What are you spacing out for? "
The first to recover was Simba, who had often been chased around the city by the city watch for stealing.
He turned to find the noblewoman who had been too proud of her status to speak to them along the way, and could not help frowning when she heard the old man's words. "Run!"
The noblewoman did a double take and looked at Simba's group and the frail old man with a complicated expression, before picking up Gwendolyn and turning to leave.
"What should we do, Simba?" Zazu asked worriedly.
It was clear that he did not want to get involved in the nobles' family business.
"It's too late to run now." Simba, who had rich experience in fleeing, calculated the city watch's speed and came to a conclusion. "We'll stay here and keep them busy."
"Is that necessary?" Zazu asked in bewilderment. "Their target … isn't us?"
"Look closely, Zazu," Simba said instead of answering him directly.
"What?" Zazu was bewildered.
"The names over the heads of Codo Bosra's city watch are red, and there's even a HP bar beneath it."
Simba slowly drew his sword and said calmly, "According to Uncle Mufasa, they're enemies."
"Just because of that? We're going against a city's soldiers? "
Zazu covered his face with both hands as if saying 'you've gone mad'.
"That's not all. I want to fulfill my promise with Uncle Mufasa," Simba said seriously.
"Promise? Oh, the promise to protect those people … "
"Brother, Gwendolyn and the others are so pitiful …" Nana whispered, tugging at Zazu's sleeve.
Though they had not known each other for long, there were sparks of friendship between the two girls who were not much different in age.
"Aaaaah! I know, I know, alright?! "
Zazu drew his wand, which was almost as tall as he was, and assumed a posture ready to fight.
Simba nodded in satisfaction, his gaze turning sharp.
Although there were also methods such as pretending to be ordinary children and using non-combat methods to stall for time, the city guards were not the people's police of the Celestial Empire. In a sense, they were closer to or even surpassing the police of the United States who would use guns at the slightest disagreement.
To the city guards, killing one or two civilians who annoyed them was not a big deal.
If he chose to use words to stall the city guards, it would be equivalent to handing the initiative to the other party.
Simba had finally become a believer of the God of Games and gained power that he could never hope to reach before, and he never wanted to go through the experience of putting his life in the hands of others again.
"Alvin, Bethune! Capture these brats. If they resist, kill them on the spot! " As the city guards approached, the man who was probably the patrol captain ordered without hesitation, "The rest of you, follow me to chase after those women!"
Being the favorite of the mayor, the patrol captain who had led the city guards to raid several nobles' manors simply did not think much of Simba and the others.
Even if the young Simba and the others were acting like lion cubs and holding their weapons as if they were about to fight, the city guards saw it as nothing more than a threat of paper tigers.
They might fear the well-equipped private soldiers of nobles, but they would never be afraid of a few scrawny children.
Soon, however, they realized that they were wrong.
The three children blocking the way were not just pebbles blocking the way, but solid iron plates. When they crashed into them, their heads would bleed and they would be utterly defeated!
It was true that Simba and the others were very weak at the moment. Even with the EXP from the swamp fishmen and corpsefish as a foundation, the trio was only around level seven or eight on average.
Back then, the Players at that level could only fight skeleton soldiers or goblins.
But now, the Players were completely different from before.
Even if the first batch of Players had obtained skills, they were restrained due to their lack of actual combat experience and did not have the concept of chain attacks.
With the veteran Players tirelessly summarizing their skills and combat skills, as well as two or three waves of Players checking for loopholes and posting them on the forums, it was as if the Players had obtained a game walkthrough in advance. Even if their attributes and skills weren't stronger than the Players of the past, their combat prowess was on a whole new level.
If we were to use a Warrior player as an example, when a Warrior player's level was still low, their first reaction upon seeing a monster would be to throw away the weapon in their hand, grab the monster, and use Suplex, the skill that dealt the most damage in the early game. After that, they would pick up their weapon from the ground and activate other skills to attack the monster.
Even so, doing so would be a waste of the precious cooldown gained from the Back Throw.
On the other hand, the Players had basically developed a smoother combat style. They would first use Charge to activate the passive skill Lunge, followed by an Upward Slash to knock the monster into the air, and then use Sliding Slash to send the monster flying further.
When the monster fell from the air, they would then activate Divine Earthsplitting Blade and stab the weapon into the ground, rush up and grab the monster for a Back Throw, before adding a kick to the monster's head. Then, they would turn around and pull out their weapon. By then, they would have pulled some distance away from the monster, and the cooldown of Lunge would have been refreshed …
Hence, Simba and the other two fought against dozens of city guardsmen, relying on the fact that they were unfamiliar with their unconventional fighting style to take down half of them in a single breath. They stalled for almost twenty minutes before finally dying to the patrol captain's sword — Nala, a cleric, had yet to learn the resurrection skill.
"Captain, what should we do now?" One of the uninjured city guardsmen approached the patrol captain and asked softly.
The patrol captain's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot as he stared at the fallen guardsmen who were moaning incessantly on the ground.
After all, he wasn't the only patrol captain in Codo Bosra, and people like him had to rely on the soldiers under his command if they wanted to stand out.
"Second Team Leader, pull out my Sharp Blunt Rhinoceros!" The patrol captain growled hatefully at the city guardsman. "I don't believe they would escape me!"
Meanwhile, the figures of the three children appeared one after another beside the Lifestone in the Unnamed Town.
"The Resurrection Ankh that Uncle Mufasa bought us is really useful. And here I thought I'd be locked in a small black hut for three days …" Zazu said, touching his chest as he remembered that someone had pierced his heart with a sword. "Should we buy some spares?"
"That thing costs three thousand game coins each. And it only works once a day for each Player, "Simba said seriously. "Compared to that, the three of you should get ready to teleport to the Lancaster Hideout and find a way to meet up with Gwendolyn and the others. Codo Bosra's city guardsmen wouldn't let it go so easily! "
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Chapter 179:
It's a PVP Bonus
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