Chapter 31

"You surprised me. Perhaps I should praise you for being a natural hunter."

When Ye Bai went to the assassin's guild in the black street again, the NPCs in the camp couldn't help but reveal surprise in their voices.

[Your faction level has been upgraded to 'Black Robe Assassin']

The Assassin's Guild camp also has member levels. If you want to upgrade from a gray-robed assassin to a black-robed assassin, you need to hunt one hundred prey, and you will be automatically upgraded after returning to the Assassin's Guild.

In order to prevent the people of the Makul Group from not recognizing the 'BOSS', Ye Bai deliberately did not come here to upgrade.

At the same time, after becoming a black robe assassin, the faction store will be unlocked.

"Come, let's see if there's anything you need..."

As the voice in the darkness fell, a faction reputation panel appeared in front of Ye Bai.

Role: Bai Ye

Faction Level: Black Robe Assassin

Faction Reputation: 38

Reputation Level: Neutral

Honor value: 376

Under this attribute, various special items are displayed, which is the Assassin's Guild's camp store.

The items sold here cannot be bought outside and need to be exchanged through honor points, and the honor points correspond to the number of hunts after becoming an assassin.

At this time, the items in the back rows of the camp store are all in a gray locked state. This is because Ye Bai's level is not high enough, so only the items in the first row can be purchased normally.

Ye Bai directly spent 150 honor points to buy the most expensive item in the first row - the skill [Shadow Step].

A flash of light passed by, and Ye Bai felt that she was completely covered by darkness, but that covering was not suffocating. Instead, there was a sense of security of being sheltered, which made her more flexible in the darkness.

You learned Shadow Steps.

Passive effect: Increases movement speed by 50% in dark or shadowy environments.

Unique active skill: Quickly shuttle through two shadows, with a maximum shuttle range of 50 meters. The shuttle process is immune to damage, no consumption, and a cooldown time of 10 minutes.

It makes sense that it's so expensive and has such a long cooldown. The active effect of the shuttle process makes you immune to damage, which is definitely a life-saving skill at critical moments, and the passive acceleration effect can make Ye Bai, whose speed is already far beyond that of other players, even more flexible.

Then Ye Bai spent 100 and 50 honor points to buy [Assassin's Hidden Arrow] and [Wild Hunt Potion] respectively.

The Assassin's Sleeve Arrow does not occupy the handheld equipment slot and can only be used when wearing an Assassin's robe. The effect is to cause 10 damage to the target, and then add a [Hunting Mark] to it when it hits. As long as it is within a range of 300 meters, the position of the marked target can be roughly sensed.

After using the Wild Hunt Potion, the damage caused to all hunted targets within 5 minutes will bring a 50% blood-sucking effect.

Ye Bai didn't think that the Makul Group, which had suffered a loss at her hands, would give up, and she didn't know how many people they had in Tut City. A group that occupied an entire planet must have a very powerful armed force. She needed to use the maximum power she could in the game.

Otherwise, when Ye Bai's spaceship arrives at Markul Star, their group's armed forces will not be greatly affected, and then no matter how much chaos she creates, it will be useless.

"Didn't I tell you to wait for me to come back? 376 employees, including 45 level 4 members. What do you think?"

During the holographic meeting, Hood learned that Pence's team was wiped out by a mysterious boss, and his face turned grim and he went to question him.

All those who participated in the action could not raise their heads. Pence's face was pale, not only because of the damage to his mental strength, but also because this action caused a huge loss of the group's power in the world. Let alone performing in front of the big boss, he was lucky not to be held accountable in the end.

"And knowing that the wild boss would take away the dropped items, why didn't you prepare?"

——Who could have imagined that over 200 people would be killed instantly upon first encounter with a boss? This boss was so insidious, it seemed like he had been prepared for it!

Hood was bringing this up just to call for vengeance. After all, when they discovered that the assassin was a hidden wild boss, everyone's first reaction was to kill him quickly to avoid losing his trace. Moreover, renting a warehouse in the outer city was expensive and unsafe. Except for a few special "warehouse numbers", the supplies of the Makul Group were all carried on the bodies of the top management.

Not to mention the equipment. If you are going to fight a BOSS, who wouldn’t bring the best equipment?

Pence moved his mouth, but finally held back his rebuttal.

The loss of personnel levels is not counted. They can level up in the game and receive treatment and recuperation in reality. The biggest loss is in resources. The equipment he and the elite members had on them, as well as the resources they had collected recently, were all dropped completely. This is a real loss.

"From now on, just follow my arrangements. Is that okay with you?" Hood looked at Pence.

Pence could only reluctantly acquiesce.

In the next two game days, the number of players in Makur City became noticeably smaller, and even if they were online, they basically just stayed within the city.

Even so, once a player leaves the wild, he will be immediately hunted down by assassins.

The Makul Group uses the experience of two members to test once a day whether the wild BOSS is still nearby.

And I learned an important piece of news: the BOSS changed from a gray robe to a black robe and was upgraded!

