freenovelworld Chapter 325 One Against One? Take this siege crossbow backstab!
Chapter 325 One Against One? Take this siege crossbow backstab!
Chapter 325 One Against a Hundred? Take this siege crossbow backstab!
Those watching from the sidelines could clearly see the situation, and those participating in the competition inside the arena naturally understood the priorities even better.
A law officer cadet wearing the insignia of the Tiancheng Military Academy couldn't help but say indignantly, "You'll never be able to break in like this."
"You're Mo Zishu, the number one seed from Tiancheng Military Academy? Do you have any good advice?" A contestant who was trying to break through but had repeatedly failed asked with a glimmer of hope.
Mo Zishu's gaze was fixed on Fang Zhou, who was located in the center of the arena, and his voice carried a hint of helplessness.
"Actually, this is not a brilliant suggestion, but something that everyone understands but is unwilling to do."
That is unity.
Only when everyone's strength is combined can that seemingly impenetrable defense be breached.
Before anyone else could react, Mo Zishu turned his attention back to Fangzhou and continued, "Boss Fangzhou, if you are willing to hand over the portable concentration meditation array you possess, then all of this can be resolved without causing any discord."
Of course, if you insist on not paying, then we will have no choice but to demand it by force.
After all, our time is limited, and we shouldn't waste too much energy on this stalemate.
Fang Zhou remained calm and replied indifferently, "If the problem can be solved through practical actions, there is no need to waste words."
Upon hearing this, the students watching from the sidelines held their breath.
"It seems you've made your decision. Well then, that's good."
Mo Zishu smiled slightly, turned to face the other contestants, and said firmly, "My proposal is simple: we need to discuss a practical plan, work together, and make a breakthrough in one fell swoop."
As for who will ultimately obtain the portable concentration meditation array, that depends on each individual's abilities and opportunities.
Upon hearing this, the students hesitated for a moment, but most of them were still quite tempted.
Just as everyone was still arguing, Fangzhou's voice rang out like a heavy hammer in the noisy crowd.
"I'm telling you, you guys talk too much nonsense. Haven't you reached an agreement yet? I'm getting impatient."
"Oh ho, so eager to die?"
The student in charge of monitoring the Ark responded dismissively, seemingly unconcerned about the Ark's threat.
"I've been waiting for you for five minutes, and you're still whining and dawdling."
It seems you won't understand the gravity of wasting my time until I send a whole bunch of you to your deaths.
Fang Zhou's voice was cold, carrying an undeniable resolve.
As he finished speaking, he shifted his body slightly, and the scene that had been hidden behind him was suddenly revealed to everyone.
The student responsible for monitoring the Ark, who had initially worn a mocking expression, suddenly changed his demeanor upon seeing the ballista behind the Ark, which was already loaded with steel arrows.
His eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"You see it? Tell me what it is."
Fangzhou had already directed the two skeletons to finish loading, and they were now quickly adjusting the firing angle of the ballista, ready to fire.
"Holy crap, everyone get out of the way!"
The student in charge of monitoring the Ark suddenly shouted, trying to remind his companions who were still arguing.
However, the students who were enthusiastically discussing how to deal with the Ark seemed somewhat bewildered.
They stopped arguing and looked in the direction from which the warning had come from, completely bewildered as to what had happened.
"Too late, I'm already impatient. I'll provoke you a bit." Before Fang Zhou could finish speaking, he had already activated the ballista.
A thick steel arrow shot out from the crossbow, piercing the silence with a sharp, piercing sound, and headed straight for the crowd.
"Quickly get out of the way of the crack, there's a ballista!"
The student responsible for monitoring the Ark shouted desperately, but his voice seemed distant and powerless in that instant.
However, even the most perceptive students were unable to react at this moment.
"Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff—"
A series of dull sounds followed, the sound of steel arrows piercing the air and striking their target.
The roar echoed like thunder throughout the arena, and the blood-stained steel arrow sank deep into a distant stone pillar.
