The King's Avatar Chapter 1087-1088Chapter 1087: Misdirect

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The entire situation was in chaos. The guilds kept switching targets. The players felt as if there were numerous bosses out there. In reality, the real boss, the Dragon Swordsman, was still sitting peacefully in the center of the circle. Although it was chaotic, not a single attack actually hit the boss.

It was clear that there was clear thinking and decision-making behind this madness. They all knew what would truly tip the scales of battle. The couldn’t touch the Dragon Swordsman yet. Whoever did would become a target for everyone. With everyone so happily attacking all at once, whoever stood out and became a target would end up as minced meat.

Thus, all the guilds hoped that someone else would make this mistake, but they found that all the other players were just as rational.

Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage suddenly darted out from the crowd as if in a panic and came to a position where he stood out a lot.

Killing Gods was something everyone found enjoyable. It was just that after the first wave of attacks, everyone would be making sure to protect their own Gods while they attacked others. As a result, it became more and more difficult to find their target. However, at this moment, Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage had exposed himself to the guilds!

Don’t hesitate!

Everyone’s attacks turned towards him. However, Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage was faster than a rabbit, darting off in another direction with a whoosh.

“He’s going after the boss!!!” Someone suddenly realized that Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage was about to step into the Dragon Swordsman’s aggro range.

“Did he get careless?” The pro players of each guild were delighted. Ye Xiu had panicked and made a mistake. With him pulling the boss into this battle, the others didn’t even need to discuss with each other. They would definitely all cooperate to kick Happy out of the competition first.

He’s in! He really charged in!

The Dragon Swordsman moved. When sensing someone approaching, he would attack immediately. It seemed like Ye Xiu had only just realized this, hastily swerving in a different direction.

He’s too late.

As many thought this gleefully, the Dragon Swordsman had started attacking. Then, everyone saw him jump up high with an impressive Collapsing Mountain directed right at Guild Thunderclap.

“What the fuck!?” Guild Thunderclap panicked, but Xiao Shiqin had realized something was wrong ever since Ye Xiu swerved towards a different direction.

F*ck, this was a misdirection!

Xiao Shiqin felt like crying. Since they were all impatient to kill off Ye Xiu, some of Thunderclap’s attacks had hit the Dragon Swordsman when Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage had swerved. Even though Ye Xiu’s Battle Mage had gotten into the boss’s aggro range first, that aggro was nothing compared to the aggro pulled by directly attacking the boss.

As the Dragon Swordsman crashed his way into their formation, the other guilds immediately took the chance to add to their misfortune.

Explaining would do nothing, Xiao Shiqin knew this. Xiao Shiqin wouldn’t believe that such an obvious misdirection could be missed by the experts presiding over each guild today. However, these guys would all go with the flow at a time like this. They’d pretend to not understand the reality of the situation and instead cooperate with the boss to send Thunderclap out of the competition as was convenient.

Xiao Shiqin felt dejected. Why did Ye Xiu misdirect the boss to Thunderclap and not the other guilds? Why didn’t I think of misdirecting the boss before Ye Xiu did?

“Prepare to retreat…” Thunderclap wouldn’t be able to endure the combined assault of the boss and the other guilds’ harassment, so Xiao Shiqin resolutely gave the order to retreat.

With this chaos, another guild immediately tried to cut in and take over the situation.

“Ghost Boundaries, set!!”

Void would never lack Ghostblades and under the command of the Number One Phantom Demon, Li Xuan, all the Ghostblades charged forth. It didn’t matter if they were Sword Demons or Phantom Ghosts, all of them summoned their Ghost Boundaries.

In an instant, phantasmic power spread across the field. Void’s Ghostblades must have undergone special training for this. Currently, the Ghost Boundaries covered the field and very few overlapped. A huge area had been locked down all at once.

Because of a team’s core classes, the guilds would usually have a majority of players playing specific classes. The surplus of a single class was a pain in dungeons, but in PvP, they could also easily find ways to execute unique team attacks using their advantage in numbers of a certain class. For example, the current Void Walk had covered such a large area with Ghost Boundaries. None of the elites in the other guilds could achieve this; they didn’t have so many Ghostblades!

