Chapter 665: Mental Power’s Hidden Effect
Inside the forest, Feng Luo displayed no emotion as he held onto his Ghost Weep, which was covered in a layer of black liquid!
Beside him, the September Guild Light Armor Warrior was pressing his hand against his neck as blood was spurting out of it. Feng Luo had fatally attacked him.
As he prepared to take his last breath, he could not believe that a Sniper had fatally wounded him in melee combat.
Moreover, the opponent relied only on a peculiar black military knife to cut open his throat.
The opponent was able to directly cut through his defensive neckgear, which was a C-Grade item, within the first attack. Then, by the time the second attack came, he suffered over 9,000 points of damage, which instantly emptied his HP bar.
For a Sniper to finish off a Light Armor Warrior using only two dagger strikes, this damage was even scarier than the sniper rifle!
Feng Luo, whose expression had not changed much since the beginning of the ambush, turned away from his fallen opponent.
He held the Wings of Death in his arm, and he moved swiftly across the forest toward the higher ground as if he were a silent leopard hunting its prey!
To be completely honest, being ambushed by the people from the September Guild did not really affect Feng Luo’s mood.
As a Sniper, he had already developed a habit of maintaining a calm mind when he was engaged in combat with other players!
However, at that moment, Feng Luo began to feel a little upset.
He was upset because after initially leaving the land route point, he had long noticed an SUV following them from afar.
However, since this area was a leveling spot, and many vehicles drove to this location from Lu Conglomerate City, he did not think anything suspicious was going on. Therefore, even though he had noticed the vehicle following them, he did not pay too much attention to it!
Although he did not suspect them, Feng Luo was cautious and had left a Scout Beetle outside the ruins’ entrance before entering it.
However, the ruins were probably built specifically to handle the Cerebrate and its mind control. So, after they entered the ruins, Feng Luo had realized that 24K could no longer establish communication with the Scout Beetle outside.
Now, 24K was in an unconscious state. As a result, it was natural that he did not know the whereabouts of the Scout Beetle that he had stationed outside earlier.
All of these were factors that helped September Guild’s ambush to be successful!
Among the seven who exited the ruins, Feng Luo was the only one left, and he knew that the battle was not over. Therefore, even though he managed to take out three of the enemies, the victory for the first round of this battle belonged to the September Guild!
Feng Luo’s face remained calm as his feet moved swiftly over and through the thick vegetation and vines of the forest.
After activating the Quick Sneak skill, which had now reached an Expert Level with 95% progress, Feng Luo received a speed bonus that allowed him to move like the wind.
In particular, with the help of the self-healing Force, his stamina recovered quickly. So, even though he was running at his maximum speed, he was only panting slightly!
One had to admit that the Force really did substantially power up a player. The Force had provided Feng Luo with 100 point bonuses on his basic stats, as well as various bonus attributes.
Treatments, recovery, and HP recovery, which were all effects of the self-healing Force, had made it possible for Feng Luo to fight the Light Armor Warriors in close quarters.
Furthermore, the Destroy Psionic Energy bonus property, plus the strengthened Fatal Talent, had allowed his melee combat ability to be just as skillful as a top-cla.s.s Light Armor Warrior!
“However, those uneasy feelings I had experienced earlier…”
Feng Luo had a puzzled look on his face as he ran because he had remembered the weird feelings he had experienced during the ambush.
The first weird feeling had occurred when the September Guild Fire Manipulator had cast the Meteor Rain skill. When the enemy was still condensing the energy to formulate the skill, he had felt a sense of “heat” gathering above him. The second strange feeling had occurred when the Earth Manipulator had cast the Earth Wall. He had this strange “heavy” feeling at that time.
Heat and heavy… Was he feeling the fluctuations of energy waves when a person casts a skill?
Feng Luo then had an idea. When manipulators cast skills such as the Earth Wall or Meteor Rain to initiate long-range attacks, they first have to project the energy to a targeted location for a certain period of time.
This process would cause a certain degree of energy fluctuations. However, these fluctuations were usually weak and undetectable.
Furthermore, it was only when these skills were about to be completed that the energy fluctuations could be detected by a Scout’s recon meter or a Manipulator’s energy converter.
These late detections were not useful to help players dodge these energy skills!
However, Feng Luo’s strange feelings did not occur when the skills were close to being completed. Instead, he probably felt them the moment the energies were projected.
This was why he could leap over the Earth Wall and escape that extreme situation.
Feng Luo suddenly thought of a possible reason.
“Perception, perception… Could this be an effect of my Mental Power increasing?”
In War, even though this was a hidden stat, it was definitely useful!
“If my guess is correct, then Mental Power definitely provides a powerful defense against the manipulator profession!”
Feng Luo immediately thought of the practical value that Mental Power possesses during battles.
To be able to detect a manipulator’s skill in advance would significantly impact a manipulators’ attacks. With this kind of ability, gunners and warriors would undoubtedly enjoy a significant benefit.
To be honest, in terms of War’s three main professions, the manipulators had always had a slight advantage!
Compared to warriors, their damage output and attack range were just too great.
Furthermore, compared to the similarly low HP gunner profession, their energy s.h.i.+eld provided them the ability to withstand a large amount of damage!
Based on the number of manipulators among the top players, which was around half of them, one could tell that they were incredibly popular.
If the Mental Power really had this effect, then manipulator players were probably going to cry about it soon.
Just as Feng Luo was thinking about those things, he had reached the edge of the forest. He ran to a location that seemed like a cliff.
“Ka!”
He raised the Wings of Death quickly, and through his sniping scope, saw two SUVs taking the September Guild people away from Lu Conglomerate City.
Feng Luo had antic.i.p.ated that the people from the September Guild would not return to Lu Conglomerate City.
Even though Mu Zi and the others were killed, news about September Guild’s attack on them would definitely have reached Mu Wu’s ears offline.
No matter how reckless and c.o.c.ky the people from the September Guild were, going back in such a high-profile manner at this time would most definitely cause an intense conflict. By then, even Lu Chen might be unable to mediate the situation!
As such, it was natural that they would not return to Lu Conglomerate City. Instead, they would head towards another city before heading back to Storm City.
However, now that they were exposed under the rifle of a top-cla.s.s Sniper, would they be able to get there as they had wished?