MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

A hundred or so Iron Alliance players were sprawled about on the outskirts of Frostfall City. Though they resurrected from time to time, their efforts were futile as they were quickly taken down every time they attempted to do so.

“F*cking dogs! Weren’t you guys camping me? Why did you all stop, huh!? C’mon and get up!”

Chiefless Beasts stood beside a player from the Giant race, and he was flinging curses to his surroundings.

What comes around, goes around. After getting spawn-camped by the Iron Alliance players that Li Yi called over for quite some time, Chiefless Beasts’ brother arrived, and with outstanding skill, he took down the hundred or so Iron Alliance players.

The race that his brother had chosen was somewhat out of the ordinary, which was the Giant race. Despite that, the class he had chosen was pretty modest, a Punishment Paladin, and he was pretty aptly named as well, as he went with the name ‘A Bucket of Paste’.

Due to the massive size of the Giants, they had a rough time positioning themselves during dungeon excursions. It was for this reason that Giants could not be seen in most high-end parties.

It was not that Giant players had no skill, but that their huge size made them easy targets for enemy attacks, and it hindered their movement. As time went by, Giants had become a rare sight in dungeons.

In addition, the body size of the Giants grew along with their levels. They might start at three meters initially, but upon reaching Level 100, they would already become around five meters tall.

As for Chiefless Beasts’ brother, A Bucket of Paste, he was a nearly five-meter-tall Giant Punishment Paladin.

A Bucket of Paste sat cross-legged on top of a gigantic Kodo and it was a ridiculous sight to behold. Though Kodos were considered massive to other races, to the Giants, it was no different from a human riding on top of a lizard.

A Bucket of Paste gripped his sledgehammer with both hands and constantly bashed the players from the Iron Alliance. As he was using both hands to wield the sledgehammer, his bashes had an extra knockback effect, in which he used to clump up the corpses of the Iron Alliance players together to form a human pyramid.

“Motherf*cker! Why aren’t y’all getting up? C’mon and rise! F*ck, are you guys not from the Iron Alliance? Isn’t Dark Wing a beast? Where the f*ck did all that vigor go!?”

Chiefless Beasts was brimming with confidence.

Getting spawn-camped by a single person was something that was too embarrassing to tell anyone, and as such, the bunch of Iron Alliance players refused to call for help initially. However, they soon realized that they were unable to escape from their clutches. Chiefless Beast was a pushover, but his brother, A Bucket of Paste was a beast of a person, and their skill gap was too huge.

“We’re getting spawn-camped! We’re outside Frostfall City, at the coordinates: 21334541: 1244441!”

If you cannot defeat your enemies, you call for help, this was one of the benefits of having an advantage of numbers.

The pleas from the Iron Alliance players had been heard by Li Yi.

“You’re getting spawn camped?”

“Yeah Boss! For us to be spawn camped by a single person, we’re pathetic, aren’t we?”

“Is that person called A Bucket of Paste?”

“Yeah…”

“Nobody else needs to go. I’m making my way there now.”

Li Yi issued his orders, sending back the members that had rushed there once they heard the news.

Onyxia, who was lying beside him, had regained 500,000 health, and from the looks of it, she would not die easily.

“By my authority as the Castellan of Shattered Frost City, I bestow you the role of the captain of Shattered Frost City’s guards.”

“Li Yi opened up the Castellan Rights Menu and offered the position to Onyxia on the spot.

Ding!

The words, ‘Captain of the Guards’ appeared on top of Onyxia’s head. She had accepted Li Yi’s offer, and her originally blood-red name had turned green.

System Notification: [Onyxia’s Affinity towards you has risen by 100 points. Her attitude towards the Invincible Continent has become Friendly.]

In Li Yi’s opinion, he should not give her a major position right off the bat. Though the Affinity might rise drastically, he had no idea how to curb the troubles that might come with it.

As such, he decided to take it slow. She would still get promotions, and her Affinity will still increase, but he would always leave her hanging.

“Stay here and recuperate. Once your HP is over 50,000,000, return to the capital by yourself. Remember, the moment you encounter danger, morph into dragon form and flee. Also, do not speak with anyone else.”

“Understood…” Onyxia nodded her head reluctantly.

Outside Frostfall City, due to Li Yi’s orders, the players that were taken down had stopped resurrecting. Instead, they had devolved into lambasting their opponents with curses.

A Bucket of Paste maintained a casual expression as if their words had not reached him. Unlike him, however, Chiefless Beasts was returning word for word.

