Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian

by Stayrr

The phoenix is a creature of legends, a wonder of the world, an imagery of life and destruction. This fabled creature signifies the rise of a hero in a virtual world where battles occur for the sake of honor and glory! Zhang Yang was a professional gamer in the first and most fantastic game that revolutionized the world: God’s Miracle. A game where traditional knowledge in RPGs di

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Chapter 49: The Top 3 Guild

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Her cold look could not hide her body's sensitive side, and Zhang Yang clearly felt it! Underneath her thin uniform, he could feel her two round buns clasped in his hands! It's no wonder people say that the colder a woman is, the more sensitive her body would be; and she is the perfect example! Zhang Yang loosen his grip on her, rolled over and stood up. As the policewoman did the same, her cheeks blushed like red roses quite visibly. She was beautiful and cute, yet glamorous at the same time!

The surrounding crowd gave out a sudden call, and Zhang Yang took this chance to flee from the scene with his tail between his legs. He knew he made a grave mistake and if he continued standing there, he would be branded a pervert and be arrested! Watching him run away, the policewomen stomped the ground with anger and dread, causing her bosoms to bounce with every step. She turned and returned to the police station with the 3 members of the scamming family.

Along the way, Zhang Yang grabbed a few snacks to eat before he got home. The time was slightly past 9:30am, and he quickly put on his gaming helmet and logged in.

"Little Yang, what took you so long to get up? Could it be… did you have some fun last night?! Listen to me, you can't go around and pick them up from the streets! They're some nasty stuff, bro! Give me a few days, and I'll come over and bring you to this awesome place called 'Girl's Town'! The girls over there are at the same level as superstars!" Zhang Yang was immediately greeted by Fatty Han's private message. As usual, he never bothered to change his lustful and perverted behavior. Ignoring his usual habit, Zhang Yang sent a party invitation along with his reply, "Uh huh, right… like I'll believe you!"

Little Snow, Drizzler, as well as Hundred Shots were recruited as well.

"Sorry I'm late, guys. Had a little hiccup just now. Let's gather at the North side of the city!"

Drizzler began to complain, "Stupid uncle! If I'd known you were going to be late, I would've slept longer!" Zhang Yang felt a little ticked off. He only smiled bitterly and said, "Why 'uncle'? I'm not even that much older than you are." Albeit childish, Zhang Yang did not really fancy being called an old uncle nor a young brat.

"Aren't you over your 20's?" Drizzler asked.

"Huh… yeah. I'm 22 now!"

"Come on! I'm only 17. What else would I call someone who's five years older than I am?"

Fatty Han then interjected, "F*ck! If you called someone five years older than you 'an uncle', that means you'd be calling someone ten years older as 'gramps'!

Drizzler's expression began to change into a 'murderous when provoked' look, "Hey Fatty, what're you trying to say? Do you think you could take advantage of me since I'm only 17?"

Fearful, Fatty Han immediately tried to change the subject, "Ahahha… nice weather we're having today!"

Time flew past as they all gathered. Zhang Yang brought them to complete the dungeon pre-requisite quest, which was fairly simple. All they needed to do was to kill a bunch of monsters, find the NPC near the dungeon entrance and gain access to the lair.

To save time, the party rented mounts from the Gryphon Keeper and few to the White Shine Forest. This was one of the many transport services in the game that helped players who were mount-less to reach their destination in a much shorter time, instead of having to spend more time running over.

"Flying in the air is awesome!" Drizzler stretched out her arms to feel the air. "It feels like I'm a Sword Shaman! Whoosh! Thousand Mile Soaring Blade! Sigh… It would be nice if this game could change into the Xian Xia style, then we could all learn the Sword's way and fly on our own!"

Zhang Yang giggled. "This is an international gaming community! They won't change the game that way since it's a little too Eastern! It's not suitable for the international market!"

"Tch, what a waste! They westernized the game just to earn profits! Cunning bastards!"

"Alright, alright. Let's get going. Snow Spite City is just through the forest!"

Zhang Yang went ahead to clear a path for the party through the forest. Once they were out, they saw human-like structures in front of them. The city was only a short distance away. In there, they saw all kinds of elemental spirits wandering around the city. What was once a human city became a paradise for the Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth elementals.

Zhang Yang flipped through the quest description and notified the team, "Guys, we need to take out ten of each elemental spirits to complete the quest!"

"Go! Go! Go!"

Everyone in the party had overpowered equipment against the monsters. Killing them and completing the quest was a breeze. They soon arrived at the dungeon entrance.

Marzerway's Lair was situated in this abandoned man-made palace in Snow Sprite City. There were three sub-dungeons namely Front Wing, Mid Wing and the Main Wing and the palace was the entrance to the dungeon. The Front and Mid Wing had two bosses each while the Main Wing held Marzerway, a 20 player party-fight boss.

"Eh?" Zhang Yang and his party were surprised to see that they were not alone there. In fact, there were 30 players; six parties with five players each. They were all from different guilds, namely The Dominators, Sky High, and Crimson Rage. Every one of them had reached Level 20! They were all technically qualified to enlist themselves in the Level Ranking Board, but none of them did it and Zhang Yang understood their decision. They were furiously competing with each other and neither one of them wanted to expose their true strength. Even though they gave up their pride, they never gave up their determination. In the end, they all fought hard and leveled up, arriving at this Level 20 dungeon entrance at the same time as the others.

Noticing Zhang Yang's party walking towards them, they were taken aback. How could anyone else be able or even try to raid this dungeon?!

Humbly Gentleman of The Dominators scanned the party and saw that Zhang Yang's name was hidden. "You are Zhan Yu, I presume?" Such keen eyes, as expected of a guild master! Zhang Yang could only give a light smile.

"Are you all going to raid that dungeon?"

"IT'S YOU!" Zhang Yang heard a loud voice that sounded like someone screamed through their teeth. There came a beautiful woman with arms on her waist and bosoms big enough to attract any eyes. Right, she was the woman I exchanged my [Refined Iron Ore] with regular [Iron Ore]. Her name was Thorny Rose.

"Oh, hi!"

"You sneaky bastard! I was doomed because of you!" Thorny Rose's face was flushed with crimson rage. Fatty Han, noticing her anger, quickly interjected.

"Excuse me, young maiden. Has this little brat wronged you? Did he knock you up and refused to claim responsibility?! Damn you, Little Yang! How could you do this?! How could you just use this young girl and discard her like that?! Urgh, I'm so jealous!"

With just that, the atmosphere suddenly became a lot heavier. Everyone began to exchange looks towards Zhang Yang and Thorny Rose. They looked like they knew what was going on in their mind.

"You dirty uncle! I'm 100% certain now that you're a big horny pervert!" Drizzler exclaimed as she shared the same thoughts as others. Thorny Rose tried to explain otherwise.

"N-no! It's not that! This sly fox cheated me over 100 [Iron Ore]! He caused Mei Mei to be late for more than half a day to submit her quest!"

So that was the truth! With that revealed, the crowd began to lose their interest. It seemed that the exciting lie was more entertaining than the boring truth.

"Rose! Stop fooling around!"

A woman walked over, carrying with her a sense of dignified nobility, calming the raging Thorny Rose. She then took her time to observe Zhang Yang. "I've heard of your name. I'd never thought that today would be the day I finally met the famous Zhan Yu, the legendary Guardian. It's an honor!"

Crimson Rage's guild master; Snow Seeker. In the future, she would be ranked fourth in China Server's top ten Spellcasters. She would also be the player representative for the "Red" party, an S-class competition team. Zhang Yang would not dare to ignore someone like her.

"No, guild master Snow, the honor is mine! I, too, have heard of your noble name! Luck truly is on my side!"

"Enough of these fake words! We've all gathered here today to fight for that 'First Clear' achievement! Stop making those welcoming faces as if they were your own!"

Cold words, coming from the mouth of Sky Shaman, the guild master of Sky High. Snow Seeker averted her gaze and smiled warmly.

"We, the Crimson Rage are all just maidens. We do not have such wildly ambitions. In fact, we're just here to try on the Hard Mode!" Nobody believed her. They knew her words were as fake as the nature in-game.

Humbly was in his own sea of thoughts when he suddenly voiced out, "How about we have a bet? To see who would be the first to claim two of the 'First Clear' achievement for Hardcore Mode?" Sky Shaman felt confident about winning the challenge.

"Haha! A challenge invites progress! Well said! How about it, guild master Snow, Zhan Yu? Let's compete!"

Snow Seeker only lightly smiled as she replied, "We would always welcome a clean and fair fight. I only fear that someone might not obey the rules of the game and uses some underhanded tactic to win the bet!" Hearing her words, Humbly Gentleman and Sky Shaman's smiles faded a little.

Zhang Yang could not help but wonder. What happened between those three guilds that left them having a grudge against each other? After thinking about it again, he left it alone as it was none of his business.

"If we participated, what would get out of it?" Zhang Yang inquired.

Sky Shaman, with words full of confidence, gave a hefty suggested reward. "Haha! Everyone will bet on 10,000 gold pieces! The loser will have to pay 10,000 gold pieces each to the winner! Two dungeons, two rounds. How about it?"

Snow Seeker expressed her objection to the idea, "I've said it before, Crimson Rage would only take on Hard Mode. Consider us forfeiting the bet! We will now take our leave and start on the dungeon. We'll be going now, then!"

Snow Seeker waved goodbye and led the party into the dungeon. No one outside the party would know the mode of the dungeon that they were raiding, but everyone knew this: the pre-requisite quest must be completed to gain access to the Front and Middle Wing. Parties must raid both to be able to enter the Main Wing, and the requirement did not specify what mode they would choose.

"Gentleman, Zhan Yu! How about it? Shall we place our bets?"

"Yes!"

Humbly Gentleman and Sky Shaman stared at each other, emitting a strong enmity between the two. This was how the two guilds treated each other; with a strong sense of hostility. Zhang Yang, on the other hand, laughed out loud. "Well, I'll just go on and follow Gentleman! It's a 'yes' from me as well!"

"Alright! Now that's what we're talking about!" Sky Shaman then clapped his hands to get his team's attention. "Are you listening, brothers? We're competing with Zhan Yu and The Dominators, to fight for the 'First Clear' achievement! What do you guys think? Could we lose to them?"

"Hell no!" The players from Sky High roared out in unison, and their morale was instantly boosted.

"So, let's go!" Sky Shaman waved his arm, leading his army to disappear into the dungeon.

"Well then, I'd better be going now!" Humbly Gentleman winked at Zhang Yang. "Brother Zhan Yu, after today, let's find some time together to chat! I'll take my leave now then!" And with that, The Dominators disappeared into the dungeon too.

"Guys, we'd better quickly complete the quest now and enter the dungeon, or we'd have to put out 10,000 gold pieces!"

Drizzler shamelessly responded, "Hmph! That's what you have decided, not us! If you lose, you'd better pay them from your own pocket. But if we win, we must share the booty!"

"You little brat! Is money the only thing on your mind?"

"Hehehe!"

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Chapter 50: Strength of the Minion

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The quest submission NPC was an Elf Thief, hidden in the shadows at the dungeon entrance. She's barely noticeable even if you stood beside her! One by one, the party members submitted their quests, and the NPC finally gave responses.

"Heroes of the Union! Behold the sight! Those devil-succumbed Spellcasters! Look at what they did to this place! Snow Sprite City was once a marvelous and beautiful city; but the wicked Dark Magicians left this place devastated! Now, he sits on the throne in the center of the Main Wing! You must save this city! You must destroy him!"

"But beware, adventurers. If you want to defeat Marzerway himself, you must first defeat four of his underlings and get past the Front Wing and Middle Wing! Heed my warning! These four underlings were created by Marzerway himself through the use of Dark Arts, made from the essences of the elementals! These elementals are not to be treated lightly!"

'Ding! You have received a quest from Ranger Xue Wei: Get Rid of the Claws. Will you accept it?'

Zhang Yang accepted the quest.

[Get Rid of the Claws] (Quest Difficulty: A)

Quest description: For the Union! Brave adventures, conquer the Front Wing and Middle Wing to make a path to the Main Wing! Kill Marzerway and save the Snow Sprite City!

Progress:

Water Spirit Wattland 0/1 Earth Spirit Oz 0/1 Fire Spirit Farr 0/1 Air Spirit Ains 0/1

Quest Reward: Access to the Main Wing, Marzerway's Lair entrance qualification.

Zhang Yang set the difficulty to Hardcore and commanded the party, "So let's go!"

Everyone followed and stood before the castle door. The courtyard was in ruins and everything else was either old or destroyed which caused the scenery to be extremely dull and gloomy. Not too far away, two water spirits were patrolling the area. Their transparent and liquefied figures flowed with a kind of liquid, wielding a shield on their left and a spear on the right.

"Little Yang, why didn't we start from Normal Mode?"

"Fatty, Normal Mode would only drop Level 10 Black-Steel equipment while Hard Mode gives Level 20 Black-Steel equipment. That's almost on the same level as Level 10 Green-Copper equipment, which is what most of us are wearing now. It'd be meaningless to even start with Hard Mode!"

"Alright then, let's get things going!" Drizzler took out her spear and entered her battle stance.

"Hold up! Let me explain before you get us all wiped out!"

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Yang was deeply worried that this dumb and childish brat would just charge straight on without thinking.

"Killing is pretty straightforward. The main problem is after the monster is dead, a debuff will be casted on every nearby player. If two players get the debuff near to each other, it will cause a 30-meter explosion that deals 2,500 damage to every player in the blast radius!" Zhang Yang then pointed at Drizzler.

"That is why when you see the monster's HP almost gone, run as far away as possible! The two hunters must also stow away their pets!"

"Yeah, yeah. I get it. You're not even that old and you're already lecturing like an old gramp!" Drizzler looked like she had had enough.

"Fine, let's get going then!" Ignoring her, Zhang Yang waved his hands, signaling the team to strike. He used Charge on one of the elemental spirits and marked it with a star tag.

"Hit the tagged monster!"

[Demonized Water Spirit] (Elite)

Level: 20

HP: 10,000

The blood-boiling Drizzler let loose a battle cry and used Charge to dash forward. With the spear in her hand, she caused a significant amount of damage. Hundred Shots and Fatty Han did not hold back either and drew their bows to attack.

90%, 80%...

The team's equipment was decent enough to contribute to the damage pool. The star-marked monster was quickly defeated.

"Little brat! Withdraw now!" Zhang Yang screamed at the top of his lungs as he saw the monster was about to drop. Drizzler on the other hand, did not notice his screams and continued slashing wildly.

'Ding! Demonized Water Spirit has casted Mark of Doom on death!'

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu has the effect of Mark of Doom!'

'Ding! Player Drizzler has the effect of Mark of Doom!'

Zhang Yang and Drizzler's bodies began to glow in a dark light and then…

'-2500!'

'-2500!'

'-2500!'

'-2500!'

'-2500!'

The entire team was killed.

"You little brat! What did I tell you in the beginning?!"

At the reviving point, a goddess was humming a song in an unknown language, giving a holy-like celestial kind of aura. Meanwhile, Zhang Yang gave out a deadly and furious aura, staring irritably at Drizzler.

"I didn't understand a thing you said that that time!" Drizzler tried to explain her mistake while giving an innocent face.

"Huh?!" Zhang Yang narrowed his eyes, emitting more killing intent.

"Alright, alright! I got all worked up there. I forgot all about it then!" She shrugged it off as if nothing happened. Zhang Yang sighed heavily.

"Just… just pay attention next time, alright?" Not even he could continue to be mad a cute girl like her.

Shuh!

Five more souls appeared at the revive point and from their name tags, they were all from The Dominators. Humbly Gentleman was a little surprised when he noticed them as well.

The local area channel appeared, "Gah! You guys were wiped out too!"

In death, players were blocked from using "Talk"; no one could hear you speak. Players could only use text and words to chat in the party, guild, and local channel.

Before Zhang Yang could even reply, five more souls appeared. It was the other 5-man party from The Dominators. Not long after, two of the 5-man parties from Sky High arrived as well.

"Haha! Everyone was killed off at the first minion!" Fatty Han typed in the local channel.

Scanning the surrounding to see who was there, Sky Shaman came to the conclusion, "Not everyone."

"Crimson Rage!"

"Did they really just fight in Hard Mode?" Humbly Gentleman thought to himself, eyebrows frowning with his thoughts. Minions in the Hard More were surely as fatal as the ones in Hardcore Mode that could kill you off with just a blast.

"Go on! Don't stop now!" Zhang Yang cried out in the party channel and revived at his body.

As they entered the dungeon with health recovery snacks in their mouth, they noticed that the number of patrolling Water Spirits did not reduce. Being able to defeat only one before they died, the other Water Spirit respawned when the surviving one left its battle state.

"Remember what I told you, little dipsh*t! If you cause us to die again, prepare for some spanking!" Zhang Yang said as he gritted his teeth.

"Hmph!" Drizzler turned her head away from Zhang Yang, pouting her lips.

"I'm going in!" Zhang Yang used Charge to rush into the monster's range and after a few attacks, the monsters were defeated. Even though little Drizzler was naughty and playful, she would never pull out at a fight.

"Next one!" The party moved on, clearing waves of minions until they arrived at a small shack with three water elementals inside.

"The f*ck are we going there for? The road is on the other way!" Drizzler pointed to the road on their left.

Zhang Yang giggled. "There's a treasure chest in here, dummy!"

Drizzler and Little Snow's eyes glinted simultaneously. "Treasure chest?!"

Zhang Yang first used Charge towards one of the elementals, followed by a normal attack and a Horizontal Sweep. Now that he had a new skill Thunder Strike, his ability to lock in the monster's aggro was at a whole new level. Zhang Yang quickly activated all his skills and firmly kept the aggro on him.

Under the entire team's firepower, the monsters were taken down flawlessly. Like a lightning bolt, Drizzler and Little Snow occupied each corner of the treasure chest, caressing it's golden frames like a new born baby.

"Ah… this sensation! Truly exciting!"

"Hmm… this is marvelous indeed!"

The two ladies were already in their delusional world; misers at their best.

"Alright! Alright! Let go of the chest and open it! Don't forget, we're here to claim the 'First Clear' achievement!"

Zhang Yang could not hold in his anger anymore; he could no longer endure facing these money-crazed ladies along with those stupid faces they make every time a treasure chest appeared. After reminding them for god knows how long, they decided to play scissor-paper-stone to determine who opens the chest.

Being the winner, Little Snow reached out her hand to open it.

[Tight Leather Jacket] (Green-Copper, Leather Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 24

Strength: 4

Dexterity: 12

Level requirement: 20

"Give it to Hundred Shots. I have full Green-Copper equipment on me. Let him upgrade his own!" Fatty Han humbly rejected the roll and offered them to Hundred Shots. He had only been through two runs of Hardcore Mode of the Bangar Crypt; surely his equipment could not be on pay yet with Fatty Han's. Hundred Shots did not hold back, he knew that words were just mere words; actions spoke louder.

Little Snow touched the chest again and the second item popped out.

[Smithing Recipe: Level 2 Whetstone] (Smithing Recipe)

Use: Teach you to craft Level 2 Whetstone.

Requirement: Amateur Smithing.

"Good hands!" Zhang Yang smiled. This recipe was one of the methods to raise one's Smithing level from Amateur to Advance. The recipe was not at all rare; they were in fact easy to farm for.

Zhang Yang rolled for 35 points.

Drizzler rolled for 87 points.

"Haha! It's mine!" Drizzler smiled from ear to ear. She turned her gaze to Zhang Yang, "Sneaky uncle, if you promise not to treat me so bad, I'll give you the recipe!"

"Tch! Who would want it!" Zhang Yang shook his head to reject her offer. He knew that the recipe's drop rate was very high, and could be found in abundance in the auction house at an extremely low price in fact! Why would he need to answer her request?

"Hmph!" Drizzler held her chest up and patted the recipe to learn it.

"Continue on!"

Zhang Yang commanded and the team complied. As the moved further into the dungeon, they arrived at an entrance to a palace. Standing guard outside were two water elemental spirits, and they looked much bigger than the ones they fought before. These spirits had the same transparent body, but were holding thick and rough swords.

[Water Spirit Guardian] (Elite)

Level: 20

HP: 10,000

"These two monsters have very high attack power; not to mention they can clear their aggro timely. When that happens, they will use Charge towards a ranged player and unleash a skill similar to Tornado Cleave. It's a much stronger skill, and it could last longer than Tornado Cleave. Once the battle starts, please maintain a certain distance from one another. Don't be too close to the next player or you'll die when Tornado Cleave strikes." Everyone listened closely; their eyes were set on Zhang Yang firmly.

"Here I go!"

Zhang Yang used Charge to stun one of the elementals and initiated his attack on the other.

'-352!'

With one of them stunned, the other began to hurl the sword in its hand towards Zhang Yang.

'Block!'

'-91!' Block reflected damage.

'-197!' Shield Bash.

'-675!'

'-701!' Horizontal Sweep.

The stunned monster finally recovered and began attacking Zhang Yang as well.

'-91!'

'-91!' Thunder Strike.

'Ding! Water Spirit Guardian has used Charge!'

One of the monsters aimed the Charge on Hundred Shots, stunning him. It then flipped over his sword and began to spin in circles.

'Ding! Water Spirit Guardian has used Dance of the Blade, causing 300 damage to all nearby targets. Lasts for 5 seconds!'

Zhang Yang quickly directed the team, "Everyone! Get away from that monster!" But what luck, the other monster used Charge and targeted Hundred Shots as well.

'Ding! Water Spirit Guardian has used Dance of the Blade, causing 300 damage to all nearby targets. Lasts for 5 seconds!'

With two monsters using their strong AoE skills together, Hundred Shots took a lot of damage.

'-285!' and '-285!' kept floating across his head. He was not in time to escape, and Little Snow could not heal his HP quick enough.

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots has died!'

Zhang Yang would not date to charge ahead. Once that skill has been activated, it will damage its surrounding area for five seconds. Block could only nullify one instance of attack and all other remaining attacks depend on his defense. Even if he did have 1,720 HP, he could not hold off the two monsters' furious attack together!

The skill's duration ended and the monster returned to their original position to resume their attack on Zhang Yang.

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Chapter 51: Water Spirit Wattland

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"Holy crap! That's a sick skill! Why isn't the Berserker's Tornado Cleave that awesome?!" In her tone of voice, there was a hint of both pity and excitement.

"Alright! Alright! Save your breath for later. Press on the attack, or it will unleash another tornado and kill us all!"

Zhang Yang's unreserved manner of speech ticked Drizzler off, and she returned his scorn with her own insult.

"Tch! Zhan Yu, if you're going to continue being humorless, I'd pity whoever that's going to be your girlfriend! She'd be bored as hell!"

During their quarrels, one of the guardians was defeated and turned into a pillar of light, disappearing into the air. The party changed their target to the remaining guardian and bombarded it with all their damaging skills.

After some time, the Water Spirit turned and used Charge on Little Snow, immediately casting Dance of the Blade. She quickly healed herself with a bottle of red potion along with a healing spell. Fortunately, it was only one monster, as her healing could keep up with the damage loss to maintain her HP and surviving the attack. The party picked up the pace and attacked furiously. The last guardian fell soon after.

"Little Snow, revive Hundred Shots. I'll take this time to explain the next battle strategy."

Zhang Yang opened the palace door, and standing right at the center of the room was a gigantic Water Spirit. Having the height of almost half the room, the giant stood almost 10 meters tall.

[Water Spirit Wattland] (Green-Copper)

Level: 21

HP: 126K

"This boss is a Spellcaster class and its main attack is Water Arrow. It will only cast this skill on the player with the highest aggro value. There's a three-second unbreakable channel duration which will then strike an 800 damage value! The person that's going to take this skill head on is me. After my passive 20% damage reduction, I would take about 640 damage. It's still quite fatal so I need Little Snow to focus your healing solely on me!"

Little Snow nodded in all seriousness. She knew at this time, he was not in the mood for jokes and she had to take this fight seriously too.

"His second skill is Ice Ring, and it's randomly casted on any player. Once activated, an icy ring will form around a player and within 3 seconds, it will form an orb around you, causing 1,000 frost damage. Anyone that starts to notice an ice ring forming around them, you must run out of the range or you'll receive a fatal attack."

Almost everyone in the party had a specific attribute allocation style; Fatty Han being one of the most extreme ones did not allocate a single AP on Vitality before Level 10. Only after that level did he allocate his AP as such: 2 on Vitality, 1 on Strength, and 1 on Dexterity. His HP was the lowest in the team, with only a little over 1,000 HP. Little Snow and Drizzler always had 2 AP allocated on Vitality at every level gained, so their HP were around 1,200. Hundred Shots had the highest among them, having 3 AP assigned to Vitality at each level, gaining a strong HP of 1,400.

Fatty Han jokingly gestured, "Little Yang, wht didn't you tell me to assign any AP on Vitality when I first joined in? Look at my HP now! It's so low that I feel I could get killed in a single hit!"

Zhang Yang replied, "Tch! Whoever gets hit by the Ice Ring is a dumb piggy! As for the third skill…"

Fatty Han interrupted, "What the f*ck! Just how many skills does this boss have?!"

Zhang Yang could only shake his head, disappointed at his wasted anger.

"Three skills, and you think that's many? Wait till you encounter Marzerway and that's when you know the true definition of 'many skills'. Imagine all the skills of his underlings, adding up with his own skills. I'm pretty sure you'd be on cloud 9 then!"

Fatty Han was left stunned.

"AS FOR the third skill…" Zhang Yang repeated a little louder, "it's called Hail Storm. It has a three-second casting delay and once casted, it causes 200 damage to all targets for 10 seconds. The skill's interruptible so it can be stopped!" Zhang Yang turned to look at Hundred Shots and Fatty Han, "Fatty, Hundred Shots, you've learned Silencing Shot, no?"

They exchange looks and nodded. "Yeah."

"The skills Hail Storm has about 20 seconds cooldown time while Silencing Shot has 30, which is why we need not just one but two Hunters to successfully cancel out the boss' skill. Remember guys, the first Hail Storm interruption must be done by Fatty Han, and the second by Hundred Shots. Just repeat the cycle, got it? The next time the boss uses Hail Storm, one of you use Silencing Shot. Easy right?"

They looked at each other and then back to Zhang Yang again.

"You guys are the ones that determine whether or not we survive this round. If any of you missed the chance to Silence the boss, all of us would die in just one Hail Storm." There was a threatening tone in Zhang Yang and Fatty Han clearly felt it.

"It seems easy when you explained it earlier but once you said our lives are depending on us, it's making me feel a little nervous." Fatty Han turned to face Zhang Yang, hoping to be consoled but what he saw was a middle finger pointed directly to his face.

"If there's anything else you guys want to ask, voice it out now!"

"Pretty sure it's easy."

"Let's try it once!"

"Okay! That's the spirit! The boss is easy indeed. As long as you can evade well and the two Hunters can Silence just right, we'll be safe and sound."

"Easy for you to say." Fatty Han rolled his eyes.

Zhang Yang unsheathed his sword. "Here I go! Everyone get inside, because the moment I start the battle, the door is going to close. Anyone left outside can do nothing but wait!"

Everyone else in the party complied and followed him in.

"Ready? Here I go!"

Charge!

'-327!' Normal Attack.

The stun effect was weak against Wattland. Being a Level 20 boss gave it a certain degree of resistance towards crowd control effects. In just one second, it recovered from the stun and started to make a weird noise.

"Haha! Here comes a bunch of beings to offer their lives! Wattland will freeze you all!"

The giant targeted Zhang Yang and began to cast Water Arrow, and a progress bar appeared on its head.

'-640!'

'392!'

In almost a split-second gap, a green healing text appeared right after the red damage text popped out. As expected of Little Snow, her healing ability was truly remarkable.

This b*tch actually has some decent healing capabilities. Just when she saw the boss' attack progress bar reaching one-third of the way, she also started to chant her own healing spell. Two seconds later, Little Snow's healing spell and the boss' Water Arrow went off at the same time.

Little Snow immediately casted another Regeneration on Zhang Yang. Even though the recovery rate was slower, the overall healing amount over 15 seconds was 200% of her magic attack, which was better than having no healing at all!

If it were to be another healer, their magic attack would be at most around 200 with all the Green-Copper Level 10 equipment, but Little Snow was different. With only a single Level 20 Green-Copper magic staff, her magic attack was already at 180. Adding that to her other Level 20 Green-Copper equipment, her Magic attack totaled to 300. That was the major difference between other healers and her!

Even with such powerful attributes, Little Snow would still need to use all of her strength to keep up with Zhang Yang. That was the power difference of a Hardcore difficulty boss! If you wanted to take it easy, better to just raid the Normal Mode. With Black-Steel equipment and players not making silly mistakes, it was a sure fire win in the dungeon. Hardcore Mode is not some playtime thing where you could just try out for the fun of it; it was do or die! Fight your hardest to win!

'Ding! Water Spirit Wattland used Ice Ring!'

Zhang Yang quickly turned around to warn the team, "Guys! Look down and check at your feet! Continue to attack if it's safe and don't get any unnecessary damage that burdens our healer!"

The boss chose to cast the skill on Hundred Shots. An icy ring formed around him, forming a thick layer of ice and it got thicker overtime. He quickly evaded the ring and got out flawlessly. He was and will be the man called the Dragon Hunter. Even though most of his glory would be because of the pet dragon that he would get in the future, Hundred Shots still had a trick or two up his sleeves. He used to follow Zhang Yang into Hardcore Mode and experienced Hardcore boss fights; a simple run and dodge was nothing to him.

The boss' attacks were becoming quite a problem. Little Snow drastically used up her MP to make sure Zhang Yang survives. Thankfully, the boss stopped after a series of attacks to cast another skill.

'Ding! Water Spirit Wattland used Hail Storm!'

"Fatty! Silencing Shot! Now!"

"On it!"

Fatty Han drew his bow and fired a dark-green arrow. As it landed on the boss, a '-224' appeared, simultaneously cancelling the boss' spell cast.

"That's it, guys! Keep this up! Keep it going!" Zhang Yang tried to raise the party's morale.

As the battle raged on with many of the boss' skills casted, none of the party members were once hit by Ice Ring as they managed to evade swiftly. Even the silencing cycle was performed errorless against Hail Storm.

90%, 80%... all the way to 20%, the boss' HP drained off quickly.

'Ding! Water Spirit Wattland used Hail Storm!'

"Fatty!"

Zhang Yang and he had been battling for more than 10 years now, and their communication was and always has been excellent. With just a call, Fatty Han fired a Silencing Arrow.

"Missed!"

"F*CK!" Zhang Yang suddenly cursed out; everyone's face changed instantly.

After three seconds, arrow-like icicles fell from the sky. There was no place for them to hide.

'-200!'

'-200!'

'-200!'

Even after Little Snow trying her best to heal everyone with all her might, she could not replace the HP loss everyone suffered in time.

'Ding! Player Slim and Handsome has died!'

'Ding! Player Little Snow has died!'

'Ding! Player Drizzler has died!'

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots has died!'

'Ding! Player Zhan Yun has died!'

It was another party wipe out once more.

The five of them stood together at the revive point.

"!@#$! What luck! I missed?! I actually missed!"

Any physical attacks had a 1% chance to miss the target. This value could not be modified or changed by any equipment or the player's level. How would you describe a skill like Silencing Shot that required 30 seconds to cooldown to miss a hit? The only answer would be just plain luck, which he did not have. Sometimes in life, all you needed was not the strength to carry on, but the luck that comes along the way.

"It's fine, guys! Now everyone knows how to fight ths boss! We can defeat it in the next round! Think of this as practice!" Zhang Yang tried to cheer up the team.

"Okay!"

'Shuh!'

Another five souls appeared at the revive point; they were members from Sky high, and they were the elite members that were led personally by Sky Shaman.

"Haha, it's you again, Zhan Yu!"

"It's alright, guys! It's alright. Come, let us all revive again!"

Shy Shaman asked Zhang yang, "Hey, where did you guys die at?"

"At the two guardians! Holy crap, their attacks are too strong! They killed us all in one clean swipe!"

Sky Shaman relaxed a little. He felt tense before thinking that Zhang Yang could have overtaken them, but now he knew that Zhang Yang was on the same progress as they were.

"Hah, you guys are strong! We haven't even reached there yet!" Sky Shaman then quickly revived and continued his fight.

"This bastard!" Zhang Yang shook his head in anger. So you think you could trick us? Well, guess what, we've also tricked you!

"Zhan Yu! Hurry and revive now! I'm waiting to open the corpse!"

All little Drizzler was here for was to get the money. She only cared about money, and that was the only thing she loved.

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Chapter 52: Earth Spirit Oz

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Zhang Yang's party revived one by one. Luck was not something you can control. There's really nothing you can do about if something went bad and luck did not favor you.

On their second run, Hundred Shots' first Silencing Shot was already a miss, leading the team to death once more.

"What the f*ck is going on!? I swear that this is just an easy boss, but how did we get ourselves in this freaking shitty situation!?"

"Fatty, I think it's your karma biting back at you. This is probably a payback for peeping at your neighbor's little sister." Zhang Yang joked.

"Go to hell little Yang! I'm a true gentleman! Why would I try to peek under a girl's skirt?" Fatty Han said a honest face.

"Big Bro! Zhan Yu didn't say anything about peeking under a skirt. Did you just dig your own grave?" Drizzler giggled away happily.

Zhang Yang frowned, suddenly feeling envious of Fatty Han. "Why did you address him as Big Bro and I'm the uncle?!"

"Little Yang, you're the type that gets old quickly. Don't be jealous of Fatty Han's eternal youth!" Fatty Han reached out his hand to pat Zhang Yang's shoulder but his hands just went through his shoulder like air; they are still in the soul state.

"Handsome, my ass!"

The five of them revived again and proceeded towards the Water Spirit Wattland. "I'm pretty sure that all of us are used to the strategy by now. Winning or losing depends on luck now!"

Zhang Yang unsheathed his sword and pointed it to the air. "Let's go!"

90%, the first Hail Storm was disrupted by Fatty Han.

80%, the second Hail Storm was disrupted by Hundred Shots.

70%...

60%...

50%...

There was no "Miss" this time while the boss' HP dramatically dropped. In a while after, Wattland's HP had almost reach its red zone.

7%!

"Don't let your guard down! What needs to be disrupted must be disrupted. What needs to be evaded must be evaded! Don't get us all killed at 1%!" Zhang Yang warned. He was not looking forward to repeating the process all over again.

"Almost there! Ahhh! I can see it. The glowing luster of gold pieces! Ahhh!! Almost there!" Drizzler's strange feminine cries filled the atmosphere, and her attacks got faster and wilder in the heat of the moment.

3%!

2%!

1%!

0%!

And the boss finally fell.

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed Water Spirit Wattland. Obtaining 25,250 Experience points (50 points party bonus)!'

"Aww yes! We are the best! YEAH!" Drizzler was jumping about in joy, much like a little girl who had just won her first teddy bear in a circus; the rest of the party members just smiled happily.

Zhang Yang smiled with satisfaction. He was pleased to see the team working hard together, achieving victory hand in hand. His vision of seeing the team together became clearer.

Zhang Yang then clapped his hand to get their attention. "Alright, guys! It's time to open the corpse!"

"Oh! I wanna touch it! I wanna touch it!"

"No! I want to do it! Let me do it!"

Fatty Han knees felt weak as he heard the cousins fighting over the right to open the corpse.

"A-Ah girls? Stop fighting. Come, touch me! I'm pretty nice to rub around. I assure you that you'll be extremely satisfied after a session with me!"

"F*ck off!"

Same rule, same game, and Little Snow won another round of rock-paper-scissors. Drizzler looked sadly at her fist making the shape of a rock and sighed.

"How could I always lose at this game?"

"That's because you're a big idiot!" Zhang Yang sighed. He could not believe that she did not realize her own mistake.

Drizzler got up with her hands on her waist, angrily speaking with her cheek bursting with anger. "Where did I go wrong?!"

"This game only needs one of your hands to play. Your playing hand was behind you but their other hand was out in front. I don't know why your other hand would have the same gesture. That's why everyone could see through your act. Even a dummy could know what you're playing next in scissors-paper-stone! And if they can't see through you, they're as dumb as you are!" Zhang Yang explained in his stoic face, holding back his urge to laugh out loud.

"Kyaaa!!!!" No wonder Drizzler could never win her elder cousin sister in this game! No, she never stood a chance because of this habit of hers!

"Han Yin Xue!! I'm cutting ties with you!" Drizzler screamed from the top of her lungs.

"Right, and this is the… hmm I can't recall the times you've wanted to cut ties with me." Little Snow replied her screams nonchalantly, ignoring her and reaching out for the corpse to open it. The others may not show it but they had been waiting for the equipment excitedly.

[Frost Crown] (Green-Copper, Metal Armor)

Defense: 6

Vitality: 24

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 4

Level requirement: 20

"Hey, little brat. Let's forget about the system roll and settle this with a game of rock-paper-scissors!"

"Sneaky little kid!" Drizzler rolled her eyes and quickly rolled for the equipment. Zhang Yang laughed and rolled for the item as well. He won with 84 points.

[Briskly Crown] (Green-Copper, Leather Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 20

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 14

Level requirement: 20

Fatty Han gave up the equipment humbly and offered them to Hundred Shots again.

'Ding! You have distributed 10 silver pieces!'

As the body started to disappear, Fatty Han got upset, "That's it? Two equipment only?"

"Uh, yeah. That's about right. Getting two equipment in a 5-man dungeon is already considered quite good!" Zhang Yang nodded.

"And it's all just hats! Tch! This boss sure has some weird hat collecting habits, huh."

"This first boss would only drop helms and boots. We're lucky enough to get all helms." Zhang Yang explained. "Alright then. Let's proceed to the next boss and claim the "First Clear" achievement!"

"Let's go!"

The team was filled with thirst for victory; everyone was eager to win the fight. Their morale could never have been higher.

After the first boss, the element changed from water to earth. The next enemy is a huge earth elemental with 7 to 8 smaller earth elementals around.

[Inflated Earth Elemental] (Elite)

Level: 21

HP: 50,000

[Deflated Earth Elemental] (Normal)

Level: 20

HP: 1,000

"Sigh. These smaller minions are quite troublesome!" Zhang Yang frowned as he rubbed his forehead. He missed the days where he could just kill off skill-less minions in Bangar Crypt.

"It's pointless to kill the smaller ones. As long as the big one is still alive, it will quickly re-spawn the dead minions! Still, we can't drag the battle too long or else the big one will command the small ones to self-destruct. Each of those pesky little minions could cause 200 damage per explosion. You'll actually get blasted and literally be at cloud 9!"

"So…we are supposed to fully focus on the big one before it commands the small ones to explode at us?"

"Understood?"

"Yeah!"

"Let's start!"

Shush! Zhang Yang rushed over with Charge along with Drizzler doing the same.

With Zhang Yang there to pull in the minions, the others did not have to worry about aggro problems; they just focused their attack on the elite monster. With such strong focus fire, it was defeated fairly fast. The party then used all their AoE skills to clear of rest of the surviving minions.

Hunter's Barrage and Berserker's Tornado Cleave were AoE skills, and they were much stronger than a Guardian's Thunder Strike! But neither one of those skills could be compared to Zhang Yang's 200% damage Horizontal Sweep! Stacked with the powerful Grey-Silver sword and the Eagle Eye skill, the final damage was truly remarkable!

"Zhan Yu, I want your Horizontal Sweep!" Drizzler was feeling envious.

"No way!"

Drizzler tried to tempt him with something else to make him yield, "But I can give you Little Snow's address!"

Fatty Han's ear's suddenly twitched. Little Snow may not have the best beauty complexion but that ridiculous body of a succubus was truly something worth. Furthermore, the in-game appearance and real-life appearance are not necessarily the same. There was still a chance that this lady might look like a goddess in reality!

"You little brat! You must be sick of living for so long now! Are you so eager to die?" Little Snow raised her fist.

"Don't worry, Drizzler! I'm here to protect you!" Fatty Han stood out with his chest up high. "Quickly! Reveal her address!"

"So what if she told you. China is such a big place! Can you really find it out?"

Zhang Yang laughed. "Tch! Who knows? We might be in the same city!"

"We're living in Zhou Su City. How about you?" Drizzle asked.

Zhang Yang and Fatty Han froze at the same time. "What a coincidence! We're also living in Zhou Su City!" Zhang Yang flinched. Zhang Yang did have some suspicion that they were living in the same city before.

"Ah! This is destiny! This is fate!" Fatty Han began to feel extremely grateful.

Drizzle giggled happily. She blinked her big eyes and said, "Little Snow is living at No.105, Shi Zi Street! Got it?"

Fatty Han began to chant the address like a mantra, fearing of forgetting the address later on.

Zhang Yang shook his head. If memory served him right, No.105, Shi Zi Street was the police station! Thinking of it, he recalled the policewoman he met earlier that morning! The soft and supple sensation of those melons. They were surely ranked number one if he compared them with a previous encounter in his previous life!

Zhang Yang smiled evilly. The thought that he could Fatty Han's face when he would discover the truth of that address made Zhang Yang refuse to let him know about the police station.

The party went onwards and after 20 minutes of fighting more small minions, they arrived at the entrance of the second boss.

[Earth Spirit Oz] (Green-Copper)

Level: 22

HP: 132k

There was a large brown-colored Earth Elemental; its size looked sturdy and enormous, being as high as 15 meters tall. Even without a visible weapon, the spirit's own gigantic body gave off a certain kind of pressure.

"What's the plan?" they all asked. They "knew" that Zhang Yang was a beta player!

Zhang Yang walked up confidently. Several days before this fight, he had been squeezing all of his brain juice to remember all of Marzerway's skills and fight strategy, which was why he could casually explain everything as if he already knew it all.

"This boss is basically a physical attack type. His attacks are like a bulldozer; very strong and powerful, which means we'll need to depend on Little Snow for this round as well!"

Little Snow turned to Zhang Yang and winked seductively. "In that case, I want some overtime pay!"

"Cousin! Would it kill you to just stop behaving like a slut?!"

"Heh heh heh. I'm used to it!" Little Snow then winked at Drizzler, sending a cold shudder all over her.

"This boss' first skill is Open Wound. He will only cast this on the person with the highest aggro, which is me. If he casts this skill on anyone else, that would only mean that I died! This is a DoT attack, so I will lose 100 HP every second. The damage will not be affected by defense value. F*cking sh*t!"

As a Guardian, he absolutely hated skills that would ignore his defense attribute.

"The second skill is Smash! This skill will also be cast on the person with the most aggro, which is again, me! Smash itself does not do any damage but it stuns me for 2 seconds and casts a debuff, increasing his attack frequency by 100%! This skill cannot be blocked or evaded, which means I would have to take it head on! The most dangerous part is when I'm hit by it. I can't voluntarily move to block any attack. The boss originally has a very fierce attack and I could get killed off any time!

Little Snow rolled her eyes glamorously and said, "Well then, I must ask for a raise!"

"Cousin, can you please be a little more lady-like?"

"And where am I not a lady?" Little Snow threw another wink. Her glamorous and show-off behavior made the other party members a little awkward to put up with.

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Chapter 53: A Wasted Effort

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"Sneaky b*itch." Zhang Yang whispered to himself.

"The third boss' skill is called Earth Spear. This skill will be casted on 3 random players. It will look like a muddy puddle that's about 2 meters wide. In that puddle, you will have 50% movement speed reduction and also receive 150 damage per second. You must quickly move away from the puddle the moment it appears! The damage and slowing effect will not immediately take effect when it appears as there will be a 0.5 second delay before the effect kicks in! You must be quick and alert at all times!"

Zhang Yang took a breather, giving sometime for the party to absorb all the information.

"Lastly… and this one is the problematic one, is after every 15 seconds, the boss will gain 5% increased damage. This is a damage battle. The longer we drag this battle, the worse situation we will be in. Our healing powers will diminish over time and when the boss has grown to 150% or 200% increase in damage, it will be the end of us!"

"All in all, what you guys need to do is to avoid the Earth Spear and give it everything you got!"

"What a load of bull crap! You could have just said that last sentence to summarize everything!" Fatty Han scratched his head. "Man! All your talking makes my head hurt! What a waste of my brain cells trying to remember all of that junk!"

Zhang Yang laughed.

"If there isn't any problem, we can just go ahead and start now! The "Firsts Clear" achievement is right in front of our eyes!"

"WOAH! Let's go!"

The party marched into the boss' chamber with big smiles on their faces. The fight started with Zhang Yang's Charge.

To maximize damage output, Zhang Yang prioritized his attack using Cripple Defense, adding 5 stacks to reduce 50% of the boss' defense value. Being a physical type, it naturally had a high defense value. Reducing 50% of his defense was equivalent to reducing 30 Defense attribute. 30 Defense value was not much but it was enough to help Hundred Shots and Fatty Han; classes that used Dexterity as their main attribute.

Zhang Yang had the passive Eagle Eye skill, along with 5 stacks of Cripple Defense, ignoring a total of 100% defense. Zhang Yang's attack was directly attacking with 0 Defense damage reduction, it felt as if he was attacking a completely naked boss! This kind attack was significant.

The higher the player's level, there more skill that was available for them to use. The problem with having too many skill was the priority of it. To be able to use different kinds of skills in different kinds of situations was the key factor to differentiating a rare professional and a common casual. Both of those players could have the same equipment set and the same level, but they could not deal the same damage output. One would deal an extremely high damage while the other gives out a normal amount. This was the importance of prioritizing skills in situation.

Under Zhang Yang's guidance, Fatty Han formed his own attacking strategy and made obvious progress. Zhang Yang was not familiar with the Hunter class' skills and tactics even with his 5 years rebirth experience as he played the game as a Guardian previously. He could only teach Fatty Han the most common skill rotations to maximize his character potential.

Zhang Yang had his eyes on Drizzler, though. Drizzler was a battle-driven girl. She liked to fight and compared her damage with others. Because of that, she was willing to learn new tactics and skill rotations to further increase her damage output! The one that had made the most obvious improvement was Drizzler!

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu has the effect of Open Wound. Receiving 100 physical damage every second for 20 seconds!'

A debuff icon appeared on Zhang Yang's head. '-80!' red damage text popped repeatedly above him.

Before the skill was cast, Little Snow was having the time of her life, healing slowly and leisurely. After the debuff appeared and Zhang Yang HP was slowly draining off, she began to frantically cast her Healing Spell.

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu had received Smash! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

Several stars could be seen above Zhang Yang's head, and he could not control his body. He began to sway his body back and forward, head bobbing around like a drunkard.

'-304!'

'-312!'

'-80!'

'-309!'

'-318!'

'-80!'

Earth Spirit Oz was as in a frenzy. In just two seconds, Oz had attacked Zhang Yang with four consecutive strikes. With the damage Open Wound had caused, Zhang Yang HP was instantly robbed away by 1403 points! Luckily Zhang Yang swapped a new helm earlier, raising his already beefy HP to 1840l even then it was still not enough!

It was only after the attacks that Little Snow's Higher Healing conjured, healing Zhang Yang with a ray of light.

'395'

Half a second later, Regeneration also healed another '120', recovering almost half of Zhang Yang's HP.

Having only half of his full HP, Zhang Yang had no time to catch his breath. The boss' right fist was in front of him, flying right into his face! Zhang Yang dodged it but another left fist came flying just as quickly! His quick judgment concluded that he could evade that strike, so he quickly raised his shield and used Block!"

Even though this boss had double physical attacks, it was still just as agile as a thief. Each time Oz attacked with both fists, Zhang Yang could only physically dodge the right fist but used Block against the other. He was not able to dodge both!

Little Snow was still not done with her healing. She quickly chanted a Higher Healing and after a '387', Zhang Yang's HP was no longer in the danger zone!

"My god, this is tiring!"

The first few seconds after the battle started was already as exciting as it was. She felt like her heart and lungs were going to burst out of excitement!

"Xixi, who asked you to be a Priest!" Drizzler tried to provoke her cousin.

"Aiya. Only a Priest is suitable for a person like me." Little Snow purposely patted her overwhelming chest and winked at Drizzler. "F-L-A-T~"

Drizzler face was flushed with rage. "Han Yin Xue! Enough with my boobs!"

'Ding! Earth Spirit Oz has gained Growth effect (1 stack). All physical attacks are increased by 5%!'

"Guys! There's always a time and place for everything, and we can't joke around right now. Don't be slacking on the attack and healing! Look, the boss had gained a buff! If I was in danger before, imagine how I would be when the boss stacks up his Growth. I'd be ready to meet my maker soon!" Zhang Yang scolded.

'Ding! Earth Spirit Oz had used Earth Spear!'

Zhang Yang quickly looked down to his feet to check, and a black goo-ish mud puddle appeared underneath. Zhang Yang hurriedly moved away from the circular area and shouted when he was safe from the skill.

"Everyone! Be careful! Check your ground!"

Shing! Shing! Shing!

The sound of clashing metal could be heard as 7 to 8 razor sharp stone pillars pierced out from the muddy puddle. After a split second, the pillars retracted back into the puddle, and then re-appeared the next second.

Fatty Han tightened his butt, thinking something naughty is his mind.

"Hey, if I was actually pierced by these things in the ass, is it considered an*l sex?"

"@#$%! Go to hell!"

"Fatty Bro, you're so perverted!"

"You seriously need some help."

"Die, you sick son of a b*tch!"

When everyone was having fun laughing and scolding, the boss gained another buff, increasing its damage by 110%.

80%, 70%, 60%!

At the same time, the boss' HP was dropping as well. After all, there were 3 strong attackers, with Zhang Yang having the stronger attacks!

40%!

'Ding! Earth Spirit Oz has gained Growth effect (8 stack). ). All physical attacks are increased by 40%!'

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu received Smash! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

Again, Zhang Yang had stars circling around his head.

'-423!'

'-112!'

'120'

'-432!'

'-427!'

'398'"

'-112!'

'-431!'

Zhang Yang's heart jumped with the same feeling as riding a roller coaster. Luckily, Little Snow managed to slide in a Higher Healing and a Regeneration. If it were not for those two skills, Zhang Yang would have already sent to the revive point.

"Phew!" Zhang Yang let out a sigh of relief. He then dodged one of the boss's fist and used Block on the other, giving enough time for Little Snow to chant another Higher Healing.

"You know…You should get yourself a skill book called Holy Shield. That way, both you and I won't have to fear of getting a heart attack every time we fight a boss of this caliber!"

[Holy Shield: Cast a magic shield that will absorb damage equal to the caster's 200% magic damage. Last for 30 seconds. Cooldown time: 15 seconds. Instant casting.

Instant casting. That was the most valuable point of Holy Shield. The absolute trump card to save a life.

"I'm but penniless. Would you like to buy it for me?" Little Snow winked around crazily.

"Cousin! Please stop doing that! I'm completely ashamed by you!"

"Would you guys stop doing that! Please focus on the boss! If it boss gets any stronger, I'll be dead by the next Smash!" Zhang Yang scolded. He did not sound normal anymore.

30%... 20% … 10%... 7%!

'Ding! Earth Spirit Oz has gained Growth effect (12 stack). All physical attacks are increased by 60%!'

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu received Smash! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

'-492!'

'120!'

'-487!'

'-128!'

'-489!'

'-481!'

'-128!'

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu had died!'

Little Snow failed to cast her Higher Healing in time which led to Zhang Yang's defeat.

"Don't give up! Continue attacking! There's only 6% left! Fight for your life!"

5%!

Once Zhang Yang fell, Drizzler immediately became Oz's punching bag. It turned around and started to attacking furiously!

'Ding! Player Drizzler had died!'

4%!

'Ding! Player Slim and Handsome had died!'

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots had died!'

'Ding! Player Little Snow had died!'

Complete annihilation.

"Sigh…"

The team appeared at the revive point and sighed together. Wiped out at 4%, what a waste!

"Little Snow, the next time I get Smash, don't use Higher Healing. Instead, switch to Holy Prayers. Even though the recovery rate for Holy Prayers is slower but the incantation is much faster! Higher Healing requires two seconds to cast, but Holy Prayers only needs 1.5 seconds so it can be cast in between the two-second stun! If you used Higher Healing, you might have been in time to save me!" Zhang Yang gave a long talk to Little Snow, trying to help her revise her healing tactics.

"Remember, once I'm out of the stun, I'll use Block immediately. You will have enough time to cast Higher Healing!"

"Okay!" Little Snow nodded obediently. She looked like she was blaming herself for the team's downfall. Even though it was not her fault to begin with, she did feel a little guilty for the waste of effort. It's rare to see her obedient face, not winking around like a madwoman.

Shush!

Another five souls appeared at the revive point. They were the The Dominators. Humbly Gentleman was not among the party, which meant the party was the secondary raiding team.

"Hey! Where did you guys die at?" one of the party members from The Dominator screamed.

Zhang Yang looked at Fatty Han with a certain look in his eye. Fatty Han quickly caught his intention and replied, "The first boss!"

"F*cking hell! They're actually the same as us!"

"Tch! So what if they're at the same stage as us! The important thing is the boss, not the minions!"

The Dominators started to discuss among themselves.

"Hey, neighbor! We managed to damage it up to 60% HP left. What about you guys?"

Fatty Han looked at Zhang Yang, who was smiling silly.

"Better than you did! We were at 40%!"

The five of them exchanged a look and smiled sly-fully. They switched to party channel and said, "Hah! Only 40%! Boss was already beaten down till 20%. Just a few more and we'll win this match for sure!"

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Chapter 54: The Second First-Clear Achievement

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"Hey! That's mean!" Drizzler laughed underneath her covered mouth.

"Little brat! What do you know! This is called deception in war!" Fatty Han was trying mimic the looks of the great philosopher Zhu Ge Liang.

"Drizzler! That's called 'Learning from Experience'! Even in game he would use some kind of trickery to deceit others. Obviously, he would also be a swindler in reality! Drizzler, you must take this chance to learn. Next time, when you see someone like Fatty, you'd better get far, far away from him!"

Drizzler stood upright and saluted her like a soldier to a captain. "Sir! Yes Sir!"

Everyone laughed at the cousin's skit.

Fatty Han quickly tried to rectify to situation. "Hey! I have the 4 virtues of a youngster! It's just you guys who could not recognize it!"

"Which four?" said Hundred Shots. Being the silent type, he rarely participated in talks but since the mood got quite rowdy, he decided to join in.

"I'm a little greedy!"

"A little horny!"

"A little baddie!"

"A little fatty!"

"Oh my god…" All four of them pointed their middle fingers at Fatty Han.

Once that was over, the team revived themselves and ran over to the second boss. Everyone sat outside the boss's chamber to consume some health recovery items.

"Alright, all set! Let's go!"

Charge! Charge!

Both Zhang Yang and Drizzle activated Charge at almost the same time. They dashed through the floor and arrived in front of the boss.

Provoke!

Zhang Yang immediately locked on to the boss's aggro. He used Block and a normal attack after, damaging the boss with his sword.

'-335!'

He gained 34 Rage and immediately he used Cripple Defense and Horizontal Sweep. Zhang Yang managed to stack two layers of Cripple Defense as soon as the two seconds of Provoke wore off.

Earth Spirit Oz grumbled and opened its mouth.

"Invaders. Oz will not allow you to destroy Lord Marzerway's plans to destroy all of humanity!" After the opening speech was over, Oz began to charge towards Zhang Yang.

"Huh… human annihilation. I guess that is the only dream all bad guys could ever have!" Drizzler scoffed.

"Actually, Marzerway is the victim here. Quite the pity as well." Zhang Yang explained while he swung his sword.

"Huh?"

"Didn't you read the official introduction?" Zhang Yang sounded disappointed. "Sigh, every dungeon has their own lore!"

"Well, Fatty here doesn't care about that. All I want is the equipment!"

"I just care about the gold pieces!"

"Really?! Come on guys! The developers put their hearts and souls into making this game to be as detailed for the sake of the players! What you have done is spat on the efforts the developers! What a waste of a beautiful game!" Zhang Yang shook his head in disappointment.

"Tch! What an elderly act. You'll surely be elderly soon enough!" Drizzler scorned.

"Alright… Let's hear it out. What's the story?" Little Snow resumed her pace, winking about again.

"In the lore, Marzerway was a famous Spellcaster who was part of a Spellcaster guild in the Empire's Royal Family. A few years back, he joined the army to fight against the invading specters, leaving behind his loving wife in the hands of a noble. Little did he know that the noble tainted his wife, causing her to grieve, and she eventually killed herself. When Marzerway returned, and found out the truth of his wife's death, he sought out to have his revenge. Sadly, he was deemed a traitor to the empire. Hated by all, he was imprisoned, waiting to be executed." Zhang Yang looked around. Everyone was listening carefully.

"Anguish and despair beyond any human can endure, Marzerway surrendered his soul to the demon and exchanged it for unlimited power. He escaped the prison and desecrated the Snow Sprite City, killing everyone and everything in it! After that, Marzerway occupied the city and summoned countless of elemental monsters to defend the city against the Empire's army." Zhang Yang finished his story and look around again. He suddenly yelled.

"F*ck! Why are you guys just standing there! We're still in the middle of a fight!"

The four of them were shaken, as if they were woken up from a dream. Drizzler bit her lips.

"Aw…Marzerway is quite pity!"

"Ah… this truly is sad. If only I can get married to someone as loyal as Marzerway… that would be nice!" Little Snow had a yearning kind of tone in her voice.

'Cousin! What's the use if he is just loyal? A true gentleman must be straight forward, brave, handsome and cool! If he is anything like Fatty Han, then you might as well give up." Drizzler giggled and turned around to make sure he heard what she said.

Fatty Han shriveled up. He only joked around to cheer the party, and now he made himself public enemy number 1. How did it turn out this way?

"Foolish intruders! Taste my wrath!" A red glow covered entire Oz's body, increasing his power by a level.

'Ding! Earth Spirit Oz has gain a Growth effect (1 stack). All physical attack is increased by 5%!'

"Crap! No time to play around anymore guys! Strike him with all you've got!"

