Chapter 20 Mist Shadow Assault

Mist Shadow Assault wasn't originally a skill meant for group damage, but when the targets were positioned so cooperatively, it became one.

At this moment, the mages were standing in a very cooperative formation. They lined up in a row, waving their staffs at Gu Fei and the three soldiers, eager to cast their spells while enjoying the sight of Gu Fei and his small squad's demise. As a result, Jian Gui got the chance to use Mist Shadow Assault as a group damage skill.

Jian Gui's figure suddenly vanished, and when he reappeared, the first mage in the line disappeared along with him. Mist Shadow Assault was already a skill with extremely strong impact. For current players, it was even more potent due to the level difference, not to mention Jian Gui's top-tier assassin gear. The mages' fragile bodies were as thin as paper at this moment.

Jian Gui, transformed into a streak of black, was like a bamboo skewer. The mages were like pitiful tanghulu (candied hawthorns on a stick), all pierced in one go. White light bloomed frantically, one after another, rising and falling. The power of Mist Shadow Assault gradually decreased as one after another was instantly killed. In the end, it lost its ability to instantly kill, but the mages were already terrified and in disarray, no longer caring about casting spells, scattering in all directions to dodge.

Gu Fei seized this moment of respite, his spirits lifting. However, seeing the large number of people from Against the Flow Wine, and with a powerful commander like Han Jia Gongzi, he wouldn't be able to shine today. He immediately shouted to the three soldiers, "Retreat!"

The soldiers understood the command and turned to run. The soldiers' speed was something that ordinary players couldn't keep up with.

"Don't panic, hold your ground!" Han Jia Gongzi said angrily. These weren't personally trained troops, and they were difficult to command, always making unexpected mistakes. Jian Gui's Mist Shadow Assault was fierce, but they had twenty or thirty people on their side. He couldn't possibly kill them all with one strike, could he? But these guys were terrified by the candied hawthorn impalement and lost their composure.

"Archers, archers harass them!" Han Jia Gongzi hurriedly called out to intercept. Archers' greatest advantage was their range. Unlike warriors and thieves who had to get close to fight, the archers immediately raised their hands and fired arrows upon hearing the order. Han Jia Gongzi was furious and nearly spat blood: "Damn it, why are you shooting at those three? Those three are NPCs, shoot at those two!" The archers saw the three soldiers running in the front and shot their arrows at them. But the NPCs were programmed to follow orders to the death. They didn't care about the arrows, they just kept running. It was possible to kill them, but harassment was out of the question; they wouldn't pay any attention!

"Ice Storm, Ice Storm!" Han Jia Gongzi shouted again. Against the Flow Wine's strongest asset was their mage team. But at this point, the soldiers had already run quite a distance, and even with Ice Storm, they couldn't catch up. Everyone's attention could only turn to Gu Fei and Jian Gui, who were much slower.

"I'll fight you to the death!" Gu Fei suddenly roared at this moment, jumping back to kill them. This startled Han Jia Gongzi. Although he had always looked down on Gu Fei as a mere martial artist, he knew that this guy wasn't the type to be impulsive and reckless. But his current actions were too irrational. It was just an NPC soldier; it didn't matter if it died, what was the big deal? Could it be that he bought it for a lot of gold coins?

Han Jia Gongzi was puzzled, but he didn't dare to be careless, and quickly commanded the players to surround them. In this melee, Gu Fei's strength hadn't really been displayed much. On the other hand, Jian Gui captured a king and pierced candied haws, making the players of Against the Flow Wine very fearful, even somewhat avoiding him and bullying Gu Fei instead.

Jian Gui was excited! Ever since he fought alongside Gu Fei, when had he ever seen this scene? Usually, enemies avoided Qian Li Zui (Gu Fei's in-game name) and treated them, these once-renowned experts, as melons. Today, he had finally redeemed himself.

Only now did the players of Against the Flow Wine truly come together, and the team of nearly a hundred people began to unleash their power. Although Gu Fei and Jian Gui were experts, they couldn't withstand the sheer number of people. After clashing left and right for a while, the encirclement became tighter and tighter.

