Hu Die Lan
Chapter 214 Surround Them (Part 1)
The Young Master Elite Team had already eliminated five of the opposing players, leading with a score of five to zero. However, the Yun Xiang Mercenary Group was still running around the map like headless chickens. Almost no one recognized the five who had bravely sacrificed themselves. Yun Xiang, as the leader, inquired a few times in the guild channel, but the five who had fallen were in a bad mood and simply ignored him.
The Young Master Elite Team thus easily seized the initiative. Although it was six against dozens, it was as easy as sweeping a battlefield. The six casually wandered around the map, eliminating opponents as soon as they encountered them.
The Yun Xiang Mercenary Group was plagued by internal factions. The largest team was only eleven players, enough to deal with ordinary groups of six, but their opponents were a group of top online game experts, including Gu Fei, who had transcended the realm of ordinary players and possessed superhuman abilities.
The Young Master Elite Team was not afraid of such a disparity in numbers. Support classes like Han Jia Gongzi had little opportunity to use their skills. The group eliminated their opponents one by one without taking any damage. Han Jia Gongzi barely used his healing spells, but he downed bottle after bottle of wine. At first, no one questioned how much he could drink, but they began to wonder about his stomach capacity, tentatively concluding that it was a glitch in the game system.
In comparison, Zhan Wu Shang was the most depressed of the six. He, Gu Fei, Jian Gui, and Yu Tian Shen Ming were the main damage dealers, but he lacked ranged attacks, and he couldn't match Gu Fei and Jian Gui in close combat. By the time he got close, the enemies had already been reduced to their last breath by Gu Fei and Jian Gui.
After a while, the number of participants in the Yun Xiang Mercenary Group had dwindled to 30. The Young Master Elite Team had eliminated 50 through individual breakouts, and Zhan Wu Shang had only managed to score two points. Naturally, Gu Fei had taken the lion's share again.
Gu Fei's strength, Jian Gui's decisiveness, Yu Tian Shen Ming's opportunistic attacks, You Ge's buffs, Han Jia Gongzi's lazy walk at the back of the team with a wine bottle, and Zhan Wu Shang's frustrated roars formed the main picture of the Young Master Elite Team's combined effort.
Due to the reduced number of enemies, the Young Master Elite Team, who were casually strolling on the map, hadn't encountered any opponents for a while. They weren't in a hurry. With an absolute lead of 50 to 0, they could easily win by using a large kiting tactic against the remaining 30. But since the opponents were so disorganized and easy to deal with, everyone was doing their best to score points.
"Hey, it's been a while since I've seen anyone!" Yu Tian Shen Ming, who possessed the "Eagle Eye" skill, was acting as the scout for the Young Master Elite Team, turning his head around as he walked. Relying on the advantage of this skill and his attack range, this guy was very irresponsible. He wouldn't tell his teammates when he spotted the enemy. Instead, he would secretly fire two arrows to see if he could score some points. Gu Fei and Jian Gui had also learned to be wary. They couldn't trust Yu Tian Shen Ming's words, but as soon as he raised his hand to nock an arrow, it meant there was an enemy.
"Ah!" Han Jia Gongzi suddenly exclaimed.
"My wine's gone!" Han Jia Gongzi said regretfully, after reaching into his pocket for a long time and finding nothing.
"..."
"It's time for the final battle!" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Oh?" The five were puzzled.
Han Jia Gongzi turned around and looked back. "I've been throwing my empty wine bottles all the way. If they really wanted to find us, they should have run into us a long time ago. Like those guys before, the 30 of them haven't shown up yet, which means they're planning to show some cohesion in the final stage."
"You mean these thirty won't fight on their own anymore?" You Ge asked.
Han Jia Gongzi nodded. "After dealing with 50 people, they should have realized that we're not easy to deal with. Now that 30 of them are gathered together, they may not have cooperated before and need some time to adjust and arrange things."
"Then how do you know the final battle is coming soon?"
"Because my wine is gone. Wouldn't it be boring if we didn't hurry up and finish this so I can go out and buy more wine?" Han Jia Gongzi said.
"Tch!" The others despised him.
"How do we deal with the 30 who are gathered together?" You Ge asked.
"Surround them!" Gu Fei waved the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword in his hand and shouted passionately. Tonight, this dark longsword had been stained with the most white light from the enemies' sacrifices.
"That's not a bad and heroic method..." You Ge commented simply, turning his gaze to the others, mainly towards Han Jia Gongzi.
"Surround them... Well, that's a good idea!" Han Jia Gongzi actually agreed, and You Ge's eyes almost popped out. "So you do have times when you're drunk."
