Update Time: 2014-02-11
Ao Jian Zhonghua looked at the Qingfeng Forest patrol Guard in front of him, his face filled with unconcealed excitement. Judging by the boss's stance, it must be at least a Silver-grade boss! He couldn't wait to see what equipment would drop after defeating this guy!
As for not being able to defeat it, that wasn't even a consideration for him. In his opinion, his current lineup was incredibly strong. Six of the top 20 players in Tianshuang City were here; how could they not handle a mere boss?
To be fair, these people from Pride Sword were truly unlucky. The highest level among them was currently 19. There used to be a level 20 player, but after Lin Zheng eliminated him once, he was reduced to level 19. Because of this one-level difference, they couldn't detect the boss's information, and thus underestimated its strength. This was the beginning of their tragedy!
"Guards, go! Healers, keep a close eye on the Guards' health! Everyone else, attack fiercely!" Ao Jian Zhonghua shouted, with the imposing air of someone directing a grand strategy. Under his command, four Guards charged towards the boss, simultaneously using the skill "Taunt" to attract aggro. This had an advantage: it confused the boss's aggro target, which could, to some extent, reduce the boss's attack frequency. Their tactic worked; the boss was momentarily unsure which target to attack. At this moment, Pride Sword's attacks came raining down like a deluge—fireballs, ice bullets, lightning arrows, and the swords, spears, blades, and axes of melee professions—all landed on the boss. Then, to the astonishment of Pride Sword's members, damage numbers popped up one after another: -25, -30, -100, -56, -45… There were only a few damages exceeding 100, and those were all caused by mages. Before Pride Sword's members could recover, the boss went berserk!
"Roar!—" The boss let out a deafening roar that made everyone instinctively cover their ears. Then, the Pride Sword members surrounding the boss were horrified to discover that their health was dropping by 200 points per second. Ao Jian Zhonghua, who was also caught in it, immediately shouted, "Healers! Heal! Hurry and heal!" The Healers in the distance, ignoring the roar, quickly swung their staffs to heal. Unfortunately, there were only four Healers, but over a dozen people were attacking the boss! They couldn't keep up, and then, several squishier players tragically ran out of health and fell to the ground during the boss's five-second roar! After finally enduring the boss's roar, Pride Sword's members just breathed a sigh of relief, about to reorganize their offense, when the boss roared again, making their hearts jump! They found that their health wasn't dropping, and the attacking players, relieved again, couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, why are you roaring for no reason! You scared me to death!"
"Run! Run now!" the ranged Pride Sword members shouted. The melee members hadn't noticed, but the ranged ones had seen that after the boss's roar, its eyes glowed red. Based on their experience, it was almost certain that the boss had just used some kind of enhancement skill. In this state, its attack power must have significantly increased! Unfortunately, they realized it a bit too late. The boss swung its axe at a Guard, dealing a massive -1125 damage that instantly appeared above the Guard's head. The Guard was instantly killed.
"Hiss—" Lin Zheng and the others, hiding to the side, gasped. This damage was too abnormal! Berserk! That's right, Lin Zheng had already detected it. In the Berserk state, the boss's attack increased by one hundred percent, but its defense dropped by 75%. However, in the boss's current state, defense no longer mattered. With one axe swing, it could instantly kill someone. Who could survive until its health was depleted?
"This damn pervert, how are we supposed to kill it!" Long Ya stared, dumbfounded, at the boss that had already killed several people.
"It's a Gold boss! Do you think it's that easy to kill! It would probably be better if everyone had full Silver-grade equipment!" Chun Feng analyzed. "At this stage, everyone basically has White-grade equipment. I think, no one can kill this boss!"
"Hmm!—Not necessarily!" Lin Zheng said after staring at the boss for a long time. He now had a rough plan, but it would be somewhat difficult to execute, fearing that their skills weren't up to par! So he thought of someone!
"I know a guy, Hong Chen Yan Yu. Should I call him over to help?" Lin Zheng asked. After all, this boss was currently discovered by their team. If Lin Zheng wanted to call someone, according to the rules, he had to get their consent.
