560 Chapter 560 - Dumbfounded (2/2)
Ultimately, Blackwater was left crying in the next moment he had that thought, for he saw that Svelte Dancer had her hands held together, and that keen dagger of hers was placed erect right before her chest…
Svelte Dancer did not need skills to insta-kill players; all she needed was a simple stab.
Blackwater's heart shattered when he thought of this frightening rumor. He now knew he never had the chance to land right on top of the lady in question, as he would already become a flash of white light before he could even reach her.
But it was in that moment, without any further delay, that a single leg came in from the side and stepped onto Svelte Dancer's dagger, flattening it.
”F*CK!” Svelte Dancer cried out loudly as she lay on the ground. She had seen men who lacked any care or consideration to the fairer sex before, but this was truly an exceptional case, for the man had not simply just turned a blind eye to the beauty before him, he had even stomped down onto her chest. Svelte Dancer was in such dismay that she wanted to vomit blood, but she was just powerless to this foot planted on her. No matter how mighty she was, there was no way her Strength could match up against that of a Berserker, much less the fact that Southern Lone Blade was no ordinary Warrior. Lying on the ground after playing Blackwater like a fool, Svelte Dancer's clever trick had ended up causing herself to be in the current bind, making her the ultimate fool as a result.
Southern Lone Blade had one foot pressing down on Svelte Dancer as his left hand waved his shield to the left. Bumping Blackwater to a side, the sword in his right followed closely along, but it was slashing right at Vast Lushness.
”RUN! IT'S CYCLONE!” Blue Ease yelled from the side.
Without Svelte Dancer running interference, Southern Lone Blade tanked all their ranged attacks and finally charged into their ranks. The PK veteran Blue Ease had already expected him to use his Cyclone, and it was only natural that he would be targeting Vast Lushness. If Blue Ease knew this, how would Vast Lushness not be able to deduce this as well? However, Svelte Dancer was still pinned under Southern Lone Blade's foot. Thus, instead of attempting to avoid the attack, Vast Lushness buried her head and came hurtling toward Southern Lone Blade in hopes of dislodging the man and creating a bit of space for Svelte Dancer to escape.
Blue Ease, along with the two other ranged players, had since gotten themselves out of Cyclone's AoE, but all of them were struck dumb when they saw what Vast Lushness was doing and quickly followed up with their own attacks on to Southern Lone Blade. However, since Svelte Dancer and Vast Lushness were entangled as well, they were unable to unleash any sort of AoE spells. Blue Ease cast his Thunderbolt, Fireball sent forth his Repeating Fireball, and Sakurazaka Moony shot out his arrow. Each of their attacks landed squarely on their target, but Southern Lone Blade had his shield braced to the side to receive them, as he bore the Thunderbolt right on his head.
”Let's see how long you can hold on!” Blue Ease bellowed as he threw out a Repeating Fireball as well. Unfortunately, before his balls of fire even reached, Southern Lone Blade was already basking in a beam of white light as a string of Blessing symbols appeared above his head; Paddy Scented Pastures and Unrivalled Lucky Star had begun to get to work.
Blackwater was giddy with delight. He felt that his team was holding the upper hand and was just about to take care of those three ranged players when he heard Southern Lone Blade bark at him with a stern glare, ”What are you doing?! Quick make a getaway; Thousand Miles Drunk's about to reach!”
Blackwater was stunned as he quickly glanced at their party channel chat. At the same time that he was about to use his Bludgeon before, a message had indeed come through, which he had not taken notice of. Glue had typed on the channel in caps: ”THOUSAND MILES DRUNK HAS DISAPPEARED! YOU GUYS NEED TO ACT QUICKLY!”
A single figure went flying.
Southern Lone Blade was originally making an empty show of strength when he positioned himself to unleash his Cyclone, hoping to scare Vast Lushness to back away several steps, but who would have guessed that the woman would choose to dash toward him instead of retreating? At that point, Southern Lone Blade was no longer courteous and swung his sword horizontally the moment he saw Vast Lushness come close to him.
