The success rate for [Snatch] was 80%, but only if both the snatcher and the snatched were on equal terms.
If [Snatch] was used on a target ten levels higher than the snatcher, a 10% success rate was already considered decent. However, if it was used on a target whose level was a lot lower, the success rate would be over 80%.
GrayFox was by no means a low level target since he was on Level 6 and Mohai was on Level 12.
[Snatch] had at least 90% success rate on him.
GrayFox felt something slip from his hand, and by the time he realized it, El Staff was already gone.
"Stop him! Don't let him run!" GrayFox bellowed.
If he could kill the bandit leader, he still could retrieve the staff!
At the same time, FallenMoon and LadyDragon recognized Mohai. "It's that bandit!"
When Mohai evolved from a bandit goon to a bandit leader, his appearance was similar to other bandit leaders, yet the shadow of a bandit goon lingered.
When Mohai was summoned with his Black Iron staff, FallenMoon and LadyDragon did not recognize him at first sight, but when he started to snatch GrayFox's staff, the two ladies finally reacted to the situation.
"I'll go stop him!" LadyDragon stepped up and charged towards Mohai with her shield.
A lady always took her revenge. She did most of the heavy lifting during the fight with the previous bandit leader, yet this b*stard had stolen her kill. Now, as GrayFox tried to offer a helping hand, this b*stard came in and snatched his equipment. LadyDragon could not tolerate his despicable actions.
[Provoke]!
She might not be as fast as Mohai, but she strode forward nonetheless, and when she saw Mohai trying to escape with GrayFox's El Staff, she flung the [Provoke] skill at him.
The skills like [Provoke] and [Taunt] could be cast without any casting time, and as long as the caster did not miss the target, the target could not dodge it.
A dot of red light appeared on Mohai as he was struck by [Provoke] and he was going to be aggroed.
[Provoke] was still at its first level, so no skill points were invented yet, but aggroing a monster for 5 seconds was not a problem.
While she got the aggro of the target, the target would run towards her and eventually be surrounded.
Has LadyDragon learned [Provoke]?!
After being provoked, Mohai turned to LadyDragon and was astonished by her skill.
Now, he was certain that LadyDragon did not just take a normal difficulty test to change her occupation in advance. Even though it might not be as difficult as GrayFox's S-rank difficulty, she was not far from that. Otherwise, she would not have been able to learn another [Provoke] skill at Level 5.
Aggro was not as effective on Mohai as on other bandit leaders because the latter had the special [Eternal Will] ability from the Template Manager. Although LadyDragon's [Provoke] did aggro him, he recovered in less than a second.
However, as a quick thought flashed through his mind, he feigned being aggroed and ran towards LadyDragon.
"Now, everyone! Stop them!"
WhiteNightFirefly was overjoyed when she saw Mohai get the El Staff. She was ready to send some of her men to stop the pursuers while the others covered Mohai's escape.
However, when she saw Mohai being provoked by LadyDragon, her joy sank.
Facing a Level 5 player with a second skill, 200 over Elites with decent equipment set from the Fortune Alliance, and a number of Priests in the Blooming Dream, it seemed like the bandit leader could not escape death this time.
If the bandit leader was killed, The Richest would lose a great deal!
"We can make it!" After she gave her orders to her men, she saw the Fortune Alliance's party make their move as well, thus she knew for sure that the bandit leader would be surrounded.
"All Sorcerers, attack!" With a clench of her teeth, WhiteNightFirefly followed up with the next order.
She had to send her Sorcerers to attack right then. Once Mohai was heavily surrounded by the players from the Fortune Alliance, the Sorcerers would not even get the chance to attack because the Sorcerer's [Fireball] and [Ice Arrow] skills would be blocked by the players.
20 to 30 [Fireballs] flew across the maple trees and bombarded the players from the Fortune Alliance before they could surround Mohai.
Hehe, you really told the Sorcerers to attack!
Mohai giggled sinisterly. He purposely let himself be surrounded just so he could force WhiteNightFirefly to attack the Sorcerers.
