Knight Lance immediately drew his sword and stood in front of the princess, while Victoria smiled faintly and said, “Perhaps, but I’m used to it.”
The moment she finished speaking, the Leader of the Wolf Pack moved. He leaped high, his arms completely covered in fur, and sharp claws like daggers extended, charging with terrifying momentum.
Moria nimbly blocked him, unleashing a wall of fire with his sword. The blazing flames illuminated the entire warehouse, and almost everyone could feel the scorching heat emanating from the fire wall. However, the Wolf Leader passed through the fire wall unscathed. His sharp claws tore through the fire wall in a few strokes, and even his clothing remained intact.
His claws grabbed Moria’s longsword, and with immense force, he sent the opponent and his sword flying. The Wolf Leader then used this recoil to drift towards Victoria like a phantom.
Knight Lance had been waiting for a long time. He was silent, and intricate incantations appeared on his armor and Knight’s Sword. He swung his sword, and a dark sword energy spewed from the tip of the blade.
At this moment, the Leader of the Wolf Pack was still far from the opponent, so the sword strike should not have reached him. Yet, the Wolf Leader felt an inexplicable tremor in his heart. As an异种 hunter, his instincts forced him to change direction in mid-air.
In the next moment, invisible blade energy surged from all directions, piercing nearly half of the Wolf Leader’s body. If he hadn’t reacted in time, this attack would have riddled his body and internal organs with holes.
The Leader of the Wolf Pack’s expression remained unchanged. This body was still too weak, only having reached Stage Two. The monstrous advantages of an异种 hunter could not be displayed at all. Moreover, the owner of the body had been repeatedly injured. If someone else were controlling this body, they might not even be able to move normally.
The blood of the荒林 werewolf was stimulated by mana, and the pierced wounds began to heal rapidly.
Seeing the Wolf Leader fall back to the ground, Lance did not let him recover. He stomped his foot and lunged forward, slashing his longsword towards the Wolf Leader’s eyes.
The Wolf Leader ducked, and the blade grazed his scalp. At the same time, a slender rat tail shot out, coiling around the knight’s arm like a snake and wrapping around his neck.
“Die.”
The Leader of the Wolf Pack’s gaze was cold, his expression calm.
The power of the rat tail pulled the knight close, and then he closed his fingers together, his interlocked claws piercing the gaps in the knight’s helmet like short swords.
This attack, with the intention of killing the opponent, did not make the Wolf Leader feel at ease. Instead, his expression changed, and he urgently tore off that arm with his other hand.
The severed arm fell to the ground, quickly covered by a mercury-like eerie substance, and finally turned into ashes and dispersed.
“What is that?”
The Leader of the Wolf Pack warily looked at the knight. The gaps in the knight’s armor that he had pierced were flashing with an unusual light, and they were instantly restored to their original state.
Before he could react to what this meant, the knight charged forward with his sword again. Not only that, but Moria, who had been thrown aside by the Wolf Leader, had also approached again.
While the two knights were engaging the Leader of the Wolf Pack, the Agent painfully pulled out the spear inserted into his body, and blood flowed from the wound onto the ground.
He was panting, extremely weak. What caused him to fall into this state was not the enemy, but his fear of the Leader of the Wolf Pack. Even so, his greedy eyes were still fixed on the Sage Ovum Sheath on the ground, the buzzing in his head almost making him lose his mind. No matter the cost, he had to seize that item.
Even if it meant betraying his supreme master.
However, he was not the only one staring at the Sage Ovum Sheath; so were the players.
Although the White Star studio’s boss was almost instantly defeated, the White Star studio did not retreat and had been observing the situation from the sidelines.
They could all see that neither the guy who could turn into a black wolf, nor the NPC who had been severely beaten and entered the second stage, nor the other two who appeared, were enemies that they, or players at the moment, could handle. According to the typical progression of games, beings of this level were usually not meant to be dealt with by players. Therefore, even though those NPCs were fighting fiercely among themselves, for the players, it was just a cutscene.
Of course, if the game were to display a Divine Artifact before the players, it would definitely provide them with an opportunity to obtain it.
As expected, the Sage Ovum Sheath was discarded on the ground like garbage by the Leader of the Wolf Pack, and he himself was locked in a fierce battle with the two knights. Now, the closest to the Sage Ovum Sheath, and the only one who could hinder them, was the heavily injured black wolf NPC.
A Stage Three BOSS in unsatisfactory condition seemed to be a very suitable challenge for a Divine Artifact that appeared in the early stages.
In short, Bai Xingyishi was tempted.
He had bet everything on this game, and no matter what, he was determined to obtain this Divine Artifact!
Bai Xingyishi gave a look to the White Star studio’s staff, and Bai Xingyang, understanding his guild leader’s intentions with just a glance, knew what he was thinking.
However, this time, he did not try to dissuade Bai Xingyishi. Instead, he also became thoughtful, believing it to be the only opportunity.
“There are three methods now. The best is to negotiate with the other two players and join forces to compete for the artifact… As long as we get the artifact first, we can discuss its ownership later,” Bai Xingyang said word by word.
“No,” Bai Xingyishi immediately refused. They had more people; why should they cooperate with other players? Moreover, the other party might not agree.
Bai Xingyang had already considered this, but since the guild leader had rejected this method, he had no desire to explain further. Perhaps, subconsciously, he also didn’t want to share the artifact with other players.
“The intermediate strategy is for us to strike first and draw the BOSS’s aggro… Of course, this is a feint, but the other two don’t know, so they’ll definitely rush over to compete for the kill. At that time, we can feign a retreat, withdraw from the BOSS’s aggro range, and let them fight the BOSS… No matter who wins in the end, we will be in an advantageous position.”
Bai Xingyishi refused this strategy without much hesitation.
“This is too uncertain. How can you be sure that others are not thinking the same way, waiting for an opportunity? And what if that BOSS goes berserk and insists on killing us?”
He had always felt that while Bai Xingyang was good at everything, he liked to bring his old game theories and experiences into new games. It might be a common ailment of middle-aged office workers, being too inflexible. Just like now, the so-called aggro system in this game is completely different from other games. There is no saying that as long as you escape a certain range, you will be safe. If Bai Xingyang’s plan were to be implemented, it might lead to a complete failure.
“Then there is only one method left.”
Bai Xingyang’s expression remained unchanged. In fact, he had only prepared two methods. However, in order to prevent Bai Xingyishi from rejecting the last, most calm and stable method, he deliberately presented a more aggressive method, and one that was even more aggressive and foolish. Only then would the other party’s heated brain calm down.
He continued, “We will stall the BOSS, but not fight him or the other players to the death. Our main goal is to stall for time… At the same time, we will ask the Lagovin Family for help, just as they promised before.”
