The outside assistance had defaulted to being on the same side as the players. The lion king lost its primary target, so it turned its gaze on the rest of the people.
It had less than 10% of its health left. With its fury reaching the maximum value, it released an AOE. Xie ChengYan, who was lowest in level, died instantly while the remaining seven people all dropped health.
Immediately afterwards, the lion king followed up with a single-target attack. The one with the highest aggro right now, Fang JingXing, had just finished replenishing his blood, when he’s immediately left with just a sliver of HP left again.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen immediately grabbed the aggro. Unfortunately, the lion king released another AOE. Three more people in the squad died, one of which included Fang JingXing, who did not have the chance to escape the attack range.
With one big thigh gone, it was hard for the other to remain standing alone.
A few seconds later, a bunch of corpses floated onto the surface of the river. The lion king let out a majestic roar and walked off imposingly.
The 8-man group revived on the spot, not discouraged. This was because they had all seen the light of victory.
Fang JingXing said: “Once again. This time you guys don’t need to get into the river. Wait until Ling Huai starts confronting it, Total Annihilation and I will meet up with you on the shore. We can engage it in a group fight on the shore.”
The rest of the people nodded their heads.
Maneuvering in the water was restricted, so it felt too uncomfortable.
Fang JingXing provided some more detailed instructions and led the Wardcaster to confront the lion king again. After experiencing it once, the two people breezed through the 2nd time with ease. After they summoned Ling Huai, they immediately moved away. By the time the lion king came searching for them, everyone was already in formation.
Although there was some chaos in the middle, with the two big thighs’ top-notch instructions, the variables were successfully stabilized.
Blood boiling with excitement, the group threw all of their attacks over. The lion king looked up at the sky and roared furiously before dropping to the ground with a ‘boom’.
Instantly, a golden announcement floated into view:
Congratulations to the players Total Annihilation, Abyss, Avian Ruler, Gou Cheng, 5cum, Love Escapist, This Majesty is Most Beautiful, and Qing Yan for successfully killing the Red-Striped Lion King and achieving first clear!
The entire server exploded.
[World] Negative One Meter: ? ? ?
[World] Love Takes Precedence: ? ? ? ? ? ?
[World] Little Goldfish: Am I insane or is the System insane?
[World] Sasuke: Checked them out one by one. A level 51, six level 40s, and one that’s only level 35!
[World] A Single Orange Pulp: They can kill the lion king like this?
[World] Mobei Begging for Dried Fish: Even if the lion king eats them all, they’re not enough to fill the cracks of its teeth.
[World] Isatis Root: Where are they? Say something!
[Horn] Avian Ruler: Hahahahahaha, invigorating!
[Horn] Gou Cheng: Feel free to admire away. You can only admire an OP life anyways.
[Horn] 5cum: Come and take a good look. We’re the ones who took its first time [Blows a kiss][Screenshot][Screenshot][Screenshot]
Everyone clicked it open hastily. Discovering that it was a screenshot of the lion king’s corpse, they went crazy for another round.
[World] Negative One Meter: Oh fuck!
[World] These Are My Friends: Oh fuck!
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[World] Release that Fish: Oh fuck!
[World] A Leaf Boat: I don’t read enough books, how the hell are you supposed to beat this!
[World] A Thesis is So Hard to Write: I read plenty of books, but this servant also doesn’t understand it!
[World] Trench Coat Too Long: Come come come and tell us, just how did you beat it?
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Avian Ruler said: “Then if you drink it directly, wouldn’t it cure your entire body?”
The Oracle turned a deaf ear. Without wasting any time, he hummed a little tune and pulled out a crystal ball, saying: “Give me the token, I will help you guys divinate.”
Xie ChengYan was very curious: “Divinating while covered in a layer of medication, this wouldn’t be blasphemous to the Gods and spirits, would it?”
Jiang Chen said: “Who knows, let’s see.”
After saying this, he removed Gary’s token and handed it over.
The Oracle held it in his hand and muttered mystically. The crystal ball started to glow, illuminating the dim wooden house briefly. That horrific face also gained a layer of mystery and enigma. This greatly surprised the 8-man squad, making them feel like this Oracle might not just be boasting previously, but was actually pretty powerful.
