Natasha didn't hold back at all; she started with a "Widow Sting." Gray mist struggled to dodge but clearly couldn't. After taking a hit, the blood started to fall. What was even more ridiculous was that this thing had two negative states, one was bleeding, and the other was poisoning. Once both states were active, the blood fell like crazy.
"Ahhhh!" Gray mist was somewhat flustered and said, "Why is my blood dropping so fast? What should I do?"
"I guess these two states' trigger probabilities aren't 100%, we are really too unlucky." Greed sighed and said, "Don't worry, remember the gadget we equipped before? They're definitely more concerned than we are."
Natasha's hit was spot on, and she found both states were active. She was a little stunned and couldn't help but complain: "Doctor Schiller is still so unlucky. Poisoning is one thing, but bleeding only has a 10% probability..."
"Wait a second." Bucky raised his voice to interrupt her, then said, "You're bleeding too! You two are losing blood at about the same rate!"
Natasha was shocked and quickly checked her blood bar, only to find out, as Bucky said, she was indeed losing blood too.
At this time, Greed activated Factor Infiltration, directly consuming Natasha's "Widow Sting" attack skill. Just then, Natasha refused to believe it and thought the opposition had activated some kind of sustained damage skill, and she fired another "Widow Sting," resulting in triggering sustained damage again.
Bucky quickly pulled out a "S.H.I.E.L.D. Toolbox," and selected a healing potion from it. Natasha injected herself, and her blood volume immediately refilled. Bucky also took out the "Obelisk" from the toolbox, clearing all negative states for Natasha.
But even so, she was still losing blood. Natasha finally realized and said, "No way! That bastard is using reflective armor!!!"
Now it was Bucky's turn to be shocked, he said, "No way, is there such equipment? How come all we find are scraps?"
"You damn bastard!" Natasha didn't pretend anymore, and directly cursed Greed in Russian with a string of profanities.
"See, what did I tell you," Gray mist said to Greed through his headset, "Doing such wicked things, we're bound to get cursed."
"Don't worry, this isn't the worst yet. The show is about to start." Greed laughed and said.
Although team players use squad voice chat, others can't hear what they're saying, but Natasha still stood with her hands on her hips and shouted: "Damn Schiller, your belly of evil intentions is about to fill this pit! Quickly take off that broken piece of equipment!!!"
"What are you chatting about, include me." Pikachu hopped in cheerfully, as he joined the battlefield, the zone he occupied also merged into the battle area.
"Long time no see, Natasha. And this guy... Mist, why did you think of playing this game? You don't like fighting, do you?"
Gray mist felt somewhat guilty, he didn't dare speak. The next second, Pikachu jumped up with a scream.
"Why am I losing blood??!!"
"Maybe it's because I'm losing blood," Gray mist said.
In fact, it was true. Gray mist was bound with poisoning and bleeding states and started continuously losing blood. But the other equipment he used added blood volume and defense, so after losing blood for a while, he still had more than half left.
However, the equipment description of the "Grandma's Thorn Necklace" he equipped was: "Grandma's vines aren't vegetarian. It causes retaliation damage to all enemies covering your attack area, equivalent to 30%/50%/70% of the damage you take, depending on the number of people who can attack you for the exact damage value."
Indeed, this was a divine artifact of the Gray mist style. Because the skill of this necklace meant that all people who could hit you would receive retaliatory damage. And it doesn't necessarily have to be the damage he himself caused; the damage others caused to you would also hurt those who could hit you.
And Gray mist's passive skill defaults to all people within the battle zone being able to hit him, which means everyone would receive this retaliatory damage.
Furthermore, the game doesn't allow specifying attack targets. To be precise, there is no lock-on. For example, if Natasha fired at Pikachu, not only would Pikachu be hurt, but Gray mist, in the battle zone by default, would also be hurt.
But because of this necklace, the damage Gray mist suffered would rebound to Pikachu and Natasha since both of them have Gray mist within their attack range.
Where Gray mist exists, not only would attacking Gray mist result in retaliation damage, but mutually attacking each other would be equivalent to attacking Gray mist, thus causing retaliation damage.
Pikachu was even worse off; as he just entered, since he was within the range where he could attack Gray mist, and Gray mist was continually losing blood, so he started losing blood immediately upon entry.
Though the retaliation damage hasn't reached the highest level due to insufficient numbers now, it's already quite painful. Both of them belong to the fragile high-attack type, losing blood continuously for several seconds they were left with only a blood line.
Luckily Natasha had skills that regenerate blood, but Pikachu was just miserable, and could only rely on consumable items. Peter used two bandages on him and barely got his blood line back up.
Pikachu had absolutely no idea what was going on but believed he was being secretly sabotaged. He had a pent-up fire.
Originally, he wanted to amicably come over, have a friendly duel, and stop when necessary. Yet these two bastards attacked him upon seeing him. Can we still be friends?!
