“Retaliate now? Retaliate against whom?” Deceitful Rippling Lotus felt out of breath.

“Now is a good opportunity, follow me!” Ye Xiu said as Lord Grim rushed out of the dark, narrow alley.

“What, he got away again!!!”

The three guild leaders received reports from their subordinates and were furious. They used “he” instead of “they” in their words, showing how unimportant Deceitful Rippling Lotus was in their eyes.

“After spending so long, he only managed to kill one person. Now he’s disappeared again, and he’s still not logging off. What exactly does he want to do?” Chun Yi Lao said.

“Does he think he can use this method to deplete our strength? He can’t be that naive, right? This kind of trick might slow down leveling and affect the progress of clearing dungeons in the new server, but what does it count for in the Heavenly Domain?” Tian Nan Xing said.

Chen Yehui said nothing, sitting in front of his computer with a fluctuating expression. He was also completely clueless as to what Ye Qiu was trying to do. He had every reason to leave, but he insisted on staying in the Wilderness Town playing hide-and-seek with everyone. Was he doing it for entertainment? He shouldn't be that childish... A top-tier god, needing to find amusement in this?

“Deceitful Rippling Lotus didn't run away, the two of them are together again. What are they plotting?” Chun Yi Lao said. Deceitful Rippling Lotus was finally being treated as a threat.

“Since they don't plan to leave, we don't need to waste our efforts on prevention. We should just have everyone search and hunt them down,” Tian Nan Xing said. To prevent them from escaping, they had allocated considerable manpower to the east and north directions leading out of the Wilderness Town. Now that it seemed like they had no intention of leaving, it seemed pointless to waste that manpower there.

After Tian Nan Xing finished talking to the two, he was about to pass on the instructions when Chen Yehui received a message: “They’ve appeared again!”

“Where!!” Tian Nan Xing and Chun Yi Lao asked in unison.

In an unnamed alley in the Wilderness Town, three players from Excellent Dynasty were about to check an alley when they saw a figure flash before them. Lord Grim had already appeared in front of them.

“Ah!” The three were surprised and didn't attack immediately. Instead, they quickly sent out a message.

Lord Grim didn't run away either. He took the initiative to attack the three of them.

Sky Strike!

With a diagonal thrust, the three people standing in a line were all within range of this small skill.

The player on the far right didn't have time to react and was directly launched into the air. The two players next to him quickly jumped back to dodge, but Sky Strike was immediately interrupted after launching the one player.

Falling Flower Palm!

With a palm strike, the player in mid-air was blown away.

Ninjutsu: Hundred Streams Slash!

Several streams of water snaked out of the alley. Before the player could land, the water streams rose up and formed a water prison, trapping him inside. Deceitful Rippling Lotus's gray figure rushed out and waved his hand, sending three shuriken flying. The two players tried to dodge, but Lord Grim interfered, tapping his battle lance left and right, affecting their movements. With two soft sounds, one of them was hit by a shuriken.

Ninjutsu: Fire Flame Slash!

Ninjutsu: Empty Cicada Double Kill!

Ninjutsu: Shadow Dance!

After the brief stun from the shuriken, Deceitful Rippling Lotus seized the opportunity and unleashed three consecutive skills. Each move was executed extremely quickly. Before the flames from Fire Flame Slash could extinguish, the two hand blades from Empty Cicada Double Kill had already struck the two players. Then, with the force of the hand blades from Empty Cicada Double Kill, the hand seals for Shadow Dance began, and then a flurry of gray figures danced in the sky, focusing their attacks entirely on the two players.

The two players couldn't resist at all. The continuous attacks even lifted them off the ground, effectively trapping them in a floating state.

This was just Deceitful Rippling Lotus's attack. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim assisted from the side. Amidst Deceitful Rippling Lotus's overwhelming offensive, he calmly dealt his damage, coordinating with Deceitful Rippling Lotus's rhythm.

Deceitful Rippling Lotus clearly didn't take these two opponents seriously. He was more interested in competing with Lord Grim. Seeing that Lord Grim was cooperating with his attacks and constantly changing the rhythm, he seemed determined to make Lord Grim make a mistake.

In the end, a smiling emoji appeared above Lord Grim's head, indicating that he had noticed Deceitful Rippling Lotus's secret rivalry. However, no matter how chaotic the rhythm, he could easily keep up. His attacks were always organized and methodical.

The players trapped in the Hundred Streams Slash water prison couldn't escape and could only send out messages. The sight of the countless Shadow Dance figures filled them with dread. His two companions were being completely abused by the relentless assault. Amidst the dazzling figures, Lord Grim's presence was particularly clear. Every move, every skill, was executed with precision.