A moment later, the Oracle put down the pendant and with a ‘wah’, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
The 8-man squad: “……”
Was something terrible and unexpected going to happen again?
The Oracle said: “Cough…cough cough, I…… I found it……”
The 8-man squad: “……”
Oh, good thing you found it.
But you don’t need to be so dramatic about it.
The Oracle took out a pill and ate it, recovering slowly. He wrote down the coordinates of a location and said: “I can only search to this point, not any closer. He should be over there.”
Jiang Chen accepted it. Seeing the quest log update successfully, he turned and started to walk outside.
The other people followed him. Just as they were about to push the door open, they heard the Oracle say excitedly that he was going to wash his face.
They turned around in mutual agreement, wanting to finish this story plot and watch him recover his looks.
The Oracle didn’t care about the audience watching him. Swiftly washing off the medication, he picked up the mirror to take a look.
It could be seen on his wrinkle-covered face that now there was an area covered in blood-filled pimples.
The 8-man squad: “…….”
Help, their eyes.
The Oracle and Avian Ruler screamed in unison, both especially realistic and full of emotions: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh—!”
This Majesty is the Most Beautiful immediately gave Avian Ruler a kick: “Why the hell are you howling? You scared me to death!”
Avian Ruler, in lament and anguish: “The treatment didn’t work. The medicinal ingredients that we worked so hard for, wasted in his hands just like this, I’m so bitter!”
The remaining people were speechless for a moment.
Fang JingXing suggested with a smile: “You can beat him up again.”
Looking at the dissatisfied gremlin, who was crying his heart and lungs out to the side, Avian Ruler raised his weapon and then put it down again, saying: “Forget it. He’s already miserable enough. Let’s just go.”
The group very quickly reached the location of the coordinates. Before them was a dark and sinister forest, which was covered by a thin layer of fog. Even though it was daytime, not much light was able to penetrate inside.
Jiang Chen glanced at the name of this location: Forest of Despair.
He asked: “How much despair?”
Fang JingXing smiled and said: “Coordinates are not displayed here. People with poor sense of direction get lost easily. There are plenty of poisonous things inside. Accidentally stepping on them will cause you to become poisoned.”
Jiang Chen nodded and felt it wasn’t that bad.
As such, the 8-man squad entered the forest and started their search for Gary.
As they focused on completing the task over here, on the other side, the forum has already exploded.
Today was Saturday. There were more people in the morning than during the week. As soon as the news of Mercury Reflects Fate killing the red-striked lion king was posted onto the forums, the post went viral.
The Aces discussed it for quite a while, completely unable to figure out how they had defeated it.
“Could it be that because it was a hidden story quest, the mission lowered the difficulty level?”
“The system wouldn’t give an announcement if the difficulty level was lowered.”
“Then how the hell did they beat it? Did anyone from Mercury Reflects Fate ask?”
“We asked, but they didn’t tell us.”
As the strongest open-world monster in Wandering Dreams, the red-striped lion king was very prestigious. In just one morning, in addition to ‘Aces running around naked together”, another topic also became a Wandering Dreams hot search—- “Mercury Reflects Fate red-striped lion king first clear”.
When internet-addicted youths of various gaming organizations climbed out of their beds one after another, the hot search had already entered the top ten. The team captains have all fought the lion king before and felt very surprised by this.
Looking at the list of names, their gazes halted on the Abysswalker for a few seconds before they all asked the same question simultaneously: “Which server is Fang JingXing on?”
The newcomers had been following the gossip and said: “He was on Mercury Reflects Fate before, now we don’t know.”
The team captains said: “Before?”
As such, the newcomers explained everything they knew. The team captains took the time to browse through the forums and glance briefly at a certain someone’s love-hate drama.
Seeing that weird-ass screenshot of “For you, I pin away willingly, haggard and pallid”, all the other captains except TQ’s captain, who already knew inside information, suddenly gained an understanding: “So the person he was looking for was a Wardcaster.”
“Ah?”
