Chapter 765: Chapter 765: Lizardmen Thief
The Lizardmen Mage used Deep Ice Freeze on Tianzhen’s Luminance, instantly turning him into a human-shaped block of ice.
Next, while sidestepping various attacks, he began to launch Ice-Lances. A spell that can be cast instantly, even while on the move.
However, Ice-Lance’s power is rather low, and it only unleashes its explosive potential against frozen opponents.
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack…
Four consecutive Ice-Lances hit Tianzhen’s Luminance. Tianzhen’s Luminance fell to the ground without being able to cast a single spell.
In just a brief moment, Purple-Golden Raging Fire’s two healers and the Mage in charge of control were killed, and the Lizardmen Mage’s Ice Shield was shattered and his health was largely reduced.
Despite Purple-Golden Raging Fire’s numerical advantage, they were at a disadvantage without any healers. The additional numbers didn’t provide much of an advantage.
Moreover, these Lizardmen were too skilled, moving agilely even in these circumstances.
With the Mage’s control and the healer’s healing, it was the Purple-Golden Raging Fire team that was effectively suppressed.
On the other hand, the Lizardmen Rogue did not join the fight. He keenly noticed Li Yao, the vampire, had activated Blood Evasion, so he wanted to track Li Yao’s traces.
“Impressive, he actually knows how to track me based on the remnants of my blood essence.”
Upon seeing the Lizardmen decisively go undercover, Li Yao knew they were coming for him. Li Yao decided to stay in place. Under the cover of darkness, Li Yao was practically invisible, like a shadow.
The figure of the Lizardman suddenly appeared behind Li Yao, with his two daggers gleaming coldly as he aimed straight for Li Yao’s cerebrum.
Li Yao didn’t turn around. His originally hidden bat wings instantly unfolded, then rapidly came together.
The wings were exceptionally sturdy and effectively blocked the two daggers.
Li Yao immediately turned around, his hand flashed with a red light, a bloody mark appeared on the Lizardman’s forehead, causing his health to drop a little.
The pupils of the Lizardman Rogue constricted in surprise. Despite being startled, due to his rich combat experience, his body immediately blinked and repositioned behind Li Yao, dodging Li Yao’s red-lit claws.
The Lizardman raised his dagger. However, from his previous encounter, he realised Li Yao’s wings could effectively block his attack so he abandoned striking from behind and opted for face-to-face combat instead.
The wings couldn’t possibly block his attack yet another time.
Li Yao knew that dodging this skill would be difficult. Faced with such an experienced adversary, his invincibility time while side-stepping was insufficient.
Firstly, this wasn’t his Hunter body, nor did he have an Eagle’s view. He couldn’t judge accurately, so he immediately activated the Blood Pool.
Blood Pool, forms a pool of blood that deals minor damage but significantly reduces the opponent’s agility.
Li Yao’s Blood Pool materialised below the Rogue. The Rogue’s agility was continuously dropping and his health was slowly reducing as well.
The Lizardman roared, activating sprint and quickly darting off.
Li Yao cancelled Blood Pool, but the rogue was already 30 meters away from him.
Moreover, under the effect of sprint, the Lizardman Rogue was moving extremely quickly.
Blood Burst sends the vampire into the air, then drops like a meteor, dealing substantial shock damage and a blood-sucking effect. If the Mark skill had been deployed, it would instantly appear near the target marked.
Li Yao’s body shot towards the sky, then suddenly disappeared, and reappeared above the Lizardman, before descending.
The Lizardman threw a smoke bomb, disabling the shock effect, but his health was sucked away once again. After consecutive attacks and continuous blood-sucking effects, the Rogue’s health was already halved.
As Li Yao descended, the Rogue took his attack undeterred, remaining extremely composed. His dagger gleamed frostily as he aimed it straight towards Li Yao’s forehead.
Li Yao fluttered his wings, with the edge blocking the incoming dagger. Still, his health dropped a bit.
However, Li Yao’s two bloody claws overlapped, creating a cross-shaped blood shadow.
The Rogue’s health dropped another quarter, while Li Yao’s health had instantly returned to full. The vampire’s blood-sucking abilities were already terrifying to begin with, combined with Li Yao’s own equipment effects, made his blood-sucking capabilities frighteningly potent.
The drawback was that a vampire’s damage was often lower, dealing continuous bleeding damage instead of concise damage that Li Yao’s Hunter could inflict.
The Lizardman Rogue retreated. He was still sprinting, moving incredibly fast, and combined with the smoke bomb, he quickly disappeared from sight.
Li Yao flapped his wings once, transforming into a small bat and flying out of the smoke bomb’s cover. It was unwise to engage the Rogue within the smoke bomb. Without the smoke bomb’s damage reduction and evasion effect, a Blood Cross could have instantly taken down the opponent.
But within the smoke bomb, it only dealt a small amount of damage.
Li Yao reverted to human form, appearing far away.
The Lizardman Rogue threw darts at Li Yao from within the smoke bomb, but was blocked by Li Yao’s wings, causing negligible damage.
As the smoke bomb dissipated, the Lizardman Rogue activated Shadow Cloak to stop the bleeding effect. He had no choice but to use this skill, otherwise he wouldn’t stop bleeding until he was dead. The Rogue’s health was less than a third remaining and he couldn’t even generate more than one energy point, he wanted to use the blood-sucking finishing move but was unable to.
However, he was still confident. The Rogue’s profession involved constantly dancing at the edge of life and death. Given the right opportunity, there were countless instances of Rogues coming back from near-death situations.
Shadow Cloak, disappear!
The Lizardman Rogue cautiously approached Li Yao.
However, when he was around 20 meters away from Li Yao, Li Yao’s cloak swept a fast-spreading wave of bloody tides.
This was a skill that dealt minor initial damage, but caused major continuous bleeding damage, and it could also increase the subsequent blood-sucking effect and damage.
Although the Rogue didn’t anticipate how Li Yao could accurately read his movements, his reaction was rapid.
His figure hadn’t fully emerged when he threw a Flash Bomb at Li Yao.
Li Yao swiftly wrapped his wings around his body; the Flash Bomb had no effect on him.
“Damn it, what kind of monster are you?” The Lizardman didn’t know how many human players he had killed, but he had never encountered one as tough as this.
He again activated Shadow Step, but the distance was too far. He appeared behind Li Yao and Li Yao immediately launched another Blood Cross.
As the bloody claw shadow flashed, the Rogue fell dead, his health completely drained.
“What an impressive Rogue.”
Li Yao’s health was fully restored. His figure flickered into a shallow shadow as he swiftly rushed towards the enemy’s healer.
Although Li Yao wasn’t particularly fond of the team of Purple-Golden Raging Fire, it wouldn’t sit well with him for their convoy to be ambushed, and it would severely delay their journey…