Chapter 24 The Early Appearance of the Kingdom of Glory (1/2)
For experts like Dead Fish Eye, even if he had nothing at all, it would not be difficult to recognize him by the arrogant vibes he gave off. In Lin Jie's previous life, he had also been impressed by Dead Fish Eye's abilities and had once held deep admiration for him.
However, seeing him in action before his eyes was still much better than just hearing about him. His arrogance now seemed like a small shortcoming compared to his deeds. After all, wasn't it logical that the strong should show pity for the weak and help them out? This was befitting of one's status as an expert.
Lin Jie pointed at himself, looked into Dead Fish Eye's thoughtful eyes and smiled. ”I guess you are contemplating if it will be faster to just kill this insolent fellow standing in front of you now.”
”Yes, but not now.” Dead Fish Eye removed his mask and revealed an ugly face. His mouth had occupied almost all of the space beneath his nose. This large mouth made his face look extremely unsightly, coupled with the pair of dull-looking dead fish eyes, his appearance was just plain ugly.
”How about having a bet with me?” Lin Jie did not make any comments at his looks. In his previous life, Dead Fish Eye's photos had been exposed before, and Lin Jie merely thought that this chap just looked rather untrammeled…
”Each of us will score one point for killing one player, one point for making them spawn Bronze equipment, but 20 points for killing the Overlord and 10 points for each of the Overlord's spawned equipment. We can compare scores after that, and the loser will have to grant the winner a condition. Deal?”
Dead Fish Eye's pupils shrank. ”I don't kill players.”
”You will,” Lin Jie's face broke into a smile, ”if you agree, I will recommend you a place to find pretty girls.”
Both of them stared at each other for a full 30 seconds before Dead Fish Eye consented in a deep voice, ”Alright.”
Boom!
The ground shook and trembled, and a fissure appeared. Trees and mud quivered as if they were the dander from a person suffering from dandruff and were about to be flicked off.
Swarms of players were approaching the place.
”The competition starts now.” Dead Fish Eye took out a bottle of poison from his bag and smeared it on his daggers. The strong sulfuric reactions made a loud bursting sound, numbing the eardrums of people standing around.
As Dead Fish Eye disappeared using Stealth Move, Lin Jie grabbed onto a tree and activated the Feather Drop Gem. He descended behind the 'giant'. The Rogaland Mountains before his eyes continued to quiver, and great amounts of earth were being pushed out from the crevices between boulders. With a thunderous roar, a pair of hands and a pair of legs probed out from the boulders!
The enormous Mountain Giant stood up, shook his shoulders and trees fell down from the sky all around it.
Mountain Giant: Level 12 Overlord, Health Points 180,000.
As a Level 12 Overlord, the Mountain Giant had an unbelievably high amount of health points—all these pointed to the fact that it had an extremely high drop-rate!
The Heavenly Shield stared determinedly at the Mountain Giant in front of them, gave a big wave of his hands and ordered, ”The Warriors cannon fodder, get in order and number yourselves! Mana jobs, get ready to launch your attacks, I want you all to give your very best! Start drinking Health Potions once your Mana levels drop below 80%!”
Their battle strategy was very simple: overcome strength with numbers! As the Mountain Giant did not know how to attack in crowds, conquering it by large numbers of attacks all at a go would be suitable. In any case, all the players gathered there were just low-leveled newbies, it wouldn't affect them much even if they were to die. Those players would at most just drop back to Level 1. They could then returned to the scene and become the baits to lure away the overlord's aggro repeatedly until it was finally killed!
”Get him!”
”KILL!”
The Ironwall Empire seemed very bonded. As the guild's role model, The Heavenly Shield carried a huge shield and stepped out of the crowd, facing the Mountain Giant. He stretched his neck backward in a painful arc and shouted loudly, ”Oye, you B*STARD!”
The Mountain Giant heard the insult, and its right hand crashed down like a falling cable car! The force was comparable to that of a Category 7 typhoon. All the players present almost could not hold their balance.
”The Leader has set such a great example, now let's attack with all our might!”
”Drink the magic potions!”
How did the scene look like when hundreds of Mages activate their Fireball skills all at once?
It was as if a blazing arch of clouds appeared out of nowhere and lit up the entire sky! To increase their efficiency, the Ironwall Empire's active attackers consisted of only Mages!
Hundreds of Fireballs were blasted at the Mountain Giant's fragile crotch area, and this caused an additional 15% weak point damage. Though many of the players were secretly wondering how big the d*ck of a Mountain Giant would be, they still chanted on fervently, determined to burn it down. After a round of attacks, the Mountain Giant's HP levels were finally decreased by 5%.
At that moment, the Mountain Giant raised its hands slowly. The Heavenly Shield stood still in front of the army, one hand raising his heavy shield in mid-air, posing in a 'rather die than surrender' position. In actual fact, he was indeed dead, what the players saw now was just his corpse. The corpse was rooted strategically in the whole army's field of vision, boosting the whole team's morale. The Shield Specialists in the army felt extremely motivated by this scene—look, our leader had already died before us and set us such a good example, why should we still hold on to our reservations and doubts?
”It's time to CHARGE!”
The whole team's morale reached its peak. The Shield Specialists charged forward without sparing a thought for their own lives while the Mages chanted on furiously without stopping! Within all this chaos, The Heavenly Shield's body remained rooted to the ground, a solitary figure of heroic tragedy.
Lin Jie almost couldn't hold back his laughter when he saw this scene.
When players died, and their souls were released from their bodies, their corpses would drop down lifeless on the spot, waiting for the players' souls to reclaim them and hence be revived in the game again. If so, why did the corpse of The Heavenly Shield remain standing? The answer was simple; The Heavenly Shield did not release his soul from his body! In other words… The Heavenly Shield was skiving off. As the leader of a large guild, maintaining a high level was very important to him. Thus, he reckoned that he had done his duty by dying once, setting a 'good example' to the rest of the guild members.
As the saying goes, 'the human heart is like a needle in the sea.' On the surface, one might appear to be very noble and made others believe that he was putting his words to actions, but in actual fact, he might just be putting on an act in order to take advantage of you.
Until now, the damage points which sprang out from attacking the Boss were still too meager to mean anything. The Mountain Giant would simply crush up all the players it came into contact with. Even if it did not know any crowd attack strategies, the trees dropping off his body had helped to smash tens of Mages to their deaths.
At that moment, a black figure appeared within the midst of Mages. His dagger slit across the throat of a Mage silently and then disappeared again. As a tree came crashing down upon him, that Mage actually stood still and was crushed to his death without any sign of struggling, as if he was unable to recognize what would happen to him.
The black figure made a move! After searching for a while on the dead body of the Mage, he changed his appearance to that Mage within the blink of an eye. Following that, he made his way through the crowd of Mages and started killing the Mages around him discreetly, his daggers as swift as the scythe of the real Grim Reaper.