Chapter 376: Killing Three Birds With One Stone (2/2)
Little Piglet and Farewell Song looked furious. They didn’t realize that I had forced them back just to kill a pet, and they felt both humiliated and played because of it.
Little Piglet raised his sword and used Charge!
I backed away from him and tried to dodge out of the way. The one-second stun wasn’t deadly, but the follow-up stun from Farewell Song definitely would be.
Whoosh!
Little Piglet’s Charge only hit my afterimage after I did a double zigzag. That wasn’t the end though because I felt a chill from my right. Here comes Farewell Song!
Farewell Song thrust his burning dagger toward me, but somehow he was able to twist the direction of his attack from my chest to below my armpit instead. I raised my left arm horizontally to block the attack with my armor and fire a Dragon Slaying Slash at Shangguan Wan’er with my right at the same time!
”Ah…”
Shangguan Wan’er retreated to her battle line because she didn’t have much health to begin with. Wang Dongliang then ordered his priests to heal her to full health.
My expression grew even sterner than before. So annoying!
I swung my sword angrily and forced Farewell Song to withdraw. Unfortunately, I was forced to raise my arm at the same time to block an Ice Ray from Little Piglet. If I wasn’t a fourth-promotion player, I might’ve been dead a long time ago!
My HP continued to drop again and again. Thankfully, the 14% lifesteal from the Heaven-stealing Sword and some aggressive moves bought me a bit more time than I would’ve had otherwise.
Shangguan Wan’er was healed by her priests, so I didn’t think I could kill her instantly without considerable effort. It was time to change tactics!
At the same time, I whispered inside the party channel, ”Eve, don’t just stand there and watch like an actual spectator! Tell our players to circle around Warsky Alliance’s main army and move to the heart of the Fire Desert! If we can seal off the entrance to the boss zone, we can ensure that the boss is ours even if I lose this fight!”
He Yi nodded immediately. ”Got it. I’ll send the instructions to Xu Yang right away!”
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I turned my attention back to the duel and quickly came up with a new battle plan. I pulled back toward my own battle line slowly, but it didn’t look like I was retreating or trying to bait my enemy into doing something.
Farewell Song and Little Piglet exchanged a glance with each other. A while later, Little Piglet blurted in realization and anger, ”He’s trying to draw the battle toward his own battle line so that we’ll be exposed to his guild’s firepower!”
Farewell Song gritted his teeth and uttered, ”Kill him!”
They ran toward me in an unpredictable pattern. From above, they probably looked like two venomous snakes crawling swiftly toward their prey.
Smiling, I took another few steps backward before charging toward Farewell Song without warning. The Heaven-stealing Sword burned with a bright light. Come, Thousand Ice Slash!
Farewell Song was caught off-guard by the random AoE skill during retreating, but it was impossible to dash out of the range of the skill in time. He gritted his teeth and used Guard to minimize the damage taken!
Boom!
The icy sword aura hit Farewell Song and caused an explosion of sand, but the skill only dealt around 1000 damage to the protected assassin. He was nowhere close to death!
I smiled. All I wanted was to stall Farewell Song a little, and in that regard the result was exactly what I wanted it to be. I then looked at Little Piglet and activated Thunderous Charge!
Whoosh!
I rushed toward Little Piglet while leaving behind a long line of lightning afterimages. Little Piglet had been trying to save Farewell Song, so he wasn’t prepared at all for my Thunderous Charge and got stunned in an instant!
Clang clang!
The Heaven-stealing Sword hit him twice on the shoulder and dealt a sizable amount of damage—
2985!
2894!
His equipment was high-grade alright. Even with my attack power, I wasn’t able to crush him like I would crush most players. Moreover, he was surrounded by a cyan energy that looked like a transparent metal armor, and if my estimates were correct, the skill had reduced the damage taken by at least 25%!
Farewell Song ran toward me in an attempt to save Little Piglet. He knew that five seconds were more than enough time for me to kill his comrade!
The corner of my lips turned up again, and Little Piglet immediately realized what I was about to do. He wanted to warn Farewell Song, but it was too late!
Farewell Song hit me again with Poisoned Weapon Kill and stunned me for 3 seconds!
But I also finished stomping the ground with my foot and used War Crush right before he stunned me!
Boom boom boom!
Three consecutive explosions later, Farewell Song hit the ground with a muffled groan and died. Little Piglet survived because he recovered from my stun just in time to drink a health potion, and because a couple of priests had caught up to him just in time to throw a couple of healing spells on him!
I smiled at Little Piglet and said, ”Do you really think you’re going to get away just like last time?”
Little Piglet activated his Freezing Heat to increase his movement speed drastically before chuckling, ”You think you can kill me? Then come. I’m sure Shangguan Wan’er will be happy to celebrate your death!”
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Little Piglet was about to escape when a beast suddenly appeared in his way. My Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf had finally slapped that Ice Giant to death and come to my aid!
I didn’t make the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf attack Little Piglet because he had Freezing Heat on. It would only miss its target or worse, open itself up to a counterattack. Instead, I took direct control over the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf and moved it in front of Little Piglet! If he tried to run to the left, the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf would move in the same direction and block his path, and vice versa! At the same time, I rushed him from behind and went all out!
Little Piglet was stunned by my impeccable multitasking. He couldn’t stop himself from swearing, ”Are you fucking kidding me?!”
……
Crack!
I slapped Little Piglet with Pardon before piercing his chest with Desperate Gambit!
MISS!