Chapter 397: Catastrophe

The violent current of electricity slowly dissipated into nothingness, and the sky once again became clear and serene, giving people a feeling of despair turning into hope, of darkness giving way to brightness. All players from the Bull Man Tribe exhaled in relief; they were saved.

If it weren’t for Nie Yan’s timely intervention, they would have been swallowed by the endless storm of lightning.

The power of high-level magic was unmatched, and practically no one could escape it.

“Damn it!” Seeing Nie Yan interrupt Cold Flame’s lightning storm, Bloodthirsty Blade couldn’t help but curse, “Kill him! Absolutely don’t let him escape!”

A barrage of spells shot toward Nie Yan. These players who had undergone class advancement wouldn’t let Nie Yan leave so easily!

After stunning Cold Flame, Nie Yan slashed his throat with Zeenarad’s Sword.

-1702.

A critical hit, his health was drained completely by Nie Yan in one blow, instantly killed!

Cold Flame was a cloth-wearing mage with low defense and health, and was utterly no match for Nie Yan’s attacks. He fell to the ground.

At that moment, seven or eight spells shot toward Nie Yan. If all those spells hit Nie Yan, he would undoubtedly be blown to bits.

Nie Yan had just used Wind Step and Shadow Dance in succession; everyone doubted he had a third escape skill left!

If Nie Yan didn’t have a third escape skill, he would surely die!

Escape skills were extremely valuable. Most players were lucky to obtain even one Wind Step, getting a second survival skill was a matter of luck, and acquiring a third survival skill would make someone practically a monster.

Nie Yan was precisely such a monster. Although he didn’t have a third escape skill, he had a skill called Cooldown Removal, which could reset the cooldown of any skill to zero.

Besides Cooldown Removal, he could also use Spell Immunity from Divine Arbiter.

In terms of skills, Nie Yan was a rich man!

Nie Yan reset the cooldown of Shadow Dance.

Just as the next moment all the spells were about to hit Nie Yan, everyone’s hearts were in their mouths. Nie Yan’s invincibility was about to be broken. Bloodthirsty Blade watched coldly, thinking, let’s see how arrogant you can be now!

Shadow Dance!

Boom! Boom! Boom! The spells hit Nie Yan, exploding loudly.

When the dazzling magical lights faded, Nie Yan hadn’t died as everyone had imagined; instead, he vanished from the spot.

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

“Damn it, this guy actually has a third escape skill!” Bloodthirsty Blade cursed. Nie Yan’s skills were indeed endless! This time, his plan to kill Nie Yan had become another failure!

With three escape skills and such superb awareness, killing Nie Yan was practically impossible unless they surrounded him with thousands of people like last time!

Seeing Nie Yan kill Cold Flame and escape unscathed, the players from the Bull Man Tribe were instantly filled with high morale.

“Brothers, the leader just showed off a bit, we can’t let the Bull Man Tribe down either! Let’s crush them!” Knight’s Dirge said in the guild area chat, pointing in a direction, “All mages, target Bloodthirsty Blade, blast him away!”

Nearly 80 mages focused their attacks on Bloodthirsty Blade, a dense barrage of spells shrieking toward him.

Seeing the spells flying toward him, Bloodthirsty Blade’s face changed in alarm. He quickly activated a skill, Divine Descent, his skin taking on a grayish hue, his health surging to 3600, especially his magic resistance significantly increased. He cast a shield around himself, a thick black barrier enveloping him.

Divine Descent was an advanced skill; as the leader of Bloodthirsty Blade, he did have some treasured techniques.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Spell after spell exploded on Bloodthirsty Blade, small damage numbers like 10+ popping up from him. The continuous explosions forced him to retreat repeatedly. With a loud crash, the black shield shattered into pieces, and the damage from the mages immediately surged to 70-80 points.

A series of healing spells landed on Bloodthirsty Blade as a priest quickly cast another shield on him.

“Boss, run now or it’ll be too late! San Dao found several top players from the Bull Man Tribe! Also, there’s news from below that about 5000 Bull Man Tribe players are surrounding us!” Arcane Mage Star Shuo said. At this point, he had already abandoned any thoughts of killing Nie Yan. Even if he had more control skills, against someone with three escape skills like Nie Yan, it was futile.

Of those 500+ players, half stayed to guard the black powder, while the other half advanced.

With only a dozen or so people here, no matter how strong they were individually, they couldn’t fight against so many opponents. When 200+ players surged forward, the pressure was immense. Without using AoE spells to clear them, there was no way they could stand their ground.

Earlier, when they first appeared, they had managed to use high-level magic successfully because the Bull Man Tribe players were unprepared. Now, the Bull Man Tribe players had reacted, and with 200+ players pressing forward, they had no chance of casting AoE spells anymore, especially with so many paladins watching closely.