Looking at the others, Jian Gui, Yu Tian Shen Ming, and Zhan Wu Shang were all rubbing their hands, looking eager to fight. Especially Zhan Wu Shang, "Damn it, I'm definitely going to score this time!"
"Hey, is this going to work? Thirty people!" You Ge said.
"In terms of actual combat, You Ge, your experience is really lacking. You're not even as good as Qian Li, this newbie." Yu Tian Shen Ming said as he wiped his bow. His expression and posture were like those of a hitman carefully assembling his sniper rifle from its case before carrying out a hit in some killer movies. That was what Yu Tian Shen Ming looked like at the moment.
Gu Fei had a calm smile on his face and pointed at himself. "Killing people, professional."
"It's okay, You Ge. You're being too cautious." In the end, Jian Gui's reassurance was the most effective. You Ge gained final confidence from the eyes of this honest and reliable person.
"Hmm! Over there, are they coming?" Han Jia Gongzi pointed in a direction where there were no figures yet, but there was a faint sense of dust flying.
Yu Tian Shen Ming blinked his prized "Eagle Eye" and looked around pretentiously for a long time. "It seems like someone is coming."
"Let's go!" Everyone took up their weapons and went to meet them.
"Qian Li, you go to the 9 o'clock direction. Jian Gui, you go to the 12 o'clock direction. By the way, lead Yu Tian to the 3 o'clock direction. Wu Shang, You Ge, the three of us will take the 6 o'clock direction!" Han Jia Gongzi strategized.
Gu Fei and the other two quickly ran in the direction indicated by Han Jia Gongzi.
"You Ge, give me a Life Blessing later!" After the figures of the enemies appeared in sight, Zhan Wu Shang also put on a serious face and said in a deep voice to You Ge.
"Okay!" You Ge nodded. From a purely support perspective, the qualities required of a knight expert were actually higher than those of a priest. In Parallel World, each character could only receive one single-target blessing at a time. Although applying any blessing was considered an enhancement, even many of the participants themselves didn't know which blessing was most needed and could improve their combat power the most at the moment.
As an outsider, it was obviously even more difficult for a knight to judge this. It really required someone like You Ge, who had an understanding of various professions and equipment. But to become a top expert, simply having an understanding was far from enough. You needed to be proficient in everything. Such harsh conditions meant that no one in the knight profession dared to call themselves a top expert. The service industry was really not that easy.
However, small groups like the Young Master Elite Team were all elites. Experts like Zhan Wu Shang and Yu Tian Shen Ming wouldn't be unable to answer what kind of blessing would be most helpful to them at a certain moment. Everyone would report to You Ge what kind of state they wanted, and You Ge could still handle it. Right now, he was only specializing in Zhan Wu Shang alone. This could almost reach the theoretical highest realm of a knight: changing states at any time.
Simply put, when a warrior slashed out with a sword, they would have a Strength Blessing on them; when someone's attack was about to hit them, it would be changed to an Endurance Blessing; and when the attack was a spell, it would be a Spirit Blessing... This was the ideal state that currently existed on paper. It was impossible to achieve such subtlety for the time being. You Ge was just following Zhan Wu Shang and changing his state according to Zhan Wu Shang's needs at any time.
The opposing 30 were getting closer and closer. They were quite surprised to see that the three guys in front of them were actually rushing up to meet them with the same momentum.
"Yu Tian, do it, what are you waiting for!" Han Jia Gongzi said in the guild channel.
Yu Tian Shen Ming immediately took action. On a small hill with excellent visibility in the 3 o'clock direction, Yu Tian Shen Ming was half-crouching and half-kneeling, his bowstring constantly moving, skills and ordinary attacks interweaving, and arrows piercing into the crowd of 30 people.
"Over there, over there!" Yu Tian Shen Ming's sniping was specifically aimed at picking on the weak. He killed a mage on the spot. Such high damage made the opponents, even though they only saw one person, very wary. Several people were already rushing towards that direction anxiously.
"Don't rush, don't rush! Archers, fight back!" Yun Xiang, the leader of the Yun Xiang Mercenary Group, shouted anxiously. The few guys who had rushed out hesitated slightly and stopped. The archers came out of formation and began to exchange fire with Yu Tian Shen Ming. No matter how high Yu Tian Shen Ming's attack was, he was only one person. Online games also had some regulations for the archer profession. For example, in an ordinary attack, the archer must complete the attack with one arrow before they could release the second arrow. If you wanted to take an arrow and shoot it, one after another, that was the effect of the skill "Double Shot."
So, with the opponent having the upper hand in numbers, Yu Tian Shen Ming was immediately suppressed.
"Jian Gui." Han Jia Gongzi summoned in the channel.