A One-Man Army!
Stepping onto the teleportation array,
In the next second, Lucas appeared outside the instance.
And at the very moment Lucas appeared outside the instance,
Fireballs came from all directions, the earth sprouted sharp points, and then ground spikes burst open, piercing towards Lucas.
But at this moment, Lucas couldn't see any of these things.
Because Lucas's vision had been obscured by a sheet of darkness.
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\[Shadow Veil (A): Centered on the user, creates a pure darkness area with a radius of 15 meters (increases with level). Within this area, the five senses of hostile creatures will be weakened, and their vision will be completely blocked.]
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"It worked!"
The moment he left the instance, Lucas's eyes immediately fell into darkness.
And the other attacks were launched almost simultaneously!
Dozens of fireballs flew in at the first moment, and even the earth was glowing slightly. It wasn't just Bella who could learn Groundfire Surge.
But at the next moment!
Lucas switched his weapon to a war spear.
*Pfft pfft pfft pfft pfft!*
The war spear in his hand danced wildly - \[Consecutive Thrust] \[Sweep] \[Skyward Strike]
Lucas's skill points had all been used to learn one-star skills.
Lucas moved deftly, and one fireball after another was either dodged by footwork or poked and detonated by the war spear, exploding into a brilliant flower in the air.
But Lucas himself was completely unaffected by any attack.
Even the sharpshooters' bullets were deflected by Lucas with a flick of his spear, shattering dozens of them.
*Boom boom boom boom boom!*
Behind Lucas, beams of groundfire shot into the sky!
How could groundfire, a slow-bursting spell, hit Lucas?
It would have been better if these mages had spread out the groundfire, completely covering a large area.
But they believed that Lucas wouldn't react so quickly.
So the range of the groundfire was limited to a radius of ten meters in front of the instance entrance.
Lucas only needed to run two steps to leave that range.
Not to mention, there was also the bonus from the \[Feather Boots].
After a round of attacks, the ground was riddled with holes, and the withered grass still had the embers of flames.
And Lucas, without vision, was surrounded by a hundred people, but no skill touched his body.
These players did have their own talent effects.
Faced with a variety of talents at the same time, ordinary people would find it very棘手.
But in reality, guaranteed-hit talent abilities were very rare.
Most talent abilities below S-rank were enhancements to various aspects of oneself.
There were improvements to strength, and there were also special effects, but they were not as transformative as S-rank talents.
And Lucas had dodged all the skills that could be dodged.
Lucas was about to leave the dark area covered by Shadow Veil, but at the next moment when Lucas was about to step out of the shadows, Lucas stopped.
He suddenly crouched down.
And behind Lucas, Umbral Void's eyes showed some consternation.
His attack had missed!
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\[Null Annihilation (S): Can appear at any time behind a target within a 15-meter radius without their own vision (1 second cooldown for the same target). Deals 10x damage when attacking from a non-visible direction. You cannot be detected by perception-type abilities. Dealing damage from behind instantly executes non-divine beings with less than 20% health.]
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There were no weak S-rank talents.
Umbral Void didn't understand why his attack had missed.
Null Annihilation could be activated, indicating that Lucas had no vision of him.
If everything Lucas had just done could be explained by him having a perception-type ability, but his Null Annihilation talent could block perception.
He couldn't possibly sense his existence!
As the dagger brushed past Lucas's head, one thought after another popped up in Umbral Void's mind, his head filled with disbelief.
But the next moment, Lucas stepped out.
Leaving the area covered by darkness, at the same time, the war spear in Lucas's hand rose into the air.
\[Skyward Strike]
With one Skyward Strike, Umbral Void was knocked into the air.
Then, Lucas stepped back and jumped, switching his weapon to a dagger, Arcane Flash followed by A, instantly killing the two closest players.
And then, in a short second, the dagger switched back to the war spear.
\[Sweep] The sweep covered almost a circle!
The surrounding players were all hit by this sweep!
Blood splattered!
And Lucas's facing also changed from facing Umbral Void to facing another group of enemies.
