Chapter 71 Chapter 71 Copy and Answer
After level 20, there are more large-scale dungeons that require multi-person collaboration.
[Shadow Cellar] is a typical 20-person dungeon.
Tang Li set out with Li Zi and the others and gathered at the entrance of a dark cave about thirty kilometers away from their camp.
This is the seventh copy they have discovered in the forest. It must be said that the location of their camp is really well chosen.
There is such a large forest at the entrance of the camp, which may not be very friendly to novice players, but the further they go in the game, the richer the resources they can obtain from this forest.
The dungeon was still discovered by the hand of the European Emperor, so this time we opened it up with their team.
When Tang Li and the others arrived, God's Hand and others were already waiting there.
"I'm sorry we're late."
"No, no, it's not dark yet. This dungeon can only be entered at night. We happened to be nearby, so we came here early." Hand of God waved his hand indifferently.
"Hahaha, that's right. We just need to sit here and take a break and enjoy the scenery in the suburbs." A female warrior from the God's Hand team also laughed.
The forest at night is scarier than a horror movie scene, not to mention that the entrance to this cave looks even scarier than an ordinary forest.
As soon as she said this, some people protested against her unique aesthetic taste.
Everyone was an acquaintance, sitting together and chatting happily. Of course, the topic of conversation included the rumors about Tang Li and others who missed Ci Budai.
Tang Li sat among a group of people with a dull face, being teased one after another. She felt that she was almost immune to it.
Fortunately, time passed quickly.
"Come on, everyone, put the night vision potion in your eyes first," God's Hand called out as the sky gradually darkened. Everyone immediately became serious, replenished their status, briefly exchanged information about the dungeon, and formed a team to enter the dungeon.
The familiar teleportation light dissipated, and the cold, damp air filled with darkness blew towards us.
Compared to the outside of the cave, the environment in the Shadow Cave is even worse.
"Everyone, pay attention, the first wave of monsters is coming." For example, a reminder in the team channel.
"Put on a shield for yourself." Considering that Tang Li didn't come before, the words didn't express the meaning clearly in her ear.
She heard the sound and looked around. A group of people were holding shields and waving fireballs, trying to protect their surroundings tightly.
Tang Li did as she was told decisively.
The next second, bats covered the sky and a pair of red eyes pressed down from above the cave.
It's so densely packed that it's enough to make people develop trypophobia.
This group of bats is not only large in number and high in level, but most importantly, once you get close to them, they will really surround you and bite you hard.
Death during the dungeon exploration process is common, but no one is willing to accept this kind of death.
No wonder everyone is so cautious.
Tang Li was glad that she acted quickly.
"The bite of Shadow Bat will stack Shadow Vulnerability. Why bother to pay attention to the number of layers? Switch to the tank after three layers... Priest, prepare to dispel." He used [Arcane Missiles] to output steadily while giving precise commands.
"Understood." He raised his chestnut staff and tapped it lightly, and the rays of holy light fell accurately on the tanks in front.
The weakness of this group of bats is that they are afraid of light. Attacks with light will cause additional damage to them. After the initial confusion, Tang Li quickly mastered the rhythm. In addition to the shield, she also cast various fire magic spells.
Thanks to the upgrade of the Life Staff some time ago, with her current meditation level, her mana may be more abundant than that of a mage, so even with such a high-intensity spell attack, she seems to be particularly at ease.
Before long, she was protecting herself while firmly guarding He Biduoyan, who was at the forefront of the battle.
Poor Hebi, he's almost drowned by bats.
"Thank you, Xiaoli!" Hebiduoyan was so moved that he almost cried. No matter how strong the tank was, it could not withstand such an attack. As expected, Xiaoli was the most reliable at the critical moment.
"The shadow bats are just numerous. You can just hold on and you won't die." Noticing Tang Li's actions, he explained incoherently.
Before Tang Li could even open her mouth, several tanks protested, "Boss, you're making it sound easy. You won't die, but the mental damage will be real."
Looking at the condemning eyes of the crowd, he fell silent, unable to express himself clearly.
"Ahem," Tang Li suppressed a laugh. "It's too cruel to just stand there and resist. I brought some glowing pills that should be able to keep the bats away. How about giving them to the injured guys first?"
"Is it the disco pills?" God's Hand quickly remembered the pills he had put into the warehouse this morning. "I just picked them up before I left. I can just give them to them."
After finding someone to help resist the bats' attacks, God's Hand, with a distressed look on his face, offered a deal to several tanks: "This is medicine for magic classes. I'm giving it to you at a discount today."
"What? Medicine for magic classes?" After looking at the properties of the medicine in the group, the magic classes' eyes lit up. "Why not just let them take it? Such a good medicine..."
