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I am most afraid of the sudden silence in the air.
The surrounding monsters had been cleared, and an eerie, deathly silence descended upon the three of them. Tan Kening, unfamiliar with Ye Miao's character and intimidated by her strength, felt his legs weaken upon hearing this. "No, no, that's not it, Boss... He didn't mean that!!!"
Before he could finish his words, a strange sound suddenly rang out from the surroundings, like a whistle, but a little hoarse. In the blink of an eye, countless bloody corpses appeared out of thin air in the center of the basement, rushing towards him with a roar.
Ye Miao turned his head upon hearing the voice, his gaze passing over the countless small monsters and landing on the Blood Corpse Leader. He then shifted a few inches and stared at the stone tablet that was just inches away from the Blood Corpse Leader: "The stone tablet is the monster spawning point."
"It will constantly spawn monsters to protect the leader. At the same time, the leader will also protect it, making it impossible for anyone to get close."
"If we don't tear down the stone tablet, the monsters will keep coming," she said, her swords whirling in her hands. Then she attacked again without hesitation, double-jumping through a field of monsters and charging straight at the bloody leader. "I'll hold him back, while you tear down the stone tablet!"
Tan Kening was confused: "You said it as if it's easy to jump over the monsters and demolish the stone tablet?!"
After he finished speaking, he saw Ye Miao stabbing the sharp blade in the boss's face.
The Blood Corpse Leader hadn't been in a rush to attack them, but he was actually quite agile. When Ye Miao's sword was an inch away from him, he dodged it with a sudden movement.
Ye Miao flipped onto the ground, and the Blood Corpse Leader came crashing down with a punch. Ye Miao dodged the blow in time, and just as he was catching his breath, the Blood Corpse Leader suddenly attacked him again.
"Whoosh——" A puff of poisonous smoke spewed out, and Ye Miao was infected with negative effects. Fortunately, her health was high enough and she could withstand the damage caused by the negative effects, so she calmly dodged to the side and avoided the range of the poisonous smoke.
But in less than two seconds, the blood corpse leader was in front of him again.
Ye Miao frowned, realizing that this boss was really difficult to deal with, mainly because she was a swordsman, and even at the maximum level her agility was not very high, while the opponent's agility was ridiculously high, 500 higher than hers. As a result, it was difficult for her to avoid the opponent's damage, and the skills she cast could easily be dodged by the opponent, resulting in a miss, which was very annoying.
Before the next puff of poisonous smoke came out, Ye Miao forced the leader back with a sweeping blow. At the same time, she took a quick look at the progress of Fang Yuming and Tan Kening, and then found helplessly that they were much slower than she had imagined!
As an assassin, Fang Yuming's attack power and agility should be very high. However, his level was not high enough, and there were too many monsters, so he had a hard time fighting them.
As for Tan Kening...
Ye Miao was fighting with the blood corpse leader while watching Tan Kening's strenuous attack. He sighed and took advantage of the opportunity when the leader was kicked away to take out the [Withered Poison Staff] and shouted, "Go on!"
Fang Yuming and Tan Kening looked up at the same time. Tan Kening saw the staff coming towards him, so he quickly reached out to catch it, then turned and swung it towards the monsters that were pouring in.
Melee mages swung their staffs while casting spells, creating a combination of physical and magical attacks. Tan Kening's original wooden staff was a white item, boasting ridiculously low durability and negligible stats.
[Item: Wooden Staff]
【Quality: White】
[Description: Weapon. When used, has a 5% chance of causing 50-100 additional damage.]
Durability: 16/20
With this attribute, Tan Kening's damage with each attack is only three to five hundred.
Now equipping the withered poison staff, Tan Kening watched as a plume of green smoke billowed out from him as he swung it. Nearby monsters were struck by the staff, nearly all of them instantly killed. The few remaining monsters with low health, as well as a wave of monsters further away, were negatively affected and began to lose health.
"Great!" Tan Kening was filled with surprise and continued to attack, asking, "Boss! Did you send it to me?"
Ye Miao was rolling on the ground to avoid another attack from the blood corpse leader. Upon hearing this, he said, "You wish!"
Tan Kening looked up at the sky in anger. Ye Miao once again unleashed his [Shadowless Sword] skill, saying as he attacked, "This guy's agility is much higher than mine. Even if I use my skills, my chance of success will be low! Quickly knock down the stone tablet and help me control it!"
"Okay." Fang Yuming responded in a deep voice. At the same time, he clearly saw several [Dodge] pop up above the blood corpse leader, and Ye Miao's skills missed several times.
