When the group finished listening to Gu Wen and the Wardcaster’s encounter, they all fell silent.
An iron ball in the front and small mobs in the back, what kind of inferno mode was this?
Crushed into a bloody pulp was too tragic, it’s better to fall straight into a pool of poison. To even counter such a thing…… A thought flashed across their minds as they glanced simultaneously at a certain Ace, then they swiftly withdrew their gaze and pretended they weren’t overthinking this.
The Person in the Mirror coughed: “There probably aren’t any tools to be used on insta-kill traps. Getting poisoned and losing HP, our Cleric and Exorcist can replenish and purify.”
Wooden Shackles said: “We can buy large healing potions from the shops, in case the Cleric gets insta-killed by a trap, at least you can take the potions yourself and endure for a while.”
The group discussed as they made their purchases. After they finished their preparations, they went straight to the dungeon and started to clear the path.
Killing all the way up to Boss #3 with great momentum, they were finally greeted by the slot machine in charge of rolling— In order to persevere a certain Ace’s strength, the squad leader had distributed all of the items dropped by the previous two bosses. Now was when things got serious.
Wooden Shackles picked up the first gear and turned to say: “Ace, you roll first.”
The rest of the group looked at the Ace in unison, waiting for him to create a miracle.
Jiang Chen already knew this would happen and walked over calmly, pulling on the lever.
“Ding.”
6 points.
The crowd jumped excitedly.
Reliable, as expected of the Ace!
Sure enough, it’s true that a good steel must be used on a blade!
“Ohh…… it’s out on first try. We can open it!”
“Yes, this luck is pretty… cough, it’s pretty coincidental hah!”
“En en, it’s pretty coincidental.”
They didn’t dare to give any compliments. After saying these few words, they saw the gear just happened to be used by Wardcasters. As such, they gave up on rolling one by one and used their action to cheer 666 for the Ace.
Indifferent, Jiang Chen waited until they finished distributing everything. Once again, they encountered the stranger, who suddenly appeared.
Everything was the same as last time. They fell into the maze and lit up candles for illumination, shuffling forward.
Xing TianCheng still walked in front of the squad. Right before they needed to turn the corner, he pointed at a certain brick and warned: “Watch out, don’t follow my footsteps.”
Fang JingXing said: “This is that trap?”
Xing TianCheng nodded.
As such, Fang JingXing went next to it, took out a bundle of fireworks, and set one off, aiming right at it.
With the sound of a ‘bang’.
The stone brick was struck by the firework and fell down, revealing the poisonous pool below.
The rest of the group was shocked.
Are you trying to blow up dung holes here?
The Person in the Mirror instantly took a huge step back, in case the poisonous pool really did ignite and splash all over them.
However, Fang JingXing swiftly walked past Xing TianCheng and turned the corner.
A bundle of fireworks can be fired 10 times. He finished his experiment, but didn’t waste the remaining either. Standing at the fork in the road, he picked a path and aimed at the stone bricks. Every shot blasted the stone bricks accurately, blowing up a different brick each time.
After releasing the last fireworks, they saw one of the stone bricks that was struck sinking downward. The rain of arrows instantly ejected from the left wall and hit the right wall with a clatter— it was a trap that they didn’t discover that day.
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The remaining people: “…….”
Yt oemx, jwjhlcu!
The Person in the MIrror almost knelt down in awe: “We can do this?”
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…… It’s only you, who’d be able to notice something like that.
After all, the players only started to pewpewpew each other for fun, because you had ‘led by example’ and inspired them.
The group restrained themselves from glancing at the other person involved and opened the shop to buy fireworks. Then they divided up the squad.
Last time, they didn’t reach the end, so this time they had to split up again.
Originally, the guild leaders wanted to split the two Aces up. Unfortunately, the Abysswalker wasn’t willing, so they really couldn’t force them. As such, they just adjusted the allocation of the squad members slightly, basically advancing according to the squad last time. After all, they had gone through it once and were experienced now.
The squad was split into two, each walking their respective path.
On Jiang Chen’s side, it was he, Fang JingXing, Gu Wen, Meteor Ironwood, and Willow & Swamp, the 5 of them.
