MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1265 - Chapter 1265 Chapter 1265 Hunt

Chapter 1265: Chapter 1265: Hunt Chapter 1265: Chapter 1265: Hunt “Prairie Fire, Prairie Fire is here, sound the alarm quickly.”

“Control, control, hold him down.”

A barrage of attacks immediately deluged Li Yao, their reaction could not be called slow.

But Li Yao had long been ready to escape, the moment he killed the shield warrior, he had used Spider Silk to pull himself back to the top of the leather tent, making all their skills and attacks miss.

Soldiers and players from the Troll Tribe with aerial skills also followed from the gap in the tent, while others ran out, intent on intercepting Li Yao outside.

However, after Li Yao leapt onto the tent like a sly rabbit, he used a Flash to get to the backside of a stone building, and by the time they reached the top of it, his figure was long gone.

“Flare coverage.”

Following a colonel’s order, many flares illuminated a large surrounding area, but not even Li Yao’s shadow could be seen.

No matter how they searched, they couldn’t find Li Yao, filling them with frustration.

Only the audience watching the match knew what was happening, especially those from the Troll Tribe. If their loud shouts could be heard by the players in the match, they would definitely tell them, “You idiots, he’s right on the flagpole.”

Indeed, Li Yao hadn’t stealthed at all. He had transformed into a bat when obstructing the opponent’s view and then flew to a nearby flagpole, perched high to watch them frantically searching. A flare lit up Li Yao’s position, but they would never guess that the bat was Li Yao.

At the same time, Starfire received system notifications.

“System: Scout Prairie Fire killed the enemy’s intelligence officer, gaining intelligence on Colonel Number One.”

“System: Blue side Colonel Number One, beneficial buffs–fire immunity, ranged arrow immunity, ranged provocation (after provocation, damage increases by 50% for one minute), and sprint legs (movement speed increased by 60%). Negatives–weak point, vulnerable in close combat. Fatal weakness: fear of huge beasts. Critical: stealth assassination kills.”

At the same time, a small illusory column of light enveloped Colonel Number One, who also turned shiny gold, now totally exposed.

The exposed colonel immediately had soldiers protect him, fearing assassination. Scouts are rogues after all, and a surprise attack could easily spell instant defeat. He wasn’t afraid of direct confrontation or distant bow and arrow fire, but stealth assassinations were his fear.

Li Yao had no intention of specifically going for an assassination. In his view, although the exposed colonel had strong attributes, the weaknesses were too glaring. As long as Starfire paid attention, the colonel could be instantly killed, hardly a concern.

There was no need to risk going after a doomed officer who wouldn’t make much of a difference when he could instead continue hunting intelligence officers, revealing more colonels, and even generals, exposing their strengths and weaknesses.

Especially since the traits boosted by the Marshal rank were too formidable; knowing the opponent’s strengths allowed one to consciously avoid them, and knowing the weaknesses allowed targeted attacks, quickly killing the Chieftain. Otherwise, it would be like the Qionghua Guild, which, despite gaining a significant advantage by reaching the Chieftain Hall, suffered heavy losses due to a single Chieftain enjoying the Marshal’s trait boosts.

Li Yao quickly locked onto his second target. Even more cautious, the target had bunkered down in the corner of the city wall, back against the wall, with a protrusion overhead providing cover, and surrounded by other soldiers and players for solid protection–a pinnacle of cautious security.

“Think I can’t deal with you like that?” Li Yao watched from a distance atop a house’s chimney, and he simply drew his Bow and Arrow.

Thwip…

The arrow first struck the city wall, then bounced off toward the edge of a nearby house where the Scout was posted, and finally rebounded onto the city wall just above the Scout’s head.

The sound of the arrow immediately alarmed them, but they did not look at the arrow itself because, in their view, the shot was too inaccurate. Instead, they looked in the opposite direction of the arrow’s flight, and still, they saw nothing. Then, someone caught a glimpse of Li Yao on the chimney in another direction and shouted out loud.

Just then, the arrow rebounded off the opposite house and came flying back, passing directly through the gap between the heads of the soldiers and players protecting the intelligence officer, and pierced the intelligence officer’s throat.

The intelligence officer clutched his neck and fell to the ground.

They could never have imagined that an arrow could hunt its target like that, and the spectators gasped in astonishment.

This was not a one-off bounce that hit the target but several consecutive bounces. More impressively, it had managed to slip through the gap between the soldiers and players guarding the intelligence officer–a display of extraordinary control and judgment.

This was not mere accuracy describable in terms of archery skills; it was a dominance over the battlefield.

They realized upon watching again that it was the sound of the arrow that had made them astonishingly turn their heads, creating the gap that allowed the arrow to pass. Otherwise, the arrow would have hit one of the soldiers guarding the intelligence officer.

They felt a sense of terror, considering if during a duel, your opponent had already calculated how you would react, then what chances did you have of winning?

“System: Scout Prairie Fire has killed an intelligence officer, unlocking information on General number thirteen.”

It was an exhilarating moment for Starfire, while the Troll Tribe felt a chill in their hearts.

The battle had barely begun, and their own Scout had shown no sign of activity. In contrast, Prairie Fire had already unlocked two pieces of intelligence, indicating that two of their Generals were now compromised.

Just like in the previous battle, as soon as Li Yao was out of everyone’s sight, he transformed into a bat and regally watched from above as they fired Flares haphazardly, desperately searching for him.

Meanwhile, on the left, Shadow Dance had already approached a target. Unlike Li Yao, she couldn’t rely on invisibility and instead depended on her agile movements, stealthily using the blind spots of the enemy patrol to get closer to the target, which was a much harder task.

Shadow Dance’s target was similarly secured by multiple layers of protection, but this posed no difficulty for her. The challenge for Shadow Dance was not the kill but getting close to the target.

Nonchalantly, Shadow Dance appeared within the enemy’s view, then executed Transplanting flowers and trees, Shadow Shaping, throat slicing, dizziness, backstabbing, backstabbing–a swift combo that swiftly disposed of the Scout.

Then came the Substitution Technique. At the moment of attack, a dummy replaced her true body, and she was teleported a certain distance away and entered stealth mode.

Shadow Dance did not dawdle. She leapt to another building in the blink of an eye, immediately after entering stealth and quickly dashed toward the next target.

With Shadow Dance’s successful hunt, another General’s intelligence was exposed.

As for the intelligence officer being targeted by Shadow Dance Craze, they were in a building where Shadow Dance Craze, in stealth mode, moved across the rooftop like a spider.

Quickly reaching one side of the hall, as the hunting alerts kept coming, the soldiers and players inside the building were extremely tense. Even within the building, they didn’t dare slack in the slightest, closely watching the doors and windows, unaware that Shadow Dance Craze had already come through the chimney and was slowly approaching them from the ceiling…