The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 4280 Heroes Strike! (Part Twelve)

The battle zone they were seeing ahead was indeed between Greed and Natasha, and the two were locked in a fierce fight. From a distance, they could see Natasha leaping and bounding about, while Greed was constantly trying to distance himself from her.

"Who should we steal first?" Selena asked. "Can I start turning invisible now?"

"No, there will be an announcement when someone enters the combat zone, but it's okay. Right now, those two are locked in a fierce battle and probably can't spare any attention for you. Let's go in first. I'll throw out a deck of cards to boost my stealth value."

Selena nodded and rushed into the combat zone. The other two saw the notification, but they were too busy to pay attention to Selena.

Just as Greed had predicted, his skill set looked powerful, but stacking it up wasn't easy. However, his opponent also couldn't hit him. The only problem was that it was incredibly blood pressure-inducing. Greed looked at Natasha's pale face, worried about an offline PvP match after the game ended.

"That bastard!" Natasha cursed. "Those two's skills are both shameless, one deals area-of-effect damage, and the other makes it impossible for enemies to hit them. It's so annoying!"

Bucky sighed and said, "There's no way around it. Your skill set relies on stacking poison for a burst. The poison damage isn't very high; it mainly depends on that final burst. But if that burst misses..."

He didn't continue, because if he did, Natasha would really explode.

Just after they triggered the battle, Natasha knew that Schiller's skills must be quite unethical, and she was on guard. So when Greed began chanting, she decisively interrupted him, applied poison, and was very cautious with her final burst, afraid that Greed would block it or that it would miss.

Although she had interrupted many times, she was still affected by several layers of mental abnormality. In the end, she lost control at the last moment, and Natasha's blood pressure spiked.

But the female agent never believed in superstition. She used a gadget to dispel the abnormal status, and then started stacking layers from the beginning again, only to find that the last one was empty again.

At that moment, Bucky didn't dare to say a word, fearing that Natasha's hand would reach out from the screen and hit him.

Logically, both players' skills involve stacking status effects and then unleashing a burst of damage, so they should be evenly matched. However, the Greed status effect is incredibly frustrating; once it's stacked a few times, the chance of missing a shot is very high.

What's more troublesome is that if you miss more often, it becomes more difficult to interrupt him, his casting time becomes longer, and then the probability of missing becomes even higher.

By now, Natasha has already used up three rounds of her burst skill, and the abnormal status above her head is about to be fully stacked.

Faced with this situation, Bucky didn't have any good solutions. Natasha's deck was designed for extreme single-target damage; as long as she stacked enough poison, her final burst would leave her opponent owing her two bars of health.

What's even more terrifying is that she has two types of spider venom, one that hits the red bar and the other that hits the blue bar. Although you can only choose one when you unleash your ultimate, the attribute on the other bar will not be cleared after the ultimate is used. As long as the ultimate skill's cooldown is over, you can unleash it again.

Don't forget, the only way someone can be completely eliminated from the game is when their health and mana bars are completely depleted. Natasha is the easiest character to kill perfectly among all the players. Even a hybrid damage dealer like Bruce has to constantly switch skills and enter his ultimate state to deal hybrid damage.

Because this skill can easily kill others, Natasha's other stats are relatively weak. She has no speed, no strong crowd control, and her basic attack speed is lower than others. When she encounters a skill set like Greed, she is really helpless.

Just as Natasha was getting angry, Greed seized an opportunity and finished reading the last three layers of mental abnormality. Then, when the settlement was completed and the consultation fee data popped up, Natasha couldn't help but laugh.

Alright, alright, percentage-based damage, huh? This administrator must have been ripped off by greedy clinics countless times; he's finally got his chance to take revenge on society!
The final number stopped at over 6000. Although it wasn't as exaggerated as when fighting the robots, it still wiped out Natasha's health in an instant. A white light flashed, and Bucky entered the fray.

“Good afternoon, sir,” Greed smiled at him, then said, “How are you?”

"Apart from the noise in the headphones, everything is fine." Bucky smiled at him, and the next second he fired a shot at him.

Greed barely dodged, only to be hit again. After the hand cannons ran out, there were rifles; after the rifles, there were machine guns. And what the heck is this dual-wielding Gatling gun?!

So the Winter Soldier is a gun-wielding guy. Greed sighed inwardly. Although he knew the Winter Soldier was drawn like this in the comics, he always felt that the Winter Soldier in their universe was closer to the movie style. Movie characters tend to be close-quarters combat, which is easier to dodge. He didn't expect him to use a gun in the game.

In fact, the Greed skill set is most afraid of guns, or more precisely, skills that bombard the enemy with firepower. Such wide-range, rapid attacks leave the enemy with no opportunity or space to cast, making the skill basically unusable.

“Get ready, Gray Mist,” Greed said. “It’s time to unleash our ultimate weapon.”

“Okay.” Gray Mist picked up the leftmost card.