“Kill them! Kill them!! Slaughter every single one of these dumb*sses! Do not leave anyone alive!”

“Boss’ orders. Until we kill them, we cannot rest. Brothers, give it your all…”

Loud cries could be heard from a distance as Scumbag Wang led his 800-strong subordinates slowly towards Frostfall City. Along the way, many had died to the army of the Three Major Guild Alliance behind them. That army numbered around two thousand, and while riding on top of their mounts, they flung a few spells every once in a while, blasting away huge chunks of land.

They were like chasing ducks, and their only motive was to wring some fun out of Scumbag Wang and his gang.

Scumbag Wang’s gang died repeatedly, and they resurrected repeatedly as well. They were determined to flee to Frostfall City…

They had no choice. Due to their antics, every major city aside from Frostfall City has listed them as Unwelcome Guests, and as such, it was not hard to imagine their current predicament.

They started off from their bandit nest in Little Pinewood until their current location. Along the way, many players who had just joined the Huashan Guild had left of their own volition. It was a rational decision, as once the Three Major Guild Alliance got serious, they would never rise ever again.

The Huashan Guild’s numbers dwindled, from their initial number of 1300 until their current number of 800 or so brothers.

“Brothers, stay strong! We’re reaching Frostfall City soon!”

Scumbag Wang cried out sharply while he rode his black donkey.

A Bucket of Paste and Chiefless Beasts flinched. They were pondering whether to make way for Scumbag Wang and his gang when a shadow flashed before them.

It was Li Yi, who had ‘Teleported’ over.

“Brother, that’s Dark Wing!”

Chiefless Beasts bellowed and used Flying Dragon Strike, followed by a Charge forward.

The moment Flying Dragon Strike landed onto Li Yi, Chiefless Beasts had reached Li Yi with Charge. However, just as he wanted to land a jumping chop, an earth-splitting blow hurled him into mid-air.

Just like the previous encounter, Chiefless Beasts was already in the air when he regretted his decision.

“Dark Devour! Heart of a Clear Mirror!”

Li Yi activated two special skills at once, and with his Orange Quality Bow held high, he aimed at the defenseless Chiefless Beasts and launched his assault.

Ka! Ka! Ka! Ka!

A Bucket of Paste reined his Kodo and came barreling over. When he was ten yards away from Li Yi, he lifted his sledgehammer with both of his hands towards the sky, sending down little golden hammers from the sky that came crashing at Li Yi.

This was a unique skill that belonged only to Punishment Paladins, Holy Light Trial. Once it landed, the target would enter a state of Disorient for three to five seconds.

Li Yi rolled away, evading Holy Light Trial. However, his hands were still moving, and he was giving his all to shoot at Chiefless Beasts.

“Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!”

The combos were racking up, and by the time Chiefless Beasts dropped onto the ground, Li Yi had activated Rocket Propellant to shoot forward. He placed several Explosion Traps under him and sent him flying.

Though the Float effect from Explosion Trap was a far cry from Flame Dragon’s Howl and Earth Hurling Trap, the damage from its explosion was extremely potent. Li Yi followed up the explosions with two Meteor Arrows, and Chiefless Beasts was already lying dead on the ground.

Just like their previous encounter, he died instantly from combo attacks!

“Holy Light Impact!”

A Bucket of Paste bellowed, and his body radiated like the sun. It was a blinding skill but avoiding it was simple. All Li Yi had to do was to turn his back towards the strong rays.

Li Yi whipped his body around and evaded Holy Light Impact.

In that instant, the Iron Alliance players who were spawn camped rose up one after another, rushed to Chiefless Beasts’ side, and camped him instead.

Naturally, since it was an outdoor PK, there was nothing honorable like a one-on-one. The first thing that most of the Iron Alliance players did after resurrecting was to carry out a combined assault on A Bucket of Paste.

Following that… all of them died again.

A Bucket of Paste was a Punishment Paladin, and he was currently activating Retribution Aura. Furthermore, he was also equipping a myriad of special equipment that would increase Retribution Aura’s potency.

Retribution Aura’s effect was to carry out punishments to whoever that attacked the user of the aura. If they attacked once, Punishment would be unleashed once. If they attacked twice, Punishment would be unleashed twice. Moreover, Retribution Aura’s prowess would rise with its level, and for someone like A Bucket of Paste who was nearing Level 100 (he was currently at Level 95), each Punishment dealt around 90-100 damage.

