Chapter 353 - 329: The Reward is Good, But Not What I Urgently Need
Hidden Laboratory in the Sewers.
Under the extreme output of Lee Min-ho’s Demon Hunter troops, the BOSS let out a wretched howl and fell heavily. The next target was to deal with the swarm of maggots covering the field. Just as Lee Min-ho looked away, the BOSS’s body suddenly flashed with a red light, boom!
In that instant, Lee Min-ho suddenly realized and with superhuman reflexes, shattered a Big Healing Scroll once again!
The body exploded like a bomb, its shock wave mixed with torn flesh flying in all directions, clearing the blood maggots on the field and splattering Lee Min-ho’s face, delivering a risk-free final blow to his troops.
Even for Lee Min-ho, with his extensive battle experience, he couldn’t help but secretly break a cold sweat. If his reflexes weren’t far superior to the average person, a regular professional player would suffer greatly!
Never let your guard down until the last moment! This was a professional instinct that had developed over years.
—System Prompt: Congratulations! You have defeated the Corpse Poison Flesh Beast, you have gained Hero’s Proof +1. Your troops were contaminated with the flesh beast’s corrosive blood, gaining the status "Corrosive Blood Frenzy Attack," increasing your troop’s damage by 20%, attack speed by 20%, and move speed by 20%, lasting for one hour.
—System Prompt: You have received a competition prize of +250,000 Gold Coins, received competition rewards: "Life Book" +1, "Corpse Poison Flesh Beast’s Manufacturing Recipe" +1, Blood Essence +10 units, Soul Essence +10 units, Concentrated Mercury +10 units. Competition rewards will be sent to your account’s mailbox in the region you are located after the competition ends.
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This is the prize for the hidden instance within the hidden map! It’s quite generous, especially with the special effect of the Corrosive Blood Frenzy Attack—this key attribute increase of 20% in the hands of a professional player is practically a qualitative leap, enough to dominate the battlefield!
However, this wasn’t what Lee Min-ho wanted! What he urgently desired now was a way to withstand the Corpse Poison Plague! Although the Corrosive Blood Frenzy Attack’s effect compensated for the plague’s damage and speed decrease, his Life Limit and Stamina Limit were still continuously dropping!
Lee Min-ho finally realized where the issue lay! The correct strategy should be to first clear out other wild monsters to gain various buff statuses, then tackle the BOSS, making it much easier for the troops!
But all the other BOSSes had been taken down by Da Fei!
There was only one solution, immediately take Da Fei down and seize his competition items!
Now, with the immense upgrade in his troop’s attack power, Lee Min-ho was confident he could cripple or even eliminate ordinary amateur players in one round. Time was of the essence, and his urgency was even greater, so Lee Min-ho briskly exited the instance and continued his pursuit on the top path.
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In the Mitsubishi Team Command Center, everyone was tensely watching the big screen on the wall.
Haidao Yigong successfully dragged the Cockroach BOSS into the Otherworld space, where it was besieged by the Demon Army with no escape. But the Otherworld space would only exist for two minutes! In these two minutes, Haidao Yigong had to perform extreme output to take down this MVP! The first step was to break through its Divine Protection, which was a godlike shield!
At this moment, watching the MVP dodge, evade, and resist magic amidst the barrage of fire and flee left and right, everyone clenched their palms with sweaty hands, wondering if it could be brought down.
Thirty seconds passed.
The statistician immediately reported, "Report to the president, report to the captain, 212 points of damage have been inflicted on the shield!"
Everyone was shocked! A troop with over 1,000 Command Value had surrounded it for thirty seconds, yet it only dealt 212 points of true damage! It was truly no wonder that the Divine Protection had such frighteningly high evasion and resistance!
Just then, Haidao Yigong began to report an abnormal situation, "President! The dimensional space time has less than a minute left!"
Everyone was suddenly shocked, "How could this be? Wasn’t the scroll’s duration supposed to be two minutes?"
"Could it be that this BOSS has the ability to penetrate the Otherworld, shortening the duration?"
