One Slash Kill

In the dense, leafy forest, a Silverback Gorilla built like a muscular ape charged forward on all fours, frantically pursuing a partially obscured figure glimpsed through the gaps in the leaves ahead.

The fleeing person's speed was fast, undoubtedly surpassing most humans' movement speed in a forest. But the creature chasing him was, after all, an animal that lived in the forest, and an especially powerful member of its species. As he ran, the Silverback behind him rapidly closed the distance. He would probably be caught within another ten seconds.

Yet Wang Zhifan, the fleeing man, did not feel the slightest panic. He even deliberately began slowing down, rushing toward a relatively open patch of forest with fewer trees ahead.

About four seconds later, just as he ran through that sparse stretch of woods, he suddenly raised one foot and planted it against a tree trunk ahead. Using the recoil to stop himself swiftly and turn around, he raised the Fine Grade Handgun in his left hand and aimed its muzzle at the enraged Silverback that had just charged into the clearing. At the same time, he shouted the signal he had agreed upon with his other two teammates.

"Fire!"

With Wang Zhifan's shout, in this forest area over three hundred meters from the Silverback troop's territory, in this woodland clearing deliberately chosen by the three players, three attacks erupted from two directions at almost the same time, flying toward the Silverback that had rushed into the open!

The first attack to hit the Silverback was naturally the bullet fired from Wang Zhifan's gun, since he was currently closest to it. After two consecutive days of intensive training at the Shooting Gallery, Wang Zhifan's marksmanship had reached a steady beginner level. Against such a huge target as the Silverback, especially one charging straight at him, hitting it was not difficult. However, striking a vital spot such as its eyes or heart in a single shot still depended on luck.

Bang!!! The Fine Grade Bullet fired by the Fine Grade Handgun instantly struck the Silverback in the chest, blasting a bloody hole nearly the size of an adult's fist into its muscular torso and spraying blood in every direction. The bullet's powerful impact even brought its forward charge to an abrupt halt! Bang bang bang bang bang! Almost at the same time, several bullets shot out in rapid succession from bushes roughly fifteen meters away in another direction, all striking the Silverback Gorilla's head. Its water-barrel-sized head tilted slightly to one side, and several sprays of blood burst out.

Immediately afterward, a snow-white ice arrow flew out from those bushes. It swiftly struck the already heavily wounded Silverback Gorilla, leaving a patch of snowy white at the point of impact and causing its entire body to emit a faint white vapor, like the mist given off by a frozen object thawing beneath the sun.

The first round of attacks from the three players all hit their target. But could an Lv4 Silverback Gorilla really be taken down so easily? The answer was no! Just as Wang Zhifan, for some reason, stopped firing and merely used the long blade in his right hand to rapidly chop at nearby branches, while the Gunner player in the bushes exhausted the bullets in his revolver and the Mage player was still preparing his next ice arrow, the badly wounded Silverback Gorilla, its body still giving off white vapor, suddenly threw back its head and roared. Then it explosively pushed off with its hind legs, braced its forelimbs against the ground, and launched its huge, powerful body high into the air, pouncing toward Wang Zhifan, who stood several meters ahead!

"Lv4 monsters really do have thick health bars."

Wang Zhifan was not panicked in the slightest. In fact, he had been waiting for this gorilla to attack. The Buff he had built up by slashing leaves with his blade was all preparation for this moment.

As for why he had not continued shooting earlier, first, he wanted to test the power of a single bullet. Second, he did not have many bullets at the moment, so there was no need to waste them here.

As the Silverback Gorilla leaped high into the air and pounced at him, Wang Zhifan first dodged swiftly to the side, avoiding its Mount Tai Pressure. Then the Fine Grade Handgun in his left hand instantly vanished, returning to his Personal Space, and his left hand gripped the hilt of the Wolf Slayer Blade.

"Tiger!"

A savage aura of a supreme predator suddenly rose from Wang Zhifan's body. He had activated the Tiger Force skill that came with the Tiger Stripe True Mark.

"Die!"

With all his preparations complete, the true attack erupted. This time, Wang Zhifan charged without hesitation behind the Silverback Gorilla, which had just landed and was about to turn around. Then, with all his strength, he swung the Wolf Slayer Blade at the Silverback Gorilla's neck! In an instant, the blade flashed. As a pillar of blood thicker than a human waist shot into the air, the gorilla's water-barrel-sized head separated from its body and unwillingly tumbled onto the forest floor beside it, where rotting leaves had piled up.

"So it really can be one-shot."

Only now did Wang Zhifan finally shift his gaze away from the thick arms of the Silverback's corpse before him. He had been prepared to dodge immediately if his strike failed, and the enemy's arm attacks were what he most needed to watch out for in that situation.

But now, the Silverback Gorilla was merely a headless corpse. Under Wang Zhifan's gaze, it rapidly faded away, vanishing like smoke just as other dead Dungeon Bosses did.

"Big Shot! That slash just now was incredible! You took down the BOSS in one blow!"

At that moment, the Glasses Man Gunner in black leather, who had just risen from the bushes nearby, could not contain his excitement. From some distance away, he began shouting excitedly at Wang Zhifan. The Mage player in the plaid shirt beside him also had shock in his eyes. He probably had not expected Wang Zhifan to one-shot the BOSS with a single slash.

Such shock was only natural. During the first wave of attacks, everyone had seen that neither Wang Zhifan's handgun nor the Gunner player's revolver could fully penetrate the Silverback Gorilla's body. The Mage player's ice arrow was even less effective; aside from its slowing effect, it had barely broken through its defenses. That was enough to prove how tough this Lv4 BOSS's body was. It was definitely not the kind of enemy that could be dealt with easily, yet Wang Zhifan had decapitated it with a single slash.

"Not bad... but it wasn't actually that easy."

Looking at the reward list panel appearing before him and the Treasure Chest materializing out of thin air on the ground, Wang Zhifan replied in an even tone.

He was not being modest. He was stating the truth. Being able to kill that incredibly tough Silverback with one slash was not something he could do casually—it was the result of going all out.