Hu Die Lan

Chapter 209 Whoever Kills the Least Loses

"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"

In the midst of battle, Huang Shaotian suddenly adjusted the font, continuously typing out seven "kill" characters in the largest and most aggressive font!

Beneath the thick word bubble, Flowing Tree's attacks seemed to become even sharper.

Qiao Yifan was even more convinced of his guess. Flowing Tree's attacks were ceaseless. To maintain such a high-paced offensive while also having the time to adjust the font and type words, who else could it be but the god-level Huang Shaotian with his extraordinary hand speed?

However, despite the continuous and sharp sword attacks, the first of the guild's eighteen heroes to fall was not felled by Flowing Tree's sword.

Although Huang Shaotian was sharp, and although the level 25 orange weapon he used was equivalent to the attack power of a level 30 purple weapon, his level was too low, his skill damage was relatively weak, and the damage reduction brought by the six-level level suppression could not be ignored. His output was limited. Of the eighteen heroes in the field, the first to fall was under Tang Rou's Chilling Mist's battle spear.

No one knew how much emotion this girl had accumulated in her heart after being killed twice today and blocked in the main city. All that everyone saw was that she was fighting, fighting non-stop.

Since arriving at the scene, she hadn't said a word, just relentlessly killing. The seven "kill" characters that Huang Shaotian typed out would have been more appropriate for her.

The attribute-less movement speed bonus under Chilling Mist's feet, the fire-attributed power bonus radiating red light on her arms, and the ice-attributed defense bonus faintly emitting a light blue light around her body, all perfectly demonstrated the powerful fighting spirit of this Battle Mage.

She wasn't attacking from the periphery; she had charged straight into the enemy ranks. But her opponents could do nothing, and instead, one of them was ruthlessly killed by her.

This kind of indomitable spirit was something even Huang Shaotian didn't possess. Even when Huang Shaotian was fighting these newbies in his eyes, and had the absolute advantage, his opportunist nature wouldn't change. This was also a kind of temperament. Every player has their own temperament. Play style, habits, and decision-making methods are all manifestations of temperament. Professional players take everything to the extreme, so their temperament is even more obvious.

Huang Shaotian could use his skills to achieve Tang Rou's kind of strength, but that wouldn't change his nature. His nature was that of a lurking, hidden assassin who strikes with one sure kill, not a fearless, charging general.

Tang Rou's performance surprised even Huang Shaotian. Perhaps because their previous interactions were only in PVE, against the monotonous and stubborn system NPCs, everyone mostly followed fixed routines. But in PVP combat, the situation is complex and ever-changing, and the demands on players are obviously higher. A person's various characteristics are more prominently displayed. At this moment, what Huang Shaotian saw was Tang Rou, whose technique hadn't reached the top level, but whose temperament had been well displayed.

Gu Yin and his group of players dared to brandish their weapons at Huang Shaotian's Flowing Tree, but when facing Tang Rou's Chilling Mist, they were already trying to avoid her.

"She's a talent!" This time, Huang Shaotian truly recognized Tang Rou's strength. He hadn't taken it too seriously during the previous dungeon run.

With a "boom," Chilling Mist once again used the Battle Mage's domineering Falling Flower Palm to blast away a group of people. A figure used the gap created by the blast to flash in. The blade sliced, and frost fell from the blade, forming a blue and white ghost, Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash taking advantage of this opportunity to rush into the center of the enemy and drop an Ice Array.

Gu Yin and the others were anxious to launch attacks to interrupt, but in the end, all their attacks were a fraction of a second too slow. One Inch Ash finished chanting and dropped the Ice Array, then rolled away, just barely dodging everyone's attacks.

"Beautiful! In just a moment, he saw clearly the classes of all the surrounding characters, judged their positions and possible attack methods, and chose a position that was just right to release the Ice Array and avoid all possible attacks from all directions. Excellent, very excellent. You weren't guessing, were you?" An ordinary person would just say "Nice!" and be done with it, but Huang Shaotian explained why it was good in great detail. By the time he finished speaking, several players on Gu Yin's side had been frozen like ice pops by the Ice Array.

"Ah…" Qiao Yifan was flustered by the great god's praise. After an "Ah," he didn't know what to say, so he just replied, "No, I wasn't." At this time, Huang Shaotian had already continued to spout his trash talk, send out his word bubbles, and wave his greatsword to kill his opponents.

Qiao Yifan's performance was indeed brilliant, but for the top gods in the professional circle, it wasn't enough to be surprised and stand there for a long time to savor it.

A laser cannon shot out, mercilessly tearing apart the crowd of eighteen, no, already seventeen people, once again. On the other side, Ye Xiu's Lord Grim also used a domineering Falling Flower Palm to blast open a gap. Steamed Bun Invasion flashed out powerfully and threw a handful of sand out in a sneaky manner, immediately blinding the two running players.

The two people with black screens didn't know what their situation was. They just counted the skill cooldowns and frantically pressed the attack button, frantically搓(cuo) skills.

