MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1517: Smooth Combat

Chapter 1517: Chapter 1517: Smooth Combat

The disadvantage was clear, but so was the advantage: the skill had high output when standing still.

In reality, just like with spellcasting professions, everyone likes instant skills and dislikes those with long casting times.

If the casting time is long, it’s almost the same as stationary output; movements are slow, making it easy to be countered, even interrupting the casting.

But the benefit is the same—the attacks are either powerful or have a wide range.

This time, the Dragon Beast continued its assault on Li Yao, its attacks were actually rather monotonous.

Crushing, jamming with its chin, and exploding scales.

Oftentimes, these three modes of attack would be combined, as they were now.

Each time it lifted its head, scales fell from its body, and every smash would cause the scales to burst.

But Li Yao, bolstered by the ring, retreated quickly, falling into the same rhythm as before, unharmed by the explosions rumbling beneath him.

Moreover, facing Li Yao head-on this time allowed him to easily attack the head of the Dragon Beast.

After its head was breached and its hard shell gone, the damage from his attacks soared.

The Dragon Beast went crazy for a while but still failed to touch Li Yao, and once again took to the skies.

However, the result was the same this time; barely having taken off, Li Yao threw a Flash Bomb.

This time, the Dragon Beast’s head turned fiery red as it entered a frenzied state, but it was brought down by the Flash before getting very high.

And Li Yao didn’t take the opportunity to deal damage but instead performed a rocket jump the moment the Dragon Beast was falling, landing directly on its back.

The Touch of Darkness appeared, allowing Li Yao to stand firmly on the dragon’s back, the Sickle in his hand flashing with repeated slashes at the back of the dragon.

Huge cracks appeared in the massive Dragon Scales on the Dragon Beast’s back as it struggled furiously to stand.

Its body continuously shed red scales, and the Duel Field echoed with incessant booming.

And with a frantic shaking of its body, trying to throw Li Yao off, but Li Yao was firmly secured to the dragon’s back by the Touch of Darkness, relentlessly attacking, attacking, and attacking.

No matter how wildly it thrashed about, it couldn’t harm Li Yao in the slightest.

The audience, their eyes wide with shock, thought, ’Damn it, I’ve seen riders break a beast’s back before, but Li Yao standing on the dragon’s back like this is a first.’

Some professions with strong jumping abilities often utilize leverage when mounting; clinging tightly to the scales, they could only use one hand for light weapons to attack the back, driving the monster crazy until it is completely exhausted. It’s a battle of wits and strength; to mount is not hard, but successful mounting requires skill.

But Li Yao’s way of riding left them speechless; it was as if he was on land, still swinging the huge Sickle continuously.

Boom...

Under the continuous assault, the hard shell on the back of the Dragon Beast shattered, and the Dragon Beast fell in pain.

The Touch of Darkness under Li Yao’s feet finally broke apart under the violent flinging.

Li Yao was flung out, and then activated the Propeller with the momentum of being thrown.

As Li Yao rotated in the air, his Sickle began to Store Force, and as the Dragon Beast fell, people saw a dragon tail appear where Li Yao was about to land.

Turns out, as the Dragon Beast fell, its tail just happened to aim in the direction of Li Yao’s descent.

Li Yao’s max-level Stored Force Slash landed precisely on the Dragon Beast’s tail, and as Li Yao stabilized himself, he rapidly attacked the tail, leaving traces on the hard shell.

Roar...

The Dragon Beast kept enduring the hits and eventually struggled to its feet again, smacked around a couple of times to find no one in front, and then rapidly spun its body.

Li Yao sidestepped, and the massive tail whistled past brushing against Li Yao’s nose.

This is a tail whip attack. If hit, a fragile Hunter like him would be killed instantly.

Meanwhile, Li Yao kept moving, dodging the explosive Dragon Scales that fell with each swing.

But he wasn’t idle either; while dodging, he loaded his arm crossbow with Paralysis Arrows.

While dodging, he released four Arrows at the Dragon Beast.

The explosive-scaled Dragon Beast pursued Li Yao again, but Li Yao kept fighting while retreating without deliberately trying to sever its tail, instead, he continued to attack the beast’s head.

Once the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast took to the skies again, Li Yao loaded his crossbow with Poison Arrows, and after three shots, the freshly airborne Dragon Beast was poisoned. Li Yao followed up with another Flash Bomb.

After using up three Flash Bombs, Li Yao could no longer use Flash Bombs in this battle.

This time the Dragon Beast flew in a circle, and when it landed, Li Yao quickly reached its tail.

Gale of Slaughter!

Li Yao wildly waved his Sickle, bringing down countless blades upon its tail.

Swish swish swish swish...

Boom...

Accompanied by numerous slashes, the tail of the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast was severed, and blood poured out.

The explosive-scaled Dragon Beast, which had just struggled to its feet, fell once more.

And even more pitifully, it didn’t escape the range of the Gale of Slaughter attack.

The attack frequency of Gale of Slaughter was rapid, but its drawback was clear: it required the caster to stand still and channel.

The explosive-scaled Dragon Beast attempted to whip its tail again, but when it had a tail, it couldn’t even hit Li Yao; even less so now.

Li Yao merely stepped back and started to charge up. By the time the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast turned its head, its already damaged head took another full Stored Force Slash.

The rhythm returned to what it had been before. As the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast smashed its chin down, Li Yao retreated while attacking.

As the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast ascended once again, most of the audience began to take pleasure in his misfortune, as Li Yao had already used up all his Flash Bombs.

The difference between being in control and not is profound.

Being caught in a Gale without control would fluster even the most skilled, yet what unfolded next defied their expectations.

Just as the enraged explosive-scaled Dragon Beast reached the apex of its ascent and was about to start its barrage, Li Yao nonchalantly raised his arm.

Thud...

A golden Arrow hit the head of the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast, and its body flashed with golden electricity.

Its body went rigid, and to the disbelief of everyone watching, the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast fell for the fourth time.

Li Yao, having already prepared to charge up, delivered another full Stored Force Slash to the explosive-scaled Dragon Beast.

What followed was a relentless assault, and taking advantage of the beast’s tail whip, Li Yao started shooting Arrows again, this time the Arrows from his sleeve were light blue.

"This must be a Sleep Arrow. This rhythm is simply unbeatable, who knew control could be used like this, darn it, it’s all calculated. It flew up only to fall asleep again. Sleeping as it falls, damn, that’s a drop of over 20,000 damage."

"Someone speculated that the perks of Engineering are good, something we’ve never seen, just in theory. But now we’ve finally witnessed the power of studying Engineering."

"These are all advanced items, okay? Advanced Flash Grenades, Advanced Paralysis Arrows, Advanced Sleep Arrows. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be possible to inflict status effects with just three or four Arrows."

The commentators were excited as they narrated. The battle was flowing so smoothly, it was a delight to watch, truly a textbook performance...