788 Chapter 788 - Digging his own grave (1/2)

”Why are they listening to your orders?” Svelte Dancer had tens of thousands of questions swimming in her head.

”It's a quest reward. Remember, you must be the one who deals the final blow,” Gu Fei instructed.

”What if I'm not?” Svelte Dancer still had questions.

”Perhaps they would complete the Bounty Mission on my behalf?” Gu Fei made a guess. ”I'm not too sure myself, this is the first time I've done this.”

”What's their attack power?” Svelte Dancer asked.

”No clue,” Gu Fei answered.

”So how would I grasp the timing to make the final strike?” Svelte Dancer was fuming.

”Your intuition?”

”Are you asking me?” Svelte Dancer wanted to choke Gu Fei.

”Hurry up. Look how far they've gone. Do this well, I've faith in you.” Gu Fei patted Svelte Dancer's shoulder, no longer giving her a chance to ask another question as he turned around and jumped out into the open street.

”Hello everyone,” Gu Fei waved to the sea of players in front of him. Even though he currently did not have a single PK point and he could cheekily act impudently, having to go back and forth going after his Bounty targets was ultimately a very troublesome matter, so Gu Fei felt that he would be a lot happier if he could passively retaliate to their attacks.

”Thousand Miles Drunk!” The players very quickly identified Gu Fei after that greeting. The shout 'Thousand Miles Drunk' echoed all throughout the players outside the Jail, making it hard to tell if they were welcoming him with warmth or hatred.

There were really a lot of players present this time, and so they would of course be greatly emboldened by this. After seeing how arrogantly Gu Fei had made his entrance, there were actually players who immediately made the move to offer their 'welcome'. Going up against players in the tens of thousands, even Gu Fei would be vanquished in a head to head clash, so what he needed to utilize right now was the terrain. Ducking away from the first arrow that came hurtling toward him, Gu Fei accurately threw out a Lightning Bolt that landed right on the Archer's head.

Insta-killed!

Evidently, this Archer was not some powerful expert as a single Lightning Bolt was enough to kill him. Gu Fei checked himself again, and saw that he did not gain even a single PK point. He had successfully retaliated with a passive counterattack this time.

The crowd began surging toward Gu Fei like the coming tide, and that was precisely the effect he was going for. He immediately took a step back, but it did not seem like he was trying to run away, instead giving off the impression like he wanted to use the terrain of the streets for a fight to the death. Gu Fei did not dare to underestimate the intelligence of his opponents, if he were to turn tail and flee after greeting everyone with those two words upon leaping out, it would have been far too obvious that a scheme is afoot.

Gu Fei backed away into his original hiding spot, the corner of his eyes sweeping over to find Svelte Dancer still dawdling. He panicked, but he was unable to shout out and remind the lady either; after all, he was in plain sight of his enemies. Just as he was worried that his messaging skills would be too slow to send a message over in time, he finally saw Svelte Dancer's figure slowly become transparent as she entered into Stealth.

Gu Fei sighed in relief. The approaching arrows and spells were still finding their way to him, but all Gu Fei had to do was turn his body and lean in close to the wall, he could let all of these attacks just brush past him. A bunch of Thieves were properly leveraging on the advantage of their Fleetfoot state and had managed to reach within arm's reach of Gu Fei in an instant, each of them wielding their daggers in hand as they came plunging over. Gu Fei remained as calm and composed as ever, observing each and every oncoming dagger as he proceeded to either dodge or parry them with his own sword, blocking each and every strike from connecting. These Thieves were still happily yelling, ”QUICK, WE'VE CAUGHT UP TO HIM!”

In the end, the first to answer them was none other than Gu Fei; it was an answer that was none other than a quick lick of flames from his Twin Incineration. Were it not for the fact that he was waiting for the chance to passively retaliate against these people, these Thieves would not have even gotten the chance to surround Gu Fei before they were all slain.

There was no way that these weak Thieves would be able to withstand such an attack, and the handful of them was instantly eradicated on the spot. However, always waiting for the enemy to make the first move before he could retaliate wasted too much time; just dragging things out by that couple of seconds had allowed the enemy to charge up en masse. When Gu Fei saw that there was no way for him to contend with such numbers, he went back to his old tricks of climbing the wall and pointing upward with a hop, Blinking right up to the top of the nearby roofs once more.

”Get the ladders!!!”

Up on the roofs, Gu Fei could vaguely hear someone shouting something from amidst the chaos below. When he turned around to look, he saw several players each pull a crudely made wooden ladder out from their dimensional pockets. Since Gu Fei was always pulling out this move of his, the others would of course come up with a plan of their own that specifically counters what he was doing.

Gu Fei wasted not the time nor effort to admire the sight of these men climbing up their wooden ladders; the enemy still had ranged players still chasing after him with their attacks from afar, and there was no way that he could escape from this even after climbing up to the roofs, so all he could do was to accelerate his efforts and run. Turning his head around as he ran, he spotted the melee job classes begin their climb of those flimsy looking ladders, while the ranged players carried on their chase by attacking from the streets below from the sides that flanked the stretch of roof he was running on.

