MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The Blade Peak Arena was filled with players and continued to be the most happening place around. There was an intermingling of laughter and curses. Here, players had no choice but to mute the surrounding sounds, or else such a ruckus would surely drive one insane.

Li Yi was currently safely in first place with 18,000 Battle Points. The second place player had 15,000 points, whereas the player in third had 14,600.

The first season of the arena matches was about to end, so those players who hoped to snag a placing spent most of their time here, studying tactics and devising strategies, all in order to obtain the only flying mounts available before Level 70.

Li Yi was relatively lucky today. As soon as he registered, he was immediately transported into the Mirror Arena. Before he even began to fight, there was a “ding”, and he randomly received a Battlefield Honorable Great Gift Pack.

“F*ck, what dumb luck!” Li Yi’s opponent said, green with envy.

Li Yi smiled slightly and opened the gift pack on the spot. What he got in return was 10 Advanced HP Potions, which was neither here nor there.

The opponent this time around was a Dark Elf Cyclone Thief player. He had obscured his name and wore a mask over his face, so no one could see his real features.

As soon as the battle began, the Dark Elf Thief used Stealth and vanished.

“Sensory!”

Li Yi unleashed the human’s innate ability, Sensory, and immediately sensed that the Dark Elf Thief was behind him. He turned around and jumped backward, shooting an arrow as he went.

“Doing!”

Li Yi’s Frost Arrow hit the ground. The Dark Elf Thief had long since been wary of him. After Li Yi’s Sensory ended, the Thief had quickly left that spot.

As soon as Li Yi landed on the ground, the Dark Elf Thief hit him in the head with Chisel and instantly made him Dizzy.

Li Yi did not use Dark Devour to undo the Dizzy effect immediately. According to his understanding of the Cyclone Thief class, he believed that his opponent would definitely whip back to face Li Yi and attempt to deal combo hits.

As expected, the Dark Elf Thief went around Li Yi once more and reappeared directly in front of him. The short sword in his hand glowed with a blue light, a cue that showed up before a Cyclone Thief launched a combo attack.

“Dark Devour!”

A wisp of black smoke enveloped Li Yi’s body and instantly devoured the Dizzy effect. Li Yi did not retreat. Instead, he lifted the Goddess of Hurricane’s Rage and met the Dark Elf Thief’s slash with his own.

The Goddess of Hurricane’s Rage had extremely high ATK SPD, and it was able to deal 3 or 4 strikes in a second. The chances of a hit stunning the enemy could reach as high as 50%, and although the level limitations had reduced the chance of dealing stun, an ATK SPD that fast meant that even if the chances of dealing stun were only 1%, it was still quite likely to work.

This was the power of a pseudo-divine weapon. The Dark Elf Thief only took three hits before the stun effect kicked in.

“Shadow Cape!”

The Dark Elf Thief removed the stun effect and tried to escape, but Li Yi activated the Punishment Windstorm and kept him in place once more.

The Hurricane Sword’s stun effect was extremely easy to trigger, but it could not consecutively stun a target. There had to be a period of 10 to 20 seconds rest before a target could be successfully stunned again.

Li Yui retreated and aimed at him with a Powered-Up Arrow.

“Creak creak creak creak creak whoosh!”

Eliminate!

A shot of Eliminate followed behind the strongest Powered-Up Arrow he could manage. Both attacks landed at the same time, and the Dark Elf Thief, who could not move and had his DEF reduced by half, took [−3,743] in damage. He fell to the ground instantly, dead.

“I f*cking hate you special skill types!”

The Dark Elf Thief crashed to the ground but would not admit his defeat.

Li Yi ignored him completely. The arena only restricted the use of potions, but they never had any limitations on special skills. In other words, special skills were allowed by the system, which meant that they were part of the game’s rules whether you liked it or not.

“If you’re really all that, let’s have a solo match upstairs. If you win, I’ll give you my gold-colored ring, but if you lose, you gotta give me your equipment with the special skill. On one condition, though, and that’s you can’t use your special skills.” The Dark Elf was still muttering away as he lay there on the floor.

Li Yi chuckled. “Then you might as well tell me not to use any arrows at all, and just stand so you can slash me to your heart’s content. Would that satisfy you?”

“If you don’t dare do it, you’re a coward. It doesn’t matter what you say.” The Dark Elf Thief snorted coldly.

Li Yi waited for quite a while, but the next opponent simply did not appear. He had nothing better to do, anyway, so he decided to chat idly with the Dark Elf Thief. “Hehe, you wanna beat me? Sure, no problem, you’re really strong, right? If you’re really all that, you’d go challenge a friend of mine. His equipment’s a lot better than mine. If you don’t dare do it, you’re a coward.”

“Do you dare tell me your friend’s name?” The Dark Elf Thief was incensed.

“Wang’er, the second-in-command of the Huashan Guild. If you got the balls, go look for him. I’m Fengxi, just mention my name to him.”

“I’ll go right now. Wang’er, Wang my hairy a*ss!”

The Dark Elf Thief released his soul and left the Mirror Arena.

As soon as the Dark Elf Thief left, Li Yi’s next opponent appeared in the arena.

It was another Thief, but this time it was not a Dark Elf Thief, but a human one. She had a petite body with curves in all the right places, a female thief with a decent body.

She did not hide the name above her head. It was actually Moonlight Ocean, from his own guild.

“Guild Master?” Moonlight Ocean typed hurriedly when she saw Li Yi.

Li Yi nodded and said with a laugh, “Want me to throw the match for you?”

“There’s no need for that, I might not lose.” Moonlight Ocean typed out her response.

“Okay then, bring it on.”

