Chapter 113: Fierce Battle with the Little White Goose

“What are you afraid of? I put the weapon away. Look—my health is recovering again.”

Chu Jun chuckled. Unless absolutely necessary, he no longer dared equip that damn weapon. Forty-five health simply offered him no sense of security at all.

“Fall back. Let’s see what their attack patterns are like.”

Huang Yunshuo urged everyone on the Brotherhood chat channel. The Brotherhood’s most eye-catching sight was its more than three hundred female priests, archers, and mages. They all retreated together, and some players who had no idea what was happening followed suit. Most players, however, still held their original defensive line.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Great clusters of nuts came blasting through the air.

A sloth-knight unit more than a hundred strong launched a volley. Dozens of players at the front were focused down, and dense streams of damage—at least forty points each—floated above them. White lights marking the dead rose in sheets.

Units of sloth knights of similar size were everywhere. With just one volley, the players holding the front line were slaughtered.

“Holy crap, run! Are these things cheating?”

“Level-six monsters riding level-eight monsters?”

“Sixty-five attack! My head’s been blown apart!”

The players fled in disarray. The defensive line they had only just formed collapsed in an instant. The sloths attacked at an extremely high frequency. In the blink of an eye, several more volleys of nuts rained down, and nearly every player who failed to escape in time died where they stood.

Fortunately, the nuts held in the sloths’ arms were not infinite. After throwing twelve volleys, they began to retreat.

Before the players could even catch their breath, level-five Little White Rabbits and level-seven Little White Geese came charging in by the flock, occupying the large swathes of territory the players had just lost.

Wielding carrot clubs, the Little White Rabbits looked adorably innocent. With five defense and one hundred health, they could barely hold their own against ordinary players. Their real strength lay in their fifty attack. In a head-on fight, an ordinary player needed agility to make up the difference; otherwise, anyone with less than thirty attack would almost certainly go down.

If the players could still just barely hold back the Little White Rabbits, the Little White Geese were already beyond their ability to withstand.

The Little White Geese had one hundred and fifty health and sixty attack. More importantly, their agility was extremely high, and their chance of dodging arrows was infuriatingly high. Every so often, they would deliver the unpleasant surprise of a critical hit dealing double damage. If a player had bad luck, two pecks were enough to finish them off.

“Gack, gack, gack!”

The Little White Geese flapped their wings excitedly, but the sheer number of Little White Rabbits in front prevented them from forcing their way through. Trapped behind them, they milled about in a frenzy.

The Little White Rabbits surrounded Huang Yunshuo, who had stopped moving, and swung their carrot clubs at him.

After firing two shots at point-blank range, Huang Yunshuo realized that being so close caused him to suffer the weapons’ shockwaves as well. He promptly switched to Champion’s Aria.

With his agility raised to seventy-five, his evasion rate had increased dramatically.

-12!

Miss!

-12!

-12!

Miss! …

With the Brotherhood’s health bonus, he had 343 health. With such a high miss rate, together with the female priests casting spells behind him, Huang Yunshuo remained perfectly at ease amid the encirclement. Constantly repositioning himself and occasionally using skills, he held off forty or fifty Little White Rabbits alone, blasting them apart one after another.

Morning Dew Light Frost and Yu Shiyin led a group of archers in attacking from five to ten meters away. With nearly all the monsters’ aggro drawn to Huang Yunshuo, they were able to deal damage with remarkable ease.

“Hold the Line!”

Ye Piaoxue entered a super-armor state and continuously thrust and swept with her spear. Green “+1” and “+1” healing numbers kept appearing above her head.

She was part of a melee group positioned right beside Huang Yunshuo. Besides benefiting from the Brotherhood’s health bonus, she had also used a PvE healing scroll, while several female priests watched over her nearby, ready to cast Holy Words on anyone whose health fell dangerously low.

Warrior and knight players found it relatively comfortable to deal damage in this environment. Because Charge had a short cooldown, they could constantly reposition themselves and minimize the attacks they received.

Meanwhile, the Little White Rabbits frequently lost or mixed up their aggro, greatly reducing their attack efficiency. Many times, they would stand right beside a player without even knowing to attack, stupidly chasing after their own aggro targets instead.

“Gack, gack, gack!”

The path before the Little White Geese was finally clear. As numerous Little White Rabbits died, the geese flapped their wings and charged straight through. Three excited Little White Geese pecked Huang Yunshuo the instant they reached him, sending his health plunging by more than sixty points.

“Damn it, I really hate enemies with high agility.”

Huang Yunshuo had no time to continue killing the Little White Rabbits. He finished one Little White Goose with a combo and a follow-up thrust.

Dragon Roam!

The stunned Little White Goose was finished off by another thrust. Huang Yunshuo kicked the last one flying, rushed after it, and stabbed twice, turning it into a pillar of white light.

Clatter, clatter, clatter.

Three consecutive piles of copper coins dropped to the ground. Huang Yunshuo gleefully scooped up a total of sixty copper coins and three fairly substantial piles of materials, his heart bursting with delight.

The Little White Geese were level seven, so killing them incurred no level-suppression penalty. Not only could Huang Yunshuo obtain four times the experience, but they also dropped plenty of copper coins and materials. His fighting spirit soared. If he played his cards right, another opportunity to make a fortune had arrived.

“Come on, I need a few brave girls with good technique to pick up the drops!”

Huang Yunshuo called out to the female priests. They would need to collect the drops while healing him. The Little White Geese were extremely aggressive; a single mistake in positioning would cause them to lock onto the priests and attack. Anyone without solid skills would simply be volunteering to die.

Several female priests who considered themselves competent at movement excitedly ran over and cautiously took up positions a little farther from Huang Yunshuo.

The attack boost granted by Champion’s Aria was terrifying. Two shots were guaranteed to kill a Little White Goose.

Huang Yunshuo constantly repositioned himself to reduce the chance of being hit, firing again and again. Whenever his combo skill, Dragon Roam, came off cooldown, he used it immediately. His health plummeted and recovered in rapid succession, while the several female priests completed their task flawlessly—picking up every item that dropped, healing Huang Yunshuo, and carefully avoiding the Little White Geese’s aggro range.

Huang Yunshuo also deliberately lured large numbers of Little White Geese toward himself, preventing any overexcited bird from attacking the girls.

“Gack, gack, gack!”

Another huge flock of Little White Geese came charging over. From a great distance, they all rushed forward at once, instantly burying Huang Yunshuo before he could react.

“Damn!”

Huang Yunshuo cried out in alarm. Jumping Slash and Charged Assault were both still on cooldown, and he had no time to retrieve the rocket launcher.

“They’re way too arrogant! These little beasts are completely out of control! I’m taking you all down today!”

Their pecks struck him all over, causing pain everywhere, and Huang Yunshuo flew into a furious rage.

“High-Pitched!”

A buff instantly spread across a ten-meter radius around Huang Yunshuo, enveloping the nearby female priests as well.

“Attack +5, Agility +10, duration: thirty seconds!”

The female priests cried out in delighted surprise. Morning Dew Light Frost and Yu Shiyin, who had been standing slightly farther away, hurried forward two steps and stepped inside along the edge of the buff’s range. Their attack and agility surged, their spirits lifting as they seized the opportunity to deal damage.

The dramatic increase in both attributes brought astonishing changes.

First, the female priests’ movement speed visibly increased by a significant amount. Second, Holy Words restored more health than before and occasionally triggered a critical heal, instantly restoring nearly forty additional health. Huang Yunshuo was delighted beyond words.