Chapter 26 A Major Flaw

After leaving the tavern, the six went their separate ways. Sword Demon and War Without Wounds said they were going to repair their equipment, Yu Tian Shen Ming was preparing to replenish his arrows, Brother Yu went straight to Cloud Glow Valley, and Young Master Han: "I don't think two pieces of cloth are enough, I'm going to get another one."

Gu Fei arrived at the auction hall. With dozens of gold coins in hand, Gu Fei was preparing to buy a handy weapon.

The original white board sword was very suitable, but unfortunately, in the eyes of ordinary players, this sword was an extremely ordinary piece of equipment, so ordinary that no one would ever think of bringing it to the auction hall for sale. Gu Fei searched here, and the result was naturally nothing.

Unlike ordinary players who choose weapons, Gu Fei's first consideration was the size, specifications, weight, etc. of the weapon. These data affected Gu Fei's performance more than the weapon's attack power attribute. Unfortunately, the game's search engine did not have an advanced search function that could determine these data, so Gu Fei could only look for the real objects in the exhibition hall one by one.

This undoubtedly increased the workload a lot, so much so that when the five guys in the mercenary group's chat window said that they had arrived at Cloud Glow Valley, Gu Fei had just found a single sword in the exhibition hall that looked suitable.

Baptism of Flames, the attack power was slightly higher than the white board sword Gu Fei had used before, and it also had a 30% chance of fire magic attack damage.

Ordinary players would probably regard this kind of weapon as a tasteless rib. Because in the setting of the parallel world, the magic damage attached to the equipment is related to the character's attributes. The more mana a character has, the higher the attached magic damage. Roles that often use knives, such as warriors, are born with poor mana, so what they need is only the effect brought by magic. For example, the slowing effect of ice damage, the paralysis effect of electric shock damage, and so on. There is no additional effect, only the higher damage of fire magic damage, which is of little value.

Therefore, such an equipment with a fairly high probability of attached magic was priced at 60 gold coins, but no one cared about it. Sword Demon's superb dagger, Frost Memories, had only a 10% chance of attaching frost.

Gu Fei didn't understand so much professional online game knowledge, he only felt that the weapon's attack was not low, and the high probability of attached magic was an effective supplement to his low damage, so he bought it without hesitation.

"Qian Li, how are you doing?" All five had arrived at the valley, but Gu Fei hadn't responded, so Young Master Han started calling names to ask.

"Uh, almost there..." Gu Fei got the Baptism of Flames. The blade was dark red, and there was a slight burning sensation when held in the hand, as expected of an equipment with fire magic. The only regret was that the sword did not have a scabbard. So Gu Fei simply stuffed it into his pocket and hurried on his way.

All the way through Young Master Han's criticism and urging, Gu Fei finally set foot on the hot land of Cloud Glow Valley. He had spent countless days and nights here, and Gu Fei was inexplicably excited. He asked the five people in the chat window: "I'm here, where are you?"

"Take the boulder by the lake as the axis, and the broken wooden house on the east side as the 12 o'clock direction. I'm at 1 o'clock, Sword Demon is at 4 o'clock, Yu Tian is at 6 o'clock, Wu Shang is at 9 o'clock, and Brother Yu is at 10 o'clock. You... just find a place to hide and cover your face," said Young Master Han.

Gu Fei took out the cloth and tied it to his face. Gu Fei was also quite familiar with this area, a level 40 training area, and currently the players were only level 30. There were very few people who could fight monsters 10 levels higher, so there was no one there at the moment. Gu Fei got into the nearby forest and hid in it.

"Don't rush to make a move, wait for the other party to appear, identify the other party's role, and then clarify the tactics and defeat them in one fell swoop," said Young Master Han.

Everyone said yes.

The next thing was a long wait, and the valley was silent. Gu Fei played with his newly bought Baptism of Flames, forcibly holding back from rushing to the little monsters to open the blade.

Half an hour passed, and everyone was a little restless. They questioned in the chat window: "Brother Yu, is your information correct! Are they leveling up here!"

"It can't be wrong!" Brother Yu had always been extremely confident in his information.

Because of his firm tone, everyone waited for another ten minutes, but there was still no one. Even he couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

"Why don't we level up here for a while," Gu Fei said, eager to try his new weapon.

"Here they come, someone's coming!" Sword Demon sent a message. Everyone's eyes turned to the entrance of the valley, and a mighty team entered.

"Wow, there are quite a few people!" Yu Tian Shen Ming exclaimed.

"Ten," Brother Yu had already started his intelligence work. "Looking at their attire, two warriors, one mage, one archer, three thieves, and three priests."

"Is there anyone whose position can use Appraisal?" asked Young Master Han.

The four shook their heads to indicate they could not. Gu Fei's answer was unique: "I don't know Appraisal."

Everyone: "..."

The ten people had completely entered the valley and arrived at the monster spawning point, preparing to set up their positions and start leveling.

"Still no one can get close to appraise them?" asked Young Master Han.

"I'll try," said Sword Demon.

"I've been waiting for you to say that," said Young Master Han.

