635 Chapter 635 - Total Victory (1/2)
'Victuals' was an archaic term, yet everyone present understood it. Right now, Young Master Han was treating their Priests as sustenance, like victuals, which somewhat made sense.
Even War Without Wounds and the others had only realized this at this point. It seemed that this was Young Master Han's main reason for arranging them right outside the Priest Academy. His goal was to seal the enemy's Priests within the spawn point and sever the three's connection to their comrades. If those three Priests had not been previously sent to the spawn point by Gu Fei, Young Master Han would surely have planned something that would focus on taking down those three men at all cost.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
Unless their enemies' damage output had a significant edge over theirs, having three outstanding Priests on their side meant they were essentially invincible by comparison.
Meanwhile, Sniper God and the others could keenly recognize the method by which Sword Demon and Blackwater had ruthlessly targeted Xiaochen and Old Wu. Aside from witnessing Gu Fei and Gu Xian finishing off their comrades to date, the rest of the ex-soldiers had all died by such brutal and crude methods, despite their bravery and expertise.
These ex-soldiers were all completely clear just how powerful this was, yet they simply had nothing up their sleeves to turn the tide. Their opponents this time would recklessly abandon everything, all for the sake of surrounding and sticking to them. If this were in real life, perhaps they could patiently deal with this by evading and dodging the attacks to slowly tire out their enemies over time, but in Parallel World, the only thing that would be slowly diminished was just their HP. Thus, to avoid such an outcome, there was no plausany plausible solution these ex-soldiers could come up with besides turning tail and flee. Even Gu Fei felt very sorry for them. He was not afraid of facing such fighting methods because his damage output was insane, but if he were to be asked to grind out an opponent backed by a Priest without using any spells, he would not have any possibility of killing such an enemy, either.
With the support of a Priest…
Gu Fei was not the only one present who had thought of the key to the current battle; Sniper God's group also came to this realization. Killing off Young Master Han and the other two Priests would be the victory condition for this fight.
Sniper God suddenly signaled, and the originally peaceful face-off between both parties was instantly disrupted. Sniper God raised his weapon and shot out a Snipe right at Young Master Han, while the two Mages Old Lightning and Thunder began to lob their grenades, even as Mountain Breaker Axe led the other melee job classes forward, all in an effort to kill Young Master Han in one single push.
A cold laugh rang out from Young Master Han. How could he not have been aware of what would crucially affect the outcome of this fight? The man kept bestowing his Heals on himself as he backed away; time and again, bouts of white light washed over him. Sniper God's Snipe, Old Lightning and Thunder's spells, and those men who had rushed to him with their crossbows in hand symbolically peppered him with their attacks; Young Master Han took each attack sent his way with great panache. Paddy Scent Pastures and Verdant Timber were seriously holding Young Master Han in their utmost exaltation by now! Priests, just like Mages, would have their spells rendered as useless if they cast them while moving, yet Young Master Han's grasp of timing and tempo was to such a degree of accuracy that he could cast his Heals onto himself in the slightest pause he took with every step he made. As such, it appeared as if he was casting Heals onto himself as he continued to move, and adding how he had so perfectly added his stats points to Spirit and Intelligence to achieve that golden ratio, the speed of every Heal he bestowed was very quickly completed, which caused their enemies' attacks to be unable to interrupt his casting.
War Without Wounds watched, dumbfounded. He could not help but exclaim, ”What are we even fighting on for? Why don't you just tank them all by yourself?
Sniper God and the others saw how Young Master Han had endured their assault with all his might and were secretly delighted at his foolishness. They might be noobs when it came to gaming, but even they knew that withstanding everything like what he was doing would surely be a huge strain on his mana, and death would be the result once he ran out of it. Even if he managed to stay alive and retreat, the Priest would still need to take some time to replenish his mana, and that period of time would be akin to cutting off a third of their victuals!
Mountain Breaker Axe and the others shared this idea, but having stormed forward as they did, these men were not satisfied with just exhausting Young Master Han's mana, and their goal was to completely eviscerate him on the spot. Seeing their Warrior, Fighter and other job classes also rushing to rescue Young Master Han, Mountain Breaker Axe and the others roared as they valiantly advanced even closer toward their target!
”Wait a minute... WITHDRAW!” Taking the lead, Mountain Breaker Axe felt a little mystified as the involved party. Meanwhile, Sniper God had a clear view of what was happening with him standing in the rear. As if waking from a dream, their enemies had each reacted one after another and abruptly dashed over sequentially. From the start, Sniper God was scoffing at these gamers for being incomparable to professional soldiers like them, and their inability to show a lick of coordination in their execution. However, as he watched these people take those few steps as they raced over, Sniper God quickly realized that he was terribly mistaken! Their enemy was not disorganized; rather, this disarray was their order. Going by their stats, each had their respective starting time, so what initially looked like disorganization allowed these people get into position around Mountain Breaker Axe and the others at the same time in the end.
