459 Streamline Step and Vanishing Steps
Sizzle—
Sizzle—
In the middle of the Munjo Royal Capital, there was a strange scene occurring.
A bloody hand, or so it would be called for the moment as it looked like a human hand. Only, that hand was so bloody it was as if it were skinned, but it was abnormally long. Also, what was weirder was that hand kept still growing longer and longer, which didn’t make sense at all.
That hand was growing longer because it was chasing after an afterimage, which looked like a black bolt of lightning.
If one got close to see, they would discover that there was a winged armor, shining with six wings behind that afterimage. The greaves on his feet were shining with blood-red light, and his speed was as fast as a Bandit activating Rush! Even if it was Chaos In The Sky, who was a Shadower excelling in Movement Speed, most probably he would not be able to reach such a speed even for a short duration of time.
That afterimage kept on circling the throne, and the bloody hand behind him kept on chasing.
In the blink of an eye, they had run around the throne for 10 rounds!
After 10 rounds, the Boss currently was like a bobbin entangled with threads as the bloody hand originally started from the Boss on the throne. After stretching unlimitedly and chasing after that afterimage around the throne for 10 rounds, it had entangled around itself for 10 rounds.
That was Lin Jie’s plan!
He knew that the Dark Gold Boss could only use its right hand to attack using Munjo Strike as its body was in a dried-up state. Therefore, Lin Jie came up with the idea to make the bloody hand go around in circles as he didn’t believe that its hand could stretch unlimitedly!
Lin Jie sneered and continued dashing away. In less than five minutes, the bloody hand had already spun 30 rounds, the throne had also swelled up, becoming two times bigger than before. The golden throne was entangled with tens of rounds of bloody hands—that scene was as disgusting as it could get!
If one wanted to imagine, then they could visualize such a scene: Take tens of pig intestines, which were directly extracted from the pig’s stomach, and wrap them around a tree trunk in layers. That scene would be about the same as the scene now.
“You’re still able to continue?” Lin Jie was astonished, that bloody hand seemed to be a little too… persevering in terms of stretching. How was it a f*cking bloody hand? It was simply a super rubber band!
‘Continue circling!’ Lin Jie persevered and continued running, crazily dashing around.
He continued running around, and he actually ran for a total of… half an hour. Lin Jie felt dizzy from all the running and almost felt like vomiting from seeing that bloody and disgusting hand for so long. It was only then that the Boss finally let out a mournful roar with all its might. Its head, which was the only thing left that was not wrapped, was exposed, and the dried-up thin face was hideous. The bloody hand finally stretched to its limits and was unable to grow any longer.
‘Now’s the time!’ Lin Jie took out a sword from his backpack randomly. With a stab, using his backhand, the Silver sword pierced into the tip of the fully-stretched bloody hand, which had chased Lin Jie for half an hour and tied it together with the other layers inside.
Lin Jie had made use of the Boss’ bloody hand and literally wrapped the Boss into a mummy!
Just as Lin Jie successfully tied the Boss onto the throne and was preparing to kill it. Suddenly, an obscure wave of aura could be felt in the air. Lin Jie had farmed monsters in the Munjo Underground City for quite a few days, and there were only Undeads in the eerie underground city. Lin Jie was the only living creature there crazily slaughtering the Undead, so eventually, he had become abnormally sensitive to the aura of living creatures!
In fact, the mental capacity of normal players was limited, so they might feel uncomfortable if they farmed monsters in such a gloomy place. Therefore, going back to town once a day to replenish potions, chatting nonsensical topics with others, was the regular lifestyle of normal players. Meanwhile, people like Lin Jie, who still felt energetic after farming in such a ghost city for so many days, were extraordinary.
‘There’s someone! More specifically, a living human!’ Lin Jie’s heart thumped, and he smiled. The stealth ability of those two was not just for show! Besides that bit of obscure wave of aura, there were no other hints of them at all. Lin Jie most likely would not have noticed them if not for him being extremely sensitive to the aura of living creatures.
