690 Chapter 690 - A Huge Catastrophe (2/2)
”Don't struggle!” Slyris was panicking as well. They would both be dead meat if they were to drop down again.
”Quick, let me go,” Gu Fei had quickly understood where the problem lay and did not dare to move again, but he still could not help but utter this in his embarrassment.
”You're rather old-fashioned,” Slyris could tell Gu Fei was ill at ease.
Gu Fei was helpless. She had come to rescue him, not tease him. Was there a need for her to talk so much? Slyris had quite a bit of experience carrying others given how she would also use her Flight spell to bring Yan Xiaozhu along to have fun, so she soon had everything under control once Gu Fei stopped fidgeting. It was only that her mana was being exhausted very quickly, so she had to quickly find a place to land.
Youthful Reflection soon recovered after experiencing a moment of mental collapse from what he had just witnessed. He abruptly pulled out his bow and released an arrow targeted at the pair.
This arrow struck Slyris on her shoulder and the lady nearly threw Gu Fei out as she shuddered and winced in pain, but she still gritted her teeth and persevered.
Youthful Reflection called on reinforcement from his guild, but all of them had become like refugees trying to escape from the disaster. No one cared to pay attention to his call, leaving Youthful Reflection on the verge of crying, though no tears came out. This was such a great opportunity. There was no way the pair would escape from being turned into white light if he gathered their Arrow Formation and fire a barrage of arrows at the two of them.
Since no one in his guild answered his call, Youthful Reflection had no choice but to take it upon himself to put his life on the line for the kill. Gu Fei had quickly nailed down its precise trajectory this time when Youthful Reflection fired another shot up in the air. He wished that he could just swat it away, though he knew that such a wild movement would only create further issues for Sylris. Youthful Reflection was a crafty fox. He could tell from the two that Gu Fei was depending upon the lady to keep them in the air, so as long as he focused his shots on killing her, Gu Fei would automatically fall as well and end up dropping down with the falling rocks.
Slyris might be one of the Five Unyielding Experts, but no matter how powerful a Mage like her could be, their defense and HP would always be just that unless the player got other items that would help increase a Mage's Endurance! Slyris was no exception to these limitations, so she was already down to almost half her total HP after getting herself shot twice. Youthful Reflection was not just someone who merely knew how to come up with ideas! He was also a highly ranked Archer expert on their individual job class leaderboards, and his equipment was all exceptional. In terms of overall combat strength, he was hardly any weaker than any of the Five Unyielding Experts.
”Let go of me on the count of three,” Gu Fei said.
”Then wouldn't I have come for nothing!” Slyris was not about to give up.
”It's obvious I have a plan since I'm asking you to release me on the count of three! One,” Gu Fei began.
”Two!” Gu Fei counted,
Slyris carried on flying as she got ready.
Gu Fei paused for a good while.
”Where's your three?” Slyris asked in response. In the time that Gu Fei had counted to two, and paused, Gu Fei had eaten another two arrows.
”Okay, three,” Gu Fei finally uttered three when he saw that another arrow from Youthful Reflection was flying over to them.
The moment Slyris let go, the arrow was alright right in front of her. A quick glance over at her HP, and she wondered if this would turn out to be a tragedy. Just as she braced for impact, she saw Gu Fei flick his sword while mid-air and a fitful strike swatted the arrow away as he continued to fall down.
Youthful Reflection was gleeful, unaware that Gu Fei had been the one that asked Slyris to let him go. He interpreted the sequence of events as Slyris being unable to take another shot, so Gu Fei had no choice but to lash out and swat the arrow. But in doing so, Slyris lost her grip and thus sent him plummeting down to the ground.
Below Gu Fei was the tumbling rocks, and he would most definitely lose his life dropping from his current height. However, there was of course a good reason as to why Gu Fei had waited before telling Slyris to drop him, and that was to wait for his Blink cooldown to finish.
Blink!
Before landing on the ground, Gu Fei activated his Blink, and he immediately materialized six meters away, stepping onto a large rock that was hurtling forward. This time, he did not leap to another rock like what he had done before, because he could clearly see that the direction that this rock was speeding toward perfectly aligned with where he wanted to go. The countdown had all been to wait for one such moment.
Youthful Reflection still wanted to fire another arrow to eliminate Slyris at the same time, but he did not expect to see the falling Gu Fei disappear from his sight with a single Blink. Youthful Reflection was instantly alarmed as he began searching for where Gu Fei could end up appearing when he spotted that rock that was headed straight for a direct collision with him. Quickly, he dodged to the side to let it tumble past.
Youthful Reflection might have dodged the huge rock, but when he moved past it with his bow arched, searching all around for any trace of Gu Fei for him to fire at, he spied a figure leap right out from that falling rock that had passed him.
Gu Fei's two feet came smashing right down onto Youthful Reflection's head, and the force of this stomp sent Youthful Reflection straight to the ground. Gu Fei had executed such a difficult maneuver in order to mitigate the impetus of his attack, and he was unable to remain stable afterward. And so, Gu Fei adjusted himself and stepped onto Youthful Reflection's face as he did a backward flip and landed on the ground. He staggered as he tried to regain his balance, but not before slashing Youthful Reflection across with his sword as he yelled out loudly, ”It's over for you!”
Youthful Reflection could see his own guildmates all around him, but they were all only concerned with fleeing from the disaster area. No one even spared a glance his way, and all he could feel in his heart was deep sorrow. Gu Fei got up and was about to relish in stabbing Youthful Reflection with his sword, when he heard Slyris' voice coming up from above, ”Be careful!”
Gu Fei lifted his head up and saw a huge rock bounding right over. Gu Fei promptly shunted his body to evade it, leaving Youthful Reflection lying right there. By the time he twisted his head up and saw rock coming toward him, he already got very intimately acquainted with it.
”Quick, run!” Slyris shouted at Gu Fei.
”Got it!” Gu Fei fled immediately, but he was not solely focused on fleeing like the other men from Traversing Four Seas, as he would often pick on other players to play around with and bully for a bit. Without Gu Fei burdening Slyris, she had enough mana to continue flying out a good distance, and she was not in the least hurried. The two traveled by land and air respectively as they made their escape from this disaster, even while the rocks continued to cascade down after them.
Traversing Four Seas suffered heavy losses in this battle, and even though they had been running the whole time, how many of them would actually have a high movement speed like Gu Fei? There was a range to the trebuchets and their huge rocks, but there were no constraints to the attack range of the rolling rocks that were part of this collapse. They were simply rolling along with the laws of physics, squashing plenty of players from Traversing Four Seas before even implicating the players that had been standing too near spectating everything.
Gu Fei turned around and looked, feeling as if this catastrophe was something too terrible to behold.
”That was a timely appearance on your part,” Gu Fei commented.
”I was only here to watch. I never thought that I could actually save you,” Slyris said.
”Where's Sword Demon?”
”He's off searching for Oathless Sword with Yan Xiaozhu!” Slyris replied.
”Oh, then we better go lend a hand, fast.” Gu Fei decided.
The two turned to walk away as they threaded through the chaotic crowd. However, there were many pairs of eyes trained on the two at this moment. But because of just how everything was in a state of disarray, even if Gu Fei could sense these people, there was no way that he would put too much stock into them.
”They are heading off to locate Oathless Sword. Are you anxious for him?” Young Master Han asked Gu Xiaoshang, standing right beside him.
Gu Xiaoshang pursed his lips, ”Just a little mixed feelings.”