Chapter 133 Skill

Gu Fei walked forward modestly, clasped his fist in the other person’s direction, and said, “Please!”

This was the old-fashioned fist salute that people like Gu Fei who specialized in kung fu would do before a martial arts competition. What online game players cared about this when PK-ing? The opposing thief snorted from his nose, stepped forward, and walked up.

He wasn’t holding a dagger, but rather a wooden stick.

The thief’s skill “Muffled Strike,” which he learned at level 36, as the name implied, could only be used if he was holding a stick. But frankly, with the thief's current skill set, "Muffled Strike" had no practical value in a one-on-one PK.

"Muffled Strike," like "Backstab," had to be used on the enemy's back. Even if "Muffled Strike" was successfully cast, the next attack skill chosen would definitely still be the most damaging "Backstab." Wasn't this completely redundant? If you had the effort to use "Muffled Strike," wouldn't it be cleaner and more efficient to just use a "Backstab"?

So you have to study the player's psychology.

The reason for using "Muffled Strike" instead of "Backstab" was mostly due to the psychology of underestimating the enemy and showing off. Imagine stunning the opponent for five seconds with "Muffled Strike," then leisurely wiping your leather boots, and then pulling out a dagger for a "Backstab." How relaxed and carefree would that look? Even if others couldn't appreciate such a heroic spirit that treated PK like child's play, at least you'd feel good about it yourself.

At this time, this thief felt that he was being looked down upon by Gu Fei, and was even more determined to use this superfluous method to counter Gu Fei's contempt.

Gu Fei's attitude was much more serious and upright. He silently took off the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword from his back.

"Using a sword?" the thief wondered to himself. The halo of the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword still made it seem extraordinary, but after using two Appraisal spells, he still couldn't figure out the attributes of the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword, and could only mutter to himself. Gu Fei wasn't a newbie anymore. He had also learned the Appraisal skill, and had been using it in a decent manner for a month, and was now at level 8. Although this was only an average level among the many players, it was still better than having no appraisal defense at all. He wouldn't be completely exposed by someone using an Appraisal spell.

It’s generally more difficult to appraise high-level items than low-level items. So it's no coincidence that Gu Fei's clothes and sword remained hidden after several Appraisal spells.

"Can we start?" Gu Fei asked after the other party didn't make a move for a long time.

"Here I come!" This thief was truly cunning. While answering Gu Fei, he took a flying leap and rushed in front of Gu Fei. In fact, PK between thieves and mages was very simple. Just find a way to get close as soon as possible, and hack away with a dagger. As long as you can keep the mage from escaping, ordinary attacks would be enough.

But because this thief was holding a stick and had to use a Muffled Strike, there was an extra step involved. He needed to get behind Gu Fei first. He took a flying leap, followed by a detour, a very suave and quick movement, and gracefully flashed behind Gu Fei.

"Too slow to react!" the thief thought triumphantly, feeling that this battle would be extremely easy.

Gu Fei really didn't react, and didn't even raise the sword in his hand. He still maintained the pose of propping the sword on the ground with both hands. At the moment when the thief flashed behind him, he just moved his mouth and completed a chant: "Resist Fire Ring, out!"

"Too late!" the thief thought, completely disregarding the mage's defensive spell, and swung his stick as planned.

With a "poof" sound, it was the sound of the fire ring burning the thief. Then Gu Fei also made a move, taking two steps diagonally to the side.

The thief's Muffled Strike missed. Immediately, he felt an emptiness in his body where life was flowing out, and he was shocked when he looked at his HP. Raising his head again, Gu Fei took two steps out and turned around, smiling at him: "Is that okay?"

The thief opened his mouth for a long time without saying a word.

The audience was even more confused, wondering why these two had suddenly stopped.

The thief stayed still for a long time before coming back to his senses. Without saying a word, he silently walked back to his own formation.

Gu Fei put away the Resist Fire Ring and returned to the women's group. The two groups of people stared at each other, and then asked in unison, "What are you doing?"

The thief was ashamed to speak, and Gu Fei just replied lightly: "It's over!"

"It's over?" A bunch of people were surprised.

"Who won?" This was the key question.

The thief had a bitter face, and Gu Fei smiled, the answer was self-evident.

"When did you fight?" Everyone began to get to the bottom of it.

"When did you make your move?" The women in the women's group asked Gu Fei.

"When did you get hit?" The men in the men's gang asked the thief.

The answers were the same: "Didn't you see I was burned?"

"Burned? Resist Fire Ring? That counts as burning?" Everyone's reaction was the same.

