Hui Bu Jian wasn't stupid, and the guild players weren't dumb either.
Hiding at intersections to ambush people wasn't a trick only Jin Xiang would play. Hui Bu Jian had charged through many similar intersections and broken through ambushes like this four times already. This Jin Xiang was the fifth person Hui Bu Jian had encountered who was trying to pull this kind of stunt.
However, this time, there was one major difference from the previous four times.
Jin Xiang had more people!
Hui Bu Jian was wary and didn't charge straight into the intersection. Instead, he flipped onto a roof, preparing to launch a surprise attack. But as soon as he leapt down, he was the one who was taken by surprise. In an instant, a full fifteen players emerged from the intersection.
A team and a half of players surrounded Hui Bu Jian tightly. It looked like he still had an escape route behind him, but the pursuers were already close. From beginning to end, Hui Bu Jian hadn't managed to completely shake them off.
"See where you can run now!" Jin Xiang, wielding a heavy cannon, stepped forward, fiercely shouting at Hui Bu Jian. She didn't have any personal grudges with Hui Bu Jian. She just couldn't find Lord Grim and wanted to vent her anger on this 'gift'.
"Hmph!" Hui Bu Jian coldly snorted, not saying much. He swept his gaze around, calmly observing the situation.
Fifteen players, a complete encirclement. This was the first time he'd encountered this. Moreover, his opponents were experienced. The encirclement was layered, and the gaps left were precisely calculated to account for the Shadow Clone Technique's use as a short-distance teleport. Hui Bu Jian couldn't escape using that method.
There was no room for tricks anymore.
Hui Bu Jian instantly understood. He knew that this time, it had truly come down to a fight to the death. Either he forced his way out, or he died here!
This judgment was made in the span of a single breath. Everyone felt that just as Jin Xiang finished speaking, Hui Bu Jian suddenly charged forward, his target being Jin Xiang herself.
Capture the leader first!
Although in the current situation, even capturing the leader wouldn't make much of a difference, since he was going to fight to the death anyway, if he couldn't break out, taking down the leader would be a decent consolation prize.
A flash of a blade, and Hui Bu Jian arrived extremely quickly.
But Jin Xiang, as a core expert of the Excellent Dynasty guild, was not someone an average player could compare to.
Seeing Hui Bu Jian charge forward without a word, she immediately raised her hand and fired a shot.
Three Anti-Tank Missiles roared out, hurtling towards Hui Bu Jian. In an instant, smoke billowed, and the flames of the explosion engulfed him.
"Careful!"
Someone cried out in alarm.
Before Jin Xiang could react, a spray of blood erupted from her neck.
Assassin skill: Throat-Slitting!
How did Hui Bu Jian flash behind her? Jin Xiang could easily guess that it was the Shadow Clone Technique. But what was rare was that Hui Bu Jian had used it right under her nose, and she hadn't noticed at all.
Any skill's activation has a slight tell. When the Shadow Clone Technique is activated, the character's body will sway slightly. Everyone knew that Ninjas had this skill, so they were on guard. Even so, Jin Xiang had still fallen for it.
Because Hui Bu Jian's actions were fast! The faster the actions, the shorter the skill's tell, and that had no limit.
Jin Xiang had been closed in on. For a Launcher player, this was extremely bad. However, Jin Xiang wasn't too flustered, because she wasn't fighting alone.
Her character turned around and waved her hand in a Sweep, a Launcher's launching skill.
But Hui Bu Jian had already retreated. Throat-Slitting was just a casual attack. His real intention was to break out and escape. If he couldn't, he'd fight to the death.
Retreating from Jin Xiang's side, Hui Bu Jian turned and jumped, flipping in the air, hoping to fly over the heads of the two players blocking his path. He just hoped that these two wouldn't react too quickly.
The two players who had come up to block him, a Sharpshooter and a Swordsman, were regrettably quick to react.
The Swordsman soared into the air, directly using a Falling Phoenix Slash, slashing towards Hui Bu Jian, who was trying to fly over their heads.
Helpless, Hui Bu Jian instantly performed a parry. His ninja blade sliced out, blocking the Falling Phoenix Slash's sword light.
Clang!
Parrying was just a permitted clash of attacks, not a defensive skill. For attacking clashes, it depended on the judgment.
Hui Bu Jian was just using a normal attack, while the Swordsman was using the skill Falling Phoenix Slash.
Blocking the sword light only obstructed some of the damage. It didn't obstruct the Falling Phoenix Slash's momentum at all. The sword light continued to fall rapidly. Hui Bu Jian held his ninja blade in front of him, helplessly being chopped back down to the ground.
This was the difference between parrying and skill blocking.
Blocking skills can completely negate the opponent's attack judgment, while parrying only negates some damage. The attack's judgment is still fully received.
Hui Bu Jian was chopped back to the ground by the Falling Phoenix Slash. The Sharpshooter rolled backwards when the Swordsman jumped.
