Chapter 14
The male priest was furious. At his command, the assassins and warriors on both sides rushed forward.
Xia Mo did not run away, but stood there calmly.
"Brothers, here's your chance!"
Seeing that she was so frightened that she couldn't move, the soldier grinned and swung his machete down mercilessly.
But the next second, the person who was standing in front of her quickly flashed away, and then her teammate, the male priest whose equipment she had taken off, was suddenly pushed up.
Everything happened without any warning.
The soldier, who had already swung his machete halfway, had no time to retract it. He could only stare in horror and shout, "Get out of the way!"
But the person is already under the knife, how can he escape?
The sharp blade fell straight down, slicing off nearly two-thirds of the health of their teammate, the male priest!
"How the hell did you lose so much blood?!" The warrior stared at the dwindling health bar above the opponent's head, feeling angry and shocked.
The male priest was furious at his question: "What do you think? She's already taken off my armor and belt, which had the highest defense! How can I defend myself against your knife?"
The warrior came back to his senses and saw the male priest's equipment dropped all over the ground.
I couldn't help but be shocked.
Wait, the equipment can be disassembled?
You have to know that clothes, armor and belts are actually worn by players, and the way of wearing them varies depending on the profession.
In other words, if you want to dismantle it, the means will be different.
But how could she, a Star Officer, know so much about how a priest dresses? And judging by how her teammates were being torn to pieces, her hand speed must have been incredibly fast, otherwise they wouldn't be so confused.
Due to the urgency of the situation, the soldiers had no time to investigate how the other side did it, so they had to pick up their weapons and chase after them again.
A bunch of arrows suddenly came from the side!
Whoosh! -253!
Oh no, it’s that female hunter!
Realizing they were being ambushed, the soldiers stopped charging forward and made a detour, intending to use the rubber trees to confuse the view.
Who knows, whoosh!
Two arrows shot out from the darkness again!
He had no time to dodge and was hit by an arrow in each thigh.
Bright red numbers popped out from above his head.
But fortunately, he was a warrior and was born with a lot of blood. In addition, the armor on his body enhanced his defense. Even though he was hit by three arrows, he did not lose too much blood.
The warrior had an idea in mind and decided to ignore the hunter in the dark and continue chasing the female star official.
However, just as he took a step, small boxes suddenly popped up in front of him.
[Your right thigh is injured, speed -5%]
[Your left thigh is injured, speed -5%]
[You are bleeding, HP -2/second]
What? !
The soldier's eyes widened, and he stood there in disbelief.
He was actually hit by three debuffs at the same time! Two slowing things down, and one causing bleeding!
The bleeding is easy to deal with, only 2 drops per second. He has a lot of blood, so there is no need to worry.
But the problem is that deceleration!
The warrior's speed wasn't fast to begin with, so it wasn't an advantage, but it was still enough to catch up to a mere Star Official. But now! His overall speed had been reduced by 10%! How could he possibly catch up to the person in front of him?
In an instant, he suddenly understood why the female hunter was not in a hurry to take his life, but instead focused on attacking his thigh!
Because an arrow in the thigh will affect the character's speed, the opponent has been targeting this from the beginning!
Tactically, he knew that he had been defeated by the opponent. The soldier gritted his teeth and was in a dilemma.
From behind a rubber tree, a young man's voice could be heard, unable to suppress his surprise.
"Sister, you've held him back!"
Taotao put away her bow and smiled, "It's all because of Mo Se's good command."
After dealing with the elementalist just now, she immediately received new instructions from the female star officer.
——"Help me hold the warrior back. Remember, you only need to shoot his thigh with an arrow."
To be honest, Taotao didn't understand this command at first.
What's the point of shooting only the thigh? It won't kill you.
But she knew that suspicion was the most taboo when cooperating with teammates. Since the command power was given to the other party, she should fully trust the latter.
So he hid in the dark and shot arrows one after another.
It was not until she hit the target and saw the warrior's speed suddenly slow down that she suddenly understood her teammates' intentions.
PK causes the opponent to be injured. The player can either heal the opponent through specific potions or let the priest use skills to eliminate the injured state.
However, players in the novice stage most likely do not have potions to treat injuries. The red potions they stockpile now only have the function of instantly restoring health, and nothing else.
As for the pastor?
Unfortunately, the priest in their team had just had his equipment stripped off by Mo Se, and now he was wearing almost nothing. He couldn't even protect his own life, so how could he dare to rush out to protect others?
