Chapter 578: Chapter 578: Battle End
This time, everyone understood the danger Li Yao was in without Tanuki’s commentary. After all, each landing point had to be carefully considered and calculated. One false step would lead to a tragic outcome.
Players noted that while Li Yao’s agility was high, his jumping ability was far inferior to that of Unparalleled Femme Fatale.
The Unparalleled Femme Fatale could jump more than ten yards at once, but everyone noticed that a five-yard jump was Li Yao’s limit.
This was his most significant effort in jumping though. Under ordinary circumstances, the farthest he could jump was about three yards—just enough to land on top of a monster.
If he were to fall, getting back up would be nearly impossible.
Seeing that Li Yao was surrounded by giant bears that were over three yards tall, it was clear that any mistake would result in him being smashed into a pulp by a bear’s paw.
Basically, these giant bears were either elites or silver elites, and they were all level twenty-five. For them, it was no trouble at all to kill a fragile Hunter instantly.
Moreover, due to the bears’ rampage around him, choosing a spot to land became a daunting task for Li Yao.
Most importantly, running atop the monsters was not the goal; he had to attack the beasts while flipping and dodging their moves.
Running on the beasts while accurately attacking them left numerous viewers dumbfounded.
The fact that he could release Charged Arrows so accurately was simply monstrous. After all, Li Yao was primarily shooting arrows while running on the monsters.
Under these circumstances, if Li Yao were to stop for a moment, he would undoubtedly be thrown off balance.
What’s worse was that, as he attracted the beasts’ aggro, they started chasing after and attacking him.
With the monsters’ rage and the fear instilled in the beasts that only increased their unstable movement and restlessness, the pressure on Li Yao, who was constantly moving on their backs, was indeed escalating to an extreme point.
Moreover, the range of Li Yao’s movement was limited. He could only switch between the bears and the bison. If he went to the wolves or leopards, it would be a death sentence.
Puff, puff, puff, puff…
Li Yao’s arrows, like crafty snakes, kept plunging into the eyes of the monsters from all directions.
No matter how much the monsters shook, they would inevitably get hit in the eye.
When attacking their eyes, Li Yao finally made use of something he hadn’t needed before—the level twenty Hunter’s new common ability, the Attribute Arrows.
Level twenty represented a qualitative transformation for every class, and the Hunter class was no exception.
Upon reaching level twenty, if using firearms, various types of Attribute Bullets, such as Fire Bullet, Penetration Bullet, and other commonly used bullets became available.
If using a bow and arrow, there would be Attribute Arrows for each attribute. Some rare and peculiar Attribute Ammunition required obtaining a formula, which meant Hunters could change Attribute Ammunition into conventional ammunition now.
Unlike when they were at a lower level, frantically relying on luck to obtain some Attribute Ammunition, they had more breathing room now.
However, the situation for ordinary Hunters now was that they could only use Attribute Ammunition as their trump card. They could only slowly accumulate materials and then learn formulae on their own to use them.
Why, you ask? Money. Even moderately good ordinary arrows or bullets were painful for the Hunters to buy, let alone Attribute Bullets.
The cheapest type of Attribute Ammunition was Penetrating. The price of this ammunition was tenfold that of ordinary ammunition and arrows. As for other attribute types, they were so expensive that they caused Hunters to despair.
Many jobs also began to need materials, and they weren’t cheap either, such as some mage spells, druid buffs, etc. The materials for these were much more expensive than Attribute Ammunition, but at least they only needed to be used once about every half an hour.
But what about arrows and bullets? As many as several shots per second for someone like Li Yao. If all of them were Attribute Bullets, the cost wouldn’t only be burdensome to other Hunters. Even Li Yao would feel the sting.
Because Li Yao felt that his damage was sufficient, he carried Attribute Bullets and Arrows with him but was reluctant to use them. It wasn’t until this critical moment that he finally started using these weapons.
At this stage, there were only three basic attributes of arrows and ammunition: Penetration, Fire, and Paralysis.
As the name implies, Penetration has a penetrating effect. If a monster’s body is long enough, the quality of the ammunition can deal multi-stage damage.
Fire can cause local burning, and accumulated to a certain extent, in addition to burn damage, it can ignore a certain percentage of the target’s armor.
Paralysis, accumulating a certain amount of paralyzing energy with each attack, gradually reduces the target’s agility. To a certain degree, it produces a state of immobilization. However, the specific effect depends on the strength of the arrows and the specific attributes of the monster.
This is how Hunters managed to advance. They improved the quality of their ammunition to cope with the increasingly challenging Warcraft that would emerge.
One of the beasts even used a forearm to block its eyes while waving the other arm, armed with the Wolf Fang Club, to attack Li Yao.
Meanwhile, Li Yao finally used his Attribute Arrows—Penetration.
The Penetrating Arrow plunged into the monster’s arm but then pierced through it and continued into the monster’s eye, causing damage to both the arm and the eye.
Of course, against common players, Penetrating Bullet basically had no effect due to their thin bodies, except against players holding a shield.
This was the essence of why Hunters could still fight back against shield-bearing classes that constrained them.
Naturally, Li Yao knew that attacking a level twenty-five monster in any other place besides its thick and robust parts wouldn’t do much damage.
For instance, Unparalleled Femme Fatale and Mu Zi seemed to be doing a lot, but in reality, their damage was pitiful.
Although Li Yao’s attacks were powerful, they didn’t account for much in terms of damage, no matter if it was the monster’s neck or heart, considering it had such thick skin and robust body.
The only vulnerable part was the eye, where damage could be clearly seen.
Penetrating Arrows inflicted only two to three hundred points of damage upon entering the arm initially, but upon penetrating the eye, it dealt two to three thousand points of damage.
“How much agility has he stacked to be able to do that? It’s simply inhuman. It’s even scarier that he can control the Fire Hawk while maneuvering his character like this. I’m just speechless at how astounding it is,” Tanuki exclaimed in shock.
The other streamers were also shocked. This level of prowess had surpassed their understanding. The audience was thoroughly engrossed and intoxicated.
It wasn’t until the monster let out its final roar before collapsing with a loud thud that they came to their senses.
Accompanied by cheers from Starfire, Li Yao rushed towards another monster fighting with the Fire Hawk not far away.
Although the monsters had increased the difficulty for Li Yao, they also slowed down the giant beasts. Otherwise, Li Yao wouldn’t be able to outrun the beasts, let alone kill them. He would’ve long been flattened into a bloody pulp.
Upon seeing the giants fall, the audience knew that Starfire was likely to withstand this monster siege.
The most excited were the people of Starfire, for they finally saw hope for victory. As long as they continued to persevere, their guild could finally establish a base.
Looking at the terrifying amount of experience points accumulating, many people were calculating how much they could get if the points were divided by three thousand while they were fighting…