Chapter 17 (1/2)

The nine-millimeter bullets of assault rifles did not have a massive effect on the orcs—it could only temporarily slow them.

On the other hand, the 12.7mm bullets of a light machinegun was a completely different story.

At the same time, newly-arrived soldiers getting off the armored transport trucks were loaded for bear. Lin Xi could feel the cool breeze from behind even as the orcs in front of him were dropping by the dozens under the rain of 12.7mm bullets.

Lin Xi could see damage digits of [-123], [-162], and [-156] popping up wildly over the heads of those orcs, with the occasional [-367] damage value from headshots.

“Good job!” Lin Xi gave the soldiers behind him a huge thumbs-up, but it turns out that he was a target too.

Still, their bullets harmless passed through his body to hit the orcs some distance away.

The no-friendly fire setting was definitely a fine one… but the archer of the Fallen Legion had released another arrow at him, cutting Lin Xi’s HP down to a tenth.

He quickly downed a healing potion, and started to become serious, no longer letting down his guard.

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Meanwhile, Jiang Qiao was tangled with the most troublesome Boss in this Abyssal Hunt.

“He only has five percent HP left!” Jiang Qiao shouted at the players beside him.

The steel armor of the Fallen Legion elite had already cracked and shattered, exposing his body which was full of magic circuits.

“Damned humans!”

Arek raised the runic longsword bestowed upon him by his masters, intent on casting an AOE spell… only to have an antitank rocket abruptly hit him from the back.

The sudden explosion left him staggering a small step forward. The sharp fiery pain from his back left him extraordinarily humiliated!

“The Boss doesn’t have immunity when attacking!”

“Could there be a second phase?”

The gamers’ whispers from around Arek streamed into his ears, while his entire body was left with all sorts of fearsome wounds.

It had almost been an hour since Arek started fighting with those bizarre… whatever else they could be described, as long as it was not ‘humans.’

His longsword simply could not deal any critical damage upon them, but he kept fighting because he could kill them!

Still, it was not really ‘killing’… it was just that there was a chance he could turn those bastards into tombstones when his blade cut them down.

But so what if they die?”

“I’m coming, Elizabeth!”

“Need healing! Are there any healers? I’m bleeding all over the place—I’m dying!”

“One silver for one revive! I’ll cast the spell when I get my money!”

Arek looked up to find that one of the players he had just cut down with his own hands whose HP bar had been reduced to zero turned into a tombstone…

However, that tombstone was still yelling away without stopping.

Then, one of the ‘humans’ who was dressed like a priest ran towards the tombstone.

Seeing an opportunity, Arek brought his sword to bear, ready to unleash dark purple flames and burn the priest, only to have another warrior holding an enormous shield parrying the fire.

“Son! Look here!”

But even as the warrior yelled, Arek had angrily slammed his longsword into his shield.

The warrior was unable to withstand Arek’s tremendous power—even the ground beneath his feet was starting to crack.

Be that as it may, Arek’s rage rose to boiling point when he found that the priest had already cast revive, bringing back one of the gamers he killed with tremendous difficulty. In his anger, he once again smashed his sword heavily into the warrior’s shield.

The warrior’s shield was actually dented then.

“Warrior’s Taunt worked!”

“Warrior is instant-killed! That Boss’s attack is out of this world!”