The Survival Rules of NPCs

Chapter 58: Crushing Victory!

"Be careful, but don't be timid..." the woman said coldly in a low voice, "Natural-type empowerment is very scarce, but that doesn't mean it's stronger than yours in direct combat, especially in the early stages, the extraordinary bonus of natural empowerment is actually quite ordinary."

The tall Cui Yuzhe's initial nervousness immediately subsided, and he slowly nodded.

The players behind Dog Egg, including Fatty Chicken, were dumbfounded. Wasn't Dog Egg someone who couldn't even afford a craft beer last month? How did he become a superhuman? Did he find the Nine Yang Divine Skill while jumping off a cliff?

"Still need Mom's comforting, big boy?" Gou Dan chuckled, picking at his messy hair. "Is this what you thousands of players have been supporting?"

"Damn it, you're asking for it!" Cui Yuzhe's face turned red, while the woman's face turned ashen from being described as his mother.

A crackling sound, like popping beans, rang out as Cui Yuzhe tore off his leather armor. His bulging flesh resembled a mountain of meat, a visually stunning sight. Fei Changji and the others gasped in shock; this guy hadn't even used his full strength just now.

Extraordinary professions are indeed more difficult to handle than ordinary ones...

"The intro is too long..."

Gou Dan yawned softly, but everyone noticed that there was another Gou Dan standing next to Cui Yuzhe. Although Wang Gou Dan, who had been speaking, was still standing there, there was now another figure standing there.

Cui Yuzhe's pupils contracted as a bad premonition struck him. Without hesitation, he swung the iron hammer in his hand and smashed it towards Gou Dan, who suddenly appeared beside him!

But as soon as he exerted force, he suddenly felt a pain in the sole of his foot, and then lost his balance and fell to the ground. His large body kicked up a lot of snowflakes, causing a group of people to back away.

The sharp-eyed assassin in black standing next to the female vice president immediately noticed and exclaimed in surprise, "Her Achilles tendon has been severed! When was that done?"

No one could see clearly when Gou Dan appeared from so far away, nor could anyone see clearly when she cut Cui Yuzhe's Achilles tendon!

In an instant, players in Han Du City broke out in a cold sweat. This was a class empowered by shadows? How bizarre!

The vice president narrowed his eyes, realizing something: "Shadow Knight?"

"Oh?" Dog Egg fiddled with the dagger in his hand. "You know about this?"

"At such a distance, I don't believe you're fast enough to leave an afterimage on the ground unless you're a level 30 assassin. Among shadow-based classes, the one most capable of doing that is the Shadow Knight, who can emerge from the shadow of a living person and leave a phantom image in place as a performance."

Emerging from the shadows of living people? Is there such a bizarre profession?

The group of people were immediately startled and looked down at the ground, fearing that Gou Dan would pop out of their shadows again!

"Despicable!" Cui Yuzhe roared in anger as he lay on the ground, throwing the iron hammer at Gou Dan, but it passed right through Gou Dan's body.

"Isn't it because you're too clumsy?"

Without any warning, Gou Dan appeared beside Cui Yuzhe, leaned close to his ear, and said, "Enhancement? I wouldn't even bother with this kind of trashy extraordinary ability. It's just cannon fodder on the battlefield. You Han City has concentrated the resources of thousands of players, and this is the piece of trash you got?"

Cui Yuzhe's eyes were bloodshot. He reached out to crush that hateful face, but when he tried to move his hand, he found that he was in too much pain to move. Upon closer inspection, he was shocked to find that his tendons had also been cut off.

"Did you see it clearly?" the vice president asked the black-clad assassin player beside him in a low voice.

"I saw a blurry figure emerge from the shadow of Liu Dongxu, who was closest to me. Her speed was incredible; her base agility attribute must be at least thirty points!"

"How is that possible?" The vice president frowned.

Each profession's upgrades provide different attribute boosts. Based on the information she had, although the Knight profession was prestigious, its Agility attribute bonus wasn't high, only increasing by 1.5 per level. Shadow empowerment didn't add any base attributes, so how could she possibly be a level 20 Knight?

Moreover, her fighting style is clearly more like that of an assassin!

Wang Gou Dan stood up, looked at the puzzled expressions on those guys' faces, and immediately smiled smugly. "It would be a miracle if you bunch of trash could understand my combination."

The few thousand experience points he gained from the mission were enough to raise his Shadow Knight to level thirteen, but Gou Dan felt it was a waste. Extraordinary professions only experience a qualitative change at level fifteen, and the difference between level thirteen and level ten wasn't that significant. So, he decided to put the experience points into his Assassin. With a few thousand experience points, he quickly raised Wang Gou Dan's Assassin level to eighteen!

An assassin gains 2.5 points to agility with each level up, bringing their base agility to 45. Combined with the Shadow Knight's talent, she feels this makes them far more agile in combat.