After figuring out her teammate's intentions, Taotao couldn't help but look at her with admiration again.
However, at this time, several people who knew nothing about Xia Mo's tactics were still trying to catch up.
Among them, the highly agile assassin rushed to the front.
He walked up, stepped on the rubber tree next to him and jumped up, and his light but sharp hidden blade flew out in a spin.
Xia Mo's eyes flashed, and he raised the Star Staff to fight back.
She blocked two of the hidden blades, but all four hit.
-190! -160! -180! -190!
A series of attacks took away 720 points of her health on the spot.
She is now level 8, and with the bonus from her equipment, her total health is only 1,000. If she hadn't blocked the other two hidden blades in time, her health bar would probably be zero by now.
The assassin's damage was indeed comparable to that of the hunter, but she was not without a chance of winning.
Because she knew what the assassin's weakness was.
Without even drinking the red medicine, Xia Mo moved like a snake, constantly wandering in the rubber forest.
However, no matter how agile she was, to the highly agile assassin, it was like a movie scene that was played half a beat late.
The assassin smiled and rushed forward!
Then, his figure suddenly disappeared.
The passersby players who were watching this PK battle where the majority was bullying the minority were shocked.
"Oh no, it's the assassin's invisibility technique!"
"That's bad! That player named Mo Se will definitely be ambushed!"
In "Protoss", who doesn't know that the assassin has a [Sneak Attack] skill?
Even though the server has only been open for a week, many players, whether in the world channel or on the forum, have already called some assassins inhuman.
Because they possess the profession-specific [Invisibility] and [Sneak Attack] skills, some assassins often hide in the wild and deliberately use these two skills to kill innocent players in order to satisfy their own dirty desires.
Many passers-by suffered greatly from this and wanted to skin those unscrupulous assassins and expose them to the public!
However, most ordinary players are no match for the assassins, and they really can do nothing but curse and vent in the world.
At this moment, the short-legged and fragile star official is facing an assassin who can be invisible and launch sneak attacks. The onlookers have basically determined what the outcome of the battle will be.
"Ah, I still can't beat these bastards! So freaking infuriating!"
"Never mind, they're already pretty strong. Didn't you see there were eight of them? That Xingguan and her two friends are already pretty strong after holding on until now."
"Yes, indeed. The opponent is using kills to crush us. Even if that star officer and hunter are very powerful, they can't beat four hands with two fists."
The onlookers couldn't help but feel sorry, but Xia Mo, who was dodging in the rubber forest, was unaware of this.
She noticed that the assassin chasing her suddenly became invisible.
Xia Mo curled the corners of his mouth and continued running forward.
A few seconds later, the invisible assassin suddenly appeared in mid-air, holding a dagger, falling from the sky, with the tip of the knife pointing directly at the back of the head of the person below!
His cunning eyes were full of pride. Although the knife had not yet fallen, the assassin knew that this attack was a sure thing.
No one can escape the assassin's sneak attack unless the opponent's agility is higher than his.
But Xingguan has no such exception. The magic profession can hardly outrun the physical profession, and their fate is to wait to be beaten!
The tip of the knife fell rapidly along with the body!
The next moment, the person in front of him disappeared!
The assassin stared in shock.
How could this be?! How could Xingguan be faster than him?!
This is impossible!
His wide-open pupils were filled with disbelief, but before he could turn around to react, he saw large and small rocks falling and hitting him on the head with a bang!
"ah--!"
With a scream, his health bar instantly dropped to 0.
There are eight people in total. The four most difficult ones have been dealt with. As for the rest, they are easy to deal with.
Xia Mo held the Star Staff, turned against the wind, and pointed his sharp eyes like an eagle at the two paladins a few meters away.
No matter how arrogant they were before, the momentum of the two paladins suddenly dropped after they witnessed how she killed the assassin in one fell swoop.
They looked at each other, turned around and tried to run.
But they saw a series of skills bombarding towards them!
White star, star shock.
Star shock, white star.
The two paladins fell to the ground with a thud before they could even shout for help.
"Do you want to continue?"
Xia Mo looked at Kuang Dao who was lying motionless opposite him with cold eyes.
Kuang Dao stood there in near shock.
His eyes widened as he looked at the priest whose equipment had been pried off, the injured warrior, the dead assassin, and the two paladins who couldn't even launch a counterattack. His face was pale and blue.
"A bunch of trash!"