Last time they came here, they recorded videos. To save fireworks, they copied their previous path.
Fang JingXing followed the Wardcaster and reached the other fork very quickly.
The left side was a straight line. The right side was a turn. According to Gu Wen, after making a turn on the right side, you’re greeted immediately by a group of small mobs.
This hidden dungeon was a maze + traps type.
Currently, the distribution of mobs was very low, however, they gathered in groups, which could be considered another kind of trap. This was because the mobs were numerous in number and had high attack damage. If they get caught, it’s an instant death.
Meteor Ironwood said: “There’s no way to get through the path on the right.”
Jiang Chen examined the corridor behind him: “Not necessarily.”
Gu Wen followed his gaze and saw a slight curve on the wall. As such, he looked on the ground on the right side. Unable to tell if there was any incline, he asked: “You want to go step on the switch?”
Jiang Chen nodded: “You guys wait here.”
Fang JingXing naturally wouldn’t stay behind. He said with a smile: “I’ll come with you.”
The two people walked down the left path. After walking about 40 meters, Jiang Chen stopped and indicated for Fang JingXing to take out the fireworks.
Because he was running for his life back then, he wasn’t too sure which brick he had stepped on either. Instead of looking at the video to figure it out, might as well set off the fireworks, which was faster.
Fang JingXing took out the fireworks and pewpewpew’d everywhere, successfully blasting the trap last time.
Hearing the dull rumbling, the two people hastily turned around and ran back where they came from.
Gu Wen and the others were currently standing at the fork waiting for them. Seeing this, they ducked onto the path on the right.
Jiang Chen and Fang JingXing joined up with them. They saw the iron ball rolling over, crashing into the curve on the wall ahead, and bouncing to the right. Sure enough, there was a certain incline to the right side, which caused the iron ball to roll over here.
The 5 people nimbly ran to the left to avoid it. They watched as the iron ball rolled into the curved path and turned around the corner.
They waited half a minute. Fang JingXing cautiously walked around the corner to look and turned back, saying: “All crushed by the iron ball.”
If there were any more mobs on this road, they’d probably be crushed by the iron ball as well.
Meteor Ironwood wanted to cheer 666 for the Ace again. He looked at them: “You guys still don’t want to split up?”
Fang JingXing smiled: “Nope.”
Meteor Ironwood said: “How about this, you guys and Willow & Swamp will take the left side. Gu Wen and I will take the right side.”
Fang JingXing said: “You guys take three, we’ll have two.”
Are you kidding? If we let you two go together, then what the heck are we observing?
Meteor Ironwood said: “No way. You two are strong. This is exploring new territories. We need to ensure your survival as much as we can.”
Willow & Swamp chimed in supportively: “The small mobs on the right have already been cleared by the iron ball. The two of them are enough.”
Jiang Chen didn’t want to waste time and said: “Alright, let’s go.”
The five people split into two and three. Willow & Swamp, who was an Exorcist, followed the two Aces.
After the stone brick sank in, it didn’t rise again.
Jiang Chen and the others stopped in front of this brick that had summoned the iron ball, and looked at the road up ahead. After this was an area they’ve never set foot on before, so they needed to use the fireworks to explore.
However, it’s not like they could blast every single brick. They only needed to clear a path.
As such, the three people stood in a line with Fang JingXing leading the group, walking and setting off fireworks at the same time.
After walking another 50 meters, a stone sank down because of the blast.
There was no poisonous pool or rain of arrows.
Two seconds later, there was another familiar dull rumble in the distance, which gradually grew louder in clarity.
The three people fell silent for a second, turned around and ran for their lives, back to the fork in the road, where they threw themselves to the left in unison.
The next second, the iron ball rolled past them, practically grazing them along the way. With a bang, it collided against the wall and bounced off, rolling onto the road on the right side.
The three people returned to the left side and watched it make a turn, disappearing without a care.
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Willow & Swamp: “…….”
After a weird silence, Fang JingXing suppressed his laughter and called out in the squad channel: “Gu Wen.”
Gu Wen: “En?”
