I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 607 166: Tit for Tat

Unlike Shen Ye, Yun You's mastery of the Duel Arena's terrain has reached an almost perfect level.

She remembers clearly how many streets and alleys there are in the district, where each street and alley leads, and how many branches are in the sewers.

But this is only natural.

After all, she has lived here for a full fifteen years.

Fifteen years of time, she has spent every day here, and the terrain of her hometown has long been imprinted deep in her soul.

She knows where she can gain a vantage point and where is suitable for hiding, even if she hides for a month without being detected.

Thus, her tactical choices are completely different from Shen Ye's.

From the start, Yun You deduced backward that Shen Ye, being a mercenary, would be unable to resist choosing to occupy the high ground, because "information" is crucial to those who lick blood off blades in the wilderness, even to the point of surpassing the lives of teammates and companions.

So, even if acting on the high ground might be inconvenient, Shen Ye would definitely climb that three-hundred-meter-tall water tower at the first opportunity.

And later events unfolded exactly as Yun You predicted, with Shen Ye quietly ascending the tower and beginning to observe the surrounding environment.

This guy, thinking he was shielded by the partitions, assumed others couldn't observe his actions, but he didn't know that the nails used to fix the panels had long vanished due to disrepair, and the high winds at altitude would cause portions of the panels to lift each time the wind blew.

And at those times, Yun You could unabashedly observe his actions.

Seeing him gaze over the streets, the little girl hiding in a dark church initially planned to use her Dragon Gun for a "long-range strike" on him.

But after thinking about it carefully, she abandoned that plan.

The Dragon Gun is quite conspicuous, inevitably causing unusual energy fluctuations during its charging process.

Previously, Hikamu failed to notice it only because his physical strength had been largely depleted by Yun You, and he was in a state of panic, overlooking the Dragon Gun.

But Shen Ye is different. His attention is unprecedentedly focused, and as a Tuner, his mental and perception abilities far surpass Hikamu, a Guard. Use of the Dragon Gun would likely reveal Yun You's presence to him during the initial charge.

Furthermore, at this distance, the Dragon Gun may not ensure that Shen Ye loses his combat ability in a single shot, possibly exposing precious combat initiative instead.

Therefore, Yun You decided temporarily not to act, silently observing Shen Ye, waiting for him to reveal a flaw.

She had previously set up some "bait" in the apartment buildings—some "puppets" created using steel pipes and iron frames, which are easy to see up close but can easily be mistaken from a distance.

And sure enough, half an hour into the battle, Shen Ye finally took the bait.

His attention was completely drawn to a small apartment building, mistaking the bait for Yun You.

Then, without hesitation, he struck, charging a Flame Arrow and aiming it at the small building. One arrow instantly demolished half of the building.

And that's when Yun You finally had her chance.

The only doubt was that Yun You couldn't quite remember if she had left bait at that location... She vaguely felt like she hadn't been to that location...

But at this moment, this detail is not important.

Because Shen Ye had already taken the bait.

The Tuner's flames, though powerful, have a cooldown time.

Shen Ye has now spent considerable energy and is temporarily unable to use fire. Now is the best time to strike!

So, without any hesitation, Yun You directly activated her one-time-use Invisible Sequence, simultaneously using both "Lunar Mist" and "Divine Concealment" abilities to create a fog enveloping her, completely concealing her presence within it.

If Divine Concealment is used alone, it is still easily detected by High Tier Apprentice Death Gods.

After all, it only masks Yun You's aura and footsteps, failing to achieve a state of complete invisibility.

But when used together with Lunar Mist, the effect of concealment is exponentially increased, creating an effect greater than one plus one being greater than two, even greater than ten.

Though it might still not be complete invisibility, someone of Shen Ye's rank would absolutely have no way to detect it.

Yun You's silhouette darted through the streets and alleys, crossing several kilometers in merely ten seconds with her exaggerated speed, arriving at the tower, even appearing behind Shen Ye.

And at this very moment, Shen Ye was still unaware.

Until...

Yun You deactivated Lunar Mist, her right hand transforming into a Red Scale Giant Claw in a blood-red glow, pressing toward him with overwhelming force and presence.

It was only at this moment that Shen Ye finally reacted.

He instinctively turned around, and the Giant Claw was less than half a meter from his face.

"When... did this...?"

Shen Ye's pupils slightly shrank.

In the past, whether he or Hikamu and the other Gladiator participants, they all insisted that Yun You's Sequence was "Mad Dog."

After all, such powerful close-range combat abilities could only be possessed by a Guard or Mad Dog.

And the Mad Dog Sequence doesn't typically have strong stealth abilities, so Shen Ye had never considered being ambushed, nor had he imagined Yun You could approach him under such stealthy conditions.