The explosive fireballs almost blinded Bloodthirsty Blade, and enduring such a dense magical onslaught was already very difficult.

Figures began to appear at the edge of the jungle. Sun, Shui Se Yan Tou, Cui Can Dao Guang, and others had arrived, immediately scattering to various battlefields upon arrival.

Nie Yan surveyed the battlefield and stealthily approached Bloodthirsty Blade in the distance. Today, he was determined to leave him here!

“Everyone retreat!” Bloodthirsty Blade roared, but before his voice could finish, a sharp dagger pierced the back of his head.

Nie Yan had been hiding in the shadows, waiting for his skills to cool down before looking for an opportunity to strike Bloodthirsty Blade. Seeing Bloodthirsty Blade retreating, almost blinded by the magical bombardment, Nie Yan moved, circling behind him and activating Cataclysm, delivering a sneak attack.

A system prompt sounded, and Nie Yan glanced at it; the sneak attack skill had leveled up!

After so long, the sneak attack skill had finally advanced one level.

The sneak attack skill was among the few that could be upgraded. Most players didn’t like using this skill and rarely knew what happened after it was upgraded. The skill proficiency for sneak attack was only gained under special conditions determined by the system, and few knew the trick. Only after many players reached over a hundred levels did the sneak attack skill become widely known, and then many people often went around looking for places to train their sneak attack proficiency.

Intermediate Sneak Attack: Strike an opponent from behind, stunning them for 7 seconds, with 2 seconds of deep coma, and they will awaken if attacked after 2 seconds. Skill cooldown is 60 seconds.

Intermediate Sneak Attack was decent enough. If it continued to level up to advanced or expert levels, the skill effects would become even stronger.

Bloodthirsty Blade was bombarded by magic to the point he couldn’t even open his eyes, his perception dropped to the lowest, so naturally he couldn’t sense Nie Yan’s approach. By the time he was hit, it was already too late.

Needless to say, Nie Yan was extremely ruthless. If it were just a regular sneak attack, Bloodthirsty Blade could definitely endure it. But Nie Yan had activated Cataclysm. Under Cataclysm, a curse fell upon Bloodthirsty Blade, causing his attributes to drop significantly. With a loud bang, his shield shattered into pieces. After being hit by magic, his health bar showed damage numbers of 300-400 points each.

At this point, no matter how much health he had left, he couldn’t survive. Even with Divine Descent, it was useless.

Although the high magic resistance from Divine Descent mitigated some of the curse effects, the curse from Cataclysm was too strong, reducing his defense by a large margin.

Several priests and shamans saw that Bloodthirsty Blade was in danger and hurriedly raised their staves to heal him, but they were already too late.

A dense barrage of magic directly blew Bloodthirsty Blade away. Dozens of spells hit simultaneously, each dealing around 300-400 points of damage, practically instant death.

Seeing Bloodthirsty Blade blown away, Nie Yan showed a faint smile of satisfaction and re-entered stealth, rushing toward the remaining enemies.

“Quickly use random teleport scrolls!” Arcane Mage Star Shuo shouted. As soon as he shouted, he felt a chill behind him.

It was Nie Yan; he had struck again!

Arcane Mage Star Shuo fumbled in his backpack for a random teleport scroll while stepping aside.

Too slow!

At this moment, Nie Yan used a skill—Supreme Intimidation!

Nie Yan was like a hunting cheetah, suddenly bursting forth to pounce on his prey.

Arcane Mage Star Shuo’s body froze. Just as he was about to crush the random teleport scroll, Nie Yan landed a stun on his forehead.

“So fast.” Arcane Mage Star Shuo had this final thought. Nie Yan was so fast he didn’t even give him time to react. If he had just one or two seconds, he could have activated the random teleport scroll.

The idea of challenging Nie Yan in a duel was simply a joke. Not only was his class countered by thieves who had many skills targeting mages, but in terms of skill and awareness, he was no match for Nie Yan.

Nie Yan delivered a backstab and a cleave, sending Arcane Mage Star Shuo crashing to the ground.

Players from Bloodthirsty Blade, Mage Alliance, and Sacred Guardians all used random teleport scrolls and vanished from the spot.

They had been well-prepared before coming, each equipped with random teleport scrolls. These rare items were generally not used recklessly. The Bull Man Tribe probably only had a few hundred of them.

This battle had been intense. The Bull Man Tribe had suffered heavy losses when they unexpectedly encountered strong enemies. Roughly speaking, they had eliminated over twenty elite players from Bloodthirsty Blade, Sacred Guardians, and Mage Alliance, and collected over ten pieces of good gear, which wasn’t too bad.