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu received Smash! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

'-305!'

'-316!'

'-84!'

'120!'

'-312!'

'297!'

'-301!'

'-84!'

This round, Little Snow used Holy Prayers instead of Higher Healing . With only 1.5 second casting time, she could easily heal in between the boss' furious attack. After enduring that barrage of attack, Zhang Yang's HP remained at around 900. He then evade one attack, and used Block on the other, giving Little Snow enough room to cast Higher Healing. After he was healed, his HP was back to 70%.

90%, 80%... the boss' HP dropped continuously and it was not slowing down. However, the boss was also growing in damage. 5%, 10%, 15%...

"Alright, this is going well. Guys! Maintain this pace and we can surely win this round!" Zhang Yang encouraged the party.

"Pathetic little intruders! I will crush all if you into smithereens!" Earth Spirit Oz growled. The red glow engulfed his body over and over again and when Oz's HP reached 10%, he stacked over 12 layers of Growth!

"Here comes the most dangerous time!"

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu received Smash! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

'-487!'

'-128!'

'120!'

'-482!'

'-489!'

'302!'

'-128!'

'-491!'

After a serious beating, Zhang Yang's HP stopped at 57 points! The boss has yet to stop attacking!

'Evade!'

'Block!'

Zhang Yang quickly consumed a bottle of red potion while waiting for Little Snow to heal him.

'399!'

The potion's healing only managed to put him out of the danger zone, but he was still not out of trouble!

9%, 8%, 7%... Death was inevitable!

4%!

3%!

2%!

1%!

0%!

"Oh… L-Lord Mar… Marzerway will resurrect me a-again! I-I will….c-crush…" With its last dying words, Oz came crashing onto the floor.

"WE DID IT!" Finally, they did it. All of them let out a sigh of relief and cheered.

'Ding! You can the party member around had killed Earth Spirit Oz. Obtaining 26,450 Experience points (50 party bonus point)!'

'Ding! Your party has successfully conquered Marzerway's Lair: Front Wing (Hardcore Mode) and obtained the "First Clear" Achievement! This glorious accomplishment will be recorded in the Hardcore First Clear Achievement Board. As the party leader, please name your party!'

Zhang Yang paused and thought for a while. He turned around and said, "Hey little brat, I'll key in your guild's name into this achievement for 1,000 gold pieces! How does that sound?"

"Wah! Come on, uncle. We're so close to each other now! Would you still charge us for it?" Drizzler screamed and shouted. To take her money was on the same level as robbing a bank; there would be resistance.

"Haha! Friendship is one thing, business is another! Come on! Pay up!" Zhang Yang continued to play with her.

"Awww…" Drizzler then tried to follow Little Snow's seductive behavior by trying to wink. After so much effort, all she could only manage to close one of her eye. It's freaking tiresome! Drizzler gave up and stomped the ground. "Ah, well. How about I offer you Little Snow's nudes! Yeah. You heard it right! Her nudes!"

Little Snow's eyebrow twitched. "Ahem! You little witch, what are you blabbering about?" A seductive look naturally formed.

"Are you for real?!" Fatty Han got excited. Everyone could see a pinkish erotic aura emitting from him.

"Of course it's real!" Drizzler patted her chest.

Little Snow did not really care at first but when she saw Drizzler smiling ear to ear, she began to feel that something was wrong.

"You couldn't possibly be serious…"

"HEHE!"

"You brat, when did you…?"

"You always like to leave the door open whenever you take a bath. I was just passing by one time and when you didn't notice my presence, I took a picture!"

"Oh no you little witch! YOU'RE SO DEAD WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" Little Snow voice became louder.

Fatty Han took the opportunity to sneak in.

"Hey, hey Little Drizzler, since WE are also quite close… so…"

"Hey, hey! We're not that close!" Drizzler played along.

Zhang Yang laughed.

"This time I'll key in your guild name. The next dungeon, I'll key in my own guild name!"

"Eh? When did you join a guild?" Little Snow asked.

"No. Not yet. After these two dungeons, Fatty Han, Hundred Shots, and I will establish a guild of our own. How about it? Feel like coming over to this side?" Zhang Yang gazed at the two girls. There were fine specimens after all!

"Why so troublesome?" Drizzler pouted her lips. "Why don't you come to our guild? I'll pass the guild master position to you!"

Zhang Yang was surprised. "Eh? You would do that?"

"It's fine! My cousin and I established the guild just for the fun of it. Being a guild master is so troublesome after all. I had to do this and that, manage here and there… Argh! I'd wanted to quit for so long! To think that you could take over my position! I would be glad to pass it to you!" Drizzler sounded very decisive.

Zhang Yang could never have predicted this outcome.

"You'd better think this through and through. 'God's Miracle' is not like any other VRMMORPG. In the future, the game will have so many more players joining in! You could basically call this game the 'second Earth'! If the guild is managed properly, you could earn a living from the income!"

"Yeah, yeah. How could you talk so much? It's so annoying! Ain't that right, cousin?"

"Em, that's right. Besides, in less than a month, Drizzler will heading back to school. She won't have much time to play this game anymore. It's would be in the best of interest if you took over the guild!" Little Snow nodded.

Zhang Yang felt bad for those under these two lazy bums. He would not mind to take over the guild's responsibility at the least. He thought for a while and considered it.

"Alright then, in that case, add all 3 of us into the guild! Fatty Han, quit your guild now!"

Fatty Han was a little unwilling, "Sigh… if someone as handsome and cool as me left that guild, I'm afraid those pretty chicks would go crazy without me!"

'Ding! Player Drizzler has invited you to join her guild: Lone Desert Smoke. Will you accept her invitation?'

Zhang Yang entered the guild. After a short while, he saw the guild notification refreshed.

Player Slim and Handsome has joined the guild.

Player Hundred Shots has joined the guild.

Zhang Yang then keyed in the name Lone Desert Smoke as the party name and selected "Confirm". The server channel then dyed in red again.

'Server announcement: Party Lone Desert Smoke has obtained the First Clear Achievement: Marzerway's Lair, Front Wing (Hardcore mode). This glorious achievement will be recorded in the Hardcore First Clear Achievement Board (China Server)!'

'Server announcement: Player Zhan Yu (Party Leader) has obtained the First Clear Achievement: Marzerway's Lair, Front Wing (Hardcore mode). Obtaining 10 gold pieces, 1 Skill point, and 500 increased all races reputation from the system reward!'

'Server announcement: Player Drizzler…'

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Chapter 55: Onward to the Middle Wing

Translator: Zenobys Editor: TheRealSeal

After the server announcement flooded the entire server channel, all 20 men from The Dominators and Sky High were left stunned. Those that were not in the midst of battle were fine, but the other 15 people; 3 teams of 5 players were instantly distracted and got killed off and appeared at the revive point.

The results were far too much for them to take in! Who were they to even compete with Zhang Yang's team when they were still struggling at the first boss of the dungeon?

At Crimson Rage's side…

"Sister Snow! It happened, just like you said it will!" Thorny Rose cried out admirably as Fire Spirit Farr's body fell defeated. "How did you do it?! How did you know that Zhan Yu's team would be the first to win the Front Wing's dungeon? If we had followed along to take on the Front Wing, we'd be crying our eyes out by now!"

Thorny Rose and the rest of the Crimson Rage party were currently in the Middle Wing dungeon.

During the start of the fight, Crimson Rage's two 5-man party first entered the Front Wing dungeon. However, after two minutes in, they quickly switched and headed to the Middle Wing instead!

According to the official website, the Middle Wing's bosses were level 23 and level 24 while the Front Wing bosses were level 21 and level 22. Normally, players would choose to tackle on the easy ones first and left the harder selection for later on. However, Crimson Rage guild master had a different way of approaching this matter. She chose the other way around to conquer the dungeon!

Snow Seeker raised an eye brow and smiled lightly. "Even though I may have predicted that Zhan Yu's team would be the one who will claim the 'First Clear' achievement, but I could not have foreseen that they could complete the dungeon in such a groundbreaking speed! Sure, we might have defeated the first boss, but Zhan Yu's team already cleared the Front Wing and may be proceeding to the Middle Wing, and if he does, not even I would how that will turn out!"

"How could this be?" Thorny Rose expressed her disbelief. "We have gained the Boss' information beforehand and had several days ahead to devise a strategy! We even died several times to win this boss! Don't tell me that they also had a relative in the development team!?"

Snow Seeker thought it through and shook her head at the impossibility.

"According to my brother, during the boss skill design phase, everyone will be in charge of their own department. There was absolutely no interaction nor communication between departments! Furthermore, the initial designer and the editor were strangers who did not have any connections. There was no possible way that a person would have the knowledge of all the boss's skill! We only knew about the first boss' skills and gone through hell and back for the second boss' skills!"

Snow Seeker stopped her speech suddenly and realized something far more important.

"I for one, hope that Zhan Yu had gotten himself some information leak. Or else, how could you explain his incredible speed at clearing the Front Wing dungeon?" She shook her head to get rid of that frightening thought.

"Everyone! Get yourself together, even though we are one step ahead of them, we must not let down our guard! They are… strong!"

"HUURAH!"

For some members of Lone Desert Smoke, they were excited when Zhang Yang, Hundred Shots, and Slim and Handsome joined the guild. That was, however, just the tip of the iceberg. When the server channel was flooded with the server announcement of their achievement, things got even wilder! For almost half day long, the guild channel was just as noisy as a subway station! Chattering and cheering were everywhere! Even though they did not contribute into the party in taking the "First Clear" Achievement, they still praised and bragged around about their guild!

'Player Drizzler has surrendered the Guild Master position to Player Zhan Yu. Player Zhan Yu is now the current Guild Master!'

Another important news!

Even so, members of Lone Desert Smoke did not express any objection to this matter! They were actually happy with the change! After all, they have all heard of the name "Zhan Yu". The guild members were happy and contented to have a professional commander like Zhan Yu to lead the guild to glory!

"So guys… should we just rest a bit or do we go on to raid the Middle Wing?" Little Snow asked Zhan Yang.

"Strike the iron while it's hot! Of course, we shall move on!" Zhang Yang laughed loudly. Pointing at the corpse, he continued, "However, let's distribute the equipment first!"

"Oh! Oh! Me! Me! Let me open it!" Drizzler jumped like a rabbit and quickly touched the corpse.

[Heavy Stone Boots] (Green-Copper, Metal Armor)

Defense: 6

Vitality: 12

Strength: 6

Dexterity: 2

Level requirement: 2

"Tch! Hey! Take this boot and raise your pathetic HP amount!" Drizzler rejected her roll for the equipment. "Don't get yourself killed in just one strike!"

It was not just Drizzler who had the thought to prioritize the main tanker's equipment; it was in everyone's mind as well. They started to get a little cautious ever since they witnessed the sheer attack power of a Hardcore-level boss. Zhang Yang laughed guiltily. He too knew that he needed to pump up his HP to face a Herculean-like boss in the Hardcore Dungeon. He put on the new equipment and also invested the SP he gained on Block, reducing its cooldown time to only 5 seconds.

"Friends of Lone Desert Smoke! Congratulations on obtaining the 'First Clear' Achievement! I represent The Dominators to congratulate you on this awesome achievement!" Humbly Gentleman posted in the local channel.

"Hmph! What you say doesn't match your intention! Gentleman, my ass!" someone from Sky High began insulting to provoke.

"Huh? Where did this barking dog came from?!" Members from The Dominator started to retaliate.

Sky High did not want to admit defeat, and they started to return their insults. Eventually the entire local channel was flooded with words of scorn and abuses.

Zhang Yang's team started to feel a little annoyed. With a flick of a button, they turned off the local server feed and the whole world went dead silent.

[Blinders Skirt] (Green-Copper, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 2

Vitality: 16

Intelligence: 16

Spirit: 6

Level requirement: 20

This equipment obviously belonged to Little Snow.

[Lined Cape] (Green-Copper, Cape)

Vitality: 6

Dexterity: 4

Equip effect: Increase 1% critical strike.

Level requirement: 20

Only Dexterity and no Strength, this equipment was obviously suitable for either a Thief or a Hunter.

Just when Fatty Han wanted Hundred Shots to have the item, Hundred Shots rejected his chance to roll.

"Fatty, it's fine now. My equipment is quite strong. You don't need to give it up anymore! From now on, let's just roll for the next equipment fair and square!"

"Alright then!" Fatty Han nodded and accepted the cape.

The party then ran towards the dungeon entrance. Fatty Han suddenly turned around and asked Zhang Yang, "Hey Little Yang, are there any hidden bosses in this dungeon?"

Zhang Yang shook his head. "Not all dungeons have hidden bosses. As for Marzerway's Lair, there are no hidden bosses in any of the three dungeons!"

After a while, the party got out from the Front Wing and entered the left entrance of the dungeon.

"Ding! You have entered Marzerway's Lair: Middle Wing (Hardcore Mode)!"

The atmosphere and background of this new dungeon was exactly the same as the previous one. The only difference was the monster patrolling inside were now fire elementals.

[Demonized Fire Elemental] (Elite)

Level: 22

HP: 6,000

There were so many monsters here; too many in fact! With just a look, it felt like the room was cramp and tight.

"So-freaking many!" Fatty Han took in a deep breath.

"Yeah. The monsters here are far stronger than before. They're all magic attack types. They just love to spew fireball at you and those are painful as f*ck!" Zhang Yang explained. "However, the good thing is that their HP is very low. They are about half of those elite monsters. We can just use our AoE attacks and they can be killed off easily."

Zhang Yang walked ahead and used Charge to initiate the fight.

Zhang Yang cut down one of the monsters for 342 damage and gained 36 Rage. He immediately used Horizontal Sweep.

'-701!'

'-745!'

'-726!'

Many more damage texts overlapped each other in the tight crowded space.

A total of 8 fire elementals had their targets set to Zhang Yang and began conjuring fireballs.

The team followed up and started unleashing their AoE skills like Barrage and Tornado Cleave.

3 seconds later, the monsters finished casting their spells and threw 8 fireball towards Zhang Yang. A barrage of attacks landed on Zhang Yang, causing '-122', '-119', and '-125' damage to him. Zhang Yang lost around 1000 HP in this wave.

Little Snow was prepared for it. The moment she saw damage texts popping out on Zhang Yang's head, she waved her hand and used Higher Healing on him, restoring 400 HP. At the same time, Regeneration healed him for 130 HP every 3 seconds. 2 seconds later, Little Snow conjured another Higher Healing and healed Zhang Yang almost to his full HP.

Boom!

Another 8 fireballs landed on Zhang Yang.

"Argh….I don't want to do this anymore…This is so tiring!" But being the only healer in the party, Little Snow had to continue her healing alone or else Zhang Yang would die and the whole team would be defeated.

30 seconds into the battle and all of the minions were killed off, granting the party immense experience points.

Little Snow jeered at the hallway and saw waves and waves of minions patrolling. She turned sour and said, "God, how long would this last!"

"Cousin, I'll give you a back massage after all these minions. Is that good enough?"

Fatty Han suddenly gave a lusty expression. "Pressing and pushing is something only Fatty can do best! I'd tell you, no one else could do it better! Little Snow, take my number and call me whenever you're in the mood for a back massage. I'll be over in a jiffy!"

Drizzler walked over to Fatty Han and observed his fleshy hands.

"Huh. Now that I've seen your hand. I finally understand why the Mandarin language has the phrase 'Salty Pig Hands', you pervert!"

Everyone laughed for a bit and moved on forward.

The monsters were indeed strong and their attacks were stronger, but the only person working furiously was Little Snow, while the rest of the party were calm and relax all the way.

20 minutes later, they finally arrived at the first boss.

[Fire Spirit Anni] (Green-Copper)

Level: 23

HP: 138k

Standing at 10 meters tall, the gigantic elemental spirit was burning away like a huge bon fire pillar. In this enormous palace, there were no other minions around anymore.

"Alright, rape our ears, Little Yang!"

Zhang Yang shook his head and sighed. He then began to explain the boss' strategy and skills.

"As you could guess, the boss is a Spellcaster class. Its physical attacks are not strong so it will cast Flame Shot at the person with the most aggro. The skill has a 3 second casting delay and deals 1,000 damage per shot! Little Snow, just give up! As the only healer in this Hardcore Mode dungeon, it is your fate to heal till you drop!"

Fatty Han laughed and said, "Little Snow, just give up and listen to Little Yang!"

"Pervert Fatty!"

"Pervy Brothers!"

The girls scolded together.

Zhang Yang expressed innocence. "Hey! Why am I in the same category as him?"

Little Snow replied, "Birds of the same feather…"

"…flock together!" Drizzler continued her cousin's idiom. "The two of you looked like brothers in arms. That is why both of you must share the same bad habit!"

"What!? Argh! A gentleman must not be arguing with a lady!" Zhang Yang gave up and used an escape card to avoid the argument. He then continued his boss explanation. "The boss' second skill is called Knockback. This skill will cause every target in its effective range to be knocked back 3 meters behind, and will also receive 500 fire damage. At the same time, the target will be inflicted with a debuff called Combustible, causing all fire magic damage to be increased by 50%! The debuff is quite dangerous. If I'm hit with Flame Shot and Knockback while gaining the Combustible debuff, I will receive about 1,800 damage! I will be instantly killed if I were to receive that combo without a full HP status!"

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Chapter 56: Fire Spirit Farr

Translator: Zenobys Editor: TheRealSeal

"Its third skill is called Lava Flow." Zhang Yang continued to explain the boss' skills. "Once it's activated, eight rivers of lava will flow out in a specific pattern with the boss at its center. The lava will continue to flow for 30 seconds so remember to avoid it at all cost! Anyone standing in it will take 500 damage!"

"Hmm, sounds pretty simple. We should be fine as long as we can avoid the lava!"

"The fourth skill…"

"Holy crap, there's a fourth skill?! Little Yang, please finish your sentence! Don't leave us hanging here!"

Zhang Yang laughed at Fatty Han.

"The fourth skill is quite simple. For every party member's death, the boss gains 50% damage increase; which is why you have to survive at all costs! In summary, stay alive and don't die!"

"Let's go!"

Charge!

"Ho! Where did these pests come from? How dare you step into my domain! Hmph! Water Spirit and Earth Spirit are completely useless! How could they let these pests get past them?"

Being completely immune to Charge's stunning effect, Farr raised its fiery fists and hurled them at Zhang Yang. "Hahaha! I will burn your soul into the depths of the abyss! Enjoy wandering forever, never to return!"

"Little Yang, is it just me, or does this boss love to talk a lot?" Fatty Han asked while firing a shot.

"Yeah, I feel the same way too! Zhan Yu, this boss could actually be on the same level as you! Annoying as hell!"

Drizzler used Charge to dash towards the boss and began hacking and slashing. Noticing high damage texts that were popped out rapidly, her face flushed with excitement.

Hmph, if I were to keep my mouth shut, do you think we could reach to this stage?

Zhang Yang had a little monologue and smiled bitterly by himself.

"Some boss' difficulty factor lies on their attack and skill. For others, like this one, have another way to annoy players, and that's through trash-talking!"

Fatty Han laughed. "Huh? Trash-talking? Can they actually do that?"

"Yeah, just wait for it! This will be our first encounter of a trash-talking boss!"

While they were happily conversing, Zhang Yang had already stacked 5 layers of Cripple Defense and made the vulnerable boss even more vulnerable.

"You stinky piece of walking flesh! I'll use my flame to burn all of you into roasted meat, and then I'll eat you for dinner!"

Fire Spirit Farr began to chant Flame Shot. Three seconds later, a giant fireball flew rapidly towards Zhang Yang. He could not block nor escape from it and took a hit while simultaneously a huge '-800' damage text flew across his head.

"Haha! Foolish mortals! How does it feel being burnt into a crisp?" Fire Spirit Farr then switched to its fiery first to strike. "Perhaps I shall keep your skeletons and fashion them into a table! That would be a perfect decoration for my palace!"

After a few fist attacks, Fire Spirit Farr started to chant a Flame Shot. Being a Spellcaster-class monster, it would naturally prioritize its magic attacks as it's main.

Boom! A fireball flew off, hitting Zhang Yang again.

"Impossible! You, a mere mortal withstanding my almighty attack! No! Why are you still alive?! NO! You must die! You must die NOW!" Fire Spirit Farr growled loudly.

'Ding! Fire Spirit Farr is enraged!'

'Ding! Fire Spirit Far has unleashed Knockback!'

A circular wall appeared with Farr at the center of it. The wall then blasted away in all directions and knocked back Zhang Yang and Drizzler, while leaving a debuff effect on them. "Foolish creatures! I will not hold back any longer!" The fire spirit then chanted another Flame Shot, aiming at Zhang Yang.

Fatty Han could not hold it in any longer. "What the hell?! This boss can really talk… a lot!"

Zhang Yang snickered, "Haha, trash-talk! This is considered as a challenge. Once you encountered enough of these kind of bosses, you'll get used to it soon enough. Still, you wouldn't really get yourself mad from a computer, right?"

Little Snow was holding on for quite some time, but eventually she lost it too. "Would you guys just kill it already?! I'm suffering here!"

After casting Flame Shot, Fire Spirit Farr scanned the party. "Hmph! You who would only sneak behind and attack, I will burn you all!"

Woosh! Eight rivers of lava flowed out from the boss' body, across the battlefield. Fatty Han and the rest managed to evade it by a hair's breadth, but the melee fighters did not have enough time to react at all. It was only luck that the boss' Lava Flow did not target a specific player. When the lava started to spew from the boss' body, it went past Zhang Yang and Drizzler, scaring the hell out of them!

90%, 80%, 70%... the boss quickly lost its HP at a fast pace. As it talked too much, the party began striking and shooting at their best and maybe even a little more as they were pretty much annoyed by the trash-talking.

"Despicable human! Curse you!" Fire Spirit Farr cried in pain after being attacked. "Let the flame cleanse you away!" Using Knockback again, the boss blasted his firewall everywhere and almost killed Zhang Yang with only over 600 HP left.

"Thank god this boss didn't curse my future baby child or something like that, or I'd be really furious!" Fatty Han said as he happily drew his bow and shot at his own pace.

"Slim and Handsome, you've been shooting for almost half a day, and yet nothing came out! How could you call yourself a man?"

That was it. Fatty Han stopped his attack suddenly and furiously walked up to the boss! "Who said I can't shoot it out?! People call me the '7 shot man'! I can shoot it out in five minutes! Hmph! I can't shoot? I'll shoot in your f*cking face!"

"Hey, take a chill pill there, horny brother!"

"Disgusting prick!"

"Fatty, you just revealed your secret here!"

It was then Fatty Han realized that he had been played by a computer! How could he allow himself to be fooled by a computer to lose his temper?

"Haha! Fatty, I think you've completely tarnished your good name!" Zhang Yang laughed loudly.

"Oh, get out of there!" Fatty Han was angry right down to his bone. "This boss' perverseness is just as good as mine!"

"Bullsh*t! You're the only one here with that kind of mind! The boss is insulting your marksmanship, not your… you know! Hey, Fatty Han. Could it be that a certain part of your body isn't working properly? I know an old medical officer that lives just down the alley here…" Zhang Yang could not help himself to laugh even more.

"Mind your own business! My little brother is as fine as it is!" Fatty Han defended his own "ability."

Fire Spirit Farr began provoking Hundred Shots as well, "Hundred Shots, you've been shooting for almost half a day, and yet nothing came out! How could you call yourself a man?"

Being Hundred Shots, the man that never lost his "chill", he remained steady and undisturbed as he continued to fire his arrow unfazed.

"See that, Fatty Han? That's what I call style. Cool as a cucumber!"

"Tch! Hundred Shots, tell me the truth now, how old are you?" Fatty Han asked.

Hundred Shot sniggered before he answered, "30!"

"When you are 30, you'll have that problem. When you are 40, you can't do anything about it besides having those thoughts! This is not style, it's a fact! I'll never have the problem about shooting it out!"

With this topic now in the air, not a single man would leave themselves undefended. Hundred Shots curved his lips and said, "Well, according to my wife, I've no problem with my little brother. And if it's a problem, it's not a problem at all!"

"Bullshit philosopher!"

Both Zhang Yang and Fatty Han were surprised at Hundred Shot's comment and laughed out loud.

"Hey, are you guys fighting or not?!" Drizzler angrily cried out. She could not take it any longer; it was not about the dirty adult talks that revolved around their private matters, but the fact that she could not understand any bit of it! If she could not understand it, then it did not matter anymore!

"Drizzler! Are you giving me a massage? If that's the case, it would be a waste! I could barely feel anything!" Fire Spirit Farr turned and pointed at Drizzler, starting to say something insulting again. "I will flatten you!"

"Huh? Flat? Flat chest? Did you just call me flat-chested!?" It's hard not to admire how Drizzler interpreted that. From the word "flatten" to "flat chest". Still, the angered little Drizzler was triggered to fight even wilder than ever!

Fatty Han laughed and said, "This boss sure is fun to play with!"

"Horny boss! Perverted Fatty!" Drizzler continued to land more hits on the monster.

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm a normal and serious man!" Fatty Han was quick to refute.

"Despicable mortal! Feel my wrath!"

Lava began to flow out again, causing the entire party to jump like cats and dogs. As the party regained their composure, the boss' HP was left with only 20%.

"This boss is quite easy to defeat! If it wasn't because of its crap, I could fight this kind of boss anytime!"

Zhang Yang shook his head. "We were only lucky. We didn't get hit by the Flame Shot and Knockback combo! That one is a lethal skill!"

15%, 10%, 7%... The boss' HP continued to drastically drop.

5%, 3%...

Boom! A Flame Shot landed on Zhang Yang and reduced his HP down to 512 points. At that moment, the boss opened his mouth and said, "You've angered me, mortals!"

'Ding! Fire Spirit Farr has unleashed Knockback!'

'-600'

Zhang Yang was instantly killed by the attack.

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu has died!'

"Don't stop! Kill it! Kill it!" Zhang Yang shouted.

'Ding! Fire Spirit Farr has gained a Sacrifice effect. All attacks have been increased by 50%!'

"Haha! Delicious soul! I can feel my powers grow stronger!

Fire Spirit Farr's body grew larger. Now that Zhang Yang died, the boss changed its target to the second most aggro player; Drizzler. Luckily, this boss did not have the tendency to use Flame Shot. Even if Drizzler was hit by a Knockback, it would only cause 450 damage and then kill her off easily with a few normal attacks. It did not need to use the 3-second delay Flame Shot!

2%, 1%...

'-2250!'

Carrying the Combustible debuff, Drizzler was vulnerable to attacks. Even if Little Snow could heal her back to full HP, her pitiful 1200 HP could only withstand a single attack from the boss. Soon after, Drizzler also died.

'Ding! Fire Spirit Farr has gained a Sacrifice effect. All attacks have been increased by 100%!'

"Such a wonderful feeling! My powers grow stronger again!" Fire Spirit Farr laughed evilly, and then turned to face Fatty Han and casted Flame Shot.

'1200.'

'950.'

'740.'

The boss had a little over 1,000 HP left!

'400.'

'143.'

'-2000!' Flame Shot was cast. Fatty Han was defeated.

'Ding! Fire Spirit Farr has gained a Sacrifice effect. All attacks have been increased by 150%!'

This time around, the boss did not cast a Flame Shot. It rushed over to Hundred Shots and attacked him with physical strikes.

'-176!'

'-413!'

A simultaneous attack came from both Hundred Shots and Little Snow.

"No, no, no! This isn't happening! I am the Immortal Fire God! No one could have killed me! No…!" With an unwilling expression, Fire Spirit Farr fell defeated.

'Ding! You and your party members have killed Fire Spirit Farr. Obtaining 69,050 Experience Points. (50 points party bonus)!'

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Chapter 57: Air Spirit Ains

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Facing a Spellcaster-class monster would be quite troublesome if players did not possess any passive or automated damage reducing skills. Zhang Yang felt grateful that he could learn a particular skill when he reached Level 30. Shield Wall was an active skill that reduced 75% of all incoming attacks for 10 seconds. Before that, he could only fight hoping lady luck was on his side!

Zhang Yang stopped thinking and shouted, "Little Snow, revive me!"

Little Snow suddenly had an epiphany. "Wow, I never knew the experience points could be so much when there's so few people standing! Hehehe… Maybe next time when the boss is almost down, I'll let you guys just die off again!"

"Hey, hey, hey. Isn't that a little too extreme?!"

"What do you think?" Little Snow threw a playful wink at Zhang Yang as she chanted the reviving spell.

"The deadliest housewife ever!" Zhang Yang shook his head, disappointed.

"What did you say?" Drizzler retaliated just as she revived. Zhang Yang walked over to Drizzler and patted her timid little head. "This doesn't concern you, little brat. You're still very far away from being a housewife!"

Little Snow, on the other hand, smiled sexily. "Hey, hey! This elder cousin is not a housewife!"

Sigh, she's not even close to being a pretty lady but how could she have the nerve to behave like a supermodel?!

Zhang Yang did not want to waste more time and quickly commanded, "Open the corpse!"

"Ah hah! Mine!" Drizzler ran over and grabbed the chance to open the corpse.

Fatty Han sadly lost all his chances to open the corpse ever since Drizzler and her cousin joined the party. This little brat collects all the gold coins first like she always do, and only then would she get the equipment.

[Fiery Long Bow] (Green-Copper, Ranged Weapon)

Weapon attack: 99-117

Attack interval: 2.7 seconds

DPS: 40

Equip effect: Forged from the finest of flames, every attack will have a 5% chance to inflict additional 50-70 fire damage.

Level requirement: 20

"Good hands, Drizzler! Very good indeed!" Zhang Yang laughed. "That's an excellent piece of bow!" Drizzler was still a young little girl; immature and playful. She got happy and excited after being praised.

Hundred Shots, 79 points.

Fatty Han, 77 points.

"Fatty, I ain't holding back now!" Hundred Shots swapped for the new equipment as soon as he obtained the weapon. Hundred Shots felt it was disgraceful to be lowest in damage output that tarnished his pride. He did not want people to think that he was dragging the team down!

Fatty Han smiled and waved his hand, "Don't sweat it! We're friends after all!"

Zhang Yang, being startled, forced himself to speak. "So far, our party composition doesn't make sense. If there's a Knight, Thief, or Spellcaster equipment, we'd have no choice but to auction it out! We'll have to quickly set up another team, prioritizing class to not waste anymore equipment! With his 10-man party as a base, we can take on the Professional League. We can even take on the 10-man dungeon, or perhaps even the 20-man!"

[Burning Chest Plate] (Green-Copper, Leather Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 22

Strength: 4

Dexterity: 14

Level requirement: 20

"A Hunter's equipment again!"

"Fatty, you'd better take this one. I've already taken the bow!" Hundred Shots smiled.

Fatty Han took the equipment happily. A character's damage depended highly on the weapon; Hundred Shots' damage power increased to a certain degree after he obtained the new weapon. Fatty Han on the other hand needed a new armor as his HP was the lowest in the party.

Drizzler just began to scold the boss' dead body, "Tch! Stingy boss. Talk so much but so little equipment. Ptui! I spit on your corpse!"

"Ha! Drizzler, the boss might remember this and get back at you the next time we fight it!" Zhang Yang tried to frighten her, and it worked. What if they were to fight this boss again tomorrow and the boss called her "flat" a second time? What would she do then?!

When everything has settled down, the door behind the dead boss' body opened automatically, revealing the pathway that led them to the last boss, Air Spirit Ains. Naturally, they cleared the minions along the way and reached the end.

[Enraged Air Elemental] (Elite)

Level: 23

HP: 50,000

Almost all elemental monsters had the same appearance, the only difference was their color. Water was blue, Earth was brown, Fire was red, and Air was white. The monsters on the pathway were little, having only three to four monsters. However, their numbers matched evenly with their HP; one monster's HP was just as high as the boss'!

"Listen, this kind of monster is often called as Tank Slayer. They're very strong!" Zhang Yang unsheathed his sword. "Ok, here I go!"

Zhang Yang used Charge and initiated the fight.

'Dodge!'

'Dodge!'

'Block!'

'Dodge!'

Zhang Yang moved around like a fish in the water. He evaded all the monster's attacks with ease; not a single attack landed on him. Seeing Zhang Yang not taking any damage, she pouted her lips and complained, "Hey! Why did you say they were Tank Slayers? They look like nothing but easy kills!"

At that moment, Zhang Yang decided to prank Drizzler and smiled evilly, "Why don't you try and use Provoke."

Drizzler wanted to prove him wrong so badly that she did not give a second thought. She used Provoke.

'-783!'

'-832!'

'Ding! Player Drizzler has died!'

"@#$%! You sneaky little noob tank! I swear we will never get along ever!" Drizzler exploded in the party channel.

"Haha! I would say that you're an ant who thinks it can carry an elephant, but you'll only know it once you've tried it!" Zhang Yang justified his actions while at the same time slashing the monster.

"Bastard! You'll pay for this!" Drizzler was both puffing with anger and sniffling in tears.

"Cousin! When the monster is left with 5% HP, let the noob tank die!"

"Haha, okay!" Little Snow played along.

Very soon, the monster's HP dropped down to 5%, and Little Snow stopped her healing on Zhang Yang and hummed a random song. However, a Guardian would not have any trouble dodging and nullifying attacks when faced with a physical attack monster. Besides, the monster was just an Elite; its attack were not as fast nor as deadly as a boss, making it extremely easy for Zhang Yang to evade them. The monster fell before he could even lose all his HP.

"Pfft…" Zhang Yang held back his laughter. "R-Revive her!" he laughed.

Drizzler got back up to her feet. She was obviously angry; flares were coming out from her nostril and she stared at Zhang Yang with such wide eyes that you could tell the iris apart from the sclera.

As they continued to move on the pathway, they encountered more minions. They were strong, but Zhang Yang's party was not weak either. As troublesome as it may have seemed, the pathway had been cleared and they arrived at the boss' chamber 30 minutes later.

[Air Spirit Ains] (Green-Copper)

Level: 24

HP: 144K

The boss stood more than 20 meters tall. On its right hand, it was holding a heavy spear even taller than itself; it was weird it could still float so easily above ground. The battle would just be the same as the previous one; only the boss with no minions.

"Ahem!" Zhang Yang cleared his throat loudly, signaling that it was time for his speech.

"This boss is a physical attack type, and they are powerful! Its first skill is Sonic Pierce. This skill will be casted on the player with the highest aggro. One attack will deal about 1,500 damage, so Little Snow here will have to always make sure my HP has to exceed 1,200 HP. I will also try to reserve Block for this as the skill would only trouble the tank and healer." Zhang Yang paused. "Everyone alright so far?"

"Yeah!"

"Remember this, the second and third skill is very important to everyone. As soon as the battle starts, the boss will cast out 10 gas bombs. These bombs are homing projectiles and explode upon contact, causing 1,200 magic damage to everyone. Now, the good thing is that these bombs are not so fast, so maneuvering away would be easy!"

"Its third skill is probably the most bothersome one ever, Summon Clouds. These summoned clouds will chase you at an incredible speed. Now, the clouds itself do not attack but once it's made contact with anyone, it will inflict a 10-second stun effect, proving enough time for the previous bombs to chase up to you!

These clouds can be destroyed! They're about 5,000 HP; easily removed. That's why once the boss releases the little clouds, Fatty Han and Hundred Shots will have to shoot them down. You guys have to make sure they don't touch anyone!"

"This battle is about speed and movement. You can't win this match solely by slouching and hitting the boss!"

"Hoho! This is interesting. Let's give it a go!" Drizzler was breathing heavily with excitement, eager to fight the boss.

"Alright, let's fight and get used to the tactics!" The five of them walked into the battlefield together.

"Here I go!" Zhang Yang initiated the battle with Charge.

"To see you standing here in this battle proves that all of you have the potential! But your fight ends here, for I will crush you personally!" Air Spirit Ains swung its spear and furiously thrust it at Zhang Yang.

'Dodged!'

Zhang Yang spread out. The boss' attack was fast, but as long as it was not a skill attack, he could still continue to evade the attacks.

After equipping the new bow, Hundred Shots attacking power reached to that of Drizzler, surpassing even Fatty Han's attack power! Aside from Little Snow the Healer, everyone's attacking power was considered above average. In less than 10 minutes, the boss has lost 10% HP!

"Detestable pest! Die!" Air Spirit Ains let out a loud growl, releasing ten of 1 meter wide white-colored gas sphere from his body. It slowly floated across the battlefield and started chasing everyone.

'Ding! Air Spirit Ains has unleashed Air Bomb!'

"Here come the bombs, guys! Mind your steps!" Zhang Yang pulled the boss and started to shift his position away from the incoming Air Bomb.

"Puny mortal! I will crush you!" A red light glimmered across the boss' body. It then raised its spear.

'Ding! Air Spirit Ains has used Sonic Pierce!'

Zhang Yang's athletic was immediately triggered, activating Block in crucial moments.

'Block!'

'-117!' Block reflected damage.

'-234!' Shield Bash.

"Nicely done!"

The boss' skill had a preemptive movement that indicated the attack. Even so, it only provided a tenth of a second's time for the player to activate Block to nullify the attack. This ability to grasp the short time to react is not for everyone! The four of them cheered in admiration.

"Guys, be alert here! Don't just stand there and stare!" Zhang Yang hurriedly reminded the team when he saw them gazing at him.

"Stinking little pests! Let's have some fun!" Air Spirit Ains stuck up his butt and let out several fist-sized clouds. These clumps of fart gases floated slowly up into the air and suddenly flew to Drizzler at a shocking speed.

'Ding! Air Spirit Ains has used Summoned Cloud!'

"Eww…" Everyone but Zhang Yang frowned in disgust.

This boss was really just putrid.

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Chapter 58: Wiped and Wiped Again

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"Fatty! Hundred Shots! Quick, take down the clouds!"

In the light of a dangerous situation, Zhang Yang commanded the team properly while bearing the responsibility of a party leader. Drizzler was scared beyond words. If she would really take it in, even a tiny bit of that boss' putrid fart would make her not eat anything for days!

With Zhang Yang's clear words, Hundred Shots and Fatty Han turned around and changed their targets quickly and began attacking the cloud. However, the cloud's movement speed was too fast for them to properly react. Even though they managed to take half of the cloud's HP off, they were not quick enough to stop it from touching Drizzler. As soon as the cloud touched her, she cried out for help.

"NO! NO!"

'Ding! Player Drizzler has received the Summoned Clouds effect: Rotten Stink, Stunned for 10 seconds!'

The stationary Drizzler wobbled back and forth while the Air Bomb slowly floated towards her.

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-960!'

Aside from Zhang Yang, the rest of the team's HP were in the red zone. As she was still stunned, Drizzler had another bomb coming at her.

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-1200!'

'-960!'

'Ding! Player Drizzler has died!'

'Ding! Player Little Snow has died!'

'Ding! Player…'

Complete annihilation.

Five souls appeared at the revive points.

"Bleh! Bleh! Bleh! Stinky boss! Rotten boss! Shit! Shit! Shit!" Drizzler's face had nothing but the expression of disgust. She stuck out her tongue and spat out everywhere.

"Calm down, Drizzler. This is all just a game! There's nothing real about this!" Zhang Yang consoled.

"B-but, it's just so real! It's so smelly! I think I can still smell it on me!" Drizzler cried. Fatty Han smiled evilly. "Use XXX soap! Wash up for your health!"

"Scram!" Four middle fingers pointed at him.

Shush! Five new souls entered the revive point. At this period of the dungeon exploration stage, there would be many parties sent by many guilds, wiped out in different ways, crowding the revive points.

The newly arrived souls were Crimson Rage's party!

Snow Seeker posted a question in the local channel, "Oh, it's none other than Zhan Yu, the party leader! Where did you guys stop at? Have you guys defeated the first boss?"

With the appearance of a beautiful woman, Fatty Han started to behave "manly". He then replied, "Actually, Miss beautiful Snow, I'm the real player behind the scene. I was the one who trained Little Yang!"

Ignoring his comments, Zhang Yang answered her question with another question. "Hehe, Snow guild master! What about you? Where did you guys stop at?"

Snow Seeker replied after a few moments later at the local channel, "We started off with the Middle Wing. Right now, we'd defeated the first boss and are still fighting the second!"

They started the dungeon with the Middle Wing?

Zhang Yang thought for a while about it and finally pieced it together. What they did was to hide the truth within a lie! While everyone was fighting furiously for the Front Wing First Clear Achievement, these girls silently raided the Middle Wing. This way, they would have saved themselves a lot of time!

This method… no, this strategy was indeed ingenious! The only hiccup they could have ever faced was Zhang Yang's party!

"Wow, what a coincidence! We're also fighting the second boss!" Zhang Yang decided to tell her the truth since the other party was doing the same.

Shit! All five Crimson Rage party members grit their teeth.

How could they be so far?

"Sister Snow, could he be lying to us on purpose? I think he's trying to inflict us with mental stress!" Ever since her last encounter with Zhang Yang, Thorny Rose had nothing but a bad impression of him.

Snow Seeker thought for a while and shook her head, denying her suggestion. "I don't believe that's the case. We can clearly see how fast Zhan Yu's team proceeded to conquer the Front Wing. It would only be normal to think that they could progress this far!"

White Orchid became worried. "T-then…we s-should…."

"Let the horses loose; empty the stable! There is no other way but forward! We'll have to use all our efforts to win this round! We have to defeat this boss!" Snow Seeker turned her gaze at her teammates.

"Dancer, Perfume! I want the both of you to increase your attack speed on the Summoned Clouds! Rose, for god's sake, please pay attention to the Air Bomb, don't just chase the boss!"

"B-but Sister Snow, I'm all boobs…"

White Orchid interjected Thorny Rose's word. "All boobs no brains! Yeah, I've heard that a thousand times now! Please stop using that as an excuse for your incompetence!"

"I'm warning you! If you make another mistake, I'll take a plane and fly over to Zhou Hang! I'll personally go to your house and burst those meaty sacks of fat!"

"Tch!" Thorny Rose lowered her head in submission and whisper, "My boobs are really that big…"

Perfumed Water suddenly voiced out, "You know…if you want to compare breast sizes, our Sister Snow here is the real deal! Hehe! She's 36F!"

"Is that for real?"

"Of course it's real! It's a pity that Sister Snow always wears loose clothing. What a humble woman she is! Hehe! I even felt her size myself!" Perfumed Water continued to brag.

"You little witch! How dare you defile Sister Snow! I-I haven't even touched hers before…."

"Sister Snow! Let me touch'em!"

The five women turned the quiet scene into the utmost chaotic room.

Zhang Yang's party went into the dungeon and revived.

"Woah! That fight was really intense!"

The party members started to have small talk as they ran into the boss chamber.

"Little Yang! T-They're all freaking beautiful! How about this, we let them have this round! You know, to get them to owe us a favor! Who knows one day they may repay us! That's when we can hit on them back! I could have two! No, three! Argh! I'd have them all!" Fatty Han started to dwell in his own imagination.

"Hm… what? I didn't hear you. I was thinking that I should find another Hunter to replace you when I take down the next dungeon!" Zhang Yang sighed loudly.

"Oh brilliant! I concur!"

"You have my vote as well!"

"Two thumbs up for me!"

3 voices spoke out.

"F*ck! Since when did I become public enemy number 1?" Fatty Han shook his head, disapproving their action.

When the party arrived at the entrance of the boss chamber, all five of them sat down and started to chew on recovery snacks before they moved into the chamber together.

"Fatty Han! Hundred Shots! I'd leave the Summoned Clouds to you guys!"

"We got it covered!"

"Here I go!"

Shush! Zhang Yang used Charge to dash into the fight once more.

Remembering the fart from the boss, Drizzler guts were still filled with boiling rage. You did not need to tell her, she would go on and fight the boss herself. As she furiously fought the boss, swinging her weapon around wrathfully, she looked like someone who had completely lost her mind.

"Hahaha! More pesky bugs have come here to offer their lives!" Ains laughed manically and raised its spear to pierce Zhang Yang.

"I shall personally send you all to hell!"

The battle began!

After a minute into the fight…

"Fatty! Hundred! The clouds!"

"Crap! I'm stunned!"

"Shit, it's about to explode!"

The five of them were sent back to the revive point.

"Little Yang, I really think that the two of us are not enough! Let little Drizzler help us with the clouds!" Fatty Han voiced out his suggestion.

"Bleh! Bleh! Bleh! No way in hell am I going near those smelly clouds!" Drizzler shook her head left and right as fast as she could. Zhang Yang also shook his head, disagreeing.

"Melee attackers can't attack the clouds. She would be stunned once she makes any contact with it! Okay, let's try it this way. Once the cloud is out, Little Snow, I want you to stop healing and start attacking. I think I can handle myself when all 3 of you are busy with the clouds."

"Hmm… Sounds good. Let's go!"

They revived, entered the dungeon, recovered their health, and started the boss fight.

Two minutes later, they were wiped out again.

"Hmm... That was satisfactory… three of you with the clouds. Yes. That's the way. Let's stick to this!" Zhang Yang tried to console the team.

"Fatty! I think you should really consider dieting! If your head weren't so big, the cloud would take 0.1 seconds more to reach you! We can still destroy that cloud instead of it smashing onto you directly!" Drizzler playfully ridiculed.

"Little Drizzler, This fat body of mine is as important as my own life!" Fatty Han chuckled. "There are three benefits when you have a meaty body!"

"Oh here he goes again! Fatty Bro, are you trying to fool around again?"

"Hell no! Listen! Being fat has 3 benefits! Number 1, fat has high buoyancy, I won't drown that easily! Number 2, fat makes me heavy; heavy makes good momentum, you'll be sure to be at advantage in a fight! Number 3, fat is cool!"

"F*CK!" 4 members booed Fatty Han.

The party restarted the fight and tried again.

Complete annihilation. Again.

All dead. Again and again.

"Little Yang, this boss is very tough!" Fatty Han shook his head. "I-I can't continue on anymore. My equipment's durability is almost gone! I'd need to go back to the city to have it fixed."

"No need!" Zhang Yang hurriedly answered. "There is an NPC in the entrance of the dungeon there. He's a blacksmith! He can fix your equipment. Let's revive and get out of the dungeon first then!"

"How could we fail that many times?" Drizzler thought about it but she could not find a way to solve it. The battle strategy was clearly laid out, but every time the fight started, she always got messed up. Making mistakes where she should not have made mistakes. The only reason she could think of is the Summoned Cloud not being destroyed fast enough which led the Air Bomb to kill them all.

"We have been fighting for some time now. Everyone must be tired!" Zhang Yang thought of a solution and said, "Guys, after we repaired our equipment, let's all log off and rest for an hour! It's already after 3pm now and we haven't had our lunch yet. This is a bad condition for us to continue playing. Have a meal, have some rest and we'll meet back here at 5pm sharp! We'll defeat the boss in one go then!"

"Okay!" Everyone nodded their head in agreement. In the beginning, they were eager to fight, excited to defeat the boss and claim the "First Clear" Achievement. Of course, they would not feel hunger. However, once the fight dragged on longer and longer, and getting wiped over and over again, everyone lost their will and was unable to properly focus in battle. Unsurprisingly, mistakes will be made.

They revived and went out of the dungeon to get their equipment repaired to its full durability. One by one, the team logged out and rest.

'Fuh!'

Zhang Yang took off the helmet and let out a deep sigh. He cannot help but reminisce the Gaming Capsule he used 5 years later. In about half a year later, 'God's Miracle' would have released a series of revolution!

Number 1, a change in the gameplay style, allowing players to continue to play the game even in sleep!

This method allowed countless of working adults to fully enjoy the game! Furthermore, the in-game time and reality time was set to be 3:1. Three hours in game would be one hour in reality, allowing everyone take part in this wonderful world.

Number 2, introduction to the Gaming Capsule!

The utilization of both the gaming helmet and the Gaming Capsule would not cause any effect on the player character! The Gaming Capsule was developed by the aerospace technology and the stasis chamber. It had the function to provide nutrients and supplement the body needed in a fixed time interval. As long as the players were willing to do it, they could continue to play the game as long as 15 days in real life with no side-effect! When the Gaming Capsule was first released, it was obviously too expensive for normal citizens to purchase. It was a luxury only the rich could afford. One set of Gaming Capsule actually caused millions of dollars! Even a luxury car was inferior to the machine! It was only after two years later when the developers managed to solve a manufacturer problem that the Gaming Capsule became cheaper and many now could enjoy the product!

Number 3, the launch of the Professional League Championship!

Zhang Yang clenched his fist tightly. His heart was filled with immense excitement! He only had one year left to prepare himself. One year, that was when Yu Li entered the game! With her in his mind, Zhang Yang eyes turned soft and kind, his mind was calmed down instantly as if a heavenly tree grew in his heart.

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Chapter 59: One More Time!

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Zhang Yang reconnected to the game exactly on 5pm. He strolled for a little while and the rest of team appeared beside him almost simultaneously.

"Wow, I've got to tell you! After I had an awesome meal and had a warm bath, I feel so relaxed!" Drizzler sounded refreshed and energetic. "I feel like I could punch a tiger if one comes out now!"

"Haha! Very well, Tiger Slayer! I have high expectations of you!" Zhang Yang snickered. Drizzler snorted and proudly replied, "Hmph! Just watch me!"

The party team re-grouped together and enter the dungeon once again. They could not even remember how many times they had entered and re-entered. Now that the first boss was killed off before; the entire arena was empty. The only remaining monster in this dungeon was the boss; until the dungeon was refreshed and respawned all the missing monsters at midnight.

"Alright, I'm not going to waste my breath to explain again. I believe everyone knows what they should do by now. We can win this if each of you do your part! Remember! WE ARE THE BEST!"

"WE ARE THE BEST!"

"Let's go!"

Shush!

Both Zhang Yang and Drizzler used Charge at the same time. Zhang Yang then activated Provoke, drawing the boss' attention towards him.

"Puny mortals! Die in hell!" Almost every boss loved to use this kind of arrogant, powerful, and even provoking kind of speech to officially start the fight.

90%, 80%... The boss' HP reduced smoothly without any complications.

'Ding! Air Spirit Ains has used Summoned Cloud!'

"Careful! The farts are coming!" Zhang Yang screamed to alert the members. In an instant, Hundred Shots, Fatty Han, and Little Snow had their eyes locked onto the clouds and started their attacks.

'-282!'

'-381!

'-224!'

Having only 5,000 HP, the cloud was quickly destroyed under the concentrated chain attacks by 3 players.

"That's right! That's the way to do it! Look at how easy that was!"

Zhang Yang moved around, pulling the boss on the hand, and evading incoming Air Bomb on the other. In fact, all five of the party members were not stationary. Everyone was always constantly moving around. The bomb was not meant to be taken lightly; one touch and they would be completely wiped out again!

70%, 60%, 50%...

The battle went better than expected this time. Their reaction speed and attention were raised after having proper rest and a decent meal. While performing at their best, the cloud was killed off in no time. No one ignored the Air Bomb, and each of them carried out their role properly.

This was the true way to raid a dungeon. Each player had to play their specific role properly. An attack must have had enough damage power. A tank had to be strong enough to withstand attacks and had good crowd control skill. A healer had to be a good support and healing power. The remaining extra players filled in with the others while not making mistakes. However easy the strategy may be, it always seemed harder to execute the plan in actual battle. It was hard to make sure that everyone could perform their part flawlessly!

With that theory in mind, a 5-man dungeon was easier than a 10-man dungeon which was easier than a 20-man dungeon, and a 20-man dungeon was far easier than a 50-man dungeon! It was much easier for a 5-man team to make no mistake, but to make sure a 50-man dungeon to run smoothly was not impossible, but extremely hard!

40%, 30%, 20%, 10%!

"Guys, fight harder! Victory is just one step ahead! Don't let your guard down! The fight is hardest at the eleventh hour! The last part is always the hardest! Do not fret!" Zhang Yang immediately tried to boost the team's morale. They were excited and agitated.

8%!

5%!

3%!

2%!

1%!

0%!

Thud! The boss falls defeated!

'Ding! You and the party members around you have killed Air Spirit Ains. Obtaining 28,850 Experience points. (50 points party bonus)!'

'Ding! Your party has successfully conquered Marzerway's Lair: Middle Wing (Hardcore mode) and obtained the "First Clear" Achievement! This glorious accomplishment will be recorded in the Hardcore First Clear Achievement Board. As the party leader, please name your party!'

Without needing to ask anyone for it, Zhang Yang immediately keyed in "Lone Desert Smoke" into the confirmation box and the server channel was dyed in red color again.

'Server announcement: Party Lone Desert Smoke has obtained the "First Clear" Achievement: Marzerway's Lair, Middle Wing (Hardcore mode). This glorious achievement will be recorded in the Hardcore First Clear Achievement Board (China Server)!'

'Server announcement: Player Zhan Yu (Party Leader) has obtained the "First Clear" Achievement: Marzerway's Lair, Middle Wing (Hardcore mode). Obtaining 10 gold pieces, 1 Skill point, and 500 increased all races reputation from the system reward!'

'Server announcement: Player…'

"WE DID IT!" Fatty Han's thundering voice could be heard clearly among the cheering of the other party members. Being stuck for roughly 4 hours at this boss, they could finally let loose their built up stress.

The guild channel was also in complete chaos. Everyone was extremely happy, jumping around crazily. With their guild name out in the open, everyone was celebrating this joyful event! Imagine walking in public with the guild tag on your head, all swag and cool.

"Hey, hey! Look at this player here! Don't you know? This is the guild that claimed two consecutive "First Clear" Achievements! Huh? You've never heard of it? Hah, you're outdated now, bro!"

"Hahaha!" Fatty Han had been laughing uncontrollably for a while. "Little Yang! How about we take down the Main Wing as well tonight?!"

"Sigh! Ignorant people sure are dangerous!" Zhang Yang shook his head in disappointment.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Fatty Han turned and looked at Hundred Shots, pleading for an explanation. Both of them were Hunters, and since they had several common features, they became best friends immediately.

"The Main Wing is a 20-man dungeon! We can't do it alone!" His best friend explained.

"F*ck! Why did it suddenly turned into a 20-man dungeon!?" Fatty Han became angry.

"Hahaha!" Zhang Yang laughed. "That's because the Main Wing will drop a set equipment!"

"Set equipment?"

"Set equipment will grant a secondary effect when worn together. Out of the 5 equipment, there is the Head, Chest, Hands, Sheen, and Legs. If you have 3 of out 5 equipment you will gain an effect. If you have all 5 of the set, you will gain the second effect! A set equipment effect is very strong; just like putting on one more piece of equipment. Having two effects is like wearing two extra equipment! Very OP!

Zhang Yang patted Drizzler on her shoulder and when she turned to at him, he pointed his finger to the corpse, gesturing her to open the corpse.

"What about the set effect of a Hunter's equipment?" Fatty Han added.

Zhang Yang could not recall anymore. A level 20 equipment was just a temporary equipment that would be quickly replaced. Plus, he was never a Hunter and level 20 was something he had forgotten years ago!

He shook his head and said, "Sorry! I've forgot! The only thing I could remember was the warrior set effect. 3 equipment set effect was that every time you take damage, you have a chance to generate a barrier that can absorb up to 500 damage. The 5 equipment set effect was 10% damage increase." While Zhang Yang was explaining to Fatty Han, Drizzler opened an equipment.

[Air Spirit Sword] (Green-Copper, One handed sword)

Weapon attack: 88-104

Attack interval: 2.4 seconds

DPS: 40

Level requirement: 20

The only person who could use this sword was Zhang Yang. However, since he already had the Grey-Silver sword in his hands, he did not need a lower grade sword!

"Take it up to the auction house! We'll share the profit!" said Zhang Yang. All the other party members nodded their head in unison and Little Snow took the item. Being gold misers, Little Snow and Drizzler were the only ones who would try to snatch it away. If other Bandits, Guardians, or Defenders found out what they were about to do with the sword, they would literally cry their eyes out! How could any situation lead to the equipment being unwanted!?

"Little Yang, when could we fight the Main Wing?" Fatty Han had the set equipment in his mind.

"Hm. Let's try this. Tonight, we should all split up and try to form two teams to raid the Bangar Crypt Hardcore mode. We try our best to quickly pick out 20 players with strong, above-than-average equipment." Zhang Yang started his train of thoughts. Once he became the guild master, he was fast enough to get into character. His responsibility had increased, and so did his expanded way of thinking.

Right now, Little Snow, Drizzler, Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han were level 20. There was hope that they could dominate the Hardcore Mode with just their level and equipment.

[Engineering Recipe: Gas Bomb] (Engineering Recipe)

Use: Teaches you how to make a [Gas Bomb]

Requirement: Engineering.

This boss was quite stingy. Aside from the sword, it only gave a recipe and a skill book.

Among the team, Hundred Shots took the recipe because he was the only one that learned Engineering.

"That would take days! Little Yang, what if someone else claimed the Main Wing 'First Clear' Achievement first?" Fatty Han was already addicted to claiming the achievement. In his mind, the achievements was rightfully theirs!

Zhang Yang laughed. "If someone can and have taken it, well, it can't be helped! However, you must know that a 20-man dungeon is extremely hard. It's easy if it's just Normal mode and it would just drop normal equipment. But the Hard mode and Hardcore mode is a whole other story!"

There was a fact that Zhang Yang chose to hide; if anyone had the intention to conquer Marzerway's Lair before level 30, they had to depend on the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to do it! And with the rarity of the recipe, Zhang Yang wholeheartedly believed that only very few people in China possessed this particular recipe!

As long as he did not release the potion out in the market, it was downright impossible to get past through the fifth stage of the lair!

[Skill book: Holy Shield]

Use: Teaches you the skill Holy Shield.

Requirement: Priest.

"Hah! It actually dropped!" Zhang Yang suddenly let out a scream. Now Little Snow can support the team better!

The skill book Holy Shield was considered to be a global drop, which meant that almost every monster in the world could have the potential to drop this skill book and not just Air Spirit Ains alone.

