Chapter 46 First Mage

Just as the breakthrough was imminent, Suo Tu's attack disrupted the players' momentum. Although Gu Fei dealt with Suo Tu single-handedly, leaving the players in disarray, he clearly didn't have the ability to take down Suo Tu with ease. Today, Suo Tu was wearing armor.

The players' current formation was a long, narrow line, deeply penetrating the bandits' ranks. Should they continue to press forward? Suo Tu was blocking the way. Should they retreat? They had pushed so far in, it was a shame to give up. Fortunately, there were a lot of players. These advancing players had cleared a large space for those behind them. More players followed, and the mage players had also reached the front, looking for opportunities to cast spells – but with both sides fighting in a chaotic melee, the mages were afraid of hitting their own people.

"Why don't you let me try?" Piaoliu, who claimed to be the number one mage in Parallel World, finally stepped forward, confidently wielding his staff.

To instantly kill all the enemies like Gu Fei, he would need to rush to the front lines. In that kind of chaotic battle, not to mention the bandits, even if an ally accidentally stumbled and bumped into a mage, it would interrupt the spellcasting. Gu Fei was only able to unleash the Heavenly Fire Wheel so fearlessly because he had Xi Yao Wu, the world's number one expert, as his bodyguard. Moreover, Gu Fei was now stalemating the Boss in a one-on-one fight, such skill!

"I just need a few people to protect me while I cast," Piaoliu said with a smile.

"This..." Dao Ying Nian Hua was pondering what kind of formation could be as comprehensive as Xi Yao Wu's protection when Yin Yue waved his hand, "You three, go!"

Three fully armed warriors beside him, carrying large shields, came before Piaoliu.

Piaoliu was stunned, "Heavy armored warriors? Can they withstand it?"

"Don't worry!" Yin Yue said to Piaoliu, "Their defense is very high."

Then Piaoliu was shielded by these three heavy armored warriors and entered the enemy ranks. Piaoliu constantly heard the clanging of attacks on the shields, but the three remained immovable. With Piaoliu protected in the middle, he was not disturbed in the slightest.

"Heavenly Fire Wheel! Descend!" Piaoliu finally released his spell.

Everyone was still wondering which was more terrifying: the spells of the number one mage of Parallel World or Gu Fei...

Because after Piaoliu's Heavenly Fire Wheel landed, it also resulted in a no-suspense instant kill.

Piaoliu was a standard turret mage, all his stat points allocated to Intelligence, striving for the highest possible spell damage. All of his equipment either increased Intelligence or directly increased spell damage, and the staff in his hand was also extraordinary. Through the accumulation of countless equipment points, he achieved the power to instantly kill level 30 bandits.

His gradual and steady style would inevitably lead to lasting power. As for Gu Fei, relying solely on two pieces of equipment that were higher level than him, he was taking a vanguard approach. It looked powerful now, but it was bound to become outdated sooner or later.

Under the protection of the three heavy armored warriors, Piaoliu confidently cast his spells, leading another team of players to break through. While others were amazed by Piaoliu's high spell damage, Piaoliu was extremely surprised by the three guys around him. Not only was their defense terrifyingly high, but their protection work was also remarkably professional. The three completely followed Piaoliu's pace, never colliding with him, and never allowing attacks from the outside to reach Piaoliu through any gap.

With no second Suo Tu jumping out to intercept, this team fought very smoothly, finally completing the breakthrough work required by Dao Ying Nian Hua. A passage mixed among the crowd was opened. A large number of players blocked on the mountain road, unable to show their skills, began to move outward along this passage.

Leaving the mountain road, the players felt the earth was so vast. They broke through the encirclement, winding back around, and gave the bandits a counter-encirclement.

The shouts of battle shook the sky! These players had been anxiously waiting on the mountain road, unable to help, and had been starved for action for a long time. At this moment, everyone bravely took the lead, showing a courage comparable to that of the NPCs.

The level 30 bandits, who were already toys in front of level 40 players, lost their advantage of numbers, and their fate was no longer worth the effort to describe. Dao Ying Nian Hua kept reminding them, "Be careful, be careful!" He was worried that the players would get too carried away. After all, this was a battle, and carelessness could still lead to sacrifice.

The bandits were being annihilated at an extremely high speed. Meanwhile, Gu Fei's one-on-one fight with Suo Tu showed no signs of ending. Suo Tu's defense was completely different when he was wearing armor. The Dark Night Flowing Light Sword's physical attack was only enough to scratch the surface. After using Twin Incineration twice, Gu Fei had already put away the sword and switched to Baptism of Fire.

