Chapter 422 - 394: Competing for the Sea Urchin King
Octopus is ignoring the warnings of the Royal Guild, charging directly at the so-called cordon formed by rows of small fishing speedboats.
One Sword Eastward points forward and laughs heartily: "They think they’re traffic police, putting out a few red buoys and expecting no one would dare to crash through. If they’re so capable, why don’t they block the entire sea!"
Da Bing, of course, couldn’t let their morale down: "Exactly, just because he said to close off the area, acting like he’s some big department."
Royal Guild warns once again on the channel:
— Regional Channel [Royal Dominator]: Friends who just arrived, our Royal Guild is undertaking a major mission, please do not approach our cordon and cooperate!
— Regional Channel [One Sword Eastward]: Friends from Royal, we’re also on a mission and in a rush!
"One Sword Eastward?!"
Such a familiar name instantly shook the core members of the Royal Guild present! During the domestic preliminaries, Da Fei had used this name to sneak into the Royal’s public command group, the relation with Da Fei was obvious! Recently, One Sword Eastward has been constantly clashing with Blood Sea Studio, notorious in forums being called a foul-mouthed mad dog!
Of course, the friend of a trash is a trash too! Royal Blade from the core members of the Royal instantly reacted: "Boss, we’ve traveled all this way and just happened to encounter this trash, no such coincidence exists, this guy means harm!"
Royal Star Sky also immediately responded: "From the moment he appeared in our sight, there has been no sign of slowing down, definitely here to steal the BOSS!"
Royal Wind Demon: "This guy is definitely here for revenge!"
Royal Dominator waves his hand: "Don’t casually talk about leaks! Prepare for battle now, the outer cordon small boats immediately encircle and block him, make him hit us and turn on his White Name while also reducing his speed, Group 2’s Wind Thunder and Divine Power go up for a pinch attack!"
"Roger!"
The Royal Guild is indeed here to kill the Sea Urchin King BOSS. A Sea Monster BOSS has a big advantage in that the first kill will explode with city seafood specialties, but Sea Monster BOSSes are notoriously difficult to kill, and even finding them is almost impossible. However, there is an exception found during the public beta, the Sea Urchin King!
Sea urchins, also known as sea hedgehogs, typically gather in the Shallow Sea Area, which players can directly dive down to collect. This Sea Urchin King, of course, also spawns in the Shallow Sea Area, with very slow Move Speed, unlike other deep-sea monsters who could dive and escape when losing a fight, making it the most likely BOSS to be killed by players.
Also, because the Sea Urchin King has no escape ability, its combat power is astonishing, its spikelike spines as long weapons can rebound over 200% of the Melee Damage and effectively block ranged arrows, making it nearly invincible against physical attacks. Therefore, it can only be defeated by concentrating a large number of Mage Heroes or troops firing upon it.
And training Mage Heroes is the slowest; this operation by the Royal can be said to be quite reluctant, akin to snatching food under Star’s watch. After all, Royal’s strength isn’t as good as Star’s, once they’re fully equipped, Star’s elite players would have already taken the lead. But this secret plan, even the members going into battle didn’t know what they were doing, unexpectedly encountering Da Fei’s cronies, giving the Royal a feeling of foreboding, they couldn’t help but go all out.
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At this moment, Octopus is rapidly approaching, Royal’s small boats are converging towards it.
Just then, Da Liu from the Observatory suddenly exclaimed: "We’re really going after the BOSS, what a huge black hedgehog!"
One Sword Eastward laughs heartily: "Brother Hao, I wasn’t wrong, was I?"
Everyone bursts out: "Hogging the BOSS, how tasteless!"
But looking at the scene ahead, Brother Hao silently smirks but then frowns: "What are they trying to do?"
Da Bing scoffs: "They’re obviously here to clear the area! But this approach is clearly meant to block our way and trick us into revealing our White Name."
Brother Hao’s face darkens: "People need to have limits!"
One Sword Eastward immediately says: "Don’t worry Brother Hao, our boat’s speed and maneuverability are better than their small boats, playing them is easy. It’s not yet decided who will trick whom into turning White Name. I have a tactic, we’ll just casually circle the perimeter at first, pretending we can’t fight, and when they’ve almost killed the BOSS, we’ll use Emergency Acceleration to rush in and snatch it. By then, their Mages will basically be out of Mana, unable to handle us! And they might panic and turn White Name first, and then we can go on a killing spree!"
Da Bing, unwilling to be outdone, said: "Even if we can’t snatch it, we can’t let them kill the BOSS, we have to disgust them to death!"
Everyone agreed one after another: "Right, disgust them to death!"
One Sword Eastward sneers: "Then let’s go! Watch our fast boat play them to death!"
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Vine Space, thunder rumbles.
Da Fei looks up at the trees, down at the grass, having wandered for over ten minutes without finding anything, Vine Space’s time for the day was also running out. Anxious, Da Fei couldn’t help but be glad he had the foresight to complete what seemed the most difficult, but actually was the easiest mission. However, how could he really find nothing at all? 5th-grade items on the ground, 4th-grade items on the trees, where could the 3rd and 2nd-grade items be? Surely not really in the soil or water?
After all, it’s still that old saying—if even Brother can’t find it, how can ordinary players get by? Granted, players who can come here are definitely not ordinary, but can Brother’s intelligence really be that far behind them? Brother even easily handled the Holy Vine Heart of Level 1!
Holy Vine Heart?! Speaking of which, Brother only managed the Holy Vine Heart from afar and hasn’t really seen what it looks like yet. Da Fei quickly opens his inventory, takes out, no, actually cradles this golden-yellow seed the size of a watermelon!
