Chapter 949: Ignite the Skill!

These players wanted to keep him here. It was practically impossible, yet they were extremely annoying, after all, the people who came were mostly players at level 180 or so.

PK between players was somewhat different from fighting bosses. Fighting bosses followed certain patterns, and once you figured out the trick, it wasn’t impossible for a level 170 player to defeat a level 200 high lord. In fact, there were many ways to defeat bosses. As long as you identified the boss’s weaknesses, you could kill it by kiting or blocking its position. However, players were not those clueless bosses, especially the experts. They had exquisite killing techniques, countless deadly skills, and when several of them worked together in perfect coordination, they could unleash combat power several times greater than their own.

Back then, Nie Yan’s level was far higher than ordinary players, and his attributes were far beyond theirs, making it easy for him to kill them. However, after three years, the advantages of level and attributes were basically gone. Encountering so many players attacking together, he still had to be a bit cautious.

It had been a long time since he last engaged in PK, and he was a bit rusty. He wasn’t sure whether his skills would still be smooth in action. There were some special items in his backpack suitable for ambushing others, such as scrolls. These were Grandmaster-level items, very rare, so they could still be used. Accidentally seeing a large amount of Black Magic fragments stored in his backpack, previously to save time, he had accumulated a lot of Black Magic fragments but hadn’t had time to submit them. After finishing this fight, he still needed to go to the Black Magic space.

Nie Yan wasn’t very nervous. Although it had been three years since he last played, he couldn’t lose the dominance he had back then. He counted them—a total of twelve people. It would be somewhat difficult to take them all down, but killing a few should be no problem.

He glanced at his skill bar. Previously, he had been focused on grinding Black Magic space, over and over again, with intense concentration, so he hadn’t noticed the changes in his skill bar. Unexpectedly, there were three new skills in his skill bar: Spiral Blade, Fatal Strike, and Crippling Roar, all advanced skills.

He hadn’t learned any skill books. How did these skills come about?

A sudden realization flashed through his mind, and he thought of his Shadow Dancer, on which there were several skills that needed to be activated.

The Black Magic space refreshed entirely with dark creatures. With such continuous spawning over this long period, the number of Black Magic creatures killed by Nie Yan was beyond count, likely in the tens of millions.

Activating Spiral Blade required killing six million dark creatures, activating Fatal Strike required killing thirteen million dark creatures, and activating Crippling Roar required killing twenty-two million dark creatures.

Moreover, each time a skill was activated, the kill count would be consumed.

Shadow Dancer could simultaneously activate three to six skills at a time. Only after reaching the top level could the skills below be activated. Therefore, Nie Yan had never acquired new skills until now, when the skills below on his Shadow Dancer were finally activated.

The previous Storm Assault skill obtained from Shadow Dancer was quite good. Nie Yan wondered how these newly activated skills would be. He looked at the skill details.

Spiral Blade: Releases a spiral air blade, attack range of 3 yards, causing piercing damage, 100% 5x critical strike damage. Skill cooldown time is 30 minutes.

Fatal Strike: Causes 3x attack damage from behind an enemy, with a certain probability of instant death. Skill cooldown time is 12 minutes.

Crippling Roar: When within a 3-yard range of a unit, you can emit a piercing roar, causing it to be crippled and unable to move for 30 seconds. Skill cooldown time is 15 minutes.

These three skills, like the previously activated ones, were also excellent PK skills. If used well, they could unleash tremendous power in a duel. Perfect for testing these skills on these players!

Dark faction players almost fixated on every hooded person emerging from the Black Magic space. Even if they knew it wasn’t Nie Yan, they still wanted to surround and kill him.

On the side of Angel’s Fall, although Duo Duo had not agreed to attack, countless subordinates viewed Nie Yan as a thorn in their flesh and an obstacle in their eye, desiring to eliminate him at all costs. Therefore, some of them spontaneously came to intercept Nie Yan.

Nie Yan scanned these people. These twelve players were all around level 180, not top-tier. Now he was already level 177. If he couldn’t even deal with these people, how could he talk about returning to his peak?

Three Mage Knights, two Dual Swordsmen, two Undead Rogues, five Undead Mages—all were strong PK classes. Generally, players of classes like Dark Priests or Priests rarely came to the battlefield, except for a few expert individuals. The reason was that they often became the main targets of enemy attacks on the battlefield because they were too easy to take down.

“That guy looks a bit like Crazy Thief Nie Yan. Kill him!” A Mage Knight shouted, igniting a black fireball in his left palm, while his right sword transformed into a black ice sword. With a blink, he appeared in front of Nie Yan, pushing the magical attack towards him.

The fireball was about to hit Nie Yan’s abdomen when a sinister smile flickered across his lips.

Just as he thought the hit was certain, his vision suddenly blurred, and the fireball missed.

Phantom Assassination!

Nie Yan’s body swayed, dodging the Mage Knight’s attack. His dagger pierced towards the Mage Knight’s throat.