Then Lucas stepped forward \[Consecutive Thrust], twice in a row. Two spear phantoms of thrusts actually stabbed in two different directions!
*Pfft pfft!*
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With one spear, three enemies were pierced continuously.
The two spears of Consecutive Thrust instantly killed six hostile players.
Umbral Void hadn't even landed yet, and the Umbral Syndicate had already had a dozen players killed by Lucas.
And just as Umbral Void was about to fall from the air,
They saw the war spear in Lucas's hand turn into a \[Flintlock Pistol]
*Bang!*
A silver bullet was fired!
\[Levitation Shot]
The bullet hit Umbral Void's body.
Umbral Void not only didn't fall, but was instead knocked higher.
*Bang!*
Another shot, directly towards the black mist.
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The player with the \[Shadow Veil] talent was taken down by Lucas, and the black mist completely dissipated.
Lucas turned and switched back to the dagger! Rushing towards Umbral Void!
*Bang bang bang bang! Bang bang bang bang bang!*
Several gunshots came, and Lucas didn't even look back. In a strange posture, he slashed the bullets behind him with a backhand dagger.
Seeing this, the sharpshooters of the Umbral Syndicate couldn't help but curse.
"Damn! Is that even human?!"
"Backhand no-vision bullet splitting? Is he human? Does he have eyes on the back of his head?!"
"Damn, can you even do what he does if you have eyes on your back? Give me eyes all over my back and I still can't do it!"
Seeing this, Dim Radiance was also furious: "What are you standing there for?! Attack!"
Who would stare at the enemy's actions in a daze?
But in this short period of time, Lucas had once again killed his way back to Umbral Void's vicinity.
The clearing just now was mainly to clear out the other people within a 15-meter radius of Umbral Void.
To prevent Umbral Void from using his talent ability to teleport his allies away.
Now that only he was left in the range, even if the other teammates didn't have Umbral Void's vision, he couldn't teleport away.
Approaching Umbral Void again, Lucas transformed the dagger into a war spear.
\[Thousand Forms – War Spear Form Effect: Combo Thrust – Every 5 consecutive hits, the Consecutive Thrust skill will be refreshed once. After that, the number of consecutive hits required for each refresh is +1. The combo is recalculated after a 5-second interruption.]
This was why Lucas could use Consecutive Thrust so frequently.
Umbral Void hadn't landed yet, he didn't have a double jump.
The assassin's movement skill, Arcane Flash, needed a place for both feet to borrow force before it could be used.
Now that he was in the air, he couldn't make any adjustments.
But Lucas had already killed his way back.
Consecutive Thrust!
*Pfft pfft!*
Two Consecutive Thrusts towards the sky hit Umbral Void's back!
*Bang! Bang!*
Two crisp sounds rang out.
The shield protecting Umbral Void was completely shattered.
This time, there were not only damage dealers, but also some support-type players.
It also included some A-level protection talents.
With these people around, two attacks would definitely not kill Umbral Void.
But two Skyward Thrusts made Umbral Void float even higher in the air.
The shield could block twice, how many more times could it block?
Taking advantage of this gap, Lucas immediately threw the Revival Banner far to the side.
The banner was firmly planted on the ground.
There were no enemies in that position, and even if Umbral Void was revived, he would not be able to teleport away.
\[Revival Target Locked: Umbral Void]
Then he waved the war spear and swept back!
Lucas's sweep could hardly be called a sweep, it was simply a round sweep!
With one sweep, all the bullets and fireballs behind him were blown up in an instant!
The timing was just right.
Lucas ignored some stray bullets that brushed past him, turned around and continued to attack the floating Umbral Void.
\[Skyward Strike] launched again, sending Umbral Void higher.
Then, the war spear continuously stabbed at the fastest attack speed!
Umbral Void wanted to fight back, to block, to counterattack, but the problem was that he was facing the sky and his back to the earth, so he couldn't move at all.
*Pfft!*
Finally, the last protection was also pierced by Lucas.