Once all of the loot was distributed, the party left the dungeon and went to the elf NPC to complete the quest. The elf smiled with satisfaction and awarded them with huge amounts experience points and also granted them the qualifications to enter the last dungeon, Marzerway's Lair: Main Wing.

"Now that we have achieved what we planned, I thank you all for your efforts. Now let's split up and do what you need to do! Remember! Tonight, we must be online! Please do your best to form a 20-man party!" Zhang Yang smiled happily.

"Okay!" All of them nodded their heads. Even though they had some rest, there were still people who were quite worn out and chose to log out to rest more. Zhang Yang was one of them.

It was a sudden change of character for Zhang Yang. He now had many more aspects and matters to give his thoughts to.

He was, at the very least, the vice guild master for the guild Clear Water in his previous life. A person with a degree of leadership, which helped him when he became the guild master for Lone Desert Smoke now. There was nothing that he was not used to here.

The game itself encouraged players to join a guild. The system granted a certain level of benefit to players with a guild, like extra experience points, a level 35 mount, and discount on equipment repair or shopping. Although these extra services did not help in increasing a player's combat ability, but it was still beneficial to a certain extend.

In 'God's Miracle", guilds were categorized into 10 ranks. To increase a guild's rank, the guild would need the corresponding [Guild Upgrade Order]. The higher the guild's rank, the better the benefits a member could receive. However, aside from the [Guild Upgrade Order, the guild would have to accumulate the required amount of guild experience points.

Zhang Yang remembered clearly, the first piece of [Guild Upgrade Order] would be dropped at the level 30 dungeon, Shadowmoon Castle. However, his guild's current accumulated experience points was only 16%!

To obtain the guild's experience points, its member had to complete the guild quest! Zhang Yang then decided that the first thing he would do later was to get everyone to complete them!

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Chapter 60: Guild Contribution

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"World! Greeny! Fang! Foxey! Tonight, I want each of you to lead teams of your own. We will be carrying out a raid through the Front Wing and Middle Wing. I want all of your members to get qualified for entry to the Main Wing!"

Sky Shaman, the guild master of Sky High, was gathering elites in the guild to prepare for a large-scale campaign.

"Guild master, there are only 17 Level 20 players available at the moment! We can't form 4 teams!" World Hunter was quick to address the guild master's oversight.

"….H-How long? How long before we have 20 level 20 players?"

"About 5 hours, sir!"

"That's too slow! I want you to arrange a team. I want all level 17 members to help those at Level 19 to level up! Within 2 hours, I want to see all of them at Level 20!"

"Sir, yes sir!"

Sky Shaman turned around and faced his members. His face, initially lined with worry and anxiety, abruptly broke into a broad, knowing smile.

"Brothers, Zhan Yu and his party may have left us behind for now. But, know this! They are in a bit of a pickle right now!"

Sky Shaman's smiled with such confidence that if he did not know any better, victory was already well within his grasp.

"Guild master?" His guildmates spoke up uncertainly, not sharing his sense of conviction, as evidenced by their past repeated losses to Zhan Yu.

Sky Shaman's smile only grew wider.

"They are currently lacking in party members! Take a look at their party formations. They have always been a wild bunch that charges into the fray like Leeroy Jenkins. They may have taken on both the Bangar Crypt and also part of the Marzerway's Lair. Have any of you realized that to be the most likely scenario? We, Sky High have dispatched two parties to take down the Marzerway's Lair. The same goes for The Dominators and Crimson Rage. Both guilds have dispatched 2 parties just like we did! However, it seems that the most Zhan Yu can cobble up together is one miserable party! This can only lead to one sad conclusion; they simply do not have sufficient Level 20 members!"

"The Main-Wing is a 20-man dungeon. No matter how strong Zhan Yu's party may be, they are but a small team! How could they possibly take down the Main Wing with just 5 people?"

World Hunter and his party members' eyes radiated with renewed hope at the prospect of victory, for once.

"Now listen up! This will be our secret strategy! Know that we must treasure every minute, every second of the day and fight! Fight for our guild's honor! We shall go straight ahead with the Main Wing and start with the Normal Mode. There, we will take our time to gather intelligence on the boss! Discover every possible skill, explore every possible outcome! The equipment dropped in the Normal Mode are all Level 20 Black-Steel equipment, which are almost on par with Level 10 Green-Copper equipment! If you raid the Normal Mode of the Main Wing, it will be no different from raiding the Bangar Crypt Hardcore Mode! Furthermore, this nest will drop set-based equipment! Be it Black-Steel, Green-Copper, or even Grey-Silver, they will all be set equipment with potential set effects!"

Sky Shaman eyes gleamed with infectious excitement. He went on.

"The Hard Mode of the nest will drop a level 20 Green-Copper equipment! Which are the same drops as the Hardcore Modes of the Front Wing and Middle Wing! Which is why I have deduced that we could not possibly fall behind in terms of equipment strength! In fact, we could be even stronger than them! If my calculation is correct, we will have 4 days before Zhan Yu can even muster up a 20-man party! What say you my brethren? With a 4 days head start, with all the tactical advantage from all the recon we could carry out, is losing to them even a possibility?!

"Sir, no sir! We will win!"

"That's the spirit! We will win! No, we must win! The "First Clear" Achievement of a 20-man Hardcore dungeon is much more valuable than a puny 5-man dungeon!"

"We, the Sky High guild…"

"ARE THE STRONGEST!"

Sky High's burning passion to overtake Zhan Yu was truly admirable! However, if this so-called burning passion was to be witnessed by Zhang Yang, he would not be intimidated by one bit nor be in awe. He would, on the contrary, be laughing his head off sinisterly. A bunch of lowly players who think that they even matter in the big league! If they did not have Zhan Yu's [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to begin with, they would never ever get pass the fifth phase of the Marzerway's! Yeah sure, the Normal Mode was practically a free service for you all, but the Hardcore Mode? If not for anything else pray that you could even end up walking out of the dungeon in one piece!

Sky Shaman was not the only one that had a plan to counter Zhan Yu. The Dominator and Crimson Rage also had their eyes on the apparent weakness of Zhan Yu and had devised a plan to overtake him. The war for the next dungeon "First Clear" Achievement was going to get wilder and fiercer!

Zhang Yang logged into the game after his dinner.

He opened the guild member window and checked the members' statuses. There were a total of 316 members. Only 11 players were Level 15 and 99% of the guild member had exceeded Level 10. They were all still currently raiding the Bangar Crypt.

Zhang Yang quickly invited Hundred Shots, Fatty Han, Drizzler, and Little Snow into the party and explained his strategy. Once he gained their approval, he turned to the guild channel and began his speech.

"Hi everyone, of the Lone Desert Smoke. I'm Zhan Yu, the new guild master!"

"Woah! Woah! It;s big brother Zhan Yu! You've finally shown yourself!"

"Wow! My idol! Ahh! Please come closer!"

"Please power level me!"

"Praise the almighty boss Zhan Yu!"

"Ahem! Everyone please calm down for a moment and let me speak!" Zhang Yang waited for a moment, until the members had calmed down. Only then he continued, "Some say when you receive a higher title, you would need to show your worth for it. Now that I have accepted the title of guild master, this is my way of showing my worth!"

"Hahahaha!" Everyone in the guild broke out in hearty laughter.

"In an hour's time, Little Snow, Drizzler, Hundred Shots, Slim and Handsome, and I will lead two parties into the Bangar Crypt, Hardcore Mode! There, we will start to pick and select the best of you!"

"Awesome! I want in!"

"Oh! Me too!"

"Hey! I want in as well!"

"Big Bro Zhan Yu! Please take care of me!"

Everyone started to get excited as they heard that Zhan Yu himself will be leading them to a dungeon. When there was a chance to get better equipment, who would want to miss out?

Zhang Yang waited again for the guild members to settle down and then he continued.

"I'm sure everyone is looking forward for this, but keep in mind that there are only two parties available. There are limited slots! Which is why Drizzler and I have made a decision to properly solve this problem. Whoever has contributed more to the guild will be prioritized!"

"Big boss Zhan Yu. What is this guild contribution and how do we get them?" Most of the members started to echo the question.

"Hehe, this is a new invention of mine!" Zhang Yang explained.

"In the future, whenever we want to raid a dungeon, the members with higher guild contributions will have higher priorities in joining the expedition! To earn contribution points, you must complete a guild quest. I have already designed a few guild quests. Furthermore, you can also earn contribution points by raiding the specifically assigned dungeon! There are other ways for you to earn contribution points such as, donating items into the guild's bank, obtaining special system rewards and help in promoting the guild's name! However, these points aren't just for show. You can spend these points to exchange equipment from the guild! That is why, everyone has the chance to do it!"

The guild got rowdy and some had even scooted away to carry out the new guild quests.

Guild quests were almost similar to that of daily quests. You could only complete 5 quests a day. However, these quests were repeatable. This meant that the quests could be repeated day after day. The quests were simple and easy to complete. Some of the quest were as easy as killing a certain number of monster, or running from places to places. All it would take was just a few moments of your time.

Zhang Yang switched to the party channel and spoke to the team.

"Later, I will bring a team on my own. The 4 of you will bring another team! Both Fatty and Hundred Shots are Beastmaster classes. Their two pets are almost the same as two tanks. With their level, they can easily take down a Level 10 Hardcore dungeon!

"Little Yang, can you really do it alone?" Fatty Han tried to reason with Zhang Yang. He was afraid that he might get over his head and fail to leave a good impression to the guild members.

Zhang Yang snickered. "If that's the case. How about we make a bet? Let's compete in a race for the dungeon speed run!"

Drizzler quickly replied. "Pfft! Puny little tank boy. We have 4 Level 20 players here including me. Even if you could fight with all your might, you could only be matched with both pervy-Fatty and Uncle Hundred. Plus, I'm a super sailor soldier! Just I alone would be an even match for 6 or 7 of your party members! Furthermore, we have my cousin here with her super-duper huge 'support'!" Drizzler paused and grasped two invisible balls in her hands that seemed to be at chest-level. "Our team would only need one healer!"

"Ha! That's right!" Little Snow wrapped her arms underneath her chest and slightly raised them up, causing them to jiggle.

"Haha! I take it that you have accepted the challenge?" Zhang Yang intentionally provoked them.

Drizzler walked up to Zhang Yang with an intimidating expression. She patted her flat chest and said out loud, "We accept! Just you wait! You'll soon be kneeling on the floor admitting your defeat!"

"Little Yang. Even though I've always been supporting your back, but now, I just want to defeat you badly!" Fatty Han rebelled.

"Zhan Yu. This is a fight for honor and pride. I will not hold back!" Hundred Shots declared.

"Alright, alright. I still have to remind you that the skill of the first boss, Black Claw, will increase the damage you take. It is not a conventional attack buff, but rather a debuff on it's target. Very deadly. Even if you're Level 40, your pet will still die in a hit if you let the debuffs stack too high! The best strategy is this. Have two of your pets go up and fight together to accumulate aggro. Pull back any one of the two pets that is the first to stack 2 layers of Death Stare. Have the second pet take over the aggro and hold on. When the second pet is inflicted with 2 stacks of Death Stare, pull it back and switch the other pet back in. This one of the many ways to 'switch' tanks." Zhang Yang gave them the advice because he was afraid that they were not all free from chances of failure.

Hundred Shots and Fatty Han nodded together approvingly. They thought that Zhang Yang's strategy made perfect sense.

One hour later.

The members' contribution points started to have some visible changes. There were more than 10 members who had completed 5 guild quests and obtained 5 points each. Some others had stopped at 4 and 3 points individually. The guild experience points managed to accumulate to a total of 1%!

"Little Snow! You guys get to pick your party member first!" Zhang Yang smiled sincerely as he let them have the first pick.

Now that they had the chance, they did not want to lose to Zhang Yang's little challenge. They then chose accordingly to their class and guild contribution and picked out 6 members to form a 10-man party. After they had form their party, Zhang Yang picked the next 9 members with the highest guild contribution points and also form a complete party.

Those who had been selected were happy and satisfied. This was not to say those who were not selected lost all hope. They knew that if they were not picked today, there is always a chance that they could be selected tomorrow! All members were more than eager to complete their guild quests.

"Gather at the dungeon entrance later. We'll start the timer and go in together!"

With the strong intention to win the dungeon, everyone braced themselves to fight the dungeon with a welcoming heart. Even if they could not get their hands on an equipment, they would still fight for victory.

After 10 minutes, 2 teams; 20 players were gathered at the dungeon entrance.

"Little Yang. Competition comes before our friendship now. We will not hold back this time!"

"Hehe! Likewise!"

"To the dungeon!"

Zhang Yang switched to the party channel.

"Fellow members! Are you ready to lose to them?"

"Hell no!"

"Do you want to win?"

"HELL YEAH!"

"Awesome! Later, I'll go ahead and kite the monsters, do not attack until I say so! If you cannot follow this one thing, please leave the dungeon now!" Zhang Yang's tone gradually became stern.

"Roger that!"

Zhang Yang drew his blade and used Charge on one of the monsters. Following closely was a normal attack that dealt 364 damage and raised his Rage by 39 points. He immediately used Horizontal Sweep and dealt significant damage to the group of monsters.

He then shouted without looking back at his team mates. "Follow me!"

Zhang Yang moved further into the dungeon. The rest of the party were awestruck for a moment before quickly recovering and regaining their pace after his trail.

And just like that, Zhang Yang was at the forefront, closely followed by the monsters that he had not killed off, and the further behind were the party members.

In a short amount of time, Zhang Yang arrived to the second wave of monsters. Just as his Charge cooldown refreshed, he immediately used Charge and dashed towards them, leaving the monsters that were following behind further. He did a normal attack, following closely with a Horizontal Sweep and a Thunder Strike. The chain attack dealt a huge amount of damage and also caused a 5-second slowdown on the monsters following behind.

Zhang Yang moved on further into the dungeon and within 3 minutes, they had already arrived at the first boss's entrance. Zhang Yang had kited not only the monsters but also the Bouncers that stood guard at the boss's chamber. Zhang Yang had more than 10 monsters kited in a go!

T-This is, a straight flush!

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Chapter 61: One Straight Flush

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"Fight now!"

In the middle of the skirmish, evading ferocious attacks, dodging claws, casting skills, and even in the midst of battle, Zhang Yang's ability to command the team was not compromised one bit!

Shush! Zhang Yang had totally did a number on the enemy that left all men spellbound!

No one besides Zhang Yang alone was above Level 20, thus they did not possess any AoE skills; they were only limited to damaging one monster at a time. According to the Damage Statistics, Zhang Yang completely dominated the entire party with a staggering 92% damage contribution! How many Horizontal Sweep or Thunder Strike could a Level 10 monster with 3,000 HP take?

After 40 seconds, monsters lay defeated and everyone gained a luxurious amount of experience points. Since Zhang Yang was already Level 22, the amount of experience points a Level 10 monster could provide for him was minuscule. For the most part however, he did help to contribute to the morale of the party.

"Woah! That's a lot of experience points!"

"This is just too awesome. I got like 20k experience points in 5 minutes. I'm leveling up like there's no tomorrow!"

"With this speed, we would have certainly left the other team in the dust!"

"It's in the bag!"

"Woohoo! Praise our leader! Praise our guild master!"

Everyone's faces were filled with excitement. Their admiration towards Zhang Yang could only grow ever more.

Zhang Yang flashed a small smile. "Shush! Don't brag in the guild channel! Give them some hope!"

"Geh Geh!" The party snickered.

"Alright, it's time to fight the boss! Everyone, focus on your attacks! Do what you're supposed to do!" Zhang Yang then used Charge and dashed ahead.

This was a completely one-sided battle. The boss was defeated in merely 3 minutes. It dropped 3 pieces of equipment.

"Now, for the equipment. Each equipment will cost you 20 guild contribution points. Those with higher points will have priority and those with the equal points shall roll dices for the equipment. Once you have obtained the equipment, your contribution points will be deducted! The deducted points will be distributed among all the party members equally."

Zhang Yang had modified the distribution method to Party Leader Distribution before entering the dungeon. After the inevitable mess that came whenever anything was employed practically for the first time, the equipment was finally distributed. The boss was decimated in 3 minutes but distribution of the spoils took a whole 5 minutes.

Moving on!

Zhang Yang used the same method, with one straight flush to grab the aggro from all the monsters along the way up to the boss entrance and fought them there. Just as they had finished with the monster and were preparing to start with the second boss, Fatty Han posted in the guild channel, addressing Zhang Yang.

"Hehe, Little Yang, we have just defeated the first boss. Where are you now?" His voice sounded quite jubilant, as if he was sure that he had surpassed Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang turned around and winked, his eyes sparkling with mischief.

"We are just about to fight the boss!"

It was the truth, alright. It just happened to not be the entire truth!

Obviously, Fatty Han's party did not anticipate Zhang Yang using such an abusive method like this one straight flushing to raid the dungeon. Fatty Han replied with a smirk on his face. "Little Yang, don't give up just yet. There are still 3 bosses. You may still have the chance to catch up to us! Haha! I'll be going then!"

Zhang Yang's ability was not a mystery for them, everyone knew how strong he was. To think that they could actually stand a chance to beat him head on, led Fatty Han and his party almost delirious with excitement!

Zhang Yang brandished his sword and said, "Alright guys, it's time to kick some ass! Remember to fall back you get afflicted with the curse! Don't falter and break our chain combo either, yeah!" The battle started quickly and ended in the same manner. Even with Zhang Yang's reminder, there were still 4 careless players who stood still when they were cursed with the Curse of Water and Fire. Silently, Zhang Yang remembered each and everyone's performance and had secretly appraised and graded them on play style and ability.

After they distributed the equipment, the party went forward and used the same method to kite the monsters all the way to the third boss' entrance.

Fatty Han announced again when his team had just defeated the second boss. Fatty Han's ineffective provocation only left Zhang Yang and his team laughing silently.

After a little effort, they successfully defeated the third boss and also the hidden boss, clearing the entire dungeon smoothly and swiftly.

"We're done!" Zhang Yang announced in the guild channel.

"Impossible!" Fatty Han and his team cried.

After keeping their mouth shut for so long, they finally could take brag all day long about his godly method "one straight flush"

"You sneaky, noob tank!" Drizzler cried out in the guild channel.

"Hah! Sneaky? This is called a "Secret Strategy"! Would you reveal your trump card to the enemy?" Zhang Yang burst out, laughing.

"Hmph! I despise you!" said Drizzler angrily.

Once the equipment was distributed, the guild now had many players with negative contribution points. They would have to slowly complete guild quests and raid dungeons to raise their contribution points back up. While the rest of the party members that did not manage to obtain equipment have accumulated more points; Zhang Yang, Little Snow, and the rest have gained 26 points each.

After a short while, the party was disbanded under Zhang Yang's command. Each of them went on to their own errands. Zhang Yang, wanting to set an example for his fellow guild mates then decided to complete some of the guild quests himself. After accepting a kill quest, he took off and arrived at the assigned destination. His quest was very simple and basic, that was to kill and eliminate some Level 10 monsters. This quest was a breather in comparison to the hectic rush he experienced in the raids earlier on.

As he hacked his way through the targets, he felt alarms going off in his head. Instinctive impulses tugged at his heart. Just as when he stepped forward, the sensation grew stronger and he noticed a strange, tangible effect of light bending in the air close by.

It was a bandit! A bandit in stealth mode!

With over 3 years of combat experience below his belt, Zhang Yang had developed a sharp combative instinct. He immediately got out from the battle mode. As his Rage points slowly decreased from 47 points, he immediately used a Horizontal Sweep. The gleam of his sword spread across everywhere, illuminating the area!

'-703!'

The damage text popped out, a human figure fizzled from the air into visibility, revealing that his HP had dropped from 1110 to 407!

'Ding! You have initiated an attack on 44 Bandits. You are now penalized with the Red Tag! If you were killed in this condition, you will drop 2 levels and experience a 100% equipment break!"

"Haha! The infamous 44 Bandits!" Zhang Yang swung his sword and dealt a normal attack on him. 44 Bandits, the Bandit of the Sword and Fire Mercenary group.

'Dodge!'

The enemy was agile. He dodged Zhang Yang sword and thrust his daggers to counterattack.

Zhang Yang activated Block and nullified the enemy's attack.

'-102!'

44 Bandit received the Block reflect damage and Zhang Yang quickly activated the Shield Bash, dealing another 219 damage to him.

All normal attacks would have a detectable sign before it is triggered. As long as a player's own reaction rate was fast enough, one could easily dodge any normal attack with ease. However, there was almost no way to anticipate a skill. Even if you attempted to rely on instinct to predict a skill activation, the body simply could not keep up with the skill activation speed and make necessary evasive maneuvers. Even if you raised your Dexterity to the maximum, it wouldn't help one bit! To counter a skill, you must use another skill!

"F*ck! How could you be dealing so much damage!?" The enemy finally voiced out in frustration.

Zhang Yang stomped the ground and use Thunder Strike to deal a final 102 damage, instantly killing 44 Bandits.

'Ding! You have killed 44 Bandits!'

Zhang Yang sheathed his sword and sent a private message to the enemy.

"I don't think that I have ever offended anyone from the Sword and Fire Mercenary group. Why is there an assassination mark on me?"

He would never believe him if he said that he was sneaking up on him just to say "Hello".

After a noted pause, the enemy replied. "I was hired to kill you back down to Level 0!"

"Oh! I wonder who would want to do that."

"I'm sorry. Business is private and confidential. We would never reveal our client's private info!"

"Well then, do you still insist on killing me?"

"Business is business. I will do it."

Zhang Yang smiled. To think some there is someone out there who wished to decrease his level, it had to be someone from Pride! He never thought that Pride had such wide connections and managed to hire someone from the "Trash" Mercenary!

44 Bandits ran back to his body in his phantom state. Before reviving, he looked around and went ahead with the deed once he was sure that Zhang Yang had left the place. He then wasted no time in turning invisible and walked towards the bush to eat recovery snacks.

Shush!

A figure dashed out and a star appeared on his head circling around. He was stunned and rendered immobile.

'Ding! You have been stunned by Player Zhan Yu! Stunned for 2 seconds!'

'-362!'

In the stunned condition, all 44 Bandits could do was to witness the sword flying towards him, draining off his residual HP down to 0.

'Ding! You have died!'

"F*ck!" 44 Bandits cried out as he was sent back to the revive point. His level dropped from 17 to 15! After giving it some though, he sent a private message to Zhang Yang.

"How could you still use Charge on me when I am in stealth mode?"

Stealth was not 100% imperceptible. You could still be detected when you're close enough to someone else! However, Charge was a skill that had a limited ranged activation condition. It could not be activated is the distant is too close. That was why 44 Bandits could not understand how Zhang Yang could still stun him with Charge when he was not anywhere close to him!

Zhang Yang replied.

"If you were in my shoes, would you reveal the secret?"

"No!" 44 Bandits replied honestly.

"Well. That explains it!" Zhang yang laughed it off.

It was no big secret. One, Zhang Yang had 3 years of combat experience fighting with a Bandit, he had an instinctive method to detect a "hidden" Bandit. Two, the level gap between the two of them was far too great, weakening the effect of Stealth!

44 Bandits returned again to his body, however, he lingered around instead of reviving himself. He was still afraid that Zhang Yang might still be guarding his body. After some time, he sent another private message.

"Zhan Yu. Would you dare to fight with me fair and square?"

"Sure!"

44 Bandits relaxed, thinking that this player was soft hearted!

Boom! @#$$%#@

Just after he revived and was eating on some recovery item, he was stunned and sent back to the revive point.

"F*cking hell! You're an honorable man! Why would you break on your promise!" cried 44 Bandits furiously.

"You'd actually believe the words from the enemy. You're really naïve!" Zhang Yang snickered.

In his previous life, 44 Bandits was famous because of his sexual offences. In stealth mode, he had always picked low level female players as his target. In 'God's Miracle', you could only reveal yourself from stealth mode if you attack or received an attack. Doing naughty things to a female player did not trigger the stealth dispel. Furthermore, low level players would have a hard time detecting a high level "hidden" Bandit.

It was because of his act of sexual offences, many female players lodged their complaint to the game developers, forcing them to modify the condition of Stealth.

This was why Zhang Yang was extremely hostile towards this man. He took this chance to properly teach him a lesson!

44 Bandits chose to remain quiet for a while and eventually chose to log off.

Zhang Yang on the other hand chose to remain on guard for a while and only continued his guild quest when he had accurately deduced that the enemy had logged out.

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Chapter 62: Emmy's Test of Strength

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With the current race to gather more guild contribution, every member had their priority set to complete daily guild quest, competing with each other to accumulate more points! Zhang Yang had decreed that the first who reached level 20 will be added into the Marzerway's Lair's raiding party. And because of that decree, the guild atmosphere was most intense, with everyone wanting to get their hands on the set equipment!

Who would not want to join Zhang Yang to be one of the first few to raid the Hardcore dungeon and get their names on the "First Clear" Achievement Board? It would be the highest honor and dignity to have their names appear on the server announcements. With that colored announcement texts appearing in the server channel, completely dyed in red, it would be so exciting! Even if it was a step behind; if they could not get the "First Clear" Achievement, they could still get their hands on powerful equipment! Is that not the game's own unspoken rule? To get powerful equipment to dominate the world?

Still, Level is not something anyone could just raise up anytime they want. To form a team of 20 players at Level 20 would take at least 3 to 4 days! All he could do is wait. Ever since 44 Bandits failed in his assassination attempt on Zhang Yang, he was never attacked by them anymore. However, Zhang Yang still adviced his friends to stay close to each other and reduced any lone activities. He did not want to give even a small chance for them to get killed.

The second day, after Zhang Yang and his merry little team of 5-man party raided the Marzerway's Lair Front and Middle Wing dungeon, Zhang Yang brought them to a village called Antelope Village

"Noob tank! Why did you bring us here for?!" Drizzler finally cried out angrily.

Zhang Yang smiled provocatively. "Hah! And here I thought that you would actually keep quiet for a little while more!"

After yesterday's friendly bet, Drizzler had a little quarrel with Zhang Yang and said that she would want to cut ties with him. This morning, when she logged in, the little kid remained silent and gave Zhang Yang the cold treatment. Even in the dungeon, she had not spoken a word to him. However, the little kid would always behave according to her age. She eventually forgot about her own oath.

Enraged, Drizzler shouted at Zhang Yang.

"You sly fox! I dare you to compete again today!"

"Sure! But I want to raise the stakes. The loser must pay 1,000 gold!"

Suddenly, her expression changed. She looked like she was in pain, as if there was a knife pierced into her belly. To her, receiving money was an absolute bliss; an orgasmic feeling. But if you asked her to give up her own money, she would resist until the end of time! She appeared to be reluctant and unwilling and finally, she bitterly said, "No money!"

"Didn't you just get 8,000 gold this morning?" Zhang Yang quickly debunked her makeshift lie.

The 8,000 gold was obtained from the bet with The Dominators and Sky High. Since Zhang Yang and his team won the bet, they obtained 40,000 gold from both of the guild as their victory reward. They received their reward via the mail system and each one of them obtained 8,000 gold coins each.

"I-I've given them to cousin!" Drizzler quickly passed the baton to Little Snow, trying to avoid the situation and save herself.

"Ha! Haha!" Zhang Yang forced a laugh out. He too did not want to dwell to long in this topic.

"We are here to do a quest!"

"What quest?" said Fatty Han. He was actually in the middle of a "heated" conversation with the "service ladies" from Blaze City. Even though he left the guild not too long ago, he was unwilling to just forget about the girls there.

Zhang Yang purposely played with the party members and slowly, dramatically revealed the answer.

"It's the…."

"It's the main quest!"

"The main quest?!" All of them shouted in unison. "What's the reward?"

Everyone knew that the main quest would reward them luxuriously, but up to now, there was no player who had ever completed a main quest. No one knew the reward! Even the game developers were clandestine with the release of the quest. They had made the quest to be very mysterious and hard to detect!

"A bunch of stuff!"

His vague statement immediately angered the party. Zhang Yang quickly raised his hands to surrender. Truthfully, he was not sure about the rewards himself. All he knew was that this quest was the [Invade the Spectres] main story quest.

If he had still remained quiet, he would be sure to further anger the team! He quickly squeezed his brain to think of anything to say.

"It should be Skill Points or Yellow-Gold equipment. I think there is also a chance to get super awesome AoE ultimate skill book!"

"OHH!! Let's go!"

Everyone got excited and walked into the village together.

"Where is everybody?"

The party entered the village and walked around inside for a while. Besides the wind and houses, there was no one around, leaving a kind of lonely and creepy feeling. Little Snow shivered and had goosebumps. Unable to calm herself, Little Snow moved closer to Drizzler.

"Hm. The quest is to find out the source of this phenomena!"

While the team was trying their best to search for clues. Zhang Yang was trying his best to recall the memories of this place. It was a long time ago; he could not remember everything in detail. All he remembered was that the main story quest should have started in this village. He could not remember how to trigger it! After all, he would not have known that he needed to return to the past!

The entire party split up and searched high and low for clues. They searched every house, every well, and even in the underground basement and upstairs cellar. Yet they could not find anyone.

"Mr. Holmes! There isn't anyone here, not a single shadow. Where and from whom do we receive the quest? Hmm?" Little Snow rolled her eyes. Even though her target was Zhang Yang, Fatty Han and Hundred Shots were both collateral victims, mesmerized by her.

Zhang Yang appeared to not to hear. He was frowning and thinking. After sometime, he looked up and said, "Did you say something? Mind repeating that?"

"You want me to repeat what I said? Ok! You're a pig head!" Little Snow snarled.

"That's right!" Zhang Yang had figured it out.

"Take off your clothes!"

Little Snow was stunned.

"Hey hey! We are not that close enough to be doing those things! Then again, even if I did have a thing for you, there are still p-people a-around…"

"Han Yin Xue! Behave yourself!" said Drizzler angrily.

Zhang Yang burst laughing for a moment and calm down.

"I'm so sorry! Haha! Let me rephrase that. Take off your equipment. We're about to kill ourselves. If we removed all our equipment, we would save the equipment durability and repair fees!"

"And why would we need to kill ourselves?!"

"Because, the NPC that will give us the quest, is a ghost!"

"Pu…" Drizzler laughed and quickly stopped when she saw Zhang Yang was not joking about it.

"R-really?" said Drizzler.

"Yeah!" Zhang Yang quickly unequipped his gears. The good thing about 'God's Miracle' was that under a complete "naked" status, a character would still have indestructible clothing, for modesty purposes. Men would have a pair of shorts while women would have their lingerie on.

Hundred Shots and Fatty Han followed and quickly "stripped" down to their short pants.

When all 3 of them were "naked", they turned their sight on the girls, visually assaulting them.

Drizzler felt their stares and quickly covered her chest. "W-what are you guys up to?"

"Little brat. Relax!" Zhang Yang gestured with his hands.

"With a body like that, no guys who be interested in you. Not even in 10 years!" Zhang Yang sighed.

"EXCUUUSE ME!??" Drizzler burst with anger.

"What exactly did you mean when you said 'With a body like that' huh?! How could you look at this wonderful and slender body and say that no one in the entire world would be interested in this hot piece of ass?"

Little Snow quickly stepped in and pulled Drizzler close. "Hmph! You bet! We are not going to undress here! Hmph! Let's get going then!"

"Er…fine? Let's go to the forest there and let the monsters there kill us!"

Zhang Yang was the first one to get out of the village. The rest of the party followed closely behind.

Before Zhang Yang moved on, he turned and reminded Drizzler one last time.

"Little brat. If you get killed wearing all of your equipment, you're going to be incurred the expensive repair fees!" said Zhang Yang provokingly.

As expected, both Drizzler and Little Snow cringed. However, they stood firm with their decision, for them, money comes after pride!

Outside the village, there were Level 20 monsters on the side of the pathway. All 5 of them rushed and triggered the monster's hostility, allowing the monsters to attack them without resisting. After a while, 5 souls appeared at the village's graveyard.

"Eh!? There is a girl up there!" In their phantom-like soul state, the 5 of them immediately spotted a ghostly little girl walking around the exit of the graveyard. On her head, there was a yellow colored exclamation mark.

[Emmy's Soul] (Normal)

Level: 1

HP: 0/50

Zhang Yang quickly moved in and approached the girl.

"Little girl. Why are you alone here?"

"Big brother! I'm scared!" the girl replied quietly.

"Oh…little girl. Don't be scared. Tell me, where are your parents? Where are the rest of the villagers?" Zhang Yang continue the conversation, hoping to trigger the quest.

"They…they're all dead! Sob…sob…" Emmy started to cry but in the soul state, there were no tears.

Little Snow's motherly instinct kicked in. She quickly approached and hugged the girl. "There, there. Don't cry little girl!"

"Little girl, who killed your parents and the villagers!" Zhang Yang continued his attempt to trigger the quest.

Emmy sunk her head into Little Snow's chest and buried in deeper.

"Emmy cannot tell you that! It's too dangerous! You will die!"

"Don't worry. We are soldiers from the White Jade Castle!" Zhang Yang said loudly.

"Really?" Emmy eyes glittered.

"Really!"

Emmy raised her head and looked at Zhang Yang suspiciously.

"You have to prove your strength! I will not let you die for nothing!"

'Ding! Emmy has a quest for you: A Test of Strength. Will you accept it?'

After all of them accepted the quest, the exclamation mark on her head turned into a white question mark. A white question mark indicated the quest was still incomplete. Once the quest was completed, the white question mark will turn yellow.

After accepting the quest, the 5 of them quickly revived. Zhang Yang checked the quest description.

[A Test of Strength (1)] (Difficulty level: C)

Quest description: To prove your true strength, Emmy has asked you to collect 10 pieces of [Finger Bone]! The item can be collected from the monster, Pale Skeleton. These monsters should be located around the flatlands north of the village.

Progress: Collected Finger Bone 0/10

"Let's go! To the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands!" Zhang Yang and the guys quickly put on their equipment and ate recovery items before they started their journey.

After ten minutes of walking, the party approached their destination. As they continued further, the atmosphere gradually changed. The green grass turned a sickly greyish color. The air around them become heavier and darker. The environment turned dull and their visibility dropped. All of them felt like they had been trapped in a caged filled with thick fog.

Within the mist, they could see skeletal monsters walking about.

'Ding! You have entered the field: Desolated Ghostly Flatland!'

"This place gives me the creeps!" said Drizzler. Her frown was clearly visible despite the thick fog.

"Let's get this going!" Zhang Yang said.

"These are normal monsters. They are not that hard to kill! Let's split up! It's no use sticking together. We are hunting for our own quest item."

[Pale Skeleton] (Normal)

Level: 25

HP: 1,250

Everyone followed Zhang Yang's advice and went their separate ways. Even though the monsters' level were ahead of them, their equipment was strong enough to make killing fairly easy. The problem was not about the killing but the item drop rate. On average, the drop rate was at 5 monsters per [Bone Finger].

The party took almost 20 minutes to gather enough items. They returned to the village to complete the quest. However, they needed to die again in order to talk to Emmy.

The party completed the quest one after another, but Emmy remained unconvinced with their strength. She then issued another quest. Zhang Yang and his party had already anticipated a follow-up quest since the quest name carried a number in its name. They accepted the quest without any hassle and proceed on with it.

[A Test of Strength (2)] (Difficulty level: C)

Quest description: Emmy wants you to further prove your strength. Start by killing Weak Zombies! You can find this monster in the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands north of the village.

Progress: Killed Weak Zombies 0/20

"This is so troublesome! We have to die every time we submit the quest! Furthermore, the hunting field and the NPC is so far apart! Which dumb idiot designed this?!" Drizzler scolded on and on.

Zhang Yang snickered.

"If it wasn't designed this way. Other players would have easily found this quest!"

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Chapter 63: Crafting the Antidote

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The second quest was also an easy feat. However, the problem in this case was the spawn rate. Weak Zombies were simply too scarce. They spent too much time hunting for them one at a time. It was lucky that the game had a shared party kill system. As long as the party members did not stray too far away from each other, any Weak Zombie that Zhang Yang killed will also be counted as a kill for the rest of the team. The same went for anyone else. Still, they had to spend an hour to be able to kill a total of 20 Weak Zombies.

"This pisses me off!" Drizzler was a temperamental girl. She could not endure any form of slow progress that required patience. "Argh! I don't care how sad or pitiful the girl is. If she gives out another quest that requires me to run around again, I'd smack her upside down!"

10 minutes later.

"Waa…haa…" Drizzler broke down. "Argh…why couldn't I steel my resolve…waa waa…I just can't help it! Look at her! She is so sad! Now I am sad!" Drizzler failed at her attempt to be stern.

"Haha! It can't be helped! Let's continue on!"

[A Test of Strength (3)] (Difficulty level: C)

Quest description: Emmy requires you to further prove your strength! Kill 50 Obese Ghouls to prove it. You can find this monster in the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands north of the village.

Progress: Killed Obese Ghoul 0/50

Luckily the third quest was also a kill quest. Even though the kill count increased, the time taken to complete this quest was much faster than the previous one! Unlike the low spawn rate of Weak Zombies or the low drop rate of the [Bone Finger, the Obese Ghouls' spawn rate was so high that they managed to finish the quest in no time.

"I swear that this time! I will just dump this quest if Emmy issues another quest like this! Hmph! I will definitely walk the talk!" said Drizzler on their way back to the NPC.

Zhang Yang snickered. "Drizzler, you're a pot calling the kettle black!"

"Huh? Black? I'm not racist!"

"No Drizzler. It's means that you're the epitome of irony."

"Noob tank! I curse you to love guys instead of girls!"

"Woah there! Little brat! You really hate me don't you!"

"They see me rollin' they hatin'…" Fatty Han started to sing the song that was viral on the internet.

When they arrived at the village, they killed themselves again to talk with Emmy.

"Big brothers, elder sisters. Emmy has faith in your strength! You indeed have the strength to help us!" said the girl with her reddish eyes. "About 7 days ago, a Necromancer visited our village. With just a wave of his hand, he casted a greenish cloud of poison and engulfed the entire village, killing every single one of us!"

"Big brothers, elder sisters, this Necromancer is evil! Not only has he taken our bodies, he even dragged our souls! Emmy's parents, grandparents, and all of the villagers; he has taken the souls of everyone! Please, Emmy begs you! Please save them! Please save their souls!"

Her sob was the only sound in the silent village.

"W-Would you *hick* help Emmy?"

With her puppy eyes, she begged the party.

"Woo…" Drizzler cried like a baby. Her cries were at first soft and appropriate, even, but eventually turned downright outrageous. "Waaah…that's so sad! She's so sad! Waaaah!"

Zhang Yang sighed.

"Emmy has to warn you! The Necromancer is very strong! You will have to make necessary preparations. You will need to gather ingredients to make an antidote for the Necromancer's poison! Without it, you won't stand a chance against him!"

'Ding! Emmy has a quest for you: To Craft an Antidote. Will you accept it?'

[To Craft an Antidote] (Difficultly level: A)

Quest description: To resist the Necromancer's poison, you would have to craft an antidote to dispel the poison mist he releases! Moon Orchids can be found in the Mossy Forest. Zombie Mushrooms can be found in the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands. The Frog King can be found in the Misty Swamp.

Progress: Collected Moon Orchid 0/10 Zombie Mushroom 0/10 Frog King's Blood 0/1

After putting in some thought, Zhang Yang decided to split the team to search for the ingredients.

"Little Snow and the brat, you guys go collect the Moon Orchid at the Mossy Forest. Fatty, Hundred Shot, and myself will go to the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands for the Zombie Mushrooms. Please rendezvous at this spot once everyone had gathered the ingredient. We will take on the Frog King together!"

"Okay!"

Everyone began heading out in their assigned direction but Fatty Han had some reservations. He insisted that he should be in the same party as Little Snow and Drizzler. After a little struggle, he was forcefully kicked back to Zhang Yang's side by the girls. Reluctantly, Fatty Han rejoined and headed to the Desolated Ghostly Flatland.

The Desolated Ghostly Flatland was a training ground for players above Level 20. As many of the monsters here were higher than Level 25, their aggro range was much wider. Zhang Yang and the other 2 Hunters quickly found themselves caught up in huge mobs after just a few steps.

Zombie Mushrooms could be found growing in the earth, hidden and buried on the side of a copse. The mushrooms were dark in color and if you did not pay attention, you could easily walk pass them! The 3 of them made very slow progress as they were preoccupied in battles most of the time. On the other side of the village, Drizzler had an equally hard time finding the Moon Orchid. She had been complaining continuously in the party channel.

After wasting a whole 2 hours of killing and plucking, they successfully gathered 50 of each ingredient. Once they completed their gathering, they met back at the village. After a quick stat rep, they headed to the Misty Swamp, to fight the highly anticipated Frog King!

The Misty Swamp was located at the other side of the Mossy Forest, which was considered to be a Level 20 to 30 training ground. Since most casual players were still at around Level 15, this training ground was completely empty. With the absence of any being, this place was made to be more cool and creepy. Bubbles formed constantly within the mud of the swamp, releasing an extremely foul smell when the black-gooey globes burst.

"Urgh…it smells…" Drizzler voice was muffled as both Little Snow and she covered their mouths and pinched their noses. Her cheeks were puffed up and she looked like she was going to be sick at any moment.

"Go to the main setting window and open the Realism tab. There, you can adjust the Smell Setting to your liking. You could even turn it off if you want to. That way, you can remove the stinking smell!" Zhang Yang turned around after giving the advice. He had bigger things to worry about. Right now, Zhang Yang was stressed out. The entire swamp is so big, where is the Frog King exactly? Even if he was a man from the future that came back with valuable information, he was still a human; and an imperfect one at that!

"Looks like I have no choice. I'll sweep the area a la old fashion!" Zhang Yang sighed heavily and walked deeper into the swamp. Usually, the boss would spawn at an area's highest peak, or the center of the area, or even at the deepest floor. The mini-map would have an indicator that represented the quest monster. However, it would only appear in the map when you're at a close proximity.

There was a pathway in the swamp, but the pathway was small and narrow. You could slip and fall into the mud and receive a certain amount of damage. The monsters in this area were mostly hidden in the mud. It would only jump put and attack when a player entered its aggro range.

Some of the monsters available here were Steel-Skinned Frogs, Greyback Crocodile, and also the Dark Piranha. Every single monster here was in no shortage in terms of revolting, repulsive and disgusting appearances. Little Snow and Drizzler were constantly complaining about the designing ability of the developers.

As they fought their way further into the swamp, they arrived at a huge muddy plain. In the center of the thick fog, they could see a large object crouched over, it's back silhouetted like a tiny hill.

Everyone was alerted of its presence and they checked their mini map to make sure. They found it! A yellow blinking dot appeared!

"Found it!"

They slowly approached the object and as they were close enough, they could clearly identify it.

There, sitting in the center of the muddy plain, with its glowing pair of dark gleaming eyes, was a 10 meter tall blood red giant frog. Its presence gave off a mystical magical evil aura! The gigantic frog opened its mouth and croaked as loud as thunder!

[Venomous Frog King] (Green-Copper)

Level: 25

HP: 150k

"Hah! It is a boss!" Fatty Han was delighted. "We can get equipment!"

Zhang Yang did not share the same excitement as Fatty Han. He was on full alert.

Even though this boss did not seem to be any harder than a dungeon boss, he did not possess enough information about this boss to safely fight it! A wild boss was not the same as a dungeon boss. If a dungeon boss was raided as often as possible, players would have extensive information about its skill or ability and they would be able to form a perfect strategy to fight it. However, this was not the case for wild bosses. The rate of encountering a wild boss was so low that the information about it was extremely scarce!

Zhang Yang had never encountered this boss before in his previous life, which was why he did not know a single thing about this boss's skill.

"We'll have to go in blind for now. Let's give it a shot!"

Zhang Yang pulled out his sword.

"Let's go! Prepare for battle!"

With only two steps forward, Zhang Yang had entered the boss' aggro range, triggering the boss to croak loudly and turned its enormous body towards Zhang Yang. The boss jumped and tackled Zhang Yang, while at the same moment, Zhang Yang activated Charge. Both of their attacks met in the air and both of them fell down. Completely unaffected by Zhang Yang's stun effect, it opened its wide mouth and attacked Zhang Yang.

'Dodge!'

Zhang Yang quickly turned to face the Frog King and landed an attack on it.

'-334!'

When the Frog King received Zhang Yang's attack, it croaked loudly and opened its mouth wide. A foul-smelled liquid came flying out and hit Zhang Yang.

'Ding! You have received the effect of Foul Poison (1 stack). Receiving 200 Nature Damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!"

"Shit! It's strong!" Zhang Yang had never expected the poison to be so powerful. It inflicted a strong DoT damage with just one stack! Zhang Yang could not imagine what would have happened to him if he received more stacks of the effect!

The rest of the party quickly started their attack while Little Snow instantly casted a Regeneration and chanted a healing spell.

Just within a few hits, the Frog King spat another wad of poison, stacking another layer of DoT on Zhang Yang. In just half a minute, Zhang Yang had 5 layers of DoT effect, taking away 800 damage in just one tick.

Luckily the DoT effect was capped at 5 stacks. If it was unlimited stack, Zhang Yang could literally die in just a few seconds.

"Hmph! Such an easy boss! Just a little while more before my finishing strike!" Fatty Han laughed menacingly.

'Ding! Venomous Frog King has used Poison Spray!"

A dark reddish liquid spewed everywhere, hitting every one. Upon contact, their body glowed in a deep red color. Beneath their feet, there was a circle sized red mist measuring approximately 1 meter in diameter. A debuff icon appeared on everyone's head.

[Contagious Poison: You have been poisoned. Receiving 100 Nature Damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds! This poison will spread and infect others. Damage is increased by 300% for every infection.

Zhang Yang understood the gravity of the situation and quickly called out. "Spread out! Don't group together! Little brat! Go and fight behind the boss! Keep at least 2 meters away from me!"

His call was a little too late. Since Little Snow, Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han are ranged characters, they were all standing close to each other. When the Poison Spray landed on them, their poison infected each other, totaling up to 3 times infection and 900% increased damage.

They had received 1000 damage every 3 seconds!

Zhang Yang and Drizzler had infected each other, receiving 2 times infections.

Little Snow then frantically casted Holy Prayers, followed by Regeneration, Holy Shield, and regular healing spell. However, as everyone was losing HP at a tremendous speed, she could not keep up with the healing and died.

'Ding! Player Slim and Handsome had died!'

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots had died!'

'Ding! Player Little Snow had died!'

Once the healer was down, Zhang Yang and Drizzler could not escape their imminent doom. They struggled to hang on for a few more seconds but eventually died after that.

With no players left to attack it, the Frog King resetted, hopping back to its original spot and croaked. Whether it was a victorious warcry or an automated NPC behavioral pattern, no one would ever know.

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Chapter 64: A Boss that Didn't Drop Equipment

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"I was…actually poisoned to death…" tears flowed down Fatty Han's cheek.

"I object this! This is absurd! How could there be a venomous frog!" Drizzler scolded.

Zhang Yang laughed. "Ah come on! Even something like milk, or…or…eggs has poison in them! What's so strange about a poison spitting frog?!"

Fatty Han continued to wail alone.

"Woo…I got sprayed in the face…"

"Ew…" The girls turned away from Fatty Han in disgust.

Zhang Yang and Hundred Shots burst into laughter after they understood what Fatty Han meant.

"I-It's fine Fatty. Haha…You're won't get inseminated by the Frog seme- I mean, poison!" Zhang Yang quickly ran off to his body.

"Noob tank! Since when did you learn all the indecent stuff from Fatty Han?!" Drizzler turned and gave a scornful look at Fatty Han.

"Hey! What did you mean by that? Zhang Yang was the bad influence! Not me! I was young and pure when this guy came along and dragged me down into the dark side! Ladies! You must set the facts straight!"

While they were having their conversation, everyone went back to their body and revived.

"Now that you have seen what the frog can do, you should now know what to do! But just to be sure, don't stand together! Don't let the poison infect another person. We cannot withstand that kind of damage!"

"Okay!"

Zhang Yang walked towards the boss and triggered its aggro. The fight started as the monster leapt towards him.

'-359!'

'-381!'

Wielding a one-handed weapon, Zhang Yang could still deal a much stronger damage than Drizzler with her two-handed weapon. Still, it was all because of the sword Zhang Yang wielded. The Level 20 Gray-Silver sword was still the strongest sword so far. Coupled with the passive skill Eagle Eye and 5 stacks of Cripple Defense, Zhang Yang was practically fighting a boss with 0 defense! Any attack in that state would be extremely devastating! Fatty Han and the rest could only stare in jealousy.

'Ding! Venomous Frog King has used Poison Spray!'

The dark-reddish liquid was sprayed all over the place, hitting everyone with the liquid. Upon contact, their body glowed in a deep red color. Beneath their feet, there was a circle shaped red mist, measuring approximated 1 meter in diameter. A debuff icon appeared on everyone's head and they started to receive damage from the poison.

However, having died once under this skill, everyone proactively moved around and spread across the battlefield, preventing further infections. Little Snow quickly did her job without having Zhang Yang to remind her.

Her current magic attack exceeded 300 and her Regeneration heals were over 120 HP per tick, overshadowing the boss's DoT damage. Her Regeneration completely nullified the boss's poison effect! That is, if the team did not do something foolish like infecting each other with the poison.

80%, 70%...the boss HP started to drop at a steady rate.

"Haha! You smelly frog! Let's see how long can you hold on!" Drizzler laughed out manically as she swung her weapon around like a true psychopath.

"Croak croak!" The frog "answered".

60%, 50%, 40%!

The boss damage was undeniably strong, but Zhang Yang's evasive capability was stronger. Little Snow's healing strength was also on another level to begin with. With the both of them working together, even a tougher boss could not stand a chance against them.

5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%, 0%!

A loud thud could be heard when the boss' huge body fell.

'Ding! You and the party members around have killed the Venomous Frog King. Obtaining 30,050 Experience Points (50 points party bonus)!'

"Shitty boss! Rah! Take that!" Drizzler stomped the lifeless body.

"I wonder how many [Frog King's Blood] would this boss drop…" Zhang Yang reached out his hands and opened the corpse.

[Frog King's Blood: Quest item

Thank god there were 5 of it.

"I think it depends on the number of people who accepted the quest!" said Hundred Shots.

"Who cares about that! As long as there's enough for everyone to complete the quest!" said Fatty Han as he took one of the [Frog King's Blood] and kept it inside his inventory.

"Has everyone collected one each already?"

"Okay, okay! Move aside! I want to get our prize now!" said Drizzler as she pushed Zhang Yang aside.

Zhang Yang laughed and talked to Little Snow.

"Didn't you guys use to compete for the right to open the corpse? What happened to your petty squabble? Are you guys at peace now?"

"What are you saying? To let the young ones have their way is what an elder sister is supposed to do!" Little Snow winked.

"Tch! What are you lying about this time! You cheated me of my limited-edition cologne! Both of them!" Drizzler quickly overruled Little Snow's sweet talk.

Little Snow rolled her eyes and said, "You're still too young to put on cologne! And I didn't cheat. I was taking them away for your own good!"

"Hmph!" Drizzler scoffed, unconvinced.

[Poison Essence] (Green-Copper, Special Item)

Use: Causes all targets (Including the user) within 30 meter to be poisoned, receiving 150 Nature Damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. Effect cannot be stacked.

Charge left: 50/50

"Eh? What is this? I have never seen this kind of item before!" said Fatty Han.

"A Special Item class. It's some sort of a play toy like item. You can't really keep using them as they have limited usage. If it can be used unlimitedly, it would be the same as having another AoE attack skill!" Zhang Yang explained.

"Gimme! Gimme! I call dibs!" Drizzler's demanded. She wanted this extra little tool to increase her damage as she had always lost to Zhang Yang in damage power. Drizzler was quite overbearing whenever she voiced out her demands, so everyone gave it up for her.

[Frog King's Flap] (Green-Copper, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 1

Use: Grant you the ability to jump higher, last for 10 seconds. Cool down time: 1 minute.

Level requirement: 20

"Fuh! Good item!" Zhang Yang eyes quickly glinted. "Mine!"

"Noob tank, this is a Cloth Armor! Death sentence to you who takes item without consideration!" Drizzler complained with her puffy cheeks.

"Are you really that dumb? This item is designed to be a Cloth Armor so that the 6 main classes could equip this!"

"What so special about it?" Fatty Han started to show some interest.

"With this item, you can reach places you normally could not reach!" Zhang Yang had no intention to keep it a secret. In the game, there were places that could only be reached with equipment such as the [Frog King's Flap]. Those hidden places may contain treasure chest and also NPCs that could issue special quests!

Fatty Han faces morphed into a perverted look.

"Places that could not reach…like a girl's bathroom window…"

"Go to hell!"

Before this, Zhang Yang had rarely ever voiced his wants, so everyone willingly gave up their roll when he asked for the item.

[Unhatched Little Tadpole] (Green-Copper Pet Monster)

Use: Hatch a little Tadpole. Who knows, someday it could become a handsome prince!

"What is a Pet Monster?" Fatty Han turned and looked at Zhang Yang, waiting for an explanation. All of them knew that Zhang Yang was a "beta player".

Zhang Yang walked and stood in front of them. He dusted off his clothes and adjust his cloth.

"Ahem!"

Everyone took a step closer, expecting the explanation to be epic.

"A Pet Monster is…a pet monster!"

"Whaa…"

"Ahaha, I'm just kidding. A Pet Monster is like a pet dog or cat. A companion that you could bring along anywhere you go. However, this pet monster and a Hunter's pet is not the same! This pet cannot attack nor has it any attacking ability!"

"Oh!"

"This is nonsense!" Fatty Han puffed an angry breath through his nose.

"This boss only dropped these 3 stupid toys and no equipment at all! This is preposterous!"

Zhang Yang shook his head. "Tch Tch Tch! These 3 "toys" are worth much more than some equipment! You must keep this in mind. With our leveling speed, how long do you think an equipment will last? A Level 20 equipment could only last until you reach Level 30! The turnover rate for equipment at our low-level period is very fast! However, non-combat items are different! They can be used for as long as you want! Especially Pet Monsters! Pet Monsters' drop rates are extremely low! After half a year, you could probably sell this Pet Monster for at least 10,000 gold pieces in the auction house!"

Zhang Yang was not making thing up. In his previous life, pet monsters could be sold for a very high price, especially those are extremely rare. Those rare pets could be sold for at least a few hundred thousands! What he told them was an understatement.

"T-ten thousand!?" Both Drizzler and Little Snow eye's glinted with the money symbol! Both of them rolled for the item in the same time.

Zhang Yang gave up the item because he was not all that fond of the money. Fatty Han and Hundred Shots also gave up the pet because they were not as interested.

Little Snow obtained the item with 76 points, while Drizzler only got 43 points.

"Alright, time to submit the item and complete the quest! Once we have completed the quest, we will get a reward. And that reward is the one that we should be excited about!" said Zhang Yang even though he never did complete a single main story quest in his previous life!

The party then headed back to the Antelope Village and killed themselves to talk to Emmy.

"Wonderful! You have gathered the ingredients to make the antidote!" Emmy smiled happily.

"Big brother! Elder sister! Please head to the evil Necromancer's Lair and save all the villager's soul!"

'Ding! Emmy has a quest for you: Rescue the Villagers' Souls. Will you accept it? This is a main story quest. Complete the quest to receive a luxurious reward!"

Here it comes!

The party quickly accepted the quest.

'Ding! You have obtained the item [Properly-Made Antidote]!"

[Rescue the Villager's Soul] (Difficulty Level: S)

Quest description: Emmy pleads with you to save the souls of the residents of Antelope Village. You will have to defeat the evil Necromancer Zac in order to release the imprisoned souls! You can find the evil Necromancer Zac at the Cave of Bones, west of the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands.

Be wary! Zac is extremely strong and powerful. Make sure you have enough players to fight him together!

Progress: Released Villagers' Soul 0/1

[Properly-Made Antidote] (Quest Item)

Use: Grants you the immunity to the deadly poison! Last for 10 minutes.

Charge left: 3/3

"We finally got the main story quest!" said Drizzler excitedly.

"Haha! Furthermore, Emmy is no longer the NPC that we will need to meet to complete the quest! In other words, we do not need to kill ourselves anymore!" said Zhang Yang with a smile on his face.

Everyone quickly turned their sights to the girl's head and there is no white exclamation mark on her head! The NPC to complete the quest is someone else!

Hundred Shots suddenly said, "We did an A-level difficulty quest and fought a Green-Copper boss. Now, our quest is an S-level difficulty; which means the boss we will be fighting is a Gray-Silver boss?"

"Ah! Right!" Little Snow's voice overwhelmed Hundred Shots. "Remember the Gray-Silver boss Andoin or Andola… I can't remember his name. Has he spawned already?"

Zhang Yang scratched his head and thought for a while.

"Hm…That Gray-Silver boss will re-spawn after 3 days. Which means…it's today!"

"Awesome! We must fight it later!" Little Snow licked her lips. "So much money…"

"Sure! However, we must first kill this current quest boss!" Zhang Yang waved his arms forward. "Let's go heroes! We have ourselves a bad guy to kill!"

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Chapter 65: Undefeatable?

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The ever-desolated flatland was still covered in thick fog. The sky was dark and zombies were limping everywhere. The entire place was surrounded in an eerie atmosphere. Since Zhang Yang had visited this area a few times before, the map of the area only revealed a portion. There were still many area of the map that were still hidden in a black shadow.

In this game, a player would have to explore the unknown areas of an unknown region to have the system reveal the region's name. You could also reveal this information through buying [Map] from an NPC of that specific area.

"This place gives me the creeps!" said Little Snow. She had been cowering behind Drizzler this whole time while holding tightly to her sleeves.

"Um, cousin. You're already quite old now. Wouldn't you be ashamed for being this scared?" said Drizzler after walking for quite distance. She could not hold in anymore.

Little Snow nudged her cheek and said, "Tch. You cheeky little brave girl!"