Although they might not have Ghostblades, they had other classes!

That was when the Witches of Tiny Herb came forth, launching attacks as one. Lava Flasks were thrown everywhere and Magic Rays crisscrossed in a wide net.

“Blade Masters, charge!!!” Blue Brook wouldn’t be left in the dust either. With a single command, their most abundant class, the Blade Masters, charged into the fray courageously as a single group, using Triple Slash to dart right in with extreme speed. Their Warlocks, only slightly fewer than their Blade Masters, directly opened up a circle of Death’s Doors.

“Hmph, we’ve been expecting this.” Blossom Valley’s people entered the battle fearlessly as well. Not only were their Spitfires numerous, but they all liked to imitate their ex-captain, Zhang Jiale’s Hundred Blossom Style. They might not be as skilled, but the combined chaos of so many people sending out skills created some impressive lighting.

“How chaotic…” Ye Xiu commented from the sidelines. When he had charged up to misdirect the boss, he had given Happy an order. In that instant, not only did Happy abstain from attacking Thunderclap, they retreated even faster than Thunderclap. Thus, as the other four guilds went with the flow and clashed in an intense battle, Happy had pulled out and became spectators.

Ye Xiu looked over the raging battle before glancing at Happy’s formation. A new guild like them didn’t have such obvious class differences. Though Ye Xiu’s unspecialized was a very tempting choice, it was extremely hard to train up an unspecialized in these times. No normal game expert could complete the Heavenly Domain Challenge at level 50. Now, the level limit had gone up by another five levels, so the Heavenly Domain Challenge had become even harder, but unspecialized characters would still have to complete it at level 50. The possibility of being able to train up an unspecialized had dropped again.

The other guilds noticed that Happy had quietly retread, waiting to benefit from the aftermath. They could only grit their teeth though. They couldn’t do anything. They had already sent arrows flying, so there was no turning back. It wouldn’t be feasible to even try and get everyone to turn their fire on Happy now. After all, they fighting were in groups of hundreds of people, it wasn’t so easy to pull back and stop.

“Save your strength!” All four guilds had the same thought. With that, defense became the main focus of the battle and the pace of the battle slowed immensely. Seeing this, they realized that this wasn’t too bad. If they slowly came to a stop, it wouldn’t be impossible to turn their fire on Happy. Should they make a pact? Right now, the different guilds had clashed, they wanted to cooperate with each other, but they were also terrified that someone would only pretend to cooperate and take the chance to strike. This was quite the conflict. Guild wars were even more complicated than pro battles sometimes; at the very least, this sort of chaotic all-out brawl wouldn’t happen in a pro match. In a pro match, it was clear who were enemies and who were allies, unlike guild wars where an ally might turn their back on you in the next moment.

These guilds were still debating their next arrangements when a flash of sword energy flew out, parting the crowd. The Dragon Swordsman then charged out of the encirclement.

Everyone was shocked. The Dragon Swordsman wasn’t programmed to run away. Could it be… that someone stole the aggro?

Everyone turned to look and saw that, in the direction the Dragon Swordsman was heading, there was a Launcher, cannon shouldered, directing blast after blast at the Dragon Swordsman. It was only until the Dragon Swordsman was almost on top of them that they began to retreat. However, no player’s movement speed was good enough to kite a boss, or else they’d be far too easy to kill. A few steps away from the Launcher, the Dragon Swordsman raised his sword and flung out a Spellblade’s Ice Wave Sword towards the Launcher. The speed of the skill was enough to get any Spellblade player drooling.

But this Launcher reacted extremely fast. With a jump, twist and blast from the cannon, the character rapidly switched directions, dodging the Ice Wave Sword.

Launcher…

The Number One Launcher of the Alliance had already gone to Happy. Apart from a player at Su Mucheng’s skill level, how many people could manage to accurately cause enough damage to steal a boss’ aggro under such chaos?

But if you do this, aren’t you just pulling even more aggro for Happy?

Thunderclap had only hit the Dragon Swordsman because of Ye Xiu’s misdirection, but hadn’t managed to pull much aggro. Just Void’s Ghost Boundary net was enough to grab the aggro. Even so, at a time like this, no one was willing to take the boss’ aggro. They had to control the situation first. They would only start trying to deal the most damage when the situation was stable.