At Level 100, the HP of Main Tanks would be around 100,000, and for other normal, cloth-wearing classes, their HP was easily over 10,000 already. As such, the damage dealt by Punishment was negligible. However, A Bucket of Paste was an exception, as he was equipped with a piece of special equipment that bolstered the strength of Retribution Aura. The reason that the 100 or so attackers that surrounded him had died was due to the effects of the equipment.

Li Yi rode on top of Holy Light Warhorse, made a mad dash to pull the gap between A Bucket of Paste, and fired an arrow.

“Thud!”

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[−5113]

A Bucket of Paste had lost 10,806 HP, whereas Li Yi had suffered 5,000+ damage from Retribution Aura’s effects.

‘This sh*tty Retribution Aura shouldn’t be taken lightly…’

Li Yi raised his bow to shoot again. This time, he did not use any skills and fired an ordinary arrow.

“Thud!”

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[−3321]

A strike that hurt both sides. The Retribution Aura had shaved off 3,000+ of Li Yi’s HP again.

A Bucket of Paste acted hastily, summoning a pillar of Holy Light that recovered 3,000 of his HP and continued casting it for four times, fully replenishing the HP he had lost from Li Yi’s attacks.

Paladins could heal, and they could cure wounds. Most of the time, they were known to be rogues, that were to be disposed of whenever possible, and they were a class that should never be fought in a battle of attrition.

The rogue Paladin had started to heal himself, and so did Li Yi. Using ‘Life Blood’, he recovered around 1,500 HP. With a headache coming on, he peered at A Bucket of Paste and tried to think up of a strategy within his mind.

A Bucket of Paste was a rare case. Since he played as a Giant, he had never entered dungeons, and he specialized in hunting monsters, slaying World Bosses, killing spirits, and killing players to gain his equipment.

The man was a three-time champion of Blade Peak Arena, and due to the special equipment he wore, in the eyes of other players, he was like a Hedgehog, that when attacked, would deal return damage. The higher the inflicted damage, the higher the reflected damage. As such, drawing out a battle with him was a death sentence.

Even if the players chugged down an Advanced-Level Recovery Potion, they were still no match for his HP.

A Bucket of Paste was a rogue Paladin through and through, and Li Yi had personally learned this lesson in his past life. The player he faced in his past life was no different from the current one, and they were both players who had never entered dungeons before. As such, they competed in Arena matches and fought in outdoors. Li Yi had faced the player in his past life many times, and even after twenty matches, Li Yi had never won a single bout.

It had nothing to do with skills or mechanics, as it was all due to the unfair Retribution Aura. However, just standing still was not going to bring him down, and as such, it was highly frustrating.

A Bucket of Paste charged over on his Kodo. Punishment Paladins could not use Charge, and they were highly disadvantaged in a long-ranged battle. If it were not for the Retribution Aura he had, he was no different from a punching bag.

“Come out — Lightning Leopard!”

Li Yi waved his hand and summoned out Lightning Leopard. At the same time, he placed a Freezing Trap underneath his feet and retreated immediately.

Lightning Leopard entered Stealth-mode immediately upon release and crept over to A Bucket of Paste in a feline manner.

The Freezing Trap did not proc, as A Bucket of Paste swerved to evade it. However, it just so happened that the path he chose would pass by Lightning Leopard.

“Buzzzzz…”

Lightning Leopard let loose an aggressive assault onto A Bucket of Paste, unleashing its final skills. Unlike Li Yi, it did not fear death, and in that sense, it did not fear the reflected damage as well.

At long last, A Bucket of Paste had lost 36,563 HP. Lightning Leopard had completed its assigned task and died proudly to the return damage from Retribution Aura.

“Flash…Flash!”

A Bucket of Paste used Holy Flash to replenish his health. He also did not forget to stuff down a bottle of Advanced-level Mana Recovery Potion while casting his skill. In a short while, he had regained 3,900+ Mana, and it nearly made Li Yi lose his breath. After all, he was the only one capable of creating a potion that recovered 3,900+ Mana…

‘Using my own potion against me! F*ck!’

“Flash…Flash!”

A Bucket of Paste constantly regained his health, and very quickly, it was already full.

PK-ing the b*stard was extremely vexing. At Li Yi’s current skill level, A Bucket of Paste would have a hard time catching Li Yi, and on the flip side, Li Yi was unable to kill him easily either.

Li Yi chugged down a bottle of Divine Essence Potion, recovered all his health, and spurred forward on his horse.

There was no point in dragging out this battle of attrition any longer. He would rather initiate a direct attack and decide the victor with a single strike.

“Violent Bear King, come out!”