This roll also made Hui Bu Jian extremely depressed. At this time, even if he landed and immediately did a forward roll to dodge the Swordsman, he would run right into the Sharpshooter's gun.
These two were clearly experienced veterans. Their coordinated advance and retreat neutralized all of Hui Bu Jian's possible actions.
To the left and right, other players had already surrounded him, and there were still people on the outer circle, on guard against the Shadow Clone Technique. They weren't letting their guard down.
It seemed like he was in real trouble...
The instant he landed, Hui Bu Jian understood. As soon as his character touched the ground, he immediately did a backflip.
Behind him was their leader, Jin Xiang.
After all, Jin Xiang was a Launcher. Seeing Hui Bu Jian roll towards her again, her instinct was to jump back.
As a result, she saw Hui Bu Jian disappear as he backflipped, like he had dove underwater.
"Not good!"
The thought had just entered Jin Xiang's mind when Hui Bu Jian burst out from the ground, right under her feet.
Ninja Skill: Ground Thrusting Assassination!
Another spray of blood flew from Jin Xiang's body.
But the attack didn't end there. Hui Bu Jian, who was flying in the air after the Ground Thrusting Assassination, frantically waved his hands in front of his chest, performing a hand seal.
"This is..." Jin Xiang, who had raised her view, saw clearly, but she couldn't recognize what hand seal it was at all. The hand seal was completed in an instant. Hui Bu Jian's figure suddenly swayed, as if he was about to use the Shadow Clone Technique. But this sway was much larger than the Shadow Clone Technique. That sway seemed to be in all directions.
Jin Xiang instantly knew what was about to happen.
Unfortunately, she could only know.
After that sway, Hui Bu Jian's figure suddenly scattered, and countless Hui Bu Jian figures appeared on the field. The gray figures ran around crazily, dazzling the eyes. Blood flowers continuously erupted from Jin Xiang's body.
Ninja level 70 ultimate, Ninja Art: Shadow Dance!
"Spread out further! Be careful he gets out of the circle!!!" Jin Xiang hurriedly issued instructions.
The Shadow Dance attack is controlled by multiple shadow clones, and after the move ends, the player can choose where the character lands. Because there are so many shadow clones, with such great confusion, it is difficult for others to determine where the final landing will be. If they don't expand their defenses, he might use this move to break out of the encirclement unexpectedly.
The players followed the instructions, enlarging the circle while attacking the shadow clones.
The shadow clones of Shadow Dance are like the shadow clones of Shadow Clone Technique. They can be eliminated by attacking them. The difference is that the shadow clones of Shadow Dance can move, and they have more health.
Everyone instinctively wanted to find the stationary shadow clones to eliminate them first.
Because each shadow clone in Shadow Dance needs to be controlled by the player, most of the time, players cannot fully control all the shadow clones that appear in Shadow Dance. There are often some that stand still dumbly.
However, at this time, after searching around, everyone shockingly discovered that there weren't any! There wasn't a single stationary shadow clone!
Hui Bu Jian could control all of the Shadow Clone Technique's shadow clones so well! This level of control had definitely reached the professional level of a Ninja. The Excellent Dynasty guild players were well-informed, and they had never seen a player who could control Shadow Dance to this extent in the game or in the arena.
Without stationary shadow clones, everyone could only randomly attack the moving ones. But the shadow clones in Shadow Dance have skill effects when they move, and their movement speed is twice as fast as normal. With these figures moving all over the place, everyone's vision almost blurred, making it difficult to track them.
Even so, skills have a duration. Let this guy be arrogant for now! He still can't escape anyway.
The side with more people was still not afraid.
Jin Xiang initially thought so too, but not long after, she suddenly realized that something seemed wrong.
Her health was dropping too quickly, wasn't it?
The Shadow Dance skill is usually used as an area-of-effect skill, but at this time, this Hui Bu Jian seemed to be focusing his attacks on her. The constantly darting gray figures confused everyone's vision while continuously focusing their attacks on Jin Xiang.
Because skills in Glory have strong operational aspects, the effects of the skills are sometimes difficult to define. Using Shadow Dance as an area-of-effect attack is simpler and easier to learn. But focusing the attack on one target isn't impossible, it just requires more complicated and extensive actions.
And Hui Bu Jian was undoubtedly doing just that. He, who could control all the shadow clones, was focusing the firepower on Jin Xiang. With such a concentrated attack, Jin Xiang's health dropped extremely quickly. The worries that she originally didn't have finally surfaced in her mind.
"Could I die?" Greatly alarmed, Jin Xiang couldn't care about anything else and shouted, "Healer!"
A team of fifteen people would definitely have a Healer. To be honest, the other players hadn't noticed Jin Xiang's situation, but when they heard her call for a Healer, they suddenly realized how much health Jin Xiang had lost!
The Healer rushed over and raised his staff to cast a spell when suddenly a gray figure flashed past him, and his incantation was interrupted with a single attack.
"Use instant-cast spells!" Jin Xiang angrily said.