While that one slash looked no more than the slightest twitch of movement, it could truly considered as a Cyclone. Vast Lushness got slashed by it and was immediately sent flying off like a kite without a string.
Blue Ease and Sakurazaka Moony were extremely concerned about Vast Lushness, so the color in both men's faces drained when they saw her go flying out like that. However, when they saw Vast Lushness fly out in totality, they only heaved a sigh of relief, relieved that she had not transformed into a flash of white light from that attack. It seemed that Southern Lone Blade's attack power was not frightening to the point that he could insta-kill her with just that one skill.
The two men rejoiced as they each went running to save her, but just as they took two steps toward her, they saw the empty ground before them suddenly ignite in flames. There was even a halo of fire that appeared in the air above. Flame Singed Clothes, who had been haggling right before a stall, was still holding onto a trinket he just bought while his magic staff was raised chanting out the spell.
”LUSHNESS!” Sakurazaka Moony hurriedly sent an arrow right into Flame Singed Clothes' face, hoping that it would insta-kill the Mage and cause his spells to become useless despite him not really having much confidence that his attack could achieve this.
Blue Ease, who was standing right beside him had also quickly unleashed a spell of his own, kindling a spark of hope in Sakurazaka Moony's heart, for there just might be a chance to insta-kill that Mage if both his Snipe and that man's Thunderbolt struck the target.
However, Flame Singed Clothes was not just any average Mage himself, and the position he was in already provided him with cover, allowing the man to hide behind it when he saw the attacks coming his way. Sakurazaka Moony's marksmanship was average, and he revealed an agonizing expression when he saw that his shot missed the mark. However, something strange happened there and then. Vast Lushness, who was whizzing straight toward that sea of flames, suddenly slowed down in midair before finally coming to a halt as she floated in mid-air. Flame Singed Clothes' Descending Wheel of Flames had already crashed into the ground, yet Vast Lushness had not flown right into that flaming inferno. Her buoyancy ended abruptly in that moment, and she came dropping right onto the ground.
Everybody was dumbfounded by what they had just witnessed, uncertain if what happened had been a deliberate act. Even Vast Lushness had no idea about this experience of hers.
”Thank god…” Sakurazaka Moony suddenly heard Blue Ease utter that, and he turned around to look. All he saw was the Mage with a head full of sweat, his face showing signs of great exertion, as he placed that raised staff of his down.
”You did that?” Sakurazaka Moony asked.
”Yeah!” Blue Ease nodded.
”What skill is that?”
”Why should I tell you?” Blue Ease puffed as he eyed Sakurazaka Moony with derision.
”Are the two of you idiots?! What are you quarreling about at this time?!” Svelte Dancer yelled at them from where she was, which was under Southern Lone Blade's foot. Unrivalled Lucky Star was closest to Vast Lushness at this time, so he strode right over to her. While he might not be an offensive combat class, Unrivalled Lucky Star believed that a Priest that had survived a slash from Southern Lone Blade's cCyclone would not need no more than a few more basic attacks to die.
”You imbecile, why didn't you set Vast Lushness somewhere closer to us?!” Sakurazaka Moony criticized Blue Ease even as he sprinted over to help rescue her.
”You know nothing!” Blue Ease blasted. He had already used all his strength to stop Vast Lushness. Telekinetically moving an entire living human was not that simple.
FWOOSH!
A wall of flame suddenly appeared before the two of them, preventing them from advancing. Flame Singed Clothes had appeared from behind the cover and was now using his spells to block the two off.
”F*ck! Quickly kill him!” Sakurazaka Moony was left annoyed by these constant interruptions and could only seek to cooperate with Blue Ease.
”I'm out of mana!” Blue Ease roared.
”F*ck me! You're so useless,” Sakurazaka Moony felt like crying, though no tears came to him. All he could do was watch that Knight swing his sword toward Vast Lushness, who had only just begun to pick herself up from the ground.