The entire stone pillar shattered instantly under the powerful impact, and countless fragments of stone scattered like bullets.
All the trainees present were shocked and shaken by this sudden turn of events.
They looked around, trying to figure out what force had caused such destruction.
Then, they witnessed an even more shocking scene.
Suddenly, a dazzling white light rose from a certain location, and then a large number of students suddenly gushed blood and collapsed to the ground.
In an instant, it seemed as if a storm of death had swept through the arena, and the trainees scattered in panic, creating a scene of utter chaos.
When they looked back at the scene, the sight was horrifying.
The group of students who had just gathered together numbered more than twenty, but now they were either lying on the ground or running around in terror.
Several corpses lay scattered across the street, their positions forming an almost perfect straight line, as if they had been precisely harvested by an invisible force.
A strong, pungent smell of blood quickly filled the air, and even in a simulated battlefield, the realistic sensation still instilled fear.
Although everyone knows that this is just a simulated battle and death is just a virtual experience, the high degree of simulation by modern technology makes every "death" seem exceptionally real, and every experience unforgettable.
"That's ruthless. No wonder it's called Ark."
"Sigh, Fang Zhou is really ruthless; he doesn't even spare beautiful women."
"He's practically a killing machine."
"This ballista is incredibly powerful. When did you find it?"
"That's incredible! Look at those elite experts, they're all completely dumbfounded." A student watching the match pointed at the contestants who were originally full of confidence and said, clearly surprised by the current disheveled state of the strong players.
The recruit skills competition has been going on for quite some time, however, due to Ark's presence, the focus of the competition has always been on him.
One climax after another kept emerging. Although the competition had been going on for a long time, the students watching did not feel tired at all. On the contrary, they were even more excited by the shock brought by the Ark.
"Fang Zhou, you're too ruthless," Mo Zishu said in a low voice, his tone filled with obvious anger and resentment.
"What a joke! You've all gathered here to kill me, and you won't even let me fight back?"
Fang Zhou responded with a cold laugh, his tone carrying a chilling undertone, "Don't waste my time, come and fight me now."
I'm giving you one minute. If I don't see any further attacks, I'll immediately scale the wall and leave, then find an opportunity to hunt you down one by one.
"Are you out of your mind, threatening us?" one of the trainees shouted emotionally, his voice filled with disbelief.
"Enough talk. Start the timer now. If you don't attack within one minute, I'll leave immediately. I mean it." Fang Zhou sneered, his tone firm and unwavering.
The dozens of participants who were besieging the Ark suddenly felt a bizarre sensation.
So many of them, yet they were threatened by Fang Zhou alone.
However, Fangzhou's words were not without merit.
If he really turns and leaves, not only will all those dozens of people have worked for nothing, but they will also have sacrificed the lives of many of their comrades in vain.
"Since you're so eager to die, then so be it."
Mo Zishu took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down before saying, "Let's use Plan One."
Those who volunteered, step forward! Get ready, once inside, blast him to smithereens!
Immediately, a knight wielding a heavy shield and a druid stepped forward.
Behind them were several archers and mages.
The knight, holding a sturdy shield, cautiously stepped into the dangerous area.
The druids followed closely behind, while the mages trailed behind, ready to cast spells to provide support at any time.
"Give them buffs and shields."
Mo Zishu issued the command in a clear and forceful voice.
Instantly, beams of light flashed across these people, and each student was given at least one shield, enhancing their defensive capabilities.
As the light continued to flicker, the morale of the entire team seemed to be boosted.
Fang Zhou frowned slightly, but then his brows relaxed.
He unleashed a death ripple in an attempt to halt the enemy's advance, but the effect was minimal.
Thanks to the quick healing provided by the support characters behind them, the knight and druid's injuries were immediately healed.
Immediately afterwards, the Ark began equipping itself with ballistae and fired them rapidly.
With a whoosh, the arrows fired from the ballista shot out at breakneck speed.
