A beautiful night with beautiful women by your side.

The world of Aincrad is beautiful and poetic. The light of the silver moon in the sky illuminates the earth, and fireflies can be seen twinkling in the forest. There are flowers and plants on both sides of the road that serve as street lamps. Add to that the handsome men and beautiful women, and it can be considered a beautiful and carefree scene.

But in fact, the atmosphere among the crowd was a little awkward...

Because they are followed by a little tail.

"Master, I never thought you were so charming."

Restia glanced at the cloaked figure hanging far behind everyone, and said to Fang Zheng with a smile. Facing Restia's teasing, Fang Zheng shrugged helplessly.

"I can't help it. Being handsome is something that people are born with. I don't want to be like this either... Well, but compared to being ignored by everyone, it's certainly better to be a handsome guy who gets 100% of the attention... Okay, here we are."

Fang Zheng stopped walking as he spoke. At this time, Black Cat and Qingye, who were following behind Fang Zheng, also came over curiously and looked forward.

In front of them was a clearing in the forest. In the middle of the clearing stood a dead tree man. It looked like a dry old tree, with two branches on its left and right hands, and the roots underneath were used for movement. This was the first time Qingye had seen this dead tree man, but Black Cat was obviously very familiar with it.

After all, her level has reached level 13, and she has long since left the grassland to start her forest adventure. Naturally, she knows that this dead tree man is one of the monsters that refresh in the forest - but this tree man is obviously different.

Its body is a whole circle larger than other tree people. Ordinary tree people are only two meters tall, but this tree man is at least three meters tall. Its thick trunk is so thick that it takes three people to hug it.

All this shows that this is not just an ordinary dead tree man - nonsense, there is a name written on it!

"Deadwood Elite!"

The black cat cried out in surprise, her eyes widened in astonishment as she looked at Fang Zheng.

"You're going to hit this?! Wait, you're not trying to trick us into dying for you!"

In many online games, there is usually an elite creature on the map as a "warm-up" for players before entering the dungeon. These elite creatures are generally much stronger than ordinary monsters, and they also drop some good stuff. This game is no exception, and the "Deadwood Elite" is the "world elite" in the forest area.

If it were an ordinary online game, this poor creature would probably be guarded by other players as soon as he came out.

But here, including Black Cat, many players have seen the figure of the Witherwood Elite, but their reaction is basically "Sorry to bother you, goodbye."

Hmm? Why, you ask?

This is a level 15 silver elite! Its health limit is comparable to that of ten ordinary dead tree men, not to mention its super strong attack power. It may also have some terrible skills. But now in this death game, everyone has only one life. Who would come to die for some equipment that will obviously be eliminated before the dungeon?

"Of course not."

Facing Black Cat's question, Fang Zheng shook his head.

"In fact, we brush this thing almost every day in the forest... Well, you guys are lucky. If you come later, don't expect to brush it with us."

"Just the three of you...?"

"certainly."

Fang Zheng nodded, and then sent a team invitation to Black Cat and Aoba.

"Come and give it a try. If you think the situation is not good, you can just run. This is the world's elite. Its attack range will not exceed this open space. If you are worried, just watch outside the open space and see how we deal with it."

"That's... okay."

Black Cat hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement. You know, although she had come with a few other players to "look up" to this elite before, they were not brave enough to fight him. The Deadwood Treeman was a very difficult monster to deal with. Although its movement speed was very slow, its attack range was large and its damage was high. If you were not careful enough to dodge it, you would lose half of your health. Even Black Cat, who was known for her speed and reaction, did not dare to take this risk.

More importantly, its defense is very high and it is difficult to stun it!

This brings me to another setting of this game.

As I said before, this game only has melee combat, no ranged combat or magic, and no priest to replenish blood, so how can we ensure that players will not be killed by the boss? You should know that most online games, no matter how simple, will have a blood replenisher. Otherwise, if the boss uses a set of skills and there is no one to replenish blood, then the players will not die.

