Chapter 194: Tauren (2/2)
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Meanwhile, Lin Yixin stabbed the tauren in the neck and followed up with a swing of the blade. The two attacks deleted nearly 2000 HP from the elite mob’s health bar.
“What an amazing amount of splash damage…” Lin Yixin stuck her tongue exasperatedly. “It’s got to be 40% or above, or our pets wouldn’t be battered this badly!”
I nodded while hitting the tauren at its weak spot. Every hit dealt at least 1000 damage to the mob.
It was actually quite easy to determine what the weak spot of a monster was in the game. For example, these taurens covered themselves in slippery bark extract. If I were to attack the Tauren Warrior at these protected spots, I would deal less than 80% damage at most. However, there was no bark extract beneath the Tauren Warrior’s armpits, meaning that I could deal full damage if I attacked them there.
In a PvP battle, players who wore cloth armor and leather armor had no weak spots to speak of. However, it made no difference to a player with high offensive power like me because they were going to die in a hit or two anyway. As for players who wore metal armor, the gaps between the armor, the holes between a chain mail, the areas not protected by the legguards, the exposed neck, the waist and so on were all considered as weak spots. A player who hit their opponent in these spots accurately would deal between 20% to 50% more damage than normal. This game design added more depth to PvP, and a true pro would always strive to shield their weak spots from their opponent through excellent movement, positioning and dodging. In the past when I clashed against Candlelight Shadow, neither of us were able to hit each other’s weak spots because we were too good at keeping them protected. It was why our duels always turned into a battle of attrition where one of us was eventually cut down by a cumulative amount of basic attacks.
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Rustle rustle...
Lin Yixin had a very unique way of moving. After landing two successful strikes on the Tauren Warrior, she moved away from it to avoid taking unnecessary damage. The way she backed away while still facing toward me somehow made me think that she was a super model or something.
Clear Perfume was whittling away at the Tauren Warrior’s HP from the distance one shot at the time. Although she wasn’t able to pierce its Defense as thoroughly as Lin Yixin or me, it was still pretty good damage. Besides that, Shadow Chanel also found an opening to fire a disgustingly powerful Ice Dragon Howl that tore 1500 HP from Tauren Warrior’s health bar because it was wearing metal armor. Her incredible magic power made her one of the indispensable damage dealers of our party!
I had to admit that Lin Yixin was a charismatic person. Experts like Shadow Chanel and Purple Marquis weren’t exactly easy to recruit. I had no doubt that both of them would become the central pillars, or even the key generals of Snowy Cathaya in the future!
A good general was difficult to find, and it was no different inside a game. Some reputable experts could easily gather a fanbase around them without trying. Currently, there were a ton of fanbases in Floating Ice City, and one of them belonged to our almighty Fruit Knife Goddess. They were mostly made up of Lin Yixin’s fans; people who would scour the internet for her PvP videos or talk about her on the forums just like the fans of a celebrity. They were all an invisible force that could be used to do many things. For example, I’m sure that these people would do everything in their power to help Lin Yixin if she decided to employ their services someday.
There were also the Unkillable War God fans, Dominating Heaven Blade fans, Gui Guzi fans, Purple Marquis fans, Beiming Xue fans and so on. Everyone had their own favorite expert. So if a guild were to recruit say, ten top-tier experts and declare an expansion with these people at the helm, one could just imagine how much surge into the guild just to support their idol.
In a game, the absolute best pros might as well be gods!
Heavenly King–level experts like Lin Fan and Frivolous Scholar especially were practically gods among gods. If one day these two decided to make a return to gaming, I’m sure they could gather millions of supporters overnight just by verifying their identities and posting a thread on the forums!
As for me, well okay, I’m not really a Heavenly King expert. At the very least, my achievements were inferior to Lin Fan and Frivolous Scholar’s. But that’s fine, because my era is only just starting! I’m absolutely going to make it to the top in Heavenblessed!
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“Roar roar…”
The Tauren Warrior finally let out a death scream and collapsed to the floor. To my surprise, it dropped a Phantasmal Magic Stone, a drop that was an entire tier above a Big Magic Stone. Right now, a 100 Quality Phantasmal Magic Stone could be traded for exactly 1 gold, or in real life currency, 1 RMB...
Gold was losing value at an insane rate lately because the players were higher level now. The amount of magic stones they were able to farm was growing higher each day. It was why the repair cost, learning cost, potion cost and so on were all increasing lately. It was all part of the game company’s plans, of course. From here on, 1 gold would probably always exchange for 1 RMB and vice versa.
I picked up the Phantasmal Magic Stone and tossed it to Lin Yixin. “Here, your gold…”
Lin Yixin: “Mn…”
We continued to execute our game plan and killed the Tauren Warriors one by one. Since they were the elite warriors of the beastmen, their numbers weren’t so daunting that we expected to be stuck here for a very long time. There were less than a hundred of them, and at our level of offensive power it basically took only a minute on average to kill one of them.
About an hour or so later, there were only a couple of taurens still alive in the encampment. They refused to budge from the deepest end of the camp, or more specifically a bloody stone fort that looked like the commander’s camp. There was a halberd outside the camp with a rotten human head spiked to the blade and a red flag at the center. It was none other than the flag of the beastmen!
Lin Yixin stared at the commander’s camp and smiled slightly. “Mn, the last boss's probably inside that building. This quest should be complete once we kill it!”
I raised my sword and said, “No problem! Let’s go!”
But suddenly, Clear Perfume interrupted both of us. “Wait!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Just give me a minute…”
Clear Perfume was lifting up her sharp ears and staring toward the outside of the valley for some reason. A while later, she said, “I’m sensing a lot of people running toward us!”
Lin Yixin gave an “oh” of acknowledgement before chasing her gaze, asking, “Who are they?”
“They’re going to reach us very soon!”
I asked Lin Yixin, “Is this Qingqing’s racial talent? Enhanced perception?”
“Yeah!”
“...”
A while later, a group of people appeared outside the valley just as Sun Qingqing said. Lin Yixin shot a glance at the group before whispering, “Let’s find a hiding place for now!”
We immediately rushed into a nearby forest and ducked under cover. Then, we watched and waited for the unknown intruders to show up.
Rustle rustle…
A group of people ran into the valley at high speed, and I recognized the player leading at the front almost immediately. It was the second player on Floating Ice City’s Heavenly Ranking, Dominating Heaven Blade. The heavily-armored Level 70 warrior was wielding a sharp blade, and his eyes looked both sharp and stern.