232 V-Shaped Formation (1/2)

After they had killed the Fantasy Serpent, the path in Hurricane Cavern became much clearer.

After walking for several minutes, they reached a fork in the road.

”Should we go to the left or to the right?” Sanguine Warflag asked.

Because the Hurricane Cavern was a dungeon, there were no minimaps to guide the players along the way. They did not know which path would lead them to the boss/

”Just go to the right, as with all other games.” Fearless decided.

Walking on the right, just like holding your hand to the wall in a maze, was an age old tradition in games. Players often just chose the path of the right in this sorts of situations.

After taking the path on the right, they encountered another group of monsters.

HP: 20000

MP: 1000

Skills: [Conceal], [Venomous Ambush]

These serpentes were gray in color which allowed them to blend in very well with their surroundings. If one didn't pay attention to their surroundings, they probably wouldn't have seen it.

Other than the fact that these monster's still made ”ssss” sounds like normal snakes did, their movements were completely silent.

The difference between this monster and the Golden Ring Snake and Silver Ring Snake, was that they were spread quite evenly distributed around the area. But once they attacked, they would do so in a large wave.

Because of their torches, the players had accidentally drawn the aggro of all the Hidden Serpent's in the area. Their hearts had nearly jumped out of their chests just looking at these monster's attributes and skills.

[Conceal] was pretty much similar to a Thief's [Stealth]. But in a since they had no way to detect the presence of these monsters once they used their skills, players often dreaded these kinds of foes.

[Venomous Ambush], not only did it do additional damage to the players, it could even poison them... an attack of this degree from a level 35 elite monsters was more than enough to kill these level 20 players two times over.

Furthermore, there were no landforms that the players could hide behind to dodge the attacks from these Hidden Serpents. Even if they were to use a defensive formation, there was no way to completely prevent these monsters from getting behind them.

It looked like Abyss tier dungeons weren't that easy to clear after all...

”Don't panic!” Fearless hurriedly shouted when he saw that everyone else was starting to lose it: ”Everyone, move back! Towards your 5 o'clock position!”

Everyone listened to Fearless' command as they retreated to a much narrower position. Fearless pointed at two rocks by their side as he shouted: ”Get two Guardians to stand here!”

Heaven's Bird and Sanguine Wall immediately ran to the position that Fearless had pointed out.

”But we probably can't stop them all even in this position...” Heaven's Bird complained.

The path in Hurricane Cavern was roughly nine metres wide. Even if these two Guardians stood in between these two large rocks, they would only cover about five metres. There was still a gap of four metres.

”What do you want to block them for? Let them in!” Fearless laughed.

”Let them in? Then what's the difference from fighting the whole swarm of them head on?” Everyone grumbled.

”The difference is huge! This way, we can lure them in and slowly kill them!” Fearless explained.