LWGP - Chapter 117
Chapter 117: Turning the Tables!
Bian Moshu and his people were confident, certain of their victory. Some, like Bian Moshu himself, even had smiles on their faces. He had successfully freed himself from the Spirit Tentacles and was getting back on his feet when he suddenly felt something behind him…
Huh? A bit chilly.
A thirty-second invisibility skill wore off. As he was getting up, someone suddenly appeared behind him. They activated a Sword Body status skill, boosting all attributes by 20%, and simultaneously unleashed a stun, a level 5 Heavy Strike, and a sword-qi critical burst.
A golden longsword swung down.
Bang!
If Bian Moshu had an HP bar, 80% of his health would have been obliterated in that instant, because he was an Arcane Mage!
For a mage to be ambushed at close range by a swordsman was a nightmare.
Moreover, that combo must have cost the attacker at least seven or eight hundred Spirit Power. Before he could even retaliate with his own magic, his opponent abruptly followed up with a piercing thrust!
Damn it, this person's average attributes were no weaker than his own, and they were definitely on the agility-focused swordsman path!
Swish!
Covered in his own blood, Bian Moshu was sent flying by the piercing skill, thrown off balance in mid-air. He tried to resist the irresistible force with his Agility and Stamina, and he actually succeeded. Arcane Light Armor materialized around him, and Holy Light descended!
Defense! Recovery!
But he saw the calm composure in Xie Lu's eyes, and he watched as his opponent unleashed another chain of four or five skills, yet another continuous output of Spirit Power.
Two waves of powerful skills like that would definitely cost over a thousand Spirit Power.
Spirit Power was king!
Where did such a powerful expert come from?
Wang Jiu only had a few people with her, and none of them had average attributes reaching 800. Had she gone out and recruited experts too?
Bian Moshu, who possessed 1800 Spirit Power himself, was utterly shocked. His territory was still in its early stages of development, so the gold coins he could obtain were limited, and the benefits from Spirit Energy were even more minuscule. This was the main reason he had considered Wang Jiu a formidable rival the moment she had acquired her territory.
Meanwhile, Wang Shu and the others should not have been able to hold their ground. At least half of their members with average attributes below 300 should have been wiped out. But they weren't. Because Mei Qingshu had seized the opportunity to revive and use Charge!
After losing a lot of equipment, her average attribute had plummeted from a thousand to six hundred. Logically, she shouldn't have been able to contend with these people, but her skills were formidable—one status skill, five chain skills, and all her basic skills were level 4 or higher.
They were all a matching set! She was a bad student, and bad students loved to play games. On top of that, she was a top student from a sports university with a powerful physique. She had even been close to receiving a special recruitment offer from the military. Thanks to her family background, she had also learned numerous combat techniques from her father.
This was aptitude.
Equipment was something acquired later. With strong aptitude, class talent advantages, and a host of matching resources, she could still crush people with average attributes 300 points higher than her own.
The reason she couldn't defeat Bian Moshu was twofold: first, he held her weakness in his hands, and second, he had used an item to preemptively apply a negative status effect on her. After dying once, she lost equipment and treasures, which immediately put her at a disadvantage.
However, that didn't mean she was down for the count.
The social block had just ended, and she received a flood of private messages. Ignoring the rest, she quickly scanned Wang Jiu's message and made her decision.
Now, she was crushing Qi Shuanghan, blasting him with a chain of skills because he had targeted Wang Shu!
Once Fatty Wang escaped the immediate danger, he used Evasion and a small invisibility item to hide. No one paid him any mind; after all, his average attribute was only in the three hundreds.
Even so, if Wang Jiu died…
But! In that instant, that very instant, the almost completely collapsed battle line suddenly sprang back to life.
Was it because Bian Moshu was being crushed by Xie Lu? Or because the inconspicuous Fatty Wang had survived?
Or was it because Mei Qingshu had picked up the equipment dropped by Qi Shuanghan, replenished her own, and was now rapidly extending the battle line to crush the remaining enemies while quickly boosting her attributes?
It was none of those.
It was because as Wang Jiu was being blasted by the chain attacks of the murderer, Jason, her body was grievously wounded. She had lost almost half her blood, and the damage was still accumulating, threatening to spiral out of control. Then, weng!
Holy Light descended—a level 2 Holy Light!
Her bloody wounds instantly sizzled and healed, the flesh knitting itself back together.
Furthermore, the level 2 Holy Light directly dispelled a minor negative status effect like paralysis.
Under the glow of the light, the formidable Jason watched as the person who had just cast the healer-exclusive Holy Light pulled out a dark altar brimming with an evil aura. She stepped onto the sinister, blood-soaked altar as her Demon Badge activated the Demon Descent status. The special effect of her already blood-dripping red name became even more badass, now accompanied by dark energy that twisted into the distorted faces of little demons.
