Sacred Souls: Genesis-Chapter 265 - 263 Moonlight Sword

Chapter 265: Chapter 263 Moonlight Sword

Chapter 265: Chapter 263 Moonlight Sword

“Who’s next?”

“Caramel, the top ranked player in the arena! The star player with a Coke frenzy.”

“It’s really Caramel! God, I’m your fan!”

“Keep your cheers to yourself. We’re here for the 630,000. If Caramel steps up, isn’t that 630,000… gone?”

Caramel was quite famous in the professional circle, and for most casual players, watching a professional god demonstrate live in PVE was considered a feast for the eyes.

But as the once excited crowd around realized this, wouldn’t their own 630,000 be gone too?

The cheering had declared its end right from the start.

These people spoke too lightly of it.

Caramel, holding his Moonlight Sword, walked onto the stage, feeling quite pressured.

The Moonlight Sword was a level 50 epic weapon from the Battle of the Divinities, obtained by battling axe-wielding men… exchanged with a battle honor medal from the axe-wielding men.

Caramel had to fight in the Battle of the Divinities twice to get… The effect of the Moonlight Sword was to have two forms: a straight sword and a beam sword, and all attacks would turn into ‘moonlight’ attribute.

The moonlight attribute had a bonus against Holy Light and undead type holy artifacts.

The damage in PVE was secondary, the main thing was when sword-based class equipment like the Moonlight Sword was used, it could add a state of Moonlight Slash to a skill between levels thirty and forty.

Caramel had added this state to his Sword Drawing Strike, simultaneously using the Enchanting Pattern, Special Equipment, Holy Spirit Imprint, Treasure Bead, Spiritual Body Seal, cards… and various other bizarre methods of equipment enhancement to specialize his Sword Drawing Strike.

Strange ways of enhancement, indeed.

The crazy part about the game Holy Light was that… players still hadn’t figured out just how many ways there were to enhance equipment.

But this didn’t mean that just by using all methods of enhancement, one could rely solely on the stats of the equipment to crush other players. That was impossible.

The interesting part of the equipment enhancement system in Holy Light was about choices and sacrifices.

All equipment enhancements had negative effects, for example, if Caramel wanted to enhance the range of Sword Drawing Strike with an Enchanting Pattern, it might increase the cooldown time of Sword Drawing Strike, reduce its damage, or lower the weapon’s attack power.

This also resulted in a weapon with zero enhancements possibly being stronger than one that had a bunch of flashy enhancement effects.

The key was ‘specialization’. True experts wouldn’t enhance just for the sake of enhancement; they knew exactly what style they wanted to play, and would focus on enhancing their strengths in that style as much as possible while minimizing their weaknesses.

Thus, every piece of equipment in Holy Light became unique after player customization. Some players, who found the process cumbersome, never created their own equipment yet still managed to play quite comfortably.

There were still some pure attribute enhancements, like the enhancement machine of Enforcement Master Yirui, the little rascal.

The Moonlight Sword Caramel held was enhanced to level twelve, he dared not enhance it to thirteen because the success rate was too low and the equipment could explode.

Currently, there were only a few within the entire server who had level thirteen equipment.

Ultimately, the setup on Caramel was sword drawing continuously… consistently drawing swords was enjoyable, and his skill bar only contained one skill, which was Sword Drawing Strike… not to say it was an extreme setup, but it was a setup he found very comfortable to use.

“I’m not going to go easy on you like the rookie from Leaping Nucleus did,” called out Caramel from a distance to Thorne, having watched Thorne thoroughly defeat Juan Canyun earlier.

Thorne seemed to have an impeccable dodging cheat, and the way he was able to suppress Juan Canyun was simply by effortlessly dodging all of Juan Canyun’s attacks.

This was no simple feat! Although Juan Canyun was just a professional newcomer, he was still a professional gamer, and Caramel couldn’t dodge all of Juan Canyun’s attacks like this NPC did.

Was someone controlling it from behind, or was it really the AI calculating the player’s attack trajectory, thus achieving perfect evasion?

While Caramel was thinking about this… the countdown on the battlefield had already ended, his fingertips pressed against his Moonlight Sword, and the Moonlight Sword flashed out.

A pale green glow enveloped the Moonlight Sword, indicating it was in beam sword mode.

Thorne still stood there waiting for Caramel to finish his pre-battle preparations; Caramel came forward and directly released his most proficient skill… Five Consecutive Sword Drawings!

