Chapter 497 - : Hidden Boss (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

As Lin Jie advanced with the team, he was thinking of how to recruit Bi Yueshuang. If he could recruit Bi Yueshuang, the beautiful Druid, to Savage Blade, it would definitely be a great boon. Though it was unknown whether the information that Bi Yueshuang was inside the Spider Den was reliable or not. Also, even if he met her, it was still uncertain if she was willing to join Savage Blade.

However, no matter what, the main mission now was to find the Mutated Spiderweb. As for Bi Yueshuang, he would settle it according to the situation then.

With Breeze Wind’s intentional command, Lin Jie went and controlled all the spiders that the team met along the way. There were at least two spiders as a pair in the den, and at most, five would be a team. However, no matter how many there were, Lin Jie would always be able to deal with them perfectly and steadily control the whole situation, allowing the team to clear all the spiders safely.

Along the way, there were no accidents at all, and many people in the team started to secretly admire Lin Jie.

The only thing that was hard to deal with would be the Rare spider that was randomly spawned, named “Spider Broodmother”, which could lay eggs. The health points of the small spiders that were hatched from the eggs were low, but their numbers were huge with high damage. It was inconvenient to control them all.

However, Breeze Wind also knew when to stop, of course, she would not insist for Lin Jie to control all the monsters in such a situation. She arranged the Fire Mage to burn all the spider eggs in time.

As the team steadily advanced, they reached the first intersection. There were a total of 20 passageways in front of them, the structure and monsters in each branch line were all different.

“Let’s go here.” Breeze Wind randomly pointed to a passageway.

“Hey, team leader, you know where to go?” shouted Lin Jie.

“I don’t know, but since we’re here, it’s all relying on luck,” replied Breeze Wind. “The branch lines in the Spider Den are random and will be refreshed every day, so there’s completely no pattern to follow. However, when we enter a branch passageway that has the Hidden Boss, then we will have a certain chance to obtain the system prompt message. If there is a prompt message, then it means we have encountered the Hidden Boss.”

Don’t Sweep Fallen Flowers added, “However, only when we are close to the Spider Prophet will there be a system prompt message. In the case of the Spider Overlord and Spider Lurker, even if we had entered the correct passageway, there would be no hints.”

Lin Jie took a step forward and pointed to one of the passageways behind him. “I think it would be more reliable to go this way,” he said.

Breeze Wind took a look at that passageway. It looked exactly the same as the other passageways, there was nothing special about it as they were all deep and gloomy without any light at all.

‘How did this guy determine which passageway to enter? But according to his general performance, this guy is definitely an expert, so maybe, he really has some special methods. I’ll temporarily trust him once,’ thought Breeze Wind as she sized up Lin Jie.

“Then we’ll enter the passageway you mentioned,” said Breeze Wind. Since it was pure luck as to which passageway they entered, there was almost no difference in where they went.

Lin Jie agreed and brought everyone into the passageway. Just as they stepped inside, everyone heard the system prompt message.

—’You have stepped into the resting grounds of the Spider Prophet, accept your death, intruders!’

“Hidden Boss! Haha, we really encountered it!” shouted Don’t Sweep Fallen Flowers in surprise.

“Yes.” Lin Jie’s tone was extremely calm as if it was natural to meet the Hidden Boss.

Afterward, Lin Jie walked beside Breeze Wind and said, “Leader, I want to ask something of you.”

Breeze Wind was still shocked due to encountering the Hidden Boss. They had entered the Spider Den tens of times already and had not even met the Hidden Boss, so who was he to have the Boss spawn when he just came? Was this the extreme good luck in the legends?

She stared at Lin Jie for a long time, as if she wanted to figure something out form his face. Only when she heard Lin Jie’s request did she subconsciously reply, “Why? What?”

“That, the Mutated Spiderweb… Could you give it to me?” asked Lin Jie.

“Erm…” Breeze Wind pondered for a while and said, “That is a rare material where only the Hidden Bosses will drop, the market price is quite high. However, it’s not impossible if you want it. You have to give the team members gold coins to distribute amongst them according to the market price, how’s that?”

Lin Jie agreed immediately. “Of course! So it’s decided.”

Then, they continued advancing.

‘Wait, something seems to be amiss?’ Breeze Wind suddenly felt as if she had missed something important. She had this feeling that something was wrong but was unable to pinpoint exactly what the problem was.

Everyone moved in preparation for encountering the Hidden Boss. Breeze Wind shook her head and threw away those cluttered thoughts, then she calmed herself down and followed the team.

This time, everyone walked exceptionally carefully. The Spider Prophet was a Hidden Boss, although its grade was simply Gold, there was map enhancement from being within the den, so there would be a great adjustment and increase in its attributes and others.

Also, the most important thing was that the Spider Prophet had a skill that was extremely hard to deal with—[Parasitic].

From when the player entered this passageway, they would have to be especially cautious when facing each monster. The Spider Prophet might crawl out from within the Normal monsters anytime while the players were battling. That was the effect of the Boss’ skill, it could parasitize any spider and could appear anytime to attack.