Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The dream was beautiful, but the reality was cruel.
When battling the Ultimate Combat Weapon, Li Yi had 100% confidence. However, going against Ivrit without enough preparation, he was not confident about that at all.
‘Have a try. If we luck out, we might just pass…’
There was an open space ahead with more than 300 hundred green-named Inferior Fire Elves over there. If one wanted to put down Ivrit, one had to deal with them first.
The more than 300 green-named Inferior Fire Elves were all Elite-level monsters, each with 300,000 HP. Their ATK was very strong, but their DEF was not that good. The most outrageous part was that these fellows had a unique skill, Partner Summon, whereby when one Inferior Fire Elf entered into battle, the rest of the Inferior Fire Elves would gather over. Using Pseudocide or blocking them would not even be able to separate them.
With more than 300 Inferior Fire Elves present, even if the team had 50 main tanks, they would still be unable to withstand their attack.
Getting through this itself would be a challenge, what more defeating Ivrit without any prior discussion to strategy.
“My Mutated Small Wild Boar can taunt for a while. If I can’t wipe them out within 12 seconds, it’ll have to depend on everyone.”
They drank potions, refreshed the buffs, and developed tactics.
“Let’s go!”
The Mutated Small Wild Boar snorted as it rushed up, releasing the ultimate suicidal skill immediately.
All the Inferior Fire Elves surrounded the Mutated Small Wild Boar, and at this time, Little Elf from the Magical Realm also casted Miracle of Wind.
The party members attacked at full blast, casting all the powerful skills they had. For a time, fire and ice filled the air and arrows were showering like the rain. The scene was quite amazing.
After 12 seconds, the Mutated Small Wild Boar fell to the ground, and about half of the 300 plus Green Name Inferior Fire Elves were left. 10 main tanks used Taunt together which then triggered Shield Wall, and pulled aggro on them.
“Whish.” Their HP was almost empty. “Whish.” Their HP rose up again. The 10 main tanks were on the verge of living and dying. At times, their HP would be taken off until there were only 2 or 3 drops left. Just a little bit more and they would have fallen, but they were kept up by the healers.
The healers were frantically healing from behind, but even so, the main tanks still could not hold out for long. In the blink of an eye, 5 had fallen, and the remaining 5 were not in a favorable situation as well. Their HP was lingering under 50%, and though the healers desperately healed, they still could not raise their HP.
The Green Name Elite-level Monsters’ ATK was extremely horrific…
When more than 200 Inferior Fire Elves out of the 300 plus were killed, there was not a single main tank left. All were put down. Li Yi ordered Violent Bear King to go forward to pull aggro and use Violent Bear’s Protection. Unfortunately, even the Violent Bear King, which was named Invincible Bear Bear, could not resist as well and was killed in less than 5 seconds. Meanwhile, because Li Yi lacked group pulling aggro skills, even though he was all glittering and sparkling, he could do nothing about it if the Inferior Fire Elves did not chase him…
All the main tanks were dead, and the aggro on the remaining 100 plus Inferior Fire Elves was chaotic. Once the DPS and healers were caught up, they would be dead in just two strikes. In the blink of an eye, the party was annihilated except for a few Archers who used Pseudocide to escape, including Li Yi.
The rest of the Inferior Fire Elves returned to their original position and the Inferior Fire Elves that were killed by the party respawned. There were about 300 of them; not one extra, not one less. On the ground, there was not a single Inferior Fire Elf’s corpse left.
There was only one way to loot the bodies of this group of Green Elites, that was to kill them all. Otherwise, even with just one left, the entire group would resurrect, and there would be no way to loot the bodies.
The few Archers stood up and looked at one another with sinking hearts. Not to mention the other members; their fiery passion was mostly extinguished, and they began to calm down.
“Isn’t the ATK of this group of bastard monsters too horrific? I bet, if there wasn’t the skill released by that small wild boar of Guild Master’s, we can’t even kill 100 of them.”
“Of course! Not forgetting Little Elf from the Magical Realm’s Miracle of Wind. Goodness me… That group of fellows is really scary.”
Li Yi ordered, “Don’t corpse run yet. Let me think about it first.”
The strength of the party had been tested. If they wanted to clear this checkpoint, it seemed impossible now…
Moreover, for this kind of important hundred-man dungeon, it was impossible to switch people at the last minute. The 100 people in the party were all fixed. No outsider could join the party at this time unless they did not want to retain their dungeon progress but wanted to start all over again.
‘It’s still because there wasn’t enough preparation.’
“Disband the party first.” Li Yi made this decision after considering it for a long time.
There was no way to continue. Even if they narrowly passed this checkpoint, what about the next one? It was necessary to know that the time to save the dungeon progress was constant and that one could only save the progress when the battle of the boss was over. Even if they wiped out this group of Inferior Fire Elves, if they could not put down Ivrit in one-shot, they would then have to fight them again the next time they entered this dungeon.
“Disband. Wait for the next assembly command.”
No one had any objections. Everyone clearly knew that in their current state, even if they had fought up to 100 times, they still would not make it through.
The party disbanded. Although many people could not accept it, what else could they do since they were not powerful enough?
…
In another Fire Devil Dungeon, Yang Xingchen led the Star Fire Guild party to, once again, successfully reach the disintegration segment of the Ultimate Combat Weapon. Though what happened next made him speechless.