Without the long period of charging up beforehand, the power of this attack was greatly reduced.
Nevertheless, the arrow still instantly killed the first knight who charged forward, but the druid had already transformed into a falcon and was flying low towards the ark.
Then, the mages passed through the crack.
They are protected by shields and various buffs, so the damage from spike traps is almost negligible to them.
The druid, transformed into a falcon, didn't even expect to survive; his goal was to harass the Ark, and he certainly succeeded.
After Ark killed the druid in falcon form, the mages began to teleport out of the passageway and into the courtyard.
They were shimmering with various colors of light, clearly indicating that they had received powerful support.
Mo Zishu said coldly, "Now let's see how arrogant you are. You can come now."
In fact, the students couldn't contain themselves any longer before he finished speaking.
Upon realizing the raid was a success, they had long since forgotten the previous agreement and rushed toward the crevice, preparing to launch a general offensive.
"If I didn't have some tricks up my sleeve, would I be foolish enough to just wait to die? You're the fools."
As Fang Zhou finished speaking, a powerful battle group composed of dozens of skeletons suddenly appeared around him.
These skeletons seemed to have been summoned from the depths of hell, each radiating a chilling aura, wielding rusty weapons, and arranged neatly around the ark like a legion of the underworld.
"die."
Fang Zhou's voice was like a curse from the abyss, and he began to cast spells wildly.
His hands moved like phantoms, a black light flashed, followed by a flying skeletal spear that instantly took the life of a mage.
Puff, puff, puff, puff—
As Ark flapped its skeletal wings, it nimbly dodged the mages' spell attacks while quickly launching a counterattack.
Each strike resulted in the fall of a mage. His speed was so great that he left afterimages in the air.
At the same time, more students began to pour into the passageway, and in an instant, the entire courtyard became a fierce battlefield.
The mages' spells intertwined with the skeletal spears of the ark, forming a dense network of energy.
At this stage, regardless of the mage, spells are nothing more than Arcane Missiles, Fireball, or Frostbolt. The skills of rare professions are merely variations of these basic spells.
Amid the chaos at the scene, some mages even began to unleash area-of-effect spells, plunging the entire courtyard into turmoil.
After each dodge, Ark would inevitably unleash a bone spear followed by a wave of death ripples.
Under the Ark's attack, high-defense classes can barely hold on for a while, but those fragile classes will be instantly killed once they are hit in a vital spot.
"This is Fang's strength; it's terrifying."
Not only Liu Diewu, but all the students watching the competition saw this scene.
The saying "one step, one kill" is perfectly exemplified here.
None of the mages targeted by Ark could escape his pinpoint kill.
Those skeletal spears seemed to have eyes, able to see through all the mages' actions, and no matter how they dodged, it was all in vain.
Snap, snap, snap—
Every time the Ark casts a spell, one of the contestants' bodies explodes, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
As the battle continued, more and more skeletons joined the battlefield, as if they had been summoned from the endless darkness to become loyal followers of the Ark.
The trainees suddenly realized that, apart from the initial chaos caused by the bombardment of more than a dozen mages, the situation was now beginning to reverse.
In a short time, before they could even react, dozens of skeletons had gathered around the Ark.
Most of them are skeleton archers, so Ark already has a small fire support team by its side.
The hearts of the spectators rose and fell with every move Ark made.
They originally thought that this time, the Ark was truly doomed.
After all, despite the sacrifice of several rare professionals, they ultimately managed to break through the defenses of one Ark.
A dozen or so mages launched their attack simultaneously, creating a spectacular scene, with contestants continuously pouring into the rift.
However, the reality once again surprised them.
Fangzhou not only survived but also stabilized the situation.
The rain of arrows from dozens of skeleton archers was simply terrifying.
The entire courtyard was covered by raging skeletal arrows, as if shrouded in a shadow of death.
Each skeleton archer aimed and fired with precision, the arrows raining down on the enemy like a dense storm, causing cracks to appear in the once tight lines.