Chapter 950 - Dark Demon Crystal (1/2)

It was only the briefest exchange yet four people had died. The others were shocked and furious.

“Dammit! What a tough bastard!” the Slayer cursed. Nie Yan hadn’t logged on in three years. If it were any other player, their skills would’ve reset to factory settings. One could easily imagine how domineering he was during his prime. “Watch him closely. Don’t let him escape!”

Two Spectral Thieves circled in on Nie Yan. Meanwhile, the four Necromancers planted detection eyes in a 600-meter wide area to prevent him from escaping.

The Mystic and Slayer pursued Nie Yan relentlessly from behind.

“Annihilation Slash has a long cooldown. He won’t be able to use it again any time soon. Since he’s been grinding all this time in the Dark Demonic Space, he likely hasn’t learned any new skills either. All we have to watch out for are scrolls. Don’t give him any time to use them!” the Mystic shouted. “If we can kill Nirvana Flame, Black Spear will reward us handsomely!”

The other members felt their dwindling confidence reinvigorated. They would kill Nirvana Flame, no matter what! Their levels were all higher than his. They had crossed paths with countless experts before, undaunted. Today wouldn’t be any different!

However, it was still a fact that Nie Yan managed to take out four of their members while being outnumbered 12 to one. His strength wasn’t to be underestimated.

Nie Yan glanced at his skill bar. Most of his skills were still available. However, his high damage ones were on cooldown. He could only rely on his crowd control skills. The enemy was with many, so they could save each other. Thankfully, none of them played a healing class.

Nie Yan’s eyes landed on the Necromancers. “You lot first.” He shot forward with Gale Step.

“Stop him!” a Necromancer shouted.

Bone walls shot up from the ground in front of Nie Yan. He had no choice but to carefully dodge them. Even though these bone walls were relatively weak, shattering in a single hit, they had virtually no cooldown and were instant casts. If a Thief were to be boxed in by them, they would be skewered by countless bone spurs.

Nie Yan leaped into the air, soaring over the bone walls. As he came falling back to the ground, he stabbed toward the Necromancer with his dagger.

The Necromancer was a veteran of many battles. He was no stranger to the erratic attacks of Thieves. Seeing Nie Yan coming down on him, he kept his calm. With a wave of his staff, a golden skeleton appeared in front of him. It was three meters tall and held a large bone shield.

Nie Yan flicked his wrist and summoned Lil’ Gold, whose massive frame rammed into the skeleton, smashing it into pieces.

“It’s his Golden Dragon!” the Necromancer anxiously shouted as he hurriedly retreated back.

“Don’t worry! I have Spirit Awe. It can’t do anything to us!” the Mystic said cooly.

Nie Yan glanced at Lil’ Gold’s status. He was indeed affected by Spirit Awe. He couldn’t move, nor use any long ranged attacks. This skill completely crippled pets!

However, Nie Yan didn’t care much for this. His objective for summoning Lil’ Gold wasn’t to kill anyone, but rather to function as cover while he activated Shadow Clone.

Distracted by the collision between Lil’ Gold and the golden skeleton, the enemy players unknowingly lost track of Nie Yan.

“Wait. Where did Nirvana Flame go?”

“Huh, I don’t know!”

“Be careful guys!” the Mystic shouted. As the words left his mouth, he saw a faint silhouette dashing towards one of the Necromancers. “He’s over there!”

The several melee classes all charged toward the silhouette.

With those players lured away by his shadow clone, Nie Yan activated Gale Step and Extreme Disappear and appeared behind one of the Necromancers.

The Necromancer’s attention was focused on the silhouette in the far distance. He didn’t expect an ambush. By the time he sensed something wrong, his feet were already locked to the ground.

Confirming his Extreme Intimidate was effective, Nie Yan struck the Necromancer in the back of the head with Smothering Strike. Then he followed up with an elbow strike, Backstab, and Lacerate. After completing the 3-hit combo, he fled away.

The melee class players were several dozens of meters away chasing the shadow clone. There were two Necromancers nearby. However, by the time they noticed something was wrong, Nie Yan had already completed his 3-hit combo.

Two spells flew toward Nie Yan. He quickly evaded the attacks with Disappear.

After taking the 3-hit combo, the Necromancer only had 6,000 health left. By the time the stun wore off, two 3,000s from bleed damage floated up above his head. He didn’t even have the time to drink a health potion before collapsing to the ground.

“What happened?” The Mystic frowned.

“He probably used his Shadow Clone skill!” The Slayer glanced at the silhouette they were chasing after. If what they were chasing after was just a clone, they were wasting their time.

“Everyone, regroup!” the Mystic shouted. Nirvana Flame had already summoned his shadow clone. If he wanted to escape, he could’ve easily done so by now. But he was still here. It looked like he wanted to kill them all!

The seven still alive regrouped. Five of their brothers were already dead. Their losses were heavy. The only upside was that they had managed to retrieve all the fallen equipment.

“What do we do?”