Da Fei suddenly realizes! So the seed is this big! No wonder it’s visible from so far away in the instance! If a Level 1 product looks like this, then Level 2 and 3 products must be similar, right? Damn, so the sizes of Level 2 and 3 products are different from Level 4 and 5!
Da Fei immediately recalls the few places he searched just now, indeed finding several large hard soil blocks. Could those be them? Without a second thought, Da Fei immediately runs to one he found under the nearest tree, a hard soil block as big as a football. Da Fei excitedly picks it up to check its attributes:
—Hard Soil Block: Miscellaneous.
A white-named item with no attribute descriptions, and Da Fei’s Treasure Appraisal Skill doesn’t react to it either! But isn’t it just like when Brother first found the Blood Eagle Flute, which was an utterly useless white-named item, not even considered a musical instrument? The lack of a reaction from Brother’s skill must be because Brother’s Skill Level isn’t high enough, this soil block must contain something!
Just when Da Fei is contemplating and observing, a message alert sounds!
Damn! Brother is thinking about important things, who is disturbing Brother now? Da Fei looks impatiently and sees it’s Invincible Soldier!
Invincible Soldier: "Brother Fei, I have to report something. We took Brother Hao to the Blue Coral Sea on a mission, and we encountered the Royal Family monopolizing the BOSS and chasing people away. We’ve started to fight now, but don’t worry, Brother Fei, even if we can’t win, we can still escape! We won’t suffer a loss, and we won’t disgrace you!"
Invincible Soldier and the others were too busy showing off in front of the tycoon earlier, now that they’ve started the fight, they just remembered that this means war with a large guild, shouldn’t they let the guild leader know? As for the cause of the war, of course, it’s because the other side was wrong.
Da Fei, feeling irritated, impatiently says: "Which Royal Family? The Aixinjueluo family or the Yin Lisa family? If you can win, then just beat them till their royal father doesn’t recognize them! Just don’t let Brother Hao suffer!"
Invincible Soldier responds excitedly: "Received! We absolutely won’t let Brother Hao suffer!"
What the hell kind of Royal Family? Whenever something royal comes up, wasn’t the legendary national treasure He’s Bi initially just an unrecognizable stone? Da Fei’s train of thought was interrupted and he simply didn’t want to think anymore. Anyway, Brother has cleared out all the junk antiques in his bag, there’s plenty of space, he might as well take all the soil blocks he sees; at least Gardener Tamilia should be able to recognize them, right? Damn! Brother should have asked her earlier.
Now not saying anything else, with pressing time, hurry up and load the stones.
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Blue Coral Sea Area, the Royal Family’s two medium-sized gunboats together with dozens of small boats form a fleet that initiates a blocking and dodging confrontation with the Octopus. Although it’s called a fight, neither side has made the first move.
One Sword Eastward clearly greatly underestimated the Royal Family’s command coordination ability and the combat quality of its members. The Royal Family’s plan is to maintain a tight encirclement and drag out the time, completely undisturbed by One Sword Eastward’s feint tactics. Although the Octopus is more agile than any of their boats, the Royal Family can split their boats into several lines of defense, always facing the Octopus with their net. The Octopus hasn’t found any chance to break through!
Time passes by, the standoff continues, perhaps only the most direct method would work!
One Sword Eastward says solemnly: "Brother Hao, the other side is also very professional, we only have the option to initiate PK!"
This is exactly what Ono wants, but as the hidden instigator, he still needs to act the part, the troublemaking should not be too obvious.
Brother Hao shakes his head and says profoundly: "Hold on! We must wait for their mistake first. But first, we shouldn’t make any mistakes ourselves. Even if we fail, as long as it’s not our fault, we won’t lose anything!"
The crowd praises in unison: "Brother Hao speaks well! It’s right!"
Time passes by, the standoff continues, and the Sea Urchin King’s move speed and attack frequency are getting slower and slower, it looks untenable!
One Sword Eastward can’t keep calm anymore: "Brother Hao, shall we make a move?"
Are you a veteran of the guild? If you’re saying to make a move, then just do it; why ask me? Am I going to bear the responsibility? After all, confronting the Royal Family for so long has also achieved the purpose of worsening relations between both sides.
Brother Hao shakes his head with an unfathomable expression: "Endure!" This word has two meanings; if because of endurance, we miss the timing then it means giving the opponent a chance, our side doesn’t suffer any loss of reputation, and he can make an acceptable explanation. If suddenly there’s a turn of events, that would be even better.
"Endure? Alright, listen to Brother Hao." Everyone thinks, it’s better not to risk getting a red name; otherwise, it’s inconvenient to even enter the city.
But just then, an abrupt change occurs, the seemingly unstable Sea Urchin King suddenly glows red all over, inflating like a giant balloon!
This spectacle shocks everyone! Because the Sea Urchin King during public testing didn’t have this ability!
—Boom! The balloon violently explodes, countless bone spines shoot out in all directions—Bang bang bang bang! The sea surface is like being strafed by a machine gun, countless beams of white light marking player deaths rise with the spray!
And the Octopus, not in the battlefield, is naturally completely unscathed! Now everyone finally understands the meaning of Brother Hao’s endurance, they couldn’t help but exclaim loudly: "Brother Hao, you’re too awesome!"
One Sword Eastward also shouts excitedly: "There’s a gap now, rush with emergency acceleration!" (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to recommend votes and monthly votes on QiDian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)