701 Chapter 701 - Happily Electrocuting People (2/2)

”We got tricked! Quick, get out of the way!” Sure enough, Folding Fan Invader was an expert with a good head on his shoulders. The moment he saw that everyone was grouped up together, yet Gu Fei had already flown right out of the confinements of their encirclement, he had immediately realized that it was a ruse. However, this realization had come too little too late; the Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno below the feet of the crowd had risen in all its glory, burning with such zeal that left the people screaming and yelling in the flames. The Descending Wheel of Flames that was cast a moment after also crashing down to the ground at this time to join in the conflagration.

A good majority of players had instantly disappeared under the combined damage from these two spells, while those who had managed to survive this massacre barely had much HP left after. Gu Fei immediately bolted right toward these sparse few targets and swung back around to finish them off, ignoring that bit of Burn damage that came from his own Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno in the process.

Folding Fan Invader happened to be one such player that was still left standing. He was an expert with top tier equipment. Because he was going up against Gu Fei, he had made sure to have equipped gear that granted as much fire resistance as he could, so his HP was not hanging by a thread presently. However, he had already come to a clear conclusion with regard to the current situation he was in. Gu Fei's mana usage had already gone well beyond the four times limit that they had previously evaluated. Without a doubt, he must have either increased his maximum mana, or he must have gained some method that allowed him to regenerate mana. This was without a doubt the very definition of extremely terrible news to them.

In Folding Fan Invader's eyes, he was an expert that reached the ranks of the Ten Great Adepts and could be considered to be an existence that was a grade above those around him. However, from Gu Fei's perspective, the crowd around him was no more than rabble that could be easily killed off. Gu Fei did not know who Folding Fan Invader was, so he would of course not treat him any different, continuing to pick off the players left on the field with a cut of his blade like what he did with everyone.

The flames from the Blazing Tree of a Thousand Inferno had subsided, but the players who were barely hanging onto their lives were still critically lacking in HP. Having no Priests around was apparently a terrible fate, and these players could only scurry for cover as they ran for their lives. Just the physical damage from Gu Fei's Moonlit Nightfalls was enough to reap these stragglers with barely any HP remaining.

Gu Fei wished it could just be like this forever; harvesting his way with each and every stroke of his sword as he watched his mana increase every second. Gu Fei felt that this was truly a blessed way to live.

Gu Fei's hands were already working as fast as he could push himself to work, even going so far as to sacrifice a bit of HP to get a head start with the killing before the fire fully subsided. However, there were just too many targets, and they were all running helter-skelter. Gu Fei could only take care of the targets in just one direction, so quite a lot of these players ended up successfully making their escape. However, after he managed to clear out this wave of players, the area in Gu Fei's immediate vicinity was empty, which meant it was perfect for players to get a shooting angle on him. When Folding Fan Invader saw this, he quickly hailed, ”Quick, fire your arrows!”

The Archers who had been feeling sad about not being able to get a chance at glory before were having mixed feelings when they saw the comrades they were feeling jealous about encountering such an end. It would be bad timing to laugh at their plight, yet they were indeed experiencing quite the schadenfreude glee presently…

There were some who had put their bows away, so all of them scrambled to pull out their bows and fire when they heard the order. Gu Fei began to run about randomly, leading the arrows' trajectory in such a way that he managed to evade all the arrows except the Homing Projectiles, with all of them ending up striking the players with little to no HP left. As a result, these players were all finished off by the hands of their comrades' friendly fire.

Folding Fan Invader had also taken a Snipe in this fashion, but because of how well equipped he was, his HP dipped right down till it was left with the single-digit '1'. His face turned ashen in his shock, as he quickly called out, ”Stop firing randomly or running about. We need to regroup.”

In Parallel World, where friendly fire was enabled, group battle tactics were really a huge problem, and this chaotic situation that they were currently was precisely what caused the tragedy where comrades ended up killing their own people.

Folding Fan Invader gave this order and saw Gu Fei move in a direction away from himself. Just as he was thinking he got lucky, he suddenly saw Gu Fei raised his hand over to where he was.

”What?” Folding Fan Invader was confused as to what was going on when a d*mn*d dagger struck him right on his forehead. The 1 HP that Folding Fan Invader had left, having failed to evade the attack, dropped to zero as he was brought away in a stream of white light.

Folding Fan Invader was in tears; he was a formidable Thief that was one of the Ten Great Adepts of his job class, yet he had actually been killed off by a throwing attack from a Mage. Furthermore, what Gu Fei had thrown was a trash item that he could not even tell where it came from! The dagger was even rusted!

Meanwhile, Gu Fei had only very casually flicked his hand out to vanquish Folding Fan Invader. He had intentionally led the arrows to kill the players, which was why Folding Fan Invader had also been struck by the arrows before. But when Gu Fei discovered that he managed to survive being shot, Gu Fei figured that this person should not have much HP left, so he casually threw a throwing dagger at him.

