Qin Fengyi returned to the second platform and found a comfortable position with the best viewing angle.
“It’s finally starting.” KB began to feel anxious. Although he started everything off as a joke, he still felt a bit humiliated after being attacked by the public.
Li Yao’s Heavy Crossbow vanished after he shot out an arrow. Instead, a long rifle appeared in his hands, and his movement was so fast that it was like he was performing a magic trick. His movements were flowy and smooth, leaving behind shadows.
-6
The Heavy Crossbow only caused six points of damage to the Boss, but seeing the damage figure made Li Yao let out a sigh of relief.
He still felt tension in his heart when facing the Boss, it was still a great challenge for him to deal with a Boss that was seven levels higher than himself.
Li Yao quickly reloaded and fired while dashing toward the Boss.
-2 -3 -4…
“This Boss is actually not as difficult as I thought, I have thought of at least two ways to kill him.” Li Yao’s calm voice shocked the audience, their eyes were wide opened.
What the f*ck, others were not even able to think of a single method while he had already thought of two. They were all sick of his bragging.
“Hunters and Bandits are the same, but only in the wild are Hunters more superior. Our survivability is not weaker than Bandits, and our ability to kill is far stronger than Bandits. Hunters have a lot of techniques, and the most common technique is changing of positions in a kite formation. This technique is also applicable to this Boss fight, as long as I am able to manage the Boss’s Raid skill, his instant kill will no longer be a threat to me.”
Once the audience and fans gave it some thought, what he said did make sense, but they thought that it was only theoretically possible since dodging the Boss’s Raid skill would not be that easy. Only a handful of people could shoot backward accurately while running under Free Mode, whereas most people still could not even shoot properly from the front. The fans then came to a realization that many people were not able to do it, but based on Li Yao’s archery skills he might be able to, and the thought of it gave them a sense of relief.
“However, although changing positions is relatively safe, but you’ve all seen the damage I’ve caused, and I’m sure none of you would want to see me waste tens and thousands of arrows to finish him off. Hence, today, I’m going to show everyone the second Skill Break that belongs to the Hunter class. Last time, I used a sword to parry the Boss’s skill, the same could be done by classes that use shield, which is the safer option. On the other hand, Hunters can use guns to parry. I believe from this day onward other Hunter players will understand that Hunters are the real king of the wilderness. Look here, you do it like this…”
While talking, the distance between the Boss and Li Yao was already close to fifty yards.
The Boss’s figure disappeared in a flash. Although the fans and audience knew that it was Liao Yuan who was fighting the Boss, they could not help but to shriek.
After watching the fight between the two Bosses, they knew that the Boss had unleashed the skill, Raid.
But the moment the Boss was about to vanish, Li Yao turned around abruptly with his loaded rifle ready. He leaned back slightly with his rifle raised upward and pulled the trigger.
Bang, bang…
With the bangs, two orange bullets simultaneously soared out of the rifle’s barrel.
It was as if time had been slowed down by a thousand times when the two bullets cut through the empty space, and hit the Boss that had just appeared above Li Yao. The bullets hit both of the Boss’s bulging tendons on both arms, one on the left and the other on the right. Both bullets had accurately hit the exact same spot on the left and right arm respectively.
-3 -2…
Boom…
The Boss’s humongous body slammed on the shadow cast after Li Yao used Shadow Flip to evade getting crushed. Then, Li Yao grabbed the fallen Boss’s hair with his left hand, pulled his head up, and used the rapier on his right hand to strike the Boss’s throat. His hands moved like lightning, accurately striking the artery on the neck and pulling out the rapier violently.
Instantly, bright red blood spurted out of the Boss’s neck.
-500
The stabbing was insanely fast, it took less than a second from the stab to when the rapier was pulled out. While the Boss was struggling to get up, Li Yao gave his throat two more quick stabs. Since it was not the first attack after the Skill Break, his damage was severely lowered, but it was enough to catch everyone’s attention.
-100 -120…
The only way to inflict this kind of terrifying damage was to attack the Boss’s vital points when the Boss had lowered his defense and blocking abilities.
The Skill Break earlier was as fast as lightning, it ended before most people could even comprehend what was happening. Besides, what was more confusing to them was how Li Yao had shoot twice when it was clear that one rifle could only hold one bullet.
With the prevalence of Free Mode in World of Ancient Gods, the attacking mechanics had changed.
In previous games, the frequency of swinging attacks was fixed. For example, it was set that the attack speed of a Great Sword was one swing every three seconds. When a player attacked continuously, he could only do one swing every three seconds, which of course affected the attacking speed and other attributes.
The frequency of one swing every three seconds was fixed, which meant that even if players were to unleash a skill during that period, the normal attack would still continue to go on.
For example, when players unleashed a Deadly Strike just when the time for normal attack was up, they would have two attacks at the same time.
Due to this mechanism, a lot of expert players put in the effort to find out the best attacking cycle to maximize their damage output, and to cancel out the effects before and after the skill was unleashed. There were many popular combinations made such as the Warrior’s five hacks per second, the bowmen’s ten arrows per second and many more.
But in World of Ancient Gods, this setting was removed, and there was no such setting anymore.
For example, the speed of the stabbing Rapier was one stab per second, but that was the general concept. In this game, if players were not able to manage the Rapier’s one stab per second well, their attacks might not be faster than using a Great Sword.
More importantly, it was difficult for most players to unleash both normal attacks and skills at the same time, they could not even perform the simplest two hacks per second. They could only perform one attack at one time, either a normal attack or a skill.