"Teehee!" Drizzler was not angered by her comment but instead she smiled. "Hey! I have an idea. Shall we dress up as ghosts and scare the residents at our apartment?" The three guys frowned at her sudden idea. What on earth was this little rascal thinking?

As they travelled deeper into the flatlands, the monster's level gradually rose from Level 21 to 24. Luckily the team was filled with strong players as they killed their way further into the flatlands.

"'You can find the evil Necromancer Zac in the Cave of Bones west of the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands' bullshit! This place is so freaking huge! Where on earth are we going locate this so-called Cave of Bones?" Fatty Han scolded. He had been walking for so long but only managed to reveal one quarter of the entire region.

"Hm… shall we split up?" Hundred Shot suggested.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and nodded. "That's a good idea. Let's split up!"

The five of them split into four. Little Snow insisted that she did not want to leave her cousin alone. All five of them then headed into four different directions. With the team divided, the killing speed drastically decreased, but going in all directions sped up to exploration and in only another ten minutes, Little Snow posted in the party channel, "Here it is! I've found it! Get over here!"

Since Zhang Yang was separated with the girls for a distance, they were gone from his mini-map. Zhang Yang quickly open the world map and headed towards their general direction. As he killed the monsters in his way towards Little Snow, he stumbled upon the bodies of the same monsters that he was fighting. Someone just fought this monster not too long ago. He quickly checked his mini-map and found Fatty Han.

After a while, Zhang Yang and the two other guys met with the girls. The place that they were currently at was on a small short hill. At the foot of the hill there was a cave entrance as high as three men. Nearby the entrance, there were at least 7 to 8 Skeleton monsters patrolling. Zhang Yang opened the world map and checked the area they were in. The area was no longer black; he could see texture of the hill along with the name "Cave of Bones" superimposed on it.

"Onward! To the cave!" Zhang Yang called out.

[Recently Assembled Skeleton]

Level: 25

HP: 2,500

Once Fatty Han read the name of the monster, he felt disgusted. "Who could have such a weird hobby to actually play with a human skeleton?!"

He turned his gaze to Drizzler and immediately had a playful thought. "Hey Drizzler, compared to these skeletons, you're actually quite well-endowed."

"F*ck off, fatty bum!" Fatty Han instantly enraged the party. The girls started to literally hit him. Still, no matter how hard he was beaten, there was still a smile of ecstasy on his face. Every time the girls struck him, he let out a weird "Ohh Ohh Ahh Ahh" kind of sound. The girls stopped immediately as they thought that it was both strange and scary.

The party then proceed on clearing all the minions outside and went into the cave. Luckily, the designer of this area did not want to trouble the players too much as there were many fire torch lit everywhere in this cave. Even though the light from the torches were not all that bright, Zhang Yang and the party did not have much trouble seeing further inside. Just like outside of the cave, there were many skeleton monsters roaming about. However, they were only just normal minions that posed no threat to the party.

The team rampaged on and killed their way forward. None of the monsters could even last longer than five seconds. Ever since Little Snow was technically freed from her duty as a healer, she could only follow behind the team, picking up all the loots that were dropped by the monsters.

After they fought for a while, Zhang Yang suddenly recalled a memory. "Ah! I remember now! This cave has five floors! The final boss is located the deepest level!"

It was not that he had entered this cave in his previous life, but he remembered because he had read an introduction article posted in the official forum. This cave had five floors and every floor had a mini-boss. Beside the expected Green-Copper equipment, the boss also dropped a few non-combative items that were extremely valuable! When the game reached near mid-maturity phase, every Cave of Bones of every city was occupied with big guilds. The caves were so occupied that normal players did not even know what the boss looked like as they could not walk into the cave in the first place!

"F*cking hell! Five floors!?" Fatty Han cursed as he could no longer hold in his frustration of walking and clearing the entire first floor! Zhang Yang laughed. "Yeah! This is troublesome! But remember this, there is a mini-boss on every floor! Their rewards are also extremely valuable!"

Fatty Han regained his spirit and quickly replied, "Okay! Go, go, go! Let's kick the boss' ass and get some equipment!"

The monsters here were all killed off quickly under the fierce attack of the party. After 10 minutes, they finally hit the end of the dungeon. There was a 2-meter tall, gigantic Skeleton monster that was blocking the pathway onward.

[Skeleton Captain, Gawain] (Green-Copper)

Level: 25

HP: 250,000

"Holy crap! This one is much stronger than the others!" Fatty Han blinked his eyes.

Zhang Yang quickly explained. "You need to understand that a dungeon boss is limited to a few people. The one we just fought, Marzerway's Lair was only a 5-man dungeon. This is a field boss. There is no limit to how many people that is able to participate. It wouldn't be called a boss if it can be killed off easily, now would it?"

"Ahh…I wonder what skill does this one have. Let's just hope that it's not as strong as the Frog King!" Fatty Han did not dare to be too relaxed after he was "shot in the face".

"Let's not waste any more time. All three range players stand behind and spread out! Little brat, we're up!" Zhang Yang took out his sword and walked. He quickly activated Charge once he was in the effective range.

'-334!'

Before the Charge, the giant growled and threw its skeletal arm at Zhang Yang when he entered its aggro range. The stun effect was only effective for half a second, but it was enough so that the boss's movement was interrupted halfway.

'Cripple Defense!'

'-160!'

To maximize the team firepower, Zhang Yang used Cripple Defense on the boss when he had enough aggro.

"Bold intruders! How dare you enter the domains of Lord Zac! I will eat your soul! I will make you all into my slaves!" said Gawain, the Skeleton Captain once it recovered from the stun, growling loudly at the party.

"Pffft! It's probably time to brush your teeth! Smelly, stinky boss!" Drizzler swung her spear and pierced the monster, dealing significantly higher damage then she had before. After the morning dungeon trip, she swapped out a few of her old equipment for newer and stronger ones, increasing her damage by a noticeable amount.

"Puny human! I want your blood!" the monster cried out and immediately ignored Zhang Yang. It moved at lightning speed towards Drizzler and held her tightly with both of its boney, skeleton arms. It then opened its pale white jaws and bit into Drizzle's fair neck.

'Ding! Player Drizzler has received the effect of Vampiric Bite. Losing 200 HP every second and heals the caster for 2000HP. Last for 10 seconds!"

"Aiyeeee! Bastard boss, let me go!" Drizzler frantically tried to escape its grasp but under the boss' skill control, she could not retaliate. No matter how hard she tried she just could not get herself out of the situation. She felt pressed down like Sun Wu Kong trapped under the Five Element Mountain.

Zhang Yang started to laugh, "Haha! Little brat, I always thought that you were always born with a provoking face. Why else would the boss jump on you instead of the others?"

"Shut up and help me!" said Drizzler.

"He can't. No one can! The skill is unbreakable!" Hundred Shots and Fatty Han fired a few Silencing Shot and failed to interrupt the boss. Luckily, Little Snow was fast enough to recover the HP loss. She was constantly healing Drizzler, making sure her HP is always out of the red danger zone.

After 10 seconds, the boss dropped Drizzler and began to attack Zhang Yang furiously. The party attack was strong, but the boss' vampiric recovery was stronger. The boss recovered almost 20,000 HP in just 10 seconds, almost to a full health!

97%, 94%, 90%!

"Useless Hunter! I will suck your blood dry!" This time, the boss picked Fatty Han as his meal.

'Ding! Player Fatty Han has received the effect of Vampiric Bite. Losing 200 HP every second and heals the caster for 2000HP. Last for 10 seconds!"

"Argh! No! Don't take my blood! My blood is bad! It tastes bad!" Fatty Han grit his teeth as he faced the monster at a close distance, completely filled with disgust.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds…

2000, 2000, 2000…

Green texts appeared on the boss' head continuously and after 10 seconds, it was healed back to 95%! "Crap! We've been attacking him and it heals nonstop!" said Fatty Han as he was fazed by the boss's full health bar.

Zhang Yang started to frown. This was not going as planned. He deduced that his team's firepower was not strong enough. If they had 10 members attacking at the same time, then the boss would not be able to keep up its healing with the damage received!

"Noob tank! Do you have any other strategies hidden in your sleeves? If this goes on, my cousin will run out of MP really soon!"

"She's right. The boss only lost 5% HP and I have already used 15% of my MP. If we drag this on any longer, we will surely die before it!" Little Snow calmly exclaimed.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and yelled, "Everyone stop!" The party members looked at each other with uncertainty. However, they placed their trust on Zhang Yang and stopped their attack.

"Hey, not you! Continue to heal!" Zhang Yang quickly shifted his position to evade the boss' attack. Overtime, the boss started to grow stronger, its attacks got quicker, making it harder for Zhang Yang to evade. Eventually, Zhang Yang had to take damage.

Little Snow scoffed. "You asked all of us to stop! You said it yourself!" Even as she debated, she still casted the healing spell, recovering Zhang Yang.

94%...93%...92%...

When Zhang Yang was the only one attacking, the boss received less damage and lost its HP slower. It only reached 90% after so long.

"Damned Guardian! No matter how hard your skin maybe, my teeth can still pierce through it!" The boss attacked Zhang Yang and used Vampiric Bite on him.

"The boss' Lifesteal skill is depends on the rate of its HP lost! If you attack it fast, its activation rate will also get frequent! If you attack it slower, it will be less frequent!" Zhang Yang roughly assumed the boss' mechanics.

"F*ck! That means if the party DPS does not exceed 2000, we can never kill him!?"

Everyone was bewildered and baffled. Even though they were much stronger than other players on the same level, excluding Little Snow, their total DPS only totalled up 600 tops!

How could they continue on the fight?

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Chapter 66: Reverse Lifesteal

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"We should recruit more people! We aren't getting anywhere with our current numbers!" said Fatty Han. Drizzler nodded. "I agree as well! We need more people!"

Suddenly, Zhang Yang had an idea. "Everyone! Resume your attack! I have a plan!"

"Speak your mind!"

Zhang Yang smiled. "Brat! Pay attention the boss' HP. When it reaches 91%, I want you to use the [Poison Essence]!"

"What is that?" Drizzler asked honestly.

"Tch! The one you got from the Frog King! The Special Item that can poison everyone?"

"Oh. Why?" Drizzler asked again.

"Damn! Why would you keep asking questions?!"

"Of course I'll ask. I don't know what you are up to!" Drizzler pouted her lips, trying to act cute.

"Hah! Fine. I give in!" Zhang Yang sighed. "I think I remembered something about this boss skill. If the targeted player has the Poisoned status, the Vampiric Bite will have no effect!"

There were not many bosses in game that possessed Lifesteal ability, which was why Zhang Yang could not immediately come up with a counter measure for the boss' skill. It would have solved the problem if he recruited more people to fight, but there was an easier way. If one could somehow inflict the poison status onto the targeted player, the boss' life stealing skill would be nullified and in reverse, the boss would receive more damage!

"Okay." said Drizzler even though she felt otherwise.

"I want to rearrange the battle position. Little brat, I want you to stand directly in front of the boss. Little Snow and the rest of the party will stand behind Drizzler. When Drizzler lets out the poison, all of you must run into the poison ring and get the Poisoned effect!" Zhang Yang explained.

The normal playstyle would have a Bandit in play. The Bandit would enable Friendly-Fire mode, and had his weapon coated in poison. When the boss used a Lifesteal skill, the Bandit would then attack the target player and inflict Poison on him. This method could completely counter the boss' Lifesteal skill.

However, since Zhang Yang's party did not have a Bandit onboard, he would have to resort to the self-poisoning method. It was lucky that the party found the [Poison Essence] from the Frog King.

"Noob tank! Why'd you say I would "let out poison"!? I'll smack you in the face!" Drizzler clenched her fist and pointed at Zhang Yang.

"Hey Little Yang, what happened between the two of you? You won't be able to get the both of them if this goes on!" Fatty Han sent a private message to Zhang Yang.

"Why are you always thinking of perverted stuff? Get both girls? I'll get both of my fist you're your face!" Zhang Yang replied angrily.

"Haha! Little Yang! Just look at them! They're both quite good! The elder one has the bobbylicious body even though her face is just "meh". As for the little one, her body still has more room to mature but her face is just- GRAHHH- I can't take it anymore! Remember, Little Yang! You must grab the opportunity while it's just lying there! Imagine, two girls, one man! GAH! Thinking about it alone boils my blood!"

"…Fatty Han. You're really a beast inside that meat suit aren't you…"

94%, 93%, 92%, 91%. Zhang Yang alone could not damage fast, but when everyone attacked together, the boss' HP dropped like a landslide.

"Little brat! Use it now!" Zhang Yang shouted.

Drizzler was someone Zhang Yang had his eyes on, as her ability was on the level of an A-tier Professional League player. Her reaction speed was nothing something made up. With that, she quickly smashed the [Poison Essence] and released a green mist from her body, instantly engulfing 30 meters around her. The party did not even need to get close to her to get the poison effect.

'Ding! You have received the effect of [Poison Essence]. Receiving 150 Natural Damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds!'

The green mist appeared and disappeared in an instant. It only lasted for a second before the mist dispersed. Everyone, including Zhang Yang and the boss as well were inflicted by the poison effect. Their body were glowing in a greenish hue.

"Haha! Little Drizzler. Just now, what you did, it was as if you have just let out a massive fart!" Fatty Han laughed maniacally.

"Yuck!" Drizzler face was filled with disgust. "Wretched Fatty bum! I won't forgive you!"

"Foolish Hunter! I'll suck your blood dry!" The boss activated its skill just as its HP reached 90%. It sprinted across the field like a lightning bolt, and sank its fangs into Fatty's Han's neck.

'-2000!'

'-2000!'

'-2000!'

A chain of red damage texts attack appeared.

After 10 seconds, instead of healing, the boss' HP had dropped to 76%! "Haha! Have a taste of your own medicine!" Fatty Han shouted. He turned around and shook his butt provokingly.

"Oh come on! Do you actually be more wretched than this?" said Drizzler.

Fatty Han thought for a while and said, "If you don't mind, I could even undo my pants and shake my bare-naked ass at the boss!"

They thought that he was only joking but when he was about undress, they yelled, "Stop! We mind! We mind!" Fatty Han was shocked at their reaction and quickly stop his act. "Hey hey! I was just joking. I wasn't serious about doing it. Do you really think I would actually fool around like an idiot?"

"I know that you're absolutely not an idiot. But when you're fooling around, you're worse than an idiot!" Zhang Yang sighed loudly. Fatty Han laughed. "Haha! Precisely! That is why you're my own brother from another mother!"

After Gawain took severe damage from its own skill, it did not activate the skill again immediately. Instead, it waited until its HP dropped till 50% to activate it again. However, under Zhang Yang's guidance, Drizzler was able to maintain everyone's Poison status and made sure that they could always counter the boss' Lifesteal. However, the credit was not to Drizzler alone; Little Snow was able to heal everyone in time. Luckily, she was as good of a support as her own massive "supports" underneath her clothes.

After taking damage again instead of healing, the boss' HP was reduced to only 36% when it had done "poisoning" itself.

36%. Just a little more…

"Haha! Take that, vampire wannabe! Let's see how you die, being defeated by your own skill!" said Drizzler jubilantly.

"Since you mentioned about vampire, I remember a story. It was a…" Fatty Han let out a cynical smile.

"Will you just shut up?!" Two girls cried out while rolling their eyes. They did not have to listen, they knew that any story told by that Fatty bum would be something indecent. "Woo…why would you say that? I was just trying to lighten the atmosphere!" said Fatty Han.

30%, 25%, 20%, the boss' HP was shaved off by the party without any noticeable problems. When it reached 10%, Gawain activated the skill for the last time. Its action only accelerated its impending death. The party killed off the boss before it could finish the skill.

"Hmph! Die like the dead man you already are!" Drizzler went up the body and stomped on it to release her frustration. "Little brat! You're quite the feisty one aren't you?!" Zhang Yang laughed.

"Now that she's stomping on a skeleton, I have a story about Skeleton Stomping. Once upon a time…" Everyone yelled in unison, "Shut up!"

"Wuuuuu…" Fatty Han pretended to cry and secluded himself to a corner.

"Let's check out the goods!" Drizzler began opening the corpse.

[White Skull Hammer] (Green-Copper, One-handed Hammer)

Weapon attack: 95-113

Attack interval: 2.6 seconds

DPS: 40

Level requirement: 20

"Ah! What luck! Another item up for the auction house!" cried Fatty Han.

"Hey! This is still 300 gold here!" Little Snow was delighted instead. She quickly pushed the others to give it to her to put it up in the auction house. "Hah. Now that you mentioned it. How much was the sword you sold yesterday?" Zhang Yang asked casually.

"Ah! 300 gold coins!" Little Snow answered in the same manner.

"Ah I see… So, after distribution, all of us should get 60 gold coins each, right?"

"There is still the 10% service charge of the auction house!" Little Snow crossed her arms angrily.

"Ah. I understand. So after deducting the service charge, we should all have 54 gold coins each, correct?"

"Technically, yes…" Little Snow's voice was getting softer, as if she was guilty of something.

Zhang Yang raised his voice. "Then why am I getting only 54 silver coins?" Little Snow started to get scared. "Erhm… Maybe you're mistaken… Did you look properly?"

"What do you think?"

Little Snow lowered her head. "I think you're mistaken!"

"Enough! Imburse my money! If not, pay with what you have!" Zhang Yang smiled menacingly. He had confirmed with both Hundred Shots and Fatty Han that both of them had obtained 54 gold coins from Little Snow. He was the only one that obtained 54 silver coins!

Little Snow rolled her eyes and said, "This lady here has nothing but her smile to offer!"

Fatty Han walked over. "Alright then, smile for me!"

"F*ck off!"

[White Bone Crown] (Green-Copper, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 4

Vitality: 20

Strength: 16

Dexterity: 4

Level requirement: 20

Zhang Yang's current helm was already the same as this new equipment. He then rejected the roll and offered it to Drizzler.

'Ding! You have obtained 11 silver pieces!'

"Eh? That's it?" said Fatty Han as the body started to disappear. "Well I'll be damned. This boss is really stingy!"

"Well, technically in the field, the last boss is one level higher than the mini-boss. So, we're considered lucky enough to fight a Gray-Silver boss!"

Zhang Yang led the way forward and went through a tiny and narrow walkway.

Shush!

Just as Zhang Yang poked his head out, eight debuffs simultaneously appeared on his head. He scanned the area and saw 8 Skeleton Spellcasters running towards him! He frantically shouted, "Get back!" and led the team back into the walkway.

The Skeleton Spellcasters chased after them until the walkway and stopped right there. They remained there for a while before turning back into the shadows. "Holy shit! There are so many of them!" Fatty Han swallowed his saliva. Everyone could hear the sound of it and realized how frightening it was.

Zhang Yang's head popped out '-80' damage texts and only stopped after 15 seconds. Little Snow got busy immediately.

[Shadow Decay: Curse a target with the power of the shadow. Causes 500 shadow damage over 15 seconds to a target.

Hundred Shot shouted as well. "Damn, these monsters sure are strong!"

"Necromancers. They are also known as the Curse Magicians. Their DoT skills are very OP!" Zhang Yang sucked in a long breath. "This is quite a problem here. There are so many monsters inside. There's already eight of them waiting for us at the entrance. Damn! It's going to be a crowd inside there!"

Fatty Han tapped Zhang Yang's shoulder and asked, "How do we fight?"

Zhang Yang thought for a while. "At this level, the Curse Magicians have not only Shadow Decay but also another skill called Shadow Whip! The cast range of Shadow Decay is 30 meters while the cast range of Shadow Whip is only 20 meters! Did you guys notice, those monsters cannot leave the second floor?"

Four of them remained stoic, their eyes glinted with a plan.

"Heh. I knew you guys were smart. Let's drag them to the entrance and kill them with our AoE skill!"

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Chapter 67: Another godlike boss?

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"Hunters stand behind, as long as you can hit the monsters with your Barrage!" Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "Little Snow, I want you to stand further behind. As for you, little brat, don't attack the monsters just yet. Go and stand together with Little Snow!" Drizzler had her jaw dropped in shock. As a battle maniac, she did not feel comfortable when being asked not to fight.

"Okay! I'll lure the monsters over now! I want you guys to attack the monsters when they start to approach the entrance. Hold on to their aggro!" Zhang Yang added.

"Roger that!"

"Off I go! Little Snow, give me a Holy Shield!"

Hong! Little Snow waved her hand and a transparent shield appeared on his body.

"Hah! Little Yang! The 'protection' you're wearing is quite powerful huh!" Fatty Han said.

Zhang Yang ran out of the entrance and instantly triggered the eight Skeleton Spellcasters. With just a wave of their staff, eight debuffs appeared on Zhang Yang's head. Zhang Yang quickly withdrew, luring the eight monsters along with him to the dungeon entrance.

"Open fire!"

Hundred Shots and Fatty Han both activated Barrage simultaneously and targeted the skill at the entrance.

All eight monsters changed their aggro to Hundred Shots and shifted their target to him.

Shush, Shush, Shush! Eight Shadow Decay appeared on his head and since he was 30 meters away from each other, the monsters were unable to cast Shadow Whip on him. They could only stare at him at the entrance with their gaping mouth.

Little Snow quickly cast a Regeneration and a Holy Shield on Hundred Shots. She also casted a healing spell to recover the loss of HP due to the DoT skill. Even with all the damage taken, it was not even a problem for Little Snow.

After a volley of arrows landed on the monsters, taking away close to 1,000 HP each.

Zhang Yang said to Drizzler, "Let's go! Now that Hundred Shots holds the most aggro, the monster will not target us at all!"

"With pleasure!" Drizzler had been waiting for Zhang Yang's green signal for some time. She then rushed onward with a Charge. Zhang Yang joined in as well. After a Charge, he landed a normal attack and gained 35 Rage. He then used Horizontal Sweep and dealt a devastating attack. There was even three accounts of critical strikes that dealt about 1,400 damage. With that, the monsters shifted their target to Zhang Yang. However, before they could start their attack on him, a volley of arrow came raining down from the sky, killing them off.

[Death Mage] (Normal)

Level: 25

HP: 2,500

All eight of the monsters were killed before the second volley of Barrage could finish. Everyone gained luxurious amount of experience points.

"Little Yang this place seems pretty nice to grind our level!" Fatty Han missed the day where he was ranked first in the Level Ranking Board. For these two days, they had been raiding dungeons instead of grinding; they were then pushed down the ranking board by Floating Fire Ball. He was now ranked first with a level of 22.

"Okay then, let's clean up this place!" Zhang Yang walked up to the entrance and squinted his eyes. The second floor was extremely crowded with monsters; there were a bunch of Mages standing further inside the floor.

"Crap! There's just too many monsters there! I fear if I'd go in, my HP would be shaved off to 0 when I come back! Fatty, this is your chance to shine. I need your pet to go in instead!"

"F*ck! You're so cruel! Is this the same as throwing my pet into the fire pit!?" Fatty Han patted his little pet bear and said, "Little Fatty, go! If you die, I'll burn a female bear and send her to the afterlife for you! You won't be alone down there!"

"Enough talking horny bum! Make your move!"

Fatty Han then pointed at the nearest Mage. The bear then growled loudly and charged onward.

Shush, shush, shush! Just when the bear stepped out of the entrance, it was inflicted with more than 10 DoT skills. At the same time, the Mages waved their hands, casting a black colored ray and beamed it at the bear, causing it to slow down.

[Shadow Whip: Use the power of shadow to whip the enemy. Causes 500 Shadow damage over 5 seconds of channel time. Requires channeling. Range: 20 meters.

The accumulation of firepower of the 10 monsters was extremely potent! Even though Fatty Han was a Beastmaster and had its HP improved to 1,500, it was still not enough to withstand all those Mages. After only a few steps, the little pet bear was sent to the afterlife!

All of the attacking Mages then turned towards Fatty Han and began to chase after him.

"Back to the entrance! Go, go, go!" Zhang Yang quickly shouted. Once they made it back to the safe haven, Fatty Han had already gained 10 icons of Shadow Decay on his head.

Both Hunters started their attack, unleashing two Barrage, raining down volleys of arrow from the sky onto the monsters. However, Hundred Shots was smart. He purposely delayed his Barrage to a few seconds later to make sure the aggro was held onto Fatty Han longer. He wanted to avoid getting inflicted with the DoT effect to lighten Little Snow's healing burden.

Once the volley was done, they did the same maneuver as before. Both Zhang Yang and Drizzler went up and cast Horizontal Sweep and Tornado Cleave and killed all of the monsters.

"Alright this time, it's Hundred Shots' turn. Fatty Han quickly revive your pet!" said Zhang Yang.

"Woo…my cute little pet…" Fatty Han cried crocodile tears as he chanted the revival spell. His little theatrical act started to annoy the party.

The same procedure was carried out by Hundred Shots' pet. It drew the attention of a bunch of Mage and lured them towards the entrance, having to unfortunately die in the process. They repeated this way as many times as possible and after 20 minutes, they manage to kill almost all of the monsters in the second floor. The remaining monsters were not worth to pull back all the way to the entrance, so the party rushed in and killed the leftovers head on.

As they revised their collected goods, they found out there was nothing that was of actual worth. It was all just "garbage" and random etc items. As the party arrived at the end of the second floor, they could not find any sign of the boss. What's stranger was that there was no entrance or pathway that led them to the third floor!

"Eh? Where the heck is the boss?" Drizzler turned around like ballerina and found nothing but shadows. "Maybe the boss must be triggered!" said Zhang Yang. He recalled that there was a place like this but he had never fought in before. He had that thought at the same time everyone else did too.

"Everyone! Scatter around and search for clues! There must be some kind of hint to spawn the boss!"

Everyone including Zhang Yang himself spread out to search the surrounding.

"I found it! Come over to me!" Hundred Shots called out. The party then gathered to where he was and saw him standing near a small altar. The altar was just the shape of a small dining table and on top of the table was a small bowl. There was a complicated magic circle underneath the bowl that was emitting some sort of eerie dark ray.

"Looks like we've found it!"

"But how do we summon the boss?" asked Little Snow.

"Fatty! Go and drop some of your blood into the bowl. This boss must be summoned with blood!" said Zhang Yang. "What?! Why me!" Fatty Han bellowed. "How come you didn't choose Hundred Shots or Drizzler to do it!?" He protested.

Zhang Yang smiled playfully. "Okay then! Let's put this to a vote. All those who agree that Fatty Han should be the one to do it, please raise your hands!"

Shush! Four arms were raised into the air.

Drizzler burst into laughter. "Hah! Serves you right, Pervy Fatty! Just give up and accept your fate!"

"Come on bro. It's just a game. Go ahead and drop some of your blood!"

"F*ck! I hate you guys!" Fatty Han had no choice. He walked over to the altar and bit his thumb. He then reached out his thumb and dropped his flowing blood into the bowl.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk" drops of blood echoed through and the bowl suddenly vibrated. Fatty Han quickly withdrew a few steps back. The bowl then vibrated wildly and turned around on its own. It turned three times counter-clockwise and two times clockwise. The magic circle underneath then glowed brighter and let out a loud "hooooongg" sound. Wind started to blow in all direction; sand and pebble were shaken off the wall as the entire cave vibrated malevolently. It was as if something bad was about to happen.

"I have a bad feeling about this…I'm 100% sure that the next boss would be scary as hell!" Fatty Han turned his head left and right, trying his best to observe any changes around him.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!

The sound of broken chains echoed through the cave, followed by an eruption of black ray from the magic circle. The ray burst out like a column; huge and enormous. Suddenly, a massive figure emerged out of the light, wearing a majestic robe and a sorcerer's pointy hat. In his hands, he was wielding a staff that glowed with a black light.

Boom!

A strong shockwave blasted through the field and he vanished from the pillar and reappeared in front of the party. There he stood, a 10-meter tall, gigantic Necromancer. His entire body was only just a human skeleton, with no flesh to support, brittle and weak. But needless to say, his presence alone gave a strong sense of enmity to the party, especially those abyssal dark eye sockets that held a pair of emerald-green light orbs that looked like there were burning on the inside!

"Holy… What kind of monster is this?!" Fatty Han shrieked.

Zhang Yang and the party quickly checked on its system detail.

[Witch King of the Undead, Mardevich, Lord of Spectre] (Celestial)

Level: ???

HP: ???

"Jesus Christ! Why would a Celestial boss appear here!?" cried Hundred Shots. The ever silent and matured character was troubled. If all of the server players got together and joined forces to defeat this boss, they would ultimately fail and crash the server when they would be sent to the graveyard! They were facing a Celestial-tier boss for crying out loud!

"Hahaha! Mortal! I'd never thought that I would be freed by a bunch of lowly humans! Nevertheless, I am grateful for your deed! This king will now let you all continue to live and breathe as a reward!" Its eerie jaws moved and talked.

"Now, BEGONE!" It bellowed. Its voice was thundering till the high heavens.

The party was so scared that they took a few steps back. To think that they would take on a Celestial-tier boss… It would only mean certain death!

The party turned around and was ready to leave the field before anything could take place. Fatty Han stopped and he saw that Zhang Yang has not even budged from his place.

"Hey, let's go! What're you waiting for!?" Fatty Han cried out in the party channel.

Zhang Yang suddenly cracked a smile. He started to move forward, not towards the party, but towards the boss.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing?!" Fatty Han frantically shouted. Even though this was just a game, there was no reason to walk towards a certain doom!

"Feeble mortal! Are you trying to have a taste of the power of a god?!"

Zhang Yang has successfully provoked Mardevich. Its voice was so loud and it also sent the cave trembling, dropping sand and pebbles all over the place.

Shush!

Zhang Yang used Charge and dash towards the boss!

"Oh my god! Did he not learn how to recognize the word "death" in school!?" Little Snow facepalmed herself. She remembered how Zhang Yang was like when he faced the Python King and Martyr Unduin. He did not just simply charge towards them like he did now!

Zhang Yang versus the Spectre boss!

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Chapter 68: Guranda the Chameleon

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Zhang Yang dashed towards the boss head on. When the two of them made contact, a star symbol appeared on the boss head, indicating a successful stun. Even though the stun lasted only a few milliseconds, it was still a successful stun!

"Haha!" Zhang Yang swung his sword and sliced the boss, taking away '-339' damage.

"Argh…"

The boss cried in pain. Bright piercing light started to burst out from the boss' body, blinding those who would look at it.

Fatty Han and the rest of the party quickly turned around. "What's happening!?"

How could Zhang Yang still be alive? On the other hand, the boss seemed to be having a bad time! The four of them started to feel happy and surprised in the same time. Could they be a God Killer? A God Killer! According to the official website, to fight a boss of this scale, you would need to gather several hundred thousand to even millions of players! The war would also last for several days and nights! If they could defeat a Celestial boss with just the 5 of them, it would be the greatest achievement any human could ever receive!

The flash of light shone and went off quickly, and when Fatty Han could have a good look at Zhang Yang, he noticed something odd…

The boss was gone. In its place, there stood a tiny dwarf that did not even reach 1 meter of height. In its hand, it was still holding a magic staff that was so much taller than it was. Everyone quickly checked on its system information.

[Guranda the Chameleon] (Green-Copper)

Level: 25

HP: 250,000

Fatty Han wavered and he cried. "Little Yang! Where is the boss?"

"Can't you see him standing right in front of me?" Zhang Yang lifted his sword and pointed the dwarf.

The little dwarf opened its tiny mouth and started to insult Zhang Yang.

"Damned Mortal! You'd dare to raise your sword at me! I will crush you! I will smash you!" It raised its staff high and directed it at Zhang Yang's direction and casted something. A debuff icon appeared on his head.

'Ding! You have received the effect of Shadow Decay. Receive 300 Shadow damage every 3 seconds for 30 seconds!'

"That's weird. Wasn't he a Celestial-tier?" said Fatty Han.

"It's fake." Zhang Yang answered him quickly. Zhang Yang quickly noticed something was odd the moment the boss appeared. Mardevich was the strongest of the 7 Spectre Magus Lords who resided in the Malevolent Tower located in the Spectre's Sacred Land. How could it be sealed in a place like this!

Based on his reasoning, he immediately concluded that this boss was an imposter! With his attack, he had confirmed his suspicion and proved his hypothesis was true! A true Celestial-tier boss would be completely immune to the stun effect! Even the Gray-Silver boss Unduin had the immunity effect!

"F*ck! Cheeky little dwarf! You dare to cheat me! The old great Han! Is it death that you seek!?" Fatty Han drew his bow furiously and attacked. "Little Fat! F*ck him up good!"

"Roar!" Litte Fat the bear growled, dragging its little white butt and charged onward.

The rest of the team shared the same feelings as Fatty Han; they were furiously angered and attacked to punish the dwarf.

"Bunch of little rascals! I'll kill you all!" Guranda raised its staff and pointed it at Zhang Yang again. This time, it started to cast a spell and a progress bar appeared on its head.

"Fatty! Try and interrupt the spell!" Zhang Yang did not know this boss' abilities nor capabilities. It would be better if he could interrupt the spell and prevent the unknown attack.

Fatty Han quickly casted a Silencing Shot.

'Immune!'

"Shit! It's useless!" Fatty Han cried out loud and continued his attacks.

'Ding! Guranda the Chameleon has used Plague!'

Five ray of lights appeared and beamed at everyone, casting a debuff on everyone.

[Plague: You will receive the Plague and be infected with various diseases. All your attacks will be reduced by 5%. You will receive 150 Shadow damage every 3 seconds for 24 seconds. Effect is stackable, removable.

"Little Snow! Dispel all of the debuff!" Zhang Yang quickly ordered. One stack of Plague was not much to be afraid of, but when the effect stacked up to 20 layers, you could basically just stop attacking since there would be 0 damage.

Little Snow nodded and quickly casted Dispel to remove the debuff. In five seconds, everyone was cleansed.

[Dispel: Remove a debuff on an ally or remove a buff on the enemy. Cooldown time: 1 second.

"Puny Mortal! You have angered me! Eat my wrath!" Guranda swung its massive staff towards Zhang Yang. Its physical attack was not as strong since it was a magic caster type. Zhang Yang felt annoyed at the fact that he would not gain any Rage for avoiding its attack. Zhang Yang would rather not waste time dealing with its physical attack.

"Raise from the ashes O' heroes of the past! Serve me!" Guranda chanted a spell and waved its staff. The ground shook and 10 dark pits appeared on the field. White skeleton hands grabbed onto the ledge and crawled out of the pits. One by one, the Skeletons stood above the pits as it closed and disappeared.

"Kill them all!" Guranda bellowed.

FOOM!

Dark flames emerged from the dark eye sockets of those Skeletons and emitted a strong killing intent. The monsters shook their arms and out came a bone-shape sword.

"I don't like where this is going…" said Fatty Han.

"KIIKIKIIIKIII" The Skeletons screeched loudly and charged towards the party.

[Skeleton Warrior] (Elite)

Level: 20

HP: 10,000

Zhang Yang quickly stomped the ground and used Thunder Strike to lure as much monsters as possible. Once he got a hold on the monsters that were charging on him and Drizzler, he quickly chained his attack with Charge and attacked the Skeleton Warriors that were heading towards Little Snow.

"Ignore the minions! Don't attack them, I haven't gotten enough aggro yet! Focus on attacking the boss! Fatty, Hundred Shots! Come closer to my side!" Zhang Yang commanded.

Zhang Yang was unable to attack all the monsters at once since both the party and monsters were scattered everywhere. But with everyone gathered together, it made it easier for Zhang Yang to establish a proper crowd control.

'-698!'

'-742!'

'-1480!'

Slash! Zhang Yang used Horizontal Sweep and managed to strongly generate aggro for the monsters.

"Use your AoE skills!" said Zhang Yang.

Fatty Han and the team had their skills ready and waiting. When Zhang Yang gave the green light, they unleashed hell from above. Hunters used Barrage and Drizzler used Tornado Cleave. Instantly, the party's attack power rose tremendously.

"This is awesome! HAHAHAHA! Really awesome! I can't get enough of this! Hmm… Oh… AH…" Drizzler was on cloud nine as she screamed weirdly among the group of monsters. Even so, her scream was overly erotic that it would immediately lead others to think something indecent. It was so weird, even Hundred Shots and Zhang Yang both smiled as they understood the situation. Fatty Han on the other hand was already smiling like a pervert.

"Enough! Drizzler! Stop making that noise!" Embarrassed, Little Snow quickly tried to stop her cousin. Drizzler's face was flushed in red but she was not aware that her cries were creating an awkward situation. "B-But it's really just so addictive AH…"

Eventually, no one cared about her anymore and continued to attack. The summoned minion were quickly killed off by the team's AoE skills while the boss was reduced down to 67%.

"Impossible! A mere mortal! I was actually hurt by a mere mortal!" Guranda started to look serious. "Looks like I have to stop playing with my victims!"

The boss stopped its attacks and started to chant something in an unknown language. A black light engulfed the boss rendering all attacks from Zhang Yang's party useless.

'Immune!'

'Immune!'

'Immune!'

"Hold your fire! The boss is about to evolve to the second stage!"

After a few seconds, the light dispersed, revealing a humungous Bone Tiger with sharp spikey bones that protruded out like a spear.

"Holy crap! This boss has the Shape Shifting ability?" Fatty Han dropped his jaw in shock.

"Luckily he didn't turn into a sexy Sailormoon or it would be hilarious!" Zhang Yang laughed as he continued to swing his sword to attack.

"Grrrr…" The Bone Tiger growled and jumped at Zhang Yang.

"F*ck me! The boss actually turned from magic to physical attack!" Zhang Yang let his guard down and let the boss attacked him with its huge fangs.

'-405!'

'-417!'

"Haha! Bite that fellow! Haha! Good tiger!" Drizzler cheered.

"Hey! Little brat, I have no quarrel with you! Why would you say something like that?!" Zhang Yang said while he laughed.

"Hmph! Fatty's mouth is his negative points! As for you, your bad side is your intentions!" Drizzler complained.

"Oh my…" Fatty Han covered his mouth like a woman in shock. He then talked like an old lady. "Oh little Drizzler! Since when did you learn to talk like that?"

"Grr…" After turning into a beast, Guranda had completely lost his ability to speak.

Suddenly, a black light gleamed across the tiger's body and all of the bone spikes protruded further, like it was ready to fire off.

Zhang Yang's heart skipped a beat and quickly yelled. "Everyone get behind me!"

'Ding! Guranda has used Bone Arrow Assault Lasts for 10 seconds!'

Shush! Shush! Shush!

Arrow-like spikes continuously flew out from the boss' back and into the sky. The arrows formed a huge circle, as it gathered more and more arrows to become bigger. Up to a moment, all the arrows were unleashed down to the ground, like a rain of arrows.

'-191!'

'-194!'

'-189!'

Everyone was unable to avoid the attack as it came down from the sky instead of the front as Zhang Yang hoped. Everyone suffered around 200 damage every second. Luckily, Little Snow was proficient enough to flash cast as many healing spells and other recovery skills as she could. She withheld the Holy Shield for the person with the lowest HP in case she could not heal in time.

After 10 seconds, everyone in the party lost close to 2,000 HP. If it was not because of Little Snow's powerful healing power, everyone would have died. Instead, they were left alive with 300 or so remaining HP. Zhang Yang had strong defense, massive HP, and amazing dodging skills; his remaining HP was at least 1,500.

"Little Snow, I need you heal everyone to full health in case of another attack like that! Everyone else, attack faster please! We need to get him back to his original form to prevent more ultimate skills!" said Zhang Yang as he attacked faster and faster.

Everyone else joined his frenzy and attacked the boss as well. 60%, 55%, 50%... eventually the boss' HP dropped down to 33%. It was then a similar black light engulfed the boss that rendered all attacks to be immune.

"I wonder what it would become this time?" said Fatty Han with his eyes wide open.

"Damn! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! I WILL KILL YOU! KILL YOU, I MUST!" An extremely thundering voice could be heard and the boss revealed its true form. A huge 7 meters long giant crimson scorpion.

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Chapter 69: Shape Shifting Tool

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Shing! Shing!

A metallic sound could be heard when the red giant scorpion Guranda snapped its claws.

Fuuh! It moved out of the sudden towards Zhang Yang.

Shush!

The sound of the air being ripped apart by the claw as it missed Zhang Yang's body.

Zhang Yang quickly took a few more steps back and got out of the claw's attack range. But just when he wanted to take a breather, he could feel a strong sense of killing intent from the boss. His was just about to activate Block out of instinct.

Suddenly, he could see a shadow resembling a spear piercing through the air towards him. It was the dark red scorpion's tail and it was coming for him.

'Block!'

'-117!' Block reflect damage.

'-234!' Shield Bash.

The way Zhang Yang used Block and Shield Bash consecutively and with such fluidity impressed the party. It was not just those two skills that left their jaws hanging. Zhang Yang was able to do all those things alone and under pressure. Everyone else could only inhale in their breath in amazement. They thought if either one of them replaced that position, they would be completely f*cked beyond any recognition. Once they had that thought, and still see Zhang Yang alive and kicking, they had nothing but respect for that man.

After Guranda had changed its appearance into a huge scorpion, its attack turned stronger and fiercer, like a spider tank with claws made from steel. Even though Zhang Yang had been moving around at the speed of light, he could not withstand all 3 consecutive attacks of the boss. 2 claws and 1 tail was just too much. With his Block constantly on cooldown, he could only dodge two straight attacks and would have to take on the third attack head on.

"This boss is strong!" Fatty Han cried out.

"Please. All bosses are strong. And this one is a Field boss. It doesn't have a participation limit. You could have unlimited amount of player trying to land a hit on this thing. Some bosses could be killed off with just a player, while others require up to 10, or 100, even 1000 players. Those bosses are just on a whole other level!" Zhang Yang replied even when he was in the midst of battle.

"If this was in a proper dungeon, how many party members would this roughly take?" Fatty Han asked curiously.

Zhang Yang blocked an attack and dodged the other before he could find some time to reply.

"Approximately 5 to 10, more or less!"

"Tch! Even I could have guessed that." Drizzler muttered.

In the midst their conversation, an odd red light flashed through the boss' body.

Before Zhang Yang could even say anything, his instincts kicked in and activated Block. The boss suddenly spun its large body as swiftly as a top.

'Ding! Guranda the Chameleon has used Blade Dance, causing 500 physical damage every second to every target in the melee attack range. Last 4 seconds!'

'-472!'

'Block!'

Pang! Pang! Pang!

Both Zhang Yang and Drizzler suffered around 500 damage from the spinning monster. Luckily the damage type was physical, and could still be reduced by their armor value. Still, even after the reduced damage, it was still too strong!

"Sister! Heal me! I'm dying here! Ah~~" Drizzler lost her control and started calling out to her cousin.

Little Snow did not immediately react on impulse. Instead, she made quick calculations and casted Holy Shield on Drizzler followed by Holy Prayers, before finally chanting a healing spell. Zhang Yang received Regeneration from her and she had been maintaining it ever since to make sure Zhang Yang never lost his focus.

4 seconds later, the boss' skill stopped and only focused on trying to snap Zhang Yang into two.

Drizzler had received around 1,900 damage from the boss. However, thanks to Little Snow's various support, such as the Holy Shield that absorbed 600 damage while Holy Prayer recovered over 400 health. Along with the constant tick from Regeneration, Little Snow has basically shielded Drizzler so extensively that she only took a total of 800 damage from the boss. After Regeneration ticked a few times, Drizzler would have been fully healed.

Zhang Yang on the other hand was much stronger and less dependent on her. Zhang Yang already had a solid defense to begin with. He had a 20% damage reduction passive, coupled with his 70 points of Defense value, which meant that he only received 330 damage from the original damage of 500. He had successfully blocked the first attack and even he did not need to receive healing since he had only taken 3 direct hits which totaled up to 1,000 damage. In contrast to the barrage of blows he had defended himself from, this was akin to a graze. Out of his tanky 1,900 HP, it was pretty severe, but not to the point where he would need immediate healing.

If they had another healer instead of Little Snow, then he or she would panic and the first thing that came to mind would be to blindly heal the main tank instead of carrying out a longer termed, sustained prevention for the main tank which would subsequently have led to the entire party's death. However, in this situation, if the healer had done otherwise and only prioritized the main tank, it would inevitably have led Drizzler to certain death!

The boss's Blade Dance was quite frequent. It was activated once roughly every 20 seconds. Drizzler was smart enough to evade the attack once it was activated. Still, she would receive a hit or two, though it will not place her in a dangerous position. Little Snow would only need to cast one Regeneration to settle the problem.

On the other hand, the Hunter's pets were completely killed off since they could not recall their pets in time.

25%, 20%, 15%...

The team's firepower was so overpowering that the boss' HP bar was dropping down like an avalanche.

"Hmph! Stupid boss! This little girl will smash you into tiny little pieces!" cried Drizzler. Her attacks were quite eye-catching. She jumped up and down, wielding the long spear in her hands, locked in an elaborate, elegant dance, dealing damage continuously.

5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1%!

"ARGH…" As the HP bar dropped down the last drop but not completely drained, Guranda's body flashed back into his original dwarf form. Before it ran away it screamed pathetically, "M-Mortal! I-I'll return s-someday!"

As the last syllable died out, it ran back into the magic circle and disappeared in a flash of black light. It dropped a Stone box at the spot of its disappearance.

"Crap! We didn't manage to kill it!" Fatty Han ran to the altar and observed the magic circle again.

"Can we summon him again and beat him to a pulp?" Fatty Han turned around and asked the party.

"Okay! Okay! Fine by me! We can get another treasure chest!" The mere thought of money in her mind was enough to give Drizzler the motivation to fight the boss again.

Fatty Han then proceeded to bite his fingers again and dripped the flowing blood into the bowl.

1…2…3 seconds ticked past.

Fatty Han waited for another 30 seconds but nothing happened. Not even a slight breeze.

"What the…" Fatty Han bewildered. He quickly turned around only to see Zhang Yang was holding his laughter. Fatty Han immediately knew that he was being fooled. He growl, "Little Yang!"

Zhang Yang's laughter became more apparent. "The boss isn't dead, but according to the story setting, it was successfully killed. Why else would it drop a treasure chest here!?" The chest here is equal to its dead body! If you still insist in summoning him back here to fight, according to the regular system refresh rate for a Green-Copper boss, you'd have to wait for two days!"

"F*CK!" Fatty Han was furious. "Then, why didn't you stop me just now!?"

"It's just for the fun of it. You'll be fine with losing a couple drops of blood, right? Think of it as losing weight!"

"F*ck you!"

"Alright guys. Open the chest, we still have 3 more floors of bosses to fight!" Hundred Shots quickly tried to calm Fatty Han.

Little Snow and Drizzler were reluctant but were eventually persuaded to open the chest.

[Chameleon's Headdress] (Green-Copper, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 1

Use: Allows you to disguise yourself to be one of the following character. 1, Dwarf. 2, Bone Tiger. 3, Scorpion. Last for 5 minutes. Cooldown time: 10 minutes.

Level requirement: 20

"Ha! This is fun! This is fun! I want it! Gimme!" Drizzle quickly cried out like a little girl.

"F*ck! This is quite an interesting item! I want it as well!" Fatty Han too cried out.

"Pervy bro, you're already such an old man, why would you take away a children's toy? Don't you know shame?" Drizzler scolded him.

Fatty Han on the other had was so infuriated that his face was completely red.

"I AM ONLY 5 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU!"

"Hmph! Noob tank! What say you!? Who should keep this toy?" Drizzler looked at Zhang Yang with her teeth exposed in a snarl, ready to bite his face off.

Zhang Yang only laughed weakly and said, "You know, I was thinking that we should just sell this toy. I think this item could be sold with ease for a few ten thousand gold coins! Since there are rich players in this game, I think they would buy this to show off!"

According to his previous experience in the game, this little shape shifting tool was actually sold up to 500,000 gold pieces. This was one of the few valuable non-combat item in Cave of Bones. This was also the reason why huge guilds would occupy this place. A mountain of gold coins meant a stack of money!

Drizzler's eye glinted with the yellow metallic color of gold when she heard its value.

"Y-YYeah! Let's sell it!"

In the end, Little Snow got hold of the item to be sold off in the auction house. However, before that Little Snow wanted to have a little fun. She then put on the hat and activated its effect.

Poof!

Little Snow turned from a sexy woman to a huge Boney Tiger in a puff of smoke.

"Wuuu…" Drizzler watched in utmost jealousy. "Cousin… I don't think we should sell this amazing toy!"

Eventually, Drizzler thought it out and the party decided to keep the item instead of selling it. Since the item is not a bound-type item, anyone could use it whenever they feel like it.

"Little Yang, I think next time when the boss respawns, we should come over and kill it! Each of us should have at least one hat to play with!" Fatty Han said with full of passion.

"Hah! Alright then!" Zhang Yang nodded. This kind of non-combat item was quite marketable in the future. Its value would always remain high since it can never be discarded for being over-leveled. Player could use this item regardless of their level since it was an item for fun. The boss would spawn once every 2 day which meant that it would be a few hundred thousand pieces of gold every 2 days. Even in the late stages of the game, it would mean a few hundred thousand gold coins worth of money.

[Skill book: Chain Slash] (Skill Book)

Use: Teaches you Chain Slash.

Class requirement: Warrior, Knight, Bandit.

"Eh…noob tank! What's with this skill? Is it good?" Drizzler asked Zhang Yang. He is a "beta-player", he must know about this skill!

Zhang Yang laughed and casually passed the skill book to her. "You'll know it once you've learn it!"

Drizzler stuck out her tongue and said, "Hmph! This skill must be pretty useless since you're so generous with it!"

"Huh!?" Zhang Yang laughed. "Why would you say that?"

"Hm. Previously, when the skill book Eagle Eye dropped out, you were so desperate to have it!" Drizzler explained as she just accepted the skill book and learned it immediately.

[Chain Slash: Deliver two straight attacks with 75% melee damage with each strike. This attack ignores 100% defense and cannot be blocked nor evaded. Cost: 20 Rage, Requirement: Melee weapon. Cool down time: 10 seconds.

"Eh?! This skill is great!" Drizzler posted the skill description after learning it. This skill was perfect for her since her attack interval was very low yet very strong. Now that this skill increased the attack count by 1, it helped in significantly increasing the overall damage output, especially since the skill ignored 100% defense, and was unblockable and unavoidable. This skill would be extra useful when she would face a strong defense class like Guardians or Defenders.

Zhang Yang had no problem handing over the skill since he already had Eagle Eye. Even though it was advisable to have an extra skill, he would be gaining a number of extra skills when he reached a certain level in the future anyway. And once that was to happen, all that he would gain were headaches with that many skills to level up.

After picking up several silver coins, the chest disappeared. The party then walked again towards the end of the second floor and found themselves at an entrance to the next floor where a huge rock was supposed to be.

"Will the entrance close again after all of us go inside?" Fatty Han asked a peculiar question.

"No! Unless the second boss respawns, this entrance will always be here!" said Zhang Yang with utmost confidence.

"Oh!" Fatty Han finally relaxed.

Zhang Yang walked in slowly and carefully as he was almost killed the previous floor. He peeked in carefully from the third floor entrance and scanned the area before stepping through. The third floor was completely empty, there was nothing. Not a single monster was present.

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Chapter 70: Freyna The Shadow Assassin

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"Eh? That's weird. How come there aren't any monsters around?" Curious and childlike, Drizzler squeezed out from behind Zhang Yang and stood in front of him.

Zhang Yang frowned. It is impossible to have no monsters on the field! Either there were really no monsters around or perhaps they were…

Pong!

The sound of a hollow knock could be heard and stars appeared on Drizzler head, indicating a stun effect. Immediately her character began to sway back and forth.

Foosh!

A black clothed figure appeared out of thin air and stood behind Drizzler. It then raised a pair of shiny daggers and started to stab at Drizzler's back.

"I'm being attack!" Drizzler cried out.

Zhang Yang immediately used Provoke and hacked his sword into the monster.

'-347!'

Being affected by Zhang Yang's Provoke, the black clothed man turned around and began to attack Zhang Yang instead.

"Shit! It's a stealth monster!" Fatty Han cried.

[Shadow Assassin] (Normal)

Level: 25

HP: 2,500

The monster was weak and was killed off effortlessly. However, the main problem in this third floor was the fact that they did not know where their targets were nor did they know the number of their enemy! If the number of monsters were the same as the second floor, with the same volume of aggressiveness, they would most definitely be annoyed to hell!

"Let's go!"

The party moved forward, not knowing when nor where the monsters would attack from. However, within just a few steps, they were attacked. The number of monsters varied from time to time. There were times where they were only attacked by 1 monster, while in the worst case scenario, they were attacked by a group of 7 assassins! These assassins had the Bandit's active skills Ambush and Kidney Shot.

As the party proceed on, Little Snow and Drizzler reached Level 21 while the 3 guys were almost reaching the next level.

"I'll be damned. If someone would have come here alone and accidentally ran into 4 to 5 monsters, they would surely have been dead!" said Fatty Han with traces of fear in his voice. At some point before, they were all attacked by a group of 7 assassins simultaneously. Fatty Han got the worst of it and he was left traumatized by them.

"There will be tougher monsters in larger groups in the future dungeons. These kind of monsters are extremely common. What's more, almost all of the monsters are elite tier, players could be killed off if the party's tank's reaction rate is slow." Zhang Yang walked to the front.

"That's just wrong!" Fatty Han shook his head.

"If you want to fight a stealth monster properly, you'll need to farm yourself a [Flashbang]" said Zhang Yang.

"That's too tough. According to the official database, [Flashbang]'s drop rate is only at 1 over 10 thousand. That drop rate is just too much to handle!"

Lately, Fatty Han had picked up the habit of studying about the game in the official website. He had improved his understanding about his own class, better than when he was only a beginner.

"Of course the drop rate would be bad! Otherwise, all of the Bandit class members would cease to exist!"

Even though the monsters on this floor were quite tough and troublesome to deal with, the party managed to fight their way to the end of the floor.

"Stop! Don't go in just yet!" Zhang Yang halted in his steps. "Walk around and make sure that the field is clear of all monsters. I'm pretty sure that this floor's boss will be in stealth as well. We won't know when we could trigger the fight. If we did trigger it and accidentally drag in more monsters into the boss's fight, it would only cause us trouble!"

The party took extreme steps to make sure there were no monsters left out in their way to the end of the floor.

"Where is the boss?" asked Fatty Han quietly as they arrived at the end of the third floor.

"I bet that the boss is hidden in some corner. It will not appear until we stepped into its aggro range!" said Zhang Yang. "I think that we should just move on, the boss will surely appear later!"

Zhang Yang walked ahead of the team. The entire team walked carefully in a single file and into the fourth floor entrance. Out of the sudden, a black shadow flashed across and appeared beside Hundred Shots. A pair of blade could be seen reflecting some light and Hundred Shots was quickly sent into a stunned status. Damage text appeared rapidly on his head as his HP bar dropped like a landslide.

Zhang Yang was prepared, he quickly activated Charge and Provoke to grab the monster's aggro away from Hundred Shots.

The shadow quickly turned around and changed its target to Zhang Yang. It's dagger in its hands moved back and forth like a flash of lightning! Zhang Yang could not dodge every attack even though he had maximized his own body to evade. It could not be helped, the character's own Dexterity attribute was not high enough to keep up with his own reaction speed.

Seeing the monster was no longer "raping" him, Hundred Shots left out a sigh of relief. Little Snow quickly healed Hundred Shots and also Zhang Yang at the same time. Hundred Shots was struck to the point of having only 137 remaining HP. If Zhang Yang were to act only a millisecond slower, he would have been killed off!

When Zhang Yang had managed to fight with the monster at a standstill, the party could finally observe the true nature of the monster. The monster was a sexy and slender female NPC wearing an extremely tight unitard that was plastered against her skin, accenting her slender, voluptuous body line. Especially those pair of ripe watermelons!

Even though her body was ironically covered in the most vulgar way imaginable, her face was covered in a black cloth. Her appearance was hidden carefully.

"Woah! That boombalicious body!" Fatty Han drooled.

[Freyna the Shadow Assassin] (Green-Copper)

Level: 25

HP: 250k

"Jealous, Little brat?" said Zhang Yang as he noticed Drizzler was staring at her breasts.

Drizzler was caught off guard and stuttered as she replied.

"W-What..No I…I was just…I…No! I w-was not j-j-jealous! Having such a large b-b-breast is very troublesome! Not only it will cause you to slouch which is bad for your posture, but it would also very tiring, carrying t-t-that thing around! I do not want to have such l-l-large breasts!"

Little Snow laughed arrogantly and puffed out her own chest. The result movement of her voluptuous pair would leave anyone nose bleed in its wake.

"Little brat. Don't deny your true heart! If what you say is true then try stop doing the "self-massaging exercise"!

"Han Yin Xue! Why must you reveal everything about me?!" Drizzler got angry.

"Little Yang. I think your Cripple Defense does live up to its name!" Fatty Han sighed disappointingly.

"Huh? What?"

"F*ck! You've hit her so many times with the Cripple Defense but I don't see any of her armor getting torn apart! What kind of armor reduction is that!?" Fatty Han raged on.

"Dude!" Everyone but Fatty Han scolded.

Freyna whispered something unintelligible and vanished out of sight. Her entire body blended into the darkness.

"Eh? Did she just quit and run?" Fatty Han laughed.

"No! She just turned invisible! Watch your back, she might appear at any time!" Zhang Yang said.

Just after Zhang Yang finished his sentence, Freyna appeared behind Fatty Han and hammered on his head with the back of her dagger. As he staggered in the Stun status, she quickly brandished her daggers and dealt a combo-infused flurry of swift cuts and shanks on Fatty Han.

Zhang Yang quickly casted Provoke hoping to catch her attention.

'Immune!'

Little Snow quickly acted in response. First, she casted Holy Shield and then Regeneration followed with the longest casting time of Higher Healing.

The attack on Fatty Han lasted until the Ambush skill effect timed out. Only then did Freyna turned her sights on Zhang Yang and started her attack on him. Fatty Han had sustained heavy damage. To think that in that short moment, Fatty Han had received more than 2,300 damage. He would have been killed off if not for Little Snow's quick reaction.