Mountain Breaker Axe and the other melee job classes were all caught in this trap, and they saw their opponents scrambling their way, yet because they did not want to let go of such a prime chance to kill Young Master Han, who was just a few paces away, by the time they heard Sniper God's warning and registered the predicament that they had gotten themselves into, their enemies were almost upon them. Young Master Han continued to smile as he retreated. ”Sorry, but it's too late!”
War Without Wounds and the others did not rashly surround these ex-soldiers like what they had done to Broken Water Arrow and the others before. The group they were facing this time was different, comprising Warriors and Fighters, so there was a strong possibility of their formation getting disrupted if they simply went in without a plan. Currently, they were maintaining a short distance to their enemies, allowing War Without Wounds and Southern Lone Blade to have the space and time to counter with the same skills when the opposing Warriors used either Cyclone or Charge. Such a clash of skill usage would then depend on the system to determine the final Verdict, and the two experts with their better equipment would surely triumph given their higher Attack Power.
Mountain Breaker Axe and the others, who had already been warned by Broken Water Arrow, thought that their enemies would now close in and squeeze them to death. These were former soldiers at the end of the day, so unlike Broken Water Arrow and the other Archers, they were ready to activate their job class skills the moment their enemies used a sort of encirclement method on them. What they did not expect was for their enemies to refrain from stepping in and instead gave them a wide berth, seemingly vacillating between enclosing in on them or otherwise.
Descend Wheel of Flames!
This was when a fiery red glow appeared above them as the majestic conflagration came crashing down with a deafening rumble. Mountain Breaker Axe and those men wanted to duck for cover as they finally realized their enemies' intention. While this circle was not an enclosure by War Without Wounds and the others that directly dealt damage on these ex-soldiers, it conveniently sealed off their movement within the set space. There was no conventional method for Mountain Breaker Axe and his comrades if they wanted to charge their way out. These gamers would simply ignore their basic attacks, blatantly taking the punches they threw out before restraining them in place with a hug from their two arms once they were done. The two Warriors beside Mountain Breaker Axe thought back to their unpleasant sacrifice this morning and could feel a shiver run down their spine. Thus, both men subconsciously avoided War Without Wounds and Southern Lone Blade whom they shared a job class with and chose to target Flame Singed Clothes, who was in the middle of spellcasting, when they activated their Charge.
As a Mage with no Strength to speak of, there was no way Flame Singed Clothes could hold them down even if they engaged in melee, and it just so happened that they could stop his continued casting as well. This was a sentiment both Warriors shared, both men believing that they had made a wise choice in their target.
When Flame Singed Clothes saw the two Warriors Charge right at him, he actually threw a glance over at Young Master Han.
He's actually right!
Exclaiming that to himself in shock, Flame Singed Clothes waved his magic staff. A wall of Palatial Balefire was promptly raised right before him. The two Warriors Charging forward were astonished when they discovered a fire wall surge up in front of them. The only way for them to stop was to cancel their Charge – a proper action found in games that even a good number of gamers had problems performing, much less two middle-aged players newly introduced to gaming. The two men did not even think of doing this in their fluster, so they ended up ploughing right through the Palatial Balefire as their Charge connected with Flame Singed Clothes.
Flame Singed Clothes was sent flying, as a white light basked him in its glow at that very moment.
The two men were on fire, but no one paid attention to them.
Flame Singed Clothes' equipment was above-average, so the two Warriors' Charge were not enough to insta-kill him, and since the two Warriors' equipment were nothing special, plunging through that flame wall Flame Singed Clothes had erected burned them greatly. More importantly was the fact that they had nobody Healing them; it was really unfortunate that they had to keep fighting despite their low HP.
At the same time that these two Warriors Charged at Flame Singed Clothes, War Without Wounds and the others took a huge step forward and shrank their encirclement. Eternal Dominion was capable of taking care of himself in the face of these enemies, so he unleashed his Spurring Meteor right at Mountain Breaker Axe. If this were just a normal player, Mountain Breaker Axe could put down the aggressor in two or three moves, but Eternal Dominion was no average Fighter. Accepting this invitation to battle, both men traded kicks and punches back and forth as they fought with each other fiercely. Although Gu Xian left him an indelible psychological scar, Mountain Breaker Axe had the strong mental fortitude of a professional soldier, so even though he knew he was no match for his opponent, he would not be so afraid to the point of backing off from the confrontation. It was just that he no longer demonstrated the same verve that came with his confidence from before, so he was more cautious when he fought.
The other Fighter became the focal point of War Without Wounds and the others' ring. Just as they had expected, a Fighter's skill would be particularly effective in breaking an encirclement, and someone among them was thrown out the moment they clashed. Unfortunately, this group of six men consisted of War Without Wounds, Southern Lone Blade, Brother Assist, Unrivaled Lucky Star, Paddy Scent Pastures, and Verdant Timber! This was more than enough to surround one person and have leftover to substitute. A single man being thrown out meant another would substitute right in, and the pitiful Fighter simply could not escape throughout this entire sequence. Thinking of using his Swallow Dropkick to leap out of the encirclement, just as he jumped, the encirclement of experts changed, and it became like a game of hopscotch; the Fighter leaped over from space to space, but in the end, he was still surrounded by these experts and could only keep punching and kicking. It was an extremely depressing sight.