Chapter 727: Chapter 690: Mobilization of the Metropolis!
Yi tapped the large sniper rifle resting on the parapet of the rooftop and pondered, “If we hit the right spot, we should be able to break its defense, right?”
“I reckon this dragon isn’t entirely covered in scales.”
At this point, he couldn’t help but laugh, “Do you think the dragon’s anus has scales too?”
“???” Yelang was taken aback, “Shouldn’t normal people think of attacking its eyes first?”
“All the same, all the same.” Yi casually waved his hand, “The problem is that both targets are difficult to hit, there are dragon scales over its eyelids, and the tail blocks its anus, how tricky.”
“Yes, tricky indeed.” Yelang agreed with a nod.
After spewing dragon flame, the Fire Dragon rose in altitude and performed a pivot turn then continued wreaking havoc on another main street with fire. Its fresh blaze crosses with the previous in a gigantic fiery cross.
The buildings on both sides of the street also caught fire, starting from the first floor and soon reaching the top.
Bullets rained onto the Fire Dragon, but it’s health bar only ticked down a minuscule amount.
Yelang once again raised his telescope, eyes locked onto the Fire Dragon, he couldn’t help but exclaim, “I have to admit, this dragon is really cool!”
Yi, standing next to him, utterly agreed: “Yeah! I’d love to ride it.”
Yelang didn’t criticize Yi because he also wanted to ride it…
But to do so, at the very least, the dragon has to land first, then they could attempt to climb onto it, otherwise there wouldn’t be any chance.
“The dragon isn’t going to just fly up in the sky spitting fire, right? What’s the difference between that and a bomber?”
“Don’t worry, I bet you, it’s definitely going to land!” Yi confidently declared, “Based on Lincoln’s style, if he’d get something like this involved, he would totally create massive destruction, he can’t just let it spit fire and call it a day.”
Yi’s guess was quickly confirmed—
After shooting out a huge fiery cross, the Fire Dragon flew forward a short distance then started another dive.
This time it didn’t spit fire but landed directly on the seven-story Metropolitan Business Center, facing the small square in front of the building, it let out a wild roar.
Fearless players followed closely behind it, chasing the dragon.
Armored vehicles, cars, motorbikes, even bicycles of all sorts formed a convergence of long lines.
A far and near, the rooftops were teeming with players’ shadows — they were bold and skillful, choosing to dash straight from the roofs, always mantaining the advantage of a bird’s eye view from above.
After maxing out the [Assassin Bloodline], the enormous physical capacity boost given by using the skill can sustain players enough to cross a whole main street, jumping from one building to the next in mid-air.
Even if you fall from a height of 10 meters, as long as your posture upon landing is correct, it shouldn’t cause any arms or legs to break. Your health loss would be minimal, and as long as you are not in combat, your health could be full again within seconds.
As long as you can overcome the fear in your mind, then find a reliable parkour master to learn from, and with diligent practice, in theory, everyone can perform this kind of flying leaps.
Of course, theoretically speaking, the reality is still quite formidable.
The [Assassin Bloodline] is ultimately a short-term burst skill, every second it is activated will consume a large amount of physical strength, even if it is maxed out, it can’t be wasted carelessly.
So, you must seize the correct timing to activate, each second needs to be calculated thoroughly.
Any action that can be done with the enhanced physical abilities gained through leveling up, you should try not to use the skill for it.
This also leads to, every time the players organize the [Metropolitan Parkour Competition], there are always competitors making mistakes in front of the audiences’ eyes, falling from the roof, or smashing their heads into a wall, or missing the landing spot by a hair… and so on, these kinds of incidents are frequent.
And each mistake can likely be fatal.
Because the combination of the virtual world and extraordinary physical abilities leads to the design of parkour routes being extremely dangerous and ridiculous.
But such extreme thrill also represents extreme watchability!
This has made the [Metropolitan Parkour Competition] become more and more popular, and it has gradually started to become a major event in the world of parkour.
Every time the competition is held, not only do the players participate enthusiastically, but a large number of real-world parkour experts and amateurs also come along to join, it attracts attention even from outside of the circle.
Even three “Virtual Parkour” experts have already, through their outstanding performances in the competition, received brand sponsorship in reality, becoming the first batch of “Virtual World Professional Parkour Athletes”.
By the way, “Virtual Parkour” is now a compulsory course for professional players in the Daxia esports club.
Lance was among these high-altitude parkour players.
However, the surprising thing was: he didn’t take any hot weapons with him.
After seeing that regular bullets couldn’t break the dragon’s defense, he directly threw away his gun, picked up a more-than-a-meter-long electric saw from the pile of weapons at his feet, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and charged towards the Fire Dragon.
Xu Chun chose to do something similar. This guy only carried two knives, with his hands empty, he shuttled between high-rise buildings heading towards the battlefield.
Many more players carried packs of portable high explosives, intending to attach them to the Fire Dragon to break its defense using point-blank detonation.
They even had their own bodies covered in dense explosives, ready to make “close contact” with the Fire Dragon.
In the distance, accompanied by the sound of caterpillar tracks crushing the road surface, the Metropolitan’s sole Leopard 2 main battle tank entered everyone’s field of view.
