282 Chapter 282 - Leaving Everyone Breathless with His Extraordinary Fighting Skill (1/2)
Young Master Han, who was watching the fight before him, was incessantly shaking his head. Even Youthful Reflection could tell that Gu Fei's retreat to recuperate his mana was extremely troublesome, yet the man in question did not know of this. Actually, Young Master Han did not put his hopes on Gu Fei from the start since he knew that the latter had insufficient mana to get out of the monsters' encirclement. They would probably have an easier time if it were players that encircled them, as Gu Fei's monstrous damage output could strike fear in their hearts. Unfortunately, the Mountain Bandits the system spawned were not programmed to feel fear when facing formidable players.
Many people were currently feeling annoyed at Gu Fei! It was as if he had realized this himself as he suddenly returned to the frontline with the apple still stuck in his mouth. Waving his Moonlit Nightfalls through the Mountain Bandits, he spat out the apple and recited the Twin Incineration's incantation. The flames that burst forth went around him again, causing everyone to be dumbfounded. Many of the gathered players gawked at the half-eaten apple of Gu Fei's. What sort of apple was that? How could it replenish his mana in just a short while? Many of them strongly resisted the urge to inspect the half-eaten apple that lay on the floor.
When Gu Fei returned into the formation, Svelte Dancer immediately coordinated her attacks with him and took that chance to ask, ”How did you recover your mana so soon?”
”I'm also wondering about that myself. How strange!” Gu Fei's mana was continuously getting replenished even as he spoke. With his rudimentary gaming knowledge, he could not make sense of this and could only do his best to expend it. Flourishing his Moonlit Nightfalls, Gu Fei pointed toward the monsters' side and chanted, ”Electric Wall! Fall!”
The air instantly crackled with electricity amid the players' anxiety, yet nothing else happened. Gu Fei felt stunned; the air should form a wall of lightning, so why did nothing appear?
Young Master Han also found Gu Fei's grand casting of a spell that did not cause anything to be rather strange. Knowing how well Gu Fei and Svelte Dancer worked together, he quickly sent him this message: ”Use an AOE spell to burn a path out for everyone!”
”Right!” Gu Fei replied. The mana consumption for Electric Wall was on the high side, and he currently did not have enough for it. Nonetheless, his mana was still being replenished continuously. Gu Fei did not bother to dwell on this. Seeing that his mana bar was filled up once more, he lifted his sword and cast Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno.
His casting time was still slow. Having chanted the incantation, the ground blazed into a firestorm that burned down a whole swath of Mountain Bandits. Young Master Han felt pissed, though. ”What did you use that for?! Cast Descending Wheel of Flames, instead!”
”Eh?!” Gu Fei was nonplussed for a bit before slapping his forehead at the sight in front of him.
The blazing inferno raged for five seconds. Given his 'Insta-kill Mage' moniker, not one player dared to step into the spell's AOE for fear of getting killed by it. In contrast, the Mountain Bandits fearlessly swarmed into the sea of flames and filled the space he had created in a jiffy.
Gu Fei quickly learned from his mistake; raising his hand, he unleashed Descending Wheel of Flames once he had enough mana. The players were finally able to capitalize on this chance of him clearing out another patch of Mountain Bandits, allowing them to tear through the enemies' encirclement.
”Do you still have mana? Continue!” Young Master Han shouted to Gu Fei.
”It's like I have unlimited mana!” Gu Fei was elated. Descending Wheel of Flames was still on cooldown, so Gu Fei opted to teleport himself into the Mountain Bandits' midst and slashed them with Twin Incineration, swiftly clearing another small circle. Svelte Dancer darted forward to aid Gu Fei at the first opportunity as the other players did their best to keep up with the two's pace.
”Alright. It's back!” Gu Fei's sword slew several Mountain Bandits just as Descending Wheel of Flames' cooldown ended, letting him cast it once more. Any attacks that could potentially interrupt his spell-casting were dutifully blocked by Svelte Dancer. The newly formed flame wheel burned brightly as it dove straight down to the ground and cleared out another patch of Mountain Bandits.
When the players saw this, they excitedly called out to Gu Fei as they defended him, ”Forget about breaking through; let's just kill all of them!”
”What a great idea!” Gu Fei concurred to these players and flourished his sword with Twin Incineration to kill off a whole row of Mountain Bandits, evidently getting carried away in the process. It was then that he received a message. Opening the message box, he felt surprised to discover that it had been from Vast Lushness: ”Hey. It's best if you watch your mana consumption. My mana is about to run out.”
Gu Fei dazedly searched for Vast Lushness among the crowd and located her not too far from him. Vast Lushness had also charged in with the melee job classes, yet she had been pointing her holy staff to Gu Fei. When she saw Gu Fei looking at her, she smilingly asked, ”Did you really think that you're being freely gifted mana from the gods?”
Although Gu Fei was still clueless about it, he could still feel that Vast Lushness's presence and his constant mana replenishment had a direct correlation. Based on her words, his mana replenishment would not last forever. Hence, he immediately decided to stop squandering the gift.
A saying went: 'Good steel should be used for the blade.' Although Gu Fei thoroughly enjoyed using Twin Incineration to slay foes, he knew that Descending Wheel of Flames was the better choice in the current situation. Reining in his impulse to directly cut people down, he waited for Descending Wheel of Flames' cooldown to end before diligently bombarding the Mountain Bandits.
”Charge, everyone!” Gu Fei pointed for everyone the direction to head over to, as if he were a commander directing his men. What he was truly worried about was meeting the accusing eyes of those who had just suggested to him to butcher all the Mountain Bandits.