A few minutes later, Tan Kening and Fang Yuming finally reached the stone tablet. Tan Kening swung his staff and smashed it down. The blood corpse leader, sensing something was amiss, immediately gave up fighting with Ye Miao and strode towards the stone tablet, his footsteps cracking the ground and making a clanging sound.
"Don't run!" Ye Miao shouted, leaping up and riding onto the blood corpse leader's shoulders. The blood corpse leader tried his best to shake her off, dashing between the basement's support columns, and for a moment he had no time to pay attention to Fang Yuming and Tan Kening.
However, while the monster spawning stone tablet's health bar wasn't particularly thick, it wasn't easily destroyed by a lower-level player. With 50% of the stone tablet remaining, a new wave of monsters suddenly spawned. Tan Kening, who was about to swing his staff for the next attack, was caught off guard by a giant-looking face. He exclaimed, "Holy crap!"
Fang Yuming's eyes were stern, and he suddenly retracted his hand that was about to throw a dart at the stone tablet again. Several silver darts that had not yet left his hand changed direction and stabbed at the monster.
At the moment of impact, several low-health monsters that were hit by Tan Kening's staff died and exploded, and sticky dark blood plasma splashed in all directions. After a few seconds, the special effects and the corpses disappeared, and the dropped rewards floated in the air.
Ye Miao took a deep breath, and when the blood corpse leader hit the pillar again, he raised his foot to kick the stone pillar and did a somersault to land between the newly spawned monsters.
"Shadowless Sword!" Triggering the skill once more, Ye Miao, like a phantom, charged at the two men, slashing them like slicing melons and vegetables. Seeing the monsters falling like dominoes, Fang Yuming didn't waste any more time engaging them. He withstood several close-range attacks and launched several darts straight at the stone tablet.
"Crack!" The stone tablet finally cracked. After two consecutive cracks, it suddenly exploded into dust, spreading in all directions!
Ye Miao made a quick decision and turned to Tan Kening: "Yu Mingqing, little monster, help me control the boss!"
"Ah...Okay!" Tan Kening was so nervous that his scalp was numb. But since he was the only one of the three with control skills, he had to go up.
The Blood Corpse leader, who had originally planned to rush to protect the stone tablet, flew into a rage upon seeing the stone tablet shatter, roaring and attacking. Its attacks were extremely fast and difficult to dodge. To protect his teammates, Ye Miao simply used his high HP, high defense, and Night Demon Heavy Armor to withstand the attack.
Tan Kening took the opportunity to go around to the place behind the leader where there were no monsters, and swung his staff several times.
After 6.5 seconds, the "poisoned coma" effect is triggered. Since there are no monsters nearby, the effect is accurately determined on the boss. The boss suddenly feels dizzy, and two spiral special effects symbolizing dizziness pop up on his head.
When in "poison coma", the boss cannot cast skills or move, but the effect only lasts for two seconds.
Time was precious, so Ye Miao immediately activated his [Shadowless Sword] skill once, accelerating the double swords in his hands by 5.25 times, slashing and stabbing at the boss fiercely.
Combined with the increased damage from the critical hit, the boss's health bar, which originally had 6500 HP, dropped to 627 in two seconds. At the critical moment when the boss was about to recover his attack state, a flaming silver dart flew through the air and accurately pierced the boss's forehead!
-650
The damage value was about to cover the remaining health, and the boss wailed miserably and stumbled to the ground.
Ye Miao, who was about to continue fighting, suddenly relaxed. After clearing out the last few monsters, she recalled the fight just now and couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth and laughed uncontrollably.
Tan Kening, who was standing nearby, looked at her in confusion. She breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "It feels so good!"
Fighting monsters in a group is so fun!
It’s even more satisfying to play some tacit cooperation! For example, Fang Yuming’s just-timed fatal blow is so satisfying to recall!
Fang Yuming looked at her when he heard that, a hint of a smile turned across the corner of his lips, and then he was brought back to his senses by the system prompt.
[Rewards being settled...]
[A total of 22 items were dropped. Player Fang Yuming caused 7% damage and can choose 2 rewards.]
In the game "Fantasy World", the drops of monsters are calculated based on kills. Whoever gives the monster a fatal blow will get the reward. For bosses that require the joint efforts of multiple players to solve, the system will determine the reward distribution based on the damage percentage to avoid unnecessary conflicts between players.
After calculating the amount in this way, the damage Fang Yuming caused to the boss was only the last dart, so the reward he received was naturally pitifully small.
