Chapter 25 Bao Yan! Bao Yan! Bao Yan!

The ultimate move came when it came. With ordinary attacks completely ineffective against Gu Fei, Giordano very simply used a skill finisher. He abruptly paused his ongoing attack, his sword suddenly sinking downward. A circle of dust around him was blasted away. Giordano roared, flipping the sword up and shouting, "Bao Yan!!!"

His one-handed greatsword, several sizes larger than Gu Fei’s Dark Night Flowing Light, suddenly resembled a red-hot branding iron, radiating scorching heat and sweeping a heatwave toward Gu Fei.

Before the sword even touched him, merely coming into contact with the heatwave, Gu Fei’s health began to decline. The power of this sword was self-evident. Gu Fei didn’t even dare to meet it with his own sword, fearing that being too close would cause him to be directly melted by the attack. He could only dodge. And when Gu Fei was serious about dodging, his footwork was never as simple as just avoiding the attack. He would choose to enter a blind spot where the opponent couldn’t possibly continue the attack.

At this moment, Gu Fei suddenly darted diagonally downward toward Giordano’s right flank. This position was precisely the angle where Giordano couldn’t follow up after this attack, unless his joints could twist in a way impossible for humans. Given Parallel World’s emphasis on realism, that kind of thing was impossible.

Temporarily no threat! This was Gu Fei’s confident assessment after successfully seizing this blind spot. Giordano seemed to know that this attack was useless as well. The red-hot sword returned to normal, but immediately turned a dark black, making it look extremely heavy. Giordano shouted again, "Bao Yan!!!"

Gu Fei’s judgment of the blind spot was extremely accurate. For Giordano to attack him in this position, he would need a large body movement, giving Gu Fei ample time to observe his actions and respond accordingly. However, Giordano’s second attack, "Bao Yan," was faster than Gu Fei expected. Almost at the same time as the failure of "Bao Yan," he immediately followed up with this second attack.

This confused Gu Fei a bit, because from that position, the same move was completely impossible to hit him. What was the point of this guy using it again?

At this moment, Gu Fei didn’t know that Giordano was using another skill. Although he heard Giordano’s shout, the tragedy was: "Bao Yan" and "Bao Yan" – a perfect homonym...

Giordano thrust the sword into the ground with incredible speed. Gu Fei was still wondering about this inexplicable action when suddenly an enormous force surged from beneath his feet.

Not good!!!

Gu Fei’s mind raced, and his reaction was even more astonishing. A step late in realizing, he dodged almost simultaneously with the eruption of the skill.

Cracked stones and shattered earth flew everywhere, and Gu Fei was blasted away in this sea of mud. He could feel his health rapidly declining, but at the same time, he knew that he had ultimately avoided most of the force. It shouldn’t kill him, right? Gu Fei watched his health plummet, finally losing his balance in mid-air due to the flying debris and falling to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Xi Yao Wu glided over in a smooth step, quickly helping Gu Fei up.

"Still alive..." Gu Fei saw his health stop declining at a fifth of its total.

"Idiot, how did you dodge that?" Xi Yao Wu said.

"I hate this kind of attack..." Gu Fei grumbled. Such a perfect dodge, yet Giordano chased him down with this kind of attack. This non-realistic, fantastical skill attack was beyond Gu Fei’s expectations. Giordano completed a perfect pursuit of an enemy in a blind spot without needing to adjust his body.

Of course, even more hateful were those damned homonyms!! Gu Fei now knew that these two were not the same skill. The despicable system! If these skills weren’t homonyms, Gu Fei definitely wouldn’t have hesitated so much after hearing it, and this attack wouldn’t have cost him so much health.

The battle certainly didn’t stop there. Giordano turned around and swung his sword when Gu Fei was completely out of his attack range, shouting again, "Bao Yan!!!"

"Damn it!!!" Gu Fei also shouted. At the same time Giordano finished shouting, Gu Fei had already sensed a sword wind that seemed capable of tearing everything apart slashing toward him. Gu Fei quickly rolled on the ground, and a deep crack appeared where he had just fallen.

"There should be a limit to how despicable you can be!!" Gu Fei gritted his teeth. Three completely different skills, with completely homonymous names, made it hard to believe that this wasn’t a deliberate design.

Xi Yao Wu was now also speechless with shock. She had been right next to Gu Fei, but Giordano’s aggro was clear, his target definite, and his attack precise. This attack didn’t touch her at all. However, before she could react, Gu Fei dodged, and a gash appeared in front of her...

A terrifying attack, a terrifying dodge, a terrifying gap. Giordano’s attack was certainly terrifying, but Xi Yao Wu felt that Gu Fei’s reaction in being able to dodge this attack in time was even more terrifying.

"You freak..." Xi Yao Wu felt that this adjective was extremely fitting for Gu Fei.

