Reign of the Hunters

Chapter 105: Bankrupt

"You've been attacked by Mallow."

"You've been knocked off your mount."

The 2 system notifications appeared as Ye Ci fell off from Ol' Four's back. The biggest difference between a combat mount and a normal mount was that it could be rode into combat and it would not disappear if its owner was knocked down.

Ye Ci's little red horse was a very good example. If she was attacked by someone while riding the horse, she would immediately be knocked off of it, and the horse would disappear. It would only reappear when Ye Ci summoned it when she exited combat status. Ol' Four was very different from that. Even after Ye Ci was knocked down, it would not disappear, as it was a combat mount, and it would carry out the most basic defensive actions. This meant that it would automatically attack the last person who had attacked its owner.

Mallow had actually been trying to hit Ye Ci with a number of his abilities. He was shocked when Ye Ci resisted the effects of 2 of them. Just how high was the level of this Huntress? She was immune to 2 of his skills! Staggering Blow and Bash however, were able to connect, and Ye Ci fell down from Ol' Four. She stood shakily with her head lowered. She was being Stunned.

What Mallow had not expected was that Ol' Four did not disappear even after Ye Ci had fallen from his back. He had not even paid much attention to Ol' Four, and instead immediately used Bone Shear on Ye Ci... But before his dagger could sink itself into Ye Ci's body, his vision went black, and he received a system notification, "You have died."

Mallow was baffled. He had not even noticed that he had taken damage, and had not been notified by the system that he had been attacked either. How did he die? He could not even choose the method of his resurrection upon death, nor could he see his corpse. He appeared immediately in the city that he was bound to.

He stood dumbfounded in front of the Goddess of Fate NPC that had resurrected him. Why was he here? Wasn't he still in a Guild Battle?

"How did I die? How the fuck did I die?" Mallow immediately shouted out in the guild channel, "I've been sent back to the city! Is that a bug? Wouldn't I have the choice to revive myself in battle when I died? Why am I back in the city?"

He received no reply from his guild mates.

"Crimson, what the hell happened?" Mallow began to call out to Crimson Twilight.

"Crimson is unable to talk to you at a moment." Replied a player called MinMinMinMin, who was currently a corpse. "He's running for his life."

"What? What is he running away from?"

"There's a dinosaur chasing after him..." MinMinMinMin replied.

Mallow was puzzled. Hadn't he Stunned Gongzi You? Even if a lot of the ranged players were killed, there were still enough of them left. Couldn't they kill Gongzi You? What were they doing?

The following was what happened at that time:

Just as Mallow was about to stab Ye Ci in the back, Ol' Four immediately turned around and bit down on him, and then swallowed him whole. The players present were horrified by what happened. Mallow was swallowed whole, just like that, by a dinosaur!

Players from Upwards Ho! were quite far away from the scene, and did not know what had happened. The Full Moon's Night players, who were just a stone's throw away however, could see everything clearly. Their eyes bulged, and they had even forgot to channel their spells.

But there were still players who were able to react, and they struggled to finish channeling their spells, raining down high damage abilities on Ye Ci.