Tan Kening, who was pulled by Ye Miao to control the monster first, saw:
[Rewards being settled...]
[A total of 22 items were dropped. Player Tan Kening caused 16% damage and can choose 4 rewards.]
What Ye Miao saw was:
[Rewards being settled...]
[A total of 22 items were dropped. Player Ye Miao caused 77% of the damage and can choose 16 items as rewards.]
Ye Miao said, just like he did the day he fought the Night Demon, "Everyone is indispensable in a team-based monster hunt, so let's split the rewards equally." Then, realizing that 22 divided by 3 wouldn't work, he added, "I deal more damage, so I'll just take one more."
Although Ye Miao received fewer rewards from this distribution, it wasn't a complete loss. On the one hand, although Tan Kening's damage wasn't high, the control skills he cast with his staff were indeed crucial. Giving him more rewards would not only make her feel better, but also build a good relationship. This way, if there were monsters that needed control skills next time, maybe Fang Yuming would call him out to fight together. On the other hand, most of the camp members were not very high level now, and Fang Yuming could be considered a middle-level force. Giving him more rewards would be like winning over the core members!
Tan Kening was so surprised by this noble act that he didn't know how to react. Fang Yuming shook his head, "Kening's control skills are indispensable, but even if I didn't throw that dart at the end, you could still have killed the boss. So I'll just take the amount determined by the system, and you can divide the rest among yourselves."
His tone didn't sound like a polite refusal. Ye Miao thought about it, didn't insist any more, and acquiesced in her heart.
The system reacts instantly:
[Are you sure you want to change the reward settlement ratio to 7% (Fang Yuming); 46.5% (your own); and 46.5% (Tan Kening)?]
Ye Miao decisively pressed "Yes." The system's judgment immediately changed. Ye Miao was about to choose a reward that suited her, but she saw Tan Kening nervously say, "Boss, let's discuss this!"
"What?" Ye Miao stopped.
Tan Kening held the withered poison staff tightly in front of him, like a hamster hugging a large walnut for the winter. "I'll give up the other rewards in exchange for this staff, okay?"
Ye Miao: "Are you sure? The rewards combined are worth much more than this staff."
"Sure!" Tan Kening said in a loud voice.
There are so many different professions in the game, and players who can forge high-level equipment are extremely rare. It's incredibly difficult to get a piece of purple gear that's just right for your profession. It's something you can only encounter once in a while, and it can't be simply measured by money.
What's more, he had just tried it! He knew best how exciting that battle was!
Tan Kening was convinced that this poisonous staff was his destined other half (……).
Ye Miao tutted his words and nodded: "Alright, I won't lose out if we split it this way. I have no objection if you're willing."
"Thank you, boss!" Tan Kening bowed to ninety degrees, extremely pious.
Ye Miao found it amusing and gestured for Fang Yuming to take his two pieces first. Fang Yuming had already set his eyes on the Meteoric Spiral Thorn, but knowing that Ye Miao would not be able to use it, he took it without hesitation.
Then he picked up another blue card [Dart Phantom] and retreated.
There were 20 items of drops left. Ye Miao had no intention of checking them on the spot, so he put them all into his backpack and turned to look at the drops from the monsters around him.
The items dropped by the monsters belong to whoever kills them. Now that all the monsters in the basement have been cleared, at least 90% of the dazzling array of rewards on the ground belong to Ye Miao.
She took a deep breath and patiently collected them one by one, while Fang Yuming and Tan Kening went to find the part that belonged to them and collected it. As they collected, the three of them fell silent one after another.
[Item: Blood Sausage*3]
【Description: Ingredients that can be used for cooking.】
[Item: Blood Tofu*2]
【Description: Ingredients that can be used for cooking.】
These two things are all over the ground, and almost every monster drops them. The texture looks fresh and tempting.
This is it...
The blood sausage is good, the blood tofu is good.
It stands to reason that being able to obtain a large amount of food in the end times is a good thing no matter how you think about it.
But the blood sausage and blood tofu dropped by the blood corpse...
"Hah——" Tan Kening obviously thought of some unnecessary details and couldn't help but dry heave.
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Notes:
① The idea of blood corpses dropping blood sausage as a food item is from the game Valheim. Last year, I was playing this game with my brother and a few friends over the mic. When we finished killing a bunch of monsters and were picking up the drops, the chatterbox fell silent...
Then... we took it back to the camp and made grilled sausages (or smoked sausages), which were quite useful for replenishing energy...
As long as I don't think too much about it, the bad taste in the game settings won't disgust me...
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Tan Kening: So why did you let me think about it?
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