Chapter 107 Holy Flame Falls

Seeing some of the posts, Nie Yan sneered. Holy Guardians might not be good at fighting, but they were certainly diligent at posting. Niu Ren Tribe was much more low-profile on the forums. Nie Yan always believed in letting strength speak for itself, and this had subtly influenced the players of Niu Ren Tribe. They rarely got into flame wars on the forums.

After reading a few posts, Nie Yan was also provoked. He wrote a post under his name, titled “Death List of Holy Guardians, Erected by Mad Rogue Nie Yan.”

The post listed name after name, including Holy Flame, Mad Magic, Bloodthirsty Mad Blade, and Breaking Heaven, as well as other familiar figures within Holy Guardians.

When players opened this post, they were all surprised. They didn’t understand what Nie Yan meant by posting something like this. Holy Flame, Mad Magic, and the others were still doing well, directing the players of Holy Guardians in Fortress Krorok to hunt down Nie Yan and his group.

Although they didn’t understand Nie Yan’s intentions, since it was a post from Nie Yan, many people replied and bumped it up high. Some players speculated that Nie Yan wanted to take action against these people? But in their view, Nie Yan and his group were in a very disadvantageous position. Just escaping was a problem, let alone hunting down Holy Flame and the others.

At this moment, Holy Flame had dispatched five to six hundred of Holy Guardians’ top experts to rapidly sweep towards the direction where Tang Yao, Xie Yao, and the others were located. The number of players in this plaza had sharply decreased.

“Mad Rogue Nie Yan posted something on the forums,” Mad Magic said from the side.

Hearing Mad Magic’s words, Holy Flame opened the forum with some doubts. Seeing Nie Yan’s post, his anger flared. He sneered, “Mad Rogue Nie Yan is too arrogant. Does he think Krorok is his home?” The intention of the death list posted by Nie Yan was obvious. Nie Yan wanted to kill all of them in this fortress.

“Our names are on it. Do you think Mad Rogue Nie Yan will come?” Bloodthirsty Mad Blade said, wanting to see just how Nie Yan would kill them.

Nie Yan saw that the number of players in the plaza had decreased significantly, so it was about time to make his move!

Nie Yan concealed himself in an alley and chanted an incantation. A golden light flashed, and the Golden Earth Dragon was summoned.

The Golden Earth Dragon let out a low dragon roar and spewed a mouthful of Dragon Breath at the players in the plaza.

The players closest to the Golden Earth Dragon didn’t even have time to react before they were hit by the Dragon Breath. With several miserable cries, the scorching Dragon Breath instantly melted them.

“It’s the Golden Earth Dragon, Mad Rogue Nie Yan is here!”

The players in the plaza were immediately thrown into panic and chaos. A large group of Shield Warriors swarmed towards the Golden Earth Dragon.

Holy Flame and the others noticed the commotion in the corner of the plaza and looked over. The gigantic Golden Earth Dragon appeared in their line of sight. Their expressions changed drastically. Mad Rogue Nie Yan had indeed arrived as promised!

Holy Flame and Mad Magic exchanged glances, their faces drained of color. Holy Flame said fiercely, “We can’t let him be so arrogant, we have to find a chance to kill him!”

Holy Flame glanced at his bag, which contained dozens of advanced scrolls and some totem-like items. He said, “I’ll give you some scrolls, watch how you use them later.” Holy Flame understood that capturing Nie Yan’s trail was extremely difficult. Intercepting and killing Mad Rogue Nie Yan was a huge challenge for them, and they could only rely on items.

Glancing at the Golden Earth Dragon at the edge of the plaza, Holy Flame summoned two flying mounts, preparing to intercept the Golden Earth Dragon. The Golden Earth Dragon was infamous, and he understood that sending ordinary players to deal with it would simply be suicide. In the end, they would be slaughtered by the Golden Earth Dragon and wouldn’t be able to cause substantial damage to it. Only flying mounts could deal with it. Having the flying mounts hold off the Golden Earth Dragon, and then letting the mages attack it in groups, was the only way to possibly kill the Golden Earth Dragon.

Seeing that the two flying mounts were in position, Holy Flame began to organize the players to set up traps around him, planting some totem-like items, wanting to lure and kill Nie Yan with them.

The Golden Earth Dragon attracted the attention of a portion of the Holy Guardians players, making the defenses around Holy Flame much weaker.

Nie Yan saw Holy Flame setting up something quickly. A red light flashed in his eyes—Eye of Truth!

On the empty ground around Holy Flame and the others, one invisible totem pole after another appeared. These guys had obviously set everything up, waiting for him to appear.

Nie Yan smiled coldly. They didn’t think he would be stupid enough to step on their traps, did they?

He took out the Headless Horseman Drollo’s Cavalry Crossbow from his bag and looked towards Holy Flame in the center of the plaza. He estimated the distance to be about two hundred yards. The range of his cavalry crossbow was only one hundred and twenty yards. He was preparing to use long-range shots to kill Holy Flame and his gang.

Who said a thief had to attack at close range? Who said a thief’s ranged attacks couldn’t kill people?