Flames continued to fly, and from time to time, the Ring of Thunder was used to unleash its power. The most visually stunning electric attacks flashed on the blade, crackling with sound effects. It was impossible to know how much damage it did, but Suo Tu convulsed as if he was breakdancing. The players were dumbfounded, wondering what kind of divine object Gu Fei's blade was.

Baptism of Fire was a level 30 weapon that had fallen behind. The players used Appraisal on it and immediately saw it. At the same time, they carefully studied the perverted mage's equipment. Apart from the clothes with a question mark, everything else was really unremarkable! It was just a set of items that increased the chance of spell attachment, which in the eyes of ordinary players was more for entertainment than practicality.

Especially some players who valued stability, hated the word "chance" as soon as they heard it.

"Awesome! So awesome!" Since the equipment was nothing special, everyone could only carefully admire Gu Fei's skill. The skill was actually simple, just dodging all of the opponent's attacks. This was Gu Fei's capital to deal with Suo Tu.

The players didn't know what words to use to describe it, just staring blankly with wide eyes.

"Um, do you need help?" Some people still raised the question.

This reminded the players. What was Gu Fei fighting? A Boss! If you encounter a Boss and don't actively go and grab it, are you even a qualified online game player?

The shouts erupted again in the player group.

"Go help!" Everyone shouted with such righteous reasons, rushing to grab the Boss.

The Boss represented beautiful experience, full money bags, and the possibility of gold and purple equipment. In the face of利益(lìyì, profit), teams, discipline, and character were abandoned by countless players, who rushed toward Suo Tu as if they had seen their own father.

Gu Fei had been wondering why the players had been idle just now and no one had come up to help. Now, seeing everyone suddenly erupt like a volcano, he felt very gratified.

Countless attacks made Suo Tu flustered, and he didn't respond to Gu Fei's attacks as carefully as before. After Gu Fei slashed Suo Tu twice more, he felt bored, wiped the sweat from his brow, and withdrew from the battle.

Countless players' eyeballs were about to fall to the ground. So many people couldn't rush into the circle to get a hit on the Boss, and felt extremely regretful. Gu Fei was good, he casually withdrew from the front line.

If you didn't have the strength to fight the Boss, and didn't have the ability to take advantage of it, that was fine. But Gu Fei even had the strength to fight one-on-one, and suddenly gave up, making countless people think that this guy was really different, incomparably noble.

The few comrades from the Young Master Elite Group gathered around and began to criticize and educate Gu Fei. From their understanding of Gu Fei, they knew that this guy was indeed like the players thought, he didn't care at all about all the rewards that the Boss would drop, so he just gave it away.

Gu Fei listened to them nagging while eating a banana. After eating it in a few bites, he said, "Rewards? That's nothing! But I seem to have heard that there's a rule that determines the ownership of the dropped items based on the damage output, right?"

The few were slightly stunned. You Ge glanced at the battle, "Well, there are so many people attacking so chaotically now, it seems that no one can really exceed your damage output."

"However!" You Ge immediately changed his tone again, "That's only when you're not in the same team. Just now we teamed up with some people, so this rule doesn't apply!"

"Oh, I'm not in the team," Gu Fei said.

"You're not in the team?" Everyone was surprised.

"Yeah, I saw that the inviter was Yin Yue, so I refused..." Gu Fei said.

The temporary team was just for Yin Yue's skill "King's Command." Battle formation skills were based on teams, and non-team units would not receive the blessing effect of these skills. Yin Yue was teaming up with the combat personnel at the time. Gu Fei saw that the system prompt had his name, and refused without thinking much.

The members of the Young Master Elite Group understood the reason, and looked at the players who were relying on their numbers to bully Suo Tu. They only found it funny. Only You Ge was a little worried, "Um, the person who gets the last hit will get a very high output score. If it happens to be someone in the team, then their team's score might exceed yours!"

"There's no way to avoid that. Who knows when the last hit will be?" Gu Fei said helplessly.

"Maybe it's now," Yu Tian Shen Ming joked.

"Is that so?" So Gu Fei also cooperated with him, drew the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword and waved it towards the sky, chanting, "Lightning, descend!"

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the crowd of players, hitting Suo Tu's head.

Suo Tu's hair was struck by lightning and stood on end like a beard. His body glowed with wisps of green smoke, and he convulsed for the last time in this battle, finally falling.

The guys from the Young Master Elite Group, including Gu Fei, were all dumbfounded.

"What a coincidence!" Gu Fei muttered to himself.

"It must be yours now, you can't escape it," the others said.

"There's really no way!" Gu Fei sighed, stepping forward to push through the crowd, "What dropped? What dropped?"

The players who had been busy for half a day glared at this guy with resentment: We were all wrong, this person is really too despicable and shameless!