Gu Fei rushed up with his sword held aloft and closed the distance between the two parties in the blink of an eye. me Singed Clothes hurriedly raised his magic staff and was about to start his incantation, but...
“Ptial Balefire, is it? I know,” Gu Fei said this to him.
me Singed Clothes was a little dejected. He had only shed against Gu Fei a handful of times, yet his routine had already been seen through easily. While it was nothing new, he still had to use the spell when the situation called for it.
“Ptial Balefire! Rise!” me Singed Clothes yelled. The enemy was already expecting what he was about to cast, anyway, so there was no need to subvocalize it like what he would usually do; yelling it loudly might just help increase the aural impact.
When he finished the incantation, a wall of fire rose. However, Gu Fei was already in front of the spell, and was already pointing his sword at him in the next moment. “Electric Wall!”
me Singed Clothes was in tears. It seemed that no one had brought anything fresh to this fight. He took a quick nce backward and saw that ckwater’s retreat had been cut off by that wall of electricity; thetter was nownguidly staring back at him.
“COME AT ME!” me Singed Clothes bellowed as he lunged toward Gu Fei. He knew just how powerful thetter was as a Mage. Gu Fei was definitely not an enemy that could be taken down conventionally, so he needed to deal with him through unconventional means. Unconventional means to a Mage would naturally be a melee battle without using spells, so me Singed Clothes rushed to Gu Fei while waving his fists, intending to fight with just his bare hands.
Even the author had difficulty finding the words to describe me Singed Clothes’ end. Gu Fei was instantly incensed when he saw the man run toward him while wildly swinging his arms like a mad man; how could his punches and kicks be so unruly? Thus, he strode forward and used his usual routines to give me Singed Clothes a thorough beating in two or three moves.
Poor me Singed Clothes was originally wildly swinging his arms when the fight started, but ended up having both arms in front of his chest to protect his face as best as he could.
Even if taking such a beating would not kill him, it was still very painful. Gu Fei was annoyed by the fight as well, so he casually shoved me Singed Clothes as his leg shot out to trip him at the same time. Leaving the man sprawled on the floor, he turned his attention to ckwater as he ran over. The duration of his Electric Wall was not as long as me Singed Clothes’ Ptial Balefire, nor was his spell’s cooldown as short as thetter’s. As such, it was a race against time to take care of the Thief.
ckwater knew he would not be a match for Gu Fei, so he did not bother to make a desperate attempt at fighting thetter at all; me Singed Clothes was still lying on the ground, looking all bleak!
ckwater demonstrated his agile footwork as he ran about between the small space of Ptial Balefire and Electric Wall, determined not to let Gu Fei get anywhere near him.
Gu Fei’s movement speed was no match for ckwater’s, and it seemed as if he could do nothing about it, either. All he could do was patiently continue his chase after him.
The running ckwater suddenly felt exhrated when he saw how worked up Gu Fei was getting yet having no means by which to catch up. It seems this guy isn’t that scary, after all. If only Glue is here, then maybe we can kite him to death.
ckwater got excited when he thought of this, wondering if he had somehow stumbled upon a brilliant n to take care of Gu Fei. It was in that moment, when the Electric Wall had disappeared in a sh, that ckwater thought he finally found his way out, but... ckwater turned to look at me Singed Clothes. The man was motionlessly lying on the ground, as if he were a corpse. When ckwater nced over, the Mage looked him in the eye and gave him a barely imperceptible nod towards the still raging wall of fire.
Do you want me to flee that way? ckwater was ready to make a run for it now that the Electric Wall was gone; he had been making sure to run near where the spell used to be. Just as he had the opportunity to make a break for it, he discovered that me Singed Clothes had been trying tomunicate with him through eye-contact. ckwater did not really get what he meant at first, but he quickly realized that even though me Singed Clothes was still down on the ground, the magic staff he was holding was pointing in a certain direction. In that instant, ckwater understood what thetter intended to do, and his heart leaped with joy as he ran toward the ming wall.
Gu Fei was still hot on ckwater’s heels and had no idea that me Singed Clothes, who was sprawled on the ground behind him, had alreadypleted his spell incantation.
Ptial Balefire!
Another row of mes surged from behind Gu Fei, and with it came the rambunctiousughter of ckwater. This was me Singed Clothes’ n: ckwater would lure Gu Fei over and me Singed Clothes would separate himself from the two with another Ptial Balefire, buying enough time for him to get away. Despite Gu Fei being in possession of the spell Blink, it was apparent that the skill was either on cooldown or he did not have enough mana to cast it. Ultimately, would he run around after ckwater as much as he did if he could use it?
Although ckwater was now trapped to one side with Gu Fei, the first Ptial Balefire me Singed Clothes had ced was about to disappear, so ckwater would only have to drag the out the chase a little longer, and then he could break free with his superior movement speed. Given how thick the fog permeating Xiawu City, it was far easier to flee than to track anyone here. At this rate, the best-case scenario would allow the two of them to safely get away from Gu Fei and certain death.
“Bet you didn’t think of this huh, rascal?” ckwater wasughing uproariously and enjoying the smug satisfaction he was feeling as he ran toward the first Ptial Balefire. me Singed Clothes had already gotten up from the ground by this time and was snapping his fingers at ckwater coolly, “Old ck, that wall of fire is gonna disappear in about seven seconds, so ready yourself. I’m taking my leave first!”
“Go on!” ckwater intentionally yelled out his reply before he teasingly turned to look at Gu Fei.
