31 Spearman vs Swordmage (1/2)

Kaori, who had previously been dual wielding shields, was now forced to hide behind her shield as she faced a violent torrent of spear strikes from the female swordsman and the berserker's violent swings. Her other shield had been knocked far away into the forest.

However, what surprised Li Ming the most was the technique that disarmed Kaori. It wasn't just familiar, in fact, he had only learned it earlier that day from the old man. Not only that, he had been able to use it against the Dark Knight he faced earlier to disarm the Dark Knight's shield and lance.

To see it again so soon, Li Ming was definitely caught off guard. Not wanting to waste any more time, Li Ming quickly used his [Ghost Strike] on the Mage that only had 5% of his health left, reactivating his [On the Hunt] which gave him stealth while the Mage was executed and became another cluster of pixels left to be blown away.

The Mage was executed before he could even spit a curse at Li Ming's stealthed figure. Li Ming, who's [Shunpo] had come off cooldown, went ahead and started to repeat the process with the cleric.

”Hanzo! Focus the Cleric!” Ken called out as he noticed Li Ming's sudden arrival, ”Support Li Ming!”

Before the female spearman and berserker to fall back in time to defend against the oncoming onslaught by Li Ming's spear strikes and magic as well as Hanzo's bullets, their cleric was brutally taken out of commission.

At this point, the balance of the battle had tipped wildly in the favor of Ken's party. The enemies had lost their backline Mage and Cleric, and their Swordmage had been eliminated by Li Ming despite attempting an ambush from atop the tree.

Suddenly, the 5v5 battle became a 2v5.

”Nee-Sama, run, I'll handle these buffoons!” the berserker shouted as he activated his ultimate ability, [Demi-God of the Undying]. Seizing this opportunity, the spearman made a sprint towards the gate.

[Demi-God of the Undying] was considered one of the most critical skills in the Tokyo Boar's Team Strategy. It allowed the berserker to taunt every enemy that had attacked him within the last 10 seconds, granted a 250% damage and dexterity buff, as well as keeping the user of [Demi-God of the Undying] at 1 health for 15 seconds.

This would allow the berserker to tank an infinite amount of attacks for those 15 seconds. Unfortunately, after the ability's duration ended, the berserker would only require 1 attack from anything before they would face death.

To keep the berserker alive, the Tokyo Boars would normally have their Paladin Knight cast [Angel's Blessing] towards the end of [Demi-God of the Undying], which would grant the berserker invincibility for 4 seconds, which would be enough time for the cleric to cast any needed heals.

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However, Li Ming had eliminated the team's cleric, and their only member remaining was the spearman, and there was no way that the spearman would hold an ability that would grant invincibility to another teammate.

Seeing the berserker use [Demi-God of the Undying], Li Ming understood why the swordmage that he faced earlier had used a similar skill, [Grasp of the Undead], which would place a mark on a player. If that player would be defeated, that player would then be revived. Surely, it was to use in combination with this strategy.

The berserker had now taunted his entire party. Ken was incapable of casting any cleansing ability, as he was forced to target the berserker. Hatori's assassin character was forced to target the berserker as well, meaning he would have to get within the berserker's range, which would be fatal.

Thankfully, [Demi-God of the Undying] did not make the user immune to status effects, as Hanzo's [Frost Bullets] and [Enchant: Static] were enough to interrupt the berserker's attack rhythm a few times, which allowed Hatori to dodge a few of the incoming axe swings.

”Kaori! Fall back!” Ken warned, ”[Dragon's Heart] is about to wear off! Li Ming! Cut off that spearman, the first person to enter a gate can revive their teammates!”

Unfortunately for Ken, Kaori was unable to dodge the axe swing that the berserker had thrown at Hatori. That swing flew past the assassin's nimble dodge, but struck Kaori straight in her abdomen. Coupled with the 50% stat decrease and the built op damage that she had endured throughout the combat, Kaori was instantly brought down to 0.5% health, and was forced to jump as far away as possible.

Hatori, who was trying to continue dodging the attacks until the duration of the taunt was over, was now forced to become the main tank against the raging berserker to prevent Kaori from fatal damage or the berserker targeting Ken and Hanzo.

Li Ming, however, had left to chase the spearman. He was faster than her, thanks to the burst of speed gained from [On the Hunt] from when he took down the cleric. Using this speed, he got within range to use [Shunpo] and immediately moved to strike the spearman's neck for a critical strike!

*CLANG!*

Surprisingly, the spearman turned around just in time to parry his incoming stab with her own sweep. Li Ming, who had been parried, used the momentum to flip over the spearman in order to place himself between the gate and her.

”The emblem of the Phoenix, and a spear user huh...” the Kikyo greeted, ”Hi there again, Li Ming. Seems like you really were 'The Dawn', huh.”