Chapter 1 The Beginning

Lan He was indeed already considered a rare expert. This Drawing Sword Strike was accurate and on point. The person hadn't arrived yet, but the sword had already arrived first, giving the goblin merchant a beautiful aerial pursuit in mid-air. If it were Tian Qi and the others, they probably wouldn't be able to execute such a strike.

Lan He immediately followed up with a Triple Slash, a swordsman skill that integrated attack and movement. The character quickly slid forward, and before the goblin could completely land, three streaks of sword light flashed, and three clusters of blood flowers flew up.

Upward Stab! Lan He cut out with another sword, preparing to lift the goblin into the air, when suddenly a strangely shaped battle spear stretched out from his side. Lan He felt a tightening in his heart when he saw this strange battle spear, and when he glanced over, it was indeed Lord Grim.

A sword and a spear simultaneously attacked the goblin merchant. Which would arrive first, the fast sword or the long spear?

Was it him? Lan He felt that the edge of his sword and the tip of Lord Grim's spear had arrived at the same time. The goblin received this blow and was knocked even higher into the air.

The battle spear pierced through, and the goblin merchant was immediately pulled in a semicircle, directly thrown to Lord Grim's side.

Roundhouse Kick.

Both of their skills hit the goblin merchant. Unfortunately, Lord Grim used a grappling skill, and the goblin merchant, once thrown, blocked Lan He's path.

Lord Grim's face was right in front of him, but the character's eyes were always so empty. Lan He didn't know what Lord Grim was feeling at this moment. He only knew that he was very calm, without hesitation or doubt. He slashed out a horizontal strike at Lord Grim.

Lord Grim jumped back to dodge the sword, half-jumping behind the prone goblin merchant. Suddenly, he used Sky Strike to launch the goblin merchant, followed by Falling Flower Palm, which slammed into the goblin merchant's body.

The goblin merchant flew out, heading straight for Lan He.

Too fast!

Now, facing Lord Grim in person, Lan He finally experienced how fast this person's control was. Had his backflip finished when he used Sky Strike? Could he accurately launch the fallen goblin merchant into the air? Falling Flower Palm was even more outrageous. Was the goblin merchant already launched into the air at that time? If it was still in a downed state, Falling Flower Palm wouldn't have a sweeping effect.

Sweeping was another type of attack state in Glory, specifically referring to additional attacks on downed targets. Falling Flower Palm was a straight-line skill that attacked the front, and downed targets could not be hit. Using Sky Strike first was to put the downed goblin merchant in a floating state, so that Falling Flower Palm's attack could hit it.

In Lan He's eyes, Lord Grim's backflip, Sky Strike, and Falling Flower Palm were unbelievably fast. He didn't even see if he had hit or not, whether it had landed or not, and the goblin merchant was already flying towards him.

Lan He was strong after all. The moment the goblin merchant hit him, he quickly used a parry. The goblin hit the sword, and Lan He slid back a step, but he wasn't knocked to the ground.

The focus now wasn't on dealing with Lord Grim, but on snatching the goblin merchant!

Lan He's thinking was unusually clear. It was just that he didn't have a skill like Roundhouse Kick that could grab the goblin and throw it aside to create distance between him and Lord Grim. Lan He could only increase damage output and build aggro to make the goblin merchant voluntarily come to his side.

Rise and fall, Silver Light Falling Blade.

Unfortunately, the swordsman was also a class with no sweeping skills at the moment.

As a result, just as he jumped up and hadn't drawn his sword, he saw a sword qi soaring across, its speed seemingly slower than Lan He's, but with overwhelming force. Lan He saw a spray of blood fly out from his chest, and he was slashed and sent flying in mid-air, with only one thought in his mind: This is impossible!

He clearly saw that when Lord Grim used this Drawing Sword Strike, he didn't switch weapons from his bag, but directly drew a blade from the end of the strangely shaped battle spear in his hand. The sword light flashed and disappeared. When Lan He looked again, Lord Grim had no sword in his hand. Could it be that he was hallucinating?

Lan He believed that he wasn't, but he couldn't figure out what had happened at that moment.

Lan He didn't fall. He rolled the moment he landed, using a Ukemi technique to avoid falling. At this time, he was further away from the goblin merchant. Lan He felt anxious and ran forward quickly.

"Boom!"

With a booming sound, Lan He was sent flying again.

Damn it! Lan He cursed inwardly. This time it was his own mistake. He only focused on approaching the goblin merchant and forgot that the Boss would have a ground tremor when it got up from being knocked down. Otherwise, wouldn't it be impossible to get up again after being surrounded when downed?

The ground tremor sent Lan He flying, and he used Ukemi again to avoid falling. He saw that Lord Grim skillfully jumped back to dodge the ground tremor, and now he had already rushed to the goblin merchant again, directly using a throw to throw the goblin merchant even further away. Over there, several players from Tyrannical Ambition had already swarmed up.

In the brief contest for the Boss, Lan He was completely defeated.

But he knew that this was far from over. Everyone present, including their Blue Brook Guild, would never allow Tyrannical Ambition to easily kill the goblin merchant.

"Hasn't the person arrived yet?" Ye Xiu controlled Lord Grim to rush back into Tyrannical Ambition's formation, and with a few more attacks, he stabilized the goblin merchant's aggro on himself before asking.

"Almost there." Ye Du Han Tan was even more anxious than Ye Xiu. This goblin merchant had already been brought over, but the manpower Ye Xiu needed hadn't arrived yet. Only a Launcher and an Elementalist in his team were needed by Ye Xiu. Under Ye Xiu's command, they were stepping up their output against the goblin merchant.

A large number of players were rushing towards this side, but seeing that the goblin merchant was currently in the hands of Tyrannical Ambition, many hesitated slightly. It wasn't that they wanted to give up on the Boss, but they hoped that someone would take the lead and rush forward, because they didn't want to clash head-on with Tyrannical Ambition.

However, not all players were so wary of Tyrannical Ambition. The people from Blue Brook Guild weren't afraid at all.

The Blood Gunner incident was still vivid in their minds. The problem was that the three guilds hesitated and thought too much. This time, Lan He was unusually decisive. Without even thinking, he took the lead and charged forward. Behind him, more than a dozen Blue Brook Guild players had arrived, about the same number as Tyrannical Ambition.

"Scatter!" Ye Xiu ordered, and Ye Du Han Tan and the others scattered according to his arrangement. Lord Grim used Falling Flower Palm again to blast the goblin merchant away. The Launcher and Elementalist moved left and right, their figures mostly hidden behind the trees. As soon as their skills cooled down, they would suddenly pop out and hit the goblin merchant. The group of melee experts led by Ye Du Han Tan didn't go up to surround and attack, but just paid attention to running. When the goblin merchant passed by a certain tree, someone would often suddenly jump out from behind the tree and punch or chop it.

Lan He was dumbfounded. He had never seen anyone fight a Boss like this.

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Cough, this chapter is a high-tech update. To those who rushed to the book review section to grab a sofa, thank you for your hard work!