Chapter 87 The Hunter’s Island 3

Chapter 87 The Hunter’s Island 3

One Saber To Conquer The City’s title looked normal. However, no matter what title it was, the skill it granted the player was really useful. For example, Little Tan’s title, [The Flustered Ambusher], was shaggier than One Saber’s and One Sword’s titles; however, the skill granted from his title, the [Retreat and Chop Rapidly], could give him more space in fighting.

Whether a player had a weak, strange or even a perverted title, the skill it granted was, no doubt, pretty practical. A bad title could always give a useful skill, and thus, absolutely no trash skills existed. Of course, ‘practical’ and ‘powerful’ are two different concepts. Intimidating titles would go along with intimidating skills.

The [Falling Head] skill by the title [Basic Saber Technique] was the same.

[Name: The Falling Head]

[Special Ability Type: Active]

[Effects: User can appear behind the target’s back in just a blink and be able to chop at the target’s neck with a strength of quintuple (5 times) his maximum strength. (Cool-down time is two hours. This skill can be applied only on human-shaped mobs. When activating this skill, user has to stay within three meters from the target.)]

[Remarks: The Unrivalled Saber Guan Xiaoyu had created this strike. That year, our Knight Guan was 18 years old and, of course, he looked ferocious with tiger temples and dragon beard. After a training course of three years, he registered to be an executioner. At that time, the royal regime was corrupted and eunuchs were in power. Guan Xiaoyu had beheaded many good and bad officers during the period, which made his consciousness surged. When he was 23 years old, Guan Xiao Yu decided to enter the world of martial arts to live a happy and envious life. He had written the ‘Beheading Saber Technique’, which soon became the current peerless technique. [ The Falling Head] is the first strike of that technique.]

One Saber To Conquer The City suddenly launched his attack. When he was about three meters away from General Zaroff, the corner of his lips curled just like this BOSS’ skull was already a toy in his hands.

One second later, One Saber quickly disappeared from their sight and reappeared again behind Zaroff’s back in just a flash. His saber then strongly slashed down on the man’s nape.

Next, a thudding sound echoed.

Zaroff seemed to know his opponent’s location in advance as he elbowed One Saber in his chest when he had just reappeared.

Before the saber in One Saber’s hands touched Zaroff’s skin, he was blown away, hitting the wall and gushing out a mouthful of blood. One Saber opened his eyes widely in fear. Surprise and pain had taken the ability to move from him.

The previous counter-attack was strangely strong that it severely damaged One Saber’s organs. Although there was no open cut on his body, the ribs in his left chest were almost all broken. The jagged broken bones flooded his chest with blood. His status was [Bleeding] now.

One Saber’s Stamina Value had directly plunged to 5 and still decreasing. The others didn’t have the chance to help him since Zaroff had blocked their way, using his sincere but cold tone to tell them, "Look at your friend. He acted impolitely and recklessly." He didn’t glare at One Saber who was lying on the ground as he knew this player wouldn’t be able to get up again.

"If he could endure that strike, perhaps I would save him, cure his wounds and give him the best medicine, food, and training, so as he could join my hunt again. Too bad..." gestured Zaroff.

Ivan saw his commander’s gesture and immediately came to One Saber To Conquer The City. He took out his revolver and aimed at his glabella.

"Help..." One Saber hardly spoke up. He had just uttered one word before he got a headshot. His body immediately turned into a white halo and disappeared.Nêww chapters will be fully updated at novelhall.com

"Party member: One Saber To Conquer The City, dead."

Everything had happened so fast that the other four didn’t have time to help him with his impulsive action.

Feng Bujue, on the other hand, thought his action wasn’t different from committing suicide. He knew that at the beginning of the scenario, no matter what kind of simple and strong methods a player wanted to use to complete the scenario early, he would never succeed unless this guy was the protagonist with the upright tyrant aura. If a player wanted to show that he was smart and lucky and did something risky, no doubt that he would end his life soon.

One Sword’s countenance paled seeing his friend die in just a short while. In fact, he had the same thought with One Saber, thinking that those two BOSSES didn’t look so strong. After several scenarios which had bulls, snakes, and ghosts, these two had the same appearance with ordinary humans that made them simply the ‘Goodwill Ambassadors’ in his eyes. Ivan looked a bit ferocious, but General Zaroff didn’t look dangerous at all.

Anyway, One Sword didn’t have such skills like [The Falling Head], so he didn’t come forward to attack them directly. He had thought that he would discuss secretly with One Saber and then they could launch the attack together. He didn’t expect that One Saber wanted to be famous quickly by storming forward with his special skill.

