Chapter 380: Stonehenge

Chapter 380: Stonehenge

Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97

The map of this battle was a strange stonehenge that took up a large amount of space. More than thousands of column-like stone pillars stood irregular in the desert. The stone columns were of varying height and sizes.

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The thinnest of them were as thin as a flagpole and the thickest of them were as thick as a tower. There were gaps between the pillars, but they were totally irregular as well. A moon hung in the sky. The wind blew lightly and there were wisps of cloud blocking out the moonlight. This was the perfect environment for an assassin to operate.

The sand would muffle any sound made by one’s footsteps. Combined that with the howling wind, it was very hard for the opponent to perceive Xiao Tan’s movement. The strange pillars provided Xiao Tan with an endless cover that he could use. Even if Xiao Tan had been spotted by his enemy, with just three to five steps, he would disappear from his opponent’s line of sight.

Under this condition, if one player was a close-quarter expert that focused on building his speed and the other was a sniper specializing in marksmanship, then basically the battle would be lost before it even started for the latter.

And this battle started with this kind of predetermined condition...

Some of you readers might be wondering, even though the matching of the two players was randomly but the creation of the map should be decided according to the data of the two players, why would the system generate a map that was highly disadvantageous to one of the parties? The answer was very simple... because this map did not have much negative influence on Sky Song...

Ho ho ho!

Following this continuous and dull sound, two shadows lashed out at Xiao Tan. From the moment the scenario started, this was the nth time that Xiao Tan had been assaulted by this attack. He knew very well that... even though the speed of this attack was not fast, the force behind it was heavy and the angle that they came at him was hard to predict.

If he used his own body to block them, he would lose quite a large amount of Life Points. Therefore, he could only twist his body in different unique angles to avoid the attacks while keep moving forward to find his target.

“If this is allowed to continue, I will eventually run out of stamina...” Xiao Tan gasped for air while keeping his feet moving. He thought to himself, Without even realizing it, my Life Points have been shorn down to half and I have lost one-third of my Stamina Points. I am no closer to getting to my opponent... Speaking of which, this is a curious long-ranged attack that he has... Could this be from a Sorcery Weapon?

Xiao Tan’s speculation was not wrong. Sky Song, who was standing on top of a giant stone pillar controlling two boomerangs to make this super long-distance attack, was indeed using his Sorcery Weapon.

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Item Name: Thunder Boomerang

Item Type: Sorcery Weapon

Quality: Excellent

Offense Point: Slightly Strong

Element: Electricity

Special Effect One: Return Flight (Sense the user’s location and return back to the user’s hands)

Special Effect Two: Homing Attack (lock down the target and make accurate attacks)

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Special Effect Three: Echolocation (During return flight or homing attack, if the condition allows it, the weapon will sense and avoid all obstacles in its trajectory)

Special Effect Four: Thunder Strike (Release a powerful electric shock. Can be used in close-quarter combat. Within the one hour after using this effect, all the other special effect of the Thunder Boomerang will become invalid

Remark: In the year 1977, an Australian visitor accidentally died from a boomerang that he threw and returned to knock on the back of his head. But his soul traveled back millions of years to become a Koori1. And from there, he started a journey with plenty of surprises. Plenty of women who were willing to throw themselves at him. He traveled all over the Australian continent, killing demons and slaughtering bandits, becoming a legendary existence. Many years later, one of his weapons, appeared once again in a part of a multiverse and that was—Thunder Boomerang!

Turns out the sound earlier was Xiao Tan grabbing two handfuls of sand and throwing them as hard as he could above the stone pillar. It was a purposeful test. At that moment, the condition of the match had a complete turnaround. Wang Tanzhi was like a beast lurking in the dark, testing out the reaction and reflex of his enemy with ease to find the opening where he could deliver a fatal blow.

And our friend, Sky Song... after his tactic had been seen through by his opponent and not only that, undermined by Xiao Tan, he became the one who was cornered. As a player who focused on marksmanship, Sky Song’s vision was not that bad but Xiao Tan was hiding in the darkness and his outfit melted perfectly into the dark (Xiao Tan’s assassin creed’s outfit had a dark red jacket with a golden lapel). To capture Xiao Tan’s movement in the dark with naked eyes was extremely difficult.

In contrast, Xiao Tan who also had Level C in sleuthing did not have that problem at all... Sky Song had not moved from the stone pillar where he set up his camp. He used that spot as his vantage point and defense point. Xiao Tan only needed to poke his head slightly out from behind the pillar and he could see his opponent clearly.