"Damn! This boss' sudden burst damage is pretty nasty!" said Hundred Shots.

Zhang Yang nodded in agreement.

"This is the power of a Bandit. It can cause a high sudden burst of damage the moment it comes out of stealth. The chain attack that follows could eliminate half of any class's HP! However, keep in mind that after the chain attack, the attack would be reduced! When the boss disappears, it will ignore all aggro and randomly pick one player and attack him for 5 seconds! That is why Ambush is so frustrating!"

"Hm. Luckily it wasn't Little Snow. If it did, she would die instantly if she couldn't heal herself!" said Hundred Shots.

"Haha! Let's just hope that a woman would not hurt another woman!" Zhang Yang laughed.

"Oh please, why would she hurt me? I'm still a pure young maiden!" Little Snow winked seductively at Zhang Yang.

"Han Yin Xue!" Drizzler got angry.

90%, 80%, 70%...

Upon being afflicted with 5 layers of Cripple Defense the boss' defense was reduced; the party's strong attack was only made stronger and her HP bar continued dropping at a faster rate than before. However, the most troublesome factor of her was the Ambush skill. She could pick anyone out of random and inflict extremely high damage. If Little Snow wavered just a little, that person would definitely die!

50%, 40%, 30%...

Once again Freyna disappeared and enter stealth mode.

"Don't pick the healer! Don't pick the healer!" Fatty Han quickly chanted.

Foosh!

Freyna appeared behind Little Snow and knocked her out. She raised her dagger and started inflicting damage.

"F*CK! F*CK YOU FATTY HAN!" Zhang Yang cried out.

"Damn your bad mouth! Jinx!" Zhang Yang scolded. It was a pity that Zhang Yang could not use Sacrifice to save her. All he could do now was just stare at her.

Sacrifice was a Level 40 Guardian skill.

[Sacrifice: Cover a teammate, sharing all inflicted damage for 5 seconds.

Cooldown time: 1 minute.

Range: 30 meter.

The high burst damage of a Bandit is the natural enemy of all low defense Priests. Before the boss could even finish her combo attack, Little Snow's HP was reduced to none. With a nudge, her slender body fell on the ground.

'Ding! Player Little Snow had died!'

"What!? F*cking boss! How dare you kill my beautiful Little Snow! I will f*ck you up real good!" Fatty Han screamed as he drew his bow and attacked.

"Hey! Pervy Fatty. You can stop the act now. I'd never like a fat guy!" Little Snow posted in the party channel.

"Oh! Why would you say that! My heart and intentions are pure! Why would I think of having the two of you in my arms!"

After Little Snow's death, the boss turned and attack Zhang Yang. Without Little Snow's healing support, Zhang Yang could still dodge and evade most of the attack, but there were still some attacks that got past his defense and reduced his HP!"

"Don't waste any time! Attack!"

25%, 20%, 15%!

Freyna suddenly disappeared when Zhang Yang HP dropped down to 700 points. He quickly used the [Coarse Cloth Bandage].

'100!'

'100!'

'100!'

Having the title [Physician's Friend, Zhang Yang's recovery rate was doubled when he used the [Coarse Cloth Bandage]. While others would only recover 500HP, Zhang Yang could recover up to 1,000HP! He recovered back to full health after only 7 seconds!

"Little Yang! Is that the effect from the reward you got from that bloody quest?" Fatty Han was jealous.

"Yup!"

"F*ck! I should have done that! Argh! Crap! What a waste!" Fatty Han screamed.

Foosh!

The boss appeared behind Hundred Shots. She raised her dagger, stunned him, and start to attack him with a chain of attack.

Both Zhang Yang and Drizzler quickly used Charge and dashed over. Fatty Han quickly drew his bow and attacked.

Not only have they lost their only healer, they would lose this fight if they do not kill her in time!

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Chapter 71: Onward, to the Fourth Floor

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Being attacked by the boss, it would take a miracle for Hundred Shots to escape unscathed, however, it did provide a valuable opening for the rest of the team to attack the boss.

14%, 13%, 12%!

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots had died!'

Freyna turned and attacked Zhang Yang.

"Huh! This boss is smart! She killed off the easy targets first! Hm! Her IQ must be over 200!" Fatty Han could still find the time to joke.

"Pervy Fatty! Your IQ on the other hand is just only one digit lesser than hers! Only 20!" said Drizzler mockingly.

Fatty Han appeared to be unfazed by her insult. He laughed instead. "Hoho~ I've actually graduated properly from high school! I have a certificate!"

"Hah! So what?!" Drizzler was not impressed.

"Well then, shall we try and test our knowledge. Where is your progress on your syllabus?"

Drizzler paused. Right then, she was still in high school and have yet to graduate. She was sure to lose to Fatty Han! Drizzler could only stare venomously at Fatty Han before going back to focus on fighting the boss.

11%, 10%, 9%...

Even though the team had lost 2 players, their total firepower was not greatly affected since one of their losses was a healer!

The boss' HP was still dropping down at a reasonable speed. Zhang Yang had unleashed his full potential to fight the boss, dodging every possible attack. However, he was still receiving damage from the boss. He could not properly maintain his current HP from being completely drained!

Out of the sudden, the boss stopped again and vanished into thin air.

Since he had only used the [Course Rough Bandage] less than 30 seconds ago, he could not use it again since it was still in its cooldown phase. However, Zhang Yang had 1,100 HP remaining while the boss only had 6% left. The fight had become more and more intense. It was now a battle of speed and damage!

Foosh!

Freyna popped out from behind Drizzler and knocked her out.

"Fatty! It's up to you guys now!"

"Leave it to us!"

6%, 5%, 4%!

By the time Drizzler dropped dead, the boss had about 3% HP left.

"F*ck! We have to kill her!" said Fatty Han as he drew his bow as haphazardly as ever. "You dared to take away both of my Little Snow and Drizzler! I'd really f*ck you up good!"

Freyna turned and faced Zhang Yang after killing Drizzler. The sound of her blade clashing with Zhang Yang's shield could be heard over the entire field.

2%

1%

0%!

Bam! The boss dropped down, leaving Zhang Yang with only around 400 HP left standing. It was not as intense as it would have seemed.

"Well…damn! This boss isn't that strong but how did we lose so many players?" Fatty Han said discontentedly.

On the other side, the 3 dead players had released their souls and had begun running to their corpse.

"Hm…This is how the future high level bosses should be like. Bosses that are Yellow-Gold tier and higher are completely immune to any Provoking effect, they are different from this boss who could only be immune to Provoke when she is attacking someone in Ambush. Other higher level bosses also have this kind of high burst damage skill that could instantly kill a player! The developers are tired of seeing this kind of standard play style where the tanks would hold the aggro, attackers attack, and healers heal. They thought that this kind of play style was too rigid and concrete!"

Fatty Han walked around as he listened.

"However, sooner or later, there will be a time when players are strong enough to even go solo on a boss!" Zhang Yang said as he reminisced about his time in the game 5 years ago. That time, players who were lucky enough to obtain the only Inheritance could out-perform anyone in their party! They were also very strong in dungeon raiding that led to their success. They could activate a long cooldown skill and handle a boss alone!

Fatty Han nodded. He then walked to where the boss's body was and grinned.

"Hey Little Yang…Do you think I could remove the clothes?"

"What…"

The boss's dead body was certainly alluring. Her clothes were torn apart everywhere, revealing a metallic color of her inner undergarments. Within that sexy armor, it was holding up her "ripe watermelons", the skin fair and smooth.

"Pui! Bloody perverted fat f*ck!"

"Eww…pervy Fatty!"

The two ladies who were running to their coprse expressed their disgust.

Zhang Yang on his side frowned. "Come on bro…How many barrels of Viagra did you eat till you got so freaking horny?"

Fatty Han only laughed in response. "Oh! I'm just joking around! It's not like I'm gonna actually do it! Guys! Come on! I'm just trying to liven things up a little here!"

After a while, the party revived and Drizzler went up to open the corpse.

[Queen's Chest Plate] (Green-Copper, Cloth Armor)

Defense: 2

Vitality: 20

Intelligence: 16

Spirit: 4

Level requirement: 20

Seeing the equipment what Drizzler was holding had no difference compared to an actual woman's undergarment, the 3 males started to grin. Their eyes swiveled back and forth between the bra and Little Snow and imagined how she would look like wearing it. They started to drool. But then the thought of Drizzler putting it on rendered them emotionless.

To have perverted thoughts was only a male's privilege! This had nothing to do with love or loyalty here! They were just thoughts, nothing else!

"I don't need it!" Little Snow bellowed with a note of finality. If she had put on that piece of equipment, she should have just quit her job and become a belly dancer!

"Give it to me then!" said Fatty Han. "I just thought of giving it to someone else!" The girls from Blaze City came into his mind.

Little Snow did not have the face to sell this thing on the auction house. She had no other choice but to pass it to Fatty Han unwillingly.

[Winter's Dagger] (Green-Copper, Dagger)

Weapon attack: 44-60

Attack interval: 1.3 seconds

DPS: 40

Level requirement: 20

"Argh! Another equipment wasted!" Hundred Shots sighed loudly.

Zhang Yang thought a while and said, "Don't sell it yet. We should put this into the guild's storage. We can let the guildmates exchange this with their contribution points. We need a party of well-equipped players to fight the Main Wing of Marzerway's Lair after all."

Since this mattered in a long run, even being greedy misers, Drizzler and Little Snow agreed to keep it in the guild storage.

"Little Yang, how about Gray-Silver equipment? Are we going to store them in the guild storage as well?" Fatty Han asked.

"We'll see to it then. If we get a Gray-Silver equipment, that is."

After distributing the items, the party went on and headed into the fourth floor.

As usual, Zhang Yang led the way and peeked into the entrance carefully. There, approximately 40 to 50 meters away from where he stood, was a humanoid monster that held a sword.

It was a large Skeleton monster that stood at most 4 meters tall. It was heavily equipped with armor, from a helmet on its head to the heavy chest plate on its body. The sword in its hand was long enough to take up two thirds of its own height. It would seem that the monster had been standing there for a while. The sword was completely covered in dust and cobweb that it was no different from the torches that lit the hallway.

Another 30 to 40 meters away from the Skeleton monster was another similar monster standing behind. Based on this, Zhang Yang calculated that there could only be about 10 or more monsters in this floor!

Zhang Yang quickly checked on the monster's system information.

[Skeleton Guard] (Elite)

Level: 25

HP: 20,000

The rest of the party followed Zhang Yang and came out of the entrance. They stared at the huge monster and could not help but be stunned by its size.

"Sigh…Why would all monsters be larger than players?" said Fatty Han confused.

Drizzler giggled and said, "Well, that's not entirely true you know. Fatty bro, if you were to gain some weight and put on some muscles, you could be the same as a boss!"

Fatty Han knew that Drizzler was making fun of his weight but instead of being angry or infuriated, Fatty Han was happy, as if he had won a jackpot! His completely unforeseen reaction left Drizzler speechless.

"Let's go!" Zhang Yang waved his sword and charged towards the monster fearlessly. He had seen many bosses now, why would he be afraid of some Elite-tier monster?

'Charge!'

Zhang Yang chain attacked the monster and dealt a substantial amount of damage.

The hollow eerie eye sockets suddenly lit up with a pair of emerald orbs. The monster let out a loud shriek. Its entire body shook and dust fell off its body. The way it moved slowly was as if the monster was asleep the entire time and had just been aroused from slumber by Zhang Yang's attack. It turned around, lifted its gigantic sword and raised up sparks as it dragged it across the ground, and slashed Zhang Yang at the speed of light.

The power of the swing was displayed immediately when the sword passed through Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang moved away quickly and he could not anticipate the sword would carry some sort of lighting elemental attack that hit him.

Bzz!

Zhang Yang suddenly felt a little numb when suddenly he lost control of his body, he could not even activate block and could only see the huge sword slashing the air, rushing towards him.

'-160!'

'-330!'

Luckily the effect only last for a brief millisecond. Zhang Yang gained control of his body and immediately referred back to his battle log.

'You have received the effect of Electric Shock.'

'You have received 160 Natural damage (40 points reduced damage effect) from Electric Shock.'

'You are attacked by the Skeleton Guard, receiving 330 physical damage (170 points reduced damage effect).'

"Electric…Shock?" Zhang Yang muttered. If every attack carried by the monster had the effect of Electric Shock, the fight will be completely one sided! He could not even grab hold of the aggro properly!

While he was deep in his thoughts, Hundred Shots and the other had been attacking the monster. These people had such high attack power that they managed to kill the monster off fairly quickly. Zhang Yang then studied the log carefully and found that out of 15 sword swings, only 6 carried the Electric Shock effect.

However, the collected data was too isolated and vague, he could not determine whether the activation rate of the Electric Shock was truly at 40%.

"Eh?! The monster actually dropped an equipment!" Fatty Han reach out and touched the monster's corpse. A boot appeared.

[White Skeleton Battle Boots] (Black-Steel, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 3

Vitality: 6

Strength: 4

Level requirement: 20

"How rare this is! Elite monsters are considered to be the stingiest monsters ever and yet here we have one that dropped an equipment!" Zhang Yang laughed. "Fatty Han, keep the equipment first! We will put this in the guild storage as well. Hm…Level 20 Black-Steel equipment would cost 20 guild contribution points! A Green-Copper equipment would cost 40 points! When there are many people wanting to exchange it at once, prioritize the one with the most points!"

"Okay!" Fatty Han replied. Zhang Yang and him loved to fight, always allowing their childish minds to run wild. Sometimes Zhang Yang would be the one that commanded him; sometimes it would the other way around. Sometimes they would be lenient, sometimes they would be firm. This kind of camaraderie was not weird to them.

"Let's go then!"

The party pushed forward. Even though the Skeleton Guards were strong they could not endure the party's strong tank and healer. Their current speed was much faster compared to the second and third floor. In just a matter of time, the party managed to arrive at the deepest ground of the fourth floor. The Elite monsters were as stingy as Zhang Yang had said, while only the first Skeleton Guard dropped an equipment, the rest of the monsters on the floor did not drop anything at all.

Zhang Yang had calculated that the activation rate of Electric Shock was at around 30%.

On the exit of the fourth floor stood a large Skeleton Warrior similar in appearance. However, this one was different than the others; its body size was twice as large as the Skeleton Guard. Its presence alone was so strong that it gave out an ominous, pressuring aura.

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Chapter 72: Lincar The Slaughterer

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[Lica The Slaughterer] (Green-Copper)

Level: 25

HP: 250k

"Let's hope that this boss has the same skill as the Skeleton Guard." Said Zhang Yang. "The Elite Skeleton Guards attacks are strong but not particularly deadly. But when compared with the boss…that's a whole different story…"

"Sigh…Looks like the load is on me!" Little Snow winked at Zhang Yang. "Later when we're done, I expect you to treat me to relaxing spa session!"

Fatty Han eyes gleamed!

"Requesting to tag along!" He raised his flabby arm up high.

Drizzler snorted and said, "Fatty Bro, where you should go is not the spa but a gym!"

"Hmph! I exercise every day! Now that you mentioned it, I remember back then when I'm at the gym doing my workout, there will always be ladies starting at my sexy butt. Argh, I was so ashamed!"

"Yeah! Like that would happen! Only in your dreams!" Drizzler laughed and everyone else followed.

"Alright, let's get started!" Zhang Yang unsheathe his sword.

Zhang Yang walked a few steps and entered the aggro range, triggering the boss. The giant Skeleton growled in a deep, thundering voice, and the entire cave resonated with its sheer power. The blackened eye sockets lit up in emerald fire.

Lincar the Slaughterer unsheathed its sword and behaved almost exactly like the Skeleton Guards, slicing the floor with its sword, producing a spark of lighting.

Zhang Yang quickly dodged and jumped to the other end. Fortunately, that attack did not activate the Electric Shock effect.

The battle started as the boss cracked open its jaw to speak.

"ALL. THAT. LIVES. MUST. FALL. TO. THE. ASHES!" roared Lincar as it swings it sword towards Zhang Yang.

"Tch! A boss that talks a lot bleeds a lot!" Fatty Han laughed.

"Hehe! Big ass boss! Give me all of your equipment!" Drizzler laughed as well.

"Muahah! That's right! You'd better listen to what my little Drizzler says!"

Being a computer program, Lincar the Slaughterer did not talk or debate with a player, it only cared to do the one thing that it was programmed to to; eliminate the players with its best effort.

Lincar dragged its sword and raised it up high. Just when Zhang Yang was about to dodge the highly telegraphed attack, a flash of blue light struck him, sending a surge of electricity that rendered him completely immobile! Zhang Yang could not even move a finger!

'-160!'

'-748!'

Zhang Yang received two direct hits from the boss, the lower one from the Electric Shock and the higher damage from the normal attack.

Zhang Yang heart sank. He then realized that he received 700 over damage, even with his 20% damage reduction skill and 70 points Defense status. That would mean that the boss's unsuppressed damage would reach up to 1,000 damage!

"Ha! HA! HAAA! PUNY. WEAK. MORTAL. BEING." Lincar spoke in a weird manner, one word at a time, slow and heavily enunciated. Every syllable was heavily oppressive. Suddenly, its emerald eyes blazed fiercely and the sword in its hand ignited into similar emerald green fire.

'Ding! Lincar the Slaughterer has used Soul Strike. All melee attacks will have an extra 30% Shadow attack. Lasts for 1 minute!"

"Shit! It's strong!"

"DIE!" Lincar the Slaughterer bellowed as it swung its sword, cutting through air, leaving a trail of emerald light in its path.

Zhang Yang frantically moved around, dodging those that he can and used Block against those that he could not. Even though the sword attacks could be easily blocked with Block, he could not prevent the damage completely since the Block did not nullify the Shadow damage it carried. Every time the enemy sword swung, Zhang Yang would always receive around 250 Shadow damage.

"Pick up the pace!" Zhang Yang screamed.

Bzz!

A flash of blue light flashed as Zhang Yang was hit again by Electric Shock. Paralyzed and helpless, Zhang Yang was slashed 3 times by the boss.

'-160!'

'-250!'

'-767!'

Little Snow hurriedly healed Zhang Yang with everything she had; she could not afford to let him die!

"HAHAHA! Weaklings! Scream and wail by my sword!" After a few speeches, the boss could finally deliver a proper sentence. It then raised its sword up to its forehead and a progress bar appeared above its head!

Without delay, Fatty Han and Hundred Shots quickly shot a Silencing Shot to it without Zhang Yang needing to remind.

'Immune!'

"Oh crap! What is he up to?!" Fatty Han muttered.

The skill took 3 seconds to cast; it was not too long, neither too short, however what was even more surprising was the fact that a huge meteor appeared in the sky and smashed down on Zhang Yang and Drizzler.

BOOM!

'-2,500!'

'-2,000!'

'Ding! Player Drizzler had died!'

'Ding! Player Zhang Yang had died!'

"F*ck! What power!" Fatty Han gazed at the boss's 73% remaining HP and immediately lost all hope, choosing to give up.

The entire team was killed in the blink of an eye.

"Noob tank! How did you and Drizzler die?" At the graveyard, Little Snow asked Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang quickly refer to the battle log and checked.

'You have received 2,000 Fire damage (500 point reduced damage) from Meteor Strike.'

Drizzler followed suit and found out that she had also received 2,500 damage from the same skill.

"How do we fight this?" Fatty Han said. With only 1,900 HP, not even Zhang Yang could endure the skill.

"We can… Little Snow juts needs to heal us to full health at the moment of that Meteor Strike skill and also cast a Holy Shield!" Zhang Yang replied.

Little Snow's magic attack had exceeded 300 and her Holy Shield could absorb up to 600 over damage. Its endurance could help increase the limits of one's maximum HP!

After the team revived and recovered to full health, the boss returned to its previous posture, standing still like a statue, emotionless.

After a minute, everyone returned to their full health.

"Little brat, I want you to pay full attention. When the boss starts casting the skill, you need to withdraw as fast as possible!" said Zhang Yang.

"Okay!" Drizzler nodded.

Zhang Yang walked ahead and started the battle.

90%, 80%...So far so good…

Suddenly, the boss spoke a smooth taunt and started to chant a spell. Drizzler quickly ran away from her current position. The total spell incantation was 3 seconds, providing enough time for her to reach a same place if her reflexes were swift enough.

BOOM!

The boss completed the incantation and a huge rock fell down from the sky, hitting Zhang Yang on the head.

'-3,386!'

Zhang Yang crumpled to the ground, completely burnt into a crisp.

'Ding! Player Zhan Yu has died!'

"Weak little beings! All of you will die!" Lincar started its massacre and killed everyone before they could react.

"Argh…what a lost! We were killed twice now!" Little Snow sighed.

"Why has the damage increased?!" Fatty Han questioned.

Zhang Yang referred to the battle log again, he intended to find out the reason behind it.

'You have received 3386 Fire damage (1,000 point reduced damage, 614 damage absorb by Holy Shield) from Meteor Strike.'

Zhang Yang calculated and found it the truth behind its skill! The total damage will always be 5,000!

"Guys! I've found out! The boss's skill has a fixed damage! It will always be 5,000 damage. If the skill hits anyone in the area, the damage will be distributed equally to everyone!"

The first time they were strike by the skill, both Zhang Yang and Drizzler received 2,500 damage each. The second time, since Zhang Yang was the only one who tanked the skill, he alone received all 5,000 damage! That was why he died!

Now that he understood the boss' mechanism, he could then device a plan to counter it.

"Guys! Change of plans! When the boss starts to chant the skill, I need everyone to gather to my position! If it's 5 of us, everyone should receive only 1,000 damage! If Little Snow could pre-cast us with Regeneration, we could all recover to full health in a blink!"

"Sounds good to me!"

"Okay!

Everyone agreed and quickly revived and recuperated.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Yang started the fight.

"Rape his ass!"

Everyone joined the fight once Zhang Yang activated his Charge.

The boss fight started for the third time and it progressed slowly, with the boss gradually losing HP.

90%, 80%, 70%!

Lincar raised its sword and chanted a spell.

"Everyone! Gather!" Zhang Yang quickly called out. He turned around and started running back while Little Snow and the range players ran towards him. With everyone gathered together, Little Snow quickly cast Regeneration on everyone.

BOOM!

The huge meteor strike and everyone received damage.

'-1000!'

'-1000!'

'-1000!'

'-1000!'

'-800!'

After unleashing its skill Lincar growled and went back to attacking Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang used Charge again and resumed on the offensive.

"Cousin, the guy named Lu called again, he said that he will come over in a few days!" said Drizzler as she swung at the boss.

"What?!" Little Snow raged. "How could he be so shameless?!"

"Hehe! It can't be helped since you're so beautiful. That guy will never give up since he is a fly!" Drizzler giggled.

Little Snow clenched her fist. "Hmph hmph…If that guy would even try to do anything at all, I'll will smash his face in! What an arrogant man! He thinks that all the women would grovel at his feet since he has such a young and handsome face! Pui! It irritates me!"

Fatty Han quick interjected. "Little Snow! Tell me who the scoundrel is that dared to disturb you! I'll personally beat the shit out of him!"

"Pervy Fatty! If you were to help out, does it count as a self-induced Trojan horse? To let the danger into your own house?" Drizzler giggled.

"Hmph! I am a man of honor and pride! People even call me the King Arthur of Honesty! Do you think I would do something as dishonorable as that?!"

"F*ck! Shut the hell up and move your fat ass!" Zhang yang screamed. The boss was about to unleash its skill again.

Everyone quickly stopped their conversation and sprinted towards Zhang Yang to share the burden of the Meteor Strike damage. With only 30% HP left, the boss' doom seemed imminent.

"Seriously, if things get out of hand, you can rely on Fatty Han to help you!" said Zhang Yang. He had high hopes on these two girls in the Professional League, he did not want anything bad happening to them!

Zhang Yang could not remember seeing the name Little Snow nor Drizzler in his previous life. He thought that they might really have met with some malicious events in the past that had caused them to drown among the nameless crowd. On the other hand, Fatty Han was quite dependable since he was famous in society around his area. Whenever he said something, people would listen, or perhaps in that annoying man's case, shiver.

Little Snow shook her head and still clenched her fist. "Tsk tsk tsk…This elder cousin here is a Black Belt Karate fighter. Do you think that a simple guy like him could do anything to me?"

While they were having their conversation, the boss unleashed Meteor once, not long after having its HP dropping down to 5%.

When it died, the boss gave out quite a huge chunk of experience to the point where Zhang Yang, Hundred Shots, and Fatty Han levelled up.

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Chapter 73: Magic Scroll

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"I wonder what kind of crazy item this boss would drop…" Fatty Han was eager to open the corpse, anxiously anticipating the loot.

"Little brat! Open the corpse!" Zhang Yang moved aside and gestured her to proceed.

Drizzler helped herself to the body and claimed the prize.

[Beginner's God Oil: Light as a Feather] (Useable)

Use: Strengthen your boots. Permanently increasing your movement speed by 5%.

Zhang Yang could not help but laugh. "Hah! It actually would appear here!"

"Is this any good?" Drizzler asked. She did not think that 5% increase in movement speed is something amazing.

"In future battles…" Zhang Yang stopped after 3 words. Movement speed was a very important factor that could help in winning a fight. With a slightly faster movement speed, you could dodge an enemy attack or chase after an enemy to deliver the last fatal strike! However, the Professional League would only be available after 5 months or so. A beta player should not have any knowledge about the League!

"A warrior is famous for being slow. If one applies the 5% movement speed bonus, one could evade easier! It would be an advantage during PK!" Zhang Yang quickly rephrased his sentence.

"God oil huh…Why does the thought of Indian Assam came into my mind?" Fatty Han laughed. "I must say…the infamous Indian God Oil is not for speed, but endurance and strength! If you * too quickly, aren't you being a fast gunner?"

"Just go to hell…"

Since everyone had no interest in this item, Zhang Yang automatically obtained it. He thought that his current Level 20 boots was not worth using the oil on. He would rather wait until he obtained a Gray-Silver boots and then use it with the oil!

However, the oil was still a beginner's grade. There were higher and stronger grades. The highest grade could even increase up to 15% movement speed, and that would provide a noticeable speed increase.

[Moutain Cleaving Blade] (Green-Copper, Two-handed sword)

Weapon attack: 180-216

Attack interval: 3.8 seconds

DPS: 52

Level requirement: 20

"Wah! I want it! Gimme! Gimme!" Drizzler squealed.

"Eh? Why would you need it? Aren't you wielding a Level 20 Green-Copper weapon right now?" said Zhang Yang even though he knew the reason. He wanted to gauge Drizzler's understanding.

Drizzler rolled her eyes and said, "My current weapon has an attack interval of 3.5 seconds, that new weapon has 3.8 seconds! If a weapon attack interval is longer, the skill damage would be higher! As a Guardian, what would you know about a Berserker huh!?" Drizzler raised her nose high.

Zhang Yang shook his head and laughed. He had never thought that he would receive a lecture about the game mechanics.

Drizzler did not behave as greedily as he thought she would. After equipping the new equipment, she expressed her desire to deposit the [Spider's Long Spear] into the guild storage.

[Magic Scroll: Rising Morale (Level 1)] (Usable)

Use: Encourage your teammates, increasing all damage and healing rate by 5%, last for 5 minutes. Effects cannot be stacked.

Charge remaining: 3/3

Level requirement: 20

Note: This magic scroll was made personally by the great Necromancer Almark. You still smell the lingering scent of putrefaction in the air!

"This is a very useful item! Especially during a boss fight! This little item here could make a whole lot of difference!" said Zhang Yang happily. Never look down at the tiny 5% damage increase; if they were to use it in a 50-man dungeon, their attack could be increased by 5% fifty-fold. They could even turn the tide when fighting a difficult boss!

No wonder this place was always occupied by huge guilds! They were also hunting for this item as well! Those guilds have always been at each other's necks for the right to farm at this place! This little piece of scroll was the reason behind their quarrel. Not to mention the shape shifting tool that played a role in their skirmish as well!

This little playground would belong to them!

Zhang Yang thought that he had to establish a certain power to occupy this field so ensure a successful capture! It was and always will be a treasure mine!

Since everyone belonged to the same team, they had no qualms about the distribution of loots. They also wanted to establish a certain amount respect for the party leader, thus they offered the scroll to Zhang Yang. He on the other hand suspected that their inventory was already full, that they only offered the item to him because they could not take in more items!

"A bunch of f*ckers!" Zhang Yang grit his teeth.

"Okay! Let's go people! To the fifth floor now!"

The 4 of them giggled quietly and walked down the stone stairs the lead to the fifth floor. Vastly more experienced than before, the crowd walked carefully as ever when they approached the entrance. However, when they peeked into the door, they could only see a plain field. The field was not big; it was about the size of a football field. The visibility was not very reassuring even when there were plenty of lit torches hanging around the place. They could make out something in the middle of the field, in the midst of thick, green colored gas that spread across the entire field.

"No monster huh." Fatty Han muttered and he pushed Zhang Yang towards the field.

"F*ck!" Zhang Yang was not ready for it. The moment his body entered the field and made contact with the green gas, a debuff appeared on his head.

[Deadly Poison: Causes the target to receive 500 Natural damage every 3 seconds until the target leaves the effective area.

Zhang Yang frantically jumped back onto the stairs. The debuff disappeared immediately after but not before inflicting 400 damage on Zhang Yang.

"This entire area is poisoned! We need to consume the antidote that the NPC had given us!"

Drizzler quickly took the antidote out and wanted to immediately use it when Zhang Yang stopped her.

"Hold your horses there. We still do not know where the boss is! Since the antidote could only be used 3 times and is restricted to a time limit as well, we might have to return to make more from the NPC if we use them all."

"Is that the boss? That shady figure in the center of the field?"

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said, "Little Snow, put a Holy Shield and Regeneration on me. I'm going in to check it out."

Little Snow nodded and waved her hands, casting a shield and a recovery spell on him.

"Don't die on me now, noob tank!"

"Don't jinx it!" Zhang Yang grit his teeth. With a quick step, Zhang Yang ran into the center of the field.

Damage absorb!

3 seconds later, a damage text popped out on his head.

'-187!'

Another 3 seconds passed and the shield was dispelled. Zhang Yang started to receive damage. On the other hand, Regeneration started to tick and healed Zhang Yang.

'-400!'

'129!'

Zhang Yang finally got closer and he got a clear view of the shady figure. It was indeed, the boss!

The shadowy figure was a rider on a skeletal horse. The skeleton stood rigid and had flaming green fire burning in its eye sockets. There were red flames spewing out from its nostrils. The developers really put their back in designing this monster!

The rider on the horse was completely covered in a crimson blood color armor. On the right side of the horse's saddle was a long sword and on the left side was shield with a griffin symbol embroidered on it. The unblinking eyes sent a chill down Zhang Yang's spine.

[Shurian, The Fallen Holy Knight] (Gray-Silver)

Level: 30

HP: 400k

Once Zhang Yang had read the boss' information, he quickly turned and headed back as fast as he could. All the way through, he was taking a lot of damage.

"That's weird. The boss was certainly a Gray-Silver tier but there was nothing in the quest description that talked about a knight. It did mention a Necromancer Zac…" Zhang Yang whispered.

Fatty Han on the other hand, was happy with the news. "Haha! Isn't that great! We can defeat two Gray-Silver bosses!"

Zhang Yang shook his head silently. He still thought that was something was wrong but he could not put a finger on it.

"So…how do we fight it? What's the plan?"

Everyone turned to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang twitched. Even though he had been reborn to repeat his life again, that did not mean that he would magically know everything about every boss! He stopped to think for a while.

"I have no idea what skills this boss has. We could only find out about it when we fight it! Alright, here is the plan. We'll take the potion and quickly rush to fight the boss as fast as we can! There cannot be any time wasted! Until the antidote's duration runs out, do not use another charge until I say so! There is a possibility that we can't even kill it! And when that happens, we cannot afford to waste time!"

"Okay!" Everyone nodded.

"On the count of 3, we'll take the antidote simultaneously and rush in!"

"1!"

"2!"

"3!"

Zhang Yang quickly used the [Properly-Made Antidote] and rushed into the fifth floor, charging towards the center and onto the boss. Fatty Han and the rest consumed the antidote and followed closely behind.

"Wow! Such a cool horse! I want it!" Drizzler screamed. "Noob tank! I want it! I want that horsie! I want! I want!"

Fatty Han laughed cynically. "Me too! Officer! Give me!"

"You f*cking fat f*ck!"

Zhang Yang originally did not have any thoughts on the skeleton horse but when Drizzler was screaming like a baby, he had to explained it to her. "Normally, a player can only buy a horse from an NPC after achieving Level 40. A player can also obtain it 5 levels lower, only when the guild has achieved Level 2 with full experience points! There is also another way actually, which is to farm a mount directly from boss! Still, a Level 30 boss does have the chance to drop a mount. However, even though the boss is riding a mount, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will drop a mount!"

"Haha! All the more reason to kill it!" Fatty Han got excited. So far as to the progress of the game, players could only depend on their own two feet to move around. If they could get their hands on a horse… imagine how grand it would be, sitting on a horse… stationed in front of a bank or the most crowded auction house! If only he could get his hand on the exact one right in front of his eyes! How many players would rush to him? Just to get a closer look at the awesome ride!

Zhang Yang continued to charge towards the boss to start the battle.

"Even though there is a chance the boss could drop a mount, it would be too microscopic to even happen! Say if the chance for a Pet Monster to drop is 1 out of 10,000, then a mount's drop rate would be 100 times rarer than that!"

A regular Gray-Silver boss has a large aggro trigger range to begin with, and with this boss' level being much higher than Zhang Yang's, it kicked in immediately as the party approached them. The horse neighed loudly at a high-pitched tone, rearing on its hind legs! Blazing, violent fire erupted from all 4 hooves of the horse. It then charged towards at an unbelievable speed!

Its neigh was as loud as the thundering night sky, echoing through the entire field like a violent storm, bringing destruction to the barren land!

The fight has begun!

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Chapter 74: Shurian

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Zhang Yang quickly used Charge. He did not expect to land a successful stun on a Gray-Silver boss; he only wanted to generate enough aggro to draw its full attention. If it were to strike anyone aside from the tank, it would be safe to say that certain death would be imminent!

Just after Charge made contact, Zhang Yang quickly landed a normal attack and activated Provoke.

'-310!'

'Immune!'

Argh, Provoke is ineffective against this boss; and such a strong defense at that! By the looks of it, there could be over 100 points into it!

Zhang Yang then switched to Cripple Defense to quickly reduce 50% of its defense, allowing the rest of the party to deal more damage.

With the limited usage of the antidote and the overwhelming amount of HP, the party knew that they had to put all their effort in to kill the boss in time, or the antidote will wear off and they would die from the poison.

Shurian drew its giant sword and wielded its shield. With a light huff and puff, the rider pulled the horse up to its hind legs, raising it up high and growling furiously!

Shush! Kriin… The rider, dragging its long sword on the ground, charged towards Zhang Yang and swung it once it was close enough. The swing was so fast and wide that Zhang Yang knew he could not dodge it and quickly activated Block

"Block!"

"-984!"

Weirdly enough, Zhang Yang blocked the attack but Drizzler, who was standing beside him, received heavy damage.

"Little brat, go stand behind the boss and fight him there! This boss' attack has a Splash effect, so anyone standing to close to its target receives the same damage as well!"

Drizzler quickly obeyed and jumped back a few steps. "Tch! Noob tank! I was attacked because of you!"

"Hah!" Zhang Yang scoffed. He continued to stack 5 layers of Cripple Defense on the boss. Even when the boss had 100 Defense value or more, with the 5 layers of Cripple Defense and Eagle Eye, Zhang Yang's attacks increased dramatically as it completely ignored all defense.

"Futile resistance! Wail in pain at the depths of the abyss!" Shurian spoke softly as it swung its sword fatally at Zhang Yang.

His reaction rate was very fast; however, his in-game character could not match his actual speed. There was only a 50/50 chance that he could dodge the boss' quick attacks. With his HP dropping like an open faucet, Little Snow was on high alert to ensure he did not die.

98%, 96%, 94%...

The boss had just too much HP. Even with the armor reduction, the party's strong attack power could only bring down its health as fast as a snail!

"Foolish beings! You dare to challenge the mighty Shurian? Die by the hands of the Abyssal Shadow!" Shurian let out an automated speech as soon as his HP dropped down to 90%. He gained another skill!

Shush! A black skull burst out from the boss' body and hit Zhang Yang.

"-400!"

Zhang Yang quickly checked the battle log.

-You have received the effect of Death Shadow, receiving 500 Shadow damage (100 points reduced damage).

"Give me a break! I can't keep up any longer!" Little Snow cried with her eyes full of tears. Her job was already tough enough, and it got tougher with the boss' new skill. Luckily, the new skill's activation rate was not too frequent, triggering only once every 10 seconds or so; but to accumulate that much of damage from the boss' regular attacks and Death Shadow, Little Snow was indeed unable to keep up with the damage and left Zhang Yang in a very precarious situation.

89%, 87%, 85%!

"Come forth, my loyal servants! Serve and fight for your only lord!" Shurian raised its sword into the sky and two pillars of dark light blasted from both sides of the blade.

'Ding! Shurian has summoned Death Servant!'

Two Skeleton monsters crawled out from the ground and rushed towards Shurian.

[Death Servant] (Normal)

Level: 25

HP: 3,000

"Hundred Shots, Fatty! Take down those minions!" Zhang Yang commanded.

He knew not what those minions could do, but he was not going to sit around to find out as they were summoned by the boss itself. He dared not send Drizzler to fight too since there was a chance that the minions would explode!

Both Hunters switched their targets, taking one minion each. Even so, with their divided firepower, it would take at least 20 seconds to kill of 3,000 HP. There was something odd about the minions though; even when they were attacked, the ignored the attacker and ran towards Shurian.

The boss laughed maniacally as it swung at one of the minion, turning the poor soul into a pillar of dark light.

Shoom!

'50,000'

The boss recovered its HP to 97%!

'Ding! Shurian has used Absorb Soul, recovering 50,000 HP!'

The boss swung again at the other minion and fully healed itself with another '50,000'!

"Oh, f*ck!" the party cried.

"It's alright, guys! Just treat it as a restart!" Zhang Yang explained.

"The next time Shurian summons the minions again, Hundred Shots and Fatty will both hit on just the left minion! Little brat, I want you to Charge to the right minion and control it for a while. Hundred! Fatty! Once you've killed your minion, help with Drizzler's immediately! I'll try my best to drag the boss away from the minion and give you more time and space to deal with them!"

Zhang Yang turned around to find Little Snow and screamed, "Little Snow! How's your mana?"

"I'm good! I still have around 85%. I can still fight on with a mana potion!"

When a Priest reached Level 20, they could learn the skill Meditate, allowing them to constantly recover Mana Points even during the battle; the recovery rate increased with their Spirit value. Little Snow had the second best equipment among the party, only to rival Zhang Yang as he held the best. That was why her mana recovery rate with high. Her current strength could now have easily be ranked as the best Priest in the White Jade Castle.

98%, 95%, 90%... slowly and steadily, the party attacked the boss and brought down its HP once more.

"Come forth, my loyal servants! Serve and fight for your only lord!" Shurian raised its sworcd once again, summoning two Skeleton minions to his aid.

'Ding! Shurian has summoned Death Servant!'

Two summoned minions appeared on the far right and left of the field and began rushing towards the center where Shurian was. Hundred Shots and Fatty Han quickly turned and attacked the minion on the left.

'Concussion Shot!'

[Concussion Shot: Deal 100% ranged damage to a target and reduce 50% movement speed for 4 seconds.

Cooldown time: 30 seconds

Range: 30 meters

The two Hunters fired as many arrows as they could. After 4 seconds, Fatty Han shot another Concussion Shot to further slow it down. After the second shot, the monster moved back at its original speed for only another 3 to 4 seconds before it was defeated.

Zhang Yang was at the other end of the field, luring the boss to the maximum distance he could get to separate the boss from its minions. The atmosphere was tense but was immediately lifted when Drizzler and the two Hunters killed the last minion standing.

"Aw, yiss!" Everyone cheered happily, as if they had already won the battle.

"F*cking good job, guys! Don't stop! Keep it going!"

84%, 80%, 75%!

Shurian pulled up the horse and stood tall. It then pointed its sword at Hundred Shots and said, "Hundred Shots! Bow before your master!"

'Ding! Player Hundred Shots is affected with Shadow Control!'

A black shadowed skeleton floated behind Hundred Shots, forcing Hundred Shots to turn towards Fatty Han and attacked him.

"Holy shit! What on earth is that?!" Fatty Han was shot at like a beehive but he could not return fire; he could only attack the boss with all his might.

"I'm being controlled!" Hundred Shots posted in the party channel.

Zhang Yang quickly replied, "Take a look at the skill description! Is there a time limit? Could it be dispelled?"

The skill will expire and dispel automatically if there was a time limit, otherwise, players would have to dispel it with a special method like killing the target or using a special tool.

"Zhan Yu! There's a time limit, and it's about 15 seconds! It can't be dispelled!"

That's good. 15 seconds is not as long as it seems.

Zhang Yang called out, "Little Snow, you need to put more effort in healing! We have a traitor now amongst us!"

Hundred Shots laughed, "Hey! It's not me!"

With an extra enemy to handle, Little Snow's burden doubled! Luckily, the controlled Hundred Shots did not have a fixed target; he merely turned to one target to attack once and then changed target after. Little Snow simply casted Regeneration on everyone and that removed Hundred Shots as a threat to the team. It was good luck that he did not team up with the boss to attack Zhang Yang, or else he would have not survived the onslaught.

After the unfortunate spell, 15 seconds went past and Hundred Shots returned to normal, and the attacking rhythm went back to its original pace.

72%, 71%, 70%...

"Come forth my loyal servants! Serve and fight for your only lord!" Shurian raised its sword for a third time. Zhang Yang concluded that the boss only activated this skill at every 15% HP interval.

Sticking to the plan, Hundred Shots and Fatty took one minion while Drizzler handled the other, and the battle progressed smoothly.

"Haha! Smelly, rotting boss! You better give up that cool horse!" Drizzler's eyes were fixated on the horse that she wanted to own so eagerly.

Two minutes had past and the boss' HP was brought down to 55%. It summoned its minions once more but they were killed off in the same manner.

"Guys, don't lower your guard!" Zhang Yang quickly poured cold water on their overly-excited heads. "When the boss' HP is at 50%, I'm sure there's going to be another controlling skill. I'm not sure if there isn't any other ultimate skill! We have to be wary!"

54%, 53%, 52%, 51%, 50%!

"Drizzler, bow down to me!" Shurian pointed its sword to Drizzler to cast the skill. It then got down from its horse and bellowed, "Shadow Moon, fight with me!"

"Shi ling ling…" the skeleton horse let out a weird breath and raised its front hooves and charged towards Zhang Yang.

The tide of the battle has now been turned, from a 5-on-1, to a 4-on-3!

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Chapter 75: Crisis in the Storm

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[Shadow Moon, Shurian's Mount] (Gray-Silver)

Level: 25

HP: 300k

Two Gray-Silver bosses on his right and a controlled Drizzler on his left, Zhang Yang was cornered with danger on both sides!

Shush! The enemy attacked!

Pushing himself to the limits, Zhang Yang dodged every possible attack to reduce the maximum damage received!

Being the closest to Zhang Yang, Drizzler's melee attack reached first, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang Yang was cornered like a chicken in a cage. He did not even have enough space to properly move around!

He quickly stomped the ground and casted Thunder Strike, effectively damaging all 3 targets. However, the slow effect only worked on Drizzler and the horse, as the main boss was completely immune to it. Zhang Yang could not have asked for more as he only needed to slow down two out of the three enemies. He quickly slid out of the danger zone and dragged all 3 of them towards the right side of the battlefield to ensure the boss' attacking range could only hit him alone.

4 seconds later, Drizzler and Shadow Moon regained their speed and charged towards Zhang Yang. He quickly activated Block and dodged a series of attacks. When Thunder Strike was available again, he quickly used it and continued to kite the boss.

15 seconds after, Drizzler regained control of her own character and Zhang Yang had one less burden to worry about.

Zhang Yang activated Horizontal Sweep which he had been holding back since Drizzler was their enemy as he was actually afraid that he might kill her by accident. Now that she was back to their side, he could unleash hell on the enemy.

"Focus on the boss! Ignore the horse!" said Zhang Yang. If Shadow Moon had less than 100k HP, he might consider to kill the horse first; but that horse had an overwhelming 300k HP! Zhang Yang immediately skipped that thought.

"Yeah! Don't even touch the horse! That's mine to take!" Drizzler exclaimed.

Even though Shadow Moon was considered a summoned monster, it was still a Gray-Silver boss! Its damage was high enough that it can deal 1,000 damage in a kick! If Zhang Yang was careless and allowed himself to receive both Shadow Moon and Shurian's attack, he will definitely be sent to the graveyard.

"Holy shit…this is intense!" Fatty Han took a deep breath. He was afraid that Zhang Yang might make a mistake that would kill the team.

This situation allowed Zhang Yang to display his unusual combat tactics. He used Thunder Strike not as a means of attack, but to slow down Shadow Moon's attacks on him. He also strategically used Block only to safeguard himself whenever he was sure he could not evade an attack. His ability to utilize his skills were beyond anyone's capability. Still, his HP bar was riding a roller-coaster; going up and down at an incredible speed! Nonetheless, he was still standing strong! If another party had tried to take on this challenge, their tank could not possibly kite two bosses simultaneously while maintaining his own life!

"Little Yang, you have truly impressed me!" Fatty Han let out a sigh of relief.

"Impress, my ass! Attack the boss!" Zhang Yang did not hold back his words whenever he was talking to his "brother".

48%, 46%, 44%... the boss' HP continued to go down at a crawling speed.

"Come forth my loyal servants! Serve and fight for your only lord!" Shurian summoned the minions for the fifth time.

'Ding! Shurian has summoned Death Servant!"

Everyone carried out their tasks; even Little Snow stopped her support to cast a Divine Punishment on the monster. They managed to quickly kill off the two summons, not giving any chance for Shurian to heal himself.

"Pesky little beings! I had enough of your stench! Rot in hell!" Shurian roared. Dark clouds started to seep into the cave through the slid in the walls.

'Ding! Shurian has used Demonic Rain!'

Zhang Yang looked up to the clouds while kiting the boss.

"Be careful of those clouds! I'm sure there's something bad about them!"

Just as he finished his sentence, the clouds started to dripped black color rain drops, showering two third of the entire field.

'-300!'

'-300!'

Everyone was on their feet and started to running to safety. However, some of them did not make it in time and was damaged by the rain for 300 Shadow damage!

With the burden of healing skyrocketing, Little Snow's Mana bar went down like a landslide.

"Move quicker guys! Avoid the rain, or else I'm going to run out of Mana real quick!" Little Snow cried.

"Hahaha! A bunch of weakly lowly beings! Cry for your life! Wail in pain!" Shurian brandish its sword and laughed like a mad king.

"Shit! When will this shitty rain stop?!" Fatty Han groaned.

Zhang Yang slowly started to kite the boss towards the entrance of the fifth floor.

"Check the entrance! Please see whether the door is close!" Zhang Yang was thinking that they could all repeat the previous floor tactics, to hide behind the entrance and attack the boss from a safe distance.

After withdrawing a few steps, Hundred Shots turned around and sighed.

"The door is closed!"

Zhang Yang let out a sigh of disappointment and turned to face the boss. He thought he could save the trouble but now he had to put more effort to dodge both Shurian and Shadow Moon's attack while looking out for the rain from the sky. What a pain!

Still, it was sensible that the developers discouraged players to make use of the terrain bug to make killing the boss any easier. It looks like the entrance could only be opened when either the boss or the entire party was killed.

Since the entire party had to look out for the rain, the party damage dropped tremendously. Previously, they were already at a turtle-crawling speed, now they could be even slower than that. The boss's HP dropped slowly… 1% at a time.

By the time the boss had 30% left, everyone's antidote effect had almost reached its time limit. Zhang Yang noticed it and quickly yelled. "Guys! Take another antidote!"

Zhang Yang felt a little regret for not taking a few more of those [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]! 100 Shadow resistance could reduce at least 100 Shadow damage! That would make a whole lot of difference!

27%, 26%, 25%!

"Come forth my loyal servants! Serve and fight for your only lord!" Shurian summoned the minion again, and simultaneously, pointed its sword at Fatty Han.

"Slim and Handsome! Bow down and serve your lord!"

'Ding! Player Slim and Handsome is now affected by Shadow Control!'

"Crap! The damage would not be enough!" Fatty Han complained as he could not control his character. He raised the bow in his hands and took aim at Little Snow.

Zhang Yang quickly held his steps and called out. "Hundred Shots! Little brat! Both of you take on the left minion! Brat, don't use your Charge! Keep it for later!"

"Okay!"

Hundred Shots quickly shot a Concussion Shot, slowing down the monster on the left. Drizzler arrived just in time when it was slowed to slice the monster.

Zhang Yang on the other hand was kiting the boss and Shadow Moon towards Drizzler. The minion on the right was heading towards him at an incredible speed! In just 4 seconds, it was almost 10 meters away from the boss!

Charge!

Zhang Yang bashed the second minion and laid down a Thunder Strike, quickly chaining his attack with another normal attack and a Horizontal Sweep. His combo dealt up to 1,300 HP. Since skill activation was an instant act, it did not clash with a normal attack. All of Zhang Yang's attacks were almost in an instant!

Zhang Yang turned around and continued to kite both the boss and Shadow Moon away from the pursuing minion. 2 seconds later, the minion recovered from the stun and started to head towards its master. However, its movement speed was slowed by Thunder Strike!

"Little Yang! That was a great move! As expected of this great Fatty Master who had taught you that!" Fatty Han snorted, taking all credit for Zhang Yang's incredible feat.

On the other side of the field, Hundred Shots and Drizzler were fighting with their lives on the line! The petty 3,000 HP felt like almost 300,000 in their eyes!

4 seconds later, the second minion regained its normal movement speed and started to get closer to the boss.

"Little brat! Use Charge on the other minion now!" Zhang Yang kept calm even when danger was imminent. He continued to guide the party.

Drizzler gave up on the minion with 500 HP left to its death and headed towards the second minion! She quickly used Charge when she got in range and stunned the minion to get into her stance and attack.

On the other side of the battle field, Little Snow found an opportunity to chant Divide Punishment and casted it on the first minion! Hundred Shots drew his bow and attacked the minion in the same time, sending the demonic creature back to whence it once came!

"That's good! Keep it going! Kill the next one!" Zhang Yang was very pleased by their performance.

2 seconds later, the second minion recovered from the stun and started to dash toward the boss. Even though Zhang Yang had been kiting Shurian all the time, the second minion managed to catch up to him in just 3 seconds!

Hundred Shots quickly chased after the second minion to attack. This minion was brutally damaged by Zhang Yang, having only 1,500 HP left to its demise. Drizzler had damaged it as well, leaving only 700 HP left! However, the minion's movement speed was too fast! Without any slow effect on it, Drizzler could not even catch up with it!

Which left Hundred Shots alone to able to strike it!

Shush!

An arrow flew across the air and landed on the minion.

'-208!'

It looks like there was no stopping it from reaching its destination!

"Hahaha!" Shurian laughed madly. It raised it sword up high and was about to slice the incoming minion!

'-710!'

'-731!'

'-728!'

"Fuuh! Looks like I'd made it in time!"

In a split second, Zhang Yang flew across the field and activated Horizontal Sweep, simultaneously attacking all 3 foes with high damage!

The second minion fell defeated before it could serve its purpose.

The boss' sword swing only hit the air around it. It groaned in anger!

"F*cking beautiful!"

Everyone praised Zhang Yang for his last minute rescue.

"Haha! It's nothing! Don't stop now! Attack the boss! Victory is just ahead of us!" Zhang Yang laughed it off.

24%, 22%, 20%...

Everything was smooth…until when the boss' HP dropped to 10%!

"Shadow Moon! Come to me! Together we will trample these annoying bugs to hell!" Shurian somersaulted back and landed onto Shadow Moon's back. The pale white sword turned bloodied-red!

'Ding! Shurian has gone berserk! All attacks have been increased by 50%! Attack interval is reduced by 50%!'

"@#$%! The boss berserk!?"

TL note:

1 Kite or Kiting is the act of luring and dragging an enemy towards the user's designated direction.

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Chapter 76: Handsome reward

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The battle with Shurian was already tough to begin with and it got much worse when it entered Berserk state. Every swing of its sword felt like a crashing airplane; even the space around the sword was being distorted!

"Little Snow! Focus your heal on me!" Zhang Yang cried.

The final moment of the fight was the most important but it was the most dangerous too. I all came down to this moment. One wrong move, one missed step, and it will be the end of the party!

Zhang Yang emptied his mind and focused on evading every single one of the boss' attack!

'Dodge!'

'Dodge!'

'Block!'

'-1,184!'

It only took one successful hit for Zhang Yang to lose over 60% of his HP. Were he to absorb full damage including the 600 Shadow damage and the falling rain, he would have certainly died!

Little Snow went all out. She did not even care to calculate to save Mana points, or time. All she knew that she had to do all that it took to prevent Zhang Yang from dying!

9%, 8%, 7%!

The boss' HP dropped but Little Snow's MP dropped faster!

"Fight on guys! Only 20,000 HP left! It's almost dead!" Zhang Yang boosted their confidence to excite the party. Even though they were still standing strong and not on the verge of death, they could still feel a tremendous amount of stress, pressure, and fatigue in comparison to a thousand battles.

However, now that the battle has almost reached its end, the ranged attackers were extremely relaxed! The boss no longer casted Shadow Control nor did it summon anymore minions. As long as they could keep watch for the rain, they would be essentially out of harm's way. On the other extreme end, if Zhang Yang ever missed a block or Little Snow was a millisecond slow in casting her heal, the entire team could be wiped out!

5%, 4%, 3%, 2%!

The tension has never been that high! The party mustered any ounce of strength they had left to finish the fight! No one wanted to fail in this fight when there was only 2% HP left!

1% left!

3,000!

2,000!

1,000!

589!

210!

0!

'Ding! You and the party members around you have successfully killed Shurian. Obtained 80,050 Experience points (50 points party bonus)!'

As the system notification rang, the boss fell off its horse and slammed against the ground. The horse stomped the ground and groaned while a magic circle appeared underneath it and a pillar of dark light blasted towards the sky. The horse vanished without a trace.

Tired and breathless, Drizzler knelt down to rest, but as soon as she saw her horse being taken away, she quickly jumped to her feet and wailed.

"Argh… my horsie… gimme back my horsie!" She quickly dashed towards the magic circle but when she arrived, it disappeared as well.

"Wuu…" Drizzler actually cried. Tears was flowing down her cheek! "I want my horsie…Gimme *hic* back my *hic* horsie…"

With no enemy left to defeat, the green mist dispersed and eventually disappeared, leaving the air clean and free of any contaminant.

Fatty Han went over and soothe Drizzler. "Little Drizzler, don't be sad anymore. Here, I'll be your horsie." He actually went on all fours.

Seeing Fatty Han actually going to that extent, Drizzler could not help but to laugh it off. She then tried her best to glare angrily at him. "Do you really think that I am still a 3-year old baby?"

With that level of crying and wailing, who wouldn't think that way?

Everyone else was thinking the same thing but to save the trouble of debating with her afterwards, they kept it to themselves.

Foosh!

A wind blew by and a ghostly figure of an old man appeared from nowhere. It then floated towards the party and bowed with a sense of appreciation.

"I thank you all for defeating the demon!"

Everyone was confused at first, but they quickly looked up and read his title.

[Stark, Antelope Village Member] (Normal)

Level: 1

HP: 0/50

It was a ghost, but it was an unusual thing for them; but when the NPC finished its speech, a yellow question mark appeared on his head!

"The quest NPC!?" Everyone exchanged the same look and quickly opened the quest log, only to see that their quest [Rescue the Villager's Soul] has been competed! Neither one of them understood what was going on. They were tasked to kill the Necromancer Zac and rescue the villagers' souls, so how could the quest be completed when they now have killed a totally different boss?

Zhang Yang thought for a while and talked to the ghost.

"We were sent here by a young girl name called Emmy from the Antelope Village!"

"What?! Emmy?! My dearest Emmy!" Stark looked both shocked and happy. "How was she? Is she alive?!"

Zhang Yang shook his head, "Sadly, no. She's dead."

Stark lowered his head. It was obvious that he was feeling down since his character started to fade in and out repeatedly. After a while, he raised his head and spoke.

"Heroes! What you did was brave and outstanding! I cannot ask anything more from you but please, I still have one more request for you! You need to rescue the villagers' souls. There are still traps set by that evil Necromancer. He is… he is too dark… Everything about him reeks of evil! He will do something to those innocent villagers and condemn them to a fate worse than hell!"

'Ding! You have completed a main story quest: Rescue the Villagers' Souls. Obtained 50,000 Experience Points! You have obtained a reward : Luck 1.'

'Ding! Stark has a quest for you: Pursue the Evil Necromancer Zac. Will you accept it? This is a main story quest. Complete the quest to receive a luxurious reward!"

"Argh… It's still ongoing! How long is this freaking main story quest?" Fatty Han complaint.

"Oh well. Let's not quarrel over simple things. Just accept it first!" That being said, Zhang Yang was also not fond of the quest length.

Stark thanked the party and left the place; probably headed towards his daughter soul to rest in peace.

[Pursue the Evil Necromancer Zac] (Difficulty level: A)

Quest description: Once you have located the Evil Necromancer Zac, see to it that you could save the souls that he had imprisoned!

Progress: Locate the Evil Necromancer Zac 0/1

"This has no end! The game map is just too huge! How are we supposed to find him without any leads?" said Fatty Han.