Fang JingXing said: “Do you guys see any forks in the road?”
Gu Wen replied: “Not yet. Why?”
Fang JingXing said: “The iron ball went over there.”
Gu Wen: “……En?”
Fang JingXing said: “The iron ball. Another one rolled over there.”
Gu Wen: “……”
Meteor Ironwood: “…….”
The 5 people on the other path: “……”
It’s unknown how wildly Gu Wen and Meteor Ironwood had dashed for their lives. The people only knew that not even one minute later, two messages appeared in chat.
[Combat] Gu Wen has died.
[Combat] Meteor Ironwood has died.
The people, who were still alive, saluted and shed tears of sympathy for them.
Willow & Swamp secretly wiped away sweat, thinking to himself, good thing he stood his ground a second ago; otherwise, he would have been another pile of mush right now.
He followed the two Aces and continued to walk forward, saying: “If this path is filled with iron balls, wouldn’t we have to keep running back?”
Fang JingXing said: “Let’s see. If we encounter two more, we can switch paths.”
Willow & Swamp agreed, understanding that switching paths might not be beneficial.
This side already dropped two iron balls. If it dropped two more iron balls, who knows what the end of the path will look like.
Good thing the dungeon still had some conscience. After encountering one more iron ball, they didn’t bump into anything this cruel again.
Blasting open one poisonous pool and two rain of arrows along their journey, the three people finally walked to the corner at the end of the path.
Fang JingXing indicated for them to wait a second. Moving forward to check, he hastily returned: “All mobs up there.”
Feeling a chill to his heart, Willow & Swamp asked: “Change paths?”
Jiang Chen said: “How many?”
Fang JingXing said: “About a dozen, all huddled together.”
He said with a smile: “I’ll lure one over. Let’s fight it and see?”
Jiang Chen thought briefly: “Alright.”
Currently, these were the only living creatures here besides the players after all.
Perhaps getting crushed by iron balls and getting killed by players won’t be the same. If they fight it, maybe they could find new discoveries.
Willow & Swamp felt his heart chill further: “What if you lure them all over?”
Fang JingXing said: “It’s probably unlikely.”
How reliable is your ‘probably’ here?
Willow & Swamp opened his mouth and persuaded: “Our group has no cleric. We need to be careful.”
Fang JingXing said: “I know.”
In the squad chat, he called for The Person in the Mirror and Wooden Shackles, who had been killed by the small mobs before, and asked: “Are the mobs physical or magic types? How high is their damage?”
Wooden Shackles and the others could hear their discussion. They deeply felt this Ace had quite the idea and replied: “Magic. One hit can drop half of my HP.”
Fang JingXing said: “How far is their attack range?”
Wooden Shackles said hesitatingly: “Felt about the same as normal magic classes.”
Fang JingXing said thanks, took a few steps back, and blasted the stone bricks in the area around his feet with fireworks to avoid accidentally stepping on a mine when hitting the mobs.
After doing all of this, he scooted back to the corner and observed at a distance for a moment. Seeing an opportune time, he nimbly released an attack and immediately turned around and ran.
Behind him, a mob shouted loudly as it gave chase.
Willow & Swamp felt somewhat flabbergasted.
He has seen the videos The Person In the Mirror and the others and knew how closely the mobs stood next to each other. Running into them basically had the same effect as poking a hornet’s nest. Yet this Ace genuinely just lured over one? How did he do it?
He had no time to ask in detail, however, and braced himself for battle.
The mob had high attack power, so even luring one was very problematic.
As this thought flashed across his mind, he saw the series of warding talismans fly out from the Wardcaster’s fingers, heading straight for the mob’s forehead.
Fang JingXing slowed down correspondingly and waited for the mob to hit him.
Willow & Swamp shouted ‘Ah’. Before he could remind the other, he saw the Abysswalker eat the damage from the blow, and his HP…… basically didn’t drop at all.
He was stunned: “What’s going on?”
Hahahahahaha! More rolling…giant balls…bye bye teammates.
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god what is this perverted game- good thing Xiao Ji has the skills to match his… ummm… luck…😂👍