388 Chapter 388 - Heebie Jeebies (2/2)
Increasing the duration of traps was only one aspect which these Hunters sought to improve through their equipment. The other aspects their equipment helped improve was the number of traps they could place!. Adding that to their already high skill proficiency, each of them could easily place three or five traps of their own, each!
The streets in cities were mostly paved, making it impossible to conceal these traps. But since two out of the three were unable to move, while another was pinned behind Todd and did not dare to move, these men blatantly rushed up and filled the stairs with traps. There was really not that many steps by this flight of stairs in front of the Prison, nor was it that wide. After each of them were finished placing all the traps there, the entire stairs were packed with so many traps that it was a truly disgusting sight.
This was already an extremely disgusting execution of trap utilization, as the huge pile of gleaming traps laid out would make anybody's skin crawl just looking at it. Anyone would already have the heebie jeebies just attempting to tip toe their way through if they were hoping to make their way across safely.
This was especially true for Svelte Dancer, whose most discernible advantage over every player was her fast movement speed! But now that the area all around her had been morphed into such a trap-filled scene, how could she even demonstrate this? She would most likely bristle with arrows like a porcupine by the time she managed to tip toe through and reach her enemies.
These men had studied the situation for a long time. It seemed they had littered their traps everywhere, yet the end product was an interesting mess that did not seem to have any path out. Meanwhile, all the Hunters immediately retreated out of the circle of traps they had set, as they were all ranged job classes! There was absolutely no need for them to be nearby.
”Hahahahaha! So, do the three of you still have any brilliant ideas left?” Deep Waters smarmily goaded them.
”What are you being long winded for! Hurry up and do it already!” A woman's voice could suddenly be heard in the air. Oathless Sword, Vast Lushness and Svelte Dancer did not see who this voice came from, but they knew it must have been a Thief in Stealth.
”Let's get to work, everyone! Shoot however you wish, creatively express yourself!” Deep Waters commanded as he took the lead to fire off an arrow, targeting Svelte Dancer with his first shot.
”That jerk! Didn't he say he would appear at the most crucial moment?” Svelte Dancer chided.
Oathless Sword had been very surprised when he saw Svelte Dancer appear as she did, and had no idea there was still another savior out there. He hurriedly asked, ”Who else could there be?” He sighed even as an arrow landed on the corner of his mouth. Players would usually not feel anything when an attack landed on them, but anything that struck their head, while also dictated under the same pain system Parallel World used, still had an instinctive psychological fear attached to it.
Who else could be coming to save them? Deep Waters could not help but feel anxious when he heard them. The situation right now was more or less under control, but they still had no idea how many HP Todd had left. They had already bombarded him once in Linyin City, and now that he had not reacted to the arrows they had fired on him, was it possible that his HP would automatically regenerate? Deep Waters's heart shattered when this thought came to mind. If that spell bombardment from his group of Mages before were unable to kill him, just how long would he and his current team of Hunters have to fire? Who knew what sort of changes might happen if this dragged on! That whole mass of mercenaries from Luori City were still in a hurry to find their target!
Deep Waters had come out on this pursuit without bringing all his manpower with him. Furthermore, he had left another portion of his men behind in Linshui City. Back then they had originally planned to wait for the next ferry, but that changed the moment they heard a report about how the battle was going for the players of Yunduan City, with Oathless Sword quietly bringing Todd into the city, likely without anyone to impede him. Deep Waters and his men would surely be unable to catch up to them if they had to wait for four hours for the system's ferry.
But how could they reach him without any boat? The barman by Linshui Harbor saw their anxious expressions and upon being informed of their situation, had instantly promoted the ferrying business some players had started.
This was not like the ferry business scam that Gu Fei and the two ladies had taken, but was a proper business that the bars by the harbor started by the guilds had opened in conjunction. This was originally a few boats that these guilds had prepared for their private use that they would occasionally use, but when they realized they would be idle for huge periods of time, they figured it made sense to make a business out of this that others might need.
Deep Waters had no choice but to accept it, but it was unfortunate that there was a limit to the number of players they could ferry. Even though it was not just a single boat, they had no means to ferry every single member in Deep Waters's party across. So, he could only pick a handful of players to accompany him in an effort to continue his pursuit. Had he really waited another four hours to take the system-assigned ferry, everything would have been long over.
Deep Waters had departed late, but because they were all job classes with inherently high movement speed, they were able to reach the Prison before Oathless Sword and the others. Deep Waters had also brought Priests and Mages along, but because he was racing against time to catch up to them, he could only leave those players behind. That was the reason why they only had Hunters present here outside the Prison right now, since his Mages and slower job classes had yet to make it over!
Deep Waters's heart beat in trepidation once he heard that the enemy was still expecting someone to save them. He was standing on high ground and could see quite a distance. He looked all around and only saw normal players, finding no one that looked to be conducting a rescue. But before he could even breathe easy, he suddenly heard the sound of a creaking door.
The place where the Prison was situated was very quiet. With both parties engaged in battle, one side being unable to retaliate while the other was only firing arrows, the only sound was the whistles made by the arrows, so this abrupt creaking was extremely audible and harsh.
Everyone subconsciously turned towards this sound, and across the street not too far from the Prison was an inconspicuous building where a door was being pulled open. A man dressed in a black Mage's robe, holding a dark purple sword in hand, walked out. His eyes trained over to their direction in the blink of an eye. This man's pace quickened as he raised his hand to wipe away his sweat, ”What are you hurrying me for?! What's the situation? Aren't you all still alive?”
”F*ck, what took you so long!” Svelte Dancer was incensed. The trap she had stepped on just finished as she begin to walk over to this newcomer gingerly, but she soon found herself snared by a second trap in a moment's folly.
”That guy I was hunting just now ran real far, I spent a long time hunting him down, but at least I'm here now!” The man closed in on them, the sword on his shoulder came slicing down, pointing out forward obliquely.
It was the gesture for a Mage's spell!