Chapter 170: The Cugel’s Area Of Control
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
Ivory Emperor really was overthinking things too much. w.a.n.g Yu"s teleportation could only move him five meters. What w.a.n.g Yu intended to do was simply jump to Clinton. Back when they were doing the escort quest for the Four Holy Ballers, w.a.n.g Yu had done the same thing. The only difference was that these Skeleton Warriors smooth heads would make it slightly harder for w.a.n.g Yu to replicate the miracle.
w.a.n.g Yu took a two step head start and then leapt into the air. Afterwards, he activated his [Crus.h.i.+ng Blow] to propel himself forward. In mid air [Crus.h.i.+ng Blow] would launch the player forward five meters with the initial momentum and then another five while the player slowly fell towards the ground. As w.a.n.g Yu descended, he then took out his cudgel and heavily slammed it into the ground to boost himself again. FInally, w.a.n.g Yu twisted his body and shot [Rippling Wave] onto the ground and borrowed the recoil to fly towards Clinton.
The moment w.a.n.g Yu landed, he immediately used [Savage Maul] and punched Clinton"s face.
"F**k me!!" When Ivory Emperor saw what w.a.n.g Yu had done his jaw nearly hit the floor.
Since the other members of the Quan Zhen Sect had all seen w.a.n.g Yu"s various feats before they were already prepared for this. However this was the first time anyone else had ever witnessed such a wonder.
Twenty meters… He had just jumped twenty meters… In future if anyone dared to say that Pugilists were the easiest job to avoid Ivory Emperor would surely be the first to kill the naysayer.
With this kind of G.o.d like mechanics, no matter how skilled an Archer was he would still end up in the Pugilist"s attack range!
[Savage Maul] had a grab effect to it and could even disrupt a skill"s invulnerability! Naturally, it was able to disrupt Clinton"s [Orphans Of War].
After w.a.n.g Yu"s punch landed on Clinton"s face, Clinton dropped both his weapons and grabbed at w.a.n.g Yu who was hanging onto his face. Even though Clinton didn"t have eyes, w.a.n.g Yu could still feel the rage emanating from his eye sockets.
No matter what, this despicable traitor was still one of the top knights of the Church Of Light so being held by the face like this was still an insult to his honour.
After the Skeleton Warriors stopped sp.a.w.ning, the pressure on the rest of the party at the gate had greatly diminished. However things weren"t looking as good for w.a.n.g Yu. Most of the remaining Skeleton Warriors had turned around and ran backwards to help their leader.
In his rage, Clinton once again picked up his scepter and launched a black fireball towards w.a.n.g Yu. Seeing this, w.a.n.g Yu immediately let go of Clinton"s face and dodged to his back. After the fireball had missed him, it landed on the herd of Skeleton Warriors that were standing around Clinton and reduced them into ashes.
At the same time, w.a.n.g Yu unleashed his [Thunder G.o.d"s Stomp] and kicked Clinton"s calf.
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Turning around, Clinton picked his greatsword up and clashed in a two hundred degree arc. When w.a.n.g Yu attacked again, he realised that the Skeleton Warriors had it much worse than him. This one attack by Clinton had decapitated more than ten of the Skeleton Warriors! Twisting his body again, w.a.n.g Yu used [Crus.h.i.+ng Blow] again to strike at Clinton"s face.
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As as strength based boss, Clinton had no way to deal with a slippery fish like w.a.n.g Yu. After being continually attacked by w.a.n.g Yu without being able to retaliate finally tipped Clinton over the edge. Stabbing his greatsword into the ground yet again Clinton grabbed two of the remaining Skeleton Warriors and stuffed them into his mouth.
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In less than a second, Clinton had healed 10 000 health.
"F**K! Again!" The sight of the two green numbers above Clinton"s head again made everyone incredibly depressed. There were still roughly a hundred of these Skeleton Warriors near the gate… If Clinton kept on using his [Swallow] how would they ever be able to kill him?
"Kill of all his minions! Don"t let any of them get near to him!" Spring Halo shouted as he waved his staff and casted [Distortion] on the ones that were trying to run back to Clinton.
