Chapter 40 - A Skeleton Shopkeeper
Void Flash is different from Momentum Flash Strike.
One is a counterattack, the other is a preemptive strike – they have a fundamental difference.
Originally, when he hadn’t created Void Flash yet, every class’s protective skills were too weak and not a single player learned them.
Because even if you trained protective skills to level 20, they only provided a light shield effect and 8% damage reduction.
They would shatter upon any attack, practically useless.
Investing large amounts of experience and money to level up such a useless skill was simply a waste of time and money.
Only Jiang Cheng believed that there were no useless skills in the game, just undiscovered uses.
Later, after some research, he found that these body protection skills shared one thing: they shattered upon being hit.
By utilizing this shattering effect and triggering a displacement skill in advance, he could activate the game’s damage immunity mechanism.
However, this immunity trigger only allowed players 0.1 seconds to react!
It required freakishly precise awareness and prediction to trigger the displacement skill at exactly the right moment. Otherwise, the attempt would backfire.
After a month of experimentation, he finally created the divine technique Void Flash.
When he used it on the ranked ladder and achieved a 100-win streak, directly climbing to rank 1, this trick instantly shook the entire server and became another divine technique he created.
Because of this, protective skills were learned, researched and practiced by many players, setting off a wave.
Unfortunately, 99.9% of players sadly discovered in the end that this type of trick was something they might never learn in their lives…
Jiang Cheng currently didn’t have the corresponding movement skill, but he could still use the Phantom Step camera angle bug to achieve the Void Flash effect.
“Mad Dog! Are you dead yet?”
In Qian Chonglang’s chat channel, Xuan Yue, who had just revived, anxiously sent a message.
“If you’re not dead, don’t mess around, hurry and leave. That Skeleton’s attack power…is too terrifying and it can change weapon forms and use Force Combat too. It’s definitely not a simple Skeleton!”
Seeing Xuan Yue continually sending messages, Qian Chonglang was actually a bit dazed.
He originally planned to wrestle with that Blood Skeleton.
But, just as he was about to make a move, several flashes of dazzling blade light appeared in front of him, so bright he couldn’t open his eyes.
Then, the moment he opened his eyes, an arrow shot directly into his heart.
Looking at his remaining sliver of health, he thought, my strength really doesn’t cut it.
A sliver of health, truly not more or less, exactly a sliver!
At first he thought it was a coincidence, but after drinking a few health potions to recover, another arrow shot him down to a sliver of health again…
So he sadly discovered this Blood Skeleton had extremely precise and abnormal calculation abilities regarding his health and damage control!
Moreover, this Blood Skeleton was not the slightest bit impacted by the completely foggy environment, beating him with no ability to fight back.
After trying a few times, he gave up.
He may have been known as Mad Dog, but even he knew when he was outmatched.
There’s a difference between being reckless and being suicidal.
Picking a fight you can walk away from, that’s just messing around. But picking a fight that gets you killed? That’s like gift-wrapping yourself for the enemy.
“Boss, what exactly do you want to do?” Qian Chonglang looked at the Blood Skeleton in front of him, his tone quite helpless.
The Blood Skeleton was merely standing there without doing anything, not even pointing a gun at him, but he knew as soon as he dared to move, he would definitely die.
“Sell some equipment.” Jiang Cheng’s skeletal teeth moved as he waved his hand indicating for him to follow.
The Tomb-Guarding Archer had dropped equipment, but its cloak couldn’t be equipped…
Equipping it provided no stat bonuses and impacted his speed, it was too cumbersome, so selling it for some health potions or coins would be best.
Qian Chonglang naturally didn’t know what Jiang Cheng had just said, but…he didn’t dare run, he could only follow.
At the same time, he was also very curious, why was this Blood Skeleton acting so strangely?
However, when he saw the pile of equipment stacked in front of a tomb, he was instantly dumbfounded.
“All…all of the Tomb-Guarding Archers here…were killed…by you?”