Chapter 126 Trying Ou (1/2)
At The Floating Temple.
Mixed Breathless and Dejected Night were reading the information about the dungeon while waiting for Lin Jie. This was a good reflection of their conscientious personalities.
Meanwhile, Lin Jie turned up with the few weirdos, a bitter-gourd-like expression pasted on his face. Star Kill was asking along the way why Bella did not come with them, and Lost Camel and Unexpected Childes were quarreling all the way as they wanted to find out who had better healing abilities.
The only thing worth mentioning was that Unexpected Childe also joined Lin Jie's team.
He had a very simple motive for doing so—to beat Lost Camel and show that he was stronger!
Naturally, Lin Jie had not planned for only five people to join his team. As The New Age progressed, he would expand his team accordingly.
”Oh, they are here!” Dejected Night caught sight of Lin Jie, patted Mixed Breathless's shoulders and smiled. ”Fu Sheng's team seems very… umm…”
His entire team comprised only of two Hunters and a Bandit? Yet the dungeon they were going to challenge now—the Floating Temple—was a Level 15 dungeon which would require a 10-person team! Surely another Priest would be coming, right?
Mixed Breathless nodded, but did not comment much about this.
Dejected Night observed these people carefully. Though they were rather low in their levels, their equipment seemed okay. These players seemed like they could barely reach the requirements to go inside the dungeon, but he was curious about their gaming skills.
”Bro, are you sure we are going for the expert-level dungeon?” asked Dejected Night weakly.
Lin Jie nodded.
”Any Healing jobs on the team?” Dejected Night continued asking.
Lin Jie pointed to Unexpected Childe, sighed and rolled his eyes. ”He's the Healing job.”
Unexpected Childe looked proud, took out a large roll of bandages and distributed it to everyone. ”Here, everyone is welcome to get more!”
[Primary Bandage]: Restores 125 health points in 5 seconds.
Bandages were relatively good life skills for Bandits and Warriors, as they could replenish a certain amount of health points for them when they were in combat. However, to consider this as a form of 'healing'…
Lost Camel snorted. ”Such garbage items can restore HP?”
Star Kill frowned. ”I don't want to go inside the dungeon with such stuff and die if Bella's not coming.”
”I hadn't planned for any Healing jobs originally,” Lin Jie ignored the bandages distributed by Unexpected Childe and continued, ”Six players can still manage a 10-person dungeon, it's not that challenging. Let's go.”
”…” Everyone was rendered speechless. Wth! It was indeed not that difficult for six people to challenge a 10-person dungeon, but that was referring to the Normal-level dungeon!
Yet, the system prompts of entering the expert-level Floating Temple dungeon had already been activated—'You have entered the expert-level dungeon Floating Temple. Good luck to you.'
Since things turned out like this, all of them had no choice but to enter it.
According to the myths, a Legendary grade weapon was enshrined at the Floating Temple. Its powerful force made the whole temple float up into the air. The power of that weapon also enslaved many creatures and turned them into the guardians for the Floating Temple.
There was only one Boss in the Floating Temple, but the expert-level dungeon would refresh a hidden Boss—this was Lin Jie's goal: the Blade of Destruction!
”This dungeon will test whether you are eligible to join my team. As for what my real team will be like, you shall know when we clear the dungeon,” said Lin Jie in a serious tone.
This was an expert-level dungeon! All of them who were previously still joking around turned serious immediately. Just like in a sports competition, the attitude of the participants would be the deciding factor of whether they could win the race!
”The Floating Temple has three levels. The monsters guarding the first level are Lizard-like creatures, and there are two types of it,” explained Lin Jie. ”Have you all prepared what I asked you to before we enter the dungeon? I shall tell you more about the monsters now. The first type of the Lizard creatures would be the Lizard Warrior. Their weapons are Axes or Long Spears, and the former will have an additional 30% chance of Critical Hit, while the latter has a 30% Armor Penetration effect. The second type of monsters are the Young Lizards. There are a huge number of them around, and each of them had around 1,000 HP on the average. 40% of them would have the Life-Steal skill.”
Dejected Night frowned. ”We can still block off the Lizard Warriors' attacks with Mixed Breathless around. In the Normal-level dungeon, even though the Young Lizards' health bars are around 70 points, many MTs are still bitten and tortured by them. But now as we are facing the Expert-level dungeon, each of the Young Lizard has around 1,000 HP, how should we…”
Lin Jie glanced at Unexpected Childe and smiled. ”Simple. Childe can take all the Young Lizards for a walk. Can you do that?”
Everyone was shocked.
This was in a dungeon! Unlike in the wild, there would be a large area with many dead ends for positioning. At the very least, a player could still mislead the aggro of the monsters and escape if he really was driven into a corner. However, the aggro range of monsters within a dungeon was endless, and one must always pay attention to his positioning. Otherwise, he would find himself being overcrowded by the monsters!
”Yes.” Unexpected Childe put on a confident smile. Kite-Flying was his best skill!
”As there are no Healing jobs around, we will be putting a great emphasis on the controlling skills,” Lin Jie continued, ”A single wave of monsters has about three Lizard Warriors and 25 Young Lizards. Those three Lizard Warriors have very high output. I shall block off one of them, while Mixed Breathless will be in charge of blocking off the remaining two. Star Kill, your job will be to control one of them so that it cannot deal out attacks.”
Star Kill played around with his dagger, smiled and said, ”I can do this!”
”Camel, what's your pet?”
”It's a Jackal,” Lost Camel suddenly released a gigantic-sized Wolf—it was lame at one leg! He introduced proudly, ”Meet this Rare Elite! Its attacks had 3% Armor Penetration effect which can be superimposed to a maximum of five times. Don't be envious of me!”
Lin Jie nodded, though he secretly thought Lost Camel's choice of pets was indeed ”unique”!
”Then, let's go!”
At the first level of the Floating Temple.
The building which did not abide by the laws of gravity was floating freely in the air. Lizard Warriors, which held on to Long Spears or Giant Axes, wandered around aimlessly.
[Lizard Warrior]
Level 15
Health Points: 9,600
Attack: 184-300
Defense: 105
Additional effect: Lizard's Poison. Each attack will result in you losing the number of health points 3% of the value of your health bar's maximum cap.
[Young Lizard]
Level 15
Health Points: 1,000
Attack: 70-100
Defense: 0