Chapter 656: Vendetta (1/2)
October Rain laughed so hard she was shaking. Grabbing the ladder with one hand and holding her bow steady with the crook of her arm, she shot a high-level mage off the walls before smiling at me. ”Who would’ve thought that two biggest rivals in Sky City would fight side by side one day? It feels surprisingly good. Why don’t you join us, Lu Chen?”
”No way. I’m leaving right after I kill a couple of people!”
I let out a chuckle before jumping off the ladder in one smooth motion. After parrying the arrows flying my way with my sword and landing on the wall, I opened my palm and summoned my pet. The first thing the Phantom Wolf King did after leaping out of the magic formation was to run into the middle of the enemies, roar and unleash Purgatory Storm. The moment red clouds covered the sky, a corner of the walls instantly erupted into storm and lightning. Countless archers, mages, and warriors were thrown into the air!
Bang bang bang!
An empty spot appeared on the wall temporarily, and the ground was covered in potions and equipment. My little wolf’s level was pretty high now, so its Purgatory Storm was just as powerful.
I summoned the Armored Ice Qilin Horse and got on top of it. Then, I used the Apparition Ring and summoned my body double. Together, we charged the mages on the walls while laughing madly, ”Who’s the fucker who called Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls a clown just now? Come have a taste of this clown’s ultimate power then! Die, you retards!”
Boom boom!
We fired Thousand Ice Slash that caused the entire wall to shake, and the archers and mages to quake in fear. My Thousand Ice Slash was powerful enough to break the mages’ shield, and my body double’s Thousand Ice Slash was powerful enough to one-shot them even though its attack power was only 75% of mine. Worse, there was no place to run on the walls. Naturally, death was their only way out.
The Phantom Wolf King roared angrily and sent a couple of magic knights flying with its claws. Some time during its attacks, the Claw of the Storm triggered and flung even more people off the walls. Even if the skill wasn’t fatal, the fall damage was enough to end their lives.
There were some players whose Strength stat was high enough to save themselves from being blown away by the hurricane, so my body double and I made sure to end their lives before they could try anything.
An entire section of the wall was taken over by me just like that. The archers kept shooting at me, but almost the arrows that hit my Crimson Rock Dragon Armor bounced away harmlessly. My stats were pretty high, but being a sixth-promotion player at Earthfire Realm made me almost immune to their weak ranged attacks.
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”The fuck, is he invincible or something?”
My killing intent couldn’t be stopped after it appeared. I immediately rushed toward Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch!
”Fuck, the arrogance!?”
Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch held his mount in place before shaking his sword for a bit. ”Archers, stun him with Shock Arrows! Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand can’t possibly fight us all alone! He may be a sixth-promotion player who has entered the Earthfire Realm, but he is still human in the end! He can be killed!”
A ton of Shock Arrows and even Mountain Stagger Arrows started flying my way. However, they weren’t sure who was the real me, so a large majority of the shots were wasted on my body double!
Thud thud thud thud!
My body double lost more than half of its 100k HP in an instant. Unfortunately, it could use all of my offensive skills, but not my defensive skills. It was probably one of the devs’ measures to balance the skill.
Not about to let the archers’ mistake slip through my grasp, I charged right into a crowd of enemies and used War Crush, eliciting painful screams from my enemies and killing them where they stood.
Thud!
A black shadow suddenly flew past my vision, and my body double’s warhorse let out a dying screech. A steel arrow had penetrated the apparition’s chest.
Dammit. The players couldn’t hurt me, but the ridiculous amount of arrow towers above my head absolutely could. They were one of Bloodthirsty Battle Monarch’s greatest weapons for sure!
However, these P2W arrow towers—each one cost 1500 RMB to build—had a fatal flaw. It could lock onto a target, but it took 0.3 seconds or so to launch its attack. What this meant was that it was theoretically possible for a player to dodge all of their attacks as long as they kept moving. Of course, this was nigh impossible to pull off. It took an incredibly skilled player to pull off a stunt like this, not to mention that the battlefield was constantly changing.
Rustle rustle...
The Armored Ice Qilin Horse leaped away just in time to dodge at least a dozen of steel arrows that riddled the ground with holes. If I hadn’t dodged that in time I would’ve died already!
The Phantom Wolf King was as quick as lightning, so I wasn’t worried that it might be hurt by the arrow towers. I simply gave it the order to keep moving and attack at will. As for myself, I also moved constantly so that the arrow towers couldn’t hit me accurately. At the same time, I tossed all kinds of offensive skills such as Burning Blade Slash, Thousand Ice Slash, Icy Cyclone Domains, and more at the enemy and dealt as much damage as I could.
There were a couple of reasons I had chosen to join in on the attack. One, I thought that I could use a warm-up. Two, I wanted to intimidate my enemies with my new promotion and Earthfire Realm. Three, I wanted to deal as much damage to the enemy as possible. The less enemies there were, the less damage my allies would take when we began our assault. If I could kill a guild leader or two during this surprise attack, even better.
Bang!
My Thousand Ice Slash killed a ton of enemies, but I was also engulfed in Galaxy Storms and arrow rains. Arrows were sticking out of my chest armor like a porcupine’s quilts, and there were a couple of high-level archers whose attacks had a chance to ignore my Defense. Even with my level advantage, they were about to deal a total of 7000 damage to me in just a couple of shots. Their attacks would’ve hurt even more if our levels were equal!
It was time to heal myself. Tenacity of the Dead! Rank 9 Saint Spirit Potion!
+26783!
+6000!
Dang, using Tenacity of the Dead when my max HP was high was awesome! This 25% insta heal was almost as good as Murong Mingyue’s Greater Healing!
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