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The war spear, with its high damage, directly penetrated his body.
*Pfft pfft pfft!*
Then came a quick series of Consecutive Thrusts!
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After two thrusts, Umbral Void's health bar instantly became empty.
He was dead.
After killing Umbral Void, Lucas didn't delay for a moment.
He directly turned his head and killed his way into the Umbral Syndicate's formation.
*Bang bang bang bang bang!*
Lucas's flintlock pistol fired continuously, specifically targeting squishy targets.
Every shot was a headshot.
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Firearms had an extra damage bonus for headshots, and the headshot multiplier of the flintlock pistol was the highest among firearms, which was 3 times.
One shot took one away.
He didn't use the gun to shoot \[Umbral Void] just now because he had \[Bulletproof Protection] added by others.
It wasn't that he couldn't hit at all.
With Lucas's skills, he could hit.
But hitting the head would be forcibly deflected.
Melee attacks were the most stable.
The flintlock pistol had high single-shot damage and a high headshot multiplier, but its attack speed was not fast.
After Lucas killed five or six people, he charged into the center of the enemy formation.
Kill the mages first!
These mages with slow movement speed and slow spellcasting speed couldn't withstand Lucas's charge.
Lucas was like a god of war, charging in while waving his war spear!
The biggest attack feature of the war spear was its large-range melee attack.
Sweep was both a skill and a normal attack.
Sweep was the default skill of the war spear weapon. It was automatically possessed when the weapon was equipped, and it was a unique attack mode of the weapon.
The war spear sweep had a cooldown time of only 0.5 seconds, and the faster the attack speed, the shorter the cooldown.
However, the damage multiplier of the sweep was lower than that of the thrust.
Lucas waved his war spear and charged forward. With two quick sweeps, he wiped out the entire group of twenty-plus mages!
With Lucas's current agility main attribute of over 2000, it was normal to sweep these "low-level" squishy mages to death with one spear.
He wiped out a mage team in two seconds.
Not far away, Umbral Void had also revived.
*Bang!*
The weapon in his hand switched to a flintlock pistol in an instant, without any delay.
One shot fired!
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One shot headshot.
Umbral Void, who had just revived, died again.
After revival, \[Bulletproof Protection] had expired.
He didn't even see the surrounding environment clearly before he died again.
He didn't even understand how he died.
Seeing this situation, Dim Radiance was also dumbfounded.
Why did Umbral Void revive over there?
Shouldn't he revive at the nearest revival point?
The reason why this action was established was because the worst result was acceptable.
After Umbral Void was killed, he would only lose 10% of his experience at most.
At worst, he would lose a silver equipment.
That was the most.
This level of loss was still within the acceptable range.
But now, why did he revive nearby? This wasn't good!
*Bang!*
However, there was no chance for him to continue thinking.
Azure had fired another bullet.
Capture the leader first.
A hole appeared in Dim Radiance's forehead.
Lucas had directly headshot him.
*Thump*, Dim Radiance fell, becoming a corpse.
The nearest revival point here was not close to Blackwater Grotto.
He wouldn't be able to make it in a short time.
The captain was gone, and the mage team was instantly wiped out. The entire team instantly became chaotic.
"Everyone, hold on! Focus fire and kill Azure first! There's still a chance!" In the chaos, a gunman fired continuously while shouting in the team voice.
He was the deputy commander, and his main job was to coordinate personnel.
Now that the vice president was dead, he would completely take over the command position.
*Bang bang bang bang!* The gunman fired continuously!
But once the gunman fired, Lucas directly switched to a dagger and charged towards the gunman!
*Bang! Ding ding ding ding!*
Knife splitting bullets! The speed was ridiculously fast!
All the Umbral Syndicate players who participated in this expedition could swear that they had never seen such a fast speed.
"Damn, what a monster!"
"Is there such a thing as splitting a sharpshooter's bullets? Are you kidding me!"
"They said he was awesome, but they didn't say that Azure's skills were awesome to this extent!"
"Damn, normal bullet attacks are useless!"