Igarashi gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Tsukamoto, do you think we can do it?"
Tsukamoto Hideki silently focused on the screen as if he hadn’t heard the president’s words, which was rarely seen. After staying quiet for a while, Igarashi glanced at him displeasedly, "Mr. Tsukamoto!"
Tsukamoto finally snapped back and immediately said, "President, I have a hypothesis, this isn’t the BOSS having the ability to break through the Otherworld, rather the Divine Protection itself is a space skill—"
Igarashi immediately interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "We don’t have much time, just tell me what we should do!"
Tsukamoto immediately said, "Mr. Gao Chang, open a Hell Gate teleport around the BOSS!"
"Yes!" Although not understanding the reason, a subordinate’s duty was to obey orders unconditionally. In a moment, four large hexagram Hell Gates appeared in the battlefield. These four Hell Gates were the summoning gates for the four troop types "Demon Child, Gagaku, Demon Governor, Hellhound" carried by Haidao Yigong.
As previously introduced, the Hell Race hero’s Professional Skill is the Hell Gate. When the battle starts, the Hell Race troop can open a teleportation gate anywhere on the battlefield. A Master-level Hell Gate can summon Hell Reinforcements equivalent to about 35% of the original troops. If the hero learns the Combination Skill of Luck Skill and Hell Gate "Swarm Gate," the summoned amount is at least doubled. If the hero specializes in Hell Gate, they are undoubtedly a God-level Hero.
These summoned reinforcements are like mirror projections and will disappear from the battlefield once the battle ends or they are defeated. So, fighting against the Hell Race, which naturally has a large army, means facing at least 35% or so additional cannon fodder troops. Thus, the only way is to severely damage the Hell Race before the Hell reinforcements arrive! Across all races, only the long-range powerful, and firepower-wielding Elf Clan can accomplish this. Thus, Elves are the most feared enemies of Hell.
Now, four giant Hell Gates surrounded the BOSS, and also at this moment, amidst the sea of fire, a big row of "-1" "-2" damage red numbers finally appeared amidst the barrage of "Evasion" and "Miss"!
The whole command erupted with excitement, "It’s working!"
Tsukamoto couldn’t help but excitedly shout, "We can do it!"
Igarashi even more ecstatically grabbed Tsukamoto’s hand and shook it vigorously with joy, "Mr. Tsukamoto, why is this?"
Tsukamoto laughed heartily, "I believe this Divine Protection isn’t a defensive skill, rather it’s a space skill, because if it were a defensive skill, this astonishing defense value and evasion rate would make some parameters in the damage calculation formula soar to an unbelievable level, leading a BOSS battle to demand astronomical calculations from the mainframe, which is quite unlikely!"
Igarashi nodded approvingly, "Yoshi! Very reasonable!"
Tsukamoto elaborated further, "So I guessed the Divine Protection wasn’t a defensive skill, but a space skill. Simply put, the cockroach with Divine Protection seemed visible to us, but it wasn’t actually present, it was in another plane! More precisely, it was continuously transferring positions across multiple planes, and we could only inflict damage when it transferred to the plane we’re on. Also, because it was constantly transferring through planes, it affected the duration of our Otherworld scroll, indirectly achieving an escape effect!"
Igarashi immediately got roused, "Mirror Flower Water Moon? It must be Mirror Flower Water Moon!"
Tsukamoto immediately gave a thumbs-up, "As expected, the president is sophisticated! Yes, this is precisely the Mirror Flower Water Moon skill from folklore! So, to counter Mirror Flower Water Moon, the simplest and most direct way is to use Space Teleportation to disrupt its plane transfer, roiling the waters!"
The entire command post burst into applause!
Igarashi patted Tsukamoto on the shoulder with endless emotion, "As expected of Mr. Tsukamoto, with you as the national team captain, Japan dominating the world is just around the corner!"
Tsukamoto stood at attention and saluted, "That’s due to the president’s excellent training!"
At this moment, the statistician reported again, "At one minute of battle, 945 damage has been inflicted on the shield! The Otherworld space has 36 seconds remaining!"