"Out of mana?" Jian Gui asked Gu Fei as they brushed past each other. Gu Fei was just brandishing his sword at this point, unable to use his powerful Twin Flame Slash despite several excellent opportunities.

"I still have a little, waiting for a chance!" Gu Fei said.

"What chance?" Jian Gui asked.

"Can you break out?" Gu Fei asked back.

Jian Gui chuckled, "I'm waiting for cooldowns!"

"Can you hold on?"

"Before, it would have been difficult, but now, I think it's about the same." Jian Gui said. This period of hellish training wasn't a waste of time. Plus, since he didn't have to work, Jian Gui played like crazy, spending an average of 16 hours a day on the game. The other 8 hours were for eating, drinking, and sleeping.

"Alright, see you in the city later!" Gu Fei said.

Jian Gui naturally didn't doubt Gu Fei's strength, and felt that breaking out of this encirclement wouldn't be a problem for him. If it weren't for Han Jia Gongzi's command, he might have already gotten out. But under his coordination, the encirclement remained tight, with a perfect system of professions set up in every direction, leaving no weak points.

Jian Gui glanced around, and could see that Han Jia Gongzi's formation was almost complete. This guy was aiming for a one-hit kill this time, determined not to give them another chance to escape. Jian Gui estimated that the cooldown time of his Mist Shadow Assault should be within this guy's calculations. This guy should launch the final siege before he could activate the skill.

However, Jian Gui was also slightly prepared. At this moment, he held a small scroll in his hand: Skill Scroll: Limit Release.

This scroll was accidentally obtained by Jian Gui during his diligent training these days. The effect of this scroll was extremely powerful, and could remove all usage restrictions of any skill. This restriction included requirements, cooldowns, time, etc. In other words, the skill specified by the scroll, when released next time, would not need to wait for the cooldown, would not need any chanting or release time, and would not consume any mana, energy, or rage.

Its value was undeniably high. The only regret was that it was just a one-time scroll. Many people liked to save this kind of thing for critical moments, but the more they had this thought, the more likely they were to never use it. Because when it came to critical moments, they would always hesitate: Is this critical enough? And many people would be unlucky because they didn't use it, and would turn around and comfort themselves: Hey, I died, but at least this one-time treasure wasn't used, and it can still be used next time…

Jian Gui, a master who had seen great storms, would use one-time items whenever he could, never hesitating. And now he was preparing to use this Limit Release. In fact, with this scroll, his Mist Shadow Assault could be said to have no cooldown, and he could have broken through long ago. But, he also had the thought of using it at a critical moment, but he would firmly execute it, and wouldn't have those extra thoughts like many others.

Seeing that Han Jia Gongzi's layout was complete and he was about to launch a full attack, Jian Gui called out to Gu Fei, "I'm leaving!"

"Okay, be careful!"

The two greeted each other like they were going home after dinner. Jian Gui flicked his wrist and released the scroll, activating Limit Release, specifying Mist Shadow Assault. The skill instantly became unconditionally available. Jian Gui didn't hesitate. He raised his dagger, and a black shadow flashed out, not even bothering with stealth, and directly charged out in one breath.

There were only about a hundred people in Against the Flow Wine here, not enough to form many layers of encirclement. Jian Gui had seen this long ago, which was why he had been confidently teasing them here for so long. At this moment, once the skill was used, there was another burst of white light. Jian Gui's cross-level skill, high-end equipment, and perfect stats resulted in an attack power that was above Gu Fei's magic damage. Gu Fei couldn't instantly kill enemies, but Jian Gui could still do it.

"Ahhh!" Cries of agony echoed along the way. Half of the people had already been teleported away. Jian Gui stabbed through the encirclement with one strike, and left without looking back. Many people from Against the Flow Wine looked at Han Jia Gongzi with immense resentment: Didn't you say his skill was on cooldown?

Han Jia Gongzi was also at a loss! He did take Jian Gui's skill cooldown into account, but he had calculated everything except for the fact that Jian Gui had recently obtained such a thing! Jian Gui wasn't Yu Tian Shen Ming or Zhan Wu Shang, and he would definitely show off anything he got, so no one knew that he had such a skill scroll in his possession.

