Heroes' Prison

Chapter 320 - 313 Compulsory Skills

Invisibility is the assassin’s signature ability, and it’s through various stealth skills that assassins are able to appear and disappear unpredictably.

To counter this skill, one must use stealth detection or tracking methods.

But just now, Huang Yi didn’t use anything. He merely guessed the direction the enemy might flee, and based on the enemy’s speed, he calculated where the target might appear. Step by step, he deduced the enemy’s stealth location and successfully dragged them out!

This ability is almost theoretical in nature.

First off, it requires a charge skill that can be used multiple times, while a typical warrior can only charge once and can’t charge five times in a row like Huang Yi just did.

Moreover, there’s an even more daunting requirement, which is to deduce the location of the invisible person in the shortest time possible. There’s no time for extended contemplation; a deduction must be made quickly. Otherwise, if too much time passes and the invisible person changes direction, there will be no trace left to follow!

The five charges that Huang Yi just executed demonstrated this legendary ability, indicating that Huang Yi’s computational skills had virtually reached their limit, as though he were someone who had been specially trained from a young age.

In Nameless’s heart, the scene that just took place was forever etched. Those five charges represented a scene that an assassin would most not want to, and most likely never would, witness!

A warrior was actually able to use a charge to break an assassin’s invisibility!

At that moment, Mirror Broken was forced out of thin air by Huang Yi’s charge and stunned, his eyes suddenly filled with a look of terror. He hadn’t even processed what had just happened. After becoming invisible, he was supposed to have completely disappeared, but now, inexplicably, he had been knocked out of stealth!

However, there was no time left for him to think; Huang Yi’s massive axe had already descended fiercely. The sound of the blade cutting through the air rang by his ears, making his hair stand on end. If this axe hit, his frail assassin body was very likely to be reduced to mincemeat!

This time, Huang Yi used his most powerful single-target attack skill—Heavy Judgment. A hit could very likely instakill Mirror Broken! But if dodged, that would waste 30 Rage Points.

When he arrived earlier, his Rage had already been filled to the brim. The Legendary Ghost Axe generates 1 Rage Point per second, and the depletion rate is also 1 point per second, ensuring that his Rage Points don’t dissipate.

In combat against agile classes like assassins, Rage Points are a big problem. The best strategy is to use these just over two hundred Rage Points to finish the battle, not wasting even a bit.

At this moment, the surrounding audience was watching the scene without blinking, holding their breath in anticipation of the outcome of this axe blow!

And the few youths that had come with Mirror Broken were looking at him with concern, as if the axe was striking down on them themselves.

In this critical moment, Mirror Broken finally showcased the strength befitting one of China’s Four Great Assassins. His figure flashed suddenly, appearing at another spot far away in an instant, narrowly dodging Huang Yi’s vehement Heavy Judgment!

"Blink! Forced Teleportation!" The surrounding crowd suddenly exclaimed in astonishment, recognizing Mirror Broken’s skill.

Blink is a signature skill of mages that allows instant movement to a different area without needing a target.

Assassins have a similar skill called Flash, which also allows for instant movement in a different direction, but compared to Blink there’s a crucial difference—it requires a target to use and teleports the user behind them in an instant.

But Mirror Broken had just moved directly to another location without any target, indicating that he was not using Flash, but Blink!

There are only two possible explanations for this. Either his Blink is an Exotic Skill, obtained through Talent Blood with blinking capabilities, legendary equipment above, or a Skill Book. Alternatively, this Rare Assassin’s Flash removed the need for a target and became Blink.

However, the audience wouldn’t have been so astonished by a mere Blink, as Exotic Skills, though rare, aren’t enough to stun them in such a way. Their astonishment came from the fact that Mirror Broken had been in a state of dizziness—a state where no actions are supposed to be possible—yet he was still able to Blink. This meant that his Blink was an extremely rare Forced Movement skill!

Forced skills are those that can be used forcefully, ignoring control states, and can still be used even when stunned. This kind of forced effect is usually associated with control removal skills, such as Huang Yi’s Special Pardon, which can be used even when stunned to instantly negate the dizziness. But Mirror Broken’s skill wasn’t a control removal skill; it was a movement-based Forced Skill—that was extraordinary!

Mirror Broken’s Forced Teleport also caused Huang Yi’s Heavy Judgment to miss, wasting 30 Rage Points for naught.

At this time, Mirror Broken was still dizzy. This should have been the best moment for Huang Yi to strike, but with Mirror Broken so far away, and Huang Yi’s Pursuit already used up, he could only charge over himself. However, by the time he got there, the dizzy duration would have long passed!

