Chapter 903 - 386: Maybe I Could Give It a Try
The Executioner only fired one shot, which wreaked havoc on half of Bai She Avenue, causing dozens of Transcendents to die without a sound.
Looking at the surrounding ruins and the bodies of Transcendents lying around, the Priest from the Western Union felt his mind go blank, as if his ears were filled with mercury, making everything around him seem unreal.
The Priest, ranked 92nd on the power ranking, is an uncommon player with a specialty in the Inspiration Attribute, boasting an astonishing Inspiration Attribute level of 70. To match his Inspiration, he increased his Will Attribute to 45.
As an ordinary player ranked within the top 100, his understanding of S-Level dungeons was not significantly different from other players.
Not to mention him; among the Abyssal Game Players who entered the Steam Phantom Dungeon, there were no less than a hundred people, and those who had experience with S-Level dungeon strategies numbered no more than three.
Since entering the dungeon, the dungeon time has surpassed halfway. Besides the unavoidable Demon-Breaking Bullets for Transcendents and the fog in Grimland that suppresses his abilities, he hasn’t sensed any danger.
Even the previous invitation letter battle did not pose any threat to him, as he directly joined the Holy Awakening Sect and became a Priest through employment.
This brings us to his reincarnation ability, Devotion.
By using skills, he can exhibit extraordinary devotion to any God and directly join the faction of that God.
Using the Devotion skill, Julie embraced this "Overseas Stilan Descendant" without hesitation.
On the night of the investigation meeting convened by Glad and several parties, Julie even had him attend as a representative of the Holy Awakening Sect.
Ten days of tranquility gave him the illusion that the newly born S-Level dungeon was only as challenging as a regular A-Level.
As long as he kept laying low and didn’t actively stir trouble, he would pass the dungeon world and easily leave with the victory welfare.
However, the Executioner’s single shot snapped him out of his dream.
The suffocating pressure emanating from the Executioner filled him with fear.
If in other dungeons, the fear of life and death would trigger players’ anger, driving many to give it their all in a desperate fight.
However, in the Steam Phantom Dungeon, players under steam rules cannot use any skills, including the Ultimate Skill of Reincarnation to fight for their lives.
Facing the Executioner, their only option, even if they wished to resist, was to rush out from cover and engage in melee combat using their Body Attributes.
Coincidentally, the Priest is a player specializing in the Inspiration Attribute, leaving him with poor Body Attributes, thus completely blocking off the path of melee combat.
His only hope now is that the Executioner’s faction belongs to some Evil God Cult, allowing him to kneel during execution and join them through Devotion.
For a Priest, this is not shameful. From joining the Abyssal Game until now, he has survived in at least four dungeons by joining the boss’s side.
Just as he pondered several ways to surrender, he saw the Executioner reopening the carriage compartment to reload ammunition.
While the Priest hurriedly searched for a safer cover, three beams of light attacked the Executioner from three directions.
The attacking players were Cold Mountain, Sword Star, and Phantom.
As players possessing the Power of Root, they were some of the few who could still take action, knowing that if they continued to drag on, allowing the Executioner to continue releasing bullet rain, they would eventually be worn down.
Only by seizing the opportunity during the Executioner’s skill cooldown to fight with all their might could there be a glimmer of hope.
Sword Star was the fastest mover. His Flying Sword flashed with Golden Light, and Flying Sword Long Wind pierced towards the Executioner’s chest.
During the final battle for the invitation letter, Sword Star had seen Wu Chang subdue the self-exploding modified human and remembered the chest was the weak point of modified humans.
However, Long Wind, which was unfailing at the Steam Council stronghold, now proved ineffective against the Executioner.
The sword tip of the Flying Sword pierced less than an inch before being clamped by the Executioner’s body. Steam erupted from the Executioner’s wound, preventing the sword from penetrating further and extinguishing the thread-like Sword Qi surrounding the blade.
Following the Flying Sword was Phantom.
This time, Phantom was serious. Unlike casually exploding fish earlier, he drew a gigantic sabre right from the start.
As the sabre swung, the blade shadows layered densely, seemingly cutting towards the Executioner with hundreds of slashes simultaneously.
Any other player facing Phantom and thinking only one of the slashes is real and the rest are phantoms would likely be chopped into mincemeat by the blade shadows while blocking the "real" slash.
This move is Phantom’s signature skill, Phantom Blade Dance, where every slash from the blade shadow is real.
Each blade shadow results from him temporarily solidifying Sword Qi using the Root of Speed. He swings hundreds of slashes in a very short time and then uses the Root of Speed to adjust the fast and slow slashes, causing the seemingly false Sword Qi and the final real slash to strike the target simultaneously.
If someone didn’t know Phantom’s information beforehand, even players ranked within the top 50 might face an initial encounter death.
The strength of Phantom Blade Dance lies in its indistinguishable reality and illusion, and its dense attacks, but these aspects are limited in effect against the Executioner.
The Sword Qi slashed by Phantom was denser than the thread-like Sword Qi around Long Wind’s blade but not dense enough. It dispersed mostly under the steam unleashed by the Executioner.
The remaining, already blunt Sword Qi slashed at the Executioner and carved dense dents on him visually ruining the Executioner’s appearance from 99% new to battlefield conditions, but causing no real harm, being less damaging than Sword Star’s strike.