A Battle Between Players

"An organization... So some players have already banded together in secret and started forming factions..." Mu You frowned.

The Werewolf actually belonged to an organization! That was bad news.

If the Werewolf were just an independent player, Mu You only needed to find a way to kill him, and he would be safe.

But if the Werewolf had a faction backing him, killing one wolf might bring down a whole pack...

"This could be trouble..."

Mu You let out a breath.

Still, according to the Werewolf, the little girl had stolen something and defected. The Werewolf was probably someone the "organization" had sent to hunt her down...

Seen that way, the Werewolf and the little girl were the true mortal enemies here. Most of their energy went into trying to outwit and outfight each other.

As for Mu You... In the eyes of these two high-level players, he was clearly just a lowly rookie, the sort they could casually dispose of if they happened across him.

That was also why Mu You had been able to enjoy such an easy time over the past few days. The Werewolf's hatred and sense of threat were focused on the little girl, while he had never given Mu You a second glance...

Shaking his head, Mu You turned his attention back to the distant battlefield.

After a brief chase, the situation abruptly changed!

Perhaps realizing that running would get her nowhere, the little girl swiftly pulled a purple pellet from her waist with her right hand during a roll and hurled it at the ground.

Bang!

A cloud of purple smoke billowed outward, instantly engulfing an area more than a dozen meters across and completely concealing the little girl.

The Werewolf skidded to a halt before the purple smoke, not daring to charge straight in. Instead, he pricked up his ears and listened carefully, then abruptly flung the Chain Claw on his left arm in a particular direction!

Shnk!

A piercing sound came from within the smoke, as though the claw had hooked something.

The next instant, the Chain Claw retracted, bringing a small figure back into the Werewolf's grasp.

Yet the moment the Chain Claw flew back, the sneer on the Werewolf's face froze.

Impaled on its tip was not the little girl he had expected, but a rag doll with a grotesque grin painted on its face!

"Wahahaha..."

The rag doll suddenly burst into laughter. As though it had come alive, it flailed its limbs and sprang straight at the Werewolf's face.

The Werewolf seemed to recognize the magic item. Not daring to let it get close, he hastily retreated while bringing his blade down, cleaving the doll in half in midair.

Boom! Boom!

Two explosions rang out in succession, one from each half of the doll. Had the Werewolf been even slightly slower, it would have been his head exploding instead!

Meanwhile, the little girl burst out of the other side of the purple smoke. After expending two precious items in succession, she had finally put enough distance between herself and the Werewolf. She hurriedly pulled her Magic Wand from inside her clothes, aimed it at him, and prepared to chant.

Seeing that he could no longer close the distance in time, the Werewolf swiftly scooped up a basketball-sized chunk of concrete and hurled it like a baseball.

The concrete shot toward her like a cannonball. The little girl had no choice but to switch from offense to defense, abandoning her attack spell and hurriedly casting Magic Shield.

The next instant, the concrete shattered against the deep-blue shield, bursting into countless flying fragments.

Although the Magic Shield protected the little girl from injury, it could not dissipate the force of the impact. She staggered back several steps before being hurled straight over the edge of the rooftop.

Mu You had been wondering whether all that noise would surely attract the police below. Then he turned and saw the little girl step off the rooftop into empty air, making his heart leap into his throat.

But he soon realized he had worried for nothing.

Remaining perfectly calm, the little girl waved her Magic Wand. Rather than falling, she rose, floating more than a dozen meters above the rooftop and looking down at the Werewolf. At last, she could cast without interruption!

Next, Mu You saw the little girl hold her Magic Wand level, her lips moving rapidly.

Multicolored light poured from the tip of her Magic Wand!

Enormous fireballs, flying ice spears, crackling lightning, towering pillars of flame...

Streams of arcane light danced across the rooftop, bombarding the Werewolf below with the precision of guided missiles.

Several? A dozen?

Mu You could not even count how many spells the little girl had cast in those few short seconds. In an instant, the Werewolf was engulfed in multicolored elemental energy, then completely buried beneath fire and smoke.

Still unsatisfied, the little girl uncorked a bottle of blue potion, gulped it down, and continued the bombardment. She even found time to pull out two grenades, bite off their pins, and toss them one after another into the flames below.

Boom, boom, boom...

An unbroken barrage of explosions thundered across the rooftop. The entire building shook as though struck by an earthquake, while flames and smoke obscured most of the roof.

"She's really lost her temper. She's going for the kill..."

Watching from the sidelines, Mu You kept swallowing, too shocked to speak.

This was what a real battle between players looked like! It was breathtaking, far more spectacular than the special effects in a blockbuster!

The little girl's strength exceeded anything he had imagined. Sure enough, one should never underestimate a mage's burst damage!

At the same time, an intense longing suddenly welled up in Mu You's heart. When would he possess combat power like that?

The bombardment continued for a full half minute!

By the time it stopped, Mu You could already hear startled cries from the crowds below, along with a chorus of police sirens.

Clearly, the enormous commotion on the rooftop had drawn the city's full attention. It did not take much thought to know that the police would soon surround the place.

But Mu You had no time to worry about that. He hurriedly looked toward the center of the bombardment instead.

The area was still shrouded in flames and smoke, making it impossible to see clearly from a distance.

The Werewolf... should be dead, right? Mu You thought.

After being struck by so many spells at once, he simply could not imagine how the Werewolf could have survived...

The little girl was slowly descending from the sky now, her body swaying slightly.

Clearly, that burst of power had come at a price. She had severely overtaxed her mental energy and could barely keep her balance even while floating.

Perhaps because she was in such poor condition-a mage without mana was nothing more than a sitting duck-and with more and more police sirens sounding below, the little girl had no time to approach and check. Instead, she chose to play it safe, turning and wobbling away through the air, ready to leave this dangerous place behind.

But neither of them expected what happened next. Just as she turned, a Chain Claw suddenly shot out of the smoke below. Concealed by the glare of the flames, it pierced her shoulder in an instant and dragged her downward.

In the wreckage below, the flames faded, revealing the Werewolf standing where he had been, drenched in blood. His entire body was charred black, with barely a patch of intact skin remaining.

-But he was still alive, and he even seemed to be in fairly good shape!

"Is this Werewolf a cockroach? How is he still alive?" Mu You gaped.