Sword Demon activated his Stealth skill and approached the other team from the hillside. There were currently no anti-stealth skills specifically targeting stealth, so the thieves had all developed a good skill of peeping.

However, stealth was a skill that would be exposed with the slightest disturbance, and using Appraisal in stealth would also reveal one's true form. So Sword Demon could only move to a position closer to the ten people by stealth, and then find a hiding place to slowly appraise them.

The position he had chosen was the boulder by the lake that Young Master Han used as the axis. Sword Demon revealed his true form behind the boulder, and everyone's hearts were in their throats. This place was only two meters away from the leveling team, and if any of them took a slightly larger step, they would immediately discover Sword Demon hiding behind the stone. The Stealth skill could not be used in any non-normal state, such as being attacked. For experienced players, it was easy to prevent a thief from using stealth.

More importantly, to use Appraisal, one's eyes had to be focused on the target being appraised, but at this time, Sword Demon was hiding behind the boulder, and his own vision was also blocked. To use Appraisal, he had to show his head, but without seeing the outside scene, how would Sword Demon know if he would meet someone face to face when he showed his head?

At this time, Gu Fei finally appreciated the legendary golden duo of the online game world.

Young Master Han, who had a panoramic view from afar, had now become Sword Demon's eyes. He watched the line of sight of the ten people fighting monsters, and then issued commands to Sword Demon. Sword Demon seemed to be controlled by Young Master Han, accurately seizing ten gaps and perfectly showing his head, completing ten Appraisal. The results were presented in the chat window.

As expected of the number one guild, Zongheng Sihai. Among these ten leveling team members, eight were level 30. Of course, even though they were all level 30, the experience points of these people were still quite different from those of the top players like Sword Demon and the others. Unfortunately, experience did not help in combat. This was the way Parallel World used settings to narrow the distance between players.

"The levels are not low, but the equipment is average," Brother Yu said, watching the ten people's monster fighting style while looking at the appraisal results, and began to analyze one by one: "The two warriors are difficult to kill in seconds, it seems that they are all blood oxen with physical build; the mage's weapon is good, the magic attack is very high, but the defense is not good; this archer is completely just following the team to gain experience, ignore him; the three priests have average skills, but if they focus on healing the two warriors, it will be tricky. As for the three thieves, two are more general, and the third is Bu Xiao Le (Not Smiling), Sword Demon's Appraisal failed, it seems that his Appraisal level is higher than Sword Demon's."

"Well, Sword Demon, you stay there in stealth for now," said Young Master Han.

Sword Demon gave an "ok" gesture in the 1 o'clock direction where Young Master Han was, and then activated his stealth and disappeared.

"Take care of the three priests first, Brother Yu, what do you think?" Young Master Han spoke, and a battle meeting began in the chat window.

"Well, otherwise the two warriors will pose too great a threat to us," said Brother Yu. "However, two of these three priests also have physical builds, so it's a bit troublesome to fight. Wu Shang's Whirlwind Slash might be able to kill one, but Sword Demon's Backstab and Yu Tian's Snipe are probably not enough. If they are smarter and cast Recovery on each other to delay time, we will be in even more trouble."

"It seems impossible to take down all ten in one go," said Young Master Han.

"I don't think it's possible," Brother Yu sighed.

"What about you? Any thoughts?" asked Young Master Han.

"Since we can't eat them in one bite, let's break them down one by one!" said Gu Fei.

"Oh?" Everyone waited for Gu Fei to continue.

"Their team composition has a major flaw," said Gu Fei.

"Is that so?" Everyone began to pay attention to the other party's team of ten.

"The mage has low defense and low health, and that archer is weak," Gu Fei continued.

"If we kill the mage, this team will have no ranged attack ability," Young Master Han had already discerned Gu Fei's thoughts.

"That's right, with Yu Tian's attack power, maybe a Snipe will kill the mage," Gu Fei was still thinking about Yu Tian Shen Ming's Snipe yesterday.

Brother Yu calculated the mage's data again and affirmed: "Definitely a one-shot kill! Unless Yu Tian, you can't hit him."

"Are you kidding me?" Yu Tian Shen Ming scoffed.

"If they are suddenly sniped by an archer, I think their reaction will be to scatter and find cover," said Gu Fei. "Taking advantage of this opportunity, Sword Demon can sneak over and suddenly attack, taking care of a priest."

"Maybe not," said Sword Demon. "Maybe I can take care of two."

"But that would expose Sword Demon," said Yu Tian Shen Ming.

"Then just run, can anyone catch up with you?" said Gu Fei.

"There's also an archer," said Yu Tian Shen Ming. The archer's arrows would undoubtedly be faster than Sword Demon's run.

"By this time, you should be able to launch a second Snipe, right?" said Gu Fei.

"So," Gu Fei concluded, "just use Sword Demon's Stealth and Yu Tian's Snipe well, and that's enough to fix this team."

"Good idea," said Young Master Han. "However, our goal is to wipe them out completely, so after Sword Demon and Yu Tian have inflicted enough damage on them, everyone will attack in one fell swoop."

"No problem!" everyone said.

"Yu Tian, get ready," Young Master Han issued the attack order.