14 - Field PK

Chapter 14: Field pk 1

Translated by rabbitrisu

“Let’s enter this instance, ba.” Xiao Ran said.

Youmao Bing: “Ei, don’t worry. I have something to trade to my friend. He’s in the leveling area outside; let’s go there first.”

Xiao Ran nodded, then said: “By the way, pk?”

“What do you mean?” Youmao Bing’s face changed. Guilty people were always nervous.

“That’s what it means.” Xiao Ran clicked to leave the team, cast his Reed Painting skill, and then turned around and ran.

The five people standing relatively spread apart were tied down by vines that suddenly appeared on the ground. When they recovered, Xiao Ran had already opened an acceleration scroll and fled away from the instance area.

“Follow!” Youmao Bing jumped up from the ground in fury.

The spirit fox player next to him, Didi, was surprised and directly followed him. 2 “This kid is so slippery. How did he know we were going to kill him?”

Another player, Qianyun Chui, said: “When asked to change into ordinary equipment, you all didn’t change it because it was too much trouble. Well, it was noticed, ba.”

It was useless to focus on the past, so the five Shenyao guild members all opened an acceleration scroll and chased after Xiao Ran.

When Youmao Bing kicked Xiao Ran off the team at the beginning, they felt like something was wrong. They were players from Shenyao guild. Naturally, Xiao Ran left a much more profound impression on outsiders like Xigua Jingling. In the end, after Han Bing Xue Field, Youmao Bing finally recalled that character and simultaneously became hostile.

People always forget the pain after a scar has healed. After a month, the sensations that Xiao Ran once caused throughout Shenzhou 3 had gradually subsided. Most people forgot how much pain they suffered while chasing after the player at that time, only to remember his high reward on the bounty list as well as his unworthy level.

So when Didi asked if he wanted to report Xiao Ran’s location to the upper ranks, Youmao Bing refused.

In his opinion, there were five players on their side with levels between 42 and 43. It would obviously not be difficult to exterminate Xiao Ran, a Level 38 player. The wanted order clearly stated that killing Xiao Ran would reward a bounty of 100 gold as well as a bounty of 200 gold for the entry ticket fragments for Pan Long Underground Palace, as proven by the video!

The ratio of hold coins in Oracle of the Gods to real currency was stable at 1:80. Such luxurious benefits made Youmao Bing greedy. After he and a few teammates came out, they had been standing guard until Xiao Ran’s appearence by Han Bing Xue Field. After he appeared, he called two more Shenyao players for insurance. Unexpectedly, before everything could even start, it immediately turned into foam. 4

How could Youmao Bing allow this to happen?

They had already ran out of the area around the Han Bing Xue Field instance by that time, which was the Level 40 training area Xue Wu Forest.

He chased after Xiao Ran and said: “Brother, why are you going so fast? Could it be that you robbed someone in our team before? Are you afraid of our revenge?”

Youmao Bing was just speaking casually, of course. He didn’t know that Xiao Ran had such a shameless and dirty reconnaissance skill like his NPC Perspective. He was able to run so vigorously only after he noticed that they had recognized him as a player on the bounty list. He didn’t expect Xiao Ran to respond, “Yes, ah. I only looted a string of prayer beads from you two days ago. Isn’t this because I’m afraid you’ll retaliate against me? Don’t chase me anymore. If you chase me, I’ll call the police, ah.”

Youmao Bing was so furious that a mouthful of old blood got caught in his throat. He had never seen as smooth a climb up the rod as that! 5

But on the surface, he still said: “Really? Why don’t I have any impression of that? You must have admitted it to the wrong person, brother. Don’t run away, let’s stand here and sort this out first.”

Xiao Ran: “Okay, ah. You all stop first.”

Youmao Bing: “You stop first.”

Xiao Ran: “You’re not sincere. I won’t play with you anymore.”