Under normal circumstances, a thief’s crossbow damage was extremely limited and could only be used to attract monsters, but the enhanced Headless Horseman Drollo’s Cavalry Crossbow that Nie Yan had completely broke this convention. A range of one hundred and twenty yards completely ignored those traps.

After sweeping through hundreds of players, the Golden Earth Dragon was entangled by a Wind Serpent and a Thunderhawk, temporarily unable to cause effective damage. However, with the Golden Earth Dragon’s terrifying health, it would be no problem for it to hold out for more than ten minutes.

Nie Yan stealthily approached the direction where Holy Flame and the others were located. The distance between them gradually narrowed from two hundred yards to about one hundred and twenty yards. Holy Flame had entered the attack range! Less than five yards away from where Nie Yan was standing, there were a dozen or so Holy Guardians players, searching everywhere, but they didn’t notice Nie Yan, who was close at hand.

With their perception, even if Nie Yan approached within two yards, they wouldn’t be able to discover the concealed Nie Yan.

After setting up the traps, Holy Flame and the others still hadn’t found Nie Yan, scanning the entire plaza.

“Could it be that Mad Rogue Nie Yan doesn’t dare to come?” Bloodthirsty Mad Blade said.

“Probably not, with Mad Rogue Nie Yan’s personality, he wouldn’t go back on his word,” Holy Flame said, his nerves still in a state of extreme tension, already simulating countless tactics in his mind, on how to hunt down Nie Yan here.

Seeing that Nie Yan hadn’t made a move, Holy Flame was slowly withdrawing the surrounding players little by little. He understood that these people couldn’t do anything to stop Nie Yan here, they were just a burden. If Nie Yan didn’t appear, then the traps they had set up here would be for nothing.

Holy Flame turned his head and said a few words to Mad Magic and the others, being a little distracted. In this fleeting moment, Nie Yan aimed at his throat and pulled the trigger.

Swish, swish, swish, five arrows streaked across the sky in a straight line, shooting towards Holy Flame.

After one strike, Nie Yan’s figure appeared, but before the Holy Guardians players around him could react, he entered stealth again, sweeping out dozens of yards. He took out five arrows from his bag, loaded them onto the cavalry crossbow, and pulled the trigger again, his movements as smooth as flowing water.

The Holy Guardians players saw Nie Yan’s figure flash by and used skills like Light Radiance and Eye of God to search for Nie Yan’s trail, but Nie Yan had disappeared as if out of thin air, nowhere to be found.

“Holy Flame, watch out!” Mad Magic and the others discovered the incoming arrows and exclaimed in alarm.

Holy Flame turned his head instinctively and saw five arrows shooting towards him. His heart skipped a beat. He heard a few dull sounds. These arrows hit the protective barrier he had set up around him. After three arrows, the protective barrier shook, and was pierced by the fourth and fifth arrows.

Radiant Shield!

Holy Flame waved his staff and cast a shield spell on himself. With two loud sounds, the shield was also penetrated, and the fifth arrow hit Holy Flame.

A damage value of over six thousand floated above Holy Flame’s head.

What astonishing damage! Holy Flame couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.

His shield had a 70% damage reduction effect, but Nie Yan’s arrows still caused more than six thousand damage to him, it was simply unbelievable.

Weren’t thief’s bows and arrows always incapable of killing people?

Qin Han had previously been killed by Nie Yan with a crossbow, but he was too ashamed to tell Holy Flame and the others about it, so Holy Flame and the others were completely unaware of the power of Nie Yan’s Headless Horseman Drollo’s Cavalry Crossbow, and therefore didn’t have enough precautions beforehand.

Before Holy Flame could recover, another five arrows shot towards him.

“Boss, be careful!” A warrior next to him sensed something was wrong, activated Defensive Stance, and stood in front of Holy Flame.

With three dull sounds, damage values of over ten thousand, and one over twenty thousand floated above the warrior’s head, and he was instantly shot to death.

The warrior didn’t even understand why, with only three arrows, the attack damage was so terrifying.

Nie Yan’s attacks never stopped, and his attack frequency was astonishingly fast.

Several Holy Guardians players around Holy Flame were shot to death by Nie Yan one after another in order to block the arrows for him.

Watching three arrows shoot towards his forehead, Holy Flame rolled on the spot. The three arrows brushed past his head only an inch away, making his scalp tingle. If it was just a little bit closer, he would have been killed.

Before he could stand up, several more arrows flew over. He couldn’t help but curse in his heart, what kind of attack frequency was this!

Nie Yan was shooting from a hundred yards away, so he had time to dodge. If the distance between them was closer, he would have been killed long ago.

Seeing that he was about to be shot, Holy Flame turned his head sharply, and two arrows grazed past his cheeks.

“Damn…” Holy Flame just cursed, before he could say anything, an arrow pierced through his throat, and another arrow shot into his forehead, piercing through the back of his head. The powerful inertia of the arrows sent his body flying.

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A large critical hit damage value floated above Holy Flame’s head. His health reached zero, and he collapsed to the ground.

Holy Flame being killed so quickly left Mad Magic and the others stunned and at a loss.

Seeing this, Nie Yan revealed a grim smile. That was the first one! He entered stealth again and disappeared without a trace.