"Thank you, Big Brother Xiaoli, thank you, Big Brother God's Hand!" Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the tanks cheered and released everyone, and took a bite of the disco pills.
At the monster-hunting scene, shouts of "Oh my God" were heard one after another.
"Hehe, mistake!" The tanks who had taken the medicine looked at each other, smiled happily, and started to resist the damage again.
"We can't afford to offend them." Looking at the group of tanks flashing with colorful lights, everyone was still frightened.
With the blessing of the rainbow shield, the tanks regained their strength, and then the monsters were cleared unexpectedly smoothly.
Soon, they arrived at the lair of the first BOSS [Shadow Weaver].
"I'd like to emphasize the boss's mechanics once again," Ju Li Zi said solemnly. "After the monsters are cleared, the boss's shadow web will target specific enemies. A black circle will appear under the feet of those targeted, immobilizing them for 2 seconds and increasing their health. You must dodge immediately. If you're immobilized, a priest should dispel the spell immediately. When the boss's health reaches 30%, it will spawn small spiders. The small spiders have low health but high self-explosion damage, so kill them with ranged weapons first. When the boss's health is left at 1%, it will self-explode and use its ultimate move, Shadow Jet, to wipe out the entire team. This ultimate move has no shield, and anyone touched by it will die. Therefore, you must interrupt the boss's ultimate move. If you fail to interrupt it, remember to run as far away as possible."
"clear!"
They had fought this BOSS once before, so everyone had some understanding of the BOSS's attack methods. Even Tang Li, who didn't know much about it, had a general idea after listening to the introduction with examples.
It’s good to have a strategy.
The battle officially begins.
He Biduoyan took a step forward and clicked the monster. The next second, a huge shadow spider pounced on him with its claws waving, but was blocked steadily by He Biduoyan.
The attacks of the ranged professions came together and landed on the BOSS.
Seeing this, several off-tanks rushed forward and took turns to attract the BOSS's hatred.
Next comes the melee combat, where huge damage is inflicted on the BOSS with the cover of the tank.
With everyone's tacit cooperation, we passed the roll call stage without any injuries.
Next, the BOSS will hatch little spiders.
The difficulty of this stage is that the hatched spiders are very small and can easily be approached if you are not careful.
"Xiao Li, there's a spider web behind your left side!" The reminder was unclear in words.
Tang Li reacted extremely quickly, taking a side step and moving away. The place where she was standing was immediately covered by a sticky black spider web, and several small spiders jumped out.
"Three on the left, two in the right corner."
"Why watch your step?"
"There are more and more spiders, be careful not to get touched."
The boss's health decreases steadily, but at 15% it goes into a frenzy, and the hatching speed of the spiderlings increases dramatically.
The scene was chaotic for a while, but fortunately, it ended safely. With everyone's vigilance and mutual reminders, the Shadow Weaver fell down with a wailing sound.
"I don't know if it's my illusion, but after taking the disco pills, those little spiders don't seem to come close to me." He kicked the BOSS's corpse and spoke hesitantly.
"You're not trying to trick people into giving you medicine, are you?" It's understandable that bats are afraid of light, but it's totally unheard of that spiders are afraid of light. God's Hand looked at He Biduoyan with half-belief and half-doubt. These little meatballs of Tang Li tasted very good, and he himself especially liked to eat them. If the quantity was not small, he would definitely buy some as snacks when fighting monsters.
If you put yourself in his shoes, you can't blame him for having such thoughts.
"Given the relationship between Xiaoli and me, there's no need for me to take any special medicine," He Biduoyan looked at the Hand of God helplessly.
"Maybe it's because some light-based medicinal herbs were added to it." Tang Li guessed that dark creatures naturally repel the aura of holy light, and they won't like it even if it doesn't cause any harm.
"That makes sense." Everyone nodded.
"Do we all have time to eat disco pills now?" There are several more waves of monsters coming up, and their number is extremely large. It will be really troublesome, and the most important thing is that they are as disgusting as bats.
"I want to eat Skittles. Changing skin color is really cool!"
"Xiaoyao Pills are also very good, but the side effects aren't that fun."
Everyone has wanted to try these pills for a long time, but unfortunately there are not many of them, and everyone is embarrassed to waste them. Now that there is finally a legitimate reason, everyone is eager to try them.
"Ah, am I the only one who wants to try the savory pills?"
"That won't work, at least not in a confined space like a dungeon."
Tang Li listened to everyone's chatter and suddenly wanted to squat down with her head in her hands.
It’s all because I was too careless when naming them before. Now it’s really embarrassing to hear these weird names coming out of everyone’s mouth.
It seems like leaving here.
Unfortunately, she could only think about it.
Standing among a group of glowing humanoid creatures, her last act of stubbornness was not to glow along with them.
After dividing the equipment with laughter, everyone continued on their journey.