Lin Jie pretended to heave a sigh of relief, then he took out Broken Blade, and walked towards the Boss in an extremely relaxed and light-hearted manner. There was a satisfied smile on his face as if he had let his guard down because he could hunt the Boss down in a moment’s time.
However, those two did not appear yet.
Unless Lin Jie really revealed a slip-up, or else according to the personality of those two Bandits, they would not appear!
Lin Jie remained calm and composed as he raised his Broken Blade high up. Broken Blade was enveloped in a layer of golden light, and the Shield Cut skill was activated! The skill had extremely fast activating speed, but at that moment, it seemed as if it needed an extremely long time!
At the moment when Shield Cut was activated, it was also when the Stiffening occurred as players activated skills—that was the time where one would not be able to cancel their actions.
Suddenly, two powerful auras exploded out, and as though tigers were dashing down a mountain, they attacked Lin Jie, who had his sword raised rapidly!
“Hehe, my condolences.” Yesterday Morning laughed eerily as he slashed his three-meter long machete from above his shoulder. Yesterday Morning’s body spun a total of two rounds in the air, he unleashed the special feature of the machete to the maximum, and even enhanced the damage with the Bandit’s powerful Explode skill, landing behind Lin Jie!
Meanwhile, Tomorrow Night kept quiet. His eyes were cold, and his dagger was like a poisonous snake, which pounced onto the back of Lin Jie’s hands. The pitch-black poisonous dagger was about to slit open Lin Jie’s skin! If one could observe closely, then they would be able to notice that Tomorrow Night’s attacking method was utmostly detailed as he was different from normal players, who attacked directly. Tomorrow Night’s attacks were all aimed at one’s blood vessels, so once the dagger cut open the skin, then the Bleeding chance would be increased to above 30%—that was the difference between experts and normal players.
“We didn’t have any malicious intents in the beginning, but why did you have to do that? Isn’t everyone getting stronger a good thing? Why did you have to destroy those relief murals? Sigh, you’ve angered this maniac, so no one can save you now.” Yesterday Morning shook his head. His machete slashed Lin Jie’s back. He had actually ignored the Kiara Beast King Armor and easily pierced Lin Jie’s back.
That was his rare Strengthening Skill [Machete Armor Break]. It could only be used when equipped with a machete. The skill could ignore all the enhancement effects of one piece of equipment of the target! It was an extremely overbearing skill!
Slice—
As the machete sliced into Lin Jie’s back, it instantly let out a loud sound. Dark blue liquid flowed out. It was not blood, but the seawater after Sea King Scaly Armor was broken through! Quicker than words could tell, Lin Jie had already defied the rules of the game and turned around, his eyes stared straight at those two as though he was the Grim Reaper.
“He dispelled Stiffening so fast?” Yesterday Morning glared at Lin Jie.
Normally, the Stiffening, when players started releasing a skill, could not be stopped. Thus, even if they wanted to cancel the skill, they had to wait until Stiffening was over.
Therefore, they wanted to instakill Lin Jie by taking that chance to ambush him. Who would have expected that Lin Jie could actually dispel the Stiffening?
Naturally, Lin Jie could dispel it, or else he would not have left his back open for his opponents. What he had used was the Anti-Slash! That skill could immediately cancel one’s current actions and turn back to attack. Although there was 1 second where he would not be able to do anything, they did not seize the opportunity!
Lin Jie smiled coldly as Broken Blade released Blade Aura, which shot towards Yesterday Morning. That Bandit’s strength was weaker than Tomorrow Night, so he wanted to kill the weaker one first!
“Yo, coming for me? You think I’m easier to kill, don’t ya? Alright, let me broaden your horizon today, Streamline Step!” Yesterday Morning seemed to have read Lin Jie’s thoughts, and his competitiveness instantly swelled up. He and Tomorrow Night were both Shadow Kill’s Grim Reapers, they were equal in strength, so now that he was actually looked down upon, how could he endure it?