"He dodges special bullets directly, you can't hit him!"
In front of Lucas, their gunner's bullets were like decorations.
*Swish!*
Soon he approached the gunner group.
Arcane Flash flashed in a strange curve, followed by a sweep and thrust of the war spear!
They had seen Arcane Flash linked to any assassin skill.
But they had never seen Arcane Flash linked to a war spear sweep and thrust.
The Umbral Syndicate's people were standing relatively close together, in order to be able to kill Azure steadily and quickly.
If they stood too far away, the bullets would have to travel a longer distance.
So their distance from the entrance of the Blackwater Grotto instance was about 20-30 meters outside the radius of the black mist.
They were in a semi-circular encirclement.
Each team was also very close together.
And now, Lucas killed into their camp as if entering an unpopulated area.
Kill the mages first, then kill the gunners.
The assassins who were invisible in all directions couldn't find a gap to attack.
Once Lucas waved his war spear and swept, these squishy assassins would be killed directly.
So they could only watch from a "safe range," trying to find a chance to move.
However, Lucas didn't give them any flaws to attack.
11 people, 24 people, 35 people...
In front of Lucas, numbers seemed like a ridiculous statistic.
*Bang!*
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In the process of killing, Lucas also took out the flintlock pistol and shot Umbral Void, who had revived again, killing him again.
Then the flintlock pistol switched to a war spear, and stabbed forward!
*Pfft!*
Blood splattered!
The deputy commander who replaced Dim Radiance also fell.
Losing all command, the Umbral Syndicate's players completely lost their way.
They realized.
They would definitely lose if they continued to fight like this!
No, they should say they had already lost. The ranged attacks had been killed by seventy-seven eighty-eight.
What was left were some melee classes, and a few healers and supports.
Fight melee with Azure?
With this god-of-war stance, fight melee?
As for the healers... what was the use? Everyone was killed in one hit at full health, there was no room for healing.
In front of Lucas, there were only two states: full health and dead.
"Retreat!" Finally, they stopped struggling!
Someone shouted loudly.
The other surviving players immediately began to flee in a panic.
"Heh, retreat what."
However, Lucas didn't chase. The current danger had been cleared.
These people had no intention of killing Azure at all.
The assassin guild, a full-fledged ambush with careful planning.
Even when the S-rank Umbral Void was still alive, with everything ready and the enemy in the dark, they couldn't kill the opponent.
And now they had been killed to pieces, and both commanders were dead.
The S-rank didn't know why he was reviving on the side, but he died repeatedly.
What was the point of fighting now?
What a joke! They couldn't see any chance of winning!
On the other hand, Lucas, not to mention killing, hadn't even lost any of his health bar.
Only some low-level unavoidable effects such as poison clouds and poisonous gas.
He had a slight poisoned state, and from start to finish, he probably lost a few health.
But Lucas directly drank a bottle of antidote during the poisoning process, which solved the problem.
This god of war was still completely full.
"Run!" Shouted again.
All the participants in the assassination completely collapsed: "He's not chasing! We can still run away!"
"Damn, I don't want to lose this bronze equipment!"
If they could avoid death, no one would want to die.
Dying in the game was of course not scary, but dying without any effect was something that every player was unwilling to do.
Not to mention, there were penalties for death, and no one wanted to die meaninglessly.
But just because Lucas didn't chase didn't mean they could run away.
As these people began to scatter and flee, three well-equipped players also walked out of the instance.
\[White Deer][Dauntless][Winter]
*Whoosh!*
Bella gently raised her hand, and the magical tome floated.
Then, the earth lit up.
"Pillar of Flames."
Seeing the earth light up.
Some of the faster ones who were running in front wanted to run out of the skill's range.
But they found that the skill's range... was dozens of meters away.
"Damn..."
How could there be such a ridiculously large skill range? Was this a pillar of flames? What a joke!
*Boom!*
But they couldn't be surprised anymore.
Pillars of flames rose into the sky, completely covering a large area!
*Whoosh!* Flames raged.