"Are you ready? Going in!" Gu Fei said to Xi Yao Wu.

"You saw his weakness?" Xi Yao Wu asked in surprise.

Giordano strode forward. After three consecutive skill finishers, Giordano returned to using ordinary attacks. There was no choice, as a Boss this was necessary. After all, Bosses were for players to kill, and they had to leave players with decent opportunities. A Boss who kept spamming ultimate moves wasn’t a qualified Boss either.

"I see a trace!!" Gu Fei said to Xi Yao Wu while dodging attacks. "This guy's attack trajectory has some deviations and sluggishness. These are residual habits that haven't been changed."

"Can you speak Chinese, please! Thank you!" Xi Yao Wu said expressionlessly.

"Simply put, he was originally a left-handed swordsman, but now he's using his right hand," Gu Fei said.

"So, his left hand is injured, so he can no longer use his left hand to wield the sword?" Xi Yao Wu’s eyes lit up.

"Not necessarily just in the left hand. Any part of the entire left arm is possible, especially the joints," Gu Fei said.

"So, we have to try?" Xi Yao Wu said.

"That's right." Gu Fei nodded. "Hurry up and seize the time!"

"It's the right shoulder, you idiot." Suddenly a lazy voice sounded from the side. Xi Yao Wu quickly turned her head and saw a fighter-clad guy sitting on the ground to the side, picking his nose while looking disdainfully at Gu Fei, who was fighting Giordano.

"Who are you?" Xi Yao Wu was on guard.

"Hello, beautiful lady. I'm that idiot's cousin." The person who suddenly appeared was Gu Xuan. Gu Fei didn't turn his head. He already knew it was him from the voice: "Why are you here again?"

"How did you get in here!!!" Xi Yao Wu was very surprised, because the two guilds were fighting fiercely outside the circle surrounding them, and it was hard to imagine that there was such a guy sitting leisurely on the ground here. His appearance was too out of sync with the surrounding atmosphere of slaughter.

"Hehe, I have very good relationships with the people in this place," Gu Xuan smiled.

"Feng Xuan, go and kill that guy!!!" A player from Among the Mists pointed at Gu Fei and roared at Gu Xuan. They were now exhausted from fighting the opposing guild and couldn't spare even a little manpower to protect Giordano. Gu Xuan's reappearance surprised them, and even more surprising was that none of their opponent guild members attacked Gu Xuan. They could understand this point. Gu Xuan had a great reputation and good relationships in Xiawu City, and he was also a free agent without a guild. These guild guys recognized him and naturally wouldn't make things difficult for him.

"Wait, let me finish watching this kid deal with that Boss first," Gu Xuan said unhurriedly.

"Damn it!!! What are we supposed to do with our mission then?" The person from Among the Mists was furious.

"Who knows what your mission is... I didn't say I was here to help you do the mission, right?" Gu Xuan even patiently answered that guy's question.

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!" Suddenly a heart-wrenching scream made everyone’s hearts stop. Everyone couldn’t help but look in the direction of the sound. In the center of the circle, Giordano had already thrown away the sword in his hand, his right hand on his left shoulder, letting out this miserable cry. Even worse was his gaze, which had now become as turbid as if he had lost his mind.

While Gu Xuan and the person from Among the Mists were talking nonsense, Gu Fei had already seized the opportunity to give Giordano's shoulder two heavy blows, a Twin Flash and a Palm Thunder, both of which were Gu Fei's current powerful damage skills. Gu Fei believed in Gu Xuan's judgment. Eyesight… this kind of thing wouldn’t degenerate just because of laziness.

Giordano showed an extremely painful expression after Gu Fei’s first blow; after the second blow, Giordano fell into this state of collapse.

The Fog Shadow Assassin's Diary was a genuine mission guide full of hints. Find Giordano's weakness, attack it, and uncover the shadow of his pain...

Very cruel methods. Gu Fei had done it. At this time, Giordano’s pain was depicted very, very realistically. The deep-seated fear and trembling revealed in his eyes moved Gu Fei a little. Such pain might not just be from injury; his injury must have been a terrifying experience. This was the real shadow and pain of Giordano’s. This Giordano probably also had a complete past?

"Hey, what are you spacing out for? Hurry up and attack," Gu Xuan said over there.

Gu Fei hesitated slightly. He knew that the one in front of him was just an NPC, and its fate was to be hunted by players. But this time, the mission Gu Fei was carrying out was completely a mental exercise. Without realizing it, he had begun to feel that these NPCs were a kind of living existence. Just like when reading the Fog Shadow Assassin’s Diary, Gu Fei once sincerely hoped that the lost assassin could get out of the fog and return to the path of his life.

"Do I really want to complete the mission?" Such a question suddenly appeared in Gu Fei's mind at this time.