Chapter 193: Expert GunnerTranslator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Feng Luo was indeed shocked.
The “Hidden Profession” had been the most heated discussion topic in recent years and no other. Only three months after the start of the game, a player had made breaking news on the forum about finding clues to a Hidden Profession in War, then constantly updating his progress in the “Hidden Profession Mission.” This breaking news had garnered the attention of many players, allowing that top star player to surge in popularity in a single go.
The joke was that the news proved to be fake in the end. It was false hype that a player and his company had used to attempt to gain fame. After which, there had been a constant stream of other players who occasionally posted news on the forum stating that they had received something like a Hidden Profession transferred mission, but in the end, all had been proven to be simple fabrications for fame. Only when the game version was updated did the topic resurface.
This time, it was not fake anymore.
Some players had really received clues to the Hidden Profession, and there were some who had even released a direct screenshot of the system log. This proved one thing: that there really was a Hidden Profession in War.
However, about one month after the recent game update, there had been no news of any player completing the Hidden Profession mission, nor was there the appearance of any real Hidden Profession player.
As such, the topic had begun to cool down. Until three days ago, when one piece of news brought this topic to the top of the charts once more, like adding oil to fire!
At that time, “Death Roar,” a Machine Gunner profession star player and the first player to reach Level 50, had officially announced his completion of the Hidden Profession transferred mission, earning the Hidden Profession of Gunners—Expert Gunner. As proof, he’d uploaded his holographic battle video to the forum after the transfer. Relying on his own ability, he had taken on a Level-35 Commander-grade monster without a scratch!
When the video was released, it instantly aroused the interest of all the players. In the video, the combat power of the “Expert Gunner” Hidden Profession, displayed by this player known as Death Roar, had indeed seemed far above that of a player of a normal profession.
The Hidden Profession, although it sounded like a Life Profession, could freely use all the gun-type weapons, including machine guns, sniper rifles, submachine guns, a.s.sault rifles, handguns… In the video, he first used a Rare-grade sniper rifle and continuously fired at a solo Level-35 Commander-grade Gobi Rock Crocodile from 1,000 meters away. Then he waited until the Level-35 Commander-grade monster had been angered and was furiously charging at him with claws that could crush rocks. When it reached a distance of 600 meters from him, he immediately dropped his sniper rifle and picked up the six-barreled Rare machine gun propped up beside him, unleas.h.i.+ng rapid fire.
When the specially lengthened chain of bullets was used up, and when the Commander-grade monster with no long-range attack abilities was at a distance of 300 meters, he switched to an a.s.sault rifle loaded with unique bullets and swiftly retreated as he fired, climbing onto a rock that had been prepared earlier, and continued to make use of this “retreating” technique.
After which… There was no “after,” as the unintelligent, Level-35, close-range-type Commander-grade monster, which charged even more unhesitatingly upon being angered, was already dead.
In an environment like the Gobi Desert, with no cover at all, the monster’s defense had first been broken by the sniper rifle loaded with unique bullets. Then it had received a steady stream of more than 500 machine gun bullets. Following that, it had absorbed another unique bullet from the magazine of a Rare-grade submachine gun… Even if its HP had been more than 50,000 and even with its thick skin, it could not take the attacks. It had been stripped of its last HP by the submachine gun before it’d gotten a chance to escape.
“Level-50 Hidden Profession unharmed in challenging a Level-35 Commander-grade monster, solo!”
The holographic video had been at the hottest position in the forum for the last few days, and its current viewer count had exceeded 800 million.
The ID of “Death Roar” had been made known to many players as “War’s Top Gunner”! At the same time, he had taken the place of the G.o.dly idol singer originally at the top of the Player Popularity Chart of the Star Federation 17th Executive Star Virtual Network, leading the chart in his player ident.i.ty. This showed how large the influence of the game of War now had.
Feng Luo had similarly watched the battle video and had replayed it a few times, even making use of the paid services recommended on the official forum, directly replacing himself virtually with Death Roar in the video, engaging in the operation and battling in place of him. In the end, the conclusion was that the Expert Gunner profession really was a big deal!
This profession had especially high damage addition, which could cause tons of damage regardless of whether using sniper rifles, submachine guns, or heavy machine guns.
It was important to remember that even though there was no restriction of profession for the equipment in War, so Snipers could technically operate machine guns, due to profession specialization, the damage would be very low. Thus, no one would use cross-profession weapons.
But the Hidden Profession had broken that tradition, combining the three basic Gunner profession weapons so that there would be a suitable gun in any circ.u.mstance.
It also had the strongest single attack (the sniper rifle), the strongest explosive ability (the machine gun) and the most mobile firing ability (the a.s.sault rifle). No wonder it was called the “Expert Gunner”!
But naming this “Death Roar” as the top Gunner? He was a little overrated.
In the video, Death Roar’s operation had actually earned him quite a bit of damage. For instance, when using the sniper rifle, his aim was inaccurate, and his posture was amateurish. It was only because the unique bullets in that Rare sniper rifle had a certain degree of automatic calibration that the aiming error had not been too large. His use of the a.s.sault rifle at the end was similarly flawed.
His use of the sniper rifle was more of a show—not even 5 percent of the Gobi Crocodile’s HP had been reduced after 10 shots.
When Feng Luo experienced it himself, he reduced 19 percent of its HP within the same charging distance of the Gobi Crocodile!
Of course, that was likely because Death Roar was originally a Machine Gunner, so he was not yet very familiar with the sniper rifle and the a.s.sault rifle. When operating the gun of his “designated profession,” the star player known as Death Roar had nonetheless demonstrated a commendable performance.
With a weapon like a machine gun, it would be extremely difficult to fire at fast-moving land targets. The accuracy rate of normal players was likely to be less than 20 percent. In the few times that Feng Luo had tried, his highest was not even at 50 percent.
But Death Roar had a proven 70-percent accuracy rate!
His feat of being the first to reach Level 50 was certainly not due to luck alone.