MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The entire Huashan Guild was immediately obliterated. From the first attack to the last man being felled, it took only 26 seconds.

Just as peace returned to the area beneath the dragon skull, two tiny black dots appeared in the sky far away, closing in, and finally descended on the skull itself.

Dark Wing was here!

On the Griffin together with Dark Wing was an Orc Warrior with dual axes, and Fire Ice arrived on Heavenly Warhorse with Little Elf from the Magical Realm.

The four of them arrived at the same time!

Arthur sported a slight smile and said, “Haha, Dark Wing, I thought you’d have chickened out!”

Li Yi scoffed and said straightforwardly, “Can we start now?”

“Of course!” Arthur did not hesitate.

After confirming that it was Li Yi who arrived, the crowd began boiling over again. Most of them were relieved. Those who had bet kept their bets going, and those who did not join in the commotion.

Arthur buffed himself up and chose two helpers, ordering the others to leave the altar, while Li Yi only chose the Orc Warrior to help him, letting Fire Ice and Little Elf from the Magical Realm leave as soon as they’ve finished buffing him.

“Dark Wing, what is this?”

“What is what?”

“The terms were clear that both parties send three players out. You only have another one, are you trying to win two battles?”

Li Yi smiled. “I am not, but another friend of mine was not here yet. As for why, I think you would understand why he isn’t here yet, don’t you?”

Li Yi had chosen Unending Unmatched as the third teammate. He had informed Unending Unmatched two days prior but had failed to account for Arthur’s shamelessness. Arthur had used some sort of excuse to trick Unending Unmatched to Desolace and swarmed him to death. They even camped his corpse until now.

Unending Unmatched was impossibly stubborn. In his past life, he was only able to attain godhood after achieving enlightenment as a result of being served a cascade of blows. However, the current Unending Unmatched was still far from the one at his peak in his past life. Even as Li Yi insisted that he divulge his location, he was unrelenting about keeping that a secret. Li Yi waited for a long time for him to arrive, but he never showed. It was only after dropping 5 levels due to being spawn-camped that he apologized to Li Yi and went offline.

Li Yi could not do anything. He knew Arthur would not play fair, but he did not expect Unending Unmatched to be stubborn to that point.

“Stop dilly-dallying, let’s fight!” Arthur’s face changed suddenly as he walked to the center of the stage with his orange scepter and brandishing it in Li Yi’s direction. “The first fight will be me and you!”

“Let me fight you, how about that?” The Orc Violent Warrior that Li Yi brought smirked at Arthur and marched forward.

“You are unqualified,” said Arthur dismissively.

“Dark Wing, he’s looking down on me.” The Orc Violent Warrior shook his head at Li Yi helplessly.

“I’ll go!”

Li Yi knew it would turn out this way. He did not hesitate and stepped up quickly.

” The story of Tian Ji racing his horse doesn’t apply here ¹ , this is not good.” The Orc Violent Warrior sighed.

In the crowd, as soon as Hua Feihua saw the Orc Violent Warrior, she began trembling and covered her face as tears streamed down her face.

The Orc Violent Warrior was none other than her ex-husband, Milk Dipper Solitary.

“What the? Why are they up first? Aren’t the powerhouses taking the finale of the battle?”

“You wish, you must have watched too much TV series. The strongest must attack first, take the first win to suppress the other team’s aura. If they were last to go after having lost the first two, not even the strongest fighters would want to come out, wouldn’t that just make it worse?”

“You have a point!”

The people in the crowd were gossiping less-than-silently, but Li Yi and Arthur ignored them. At this point, they only had each other in their eyes.

The others retreated to give the two some space to fight.

Li Yi summoned his Violent Bear King, and Arthur summoned his Arcane Elf to counter, as usual.

Arthur went first and sent a combo of Arcane Impact and Arcane Missiles toward Li Yi.

A horse neighed as a Holy Light Warhorse appeared beneath Li Yi. With its speed, Li Yi could evade Arthur’s attack easily.

“Brrr! Brrr!”

Li Yi countered with two shots. Arthur raised his hands and teleported in from of Li Yi as he used Frost Rising Star!

Zing—

Li Yi was frozen. Arthur leaped backward as he continued bombarding with Arcane Missiles.

Li Yi dispelled the Freeze with his Survival Instinct and immediately went after his opponent on his warhorse. It looked like he was going for the same tactics as last time, utilizing close-quarters combat to defeat Arthur.

“Blizzard!”

“Even though Arthur was playing an Arcane Wizard, he could still use the Blizzard spell, although its power and range were much smaller than Ice Wizards.

Li Yi dodged it and fired back.

Both the players’ control were top-notch, using many instantaneous skills. They would rather hurt less than being hurt at all.

Wizards had high M-ATK and low DEF, Archers had high ATK and low M-DEF, both could injure each other quite significantly.

Of course, this time Arthur’s defense was evidently much lower while Li Yi’s defense rose.

It was simple. Arthur lost a purple accessory, while Li Yi gained a purple accessory.

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A series of Arcane Missiles hit Li Yi, but none of them exceeded 100 damage. That was the power of the purple accessory with 30% Damage Reduction.