"Hong Chen Yan Yu!?" The others were a little surprised. This guy was one of the top five players on the rankings!
"Yes!" Lin Zheng nodded. "This guy is living with me now! His character is impeccable! What do you think?"
"Since Shengun, you know him, then it doesn't matter, but even if he comes, can we defeat this damn pervert?" Ba Wang said, pointing at the boss, which had almost wiped out Pride Sword. At this point, all of Pride Sword's melee members were dead, and most of the ranged ones were also gone. The boss was currently chasing an archer. With one axe swing, the archer screamed and was instantly killed.
Damn! What a pervert! Lin Zheng also felt a little less confident, but no matter what, he'd call Yang Qi, the veteran gamer, to take a look first! He requested to talk to Yang Qi, and the call quickly connected.
"Xiao Linzi! What are you doing? Are you trying to get Miss to level you up!" Hearing Yang Qi's annoying voice, Lin Zheng's forehead veins twitched. Taking a breath, Lin Zheng said, "There's a damn pervert here, come help!"
"Damn pervert?" Yang Qi was stunned for a moment. "What damn pervert? Did you provoke some powerful person? Were you PKed?"
"Can't your imagination be more vivid!?"
"Could it be a boss!?" Yang Qi instantly became excited! Hearing Lin Zheng's affirmative "Hmm!" from the other end, she immediately let out a shout and jumped up, "Holy crap! Wait, I'm coming right over! What? You're in a team? No problem! Miss is someone who understands the rules! That's it, I'm hanging up!"
"That's how it is, that guy will be here soon!" Lin Zheng said, shrugging at everyone.
Yang Qi was also leveling in Qingfeng Forest, but she was in a deeper area where the monsters were higher level, and of course, gave more experience.
After receiving Lin Zheng's call, Yang Qi opened her friend's location and rushed towards Lin Zheng's position.
At this moment, Lin Zheng and the others were contemplating the pile of equipment that Pride Sword had dropped, which had almost caused their party to be wiped out.
While the boss was chasing Pride Sword's ranged players, the group swarmed forward and quickly picked up all the dropped equipment.
The few who hadn't revived yet saw this group of bandits run out and pick up their equipment, and their faces turned red with anger.
Oh! They were already dead, so their faces couldn't turn red, and then they revived, out of sight, out of mind.
After picking up the equipment, Lin Zheng and his group quickly hid to the side again, to avoid being dealt with by the boss, and incidentally, began happily dividing the spoils.
Pride Sword truly lived up to its reputation as a famous guild in Tianshuang City; their members were really rich.
Among the dropped equipment, there were many Bronze-grade items, who knows how much money they spent to acquire them, and now it all benefited Lin Zheng and his friends.
Lin Zheng originally only had one dagger, but now he had managed to collect all the defensive gear.
The others also completed their missing defensive gear, and there were even several pieces left over, which were all given to Overlord to sell.
The few people were grinning from ear to ear; they had made a profit even if they couldn't kill the boss this time.
After the boss finished off Pride Sword's people, it returned to its original spot and started wandering around.
Yang Qi hadn't arrived yet, so the group didn't provoke the boss, instead chatting to pass the time.
However, it wasn't long before Yang Qi contacted Lin Zheng; she had arrived and told them to show their faces.
Upon hearing this, Lin Zheng stepped out of the bushes and looked around.
He quickly spotted Yang Qi across from the boss.
This Miss didn't know when she had gotten a helmet that covered her entire head.
If it weren't for the four characters “Hong Chen Yan Yu” floating above her head, Lin Zheng really wouldn't have recognized her!
Yang Qi also saw Lin Zheng at this moment, then took a detour, running over while keeping her distance from the boss.
"Here! Let me introduce you all: this guy is Hong Chen Yan Yu, currently third on the rankings.
Liu Mang, these are my friends I met today: Overlord Heavy Armor, Tifa, Xiao Miao, Ji Du Chun Feng, Long Long Long Long Ya!" Lin Zheng introduced everyone to each other.