Zhang Yang replied him, "We'll put this aside for now, there will be some sort of hint mentioned on other quests! Besides, the quest was only to locate not exterminate. Furthermore, the quest difficulty level is A, which means that the place that we're supposed to look for should be higher level than our current level! And besides, we got a Luck attribute as a reward! We didn't lose anything here!"

1 point of Luck attribute was actually nothing, but with enough accumulation, it will naturally display its effectiveness!

Fatty Han did not like the answer he got and muttered unwillingly on the side.

Zhang Yang laughed.

"Since we have defeated a Gray-Silver boss, let's obtain our reward now, shall we?"

When Zhang Yang mentioned the word "reward", Drizzler's spirits were lifted a little and she proceeded to grab the chance to open the corpse.

"Mine! I'll open it! Let me! Let me!"

[Athena, Bow of the White Bones] (Gray-Silver, Ranged weapon)

Weapon attack: 306-366

Attack interval: 2.8 seconds

DPS: 120

Level 1 Socket

Level 1 Socket

Equip effect: Increase 1% critical chance.

Level requirement: 30

"Holy f*ckin' moly! This weapon is OP!" Fatty Han quickly forgot his frustration about the quest length and was excited to see the new bow that popped out.

"Zhan Yu. What is this socket thing for?" Hundred Shots questioned.

"Socket are for Gemstones upgrade. There are many types of Gemstones, such as Dexterity Gemstone, Intelligence Gemstone, and more. You can choose to have many different types of upgrade! If you slot in a 10 Intelligence Gemstone into an available slot, you will gain additional 10 Intelligence attribute. Gemstones have 8 tiers. A high-level Slot can fit in a low-level Gemstone, not the other way around." Zhang Yang explained.

"Low level Gemstones can be bought from the Gem Shop in the city. High level Gemstones can be obtained from defeating bosses, completing main story quests, hidden quests, or even break a Hardcore Mode record!" Zhang Yang added.

"Hundred Shots bro! This time I'll fight for this item. I'm not going to let this off! Let's roll!"

"You're on!" Hundred Shot replied

Hundred Shots, 78 points.

Fatty Han, 3 points.

"Hahahahahaha!" Drizzler laughed until she fell on the floor, rolling. "Pervy Fatty! Now you know how karma tastes like!"

Fatty Han laughed it off. He knew that there would be another chance for him to get the item when the boss re-spawned.

Hundred Shots kept the bow in his inventory as he could only equip it when we would be Level 30.

Drizzler snickered.

"Hehehe! My hands are full of luck aren't they!"

"Hmph! In that case, if you ever open anything lower than a Gray-Silver, we will cut off that hand of yours!" Zhang Yang raised an eyebrow.

"Tch… You're the lowest!" Drizzler pouted her lips like a sore loser. She reached out her hand again to open the corpse.

[White Bone Necklace] (Gray-Silver, Necklace)

Vitality: 18

Intelligence: 9

Spirit: 3

Level 1 Socket

Equip effect: For each time you cast a spell, there will be a fixed chance to increase 100 magic attack. Last for 10 seconds. Effect cannot be stacked.

Level requirement: 30

"Sister! You're so lucky to be the only magic user here. No one else here will fight with you for any magic type equipment!" said Drizzler. There was a hint of jealousy in her voice.

Little Snow was actually smiling sweetly but when Drizzler mentioned that, her smile turned even wider.

[Chaos Gem] (Usable)

Use: Permanently increase your inventory by 10 slots.

"Increase inventory size! This is very useful!"

"Yeah. Let's us all roll for it!"

As they obtained more and more extravagant items, Zhang Yang's understanding to why guilds would occupy this place increased even more. This treasure mine just kept getting better and better!

Everyone rolled but Little Snow obtained the item with a perfect 100 score.

[Skillbook: Vanguard's Aggression] (Skillbook)

Use: Teaches you Vanguard's Aggression

Requirement: Guardian, Defender.

"Huh? Tanks only?" Everyone quickly urged Zhang Yang to learn the skill and expose the skill ability.

Zhang Yang was surprised and happy. He had always wanted to have this skill in his previous life, and he would never have thought that it would appear here!

Every time a field boss was killed the first time, the item quantity and drop rate would always be better. Once the boss was respawned and killed the second time, the drop rate would become normal again.

He picked up the book and learned the skill, and the posted the skill description in the party channel.

Vanguard's Aggression: Cast a 3 x 3-meter protection barrier. Every ally that is in the barrier will receive 90% reduced damage. However, the caster will receive 100% increased damage. Last for 10 seconds.

Cooldown time: 10 seconds.

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Chapter 77: The Skeletal War Horse!

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Vanguard's Aggression. The name itself suggested the skill's ability to risk the caster himself to protect the others!

"With this skill, the team's survival rate will increase tremendously!" Hundred Shots got excited. He was in fact, part of the team. If there was anything that could be done to improve the team's efficiency, he would definitely be happy for it!

"But, the noob tank is more likely to die!" Little Snow sighed, "Looks like there'll be more work for me again!"

"It is alright, Shield Wall can be learned when I reached Level 30. My HP will not be dropping too much when I activate these two skills together!" Zhang Yang said while smiling.

"Hmph! I just hope that's the case!"

Although they already picked up four items from the corpse, as this was Shurian's first death, there were still more items to obtain from him!

[Absolute Defense Ring] (Gray-Silver, Ring)

Vitality: 12

Strength: 8

Equipment: 20 points Defense attribute will be granted for every successful Block. The maximum stacked effect is 5. Lasts for 30 seconds.

Level Requirement: 30

"What in the world… How can the Gray-Silver equipment be so powerful?" Fatty Han stared at the ring with his eyes wide open. The Black-Steel and Green-Copper only had random bonus attributes, but Gray-Silver equipment's special effect was very strong!

"That's why equipment is the foundation to be a professional player!" The name of the ring itself was assigned for the tank. Zhang Yang took the ring since no one else in the team was suitable to wear it. "But, if I were to be fighting with you, I can take off all my equipment and fight you with only a weapon in my hand!"

"Haha! Looking down at me huh!" Fatty Han said.

[Skeletal Cape] (Gray-Silver, Cape)

Vitality: 10

Strength: 10

Equip effect: Increase 2% critical rate.

Level Requirement: 30

Normally, a Hunter would not be suitable to use pure strength equipment. Zhang Yang gave up his roll and let Drizzler obtain that cape. Unfortunately, even after receiving their battle loot, they did not reach the level requirement to equip it all.

[Treasure Map Piece (II)] (Gray-Silver)

Use: Put together all 3 parts of the [Treasure Map Piece] and obtain a [Complete Treasure Map].

"Let me have it!" Zhang Yang said, "I have the [Treasure Map Piece] I and III with me, so I can make up a complete treasure map!"

Four of them gave up their rolls and Zhang Yang received the [Treasure Map Piece]. He immediately used the item and a progress bar appeared on the side. Two seconds later, three parts of the [Treasure Map Piece] disappeared and a complete treasure map was formed.

[Gray-Silver Treasure Map: You have read and research on many maps and finally deciphered the secrets of the treasure map. The treasure is located in the Valley of Lost Souls.

After opening the treasure map, an old parchment appeared. There was an "X" marked on the top right of the map and certainly, it was where the treasure would be located at.

"I wonder what's inside the treasure chest." As always, Drizzler loved anything related to treasure chest.

Zhang Yang casually traded the treasure map to Drizzler and said, "If you want to know, dig it out yourself!" Sometimes players could get good stuff from the treasure chest or sometimes get struck by a trap filled with monsters or status effects.

"Okay, okay!" Drizzler hurriedly took over the treasure map. She was so happy that she smiled from ear to ear.

"Little Yang, you are being biased! But, this is for the growth of Loli1, I like it!" Fatty Han accidentally had a slip of the tongue.

"Rot in hell Fatty!"

Fatty Han had to be beaten up so that he could finally be well disciplined.

"That's all?" Zhang Yang asked when he saw Drizzler stopped opening the corpse.

"That's all!" Drizzler shook her head.

"That's not right. The corpse was supposed to disappear after everything have been looted. You must have missed something!" Zhang Yang crouched down and started to touch under the Boss' body.

The expression on Zhang Yang's face changed suddenly.

"What happened?" The party asked.

"I think… We hit the jackpot!" Zhang Yang could hardly contain his excitement and revealed what was on his hand. At the same time, a Roll-the-Dice window popped up on everyone's interface.

[The Leash of Skeletal War Horse] (Mount)

Use: Teach you to summon the Skeletal War Horse.

Level Requirement: 30

Item bound after used.

It actually dropped a mount!

Five of them looked at each other. After some silence, they all cheered loudly.

That Boss' Mount was something extremely rare, and everyone would wish to have it! Everyone knew that the drop rate of the mount was less than 1 out of a million. Although they were cheering for the item to drop, none of them actually thought that the mount would appear!

"1 out of a million, and yet here it is! What unbelievable luck!" Zhang Yang murmured.

"What a fortune!" Fatty Han's eyes were already blinded.

They were silent all of a sudden. Because of the rarity of the mount, everyone wanted it so bad but no one dared to ask the others to give up the mount for themselves.

Zhang Yang gathered his thoughts and said, "The mount is rare and I understand that everyone wishes to have it. Thus, no one is allowed to pass their roll. Everyone roll the dice and the mount belongs to whoever rolls the highest number! We shall do this fair and square! We are a team! I know that the drop rate of this special mount is low, but as long as we are still a team, we can still take on other bosses! Who knows? By that time, we can even ride dragons, phoenixes or even tigers!"

"Yes! We are a team!"

Everyone came to a realization that so long the squad was strong enough, they would still have the chance to get the rare items!

Five of them rolled the dice respectively.

Little Snow, 97 Points.

Drizzler, 12 Points.

Hundred Shots, 58 Points.

Fatty Han, 44 Points.

Zhang Yang, 100 Points!

"Crap! Little Yang! You used up all your luck in this life for this roll!" Fatty Han drooled as he said.

Zhang Yang smiled. He did not care much about the mount since Level 100 players could get a Flying Mount. By then, who would still ride a regular mount then?

He did say that the mount belonged to whoever rolled the highest number and was not allowed to transfer the mount to anyone else. Therefore, he just accepted the mount as it was better not to break his own rules.

If the rest of the party knew what Zhang Yang was thinking then, they would perhaps just, in a simpler manner, f*ck him inside out.

Damn, you should have just given it up if you did not want it!

The Boss's corpse disappeared immediately and five of them completed the adventure with a happy ending.

"Little Yang, you must hurry up and get to Level 30 so that you can bring me around the Capital for at least ten rounds to show off!" said Fatty Han as he wiped off the tears and snorted.

Zhang Yang consoled him and said, "Perhaps the boss will drop the mount again next time!"

"In your dreams!" This time, four of them booed Zhang Yang together. Did he really think that it was so easy to drop an extraordinary mount?

Five of them tore the [Teleportation Scroll] simultaneously and returned to White Jade Castle. They then proceeded to the Plains Cloud Mountain to beat Martyr Unduin.

Zhang Yang and the girls had killed Martyr Unduin before using the terrain bug, but they kept it as secret from the others. Why would they share their method to the others when they could quietly kill him off and claim the goods for themselves?

The huge rock that was the Achilles Heel of Martyr Unduin was still there. No matter how powerful Unduin was, he could not escape his fate. The five of them worked together and killed Unduin under ten minutes.

However, since this was the second time Unduin was defeated, the drops were much lesser than before. The skill book Eagle Eye that Drizzler and Fatty Han were so envious of did not appear. That skill book drop rate was slightly higher than [The Leash of Skeletal War Horse, but it still did not appear here!

Zhang Yang's luck was good and he obtained a Gray-Silver glove.

[Fist of Penitence] (Gray-Silver, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 12

Vitality: 24

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 4

Level Requirement: 20

Zhang Yang equipped the glove and his basic attributes rose.

[Player: Zhan Yu]

Level: 23

HP: 2,140

Vitality: 127

Dexterity: 48

Defense: 76

Luck: 4

Melee Damage: 362－384

Critical Rate: 11%

Lucky Strike: 0.4%

By the time everyone was done, it was almost 7:00pm! Zhang Yang hurriedly disbanded the party and asked everyone to have their dinner and to rest. After a short discussion, Zhang Yang announced in the guild channel: There will be a Hardcore Mode of Bangar Crypt raid at 9:00 PM. As usual, whoever has the higher contribution points in the guild will have the priority to join in the raid.

After making the announcement, he decided to disconnect from the game.

During a boss fight, the most stressful player would have to be the tank as he was not allowed to be careless. In addition, Zhang Yang needed to command the team and it was even more tiring.

"I should find someone who can command and lead the team next time. Otherwise, I will be exhausted while doing both the tank and commanding roles." Zhang Yang finished his lunchbox and laid on the sofa. He put his feet on the coffee table and happily enjoyed his hot tea.

Zhang Yang disliked smoking but he really loved drinking tea. Because of this, Fatty Han said that Zhang Yang behaved like an old man.

In his previous life, famous commanders could be found in strong guilds. Presumably, they must be trained since the low levels and must be the key players of the guilds. Thus, it made it even harder to coax them over to join Zhang Yang's side.

It seemed that Zhang Yang needed to train a commander of his own.

Among the four teammates in the squad, Drizzler was not suitable to be a commander as she was not mindful and impatient. Zhang Yang ignored considering Little Snow as a commander because being a healer was much harder as a tank; it would be much of a burden for her to be a commander. As for Fatty Han, although he had a lot of improvement, he did not have the talent to lead a team. Perhaps he could lead the team for the siege wars, but in a dungeon raid, a commander must have a keen sense of observation, be able to calculate, motivate the teammates and be able to dispense the rewards and punishments fairly. Unfortunately, Fatty Han had none of that!

Hundred Shots? He was not passionate enough. If he were to lead the team, the team would be spiritless. Even if he led the team and successfully killed the bosses but the team would just fall apart after a few rounds.

It was not easy!

Zhang Yang rested for a while and he logged in at 9:00 PM. It was the same as yesterday; Zhang Yang led a team and Little Snow led another team. However, Little Snow and her teammates were unwilling to compete with Zhang Yang this round.

By combining their AoE skill damage, Drizzler, Fatty Han, and Hundred Shots were stronger than Zhang Yang! However, which tank could be as strong as Zhang Yang to perform the One Straight Flush method?

In this dungeon raid, Zhang Yang carefully observed his teammates' performances. He sent private messages with compliments to the few who performed well. They were excited after having a conversation with Zhang Yang.

Who was Zhang Yang? He was a powerful man who had the first clear for the Hardcore Mode Dungeon Raids three times continuously. Who would not be happy after being complimented by such a powerful person?

Zhang Yang noticed a phenomenon that happened in the guild. He realized that the levelling speed of the guild members were fine. Normally, a player between Level 11 to Level 20 would require about one to two days to gain a level, but a few people actually gained two levels since yesterday. They were obviously interested in Marzerway's Lair.

Besides, it was good since the guild's EXP has increased to 29%.

TL Note:

1Loli – Japanese origin noun to describe an underage and petite girl.

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Chapter 78: Alliance Proposal

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Early the next day, Zhang Yang practiced his usual boxing and long-distance running. All in all, it took slightly over and hour. He logged on to the game after eating breakfast.

First, Zhang Yang went through the Front and Main Wing Hardcore Mode dungeon raids with Drizzler and the others. After dismissing the team, Zhang Yang found a few news waiting for him when he returned to the Capital.

The Dominators, Sky High and Crimson Rage cleared the Marzerway's Lair Hard Mode this morning, The Main Wing Hardcore Mode is now defeated, keep the momentum going with the victories and attack the next wing!

Fatty Han was in a panic when he read the message and said, "Little Yang, we have to be quick. Otherwise, the First Clear Achievement of the dungeon raids will belong to others!"

"Don't be so anxious. Only the five of us are above Level 20. Look at the levels of those guys from The Dominators, Sky High and Crimson Rage. The top five players are only at most, Level 17!" Zhang Yang smiled and he was not anxious at all.

The Dominators, Sky High and Crimson Rage were really strong guilds, as evidenced by them clearing the Marzerway's Lair Hard Mode without using any [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. Their capabilities were certainly impressive! However, they still needed the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to clear the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore Mode!

In Zhang Yang's past life, it had been made certain as many teams had been wiped out, without the aid of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]!

According to the '5-years game review' article, all the strong guilds were unable to clear the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore Mode despite their best efforts. There were no further development for 17 days before the recipe of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] was found. [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] had then started a burst of activity in the market. After a day, a party who called themselves "The Glory", cleared the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore Mode!

The Glory was in Violet Star City, one of the main cities of China server. Each main city contained their respective set of area maps exclusively for those below Level 50, players of different cities would not interact with each other until then. Thus, Zhang Yang was not afraid of inadvertently altering the timeline via another butterfly effect in the other seven main cities of China region.

White Jade Castle was the only thing he needed to worry about because the progress of the game might be further affected due to his presence. He was worried that the second recipe of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] would appear earlier in the White Jade Castle!

If this is really happening, then the future he knew and the future that awaited him would be different!

"Noob tanker, if there is nothing else, I'm going to shop with my cousin!" Drizzler spoke in the party channel.

Zhang Yang smiled and replied, "Be careful, do not leave behind the one who has no sense of direction."

Little Snow, annoyed by Zhang Yang, grit her teeth and the both of them disconnected from the game together.

Hundred Shots mentioned that he had spent too much time on the game for the last two days, so he also quickly disconnected from the game to spend some time with his wife and son. However, Fatty Han remained connected. Rather, he simply fired a quib at Zhang Yang before heading to the Massage Parlor for chicks.

"Hoes before bros…" Zhang Yang groaned, shaking his head while heading to the Auction House by himself.

Zhang Yang's storage space was already full of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. Originally, he thought of ceasing on his stocking up and initiating sales of the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] when more players had turned Level 20, and were headed for Marzerway's Lair Dungeon like how it was right now. He could have started saving up for his first set of equipment with a synergized cycle of buying ingredients, synthesizing, and then selling [Beginning Anti-Shadow Potion.]

Those plans did not account for him suddenly becoming Guild Master of the Lone Desert Smoke. Thus, he also gained the authority to manage the guild's storage!

In 'God's Miracle', the system would provide a collective inventory of 1000 slots when a guild was established. This was the guild's storage. To expand the guild's storage, a 1000 Gold coins was needed for second inventory, another ten times that amount for a third, yet another ten times of that for a forth, and so on. The cost would consecutively snowball into one million Gold coins for the final upgrade. However, each guild could only have ten storage inventories at most.

The Lone Desert Smoke's storage was in a mess and it was full of trash like health recovering snacks, fish, tiger tooth, ores and etc! Zhang Yang shook his head, bemusedly ordering the guild to remove the trash.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yang had amended the guild's storage management authority, Members had the authority to "Check"; Officers had the authority to "Check" and "Store" while the Vice Guild Master had the full authority to "Check", "Store" and "Draw Out".

In the future, the storages were only allowed to store equipment, consumable, gemstones and other valuable items. Guild members were allowed to buy the items using the guild's contribution point. The level of wealth in a guild's storage correlated to the capability of a guild, as both cause, and effect. The former was due to guild members being motivated when they see a storage full of valuable items!

Zhang Yang spent another 1000 gold coins for the second storage inventory and set the authority in a way that no one but the Guild Master alone could even "Check" the storage.

With the extra 1000 slots in a storage, certainly, Zhang Yang could grab all the [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flower] he wanted! The prices of these two herbs were dropping on last two days, as Zhang Yang's purchases halted when his storage reached its limit. The prices of these two herbs would undoubtedly increase again as he resumes his bulk purchasing.

The majority of the Alchemy profession players believed that it was a prospective profiteer's attempt to manipulate the market, so they decided not to buy any [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flower] even though the prices kept on increasing. Because of this, Zhang Yang easily stocked up on [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flower] without any competition. His materials secured, he went on to produce potions en masse, one after another.

After emptying the auction house of all the [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flower, Zhang Yang opened up the "Search" interface in auction house to check on the Alchemy and Smithing recipes.

On the Alchemy side, no recipes other than beginner leveled ones were on sale. There were, however, a few [Level 2 Whetstone] recipes and the prices ranged from 100 – 300 gold coins.

This [Level 2 Whetstone] recipe drop rate was high. Even though the price of 100 gold coins was considered rather high, Zhang Yang had the cash to spare, so without wasting time, he went ahead and bought the cheapest [Level 2 Whetstone] recipe. It arrived in his mailbox and he quickly learned the recipe.

[Level 2 Whetstone] (Consumable)

Use: Sharpens a weapon and increases damage by 20 points.

Although the damage increase wasn't significant, it was still better than nothing. More importantly, this was the most cost-saving method of advancing the Smithing mastery from Amateur to Advanced.

Forming a [Level 2 Whetstone] required two [Green Copper Bars, so Zhang Yang looked at the price in the Auction House and he contacted Mining Specialist via private messaging, "Do you have time?"

After a while, Mining Specialist replied, "You! I haven't heard from you for a few days now! I had believed that I have lost you to the other sellers. I would never have thought that you would be one of the celebrities in the First Clear Dungeon Raid Ranking!"

Zhang Yang said, "Nah, I've been busy with dungeon raids. I had no time to practice Smithing! I need a lot of [Green Copper Bar]s, do you have the stock?"

"Hmph, do not scorn a professional miner!" Professional Miner immediately replied and asked, "How many do you need?"

Two [Green Copper Bar]s were required to cast a whetstone and 1000 points of mastery required 2000 Green Copper Bars, so Zhang Yang wanted 100 stacks of Green Copper Bar. Zhang Yang replied, "Um, 100 stacks first!"

"Sheesh!" Professional Miner sent him a message with many ellipses and exclamation marks. After a while, Professional Miner said, "Hmph, you are always making things hard for me. 100 stacks of [Green Copper Bar]s… did you think they are as common as [Iron Bar]s? [Green Copper Bar] is a Level 2 Ore, besides, it does not have many spawn points and the southern area is full of monsters."

"Okay, fine. Tell me directly, how many stacks you can give?"

"Hmph, it is a good thing that you came to me. If you went to someone else, it wouldn't be half bad if they could provide you one to two stacks."

"Stop the bullshit with the self-flattery. How many stacks do you actually have?"

"Seven stacks!"

It was not enough at all! Zhang Yang said anyway, "Okay, mail them to me! What is the cost per stack?"

"Ha ha, we have been trading for a while now and I'll be upfront with you. How about 2 gold coins per stack?"

It was slightly cheaper than those selling in the auction house! Zhang Yang replied "Deal" and ended the conversation.

Although he needed to compete with Floating Up, the demand of [Earthen Round Shield] was still high. But the price has not increased at all. Zhang Yang tried to place an entry of the [Earthen Round Shield] with an opening price of 1000 gold coins, but after bidding for a day, 600 gold coins was as high as it went, according to the other entries.

When Zhang Yang had led the team to Bangar Crypt Hardcore Mode during the last two days, he had obtained five [Refine Copper Bars]. Some [Refined Copper Bar]s from Fatty Han's team were also passed to him, so he had eleven [Refined Copper Bar]s in total! Zhang Yang sold the [Refined Copper Bar]s in the auction house and he took 1000 gold coins to store in guild's storage as repair allowances for tanks and healers.

When Zhang Yang was about to go grind monsters for some experience points as a means to burn time before logging out for lunch, he received a friend request.

It was requested by The Dominators' guild master, Humbly Gentleman.

Zhang Yang thought for a while and selected "Accept".

"Ha ha, we intended to invite you to join my guild for about two days ago but we never thought that Lone Desert Smoke would have invited you first!" This time Humbly Gentleman did not send private message to Zhang Yang but spoke aloud via voice chat, "I am not trying to slander Lone Desert Smoke but they are just a second-rate guild. They will hold you back!"

Zhang Yang smiled and replied, "Which guilds did not start as second-rates?"

The same would have surely applied to The Dominators as well.

Humbly Gentleman laughed and said, "Originally, I had hoped to be able to convince you to give up on Lone Desert Smoke and join The Dominators, but it looks like there's no chance of that happening now! Luckily, this was not the main purpose of me contacting you today. Otherwise, I would be in quite an embarrassing situation now!"

"Oh. Guild master Humbly Gentlemen, making any wagers again then?" Zhang Yang asked excitedly.

Humbly Gentleman could not help it, a lump that had never really went away reformed in his throat when he recalled losing 20,000 gold coins to Zhang Yang from the bad bet. It had left him in a slump for days! Although every player who turned Level 20 could unlock the gold coins exchange service, as long as the players had the money, they would never be in fear of experiencing gold coin shortages. However, it was not easy for a normal player to waste about 160,000 dollars in exchange of 20,000 gold coins in-game currency!

Although The Dominators was a sponsored guild and it was impossible for them to invest something with no return. Thus, these 20,000 Gold coins was paid by Humbly Gentlemen on his own so it was really made him miserable!

"It's not anything like that" Humble Gentlemen forced a little smile and said, "We had an idea after trying the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode!"

"Oh?"

"Guild master Zhan Yu, I roughly understand the situation in your guild. There are only five people at or above Level 20 in your guild and at least three days are needed to make up a team of 20 members, each of them being Level 20 at least! In addition of that, a lot of equipment are also needed for the members before they are qualified to explore the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode!"

"With that said, do you have any good proposal?"

"He he, I did think of one!" Humbly Gentleman paused for a brief second and said, "The capabilities of the five of you are immense and I can gather another 10 guild members, fully equipped, who will be able to provide similar ability to the five of u. Isn't it better if we work together to clear the Marzerway's Lair Hardcore Mode?"

Humbly Gentlemen was greatly unnerved as Sky High and Crimson Rage performed very well during the first clearance of Main Wing Hardcore Mode. Sky High and Crimson Rage were now in the fifth stage of Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode but The Dominators were still stuck in the third stage of Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode! If The Dominators continued being the way they are without searching for other solutions then they will surely lose the First Clear Achievement of Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode!

Humbly Gentlemen had given it deep thought at length, and he firmly believed that only Zhang Yang and his team would be able to help The Dominators win the First Clear Achievement Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode! Besides, he also knew that Zhan Yu was shorthanded for Marzerway's Lair Hardcore mode, and Humbly Gentlemen really needed a top professional player. With this combination, all of them will definitely be in a win-win situation!

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Chapter 79: A Guest from Far Away

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Zhang Yang thought for a while and asked, "To address the elephant in the room, if we killed Marzerway together, which guild name would be used for first clearance announcement?"

"Of course it is us, The Dominators!" Humbly Gentlemen took it for granted and said dismissively, "But, surely, you will be rewarded handsomely, you have my word!"

How much could they possibly offer? Be it 10,000 or even 80,000 gold coins it won't suffice! This is because a First Clear Achievement was particularly important to increase the reputation of a guild and any measly amount of gold would not be equal to it!

Zhang Yang smiled and replied, "I am sorry and we are very much interested in the First Clear Achievement as well!"

The reputation of the Lone Desert Smoke had shot up in the China server after they cleared the two Hardcore mode dungeon raids consecutively. Besides, the requests from others to join their guild had been pouring in these two days. If it were not for Zhang Yang; s insistence on building the guild with elites, the maximum number of the members permitted in a beginner-rate guild would have been fully occupied!

To create a strong guild, Zhang Yang would need to spread his name across the server so there was no way he would allow The Dominators to use their name instead of his Lone Desert Smoke name! On the other hand, Zhang Yang had at least a 90% guarantee of being the first to clear the Main Wing Hardcore Mode, so why should Zhang Yang work with The Dominators?

Humbly Gentlemen was shocked beyond measure, never even considering the fact that Zhang Yang would refuse his win-win situation proposal so blatantly, without hesitation!

Humbly Gentlemen, having been guild master of The Dominators for many years in past games, his members amounted to the tens of thousands! Humbly Gentlemen was very ambitious in 'God's Miracle' and he wanted to build a huge "The Dominators" alliance. He also wanted to seize the eight main cities of the China server and eventually dominate the whole of the China server and have everyone patronage The Dominators and The Dominators only!

From the ironically named Humbly Gentlemen's point of view, he was used to giving orders very often and only the China server's top guild masters like Sky High, Crimson Rage, The Glory and Blue Sea were qualified to stand on equal ground as him. Besides, it was Zhang Yang's privilege for Humbly Gentlemen to take the initiative to contact him. Thus, Zhang Yang should have been in awe and ready to cooperate out of the honour of being addressed by one such as him.

Humbly Gentlemen could not stop the unhappiness from rising. However, he did his best and said as diplomatically as possible, "Guild master Zhan Yu, you should have a clear estimation of yourself. Otherwise, you will get yourself into trouble!"

Zhang Yang laughed and thought in his mind, that Humbly Gentlemen was the one who requested for an alliance and when he was refused, he dared impugn on others? Zhang Yang smiled and said, "People die, whether they are courageous or cowardly, and life is short, we should have dreams and goals!"

"Ha ha ha!" Humbly Gentlemen laughed hollowly, "Then, Guild master Zhan Yu, I hope all your wishes come true!"

After that, he turned off his voice chat and ended the conversation with Zhang Yang.

Since Zhang Yang refused Humbly Gentlemen proposal, perhaps Humbly Gentlemen would be plotting something on him in the future! In his previous life, Clear Water had struggled with second-rate and third-rate guilds and he had no opportunities of dealing with strong guild like The Dominators. Who would have thought that the guild master of the highly renowned guild, The Dominators had such a personality!

He was not afraid of anyone as he had always been a loner previously and now he had the Lone Desert Smoke as his backup. There were at least five thousand members in his guild and they could definitely hold their own if The Dominators really challenged them! The core investors of The Dominators had not yet fully immersed themselves into this game, as long as Zhang Yang had enough time, he would not fear even the full power The Dominators that he had once witnessed in his previous life.

The best way to respond to the scorn from Humbly Gentlemen was to get the First Clear Achievement Main Wing Hardcore mode and prove him wrong to underestimate Lone Desert Smoke!

However, the Lone Desert Smoke was not a professional guild, other than the highly active grinders, the rest of the members' level were just normal. That was a problem, as there would be a 50-man dungeon raids in the future and to level these teammates appropriately would take at least a month, so they would actually miss the chances to get the First Clear Achievement!

Still, Zhang Yang believed that as long as he got the First Main Wing Hardcore Mode Clearance, it would increase the passion of the members in terms of training as well. Thus, he would not need to worry about getting enough high-level players on time!

Half an hour later, Mining Specialist sent the [Green Copper Bars] and Zhang Yang paid upon delivery. Zhang Yang proceeded to the Blacksmith Shop to smith [Level 2 Whetstone]. He could actually increase his Smithing mastery and the [Level 2 Whetstone] also had its own uses.

He sold all the [Level 1 Whetstones] from his inventory to the NPC at the cheapest price. He had no choice as that was the only cost-saving method to increase his Smithing mastery to Amateur level. Even if he sold to the others with the lowest price, not many players would be willing to buy as most of the Smithing players would produce and sell the [Level 1 Whetstones] on their own.

"Guild master, there is a player from Blood Moon City, he had camp in our city and announced that he would defeat all the professional players in our city. He is very arrogant!" Zhang Yang received a private message.

"Eh?" Zhang Yang could not help but have his curiosity piqued, wondering how any player could have been so free to come all the way from Blood Moon City to White Jade Castle.

The China region was like an octagonal map, the eight main cities were distributed on every edge of the map and every main city had its own individual area. Towards the center was the above Level 50 training area and at the very core of the China region, were the higher the leveled areas of the map.

Geographically, the main cities closest to the White Jade Castle were Tranquil Wind City and Blood Moon City, but things were never that simple! This was because if the players wanted to travel between main cities, they needed leave their own assigned city's area then pass through the dangerous Level 50 training area to reach another main city!

Indeed, every main city had their own teleportation portals for players to teleport to other seven main cities but it could only be used by Level 50 players and above! Zhang Yang could not fathom the very existence of a Level 50 player at this stage of the game! As evidenced by his memory, this was only achieved almost half a year from now, which means that the player who came to set up the arena, had to have passed through the dangerous and high leveled training areas of the map in order to arrive at White Jade Castle!

Who in the world has time for that?

All that time could have been used for training and clearing dungeons!

"What is the player's name?" Zhang Yang inquired.

"…Ghostly Leaf!"

Ghostly Leaf! Zhang Yang eyes widened, as Ghostly Leaf had been a famous player in his previous life. He was also called "The Ghost Killer", his was a Phantom Assassin and it was rumoured that he had inherited "Ghost Blood" gave him an edge at assassination! He was ranked seventh in the Top 10 Ranking for Thieves' in the China server. Besides, he was the top Thief in the guild Radiance, 'Bai Wei's Team's main force and also a famous S-Class Professional League player!

Zhang Yang found that it was really interesting for this future famous player to come to White Jade Castle and start an uproar.

"Is he strong?" Zhang Yang asked again in the private message.

"En, he is very strong! He already won 17 times continuously in the battle arena. Besides, some of his opponents are key players from Sky High and The Dominators!"

Battling was not allowed in the main city but there was a battle arena to satisfy the players who loved to battle. The battle arena built in imitation of the ancient Roman Coliseum, and there were two battle modes, "Brawl" and "Death match".

Brawl: The system will stop the battling when the results are shown and any negative effects sustained by the participants of the duel would be removed.

Death Match: The match ends with one of the players' death. The dead player would still drop a level but the winner will not be afflicted with the red title penalty.

Besides the personal storage and auction house, the battle arena was one of the most popular areas in the main city. This was because battle arena could be used to battle and also created the platform for wagers that included gold coins, equipment, potions and etc. All of these were protected by the system, as long as everyone chipped in before the battle, the system would automatically lock the "Bets" and automatically distributed the rewards after the results were shown. Thus, no scams ever occurred!

Zhang Yang was in the A-Class Professional League in his previous life and certainly, he had no opportunities to battle with Ghostly Leaf. This was a golden opportunity! Without further ado, he rushed to the northeast direction to the battle arena. Since Ghostly Leaf came to his city, he should at least give Ghostly Leaf a good welcome and grab this learning opportunity!

When he reached the battle arena, he realized that it was already crowded with people. The air was thick with the murmur of various discussions.

"Damn, which room is that guy in? I want to f*ck him back off Blood Moon City! He dares to scorn us!"

"That fellow is really strong! He already defeated Piggy Third Brother!"

"Piggy Third Brother is not a professional player. Our Brother Piglet, Brother Brute Bull and Brother Dragon from The Dominators are only professional players in name. That fellow just defeated a few low-leveled noob players, how can he be considered strong?"

"Damn you, who dared humiliate our Piggy Third Brother?"

"Stop arguing, whoever who has the guts, go ahead destroy Ghostly Leaf! Damn it, you guys just add more shame to White Jade Castle, letting a foreigner kill so many of our people!"

"What's the situation now? Who is battling?"

"9 Head Hydra from Sky High!"

Battle arena could hold any amount of players during the battle. Whenever a battle match was added, the system would provide a new competition space, called the anonymous' room. So, the players would not need to worry about queuing up for participation! Players could also choose to view the matches and it was easy as long as they knew the "Room" number they wanted to view, then they could view all aspects of the battle match as an omniscient spectator. It was provided in public rooms while password-locked rooms, naturally provided entry only if you knew the password.

Players who just wanted to view the battle matches did not even have to come physically to the arena. They could just open up the Control interface and select the "Battle Arena" option and key in or select the "Room" number to view the battle match via live feed. But Zhang Yang wanted to battle and learn what he can from the experience, so he had rushed over to battle arena.

Zhang Yang opened up the "Battle Arena" option, keyed in "Ghostly Leaf" in the search bar and the results were shown: Room number 238, Ghostly Leaf versus 9 Head Hydra (Brawl Mode). He quickly entered the room and sat on the virtual battle arena stage to view the battle match.

In the battle arena, there was an Elf male player constantly moving like a shadow, swarming and attacking a Dwarf male player who used a shield. The Elf player's footwork and maneuvers were really fast like the wind itself. He attacked and stepped back in a flash. He wielded dual daggers, continuously performing hits and runs on the back of the Dwarf player as the latter whirled about desperately, causing new damage value numbers to appear even before the previous ones had vanished.

Zhang Yang did not need to see the remaining HP of these two players. He already knew that the Elf player was going to be victorious at the end of the battle! The Dwarf player was not making use of his shield one bit. Furthermore, with the constant backstabbing from the Elf, all the defense that came from the shield had been rendered completely useless!

Both of these players had their names publicly displayed: "Ghostly Leaf, Elf Thief, Level 21, Radiance, and "9 Head Hydra, Dwarf Knight, Level 20, Sky High".

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Chapter 80: Queen of the Shadow Dance

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Zhang Yang raised an eye brow, intrigued. An unmistakeable gleam radiated from the thief's equipment. He noticed that Ghostly Leaf was wearing a complete set of Green-Copper equipment, with at least 3 of them being Thief-class specialized set equipment! Zhang Yang concluded that Ghostly Leaf's guild, Radiance, was much stronger than Sky High or even The Dominators. He believed this due to the equipment that Ghostly Leaf was wearing. Typically, since the equipment could only be obtained from raiding the Hard mode of Marzerway's Lair, this could only mean that Ghostly Leaf had been part of a group that has already performed the raid several hours ahead or even 1 day before the other two guilds.

The Dominators themselves had only just successfully raided Hard mode today! Radiance must have already, by all means, raided the Lair yesterday! Another testimony to their power was this one member of theirs to run from Crimson Moon City over to White Jade Castle, on foot. It was a journey that would have taken at least an entire day and night, and that was a rather generous estimate! Till now, the actual duration of such a journey was still unclear; since no one had ever tested it out.

This was why it was so strange. Ghostly Leaf was only level 21. For him to travel over a level 30 hunting ground, definitely triggering monsters' aggro, let alone the level 50 grounds with even higher radius of triggering…how did he manage to travel all the way from city to city in such a short amount of time?

It was truly puzzling indeed…unless…

Destination Teleportation Scroll!

It was different compared to regular [Teleportation Scroll]s since a [Destination Teleportation Scroll] can teleport a player to a specific city instead of the nearest one! However, this little item is extremely rare! There was the Specialized Teleportation Port that allows only level 50 players or higher to travel across any major city, limited to only the specific server!

However, a [Destination Teleportation Scroll] allows a player to teleport to all 64 main cities of all 8 major servers!

F*ck! What a waste of precious treasure! This was once an important key in winning a World War. A bunch of Thief players would use this item to sneak themselves into the enemy main city and built a Teleportation Port for their own army in the cover of stealth! An invisible Trojan Horse!

Just when Zhang Yang sigh in disappointment, Ghostly Leaf had successfully killed 9 Head Hydra. Based on the common player's playstyle, a Thief, especially Phantom Assassins, had always been the number 1 bane of Guardian or Defender characters. Phantom Assassins had a dagger specialization skill; and out of 10, 9 Phantom Assassin would equip dual daggers since they had short attack intervals and a more consistentt damage output within the damage range (Maximum and Minimum damage as seen in weapon attack stat). There was a chance that a bandit class attack could not penetrate the shield defense.

However Ghostly Leaf was very efficient in moving his position in battle. He managed stick to the back of the Knight throughout the battle and had unleashed his attacks there! He had ignored the shield defense effect and dealt high damage even with just his normal attacks; his skills were even more terrifying to look at!

The battle was over when Hydra surrendered willingly. Everyone, including the audience were moved out of the battle room and back to their places of origin.

"Hur hur! Looks like this is all White Jade Castle has to offer huh! Come on, entertain me now! I want professional players! Not some beginners! I want to fight Zhan Yu! I heard that guy is f*cking strong! He was able to take on 3 dungeon's First Clear Achievement in one shot! Where are you! Come and fight me!" Ghostly Leaf started to taunt provocatively in the local channel.

Everyone started to respond venomously to his provocation, throwing insults and curses back at him.

"Don't think that you're almighty now when you've only just beaten a few of us! There are many more professional players here in White Jade Castle!"

"There's no need for Zhan Yu to come out! I can defeat you with just one finger!"

"The big mouth guy is in room 213!"

"Which guild has lost their mad dog! Quickly make announcements to help them reclaim it back!"

"Stupid dog! Go back to your Crimson Moon City and bark there!"

The channel was continuously filled with more insults and curse words. The chat log was quickly being overwritten every split second!

Zhang Yang could no longer hold it in. He sent a battle request to Ghostly Leaf but instead of him responding, a system message appeared.

'Request failed. The player that you have request has accepted another battle request from another player!'

Zhang Yang raised his head to read the huge announcement board on the battle arena. A quick message appeared reading: Room 89 Ghostly Leaf Versus Frost Night (Deathmatch). Battle starts after 5 minutes.

The 5 minutes' preparation time was to allow other spectator to place their bets and wagers. Typical bets were only between players themselves. However, whenever a top-class players battles, the system itself will host and allow players to place their bets and wagers.

In the future when the Professional League starts, almost all battle bets were hosted by the system.

Huh. Frost…Night!?

Zhang Yang heart sunk! He never thought that he would witness another player who was bound to be famous in the future!

Popularity-wise, Frost Night was even more famous than Ghostly Leaf! She was the top in the China server top 10 Thieves! Players called her "Queen of the Shadow Dance", traceless, undetectable, and always in the shadows, lurking in the dark. You would never know when she appears! You would never know when she would strike! People who were killed by her did not even see her coming!

This Queen had always been a loner. She had never joined guilds nor participated in any League competition yet she would dominate the entirety of China and had consistently ranked at the top of the Thieves list.

This fight, Frost Night Versus Ghostly Leaf is an extraordinary event! The heat and passion of the audience could rival the even chaos of Mars colliding with Earth!

Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows at the turn of events, brushing his chin like an old bearded man, lost in thought. Since she never joined any guild, did he have a chance of recruiting her?

Since the appearance Ghostly Leaf's latest challenger, everyone had started to question her origin, her strength. However, since she was a "member" of the White Jade Castle, the crowd naturally cheered for her.

As an audience, Zhang Yang could enter the arena before the fighters could. He quickly sat down and wait for the clash to begin.

5 minutes passed and the two players appeared at the battle field entrance.

Kang Kang Kang!

The chains of the door rang and the cage was closed behind them, sealing all possible means of escape!

This was a Deathmatch! The match could only be over when one player dies!

Frost Night, Female Elf, Level 21 Bandit.

Her face was covered in a thick black cloth. Zhang Yang could not see how see looked like but what he could see was her devilish body. That slim waist, thick butt, those long and beautiful legs, and those bombs on her chest that only rivaled by Little Snow!

Both of the contenders were at the same level but Frost Night's equipment was inferior to that of Ghostly Leaf's. She was wearing a mixture of level 10 Green-Copper equipment and level 20 Black-Steel equipment. Stats-wise, she could not possibly equal to Ghostly Leaf and his complete level 20 Green-Copper equipment set!

How could the future Queen of Shadow Dance possibly win this match with that get-up?

Zhang Yang watched eagerly.

Battle starts in 19, 19, 17…

5,4,3,2,1,0!

Poof!

Both of them simultaneously entered stealth mode, vanishing from the field. The entire battle arena was empty and quiet like a graveyard. Nothing but the sound of sand being blown by the wind remained.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds…

1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes…

As the clock ticked away, there were still no traces of either of them anywhere. If not for the Deathmatch rule hanging on the announcement board, they could have left the arena for a cup of tea and the players would not even notice! Some of the spectators had started to complain among each other. The good thing was that nobody can post or talk in the local public channel and disrupt the atmosphere.

While everyone else was busy complaining among each other, Zhang Yang had his eyes wide open. Even though he could not see anything in the field, he knew perfectly well that the fight was going on intensely. Everyone knew that whenever a Thief breaks out from his stealth mode, it will be his chance to deal a great burst damage. But when the match was between two Thieves, the tension was even greater than an airplane cable! Whoever gets the first chance to capitalize on the moment to forcefully break the other person's stealth, they would have the leading advantage while the other would greatly suffer or perhaps even die instantly.

Poof!

Two figure suddenly appeared out of thin air. Ghostly Leaf was staggering about, he had stars circling around his head! He was stunned! Frost Night, lurking behind him, brandished her daggers, dealing a huge amount of damage!

As expected of the Queen, her abilities in stealth and stealth detection was beyond even Ghostly Leaf's.

Zhang Yang pointed a finger at Ghostly Leaf selecting the interaction menu to check on his status effects.

[Ambush: Stuns the target for 4 seconds. Can only be activated during Stealth, increases combo count by two.

A series of combo attacks had left Ghostly Leaf with roughly two-thirds of his HP, after only 4 seconds of being stunned. He regained control quickly but as soon as he tried to do something, Frost Night quickly reversed the grip of her dagger and jabbed his waist with the other end of the dagger. He was stunned for another time before he could do anything.

[Kidney Shot: Stuns the target. The stunned duration depends on the combo count. 1 combo count: 2 seconds' stun. 2 combo count: 3 seconds' stun. 3 combo count: 4 seconds' stun. 4 combo count: 5 seconds' stun. 5 combo count: 6 seconds' stun.

Frost Night had accumulated up to 5 combo count and Ghost Leaf had been consequently stunned for another 6 seconds! It was another 6 seconds of knifeplay!

However, her Stamina gauge was used up completely. It was slowly filling up again, at about 10 points a second. There was a 4 seconds 20% attack buff that was called the Berserk state, which occurs whenever a thief breaks out of Stealth mode using an attack, but that effect has since expired. Her attack had returned to normal but since she had a luxurious 6 seconds to do as she pleased, she had already taken away another third of his HP.

Frost Night had full HP but her Stamina was drained; while Ghostly Leaf had only one third of his HP left but his Stamina was yet to be touched! However, taking the differences of their vastly different equipment into consideration, it was not accurate to determine their HP based on percentage.

Frost Night, HP: 1020/1020

Ghostly Leaf, HP: 680/2030

There was only a 400 HP difference between them.

Once he recovered from the stun, he quickly moved to a safe distance and consumed a healing potion.

"100!"

At the same time, a smile was slowly forming on his lips as if the tide was already turning to his advantage.

"Haha! It's my turn now bitch! You're quite strong since you could damage me to this extent. BUT! VICTORY IS…"

Poof!

Frost Night flicked her right arm and she was suddenly covered in a smoke screen and disappeared from sight.

Bandit's forceful stealth technique - Vanish.

Ghostly Leaf sudden stopped his speech!

He panicked and quick spun around, wildly swinging his dagger, trying to forcefully break her stealth. However, his effort was fruitless! Ghostly Leaf groaned angrily. How could she have learnt the skill Vanish at level 21 when that skill could only be unlocked at level 30!? Was she cheating?!

After he went around trying to search for her in vain, he finally stopped moving to use his [Bandage] to heal. However, he still had the DoT poison effect on him. He could not heal because the healing process would be interrupted by the damage!

He waited for another 15 seconds until the DoT effect stopped and began healing himself. He bent down and carefully listened for any possible movement around him.

Poof! Frost Night suddenly appeared behind him just as stars appeared on his head again! The debuff Ambush appeared on his head again!

Shush! Shush! Shush!

Frost Night mercilessly slashed him. Her stamina had already completely recovered and she repeated what she did for the first flurry of attacks she had thrown out in the beginning.

With only half his HP left, Ghostly Leaf could not survive after taking that much damage and crumpled to the ground, defeated without even throwing out a single attack.

With that, the battle between two superstars concluded with Frost Night claiming utter victory!

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Chapter 81: Another fight

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As the battle ended, everyone had teleported back to where they were before.

Without a doubt, Frost Night's victory had roused the crowd. Their passion could barely be contained by the very sky itself! Audiences started to fill the public channel with spams of insults and jeers.

"Hmph! Now you know how strong are the players in White Jade Castle! Go back to Crimson Moon City with the tail between your legs!"

"Haha! You couldn't even win a girl! What can you say now huh!"

"Beauty Frost Night! Be my girl!"

"Crawl back to whence you came sucker!"

Ghostly Leaf was lost in silence for a moment, thoughts running in his head that nobody could have guessed, but after a while, he cried out. "Did you all seriously just send a girl to defend your pride? How could you still call yourselves men!? To think that you would send a girl to defeat me, are you all still babies suckling on yo mama's tits?! ZHAN YU! WHERE THE F*CK ARE YOU! COME AND FIGHT ME, ZHAN YU! ZHAN YU!"

Seeing that Ghostly Leaf was still unrepentant, everyone doubled the intensity of their insults.

Just as Zhang Yang was about to send a private message to him, Ghostly Leaf had sent a battle request.

'Ding! Player Ghostly Leaf has sent you a battle request (Deathmatch). Do you accept?'

To send a battle request, both players must be in the battle arena. You could just insert the name of your opponent or the name of the party you are about to challenge to initiate a one to one fight or a party to party fight. This bloody bugger must have just written down his name without confirming his presence in the battle arena beforehand.

Since Zhang Yang now confirmed that Frost Night was in White Jade City, he could contact her any time after the match. He nonchalantly accepted the request.

'Ding! You have accepted Player Ghostly Leaf's battle request (Deathmatch). The match will start in 5 minutes. Please make your preparations!'

The battle arena's announcement board appeared a message saying: Room 89, Zhan Yu VS Ghostly Leaf (Deathmatch). Starts in 5 minutes.

Some people quickly noticed this and made a ruckus about it. The local channel became messy again and soon, almost everyone in the city knew about the match. The current strongest player in White Jade Castle vs the hot-blooded punk from Crimson Moon City.

Unlike Frost Night who was still a stranger to all, Zhan Yu this name had been the center of conversation throughout the entire China server. Everyone wanted to know how could a Guardian obtain 3 consecutive First Clear Achievement. Now that there was a chance to see him personally in action, no one could miss this golden opportunity!

"Hahaha! You finally showed up, scaredy-cat! I will crush you like a bug!" Ghostly Leaf sent a private message.

Zhang Yang was stunned by this unprovoked hostility towards him. Neither of them knows each other to bear any vengeance or enmity…However he came across the answer to his own question. He was the famous tanker who had claimed the 3 First Clear Achievements consecutively and had gained the attention of every player in China server. He must have indirectly earned the ire from the other guilds that wanted to claim that achievement.

This player must be here to cause a commotion. He must have thought that if he could kill Zhang Yang off a few levels, he would be able to buy some time for him to raid the Marzerway's Lair Main Wing!

Hah!

Zhang Yang smiled quietly. To think that Radiance would actually go to the extent of sending their future, and possibly already rising superstar over here to commit their underhanded tactics! However, they must have had a certain level of confidence to not even consider the thought of him losing and getting himself down to level 20 or lower, to the point of being unable to participate in the raid for Marzerway's Lair.

Did they put too much trust on this punk?

Zhang Yang had a sudden thought and sent him a private message. "Wanna bet?"

"Hmph! You think you have what it takes?" Ghostly Leaf replied with another question. He must be in over his head, or perhaps the previous loss had not been fully processed yet.

A fight between 2 Bandits highly depended on luck. Whoever first disabled the opponent's stealth will be the winner. Furthermore, the opponent had the skill Vanish at level 21. He lost but he was not content with the unfair circumstances!

Zhang Yang replied. "If you lose, I want the [Destination Teleportation Scroll] that you have!"

"Eh?! How did you know…" He was obviously shocked. He replied after a short delay. "I only have 2 left. I'll need one to go back home! I can only put 1 up for wager!"

"Hahahaha! So you know that you're gonna lose!" Zhang Yang laughed provokingly.

Ghostly Leaf wavered. He did not dare bet on all the scrolls at hand. He actually was scared of losing!

"Alright fine! 1 scroll will do just fine!" Zhang Yang did not want to push him into a corner. He might call off the bet.

Ghostly Leaf said, "If you lose, I want….I want your shield!"

Hmph! He knew it! He was here to delay Zhang Yang! However…to think that he wanted his shield…How naïve! Did he not know that Zhang Yang was the one who made 80% of all the shields in this city!

Both party then proceed to place their items on the system. Once they had confirmed their selection, the system locked in their items so that nothing could be done to it. The item that were locked cannot be "Used", "Traded", "Sold" or "Destroyed".

…4 minutes till the battle starts. 3 minutes…2 minutes…1 minute!

…5,4,3,2,1,0!

Shush! Zhang Yang could only see a flash of light and he was teleported into a corner of the battle arena. Behind him was a hallway and leads to outside of the battle arena. Since the pathway was not sealed, he could leave the battle. However, he will be considered to be forfeited the fight and lost his bet. The good thing was that he would not die, and therefore retain his level.

In front of him, he could see Ghostly Leaf on the other side of the arena. They were blocked by an invisible wall. They could only look but not approach each other.

'Ding! You have 20 seconds left to prepare!'

3!

2!

1!

'Ding! Battle start!'

Kang Kang Kang! The iron bars descended behind them and the invisible wall was removed.

Poof!

Ghostly Leaf immediately disappeared.

Zhang Yang did not panic like the average player, he walked to the front with a smug on his face.

"You bastard! See how I'll stab you endlessly!" Ghostly Leaf sneaked closer to Zhang Yang, but when he saw the smug look on his face, he felt humiliated. He wanted to just stomp on that pretty boy's little face as hard as he can!

10 meters, 8 meters, 5 meters…

As he approached Zhang Yang closer and closer, his eyes became more aggressive and vicious. The only thing in his sight was Zhang Yang's bare back. He raised his dagger, ready to unleash hell onto him.

4 meters, 3 meters, 2 meters. He was almost approaching his attacking range!

But just as when Ghostly Leaf wanted to activate Ambush, he saw a bright light flashing in his eyes.

Eh? Ambush could not be activated! He was out of the stealth mode!

"-394!"

Ghostly Leaf face turned pale as he saw his HP was hacked away by 20%.

He screamed frantically. "Holy @#!*@!! What are you!? You're not a Guardian!"

Even a Berserker with a two-handed weapon could not deal such insanely high damage! But more importantly, how did the opponent broke his invisibility? He was actually behind him all the time. That was a 0% chance of him even detecting his location!

Zhang Yang laughed maniacally. That single strike had generated 27 Rage, enough for him to cast another skill!

"-797!"

Horizontal Sweep!

"Mother*" Ghostly Leaf could not help but to cursed. He could understand if the previous strike a critical chance, but how could he explain the second strike?! That was definitely not a critical hit! He knew that a critical strike is calculated by doubling the damage count after the armor value was deducted from the initial amount! There is no way that a critical hit would be an odd number!

If he could cause close to 800 damage without a critical hit, how much would it be when it actually strikes a critical shot?

Ghostly Leaf withdrew quickly and took a health potion. He raised his daggers and asked immediately. "What kind of weapon are you using!? And also, what skill did you use to hit me the second time?" He was sure that the first attack was a normal attack since Warrior could not cast any skill without generating any Rage.

Zhang Yang activated Block without answering him. He had no interest in talking with the punk.

Block! 10 Rage

"-117!" Block reflect damage!

"-244!" Shield Bash.

Zhang Yang swung his sword and attacked Ghostly Leaf with a normal attack.

"-389!"

With a maximum HP of 2000, Ghostly Leaf was now left with only 200HP. If Zhang Yang just landed another attack, Ghostly Leaf will be sent to meet the Goddess…

"Send my regards to your guild master Sword Of Light!" said Zhang Yang as he brandish his sword and activated Force Strike.

"-379!"

Ghostly Leaf was defeated mercilessly!

Ghostly Leaf was not alone, everyone else who witness the battle was left dumbfounded. How could a Guardian deal such high damage!? Is he still considered to be a Guardian? Hell no! It's time to train a new Guardian as well!

Shush! Zhang Yang was teleported out of the battle arena along with his new trophy, a [Destination Teleportation Scroll]!

"Zhan Yu! I'm not done yet! One more! One more battle!" Ghostly Leaf sent a private message.

Zhang Yang shook his head. "You're now only level 20, will your current equipment even work?"

After he was killed by Frost Night and Zhang Yang, Ghostly Leaf had dropped from level 21 to level 19. His currently equipment level requirement was level 20. Even though he was wearing it, the equipment effect was locked out. Wearing it would be purely for aesthetics, attribute-wise he would be as good as being naked!

"Just you wait! I'll be back for you!" Ghostly Leaf teleported back to Crimson Moon City.

"Remember to bring more scrolls yeah!"

Zhang Yang's last words to him was drove the prick in his heart further in. After everything that happen, Ghostly Leaf felt like Zhang Yang was there only to squeeze out more money from him.

Back to White Jade Castle, the local channel was filled with chatters of Zhang Yang's legendary tale of "Defense of Zhan Yu".

Zhang Yang had defended the city from the enemy! He was naturally dubbed as the White Jade Castle's Hero! The man of the people! The pride of White Jade Castle! His name and reputation sky rocketed throughout the entire city!

The gods were being nice to him. All he ever wanted was to obtain the [Destination Teleportation Scroll] yet what he got was more than he bargained. He actually became the city's hero!

Zhang Yang shook his head and loosened his shoulders. He quickly sent a private message to Frost Night.

"Hello! Can I talk with you for a bit?"

After quite some time, she replied back. "Speak your mind!"

3 words, yet it was filled with the weight of the world. He could actually feel the coldness in her words. Hm…not bad. She chose her name right.

"Ahh…Ah! Right. I'd see that you have some skills. Coincidentally, my party lacks with people of your talents! Would you like to join us in raiding Marzerway's Lair, Hardcore mode the day after tomorrow?"

Zhang Yang had secured his decision to pull in his future-to-be Queen of the Shadow Dance!

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Chapter 82: Decide with a Battle!

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"No!" Frost Night rejected Zhang Yang's invitation outrightly.

"But. If you defeat me in a battle, I'll participate in just one raid!" she added after a little while.

"Ok!" Zhang Yang nodded.

'Ding! Player Frost Night has sent a battle request (Brawl). Will you accept it?'

Zhang Yang accepted the request and the system announced their fight on the arena announcement board.

