Fatal Shot

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“What a cunning Quasi-Boss monster.” When the players found the Quasi-Boss’ position through the recon meter, a few of the players had that thought on their mind.

A Heavy Armor Warrior’s shield weighed over a hundred kilograms. Players were only able to move freely thanks to the power armor’s driving force.

Although the Hypertoxic Chameleon was a Level 70 Quasi-Boss monster, it was less than one foot in size, and it was probably less than ten pounds. By resting on the alloy shield, the players had no way to detect its presence at all.

No matter how the players searched for it in the crowd, they never would have thought that it would hide behind an alloy shield that was being used to block the Chameleon horde’s attack. With this, the Quasi-Boss monster could easily follow the movement of the players and wait for its skill to cool down.

This lizard thoroughly displayed the high AI of Boss Grade monsters in War.

It was not simply high AI, there were also its agility and quick reaction specific to Boss class monsters.

“Tst!”

Less than a tenth of a second after it was detected by the recon meter, the Level 70 Quasi-Boss lizard, which was initially resting on the shield, suddenly turned its head around.

It blinked several times quickly and before long, the orange dot on the Legendary Grade recon meter screen quickly charged towards the group of players who had detected its presence. Its movement speed was so fast that it caught a few by surprise.

“Shit!” Without a need to speak, the situation was very clear.

“Heavy Armor Warriors, protect Jing Kong!” Frontline Command’s expression changed drastically.

If Jing Kong, who owned the Legendary Grade recon meter, died, the Quasi-Boss, with its peculiar and frightening camouflage ability, would most certainly become a huge problem.

This Boss was, without a shred of doubt, incredibly smart.

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Although most of the Heavy Armor Warriors were on the outside of the formation, since they were the commanding group, a few Heavy Armor Warriors were still present.

As such, when Frontline Command shouted, those Heavy Armor Warriors rushed over instantly with their shields raised.

However, the problem was how were they going to protect the Scout?

While they had discovered the Quasi-Boss lizard’s position, they could only see it through the screen of the Legendary Grade recon meter. Finding the lizard with the naked eye was undoubtedly a challenge.

A few Heavy Armor Warriors charged over with their alloy shields raised as they could not see how they could protect Jing Kong except using their shields.

However, with the small size of the Quasi-Boss lizard, it was capable of charging past the gaps between the shields and directly biting and poisoning Jing Kong to death.

The orange dot on the Legendary Grade recon meter’s screen was incredibly quick. Although the Quasi-Boss lizard was moving, its speed was more like a cannonball. Even with the Heavy Armor Warriors charging in, they would not make it in time.

The only thing capable of blocking a cannonball was probably a bullet.

“Bang!”

Feng Luo aimed Wings of Death to an empty space in front of a group of panicking players before pulling the trigger with his index finger.

A searing hot bullet exited the gun chamber. With the energy accelerator bonus, in less than one-tenth of a millisecond, the bullet had spun and traveled over a dozen meters.

“Dong!”

“-2256!”

The bullet flying towards an empty space suddenly burst into a ball of flame midair as if it hit something.

The orange dot on the recon meter was closing in at high speed, when it suddenly moved backward about a dozen meters, hitting the ground and leaving a small crater in its wake. A one-foot long blurred figure finally appeared.

The Quasi-Boss lizard was exposed after getting shot.

“Tsst!”

Although it was directly hit by the bullet and was forced backward, the Hypertoxic Chameleon Quasi-Boss’ keratin scales that had the ability to change colors also possessed incredible defense. The bullet only dealt a white Normal Damage.

Moreover, the Quasi-Boss only revealed itself for a brief moment after it crashed to the ground.

In the next moment, after receiving a few more attacks from several players who reacted incredibly fast, it lost around 10,000 HP as a result, and the Quasi-Boss lizard vanished again.

“Automatic Mode! “Rapid Shooting!” However, after firing the first shot, Feng Luo switched Wings of Death’s mode to Automatic, which reduced the shooting gap by half, and at the same time, he also used the skill ‘Rapid Shooting.’

