Genius Chapter 60: First Kill 

Chapter 60: First Kill 

Translated by Karai of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Addis

“Damn, FirstUnderHeaven,” ScarletFruit couldn’t help but say when he saw the situation. “Why is it him?”

ClearWind also remarked, “Why is it him?”

Hearing this, ZenSlasher couldn’t help but look at the two of them. Seeing their complex expressions, he asked, “An enemy?”

ClearWind replied, “A livestreamer.”

ScarletFruit added, “My benefactor.”

ZenSlasher was puzzled, “?”

“He used to frequently buy equipment and craft weapons from me under the username ScarletFruit,” ScarletFruit continued. “He was very wealthy, ranking fifth on the wealth leaderboard, and was Apple’s top competitor. He still buys from me and is one of the esteemed VIPs in my shop.”

ClearWind asked, “You have VIPs in your shop? What’s the discount for esteemed VIPs?”

“Of course, the highest discount at 99% off,” ScarletFruit replied. “This guy had excellent equipment. Initially, his dungeon overall rating couldn’t keep up, so he was always overshadowed by Apple. After Apple was defeated in the Qixi Festival dungeon last time, he rose to the top…”

The magical swordsman FirstUnderHeaven, originally named Tianxia, belonged to the Abyss faction’s Carefree Alliance. After he kicked Apple out of the top magical swordsman spot, he renamed himself FirstUnderHeaven.

Usually, he enjoyed spending money on equipment, livestreaming battlefield fights, and arena matches. Completely a PvP person, he gained numerous fans due to his good looks and excellent skills. Currently, he consistently held the top spot in Celestial Horizon-related livestream popularity.

In short, he was very popular, highly skilled, and good-looking.

Simultaneously, multiple battles broke out in the hunting grounds, attracting numerous players to watch. Among them, one match drew a significant amount of spectators, so much so that the main system focused on it, causing players entering the livestream room to randomly see this fight.

The opponents: the dark horse of the hunting leaderboard VS the number one magical swordsman.

The number one magical swordsman was well-known. Anyone who regularly watched livestreams or played PvP battlefields knew FirstUnderHeaven. As for the other, Momo, he had recently gained some fame in the PvP field, climbing to the top of the hunting leaderboard with 20 kills, surpassing leaderboard giants like ReturnToSimplicity. And now, these two were facing off!

[This is thrilling, Tianxia is actually up against Momo.]

[Next door, CloudTraveller is already fighting Haitang.]

[I love the hunting grounds, this is simply a clash of titans.]

[Didn’t someone say Momo was the second BrokenOracle? Look at this, getting face-slapped now. He lost 10% health at the start to FirstUnderHeaven without even fighting back.]

[Exactly, the hunting leaderboard’s top spot is too weak, right?]

…

Inside Desert Inn, ZenSlasher heard what the two said and saw the cheers on the battle-watching pop-up screen, and had to ask, “So can Momo beat him?”

“It’s not a question of whether or not he can beat him!” ClearWind looked at the pop-up screen with a frown on his face, switched on the pop-up panel, and said to ScarletFruit, “Fruit, it’s our turn.”

ScarletFruit also switched on the panel, “Don’t worry, when I was young, I was also a great man on the internet, I’m the best of three, am I still afraid of losing to them?”

ZenSlasher was speechless.

One person topped three, two people topped six …… counted up, but it was not enough for a fraction of FirstUnderHeaven fans.

While the outside of the arena watched and argued, the situation inside the arena was silently changing.

Magical swordsman FirstUnderHeaven was located on a high tree on the upper slope, and his position had a clear advantage, and the coverage of the sword trick was just enough to lock down Momo’s moving route. This was one of his most commonly used routines against short and medium ranged professions, the intention of the attack was very obvious, it was to use the height and distance advantage to blockade the attack, bringing great suppression to the opponent.

Magical swordsman frowned slightly, looking towards the summoner hiding behind the tree in front of him. This summoner has been hiding from his attack for nearly five minutes.

The probability of a summoner appearing in a PvP battlefield was low. Out of maybe a hundred people, there were only three PvP summoners.

FirstUnderHeaven had fought with the first summoner FireworksAndLanterns, and probably understood the summoner’s strengths and attacking routines, but this summoner in front of him was very strange, from the time of the fight until now, Momo had only released three summoned beasts, and all of the summoned beasts were attacking from different angles, and had a single attack, with a single path. Obviously, every time they reached him, they were killed by the sword technique.

It was as if this summoner didn’t want to fight with him, and had kept a tentative attitude.

This made FirstUnderHeaven feel very annoyed, especially since he couldn’t get any effective gains from each attack, the powerful attacks were nullified and all the attacks struck the obstacles.