Given the power behind that throw and the quality of the dagger, this one attack should not be able to penetrate the defense that players currently possessed. Unfortunately, Folding Fan Invader happened to only have just that 1 HP left, so even a thrown brick would cause his death…

Gu Fei was busy running all around while he saved up all his mana. His actions were still guided by what he had previously thought of, and that was to prevent the enemy from gathering in strength at all costs. As such, he did not bother to continue chasing after all the stragglers with barely a sliver of HP as he went hurtling straight for the Archers.

This time, the Archers did not sacrifice their own lives like what they had done before to make Gu Fei spend his mana. Now that Gu Fei was able to cast spell after spell right before everyone's eyes, they were all skeptical if this mana depletion method would be worthwhile. Thus, now that Gu Fei came around to target them once more, the Archers began to reposition themselves as they evacuated from the battlefield.

This was quite a troublesome development for Gu Fei; his movement speed was no match for these expert Archers from Carouse, and with how they were running in every other direction, there was no way for Gu Fei to gather them all up together and insta-kill them at once. Furthermore, even ignoring the Archers, the Assassins from Carouse were still undecided, jostling each other, nobody daring to step up and take on Gu Fei. Hence, Gu Fei took the initiative to go on the offensive. This whole group of Thieves that had been hesitating over what they should be doing finally decided to set aside their face and flee as well when they saw Gu Fei coming right for them!

”Hey, Guzzler. How coincidental to bump into you again…” While Beyond Thirty Miles had been trying to make a break for it, he happened to chance upon another encounter with Guzzler.

Guzzler was still running as coolly as he did before, this time briskly sprinting with his Fleetfoot. The moment he heard Beyond Thirty Miles's voice, he turned around and flashed a calm smile, ”It's me.”

”How did this happen?” Beyond Thirty Miles still had the time to have a tactical discussion with Guzzler.

”Without a doubt, Thousand Miles Drunk must actually have gotten himself some means that allowed him to recuperate his mana. The tactics we were employing had really put ourselves in his crosshairs, while the lives that our comrades had sacrificed in this entire ordeal had been completely in vain.” Guzzler actually gave a very sound interpretation of all that happened.

”So what do you think we should do?” Beyond Thirty Miles asked.

”What we should do? Do you not see us running here?” Guzzler wondered.

”Forget it. I shall go out today living up to my name; I'll run over thirty miles with that man. Keep me informed if anything changes,” Beyond Thirty Miles no longer cared about anyone else any longer as he decided he would run until the very end.

Gu Fei was feeling very discouraged at this time because there was actually nobody out there that wanted to fight with him. The men from Carouse were like chicklings running rampant without a mother hen protecting them, fleeing far and wide to escape from the clutches of the eagle giving chase. The Archers were more troublesome since they still persisted with their attacks from afar while keeping their distance. The moment Gu Fei caught up, they would be off running again, and Gu Fei understood that he was being kited. As for the Thieves, all of them had run off and were watching everything from a safe distance.

The two job classes with high movement speed were the opponents that Gu Fei was currently facing. There was a clear gaping distance between these two job classes and the majority of the guild. Gu Fei could now see the huge amount of reinforcements making their way over, but just how should he settle the Archers that were presently everywhere around him?

Thunderbolt!

Since Gu Fei could not find the opportunity to get into close combat, he had no other choice but to rely on this spell to do the work for him. The damage from his Thunderbolt was nowhere comparable to his Twin Incineration, but the mana consumption cost was lower, and more importantly, not even players with quick reactions could escape from the spell when it arced down from the heavens. As such, Gu Fei raised his Moonlit Nightfalls and began running all over the place electrocuting players. Those who did not die with a single strike would receive a second or even a third… These men from Carouse were all crying even as they fled. They had only just remembered that Gu Fei was actually a Mage and not some melee job class. Most maintained a ten or so meter gap from Gu Fei, and that was well within his cast range. Thus, with a bolt to the left, and another to the right, even the players out in the distance were lit up by the lightning, convulsing Thieves and Archers alike as they kept running.

Brave Surge had already heard the report of what was happening while he was still a good distance behind. There was about a total of 300 Archers and Thieves in Carouse, and while not everything was fully accounted for at the moment, they had already lost about 200 or so players unceasingly since the start of the chase from among the copse of trees until now. Brave Surge had thought that he could sacrifice 40 to 50 men to deplete Gu Fei's mana, so the remaining 250 players should be more than enough to eliminate Gu Fei afterward. In the end, he discovered that they had become the 250 that ended up being toyed around with till they were left in a tizzy.

”Everyone withdraw!” Brave Surge gritted his teeth and gave this order. He could already see the endless bolts of lightning that were being cast up ahead with his naked eyes. He could see a guildmate convulse with each and every strike, while Gu Fei kept running around electrocuting people from Carouse, happily enjoying himself immensely.