“Hah... Hah... Hah...” Sky Song tried to keep the sound of his breathing as shallow as possible. Fear made his hearing and vision sharper and he thought to himself, I need to calm down... The opponent is just testing me. I must not fall for it.

He calmed down slightly.

I am being too nervous... there was no need to fire so soon. I am on the higher vantage point and I have the gun. No matter how fast he is, he will not have teleported beside me in the blink of an eye. During the start of the match, he was forced back away from me because of that... things would not have changed now either.

He had made up his mind.

Yes! I will only start firing when he appears concretely in my line of sight. Firing aimlessly will only give him the opening he needs to get close to me.

Tsk tsk!

Another sound evoked in the dark. This time Sky Song turned his head around with alert. He focused his eyes down that direction but did not pull on the trigger.

Fu fu fu!

Following the earlier movement, another sound floated out from the dark, but it stopped three seconds later.

He did not fall for it this time? Xiao Tan thought. He wanted to use the same trick twice and use the sand toss to distract the enemy and when Sky Song fired, he would run to his blind spot, leap up the stone pillar and complete the assassination. But to his consternation... after he tossed the sand and leaped swiftly between two stone pillars, his opponent still had not made a move...

Therefore, Xiao Tan quickly pulled back. He squished his footsteps into the sand and cloaked himself in the darkness again. In these few short minutes, neither of them spoke and neither used any skill or ultimate. This match of pitting two players’ wit and courage against each other had reached its climax.

Suddenly, a wind picked up...

The sound of the wind swished through this strange arrangement of stone pillars, it sounded like the wailing of a poor woman. With the push from this desert gale, a dark cloud slowly moved to cover up the moonlight...

At the same time, with a ‘splat’, a lick of light appeared behind one of the stone pillars. Then a man wearing a miner’s hat walked out from behind it. With the moon blocked behind the clouds, the spark of light was so conspicuous in the dark, the miner’s hat itself was a bright yellow. It was impossible for one to miss it.

“Hey... now you are just underestimating me.” In that moment, this comment entered Sky Song’s mind, but his hands did not stop moving. He immediately aimed the gun at Xiao Tan and pulled the trigger. However, at that moment, that bit of light morphed into a moving beam of light.

Sky Song had predicted that the man would not stand there and wait for him to shoot at him. Moving at high speed was a measure that he had expected. “Humph... You want to force your way to me? Do you think you can run faster than a bullet?”

Of course, Xiao Tan could not run faster than a bullet. At least, for now, he could not. But he did not need to be faster than a bullet. He only needed to be fast enough to fool his enemy’s pair of eyes...

The machine gun howled, and the blanket of bullets came at Xiao Tan. At the same time, the singular light source dissolved into two and then one second later, into three in the darkness. The three blurry light sources appeared and disappeared as they spiraled their way up the stone pillar.

“I knew you would use this skill!” Sky Song did not panic. When Xiao Tan tried to break through the firing zone for the first time, he had already used Ephemeral Shade before. Now, he wanted to use the same method to get close to Sky Song, but the latter was not so easily fooled.

“This time, the result will not be any different!” Sky Song adjusted the angle of the barrel slightly and increased the coverage of the bullet blanket. The three shadows were all in the gun’s firing zone. Last time, he used this method to chase Xiao Tan back and he managed to nick quite a bit of Life Points from Xiao Tan. But this time, something that he did not understand happened.

One, two, three... all three light spots disappeared one after another.

Darkness descended once more and before Sky Song’s eyes... there was nothing.

“They were all illusions?” At that moment, Sky Song’s Terror Points shot through the roof. “Then where is the real person?”

He soon got the answer to that question. A cold sleeve blade pierced into Sky Song’s throat from the back of his neck. It slashed through his spine and the cold steel poked out from the front of his throat. Fresh blood squirted out in a spray of mist in the dark and was carried away by the wind.

Ten seconds away...

Xiao Tan ignored the depletion of his Life Points and purposely switched on the light on his miner’s hat. Using the skill of his shades, he forced his way forward toward the stone pillar. When he reached a certain height, he left behind three shades and at the same time... reached up his hand to switch off the light on his miner’s hat. Then, he curled his body inward and used Shadow of the Evil Bat at the stone pillar that was right before his eyes. Using the special effect of this skill... he teleported to the other side of the stone pillar.

Therefore, he successfully vanished within his opponent’s line of sight.

Three seconds later, under the cover of the gunshots, Xiao Tan had sneaked up to the back of Sky Song and... took down his ninth consecutive win.