623 Chapter 623 - Cask Effec (1/2)
Mountain Breaker Axe was surprised. Even though he was no expert when it came to MMOs, he at least had a good idea of the most basic spell attributes, the calculation of damage, and other such matters. Gu Fei was not wrong that, for a Fighter to withstand two of his Twin Incineration, he of course needed fire resistant gear, but Gu Fei had changed to using Lightning spells, so fire resistance would be completely useless.
With a flip of his right hand, Moonlit Nightfalls was back in his hand once more. Even though Palm of Thunder required Gu Fei to have an empty hand to be unleashed, he still needed to have an equipment to raise the damage of his spell. Gu Fei made a feint with his sword, and Mountain Breaker Axe, who had indeed not studied anything related to blades like what he had claimed, was completely unable to see through the feint, and very conscientiously focused on dodging the attack.
With a smile, Gu Fei's sword was already retracted back. Taking a step backward as he straightened his body, he pushed out that Palm of Thunder, which had been collecting power in his left hand this whole time.
Mountain Breaker Axe, whose attention was on this one move, immediately sucked in his abdomen and bent over. Both his arms shot out toward the Mage, one grasping Gu Fei's wrist as the other went straight for his shoulder.
”Be careful!” Ye Xiaowu hurriedly yelled out this warning, but it was already too late. Gu Fei flashed a smile at Mountain Breaker Axe. ”I'm a Mage!” Saying this, his Palm of Thunder shot out from his palm, right into his abdomen. A powerful electrical current arc through Mountain Breaker Axe's entire body, and the electric sparks created lit him up like a lantern. Mountain Breaker Axe watched as his HP dropped fast, and only one thought came to his mind. F*ck, I got assassinated again.
If this was a normal fight, Mountain Breaker Axe would cleanly dodge that palm strike from Gu Fei, but unfortunately for him, this was a game. Gu Fei's Palm of Thunder did not necessarily need to make direct contact with his target for the attack to go through, and the condensation of lightning was nothing more than part of the spell formation process. A normal Mage would 100% use it as a ranged spell. Who would be like Gu Fei and actually engage in close combat with the spell ready to be unleashed?
In the end, that moment when Mountain Breaker Axe dodged that palm was when Gu Fei released the spell, and it was as if the latter's arm had suddenly extended, so how could the former dodge the attack? All he could do was eat the entirety of the damage.
Ye Xiaowu had already discerned what Gu Fei wanted to do, but it was a pity that he was too late to warn Mountain Breaker Axe. While he knew what skills Gu Fei possessed, how was he supposed to know how Gu Fei would use them? Take for example how Gu Fei had just used his Blink to materialize in mid-air and cut Mountain Breaker Axe before; he would have informed Mountain Breaker Axe of this beforehand if he had guessed that Gu Fei would make that sort of play.
”Sorry, I actually don't have the time,” Gu Fei extended a word of apology, mercilessly creating swift sword trails and finally killing off Mountain Breaker Axe. Gu Fei did not forget that this was not a martial arts duel between the two practitioners, but two parties engaged in a PK battle, instead. He could continue to trade blows with Mountain Breaker Axe and have his fun, but Young Master's Elite and Southern Lone Blade's team were still in a precarious situation.
The damage from the raining projectiles were uneven, and most were hardly a threat to those experts, but these ambushers soon realized this problem and quickly changed from targeting Young Master's Elite and Southern Lone Blade's team as a whole to concentrating their firepower on one target.
The moment more than a dozen of these men began target firing, the resultant damage could no longer be overlooked.
”F*ck, f*ck, f*ck! They're targeting me again!” Royal God Call observed the enemies' position and anxiously ducked into the safety of the pack. Southern Lone Blade heard his cry and quickly strode over to help defend in his direction. Using his sword and shield, Southern Lone Blade managed to bear the concentrated firepower that came at him. In the end, he heard Glue bellow. ”No, no, no! They're all targeting me over here!”
Southern Lone Blade promptly turned around and headed over to the man.
”It's me! ME!” Royal God Call yelled.
”Go over to Glue!” Young Master Han shouted. ”The Priests will focus on Royal.”
”Ahhhh! I'm gonna die…” Royal God Call watched innumerable arrows fly right at him. No matter what job class these attackers possessed, their marksmanship with the bow was amazingly precise, so even though they did not have the projectile speed of an Archer, it still was not easy to duck or avoid the incoming fire. Royal God Call knew that he would still be fine if he simply had to deal with one or two arrows, but with so many arrows hurtling right at him, he was completely at a loss on where to hide or how he should dodge them.