“Still dodging?” FirstUnderHeaven couldn’t help but voice out, aiming his sword trick at where Momo was.

Since this man loved to hide behind the trees so much, he could only clear out all these obstacles before killing him.

[This summoner is too much of a wimp, isn’t he? At least he’s Rank 1, can you show the momentum of Rank 1?]

[Tianxia is only ranked 8th, right? Eighth place is beating first place. I’m laughing my arse off. The most watery list in history.]

[Are you a prophet? You know the end from the beginning? You’ve lost 10%, not 100%, and you’re saying you’re a loser right out of the gate.]

[No, why are you so excited? It’s true that the top one is watery. How long has it been since the start of the game, and he’s still hiding?]

The pop-ups were arguing fiercely, but just as magical swordsman was gathering his high power sword skill, Momo, who was being called a wimp and watery, moved.

Summoner moved at an extremely fast speed, dodging the magical swordsman’s long-prepared sword trick, and with a low glide, using the muddy and slippery ground in the mountains and forests, he closed the distance of seven or eight meters with magical swordsman in just a few seconds.

This movement was almost in the blink of an eye, magical swordsman saw this and immediately changed direction to attack, as the sword trick hit the hem of the summoner’s coat, the summoned beast Zephyr Hawk soundlessly appeared on the right side.

It was a common multi-way attack by the summoner.

Magical swordsman counterattacked with full force to kill Zephyr Hawk, on the other side the summoner was very close to him and was still closing the distance. He gave a slight lurch and decisively gave up the advantage of the high ground, choosing to keep the distance with summoner to attack, and just as he had descended from the tree, Solitary Wolf, who had been lurking in the bushes at some point, seized the opportunity to pounce, with a powerful stun hitting him directly.

When did it hide here! Oops!

White Tiger picked up the Attack, SpectralFox set Enchantment …… a combo!

FirstUnderHeaven seized the moment to uncontrol, decisively breaking control and escaping after being charmed by SpectralFox, pulling away with a sprint back.

With 85% blood, he was knocked down 15% by the summoner in just a few seconds.

[Shit? Knock it off! Somebody tell me what just happened!”]

[That summoner…… actually hid a Solitary Wolf with SpectralFox in the bushes.]

[Did you guys see him summon?]

[No, wasn’t he hiding the whole time? Where did he find the time to summon!]

In the stormy mountain forest, the sound of wind and rain greatly affected the player’s sound judgment.

The sounds of muddy puddles of water, the wind and rain, and the shaking of leaves …… almost muffled the sounds of human actions, as the lithe summoned beasts hunkered down in the bushes, using the dim light to discreetly hide themselves.

FirstUnderHeaven had just left the trees and landed on the dangerous mountainous terrain. At this time, the summoner on the opposite side changed his original slow pace of attack, and instead used an extremely fast summoning method, harnessing 5 summoned beasts in a short period of time and controlling these summoned beasts to attack at the same time.

Multiple pouncing attacks!

[So many summoned beasts? 5 attacking at the same time, this is FireworksAndLanterns’ set up, isn’t it?]

[Momo’s spirit power isn’t low.]

However, magical swordsman hasn’t fallen into panic because of the multiple attacks, he simply didn’t run and rushed to hit the summoner with a stun sword trick before the summoned beasts are about to attack him, causing a hit.

Once the summoner was subjected to a hard control like stun, the summoned beast’s movement would also be affected.

Seeing this, the magical swordsman immediately turned on his Great Sword Formation to protect his body, the short displacement bought him time to cast the spell, he immediately pressed his pet skill, and a powerful sword trick slammed down on the summoner.

[Crap actually forced FirstUnderHeaven’s Great Sword Formation out!]

[It’s FirstUnderHeaven’s spirit pet SKILL!]

Magical swordsman FirstUnderHeaven’s Spiritual Pet Active Skill, which reduced casting time by half during the opening of the Great Sword Formation, and the power of the skill was greatly increased for the duration of the Great Sword Formation. This was a powerful active skill for spell profession, and usually, when FirstUnderHeaven turned on this skill, they were trying to get a quick kill.

Although the duration of the Great Sword Formation wasn’t long, it was enough for FirstUnderHeaven to read a few powerful sword moves, and coupled with the increase in the power of the active skill, I’m afraid that this wave would be a straight up harvest.

[Wait! You guys look at summoner!”]

[He actually summoned Black Tortoise!]

At the same time as the Great Sword Formation came out, the summoner directly in front of the magical swordsman calmly threw out his lamp staff, and Black Tortoise landed on his side, directly absorbing the damage from the sword trick for him. With the time gap bought by Black Tortoise, he immediately got out from under the control of the Great Sword Trick, and instead of stopping, he quickly approached the magical swordsman.