The Mage Knight reacted immediately, blocking with his right black ice sword. His reaction was indeed quick.

But Nie Yan reacted even faster. His figure shifted, delivering a backstab. His right dagger plunged into the Mage Knight’s back, while his left hand subtly dropped a scroll.

Soul Confusion Scroll: The targeted player will see illusions for 3 seconds.

The Mage Knight hadn’t expected Nie Yan to use such a scroll at this moment. Nie Yan’s movements were minimal, not drawing his attention at all.

“What’s going on? What’s happening!” The Mage Knight saw a bunch of naked beauties dancing before his eyes, momentarily stunned. Nie Yan delivered another backstab and a spine break, three damage numbers over ten thousand floating above the Mage Knight’s head. However, the Mage Knight had nearly 60,000 health points at this moment.

When the other players saw the Mage Knight being immobilized, they all rushed forward.

“This guy is Crazy…” The Mage Knight’s voice got stuck in his throat. He hadn’t expected this person to be Crazy Thief Nie Yan himself. With twelve people attacking one, they naturally felt somewhat overconfident.

Normal skill damage wasn’t enough. It would take at least a few seconds to kill the Mage Knight. Seeing the other players rushing in, Nie Yan reluctantly used Fatal Strike to finish off the Mage Knight, who was already at half health, then used Shadow Vanish to dodge the attacks from the other players.

Faced with so many enemies, every skill was extremely valuable. If all his skills were used up, the consequences would be unimaginable.

“He fights just like Crazy Thief Nie Yan. He’s probably Crazy Thief Nie Yan. Kill him!” A Dual Swordsman shouted.

Nie Yan used Shadow Vanish to dodge the players’ attacks and locked his gaze on an Undead Mage at the periphery, rushing toward the Undead Mage.

In the past, when he killed people, due to his high attack and far exceeding other players in level, most players were usually one-hit kills for him, and he had killed countless warriors like that. However, now that players’ levels, defenses, and health points had improved, it was basically very difficult for him to instantly kill them unless facing spellcasters or using skills like Annihilation Slash to deal 10-20x critical strike damage. Since there were so many of them, he needed to avoid being entangled.

When several Undead Mages saw Nie Yan disappear, they quickly placed Detection Eyes on the ground. One Undead Mage saw Nie Yan’s figure flying and rushing toward him, and coldly announced in the team chat, “He’s here, coming this way!”

The Undead Mage waved his staff, and a giant bone snake erupted from the ground, rushing toward Nie Yan.

Blink Strike!

Nie Yan suddenly vanished from his spot and reappeared next to the Undead Mage in an instant, dodging the bone snake’s attack. His dagger was about to stab towards the Undead Mage’s head when suddenly a bone shield appeared in front of him. The bone spikes on the shield stabbed toward Nie Yan’s arm, forcing him to quickly retract his hand.

This guy’s reaction isn’t slow!

After all, he had been hanging around in the End Times Canyon for years. Although his skill couldn’t be compared to Nie Yan’s, he wasn’t easy to deal with either.

Storm Assault!

Nie Yan suddenly accelerated, quickly bypassing the bone shield and stabbing towards the Undead Mage’s back.

Suddenly, bone spikes grew from the ground. These bone spikes were like curved fangs, five or six yards long, more than a dozen in total. The surrounding Undead Mages also attacked. To avoid their spells being dodged by Nie Yan, they used instant-cast skills, almost without any warning.

Plop, plop, two bone spikes pierced Nie Yan’s body, dealing more than 9,000 damage.

At the moment he was pierced by the bone spikes, Nie Yan used Swift Step. Seeing the Undead Mage turning to flee, he released a spiral air current, a sharp air blade piercing through the Undead Mage’s back. With a plop, blood splattered.

Five times the damage, the Undead Mage couldn’t withstand such a strong attack and was instantly killed.

These three newly learned skills were quite handy.

“Damn, Old Six was killed!”

“This guy is definitely Crazy Thief Nie Yan. We absolutely cannot let him go! Damn it!” The leading Mage Knight spat.

After the warriors’ attacks missed, they all rushed toward Nie Yan. Nie Yan switched weapons, swung the Zennarde Sword, and slashed downward.

Two Mage Knights and two Dual Swordsmen were chasing Nie Yan when suddenly a massive sword beam descended.

“It’s Annihilation Slash!”

“Everyone, quickly dodge!”

They were well aware of the reputation of this skill, known as the strongest skill three years ago. Even now, three years later, its power was still formidable.

One Mage Knight and one Dual Swordsman reacted quickly. At the moment the sword beam descended, they quickly fled at high speed. The remaining two were a bit slower. When they tried to dodge, the sword beam fell. With a loud bang, the two were blown away.

Even now, the Annihilation Slash skill was still a very powerful instant-kill skill. Another two were down!

That made four. Nie Yan licked his slightly dry lips. Fighting these players, he was beginning to regain that old feeling—the feeling of being in complete control!