“Go, go, go!”
The novel appearance and the effect of the potion itself made the group of people rush into the pile of monsters that they had been avoiding and start killing them like crazy.
Ignoring those strange-looking dark creatures, it really does look a bit like a disco scene.
After dealing with the monsters, everyone went to the territory of the second BOSS, the Soul Stealer.
This BOSS is a newly transformed lich. Its first skill, Soul Siphon, can connect with the player and requires focused fire to interrupt it.
The second skill, Soul Scream, silences the entire screen and increases damage, increasing HP in advance.
The third skill summons a phantom that can randomly copy a player. The copied player will not appear until the BOSS dies. This skill depends on luck. It is very troublesome to copy it to a stronger player, and it is also very troublesome to copy it to a healer to restore the BOSS's health. But if it is other professions, it will be relatively better.
Last time, they were unlucky enough to be copied by the BOSS to a place where words could not be expressed clearly, and it took them a long time to defeat the BOSS.
This time they were lucky, as the one who was copied was a thief in the team with relatively low damage, and they defeated the BOSS in about half an hour.
After defeating the BOSS this time, a skill book called Soul Healing suitable for Tang Li was dropped, and she learned it on the spot.
They used the same method to deal with the third BOSS, and soon they arrived at the fourth BOSS.
This is where they failed last time.
This battle is a protracted one. The BOSS, the Shadow King, is elusive. He disappears every time his damage decreases by 5%, and then randomly jumps out from the player's shadow.
Being so close to the boss, not to mention whether he can react in time, even if he does, no player except the tank can withstand the boss's fatal blow.
The last time they were forced to die, it was this skill that broke their mentality.
Although the situation was better with Tang Li and her pills this time, when the health dropped to 30%, everyone's health was still mostly gone and everyone was in poor condition.
"Let's take a break." There's no chance of winning if we continue fighting, so he said incoherently.
"yes."
Everyone quietly exited the BOSS's attack range.
God's Hand sat down on the ground exhausted: "I've never seen such a cowardly and despicable boss."
"yes."
Everyone needs to take a break and replenish their energy. The team's morale has obviously dropped a lot.
"What do you think about giving the boss some fragrant pills?"
"Xiangxiang Pills?" Everyone looked over when they heard the voice, and it was still the person who suggested wanting to eat Xiangxiang Pills before.
"Are you still thinking about it?" A player who played well with him couldn't help but hold his forehead.
"No, this is indeed a method," Ju Lizi said seriously, "After the boss eats the fragrant pill, we can indeed judge the opponent's position in advance by the breeze... and smell."
It seemed to be feasible. Everyone looked at each other in silence.
"How about we do it this way?" someone asked hesitantly.
"Okay!"
Everyone returned to the battlefield, and after a period of rest, the boss's health had returned to 50%.
Thanks to the dungeon monsters who always like to laugh wildly, Hebi Duoyan, who was shouldering a great mission, easily threw the fragrant pill into the BOSS's mouth.
The breeze was blowing, and whenever the BOSS was approaching, everyone could sense it in advance.
"It worked!" Everyone was excited because the guess was correct.
Just don't think about what the scent is specifically.
In order to avoid the BOSS, or to smell less fragrance, everyone's movements became more and more coquettish, even breaking the limit. It is hard to say whether this is a consolation or not.
Finally, with everyone's concerted efforts, the Shadow King was defeated.
After distributing the equipment, only the last BOSS is left.
The dawn of victory is just around the corner.
Deep in the cave, the final BOSS, Shadow Lord Kroros, was burning with black flames, quietly waiting for everyone to arrive.
For example, take a deep breath and say, "This is the last round. There is no more information until this boss. Everyone must be careful."
"Yes!" Everyone nodded solemnly. They finally managed to fight until now, and everyone breathed a sigh of praise in their hearts.
Today, either this BOSS dies or this BOSS dies!
"Start the monster!"
Why say more? Just go forward immediately.
The battle began, the BOSS roared, and countless black flames turned into shadow arrows falling like raindrops.
"Damn, he uses his ultimate skill right at the start!" Everyone dodged in a panic.
"Dark Confinement!" The BOSS who had finally dodged Junyu Sword Rain roared, and the black flames on the ground turned into a cage and came back, trapping most of the unsuspecting players.
In an instant, most of the combat power was lost.
"Shoot it down!" Except for the tank, the rest of the people immediately shifted their firepower and broke the cage as quickly as possible.
Then came another round of sword rain.
"Pay attention, the ground will flash before the cage appears." Before the dark confinement came again, Cibuduyi discovered the skill mechanism.
Thanks to the reminder that the words didn't express the meaning clearly, everyone basically didn't get stuck this time.
