Chapter 15 (1/2)

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Translated by Craxuan

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Chapter 15: Combat

The skill he had auto-learned did not bring him any substantial benefits whatsoever. Yue Qiang glanced at it in a hurry – ‘Pure Heart’ – He didn’t need to read the description to guess that it was a base level skill that had nothing to do with actual combat.

Worse, he was just a fresh character without combat skills at all.

That isn’t right. I do have a skill!

That ‘Run LVL 1’ skill that he found incredibly misleading upon learning what it was.

Yue Qiang had tested out this skill before and it did have quite the movement speed. However, it also expended his stamina points really quickly. At the time he felt that it was useless beyond saving some travel time on occasion, but right now he was literally on his last ropes.

But it was still a skill after all. What if he could use it in combat?

Thinking to give it a try, he pressed down on the Run skill’s hotkey.

I run, I run, I run run run!

The moment the skill was activated, he immediately felt that his controls became a lot more agile. Coincidentally the injured soldier had smashed his halberd at his direction, and Yue Qiang quickly pressed s.p.a.ce Bar + Right and Down arrow key to dodge out of the way. Again it was different from the narrow escapes from before, and he actually put up a large distance between them.

Hey, my mobility has increased by leaps and bounds! I can’t believe this running skill’s t.i.tle and description is this misleading; it is actually a lifesaving skill in battle! However, when he looked down again at the stamina gauge beside his avatar, he could see that his stamina was decreasing at an obvious rate.

A persistent type skill would continuously deplete stamina points. Moreover, when used in combat the rate of depletion would multiply!

Yue Qiang quickly tapped the hotkey again to turn the skill off temporarily.

Now he could settle down for the moment. If he could dodge an attack he would dodge it straight away, and if he could not then he would turn on the Run skill temporarily and increase his mobility.

From the beginning of the encounter he had been put in an extremely pa.s.sive position. First a quarter of his health was taken away by a surprise attack, then an AOE (T/N: Area of Effect) Knockback skill plus a slowdown effect had beaten him to the point where he had only a sliver of health left. He had only survived through a series of calm and precise micro controls, years of gaming experience and improvisation.

Moreover, the threat wasn’t gone yet. Although he had been managing the usage of the ‘Run’ skill strictly, the stamina gauge was still decreasing at a slow rate. Once his stamina points had depleted and he could not increase his mobility at a critical time, he would still be dead at the end of things.

Yue Qiang dodged another one of the enemy’s attacks, but an idea had suddenly flashed across his brain.

Don’t I have a weapon still?

A blackish iron rod.

Because the iron rod had no attack power at all and it was just way too dangerous previously, he did not have a chance to counter attack with a weapon. But now that the situation had eased up a little, he could give it a little try.

Parrying was of course impossible. When the injured whirled his halberd the wind itself was stirred; so it was obviously very heavy. His iron rod would definitely be useless considering how thin it was. As for hacking; even if he did hack it on the enemy’s face, what could this blackish iron rod do other than leaving a black mark and spoiling his face value a little?

Therefore, thinking to give it a try Yue Qiang clicked his mouse and poked it into the soldier’s injured shoulder.

‘Poke’ was but a single word, and yet it had contained a series of Yue Qiang’s micros. He had to avoid the soldier’s halberd attacks at all times, and aim at the soldier’s injured shoulder while he was moving. He also had to control the attacking point of the iron rod at the same time he was clicking the mouse!

He had never experienced such a way of control.

This method of weapon manipulation in combat required incredible hand speed, and yet it was completely different from the way ‘Meteor, b.u.t.terfly And a Sword’ and ‘King of Fighters’ emphasized on complex combo chaining and rhythmic hand speed. It gave Yue Qiang a strange feeling.

It was as if he was really controlling that iron rod himself!

The only difference was that it wasn’t his own muscles that controlled the attack point and angle, but the mouse in his hands.