The team captains’ thought processes were on the same wavelength.
They pointed at the screenshots and said: “Fang JingXing is still in Mercury Reflects Fate. If he’s here, then Xie ChengYan must be here as well. Xie ChengYan has always played an Assassin.”
They drew a circle on the screenshot of Qing Yan’s “I’m worth it” reply.
“This is Xie ChengYan.”
As for this Wardcaster……. Fang JingXing was willing to get blasted by fireworks for him and then sent flowers to him in game. If this wasn’t true love, then he must have some other agenda. Seeing Fang JingXing basically forsaking everything, most likely it isn’t something minor.
The team captains said: “You guys all transfer to Mercury Reflects Fate right now.”
The newcomers were stunned again: “Ah?”
The team captains looked at the elegant and refined Wardcaster in the screenshots and said: “Go check this Wardcaster out.”
With the momentum of the hot searches, the players of Mercury Reflects Fate were still discussing this matter. In the newly established guild “Old But Vigorous”, a group of long-retired ‘old men’, sat around and studied the matter for a long time. They shook their heads in unison.
“No way, I can’t figure it out. Young people today are too terrifying.”
“Are they professionals?”
“Even at that level, it’s pretty hard. What do you think, Lao-Du?”
The person being named said calmly: “Right now, it’s in the middle of competitions. Professionals don’t have this kind of free time. Fang JingXing, on the other hand, has retired. He might be in that group.”
“What’s the use of having only one Great God?”
“Ohh, the Wardcaster in this squad is using an attack build. He’s a DPS. The fact that they can kill the lion king means this wardcaster is not bad.”
“So what? It’s not like he can reach the level of Chen Hui Lan Le.”
“Yea, you’re right. So how exactly did they fight it!”
The group discussed for a while again, but couldn’t come up with an answer. Seeing it was almost noon time, some of them needed to make lunch, some of them needed to pick up their kids from cram school, so they dispersed respectively.
The 8-man squad that caused all of this had wandered around inside the Forest of Despair the entire morning, but still didn’t find the person they were looking for. They had no choice but to give up temporarily.
In the afternoon, Xie ChengYan needed to go to a magazine cover shoot and couldn’t return. Regretfully letting the Wardcaster know about this, he heard the other say that they could wait for him to get online to play it together at night.
Unable to hold back from asking again if the other wanted to claim him as Gege, Xie ChengYan was rejected again and said: “Then let’s exchange contact information, so we can communicate even out of game.”
Jiang Chen’s birthday present this year was a cellphone, which only contained the names of his three family members. He hesitated briefly and then added his nephew as a friend. He gave a warning however: “It’s not convenient for me to pick up video calls, but I can accept voice calls.”
Xie ChengYan said: “Okay.”
Seeing this, Fang JingXing also joined in and added the Wardcaster as well. Instantly satisfied, he watched the other log off.
As usual, Jiang Chen took his stroll, ate food, and then rested for the afternoon. Sleeping drowsily until 210pm, he heard a noise from the cellphone on his wrist.
He clicked accept and a voice came through instantly. The warm and gentle tone carried a hint of a smile. It was the league Adonis who caused countless fans to become pregnant with the pleasing sound of his voice.
“If you’re awake, then it’s time to get online. We found the person.”
Jiang Chen couldn’t resist turning his head briefly.
It took him a few seconds to respond. He glanced at the phone and gained a new understanding for a certain guy.
Although it was a bit annoying, and also a bit despicable, but…..
His voice actually sounded quite nice.
Thank you for the chapter 😍
Voice con?…pfft! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Ahhhh I’m just waiting in anticipation!! When will his identity be revealed? I feel like we definitely need to get further into the story but ahhhh!
I can’t wait!
Thanks so much!
This is so good! I always get to the end of the chapter and forget that there’s no next chapter until I try to click “next” and come up empty and am like nooooooooo!
So good!!! Can’t wait for more 🙇♀️
Same sis same… and it always ends with heartbreak…. 😭😭😭
Ehehe sorry, this is going to be a looooong ride~
man I better start stacking up chapters cuz this waiting is killing me!