The boss’ aggro was like a ticking time bomb. No one wanted it. So after Void grabbed the aggro, they quickly misdirected it towards Tiny Herb, who had launched a fierce offensive. Tiny Herb was rather generous, shoving the aggro at Blue Rain. Blue Rain was even worse, dodging it entirely and misdirecting it at Hundred Blossoms. Seeing that this wasn’t very good, Hundred Blossoms threw it back to Void.

Going back and forth like this, trying to cheat one another, was because no one wanted to establish a solid hold on the aggro then. That was why Su Mucheng managed to pull the boss away so easily.

However, her purposeful stealing of the aggro was very different from the misdirections that had occurred between everyone before. With the boss getting pulled away, it was enough for the guilds to come to a ceasefire and charge over with no need of further prompting.

The Dragon Swordsman still wanted to chase after Su Mucheng’s Launcher, and naturally, Happy’s members would come and help prevent the boss from doing this. The other guilds quickly arrived, ready to send their own attacks. But that was when they saw the positioning of Happy’s members. The pro players present were stunned.

This positioning was like a super misdirection formation. If the guilds launched their attack, the Dragon Swordsman would probably immediately turn his attention back to them. Happy had used the fact that none of the guilds wanted the aggro to turn the Dragon Swordsman into a shield for them to use.

However, could this really work? The guilds also had experts here. If they couldn’t even deal with this, then they wouldn’t be called experts. Immediately, the guilds had their members stop before rapidly rearranging their formation. But that was when Happy’s members scattered and the Dragon Swordsman began to charge over like an uncaged tiger.

“What the hell? No one attacked it, did they?” Everyone was shocked. Then, someone noticed what had happened and wanted to cry. When had Su Mucheng gotten behind them? Happy had been using the Dragon Swordsman as a shield and now they were using the other guilds as a shield.

There were many pro players here, but after being played so many times, they had to admit that Ye Xiu’s knowledge and decision-making when commanding in these sorts of situations had gone far beyond them due to his full year of experience in the online game.

Chapter 1088: Disparity

Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi

A 5v5 confrontation is absolutely not the same thing as a 100v100 battle. Although pro players were admittedly very skilled, much better than the average player, they only had the background of a pro. On the other hand, Ye Xiu’s year and a half of madness in the online game, frequently fighting and stealing bosses had greatly increased his skill level in this aspect, revealing a great disparity.

Pro players admittedly had a higher level of tactical understanding, but but on this kind of stage, they weren’t necessarily better than the club guild leaders at maintaining balance and control. In situations like these, pro players relied more on their overwhelming ability in order to stop their opponents from seeing their plans to fruition, and using their skill to directly tear their enemies apart. Except now, hidden within the opponent’s army was an individual of unparalleled skill in online battles: Ye Xiu. This gap was one that they had no way of closing at the moment.

Dragon SwordsmanKnight directly charged at Su Mucheng’s Launcher, charging into a few groups of guild troops. As they charged their hands did not stay still, instead swinging their swords wildly left and right. It was as if these few guilds had drawn the aggro of an OTed boss. What made this more awkward was the fact that, although they had no way of controlling this situation, they also couldn’t just sit around and do nothing. Su Mucheng’s Launcher was still moving, leading the Dragon Swordsman through the opposing armies to dish out damage and kill.

Focus fire on Su Mucheng?

It wasn’t as if they hadn’t thought of this, but Launchers possessed the greatest range. It wouldn’t be easy to focus fire on her location. Furthermore, with a controller as skilled as Su Mucheng, this wasn’t really realistic …

“Charge at Happy!!” At this moment, no one was sure who suddenly came forth with this idea, directly shouting this out from within the crowd. The people who heard it thought it sounded reasonable. They immediately ignored he Dragon Swordsman and charged towards the players of Guild Happy.

However, Happy’s players had long prepared for this. As soon as they saw that several of the guilds were planning to join forces to attack them, they immediately turned and ran without another word. Moreover, they split up as they ran. Their entire army had dispersed at a moment’s notice, throwing everything into disorder.

