Chapter 413: Wind and Cloud Domain (2/2)
Candlelight Shadow grunted and charged toward us. Despite my attempts to block his way, he was able to slip past me and appear right next to Li Chengfeng. He had chosen to kill the dragon warrior with the Blazing Purgatory Slash!
6742!
1109!
274!
The good news was that Li Chengfeng guarded in time and saved his own life. Murong Mingyue also threw two timely heals to drag him away from death’s door—
+4109!
+3182!
Actually scratch that, he was back to full health! Murong Mingyue was such a good healer!
Candlelight Shadow’s stomach was probably churning with regret right now, but that didn’t stop him from doing what was necessary. He slipped past Li Chengfeng with a helix maneuver and attacked Murong Mingyue with an Ice Ray and basic attack! The healer was caught completely off-guard by his speed!
1674!
5783!
The first strike shattered her shield, and the second strike one-shot her where she stood!
Candlelight Shadow was in the zone right now. His movement was so erratic that not even Li Chengfeng could predict where he would move next. After a missed attack, he actually gave Candlelight Shadow the opportunity to get close to Beiming Xue and hit her with the AoE skill, Earth Shattering Slash!
7102!
Beiming Xue groaned and hit the ground as well. She was incapable of withstanding his attack at all.
Goddammit! It’s do-or-die!
Emulating Candlelight Shadow, I sped toward God’s Dance and successfully killed her. I immediately spun around and pounced toward Transient Smoke and Clouds next. The archer guessed that I would target him and used Leap immediately, but I was much better than he thought, chasing him with a timely Charge to successfully stun him upon landing. One basic attack and Ice Ray later, he was dead as well!
Players dropped like flies all around us. Almost everyone had completely lost their grasp on the fight, and it was now a battle to see who could keep the coolest head above their shoulders. In fact, Candlelight Shadow, Li Chengfeng and I were the only three people who managed to do that.
Tempest Shadow ran around like a headless fly and got killed. However, he also managed to drop He Yi to red health. Candlelight Shadow ran up to her, scored a hit and killed her as well.
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Clang!
Candlelight Shadow clashed swords with Li Chengfeng and sent him stumbling. Clearly, the dragon warrior was much weaker than his rival right now.
Roar!
However, a cyan-colored energy blade caught Candlelight Shadow in the head. I had successfully ambushed him with Dragon Slaying Slash!
3987!
Candlelight Shadow only had 2000 HP left, and he was 1v2 against me and Li Chengfeng even though the latter was close to dying himself. Despite his domain, there was only one way this fight could end for Candlelight Shadow.
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Swhoosh!
Candlelight Shadow lowered his Silver Blade Sword and stared at me with cold eyes. ”This match is Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls’ win. But so what? Do you think you can defeat Candle Dragon in the upcoming city battles? Dream on, Falling Dust. The day Candle Dragon descends upon Sky City is also the day the Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls guild dies!”
Thud!
I plunged my sword through his throat and replied, ”You’ll have to get to Sky City alive first!”
Li Chengfeng also slashed Candlelight Shadow in the back. Finally, the China representative of gaming dropped to his knees and lost the battle.
”Phew…”
I let out a long sigh of relief before exchanging a smile with Li Chengfeng. God damn, that sure was a hard won victory!
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Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, your party has defeated the opponent, ”Candle Dragon”. You have successfully advanced to the final of Who Will Rise!
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The system notification sound sounded unbelievably melodious, especially when the girls pounced on me the moment I was teleported outside the tournament ring. At that moment, I felt like I had become the happiest man in the world.
Beiming Xue was excited because we had advanced far enough that the prize money was incredibly high. He Yi was excited because Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls had never been this close to the throne of champions. We had finally beaten Candle Dragon, and when He Yi even started tearing up a little when she recalled everything that had happened to us in the past two years or so.
I saw He Yi wiping her tears the moment I logged out and turned toward her. But I was gladdened by the sight of it because this time, it was the tears of joy.
I put my helmet in my bag and patted He Yi’s shoulder, smiling. ”Ready? We need to head out and get some rest before the final. I don’t know who our opponent will be, but now that Candle Dragon is dead I feel like no human can stop our advance anymore…”
Li Chengfeng laughed loudly. ”Let’s become the champion of Who Will Rise, everyone!”
”Haha, yeah!”
The moment the five of us exited the battle room, we were greeted by Xu Yang, High Fighting Spirits and the others. They cheered like mad and hugged us like soccer players giving each other’s hugs when they scored a goal. High Fighting Spirits was so excited that he even hugged the wrong person—Tempest Shadow to be exact—and shouted, ”Hell yeah, we finally took out those bastards! Woohoo!”