Chapter 285 Battle for the Cowl (27)

A completely lunatic…

This is Shiva’s point of view at this moment.

“Turns out…” Shiva hid in a bunker and whispered softly: “Unexpectedly, the result of this killing game was not decided by Die to Get Mysterious or King in Shadow, but this unknown player [Feng Bujue] emerged from somewhere… “

Hurt badly before by Feng Bujue had completely disrupting Shiva’s plan. From the start of the scenario, he has used Survival Supplement more than four times. Originally, this fourth bottle is intended to be used after takes down Feng Bujue. But before the fight was over, he was forced to use it.

This slight difference might be deadly.

If the same recovery item is used multiple times within a certain period of time, the attenuation effect of the recovery amount will be very serious. This can be said to be a relatively bad setting in the game: Even if the player is very rich, bought an oversized bag and a lot of medicine, there won’t be much working during the fight…… Before the end of the battle, every additional Survival Supplement equates to pushing the bottom line back a few inches.

And that’s the most thing Shiva is unwilling to do.

Because from the moment Feng Bujue untied the bomb, Shiva’s idea changed. He saw the hope of victory again, thus the previous enthusiasm gradually cooled down.

Think about it calmly, the reward of this scenario is something precious.

Shiva believes that, with his own strength, if he obtains a piece of equipment with “perfect” quality, he will likely rise directly to the top of the fighting rank.

Right now, “perfect” level equipment in the thriller are extremely precious. There are no more than five items in the auction house, each of which is sold at sky-high prices. There are a lot of them in the scare box, though the purchasing power of players is obviously insufficient. Every day in the game forums, people are roasting that the scare box is almost a “museum”. Players can’t afford excellent items, and those players are not willing to buy things that are slightly worse. Because most people are saving more skill points ​​then directly buy a legend weapon or something.

Although Shiva is the second player in the fighting rank, aside from the level and specialization, materially speaking, he is just a player with excellent items and equipped with a lot of skills and sufficient supplies, while the bonus from the custom is negligible.

As the helm of the studio, also a top player who has been in the professional circle for many years, he knows better than anyone what the first place in the fighting ranking means.

Just like Shankly 1) said – If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Cruel truth…

Maybe one-sided, but very true.

[Valiant Ghost Devouring Heaven], every moment this ID with the “order” suffix at the top of the fighting rank is equivalent to the accumulation of an intangible resource.

If get a [Perfect] level equipment can really help Shiva to surpass Valiant Ghost, then the victory of this killing game will have far more significance than a scenario, a piece of item, or a gap in the ranking. Because of this, Shiva had previously tried to compromise with Feng Bujue.

But he didn’t expect that, Feng Bujue stopped to speak with sense.

Shiva re-examines this [Feng Bujue]’s behavior… and finds that it is no longer possible to speculate on this person with logic.

This man is shrewd but ridiculous; he is sometimes extremely cautious, on the other time reckless; he will tell convincing and very accurate reasoning properly, and he will also utter any crazy words that are beyond the imagination of others.

This kind of opponent that cannot be judged by common sense can be said to make Shiva feel worse than ever.

“Your Spiritual Weapon is really quite convenient.” Feng Bujue said, jumping several meters across. Flashed the light beams from the stone disks in the air.

This wave of the attack can only be described as covering. When Shiva was looking for a shelter, he suppressed the firepower of Feng Bujue a little.

“Also, your Investigation Specialization seems to be good. Even if you don’t need to look with your eyes, you can also know the general situation in a certain range around you.” Feng Bujue said: “Though after you lose your sight, the hit rate and sensitivity of the stone plate are significantly reduced. “As he said, he threw a grenade at Shiva’s hiding place.

“Stop taking another ell.” Shiva didn’t have to look at it and knew something was coming towards him. He took out a cold weapon from his bag and hit the grenade high like a baseball.

The explosion in the air was a signal, accompanied by a bang. Shiva flashed out from the other side of the bunker, approaching Feng Bujue at high speed.

But as soon as he came out, there was a layer of golden light flying towards him.

“Skill? No… Spiritual Weapon!” Shiva’s combat instinct responded instantly, “he couldn’t guess from which angle I rushed, at best it was a prejudgment of my timing of movement… So… this Spiritual Weapon is tracking.” Several thoughts flashed through his mind when the cards approached.

“Vanish!” Shiva yelled violently with another skill.

[Name: Vanishing Strike]

[Skill Card Attribute: Active skill, permanent mastery]

[Skill category: Combating]

[Effect: Play a shock that contains spiritual power (cool down time is three minutes, you need to hold a cold weapon to release)]

[Consumption: Stamina Value 200, Spiritual Value 20]

[Learning conditions: Combating Specialization E, Spiritual Specialization E]

[Note: The damage to pure physical targets (such as mechanical creations) is extremely weak, but it has a significant effect on targets with spiritual power or soul. 】

This skill selection is very suitable, and the weapon in Shiva’s hand can just match this skill.