Room 179, Zhan Yu Versus Frost Night (Brawl). Battle starts in 5 minutes

The arena got rowdy again. The crowd from the battle before had not yet dispersed after the match and had remained around the arena. They quickly noticed the announcement and the atmosphere that never had the chance to settle down quickly burst into an uproar again. On one side was the fresh, still unknown merciless challenger while on the other was the all-time people's champion. Both had killed Ghostly Leaf with an extraordinary feats in their own right. To think that these two fighters would actually fight each other. This fight would be the battle of the ages to come.

One by one, friends called on more friends, guild mates called on more guild mates to come over, and the events snowballed into chaos. In merely 3 minutes, room 179 was occupied with more than 10000 spectators! 5 minutes later, Frost Night and Zhang Yang was teleported in to the battle field.

Count down start!

5,4,3,2,1,0!

Poof!

Frost Night disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Yang did not dare to lower his guard, even though her equipment was weaker and Ghostly Leaf, her skills were on a completely different level! Especially when she had the skill Vanish that could be consecutively used twice in a row.

Outside the field, every spectator's eyes were glued to field, paying close attention any sudden changes. Frost Night might appear anytime and kill Zhang Yang before he could even draw breath!

The tension got more and more intense with each passing moment.

Foosh!

A shadowy figure appeared behind Zhang Yang and struck the back of his head! Simultaneously, Zhang Yang sword was already flying through the air and just as the back of the dagger made contact with his head, Zhang Yang's sword struck Frost Night.

"-387!"

"Ambush!"

Both of their attack seemed to have landed at the same time. Frost Night lost a huge portion of her HP while Zhang Yang was stunned for 4 seconds!

A loud unison gasp could be heard from the audience.

"These two players are hella strong!"

"Damn! Zhan Yu could even detect a hidden Thief! What kind of force user is he?!"

"Frost Night is considered as strong as he is, if she could even stun him!"

"That weapon that Zhan Yu is holding must be some sort of high tier weapon. What else could explain the ridiculous damage done to Frost Night?"

"I see your point there, fellow player. But Frost Night is now in a dangerous position. If she could not kill Zhan Yu in that 4 second opening, she would be in a huge disadvantage!"

"Your argument is invalid my young apprentice. You seemed to ignored the law…"

As the audience started to discuss among themselves, Frost Night kept calm and quickly consumed a health potion. She then raised her dagger and stabbed Zhang Yang's back, the beginning a chain of damage. Each damage was not particularly high but her attacks were fast and continuous, the accumulated damage amounted to quite a bit!

After 4 seconds, the stun was lifted, but before Zhang Yang could turn, Frost Night had landed a Kidney Shot, knocking him out and stunned for 6 seconds.

Zhang Yang is an armored class character. Furthermore, he had 20% damage reduction passive skill, his armor and defense was not something a Thief could compare to! Frost Night could deal more than 1300 damage to Ghostly Leaf, but when she faced Zhang Yang, she could only deal about 800 damage to him, that was only less than one third of Zhang Yang total HP!

Frost Night still remained calm. The moment the 6 seconds' stun ended, she quickly flicked her right arm and activate Vanish.

Zhang Yang grinned. He slashed his sword horizontally and stomped the ground firmly at the place where Frost Night disappeared, casting Horizontal Sweep and Thunder Strike. Being damaged for 10 seconds without any opportunity to resist, Zhang Yang had generated more Rage than his gauge could hold in.

"-765!"

"-117!"

Frost Night was forcefully broken out of her invisibility, her HP was emptied instantly. She surrendered.

Shush! Two of them were teleported out of the field.

"One more!" Frost Night sent a private message to Zhang Yang.

"Oh. But if you lose, you owe me two raids now!" Zhang Yang laughed.

"…..Fine!"

After agreeing, the both of them entered the fight again and battled.

In the second round, Frost Night learnt from her mistake. This time when Kidney Shot 6 seconds' stun was at its last second, she stopped attacking and immediately used Vanish to disappear.

When he recovered from the stun effect he quickly headed to where she disappeared and ran around there. He slashed out Horizontal Sweep and killed her again.

"How did you find me!?" Frost Night had to ask.

Zhang Yang had been fighting Bandits for at least 3 years, thus he had developed a kind of trick to locate a hidden Thief! The worse side effect of stealth was the movement speed reduction. Once you have turned invisible, your speed will be reduced by half. Once other had seen you disappear, they can easily locate your position quite fast.

"Private and Confidential!"

Frost Night grit her teeth furiously. "Tch! One day, I will defeat you!"

Such strong determination! Zhang Yang laughed. "You cannot beat me! Your equipment is still too weak! Otherwise, you could have defeated me the first time when you had stunlocked me! Follow me into dungeons for a few times and you'll get the equipment you need to defeat me!"

Frost Night was speechless for a few moments. "I've lost two rounds. That's two dungeons raid I owe you…Call me when you're going for the dungeon!"

She did not want to continue fighting Zhang Yang when she had roughly gauged the difference in equipment between the two of them.

Zhang Yang smiled and sent a friend request.

She did not reject nor accept it immediately, but instead replied with a question mark.

Zhang Yang explained. "Let's just add each other, it'll be easier for me to find you the next time!"

Frost Night walked away without saying anything.

Zhang Yang sighed. He thought that she would reject his request but eventually, he received a system notification.

'Ding! Player Frost Night has accepted your friendship request!"

Nice! This girl is now in his hands! Just like a mice that entered the trap, she will not be able to escape from him now!

Zhang Yang snickered like a fool who won a jackpot. After a while, he opened the guild window and wrote a new announcement: "There will raid for Marzerway's Lair, Main Wing 2 days from now. The raiding party will have the following fixed members: Zhan Yu, Drizzler, Little Snow, Slim and Handsome, Hundred Shots. The party requires the following character class: 1 Tanker, 3 Healer, 11 Attacker. Whoever who could reach level 20 by the day after tomorrow and wishes to participate in the exploration party could register their names as such. Tankers report to Zhan Yu, Healers report to Little Snow, Attackers report to Drizzler, Slim and Handsome, and Hundred Shots. Registered players will be narrowed down and only the best will be chosen to participate."

Excitement filled the guild once Zhang Yang posted the new announcement on the guild notice. Everyone wanted to joined the expedition, sure of themselves to conquer the dungeon once their submissions were accepted.

"Haha! Good luck, and train faster, guys!" Zhang Yang posted in the guild channel and went to the Desolated Ghostly Flatland to grind his level.

In his bag, there was the unusable Skeleton Warhorse. It could be used only when Zhang Yang reaches level 30. That was why he wanted to grind as fast as he can. Imagine what kind of reaction will he garner when he takes a stroll around White Jade City with that horse.

"What a pity…if only I could sell this off…" Zhang Yang mused.

If only he could take the horse up to the auction house and sell it off, he would be literally killed by the hands of Little Snow and Drizzler!

Zhang Yang spent the entire day just to grind, grind, and grind. Nothing else. To gain one level after level 20 is truly terrifying. If he were put everything he had just into grinding, he would need two days or so to gain one level! By the time, Zhang Yang logged off to have his dinner, he was only at level 23, with 42% Experience points in the progress bar.

After his dinner, Zhang Yang spent some time on the internet and hang out at the forums. He found out that the Ghostly Leaf case had been a heated topic in the forums since morning. Some said that he wanted to be a lone hero, to try to fight for glory of being able to kill every single player in the city alone! While some were explaining his behavior, others were busy throwing insults and flaming his actions. Why would he travel all the way to White Jade Castle to fight? Has he already fought all and won every one there in Crimson Moon City? If that was the case, him being defeated would mean there are no strong players in Crimson Moon City!

There were players who supported him, but the odds were overwhelming.

Zhang Yang had a good laughed and logged back into the game. Zhang Yang, Little Snow, Drizzeler, Fatty Han, and Hundred Shots each led a team to raid Bangar Crypt. Once they were done with that, Zhang Yang summoned the 5 of them to the battle arena for PK training. There, he found out that besides Fatty Han, the rest of the party were quite skillful in fighting players. They could be even stronger with more training. Fatty Han however, was completely oblivious in PK style of fighting. He only knew how to attack without the sense of moving his position, like a human turret. Hunter is a ranged character, he would need to maintain a certain distance between the target to allow maximum attacking potential. This common knowledge was not in Fatty Han's mind when he attacked like a fixed machine gun. Even though he knew how to utilized Concussion Shot he did not fully utilize the skill's slowing effect to ran away from the target.

Once cornered, a Hunter would be completely useless.

Zhang Yang tirelessly adviced Fatty Han to keep his distance, to be light on his feet, and to move dynamically. But what entered from the right ear will smoothly flows out from the left ears like a good beer bong. Fatty Han could not follow his orders properly nor remember the fighting tactic! Zhang Yang was at a loss. He did not know what else to do! It was him that suggested Fatty Han start off as a Hunter because he knew very well that Fatty Han would never excel in PK!

A diamond cannot shine without polishing. But no matter how much effort you put in polishing a brick, it would never shine bright like a diamond!

This fat f*ck could only raid dungeons and not participate in any battle arena fights. Zhang Yang could not involve him in any future Professional League competition!

Zhang Yang really wanted to drag this brother to join the competition but a Professional League needed a team, and the team need to cooperate perfectly to win any fights. Zhang Yang could not be selfish and include a liability like Fatty Han in the team, which would lead to the team's demise. Sigh!

After the day was over, Lone Desert Smoke's experience point had reached 42%, and at this rate, it would take just another 4 to 5 days' time to reach the maximum experience point.

For the next following 2 days, Zhang Yang was only busy collecting herbs, selling shields, buying stacks of minerals plates from Mining Specialist, and leveling up his Smithing mastery. Two nights later, 15th of July, 15 days after the launching of the game, Lone Desert Smoke had produced 24 Level 20 players! Zhang Yang himself had reached level 24 with 47% experience points!

Now that it's time to do the party member selections, Zhang Yang and the 4 of them chose the party members carefully. However, truthfully speaking, it was not a selection, but to find 5 members to remove from the team since they needed to leave one spot open for Frost Night. Once they were done with the team organization, Zhang Yang ordered everyone to log out earlier today and have a good night rest. The upcoming battle would be most arduous.

Zhang Yang sent a private message to Frost Night before he logged out.

"Hey, we are going to raid Marzerway's Lair Main Wing tomorrow morning 9am. Don't forget to gather at Snow Sprite City dungeon entrance!"

"Noted. I'll take a work leave tomorrow!"

Requesting a leave just for the sake of gaming, 1much determination, very gamer, so Frost Night.

TL note:

1Doge meme which is rather prevalent on the internet, involves a shiba inu's adorable face along with captions in fragmented sentences such as "Much wow, so woof." etc.

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Chapter 83: Assault

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The next day, Zhang Yang logged in and joined the other 18 members of the guild and headed into Snow Sprite City. Frost Snow did not join the rest of them but she waited instead at the dungeon entrance for the party to enter. From the initial point, the party have killed their way towards the inner part of the city to complete the pre-requisite quest of the dungeon. After only 7 to 8 minutes, the quest has been completed and they headed into the dungeon.

"Be careful, there are at least 7 other Bandits lurking around here!" Frost Night suddenly announced in the party channel.

Zhang Yang was shocked and quickly screamed, "Everyone! To me, NOW!"

Some of them heard his call and complied, while the others were oblivious and ignored his call.

Just then, 7 to 8 figures appeared behind 3 of the day dreamers.

Pak Pak Pak! The Bandits casted Ambush and started to attack them.

'Ding! The party Flamboyant Uncle has initiated an attack on your party. You have 10 minutes to counter attack!'

"F*cking hell!" Zhang Yang cursed. He quickly casted Vanguard's Aggression and covered the 3 party members and at the same time dashing towards the attacker and cried, "Attack! Kill them all!"

The party was in complete chaos for a brief moment, but when Zhang Yang laid down his command, everyone started to cast their AoE skill towards the attackers.

The opponents had a total of 8 Bandits. After all 3 of Zhang Yang's party members were stunned by Ambush, the Bandits activated Blade Dance simultaneously.

[Blade Dance: Attack all targets within the attacking range. Deal 100% melee damage (Deals the accumulated melee damage of both Main Weapon and Secondary Weapon. If only one weapon is equipped, deal the same amount of damage as the melee damage.)

Requirement: Melee weapon.

Cost: 60 Stamina.

One Bandit's Blade Dance could deal about 200 damage, but when 8 Bandits casted Blade Dance together, the stacked damage could exceed 1,600! They could kill all 3 of the party members!

But Zhang Yang was too quick for them. The moment the enemy appeared, Zhang Yang had already casted Vanguard's Aggression, covering the three members under a transparent light barrier, thus receiving only 10% of all damage dealt!

"F*ck. What skill is this?!" One of them spoke.

"Sneaky bastard!" Zhang Yang immediately used Charge the moment he entered the effective distance. He swung his sword, generating enough Rage to cast Horizontal Sweep.

All of them had their profile information hidden, obviously trying to hide their origin.

'-754!'

'-798!'

'-768!'

'-2391!'

8 damage texts appeared and one of them showed such high damage that it immediately killed one of the enemy! It was a lucky strike!

"Damn son. Little Yang, please do ask me to PK with you!" Fatty Han could not help but feel intimidated! That crazy killing power is so strong that Zhang Yang could just kill off anyone within his sight.

"Relax dude! It's not like a lucky strike comes around every day!" Before Zhang Yang could start his second attack, the remaining 7 enemy were all killed by everyone's AoE skills.

"Why would they sneak up on us?" Drizzler turned to look at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang smiled bitterly. "Someone's being a sore loser. They tried to mess with us so that we would not be able to claim this dungeon's First Clear Achievement!"

Frost Night was the first one to cry out in rage. "Despicable!"

Even though her face was completely covered, but they could feel the rage that was within her. She looked like she was one of those people who could not accept cheating; a woman of justice!

Drizzler's reaction was somewhat slower than an average person. She gasped and clapped her hands. "So, you're saying that there are guilds out there that wanted to stop us from getting the First Clear Achievement and sent these guys to mess with us? Hm… Hm… I understand that our guild's one weakness is that we lack high level players, that only today we could gather enough players at Level 20. So, if anyone us was killed and lose even just a level, we could not enter the dungeon anymore!"

Zhang Yang sighed disappointingly. "I really pity the teachers that taught you life lessons. How could you not understand this simple matter? Argh… it's so hard to be a teacher!"

Drizzler got angry and her face turned red. Still, she could not find the words to refute him. She only raised her head and said "Hmph!" loudly and walked away. Looks like Zhang Yang hit the jackpot.

"I wonder what guild are they from?" said Hundred Shots.

"Well, Crimson Rage are all females…"

"It must be either The Dominators or Sky High!"

"It could have been The Dominators!" said Zhang Yang. He thought it that way since the alliance between Humbly Gentleman was a failure and he did leave with an unsatisfied manner. This was probably his way of answering Zhang Yang's rejection. If he was indeed the culprit behind this attack, he would be considered brilliant. As long as any Lone Desert Smoke members were killed off by a few, Zhang Yang could not have been able to proceed with the dungeon raid!

The only thing they could not account for was Zhang Yang's new skill Vanguard's Aggression that foiled the attack! Hmm… hmm… The Dominators, you have strike us now but watch your back!

Zhang Yang cleared his throat and said, "Split up into four teams and fight the Front Wing and Middle Wing in Normal difficulty. You must do this to get the entrance qualification to the Main Wing. The other reason is to get used to all four of the bosses' skills. The Main Wing boss Marzerway will use all four of them. I want all of you to get used to it so that we could perform better in the Main Wing. Alright, the team distribution should be me, Ironhill, 2 Pigs with Hunters as tanks, and the healer should be…"

"Damn! Little Yang! Pigs with Hunters? What the f*ck!?" Fatty Han got angry.

"Oops. Sorry. Let me rephrase that. Hunters with 2 pigs…" Zhang Yang laughed. He assigned the team to have tanks and healers to make sure every party has its proper build1.

"Why don't we just fight Hard or Hardcore Mode?" Someone questioned the thought since Normal mode was so easy that anyone else could have led the party instead of the legendary Zhan Yu.

"It's a waste of time. Our main goal is just to get the entrance qualifications! Furthermore, the Hunter's… pigs could only tank as much as Normal difficulty. Besides, Normal, Hard, or even Hardcore Mode bosses use the same skills, just having different damage output. So learn the skills properly; Normal Mode would be the best bet so that if anyone screws up their role or make a mistake, your party won't be killed off!" Zhang Yang explained.

"Ok! Let's raid!"

'Ding! You have entered Marzerway's Lair: Front Wing (Normal Mode)!'

Zhang Yang's own party consisted of Drizzler, Frost Night, Angel Descend, and Face Floored. He intentionally placed Drizzler and Frost Night into his team, not because he was interested in them, but was because of their powerful attacking powers. He was afraid that other tanks could not hold on to the aggro.

In reality, Angel Descend and Face Floored were good friends, and they were Spellcaster and Priest respectively. Both of them are male and their names were quite funny when they were put together. Face floored (when) angel descended. Haha!

"Let's start!" Zhang Yang unsheathed his sword and used Charge to start the fight. This round, even if it was a Normal Mode, he did not dare to kite the monsters all the way since they will self-destruct on death. Though the damage was significantly lesser in Normal Mode, even he could not handle all the explosions at the same time and be killed off.

"Frost Night, why did you choose that IGN2?" Drizzler asked curiously like a child. Being the only girls in the party, Drizzler felt comfortable to chat with her.

"Why are you so quiet?"

"Why did you cover your face with that cloth?"

"How did you know this noob tank? I tell you, this guy has a friend that is a horny pervert. You'd better watch your back!"

"How old are you? Are you working? Or still in school?"

Drizzler kept on bombarding her with questions that it became annoying. Luckily the only questions that she did not ask were ultra-private information like her 3 sizes or her virginity…

However, Frost Night was well behaved. Even after being bombarded with questions, she did not reply a single one. Instead, she continuously danced around with her daggers, fully focused on killing monsters.

"Little brat! If you continue on to be that noisy, your damage output is going to lose to everyone else!" Zhang Yang quickly interjected before she was about to open her mouth.

"W-what?! That's impossible!" she cried and quickly opened the Damage Statistic.

[Damage Statistic]

Zhan Yu, 38%

Frost Night, 29%

Drizzler, 22%

Angel Descend, 11%

"Eh?" Drizzler blinked her eyes repeatedly. "Your equipment is much weaker than mine. But how could you deal so much damage?!"

Frost Night remained quiet as ever. Zhang Yang replied in her stead. "That's because someone else was fully focus on attacking! Sigh…They say kids who can't study well are very good in gaming. And then there's you! The curious case of Drizzler who is both weak in studies and gaming. You're like a piece of rock in the desert! Useless!"

Drizzler raged. "Who says I'm useless!? I'm just not fully focused, that's it! One more thing. I'm not a kid!"

"Argh! Let's fight again!" Drizzler looked at Frost Night confidently. She has completely fallen into Zhang Yang's provocation.

Frost Night was still silent. However, Drizzler mistook her silence as consent and she finally kept her mouth shut. After closing the Damage Statistic, she cried out loudly and started to attack faster than before.

What followed proved that in the gaming world, the winner will always have the best equipment. Frost Night was and will be the Queen of Shadow Dance, but as of now, her equipment was much weaker than Drizzler's. After killing the second boss, she lost by only 2% damage output! She was not a sore loser like Drizzler; even though her face was completely covered, her eyes radiated with a fiery battle spirit.

Drizzler was as happy as ever. Such a naïve little girl… When she wins, she's happy. But when she loses, she'll snort, sulk, and put on a sour face.

Zhang Yang felt sad for her. How could a girl like her, someone who was so realistic and naïve, still exist in this kind of society!? If Drizzler were to join the society now, it would not take even a day for her to be eaten alive!

After they had finished with the Front Wing, the party moved on to the Middle Wing. As this team had 3 strong players in it, they were the fastest in terms of progress among the 4 parties that went in.

When they entered the dungeon, Drizzler and Frost Night went on to have their fight. Even though Frost Night looked very cold and unresponsive, silent without uttering a single word, her intent to win the match was burning strong. Even when her equipment was weak, she had never thought of any reason to lose the fight. This forced Drizzler to be at her best; she did not dare to even slack for a second, fearing that Frost Night might surpass her at any moment.

On the other hand, Angel Descend successfully became side character. He did not even care to join in the fight. He only did his part, casting some hail on the monsters.

In just 15 minutes, the party successfully conquered the Middle Wing. This feat was quite impressive that even Zhang Yang had to praise their effort.

1A proper built party must have at least 1 tanker and 1 healer while the rest of the member should be attackers.

2 IGN is a common term for In Game Name.

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Chapter 84: Main Wing! Here we come!

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After clearing both Front Wing and the Middle Wing dungeons, Zhang Yang and his party gathered in front of the last dungeon.

After 5 minutes or so, the second team led by Hundred Shots came out, followed by Fatty Han's team, and the last team was Ironhill's. In this small dungeon, the performance of the tank will determine the success of the team. That is why even though Ironhill's team had a strong supporter like Little Snow, it would be useless since their team's tank was not strong enough.

"I assume by now everyone fully understands the boss' mechanics." Zhang Yang asked. "If that's the case, go and complete the quest and let's go to the Main Wing!"

"Woohoo! Equipment!"

"First Clear!"

Everyone's morale was high as they marched into the Main Wing with high spirits.

The dungeon was set in a palace, and Zhang Yang with his party were standing in the center of a huge courtyard. Ahead of them was the palace's Main Wing and it was there Marzerway resided!

Zhang Yang cleared his throat, signaling the starting of his speech.

"*Ahem* I'll now explain the strategy to fight. This boss has a total of 5 stages. At the first stage, he will take the form of the Water Spirit and had all of the Water Spirit boss' skill. In this stage, it is important to interrupt its skill casting. Hundred Shots, Comet Tears and Big Ben, you guys are the first team to fire the first volley of Silencing Shot, the second volley team will be Fatty Han, Iron Heart and Burnt Snow. One more thing, always be on alert to evade the Ice Ring!"

"The second stage…"

Zhang Yang paused immediately and smiled. "You know what? Let's just focus on practicing at the first stage!"

"Ok! Let's go!"

The party went forward until they could finally see Marzerway's own body.

From the looks of it, he seemed like a middle-aged man no older than thirty. A deep purplish red robe adorned his slim and tall body, having a sort of an appearance of a well-studied philosopher, and he held a long wooden staff on his left hand. With the way he portrayed himself, he did not give off the vibe of a mass-murderer.

[Marzerway the Fallen]

Level: 25

HP: 1,000,000

"Team 1 move to the North! Team 2 take the East! Team 3, South! Team 4, attack from the West! Once you have arrived at your position, we will begin the attack!" said Zhang Yang as he dashed toward the boss.

"Impudent fools, you dare to disturb my rest! Weaklings that seek death, I shall grant you your wish! Hmm… hmm…With the power of water alone, I shall cleanse you off this earth!" Marzerway started its attack.

Once Zhang Yang and Marzerway's distance were close enough, Zhang Yang activated Charge, followed by a normal attack and Provoke.

'-332!'

'Immune!'

With that alone, Zhang Yang gained important information, learning that it had immunity against Provoke along with having 100 Defense value.

Still, Marzerway's aggro was on Zhang Yang, and he raised his staff to smack him.

As a magic-based boss, Marzerway's attack speed was slow enough that Zhang Yang could evade it whenever he wanted to! But he did not, and instead took a full hit to understand how strong the boss' physical attack was. As Sun Tzu explained in his Art of War, 'know your enemy and yourself and you'll win a hundred war'.

'-448!'

Zhang Yang took damage without any resistance. He never had thought that a magic based boss would have such high physical attack. Marzerway was truly strong!

With that, Zhang Yang gained 30 Rage.

'Cripple Defense!'

'-141!' Cripple Defense damage.

'-714!' Horizontal Sweep.

To counter a high defense boss, Zhang Yang first prioritized stacking Cripple Defense to maximize the party's damage output.

Once the boss' defense was reduced by 50%, the party began to deal higher damage.

"Weak little humans, I will freeze you 'til the depth of your soul!" Marzerway stopped his physical attacks and started to cast a spell.

Pew!

After 3 second casting, Marzerway fired an ice arrow and hit Zhang Yang.

'-1200!'

"What the hell! Why would his attacks be much stronger than the 5-man dungeon boss Water Spirit?!" After fighting the element spirits for several days, Little Snow had a better understanding to all skill damages as a healer.

"Hmm. This is a 20-man dungeon, of course the attack will be higher!" said Zhang Yang.

Even though this boss was much stronger than the Hardcore bosses, Zhang Yang was able to fight with lesser stress as the team had 4 healers. The healing load was shared among them and it lessened the burden on Little Snow.

99%, 98%, 97%...

The boss' HP was just too much. Even with 20 players attacking constantly, the HP reduction rate was the slowest he had ever seen!

"Slumber in eternal winter!" Marzerway cried out as he spread out his arms, casting 8 visible rings of ice onto the battle field.

'Ding! Marzerway has used Ice Ring!'

"Pay attention to the floor! Move away if there's an ice ring!" Zhang Yang could only scream to remind the party, not having all day to supervise one by one.

3 seconds after the skill had been activated, 8 icy orbs formed.

'-2500!'

'-2500!'

'Ding! Player Four Hairs has died!'

'Ding! Player Golden Big Ben has died!'

Crap! Two down!

Holding in his anger, Zhang Yang asked. "How did you two die?! Didn't I tell you all to be careful of the rings?!"

"Sorry, boss. I was completely immersed in attacking!"

"Me too!"

Zhang Yang shook his head angrily. He wanted to unleash his rage but he suppressed the urge. It was not the time be playing the blame game; the teamwork might just be affected.

Zhang Yang took a deep breath and said, "Just be careful next time. One more careless mistake and you'll have your guild contributions deducted!"

"Understood!"

Both dead players accepted Zhang Yang's reproach but whether their apologies were sincere or if it was just for the sake of it, nobody knew but them.

Sigh… to think that Zhang Yang had assigned Big Ben to the "interruption" team.

"Defiant Monk, you're now assigned to the "Interruption" team, go and get together with Hundred Shots!"

"Roger that!" Defiant Monk listened obediently to Zhang Yang since they got along some time ago.

So far, the only classes that had interruption skills were Spellcasters, Hunters, and Thieves. Hunters required Focus while Thieves required Stamina. Both classes cost system had a maximum of 100 points and they could recover 10 points every second. Casting the interruption skill Silencing Shot or the Low Kick both required 25 Focus for Hunters and 25 Stamina for Thieves. They would need to make sure they had sufficient Focus to make sure the cycle did not stop.

A Spellcaster's interruption skill Counter Magic required Mana. As long there was sufficient Mana and the skill was not in cooldown, you could stop a channeling spell by casting it before the spell could be completed. By far, a Spellcaster was the most suitable to be the "interrupter".

There were 4 Spellcasters in the party. Zhang Yang assigned 2 to Hundred Shots and the other 2 to Fatty Han. Now that they lost a member, Zhang Yang had to assign Defiant Monk as replacement.

But was it really necessary to have three players simultaneously casting three "interruption" spells?

One, to avoid a possible chance of missing; and two, the casting speed was much faster than the Water Spirit boss. One man alone could miss out the chance to stop the spell.

As the fight continued on, Marzerway has casted Ice Ring twice. Zhang Yang kept reminding the team so that no one else would get hit by any of the spell.

"Hmmph! A bunch of noisy little pests! I'll drown you all in a hail storm!"

Marzerway raised its staff up high and started to chant a spell. Hundred Shots quickly called out as he casted a Silencing Shot.

"Interrupt together!"

However, the assigned players were Defiant Monk and Comet Tears, and only Defiant Monk activated his Silencing Shot; the Spellcaster was still casting a Fireball!

Luckily, Silencing Shot hit its target, stopping the Hail Storm from being casted.

"Comet Tears, why didn't you cast Counter Magic!?"

The Spellcaster quietly muttered. "I wanted to finish my Fireball before I cast an interruption spell. But since you guys had already casted your skill, I didn't think mine was necessary."

Hundred Shots stared at him angrily and scolded. "Do not make the same mistake ever again! Just because you wanted to attack, you could have caused the entire team to be killed! As a member of a party, you must bear the responsibility of a team member! You cannot just go around and act on your own accord!"

Comet Tears appeared to be in despair after that rebuke.

"Alright, what's done is done. No use crying over a spilt milk. Cheer up. There's more interruptions coming later!" Hundred Shots turned soft.

Zhang Yang was genuinely surprised to see that Hundred Shots could also be stern! If he were to give him some lessons, there was a chance that Hundred Shots could be a good leader!

After the small commotion, the interruption team became fairly serious and performed extraordinary. They never allowed Marzerway to successfully cast a single time!

90%...85%...80%!

Even with Zhang Yang's repeated remainder, there were still careless players that died by the Ice Ring. A total of 3 players had died and one of them was a healer. They had now lost 5 members!

After a while, Marzerway roared. "I have underestimated you all! Heed my call, O God of the Earthly Spirit! Become one with me and crush these proudly beings!"

The boss has entered the second stage!

Pak!

Marzerway turned into a physical attack monster. He swung his staff and Zhang Yang had star circling on top of his head! Zhang Yang was hit by Smash and had been stunned! Marzerway's physical attack suddenly increased, and he then focused only on Zhang Yang and dealt a series of heavy attacks.

'-704!'

'402!' Little Snow Higher Healing.

'80!' Face Floored Regeneration.

'-735!'

'-747!'

'240!' Face Floored Higher Healing.

'207!' Vanilla Ice Cream Holy Light.

'-711!'

In just 2 seconds, Marzerway attacked 4 times, totaling up to 3,000 over damage! Luckily, his team had 3 other healers that instantly healed him over the attacks and saved him from death!

Zhang Yang quickly activated Block the second he recovered from the stun effect, providing an opening for the healers to do their job.

"Attackers would only need to focus on evading the spikes on the floor! Little Snow, just like the last time, when the boss stuns me, use Holy Prayers on me!" Zhang Yang cried out.

"The second stage is very simple! The boss is just like a wooden pole!"

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Chapter 85: Exploration

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The second stage of the boss was fairly easy; from the attackers' perspective, that was. In the healers' eyes, they were having the time of their life healing like there was no tomorrow!

The boss was just too powerful! His staff looked like it was made from wood but it felt like it was really just the Monkey King Sun Wo Kong's golden staff. Zhang Yang's HP was being whacked down like how Sun Wo Kong whacked the high heavens upside down!

"Damn you, Zhan Yu! Why are you so squishy like a tofu1!?" Little Snow complained violently.

Zhang Yang smiled bitterly. He thought to himself, "Hmph! Keep on complaining, b*tch! If I were to trade with another tank, you wouldn't even have time to open your mouth at all! You'd be too busy healing crazily. The moment you're distracted, you'd be sure to have the tank killed!"

Being attacked by Sun Wu… Marzerway, Zhang Yang did not have any spare time to do anything else. He was fully focused on doing one thing, evading every attack. He could not even spare some energy to open his mouth to remind the party members nor command them!

"Be pierced to death by my rocks!" Marzerway bellowed. He waved his staff around and 12 circular dark pits with a diameter of 3 meters wide appeared randomly on the battle field.

"MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!" Zhang Yang was so preoccupied that he could only scream as loud as he could.

'Ding! Marzerway has used Earth Spear!'

Almost everyone was able to dodge in time, but there was a small group of players that were slower and became inflicted with the slow effect, eventually being pierced by the spikes that jolted out from the pit. One by one they were attacked and the damage text appeared on their head.

'-400!'

'-400!'

This skill's attack rate was one strike per second, and since the slower players were inflicted by slow, they took 3 to 4 attacks before they could escape the pit's attack radius.

Luckily the healers were efficient enough to heal them in time or they would be killed too!

But this placed the healers in a worse position. They were already busy enough taking care of the main tank, but when they had to babysit the rest of the party, the entire healer's team was turned upside down.

Fatty Han sucked in a cold breath and said, "Damn, being poked so many times, I think my assh*le is bleeding now!"

"Hell no! It's the balls that's hurting!"

"Wrong! Even your balls are now in pieces!"

Zhang Yang was infuriated with the party's halfhearted behavior.

"SHUT THE HELL UP AND PAY ATTENTION!"

Everyone froze.

"Focus on the boss and predict what skills he will cast next! How many of you really memorized the skills from before?! How you could still miss it and get killed!? Didn't I asked you to get used to the boss' skills?! Why did I bring you to the Normal Mode for?! Fishing for girls?! The next person who gets hit by any skill is a pig head!"

After hearing Zhang Yang's rage-induced scolding, the party did not dare to joke around anymore. All of them started to pay attention and attacked the boss. Zhang Yang truthfully did not want to put a wet blanket on their fun, but before enjoying the moment, they needed to first ensure the dungeon's victory! Of course Zhang Yang would get angry! They were in the exploration team yet none of them seemed to understand the importance of it! Someone of them even behaved like the boss would automatically drop dead without them needing to lend a hand!

"Strength! I will show you my strength! Bear witness to the power of Marzerway!"

The boss smacked Zhang Yang strongly and his body shook a little from it! The boss expanded in size!

'Ding! Marzerway has gained Growth effect (1 stack). All physical attacks have been increased by 5%!"

"Pick up the pace! We must quickly end this stage within 2 minutes! Do not let him grow up to 10 stacks or else no one in this world could endure his attacks!"

Everyone started to give all that they had! Arrows flew, spells were shot, and blades were clashing!

76%, 74%, 72%...

"Be pierced to death by my rocks!"

"Strength! I will show you my strength! Bear witness to the power of Marzerway!"

64%, 63%, 62%!

Marzerway gained 10 levels of Growth, his attacks were increased by 50%, Earth Spear's damage per second increased to 600! Those who were slower and did not manage to avoid the pits were killed off instantly. Many of the players here had recently just reached Level 20, so their weapons and armors were quite mediocre; their HP was only a little over 1,000.

60%...

The boss finally entered the third stage. But the initial number of players were reduced by a whole lot. Right now, the only players remaining accumulated to one third of the original number!

"Little Yang, should we just give up and try again?" Fatty Han asked.

Zhang Yang shook his head. "No. We continue. Treat this as practice!"

They already lost 7 members and they boss had only lost 40% HP. The following events to come would definitely be harder and uglier.

Luckily, when the boss entered the third stage, he did not carry over the 11 stacks of Growth. Unless the team could end the stage quickly without any trouble or death, the Growth bonus effect would definitely pose as a threat for Zhang Yang.

"O Spirt of Fire and Immolation! Be one with me!"

Marzerway raised his staff high and struck the ground with great strength. A wall of fire emerged from the ground and blasted everywhere, with him as the center of it.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

All melee range players including Zhang Yang were knocked back 3 meters away!

'Ding! Marzerway has used Knockback!'

'Ding! You are now affected with Combustible. All fire attacks received will be increased by 50%!'

Zhang Yang quickly dashed forward and used Charge to attack when he was in the melee attack range.

Marzerway reverted back to a magic-based boss when he entered the third stage. After he struck Zhang Yang a few times, he quickly casted a Flame Shot.

Boom!

Zhang Yang received a devastating 1,500 damage in just one attack.

One of the characteristics of a magic attack type was that it will use physical attacks once in a while. The damage was unlike the physical attack type, where it could feel as heavy as a bulldozer! But even so, physical attacks were no match for a magic attack type that could chain a combo!

For example, after the boss casted a Flame Shot, he could cast another Knockback which could kill a tank with a 90% success rate! A tank would need to depend heavily on his equipment to survive. If his HP was not high enough, he could not even fight the boss at all!

"Healers! Please listen carefully. I want you all to make sure my HP is full before the boss cast a Flame Shot! To everyone else, do not die! This is an order!" said Zhang Yang.

His current maximum HP was 2,200. If he were to be carrying Combustible, he would receive 1,500 damage from Flame Shot and 600 damage from Knockback. He could be killed with just another light attack from the boss, and that was why Zhang Yang had to maintain full HP!

In the third stage, the boss would gain one Sacrifice buff that increased 50% damage whenever someone dies. Unless they could quickly force the boss to enter the fourth stage, the team would be walking on fire whenever anyone dies!

"O Flames of truth! Cleanse the souls of these sinful beings!" Marzerway raised his staff. 16 rivers of molten lava burst out from his body and flowed onto the battle field, covering the ground with burning lava.

'Ding! Marzerway has used Lava Flow!'

"Avoid it! Avoid it!"

Zhang Yang kited the boss to a safe location. This skill did not need the boss to continuously channel. As long as it was casted, it would continuously flow out from a fixed location until the end of the duration. The party was in total chaos; some managed to avoid the lava while others were in such a panic that they accidentally walked into the lava and died.

'Ding! Player 4th Grandfather had died!'

"Hahaha! The power of the soul shall grant me more power!' Marzerway laughed cynically.

'Ding! Marzerway has gained a Sacrifice effect. All attacks have been increased by 50%!'

Boom! A Flame Shot was casted and it hit Zhang Yang.

'-2,250!' Zhang Yang was instantly killed!

Ironhill quickly took over his role but Drizzler, Frost Night, Fatty Han, and Hundred Shots had more aggro than he did. Marzerway did not attack him, and instead casted a Flame Shot and killed Drizzler.

When the boss turned to face Frost Night, she quickly whipped her right hand and disappeared with Vanish.

Marzerway then quickly switched his attack target and shot two Flame Shot killing off both Fatty Han and Hundred Shots.

The situation was f*cked up beyond any recognition. Marzerway now had 5 stacks of Sacrifice effect. He could just kill anyone in sight with just the Knockback alone.

Complete annihilation!

In the graveyard, Zhang Yang could not bring himself to scold the party. He only laughed and said, "Oh well, I guess we did quite well for our virgin battle! Still, those who died before me, please pay attention. If you ever make any careless mistake like that ever again, the first offence will cost you 20 guild contribution points. The second offense will cost you 50 and that'll be the last straw. If you commit the third offence, consider yourself kicked out from this party! I'd rather wait a few more days than fighting a fruitless battle!"

The players that died in the early stages dropped their head low. They had to take some form of punishment for making fatal mistakes.

"Still, I had to admit that I made a mistake at the battle arrangement!" Zhang Yang self-critic.

"Later, all melee attackers shall stand behind the boss and attack. All range attackers must get together with Little Snow! I will tag her with the 'Ball' symbol. So, when you see the 'Ball' move, I don't care whether you are taking a shit, I want you to follow the 'Ball'! If you could not even follow this, I'd have no other way to lead you!"

"You idiot! Change the symbol!" Little Snow was not fond of the symbol and stared at Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was confused. "Huh? What…?"

Fatty Han scratched his head for a while and finally understood why Little Snow was angry.

"Little Yang. Don't use 'Ball' since…well…" He pointed at Little Snow. His fingers was a little lower, towards her chest.

"Ah… right. Okay."

Zhang Yang understood what he meant and laughed bitterly. He then changed the "Ball" into a "Star" instead.

"Ok… Follow the star!"

"Follow the star! The Super Star!" Fatty Han started to act like a woman and cat-walked around while shaking his hips. Everyone laughed.

"Pervy Fatty! Just drop dead!"

Everyone revived and went back into the dungeon.

Zhang Yang drew out his sword and struck it into the ground.

"Cheer up guys! We can do this! Let's go!"

The second battle started with Zhang Yang's standard Charge.

The first stage went fairly well, and everyone did their job properly; the interruption team managed to prevent every spell from being casted. The melee attackers followed Zhang Yang's instructions and attacked from behind the boss whilst following Zhang Yang as he kited Marzerway. With this strategy, they could evade every Ice Ring casted by the boss. Ranged attackers stuck to Little Snow like glue, following her everywhere she went. Listening to Zhang Yang this time ensured that no one got hurt at all!

Still, even though no one died, the team's attacking power seemed to drop tremendously!

Zhang Yang opened the Damage statistic and found out that the problem was from the ranged attackers. They were probably thinking too much on avoiding the skills rather than focusing on attacks. However, Zhang Yang could not ask too much of them. It was good progress when no one died. He could not expect them to be as good as Hundred Shots or Frost Night.

Zhang Yang was afraid that the low damage rate would allow the boss to gain Growth in the second stage, but the problem could be solved even though they had lost several party members. The boss entered the third stage with 11 stacks of Growth and 60% HP!

1 Gamer's term; squishy like a tofu meant the player had low defense that he or she would easily have their HP drop at a tremendous speed.

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Chapter 86: The Rewards of the Failure

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The reason team could do so well was all thanks to the powerful damage output from these five people including Zhang Yang, Drizzler, Hundred Shots, Fatty Han and Frost Night. Their total damage was much higher than the remaining ten damage dealers!

The capability of the team was still guaranteed as long as there was a powerful damage output from five of them as the team's foundation, even if the other party members were not as powerful.

Little Snow was like a flag, and everyone followed her wherever she went and it was like playing the "Eagle catches the chicks" game which everyone found hilarious.

The third stage of Marzerway was still as exhausting as Flame Shot and Knockback could instantly kill 80% of the tank's HP! The four healers in the team were trying very hard to heal Zhang Yang's HP. Even though he was dealing with Flame Shot, even if he was hit with the combo, he could have 100 HP remaining!

Because of this remaining 100 HP, they were able successfully proceed to the fourth stage of Marzerway!

"The great Air Spirit, unite with me and kill all these corrupted sinners!" Marzerway raised his wand and roared like a beast.

Zhang Yang frowned as the difficulty of the Marzerway was mainly concentrated in fourth and fifth stage! The fifth stage was slightly easy as Marzerway could be defeated by using [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. Thus, the fourth stage would be the hardest for them!

Evading Air Bomb and destroying the Summoned Cloud were the tests for an individual's combat capabilities. However, these tests would most likely collapse the team!

"All melee attackers, go back to the ranged positions first!" Zhang Yang started to adjust strategy tactics.

The Thieves, Berserker and the tank Defender that was Ironhill went back to the ranged position.

"The Spirit of the Air will purify all of your souls!" Marzerway shouted loudly. Ten white balloons gradually floated out from his body and split into different directions.

"Ding! Marzerway has casted Air Bomb!"

Zhang Yang immediately kited Marzerway away and said: "Okay, melee attackers, come over and continue with the damage output!"

Due to the high number of melee attackers, if they did not retreat to the ranged position first, they would easily be hit by the Air Bomb and it would not even need to chase after them.

"Ranged positions, split and do not stand together!" Zhang Yang shouted.

If they all crowded together, the Air Bomb would accumulate and crowd around them, forming into a giant net. The Air Bomb would gradually nibble away the players' activity space and finally force the players into a dead corner!

The speed of the Air Bomb was fortunately not as quick, making it easy for the players to evade it, as long as they did not blindly attack Marzerway.

"Stupid fellow, I want to bombard your soul into pieces!" Marzerway roared loudly and a blast of white air wave suddenly struck directly on Zhang Yang.

'-1,524'.

Zhang Yang's mouth twitched a little as the Sonic Pierce from Marzerway was very powerful!

From the healers' team, Little Snow immediately healed Zhang Yang's HP back to full.

"Hundred Shots, Fatty Han and Defiant Monk, are you guys clear about what I had explained previously?" Zhang Yang asked in the team.

"Yeah!" Three of them nodded their head at the same time.

"Okay, Marzerway is going to cast Summoned Cloud. We'll have to depend on you guys to see whether the Summoned Cloud can be destroyed as soon as possible!"

After a while, Marzerway shouted again: "Let's have some fun!"

Marzerway waved the wand, three Summoned Cloud immediately floated from its body and gradually floated on top of his head.

"Ding! Marzerway has casted Summoned Cloud!"

"All ranged positions, I've marked a cross symbol on the monsters!" Hundred Shots shouted and marked one of the Summoned Cloud with a cross symbol at the same time. "Fire!"

[Summoned Cloud] (Elite)

Level: 1

HP: 10,000

From a 5-man dungeon to a 20-man dungeon, the Summoned Cloud amount had increased a lot and the HP also increased several folds!

By listening Hundred Shots' command, the ranged attacking team immediately switched their targets and bombarded the Summoned Cloud that was marked with the cross symbol. Those that had fought the Middle Wing Normal Mode knew the true strength of the Summoned Cloud.

Pa! The first Summoned Cloud was destroyed.

Pa! Another Summoned Cloud was destroyed!

However, the ranged team's damage output was still quite weak. The third Summoned Cloud still had at least 4000 HP while chasing after a player.

"Ding! Player Iron Hand Chicken Catcher hit by Summoned Cloud: Rotten stink, stunned for 10 seconds!"

Suddenly, every single Air Bomb changed targets and surged towards that player.

"Everybody, gather to my side!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly.

Except for the stunned player, the rest of the people quickly moved closer to Zhang Yang's position.

"Heal! Heal me at your full force!" Zhang Yang used Vanguard's Aggression and guarded all nineteen people within the protection barrier.

'-1,200!'

'-120!'

'-120!'

'-1,920!'

The first Air Bomb exploded and caused 1,200 damage to Iron Hand Chicken Catcher. The rest of the people were guarded within the protection barrier so the damage dealt was reduced to 10% and the HP deduction was extremely limited! However, Zhang Yang was suffering and his HP almost dropped to zero!

Zhang Yang immediately used Block and waited for the healing spell's channel duration!

Another Air Bomb exploded on Iron Hand Chicken Catcher and the damage value filled up the screen again.

'-1,200!'

'-120!'

Zhang Yang had just healed up to about 1,500 HP when another 1,920 damage value from the Air Bomb hit him again, killing him in the process!

The team was wiped out!

It would be dangerous using Vanguard's Aggression without Shield Wall!

At the Graveyard, Little Snow thought for a while and said: "Can we kill the person directly bounded by the Summoned Cloud? That way, the Air Bomb will not explode!"

Zhang Yang stunned and said: "I never thought about this before!"

In fact, Zhang Yang did not experience a lot of low-level Hardcore mode dungeons. When he joined the game in his previous life, 'God's Miracle' was already operating in its third year. At that moment, he just went on for low-level Hard mode dungeons as long as his equipment could be used for training. He would not bother to go for low-level Hardcore mode dungeons unless there was someone to lead him. When his level was much higher, he began leading the "beginners" to the low-level dungeons where he did not need to consider strategy tactics or details at all!

Little Snow's suggestion was excellent, but it would mean having lesser teammates, especially when it came to the ranged damage dealers. Ultimately, it would mean destroying the Summoned Cloud would be slower as well! Having lesser teammates to that extent would certainly collapse the party.

(Even though the player would be killed by another player in the dungeon, they would not drop a level!)

Zhang Yang thought for a while and said: "First of all, we still have to try our very best to destroy all of the Summoned Cloud first. If there really is no other choice and it chased after a player, only then would we attack the stunned player!"

"Let's go people!"

They resurrected to re-enter the dungeon and ate some HP recovering snacks to gain back their health.

Zhang Yang took out the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] from his inventory and distributed two per person to the party and said: "Hold them tight, drink this medicine together when I tell you to drink and do not use this potion at any other time!"

Everyone was puzzled but they took the medicine and kept it well.

The last stage would be the fifth stage, and Marzerway would just cast Area of Effect (AoE) Shadow Arrows and with no other tactics. This meant that the team would just need to keep on dealing damage and healing.

"Let's start people!"

The third battle started again.

The first stage, passed smoothly.

The second stage, barely passed.

The third stage, breathtakingly passed.

The most dangerous that is the fourth stage started!

"Let's have some fun!" The same speech prompted from Marzerway and he casted three Summoned Cloud.

"All ranged players, focus on the marked cross symbol on the monsters!" Hundred Shots temporary held a command job and cooperated with Zhang Yang.

The first Summoned Cloud was destroyed… The second Summoned Cloud was destroyed as well… the third Summoned Cloud still had about 3,000 HP and chased after Ironhill with great speed and caused him to be stunned.

"Kill him!" Zhang Yang cried out, as he swung his sword and slashed the Defender.

Although the pitiful Ironhill was a tank with thick armor and shield, he was not able to defend the powerful damage output and died after two to three hits!

The surged Air Bomb then spread out as they lost their target. They slowly floated in the air and searched for a new one.

"Yes!" All of them were excited and exclaimed like they had just defeated Marzerway.

"Well, let's once again begin to deal some damage on Marzerway! The Summoned Cloud is casted every half of a minute, so we have to be quick and try our very best to get through the fifth stage. Otherwise, reducing party members will wipe us out as well!"

"Yes!"

38%, 36%, 34%... Marzerway casted Summoned Cloud for the second time.

Although the party had lost a teammate, the overall damage output was not severely affected as the second tank had basically nothing much to do!

The first Summoned Cloud, destroyed!

The second Summoned Cloud, destroyed!

The third Summoned Cloud had about 3,000 HP and surged towards Fatty Han!

"Kill!"

Fatty Han died.

32%, 30%, 29%... Marzerway threw another three Summoned Cloud!

The damage output had now been reduced after losing Fatty Han. After destroying the second Summoned Cloud, the last Summoned Cloud chased after Angel Descend and caused her to be stunned. Before Angel Descend's HP dropped to zero, Little Snow was also stunned!

The party hurriedly killed two of them and caused the strength of the team to dramatically be reduced, since now the main healer died too. The stress of healing was increased to such an extent that the healers could not cope with it anymore!

They barely reduced Marzerway by 4% HP and when Marzerway casted another Summoned Cloud for the fourth time, but now the team finally collapsed and was wiped out.

"Little Snow, practice like the 5-man dungeon. You help destroy Summoned Cloud as well when the Summoned Cloud is casted!" Zhang Yang started to fine tune the strategy at the Graveyard.

"Cheh, there's no need to wait for your command, I started to destroy them long before!" Little Snow showed an arrogant face to him.

That was a bad news then!

"Noob tank, use that scroll!" Drizzler suggested.

[Magic Scroll: Rising Morale (Level 1), increase 5% of team damage and lasts for 5 minutes!

Zhang Yang frowned. Aside from the purpose of practicing, he did not wish to use that scroll so fast. But he did consider about the rest of the party other than the original five. The rest of their equipment were not strong enough and they even needed to exploit the extra damage. The only way was to rely on the external force!

"Alright, I will use the scroll when we enter the fourth stage! The other three Hunters must be on alert. When entering the fourth stage, the Hunters just need to use the normal attack and keep the Focus Points and skill cooldowns for the Summoned Cloud! Summoned Cloud is casted every 30 seconds and every round after we destroy them, the Hunters can attack Marzerway for about 20 seconds. After that, the Hunters need to keep the Focus Points and skill cooldowns again and wait for the next Summoned Cloud!"

"Understood!"

"All right, let's continue people!"

They resurrected, entered the dungeon, and ate HP recovering snacks again. After a few times of being wiped out, most of the party members already decided not to just rely on the main force but started to put effort into this battle because they felt helpless, miserable and angry. Alongside with the team's desire to defeat Marzerway, their fighting spirit rose once again and the team's unity became stronger!

That was good news for Zhang Yang.

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Chapter 87: The Final Beheading

Translator: Zenobys Editor: TheRealSeal

The battle started again.

Everything went smoothly as all the teammates paid more attention to their movements and positioning. Even if Little Snow had not been around to act as a homing beacon, most of them hardly repeated their mistakes in dying pointlessly due to ice ring, lava and spikes.

The crucial fourth stage loomed before them in no time!

When Zhang Yang saw Marzerway starting his scripted dialogue, he immediately selected [Magic Scroll: Rising Morale (Level 1)]; and a golden light surged through all of the party members buffing everyone with an effect.

[Rising Morale: Increases damage and healing effect by 5%, lasts for 5 minutes.

Marzerway cast three Summoned Cloud and the ranged attackers changed their target. The three Hunters followed exactly what Zhang Yang told them just now, which to keep the skills out of cooldown and to Focus point. Abruptly, they nuked a great deal of damage and quickly destroyed the first and second Summoned Cloud!

The most dangerous was the third Summoned Cloud. When it nearly hit one of the teammates with the distance of 1 meter away, "Pa!" the Summoned Cloud was successfully struck and broken.

"Hooray!"

"Ha ha!"

"Made it just in time!"

They cheered repeatedly as this was the first time they destroyed all three Summoned Cloud without any loss, and certainly it boosted their morale!

"Well done team, maintain the momentum! Come on melees, show us some strength now as the ranged positions already settled Summoned Cloud for us. We depend on you guys now to defeat Marzerway!" Zhang Yang smiled and said.

38%, 36%, 34%, Marzerway cast the second wave of Summoned Cloud again. The three Hunters already prepared and kept the Focus point and skill cooldown for it. As long as the Summoned Cloud was cast, then they would destroy them directly!

Hundred Shots and Fatty Han's equipment was definitely considered as top level among the current players, thus, they had absolutely amazing nuking power. As long as both of them did no mistakes, it would be unlikely for unexpected incidents to occur when destroying Summoned Cloud!

Marzerway's HP kept dropping after it cast the fourth wave of Summoned Cloud, all the way down to 22%!

But at that moment, the unexpected did happen. Both Fatty Han and Hundred Shots, actually missed with their skills at the same time. It delayed their Summoned Cloud extermination duties by a whole 3 seconds!

The third Summoned Cloud was not destroyed on time. With about 1000HP remaining, it went on and struck Angel Descend!

"Hurry, kill the Spellcaster!"

Spellcasters with low HP stood no chance against assaults from entire parties and it was no different for this one, who was brought to the ground, dead even before he fell.

"Let's keep the damage output up. When Marzerway's HP drops by another 2%, we'll enter the fifth stage!"

Finally.

"Filthy mortals, to actually force me to this point, now I will let you guys experience my real strength!" Marzerway raised its wand and a huge black hole appeared on its back!

Marzerway transformed into its fifth stage and all of Air Bombs suddenly disappeared!

Zhang Yang immediately shouted loudly: "Everyone, drink the medicine!"

[Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] (Consumable)

Use: Adds 100 Dark Resistance points, lasts for 2 minutes. Cooldown time: 2 minutes.

Level Requirement: 10

A casting progress bar appeared on top of Marzerway head, 2 seconds later and it cast the skill. "Whoosh", twenty-two Shadow Arrows shot out from the void of that black hole and hit every living player, including the three Hunter's pets.

"-200!"

"-200!"

"-200" number appeared on all of the teammates head. Except for Zhang Yang and Ironhill, their damages were 160 and 170 respectively.

"Two Priests, please cast Regeneration on everyone and heal the Warriors as well. Also, try your best to keep everyone's remaining HP at similar levels! Little Snow, keep the Holy Shield for those who unable to recover on time! Everyone, gather near Marzerway and when everyone's overall HP is getting too low, I will guard everyone using Vanguard's Aggression!" Zhang Yang's tone was shrill with excitement, Marzerway's defeat was getting close!

"Wow, Leader Zhan Yu, this medicine is very powerful, it directly reduces 100 Damage Point from that ridiculous attack!"

"Ha Ha, we can defeat Marzerway for sure!"

"First Clear Achievement, here we come!"

"Strike, strike with all your might!"

Zhang Yang was feeling a little relieved from his otherwise tensed up nervousness, but this was not the time to celebrate yet. He quickly said: "Do not be conceited, we must defeat Marzerway within 150 seconds. Otherwise, the damage of those attacks will be doubled and it'll be all over for us then!"

200 damage per hit sounded somewhat minuscule in the case of this Gray-Silver Boss but it became another matter entirely with the volume of Shadow Arrows this thing was releasing! Marzerway would produce Shadow Arrows to it's capacity as long as it was not the only being in the area that drew breath, thus, the total damage far exceeded any healing efforts the team could pull off.

Hence, everyone's collective HP was dropping, slowly, but very surely!

18%, 16%, 14% …

When Marzerway HP dropped to 10%, everyone HP remained at around 300 except for Zhang Yang. He calmly used Vanguard's Aggression and contained everyone within its protective barrier.

Although his damage taken increased by a 100%, it was a measly addition of 320, going up from 160. A guardian like him could shrug those blows off like nothing!

Those who stood within the protection barrier, were taking as little as 20 points per Shadow Arrow! Little Snow and another three healers hurriedly recovered everyone's HP. In the span of 10 seconds, they were able to get everyone's HP above 50%!

Vanguard's Aggression skill was an unexpected, but pleasant surprise as Zhang Yang had previously planned a strategy that would result in most of the party save for a few key DPS members dead by the end of the fight. It was a necessary sacrifice, and it wouldn't have been too difficult to take off the remaining 20000 HP within 150 seconds!

However due to the existence of Vanguard's Aggression, all that planning and strategy was for naught (and a good thing too it was)! The final stage of Mazerway's boss subjugation became a walk in the park!

10 seconds later, all of the teammates HP had recovered up to at least 700!

8%, 6%, 4%!

Victory was already in sight!

3%!

2%!

1%!

0%!

"No, No, I will not be defeated, I will not be defeated!" Marzerway roared angrily but it could only helplessly fall to the ground as its body gave way!

Bosses only existed in the game to be killed by the players no matter the grade, be it Celestial or Black-Steel, they were fated to be destroyed!

'Ding! The party you are in has killed Marzerway! Obtained 52682 EXP (50 points Party Bonus)!'

'Ding! The party you are in obtained the Marzerway's Lair: First Clearance of Main Wing (Hardcore Mode)! This result will be recorded in the First Clearance Hardcore Mode Achievement Board! As the party leader, please key in your team name!'

Zhang Yang calmly key in the words "Lone Desert Smoke", suddenly, the server rapidly made the announcements on the screen with red words!

'Server Announcement: Party Lone Desert Smoke has successfully obtained First Clearance of Marzerway's Lair Main Wing (Hardcore Mode)! This result will be recorded in the First Clearance Hardcore Mode Achievement Board (China Server)! Please express our respect to them!'

'Server Announcement: Player Zhan Yu (Party Leader) has successfully obtained First Clearance of Marzerway's Lair Main Wing (Hardcore Mode! Obtained 10 Gold Coins, 1 Skill Point, 500 Reputation Points across all races in the league and "Hero of White Jade Castle" title!'

'Server Announcement: Player Ironhill (Party Member) obtained …'

Since after Zhang Yang and his people got the First Clear Achievement of Front and Middle Wings Hardcore mode and the China server global channel was cheerless. But in this moment, the server kept on announced the First Clear Achievement of Main Wing (Hardcore Mode) and suddenly surprised all the players!

