Fatal Shot
chapter-179

"What?"

Danger loomed in an instant!

Feng Luo seized the opportunity and obtained the first damage, but, in the end, the aggro of the Female Ant Commander was locked onto him.

Even as the Fireballs, Wind Blades, bullets, and skills hit its body, the Female Ant Commander in the air was not distracted. It flew straight at Feng Luo as the Fire Energy inside its mandibles continued to rise.

"Sh*t!" Feng Luo had a grim expression.

This Female Ant's Fireball, which is like an ultimate skill—it can actually continuously cast it? What should I do now? Hide? It's not that easy to hide!

That was because Feng Luo had just noticed that not only did the white Fireball that the Female Ant had shot earlier flew exceptionally quickly but could also change directions, to a certain degree, after it was shot.

Moreover, after it hit the ground, the splash damage spread across a range of around 10 meters. This meant that even if he were to cast Quick Sneak, it would not be easy to escape from the damage range. Also, it wasn't time to run right now; it should be after the Fireball was released. Then Feng Luo would predict the path and try to dodge it.

Feng Luo aimed at the Female Ant Commander preparing its skill in the sky through the scope as he thought, Is there no other way?

Although it took a long time to describe everything, in reality, only around two to three seconds passed. At that time, within Feng Luo's sights through the Eye of the Thunder scope, the white Fireball in the Female Ant Commander's mouth was quickly forming. In around two seconds, the destructive Fireball that was capable of instantly killing all the low-HP professions after the Heavy Armor Warrior was about to fall upon him.

Feng Luo looked at the Desert Fire Ant Female Ant Commander flying toward him with its mandibles open while preparing the Fireball energy skill while surrounded by the bullets and skills hurling towards it…

"Wait… This situation…"

Feng Luo suddenly felt a sense of deja vu, as he could vaguely remember seeing the scene in front of him before.

Town of Exiles!

In that instant, Feng Luo suddenly thought back to the Town of Exiles, where the Level-45 Steel Beetle Boss had been controlled by the rebel army. That was when the Boss had spat the "Energy Cannon" at him because Feng Luo had accumulated the aggro. Although one was in the sky while the other was on the ground—and one was a Fireball while the other was an Energy Cannon—both were the spitting image of the other!

And that time, the reason he hadn't gotten wiped out was that…

At that time, the energy Fireball in the Female Ant Commander's mandibles was in the last stage of completion. The surge of energy was so hot that it appeared as if the air around its mandibles was being bent.

24K, who sat on Feng Luo's shoulder, seemed to have also sensed looming death. Its six claws tightly clenched Feng Luo's combat uniform. Its pea-like eyes were full of fear.

Bang!

Before the white energy Fireball in the Female Ant Commander's mandibles reached its peak, Feng Luo's Eye of the Thunder rang out. When Feng Luo fired the shot, he seemed very calm. The Eye of the Thunder in his arms did not shake in the slightest.

At that moment, the Female Ant Commander was around 250 meters away from Feng Luo's position. To be precise, based on the Eye of the Thunder's computing function, the distance it displayed was 253.42 meters!

This distance did not seem far in the sniper's scope, which magnified the scene before him by five times. However, if one were to look at it with the naked eye, the glowing red Female Ant Commander would have only seemed like a ball around the size of a person's thumb.

Moreover, in his sights, there were flashes of skills, bullets flying everywhere, as well as countless red-colored Worker Ants zipping about to disrupt the attacks. As such, for a normal Sniper, scoring a hit on the Female Ant Commander would have been enough to bring joy!

However, Feng Luo's aim was not simply to hit the Female Ant Commander! Instead, it was…

Bang!

The double armor-piercing round rotating at high speed drew a path that the naked eye could not see in the sky, crossed a gap of over 200 meters behind by the various Desert Fire Ants dancing in the air, and pierced through the mouth of the Female Ant Commander that was still preparing the energy Fireball.

After around one second—!

Boom!

A huge explosion sounded as the entire head of the Level-39 Female Ant Commander flying through the air was engulfed in a cloud of white flames.