That was when a series of thuds resounded!
Right there and then, Royal God Call got hit with six arrows, and with how fast the enemies' follow-up attacks were, the second volley of arrows was already flying right after. Royal God Call had absolutely no confidence in his weak and frail Archer body as he ate six more arrows. A total of twelve arrows perforated Royal God Call's body. He was now shutting his eyes tightly, firmly believing that he was already dead, when warm sensation enveloped him as a Priest's Heal landed on him. Royal God Call opened his eyes and discovered that he was still alive, opening his mouth to praise himself. ”Surviving twelve arrows, I'm just too indomitable.”
Everyone rolled their eyes at him as Young Master Han reprimanded, ”Take a look at the enemies' job classes.”
The opposing force jointly attacked fast and dispersed just as quickly; they had split themselves into two groups this time around, with the first bunch attacking Glue while the other focusing on Royal God Call. The ones concentrating their fire on Glue were all Archers, while the players attacking Royal God Call were a patchwork collection of job classes. Royal God Call would of course have no problem surviving with the aid of Priest supporting him. Instead, it was Glue who might have very well died had it not been for Southern Lone Blade's timely protection.
Brother Assist had finished collating all the enemies' data at this time and was currently giving everyone an overview. ”Three Archers, two Knights, two Warriors, two Mages, three Thieves, and two Fighters. There are fourteen players, and they have a very balanced spread of job classes. Oh, Miles and Eternal Dominion are still taking on two Archers, a Fighter and a Priest on their end. Ah! That Fighter just got killed by Miles!”
Brother Assist happened to be looking over at Gu Fei the very moment his Palm of Thunder landed on his target and witnessed the series of sword cuts he had executed to finish off Mountain Breaker Axe. When that was done, he saw Gu Fei turn to run toward them, and Brother Assist got excited. ”Miles is coming to assist us.”
Young Master Han's expression did not change in the slightest. Wrinkling his brows, he scoffed, ”What's the point of him coming here!”
”Let's carve a path out for ourselves to withdraw first!” Both sides had nearly the same number of players, yet these experts were the ones who were being suppressed. No one was willing to admit it, but the fact remained: They were currently severely handicapped in this skirmish, and it was not because they did not wish to mount a counterattack, but that there was no suitable opportunity for them to do so.
”We can't escape,” Young Master Han solemnly informed. ”Have none of you guys realized it yet? No matter what job classes these people have, all of them had added points to Agility.”
”You're right…”
”Their squad coordination is far too well synchronized.” Well-versed in teamwork, even Southern Lone Blade had to sigh in admiration.
”They are professionals,” Young Master Han concluded.
”So what do we do?” The members of Young Master's Elite realized the severity of the situation, for even Young Master Han's speech had a rare pessimistic tone to it.
”These people possess superb combat capabilities, but they seem to be noobs when it comes to gaming, and that's the only advantage we have over them,” Young Master Han said.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
”How do you know?” everyone asked.
”They don't know how to use their job class specialties, and they're all playing with bows and arrows. Isn't that obvious?” The ever-present scorn and sarcasm were still there even when Young master Han was being pessimistic.
”So what do we do?” These men all might seem to be idly chatting, but they had in fact fended off two more waves of attacks in the time they took to have this conversation. Everybody had been on the move, yet they simply were unable to make a breakthrough from their enemies' encirclement. It was just like what Young Master Han had said; the enemy had all allocated points to Agility, so the squad's mobility was well-beyond what their group could muster. Young Master Han's group had the baby-legged Priests and Warriors among their numbers, so their movement as a whole was capped to match these slower job classes. This was precisely the definition of the cask effect. It did not matter how tall a water cask was, since the height at which it could retain water ultimately depended on the shortest stave used in its construction.
”If we can no longer withstand this, our only choice is to sacrifice the knights to save the king.” Young Master Han first informed them of a probable solution for the worst-case scenario.
”F*ck, f*ck, f*ck! Who's going to be the knight in this?” War Without Wounds was depressed.
Young Master Han stared fixedly at him. ”I'll be a knight, too.”
The others, who were all sad that they were being treated as the short staves, all froze. Sure enough, although Young Master Han always acted pompous as if he were the boss, he indeed was a short stave here in this scenario as well. He was a golden-ratio Priest who added his stats solely to Spirit and Intelligence and left none to Agility. He was a baby leg, too.