The rest didn"t dare to hold anything back at this point. They all started to cast they skills in greater succession.
It was rather difficult to a.s.sociate a shameless b.a.s.t.a.r.d like Clinton with a regal and n.o.ble Knight. Even after he had just healed himself, he still reached forward and tried to grab more of the Skeleton Warriors to consume.
How could w.a.n.g Yu just let this sc.u.m just do as he pleased? He quickly swapped to the cudgel again and viciously thrusted towards Clinton"s chest briefly stunned him. Although the stun lasted for less than a second, it was still more than enough to force him to drop the two Skeleton Warriors in his hand.
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"Shaaaa!!!!" After glaring at w.a.n.g Yu, Clinton reached forward and grabbed another two Skeleton Warriors.
With another swing of his cudgel, w.a.n.g Yu managed to force Clinton to drop the Skeleton Warriors again.
"Roar!!!" With an angry roar, Clinton tried to rush forward to grab his greatsword and battle w.a.n.g Yu to the death.
With another thrust of his cudgel, w.a.n.g Yu once again staggered Clinton and prevented him from bending down and retrieving his greatsword. At the same time, w.a.n.g yu borrowed the momentum from the recoil of Clinton knocking into the cudgel to swing the other end of it into Clinton"s knee and managed to knock him over.
What w.a.n.g Yu was doing was known as establis.h.i.+ng his area of control. This was one of the highest displays of cudgel arts and relied on the two ends to create an area where he had absolute control.
In w.a.n.g Yu"s eyes, Clinton"s chest, thighs and knees were all easy targets to knock him over with.
Cudgel arts were one of the most technical in chinese martial arts. Since Clinton was so focused on strength, it made it even easier for w.a.n.g Yu to take advantage of his actions to launch his counter attacks. At this point, Clinton was really no different from a caged animal. No matter where he went or how he moved, w.a.n.g Yu"s cudgel was always there to stagger or trip him.
In the hands of a master like w.a.n.g Yu, the legendary area of control could have been achieved with any weapon. Even though he was using a cudgel, w.a.n.g Yu reduced the distance between them to nearly hand to hand combat distance to seal Clinton"s movements even further.
Because of this, Clinton couldn"t even move an inch. In desperation, he commanded the Skeleton Warriors that were nearby to attack w.a.n.g Yu.
With a light chuckle, w.a.n.g Yu swept his cudgel out and blew all the approaching Skeleton Warriors away.
Clinton immediately tried to take advantage of this opening to strike at w.a.n.g Yu. Without even turning around, w.a.n.g Yu swiftly pulled his right hand back and struck Clinton"s arm and sent it flying back towards him.
"Pa..."
If Clinton was an ordinary player then his heart would definitely shattered. The feeling of having your own attack redirected back at you was something no one would ever want to experience…
To create an area of control required one to have incredibly high hand eye coordination and near G.o.d like reflexes. Even for a master like w.a.n.g Yu, the limitation of the attributes in this game caused him to only be able to restrain Clinton and not launch attacks of his own.
Because of this, although Clinton couldn"t fight back, w.a.n.g Yu wasn"t able to deal much damage of his own until the others arrived.
Since Clinton couldn"t damage himself, w.a.n.g Yu"s redirection of his attacks didn"t have much effect other than enraging him.
"What… What is this supposed to be???"
After the others finally cleaned up the remaining Skeleton Warriors, the arrived next to the boss only to witness this mind boggling scene.
Even the members of the Quan Zhen Sect couldn"t help but exclaim: "F**k does this b.a.s.t.a.r.d even have any limits???"
"What"re you guys doing? Quickly help me!!!" w.a.n.g Yu shouted while he continued to hold Clinton back.
"Do you even need help?" They asked again. From the looks of it, w.a.n.g Yu had everything under control. In their eyes, w.a.n.g Yu was the real boss in this battle. No one had ever seen anyone toy with an Independent Mode boss that was 20 levels above them like this before.
"Bulls.h.i.+t! Of course I do! Quickly attack him!!!"
Hearing his shouts, the other quickly formed up and began attacking Clinton again.