Youmao Bing was vomiting blood in anger as Qianyun Chui pulled out his longsword next to him to stab an Arctic Fox. He picked one up, stabbed it, and added a Whirlwind Slash, and directly slammed the flying Arctic Fox toward the top of Xiao Ran’s head. When Xiao Ran heard the wind in his ears, he dodged to the side. Although the Arctic Fox didn’t hit him, his figure paused, and the five Shenyao guild members got closer to him by a few points.

Qianyun Chui: “What nonsense are you speaking to him, go for him directly!”

Youmao Bing saw that strange way of using mobs to attack, so he used the same method and hit an Arctic Fox diagonally in front of the waterfall. The Arctic Fox that was floating in the sky squeaked, and in the next second it was blown away by a Qigong Punch in the direction of Xiao Ran’s head.

The Arctic Fox flew at a rather convoluted angle, so Xiao Ran quickly rolled to the left. After rising sharply, they were closer to him.

After dodging another Arctic Fox, Xiao Ran was only ten meters away from them!

“If you like to use mobs so much, I’ll give you one, too.” The corner of Xiao Ran’s mouth twitched. He pulled away the brush spear in his hand, and as soon as it was by his side, he stabbed an Arctic Fox and cast Floating Flower to throw it directly past Youmao Bing and the others.

He threw it too far!

Youmao Bing smiled in contempt: “Brother, your eyes aren’t very good.”

Xiao Ran didn’t explain. After throwing the Arctic Fox away, he continued to run away. At that time, the five person team’s healer Qingsha Wanzhuang suddenly screamed.

The healer’s mobility wasn’t as good as damage output occupations’, so she had fallen somewhat behind. She didn’t expect that the arctic fox that Xiao Ran had thrown would land directly at her feet. As a healer, it was taboo to get too close to mobs. Now, seeing the arctic fox so close to her and struggling to get up, it seemed like it was about to scratch her. She threw a blasting spell at the arctic fox and Expelled it away without even thinking.

Expel was a skill used by healers to overcome a situation where they were too close to the enemy, After Expelling, the target would be pushed away by five meters. The pushing distance increases with the skill level, and it is often used by the Divine Doctor for pk.

Qianyun Chui rushed to say: “What are you fighting Qingsha!”

Although Qingsha Wanzhuang was a healer, she was outfitted in purple and her spell damage was, of course, higher than Xiao Ran’s. If Qingsha Wanzhuang didn’t hit the arctic fox, the hatred value would still be targeted at Xiao Ran, and it would rush through them. They would bite at Xiao Ran, but after Qingsha Wanzhuang’s two skills, the arctic fox’s hatred transferred to her, and the arctic fox squeaked at Qingsha Wanzhuang.

Qingsha Wanzhuang cried and said: “Sorry, I panicked.”

At that time, not only were the arctic foxes biting at Qingsha Wanzhuang, but the three arctic foxes that had been blown away by Youmao Bing and Qianyun Chui also got up from the ground and rushed at the team one after another. The four arctic foxes surrounding them caught them a bit off guard.

The five Shenyao guild members originally wanted to use the mobs to get closer to Xiao Ran before talking to him, but hey unexpectedly picked up a rock and smashed their own feet.

Didi, the most skilled of the five, aimed his crossbow toward three arctic foxes who were gathered together, readied three Hatred-Attracting Arrows, used the hunting whip to gather the mobs together, and then shot all of the arrows. All four mobs’ hatred was attracted to him after that short burst of skills. While pulling the mobs away from the team, he said: “I’ll kill these four mobs. You continue to chase him, but be careful of his weapon. It’s strange.”

When Didi said that, Youmao Bing and Qianyun Chui realized that Xiao Ran seemed to have a spear in his hand just now?

Weapons that could change forms were rare in Oracle of the Gods, but they were elite members of a superguild, and they knew that their opponent was Xiao Ran, who stole the entry ticket fragments to Pan Long Underground Palace from the guild master and escaped. They weren’t as surprised as the others in the instance, but their expressions became solemn. It seems this guy would be harder to deal with than they’d thought.