Demons howled as they descended upon the mortal world.
This was terrifying, like the arrival of the main villain in a horror movie. A single glance was enough to make one's scalp tingle, making you wonder for a split second—is Kayako here?
Although the scene was overwhelmingly negative, Wang Jiu's all-attributes were boosted by 30% for thirty minutes. Her three attributes instantly shot up to 2080, 2314, and 1950.
Jason was formidable, not just in terms of combat power, but also in his judgment. The moment the altar and the Demon Descent status appeared, he saw the change in Wang Jiu's attributes.
He could only see her three main attributes, not her full stats including Spirit Power, because he didn't have a Gold Badge. But it was enough for him to judge Wang Jiu's current strength.
A 30% boost to all attributes?
She had surpassed him!
Status-boosting attribute skills were a battle maniac's favorite, ranking alongside critical damage skills as the kings of all abilities.
This woman had no team support, nor had she gone on a killing spree. How could she have such good luck?
Jason coldly made his decision and immediately hit Wang Jiu with a 10% weakening aura skill!
It would last for sixty seconds!
He had obtained it by assassinating a group that had just cleared a dangerous dungeon and acquired many resources. This skill was the most precious of the lot. In their excitement, the other party hadn't even had a chance to use it before he finished them off.
While weakening Wang Jiu, Jason entered a shadow stealth state to launch a surprise assassination, only to suddenly discover that a weakening status skill had been placed on him at the exact same time.
Dark Curse.
Attribute: A curse attack from a Dark Arcane Mage/Witch that places the target in a cursed negative status, reducing all attributes (including Spirit Power) by 30%. Duration: 5 minutes.
Usage: No cooldown, requires 200 Spirit Power.
Both were weakening effects, but the difference was immense.
Wang Jiu's class talent was always slacking off, rarely providing resources from a single system, but when it did, they were always top-quality.
At the very least, a negative status skill like Dark Curse could crush ten weakening auras. Moreover, with the boost from the altar, his stats were reduced by a full 50%!
Fuck! This was too overpowered!
Especially that "no cooldown"… it just cost some Spirit Power, or as it was commonly known, mana.
But was Wang Jiu lacking in mana?
5600 Spirit Power!
After they weakened each other, their eyes met. Jason decisively retreated, but it was too late. Wang Jiu could have seized the initiative with powerful skills, but she had deliberately lured him into attacking first, just to get into close range.
Because her current strongest attack wasn't magical. The Dark Witch's methods were merely for status buffs. To deal damage, she still had to rely on her blade!
The moment their eyes met, Wang Jiu had already entered the Mountain Ghost's Night March state.
《Mountain Ghost's Night March》
Attribute: Class talent skill possession. Enter the Mountain Ghost state for 30 minutes. The boost to movement speed and blade attacks is determined by the strength of the talent's awakening.
Another status skill. A layer of sinister ghost qi quickly spread around her body, her form becoming almost transparent. Then she drew Weeping Blood. Weng!
The blade's innate skill erupted—a three-meter-long blade qi.
The blood qi solidified, like blades of frozen blood, instantly cutting into the ground. It then rapidly split into a dozen blade forms, hacking at Jason's body from all cubic angles.
20% blood damage from Blood Wrath + level 6 Heavy Strike + blade skill—Dismemberment!
Faced with a three-meter-range, no-blind-spot blade attack, Jason—whose stats, including Spirit Power, had been reduced by 30% from the blood splash—was horrified and could only cover his body with a layer of defense.
Skill—Assassin's Iron Armor!
But it only covered his head and chest. The rest…
A crisp cutting sound!
Heavy damage! After the exchange of buffs and debuffs, the attribute gap between them had already exceeded a thousand points. It was no different from a complete beatdown. Even with skill-based armor, it was impossible to bridge such a massive gap.
So… did Jason die?
No, he used a Substitute Doll.
Boom! The Substitute Doll absorbed 50% of the damage and was instantly destroyed. Jason immediately used a stealth skill and a level 5 Evasion to slide five meters away. He still coughed up blood, though; the previous attack had been terrifying.
He was shaken, almost insta-killed by Wang Jiu.
From Wang Jiu's perspective—he didn't die from that? It seemed she wasn't the only one with good stuff.
A Substitute Doll, huh?
Why couldn't she get one! Ptooey!
But he probably couldn't fight anymore. The weakening status lasted for five minutes. Could he survive for that long?
No, he still had a trump card!
Wang Jiu's brow twitched, and she quickly dodged. The altar's array moved with her. At the same moment, Jason, who had just used Charge, disappeared from his spot and reappeared where Wang Jiu had been standing.
He unleashed terrifying damage.