Magical swordsman’s awareness was extraordinary, guessing the summoner’s intention the moment he moved, but just as he was planning to pull away and stall for time, Su Mo didn’t give him a chance and chose to close the net instead.

Su Mo’s eyes moved slightly, he was waiting for this moment, magical swordsman’s main skills were all stuck in cooldown.

The summoned beasts that were originally scattered everywhere received the summoner’s command at the first time, especially the closest Zephyr Hawk, who directly went down with a slowdown to decrease the magical swordsman’s speed.

Summoner sped forward and summoned White Tiger when he was about to get close to the magical swordsman, the physical White Tiger’s attack power was not to be underestimated when summoned at close range, and it directly pounced and bit the magical swordsman’s blood level directly dropped to 50%.

The spectators outside the arena were shocked to see this scene, the summoner actually used Black Tortoise to reduce damage to escape from magical swordsman’s Great Sword Formation, and reacted in this short period of time, completing a set of combo counterattack.

[FUCK, summoner didn’t die.]

[He’s on!]

Once the summoner caught the moment it was a terrible thing, especially if the summoner’s control skill cooldown was still on, the combo was enough to put the magical swordsman, who had less protection from skill, in a crisis.

FirstUnderHeaven couldn’t let the summoner get the better of him, he fought through the soft control and directly used the small skill to kill the nearest Zephyr Hawk and White Tiger, who was at 40% blood while the summoner was at 70%. Just then, a Snake Venom from the back woke him up instantly, and before he could fully uncontrol it, it had stacked up to 4 layers.

Crap, FirstUnderHeaven realised the crisis.

There was actually a poisonous Snake, when did he lay this ambush? How long did the summoner keep the poisonous Snake! Summoner hasn’t been here for long, and extrapolating from the time, the Snake was most likely planted during that five summoner pounce attacks just now……. Counting the Black Tortoise after that, this summoner had actually controlled seven summoned beasts at the same time in that amount of time and dodged his Great Sword Formation.

He predicted his maneuver.

LunarFeline’s Chaos fell, Snake reached 5 stacks, and the magical swordsman had no control removal or dispel skils at this point!

Su Mo decisively chose Explosive Venomous Wound, blasting the 30% blood magical swordsman straight to death.

[Su Mo decisively chose to Explosive Venomous Wound, killing the 30% magical swordsman directly.]

The first kill of the hunting ground, the original 100 people instantly turned into 99 people, the highly competitive magical swordsman FirstUnderHeaven went cold. The battle, which lasted 7 minutes, ended in 2 minutes after the summoner’s 5 minute lurk, taking the first kill and earning the first kill emblem.

First Kill emblem: The first kill player on the battlefield will receive a 5% attack power bonus.

Su Mo exhaled, coming back to his senses from the sound battle he had just had.

In the past, when he encountered a magical swordsman in the wild, he had always attacked directly, but this was the first time he had competed against such a conscious opponent, so much so that he had lurked for as long as 5 minutes before discovering the magical swordsman’s blind spot in his field of vision. The wave of Great Sword Formation just now, he was nearly taken down in one set, he considered magical swordsman’s backstroke, but he didn’t realize that he could actually reduce the casting time.

Black Tortoise almost didn’t catch up, and exposed a lot of his problems.

Too much prep time, over-reliance on control time for summoned beasts, mishandling of spell values, no prep simulation of other players’ potential skills ……

Su Mo touched Myriad Palace Insight skill and a [Lucky] popped up.

The only good thing about it was probably that he was lucky.

Su Mo looked up towards the dark cloud covered Valor Peak, this was the ultimate hunting ground, and the player who could enter this field to hunt was no ordinary person.

He could feel the pressure and the fear, but more than that, he was looking forward to it, it had nothing to do with physique and nothing to do with reality, it was a fair and square stage to fight so many powerful opponents.

The players in the viewing room looked towards the player with the ID Momo in the hunting ground, who stood over FirstUnderHeaven’s corpse with 50% blood and 5% spells, the wind and rain poured down on him, the recovery from the battle caused his blood and mana to rise at a slow rate, at the same time, a [First Kill] emblem appeared above his head. The emblem appeared above his head.

Some players then reacted ……

What was happening! They had just been discussing how in the blink of an eye, Dark Horse had bucked FirstUnderHeaven and taken the first kill!

Inside the hunting ground, time was still ticking away.

With blood and spells restored to 100%, Su Mo glanced at his backpack, and the red and blue potions were in a disabled state.

At this time, the wind and rain hid the sound of subtle footsteps, and Su Mo, who had stopped where he was, was instantly alert.

He turned back slightly –

Passing through the bushes, he saw an array master.