Chapter 685: Crumbling cough…….
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
While fending off Reef’s ferocious stomps, Kaoyi strived to retaliate with his dagger. Upon feeling immense mortal danger, the middle of his brows emitted a dull brilliance. Evidently, he had resorted to awakening his limited use boundary power.
Reef swung in his left arm to block. Just when Kaoyi’s dagger was about to penetrate through, it unexpectedly scraped out sparks against the empty air alongside a piercing metallic chaffing sound.
After the effects of Joseph’s ‘Primal-Lock’ faded away, the scorching sun like dark-gold shield had awe-inspiring returned to Reef’s arm!
Following Reef’s successful block, Kaoyi instead felt a slight nibbling pain on his arm. Following that, a strange red boil popped up before rapidly festering and swelling up. Finally, a bewildering dreamy colored sage-scarab bore out from that boil. After devouring blood and flesh, it had swiftly matured into the size of a fist and was now assailing Kaoyi.
Even more strange, when Kaoyi ragingly thrusted his dagger, the sage-scarab flashed with brilliance and merely received a single point of damage! This discovery instantly caused fear to well up in Kaoyi’s heart.
"F***...what kind of freak have we encountered? He’s experienced in battle and even possesses such disgustingly formidable abilities! He can even summon creatures! What a perverse MT, when he matures, he wouldn’t be inferior to Zeus at all! Ah…..AHHHHahhh~~~~Atchooo!!!"
Although he appeared to be raging with full onslaughts, Joseph was already harboring intentions to retreat in his heart. Although he was a Growth-Hunter and even had an assistant, he distinctly understood they weren’t a match for such a redoubtable MT!
As a close combatant himself, he was already innately suppressed by MTs. Only an expert long range gunner who possessed speed lowering tricks, or a mage type Growth-Hunter who had stepped into the realms of possessing a halo domain, could rely on distancing superiority and achieve total dominance.
Noticing that Reef was concentrating his aggro onto Kaoyi, Joseph’s eyes twinkled and turned to flee. He wasn’t closely related to Kaoyi and wasn’t an individual whose righteousness transcends the skies, nor were they brothers who shared life and death...
Yet after retreating for 5-6 metres, a strange unexplainable itchiness erupted within his throat. While a sneeze could be forcibly endured, one definitely had to breathe. Instead, Joseph felt as though with every breath he took, the itch would soar momentously like adding oil to flames. Soon, he felt like a tiny knife was scraping his throat; feeling both itch and pain!
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough!!"
Joseph ultimately couldn’t endure the immeasurably unbearable itch and began coughing violently. The first cough offered him extreme comfort, yet it soon spiralled into a state of shredding apart his lungs. Ruptured maroon flesh pulps adhered along his throat, and he hatefully wished to stretch his hand down to rip apart his throat.
After 5-6 consecutive coughs, his vision darkened. If he attempted to flee in this state, the only outcome would undoubtedly be crumbling to the ground! He could only stoop his back and continue coughing violently.
"Not right, something’s amiss!" A dreadful notion instantly flashed through Joseph’s mind. "Although our digitalized enhanced bodies still possess normal physiology reactions, like coughing when choking or sneezing due to excessive dust, it is impossible to abruptly contract ailments! Even if an exception happens, the odds of both Kaoyi and I being infected is too ridiculously low! Don’t tell me, this MT…...possesses a virus spreading ability?"
"That doesn’t make sense. If we’re infected, why didn’t the battlelog inform us? It can’t be that his perceptive sense has suppressed us into misjudgements?"
After the "Violent Coughing’ effect dissipated, to Joseph’s extreme elation, Reef was still engaged in intense assaults, or more accurately phrasing, ravaging Kaoyi asunder. Knowing that the attention wasn’t on him, and after losing all will to fight, he immediately adopted a gloating yet desperate sentiment as he fled.
However, a chain of fiery bullets abruptly whizzed towards Joseph, leaving him in utter despair!
As a Growth-Hunter who toiled in the realm for so long, the most undesirable outcome he could think of truly happened – that MT actually possessed hidden assistants!
In fact, this was essentially quite a no brainer, except that Joseph wasn’t willing to think of that; he dared not think of that! Because he feared that if he did, any ounce of fighting spirit within him would instantly be crushed. Merely, not everything that we try not to think of, would absolutely not happen...
As the saying goes, even a puny bug would struggle to survive. Relying on past experiences, Joseph immediately darted behind a nearby vehicle, and took cover first. Yet while darting away, his nose abruptly twitched with an ominous itch, before his vision darkened and released a massive sneeze; causing mucus to flow and tears to stream.
As a result, his head crashed against the vehicle recklessly instead of safely taking cover! That single impact forcefully knocked the vehicle screeching backwards for 5-6 metres, as its car alarm pierced into the air…...