"Ignorant human!" The BOSS roared, and the cage turned into rain again and flowed to the ground.
"Be careful not to step on it, the rain absorbs blue." Juerzi, who was always paying attention to everyone's panel, reminded loudly.
Blue? Is it that deadly?
Everyone immediately retracted their feet, wishing they could run as far as possible.
However, as the BOSS's health decreased, the rain on the ground became more and more. After several rounds of attacks by the BOSS, there was basically no clean ground to be found.
"There's not enough mana left," someone reminded, "take medicine."
Everyone immediately swallowed a disco pill, then desperately poured blue medicine into their mouths while desperately throwing attacks at the BOSS.
3%…2%…1%…
At the last moment, countless monsters rushed out from the rain of fire and launched a fierce attack on the players.
"Ignore the monsters and continue attacking the BOSS!"
"Boom!" The huge body of the Shadow Lord collapsed, and only two or three kittens were left standing.
System: [Congratulations on your team completing the first kill in [Shadow Cave]...]
"Finally succeeded!" For example, he took a Xiaoyao Pill to restore his precarious health, took the lead in resurrecting two priests, and then worked non-stop with the two priests to pull up the other teammates.
"I'll touch the corpse." As soon as he got up from the ground, the Hand of God raised his hand excitedly.
This dungeon was the most difficult one they had ever experienced, but the rewards were also unprecedentedly rich.
The drops from several BOSSes added up to more than 30 pieces of equipment and seven or eight skill books.
The skill books basically contain the ultimate skills of several bosses, and they were quickly divided up by everyone.
The equipment is even more amazing, there are three pieces of epic equipment at level 25 alone.
In addition to these, there were some other drops, and everyone got a lot of good stuff.
Just when everyone was excited about the harvest from the dungeon, a server-wide announcement suddenly sounded.
It is the announcement that Silver Town is upgraded to Silver City.
Although they had heard the news a long time ago, everyone was still shocked when the news of the upgrade of Baiyin Town really came out.
The entire magical continent is discussing the upgrade of Silver Town.
Everyone in the copy is no exception.
After all, most of the members of their gang witnessed the upgrade of Silver City from Silver Camp.
"Wow! Silver Town has been upgraded!" Li Zi was amazed and surprised.
"That's great." Tang Li was also happy for Baiyin City.
God's Hand looked at the announcement with some envy: "We don't know when our camp will..."
Yes, yes, thinking about how she had to go around several circles to get to the library, Tang Li nodded in agreement.
"It's almost there," he said, walking up to her. "The resources and player numbers during the server launch period are incomparable to what we had during the public beta. We've already accumulated enough supplies, and as for reputation, we've recently cleared a lot of dungeons. Your Doom Restaurant has also attracted a lot of customers and camp reputation. Combined with the Shadow Vault we just cleared, we should be able to get enough."
"Really? That's great!" Tang Li was very happy.
Today is really a bombardment of good news.
Everyone was so excited that they were discussing the convenience and resources that everyone would get after the camp was upgraded to a town. For a moment, they even forgot the fatigue of playing the dungeon all night.
Finally, it was Li Zi who yawned, and everyone realized that it was almost dawn.
"It's been going on for so long?" Tang Li yawned out of infection.
"Everyone, please disperse." He said to the crowd who were still full of energy, with a look of confusion on his face.
"Uh-huh."
"Okay, I'm really tired."
"Let's sleep first and then go online."
"Boss, go and wait for the whole gang to arrive before upgrading the camp."
"Don't worry, it won't be that fast. We still need to make some preparations." He nodded, unable to express his feelings, and said to Tang Li, who was about to leave the team, "I'll take you back."
"Ah?" Tang Li, who was planning to leave the team with the main group, was stunned, but still agreed under the persistent look of someone who couldn't express his feelings clearly.
Facing the gossipy gazes of the crowd, both overt and covert, the two left side by side.
Walking on the street back to the gang, the last darkness before dawn enveloped the two of them.
The streets were quiet and peaceful, with a cool breeze between breaths, and no one spoke.
When he was almost at the courtyard, he stopped walking.
"You didn't even ask me why I wasn't online yesterday?" His voice was low in the night. "I waited all day, thinking you would ask."
Tang Li's heart skipped a beat and she looked up to meet his focused gaze.
"We're not online, not because the development isn't going well..." He looked at her and said slowly, "It's because... I'm busy studying for graduation. I haven't told you yet, and I didn't let Li Zi and the others tell you. I just wanted to..." He paused, "I just wanted to see if you would ask about it if we didn't tell you. Unfortunately..."
He has always been calm and restrained, but this time, he did not hide his loss and frustration.
The air around them seemed to freeze. It was the first time Tang Li saw him like this.
She opened her mouth, trying to say something.
But in the end, she didn't know what to say.
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