Chapter 8: A Bunch of Fools
Editor: Atlas Studios
Yes. Fatty had used the last-hitting technique.
Last-hitting is a term in esports that refers to the technique of dealing the last hit to kill an enemy. Last-hitting is divided into last hits and denying. The last hit refers to the final blow delivered to kill the enemy and obtain money. Denying refers to killing the enemy with the last hit so that the other party cannot gain money and EXP.
This kind of technique usually only appeared in esports and also in some specific confrontation games that mainly controlled heroes, but rarely in online games.
However, the Chaotic Era introduced this technique, mainly considering that some casual players who liked freedom were often kill-stolen by someone, such as a player who had luckily encountered a boss or elite monster. When one had the ability to kill the target alone, another party would suddenly come up to kill-steal. If this player could take advantage of this chance and deal the final blow, he could then obtain 50% of the monster's EXP, indirectly reducing the loss of the kill-steal.
Similarly, during the leveling process, in order to prevent being kill-stolen by other parties, one would always pay attention and deliver the final blow to prevent accidents.
Before Fatty had gone back in time, the last-hitting technique had been considered a basic skill necessary for players in the Chaotic Era. It was very common. More powerful players could even achieve a 100% last-hitting success rate. As for later, many players who wanted to kill-steal monsters already understood this, so they would rather not attack the monsters but directly kill-steal from other players.
No one could tell whether this was good or bad, but there was no need to doubt that it had added a lot of competition to the Chaotic Era game.
When Fatty had been playing the Human Race Berserker in the past, due to his low level, his equipment had not been very good. He was also a casual player, so he'd naturally faced kill-steals many times. Hence, Fatty had worked hard to practice his last-hitting technique. Although his success rate was not 100%, it was still higher than 90%.
Therefore, he seemed to have subconsciously used this last-hitting technique to kill-steal now.
This couldn't be helped. People were everywhere. Without a team, it was very hard for a solo player to kill-steal unless he was willing to wait for these players to kill enough for their quests and slowly kill the monsters after they left.
However, he had already been at a disadvantage because of being at a low level in his past life. Fatty was unwilling to fall behind during the level-rushing period.
When he attacked, he didn't think too much. It seemed like a subconscious action. However, he didn't know that his last-hitting technique had surprised the surrounding players.
The closed beta trial of the Chaotic Era had only lasted for a month. 10,000 players had participated and the closed beta trial had been deleted. Game monsters could be killed by last-hitting, which not many of the 10,000 players in the closed beta trial had known. Not many players who had joined the open beta trial knew this either!
Alright. Even if someone knew about it and knew how to use it, how high would their success rate be?
A technique like last-hitting seemed simple, but it couldn't be achieved without proper training!
Take the scorpion killing as an example. With 80 HP and Fatty's attack power, he could only choose to attack when the scorpion was left with 10% of HP. However, the health bar above the scorpion would not show a specific value. He could only infer based on the player's visual assessment.
Regardless of whether this speculation was accurate or not, if one wanted to use last-hitting successfully, the other players attacking the Poisonous Scorpion had to be taken into consideration—how much their attack power roughly was, how long their attack cooldown was, whether there would be someone to use a skill and increase the output, whether one should attack in advance… If this was a ranged attack, one would need to calculate the time of the magic flight, and so on!
It would be really complicated to calculate carefully. When Fatty had attacked, he could not have considered it so much. He had attacked based on intuition from endless last-hitting practice.
Even if other players knew about last-hitting, it was hard to say whether they could have an intuition like Fatty's.
The players of the four parties might not have known what Fatty was doing at first, but when Fatty dealt the final blow to the Poisonous Scorpion, the EXP they obtained was naturally reduced greatly. If they still didn't understand what Fatty was doing, they would have to be really stupid to the core.
When Fatty had dealt the final blow to the four Poisonous Scorpions and scanned the place before returning his gaze to the party on the left, the player in that party had eventually gotten flustered.
When Fatty turned around, a Poisonous Scorpion happened to respawn. The players of this party finally understood that the Venomancer in front of them had already calculated the respawning time of the Poisonous Scorpion. This guy had made up his mind to kill-steal alone from four parties!
"F*ck! How is this possible? I don't believe that he can really kill-steal every time!" a Berserker Class player from this party said angrily on the party channel. "Skills! Use all your skills! Kill the Poisonous Scorpion with one shot. I want to see how he kill-steals!"
There were three Berserkers, one Shield Warrior, and one Death Knight in this party, which were all powerful melee classes. It had been a while since they had been here for Poisonous Scorpions. The five of them had advanced to level two. Before Fatty had kill-stolen their monsters, the five of them had been using normal attacks to kill them. By attacking all at once, they could normally reduce more than 60 HP from the Poisonous Scorpion. It was not impossible to use their skills and kill a Poisonous Scorpion at once.
Sure enough, the Poisonous Scorpion was killed in one shot because the five of them were using their skills. Fatty didn't manage to deal the final blow.
"He he… Let's see how you'll kill-steal now!" The five players looked at Fatty happily.
Fatty, who was helpless, controlled himself and turned around. He looked at the party of players at the bottom-left. The second Poisonous Scorpion was about to respawn.
However, by using those five players as an example, the party on the bottom-left had also learned from them. Once the Poisonous Scorpion spawned, they used their skills to kill it.
The four parties that Fatty had intended to kill-steal from were all using the same method uniformly, not intending to give him a chance.
After this round, when Fatty did not even manage to steal one Poisonous Scorpion, the players of the four parties all started laughing. It seemed that despite this small dispute, being able to see Fatty get beaten was an interesting sight for them.
However, they didn't know that Fatty, who sat in front of the controller at the moment, had curled up his lips and spat silently, "What a bunch of fools!"
After two rounds of Poisonous Scorpion spawning, Fatty still did not manage to steal any, making the players of the four parties happy. A player even told Fatty, "Brother, you can't steal from us! Leave early!"
Fatty did not answer. He just stood in the same spot while waiting for the third round of Poisonous Scorpion respawning.
Upon seeing Fatty ignoring them, the players of the four parties couldn't help but get angry. They couldn't let this guy steal their monster later on either!
However… When the third round of Poisonous Scorpion respawning started, they couldn't laugh anymore.
Once the Poisonous Scorpion appeared, the party on the left hurriedly attacked. However, Fatty moved this time. He raised his hand to shoot his Miasma, hitting the Poisonous Scorpion along with the attacks of the five players.
The players of the party on the left froze. They realized that their EXP had been reduced again!
Fatty had dealt the final blow again!
"F*ck! What is going on? Who didn't use their skills just now?"
If the five of them had attacked with their skills, such a situation would not have occurred. Thus, there was only one explanation. Someone definitely hadn't used their skills, so that bunch of people started shouting and scolding each other.
Then, a Berserker player of the party cautiously said, "S… Sorry! I'm out of magic!"
This time, the group was dumbfounded. They had noticed that their mana was only a little and was insufficient for them to continue using their skills next time!
This was the reason Fatty had scolded that bunch of fools earlier. They were all melee classes with low mana, but they had actually all used their skills to snatch monsters from him. Hadn't they ever thought that once their mana was insufficient, their kill-stealing method would be unable to continue?
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