"My blood is already red!" The thief's face was ashen. In Parallel World, life normally appears as green, turns yellow when it drops by more than half, and turns red when it drops to one-tenth. Generally, you have to consider a retreat when your blood turns yellow. When your blood turns red, there is a ninety percent chance you will die.

"No way? Resist Fire Ring? Burned until your blood turns red?" Some people didn't believe it.

"Go let him burn you and try!" The thief was still wondering about this question in his heart! He was unable to explain it and felt very bad.

The other side began to suspiciously look at the women's group: "Did someone use tricks from the side?"

"Hey! You're trying to weasel out of it after losing!" The women retorted. Although they were also puzzled, they were the winning side, and Gu Fei was one of their own. They could ask anytime, there was no rush.

"Resist Fire Ring can burn people's blood red, who would believe that?" the other side said.

Although the women didn't believe it from the bottom of their hearts, they all said in unison: "We all believe it." Women can be really scary when they're protecting their own.

The men were speechless. Men mostly had the upper hand in PK. As for arguing, uh, even if you could win against a girl, you'd be accused of being ungentlemanly, so there was no need to work hard in this area.

At this time, a brave man came out, pointed at Gu Fei and said: "Try burning me, I want to see how much blood you can burn."

The women encouraged Gu Fei: "Burn him, burn him."

Gu Fei glanced at him and said: "Wait."

"What? Are you afraid? You have to find someone to act with you, right?" The other party was smug, thinking he had stepped on Gu Fei's tail.

"Skill cooldown." Gu Fei looked at him sympathetically, never thinking that there would be someone in this game who had even less online gaming common sense than he did.

This person lowered his head in shame.

After a while, the skill cooldown ended, and Gu Fei came out again. The other party straightened his chest and said loudly: "Come on, I want to see how much you can burn." At the same time, he vigilantly looked at the women: "Don't even think about doing anything, my eyes are sharp."

The women all expressed their contempt.

"If I win this match, you're not allowed to bother us anymore tomorrow." Gu Fei felt that he couldn't be doing this show for nothing.

The person was stunned and looked back to seek the opinion of his companions.

After a brief exchange, they nodded generously.

"Resist Fire Ring, out!" Gu Fei was decisive, summoning the fire ring and rushing in front of the other party. That person didn't even react before Gu Fei finished burning and retreated, putting away the fire ring. Resist Fire Ring was a continuous mana consumption skill, which consumed quite a lot for Gu Fei.

"How is it?" The others asked nervously.

This person looked at his life and was overjoyed: "It's not even red, it's almost not even yellow, you kid are really pretending to be a ghost."

The faces of the others turned pale when they heard this. Gu Fei said lightly: "If your life is high and you have magic resistance, of course you won't be burned red." He muttered to himself: This person really has less common sense than he does.

This person wasn't really lacking in common sense, but he was too focused and ignored these objective factors. At this time, he reacted and was quite shocked. As Gu Fei said, he was a constitution-focused warrior, and he also had equipment with magic resistance. A skill that could burn a normal thief red would only do this much to him. But as far as Resist Fire Ring was concerned, it was already freakish enough to be shocking.

This person silently retreated back to the team and whispered to his partners.

On the Rebirth Purple Crystal side, while celebrating the victory, they were already preparing to start leveling up. But they waited left and right, but couldn't see the other party showing any intention of leaving. Luo Luo spoke: "Everyone, can you leave now?"

"Leave? Who said we were leaving?" Someone on the other side said.

"Shameless, too shameless, how can you be so shameless!" The girls accused.

The other party wasn't embarrassed: "Beauties, what this brother means is that this match also counts as a competition. Since it's a competition, we have to determine a winner. Do you think our people would admit defeat and give up the match when their blood isn't even yellow?"

"Sophistry!"

"Shameless!"

"Despicable!"

The girls shouted, and Gu Fei's head was getting big. He quickly walked out of the formation: "Then come out quickly, let's finish this."

"No problem." The other side responded, and the warrior from just now came out again.

After a brief meeting and research, the other party still believed that the damage of Resist Fire Ring couldn't possibly be this high. After thinking it over, they all felt that the extremely good sword in Gu Fei's hand might be the key issue. Moreover, the fact that they still couldn't see the attributes of this sword after many appraisals made it seem even more mysterious.

No one had ever heard of a sword with magic damage, and no one would have thought that such an advanced piece of equipment would appear in the hands of a player at this time. In the end, the discussion resulted in a unanimous conclusion: "That sword must have an attribute that greatly enhances the damage of Resist Fire Ring, which is why it seems so perverted."

"If only I had chased after him when he put away the Resist Fire Ring just now, I would have definitely won!" The warrior slapped his thigh in regret.

