killed yourself.”
”I see…” With such a simple reason, Gu Fei immediately understood everything. If it was based on his damage… Gu Fei roughly calculated his equipment, skill, and Spell Damage and realized that 47% reflected damage was enough to kill him off. Gu Fei had low HP and did not have any equipment that increased this, so he was weaker in this aspect than most Mages.