Indeed, it was a qualitative leap! Igarashi immediately cheered, "Mr. Gao Chang! Keep going!"
All members of the command center also stood up, responding in unison, "Mr. Gao Chang! Keep going! Mr. Gao Chang! Keep going!"
As time ticked by, the golden protective glow of the cockroach in the sea of flames grew dimmer and dimmer on the big screen, the cheer atmosphere in the command center had peaked! No one doubted it, even if they only breached this shield in the final second, Haidao Yigong troops’ one-second output was enough to focus fire and obliterate a cockroach!
—Boom! A crisp crack, golden light dissipated!
The Divine Protection was breached! At that moment, everyone present couldn’t help but shout aloud! And at that moment, the cockroach exploded loudly and died!
Did they succeed!? As soon as they broke the shield, it just died? Those who had just started to cheer didn’t even finish closely examining the big screen when—clang! The battle failure system prompt sound suddenly resonated throughout the hall!
—System Prompt: Regrettably! China Zone player Da Fei successfully killed the Ancient City Ruins arena’s MVP-level BOSS, you have failed in the battle for the MVP! You received a consolation prize of 500,000 experience points!
What?
At that moment, the entire Mitsubishi Battle Command Center fell into a dead silence! Everyone stared dumbfoundedly at the big screen, speechless and motionless!
Finally, Igarashi was the first to come back to his senses, loudly cursing, "Baka! Impossible! How is this possible! Why! Why is it this Da Fei again! How could he pull this off? I need to ask the United States! I want to know what’s going on!"
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Meanwhile, in the snot tunnel of the sewers, Da Fei, who had been waiting for a few minutes, anxiously watching his troops’ Stamina dwindling, suddenly received the long-awaited system prompt!
—System Prompt: Congratulations! You successfully killed the Ancient City Ruins MVP-level BOSS, gaining Hero’s Proof +1, achieving the competition achievement "First MVP terminator," you will receive in the competition server the reward: "Troop Attack +5, Defense +5, Life +5, Damage +1, Personal Life +100, Morale +1, Luck +1" reward.
—System Prompt: You successfully killed the Ancient City Ruins MVP-level BOSS "Sewer Cockroach," you receive the competition reward: Gold Coin +300,000, S-level strategic treasure "Evasion Talisman," "Skill Book" +1, "Great Life Book" +1, ancient granite +20 units, ancient ironwood +20 units, refined crystal gem +10 units, refined gold iron ore +10 units, Mithril +10 units, refined crystal sulfur +10 units, Concentrated Mercury +10 units. Competition rewards will be sent to your region’s server after the competition ends.
—Evasion Talisman: S-level strategic treasure, accessory, increases the troop’s evasion rate against physical and magic damage by 10%.
Seeing the abundant notification of system information and the harvest of numerous rare resources and treasures arriving tardily, Da Fei laughed loudly, "Damn it, you stubborn little cockroach! Really kept me waiting! I’ve been shredding 5 HP per second from you and still, you made me wait so long, how much health did you have, and you’re actually an MVP? What the hell is an MVP? Whatever it is, it’s just here to deliver treasures to me, and delivering a lot too! Wahahaha—eh—"
Da Fei’s laughter suddenly stopped abruptly!
Hold on! Although the little cockroach delivered something good, especially this S-level treasure—it’s an accessory! Players have 10 accessory slots! But isn’t it something I urgently need right now, right? Plus, they’re sent after the competition, so they don’t help me now either! Where is the Divine Wand to resist the snot that I wanted? At the very least, a Divine Wand to resist the plague would’ve been acceptable! Anyway, this cockroach was bound to die, but I waited all this time for nothing?
What now? The only solution is to force my way through? Indeed, with Selvia’s healing, I’ll go through it head-on!
At this moment, Da Fei’s screen suddenly flashed with red light!
—System Prompt: Warning! There’s a competitor approaching you! Please prepare for battle alert!
At the same time, a red dot extremely close to his location flashed across the mini-map! Da Fei was stunned! No way! Who is it!? (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)