[Name: Obsidian Hammer]

[Type: Weapon]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Attack: Medium]

[Attribute: None]

[Special Effects: Exorcism]

[Equip Conditions: Combating Specialization D, Level 23 and above]

[Note: Obsidian 2] is one of the seven treasures of Buddha. In the case of meeting demons and evil spirits, it can break them all by force.]

When it comes to haunted scenarios, Shiva will always use this combination. Except for bosses and elite monsters, as long as they are connected with “spirit”, this combination can basically kill the target.

[Death Poker] that Feng Bujue threw at this time is a combination of ten cards. It consumed a lot, thus the power is naturally not bad. But this time Shiva used the real main skill. In comparison, Shiva is a little bit stronger.

A PONG sounded strangely, the light card was beaten into a colourful light chip in the middle air, bursting like a spark.

Shiva succeeded in this quick attack, but Feng Bujue was forced into despair.

Although Shiva himself was slightly obstructed by Death Poker, his Spiritual Weapon could be aimed very accurately again as Feng Bujue returned to his sight. Therefore, almost in the same second that Shiva broke Death Poker, there were six light beams flying towards Feng Bujue’s front, back, left, right and top of his head…

The angle of this round of volley was tricky and enveloping. It was obvious that Feng Bujue was unavoidable, and he will be either dead or injured.

Hoos…

The beam of light passed through, leaving several pits on the concrete floor of the rooftop, breaking two railings.

But Feng Bujue is ALL FINE…

He flashed through all the beams with a weird, indescribable, incredible movement. At that instant, the joints in his body seemed to have become a loose state. But the movement of his limbs and torso was still fast and powerful.

If we have to describe it, imagine a very flexible marionette. It can complete the twist of multiple joints and changes of posture at high speed under the pull of a wire. But it is almost impossible for normal humans to imitate this action.

“Nani!” If Shiva is a villain in Japanese animate, he would shout this line with horror.

But he is not…

Even if Shiva was surprised, his attack was not over. After several rounds of firing, the stone plates entered the cooling time, but he won a very advantageous strategic space for him.

At this moment, Shiva’s Survival Value is almost 90% with almost half of Stamina Value. He still has two fighting skills that can the  at any time, and he has successfully arrived in front of Feng Bujue.

Look at Feng Bujue again… With the consumption of Body-Spiritual Congregation Technique, his Survival Value has fallen below 40% again, while his Stamina Value is only 188/2800. He has put away his two guns, holding Death Poker, which is extremely unfavourable for melee.

“What the hell…” This sentence was, amazedly, said by Feng Bujue himself: “Did I really dodge it…”

Obsidian Hammer waved obliquely.

Feng Bujue took a step to the side, leaned back up like a lazy back, and easily avoided it, “This is ridiculous… Is this the so-called new realm?”

“I should be the one asking these questions!” Shiva launched another skill while he’s speaking, this time with her legs.

A bladed blue shadow was kicked out by Shiva and flew to Feng Bujue.

“Is this the so-called Rokushiki 3)…?” Feng Bujue muttered while making the classic bullet-hiding action in Matrix, leaning his back and standing on his knees, avoiding Shiva’s attack.

“Are you pretending to be weak!” Shiva shouted angrily, even himself have no idea why he was so angry. Later he calmed down and recalled that the anger at that time was probably because he realized that his opponent’s physical skills were stronger than himself.

“How should I answer this…” Feng Bujue answered.

Feng Bujue is also thinking about it: I thought it was a coincidence to dodge the spin kick, but it doesn’t seem to be the case now… the beam of light just now, and this hammer… Is it purely because of Body-Spiritual Congregation Technique? Or is the opponent’s movement slower? No… the gap between me and him still exists. No matter his strength, speed, or dynamic vision, he is always a little stronger than me.

But……

I don’t know why, I seem to be able to do some extremely difficult movements that only exist in the imagination, and do them very accurately.

What kind of phenomenon is this… Maybe I got some kind of game buff that is not displayed in the status bar? Well… Not exactly.

This state… it is…!

While he was thinking about it, Shiva put away the Obsidian Hammer, freed his hands, and launched a high-intensity continuous attack.

After a while, the shadows of the fists were flying with winds. The two shadows attacked and defended one by one, fighting all the way out of the range of the rooftop, “walking” vertically down the wall of the building, fighting towards down the street.

The superheroes who were left away have already arrived at this time (Jason Todd didn’t follow, he quietly withdrew), and saw the scene in front of him. They were all stunned.

“Are we considering contacting the Justice League?” Squire offered a very pertinent proposal.

Damian glanced at her, then picked up the walkie-talkie, and replied numbly: “I’ll suggest it to Oracle…”

1. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shankly, a Scottish football player and manager.
2. This might be an error. There are multi versions of “Seven treasure” in Buddha, but I didn’t find the version with Obsidian.
3. Rankyaku is one of the Rokushiki style in One Piece, see reference at https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Rokushiki#Overview!