Jian Gui rushed out for a while and looked back, and no one was chasing him. After his Mist Shadow Assault, he followed up with Quick March and sprinted, and no one could catch up. Han Jia Gongzi wouldn't let his formation be exposed by chasing after him. His first action was to immediately arrange for people to fill the gap left by Jian Gui's breakthrough, and launched an attack to prevent Gu Fei from doing anything strange.

Han Jia Gongzi had also calculated Gu Fei's mana very clearly: after disarming the trap, he had used Twin Flame Slash twice, Instantaneous Movement once, and Lightning Spell once. With such consumption, he should still have one ultimate move available, but this guy had been slow to use it, apparently preparing to use it to break out. But another problem arose: this guy had taken the initiative to rush back, and he didn't seem like he was trying to break out. What was he up to?

"This layout is completely flawless…" Han Jia Gongzi praised his own layout, but given that Jian Gui had just done something unexpected, he couldn't be sure if Gu Fei would do something strange as well.

Everyone in the core of the encirclement around Gu Fei kept their distance, and the mages bombarded him with area attacks. Such a scene would of course be perfect, but how could Gu Fei give him this opportunity? He stuck to them like glue, engaging in close combat, always drilling into the most densely populated areas. A mage in Against the Flow Wine was a little impatient and shouted in the channel: "Try to entangle him, we mages will just bomb him directly. Anyway, we won't lose a level if we die. Brothers, take a little run!"

Han Jia Gongzi hadn't even mentioned using the tactic of sacrificing his own people, but someone had already been forced into preparing to use it. Several melee players were also very conscious, and decided to sacrifice themselves to show this Qian Li Zui a thing or two. Seeing the mages waving their staffs and about to cast their spells, Han Jia Gongzi's mind suddenly lit up, and he quickly stopped them: "Stop, don't cast spells!"

Some people stopped, but some people had already chanted their spells, and it was too late to take them back. At this moment, Gu Fei suddenly swung his sword, and the players who had thought they had entangled him were immediately thrown off. Gu Fei had already darted to the other side to stir things up, but the spells wouldn't follow Gu Fei, and landed in place, hitting the comrades who had volunteered to sacrifice themselves. Fortunately, most people had heard Han Jia Gongzi's order and stopped, so the few who were hit didn't die. Han Jia Gongzi saw that this was good, and saved himself some words, simply saying in the channel: "See! That's his scheme."

As a result, there were still guys who didn't understand and asked: "What scheme?"

"He guessed that we would use this method to deal with him, pretended to be entangled, lured us to release spells, and then escaped, and the spells all blew up our own people." Han Jia Gongzi said.

The players of Against the Flow Wine recalled the scene just now and successively understood, and all sighed: "Too despicable."

Han Jia Gongzi told his guild members this, but he had another idea in his mind. What Gu Fei guessed was actually that he, Han Jia Gongzi, would use this method. And Gu Fei had always been very disdainful of this method, and wanted to take this opportunity to let him suffer the consequences himself. This guy, too despicable! Han Jia Gongzi's last thought was the same as the guild members.

Since they had seen through it, they naturally wouldn't let Gu Fei's scheme succeed again. Han Jia Gongzi's arrangement this time actually didn't have any intention of sacrificing his own people. Sacrificing his own people was a forced method used in extremely urgent situations. At this time, the situation was completely under control, and there was no need for it, so why bother doing it?

"Inner circle contracts, attack!" Han Jia Gongzi gave an order, and this was his tactic against Gu Fei. His encirclement was clearly divided into two circles, which was to prevent Gu Fei from using Instantaneous Movement. Attacking the encirclement, Gu Fei wanted to use Instantaneous Movement to escape, but could only move out of half the encirclement, and the outer circle was still there. Then, the inner circle would run in a circle, and before Gu Fei could kill his way out, there would be another encirclement. Without mana, Gu Fei's damage was limited, and he could only be exhausted to death.

Therefore, if Gu Fei used Instantaneous Movement to escape, it would actually save them trouble. On the other hand, if he used Twin Flame Slash for a desperate struggle, he could let Against the Flow Wine lose a few more people, but he would never escape.