The Richest had meticulously planned this ambush and it was impossible for them not to have manned Sorcerers to free him from being surrounded.
However, The Richest were not inclined to use this particular method. Firstly, WhiteNightFirefly did not know what it would do to the contract. Secondly, once the Sorcerers attacked, they would aggro the bandit leader and Mohai would get the chance to kill them first. Even WhiteNightFirefly herself might be caught in the misfire.
DemonMarshal and BrightMoonOfYesteryear's meticulous ambush plan must have included this possible scenario, but in order to numb GrayFox, WhiteNightFirefly and the Sorcerers in her party must be positioned in a natural way. Otherwise, they might not even initiate the ambush in the first place.
Mohai's understanding of the game was better than everyone present. Of course, he knew what kind of tricks The Richest had under their sleeve.
When Mohai was summoned to steal El Staff, he got to know what DemonMarshal was thinking about based on the positions of WhiteNightFirefly and the Sorcerers in her party.
Their positions were fine, but WhiteNightFirefly tried her best to stay out of the Sorcerers' casting range, minimizing the odds of her being hit by friendly fire when they were ordered to attack.
Mohai used the plan to his advantage and let himself get surrounded to force the Sorcerers to attack.
Everything unfolded as he expected. WhiteNightFirefly told the Sorcerers to attack.
With a swing of his hand, a Bronze weapon that he had snatched from the players during the afternoon leveling session appeared.
[Powerful Sweep]!
He disregarded LadyDragon and strode a few steps forward, casting [Powerful Sweep] at the Sorcerers from The Richest repeatedly.
WhiteNightFirefly was the first to get hit, but she swapped into a full set of tanking equipment. Even though a single [Powerful Sweep] damaged her by 300 over points, she was not killed in a single hit.
She quickly rolled aside and tried to escape the [Powerful Sweep]'s attack range.
The Sorcerers were not killed by [Powerful Sweep] either. They continued attacking Mohai with a magical attack and tried their very best to aggro him.
DemonMarshal and BrightMoonOfYesteryear had planned for the worst-case scenario. Therefore, all the Sorcerers had HP massive enough to sustain a single hit of [Powerful Sweep].
WhiteNightFirefly was the first to get hit, and if she could escape the first range of attack, she would be safe. Since she still had the contract with Mohai, he would not attack her.
DemonMarshal and BrightMoonOfYesteryear had set up flawless countermeasures for the plan, so under normal circumstances, WhiteNightFirefly would not die.
However, it boiled down to the same old saying: "they got the wrong guy".
The reason why Mohai let himself get surrounded was that he wanted to kill WhiteNightFirefly.
With the presence of the Goddess Contract, he could not go up against her directly but a misfire would not be a problem.
Therefore, Mohai forced her to make the Sorcerers attack and he could use [Powerful Sweep] to kill her via misfire.
WhiteNightFirefly had actually escaped the first [Powerful Sweep]'s attack range, but since Mohai had the intention to kill her, he purposely altered the attacking angle, rendering her dodging maneuvers useless.
As the yellow flash from the skill illuminated the place, WhiteNightFirefly became the first player in Maple Forest to die by Mohai's hand.
"LadyDragon, fall back!"
On the other hand, after FallenMoon saw Mohai use [Powerful Sweep], she quickly warned LadyDragon to fall back. At the same time, she led the members of the Blooming Dream away.
They had been wiped out once by this particular skill. FallenMoon knew the players with their current power level could not do anything against the wide offensive skill, the best way to deal with it was to back off.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under Mohai's intentional control, the yellow flash from [Powerful Sweep] wreaked havoc in Maple Forest. The red maple leaves danced in the air, followed by the light from death shining all across the plate.
Everyone from The Richest was wiped out instantly and so was the Fortune Alliance. GrayFox who was closest to Mohai could not resist the attack as well, so he was also killed in an instant.
Only FallenMoon and a number of her guild members were saved because they had retreated earlier.
The surviving places were rendered speechless as they watched the bandit leader, an Elite monster who should not be this powerful, kill almost 200 players and brazenly collect the spoils across the ground blanketed with maple leaves.