Chapter 106: Worm Mother (1/2)
Two hours passed by in the blink of an eye. It was over 7 pm in the night before we knew it.
As expected, Lin Yixin and I were able to clear out the entire fourth floor of the Ancient Thunder Temple without trouble. We gained a lot of experience, but not enough to level up, experience required to level up was so high.
Pop!
A Big Magic Stone hit the ground and rolled next to Lin Yixin’s feet. She picked it up and threw it into her bag, saying, “You could’ve gone to heaven, but no, you just had to choose hell. Welcome aboard then, little one!”
“What’s your experience at now?” I asked.
“Mmm, I’m at Level 58, 97%. It should take another ten minutes of grinding at most to level up!”
“Well, the boss is the only mob left for us to kill. Once its dead, we are sure to level up. I will get 56, you 59!”
“Yeah.”
……
After dodging an innumerable amount of lightning strikes, we arrived at the end of the fourth floor.
“Where’s the boss?” While Lin Yixin was looking left and right in confusion, I suddenly grabbed onto her arm and pulled her backward.
“Watch out!”
“Ah?!”
An extraordinarily huge and ugly creature burst out of the ground Lin Yixin was standing on a moment ago and crawled into the open. It resembled a jellyfish, and it had a soft, turquoise body that spread across the floor like a carpet. It was staring at us with a pair of eyes the size of a mung bean!
“Fuck, what is that!?” Lin Yixin asked loudly while staring at the boss.
“How should I know? Get ready, this is the boss we’re looking for!”
A line of text floated above the gigantic creature’s head: “Thunder Lair Worm Mother”. It was without a doubt the boss of the fourth floor!
It was a Level 62 Silver Rank boss that we knew nothing about; neither its stats nor its attack moves. Without a priest to support, neither Lin Yixin nor I was absolutely confident in our ability to defeat it.
“Be careful, don’t let it one-shot you!” Lin Yixin warned as she shot me a glance.
I responded with an acknowledging nod. “You too.”
Then, the two of us charged with our pets at the boss without hesitation!
Swhoosh!
Lin Yixin pulled out her dagger and channeled an incredible amount of power into the blade. Pupils glowing like the moon itself, she unleashed Moon Gaze and Extreme Break upon the boss’s defenseless body!
I readied my own sword and timed my own attack to match Lin Yixin’s. The second Extreme Break was unleashed, I dished out my own attack combo: Pardon + Desperate Gambit!
MISS!
2453!
Huh? How did I do so much damage when it wasn’t even a critical hit? It looks like this boss has pretty low Defense!
Lin Yixin activated Killer Wind Swordplay and attacked the boss more furiously than before. The two of us and our pets were able to deal almost 10000 damage in just a couple of seconds!
The boss’s HP finally dropped a little. Holy shit, this boss has got to have at least 100k HP if my math is correct!
“Huh?”
Suddenly, Lin Yixin frowned and let out an exclamation of surprise.
“What’s wrong?” I looked at her.
“Why isn’t the boss retaliating?”
“I know, I’m just as puzzled as you are…”
The boss showed no signs of retaliation even though we were giving it the trashing of its life. What’s going on here? Is it a free boss or something?
I was wrong, however. A strange, splashing noise came from inside the boss’s body, and it suddenly started twitching rapidly!
“What’s going on?” Lin Yixin’s astonishment grew even deeper.
I paid no heed to it and kept attacking, however. Whatever this boss was doing, all we needed to do was attack it until its HP reached zero and it died. It was a rule no boss could escape from!
Pwoot pwoot…
The boss suddenly raised its posterior and spat out something that looked like a mudball; an egg. The moment the egg cracked open, and a dozen or so green worms the size of humans started crawling toward us like giant cockroaches! They were actual enemies that we had to kill to survive!
Thunder Larva
Level: 60
Attack: 120~240
Defense: 50
HP: 100
Description: The children of the Thunder Lair Worm Mother. Their attack speed is incredibly high.
……
“So disgusting…” Lin Yixin commented while tugging the corner of her lips.
“Their Attack is so-so, but their numbers are crazy. If you’re not careful and get surrounded they might kill you,” I warned.
Lin Yixin chuckled. “There’s nothing to be afraid of. Just watch me!”
She charged toward the larvae and cut through them like butter. The foremost Thunder Larva let out a death screech before collapsing into a pool of sticky green liquid. Again, it was incredibly disgusting.
These larvae were Level 60, but their HP, Defense and EXP were shockingly low. There was no point in trying to farm them at all.
Pwoot pwoot pwoot...