Pikachu took a deep breath and yelled, "Show your cards, Peter! I'm going to zap them!"
Peter felt something was off, but seeing Pikachu was in a bad mood, he still threw out a card.
"Volt Attack!!!"
Pikachu's skills were basically those in Pokémon, like Electric Shock, 100,000 volts, Thunder, and more, Volt Attack being one of them.
After Pikachu launched this attack, it shot toward the opponent like a bolt of lightning. Natasha screamed, "No!!!!"
But it was too late; the lightning collided with the gray mist. With a sizzling sound, the gray mist's blood volume bottomed out, and Pikachu turned into a flash of white light.
Peter, bewildered at the research station, suddenly appeared on the snowy field. He slapped his forehead, "Pikachu's blood ran out?!"
"Hello? Hello, Pikachu, are you still there?"
After waiting two or three seconds, Pikachu replied, "I'm here, I'm in the command room now. What happened? Why was there a forced change?!"
"Seems like you ran out of blood," Peter said, "I just checked the rules. If either the red bar or the blue bar drops to zero, a forced change occurs. To fully eliminate someone from the game, both bars must hit zero. Each time a value hits zero, the maximum will decrease. Did your maximum life value drop?"
"...It did," Pikachu said, "But I don't understand, I just refilled my blood, how did it disappear?"
Peter came to his senses and said, "The opponent likely has counterattack skills, possibly group counterattack. Natasha injured the gray mist earlier, and the gray mist launched a rebound, which hit you. And when you attacked the gray mist again, its skill effect hadn't ended, causing a lot of damage to rebound onto you. Plus the 'Volt Attack' skill itself causes self-harm. You didn't have much blood, so it all went to zero."
"I got KO'ed in one hit?!" Pikachu said angrily, "I should have worn a hat!"
"Actually, it was my mistake," Peter said, "I thought using '100,000 volts' was too risky, so I tried a normal skill first. Turns out '100,000 volts' would have been better."
"Sigh, Shiller is so sneaky and cunning," Pikachu said, hugging his short arms, "It must be his idea. Oh, he'd better not get caught by me."
"Stop hitting him!" Natasha quickly called Peter, then said, "This guy probably has some anti-armor..."
"You actually know about anti-armor?"
"What's there not to know?" Natasha said, "Are you discriminating against century-old people?"
Peter rubbed his nose and said, "I thought you didn't play video games."
"I didn't play much before, but Bucky loves to play, so I watched it a few times. Those Yankees' games are boring... Wait, speaking of business. This guy has group counterattack skills, so we can't hit him, or we'll all get rebounded to death."
"Alright, let's have a match then." Peter said with eager anticipation, "That spaceship must not let everyone in; maybe only the winner can. Sooner or later, we'll have to fight. Let's go."
Natasha nodded, agreeing with Peter's view. This spaceship must be a lucrative structure, and the reason for its existence is to promote player confrontation. It shouldn't be a buffet where anyone can have a bite; only the victor can obtain crucial items.
So they planned to start fighting but made a big mistake by not leaving this combat area first and began fighting directly in this battle zone.
Pikachu had already taken this time to look through Peter's deck and said, "Bro, you're a newbie-friendly character. Simple skills, no complex calculations, but all very useful and balanced."
"Really? That's great!" Peter stomped his foot in place and said, "Let's start!"
At the moment Natasha pulled out her gun, Pikachu threw a simple card named "Hey! Look here!"
As the skill activated, Peter shouted loudly, "Hey, look here!"
Natasha turned her head and was hit in the face with spider silk. He cursed, and then Peter jumped high and punched down, which was another skill called "Good Neighbor is coming!"
After knocking Natasha down, he grabbed her foot and swung her around before throwing her. This skill was called "Sorry, pal!"
Indeed, Spider Man only had these three skills. But his passive was "After a skill hits the target, all remaining skill cooldowns and card delays are immediately refreshed."
In the game, most skills don't have a cooldown, but playing cards have a delay. Cards must be played one by one, not all at once. And when played one by one, they have a delay of several tenths of a second in between.
That may sound insignificant, but in crucial moments, these tenths of a second can be a matter of life and death.
And Spider Man is indeed a newbie-friendly hero; as long as a skill touches someone, you can throw all the cards without thinking, with no cooldowns or delays, it's just thrilling.
Natasha realized it too; attacking Peter was harder than attacking Pikachu. Pikachu is a high-burst mage, but these characters usually have long cooldowns and high blue costs, more suited for Natasha's assassin type. But this guy? Where'd this whirlwind come from?
To put it mildly, Peter's fists created afterimages, skill after skill, Natasha was getting a bit overwhelmed.
Fortunately, Bucky seized an opening and threw a "High-speed Retreat" card. Natasha quickly retreated to dodge Peter and interrupt his skill cycle.
Peter, caught up in the thrill, hadn't noticed his life bar. When he finally stopped and looked, one glance made his soul fly away.
"Where's my blood??!!"