Chapter 84: Starting the Battle Against the Merchant Caravan
However he didn't hurry to appear, as half of the guards moved to the front first, securing the road, while the others moved with the three wagons, one by one, passing through the narrow bumpy road.
Just as the three wagons started to pass beside him, with five NPCs on each side of the wagons, including the two cavalry, he started to act!
"Darkness nihility skill!"
The first skill he used was the stealth skill! This skill enabled him to be invisible for a whole minute, attacking as much as he liked!
However, he didn't plan to kill any NPC during this one minute!
"Stab!"
The first NPC he moved against was the cavalry one. He instantly used his skill, and when his sword infiltrated the body of the NPC, his title was activated, while a damage appeared on top of this NPC's head.
"2000"
"Enemy attack!"
It was such a terrifying figure, but it was normal as the NPC was demoted to a level lower than Bloom. Despite this large damage, the NPC wasn't in danger yet, as he had over twenty thousand Hp bar, making Bloom feel speechless at the quality of gears this cavalry was having.
The next moment he didn't stand in his location, moved fast towards the next NPC.
"Stab, stab."
"2000, 4000"
Two damaged rose from his head, and he kept moving, not waiting for that NPC to adapt to the attack. The NPCs were lined in a single line, and as the frontal NPCs hurried back, he had already covered the both sides of the wagons, ending up at the front, meeting the incoming NPCs.
Forty seconds, all he needed to attack ten NPCs scattered on both sides of the wagons. Once he reached the front, he didn't delay to use his trump card skill.
"Dash!"
"3500"
He selected the last NPC coming towards here to use the skill upon. The NPCs just rushed towards here, unorganized, and that left many gaps between them, which he used perfectly at this moment.
His dash startled the NPCs around, however Bloom didn't finish, as the moment his sword hit the NPC, he linked another skill without much ado.
"Cloud of fog!"
Instantly he shifted his sword to hit the four closest NPCs to him, causing much damage to them, cleaning almost one half of their Xp.
"8000"
"9500"
"9000"
"8500"
The difference was caused by the difference in the defensive gears each NPC was wearing. As he finished that, he had already hit fifteen out of twenty five NPCs, leaving only ten remaining with their initial levels.
And he had roughly ten seconds left, with three lost already in the forced move of his dash skill.
Just as he stopped moving forward, he turned around, and used the second dash towards the last free group of NPCs.
"3000"
His cloud of fog skill was on the cooldown, and so he couldn't use it to change the course of his skill, but he used his other sword at once; hitting three NPCs until his stealth skill ended.
"Stab!"
"Stab!"
"Stab!"
"2000"
"1800"
"2150"
"Get him, he is there!"
Suddenly as he appeared, many shouts appeared, one by one, as all the NPCs here glanced angrily at him, while the surrounding ones were prepared to use their skills.
However, he was one second faster than them!
"Shade doppelganger festival!"
Instantly eleven shade doppelgangers appeared around him, and their appearance startled everyone. Just as they were about to adapt, his doppelganger used their stab skills at once, hitting all the remaining NPCs, making their levels lowered!
However, as they weren't using his full title, the NPCs got their levels lowered, but not enough like his title effect.
"Damn! They are all in level fifteen!" he cursed loudly, as facing six high leveled NPCs with their gears intact was something scary indeed.
However, he had faced much scarier monsters already! The first thing he did was to get out of here, leaving this area to his shades to fight at.
"Dash piercer!"
He jumped three meters in the air, bypassing most of the incoming NPCs while falling like a hawk over one of the two cavalries. From this height, he was now at a higher level than the NPC, and his strike didn't aim to kill him, or even wound him, but to make him fall off his horse!
"4500"
The moment he fell with that NPC, he started his own barrage of attacks, kiting more Hp off him.
"Stab, stab, stab, stab."
"2000, 2000, 2000, 2000"
No crit, but he managed to take eight thousand Hp of him. He didn't have time to finish him off, as the nearby NPC gathered around him, and he was pretty prepared for them.
"Slice!"
"3200"
"Breaker piercer!"
A stabbing sword was coming towards his exposed back, however his sword was faster, as it moved to intercept the incoming attack. The next moment his body was forced to turn around, then dashing to the front, carrying the NPC along with him.
"Cloud of fog!"
Again, at this moment his skill was ready to be used, and he instantly used it. He was in the middle of the rear group, surrounded by eight NPCs and one cavalry.
His sword moved like a viber, hitting five of them at once, while deflecting their attacks towards him. However, the other three managed to lay their swords over his back, making him lose four thousand Hp in no time.
"Scary, even with one level difference, their gears made all the difference," he muttered, as he knew now how scary their gears were.
And he replied with a slice, changing his position at once, while linking it with another major skill.
"Darkness absorption!"
The last NPC, the cavalry one, was preparing for his skill for quite some time now. Bloom knew he couldn't evade it, so he thought of using this skill, to absorb the attack, reduce the damage to half, while having another skill to use, a mighty one!
"-4000"