At a time like this, should they chase or not chase? Who should they chase? How far should they chase? All of the pro players once again felt very confused, not knowing what to do. It was the guild leaders of the various guilds who, incomparably experienced when it came to these battles, seeing that Happy appeared to want to lure them away, immediately frantically went to check on the location of the boss.

Because of the careful avoidance of these few guilds, the Dragon Swordsman charged outwards from amidst their troops, continuing to throw himself straight at Su Mucheng’s Launcher.

As for Su Mucheng’s Launcher? At this moment she had indeed run very far away. Sure enough, she was trying to bring the boss away …

“Watch the boss! Pull it back!”

Every single one of the large guilds panicked. They hadn’t come here to battle with Happy. What was the point of fighting for this long if the boss was going to be stolen away like this? This was the bad thing about wild bosses; they weren’t like normal bosses, which were restricted to a certain area. Those bosses, if brought too far away, would automatically reset and return to their areas. But for wild bosses, the whole map could be seen as their permitted movement area. If you had the capability to continuously drag the boss around without being hacked to death, then you could take it to travel the entire world. 1 **

Once the various guilds noticed that Happy was trying to steal Dragon Swordsman, how could they just ignore it? Outputting damage to pull back the aggro wasn’t something that could be done in just the blink of an eye. At a time like this, they obviously had to rely on Knights’ aggro skills to forcefully control the boss. For a moment, Knights charged forward from every guild, all using Provoke against the Dragon Swordsman.

The effects of Provoke could override another instance of the same skill. All of these players fired off this skill at once, and for a moment, no one could tell whose skill had ultimately taken effect. In short, Dragon Swordsman charged back like a fiend. Every guild hastily adjusted their Knights’ rhythm, methodologically trying to establish control. Seeing that her purpose had not been achieved, Su Mucheng once again fired back, bombing indiscriminately from afar. But if one was truly talking about generating aggro without taking damage output into account, then Knights were the one class that generated the most aggro. With the addition of specialized aggo control skills, their advantage in this respect was unparalleled among the classes.

Although a vast majority of the Knight players present could in no way compete with Su Mucheng, let’s not forget that there were also pro players present! Currently, Xu Bin was the Number One Knight player in the Alliance, and so naturally he was also the one who stood out most among the Knights. Ultimately, it was him who pulled the aggro of Dragon Swordsman.

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Thus, Dragon Swordsman target became Herb Garden. This wasn’t a situation that Tiny Herb wanted to see. Fortunately, the aggro currently on Xu Bin was only because of a CC skill, so it wasn’t stable.

Should they release it once again? Xu Bin was at a loss. They had pulled it back, but now they wanted both to release it and to not release it. This kind of back and forth, what did it mean? He couldn’t seem to figure it out himself.

Kill Su Mucheng first?

Someone had thought of this, but when they took a look at the situation again, Su Mucheng fired a few shots and then started running as if she had given up. However, Xu Bin, who was keeping the boss’s aggro under control, was very clear that the boss’s aggro was still on Su Mucheng’s Launcher. If he released the boss, the boss would immediately run in that direction. However, if he didn’t and established the aggro, wouldn’t Herb Garden become the target of everyone?

At this time Xu Bin felt embarrassed, not knowing how to proceed.

“Release!” In the end, it was still Wang Jiexi who made the decision. Not releasing would be unfortunate for their Herb Garden, but releasing the boss would at least bring misfortune to all of the other guilds too.

Xu Bin released the boss, and the Dragon Swordsman charged out. All the surrounding Knights all stood stupidly, not knowing how to proceed. For now, none of them wanted the aggro of the boss, yet they also couldn’t just let Happy lead it away. They couldn’t block, but they also couldn’t not block. Then, what should they do?

“Follow the boss, and push Happy away!” Finally, someone came out with a suggestion. The Dragon Swordsman was currently chasing after Su Mucheng. There was no way her Launcher could single-handedly lead the boss along forever; the other side would definitely need to send people to block the Dragon Swordsman in order to buy her some time. Couldn’t they then just chase after the boss, while also seizing the chance to roll over Happy?