"Doctor's Choice: I excel at leaving others with no other option. Immediately send the selected enemy back to the command center. The return is not considered a death and does not reduce maximum health. However, when their teammates land, they will be affected by a 5-second protection state, during which they cannot move, use skills, or take any damage. This skill has no cooldown, but requires a total of more than 10 Medical Morale in this game. Each use increases the required Medical Morale by 3."

With a burst of golden light, Bucky's figure gradually disappeared, replaced by another familiar figure.

The instant Natasha landed and stared wide-eyed at Greed, a roar like that of a Siberian brown bear echoed across the snowfield.

"Schiller!!!!!"

“My God,” Selena said, “Isn’t Black Widow going to be furious?”

"I think she's about to lose her mind. Let's not steal from her. I don't want to get chased and beaten by her. Let's see what good stuff Schiller has."

Selena agreed, and as Bruce threw down the card, her stealth value gradually increased. The way to stack stealth value is actually quite simple: just avoid being attacked for a certain period of time. Because of Greed's ultimate attack, Natasha was busy attacking Greed, and Greed was busy being attacked; everyone was busy, and neither side had time to pay attention to her, so naturally they wouldn't attack her. Selena quickly disappeared from sight.

She crept up behind Greedy, reached into his pocket, seemed to touch something, and then turned and slipped away.

Gray Mist was busy throwing cards and didn't notice something was missing from his inventory. Natasha was a tough opponent after she went berserk; he needed to be fully focused.

So Selena sneaked over to the side, glanced at the thing, and gasped in shock, saying, "My God, I stole someone else's exclusive gear!"

What she was holding in her hand was none other than the damage reflection necklace. Bruce was also surprised. He said, "I really don't know whether to say you were lucky or they were just unlucky. They must have had a lot of items, how did they just happen to pick this one?"

“Let’s run,” Selena said. “I have experience with this. This is something you obviously can’t steal. If you do, you’ll be hunted down to the ends of the earth, and they won’t let you go. Run!”

Bruce knew, of course, that Schiller's luck had always been rather average. Getting his hands on this exclusive piece of equipment was already a highlight, and then it was stolen in the blink of an eye. Wouldn't he be furious? Angry greed is terrifying. If they didn't leave now, they definitely wouldn't be able to get away!

They took off running. Fortunately, as a thief, Selena had many skills that provided action points. The two of them ran more than ten squares before they could stop and catch their breath.

“I have an idea,” Bruce said. “Let’s find more equipment that increases health and defense. Then you can wear this necklace, go invisible, and dive into the area-of-effect skills. That way, your reflected damage will be mixed with the damage from the area-of-effect skills, and maybe you can kill someone in one hit.”

Selena thought about it and realized it might actually work. Although the equipment wasn't exclusive to her, it synergized well with stealth. While she was relatively fragile, she had some damage reduction while in stealth, so it wasn't impossible for her to go for a damage reflection build.

“Let’s think about it,” Selena said. “I still want to go for a pure thief build. By the way, since I can steal things, can I put this thing in someone else’s inventory?”

Bruce was amazed by this idea, saying, "If we could let it through, wouldn't the game become a spy game?"

Because of Selena's invisibility ability, once she enters invisibility, no one knows who she is approaching, and therefore no one knows who might have the necklace. If someone hits the person with the necklace, they will be damaged in return. As a result, everyone is hesitant to act until they find the person with the necklace.

“Let’s try it next time,” Bruce said, clearly also harboring mischief. “If that happens, we’ll be the biggest troublemakers on the battlefield, that would be so much fun, hahaha!”

“It’s a pity that this skill set can’t be used outside of combat, otherwise we could have had some fun,” Selena shook her head and said, “Besides, your exclusive equipment hasn’t been released yet, so we need to search more places.”

They set off quickly. Just then, Pikachu and Peter found a piece of equipment in a watchtower.

“Ah, this is Bruce’s,” Peter said, looking at a badge in his hand. “It accumulates damage based on the number of times you switch forms. It’s really simple and brutal.”

"There shouldn't be any cost to him switching forms, right? If he just finds a corner and switches forms there, wouldn't he become invincible very quickly?"

"The cards have a cooldown period, and the effect is only for the current battle; it's cleared once you leave. Since it can only be triggered in battle, his opponent won't let him stand there and switch between them, right?"

"What do you say? Are you going to give it to him?"

"Giving it to him isn't out of the question. Let's see if we can get our exclusive equipment in return. He's lucky; he might even be able to get ours."

"I don't know if my signature item is a hat or an electric ball."

Which one would you like?

"I'll stick with the hat. With the hat, I can use 10 million volts, and the damage will be explosively high. If it's an Electric Ball, although it can increase the damage of moves, it probably won't increase it by much, and I don't plan to evolve it anyway, so balls aren't that useful."

“What will my special equipment be?” Peter began to imagine. “I think it might be a web shooter, but I can’t think of any use for a web shooter on this ice field.”

"Who's over there?" Pikachu said. "It looks like Tony and his friends. Let's go take a look. If they find any useful items, we can trade with them."

(End of this chapter)