Mr. Bright's words had enlightened her; there was no need to give up the Assassin role just because she had been promoted to Shadow Knight. She could use them together, and it turned out to be quite effective!

Seeing that burly and terrifying guy who could knock four or five players away with a single blow being toyed with by Wang Gou Dan, Fei Chang Ji and the others had very complicated expressions.

Some were proud that their side also had some outstanding players, while others were resentful.

We're so weak, we got wiped out in one move, and you, Gou Dan, go up there and act all high and mighty. Doesn't that just make us look even weaker?

"Don't worry..." Seeing the group's terrified expressions, the vice president remained calm and said, "The Shadow Knight has a weakness. She can't harm those whose shadows she anchors for a short period of time. In other words, if she emerges from your shadows, you'll be invincible to her!"

Is this even possible?

The group of Korean players breathed a sigh of relief. "That's understandable. Damn, it can just slip into our shadows and then suddenly pop up and stab us. That ability is too overpowered. But it turns out that this ability has such a weakness. That's good, that's good."

Dog Egg glanced at her coldly. This woman seemed to know quite a lot about the supernatural. He had never heard of Shadow Knights before.

Indeed, the knight's attribute is protection. The Shadow Knight is not a shadow assassin, so its shadow ability is actually used to protect important people, not to be used as an assassin. It's just that its actions just now gave people the feeling of an assassin.

But even so...

Dog Egg sneered, and in the next instant, he reappeared ghost-like beside the vice president. Before the vice president could react, he felt the chill of the dagger on his neck.

"You know the intelligence and you're still standing together? Your IQ is only so-so. Guess which shadow I came from?"

The vice president turned pale instantly. She hadn't realized that the best course of action against someone like the other was to stand apart. If they stood too close together, the other could easily emerge from the shadows of their teammates and attack them.

"That's why I said, the guild is garbage!" Dog Egg's dagger slowly traced across the other person's face: "Concentrate resources? What have you produced? If resources could be perfectly concentrated on outstanding individuals, that might be a good mechanism, but who decides who is more outstanding? Everyone has selfish motives, and power corrupts. Concentrating resources will inevitably lead to corruption and waste. I don't believe that out of thousands of Koreans, you few are the most outstanding. With Cui Yuzhe's combat intelligence, how could he obtain extraordinary resources? I really don't believe that you Koreans are so useless that the elites you selected are this monstrous?"

The vice president's face turned ashen, and some guild members immediately had mixed feelings. Indeed, many people felt that Cui Yuzhe was not qualified, but what could they do when he was the vice president's brother?

"We are scattered warriors, but we have made our way in the world on our own merits, and everything we have obtained is earned through our own abilities. We have only taken what we are capable of. It is true that we have not been able to concentrate our strength to accomplish great things, but scattered people are like stars in the sky, and some of us will eventually get our chance. Concentrating our strength means putting our destiny in the hands of a few. If the few are unreliable, then a whole group will die. In that case, why not let us try it ourselves?"

"We may not pool our resources, but we protect each other. If anyone is in trouble, we'll lend a hand. We might not seem as efficient as you in the short term, but we'll definitely thrive!"

"You're just lucky!" the vice president gritted his teeth. "Just like Murong Yunji, you're only lucky!"

"I admit it!" Wang Gou Dan sneered, "But we all have the right to try our luck, unlike your crappy guild where the lower-level members are locked up obediently, without even a chance to try their luck. If we can produce the first Murong Yunji, we can produce the second, but you will never be able to!"

Before the words were even finished, and before the other party could refute them, a flash of light appeared, and blood gushed out!

The vice president clutched his neck tightly, but could only watch helplessly as his body grew colder and colder!

"If you don't want to be camped by her corpse, take it and get out of here!"

At this moment, no one in Han City dared to act rashly. Even disregarding her bizarre supernatural abilities, her exaggerated agility alone meant that no one present could see her attack method clearly. With their limited manpower, even without her supernatural abilities, she could probably wipe them all out with just a dagger.

They came in with great momentum, but now they left in a sorry state, feeling extremely aggrieved. In particular, Cui Yuzhe, who was dragged away, buried his face in shame, leaving a long trail in the snow.

"That's so cool!" Sweet Rice Dumpling couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yeah..." Yu Nu Wu Gua sighed and looked at the materials in her hand. A hint of envy flashed deep in her eyes. Ever since she chose the academic path, she may never have had the chance to stand out like Gou Dan.

"Let's go, they're waiting over there." Wang Gou Dan turned around coolly, but was immediately stopped by Fatty Chicken and his gang.

"Brother Chicken... what's going on?" Dog Egg asked guiltily, not daring to turn around.

"Dog Egg..." Fatty Chicken and his gang's faces twisted in disgust after they realized what was happening, and they viciously grabbed Dog Egg's shoulder: "You're doing so well, you're quite good at hiding!!"