"Ah, what remarkable brute force..."
Brother Black sighed with extreme boredom. Still, he didn’t remain idle, and why would he forsake such a grand opportunity? With a cigar in his mouth, he pressed his AK’s trigger tightly. In such circumstances, even his eighteen year old self could manage a hit rate of a hundred percent....
Meanwhile on the other side of the battlefield, Kaoyi was after all, a reserve-duty Growth-Hunter whose path oriented towards attack speed and explosive damages. Nevertheless, Reef easily fended against his assaults and similarly suppressed the chances of explosive strikes with his innate MT ability. Needless to say, he minimized damage received to the utmost minimum.
Moreover, with Kaoyi’s high frequency attack speed, it made triggering Reef’s dark-gold grade shield’s sage-scarab ability much easier.
Though the damage inflicted by the sage-scarabs weren’t high, it was truly repulsive! Furthermore, it contained rejuvenation effects for the user!
It wasn’t that Kaoyi hadn’t thought of escaping. In reality, after experiencing the first ‘Shattering Cardiac Roar’ and damages, he immediately employed a medicine that could expel negative buffs; one that he bought with a high price....
He had then turned to flee, and didn’t reckon a single MT could pursue an agility based contestant. Yet after running for 10 plus metres, a frenetic fit of violent coughing assailed him. After he recovered from him, that terrifying MT had chased up to him....
A dozen plus minutes later, the battle concluded. As the reserve member, Sheyan didn’t act personally at all. He merely stood from a distance with his arms across his chest, and observed the outbreak of his diseases.
If Sheyan and his party members weren’t fully convinced of this new ability beforehand, after experiencing this battle, the trio unanimously believed the horrifying treachery that was this Rank 9, S evaluated secret variated ability!
Speaking in current perspective, though the two viruses couldn’t deal any direct damages to enemies, or possibly minute damages, its negative impairing buffs were truly extraordinary.
Under normal circumstances, Reef and Brother Black versus Joseph and Kaoyi, held identical pairing constitutions as Growth-hunter plus Reserve-duty Growth-Hunter. Even if Reef and Mogensha were victorious, it would inevitably be a hardfought victory.
This was because they would surely target the firepower gunmen first. The brittle skin, speed and potent offense nature of Kaoyi would undoubtedly suppress Mogensha. Even if Mogensha was covered by Reef’s ‘Shattering Cardiac Roar’, he would surely be reduced to a devastatingly sorry state.
Yet with the auxiliary aid of Sheyan’s ‘Pestilence Monarch’, placing damnable time bombs in the form of a virus outbreak in them, Joseph and Kaoyi were utterly clueless as to when those vile negative effects would trigger.
Though the negative effects lasted briefly, not being able to defend against it was exceedingly depressing. Moreover, occasionally during vital moments, those despair inducing effects would abruptly trigger.
Furthermore, this was only the first and second tier of his ‘Pestilence Monarch’ ability! Once later tiers are unlocked, wouldn’t that be invincibly frightening?
While Sheyan was passionately rejoicing, he momentarily recalled the near-death tortures he would have to be subjected to in the real world, and couldn’t help but tremble with fear.
This wasn’t a joke at all. Sheyan could clearly perceive that if he were to rashly challenge the next tier virus, the probability of him dying in the real world would be more than 70 percent.
"Eh??" After a final fatal stomp by Reef, Kaoyi spat out a mouthful of blood and died without closing his eyes.
Simultaneously, the trio received the notifications.
[ Party Ace has killed a Reserve-duty Growth-Hunter? (serial number unknown). Reward: 2 achievement points ]
[ Party Ace has killed a Growth-Hunter? (serial number unknown). Reward: 4 achievement points ]
[ Since this is a party battle, please allocate achievement points reward by yourselves ]
[ In this world, the maximum amount of achievement points you can obtain from slaying is 10 points. Once this limit is reached, allocated achievement points would be ineffective and nonrefundable. Please allocate wisely ]
[ Slaying rewards are randomly drawn from the equipments of the slain contestant, and will be randomly allocated to any member in the party ]
[ Random drawing process will take some time. Initiating factoring of deceased opponent data…...please wait patiently ]
The trio unanimously felt that such a phenomenon was extremely puzzling. Regardless of Reef or Mogensha, they both hadn’t experienced this before. They had only heard of earning slayer points upon killing foes before, but didn’t expect directly receiving achievement points from killing. Don’t even mention the absence of a dropped key, but a process of directly drawing rewards!
After some discussions, and aware of Sheyan’s tight budget with his Rank 9, S evaluated ability, an ability that could service the party amazingly, they allocated the four achievement points to Sheyan while they each took one.