Although Shi Feng had already sensed someone behind him, everything happened far too quickly. All skills and items were unusable, and there was no time to block the attack from behind.
On pure battle instinct, Shi Feng ducked and lunged forward, trying to dodge the lightning-fast dagger.
Yet although the gleaming dagger wasn't especially fast, it seemed to be everywhere at once. No matter how he evaded, he couldn't escape its reach, and could only watch helplessly as it descended upon him.
"How could there be a Domain master here?"
Through his senses and evasion attempts, Shi Feng immediately realized his opponent was far from ordinary, and his heart filled with indescribable shock.
If it were a Void Realm expert like himself, even with his skills disabled, his own powerful stats would have given him a reasonable chance of breaking free — even after being ambushed first. But his opponent seemed to see through everything, striking directly at his blind spot with absolute precision and no hesitation whatsoever, at a speed that defied reason.
This speed wasn't the speed of the dagger itself, but rather the speed of neural reflexes.
The Tengshe he had fought before was naturally gifted — born with neural reflexes far faster than a normal person's. But this attacker's neural reflexes were more than twice as fast as even that...
In Shi Feng's understanding, only those mysterious Domain masters could possess such speed.
The gleaming silver dagger came down, and Shi Feng's vision went black as he fell into a stunned state.
This was precisely the assassin's Ambush skill, capable of stunning a target for two to four seconds.
Immediately after, the dagger in the other hand plunged into Shi Feng's back, piercing his heart.
Backstab!
−10,249!
"Tough one, alright." Uncle Li clicked his tongue softly at the damage figure that appeared.
The two daggers in his hands were Epic-grade weapons, and he had his burst skill active. Even against a high-defense, high-HP Shield Warrior or Guardian Knight, a single hit would deal at least twenty thousand damage. Yet attacking a Swordsman like Shi Feng, he had only managed a little over ten thousand.
Meanwhile, not far away, five players cloaked in black stood watching.
"Uncle Li's Smoke Dissipation and Thunder God Swift Strike — they're just as incredible every time I see them," murmured the ranger called Evil Ghost from the distance, his black cloak drawn tight.
"Of course! Those are Uncle Li's signature techniques. They might not look like much, but even another Domain master can't detect Uncle Li when he's in Stealth and uses Smoke Dissipation. And Thunder God Swift Strike is Uncle Li's exclusive secret technique — it reads the opponent's movements and launches attacks through the subconscious, like pure instinct, completely bypassing conscious thought. The speed is so fast that there's simply no time to react. That's why Uncle Li is the guild's universally recognized number one assassin," the petite female elementalist beside him gushed excitedly.
Smoke Dissipation was one thing, but Thunder God Swift Strike was a technique that countless experts dreamed of mastering. Yet so far, not a single person in the entire Holy Law Hall besides Uncle Li had ever managed to learn it — not even the geniuses that Uncle Li had been tirelessly coaching.
"Evil Ghost, it's your turn. We don't have much time," said the berserker holding an azure spear.
"Relax, Ice Devourer. He's stunned for over two seconds — I could kill him twice over." The ranger called Evil Ghost grinned and nodded, then drew four black arrows from his inventory and fired them straight at Shi Feng. "And with that, the job's done."
Four streaks of black light pierced through the air with an explosive crack.
At a distance of thirty-odd yards, the black arrows crossed the gap in the blink of an eye, arriving before Shi Feng. The four black bolts locked onto his blind spot — even if he could move, dodging all four was impossible.
"Finally, it's over," Scorpion murmured with a faint smile from within Stealth.
It was a shame he hadn't gotten to finish Shi Feng off personally, but getting to watch Uncle Li in action made the time spent tracking him worthwhile.