After awakening, the Swordsman class could add an additional strike to Sword Drawing Strike. Caramel’s Special Equipment, Sword-Heavy Axe-Spirit, added a third strike, an enchantment named Sword Frenzy added the fourth, and the fifth strike was added by his Black Flame Sword set.

The Sword Drawing Slash usually takes about 0.7 seconds to pull the blade back into the sheath, but the moment Caramel unsheathed the Moonlight Sword, the entire arena was instantly covered by its luminescent green light pollution.

The Moonlight Sword granted the second layer of Moonlight Sword Energy to his Sword Drawing Slash, creating not just a line of Sword Qi when unleashed but a whole plane.

After finishing the Sword Drawing Slash, Caramel swung his longsword and released a rushing skill, nearly chasing after the Sword Qi to attack Thorne.

From the start, Caramel hadn’t expected the Five Consecutive Sword Drawings to hit, but rather used them as cover for his own attack.

If Thorne tried to counter, he would inevitably be hit by the Sword Qi of the Sword Drawing Slash and become stiff, but he showed no stiffness, prompting an internal curse from Caramel at the sight of Thorne’s action for being sly!

The Eternal lay on the ground…He had found a tiny gap within the crisscrossing ‘plane’ of Sword Qi, and so he avoided the attack in this somewhat undignified manner.

As expected by Caramel, he waved his sword and used the Swordsman’s most common starting skill, Rising Dragon Strike, towards Thorne, who was lying on the ground.

Lying on the ground, Thorne couldn’t dodge the Rising Dragon Strike, and during the strike, he was also in an invincible state.

No…invincibility only lasted for about a second during the start of the move.

In less than a tenth of a second as Caramel’s invincibility wore off, Thorne swiftly stabbed a branch he held towards his own hands that were performing an upward strike; the branch accurately hit the back of Caramel’s hand, distorting his upward motion so that the Moonlight Sword’s trajectory swept past Thorne’s nose and upwards.

Did he miss?

Caramel was slightly startled inwardly, but in less than a second after swinging through, Thorne had changed from lying to a crouched position, gripping the branch backhand, ready to swing it towards Caramel’s abdomen.

In that critical moment, Caramel also reacted, jumping back a step instantly and unleashing a sword strike, the Sword Qi from the blade sweeping over Thorne, just as Caramel landed, and released the Sword Drawing Slash with only four seconds of cooldown for another release.

This time, Caramel released only one Sword Drawing Slash, immediately followed by Continuous Stabbing with the Sword Qi towards Thorne. But the instant he was meant to stab a second time, Caramel changed tactics and lowered his stance, unleashing an exceedingly tricky uppercut.

This content is taken from fгeewebnovёl.com.

But the moment he crouched down, he locked eyes with Thorne.

Damn!

At that moment, Caramel was truly startled, just as if he were playing a horror game.

But it didn’t affect Caramel. Thorne did the same maneuver, an uppercut meeting an uppercut!

It was just like those movies where two swordsmen duel, where the faster one to draw the sword is the victor!

No… Thorne wasn’t performing an uppercut, he directly stabbed towards Caramel’s chin with the branch in his hand.

The branch Thorne held was quicker, hitting Caramel’s chin before the Moonlight Sword could reach him, sending Caramel’s gaze instantly towards the top floor of Flourishing Square.

This time in the duel, Caramel was wearing a giraffe head cover, so as he flew up, the giraffe head cover swung madly up and down.

But as Caramel’s gaze shifted upwards, he saw that Thorne had -514 HP deducted from his health!

He hit him!

So what?

Caramel was sent flying by Thorne’s overly powerful stab, losing balance midair, and as he tried to adjust his posture to counterattack, he found… Thorne wasn’t seizing this perfect opportunity to pursue him.

The moment Caramel was about to land, he supported himself with one hand on the ground, performing a perfect recovery roll, which allowed him to stabilize his posture and land solidly.

This is a crucial break-fall skill for professional players, unmasterable by ordinary players after months of practice, except for those who practice gymnastics…

Caramel didn’t rush to attack, and from afar, Thorne wiped a cut on his cheek caused by Caramel’s Moonlight Sword Energy.

The crimson blood on his fingertips looked… particularly invigorating.

“You don’t need to focus on the uppercut,” Thorne called out to Caramel from afar.

Was this dialogue preset by the NPC? But either way…

“You could be hurt by my Sword Qi, which means your evasion AI isn’t 100% effective against all moves. If I can hit you once, I can hit you a second time.”

Seeing the wound on Thorne’s cheek, Caramel’s confidence surged, and once again he charged at Thorne with the Moonlight Sword in his hand.