Shadow Dance ended, and the countless figures merged back into one. But Deceitful Rippling Lotus wasn't running away. He didn't retreat at all. Like when he faced Golden Fragrance, he appeared directly above the two players, then followed up with Sparrow Plunge. His attack wasn't over yet!

Too strong!

The two players under attack felt nothing but bitterness in their hearts. As members of a prestigious guild, they had never been beaten so thoroughly. In the arena, this would be a complete and utter victory of “Glory.”

After Sparrow Plunge, he used Back Throw, a familiar combo for Deceitful Rippling Lotus. His quick actions left the two with no chance to react. From beginning to end, their classes weren't even revealed because they didn't have the opportunity to launch even a single attack.

Until now!

Back Throw was a skill that could only attack one target. Using it now finally gave one player a chance to breathe. But after being struck by Sparrow Plunge, he was already lying on the ground. He hurriedly tried to get up, but he had only managed to lift himself halfway when he was slammed back to the ground. Deceitful Rippling Lotus's Back Throw had slammed the other guy onto him.

Before the two could steady themselves, a grenade rolled to their feet, and with a deafening boom, the screen filled with smoke. They didn't know where they had been blown, they only saw their health bars continue to drop as the enemy's attacks continued.

“I can't take it anymore…”

The two were filled with despair and completely gave up resisting. Unless there was some external force, they felt that they couldn't do anything.

30 seconds!

For the entire half-minute, the two players were passively beaten without any ability to fight back. At this time, the duration of the Hundred Streams Slash water prison was up. The player who was trapped from the beginning finally broke free. Although he was alarmed by the two people's attacks, he couldn't bring himself to abandon his comrades and run away alone.

“I'll fight!”

The Berserker player had just had this thought and hadn't even raised his greatsword when he suddenly felt a “puff” and was hit by a shot, freezing him in place.

Gunner skill: Stun Bullet.

As the name suggested, the target hit would enter a stunned state. And the skill's name was directly called Stun, so the duration of the stunned state wasn't as short as the effects added by skills like Dragon Tooth. The stun from this shot lasted a full 2 seconds.

2 seconds was a significant amount of time for a stun. A skill like Stun Bullet could completely become a turning point in a battle.

Stun could interrupt any attack.

The stunned state was a good opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Any class in the gunner branch, whether it was a Launcher or not, almost always learned Stun Bullet. For a while, Stun Bullet was even considered to be a cheat.

A skill that was so highly regarded would inevitably be carefully analyzed and defended against. If Stun Bullet could hit without a trace, with a 100% hit rate, then it would truly become a cheat. Even if it was as effective as an ordinary shot, it would be suspected of cheating.

In reality, Stun Bullet flew slower than ordinary bullets, and the sound of it being fired was loud, and the bullet was large. These obvious characteristics were quickly understood by the players. Because of the high level of importance placed on it, everyone knew how to defend against this skill.

In high-level competitions like professional matches, Stun Bullet wasn't used as a direct attack method. It needed to be hidden, and it needed cover. From an initial PK opening move, it had now become an auxiliary sneak attack.

The poor Berserker player was obviously careless. Although they all knew that Lord Grim was an unspecialized class, no one carefully reviewed what skills and methods this unspecialized class had.

Moreover, Ye Xiu's shot was very cunning.

Using the obscured vision during the chaotic battle, he fired a shot silently, the sound covered up, the muzzle flash covered up. And the timing of the shot was precisely calculated to coincide with the end of the Water Prison.

Even the Berserker trapped in the Water Prison wasn't counting down, he was just waiting for the Water Prison to disappear. He never thought that he would be attacked while inside the Water Prison. Even if the caster himself attacked, it would damage the Water Prison and shorten its duration.

This was completely unexpected, and the shot was so accurately calculated, it was extremely devious.

Even as the bullet flew out, the Water Prison hadn't disappeared yet.

But as the bullet arrived, the Water Prison disappeared just in time. The Berserker made the decision to “fight!” He might have seen the bullet, but before he could think anything, it had already entered his body.

Two seconds of stun, unable to make any movements. He could only watch helplessly as Lord Grim used a Shadow Clone Technique. His real body had already flashed in front of him.

His slaughter had only just begun…

Approximately one minute after receiving the report of Lord Grim's whereabouts, Chen Yehui received a second message: the three-man team, wiped out.

Chun Yi Lao and Tian Nan Xing didn't know about this news yet. The manpower they had dispatched was still rushing towards that coordinate.