Yang Qi smiled and said, "Hello everyone! Please take care of me!"
Everyone returned her smile, and at this moment, Yang Qi suddenly looked at Lin Zheng and said, "I say, when did you start stuttering? You're speaking so awkwardly!"
"Me!? Stuttering?" Lin Zheng was stunned for a moment, then immediately knew the reason, and everyone in the team except Long Ya burst out laughing.
Lin Zheng indignantly said to Long Ya, "You brat! Next time, you do the introductions yourself! Damn it!"
The few people laughed even louder, only Yang Qi looked bewildered and Long Ya looked utterly dejected.
"Alright, stop messing around! Liu Mang, look at that boss, how do we kill it?
By the way, can you hide your helmet? As a young lady, don't you feel like you're ruining your image wearing something like that!"
Lin Zheng originally wanted to get straight to the point, but he really found Yang Qi's bizarre helmet increasingly displeasing!
He couldn't help but say something!
"Hide it then!" Saying that, Yang Qi opened her character interface and hid the helmet, revealing her youthful and delicate face.
Yang Qi showed a mischievous smile, hooked her arm around Lin Zheng, and said, "What's wrong?
Missing your big sister after just one morning apart?! If you like me, just say so!
We're all familiar with each other, big sister will give you a chance!"
"Go away! Vain!" Lin Zheng bumped Yang Qi with his head in annoyance!
At this moment, the few people beside them were all stunned!
Apparently, none of them had expected that the Liu Mang Lin Zheng spoke of was actually such a great beauty!
Seeing everyone's dazed expressions, Lin Zheng immediately said, "You absolutely must not be fooled by her appearance!
This person is just a tomboy, a Miss! She'll do anything shameless!"
"Familiarity aside! If you keep slandering me like this in front of others, I'll sue you for defamation!" Yang Qi glared at Lin Zheng and said, "If you want Miss to let you go, hand over your money quickly!"
Lin Zheng didn't answer, he just shrugged at everyone.
See!
This is definitely a Miss!
"As for money and such, you can forget about it! Hurry up and think about how to deal with that perverted freak!" Lin Zheng pointed at the boss not far away.
"Be quick! Otherwise, others will come to kill it again!"
Hearing this, Yang Qi became serious for a rare moment.
She had already scouted the boss earlier and understood its situation.
After a moment of thought, she said, "A direct kill is absolutely impossible.
At this stage, no one can withstand the boss's attack power, not to mention the boss will go berserk and can instantly kill people.
So, there's only one way—exchange parries!"
"What is exchange parry? How do we do it?" Chun Feng asked with a frown.
"A method to deal with humanoid bosses!" Yang Qi chuckled and said, "Humanoid monsters generally have weapons.
When fighting them, if weapons parry each other, both sides will be bounced back simultaneously after one second and enter an unbalanced state.
This instant is our chance to attack the boss!
However, this boss has very high attack and will go berserk.
Since the side with weaker attack power will take damage during a parry, at least two people must parry it to prevent being instantly killed by accident!"
"En, I considered this method before, but I was worried one person couldn't parry it!" Lin Zheng nodded.
"Then, everyone state their attack power, to help with assigning positions later!" Yang Qi said.
"228!" Overlord, "335." Tifa, "296!" Chun Feng, "375!" Long Ya, "547!" Lin Zheng, "291" Xiao Miao.
"Hey—your team's output is really strong!" Yang Qi said in surprise, then was even more astonished, "Xiao Linzi, how much attack did you just say?"
"547!"
"Damn!" Yang Qi's eyes widened, "I'm level 20 with the Black Crow Sword and only have 594 attack, and you actually have 547!?
What weapon are you using? Let me see!"
With no other option, Lin Zheng displayed the dagger's attributes.
When they saw the dagger's attributes, they were all stunned!
Leaving aside the monstrous base attack, unable to recover health when hit?
Skill proficiency gain increased by 10 points, that much!?
And then what's this? Novice Dagger!?
Is there such an outrageous Novice Dagger?!?