So in order to make up for this shortcoming, the game uses another set of rules.

That's interruption.

This principle is actually very similar to the parry that Fang Zheng learned in the Dark Souls world, but the requirements for parry are not as high. To put it simply, monsters can be defended and rebounded during their attacks. If you can block the attacks before they can hurt you, or hit the opponent, once the attack exceeds the defense, the monster's defense will be broken, causing it to become stiff or lose balance and fall to the ground. The skills will naturally be interrupted, and the player can take advantage of this time to attack crazily.

Black Cat would naturally like monsters like wasps that are fast but fragile and easy to deal critical damage to. However, monsters like deadwood treemen have no weak points at all, and the scimitar in Black Cat's hand is just an ordinary weapon, not a magical weapon, so it is not a problem to cause damage, but it depends on luck to make them stiff.

So the Black Cat actually acts like a thief and is good at dealing with monsters with thin skin and fragile blood. But when encountering a turtle shell like the Deadwood Treeman, she is at a loss and can only confront them head-on.

Therefore, Black Cat really dislikes fighting with the Dead Tree Man.

Not to mention that he was just an ordinary dead tree man in the forest, while this one was a silver elite!

Black Cat doubted that even if he reached out from behind and slashed at ten points, he would be afraid. As for stiffness?

hehe.

Black Cat is considered a veteran player of online games. She made a rough estimate of the Dead Tree Elite and found that it would be impossible to defeat this monster without the cooperation of ten players!

Fang Zheng and the other three are only level 15. Can they defeat the Dead Tree Elite?

Black Cat was a little skeptical, but when she thought of Argo's confident words, she was also a little shaken. As a veteran online game player, Black Cat knew the name of the intelligence dealer "Mouse" Argo. Even she praised this man to the skies, which showed that he was really capable.

In addition, Fang Zheng also said that if they were worried, they could wait outside. Black Cat measured the distance and felt that even if the other party was wiped out, he should be able to escape with Qingye, so he nodded and agreed, then pulled Qingye and stood outside the open space.

Aoba followed Kuroneko stupidly. Kuroneko should call her senior according to their age, but when the two stood together, Aoba looked more like a younger sister...

Fang Zheng didn't say much about this. Although Black Cat and Aoba both agreed to join, he still had to show some strength on his side. Otherwise, they wouldn't feel at ease, right?

"Esther, Restia, I'll go alone this time."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng took out the greatsword from his back and walked towards the Dead Tree Elite.

Facing Fang Zheng's approach, the dead wood elite also reacted. It slowly turned around, and the branches on both sides transformed into arms and gradually opened. At the same time, Fang Zheng suddenly jumped up, and the sword in his hand whistled and swung down from the air, heavily chopping the dead wood elite!

“Bang!!”

With a dull thud, the Withered Wood Elite's figure shook. At the same time, after being attacked, it completely entered combat mode. With an angry roar, the Withered Wood Elite raised his right hand and swung it hard at Fang Zheng!

"not good!!"

Seeing this, Black Cat screamed out loud. In this game, players themselves do not have professions. They change their fighting methods by changing equipment and weapons. Black Cat has naturally used all the weapons. Because of this, Black Cat is very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of weapons such as the greatsword.

Among all the weapons, the attack power and attack range of the greatsword are second to none, but its disadvantage is also fatal, that is, the speed is too slow, and the stiffness time after the attack is too long. This is almost a fatal flaw for the players who are now trapped in this game. In fact, since the second day, Black Cat has never seen anyone use a weapon like a greatsword.

It is obviously the same for Fang Zheng now. He has just used a move and is in a period of stiffness. He absolutely cannot avoid the attack of the Dead Wood Elite at this time. So how will Fang Zheng deal with this problem?

Thinking of this, Black Cat stared at the battle in the distance, but the next moment, her eyes widened in surprise.

“Is this even possible?!”