Chapter 553: Star Dragon (1/2)
”That’s right!” Lin Yixin replied. ”We’re stationed around the area and we haven’t started fighting the boss yet. I’ve only told you so far, so you can’t leak the news! We need to finish this boss off before Candlelight Shadow and his men find this place. Just bring the core of your guild along with you, around seventy people at most. I’ll form the party and we’ll divide the spoils of war among the hundred of us by checking the DPS chart and then rolling for it.”
”Okay, I got it! I’ll be there in half an hour!”
”Alright!”
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I closed the chat window and quickly surveyed the area around me. There were only a few dozen Star Rhinos left, so we were about to mop them up pretty quickly. We soon picked the battlefield clean of any useful items. I had managed to find another twenty-four pieces of the Split Galaxy set, so I currently had thirty-eight pieces in my inventory. We managed to form six full sets from these thirty-eight pieces, so everyone would definitely agree that this was a bountiful gather indeed.
Yeah, it was time to link up with Lin Yixin and kill that boss. There were five guilds in the Star Dragon Domain right now. Besides us, there was Snowy Cathaya, Purple Lily, Candle Dragon, and Warsky Alliance. Besides Snowy Cathaya, there wasn’t another guild that we could absolutely trust here, so working together with them to kill the boss was an absolute necessity.
I opened the guild channel and said somberly, ”All Famous Generals in the guild, step forward! I also need another sixty-two long-range attackers and healers. Xu Yang, pick out these sixty-two people from among the survivors. We are going to form the strongest seventy-man team we can assemble right now!”
After I said that, I sent the coordinates to He Yi, Li Chengfeng, Gui Guzi, and the other Famous Generals, and told them that they had to keep these coordinates a secret. I also privately messaged Xu Yang to tell him that the people that he picked had to be ones who were completely loyal to the guild. We had to guard against all leaks. If no one leaked anything, it was possible for us to kill the boss within two hours and not be discovered.
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I started moving toward the center of the map.
The seventy of us quietly crept under the shadow of a mountain ridge, our expressions nervous and tense.
”Lu Chen…” He Yi caught up to me and asked, ”Did you already discuss how both guilds are going to split the boss drops and the dragon scale with Beauty Lin?”
”Yeah.” I nodded my head. ”We’ll split the drops according to DPS and rolling. We actually haven’t even talked about the dragon scale yet. But don’t worry, just leave it to me. If we kill the boss, I’ll be responsible for grabbing the dragon scale. Even if Beauty Lin makes her move, I’m confident that I will be able to snatch it before she does. After all, my fingers are quicker than hers…”
He Yi gave me a meaningful look as she said, ”Hmph! Oh you…”
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As we moved toward the coordinates that Lin Yixin gave us, we soon saw a huge valley appear in front of us. We could even hear the faint sounds of a dragon growling. More and more Star Rhinos started to appear in front of us and it was very clear that Lin Yixin had been clever enough to leave these monsters alone. She had skirted around them and entered the valley because she knew that she would be discovered very quickly if she had chosen to fight them.
”Okay, Beauty Lin and her men are just ahead of us. From now on, everyone can only use the party chat to communicate! We must not allow these coordinates to leak to the rest of the guilds here!” He Yi’s voice wasn’t very harsh, but it was filled with a calm authority. As the Vice President of GGS Asia, her voice had a certain charisma to it.
After we rounded the mountain pass and entered the valley, we saw about thirty people assembled in front of us. It was Lin Yixin and Snowy Cathaya.
”You finally came…”
The Fruit Knife Goddess flipped the dagger in her hand idly as she walked toward us with a grin on her face. ”Hurry up and form a new party and prepare to fight the boss. We need to take advantage of this small window of opportunity to kill it quietly. You never know when Candle Dragon and Warsky Alliance will find out!”
”嗯！”
”Got it!”
I nodded my head and dissolved my party. Lin Yixin formed a new party and added all of us into it. As I swept my eyes over the remaining members of Snowy Cathaya, I couldn’t help but ask, ”Yiyi, where are Lifetaking Sword and Zi Chuanyu?”
”Oh, we got into a fight with another guild and they died. This is all that’s left of my hundred-man squad,” Lin Yixin said coolly.
”What? Nearly 70% of your hundred-man squad died? This… Who did you get into a fight with?” He Yi’s delicate mouth dropped open. The news had clearly shocked her.
Lin Yixin laughed and said, ”Candle Dragon. We fought their main force, and Candlelight Shadow, Blue Sky Scar, and Transient Smoke and Clouds were among them. After we clashed once, both sides decided to cut their losses, though we suffered terrible losses in that fight.”
I replied, ”That can’t be all, right? Candlelight Shadow only brought one hundred of his men in. If they managed to kill 70% of your forces, how many people do they even have left?”
”Probably less than half?” Lin Yixin said as she pursed her cherry lips. Bloodlust flashed in her beautiful eyes. ”Candlelight Shadow’s mechanical skill is still impressive…”
”Where did you guys clash? Candlelight Shadow hasn’t discovered this location, right?” I asked.
Lin Yixin shook her head. ”No, this was a fight that happened half an hour before I found this place. Both sides suffered heavy losses and Candlelight Shadow didn’t want to let everyone else know how bad things had gotten for him, so no news of this fight leaked out. However, they only have forty-odd people left. Even if they do find us, they’ll have to deal with the crème de la crème of Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls. We shouldn’t have anything to fear from them.”
I gave a heavy sigh. ”I’m just afraid that they’ll come when we’re right in the middle of fighting the boss. That’ll be a doozy.”
”Yeah. So let’s hurry up and get this thing started already!”
”Okay!”
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He Yi started assigning roles to everyone. ”Gui Guzi, Lu Chen, Yiyi, and I will be the tanks for this boss fight. Everyone else, please pay attention to your aggro meter, we mustn’t overtaunt the boss. The first thing we need to do is to identify the visual cues the boss has when preparing to cast a skill. We also need to be very sure of what each skill does and take note of their radius and special effects. The very next thing we need to do is to find the dragon’s weak points and weaknesses as soon as possible. This is the very first Heaven Rank boss to appear in the entire server, so we need to proceed with utmost caution.”
Lin Yixin nodded her head. ”Yeah, Eve’s absolutely right. Everyone… All of us need to be fully prepared for a party wipe. This boss isn’t gonna be some walk in the park.”