Easy Kill

"Watch me," Lu Yang said.

Jumping out from the bug spot, Lu Yang slowly approached the Orc Warrior. When he was thirty yards away, he began chanting.

"Pyroblast."

A massive flame shot from Lu Yang's hand and struck the Orc Warrior squarely in the head.

"Roar~!"

Howling in pain, the Orc Warrior raised his axe and shouted at the fleeing Lu Yang, "Damn human, I'll kill you!"

System Notification: Orc Warrior has used Charge on you.

Lu Yang only felt the wind rise behind him. The Orc Warrior's huge body left an afterimage along the ground as it charged in front of Lu Yang in a flash. Just before it was about to slam into him, white light flashed around Lu Yang as he used a textbook Blink to evade the Charge.

This was the standard technique mages had used to counter warriors in his previous life. It looked like nothing more than a simple Blink, but it was not easy to execute. Too early or too late, and it would fail.

If Blink was used too early, the system would determine that Charge's distance could be extended according to the game rules. In other words, even if Charge's maximum range was thirty yards, if the player used Blink after the target charged, the target could still charge all the way to the player. If Lu Yang had Blinked too early, the Orc Warrior could have effectively charged sixty yards.

If the player Blinked too late, they could use Blink to escape after being stunned, but the stun included 0.1 seconds of absolute immobility. During that time, no skills could be used. When the Orc Warrior charged, it raised its axe, and the system would calculate physical damage at the instant the Charge landed. Lu Yang would still be instantly killed.

Thus, using Blink to evade Charge seemed simple, but in truth, it required precise calculation, reaction speed, and the ability to predict the game.

For a novice player, this maneuver was nearly impossible. But for Lu Yang, it was something he had repeated countless times every day in his previous life. It was effortless.

After Blinking, Lu Yang was only twenty yards from the bug spot beside the large rock. Once the Orc Warrior realized its Charge had failed, it raised its axe and rushed at Lu Yang even more furiously.

In Second World, players had an initial movement speed of 325 points. Some elite monsters in the wild moved 50% faster than players, or 487 points, and the Orc Warrior was one of them. Although Lu Yang had Blinked thirty yards away, the Orc Warrior still quickly closed the remaining twenty yards.

"Boss, be careful!" Xiao Liang shouted from atop the large rock.

Just as Lu Yang was two steps away from the rock, the Orc Warrior caught up to him. First it had been attacked, then its Charge had been evaded by Blink. Feeling humiliated, the Orc Warrior furiously raised its axe.

If that axe came down, Lu Yang would undoubtedly die. But at that very moment, Lu Yang suddenly turned and cast the instant spell—Flame Impact—at the Orc Warrior.

"Bang~!"

A ball of flame exploded atop the Orc Warrior's head, stunning it where it stood.

"Boss, grab my hand!" Xiao Liang shouted, stretching out his arm.

After casting Flame Impact, Lu Yang did not even look at the result. He leaped forward and grabbed Xiao Liang's arm. Xiao Liang pulled hard, hauling Lu Yang onto the top of the rock.

Just as Xiao Liang was about to catch his breath, Lu Yang grabbed him and jumped into the crack between the rocks. The two tumbled from the rock into the crevice by the wall in a miserable heap. Before Xiao Liang could ask why, a massive metallic clang rang out above them.

"Clang~"

Xiao Liang looked up and saw the Orc Warrior's axe buried deep in the rock.

"Boss, how did it wake up so fast?" Xiao Liang asked blankly. He had seen Lu Yang's Flame Impact before; it could stun targets for two seconds.

Lu Yang said, "It's an elite monster. According to the system rules, control effects are halved on elite monsters, while Lord-class monsters are immune to control."

Xiao Liang gave an enlightened "Oh," then asked, "Boss, this big guy won't smash the rock apart, will he?"

The Orc Warrior's axe was too large to poke into the crack in the rocks like the bone clubs held by ordinary orcs. Unable to hit Lu Yang, it furiously hacked at the rock with its axe.

Recalling the video from his previous life of a thief killing a boss, Lu Yang said, "Don't worry. It will never break this rock. The two of us can attack without worry now and easily kill this big guy."

"Great!" Xiao Liang excitedly took out the Serpent Venom Orb and released its toxin, dyeing the Orc Warrior a vivid green.

Lu Yang raised his staff, and four walls of fire appeared beneath the Orc Warrior's feet and along both sides of its path. Then Lu Yang began chanting the spell for Pyroblast.

"Bang~"

"Bang~"

"Bang~"

As a level 15 elite monster, the Orc Warrior had 20,000 health, high defense, high damage, and extremely fast health regeneration. Under normal circumstances, it would take two teams of players above level 15 to have any hope of killing it. But now, with only two people standing at the bug spot, Lu Yang and Xiao Liang could easily kill the Orc Warrior, while it could only helplessly circle around the large rock, unable to deal them even a bit of damage.

With each Pyroblast and furious roar, after an hour and a half of fighting, the Orc Warrior finally collapsed to the ground unwillingly.

System Notification: You have gained 3142 experience points.

"Boss, we really killed the Orc Warrior!" Xiao Liang shouted excitedly. This was the first boss he had killed since entering the game. Although he could not see the Orc Warrior's death, he had seen his experience increase.

Lu Yang said casually, "Don't rush out to pick up the loot. The outside is full of orcs right now."

After more than an hour, the orcs outside had respawned four times. The entire cavern hall had returned to how it was when Lu Yang first arrived, with several hundred orcs wandering around inside.

Xiao Liang lay atop the rock and looked at the Orc Warrior's corpse, which was blocked from view by the surrounding orcs. "So depressing. I really want to see what equipment it dropped."

Lu Yang laughed. He understood how Xiao Liang felt. Sixteen-year-olds were naturally curious. Back when Lu Yang killed his first boss, he had been just as anxious to see what equipment it had dropped.

After eating two portions of Crispy Electric Eel Meat to restore his mana to full, Lu Yang stood up and used Pyroblast to lure over the nearby orcs. The two worked together to kill them with fire walls and serpent venom, clearing out all the monsters around them.

Only then did Lu Yang lead Xiao Liang out of the bug spot. The moment he saw the item that had dropped beside the Orc Warrior, Lu Yang could not help widening his eyes.

"It's actually a skill book. Go see what it is."