It was not until Hood led a team of 45 elite members back from the nearby Baihua Town that the Makul Group showed its fangs like a dormant beast.

Hood is engaged in the underground biological smuggling business, which makes the fastest money in the group. Caution is ingrained in his bones. This time, under his leadership, the operatives made sufficient preparations. Although they were confident that they could take down the BOSS, they only brought weapons, equipment and basic supplies, and nothing else.

Of course, after experiencing the tragic team wipe last time, except for the elite members who came back with Hood, everyone else, including Pence, the group director, has returned to the state they were in when they first entered the game.

Members of the Makul Group found the BOSS in the wild again and surrounded it using human wave tactics.

This time, it is no longer Pence who is in charge, but Hood.

A large number of ordinary members used melee combat to interfere with the BOSS, and the elite members who came back with Hood showed their weapons.

【Standard Crossbow】

Grade: Excellent

Attack: 10-12

Penetration: 5

Attack Speed: 2.0

Range: 50 (effective) - 200 (maximum)

Projectile offset: 4

Quiver: 3/3

Special Effect: Rapid Shooting

Description: One of the standard equipment of town guards, it can quickly shoot all the crossbow arrows in the quiver at once.

This was the harvest of Hood’s mission to Baihua Town, and it was only possible with the huge amount of resources accumulated by the group in the early stage.

Pence, who was standing by, had a change of expression when he saw the equipment. They had tried to use long-range weapons to deal with the BOSS before, but they only had bows and arrows, which had low attack speed and accuracy. The opponent moved quickly and was difficult to hit. Even if they hit the opponent, the damage from the bows and arrows was not high, and they could not even break the opponent's defense.

The talents that the employees of the Makul Group automatically obtain are all common melee talents, and they do not have the standard template "charged shooting" skill like Ye Bai.

Now the appearance of standard crossbows is extraordinary. They have gained comprehensive compensation in terms of accuracy, attack speed, and damage, and can play a completely different role!

"shoot!"

Following Hood's order, all bows and crossbows fired at the BOSS in the field, emptying the magazines at once and firing three shots in a row. The well-trained Makur employees in the front row had extraordinary combat awareness and immediately used their health bars to drag out the BOSS without hesitation.

These core members have been trained by the Makul Group since childhood and have long been brainwashed to be loyal. Not to mention selling heads in the game, they are also willing to die in real battles.

Only by letting the crossbow arrows hit the BOSS, even if the opponent's defense is extremely high, but relying on the penetrating properties of the crossbow arrows and the number, it can directly cause tens of thousands of damages, and can kill the opponent by piling up.

In response to this, the boss's familiar stick-like object reappeared in his hand.

That skill again!

Hood, who was well prepared, quickly retreated with his elite members after releasing the crossbow. No matter how large the range of the skill was, they were already standing nearly a hundred meters away, so they just had to keep retreating and they would be dead!

But this time, as that little bit of light flashed, when the front-line melee fighters closed their eyes and waited for death, the familiar white light did not appear.

A strange light shield appeared around the black-robed assassin, and all the crossbow arrows fired at him collided with the light shield.

“Dangdangdang…”

'-205', '-215', '-204'

A crisp sound came from the light shield. The black-robed assassin was safe and sound, but all the elite members who had shot the crossbow arrows before were injured, including Hood, and they all turned into white light and disappeared.

Only Pence, who retreated with Hood, was left unharmed because he did not take action.

The melee members who were prepared to die were also unharmed.

The reason is of course very simple. Ye Bai changed a scroll -

【Advanced long-range countermeasures】

Scroll quality: rare

Effect: Return all ranged attacks received during the release period and increase additional spell damage by 100%.

Duration: 8 seconds

Spell Range: Lock

This spell is specially used by mages to deal with long-range skills such as bows and arrows. In the same series, there is also [Spell Counter] that some mages will use in civil wars.

However, the melee members did not relax for long. The next moment, Ye Bai took out the familiar [Banshee's Wail] and cleared the field again.

"Why doesn't this boss have a skill cooldown?!"

Pence picked up some good equipment dropped by Hood and ran away, exclaiming in his heart.

Under the second wave of banshees' wails, only Pence, who was standing at a distance, managed to escape.

However, before Pence ran twenty meters, he felt as if his knee was hit by an arrow, and a '-10' damage appeared on his body.

Pence didn't care and continued to flee...

Until he died from a mental ray in the end, he still had no idea how the boss had caught up with him.

Half a day later, Meijia, the third director of the Makul Group who never liked to meddle in other people's affairs, looked at the other two pale-faced directors opposite him, as well as a group of department executives who were not much better off.

He rubbed his bald head with a headache:

"You're saying that the core strength our group focused on cultivating was completely wiped out in the Ten Thousand Worlds... twice?"

At about the same time, a spaceship carrying the Makul Group's secret smuggled organisms was captured by the planet's gravity and flew into an airport within the group.