Following that was the sound of rotating propellers, the heavy armed helicopter from the Metropolitan Police Department watched from afar, not approaching directly.
The Metropolitan Police Department at this point had an arsenal of up to six armed helicopters due to an upgrade in their armament.
— Even though all six of these armed helicopters were currently seized by players.
Obviously, some people simply ignored the Fire Dragon’s entrance show. They waited at the doorstep of the Metropolitan Police Department from the beginning, and the moment they got hold of weapons, they rushed in…
As such, all of Metropolitan’s armed forces were completely mobilized, the intensity of the combat rapidly increasing!
After the Fire Dragon had ignited the six-story building in front of it with dragon flame, it finally landed on the small square, launching an assault on the hoards of players rushing towards it!
Without its widespread damaging dragon flame, the players felt no fear and started to fight back.
Who cares if the bullets penetrate or not, empty the magazines first!
The heavy firepower squad quickly found some cover and started firing at the Fire Dragon.
Light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, hand grenades, big snipers, and even homemade cannons built by Daxia players were aimed and fired at the Fire Dragon with utter disregard.
Even when the Fire Dragon dived into the crowd of players and got entangled with them, everyone still blasted away regardless of risks.
This caught Mavis off guard, and she suffered a minor setback.
—Don’t get the wrong idea, the Fire Dragon isn’t Mavis’s transformation.
But Mavis, who is currently invisible, is sitting on the dragon’s head, directing the Fire Dragon to rampage!
Actually, since the Fire Dragon appeared, Mavis has been sitting there.
Lincoln had always remembered Mavis’s affection for the Fire Dragon, so when setting up this event, of course, he wanted Mavis to enjoy herself thoroughly.
The players didn’t see it, but when the Fire Dragon first swooped across the sky, this pink-haired little girl was already standing there cheering.
The reason for the Dragon Breath floor mopping show was because Mavis joyfully shouted, “Yay! Mavis is a Dragon Knight! Breathe fire!!”
Even after the battlefield was shifted, Mavis was still passionately commanding—
“Over there, over there! Ram them!!”
“Fly fast, dodge a bit!”
“Crush that position! Hard! Yay! Big success!”
…
Mavis is smart, she won’t be bothered by ordinary players. Unless they happen to pass by, she will let the dragon step on them a few times, otherwise, she won’t even look at them and will focus on attacking the heavy firepower.
If she can’t hit them, she acts capriciously and breathes fire.
But what she didn’t expect was that these people started bombing indiscriminately even after the Fire Dragon plunged into the crowd of players!
The dragon’s head got hit pretty hard by a shell, causing it to shake violently.
Mavis lost her balance and fell down. After falling, she rolled several times and almost fell off the dragon’s head.
At the critical moment, the dragon horn blocked her, saving her from humiliatingly falling off.
Mavis was instantly enraged:
“Breathe fire! Breathe hard!! Towards that direction!”
Mavis pointed towards a crowd in the distance, marking the direction of attack for the Fire Dragon.
The Fire Dragon lifted its head and gathered strength, the glow of fire brewing in its mouth. When the players saw this, they immediately panicked and hurried to find a place to hide.
Just at the critical moment, two .50 Caliber Anti-Materiel Sniper Bullets cut through the air and hit the Fire Dragon’s left eye!
Even on the battlefield filled with gunfire, that muffled sound of the shot still stood out.
“Roar!!!”
The Fire Dragon let out its first mournful cry since it appeared, its left eye tightly closed as if badly injured, the dragon breath it was brewing also got interrupted.
As Mavis tightly hugged the Dragon Horn sitting on the Dragon’s head, she patted the Fire Dragon beneath her bottom, reassuring it: “It doesn’t hurt, we are going to take revenge now, Mavis already saw who did it!”
The Fire Dragon roared in response, its wings flapping as it raised its altitude, gathering Dragon Breath again. This time, its eyes almost closed, leaving only a small slit.
On the other hand, Mavis extended her small, white hand to point out the direction for the Dragon: “That direction! Mavis seems to see some familiar people! Breathe Fire!”
“Roar!”
The intense dragon flame turned into a straight column of fire, shooting straight towards that direction!
“Damn it!”
On the rooftop, Yi and Yelang threw away their guns, activated [Assassin Bloodline] immediately, and ran wildly to escape the range of the dragon flame.
While running, they also quarreled:
“I said I will go left and you right, why did you shoot in the same eye I shot?”
“You said left hand side, I said right hand side; it’s you who shot wrongly, big brother!”
“You must have a hole in your head! Of course, I meant the dragon’s left and right eyes! Who’s talking about left hand, right hand!”
…
Obviously, they had planned to blind the dragon in one eye each, but the dragon breathed fire too quickly, leaving them very little time to communicate. The two had some disagreement and ended up hitting the same eye…
As a result, they ended up drawing the attention of the vengeful Fire Dragon and Mavis.
“They are still alive!”
“Over there! Keep breathing fire!!”
“They dodged again! So cool! Again, again!”
“Tail, tail! Quick! Use your tail to slap them!”
Mavis was having a blast.