Blade of Tyranny - Chapter 58

Chapter 58: The Rampaging Nymph King

Nie Fan nimbly evaded the massive arm of the Nymph King that was hurtling towards him, leaping aside abruptly before suddenly accelerating towards the beast.

Attempting to fight the Nymph King was very dangerous. One touch from it meant immediate death from Nie Fan.

Nonetheless, he could feel the recoil on the muscles over his hip as he charged forward. The powerful acceleration was full of an endless bursting force, and he raised his claws, bearing it heavily down upon the Nymph King.

Smite!

There was a loud bang when Nie Fan’s claw struck the Nymph King, knocking a damage point over one hundred and fifty over its head.

[System: 75% skill completion rate, 89% damage caused, 2 seconds Dizzy, 1 Chain point gained.]

Be that as it may, the 2 seconds of Dizzy was a direct Miss on the Nymph King.

However, Nie Fan smiled as he glanced at skill bar—his skill completion had increased again, and his attack was good with his full set of Cyan Bronze equipment and a Dark Enchanted Bronze item. Having gone through strict training as a child, his body had extremely good memory that he wouldn’t forget any movement he did once. While the completion rate of most players when casting their skills was unfixed since it could be either too low or too high, Nie Fan’s completion rate improved again and again, using his own body’s perfect memory to remember each casting.

Then as the Nymph King felt Nie Fan slipping past its sides, it swung its enormous arms at him.

That sweeping motion had the largest range, and with Nie Fan wouldn’t survive a single blow with his lower Druid-class HP.

In fact, he was startled when he felt the Nymph King hurtling down from his back the moment his paws touched ground. That was so fast!

But just when the Nymph King’s massive arm was about to touch his back, Nie Fan abruptly jumped four meters into the air with Vertical Leap.

The Nymph King’s arm hence shot past beneath Nie Fan, almost touching his leg—but to have the sheer force from that blow merely brushing past his legs was already plenty suffering enough for Nie Fan!

That was close! Leaping away from the Nymph King’s sweep, Nie Fan growled when he landed. Energy Blast!

A forceful rush of air shot away from Nie Fan’s body with a body.

All his accumulated thirty over points of Rage and single Chain point were used up immediately, dealing [-120] damage on the Nymph King.

[System: Finisher, 32 Rage and 1 Chain point spent. 32% skill damage caused, 3 seconds Dizzy.]

But once again, the Nymph King was immune to the 3 seconds of Dizzy.

Nie Fan already had a general understanding about Energy Blast: its range was 3×3 meters, and he could only attack the units right beside him. Like most fighting games, Smite is used for accumulating Chain points whereas Rage builds up naturally over a battle. In turn, Energy Blast was equivalent to a killer move that releases both Chain and Rage for an extremely powerful blow, and when both Rage and Chain were higher, the more powerful Energy Blast would be.

Energy Blast was different from Smite in that it did not require completion rate, and only the release of energy.

The key was to that was to hone his proficiency with Smite—the more he mastered it, the higher his completion rate would be and the Chain points he accumulated would be higher too. In the end, it would all add into his Energy Blast, and his attack would be even more devastating.

That being said, a single Chain skill was not enough. At least two or above was required to continue gathering Chain points before finishing things by casting an Energy Blast to great effect. That is most easily accomplished with the Warrior class—while they had mediocre attack and could not unleash high bursts of damage like the Thief class, they had many Chain skills, high Defense, and high HP to engage a target in a melee. They would persistently gain Chain points with those Chain skills of theirs, and as the melee drags on, the target would have to start worrying about a sudden instakill Finisher move from the Warrior. In fact, it wouldn’t be impossible for the Finisher Move to instakill another damage sponge of a Warrior!

Close ranged-classes was more demanding on technique than ranged classes!

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Right now, Nie Fan did not dare to pause for a moment after unleashing his Energy Blast. After casting another Bloodthirsty Vine, he turned and ran.

Although the Nymph King was immune to other control spells, the Bloodthirsty Vine which caught the Nymph King in a vice grip was a physical form of control.

But this time, the Bloodthirsty Vine only restrained the Nymph King for two seconds before the beast blew it into pieces.

Freezing Sphere, Flame Burst!

Holy Light Judgement!

In the distance, Shadow Sadwind, Xue Yu and the others did not stop attacking. Although the damage they were causing was very limited, they were still grinding down the Nymph King’s HP every so slightly.

“13% left. Do your best, everyone!” Shadow Sadwind called out in the party channel. Having the next best capacity for damage to Nie Fan, the team’s damage output depended on him with Nie Fan occupying the Nymph King’s attention.

There was extreme urgency in every passing second.

Nie Fan sprinted away in Cheetahmorph. When he looked down to check his skill bar, he saw that both Black Oil and Mini Fireball had gone off cooldown. He did not have the time to use them, however, because he would be instakilled if he stopped to cast Black Oil.

Since only close-ranged engagement could resolve the current circumstance, he drew the Nymph King to a spot of lush overgrowth, weaving in and out of the dense woods to buy time.

Some of the trees were being snapped into two by the Nymph King, but it was simply inconvenient for the beast to move through the woods with the towering tree trunks blocking its way wherever it would go. Worse, Nie Fan was too quick in Cheetahmorph and could freely move between the trees.

After twenty minutes of futile pursuit of Nie Fan, the Nymph King’s focus on him faded slightly. Turning, it charged towards Shadow Sadwind instead—his attack was rather high and quite something when it accumulated, and as such drew the Nymph King’s attention.

A chance!

Nie Fan’s eyes brightened and he fired a Black Oil and Mini Fireball combo. With a loud bursting bang, flames ignited over the Nymph King’s body and it turned its attention towards him once again.

Seemingly outraged with Nie Fan, it also reached out to pull out an entire Redwood Tree roots, smashing it down on Nie Fan’s position like a wooden club.

Nie Fan was astonished by that very sight, but he managed to jump away with a Vertical Leap and ran deeper into the woods.

Missing its blow, the Nymph King then swung the Redwood Tree at Shadow Sadwind and the others.

It was utterly mind-boggling—with the tree in hand, the beast’s range of attack basically doubled! Shadow Sadwind and the others’ face fell when they saw what was happening and quickly turned to run.

There’s no way they would allow themselves to get hit by that!

Bloodthirst—

But just as Nie Fan was about to cast his spell, he had to quickly cut it short when he saw the Nymph King flung the entire redwood tree at him and retreat some distance away, while the tree smashed into the ground with a heavy rumble.

And after throwing that tree, the Nymph King started to pluck out another.

It was now apparent that the beast had a skill to guard against ranged attacks. And if this continues, its HP would gradually recover—someone has to stop it!

After keeping quiet to think for a bit, and subsequently realizing that only he could do it, Nie Fan suddenly accelerated and lunged towards the Nymph King.