Chapter 2 (2/2)

The Three-Headed Lava Hound yelled, “What fresh meat! Meat!” It then roared and jumped towards the Adventurers.

Xiao Yu knew that the group of Adventurers was in trouble the moment he saw how they fought with Garix. The Warrior pulled the aggro of all three heads and withstood the attacks. He was still surviving in the hot lava that was pouring on him.

The damage from this lava could be stacked, and normally there would be three tanks, one for each head. How was it possible for him to tank all the damage alone!?

“This doesn’t seem right!” Xiao Yu noticed that something was off. A level 60 Adventurer had 8,000 HP at most, and no matter how high his Fire Resistance was, there was no way he could last for so long! The female Paladin had an abnormally high amount of healing too. Each heal recovered 6,000 HP! What the hell? Xiao Yu zoomed in the picture and looked at their names.

Dragon Epitome (Dark Avenger) had a profile picture frame with two stars behind a golden dragon.

Phoenix (Holy Light Envoy) had a golden profile picture frame with one star too.

Damn! They were Hero Mode players!

Xiao Yu was stunned to see them. It was the first time Xiao Yu had seen a Hero Mode player appear in a dungeon. Not because Hero Mode players were that rare, but they would just not appear in dungeons of the same level. “It is rare indeed—only about 0.1% of the players play in Hero Mode. However, given that there are a few hundred million players in Firmament, there are thousands of these players.”

It was like an unspoken rule in Firmament. Hero Mode players would rarely fight with Boss Mode players.

The reason was that when the boss was killed by Adventurer Mode players, they could revive again. However, if they were killed by a Monster Mode or NPC Mode player, they would be dead for good. It all started in the storyline of the game.

The game’s storyline was recorded on something called the Firmament Archive, which held all the events that would occur in the game.

If the boss was killed by an Adventurer player, the background story would merely indicate defeat, or it would not be recorded at all. This meant that it would not be written in the Firmament Archive because technically, Adventurers did not exist in the first place.

The reason for that was very simple: there were just too many Adventurers and they could revive as many times as they wanted. However, the number of bosses was fixed. It would eventually lead to some random Adventurers with no practical significance killing all the bosses. No one could accept that setting in the game.

Thus, no matter how many times Adventurer players killed the bosses, the bosses would revive when the dungeon was available again. There were no Adventurer players in the story plot, only Heroes could kill boss, period.

Thus, in Firmament, when a boss was killed by a monster or NPC with a proper name, this event would be recorded in the Firmament Archive and would become a record that could not be reverted. Thus, the boss could not revive again. This was also known as “killed by the plot.”

The problem was that in Firmament, such Heroes could be played by players too.

For example, if Xiao Yu killed this Dragon Epitome (Hero), the Firmament Archive would record it down as “On xxxx date, Hero of Storm City Dragon Epitome led a team of Adventurers and attacked the Flaming Temple. They were killed by the boss Demonic Blaze Overlord Lagrios.”

The Hero would remain in history. That applied to Xiao Yu too.