Chapter 598: One Man Holds the Pass (1/2)
I nodded. ”Take care, everyone. This may be a much harder fight than before. There are a lot of experts hidden amidst their ranks, and both their levels and the quality of their equipment are far better than Throne Seeker’s subguilds.”
Chaos Moon frowned and said, ”It’s a shame that Lu Buyi isn’t a member of the main guild. His stratagem, Purple Dragon, would’ve been incredibly useful. A 70% to all stats is almost as good as Beauty Lin’s Famous General Skill.”
Xu Yang said gruffly, ”He didn’t join us because he wants to be considerate of Freezing Point. Hmph! It’s almost as if he forgot that we are his brothers too. In my opinion, that Freezing Point is not a good person either. When he was the guild leader of a small guild, he was both cautious and conscientious. Now that he’s the guild leader of our eighth subguild with 5000 players under his command, he immediately forgot himself and turned arrogant. He has only been with us for a while, but he already accrued plenty of criticisms from our other subguilds.”
I knitted my eyebrows sternly, ”Xu Yang, keep your voice down. It’s a bad habit to backbite someone, and Freezing Point is one of our brothers now. You know the saying ‘trust those you employ, employ not those you distrust’, right?”
Xu Yang replied a bit indignantly, ”Even if that is true, that is no reason to lower your guard completely, Lu Chen!”
”I know…” I sucked in a deep breath. ”Dammit, if only Eve was here. She’s way better than me at dealing with things like this.”
”Yeah, we’re just hatchlings compared to her…” Xu Yang sighed.
It was at this moment Chaos Moon raised her eyebrows and said, ”Lu Chen can call himself a hatchling, but you? What part of you has anything to do with the word ‘hatchling’? Definitely not your face!”
Xu Yang blushed immediately. ”Chaos Moon, you don’t hold back when you slap people, do you…”
High Fighting Spirits waved his axe and growled, ”Hey, Hall of Immortality is advancing toward us, so stop teasing Chaos Moon already! Get ready, the battle will begin three minutes later!”
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By now, the distance between both sides had shortened to a hundred yards or less. They were so close that I could see even the pimples and acne on the face of a female warrior. Dark Pupils improved my vision and gave me the ability to discern an enemy’s weakness, but a world that was too clear was also a curse. My newfound power wasn’t a burden only when I was together with perfect women like Lin Yixin or He Yi.
Swhoosh!
Right now, our fighters were somewhat neutered because we were missing our mounted players, so our ranged players had to step up for us to win this. After all, not everyone was insanely powerful like me, Li Chengfeng, Chaos Moon and the others, and the percentage of melee fighters with AoE skills in the entire world was below 0.01%. This meant that most people were still relying on Blaze and inferior Flurry skills to attack their enemies, and players who learned Barrier Break already were both rare and outstanding. For now, they were the kind of players everyone appreciated no matter where they went.
That being said, a lot of Sky City’s fighters had picked up Barrier Break since I started selling Strength Supplements at Sky City. Some players even traveled all the way from Wind City or Vanished God City just to purchase them in bulk. I had earned a lot of money because of this.
Behind me, Beiming Xue drew her bow fully before saying softly, ”It’s time. Far Shot, loose!”
All the archers bent upward and aimed forty five degrees above the ground. Then, they started firing arrow after arrow at the Hall of Immortality players directly ahead of us. Unfortunately, the enemy was so numerous that our arrows were like a small rain to them.
I dashed to the front and met the eyes of several enemy fighters. I let out a chuckle and called out, ”Come at me!”
The fighters exchanged a glance with each other before shouting, ”Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand is here! Kill him and grow the fame of Hall of Immortality! Kill Legendary Brave and Chaos Moon to become the new heroes of the era! Brothers and sisters, charge!”
Laughing, I swung my sword and launched a Thousand Ice Slash straight at them. ”Show me what the ‘heroes’ of Hall of Immortality are made of!”
”Boom!”
Ten streaks of icy sword energy landed in a crowd of players and directly dealt between ten thousand to twenty thousand damage or so. However, the real killer was the 40% splash damage of my weapon. Like a chain reaction, the sword energies created a hole in the enemy formation almost immediately.
However, a single Level 132 magic knight managed to survive my skill, and wearing a look of excitement on his face he laughed loudly and said, ”Hahaha, you had your chance to kill me, but you failed. Now it’s your turn to die, Broken Halberd Sinks to Sand! Die!”
His warhorse let out a neigh as its rider urged it to move faster. The moment the magic knight reached me, he immediately used Blaze. That wasn’t all though. A fiery cone came right after the flaming thrust, making it a Blaze + Barrier Break combo. The magic knight was a big dreamer alright.
Pu!
1902!
His Blaze left a scorch mark on my shoulder armor. Just before his Barrier Break could hit me, I abruptly hit his weapon with my left arm in hopes of parrying the skill. I had never tried this before. Would it work?