"It is the Lone Desert Smoke gang again!"

"So strong, that is a 20-man dungeon which is much tougher compared to the the previous dungeons!"

"Wow, brother Zhan Yu, be my lover!"

"Is Lone Desert Smoke still recruiting?"

"Damn it, these are the people from the guild in White Jade Castle. Why are you shouting in Tranquil Wind City, they can't even hear you!"

The chat channel of Lone Desert Smoke was full of cheers and laughter. The members were ecstatic with joy, as the already great reputation and track record of the guild, attained even greater heights.

Everyone in the dungeon was extremely happy, especially after so many failures in the mission, it only made the taste of victory all the more sweeter!

Zhang Yang sent a private message to Frost Night and said, "Babe, come to our guild!"

"…why should I?!"

"Uh, not many tanks can keep up with your aggro other than myself! It will be agonizing to hold back on your damage output when attacking monsters every single time!" Zhang Yang had to reel her in with another method as she was too rational to fall for the 'hey we make a great team, we should keep working together' trick.

"On the other hand, it is impossible for you to defeat me with your current equipment! Your equipment level will never get up to mine if you do not join a regular, strong team for dungeon runs!" Zhang Yang tried to trick her in terms numbers, of statistics based on equipment, "Do you still want to defeat me?"

"Humph! Of course I will!" Frost Night coldly replied.

"Then what are you hesitating about?"

"Hmph, do not think I don't see what you're up to! I will join your guild but only until I finally defeat you!"

Zhang Yang was elated beyond words. Guardians naturally held an advantage over thieves - if you knew how to use them. When it comes to both equipment and capabilities we're almost at the same level! It will be impossible for you to defeat me, you will obediently stay in the guild and join my crusade for Team League!

He sent a guild invitation to Frost Night. Without a blink, she "Accept"ed immediately.

"Welcome!"

"Welcome!"

"Hello, pretty Frost Night!"

Many people in the guild channel started to greet Frost Night.

"Noob tank, ask them to get out of the way, I want to touch the corpse for the loot!" A group of people had surrounded Marzerway's corpse and Drizzler could hardly find her way to squeeze through.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "All right, everyone steps backwards first and let our "Great Lucky Hands" get our loot!"

Drizzler triumphantly accepted the "Great Lucky Hands" title, unabashed. She started to distribute loots after everyone had stepped backwards. Zhang Yang used Leader's Distribution for this time so she had to send the equipment one by one to the team channel first. Thus, the equipment would not appear on the teammates' Control interface and the Dice Roll window would not pop up either.

Unlike the other bosses out in the field, bosses in the dungeon do not drop a jumbo loot at first kills. That was why Marzerway only dropped seven equipment and six of them were Set-equipment, which were the Warrior's boots, knight's helmet, Thief's breastplate and glove, Hunter's breastplate and Spellcaster's boots.

The other equipment was a shield.

Six equipment were distributed according to the guild's contribution points. Zhang Yang did not compete for the boots with Drizzler but he took the shield.

[Combined Elemental Shield] (Gray-Silver, Shield)

Defense: 200

Vitality: 80

Equipment: Block skill level 1.

Level Requirement: 20

Awesome!

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Chapter 88: Mess with me? I'll mess with you!

Translator: Zenobys Editor: TheRealSeal

The announcement of Lone Desert Smoke's achievement spread abruptly across the entire server. Those who were still in the middle of raiding the same dungeon were devastated!

The entire China server had at least 20 to 30 elite guilds and their own exploration teams had been stranded at the fifth stage of the dungeon. The fifth stage was the last round it was the only remaining obstacle that kept them from the highest glory! But, no matter what they did, they just could not pass that stage!

Most of them had the idea that they were failing their chances due to the lack of strong equipment which led to players being unable to perform at their best. This led them to rely on brute force. The stronger guilds could only fight until the boss was reduced to 10% HP made no progress beyond that.

Perhaps they had thought that was a matter of farming for some stronger equipment, or a matter of the party's class arrangement. But just as they were still cracking their heads for more brilliant ideas, Zhang Yang's guild had claimed the First Clear Achievement.

It could have been dismissed as beginner's luck the first or second time, but when Lone Desert Smoke took the First Clear Achievement for the third time in a row, no one could ever look at them the same way as before!

Lone Desert Smoke, all this while still being dismissed with skepticism, was now being flooded with guild applications! No one dared doubt the capability of this guild any longer! The name Zhan Yu had engraved deeply into everyone's hearts. Every guild master now acknowledged the rise of a new competitor, Zhan Yu's very own Lone Desert Smoke!

After equipping the new shield, Zhang Yang HP shot up to 2740 HP and his defense rose similarly to 236! Now, he could leisurely take several hits from a Hardcore boss!

Once the loot was distributed, Zhang Yang brought the team to fight the Hard mode of the Main Wing and collected an additional 6 pieces of Green-Copper equipment for the team. Even though the equipment there were weaker than Gray-Silver, it was still on par as 5-man Hardcore dungeon equipment drops. Furthermore, they were set equipment! The best news was that different tiered equipment could still activate the set equipment effect! For example, if the player was wearing Gray-Silver boots, a Black-Steel helm, and a Green-Copper chest plate, the 3-set equipment effect would still trigger! The only condition was that the equipment had to be in the same set, if the player had collected 5 different tiers of the same equipment set, he could still trigger the set equipment effect!

Among the party members, the little brat was the luckiest. She had gotten a pair of boots from the Hardcore mode and another piece of the set from the Hard mode! She managed to activate the first set equipment effect! Once they had completed the Hard mode, Zhang Yang disbanded the party and allowed the member to go off on their own. However, he kept his 4 friends close at hand, with the addition of Frost Snow.

"We are going to fight the Skeleton Horse Knight at the Cave of Bones!"

"Aw Yiss! Horsie!" Drizzler leaped and jumped around with joy.

They had headed down to the Cave of Bones yesterday to fight, only to find that none of the bosses on the 5 floors had re-spawned. Everyone concluded that since the final boss was a Gray-Silver tier, it had effected all the other bosses upon death, and they would re-spawn at the same time as it does, which was 3 days.

The first time they had raided this cave, they had a tough time. But now, they fought and went down each floor with ease since thanks to their vastly improved equipment. Not to mention, they had a new strong attacker in their team!

However, luck was not on their side this time. After killing 4 bosses from 4 floors, there were no signs of any Shape-Shifting or Magic Scrolls, or even the Indian God Oil! The reason why they could get so many item the previous time was probably because that was the first time the boss died. Now that this was the second time they are fighting, the drop rate must have reduced!

When the party arrived at the fifth floor, Zhang Yang was worried that they might be unable to endure the poison effect of the mist since they did not have the antidote to counter its effects. But when the party entered the area, there was no such mist whatsoever. The air was clean and fresh. The effect must have been a quest triggered scenario, or else the party would have had to depend on level 50 equipment to fight this boss!

This round, Zhang Yang had brought along his [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion, and so the party manage to kill of Shurian with ease. This time, Shurian was as stingy as the upcoming floor boss. It only dropped 3 Gray-Silver equipment which were taken by Drizzler, Little Snow and Frost Night. The body disappeared after all equipment had been distributed.

It was already 2pm by the time they were finished with the Cave of Bones. Zhang Yang disbanded the party and everyone logged out to have their lunch. Zhang Yang logged back in after having a good meal and adequate rest.

As he was strolling in the city, Zhang Yang suddenly recalled the encounter with Humbly Gentleman and his trickery to sabotage his raid.

Hehehe…In that case, time to let him suffer for a bit. Humiliation and regret! Let him suffer in poverty!

Zhang Yang opened his friend list and found that Humbly Gentleman was online. He grinned sinisterly to himself and send a private message.

"Guildmaster Humbly Gentleman! Are you busy right now?"

"My my, it's the famous Zhan Yu!" He replied swiftly. "Haha! Oh my! I forgot to congratulate you for obtaining another First Clear achievement!"

"Ahahaha! It's nothing really. It was pure luck, I must admit! Fortune happened to smile upon me!" Zhang Yang sent over the description of the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to him and said, "I was really fortunate to have been able to farm this peculiar item! Without it, I'd have never have been able to get pass the fifth stage of Marzerway!"

Humly Gentleman face was completely drained of color.

Just the day before yesterday, Humbly Gentleman's guild The Dominator has tried to take on the Hardcore mode of Marzerway's Lair. They were completely wiped off after 30 seconds into the fifth stage! They had tried many methods. They had tried increasing the healer count in the party but because of the high number of healers in the party, the attacking power was so low that they could not even get through the 4 stages before the final one! The next time, they tried a more conventional arrangement and focused on raw attacking power instead. Still even though they could keep the party alive till the last stage, they still could not kill the boss within 2 minutes. Once the boss cast a huge AOE skill, everyone was killed. The more survivors only meant more death!

No matter how many time they revised their battle plan, the god-like fifth stage was impenetrable!

Now that Humbly Gentleman had seen the potion's properties, he was completely stunned! If only they had this item as well when they raided the dungeon, they would have already claimed the First Clear Achievement without cracking their brains for ideas!

WHY! WHY! God damn it! Why is that cheeky brat is so god damned lucky!

Inside, Humbly Gentleman was so angry that he would have punched Zhang Yang in the face if he was standing right in front of him! It took all his will to maintain his composure and say, "Zhan Yu! Let's make a deal. Could you sell a bunch of these potions to our guild?"

Hmph! I was waiting for you to say that! Zhang Yang purposely delayed his reply. "Guildmaster Humbly Gentleman, I'd only have a few of these left for the next raid. The ingredients for the potion are extremely hard to come by."

"Haha! The 20-man dungeon would only re-spawn after 3 days! You would have that much time to farm for the ingredients no?" Humbly Gentleman tried to reason with Zhang Yang. Even though he could not get the First Clear Achievement, he could still be the second guild to clear the dungeon, he could surpass both Crimson Rage and Sky High!

Furthermore, there is always the speed record! If he could gather a bunch of Gray-Silver equipment to strengthen his team, he could easily beat the time record of the 5-man dungeon!

The third reason involved his longer termed planning- he could prepare his guild for the level 30 dungeon First Clear Achievement! Try raiding the dungeon with a Green-Copper equipment instead of the Gray-Silver equipment. The difference would be heaven and earth!

That was why, no matter how high a price Zhang Yang set, Humbly Gentleman would gladly accept it!

Zhang Yang acted coyly. "Well…since you insist, I could…sell you some! However…the price would be…erhm…"

Humbly Gentleman cursed aloud on his side where Zhang Yang could not hear. Damn! What's with this dilly dallying?! All you wanted is money right!? Tch!

Even though he wanted to say that out loud, he would have never stoop as lowly as that. He calmed himself down and speak carefully.

"How many bottles do you have there?"

"100!"

Humbly Gentleman started to calculate. With the help of this potion, his guild's team capability could easily raid the dungeon without much problem! So far, his team consisted of players at around level 22, and it would take about 15 days before he could bring the team's player level to 30. If they would take 2 days to raise one level.

The dungeon would respawn every 3 days, this would mean at least 5 raids. 100 bottle would be just the right amount!

What a coincidence! Humbly Gentleman smiled with satisfaction and replied Zhang Yang. "Ah. I see. In that case, I like to buy them all!"

Hehehe the number 100 was not just a random thought, Zhang Yang had already predicted Humbly Gentleman going through that exact calculation.

He quickly replied, "Oh no! I can't just sell them all! The ingredient is just that hard to farm. If I were to sell them all to you, what's going to happen on my end here?!"

"Hehehe. Your guild had already claimed the First Clear Achievement! You would not need to raid the dungeon anymore now do you?"

There was a short pause in the conversation. Zhang Yang was waiting for him to make the first move.

"I'll pay 10000 gold for it! 10000 gold! How does that sound?"

"Erhm…10000 gold is just…I mean, money is not a problem…but the ingredients are just too hard to come by!"

"Erhm..2. No! 50000 gold!" Humbly Gentleman grit his teeth till the point that you can actually see some pieces of enamel chipping off.

"Hm…Very well then..." Zhang Yang pretended to accept the offer with a heavy heart. But on his side, Zhang Yang smiling from ear to ear.

So far, the exchange ratio for gold piece to real-life currency was 1:7, and 50000 gold pieces would cost approximately over 300 thousand dollars! Truthfully, Zhang Yang did not care about the money he was earning from this single trade. That's because the money he is bound to earn would exceed that amount by the millions when more players begin farming the dungeon for the first set equipment in the game!

Zhang Yang only want to mess with him since he was being such a hypocrite. To think that he would dare name himself Humbly Gentleman when in reality, he was such a jerk.

"Well. I guess I should mail you the item with the fees as well."

"Alright. Please hurry!"

Zhang Yang closed the deal with Humbly Gentleman and started to search another name and sent a private message to Snow Seeker.

"Guildmaster Snow Seeker, may I interest you with this item?" He posted the item over to her.

After a while, she replied. "At first I was wondering about how you guys manage to survive past the fifth stage of Marzerway. Now that you have sent me this, my question were answered."

"Haha! You guess right. I was just lucky! So how about it? Would you like to stock up a little?"

"Name your price!" Snow Seeker was alert and straight to the point. She did not try to go around the bush, trying to get to his better side.

"1 gold coin per bottle!"

1 gold coin per bottle was the same price in his previous life. Zhang Yang gave her this offer since he did not want to take advantage of her guild. Since he had already had his fun tormenting his real target, selling 1 bottle for 1 gold would rub additional salt on his wound.

"Alright. I'll take that offer. How many bottle could you sell?" Snow Seeker was thinking much further than Humbly Gentleman was. Of course there was no doubt that the exploration team would require the potion to raid the dungeon. However, there were also normal players in their guild who could take the potion to raid the Hard or even Normal mode! A guild could have only a certain number of elites, not every player in an elite would be equally strong. The building blocks of a strong guild are the normal players. Without them, the few numbers of elite could not even make up a proper guild!

"1 thousand, 10 thousand, you name it! I have it!" Zhang Yang replied.

"Hahah! Looks like we've got ourselves a millionaire over here!" Snow Seeker had already forecasted the probability of his market value. Top guilds would only need this potion when they raid the Hardcore mode, but many regular players around could also buy this potion to raid Hard more or even Normal mode! It's always better to use the potion since it could lower the difficulty of the dungeon and increase the success rate of conquering the dungeon!

Furthermore, the item was not that expensive. It's only 1 gold! That would only cost 7 dollars in the real world! You could even have the chance to get yourself a set equipment!

Come on, bro! It's a set equipment! The game's first set equipment! You don't have it? Well, you're out then!

Besides, normal players made up most of the game's population! There are almost 40 million players in the entire game! The amount of the players have almost doubled since the server was initially launched! Just White Jade Castle alone had 500 thousand players occupying this city! If each player bought 1 bottle from him, he would have earned 500 thousand gold coins!

One successfully dungeon raid would drop only 6 pieces of set equipment! In a 20-man party, you would need to raid at least 15 to 16 times to have everyone equipped with a full set of the equipment! To have that many potions would cost them at least 80 million gold coins!

Holy smokes! If Snow Seeker did not calculate its probability, she would not have known its impending fortune! Even if the ratio dropped down to an exchange rate of 1:1, Zhang Yang would still earn at least 80 million dollar!

Still, it was just her estimation, there were still other factors that might come into play. For example, the time taken to make a potion. There was a limit to how many Zhang Yang could produce.

"*Ahem* So, I'll send you 1 thousand bottles of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion, is that correct?"

"Yes! I'll pay by mail. Thank you for your hard work Guild master Zhan Yu!"

"Thanks!"

"Bye!"

Humbly Gentleman, you son of a bitch, I'll see to it that you'll cry a river by the time you find out that you have been duped!

Zhang Yang searched for another name and sent another private message.

"Hello! Guildmaster Sky Shaman! Are you busy right now…?"

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Chapter 89: Distributor

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Zhang Yang first sent 1000 bottles to both Snow Seeker of the Crimson Rage and Sky Shaman of the Sky High. After approximately 10 minutes, only did he send 100 bottles to Humbly Gentleman. What that needed to be done has been done. There was nothing he could have done if Crimson Rage or Sky High still somehow manage to fall behind The Dominators.

Anything that could be done for level 20 had been done thoroughly enough. The only thing left was the Hardcore mode speed record! However, Zhang Yang was not keen to obtain that achievement, the reward was not luxurious enough for him!

On the other hand, there's the case where things might get a little dull! If only him alone was responsible for claiming the First Clear Achievement or even the Speed Achievement, there would be no chance for other guild to grab the spotlight. Even the audience would feel bored if Zhang Yang was the only one remaining in the limelight.

There was also another matter. If you don't provide some chances for others, others will not give the chance for you as well! Other guilds might form an alliance solely to take down his guild! Even with his overwhelming ability, he could not fight with everyone! That is why, Zhang Yang prioritized on only getting the First Clear Achievement. The Speed Achievement, was just there for fun, as an optional pursuit. There was no need to make it the top of his priorities!

He called all 4 of his friends to join him in grinding at the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands. He had already set his goals for the two level 30 dungeons in the Shadowmoon Castle. He already had 5 qualified party members for the 10-man dungeon. He only needed to find 4 more to form the team.

Frost Night rejected the grinding invitation, saying that she had to go back to work.

Zhang Yang could not help but question her ability. This woman worked full-time, how did she even manage to increase her level so rapidly?

Zhang Yang logged in after dinner and formed 3 parties to raid the Bangar Crypt. The other party was led by Ironhills as the main tanker, with Little Snow as the healer. Zhang Yang wanted improve the entire guild's fighting ability. He could not completely depend on his friends to dominate the limelight.

After the dungeon runs, Zhang Yang went back to grind. By 10pm, he had reached level 24 with 91% experience points, almost touching the tip of level 25. He then logged off and went to hang out in the web.

He went on to the official site and found an interesting news!

The American movie company Miramax Studios will collaborate with the game developers Dream Technology to produce an in-game shooting production called "A Knight's Soul"! The script, director, and actors were all already decided and the shooting will start soon!

This particular news had heated up fans of the game. Some comment, while others complaint. Some showed their interest while other expressed the impending failure of the production. There were so many opinions littering the forum!

Zhang Yang only sighed heavily. This event was exactly as it was in his "history".

"A Knight's Soul" was the first movie to be produced inside 'God's Miracle'. Borrowing the game's unrivaled realistic scenery and human characters, they had successfully produced a historical movie! The movie was deemed to be very successful because of their exceptional utilization of the elements in the game. The real world ticket profits had exceeded over 700 million USD while the in-game "movie tickets" had reached an astonishing number of 8.8 billion gold coins!

The event only happened 6 months after when the exchange rate dropped to a rate of 1:1. 8.6 billion gold coins could be exchanged for1.5 billion dollars!

To think that the original production cost was only 2 million USD!

It's safe to say that "A Knight's Soul" was not only a successful business expenditure, it was the stepping stone for the entire movie industry as well! After Miramax studios showed their successful profit, other movie producers started to follow their footsteps and begin to move their projects towards 'God's Miracle'!

There were countless benefit in producing a movie with 'God's Miracle' but the main advantages are as follows:

Low Production Cost

You could easily replicate the scenery of earthquakes, crumbling earth crust, explosion scenes, or even Armageddon itself! They could be easily reproduced in the game! On the other hand, actors could have their appearance easily modified to be as handsome or as beautiful as they wanted it to be! Dream Technology could work hand in hand with the producers to replicate any elements of the movies they wanted. They could even manipulate the building structure to be ancient-themed or create an entire post-apocalyptic dystopia, or a streamlined sci-fi skyline! They could also produce unlimited number of NPCs to act as extras! They could literally produce a second earth!

Realism

While producing a horror movie in real life, some additional expenditures have to be dedicated to the horrifyingly creative and ever-ingenuous death scenes. The acting and effects would have a limit to it. However, in 'God's Miracle', there are no limits! You can kill a person by any means possible! After all, the character would only need to revive after getting killed! After the success of "A Knight's Soul", many movie producers had shifted their projects involving collaborations with 'God's Miracle', putting a large effect onto the society. Jobs like make-up artists, stunt doubles, special effects team and so on lost their jobs! Soon, the democratic country, the people that were mainly effected had joined together to pass a bill to stop or limit any movie production that involved collaboration with 'God's Miracle'. However, their appeal was completely denied. All 14 members of the jury happened to be loyal players of 'God's Miracle'.

To watch a movie in 'God's Miracle' is absolutely stunning. The audience could see 360-degree scenery, which is more '3D' than an actual 3D movie!

It did not stop there! More and more industries had their eyes on this game and many had already transferred over! Some of them were publishers, advertisement companies, music record companies and many more! By then, 'God's Miracle' was no longer just a "game", it had morphed into a super enterprise, giving birth to a whole new world of culture!

That would all happen in just 6 months!

Zhang Yang took another deep breath. The premiere of "A Knight's Soul" will launch at the same time as the game's first update. This update would include the launching of the Professional League as well as the implementation of an improved battle system, and many more in one game-changing patch!

Zhang Yang opened his friend list and went to the tab in which he had categorized all his classmates and acquaintances from school. He found that practically all 37 students were online together. 10pm was still considerably early and was the most active time for all night owls.

"…Argh! I'm only level 19! Tomorrow I'm going to raid Marzerway's Lair!"

"Hey guys! Yesterday, I manage to farm a Green-Copper boots! I'm telling ya! Its damned OP!"

"Hey! Li Qi just got in! Perfect timing. Ask him to join the Brilliant Star guild, he won't need to worry about not having equipment anymore!"

"Hey hey. I'm only a member of the 3rd party! There are still 20 over elites on the other group!"

"Eh! Guys! Look! Zhang Yang finally logged in! You little bastard! Graduation day was 100 years ago dude! Why are you only online now!"

Li Shang Yuan was the first person who called out to him. Zhang Yang quickly greet him back.

After Zhang Yang replied, he added, "Yo! Ex-class monitor! Did you play 'God's Miracle'?"

"Yeah I did. Awesome game. I'm playing together with my work colleague! Hah! I'd just logged off the game not two minutes ago! You could have met me in the game earlier!"

Li Shang Yuan paused a while and recalled something. "That's right, didn't you once say that you wanted to be play the game for a living! So…how are you now?"

Zhang Yang snickered. "Well, I'm still alive. So, that a plus for me! Li Shang Yuan, what city are you in now?"

"Tranquil Wind City, you?"

"I'm in White Jade Castle!" Zhang Yang grinned as he answered, "I could use your help for a thing. Could you do me a favour?"

"Sure! Speak your request!" Li Shang Yuan had always been a straight forward man. He had always been the man to walk the talk. No hesitation!

Zhang Yang nodded his head in satisfaction. He had found the right guy for his to carry out his plans.

"I have here an item that is very popular now in the market. But I could not make much in my city alone. I'm asking you to help me to sell some off in your city as well, as well as gather some ingredients!"

"Hoho! Sure, I'll help you! Just mail them over to me. Oh, what kind of item is that? How do plan to sell them?"

Zhang Yang replied. "The item is [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. It will increase 100 Shadow resistance. You can sell them off in the auction house for 1 gold each!"

"Zhang Yang! My dear lord! That is just too expensive! 1 gold each!? Bro, when I buy some level 20 skill I would only have about 7 to 8 gold left! I can't even repair my equipment with this sorry amount that I have!" Li Shang Yuan expressed his doubt.

Zhang Yang only laughed. "It's alright! Just try and sell the item with that price! It's fine if the item doesn't sell But if it does sell well, shall we split the profit 70/30?"

"Haha! This is but minor deal. I'll follow what you say!"

"Come on man! That amount is huge, not something as minor as you think it is!"

"Urgh…fine! In that case, lets not go with 70/30. You could just pay me with what you see fit!"

Right now, Li Shang Yuan could still not see the amount he was about to make.

"Alright then, I'll send it over tomorrow!"

Once Tranquil Wing City was dealt with, Zhang Yang proceeded to find more ex-classmates, at the very least, he needed to find those who were close to him or he could trust. One by one, he asked whether they were playing 'God's Miracle' and which city they are in. After 10 people or so, beside Emerald City, he managed to find "Distributors" for all 6 main cities!

He went around and asked more people but he could not find a single player who was in Emerald City. Zhang Yang scrolled down and check the rest of the student list. Neither of them was close enough for him to bother messaging them individually. He then switched to the public channel and posted. "To all friends that are playing 'God's Miracle', is there anyone who are in Emerald City?"

After a while, there were some replies.

"I'm in the Black Dragon City! Why'd you ask?"

"What's so special about Emerald City?"

"Zhang Yang! What is your current level!? We are now ranking the Leveling King! So far, Li Shang Yuan ranked first with level 21! Tell us yours!"

There were many who replied but none of them was about Emerald City! Zhang Yang could not help but feel disappointed. There were so many people in the beginner village, but why has none of them picked Emerald City!? What's wrong with it? Does everyone hate the color green now?

"Uhm…I'm in Emerald City!"

Among the chatter, Zhang Yang spotted a tiny little message. Zhang Yang selected the message and found of the person behind the screen was his university lecturer Yu Li! The same person he will have one night stand with 5 years later!

Yu Li had always been "hidden" but she had suddenly revealed herself!

"Woah woah woah! It's Miss Yu Li!"

"Hi Miss Yu Li!"

"Miss Yu Li! How I'd missed you!"

"Wow! I'd never had thought that even Miss Yu Li would play "God's Miracle'! What is your IGN?"

Only guys would show such excitement! These bunch of horny guys were the one with the hots for this sexy teacher! She could easily be the illegal "drug" for boys!

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Chapter 90: Infuriated Humbly Gentleman

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The public channel started to get rowdy when Miss Yu Li revealed her existence. Zhang Yang had to message her privately to avoid unnecessary chatter. "Miss Yu, I'd like your help in selling some stuff in Emerald City!"

"Ok. Sure."

She only replied back after quite some time. She was probably busy replying those nosy bastards from earlier.

"Zhang Yang, have you found a job yet?" She asked.

Would this stint in "God's Miracle" count as one? Zhang Yang replied. "I'm still getting myself hooked up with the game. I'm still trying to find some method to earn money here!"

"That won't do! Little Zhang Yang! You're wasting the 4 years of time in your university! Yet now you're wasting your time in this game! Is this how you're repaying your parents?" Once a teacher, always a teacher. Yu Li immediately started to lecture Zhang Yang about life lessons. Zhang Yang wanted to just press the log out button and be done with it, he was in no mood to put himself through this mental assault. However, for the sake of Emerald City, he had to endure this. It took a while, but Yu Li was finally willing to accept the job, but it was not that simple. She would help Zhang Yang to sell those potion under some ridiculous conditions. If the potion sales were bad, Zhang Yang would have to give up on his ridiculous dreams to be a professional gamer and start searching for a real job!

Zhang Yang sighed heavily but couldn't help feeling thankful for her lecture. Zhang Yang had never been fond to listen to her life lessons but he knew that Yu Li was only being concerned. The future and well-being of her students was her priority. That is how Yu Li is, and Zhang Yang understood that clearly.

It was extremely beneficial for Yu Li to take this job as one of Zhang Yang's distributor. It was predictable that within the next few days, this potion will be a complete hit in the market around the globe and its profits would exceed the millions. Since Zhang Yang had agreed to share the profit 9:1 with them; with the prospects being that profitable, Yu Li could depend on this pot of gold to avoid becoming what she would be in the future!

However, things got out of hand when not only Yu Li insisted to reject her share of profit, she had also lectured him on his capitalistic ideals, going against her position as a teacher of the society! She also insisted that Zhang Yang stopped forcing her to accept her share or she would not help him sell the potions altogether!

Zhang Yang obediently accepted he conditions. He believed there could be a way for her to make a fortune, regardless.

Zhang Yang lingered for a little while more and went to bed after a good relaxing shower. The next morning, Zhang Yang went out his house to practice his jog-punching, the art of shadowboxing while jogging simultaneously. He logged in at 9am sharp after having his breakfast.

"You stinking piece of shit! You actually dared to cheat me!?"

Zhang Yang logged in and the first thing he saw was Humbly Gentleman's message. "You f*cking low-life! Just because you achieved a few bloody Achievements, you think you can do whatever you want?! Who do you think you are! I can simply crush your low ranked guild with a flick of my fingers! Give me back the money you robbed me of, and add another 10000 to that for compensation! Or else, you won't be able to handle what I'm about to bring down on your house!"

Last night, when Humbly Gentleman had received the 100 bottles of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] and paid the staggering 50000 gold coins to Zhang Yang, he quickly gathered a team and successfully raided the Hardcore mode Main Wing of Marzerway's Nest!

Humblty Gentleman was delighted. He laughed at Zhang Yang's short sightedness as he was about to send the recording of his successful raid to Sky High and Crimson Rage to humiliate them! But who knew, before he could send the recording, he had received a news from his spies placed in both rival guilds. Both guilds had successfully raided the Hardcore mode of the dungeon 10 minutes earlier before he did!

Humbly Gentleman was infuriated! He could never believe that both guilds had gotten their hands on the potion recipe and managed to be one step ahead of him! This must be the act of Zhang Yang!

Greedy little fox! He did not mind the price he paid for the potions but Zhang Yang actually sold the potions to his rivals as well! Humbly Gentleman had offered such a high price in the first place to empty Zhang Yang's stock! This was to ensure that his guild be the first to complete their sets of Gray-Silver set equipment! He could have been ready for the level 30 dungeon raid!

But he was played out like a fool! All 3 guilds were raiding the dungeon in the same time! He had spent so much money for some pointless results! Of course he'd be infuriated at the very least! Furthermore, the money for the potion came from his own personal wallet! He could at least request for reimbursement for the potion if he had been the second guild to successfully raided the dungeon! Now that he was the fourth guild to perform the deed, how could be ask for any imbursement!?

Zhang Yang merely laughed it off. This guy…could he be asking for a battle to set things straight?

"Guild master Humbly Gentleman! Surely 50000 gold coins is nothing but spare change to a rich gentleman like you!"

"You prick! Give me back my money!" He roared. "If you insist on playing this game, I'll get Sky High as well as Crimson Rage to expose your trickery! Do you think you will be able to endure attacks from us 3 big guilds?"

Humbly Gentleman was under the impression that Zhang Yang had simultaneously cheated all 3 guilds. That was why he wanted to get the two other guilds to be involved in this little skirmish. He wanted to inflict an overwhelming, crushing pressure on Zhang Yang! However, if he only knew that he was the only person Zhang Yang had cheated, the expression on his face could have won "Face of the Year"!

Zhang Yang only shook his head. How could someone as grumpy and ill-tempered as Humbly Gentleman could be the guild master of a future super guild?

"Ehm… If I remembered correctly, I recall that I did not want to sell you the potions in the first place. It was because of your insistent begging that I finally parted with 100 bottles! How could you suddenly push the blame back to me?"

"You…" Humbly Gentleman could not come up with another word. The amount of rage in him was taking his breath away! "Zhan Yu! Are you going to pay me back!?"

"Sky High guild master, there are things that better remain in the dark. Don't you agree? For example, the case of several hidden Bandits that had ambushed my guild yesterday! I don't think the gentlemanly guild master of The Dominators would not have planned something like this now would he…"

Humbly Gentleman stunned. How could he have figured it out?

To remain anonymous, Humbly Gentleman had even expelled the Bandits from the guild for their "mission". He would then recruit them back into the guild once the task was done. Tch! Which cowardly bastard spilled the beans!

"Tch!" His secret exposed, there was no reason for Humbly Gentleman to further involve himself with Zhang Yang anymore. He knew that Zhang Yang would certainly not return his money back. Obviously, it was Zhang Yang's way of getting back at him! He disconnected his conversation with him abruptly and headed towards the other two guilds to pitch his proposal.

However, what happened next left him even more disappointed. Shy Shaman ended the conversation with his last words being, "F*cking hypocrite!"

Snow Seeker held the conversation as politely as she could but she did not show any interest in Humbly Gentleman's idea. Humbly Gentleman could not have been in more despair. Lone Desert Smoke was already on the rise and yet The Dominator was still growing from its seedling. Many old members were still playing other games and had yet to join this one. If they were to initiate a guild war between each other with such a late start, there would be no winners in the end!

As a sponsored guild, they could not initiate a fight with other guilds. They could try and oppose them fair and square but not to the point where he would get hurt! If Humbly Gentleman would forcefully start the war with Zhang Yang's guild, he could be fired by the sponsors! Currently, there was nothing he can do but lick his own wounds.

Humbly Gentleman could do nothing but clench his fist. He could only wait until every single member of the original The Dominator gathers together to restore the true power of the guild and take down that Lone Desert Smoke!

Zhang Yang retrieve the mails he received yesterday and withdrew a total of 52000 gold coins from yesterday's trades. He then proceeded to withdraw stacks of potion from the storage and sent them to the distributors he assigned yesterday. He also put some up at the auction house and sold them for 1 gold each.

Just when the "gang" logged in, Zhang Yang added all of them into his party and raided the Front Wing and Middle Wing Hardcore mode of Marzerway's Lair.

In the middle of the dungeon run, Zhang Yang had received many friend requests from all his university friends. One by one Zhang Yang accepted the friend request and was bombarded with private messages.

"What the hell! You're that Zhan Yu! Seriously!? I see that you're doing quite well huh! 3 consecutive First Clear Achievements, and the first to kill a field boss! Hmph! I'm starting to think that the hidden named player could be you as well!"

"Zhang Yang! Brother Zhang! I'll join you in the near future! Please carry me through dungeons for equipment!"

"Zhang Yang! I also want a First Clear Achievement!"

Zhang Yang ignored most of the messages and focused on the dungeon. After only a brief moment, Li Shang Yuan sent a message.

"Zhang Yang! The potion! They're all sold out! I sold them for 1 gold each and they were all bought off almost instantly! My god! How could people spend so much money on this potion! What can this miracle potion do?!"

Zhang Yang laughed. The only people who could and would buy the potion were people from exploration parties of big guilds, scouting the Hardcore mode of Marzerway's Lair. Middle-tiered guilds would buy them for the exploration party of Hard mode only. No matter how good the sales were today, it could not be compared when the game reached its maturity stage where the common players would be the prime consumer of this potion!

Zhang Yang thought for a while and replied, "Haha! That's great news. Let's try increasing the price to 2 gold coins per bottle. If the potions are sold off at the same speed, try increasing it even more! Let's see how far can we raise the price to the market's limit!"

He remembered that in the future, [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] would be sold at a flat rate of 1 gold per bottle. But that would be in the far future where the game had almost reached its full maturity! So far, with the game being recently launched, the set equipment was as important as gold itself! Besides, there were no high-level players to help raid the dungeon for the low-level players, so this potion could still have a high profit margin!

Li Shang Yuan snickered on his side. "Hehe. Bro, you sneaky bastard!"

"Hey! When the demand is high, the prices go up!"

Not long after, Zhao Xiao Song, Zhou Zhi Yuan, and more distributors came in with similar reports. Zhang Yang then repeated his suggestion to hike up the prices. When almost all of his distributors had reported to him, Yu Li had yet to report her situation. She also did not send him any friend requests. He did not know whether or not she was online. Zhang Yang had sent a friend request over but she had not responded. He thought that she might still be in class and decided to send a mail to her later when he heads back to the city.

After he was done with the dungeon, he went back to the city and retrieve his mail. The potions that he had sold at the auction house were completely sold out. He had put up a total of 5 stacks of potion and had earned himself 100 gold coins.

Zhang Yang then called Fatty Han over and asked him to sell 100 bottle for him at a rate of 7:3 in terms of profit sharing. Zhang Yang wanted to give Fatty Han a 5:5 rate but he knew Fatty Han would never agree with it. He then settled with 7:3 sharing. However, Fatty Han would still not accept it. After he knew that Zhang Yang had 7 other distributors, he forced Zhang Yang to give him a 9:1 sharing and finally agreed to sell it for him.

He predicted that within 2 to 3 days, the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] sales would reach its peak, until more players reach level 30. With levels on their side, most players could survive Marzerway with ease, thus dropping the sales down a little.

Still, the number of players had yet to reach the game history's peak point. 3 years into the future, there would be around 1 billion players registered in the game. Even though the majority of the players would not waste several days of time and effort raiding their way for the first set equipment, a minority would still go for it! That would still grant him huge profits!

However, when the time comes, Zhang Yang would definitely lose his monopoly. His profits would definitely decline. But with such huge number of players, he would still have consistent sales.

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Chapter 91: Hot Sales

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"Zhang Yang! I've sold all the potions you gave me! Out of the 100 stacks you gave me, I tried selling them at different prices. 6 stacks were sold at 1 gold coins. 3 stacks were sold at 2 gold each, 4 stacks were sold at 3 gold coins each, and most of the potions were sold for 4 gold coins each! I manage to sell only a few bottles for 5 gold each but the number was negligible. Looks like the current market would only be willing to buy the potions for 4 gold coins each! Either way, the total profit was 6714 gold! Motherf*cker, the auction house 10% service charge is just shitty as hell! Anyway, I followed your instructions and used 100 gold coins to buy [Brassica Weed] and [Ginkgo Flowers]. I've taken my part of the profit and have already mailed the rest of the money and ingredients to you!"

"Haha! Zhang Yang! Guess how many potions I managed to sell today? All! All of them I'm telling you! God! I'd never thought that this potion can be so popular! I'd even received a guild invitation from Iron Blood guild officer! They said they would provide me a slot for their exploration party only if I could provide a steady supply of the potion!"

"F*ck! Zhang Yang, everything is on you the next time we meet! That potion is selling like hotcakes! There were so many guild masters messaging me privately, asking for potions in bulk!"

"Zhang Yang…"

Zhang Yang had received the money and ingredient from every distributor he had assigned. For that one night alone, the sales of the potion was as he predicted. Still, the main purchasing customers were all mainly from big and medium sized guilds. Majority of the players did not buy much since most of them were still oblivious about the nature dungeon they were bound to face!

After deducting 100 gold from each city distributor for ingredient's purchasing, Zhang Yang had calculated that he would have amassed a total of 48000 gold coins. Add that number with the 50000 gold he had obtained that morning, he would have came close to 100000 gold coins!

The current exchange rate was 1 gold coins to 7 dollars, which means his current savings had reached almost 700000 dollars! Even though the 50000 gold coins he earn was an extra bonus, he could earn even more when the majority of the casual players begins raiding Marzerway's Lair.

The first step was a complete success!

However, it was far from his end-term goal of becoming a billionaire! Luckily, he still had a lot more time to work on it as the market was filled with more chances in the future! It all depended on him making the effort to grab the opportunity!

Zhang Yang had a total of 1400 stacks of potions and today, he had sold more than 800 bottles and sent 500 stacks to his distributors, leaving him with very little stock. He had to start making more!

It takes only 1 second to make one bottle of potion. He could make 60 bottles in 1 minute, which meant only 3600 bottles in an hour. That's only 180 stacks! When he levels up his crafting level from Beginner to Amateur, the time to make a potion would be reduced by half! Zhang Yang started making potions at 10pm and made 200 stacks of potions for the remaining distributors to sell. After making potions for another hour, Zhang Yang could no longer endure his fatigue any longer and decided to log out and get some sleep.

On his bed, Zhang Yang thought that if he does not sleep and continued to make more potions for the entire night, he could have crafted more than 4000 stacks of potion in a day. This would raise his profit to the roof! Even though 4000 stacks seems a lot, it was only a total of 80000 bottles of potion, this number would only satisfy White Jade City alone in a time of such a sales boom!

Besides, he could not possibly spend the entire day solely on making potion! He needed to make sure he still had time to grind his level as well!

There was a method to help him solve his problem, and that was to raise his Alchemy to Advanced. When a player's Alchemy skill reaches the Advanced level, he could synthesize higher-leveled items and also able to make two items simultaneously!

When the player's crafting skill reaches Professional tier, he could make 4 items at the same time. Specialists could make 6, a Master could make 8, and the Grandmasters could make 10 items in the same time!

So far, it was impossible to reach Professional-tier since there were no high-leveled item recipes in the market. However, there were Amateur-tiered recipes being sold in the auction house at the moment! Still, there was another problem. The ingredients required to craft any Amateur level recipe item are much more expensive and rare than a Beginner level recipe item. It's extremely arduous to raise 1000 mastery point in order to increase his skill level!

Tomorrow, he would buy himself an Amateur-tiered recipe and focus fully on raising his skill level to Advanced! The clock is ticking, and every single second meant money!

After sleeping through the night, Zhang Yang finally caved in and skipped his morning exercise to saving precious time. He wolfed down his breakfast and logged into the game. At his current level, every second was one bottle of potion and that was worth at least 4 dollars and 28 cents, he could not afford to let that fly!

The moment his character spawned in the city, he quickly ran to the auction house and bought 3 types of Amateur-tiered recipe, retrieved the items at the mailbox, and searched for their ingredients. The 3 recipes were as such - Level 2 Healing Potion, Level 2 Magic Potion, and Level 2 Strength Potion. The ingredients he required were Lily Grass, White Apricot, Vanilla Grass, Love Vine, and Rainbow Orchid.

Zhang Yang search for them one at a time and found out that they were being sold on the auction house but the amount was only a handful, and at a high price too. Zhang Yang wavered for an instance, before steeling himself and emptying the auction house. He went over to the Alchemy Shop and bought a bunch of empty bottles and started to make potions. At a bottle per second, he used up all of the ingredients to make about 200 bottles of potions! He was still lacking about 800 mastery points to reach Advance-tier!

Zhang Yang opened his friend list and only 3 out of 6 of his distributors were online. (Yu Li was not in the list)

He quickly sent each of them a private message asking them to buy the 5 ingredients that he needed and to mail them back to him as soon as possible.

While they were busy searching for ingredients, he did not waste any time and started to make [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. After 40 minutes, a mail notification ranged and Zhang Yang quickly retrieved the mail, collecting all ingredients and making more potions to increase his mastery. Half an hour later, he had again used all the ingredient and made about 700 bottles of potion! He was only a few steps away from becoming an Advance-tier in Alchemy!

Another distributor logged in in the nick of time and Zhang Yang quickly repeated his request. After an hour so or, he managed to raise his mastery and became an Advanced-level Alchemist!

Soon after, Drizzler and the "gang" logged in. Zhang Yang immediately called out to them and asked them to raid dungeons with Ironhills as the tanker. He was too busy making potions to join them!

There was a problem. Everyone was quite used to having Zhang Yang as their main tank, and so, they encountered some problems with Ironhills tanking. He'd sometimes loses aggro and the worst case scenarios included total party wipeouts. Little Snow made the mistake assuming that Ironhills was as good as Zhang Yang, not healing Ironhills as often as needed. It appears that Ironhills wasn't made of iron and crumbled to the ground repeatedly.

Everyone did not have the guts to criticize Ironhills, but vented their frustrations on Zhang Yang instead. After fighting as hard as they can, they had only managed to successfully raid two dungeons by 1pm. Everyone was already worn out from the strenuous overexertion.

After everyone took a breather and Fatty Han had his lunch, Zhang Yang quickly tugged the latter aside.. First, he gave him 100 stacks of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] to sell them off. Next, he asked him to help him earn combat experience. Zhang Yang would only need to be in the same field making potions, while Fatty Han would kill monsters, sharing the experience points with him.

Fatty Han did no mind to help him at all! It was not because he was earning money from Zhang Yang. Even if there was no benefit in helping Zhang Yang, Fatty Han would still help him out as a brother-in-arms!

As the day ended, Zhang Yang had reached level 25 with 22% experience point, approximately 30% less than he would normally gain by himself.

Although he was losing out in terms of leveling, the same could not be said fortune-wise. Despite his diminished speed of leveling, Zhang Yang managed to make 4500 stacks of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] when the time was already 11pm. He distributed them to his distributor evenly soon after.

Ever since the sales of yesterday's potion, the market demand had increased significantly. All 8 main cities had bought a total of 250 stacks today. Zhang Yang predicted that within the next 3 days, mainstream players would have surpassed the level 20 bracket and the demand for [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] would be bound to increase even moreso!

The Main Wing dungeon boss would respawn soon. However, on that particular day, Frost Night would be busy with her day job, as are most of the casual guild members. Zhang Yang would have to postpone the dungeon raid and have it later on that night.

When the "gang" finally knew that Zhang Yang had been busy making potions for the past few day, they voluntarily offered their help to raise his level while he made more potions. They first went to Cave of Bones and then massacred the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands. Zhang Yang would only need to help out when they were fighting the boss. At other times, he could fully concentrate on making potions while the party ran around killing monsters for him.

This time, they were lucky enough to obtain a Shape Shifting hat. The little brat claimed the item for herself as she insisted on playing with it. The moment she got hold of it, she changed into a tiger, and then a scorpion, scurrying around happily.

At the end of the day, Zhang Yang's experience bar rose from 22% to 65%. It was still slower than his own speed, but adequate enough. When night time fell, Zhang Yang gathered 20 players and raided Marzerway's Lair in Hardcore Mode. After suffering defeat twice in a row, Zhang Yang finally used a magic scroll to boost the party's attack power! Only then, did the party successfully take down Marzerway! However, Zhang Yang strongly believed that after the third attempt at farming equipment, the ranged attackers would have an attack upgrade, rendering the scroll unnecessary!

This time, Marzerway was kind enough to warriors! He dropped two warrior equipment - boots and helmet. Since Drizzler had the boots, she only took the helmet. Only one more piece was needed to trigger the first set effect!

[Brave Boots] (Gray-Silver, Heavy Armor)

Defense: 12

Vitality: 24

Strength: 12

Dexterity: 4

Level requirement: 20

Bravery effect (1/5):

3 set effect: Every time you received an attack, there will be a 50% chance to heal 100 HP.

5 set effect: All damage output increases by 10%

After Zhang Yang equipped the boots, he quickly used the "Indian God Oil" on the boots and increased its movement speed by 5%.

At the end of the day, most of the casual player had reached level 20 and were starting to make their way to the Front Wing and Middle Wing of Marzerway's Lair. The scramble for the first set equipment was just beginning! The demand for [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] was rising up like Jack's beanstalk, beyond the clouds, beyond Zhang Yang's own production capacity! Zhang Yang hated himself for not being able to learn the "Shadow Clone Ninjitsu". There was no way for him alone to create a supply for this overwhelming demand!

On the other hand, the ingredients for the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] was revealed to the public, causing the respective ingredients to rise in value. Before the uprising, the price of each stack was only 20 silver. Now it had risen to 10 gold coins per stack! However, these two herbs were considered to be extremely common. There were too many of them all around the market. Zhang Yang could lower the price by lowering the demand. His manipulation eventually dropped the prices down to 3 gold coins a stack.

The players who earned their gold coins through herbs made quite a substantial amount of profit. But their earnings would not even come close to Zhang Yang's. If they were make comparisons, Zhang Yang earning would be like the economy of the entirety of China while those herb sellers would be akin to roadside peddlers.

The herbs Fatty Han had stockpiled long ago was finally making use of itself! He had spent a small fortune buying those herbs. However, with the movement of prices in consideration, it was well worth the investment.

Zhang Yang worked on overdrive and managed squeeze out 5000 stacks of [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion]. With the rising cost of production, Zhang Yang was still capable of making around 300000 gold coins a day, which was equivalent of 2 million dollars!

This period of gold falling from the skies would probably last for another 20 days. 20 days would be enough for Zhang Yang to become a multibillionaire!

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Chapter 92: Multimillionaire

Translator: Zenobys Editor: TheRealSeal

They arrived at the Cave of Bones in the Desolated Ghostly Flatlands three days later.

"Hey, Idiot Zhan Yu, share the profits with me!" Little Snow put both her hands on her waist, revealing more of her bosoms. Drizzler calmed her down immediately.

"Little Snow, please be a gentlewoman! Be a gentlewoman!"

While making the medicine, Zhang Yang looked up and had a glance of her "assets". In his mind, he had a thought that time is like a woman's cleavage; it will appear once squeezed! We against the time, so we have to hurry. We're going to need to squeeze out more like Little Snow's cleavage to have enough!

Little Snow caught Zhang Yang looking, and she chuckled while saying, "Is it that nice to look at?"

"Yeah… perfectly rounded, crystal clear and very attractive!" Zhang Yang replied with compliments.

"Pervert!" Drizzler despised Zhang Yang for saying such things, but she enviously gazed at Little Snow's bosoms too.

Zhang Yang laughed and said, "I was talking about her eyes!"

"Hey, idiot! Don't try to change the topic! Hurry up and share the profits with me! I looted that Alchemy recipe; the 'Great Lucky Hands'!"

Little Snow and Drizzler knew that the [Beginner Anti-Shadow Potion] was massively sold in the market these few days were the ones made by Zhang Yang. Being a money grubber and having recalled that she gave the recipe to him, Little Snow felt a deep sense of grief.

"Alright, here's a reward from me, then!" Zhang Yang traded 54 silver coins to her.

"Damn you, Zhan Yu! Are you trying to challenge me?!" Little Snow hummed. She scammed him of 54 gold coins before; what a stingy guy!

"To be honest, Zhan Yu really picked up a goldmine this time!" Hundred Shots smiled broadly. From his expression, he showed how happy he was for Zhang Yang without any sense of jealousy in mind.

Drizzler could not help but to ask, "Noob tank, how much gold coins have you actually earned?"

Zhang Yang did not want to hide from them and gave his honest answer. "It wasn't selling well for the past few days, but it started selling out two days ago and after deducting the profit sharing and commissions, I could earn 300,000 gold coins in a day!" With the majority of normal players rushing to Level 20, Zhang Yang's asset greatly rose to 6 million in just these three days.

"According to my calculations, before most players could even achieve Level 30, this idiot here could earn nearly 40 million!" Little Snow was quite shocked as it was not a small amount for her; even more so having earned it within a month!

At this point, even Fatty Han could not help to speak out despite being quite the quiet one in front of a crowd, "Lovely Little Snow, why don't you follow our Little Yang and be the wife of a multimillionaire?"

But Fatty Han earned some from it as well. With Zhang Yang having seven "distributor" friends and Fatty being his best friend, how could Zhang Yang not share the profit with him? Half of the overall amount of medicine were sold in White Jade Castle and the other half in the other seven main cities, and they shared 10 percent of the profit. Fatty earned the most as he had a net profit of nearly 50,000 gold coins within these three days, equaling to 300,000 to 400,000 dollars!

"Tch!" Drizzler immediately pursed her lips with utter disdain. "40 million is just a small amount. My cousin's assets are-"

"Drizzler!" Little Snow chided loudly before Drilzler continued talking loudly.

Though they did not get to know how much her assets were worth, they could guess from Drizzler's tone that it would definitely be more than 40 million; far more than 40 million!

Zhang Yang's curiosity increased and wondered, didn't I meet another person like Lin Yu with hundreds of millions worth of assets, being a daughter of a rich family as well?

"Idiot Zhan Yu, the profit sharing is not necessary now but you have to treat me a meal!" Little Snow was still unwilling to forgive him.

"Good! Treat us a meal!" Drizzler's eyes shone.

Zhang Yang was left helpless. These cousins could be filthy rich, but they're still trying to swindle money out of me? Aren't these money-grubbers being a little too stingy?

"Fine, where shall we eat?" Zhang Yang just simply promised them. Even though the money was important, he realized that adequate relaxation was necessary, not to overwork himself. There would definitely be more business opportunities in 'God's Miracle' in the future.

"Blue Sky Pub!"

Zhang Yang frowned. "Pub?"

"Why? What's the problem with that place?" Little Snow's beautiful eyes widened.

"Nothing. I just never thought you ladies would like going to pubs!"

"Hehe!" Drizzler smiled and interrupted. "Actually, I'm the one who wants to witness a pub! But we heard that a pub is not safe at times, so we want you, the strong young man, to bring us there!"

"Aren't you afraid that I could be a bad guy?"

"After a few days of observation, Little Snow and I decided that you're reliable, and not despicable and rotten to the core like some Fatty!" Drizzler blurted out, completely disregarding if Fatty was even there or not.

Fatty Han suddenly cried out, throwing himself to Zhang Yang's leg and said, "Little Yang, you're the one who led me astray! When we were four years old, you brought me into those female bathing rooms and my boner was as hard as a rock looking at those aunties! My God!"

Hundred Shots shot his arrow aside, laughed maniacally and said, "Fatty, I never thought that you'd have such a tragic life experience!"

"Fatty Shit, I warn you! You're not allowed to talk dirty in front of Drizzler anymore!" Little Snow was very serious about this.

Zhang Yang shook his head. "Children nowadays have been corrupted by bad examples on the internet even before we do. What things are there that they do not understand?"

"Hmph, he's still not allowed to talk dirty!" Little Snow said arrogantly.

Drizzler stood behind Little Snow and responded, "Yes, that's right and you guys should not pollute a clean and pure soul!"

"Hey, I've been feeling that something's not right here!" Zhang Yang suddenly said.

"Is there something not right?"

"How many of us are here actually?"

"Five!"

"Wrong, it's six!"

Zhang Yang and the four of them looked at the sixth person simultaneously; Frost Night. This cool woman kept her mouth shut, being stern and not bothered about their talking or joking around. However, she was not distrusted by them and cruelly killed the monsters which then scattered to pieces.

"Noob tank. She's really not an NPC?" Drizzler gazed in awe at Frost Night's back, because she herself could die if she did not speak for a long time!

"No, she's not, and she's just a little cool, okay?"

"Tch, she still looks like an NPC, regardless. Other than that, she could be a robot! Beep boop. I am robot No. 6870. Requesting orders." Drizzler imitated the tone of a robot and spoke word for word.

Zhang Yang laughed, turned around and said, "Robot No. 68\0, come massage your master's back!"

"Go to hell!"

"By the way, what time are we going to the pub?"

"We'll go after killing Marzerway!"

"Too bad I can't join since I can't come over from Yanjing!" Hundred Shots regrettably said.

Fatty Han tapped on Hundred Shots' shoulder, "Haha! Hundred Shots, you already have a wife and son and you still want to court a lonely young woman in a pub? Harmony is important!"

In the midst of talking and laughing, they carried forward the fight. Zhang Yang continued to make the medicine while the rest were left to kill the monsters. He would only stop making medicine if he had to perform his role as a tank when facing a boss. They were fortunate enough after successfully after defeating all four stages of bosses to get a [Transform Hat] and a scroll!

[Magic Scroll: Weakness (Level 1)]

Use: Use [Weakness (Level 1)] on target, causing the target's damage and healing effects to be reduced by 10% and lasts for 60 seconds. This effect cannot be stacked together with any other similar type of effects. The bigger the gap between your level and target's level, the higher the failure rate of this magic effect.

Level Requirement: 20

This is a good item! Zhang Yang praised the item in his heart and kept it into his inventory.

After killing Shurian, the team looted a [Chaos Gem] and Zhang Yang successfully obtained it with 99 points from the dice roll. After using the gem, his inventory space was extended by 50 slots, slightly relieving his worry for inventory spaces.

'Server announcement: Sword and Fire Mercenary successfully broke the new ranking of Fastest Marzerway's Lair, Front Wing (Hardcore mode) Clearance. This glorious achievement will be recorded in the Fastest Hardcore Clearance Ranking Board (China Server) and please congratulate them!'

'Server announcement: Player Dominating Blade (Party Leader) broke the new ranking of Fastest Marzerway's Lair, Front Wing (Hardcore mode) Clearance. Obtained 10 gold coins, 1 piece of [Level 2 Gemstone] and 250 Reputation Points across all races in the league are awarded from the system reward!'

'Server announcement: Player 44 Bandit (Party Member) broke the new ranking…'

At that moment, the world channel was once again filled nonstop with the server announcement's red texts!

Drizzler stuck her tongue out and said, "Sword and Fire Mercenary, they're so powerful!"

Hundred Shots looked to Zhang Yang, "Their result was 17 minutes and 34 seconds! What do you think about their speed?"

Zhang Yang gently frowned. The duration set by the system for the Fastest Hardcore Mode Clearance was 220 minutes. Even if the "Trash" mercenaries shortened the duration record by 2 minutes, under the limited situations, it was still commendable if anyone could take it down even a second further!

They were indeed the famous team in the previous life! They almost took up all the 5-man and 10-man dungeons' First Clear Achievement. If it were not for having insufficient manpower, they would have taken up the 20-man and 50-man dungeons' First Clear Achievement as well! In this life, Zhang Yang foresaw this predicament and grabbed all the current First Clear Achievement for the dungeons, which led the elite team to begin raiding the dungeons for the Fastest Clear Achievement!

"It's still okay!" Zhang Yang nodded his head and said, "If we've prepared sufficiently and adjusted our class' positions wisely, I bet we can make it under 15 minutes!"

'Server announcement: Sword and Fire Mercenary successfully broke the new ranking of Fastest Marzerway's Lair, Middle Wing (Hardcore mode) Clearance. This glorious achievement will be recorded in the Fastest Hardcore Clearance Ranking Board (China Server) and please congratulate them!'

'Server announcement: Player Floating Up (Party Leader) broke the new ranking of Fastest Marzerway's Lair, Middle Wing (Hardcore mode) Clearance. Obtained 10 Gold Coins, 1 piece of [Level 2 Gemstone] and 250 Reputation points across all races in the league are awarded from the system reward!'

In another few minutes, the world channel began to fill up once again with the server announcement's red texts!

"Now they're the opponents!" Hundred Shots gasped in shock.

Zhang Yang frowned once more. Lone Desert Smoke was definitely stronger than Sword and Fire Mercenary in terms of capability for the 5-man team, but they had ten members who were able to fight, and Lone Desert Smoke could not be stronger than them in terms of teamwork strength! Aside from that, Zhang Yang only had six members including Frost Night and still lacked four more members that were able to fight!

Another two Level 30 dungeons were 10-man dungeons and the current situations was against their odds! Besides, the bosses in those dungeons were different from Marzerway, not being able to be killed by any particular items or medicines only and the players would need to kill the boss "fairly"!

The competitive pressure suddenly grew!

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