Counting their numbers, they had 22 players there. Among these 22 people, the ones that I feared the most were the Mages and the Archers. The magical attacks by the Mages were extremely painful to Swordsmen like me while those 2nd promotion Archers had a new skill – 【Shatter Shot】. 【Shatter Shot】 had a high probability to stun its target, and once stunned, it would be a simple feat for the Mages to focus their attacks on me. My 2000 health wouldn’t be sufficient to take all of their attacks.
First, I would clear away all the Mages, followed by the Archers and then the Healers. In this group, my main priority would be the two Wind Elf Mages. I must kill them in an instant via a sneak attack, or else it would be difficult for me to continue fighting.
Looking at the surrounding terrain, none of it was really suited for sneak attacks. I was not an Assassin so I didn’t know 【Sneak】 like them, thus I could only make use of the surrounding objects to hide myself.
Carefully looking around once again, I found a large tree that seemed to stretch up to the heavens in front of me. It was slightly bent, the result of the wind in the region, and had dense red leaves growing all over the tree, obscuring vision of its tree branches. Furthermore, this tree was directly in the way of the players from the 《Wrath of the Heroes》. It was only 500 meters away from them. Thankfully, they still couldn’t see it because of the forestation.
“Alright…”
I grinned. Carrying my Jade City Sword, I stuck closely to the bushes while crawling over to the tree. Reaching the foot of the tree, I bit onto my sword and exerting all my strength in my arms, with “pah pah pah” sounds I climbed up the tree as though I were an ape. Climbing to a height of around 50 meters, I smiled in the knowledge that even the Wind Elf players were unable to fly to such a height. Furthermore, my body was under the large tree crown, thus causing my blue dot to not appear on the map.
Carrying my Jade City Sword, I controlled my breathing and waited silently for the other party to arrive.
A few minutes later, not betraying my expectations, Piggy and his group got here after killing a few more Vine Monsters. The two Wind Elf Mages were flying in the sky, the staves in their hand glowing with a slight hue. From the ground, Piggy suddenly felt as though something was amiss and said, “Mages, all of you activate your 【Mana Shield】, I feel a little uneasy…”
Willow Shore frowned and said, “Brother Piggy, isn’t activating our 【Mana Shield】 now a little too early? The mana cost of activating 【Mana Shield】 is pretty high. At this rate, even before we see Xiao Yao Zi Zai, our Mages would run out of mana to cast their spells. A Level 5 【Pillar of Ice and Fire】 already costs 500 mana to cast. A mage that pumps all their stats to magic only has around 4100 mana at Lv 40, we can’t afford to waste our mana…”
A fierce glint appeared in Piggy’s eyes, “Cut the crap, all the Mages activate your 【Mana Shield】, now!”
In the sky, two golden lights appeared, forming the 【Mana Shield】s. Furthermore, it was a Lv 5 【Mana Shield】, thus its durability would be on the high end, making it hard to break. Of course, with an offensive ability like mine, the durability didn’t make much of a difference to me.
……
Sure, activate your 【Mana Shield】s, you were still going to die!
I held my breath and my heart started beating wildly. 1 Vs 22 was going to be a huge challenge for me. Although, I could ignore the short-range classes for now. After all, my 1022 defense wasn’t just for show. I would get rid of the magic classes and the classes that had crowd control skills first!
(TL: Crowd Control = Slows, stuns etc.)
“Pata… Pata…”
The wings of the Wind Elves fluttered rapidly as they approached my location. One of them, a Lv 42 Wind Elf Mage girl, looked up at the tree crown and laughed, “Piggy, is Xiao Yao Zi Zai really that amazing? To require such an army just to get rid of him? Although, my older sister said that Xiao Yao Zi Zai is quite good looking…”
Piggy replied, “Surely you won’t show him mercy just because he is handsome?”
The lady covered her mouth as she laughed, “Why would I? If it is for [Wrath of the Heroes], I would be willing to do anything. If Xiao Yao Zi Zai really appears right in front of me, I’ll send a 【Pillar of Fire and Ice】 to freeze and roast him, just wait and see!”
The Lv 43 Mage girl beside her also chuckled, “Yup, an enemy of the 《Wrath of the Heroes》 is an enemy to us. There are no emotions, we’ll just slaughter him!”
……
“Keng!”
Taking the Jade City Sword out from the sheath, I activated a Pardon Card. With a leap of my Battle Boots off of the tree branch, I rushed towards them. This was the moment. Die!
“Hua hua…”
With my Ice Fire Cloak fluttering behind me, my estimation was extremely accurate. As my body dropped down like a sharp blade, I directly free-fell towards the Level 43 Mage. Her equipment was decent, thus her 【Mana Shield】 should be more durable!
The flying Wind Elf Mage, hearing the sound from the fluttering of my cloak, looked up and received a surprise, “Watch out, there’s someone in the tree!”
Together with the sound of my sword’s cry, four golden hexagram started to appear on my Jade City Sword. My heart felt a tinge of happiness. Excellent, with 4 hits I should be able to rip her shield apart. After all, her Ability Power couldn’t be above that of Soaring Dragon, and naturally her 【Mana Shield】 wouldn’t be as strong as his!
“Peng peng peng…”
With the intense sound of my sword clashing against her shield, sparks flew from her 【Mana Shield】. The Wind Elf Mage was shocked beyond words looking at her rapidly disintegrating shield. After I finished my combo, I sent in a fifth strike – 【Fierce Ice Blade】!
“Pu fu!”
1107!
My sword slashed through her cloth armor, causing a one hit KO, without a single chance for her to heal. At the same time, I pressed down on her shoulders directly before she disappeared, leaping towards the other Mage. The other Mage was flabbergasted, “She… she… she was killed in an instant! So this is Xiao Yao Zi Zai!!”
Baby Bobo, who was flying around the other Mage, sent a LV-5 Combo stabbing directly to the Mage’s 【Mana Shield】, breaking it in a second. As for me, as my body descended, I swept my sword vertically downward in an arc, sending a slash directed towards the Mage. It was a normal attack, but with a pufu, her robe was cut through in an instant, causing yet another one hit KO.
“Sou!”
As my body fell straight downwards, I gripped my sword with my both hands tightly. The figure of Willow Shore who was standing on the ground enlarged in my eyes.
……
“Gu dong…”
Willow Shore gulped, and with a wail, “Crap, he really is here…”