Gu Fei was also looking at him, and he was even wearing the slightest of smile. This was not a smile that should appear on someone who was being made a monkey of, and ckwater felt a little dazed by this as he heard Gu Fei say, “You’re about to die soon; why are you still so happy?”
“Die?” ckwaterughed mirthlessly, refusing to take this threat seriously. Everything had been calcted clearly. There was no way Gu Fei would be able to catch up to him before that fire wall disappeared. This person must really be stupid if he was still trying to bluff his way through such an obvious truth.
ckwater was quietly counting down the seconds. ording to his calctions, the mes would extinguish in two seconds after he made it to the wall; he should have no difficulties holding things out since it was just two seconds.
ckwater turned his head backward as he dashed toward the wall of mes and saw Gu Fei closely chasing after him.
Maintain your distance. Don’t panic; he can’t catch up to you! Feeling a little flustered, ckwater hurriedly reminded himself of the situation. The next thing he saw was Gu Fei reaching out his left hand toward him – a ring electric glow clustered in that palm.
What is that thing? This thought popped up in his head as that electric glow shot forth from Gu Fei’s hand; ckwater abruptly turned around and tried to block it by flurrying his dagger. A Mage’s spell could indeed be crushed by a well-ced physical attack, and even if the spell was not entirely disrupted, the disruption would at least be able to reduce part of the damage, and that would be preferable to taking it head on.
The electric glow shooting out brought about a faint crackling of lightning, which could be heard as ckwater struck his dagger out with precision at the glowing cluster. He kept his eye on his HP the moment he made contact and saw it drop, though not by much. His defense was sessful.
ckwater felt extremely gratified, but he soon realized that in the instant his attack dissipated that glowing cluster, it created an extremely strong repulsion that knocked ckwater backward involuntarily. Indeed, he was going backward and had not been knocked off his feet. ckwater’s feet were still firmly nted on the ground, yet he was sliding backward as though he were wearing roller skates.
“What’s going on?!” ckwater blurted out, and then he became pale when he suddenly thought of something. He turned his head backward and saw the Ptial Balefire raging on behind him. If he continued to slide backward like this, he woulde into direct contact with its mes.
“F*ck! Stop already!” ckwater yelled. However, no matter how hard he tried, he just continued to slide backward without any signs of slowing down. Gu Fei, who had already stopped giving chase, watched the man before him panic and, whistling ever so softly, exined with a congenial smile, “Palm of Thunder has the Repulsion effect.”
ckwater gave up. No one could win a fight against the system’s design. Any sort of effort he expended now to try and stop it would simply be futile. ckwater did not wish to watch himself get pushed into the fire, so he did the only thing he could do: close his eyes.
“Zero!”
ckwater had finally finished the countdown in his mind. Opening his eyes, he saw that the fog was still prevalent, yet the street was no longer there, as he was now in therge courtyard of the Thieves’ Union.
Back on the street, ckwater and that Ptial Balefire hadpletely disappeared together. Gu Fei turned around, walked toward the second wall of fire and gazed across the divide.
me Singed Clothes, who was in the middle of fleeing, came to a halt and faced backward to stare at the murky ck figure that was standing behind the mes.
“It’s real foggy over there; did you see what happened?” Gu Fei shouted.
me Singed Clothes did not say a word.
“Your friend was far too careless; he actually dashed into your wall of fire,” Gu Fei continued.
me Singed Clothes did not respond again. He knew that ckwater was not the type to be so careless, so he was positive Gu Fei had done something to him. But this fact was confirmed because he suddenly received a system prompt informing him that his PK value had increased by 1 point. In that moment, he had a fleeting wish that this PK point was Gu Fei himself but he could unfortunately hear his voice before he even turned his head over.
me Singed Clothes wished he could tear Gu Fei into eight pieces right now, but he was well aware that he would end up sprawled on the ground once more, so he gritted his teeth and turned to disappear into the fog.
“He he! Do you think you can escape from me just like that? It’s no use. Now that I am a VIP of the Bounty Assignment Hall, I can easily uncover your whereabouts,” Gu Fei picked out his Bounty License, admired it for a while, and then dashed toward the Bounty Assignment Hall.
1 PK point would automatically erase itself after two hours. Gu Fei believed me Singed Clothes would not have a sudden epiphany and turn himself in. Even if he intended to clear this 1 PK point, there would be no way he would be able to reach the hall before the all-Agility Mage Gu Fei could.
Gu Fei soon reached the Bounty Assignment Hall, and he shed his Bounty License over to the NPC before starting his search through the avable bounty targets. me Singed Clothes had just earned himself the point not too long ago, so Gu Fei simply flipped to thest page and searched. If his name was not listed, then that proved that the whole lot of them had not registered their ounts here in Xiawu City.
Thankfully, Gu Fei managed to spot me Singed Clothes’ name on the second tost page. He made sure that thetter’s job ss was Mage first before he picked it up without a moment of hesitation.
Gu Fei quickly announced the coordinates of his bounty target on the mercenary channel.
“What’s that?” everybody asked.
“me Singed Clothes’ coordinates,” he answered.
“How did you get that? You’ve already killed him, so what’s the point of giving us his coordinates?” everybody asked.
“Southern Lone de is my ultimate target; me Singed Clothes is now acting as my eyes,” he exined.
“You managed to make him defect?” Everyone found that to be imusible. Gu Fei’s strong suit was his ability to exert physical harm. Could it be that this man was also an expert when it came to hypnosis?
Thus, Gu Fei educated the lot by introducing them to the Bounty License and telling them how he managed to make me Singed Clothes earn himself 1 PK point.
“Southern Lone de is really doomed this time around.” All of them sighed.