Chapter 276 - 276. The Battle Starts!
The Mages took a step forward to put Jack into their range and started throwing out the Energy Bolts spells, while Magicians followed behind and got ready to follow up once Jack came into their range. Jack executed Charge at the same time the spells were cast.
Boulder smirked, he was familiar with Charge skill, as one of his subordinates had also successfully become a Warrior. The Charge skill had a range of 8 meters. There was still a distance away after the Charge was done. Jack had instead delivered himself right inside the range of all the Magicians. He shouted the command for those Magicians. "fire at will!"
Jack chose to use Charge to beat the slow turning mechanism of Energy Bolts. The Mages had targeted his position before executing Charge. As the bolts rushed forward at his original position, his Charge had brought him to a distance. All he had to endure were the few bolts that came directly from his front. These few bolts didn't cause him much damage due to his high defense and endurance, and were further mitigated by his Blood Guard Scale armor which reduced all ranged damage by 35%. The other energy bolts tried to turn and came at him but they did a large arc and ended up further away to his left and right.
There was however a different torrent of spells coming at him at the end of his Charge. It was casted by the Magicians, though their damage was less compared to Mage, they numbered far higher. The spells and attacks came from every direction, it was like a rain of light that fell in a horizontal direction.
Jack knew that he would not survive all those spells landing on him, but if only a portion, then that's another story. He took out the Wind Jet scroll. Using the same tactic but with a different skill. He barreled in a straight line into the enemy's rank, suffering through the spells and attacks that had been shot from his front while the rests decimated the ground at his original position.
Jack pointed the wind jet a bit up into the sky, so he didn't crash into the crowd. He wanted to be right in the middle of the enemy. The Wind Jet spell ended and he started to fall, right above the head of one of the level 18 Fighters of the enemy troop. He cleaved downward at the fighter's unsuspecting head using his Storm Breaker while applying Power Strike. The poor sod was blasted into the ground accompanied by critical damage of 912! The guy died immediately from that one strike.
It was not just the players around him that were dumbstruck by that one-hit-kill. Jack himself was similarly astounded.
Holy shit! 912? Heck, if I was the one getting hit like that, I would also almost die, he thought. After all, Jack's full HP was 950.
But there were several reasons why Jack's damage could reach that height. First of all, his sword's base damage was already 140 after the upgrade to level 30. Then he had further boosted it with enhanced whetstone which added a 20% increase. The Sweet Dumpling also added a 10% boost, and his inherent Warrior class granted another 10% increase to physical damage. In total, he already had 196 base damage from that 40% boost, and that was not yet calculated with the boost from his Strength attribute, which calculation as Peniel put it, was a bit vague. That added with his level 10 Power Strike which dealt 240% physical damage, and then again doubled by critical damage. It was not strange for the damage to reach over 900 damage. Even with a Fighter's decent endurance and decent armor, the guy still died immediately since his full HP was only 460.
The dumbstruck players around froze in place. They felt like they had just seen something unreal, and were still registering the incident. Jack similarly paused for an instant, but he soon recovered. After all, he was not as surprised as the others, since he was aware of the multiple factors that had contributed to his high damage.
He utilized their surprise to his advantage, using Swing to hit multiple enemies at the same time. He then started hacking at the ones closest with extreme speed. Each of his normal slashes dealt damage ranging from 160 to 180. One of his normal slashes could already reduce a Magician or Ranger's life to less than half, two slashes to kill them.? While Fighters would survive only one more slash compared to those two classes. The basic class players started to drop like weeds.
He used his past strategy when fighting in a crowd. When many started to converge at his position, he used his uncanny speed to move to another position. When the players tried to stop him physically, he used his exceptional strength to shove them aside. All the while forcing his enemies into close combat and rendering their range attacks unusable. He continued to cause damage to every enemy he passed through. This strategy was rendered possible due to his overpowering attributes. Not to mention all his equipment was rare grade, and all of them had been upgraded to level 30! None within the enemy's rank possessed the stats and gears that could match his.
"I will stop him!" A Knight suddenly appeared in front of Jack. He used a large two-handed broadsword. He swung the heavy sword vertically at Jack. Several Fighters took position near Jack's two sides while a group of players came at his back, cutting all his escape paths. He must clash with the Knight's swing.
As the large sword came down, Jack didn't lift his sword to parry. The others looked on in confusion as the heavy sword crashed into Jack's face and sliced through his whole body. Or so they thought, but then they realized Jack was still in his position despite the heavy hit, and there was no damage indicator. And then the Jack who they were looking at suddenly disappeared.
While these onlookers were still in a confused state, they were awakened by a pained cry. They turned and saw the knight who had made the attack was holding the back of his waist. Jack was standing behind him.
While the others were stunned by his sudden disappearance and appearance due to his new skill, Flash Step. Jack executed his other new skill, Shredding Fang! Three giant fang-like shapes made of blue color energy erupted from the ground, they then traveled at high speed to three different directions in a fan shape in front of Jack, mowing down every player on their paths. Every player hit by those fangs received damage around 380 to 410 damage. Any Rangers or Magicians on their ways died immediately while the Fighters were in a critical state.
Jack sent another normal slash to the Knight and took his life. When he was about to dive in to finish off the other fighters who were in critical health. Some of the closest to him were enveloped by healing lights.
Healers around! Jack quickly surmised. He looked around and soon located their positions with his enhanced vision in seeing details from the Dragon's Eye passive ability. The heal spell had a cooldown, and there were limited healers, but he didn't try to barge through the healed Fighters to get to the still injured ones behind. Instead, he changed direction and headed to the healers. It would be troublesome if he let the Healers free.
But the enemies were also aware of this, several fighters came in front of the healers. They were not holding any weapons. Instead, they were having their arms interlocking with each other, forming a human wall.
What the hell is that? Jack thought when he saw their tactic.
The human wall started to move towards him. The wall formed was rather long, the left and right sides moved faster and they slowly formed a half-circle enclosing onto Jack.
They were trying to encircle me! Jack realized. He had used his havoc-wreaking strategy against the crowd a few times. Even if the enemy had no way to defeat his overpower attributes, it made sense if the enemy had thought of other ways to deal with him. There were other players waiting behind the fighters that formed the human wall, ready to strike at him through the gaps between each fighter once Jack was rendered immobile.
Jack rammed his body to one of the Fighters within the human wall, trying to use his incredible strength to break through like usual. But those fighters with arms interlocking each other proved too solid for his strength to overcome. He was pushed back instead.
Jack tried to move backward but he then noticed another human wall had also formed behind him.
Jack sent a slash to one of the Fighters that formed the human wall, trying to kill one to break the chain and thus escaping through the gap. But a healing light soon enveloped that fighter, bringing his HP back to full.
Damn! It's the Healers again, Jack cursed. They had used those healers to lure him into a position where the human wall could entrap him. Now those healers were sustaining the wall and making sure none of the Fighters that formed the wall died.