All of these sudden developments unfolded in an instant, and it seemed Huang Yi was about to waste this hard-won attack opportunity!

At that moment, the axe in Huang Yi’s right hand suddenly left his grasp, shooting out like an arrow that had left the string, heading straight for Mirror Broken!

This was Huang Yi’s Legendary Ghost Axe’s attached skill Flying Axe, throwing the axe in hand to fly forward at a velocity of 100 meters per second. Any enemy targets hit along its path would be forcibly knocked back and take damage equivalent to 30% of Attack Power.

The skill’s cooldown time is 5 minutes, and at this moment, Ghost Axe is in a two-handed axe state, so the cooldown time is calculated separately for each axe head, allowing each to be used once. Huang Yi is now using the right-hand axe!

"Whoosh!" The axe cleaved through the air at a speed of 100 meters per second, reaching Mirror Broken’s side almost in the blink of an eye.

It was another critical moment for Mirror Broken!

The surrounding audience watched fixedly at Mirror Broken!

The few youths who had followed Mirror Broken clenched their fists tightly!

The next moment, Mirror Broken disappeared again!

In that instant, the audience failed to react, only seeing Mirror Broken vanish suddenly, as if he had used forced invisibility.

But under these circumstances, invisibility was pointless. He was still there, dazed, and would still be hit by the flying axe.

At this time, both Huang Yi and Nameless were slightly startled; only they had seen the truth!

Just now, Mirror Broken had abruptly appeared behind an audience member in the crowd, as if he had blinked there!

But it wasn’t a blink this time; instead, it was the Flash that assassins inherently possess, which requires a target to be released. It’s just that Mirror Broken had forced this skill so that he could still Flash even amidst dizziness. His Flash target was the surrounding spectators; he was using the crowd as a tool.

Mirror Broken’s escape had a stroke of genius about it!

Even Nameless, one of the four great assassins from China, marveled. If it were him in such a situation, he wouldn’t use the audience as a shield; it seemed a bit like cheating.

The next moment, before the crowd could react, Huang Yi flicked his left-hand axe in the blink of an eye, while the previously thrown right-hand flying axe was recalled by him, swiftly returning!

"Swoosh!" The second flying axe spun through the air with a swoosh, targeting Mirror Broken in the crowd!

Huang Yi was inevitably about to cause collateral damage to the audience. He had refrained from using Scorched Earth, Plague, End of the World, and other area-of-effect abilities from the beginning because there were too many onlookers around; he couldn’t make his move fully. But now that Mirror Broken had started to use the surrounding audience to fight, Huang Yi had to make the move that would harm them.

Seeing the flying axe coming his way, Mirror Broken’s mind went blank!

He had just used Forced Moment, a skill he learned at level 75, which allows any skill used in the next second to be forced. Within a second, he had used both Blink and Flash continuously, dodging Huang Yi’s two fierce attacks. But now, the forced state was over, and he could no longer force the use of other skills; he had to bare endure this attack!

"Pfft!" The next moment, the flying axe struck into the crowd, instantly knocking people aside, and Huang Yi’s carefully aimed axe popped Mirror Broken out of the crowd!

This flying axe attack also resulted in surrounding spectators taking damage equivalent to 30% of Huang Yi’s attack power. Though the damage ratio was not large, Huang Yi was a supremely violent headsman. A 30% damage from his attack power was already quite high. Some players with poorer equipment, especially those with fragile defenses, even lost more than 80% of their health, nearly dying.

It wasn’t until then that the audience finally saw Mirror Broken’s figure, realizing he had flashed into their midst. These were all ordinary players, and their reaction speeds were far inferior to experts like Huang Yi and Nameless. From the moment Mirror Broken was dizzied by Huang Yi to now, a series of changes happened so fast that the audience couldn’t keep up; before they could grasp what was happening, the next change had occurred.

Now, there were only about half a second left before Mirror Broken’s dizzied state would end, but Huang Yi’s flying axe attack hadn’t killed him.

It seemed this precious dizzy duration was about to slip away in an instant!

But just then, Mirror Broken was firmly caught in a net of light, like a fish trapped in a fisherman’s net!

This happened almost instantaneously. At the moment when Mirror Broken was knocked out by the flying axe, he was ensnared by the light net!

It was a contingency Huang Yi had long been prepared for. The moment that flying axe left his hand, his hands were finally freed from holding a weapon!

This also meant he could use another skill—Net of Justice!

As the flying axe left his hand, he simultaneously threw his palm toward Mirror Broken. A grey light net suddenly enveloped its target at breakneck speed, and the two skills were executed seamlessly. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Starting Point (qidian.com) to cast your Recommendation Tickets and Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to continue reading.)