His body was wreathed in a strange but solid golden qi, making him look like a golden-armored slaughterer. His combat power soared.
What was this?
Wang Jiu keenly sensed that this person's Charge and Heavy Strike had reached a new level, their power greatly enhanced. She glanced at his attributes.
His three attributes had skyrocketed. Even after being weakened, they had shot up to a level similar to hers. A note on the side indicated the source of the status.
Four level-five active skills combined state!
Damn it, she had run into one of these rare extremists?!
Such a huge boost in combat power was terrifying. It was equivalent to boosting both his attributes and the effects of his basic skills.
Wang Jiu had been wary of the level 5 effects of active skills before. Now, suddenly encountering a level-five combo, she immediately felt a headache. And it seemed this bastard had secretly used something during his charge.
An aura, a special aura.
Wang Jiu used her Demon's Eye and, within the five-minute duration of his level-five combo, immediately spotted another skill status.
Bloodthirsty Aura.
Just as she saw this, Jason used Charge again, followed by a large chain of skill attacks!
She had 5600 Spirit Power, but his 4000-plus wasn't bad either. Even though it had been reduced by 50% and hadn't recovered yet, it was enough for him to launch another wave.
And this time, Wang Jiu failed to evade.
Because he used another skill—Slaughter Fear.
This was a reward badge he had received for being the first to get over a thousand kills in the 400-500 novice villages. It was originally Bronze, but he had used two Upgrade Scrolls to raise it to Silver.
Under the effect of Slaughter Fear, Wang Jiu's movement speed was negatively delayed… Boom!!
Under the Bloodthirsty Aura, Wang Jiu's body took a critical hit from Jason head-on. Thirty points of HP were instantly cut off! On top of that, her body was injured!
She only had 170 HP in total.
This aura was too… a three-minute Bloodthirsty effect?
Although Wang Jiu had anticipated that Bian Moshu would hire an expert with a means to kill her for good, and she was mentally prepared, she never expected him to have something as powerful as the Bloodthirsty Aura.
Wang Jiu: "Has he cleared a Nightmare Dungeon?"
System: "Nope. He mainly got rich by killing and robbing."
Wang Jiu: "Then why did he get such a good item?"
In Wang Jiu's view, those who could be hunted weren't that impressive. Where would they get so many good things? Otherwise, she'd go do a round of it herself.
System: "No idea. Either he's lucky, or you're unlucky."
Wang Jiu: "Did your crappy game get its start in the lottery business? What's the difference between this and a brothel picking beauties based on sales volume?"
While she was viciously insulting the System, Jason wasn't getting complacent about his comeback. The Bloodthirsty Aura and the level-five combo were his greatest assets. Although his superiors had sent him here mainly to permanently kill Wang Jiu, he was still a bit reluctant, thinking of finishing her off with other means in the end. After all, there was more than one way to die for good.
He also needed to conceal some of his methods to guard against attacks from other opponents—like Xu Baiyan, whom he had chanced upon and tried to kill on the first day, but who had luckily survived and escaped. Now, the latter was improving at a shocking rate and was clearly looking for revenge.
The plan was good, but he had underestimated Wang Jiu's strength. Her wave of dark operations was as fierce as a tiger and had nearly gotten him killed. He didn't dare to be arrogant and immediately used his biggest trump card.
Since the trump card was now in play and had a time limit, he couldn't waste it. He had to kill her and devour her resources to grow stronger quickly!
Jason attacked fiercely, but Wang Jiu had her own Holy Light descending. One cast of Holy Light restored 10% of her health, followed by an X-Ray Dissection.
But she didn't attack. Instead, she used Shadow Step to dodge. She had been caught off guard by Slaughter Fear before, but this time she was prepared. Using X-Ray Dissection, she fully predicted his attacks and dodged several times. Her Weeping Blood clashed with Jason's hook repeatedly, scorching large patches of the ground. At a glance, it looked like two dark bosses fighting ferociously amidst a demonic wind…
But with her level 6 Weapon Mastery, Wang Jiu managed to parry perfectly, not taking any more HP damage. This made Jason extremely agitated.
The scene was incredible. Just when Jason thought they were evenly matched and he could hold on for a few more minutes to find an opportunity to turn the tables, Xie Lu killed Bian Moshu. Looking at his corpse, he then helped Mei Qingshu kill the other eight elites, allowing the rest of their people to fully revive and focus fire on the Nightless Territory.
It had already lost 20% of its health!
But at this moment, Bian Moshu, who had been killed by Xie Lu and was lying on the ground without reviving, suddenly gave a cold command in the team channel, "Everyone, get up!"
Not good, the effect of Rockfall was over!
The moment the three thousand members of Nevernight revived, Bian Moshu and Jason knew their chance to turn the tables had arrived!
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