The thick-HP Violent Bear King appeared. Its attack was not high, and aside from being helping Li Yi tank monsters, he was also a HP source for Li Yi.

It would add 100,000 HP to Li Yi, which was an important asset for every battle.

“Holy Light Trial!”

“Flame Dragon’s Howl!”

Holy Light Trial rained down, disorientating Li Yi. However, Flame Dragon’s Howl was effective as well and had flicked away A Bucket of Paste.

“Survival Instinct!”

Li Yi dispelled the Disorient effect and began his assault on A Bucket of Paste.

“Crippling Shot!”

“Thud!”

[−13123]

[−6745]

“Repelling Arrow! Powered-up Arrow!”

[−7854]

[−3675]

Tch-psh-bish-tst-pst-brrrr—

“Violent Bear’s Protection!”

The Powered-up Arrow shot forward, and Li Yi used Violent Bear’s Protection, instantly flaring up his HP from 100,000 to 110,000!

[−14211]

[−7896]

“Meteor Arrow!”

“Holy Shield Spell!”

Seeing that Li Yi was still chanting, A Bucket of Paste started to panic. A wall of Holy Light congregated to form a huge shield before him. It was the skill that gave Paladins 12 seconds of Invulnerability — Holy Shield Spell.

Every class had one to two skills that enabled them to dispel combo and control skill, and the Holy Shield Spell of the Paladins was one such spell. Once activated, they become immune to all damage, and its effect was the same as the Phantom Footprints of the Summoners!

“Evil Piercing Arrow!”

Li Yi had long anticipated this move. The blue Meteor Arrow he loaded into his bow turned black, and…

“Thud!”

A Bucket of Paste’s shield shattered, along with all the positive buffs on him, including Retribution Aura!

Although Evil Piercing Arrow had a long cooldown time, it had the ability to turn the tables during a pinch!

Before A Bucket of Paste managed to cloak himself with Retribution Aura again, Li Yi continued his bombardment along with Violent Bear King and Ghost Crab to carry out a pincer attack. With a thunderous blow from three arrows, A Bucket of Paste laid tragically on the ground.

A glittering gold bracer shot forth from his wrist. Li Yi walked forward to pick it up but he shook his head dejectedly.

It was not Divine Punishment Chain, instead, it was just a normal Gold Quality Equipment.

A Bucket of Paste laid on the ground. His personality was way different from his younger brother, Chiefless Beasts. He never cursed, and he accepted his death. He continued lying there without uttering a single word.

After ten or so seconds, A Bucket of Paste’s body disappeared…

He had gone offline.

Li Yi understood the b*stard very well. Once he was killed, he would not resurrect within a short time period. He would only resurrect at the Capital once the danger has dispersed.

Now that A Bucket of Paste had gone offline, Chiefless Beasts no longer cursed. He could not even stand up now, as he was strictly camped by the players from the Iron Alliance. He was so thoroughly camped that tears began to stream from his eyes.

“Brothers! Just hold on a while longer, we’re getting close to Frostfall City!”

On the other side of the map, Scumbag Wang had brought his underlings to Frostfall River. They were a step away from entering the city.

It was in that instant that Li Yi’s attention was pulled towards Scumbag Wang’s voice.

After summoning Black-feathered Golden Eagle, Li Yi flew over to observe the ruckus.

“1, 2, 3 Fire!”

Spells dotted the sky as torrents of fire and ice rained down. Just as Scumbag Wang and his men had fled to the river, the Three Major Guild Alliance decided to get serious and unleashed a fierce bombardment, annihilating the Huashan Sect with a single blow…

Scumbag Wang laid on the ground, cursing with his microphone on. His underlings did not waste their time doing nothing, and each underling scolded the other more fiercely than the subsequent one.

“Go on and curse. Curse it all out, it doesn’t matter. Don’t think that you’ll get to enter the city today. Since you’ve angered our boss, we’ll definitely kill you till you’re Level 0!”

“Go f*ck your mother…”

“You mother*cker…”

Each sentence from the Three Major Guild Alliance was replied with 800 or so sentences from the Huashan Sect. Although they might be weak, their words were razor sharp. Despite having 800 or so curses, none of them were repeated.

Scumbag Wang scolded a few words, but before long, he lost interest. Suddenly, he realized that the person he had died beside was Lonely Perfume.

“Perfume? When did you get here? How about Fengxi? Did he make it here?”

“Leader Scum, Brother Xi has already gone to Mount Pantheon to challenge the gods. I can no longer contact him, however, everyone aside from him has arrived.”

Scumbag Wang sighed audibly. “D*mmit, if only Third Brother were here.”

