Absolute Death Game

Chapter 153 - 136: Life and Death Friendship

The shout came through the headset, but it was so loud that everyone in the room heard it. However, nobody had time to pay attention to the situation of the two because they each faced their own difficult challenges.

Upon hearing the shout, Xiao Buli hurriedly looked over to Du Yibo. In just a brief moment, Du Yibo had already tangled with the Shadow Hunter to a point of mutual destruction.

He had burned a significant amount of the Shadow Hunter’s health points since he was in his Elemental Body, which allowed him unlimited use of AOE ultimate abilities, perfectly countering the agility-focused melee profession of the Shadow Hunter. Despite being a high-level elite of the Demon Clan, the Shadow Hunter was left disheveled with its health points rapidly depleting.

However, Du Yibo wasn’t faring much better himself. After all, his opponent was a high-level elite of the Demon Clan, a boss-level creature with exceptionally high attack power. Even with the Fire Spirit Form halving the damage, it was still substantial. After exchanging blows for a while, he saw his own health points nearing depletion, and the duration of his Fire Spirit Form was almost up.

No wonder Du Yibo was anxious.

As he shouted, he began to retreat towards Xiao Buli. Xiao Buli hadn’t forgotten he was a healer. He quickly cast a Resurrection Skill on Du Yibo and enveloped him in Ethereal Armor. In just two to three seconds, however, Du Yibo could no longer hold on, and the flames on his body went out as quickly as gas from an extinguished burner.

The Shadow Hunter, charred and bedraggled by the flames, sneered upon seeing this and rushed forward with a blur, landing a fierce blow on Du Yibo. Fortunately, the Protective Shield was there to prevent any loss of health points, but the strike reduced half of the shield’s durability.

If it had hit him directly, it probably would have instantly killed him, even with his recently recovered health points, startling Du Yibo into exclaiming how close it was.

"You pull back and recover for a bit; I’ll handle it!" Xiao Buli stepped forward without shirking his duty. Even though he wasn’t a melee fighter by trade, he was at least wearing a full set of leather armor, making him much more resilient than Du Yibo, the glass-cannon mage.

"I’ll leave it to you then," Du Yibo didn’t hesitate and blinked to a spot behind Xiao Buli, using his Ground Shrinking Skills.

Facing the oncoming Shadow Hunter, Xiao Buli didn’t dare to be careless. He immediately activated his Tai Chi Sword Skills, his primary defense against the boss. At the same time, he sent a Mysterious Ice Talisman flying towards his opponent.

The Shadow Hunter’s speed was quite remarkable; even without using Qinggong, it was still faster than Xiao Buli, who had activated Flying on Grass. Slowing down the hunter’s speed would be advantageous. However, despite the Shadow Hunter’s low health points, its ability to evade was exceptional.

Dodging two consecutive Mysterious Ice Talismans from Xiao Buli, it closed the distance in the blink of an eye and unleashed a series of attacks on him.

Facing the fierce and sharp offensive, Xiao Buli had no choice but to withstand the attacks using his Tai Chi Sword Skills. Initially, the Shadow Hunter didn’t take Xiao Buli seriously, seemingly determined to end the fight in a few moves. But it quickly realized that this seemingly ordinary guy wasn’t much easier to deal with than the previous fireball.

Although he didn’t have the boldness to confront it head-on like the fiery adversary, his strikes kept being deflected. Out of more than a dozen blows, eight or nine were diverted, with only three or four actually hitting Xiao Buli. Each successful deflection by Xiao Buli allowed him to counterattack, and these unavoidable counterattacks, although not high in damage, accumulated over time.

Moreover, the most annoying part was that Xiao Buli’s counterattacks occasionally triggered the life-stealing effect. Blood Drink, after all, being a silver weapon, could recover twenty to thirty health points with each activation. It was a small but significant boon for Xiao Buli, resulting in both combatants’ health points dropping at nearly the same pace.

This couldn’t continue, and the Shadow Hunter seemed to realize something was amiss, suddenly leaping back to create distance.

Xiao Buli sighed with relief. Although his health points were not dropping fast, his Stamina Points were nearly drained. Being only a half-baked melee fighter, with just over two hundred Stamina Points, endurance wasn’t his forte. If the battle dragged on for another minute or two, he might not have enough physical strength to execute his Tai Chi Sword Skills.

He quickly swallowed a pill to restore physical strength while casting a Resurrection Skill and Ethereal Armor on himself. These smooth, fluid motions were as natural as the flow of clouds and water, thanks to his well-maintained micro-control skills. Just after he fitted himself with the Ethereal Armor, the Shadow Hunter’s second wave of attacks was already upon him.

The figure of the Shadow Hunter suddenly blurred, and in a flash, it split into four. Four identical Shadow Hunters appeared side by side in front of Xiao Buli, indistinguishable from one another, with the same cold gaze and pair of health-point-imbued daggers.

(It has doppelgangers? I can do that too!) As Xiao Buli thought this, he cast his own Mirror Image Skills. However, the effect was nowhere near as impressive, producing only one image without any offensive capabilities. But not wanting to be outdone, he couldn’t let the Shadow Hunter dominate the momentum.

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The next moment, all four Shadow Hunters launched an attack on him. These true and false Shadow Hunters seemed capable of inflicting damage and using combat skills, far outstripping his simple mirror image, which was almost immediately destroyed, delaying the assault for less than five seconds—after all, the image was too fragile.