Chapter 26: Power Play

As I watch the Black Bear King’s health go from 80 percent to 50 percent it got me thinking. With so many people out there fighting there is bound to be good loot for me to take off of the ground. So why am I just laying on top of this tree waiting?

I watch the battle go on. Right now on the field there was at the very least 200 players there. I saw at least 20 of the players here were level 19 which is in the top ten percent. The lowest were level 14 who are getting slaughter like chickens in a factory by the way. I feel kind of bad for them because they are basically cannon fodders of the group.

Then I thought for a bit and I realized by I didn't race out before. It is because with my thirty percent stat reduction I would get slaughtered like a chicken in a chicken nuggets factory just like them. Still there is no point in me rushing out because the items are not going anyway. The drops from players will get larger as time goes on. This battle was hectic.

Roughly 5 to 8 minutes passed and the boss’s health was at twenty percent. Then another 4 minutes passed and the boss’s health went to 10 percent. This was my time to act. The moment I got up and jump down from the tree I saw the boss’s eyes glow black. Its fur standing up like a porcupine.

ROAR!

Rushing in from all over the forest were black bears ranging from level 15 to level 20.

The stampede of black bears race passed me like I was invisible. So thats why it is called Black Bear King. I counted that there is at least 200 black bears charging out from all over the forest.

This could actually work to my favor I thought to myself. Like the saying goes my enemies misery is my personal joy.

I charged out from behind the bear and it seems that I was not the only one with the same idea since I saw about twenty other players charging out at the same time I did.

As I blend in with the herd of black bears I also began to pick the items off of the ground. It ranges from money to wood tier weapons to mana potions, and health potions. So far nothing significant has popped up.

I ran straight for the bear king again while blending in with the herd of black bears.

From time to time I would even help out the players by ending their life early. While they were defending against the black bears I would come up from behind and stab my sword right through their spines and then take their items. One person even dropped a wooden ring that raises health by 30 points.

Another person I killed dropped a necklace that raises mana by 50 points. Just these two items already increase my survivability by a lot.

After I killed three players it seems that they caught onto what i was doing.

Now when a player saw me they would try to attack me but I would slide back and maneuver myself to behind a black bear for protection.

There was only 5 percent health left on the bear and I knew I had to hurry.

When I saw four level 20 players coming out of no where I knew right then and there it was the leaders of four of the groups here. Their names were Vera, One Sword, Mango, and Nukpana.

As they rush toward I also rushed forward. I already formulated a plan inside my head while I was doing so.

The four leaders arrive 2 seconds before me and already unleashed their special skills. One Sword and Nukpana release the swordsman special skills one swipe, while Vera release a berserker’s special skill Berserker’s Combo which increase the attack power by 1 percent for each additional hit added to his combo. Mango whose a martial art class on the other hand releases a skill called Internal blow. This skill bypass defense by 10 percent and when trained to level ten can bypass defense by 50 percent.

With all four of these attack raining down on him the Bear King’s health went from 4 percent to three percent in an instant. It still wasn’t time yet.

There were now eleven players surrounding the bear king while the others held off the black bears and other players. These players were all level 19 and up and pretty nice equipments. I was the twelfth player. While they battled I ran around like a maniac taking advantage of the situation to stab them one at a time. They defended from time to time but in the end they chose to ignore me because their attention was split between the bear and the other 10 players above level 19 while I was at level 16 with measly equipments.

In less than 30 seconds they whittle down the bear King’s health to 1 percent which I found it impressive since it took an army of 200 and 18 minutes to whittle it down to 4 to 5 percent. Then it took these eleven players less than 1 minute to whittle it down to 1 percent. Going by this rate it would have take them 33 minutes to kill the bear king.

This meant they had fire power equal to half of the players here with 11 players.

I saw the bear king’s health went to about half a percent and this was my time to make the power play that I kept playing over and over in my head. I just hope it goes like I planned.

I blew forward and unleashed a dark flower palm at the bear King’s chest. I managed to blow it forward 5 meters which was just enough to cause all eight of the eleven players’ special skill to completely miss the bear king.

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Out of the three players that hit the bear two of them got squashed by the bear king’s weight and the hard spike on the back of its body.

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It didn't kill them but I wish it had.

Furthermore I jumped backwards so none of the attacks hit me. Then I sprinted forward like a jack rabbit. They recovered it time and someone

Most of them were shocked but came back to reality as they also sprinted forward.

When I got close to the bear king I raised up my fist timing the distance the eleven players would be at. They chose to ignore me again since the health of the King was so low and they don't want the others to gain the advantage.

One person who was close to the bear manages to unleash a another skill.

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It looks like it only have between 50 to 70 health left.

“LIGHTNING VORTEX!” I roared out as I smash my fist onto the ground. Lightning surges out from the ground eclipsing a seven feet radius around me. All eleven players including the bear king was stunned with a minus 5 appearing above their head.

Then I unleashed a triple stab at the bear King which took 1 second.

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Then I unleashed a lightning blade that aimed at the bear King’s head.

Boom!

It was critical hit! Oh my god! I remember thinking to myself.

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I light flew down as my level went from sixteen to eighteen and three fourth of the way in less than a second.

I just fucking killed it. Also the three seconds was over. I quickly crouch down and grabbed everything the bear king dropped and stuffed it into my inventory.

This all happened in less than 4 seconds. Since I was grabbing the items while my level when up.

I was completely surrounded with no possible escape at all. The surrounding one hundred twenty something players left surround me in a huge circle while these eleven players here surrounded me in a tiny circle.

Shit! I should have thought this through I thought to myself! I am like fuck a guy dead right now.