After Didi pulled away the four mobs, the five Shenyao guild members rushed to chase after Xiao Ran. At that time, Xiao Ran had already been separated from them for a long time. If this continued, it would only be a matter of time before they could no longer pursue.

Xiao Ran had just breathed a sigh of relief when his face suddenly changed and he leapt to the side, avoiding a large axe that slashed at him with no warning from the nearby woods.

Youmao Bing: “You’re finally here!”

Xiao Ran saw it was the Dragon Knight and the Puppeteer players who had left the team to rush over.

Youmao Bing grit his teeth and said: “Let’s see where you run to this time!”

Six to one, Xiao Ran had no chance of winning!

The Dragon Knight resisted with his axe, but at that moment, a child-sized cloud suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked his way. The cloud was floating in the air. It had short, cute, little cotton-ball-like hands and a pair of tearful eyes that looked innocently at the Dragon Knight. There were blush marks on its two soft cheeks, which looked like super cute giant marshmallows. If a female player saw that image, she would definitely be too heartbroken to attack the little cutie.

Although the Dragon Knight didn’t feel any burst of cuteness, he was unprepared for the shock. He was about to swear at something when the entire cloud instantly burst, and the Dragon Knight’s eyes were covered in white!

Paintings Become Reality (Free Skill): White Clouds (Level 2): Instantly draw white clouds within 1 x 1.5 meters in size. They are buoyant, last for three seconds, and can move to the designated area. Use the brush to break the illusion. When the user teleports, the painted object instantly bursts, dealing 10 points of damage to targets within the area as well as causing a short-term white fog blinding effect. Cooldown: 3 seconds.

This free skill painting series was the most valuable skill series for Shen Bi. It was precisely because of this skill series that there was a saying that ‘there are definitely no two Shen Bi in the world who are alike.’

Unlike other careers which were divided into several different subcategories due to different habits and preferences, Shen Bi players could say that a person had their own style of subcategory.

The unrestricted imagination of the painting series made each Shen Bi unique. The strong became stronger, and the weak became weaker. It could turn a Shen Bi into an all-powerful super god, but one who isn’t careful can also become tasteless and difficult to control.

Paintings Become Reality was one of the lower-level skills in the series. It could only draw objects with inanimate characteristics and the duration was short, so there would be a lot of similar styles like bricks, bombs, poison fog, etc., among Shen Bi players who strove to reach the max attack effect in the shortest time. 6

But a white cloud? What the hell is this!

Even the veteran gamers who had become accustomed to all kinds of strange paintings from Shen Bi were confused at that time.

The puppeteer who was a little bit farther away wasn’t affected by the blinding effect. He was about to pass by the white fog and continue to chase when a dark object slammed out of the white fog, catching the puppeteer player with a chaotic hit.

The puppeteer took two steps, somewhat off guard, and took a closer look. Damn it, isn’t that his Baby Copper Inkstick Puppet?! 7

What skill is this?! His own baby hit him in turn?! There’s no rule like that in the game, ah, QAQ!

The puppeteer was so stunned that one third of his blood volume was knocked away before he could react. He couldn’t seem to summon his baby…

This is a painting, ah you bastard!

The puppeteer hurriedly summoned his Baby Copper Inkstick Puppet to block it. Seeing two identical babies squished together, the puppeteer felt that his mood was very complicated.

When the white fog dissipated, the baby who rushed out of the white fog was torn to pieces at the joints, and Xiao Ran was nowhere to be seen…

Footnotes

pk is player kill Not ‘little brother.’ P sure the intended meaning was ‘Directly Follow’ reminder: Shenzhou is the good faction’s territory foam like seafoam: disappears easily such a grab for attention B R I C K yk was going to TL baobao as Treasured, but… this puppeteer does actually refer to his puppets as his babies and Im simply not gonna mess with that.