Whoosh—
Yesterday Morning’s body suddenly shook and stayed still, but the aura of a living being appeared behind Lin Jie! A lifelike afterimage was actually left in the original spot! Everyone would be astonished by that sight, no matter who saw it as normal Bandits didn’t even have such fearsome speed. Even if Chaos In The Sky activated all the speed enhancement skills of a Shadower, wanting to leave such a realistic afterimage was idiotic nonsense.
Streamline Step!
When Lin Jie turned around, Yesterday Morning’s figure disappeared yet again, leaving only an afterimage. That afterimage had a hideous face as it was as if his machete was about to slash down at the next second!
Shoosh—
Lin Jie was directly surrounded by Yesterday Morning as a circle of afterimages appeared around him. Some had a cold smile, some were angered, while some wore a face of contempt—there were actually a total of 10 of them! With these afterimages, it was like 10 Yesterday Morning had surrounded Lin Jie and attacked simultaneously!
“Hmph, such mediocre tricks.” With a ferocious roar, Lin Jie activated Outraged Roar, and a shocking wave of sound was shot towards the afterimages! Although it was unable to dissipate those afterimages, it was enough for Lin Jie to accurately differentiate Yesterday Morning’s position.
Broken Blade was enveloped with the skills Flame Boost and Thunder Descent, then he attacked rapidly using Army Obliteration! Lin Jie’s quick attack and differentiating speed made Yesterday Morning stunned. Yesterday Morning gritted his teeth and unleashed the technique Streamline Step once again, dodging by retreating backward.
“Let me.” It was unknown when Tomorrow Night had appeared in front of Lin Jie, his step was light, like a dragonfly skimming the surface of the water. He rushed forward rapidly and charged towards Lin Jie!
Lin Jie instantly thrust his sword forward and attacked Tomorrow Night’s moving trajectory, but he missed. It was just his moving trajectory advancing forward, but his body had already rushed towards the side, and his dagger twined to Lin Jie’s neck like a poisonous snake ready to attack.
Clink! Clank!
Lin Jie blocked with his backhand and wanted to use his Combo Attack technique, but this time. Tomorrow Night was much more cautious. Hence, once his attack missed, he immediately retreated, not giving Lin Jie any chance to unleash his Combo Attack in close range.
Tomorrow Night’s eyes were like that of an eagle, calculating Lin Jie’s furthest attack range in his heart, so he stayed at the edge of the tip of Broken Blade. From there, he could dodge the attacks and also assassinate Lin Jie anytime!
Meanwhile, Yesterday Morning also recovered his condition and unleashed Streamline Step yet again, appearing beside Lin Jie.
‘Streamline Step should be one of the Bandit’s Nine Great Techniques, similar to Berserker’s 100 Consecutive Strikes, but Yesterday Morning is still not familiar with it. As for this guy…’ Lin Jie’s eyes lit up, he had seen the step Tomorrow Night was using in his previous life! It was called Vanishing Step, and it could confuse the opponent greatly!
When facing Bandits that used such a step, one could clearly see that the opponent’s dagger was piercing straight at them. However, once it was near them, they would discover that the dagger did not strike them at all, but was piercing from the side. Simply speaking, that step could interfere with the judgment of the players’ eyes.
Tomorrow Night licked the dagger in his hands like a bloodthirsty and hungry wolf ready to hunt, and Lin Jie was the prey!
Although Tomorrow Night’s attributes could not be compared to Lin Jie, he had the Vanishing Step, which was one of the Bandit’s Nine Great Techniques. Relying on that step, Tomorrow Night had the confidence to kill Lin Jie!
The method to break the Vanishing Step was to use skills like Scent Searching, which did not use the sense of sight but hearing or feeling of aura. However, this needed the help of skills as it was extremely difficult for the players to do it themselves.
Shoosh—
Seeing Tomorrow Night use that step, Lin Jie looked like he was in a panic as he swung his sword continuously, but every attack missed. That made Lin Jie even more “furious” as he swung his Broken Blade crazily and slashed everywhere.
Seeing Lin Jie’s reaction, Tomorrow Night could not help but sneer loftily.