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Almost in the next instant, the players who were scattered and running away were scorched into charcoal.
\[Umbral Void], who was outside the skill range, revived again.
And as soon as he revived, Lucas raised his hand and fired a shot.
*Bang!*
Killing him again!
The pillar of flames dissipated.
The ground was a mess, scattered with a lot of equipment dropped after the players died.
In the wild, the drop rate of each piece of equipment was 3%, and the higher the quality of the equipment, the lower the drop rate.
But even so, if all 10 pieces of equipment were equipped, the probability of dropping equipment was still very considerable.
And Lucas's luck stat was high, so the probability of dropping equipment was even higher.
"It was pretty easy." Winter came forward, and no surprise could be heard from her tone.
Bella's right-hand magical tome floated.
She didn't speak, but first chanted a new spell and recorded it on it.
She always made sure that she had three spells that could be used instantly.
"Why didn't you let Bella attack directly?" Winter asked.
"With the darkness sealing the vision, Bella doesn't have enough experience. If Bella came out just now, she would be killed instantly." Lucas replied simply.
"If the assassin disarmed her at the first time, Bella would have no way to release her skills."
Winter nodded, Lucas's words were easy to understand, and she roughly understood the situation.
These people were faster than Bella, and if they really fought, Bella would definitely be killed first.
So Lucas could only go out first and break the situation.
In the end, the enemy would collapse, and then they would be called out to harvest the remnants.
"You didn't use your talent ability?" Winter was naturally referring to the replication ability.
"Heh, that's not necessary."
"Besides, this is a trump card. Isn't it normal to hide a trump card?" Lucas replied with a faint smile.
They were using a small team communication, and the people outside couldn't hear them.
Since the opening of the server, the only time Lucas had used other people's abilities in the wild was to save Dauntless, using Forceful Five-Stage Slash to travel.
However, even that time, Lucas had deliberately blocked the angle.
Only Dauntless had seen it.
Currently, everyone else only knew that Azure was awesome, but they didn't know that Azure could use other people's talents.
This information gap would become a very useful trump card.
"Okay."
Then, Winter looked at the banner on the side.
There was a player whose figure was gradually reorganized and condensed from a faint light and shadow.
"That's the S-rank Umbral Void?"
"Yes."
"If you get close, it's best not to take your eyes off him, otherwise he will directly go around to your back and slit your throat." Lucas briefly introduced Umbral Void's talent, while raising his hand to summon the flintlock pistol.
*Bang!*
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Another shot gave him a headshot: "With his current damage, you would probably be killed if you get a throat slit."
"We'll continue to run the instance later, but before that, I'll use him to farm some money."
"I'll take 50% of the money from killing Umbral Void, and you'll split 50%, no objections, right?"
Winter shook her head slightly: "No objections."
Dauntless nodded frantically: "No objections, we'll listen to whatever the boss says."
Bella was still chanting, but she gave Lucas an "OK" gesture.
This ratio was already a lot. Without Lucas, they would probably not be able to earn this money at all.
"Okay, you all turn on the field of view recording as well, so that Star Gate won't say I'm playing tricks. Multi-angle shots, let's see how they deny it."
"By the way, stay away, so he doesn't use you for teleportation."
Saying that, Lucas walked towards the Luminous Revival Banner.
Umbral Void revived again. He looked at Lucas walking towards him, and his body trembled slightly.
He didn't understand why Lucas was still in front of him after he revived, and why he didn't have a protective status after he revived.
Logically, he should revive in a safe zone, and players couldn't kill players.
He subconsciously looked around, but only saw a mess.
Had everyone been killed? This was the first thought that flashed through his mind.
But then, he immediately used Arcane Flash to escape!
*Whoosh!*
Lucas directly swept out with his war spear.
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As the Arcane Flash was halfway through, he was directly stabbed by Lucas, killing him directly.
After a short two seconds, Umbral Void revived again.
After reviving, the figure of Lucas was still in front of his eyes.
"Fuck."
But Lucas showed a faint smile: "Welcome back."