The ATK of the parts of the Ultimate Combat Weapon, when scattered, was even more horrific than when it was whole. The more members survived in the party, the harder it was to dodge. One colliding with another and being caught and clasped by the gigantic hand would definitely result in the death of 3 or 4, not to mention the flying kick from the legs. Whoever that was kicked would die. The previously formulated tactic was ruined once more.
“M*th*r… m*th*rf*ck*r. How did those Little Drunk Cat bastards make it through?” Yang Xingchen laid on the ground, feeling so despondent that he wanted to scream.
They could not afford to die anymore. All the members had descended 2 to 3 levels. If they were to recover, it would take a few more days.
“Combo strikes might be a good way.” The newly joined remarkable main tank, Unending Unmatched, suggested.
“How to strike? Who’s going to strike?”
Unending Unmatched replied, “I can give it a try.”
Yang Xingchen shook his head. “Forget it, we can’t afford it. We can’t continue to drop anymore levels.”
“Disband and recuperate. Wait for the assembly command.” Yang Xingchen had no choice but to order their dismissal.
Unending Unmatched shook his head and sighed lightly.
…
The Little Drunk Cat party disbanded, and soon after Li Yi returned to Shattered Frost City, the Dark Elf Thief, Shen Lang, sent him a message about Unending Unmatched.
There were initially five friends who played the game together with Unending Unmatched, but besides him, the other four’s leveling up speed was really crappy. Hence, the gap between them gradually grew bigger and soon, the other four were losing motivation. Our friend, Unending Unmatched, was a manic player. He did not notice this at all, and as a result, the other four found it increasingly pointless as they played. It was not long before they quit the game.
In the past life, the reason Unending Unmatched joined the Star Fire Guild was that his four friends had quit the game. So, he just simply found a guild to rely on them for some help only.
The circumstance in this life was somewhat different from the previous life. The information sent by Shen Lang indicated that the reason Unending Unmatched had caught the attention of Yang Xingchen was because Old Green had posted the video of the PK between him and Unending Unmatched on the official site. The title of it was ‘The Idiot who Fled in Battle’. When Yang Xingchen’s saw it inadvertently, Unending Unmatched attracted his attention. After trying to lure him over, he succeeded in having him join his guild.
Li Yi was at a loss for words. Putting together the information from Shen Lang, after analyzing the entire matter himself, he instantly understood what was going on.
The last time in the never-ending PK battle between Unending Unmatched and Old Green, it was him who separated them both. It seemed that the reason Unending Unmatched joined the Star Fire Guild in advance was related to him…
‘Damn, isn’t this butterfly effect too strong?’
When he grasped the reason, Li Yi was quite speechless.
“Is Missus there?” Li Yi messaged Little Elf from the Magical Realm.
It could not be helped. Although Little Elf from the Magical Realm was quite young, whenever she talked to someone, she would always mention that she had a 5-year-old daughter. Over time, everyone changed the way they addressed her.
“… The Missus is not free!” After some time, Little Elf from the Magical Realm returned a message angrily.
“C’mon. Do me a favor by accompanying me to Curse Land please.”
Once the black and white bosses in Curse Land respawned, Li Yi would surely head over there to take them out. Of course, up till now, he still could not solo and had to find a healer partner every time. The reason he looked for Little Elf from the Magical Realm was that Fire Ice had gone offline, and he did not trust other healers. Hence, after much deliberation, Little Elf from the Magical Realm was the best choice.
“I can go with you, but don’t call me Missus the next time.” Little Elf from the Magical Elf was still somewhat crossed.
“What should I call you then?”
“Sister Magic.”
Li Yi grinned. “Assemble outside of Shattered Frost City. I’m going back to get something.”
Li Yi went home and let the Mermaid Princess out. He ordered Sif to play the flute for 10 hours before taking out the Purple Treasure Bag from the inventory and leaving with satisfaction.
Li Yi felt that he was quite lucky today as he was able to loot so many pieces of Treasure Map Fragments. Striking the iron while it was hot, he thought of resolving the Purple-colored Treasure Bag at the same time.
If he managed to loot a divine weapon…
Li Yi rode on the Crimson Tiger King and dreamed as he hurried on.
Purple-colored Treasure Bags were rare items that would only be produced in the annual Fishing Grand Prix. There was an 80% chance to obtain a purple-colored epic item, 15% chance to obtain a gold-colored item, and 5% chance to obtain an orange-colored legendary item.
Outside of Shattered Frost City, Little Elf from the Magical Realm had been waiting for him for quite some time on the Ironclad Tyrannosaurus Mount that shook non-stop.
“Let’s go!”
The two of them each rode a tiger and a dragon and set out toward Curse Land.
…
After defeating the Ultimate Combat Weapon, Li Yi had advanced to Level 45. Him coming to Curse Land this time was not just to battle the black and white bosses but also to complete the quest, Evil God’s Deeds.
The both of them arrived at Curse Land and cleared all the little monsters that were in the way as they moved forward. Their speed was not at all slow.
Although Sky Vagabonds did not know Purification, which could dispel all negative status, they could use Blessing of the Wind. The effect was that for every one time it was used, it would randomly remove one of the target’s negative status. As long as it was used several times, it could achieve the same effect as Purification. The only drawback was that it cost quite a bit of mana.
“Ding!”
System Notification: [You have found an Evil God’s Notebook on the Cursing Disciple.
After killing more than a dozen Cursing Disciples, the follow-up quest from the Evil God’s Deeds was triggered.
Li Yi opened the Evil God’s Notebook, and the first sentence that caught his attention was, ‘I’ve been imprisoned for 10,000 years and was driven out of my hometown…’
