Chapter 1311: Suicide Mission (6)

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    Whoosh!

    Watching the bullet he prepared leave the barrel, Valyr felt a hint of trepidation as he heard a slight sound come out of it.

    Fortunately, with Harold having already made sure that the sound of the shot would also be masked beforehand, none of the guards were alerted to their presence, allowing the young man and the others to focus their attention on the bullet.

    ''We''ve definitely got this in the bag,'' thought Valyr to himself as he began to feel as if the world around him began to move in slow motion, allowing him to briefly go over all of the skills he used for the shot in his mind.

    Naturally, the usual buffs were included in that list, such as [Limit Break: Second Verse], [First Encore], [Rage of the True Wyvern], [Refined Offense Aura], and so on.

    With that, it also went without saying that he activated his strongest Intent, as well as applied the intricacies of the Truth Weaver Scripture to it in order to further improve its effects.

    Although he did not make use of his ultimate skills like [Descent of the True Wyvern] to bolster the shot''s lethality, he was able to somewhat compensate for that by having Vera buff him with Mystic Energy, only to then also buff himself with his own Mystic Energy.

    Considering the fact that a single shot of his arquebus was more than enough to render an early Myth-level monster with over a million HP dead, Valyr was more than confident that his shot packed enough firepower to kill the Grand Chieftain ten times over.

    Yet, as if the heavens felt that it was unfair for the young man to achieve his goals that easily, a faint blue barrier appeared in the trajectory of Valyr''s shot all of a sudden, causing the strength contained within it to instead disperse far away from where the Grand Chieftain was. Of course, included in that dispersion was the sound its collision made.

    "...!" Hastily conjuring a barrier around the area where the bullet exploded to muffle its sound, Valyr watched as Harold hastily applied barriers of his own on it, sending out spell after spell without hesitation to muffle the remaining sound his barrier couldn''t.

    "Well..." Faintly letting out a sigh after seeing that the guards weren''t alerted to their actions, the young man soon turned around to look at the others as he scratched the back of his head.

    "Looks like killing the Grand Chieftain is gonna be a bit more difficult than we initially thought."

    "Honestly, we should''ve probably expected something like this to happen," wrote Hal in response to Valyr''s message in the group chat. "After all, even our high-ranking officials have been deemed targets for assassination by the opposing races."

    "With that, it''s not really that much of a surprise that they''d have a barrier or two surrounding them while they''re at their most vulnerable moment."@@@@

    "Well, that answers the question as to why the other War Squads have been biding their time," wrote Vera after that, to which the others faintly nodded in agreement.

    "They''re waiting for the exact moment the barrier around the Grand Chieftain is disabled."

    "Would it be possible to dispel the barrier around the Grand Chieftain before then?" asked Valyr. "After all, we''d be fighting against the other War Squads on who would be the squad to kill him if we were to bide our time."

    "Plus, if you think about it even further, us fighting over that position just means there''s a chance the tables are turned on us and they kill us instead."

    "Unfortunately, I don''t know much about dispelling barriers," answered Hal through the group chat as he bitterly smiled. "Though, judging from how it was easily able to nullify your shot, I''d presume the barrier is being powered by an energy construct."

    "Is it?" Valyr raised his eyebrow at that question, only to then ponder over the information.

    With the gears in his mind working on overdrive, the young man soon had an idea that might allow them to salvage their current situation.

    Defense: 40,022 - 44,469

    Stats: 3815 VIT, 3547 STR, 3196 AGI, 3276 DEX, 1929 INT, 3066 WIS, 2742 PER, 558 LUK

    Concepts: [Concept of Might (Stage o)], ???

    Armaments: [Armament of Might (Stage o)]

    Skills: ??? (Skills cannot be listed down due to lack of comprehension of the Khael''gazar-i

    language)

    Note: You''ve already fought against foes stronger than this, but it''s still better to remain vigilant.

    "Definitely more than enough." Confirming that his attack was more than capable of killing the Grand Chieftain in one shot, Valyr faintly nodded as he activated [Extended Charge] on his

    arquebus yet again.

    Whoosh!

    At the same time, he went ahead and conjured a few energy bolts, imbuing all of them with the property of [Traceless] as he aimed to end all of it before any massive problems arose.

    "...Alright." With the arquebus charged to its utmost limit yet again, the young man slowly took a calming breath as he directed the energy bolts to strike a pillar each.

    Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!

    Considering how his stats were around twice as high as they normally were, it went without

    saying that the bolts were able to destroy the four pillars with ease, disabling the barrier that had been protecting the Grand Chieftain from any ambushes.

    "Mn...?" However, that also meant that the Grand Chieftain had been alerted to the barrier

    breaking, forcing the orc to escape from its slumber as it looked around for the assailant that

    aimed to take his life.

    Yet, before he could even figure out where the assailant was...

    "[Grand Burst]."

    Bang!

    ''-2,007,500!!!!

    The Grand Chieftain was already dead.