−3244

Yellow weak-point damage was caused by the double armor-piercing round!

−8877

The second number was the "reflected" damage caused by the Fireball skill's explosion. The two damage numbers appeared one after the other. A high damage output of around 13,000 directly took out one-third of the Desert Fire Ant Commander's HP. And this was all of its remaining HP!

It was clear that this Female Fire Ant Commander had been seeking death. To continue to fly in the air so far out in the open. What player around it would not pass up such an opportunity?

Even if it was a Commander-grade monster, it couldn't withstand the concentrated attacks of over a dozen players for long. And while it was preparing the Fireball to use against Feng Luo, the Female Ant Commander had lost around half its HP to the other players.

In the end, it lost control of the energy Fireball, and it was countered by the huge explosion that pushed it to the abyss.

Killed Desert Fire Ant Female Ant (Level 39, Commander). Contribution: 28.8%. Obtained Experience: 1089!

By the time the system notification appeared in Feng Luo's sight, he had already picked up the Eye of the Thunder and cast Quick Sneak and was in the process of running like crazy toward the back of a sand dune.

Upon seeing the system notification, he stopped his footsteps as his eyes relaxed, feeling that he had lucked out again. The reason why he'd fired at the Female Ant Commander's mouth was that he had remembered a similar scene from before.

During the Defense Mission in the Town of Exiles, the Level-45 Steel Beetle Boss that had been preparing its Energy Cannon to fire at Feng Luo had been hit by the Electromagnetic Cannon prepared by the guards coming in for a landing from the sky. Their shot had ignited and caused the Energy Cannon to explode prematurely, blasting it into a stunned and confused state.

As such, just now, in a moment that could have definitely been regarded as a crisis, he'd thought of recreating the previous scene, which was why he'd fired a double armor-piercing round at the Female Ant Commander's mouth when it was preparing the Fireball.

However, as the bullet had exited the chamber, he'd remembered that the method was not a guaranteed success. That was because the reason the Steel Beetle Boss's Energy Cannon had exploded was that the powerful plasma mass after the electromagnetic cannon exploded made the Energy Cannon destabilize before exploding!

But the power of the shot was definitely far inferior to the guard team's electromagnetic cannon. Moreover, it did not even trigger the electricity effect of the Eye of the Thunder. The chances of detonating the Female Ant Commander's Fireball had probably been lower than 10 percent!

Which was why Feng Luo had immediately started running.

But, clearly, today was his lucky day.

Not only did Feng Luo spot a treasure and acquire the psionics crystal and solo-killed a Commander-grade monster that dropped a rare chip and ring, but this improbable shot had actually detonated the Fireball in the Female Ant Commander's mouth!

What Feng Luo did not know was just how lucky this shot really had been.

The force generated by the first explosion of the double armor-piercing round had actually been insufficient. It had only created some dissonance in the energy Fireball at the crucial moment. However, the alloy core produced by the second explosion that dealt higher damage had coincidentally hit the mouth of the Female Ant Commander—the spot crucial to condensing the fire energy.

The "vital organ" had been injured, and the Female Ant Commander had failed to control the fluctuation of the energy Fireball at that crucial moment, which was why the explosion of the Fireball had been delayed for a bit.

Otherwise, to rely on a fairly common D-grade bullet to disrupt the key skill of a Commander-grade monster would have normally been impossible!

However, to simply attribute it to Feng Luo's luck would have also been rather unfair. After all, in a situation like that, normal players would have lost their cool and would have been scattering to hide. Where would they have found the courage to face the monster and shoot rather than quickly trying to find a place to hide?

Moreover, the whole incident had taken only a few seconds. Even if an average Sniper had been to take a hurried shot, how likely would the Sniper have been to hit the mouth of the Desert Fire Ant that was less than 10 centimeters wide amid a sky filled with disruptions? So, in fact, the shot was the result of a combination of luck and skill!

If it hadn't been for the skills and techniques that Feng Luo possessed, where would the "luck" have come from that had helped kill the two Commander-grade monsters today?