The battle had been going on for a bit, but Arthur could not take it any longer. Even though he had more comprehensive buffs, he did not have any Damage Reduction accessories. The glass cannon aspect of the Wizard was completely exposed.

‘I need to finish this fast!’

Arthur had an instinct and brandished his orange scepter. A beam of white light was shot down from the sky, binding Li Yi to a spot.

“Light’s Bindings!”

“Punishment Windstorm!”

Arthur was just about to run up and unleash his magic as Li Yi’s special skill was activated and binding him to the ground.

Li Yi had skills to cure status effects, and so did Arthur. As soon as he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately canceled the effect of Punishment Windstorm.

“Group Repentance!”

Li Yi did not allow him a chance to breathe. His Holy Light Warhorse neighed as he cast the Group Repentance spell onto Arthur.

“Chain Arrow! Eliminate!”

“Brrr! Brrr! Brrr!”

Li Yi fired three shots at Arthur who was immobilized. If the three shots hit and he did not die, he would still have lost a significant amount of HP.

As the three shots were about to connect, Arthur seemed like he was pushed from the side and his body lurched forward. The Repent status was canceled, and he managed to dodge the three fatal shots.

Li Yi yelled, “Nice dodge, Guild Master Arthur. Is your skill called Dog Pushing Donkey?”

Arthur’s face blushed beet-red.

A moment ago, his stealthing lackey had secretly pushed him, or he would not have been able to evade those shots.

“Stop spouting bullsh*t!”

Arthur’s face darkened. He raised his scepter and cast a Glorious Oath on himself.

[Glorious Oath: Compress Arcane energy to raise mana recovery rate by 50%. Additionally, for every attack that the target receives, 1% of the mana will be recovered automatically, duration 20 seconds.]

Arthur looked like a mini sun at this point. He was enveloped in brilliant light. Without anyone noticing, a sound emitted from his crown as tiny red plus signs continuously recovering the HP he had lost.

He had more than half of his mana left, so he did not need to use Glorious Oath. He only did it to conceal his usage of Bandage.

If someone uses HP recovery items in a fight without a consensus to do so, they would become a laughing stock. Li Yi had been battling him for so many rounds, but had never used any items.

Without the 30% Damage Reduction purple accessory, Arthur’s power was cut in half.

‘I cannot lose this battle!’

Arthur made up his mind.

Even though he was one of the closed beta players, the equipment and status he had were not unearned. It was best said that half of it was because he was in the closed beta, and the other half was his hard work.

Much of his experience in the closed beta was rendered useless when it came to open beta. Not only did the monsters’ names changed, and even drop rates and quest routes were altered. In the closed beta, he only spent a month to acquire an orange scepter, but he spent an entire year to get the same orange scepter after the official launch.

Farming Orlando’s Charity had used up three whole months of gameplay, he understood very well how much sacrifice he had to make.

“Dark Wing, you’ve only joined the level 70 closed beta, how could you beat me?” Arthur shouted furiously in his head.

“Flash!”

Arthur charged up and froze Li Yi once more with Frost Rising Star.

“Magic Burst Spell!”

Arthur ran around Li Yi, unleashing the Magic Burst Spell constantly to chip away Li Yi’s HP.

“Violent Bear’s Protection!”

The first thing that Li Yi did as soon as he had recovered was to use Violent Bear’s Protection, boosting his Max HP to 20,000 in golden light, as well as activating Shoot at Random.

A massive number of arrows was launched all around that not even the bystanders on the skull could avoid. Subsequently, they retreated even more, widening the battlefield for the both of them.

“Shield of Light!”

In the nick of time, Arthur’s emergency skill was activated. His feet hovered above ground slightly as he cast Blizzard at Li Yi.

Shoot at Random was fragile. Without using Hegemonic Body Potion, all it took for the skill to be interrupted was for the caster to be touched, let alone other control skills. As long as the skills were used, they would hit.

Blizzard connected, and Li Yi’s Shoot at Random was interrupted. At the same time, due to Blizzard’s side effect, Li Yi’s movement speed was reduced by 50%.

Fortunately, he had really high HP that exceeded 20,000 points. Arthur’s Blizzard could only hit him for about 200 damage each time, so holding on for a dozen or so seconds was no problem.

“How shameless!” The longer the battle went, the angrier Arthur was, so he began trash talking.

The reason for his anger was simple. His purple accessory was being worn by Li Yi, which directly impacted his damage.

Repelling Shot!

Resounding Shot!

Li Yi was in no mood to play around. He did not hesitate to let the arrows loose, forcing Arthur to take steps back and put more distance between them.

“Powered-up Arrow!”

Tch-whirr-whirr-tst-brrrr—

Shield of Light’s effect had yet to end, so Arthur chose to take it and countered with Arcane Impact.

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With the shield, Arthur took about 500 damage, but had caused Li Yi to lose over 1000HP. This was the first time in such a long battle that Arthur had an attack hitting over 1000 points.

Arthur steeled his face and raised his scepter. “For the honor of King Arthur!”

The Twelve Knights of the Round Table appeared out of thin air, surrounding Li Yi. Blinding white light beams shot out of their raised swords that concealed everything in sight!

“Extradimension — Spatial Slash!”

After having to keep up the mana for quite a while, Arthur had finally unleashed the Knights of the Round Table…

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