As a result, they all swarmed, charging forward. On Happy’s side, everyone also swarmed, helping Su Mucheng buy time. They actually managed to utilize the strength of the entire guild.

Both sides thoroughly collided at last. At this moment, Herb Garden, Blue Brook Guild, Blossom Valley, and Void Walk felt that they had a common enemy, surprisingly banding together to fight against Happy. Happy’s players were put on defense, yet they were still unable to withstand the combined offensive of these four guilds. When it came to the strength of normal players, they were inferior to these professional guilds.

“Not good!”

As a result, these guilds bullied Happy with glee, only to suddenly discover that even as Happy’s players risked everything in order to defend their position, the Dragon Swordsman had already been led even further away. Already, they had lost sight of Su Mucheng’s Launcher. The Dragon Swordsman’s silhouette also disappeared behind the mountainside in the blink of an eye.

Within the four guilds, normal players and pros alike broke into chaos. How could they continue to pay attention to the players from Happy in front of them? So this giant crowd was just a distraction after all. Now, Dragon Swordsman had completely escaped from their frame of view. What corner would he be dragged off to now, to be secretly killed?

Several hundred people hurried chased over, only to realize that the mountain was far too tall, and the earth far too vast. It was as if the Dragon Swordsman had never spawned at all. Where would they even begin to search? The various guilds scattered their troops, dispatching them to go search. As for the pro players, they all seemed a bit lost. They couldn’t figure out how Happy had led the Dragon Swordsman away, just like that …

This would need a thorough tactical analysis.

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The pro players naturally pondered the problem from their customary point of view. Just like when they carefully reviewed their opponents strategies after a match, they felt that the situation that had just come to pass should also be analyzed thus.

The online game was extremely easy for pro players since they didn’t have any opponents at their level. However, when an opponent at a high skill level appeared, then the game became quite a bit more complicated than even normal pro matches.

None of the players that had been sent out to search for the Dragon Swordsman had brought back any news, right up until the point where the system announced that the Dragon Swordsman had been slain by Guild Happy. As for where this had occurred, and who had participated, the club guilds surprisingly had no clue.

Everyone present was dejected, gloomily going through the motions of cleaning up in the aftermath. Those who could respawn did so, and any dropped equipment was picked up. In this process, it was difficult to avoid altercations with the other guilds. Still, no large scale confrontations occurred. These players all had habits acquired through years of works, and they normally wouldn’t argue over such small issues. The aftermath of a boss being stolen felt like the aftermath of a professional match, continuing to fight seemed completely pointless. After all, they were all guilds that had grown so large. Killing each other wasn’t going to destroy a guild. For example, after Samsara’s championship victory last year, Blue Brook Guild and Guild Samsara had engaged in a brutal conflict, the fires of war spreading throughout the world of Glory from guild members to wild fans alike. The result? It could only be said that both sides had suffered. After all, this was an online game, a character that died could respawn in the blink of an eye. It was true that equipment could drop, but it could also be picked up, turning into a back and forth cycle of you drop I pick and vice versa. Ultimately, which side profited? Neither, because in the end both sides would suffer losses. Only some lucky passerbyers stood to gain.

Thus, these kinds of battles were something the guild managers tried to avoid at all costs. It was only after important competitions, when the fans felt the need to vent, that the guilds felt compelled to stand firmly beside them. Even though they knew very well that this was not the sensible thing to do, they didn’t really have a choice. They could only think of it as a tax of sorts to the fans.

But now, they had simply lost a wild boss, and their feelings were unlikely to be that strong. The various players all felt a bit like they couldn’t really compete against Ye Xiu, yet the guild leaders were all desensitized at this point. Bringing in the cream of the crop to compete against Ye Xiu, and still losing the wild boss to Happy? Wasn’t this just another day in Glory?

Except … their guild had now brought pro players into the game as well. How come Happy could still so easily carry out their plans? This question was one that the various players from the club guilds couldn’t really find an answer to. In their eyes, pro players were in a completely different league. Whether they hadn’t played the online game for a long time, or had only played a little, Ye Xiu’s presence for the past year and a half was a very valid reason for their failures. But they had completely neglected this battle … just when would they win?