Chapter 9: The Hidden Attributes of Reverse Backstabbing

  Knowing his own shortcomings, Xiao Yu kept practicing the reverse backstab skill with the desert beetles, sweeping away all the surrounding desert beetles. Xiao Yu also gradually found the feeling of reverse backstab, continuously consolidating the newly learned skill.

  Ding dong, the system transmitted the sound of upgrading.

  Xiao Yu had been practicing his skills in a state of flow, without looking at the experience bar. After hearing this voice, he was slightly stunned and suddenly overjoyed.

  He leveled up three levels, Xiao Yu was somewhat excited, took a look at the Evil Alliance's level ranking list, the highest level player was only five levels higher, not too far behind, although Xiao Yu had been focusing on practicing skills all along, his leveling speed was still quite fast.

  This score may be a bit insignificant, but for Xiao Yu who played the game for the first time, it's already very good.

  Xiao Yu allocated all five attribute points he obtained to Agility. After moving around a bit, he felt that his speed had increased somewhat.

  While adding points to Xiao Yu's attributes, a hissing sound came from beside her ear.

  Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat - it was a desert cobra!

  Desert Mantis is a level 5 monster, two levels higher than itself, with very strong attack power, and the attack also comes with a slowing poison effect! After being poisoned, the movement speed will be greatly reduced, making it difficult to run, which is a very difficult monster to deal with.

  The desert python pounced over, Xiao Yu dodged to the side, and only then did he see the python's appearance clearly. It was a giant snake about one person high, with an extremely sturdy body, its huge head oval-shaped, constantly swaying back and forth, its green eyes staring tightly at Xiao Yu.

  Temporary battle made Xiao Yu's preparation not so sufficient, but Xiao Yu still reacted in time and was not attacked by the desert python.

  The desert python once again pounced on Xiao Yu.

  Backhand stab! As the giant head of the desert cobra pounced towards him, Xiao Yu didn't have much time to think. Relying on his body's memory of the backhand stab skill, he dodged the snake's attack and swung out a backhand stab in return. This was an almost instinctive reaction - people often burst forth with surprising potential when faced with danger. Xiao Yu discovered that this time, his execution of the backhand stab was even more fluid and smooth than before, especially the final strike after spinning around. He felt like all his strength had concentrated onto the very tip of his dagger.

  The tip of the dagger was filled with explosive power.

  Perfectly executed, with the force of rotation, the power of his right hand was released to the extreme.

  Puff! The hard scales on the back of the desert cobra burst forth, and Xiao Yu's dagger easily pierced into the body of the desert cobra.

  System: Reverse Backstab completion rate 100%, dealing 300% skill damage, triggering armor break effect.

  The Desert Viper's head burst out with a damage value of 137, which is more than five times the attack damage dealt by Xiao Yu to the Desert Beetle. Unexpectedly, the reverse hand stab also hid a broken armor effect, and the broken armor can ignore armor and level effects!

  One hundred thirty-seven points, what a powerful skill damage!

  Seeing this damage value, Xiao Yu couldn't help but be shocked, and for a long time he didn't come back to his senses. Was this the damage of his own attack?

  The Desert Viper was killed by Xiao Yu with one hit, losing 62% of its blood. This is a level 5 monster, two levels higher than Xiao Yu!

  There will be a certain level effect due to the difference in levels. When low-level players attack high-level players or monsters, the damage will be greatly reduced and will also be resisted by high-level players. Only when high-level players are in a weakened state can low-level players ignore the level effect.

  The effect of breaking armor can also ignore level effects!

  "What incredible skills." Xiao Yu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

  Using the Reverse Grip Backstab skill, Xiao Yu successfully reached the back of the Desert Viper and then swung his dagger to slash at it. The flat slash without skills only dealt single-digit damage values to the Desert Viper, which was negligible compared to the 300% increased damage from the Reverse Grip Backstab's armor-piercing effect.

  Fortunately, this desert viper's blood volume was only 200 points. After being struck by Xiao Yu's reverse backstab, its blood volume was already very low.

  Xiao Yu looked at the skill panel, the cooldown time for the level 1 Reverse Backstab was 30 seconds. The cooldown time was too long, he couldn't even wait for the Reverse Backstab to finish cooling down.

  No way, Xiao Yu could only get close to the Desert Viper and engage in melee combat. Each time he swung his dagger, it would only deal less than 10 points of damage to the Desert Viper. Xiao Yu thought of a solution - in order to minimize being attacked by the Desert Viper, he had to try his best to get behind its back.

  The tactic that Xiao Yu thought of unintentionally was not unique to him, but rather the most basic running position sticking tactic used by thieves. It's said that the strongest thieves can forever stay behind their enemies' backs.

  Xiao Yu swung his dagger to attack the desert cobra while jumping around, dodging behind the snake's back and using agile footwork to minimize the number of times he was attacked. Apparently, Xiao Yu wasn't too familiar with this fighting style.

  The Sidewinder moves with equal agility.

  Xiao Yu's right shoulder suddenly hurt, and he was attacked by a desert cobra. His body gradually turned green, which is a sign of poisoning! The venom of the desert cobra is a slowing poison, not a lethal one, it only slows down speed without causing harm.

  Speed slowed down, Xiao Yu couldn't jump, so he used flat chopping, only retreating on one side while swinging the dagger in his hand to block the desert python's attack.

  With only 19% of his blood remaining, Xiao Yu dodged the Desert Viper's attack with a swift leap to the side. The dagger in Xiao Yu's hand turned and stabbed upwards into the Desert Viper's head, dealing nine points of damage. The Desert Viper finally fell softly to the ground.

  Although it can only cause less than ten points of damage each time, Xiao Yu was able to slowly grind the Desert Cobra to death.

  After killing the Desert Viper, Xiao Yu sat on the ground, panting heavily. It was too close a call earlier, his nerves were stretched taut like a tightened string, and he could have snapped at any moment. After killing the Desert Viper, Xiao Yu almost fainted from exhaustion. If he had been killed by the Desert Viper, all his hard work to level up would have gone down the drain again, and he would have reverted back to level two.

  Xiao Yu was attacked by the desert cobra five times, but lost 85% of his blood. The desert cobra's attack power was too strong, and if he was bitten again, Xiao Yu would have died. However, he managed to dodge the final blow. This incident also made Xiao Yu realize that physical attacks could be avoided through body movements, just like when casting a backstab. This is one of the benefits of using free mode in the game. However, it's unrealistic to completely avoid damage in combat, after all, this is a game, not a martial arts novel with powerful evasion skills like Ling Bo Wei Bu.