"It's not too late to know now!" Someone in the team said with a sly smile. In every group, there must be a dog-headed strategist-like character.

"How?" The others looked at him.

"The distance of Resist Fire Ring and Whirlwind Slash, which one do you think is farther?" This person said.

Everyone immediately understood. The Whirlwind Slash move wasn't limited by weapons, so the distance it covered was very flexible. The longer the weapon, the larger the area of the slash. As long as you weren't holding a dagger, if you used an ordinary one-handed sword, the distance of the resulting whirlwind would also be above that of Resist Fire Ring.

"If I use Whirlwind Slash, will he still be alive?" The warrior said.

"Who cares? That's what the skill does, and they didn't say we weren't allowed to use it." The dog-headed strategist said.

"Makes sense, makes sense!" Everyone said.

Thus, there was the previous scene. Using the excuse of not admitting defeat, they proposed another match.

"It's okay, another match is fine, it'll be quick." Gu Fei comforted the girls.

The warrior came out of the formation, holding the heavy sword as far down the hilt as possible, which was rumored to be a trick to increase the distance of Whirlwind Slash.

Gu Fei's tactic remained the same. He chanted and summoned Resist Fire Ring, and immediately took the initiative to approach the warrior.

The others felt that Gu Fei only had this one trick, otherwise, why would a mage use "Resist Fire Ring" and actively approach people?

The warrior was confident and at ease. But he was greatly surprised by how quickly Gu Fei approached, and he quickly and hastily unleashed Whirlwind Slash.

But the Whirlwind Slash's signature starting action had already entered Gu Fei's eyes. At first glance, he was stunned. Because he didn't think that the other party would use Whirlwind Slash. If this move went down, the mage would probably die on the spot, and the idea of holding back was too contradictory.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Fei used his very profound martial arts vision and thinking to judge whether the other party was bluffing him. In an instant, the whirlwind swept in, and there were bursts of screams from the girls' group.

It's for real! Gu Fei quickly raised his sword to parry, taking advantage of the gaps and borrowing strength to bounce out. His heart was already on fire. The other party was clearly not prepared to hold back. If Gu Fei hadn't increased his speed at level 39, compared to his speed at level 30, that hesitation just now would have caused him to stumble under this move. It was really a loss that he was so honest, and had been using Resist Fire Ring to make them give up.

"Fireball, shoot!" Gu Fei summoned a fireball and threw it over.

The warrior was greatly surprised that Gu Fei had actually parried Whirlwind Slash, but he didn't take this fireball seriously.

In Parallel World, there was a special term called "Judgment."

When the same or different skills were used at the same time and came into contact, the calculation of the damage of both sides was determined by this "Judgment."

For example, an ordinary attack with a sword could split a fireball, which could be said to mean that the "Judgment" of the ordinary attack was above that of the Fireball spell. When the two collided, the attack of the Fireball spell was almost nullified.

Of course, the Judgment rules weren't that simple. In addition to the data of the skills, the character's attributes, attack speed, and damage size could all affect the Judgment result.

However, considering all the above factors, the warrior's Whirlwind Slash was undoubtedly a skill with a very strong Judgment.

So Gu Fei didn't throw this fireball casually.

Just like how he parried Whirlwind Slash by taking advantage of gaps, Gu Fei also calculated the timing of this fireball, preparing to use these small gaps to break through Whirlwind Slash. In terms of rules, Gu Fei's method of accurately grasping the timing was an attempt to avoid the collision between Fireball spell and Whirlwind Slash, so there was no need to go through a "Judgment."

Unfortunately, the fireball was still split by Whirlwind Slash.

Despite Gu Fei's precise calculation, he still couldn't bypass the "Judgment," because the air currents generated by Whirlwind Slash were also part of the Judgment rules. The fireball was too weak, and couldn't withstand this air current. As soon as it flew, it was torn to pieces.

Gu Fei wasn't discouraged. He suddenly had another idea, and was preparing to summon a fireball again, but the other party stopped.

Seeing that Gu Fei was far away and Whirlwind Slash could no longer reach, this person naturally wouldn't continue to spin foolishly. Seeing that Gu Fei had put away Resist Fire Ring after being bounced away, he immediately felt that this was a good opportunity to pursue, and he quickly put away Whirlwind Slash and strode towards Gu Fei. In his eyes, Gu Fei without Resist Fire Ring could only be at his mercy.

Gu Fei was just about to do another experiment! He felt very sorry that the other party had suddenly put away Whirlwind Slash. However, seeing him approaching quickly, it was exactly what he wanted. He didn't retreat but advanced, welcoming him at high speed.