“Leader Scum, should we resurrect?” A named underling posted in the Guild Channel.

“Nah, our brothers have suffered heavy losses. We mustn’t forget them.”

“So, what should we do?”

“Are you new here? Why is your IQ so low? Just scold them and continue to curse—”

“Ohh, scr*w your mother!”

“The f*ck? Not at me!”

“Ohhh… I’ll scr*w all your mothers!”

“All Brothers take note! You are forbidden from resurrecting; you are only permitted to curse them until you’re satisfied!” Scumbag Wang issued an order within the Guild Channel.

They could not resurrect, but they could continue cursing!

“Defiantly Tyrannical, I did your wife.”

“Me too.”

“Count me in.”

“Don’t forget about me!”

“I did her after you guys…”

The bunch of scumbags prattled on one after another. The curse fest had begun in earnest.

Li Yi was flying above the air. He was listening intently in the beginning, but later on, he could no longer stomach it. This was because the Huashan Sect’s subject of their curses had begun to expand, not just from Defiantly Tyrannical, but to everyone present.

“Scumbag Wang, sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt us. However, don’t you f*cking dare to resurrect, I’m going to camp you all real good.”

The voice drowned out all others. It was from the chief Wizard of the Three Major Guild Alliance, the Castellan of Defiant Wind City, Defiant Zephyr.

The curses had stopped, and Scumbag Wang curiously inquired, “Who are you?”

“You can call me Defiant Zephyr! Defiantly Tyrannical is my boss!”

“So you’re the head honcho around here eh? Good, I, Leader Scum admit my defeat today. Are you satisfied now? I’ve already given my apology, so can you stop attacking?”

“Hahahaha…”

The Three Major Guild Alliance broke into laughter.

Li Yi was about to leave until he heard Scumbag Wang’s words, he then decided to stay. After all, he felt it odd that Scumbag Wang had apologized. Could it really be that the b*stard had gotten his head kicked by a donkey?

“How about this? You let my brothers go as this matter has nothing to do with them. I, Leader Scum, will let you kill me until I’m Level 0, and I swear that I won’t counter attack. What do you think?”

Words still spewing from his mouth, Scumbag Wang rose from the dead.

A second later, Scumbag Wang was back groveling on the ground.

Defiant Zephyr jeered coldly. “Boss’ orders were to thoroughly wipe out Huashan. Scumbag Wang, it’s too late to regret now!”

“Leader Scum, why did you say that to that dumb*ss? F*ck, now he thinks that we’re really afraid of him!”

“Motherf*cker! I’m angry now. Leader Scum, I beg you, please let me rise, I’ll kill all these dumb*sses!”

“Me too!”

All 800 or so men were agitated and were causing an uproar.

Defiant Zephyr sighed, “Everyone of you has gotten their head kicked by a donkey. I really pity the boss of Huashan. How did he bring about you bunch of idiots? Could it be that your boss is also a dumb*ss?”

His words were said using the Castellan mode, as such, it reverberated clearly through everyone’s ears.

All 800 of the Huashan Sect members had gone dead silent.

“Tch, Defiant Zephyr you mother*cker!”

“Motherf*cker…”

“Motherf*cker…”

“Motherf*cker…”

All 800 resurrected at seemingly the same time. They had only one target, Defiant Zephyr!

The Warriors clad in cloth armors surged forward, whereas the steel armor-ed Wizards let loose small fireballs. Even the Priests were rushing forward with their daggers, and though their individual strength was weak, a combined assault from all 800 or so of them was too much for Defiant Zephyr to handle.

Defiant Zephyr perished instantly!

The Three Major Guild Alliance went all out and immediately toppled the 800-strong Huashan Sect.

Defiant Zephyr had not been resurrected. When he died, a Curse Priest from Scumbag Wang’s side had sacrificed 1ten attribute points permanently to use Soul Prison and prevented him from being rescued by other players.

Defiant Zephyr had to corpse-run to resurrect…

The moment Defiant Zephyr resurrected, the Huashan Sect rose at the same time, and brought him down again!

All 800 of them had resurrected with the singular purpose of bringing him down!

“Huashan Guild has issued a death warrant for Defiant Zephyr! He must die!”

Scumbag Wang yelled out his order in a high-pitched voice.

This time, no one from the Huashan Sect responded. All 800 of them were silent.

Had it been anytime else, Li Yi would have thought that Scumbag Wang had lost his mind again. However, he could not detect that at all. Instead, he felt that Scumbag Wang’s words were extremely serious…