"Good," answered Feng Bujue. He pointed his stick at the map on the ground and continued his narration, "This is the north. This is the south. The swamp is here..." He pointed at a place on the olive. "Before we plan our escape, I want to tell some differences between the novel and this scenario."

When Feng Bujue did his reasoning, he looked calm, mature and reliable. At this moment, people couldn’t find any sense of a casual and frivolous guy. When he was talking, he even exuded a special attractive force and persuasiveness.

"First, I remember the name of the main character in the novel is Rainsford. Lucky us, he has to play the whole three days, but we just need to survive for five hours. It seems easy to survive with the shorter time, however, good things are not always good. Just like what I’ve just said, General Zaroff has let Rainsford go many times because he doesn’t want the game to end soon. However, our situation is different; when Zaroff finds us, he will finish us.

"Besides, the novel doesn’t mention there are other animals on this island. But when I was talking with Zaroff in the room, he stated clearly that there are snakes, wolves, tigers and other animals here. Even the boars are able to attack us. Thus, besides staying away from the General’s pursuit, we also have to be careful with the wild animals at night.

"But... you’ve seen that this guy is too strong to be a human. The novel also describes him very powerful, but it is just a thriller novel and not the sci-fi novel or supernatural story. Now, we are facing General Zaroff, who can kill people with only one elbow, so he is absolutely the type of strategy BOSS that we can’t confront directly. From the content of the Main Quest, we can see that the main meaning of this scenario is how to survive his pursuit successfully."

One Sword intervened, "By the time you took out your pistol, didn’t Zaroff say that he would be killed if he got hit? If I got the gun in my hand, at that short distance, I would shoot him soon. With such short distance, the chance I could hit the target is really high."

"If I did as you said, we would all be doomed." Feng Bujue shook his head. "I took out the gun at that moment just to check Zaroff’s reaction to this weapon and found more useful information from his mouth." He looked up with a countenance that didn’t express anything. "As far as I known, the modern form of bulletproof vest first appeared in the 20th century, the 50s, and the author of this novel had passed away in 1949."

"Despite that fact, Zaroff was calm enough to tell us he was wearing a bulletproof garment. Moreover, he seemed to disdain my M1911A1 Pistol. Thus, apparently, what that BOSS said are the reminders that the system gave us," said Feng Bujue.

"So it’s impossible to kill Zaroff with firearms?" Like Rain was the one who got the fastest reaction.

Feng Bujue snapped his fingers. "Correct." His eyes raked over One Sword To Conquer The City and Not Afraid. "The system had based on players’ actual situations to generate the scenarios. I think the four of us, also the one who was OVER now, One Saber To Conquer The City, none of us are specialized in shooting or have good firearms."

He naturally said that because among the four of them, only him had a pistol, moreover, he had only four shots left. Also, he was the player whose Shooting Specialty ranked highest here.

"In fact, I had asked Zaroff some information, and with the game’s point of view, we can explain that in case we use guns to deal with him, hitting him in the body is useless, so we have to hit him on the head."

"Usually, there are two situations that we can do that. First, just like what you’ve said, we should murder him in a short distance. Second, at some point in the dark night, with our appropriate specialties, we can luckily hit that very alert and incomparable Cossack.

"Apparently, the first situation is more reliable, but even if we succeed, it is futile. Because, just like the General said, Ivan would turn into a violent state.

"I guess he would replace Zaroff’s BOSS position and attack us insanely. At that time, the scenario setting may be similar to ‘the real world’, and after that Ivan gets mad, he would turn into Hulk. I wouldn’t be so surprised then. Once it happens, it’s impossible for us to get out of the scenario alive."

"Phew..." Feng Bujue exhaled and said, "In short, the topic of this scenario contains just one word—RUN."

"What are we waiting for? Hurry—"

Feng Bujue signaled him to stop while he hadn’t finished yet. "I’m about to tell you how to run."

"How to run?" asked One Sword.

"Split up and run," answered Feng Bujue.

"Why?" Not Afraid seemed to be more anxious.

Before Feng Bujue could answer her, a second later, another problem arose that disturbed his whole plan.

They then saw Like Rain turning into a white halo and disappearing. The system’s voice then arose, "Party’s member: Like Rain, disconnected."

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(Japanese: ロケット団の名乗り Rocket Gang’s self-introduction) is a motto that Team Rocket members often recite and/or live by. Team Rocket consists of Jessie, James, and Meowth. The Team Rocket trio first appeared in Pokémon Emergency, in which they took over the Viridian Pokémon Center. After their first defeat at the hands of Ash’s Pikachu had convinced them of its extraordinary power, the trio made their main goal to capture Pikachu.