Chapter 47: What’s So Special About This NPC?
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Same with how he dealt with the earlier players, the spear knight threw his spear towards Zhao Mingwei the moment the battle started.
Whenever they came onto the arena, these sacred souls would always make some strange poses. The spear knight didn’t know what they meant by it, but it was undoubtedly a chance.
Most of the players were insta-killed by the spear knight while they were posing to buff themselves, and after he had done the same to five or six of them, they learned to buff themselves when they had the chance to.
As soon as he stepped onto the arena, Zhao Mingwei joined his palms together in a praying pose, and the spear knight quickly caught this chance to attack.
But what Zhao Mingwei did wasn’t a buff skill, but an Aura Barrier!
A semi-transparent energy barrier was created with Zhao Mingwei in its center, and while it had the ability to withstand a certain amount of damage, it would break after the damage surpassed its limit.
The spear threw by Kaermo hit the Aura Barrier, and it immediately shattered into pieces, while the spear knight was deflected into the air.
Zhao Mingwei used this chance to cast the three core buffs of the Aura Bender class onto himself.
Breath of the Wind!
Roaring Tigers and Dragons!
Aura Ring!
The three buffs were cast in 1.5 seconds, and in that time the spear knight had summoned his spear back into his hand, before rushing towards Zhao Mingwei.
This was also a common move the spear knight used against the players, and most couldn’t even react in time before they were killed instantly.
But Zhao Mingwei reacted in time, and he stepped back and shifted his position slightly, making the deadly spear miss marginally.
He could have dodged even further, but he turned his body not to dodge, but to attack!
As the spear knight was about to adjust his position and chase after Zhao Mingwei, the Aura Bender landed a heavy kick on him.
This was the skill Side Kick, which was a common control skill that the Fighter class used.
The angle he kicked at was quite tricky, and the spear knight couldn’t dodge this kick at his hip, as this kick struck at the weakest spot in his armor, where the different plates in his armor connected. And so, the spear knight was sent up into the air.
At the moment he was flung into the air, the spear knight swung his spear in Zhao Mingwei’s direction, breaking the knock-up control he was in.
Zhao Mingwei only lowered his head, letting his long hair get sliced by the blood-red spear in exchange for dodging the attack. The next second, he swung his fist towards the spear knight to use Crushing Fist, followed by multiple punches strengthened by the Roaring Tigers and Dragons buff.
Translucent tigers and dragons accompanied Zhao Mingwei’s fists as he swung towards the spear knight in the air, and as it struck his armor it resounded like thunder. The spear knight felt like he was struck by lightning magic and felt a light numbing effect from it, but it didn’t affect his movements.
After receiving four attacks from Zhao Mingwei, the spear knight managed to adjust his position to block Zhao Mingwei’s fifth punch, and used this chance to push him away with his spear.
He managed to widen the gap between himself and Zhao Mingwei, but the latter managed to use another Side Kick at the same time.
When the Side Kick hit the spear knight’s spear, he felt a… terrifying force push him, tossing him higher into the air.
This time, the spear knight changed his strategy, striking his spear against the ground and propelling himself back, out of Zhao Mingwei’s attack range.
As soon as he landed on the ground, he was struck in the face by an Aura Blast the size of a basin.
The destructive aura struck the spear knight’s face and spread, charring and burning his skin as if it had been on fire. This thoroughly enraged the spear knight, and he raised his spear with a roar. The weapon shone with a blinding light as the floor of the arena rumbled and cracked, and a flurry of spears formed from magic shot towards Zhao Mingwei.
The target felt there was something coming from the ground, and so he jumped into the air, but that was the spear knight’s objective all along.
“Die!” The spear knight’s spear swung in a blood-red arc in the air like a crescent moon towards Zhao Mingwei, and logically, he wouldn’t be able to dodge because he had no foothold.
But in Zhao Mingwei’s eyes, the spear that attacked him was a foothold, and his feet shone with a bright aura.
Eagle Step!
Zhao Mingwei didn’t have even a tenth of a second to react, but he still stepped onto the spear precisely, and the system gave a confirmation that his actions were safe.
Detect!
The spear knight only felt a weight that was greater than Zhao Mingwei had transferred from the tip of the spear, and it was as if a large mammoth had pressed onto the spear. The great strength made the spear crash uncontrollably towards the ground.
As the tip of the spear pierced the ground, it cracked with the spear at the center.
Zhao Mingwei dropped onto the ground along with it too, but his leg was pressed firmly on the spear’s pole.
This scene made the spear knight feel an uncontrollable sense of humiliation. A spear knight’s pride was their spear, after all, and nothing was more humiliating than what Zhao Mingwei was doing right now.
As the spear knight pulled his spear back and wanted to attack again, but Zhao Mingwei landed another Side Kick onto him.
Son of a b*tch!
As he was flung into the air again, he suddenly remembered these words that the sacred souls that were insta-killed by him.
This was the first time that he felt that this special skill of these sacred souls was too disgusting.
The spear knight shouted the newly learned curse, but Zhao Mingwei didn’t hold back at all, aiming another buff-amplified strike at the weak spot within the spear knight’s armor. The destructive aura flowed into the body of the spear knight, making the spear knight feel like his body was being ripped by a wild force from the inside.
The spear knight repeated his movements and thrust his spear at the ground to release himself from being controlled, but Zhao Mingwei had already anticipated his movements. A third of a second before the spear could strike the ground, Zhao Mingwei kicked on the spear again, kicking it off course before he landed another Side Kick on the spear knight.
The spear knight flew higher into the air with a dead expression.
‘What’s so special about this NPC …’
As he continued to suppress this spear knight, Zhao Mingwei suddenly had this thought.
How could an elite NPC that didn’t even have invincibility, control skills, or even self-destructing abilities fight with a player that had the help of the system to knock-up, block, detect, and deflect their attacks?
Zhao Mingwei’s Aura Bender class didn’t have skills like block or deflect because they didn’t have any weapons compared with classes like swordsmen and paladins, and these close-combat classes could only have the deflection skill from equipping arm guards and claws. In exchange, these classes would normally have a detection skill to see oncoming attacks and dodge them. Zhao Mingwei didn’t use these skills often when he was fighting against monsters because they had no rule or reason to begin with, but…
Even when he was fighting these humanoid NPCs, he didn’t use this skill either. This was because these humanoid NPCs mostly had temporary invincibility skills, and when they were controlled and threw up into the air, they would always use invincibility skills and blow themselves up, or several terribly inconvenient protection skills.
But the problem was that this elite NPC didn’t have any of these! As long as he dodged those attacks, Zhao Mingwei would be able to combo endlessly.
The only condition was that he dodged the attacks this NPC swung at him in midair, and while it wasn’t something that most players could do with their reflexes, it was something that Zhao Mingwei could do quite easily.
As soon as he got this point, he could continue beating this NPC up without even getting a scratch on him, completely traumatizing this spear knight.
The spear knight managed to release himself from the knock-up control at the last second, and wanted to fight back with a magical spear, but the moment he reached the floor…
“HAH!!”
Zhao Mingwei shouted, and his voice turned into the roar of a lion and stunned Kaermo in place which caused the spear knight to see stars from the overly large sound.
Zhao Mingwei dropped onto the floor elegantly, then threw the poor spear knight out of the arena with a suplex.