Therefore, the vast majority of the audience were very confused and did not understand why Li Yao was able to send out two shots at almost the same time.
“Replay, I request for a replay!”
“I recorded it, I’ll replay it now.”
“Ah! I forgot to record it, why didn’t the person above remind earlier? What a shame.”
“Playback.”
The live broadcast’s chat box was instantly filled with similar messages, Fengyi had no choice but to replay the footage.
At the TV station, Tina looked at the replay of the scene that had been slowed down several times. “What is this, you can even play this way?”
“This is Gun Parry,” added KB.
Tina was at a loss for words, “I know this is a gun parry, I just want to know how it’s done. We saw the moment he parried and broke the Boss’s skill, but we couldn’t react in time. How is he able to skill break with this method? It’s too awesome.”
KB spat out a breath and quickly said, “This is more than just awesome, it’s unbelievable! Did you see, the moment before the Boss went out of sight, Liao Yuan had already turned around before the Boss’s figure even appeared. At that moment, he performed two unimaginable operations. One of it was, it created a new fighting style, as for the other, everyone would be able to understand it, but learning it would be difficult. I predict that many class experts would drop levels in order to practise this new technique.”
“Then hurry up and say it, we will watch Liao Yuan continue his fight afterward.” Tina said anxiously.
KB smiled faintly. “You can see that he loaded the bullets before he turned around, this was when the Boss hasn’t even unleash his skill, but Liao Yuan already knew that he was going to use Raid. His prediction is terrifyingly accurate. Then, you notice that Liao Yuan’s two-handed rifle was actually only supported by his right hand, and he had his left hand ready on the pistol strapped on his waist.”
Only then did the audience clearly see that Li Yao had the rifle’s handle stuck in between his armpit, with the muzzle angled upward. And his left hand was holding a pistol with its muzzle also pointing upward.
Two bullets were shot out almost at the same time, but at that time most people were focused on the rifle and did not even imagine the existence of a pistol. The crowd was enlightened.
“See, this is the new style he created. Although it was a little rough, but I believe that this will be an inspiration to others. It will become more and more perfected and become as popular and widespread as performing five hacks per second. Secondly, he has a godlike prediction.
“Godlike prediction?” Tina wondered out loud.
“Correct, godlike prediction. We can determine which skill the Boss is going to unleash by tracing the skill’s details. If you observe carefully and meticulously enough, you can see that the Boss will execute specific actions before unleashing each skill. But when you look back at it, when Li Yao shot both guns, did you guys notice that he pulled the trigger before the Boss’s figure had even appeared? The Boss’s figure only appeared when the two bullets were released from the muzzle.”
The scene was slowed down and replayed. Everyone could see it clearly now, it was exactly as KB had said.
“Now you know how scary it is. If the Boss appeared first and both shots were released at the same time, we would have marveled at his precise shooting and quick reflexes. But this is nothing of the sort, this is godlike prediction. Look closely again, both bullets hit the same spot on both arms, but both of the arms were not parallel at that time. Really, I don’t know what you guys think, but there’s no way to express the shock I felt in my heart.”
All of the viewers were also shocked. Even if the Boss appeared first, it would be difficult to get a clear shot, but Li Yao was able to do it even better. But seeing the calm and relaxed expression Liao Yuan had on, and his flowy movements without any hint of staginess, they still could not believe that he had predicted it himself.
Watching him fight the Boss was simply like admiring an art.
From Fengyi’s explanation, her fans also understood what was going on, the spectators of the live broadcast began to boil with excitement.
“On behalf of Zhao Ritian, I submit.”
“On behalf of Lei Potian, I submit.”
“On behalf of Long Aotian, I submit.”
“Only ingots can represent my feelings toward you.”
“No sh*t, we’re simply thankful to master Liao Yuan for teaching us new skills. Hunters, let’s take action!”
“Hunters are the real kings of the wilderness, I’m convinced.”
The entire live broadcast was exploding with messages.
“Is this even the real you? We’ve only been apart for a year, but you’ve changed so much that I don’t recognize you anymore.” Fengyi looked at Li Yao in the footage, a of glimmer of mysterious aura flashed from his eyes.
Li Yao could not be distracted at all. When facing such a Boss, he was handling a lot of pressure, which to him was an exciting challenge. It forced his brain to work and think even faster.
After the third stab, he quickly backed away.
“Damn intruder, you’ve angered me!”
The Boss roared into the sky, and his eyes flickered with crimson-colored flames.
Back Leap!
Li Yao jumped backward and pulled the trigger at the same time.
Bang…
-3
At that moment, the ground where Li Yao was on turned red, which then turned into a lava ground.
That was when the Boss unleased his next skill, Flame Seal!
“I’m safe for the next thirty seconds.”
Li Yao stood at the edge of the magma surface and kept shooting. Although his damage was not enough, he did not waste a single second to attack. He also placed two Arrow Towers to help him with his damage output, keeping one more Arrow Tower for backup.
He was more worried about the Boss’s two other skills, one of it was Raid. If he had not practiced the technique for years, there was no way he could break the skill. The other was the Flame Seal as the skill’s coverage was too wide. Ten consecutive Shadow Flips would not even be enough to evade the attack, hence he could only rely on Back Leap.
Without these two skills, Li Yao was slightly more relaxed.
It was as though the Boss was trying to prove its intelligence as a humanoid Boss. He was not bothered about Li Yao who was continuously attacking him, instead he destroyed the two Arrow Towers that had just been launched for a few seconds…