Han Jia Gongzi saw through Gu Fei's thoughts, and felt relieved that he wouldn't do anything strange again, and immediately issued the command for a coordinated attack.

Gu Fei moved again, and then saw a circle of players all surrounding him, no longer giving him any chance to slip away. He smiled slightly, and the Dark Night Flowing Light Sword just hung down like that.

No one paid attention to his actions. Everyone had been holding their breath for a long time, and rushed towards him, wanting to kill him. If the weapons in their hands weren't very valuable, many people could have directly thrown them at Gu Fei's face at this moment.

Gu Fei scanned the pile of people rushing up, chuckled, and said to them: "It's on fire!"

Everyone was stunned and waved the weapons in their hands to chop at Gu Fei. Suddenly, the soles of their feet felt hot, and the flames had completely risen up in a flash. This time, there was no ebb and flow, and the entire inner circle bloomed a large white flower very uniformly. Right in the middle of the flower was Gu Fei, who opened his mouth to laugh twice, but didn't have time, and disappeared with a bunch of players in a white light.

There was a deathly silence. Everyone opened their eyes wide, watching the lively cluster of people disappear. Only a few heavily armored defensive warriors with thick skin and flesh were left, standing there dumbfounded, holding their large shields, watching the flames flickering around their feet.

Everyone looked at each other, and suddenly glared at their commander, Han Jia Gongzi.

Han Jia Gongzi's face was also very ugly. The moment everyone died, he immediately reacted and was fooled again, fooled in a big way.

He wanted to arrange a perfect encirclement to exhaust Gu Fei to death, but he didn't know that Gu Fei was exhausting them in the process of encircling them. Originally, they weren't afraid of consumption, because they had priests. But in this extremely chaotic situation, priests were very limited. Parallel World wasn't like ordinary online games, with a row of heads listed there, and you could click on them to cast skills when you saw their health was low. The requirements for priests in Parallel World were really harsh, and many things required players to observe and judge for themselves. Fortunately, the system also provided some assistance. Just like archers had assistance in shooting, priests would receive a lot of system feedback about the healing needed within their healing range.

Even so, they still had to observe who was injured. And in the process of recovery, they always had to be able to see the target. Therefore, in the situation just now, the priests were limited, especially with Gu Fei leading them to run around. Even if the priests had a reasonable position at the beginning, they would get messed up after a few runs.

Gu Fei used this point to run around, creating as much damage as possible to one player after another, lowering their health. Players didn't pay much attention to this health until it reached the warning line, so in the end, they were brought to the middle by Gu Fei, and with one Fire Tree Thousand Heavy Flames, he blew up people and himself together.

If it weren't like this, Gu Fei wouldn't have been able to kill so cleanly with a direct area spell. But at this moment, except for a few heavily armored warriors with really thick blood, there was no one alive. This spell killed at least thirty people.

Looking at the gazes of everyone pointing at him, Han Jia Gongzi smiled disdainfully, sniffed, and said: "Consider it his lucky escape!"

In the city, Gu Fei resurrected in the Mage Academy, feeling refreshed. How gratifying it would be if he could send a message to Han Jia Gongzi at this moment. It was a pity that nothing was perfect!

Gu Fei sent a message to Jian Gui: "Not back yet? I'm already here."

"You're cheating…" Jian Gui had escaped and had been watching Gu Fei from afar to see how he would get away, and he also saw the scene of Gu Fei setting himself on fire.

"Haha, that guy always likes to drag people to their deaths with me, so I had to satisfy him." Gu Fei said.

"But what about your mission? I think with our strength, it's too difficult to harvest that mission from Against the Flow Wine." Jian Gui said.

"Yeah, you're right… it seems Against the Flow Wine is very serious about this mission, there must be more than a hundred people, right?"

"About."

"Let's think of another way. What about the soldiers?" Gu Fei finally started caring about his soldiers.

"They entered the city themselves. What orders did you give them?" Jian Gui saw that Gu Fei had ordered the soldiers to retreat, and then muttered a few words to them.

"I told them to wait at the city gate."

"Oh, then let's meet at the city gate!" Jian Gui replied.

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