A moment later, the blindness effect disappeared, and one person blankly discovered that the world was already gray. He fell to the ground and looked up at the sky. Beside him was the brother who had just been blinded with him. Lord Grim's sword was slicing across his neck. What spurted out seemed to be blood, but in the world of the dead, even blood was gray.

That brother also fell. With just one blind, both of them fell. The blindness effect of a level 30 Thief wouldn't last more than six seconds, but they couldn't even hold on for those less than six seconds. They didn't know what kind of coordinated attack the opponent had carried out on them during this period. They could only check the system's diary to find out that they were killed by Lord Grim.

This opponent, who they thought was the most terrifying, had been inadvertently ignored due to the eye-catching performances of others.

Lord Grim was always there!

Lord Grim was the strongest!

By the time they realized this, they had already fallen in Hollow Forest.

Lord Grim continued to fight. When he wielded the battle spear, his dominance seemed no less than that of the female Battle Mage. But when he suddenly switched to other weapons, he could immediately display a different style…

The crowd retreated in disarray, and the voice of the swordsman Flowing Tree still echoed in their ears: "Aiyo! Not using your full strength! You haven't fully displayed the style of a scattered person. You're always using the battle spear. Do you think you're a Battle Mage!"

"Is it necessary?" Ye Xiu said with a smile. Lord Grim's battle spear thrust out with a flick, and another Circle Swing smashed a player to death.

"You're going to lose," Ye Xiu said.

"What?"

"I've already killed 11 people," Ye Xiu said.

"Damn, damn, is this still being counted?" Huang Shaotian shouted. Earlier, there was a saying that the winner would be determined by the number of kills, but Huang Shaotian had forgotten about it as he fought. Now that he counted, he had only killed 9 people. Earlier, everyone's progress was the same. The difference of 2 people was what he lost after the great melee began.

"What are you competing on?" Tang Rou finally said her first sentence since arriving.

"A game where whoever kills the least loses," Ye Xiu said.

"Hahahaha." Steamed Bun Invasion laughed loudly, attracting everyone's attention. Then, he calmly turned to Steamed Bun Invasion's side, where the clumsy Summoner, Luo Ji, was frantically commanding his summons, and said in a serious tone, "You lost."

Luo Ji was still diligently commanding his summons. His summons had previously formed a human wall to block the eighteen heroes. Some were killed, and some reached the end of their time. At this time, a new wave had been summoned. The mission of the human wall had been completed, and Luo Ji was now commanding them to fight.

This time, he did it.

One of the ice pops frozen by Qiao Yifan's One Inch Ash's Ice Array was accurately marked by Luo Ji. His one goblin, two Lightning Elves, and two Fire Elves immediately rushed up and surrounded the ice pop.

The Fire Elf's flame attack immediately broke the frozen effect, but it wasn't easy for this player to escape after being surrounded by five summons like this. Although Luo Ji's control was terrible, the encirclement had already been completed, the mark was still there, and the summons had already begun to attack automatically.

Pitifully, that player was tightly surrounded when he was an ice pop. At this time, there was no way to go left, right, front, or back. He was constantly attacked by the five summons, and his life was rapidly decreasing. He raised his sword and cut open a summon, wanting to run out quickly, but the other summons were already chasing closely. Luo Ji carefully supplemented the mark on him, and fortunately, he didn't accidentally throw it on someone else. This player was actually killed by his summons.

"Ah, ah! I killed one!" Luo Ji was excited, looking at the system log that recorded the information that he had killed a certain player, as if he were on system television.

"Damn!" Steamed Bun Invasion was angry. Luo Ji had actually killed one person, so wouldn't that mean he was tied with him?

"How many have you killed?" Steamed Bun Invasion quickly asked Qiao Yifan, who happened to be moving to his side.

"Two," Qiao Yifan said.

4, 3, 2, 2... At this time, the other people suddenly reported numbers together. Ye Xiu's Lord Grim killed 4 people, Tang Rou's Chilling Mist killed 3, and Su Mucheng and Huang Shaotian each killed 2.

"Damn!" Steamed Bun Invasion didn't want to lose this game and cheered quickly. But at this time, only a pitiful 3 of the 18 heroes were left. They were alone and helpless in the circle. What was even more pitiful was that no one was prepared to show mercy. Everyone seemed to want to snatch points from the two of them and rushed up madly.

Countless weapons and skills landed on them at the same time. Light and blood rippled together, and the three instantly became three corpses. Among these three was Gu Yin. As a guild leader-level figure, he was undoubtedly the strongest of the eighteen heroes in terms of strength. He held on until the end but did not change his final fate in the slightest.

The moment his life was exhausted, his world was gray. Before he lost his hearing, the last sentence he heard was two people saying in unison: "Hahahaha, got one."

Damn it! Are we monsters?

Gu Yin was depressed but couldn't tell who was laughing. He died, and the loss wasn't too heavy. Just a little money and 10% of his experience. None of his guild brothers dropped any equipment.

But the word "total annihilation" deeply hurt Gu Yin. The team of 32 people led by him to chase and kill Lord Grim was actually wiped out?