“Bang!”

One-tenth of a second after the Quasi-Boss Hypertoxic Chameleon disappeared, Wings of Death fired a second bullet.

“Pa!”

“-5778!”

The Quasi-Boss was only able to move less than ten meters after disappearing. It was once again hit by the B-Grade deflagration once more, and was forced to reveal its body yet again. Additionally, it was sent rolling on the ground as a result of the shot’s impact once again..

At the same time, the damage number that popped up above its head changed from the white Normal Damage of around 2,000 to a yellow Weak Point Damage of around 5,000.

“Whoosh, whoosh… Boom…”

This time, other players around the area who tried to focus their attacks on the Quasi-Boss earlier but missed also came to their senses. They threw a bunch of attacks at it once more. In an instant, a lot of burst damage was focused on the monster, causing it to lose more than 20% of its HP in one go.

Although it had insane camouflage and poison skils, its low HP of around 200,000 made it impossible for it to behave as recklessly as the Quasi-Boss giant Sea Serpent from before which could tank the players’ attack while initiating attacks of its own.

“Sniper, you’re not too shabby!”

“Nice rifle!”

“Wonderful! Amazing!”

However, when attacks were flung towards the Quasi-Boss lizard, several players also raised their voices to praise Feng Luo’s move.

The Quasi-Boss lizard was only one foot long and had a camouflage skill and frightening speed. Additionally, it was night time, which equaled a very dark environment. With these conditions, not to mention hitting the target, but to hit it twice within one second, just what kind of marksmanship and skills were needed?

While everyone present was a top player, many of them were prideful and egoistic, and as such, generally did not like praising others.

However, because they were all experts, they understood the difficulty of achieving that feat. Both of Feng Luo’s shots just now were very difficult.

“Is it a blind snipe? Does he have other methods to see the Quasi-Boss?” Compared to the other players who were further away, Jing Kong and a few of the other Nine-Star Guild players could not help but wonder about that.

Feng Luo was right beside them, and as a result, the situation was a lot clearer to them.

Earlier, with the Quasi-Boss charging towards them, Jing Kong could not help but hide behind the Heavy Armor Warriors with his Legendary Grade recon meter in hand.

In such a situation, Feng Luo should not have been able to know the Quasi-Boss’ position.

Even if he were able to see the position of the monster on the recon meter’s screen, for high-speed shooting that lasted less than one second, there was no way he’d be aiming while staring at the recon meter, right?

With that in mind, were Feng Luo’s shots blind snipes or not? Or perhaps he had another way to pinpoint the Quasi-Boss’ position?

However, if Feng Luo could see it by himself, why did he need Jing Kong’s help to search for it with the recon meter earlier?

“Follow the trajectory of my bullets and attack!” While the Nine-Star Guild players were still wondering about the reason, Feng Luo shouted while moving Wings of Death very quickly.

Sniping blindly was naturally impossible.

The real reason Feng Luo was able to hit both his shots was within his sniping scope. Within Feng Luo’s sight through the sniping scope, a very clear red dot that was moving very quickly was being followed by the gun muzzle with a target lock function.

Wings of Death was a Rare Grade sniper rifle. However, this sniping scope was a rifle part of the Legendary Grade Death Gaze.

From that name alone, one could tell the importance of the sniping scope to the Legendary Grade sniper rifle.

While the sniper rifle’s bonus skill could not be activated since Feng Luo did not meet the three minimum parts requirement, the sniping scope’s own function was not limited.

The sniper rifle’s sniping scope had three functions, sight bonus, HP computing, and target lock.

The first two were not that special; however, the third function was particularly unique.

Using this function, one could lock on the target in the middle of the sniping scope’s sight. The target would be indicated by a bright color.

Put simply, the sniping scope would place a long-term mark on the locked on target. The lock function was not that useful against large monsters that moved slowly.

However, when used against small and highly mobile monsters that also had incredible camouflage ability or against a player or an NPC in a crowded location, it was incredibly useful.