The warrior was afraid that Gu Fei would run around in circles to delay time and wait for the Resist Fire Ring skill to cool down. Seeing that he was also迎迎上迎迎上, he was naturally overjoyed.

The two met with such surging emotions. The warrior took the lead and, seeing that he was still three steps away from Gu Fei, let out a huge roar and used the skill "Charge."

The warrior himself was slow, but the speed of the skill was not. But in Gu Fei's eyes, no matter how fast the skill was, it was useless, because the signs of the attack were too obvious. Having experienced a month of pursuit and PK, Gu Fei had a unique understanding of the various professional skills in the game. In terms of understanding the data, he was still not as good as You Ge, Jian Gui, and others, but in terms of judging in actual combat, he was on a higher level.

At this time, the warrior bent over and stuck out his butt. Gu Fei accidentally anticipated the enemy's move again. He flashed to the side, and the other party charged over with a roar, naturally missing. Gu Fei lightning-like got up and gave him a push on his butt, adding two meters to the original charging distance. This warrior very mightily thrust his sword into the big tree that was originally behind Gu Fei.

I don't know how the damage of this sword stabbing into the tree was calculated, but it seemed that the tree's defense was very weak. This sword actually pierced right through. The warrior shouted badly in his heart, because he had seen this plot in many martial arts scenes: If you insert it too deeply, you won't be able to pull it out.

Sure enough, he used his arms with force, but the sword was still motionless. Gu Fei killed him at this time, didn't release magic, but went around to the side and shouted loudly, waving the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword with both hands and slashing down.

This kind of PK scene was rare. This warrior had never considered what to do in PK if the opponent had the momentum to remove his arms.

Since he hadn't thought about it, he naturally relied on conditioned reflexes. Moreover, the game was so realistic. When the warrior was nervous, he quickly retracted his hand and retreated.

If Gu Fei really wanted to chop, he would definitely not be able to dodge. This slash was just to scare him. Seeing the other party let go and retreat, he smiled secretly in his heart.

A warrior without a weapon was worse than a mage.

A mage could still use skills even with bare hands! A warrior without a weapon couldn't use Charge, Whirlwind Slash, or anything else.

What's more, his weapon was still stuck there! If he didn't hurry up and pick it up, what if someone else picked it up? What if the system wiped it out? What if it grew together with the tree?

The warrior was anxious, but Gu Fei didn't show any mercy, and continued to chop with his sword.

Without a weapon in his hand, this warrior immediately lost his PK awareness. Watching the other party's shiny weapon kill him, he had no idea how to resist, and scurried away while holding his head. He was still shouting: "Sword, my sword! Help me get my sword back."

A few companions stared blankly to help him pull out the sword. Gu Fei continued to chase him in the middle of the field. With all-agility and wearing top-quality boots, there was no suspense in chasing this warrior. Gu Fei stabbed his back again and again, questioning: "Is it red yet, is it red yet!"

"What is red yet? What is red yet?" The warrior shouted.

"Is your blood red yet, is your blood red yet?" Gu Fei continued to stab.

"Almost, almost!" The warrior roared.

"Speak when it's red." Gu Fei said as he stabbed.

"It's red, it's red!" The warrior spoke immediately.

Gu Fei's sword was still on his back, but he didn't stab down, and asked, "Do you surrender?"

"I surrender, I surrender." The warrior raised his hand.

"Okay!" Gu Fei responded, and put away his sword.

"My sword!" The warrior ignored his red blood and immediately went to rescue his sword stuck in the tree.

"What kind of explanation is this?" The audience was collapsing, especially the members of the men's gang, who were very confused.

"He surrendered." Gu Fei spread his hands and said.

"This...this..." A bunch of people had very painful expressions. They waited until the warrior's sword was rescued before stomping their feet and angrily saying: "We'll come again the day after tomorrow." In their opinion, this loss was too accidental. Charging into a tree and having the sword get stuck in the tree and unable to be pulled out, was there such a ridiculous thing? A warrior without a weapon was stabbed to surrender by a mage holding a sword, it was too embarrassing. Everyone left indignantly.

"Take care!" Gu Fei waved to their backs.

The women had already laughed into a ball. Luo Luo came up and commended Gu Fei: "You've got some skills."

"So-so." Gu Fei smiled. Such an easy posture to solve a brutal PK was the awesome posture that many players were pursuing. It was just that Gu Fei's realm was a bit too high, using the terrain, and then the appropriate flash and kick, these major factors combined together, ordinary people simply couldn't imagine that this was intentional. Plus the real unexpected cover-up of the sword getting stuck in the tree and unable to be pulled out, everyone regarded the previous prelude as a coincidence.

No one understood and appreciated the good show, who could understand the loneliness of such a master?

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