Escaping would not be difficult, Gu Fei thought to himself, when he saw his message light up. Pulling it out, he saw that it came from Svelte Dancer. Gu Fei was momentarily flustered, thinking that the lady had actually failed, but upon reading the message, realized it was just Svelte Dancer with another question, ”How am I going to escape after doing the deed?”

”Hmm… That would be a test of your resourcefulness and courage,” Gu Fei was already sweating as he said this. He had really completely forgotten about coming up with any viable solution for this part of his plan. This was no time for jokes either, so after he sent that last message, he very quickly added, ”You can make your way back first if you can't think of anything. We'll just come up with another solution together again.”

”You're useless!” Svelte Dancer replied thusly and that was that. Gu Fei had no idea what she planned to do, so he very quickly sent a message to ask, only to receive a harsh rebuke, ”Stop yakking! Don't get in the way of this madam working!”

Gu Fei quickly shut up and silently concentrated on escaping. In the time he took a few more steps, Gu Fei suddenly thought to himself, why am I so focused on running away? Wouldn't this cause the enemy to become suspicious? I'll need to act like I'm fighting them! With that in mind, he very quickly glanced at his cooldowns and saw that Blink was ready for use. Taking another look behind him, the Thieves were hardly accustomed to traveling on the rooftops, so they were not as fast as the Archers down below on the streets. Unsurprisingly, all the other babylegged job classes were already beginning to lag behind everyone else as the gap grew as the chase continued.

Gu Fei quickly analyzed both his left and right, feeling like the Archers on the street to the left were in the lead by just a bit, meaning that he could begin cutting them down in size an extra step or two earlier. Thus, he did not hesitate as he leaped right down to the left street.

As long as the Archers had enough levels and were not too shabbily equipped, they would most certainly possess a movement speed that was faster than Gu Fei's own. These Archers were almost closing in on their target, and just as they were raising their heads to begin wildly peppering their arrows, thinking to themselves that they could turn around and shoot if they continue to follow on for a bit, they had not expected for Gu Fei to suddenly somersault down to their street.

Once a melee player successfully dove into the midst of Archers, it was almost a guarantee that they would begin panicking. It was unknown just how many arrows had been fired from these Archers that had been chasing after Gu Fei all this while, but Gu Fei figured he should have been relegated as the passive combatant for a really long time. Without even getting up from this landing, Gu Fei was pirouetting as he unleashed a Twin Incineration, carving out two complete rotations in that one moment, insta-killing dozens of players on the spot.

After that, Gu Fei sent out his Palm of Thunder, Lightning Bolt, a horizontal cut… Any attack that he could execute was thrown out, and because these Archers had been grouped up rather tightly in their pursuit, they had objectively provided Gu Fei with the opportunity to kill them all. Gu Fei followed this up by quickly casting the two AoE spells he knew, and since the street barely had any space for players to hide, players were scrambling to duck to the sides even as others clustered for safety; their screams were resounded throughout as the flames burned unceremoniously. Gu Fei seized this chance to flash his sword amidst the carnage, causing a total massacre.

The Thieves were finally closing in as they stumbled their way across the rooftops, each and every one of them jumping off to engage in combat with Gu Fei.

Gu Fei was originally unafraid of these two job classes, but it was completely another issue when the enemy was sending them out in such numbers. He would have been fine if it was just the Archers alone since they would have plenty of issues attacking the moment he began moving within their ranks, but the same could not be said for the Thieves. When this sea of players came crashing in on him, Gu Fei would hardly be able to hold them off all by himself as well, unless his Twin Incineration did not have any cooldown to speak of and he had unlimited mana to work with.

Brandishing his sword to cleave through the players awhile, he could see that there were more and more Thieves that were flooding around him, which caused Gu Fei to laugh darkly, ”I know how to fly, what about you guys?”

With that said, he stepped onto the nearby wall on the other side where he had originally descended from and Blinked back up to the rooftops again.

The pursuers were all in an uproar, yelling for the players with the wooden ladders to come forward. However, the issue was that the ladders had been used when they were climbing up to the rooftops before, and the last few players who kept the ladders were of course at the back of the group, really far away from where they were currently needed. All these Thieves could only watch with their bare eyes as they messaged the other players in their agitation, telling them to circle around to the adjacent street...

Nevertheless, Gu Fei merely smiled and appeared utterly unperturbed, thinking to himself, how could these players be so unfamiliar with the landscape that they were currently in? Not every roof would have two streets flanking it. If that was truly how the city was designed, that would simply make for very boring architecture. Gu Fei evaded the arrows that were still flying at him, leaping along this large stretch of rooftops as he fled. He did end up gaining PK Value by this point, as Gu Fei could not be bothered to remain passively retaliating when he was facing down a whole troop of Thieves just now. There were even a good number of Archers that had pulled out daggers of their own and threw themselves right at him. Once he earned that first PK point, the rules regarding being the aggressor or the one retaliating in self defense no longer mattered. Every kill added a point, and when Gu Fei checked his PK Value now, it was already up to 17. He recalled casually killing all the players, but to actually have taken so many lives in that time only showed just how brutal his enemy was.

It was around this time when Young Master Han had coincidentally sent a message to him, asking about Gu Fei's progress with his engagement.

”I've killed quite a few.”

”So I can begin?”

”Go ahead!”