Moonlight Ocean vanished using Stealth, but Li Yi did not move at all. It was only when she ventured behind him and used Blunt Object that he used Dark Devour (in an arena battle, the cooldown times of each skill would return to zero at the beginning of each match) to remove the Abnormal Status.

He slashed quickly with the Hurricane Sword. The high frequency and speed forced Moonlight Ocean onto the back foot, making her unable to retaliate. Within less than 10 seconds, she was left kneeling on the floor.

Upon defeating their opponent in the arena, the winners could choose two manners of death. The first was to reduce the opponent to a corpse instantly, so they could only release their souls and resurrect elsewhere. The other method was to have the opponent kneel down, reduced to 1HP. This way, even though they had lost, they would still be able to save quite a sum on equipment repair fees. Clearly, the second method was much friendlier than the first.

Moonlight Ocean lay on the ground, sighing wistfully, “What a gap in power…”

As soon as she spoke, Moonlight Ocean clapped her hands to her mouth. She had not typed her response this time and had actually spoken it aloud.

“What a nice voice you have there. It’s sweet and melodic, just like that superstar Xu Man, hehe.”

Moonlight Ocean said, “…”

“You’re pretty good as is. The only players who can fight me now would definitely be in the top 200 at the very least. Work harder, and maybe you can make it into the top three.”

“Really?” Moonlight Ocean resorted to typing again.

“Oh, come on, I already heard your voice anyway, so why you gotta be so mysterious? Guild Master’s orders, when the two of us are alone next time, don’t type anymore and just say stuff out loud. You gotta use that pretty voice of yours more often, or else it’d be such a waste.”

“Urk, it’s a habit of mine.”

“Oh, yeah, where’s your older brother, Old Li Flying Dagger? I haven’t seen him in a while, his level’s been dropping pretty hard lately.

Old Li Flying Dagger had once been top of the level charts, but now he was not even in the top 100.

Moonlight Ocean was silent for a moment before she said, “I don’t know either. He was fired by the company a while ago, and I haven’t met him since then.”

“Company?” Li Yi’s curiosity was piqued.

“Yeah, he’s not my brother, he’s just my older sis… Urk, I mean, my bodyguard. I only said he was my older brother so that it would be easier for others to accept.”

“Got it.” Li Yi finally understood.

“Guild Master, I’m logging off now. Please don’t mention my voice to anyone else, I’m worried they’d misunderstand.”

“Misunderstand what?” Li Yi acted dumb.

“Heehee, you get it.” Moonlight Ocean waved at Li Yi, and her body vanished.

“Ding!”

Just a few minutes after Moonlight Ocean logged off, the marked name in Li Yi’s friend’s list, Lil Man, lit up.

The leader of Platinum Hand, Lil Man, was online now.

Li Yi chose to continue challenging more battles, and another opponent appeared before him. He wielded a sword in one hand and an extra-large shield in the other. What a coincidence, it was Unending Unmatched again.

“Guild Master Dark Wing?”

Before Li Yi even said anything, Unending Unmatched had already recognized him.

“Yeah.”

“You got some mad skills, respect.” Unending Unmatched grinned at him.

“Come to my guild. No matter what the Star Fire Guild is giving you, I’ll offer you the same.” Li Yi was an opportunist as well. He actually tried to recruit Unending Unmatched at a time like this.

“Haha, thanks for the kind gesture, Guild Master Dark Wing, but Yang Xingchen is good to me. He was the one who helped me gather all this equipment I’m wearing, so if I leave him for another, wouldn’t that make me the bad guy?”

“You can’t join us now, but my door’s always open for the future, haha.”

“Perhaps one day, haha.”

The battle began. Just as before, Unending Unmatched closed in on Li Yi without using Charge.

This time, Li Yi tried something different. Instead of retreating, he ran toward Unending Unmatched and started a melee brawl with him.

The Hurricane Sword’s stun effect had an extremely high trigger rate, and it was extremely quick as well. Before Unending Unmatched could even slash Li Yi, he was already stunned.

Powered-Up Arrow! Eliminate!

The two arrows merged into one attack and dealt Unending Unmatched [−2,123] in damage. However, this was just the beginning. Since Li Yi had used a Frost Arrow, Unending Unmatched was unlucky enough to have the Freeze effect triggered as well. Li Yi went around to his back and used a Crippling Shot as well as the Chain Arrow Skill.

[−1,586]

[−1,187]

[−2,286 Critical Hit!]

Even one as powerful as Unending Unmatched was instantly killed off by Li Yi before he could even make one move…

Unending Unmatched kneeled on the floor, sighing, “Is this Guild Master Li Yi’s true power? No, you haven’t even used your pets yet…”

Unending Unmatched saluted Li Yi, holding one fist in the other hand, and left the Mirror Arena.

Li Yi saw that the person in third place on the ranking board just dropped 200 points.

Clearly, Unending Unmatched was the third place fighter on the ranking board.

The winner earned 100 points and the loser lost 200. That was how cruel the arena was.

It was just one win and loss, but it resulted in a point difference of 200 points. A few more losses and it would be much harder to catch up.

“The Archer that fought me just now, you’re a piece of scum, I say, scum! You’re the number one scumbag in the world, f*ck you f*cking b*stard.” Just then, a world message appeared, repeating the word scum several times in the beginning and ending with a long list of censored letters.

The one who was cussing away was the Dark Elf Thief who had just fought Li Yi. As for the person he was cussing at, why, it was none other than Li Yi.

“Ptooey, you t*tty-f*cker, weren’t you acting all high and mighty just now? You sure ran like a wimp, if you got the guts then come face me! Come PK with your Big Brother Wang, why don’t ya? Running like a b*ll-less wimp, f*ck, Brother Wang can’t stand cowards like you who run once you know you can’t win.”

There was yet another world message, and the poster was—Wang’er!