Forced to accept the tragic reality that none of them were her match, Kuang Dao clenched his fists and gritted his teeth in hatred: "Let's go, follow me back to town!"
Crazy Blade, who tried to crush everyone with his head-count advantage, not only did not end up well, but was unexpectedly defeated and had to flee in panic. The whole process was seen by the onlookers, and the joy in their hearts was comparable to the raging waves.
"Who said the star officer couldn't beat the assassin? Isn't this a ready-made counterattack? It's so cool!"
"This female official is so cruel. Before I could even figure out what was going on, she had already gone behind the assassin."
"No, aren't you curious about how she pried off the priest's equipment with a knife in the first place? It only took three seconds, one cut per second. It was so fast that it left afterimages. Is she still a human? Is she a cutting machine?"
"The scene where he used the priest to block the knife for her was also very cool! You didn't see the expression on the opponent's warrior's face. That knife didn't hit her, but hit one of his own people instead. Hahahaha, his expression was like he had eaten shit!"
"No, no, I have to watch this video over and over again. This is a textbook-level PK!"
"Friends, good things should be shared. Come on, send it to me and I'll upload it to the forum."
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Letting the onlookers share his joy, Xia Mo retracted the Star Wand, picked a nearby rubber tree at random, and began to collect rubber.
Taotao and Ye Zi came over quickly.
"Your tactical awareness is amazing!" Taotao blinked her beautiful eyes and praised sincerely.
Xia Mo smiled back: "You too, didn't you also deal with the elementalist and the warrior?"
"No, that's different!" Taotao immediately shook her head. "If I were in your position, I would never have thought of the tactics you just used."
Movement, prediction, ambush, counterattack... this series of smooth reactions, she knew very well that she could not do it at all.
Ye Zi beside her also nodded repeatedly, praising her without hiding her feelings: "Sister Mo Se, you are really good! Just now, the assassin was invisible and was about to attack you. I almost went up to block the knife for you! But unfortunately, my sister didn't let me..."
Xia Mo: "It's right not to let you."
"Huh?" Ye Zi blinked. "Why? What if he really sneak attacks you? An assassin's sneak attack can do a lot of damage!"
"He won't succeed."
Facing Ye Zi's surprise, Xia Mo answered calmly.
"Although the assassin's [Cheat Attack] is deadly, it also has a weakness—a 0.5-second lead time."
"In order to deliver a fatal blow, the assassin must wait 0.5 seconds before striking."
"0.5 seconds is short, more than enough to deal with monsters. However, in close combat, the enemy can easily seize this opportunity to counterattack. Therefore, to increase the chance of a sneak attack kill, assassins usually use invisibility first, hiding themselves, and wait for the enemy to panic and lose their balance, then emerge from invisibility and complete the sneak attack."
In his previous life, Xia Mo had experienced this assassin's tactic countless times in the PK arena.
At first, I was really easy to panic and almost died every time.
Later, as I died more and more times, I gradually figured out how to deal with it.
No matter how the assassin hides himself, as long as he wants to launch a sneak attack, he must first show up and complete the 0.5-second pre-swing.
And these 0.5 seconds are her chance to fight back.
In order to train her instantaneous reaction, she specifically designated assassin players to PK with her in her previous life. If she remembered correctly, she should have PKed no less than 100 times.
The players who fought against her were all assassins above level 50. Which one of them was not faster than the level 6 assassin just now?
Therefore, the 0.5 seconds that seemed too fast to be captured by others was as natural as drinking boiled water to Xia Mo.
She didn't even have to react specifically, the memory engraved in her bones would tell her how to fight back.
As he was speaking, the rubber was collected.
Before leaving, Xia Mo remembered something: "Oh, right, you can pick up the armor, belt, and necklace that you just removed from their priests. You can use the leaves as forging materials. You two have the same profession, so forging with the scrapped priest equipment will make the properties more compatible."
After a pause, he added, "It's free."
"Wow, is that even possible?!" Ye Zi's eyes lit up instantly when she heard this. "I'll pick it up! I'll pick it up right now!"
He would rather not refuse the forging materials that were delivered to his door!
The rubber forest returned to calm, and Xia Mo took all the raw materials and teleported all the way back to the east gate of Buluo Town.
Now that the raw materials have been gathered, she still needs to fuse all the materials before she can successfully forge the [Crude Protective Gear].
However, forging is best done in a dedicated studio.
However, at this stage, players are not eligible to set up independent studios before officially becoming blacksmiths.
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