Chapter 995 - Evil Laughter’s Assassination Attempt (1/2)
A system notification rang in his ears when Jiang Fei had only just picked up and read the Soulcutter's properties.
”You have detected the presence of Cauldron of Agility!”
”It's Evil Laughter!” Jiang Fei gasped. Just when he was about to be ready for an attack, he had received a debuff.
Equal Grounds: Both the caster and the target will have their life points reduced to 1.
”What the f--!” Jiang Fei shrieked with horror. He had no idea what was going on. The advantages he had against Evil Laughter was his absurd amount of Health Points and Defense, not to mention his devastating attack that could end Evil Laughter in one strike. Given the chance, Jiang Fei would be able to bind him down and kill him. The problem was, he and Evil Laughter were then weakened down to only have 1 Health Point. Whoever has the first strike would ultimately win.
Evil Laughter might have only 1 Health Point but it was the greatest chance he had to kill Jiang Fei. With the advantage of speed, Jiang Fei was rendered vulnerable, like a sitting duck. Even though he had superior Defense, damage that was dealt from a player to a player will inflict 1 damage even if they had a million times more Defense, provided that the attack did not miss.
”Ding!”
It all happened in just a fraction of a second. Just as Jiang Fei realized his Health Points drop down to 1, the effect of Shadow Barrier activated when Evil Laughter landed an attack. As such, he would still have two more ”lives”.
Immediately after the barrier activated, saving Jiang Fei's life, he turned his head to face his attack, only to spot him almost 300 meters away.
”F*ck!” Jiang Fei roared. The man knew his weakness and exploited Jiang Fei's vulnerability. There was no way he could attack when the man could travel 300 meters in just a blink of an eye.
”Consider yourself lucky this time,” said Evil Laughter in a taunting message he sent to Jiang Fei.
”Lucky? Luck ain't got nothing to do with this. Pray that you could escape the next time!” said Jiang Fei through his teeth as he watches how Evil Laughter ran further and further. Thanks to the Cauldron of Agility, the man movement speed as far to great for anyone to chase.
30 seconds later, the debuff expired and Jiang Fei's colossal Health Points was restored. As soon as it did, Jiang Fei relaxed immediately.
Jiang Fei learnt an incredible lesson from this assassination attempt. The effect of the Shadow Barrier was unreliable as the effect could not recognize which attacks was strong or weak. Although he had the get-away-card and can use it three times a day, it was not good enough when the enemy had movement speed so fast that he could not see or even anticipate an attack.
”Can't let him continue to run rampant around,” said Jiang Fei as a reminder to himself. To collect all nine Treasured Cauldron, he would have to worry about capturing the bugger. A thief could steal once a year but a man would have to guard his house all year round. If Evil Laughter could run around freely without restriction, Jiang Fei would be the one to fall to his attack. It would not be feasible for Jiang Fei to be on guard 24/7 everything he logged into the game.
Even though Evil Laughter had the method to kill Jiang Fei, he would not need to worry about a second attempt to kill him since skills such as Equal Grounds was so strong that it would surely have a long cooldown duration. Hence, after surviving that assassination attempt, Jiang Fei put his mind back to Soulcutter. Even though he did not kill a Primordial Celestial, he was still managed to subdue it. Having Soulcutter in his possession, Jiang Fei could return to Heaven's Realm to face Ou Yezi.