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Chapter 14: Spider Cave (3)

Editor: GravityTales

Everyone bowed down and worshipped him. Even Sleeping Moon couldn't help but admit it. This person forcibly used skills in a way that couldn't be done by a level 10. It was ridiculous.

"Brother, the way you use these Battle Mage skills… …is too tyrannical." Seven Fields truly meant it. If he didn't say this, he would have received internal injuries from holding his breath for too long.

"Ha ha. It's not bad." Stolord had been surrounded by seven monsters. Stabbing, cutting, slashing, chopping as if were handling a butcher's cleaver with ease. The others felt embarrassed to be there just watching him. They were all veterans and could all control aggro well. They wouldn't mess up Stolord's control over the seven spiders. What they had originally thought was too difficult, in the end was easily resolved. But all four of them understood, that to set up this abnormal situation, if he wasn't there, then it wouldn't have been possible.

Right after the seven spiders were killed, they heard a strange shriek. The first small BOSS had brilliantly arrived. Everyone hadn't yet seen the spider yet, when they first heard the shriek and then a cloud of dense purple mist spurted out.

"It's a poisonous spider." Seven Fields yelled. But this cloud of purple mist came out too suddenly. The range was extremely large. Two members weren't able to dodge it in time and immediately pulled out to antidotes to use. After using them, they turned greatly alarmed. Their life was still declining!

"Why isn't it working?" The two alarmed.

"The grade of the antidote is too low." Ye Xiu said.

"F*ck!" The two players cursed. They hadn't come to this dungeon when they were low-leveled. After reaching high-levels and returning, this dungeon wouldn't have such a problem. At that moment, they were still under-leveled compared to the monsters. How could they have thought to detoxify the poison? They had carefully prepared two antidotes, but in the end, they couldn't use it when the BOSS came. Hadn't they been cheated?

Stolord swung his arms and casted heals onto each of them. Afterwards, he rushed up to the BOSS #1. At the same time, he began directing the two non-poisoned players Seven Fields and Sleeping Moon and pointed his lance backwards, yelling: "Seven Fields stand at 1 o'clock. Little Moon Moon go stand at 4 o'clock."

"Little Moon Moon… .." Sleeping Moon almost coughed up blood, but this wasn't the time to argue. Seven Fields, without questioning him, ran towards the 1 o'clock position. Sleeping Moon also ran to his position without delay. BOSS #1's poison mist had already rushed out. This guy was big and beefy and was at least thrice as big as normal spiders. This type of massive freak was much easier to hit than the small Midnight Phantom Cat. But large monsters had a different advantage. Due to their relatively heavy weight, knock-up or other displacement skills had a reduced effect. How much it was reduced by depended on its weight and the attacker's strength.

This BOSS #1 in front of them could be considered a huge monster. When Stolord stabbed forward, it didn't even tremble. It was clear that this sort of normal attack would not knock it up at all.

The experienced Ye Xiu was not surprised by this. His fingers flickered and Stolord did another four hit combo. The big spider screeched. It raised its head and spit out a thick fog. But Stolord had already turned around swiftly and slipped away.

Although this BOSS's body was big, its actions weren't slower than a normal spider. Its jumping power was also remarkable. It jumped as if it were Mt. Tai wanting to crush Stolord. He flipped over and rolled away. The one called "Little Moon Moon" silently said: "Hello? Do you want us to stand here so you can fight by yourself?"

"Then you two, one of you move to 7 o'clock and the other to 9 o'clock." Ye Xiu yelled.

"How much of a gap between us?" The two people ran while asking.

"A 2 meter radius!" Ye Xiu said.

After falling into position, the four people had already formed a circle. They looked at each and had no idea what they were doing. Seeing that he was still soloing the BOSS, was he just arranging seats for them to watch him play the game?

Stolord dodged left and right finally bringing the BOSS running towards them. The four people immediately prepared for battle. The BOSS suddenly jumped high up into the air and it looked like it was going to squash Sleeping Moon. Sleeping Moon wanted to dodge, but heard Ye Xiu shout: "Don't move!!"

Revenge! This guy seized the opportunity to take revenge. Sleeping Moon felt that his mind was a sheet of dazzling light. Without thinking, he ignored Ye Xiu's words and rolled away. But when he turned around and looked, Stolord had already used a Sky Strike on the spider BOSS's stomach. Sky Strike, a specialized class's knock-up skill, was obviously going to have a greater effect than a normal uppercut. After the falling spider received this, it turned sluggish in mid-air, and had already shifted direction. Although the Sky Strike didn't have much of an effect, the monster had already been in mid-air. When it changed direction, it fell nicely in the center of the four people.

"Seven Fields Front Kick it. 9 o'clock Lunge. 7 o'clock Repel. Little Moon Moon hurry up and return to your position!" Ye Xiu and the four players had been together for a long time. He had already seen all of their skills. Now that they had surrounded it, Ye Xiu even directed what skills they should use.

Seven Fields rushed up and Front Kicked it. This was a Striker Skill and had a small-knockback effect. Although the effect was reduced on the big spider BOSS, it would still push back the BOSS a little.

The player at 9 o'clock also jumped up to execute a Lunge. This Blade Master skill also had a knock-back effect like Seven Field's Front Kick. The kicked back BOSS was hit again. At this point, these experienced players already understood Ye Xiu's intent. The 7 o'clock player welcomed it and used Repel.

This was a Knight skill. From the name, the effect of this skill was the most outstanding one among them. But the BOSS was pushed into the 4 o'clock position where no one was there. This was originally Sleeping Moon's position, but because he thought Ye Xiu wanted to kill him, he dodged to the side. Even though he was already running back to his position, it was already a little too late.

Everyone already understood that Ye Xiu wanted them to play billiards with the BOSS as the ball. This reasoning could only have only been made through the strong points of each of the four players. What were their strong points? Familiarity! The four players were all veterans that came together as friends. They had some mutual understanding between them so they could do this sort of formation.

Only now, this easy situation had been destroyed by Sleeping Moon. Even Seven Fields and the others were a little unhappy.

At this crucial moment, when the BOSS was about to leave the encirclement, Stolord suddenly appeared at the 4 o'clock position.

Everyone was startled. Stolord had been standing at the 11 o'clock position. They hadn't seen him move, how could he have suddenly moved to there? They looked towards the 11 o'clock position and discovered to their astonishment that there was another Stolord.

"D*mn!" Seven Fields suddenly understood.

Level 10 Ninja Skill: Shadow Clone Technique.


Chapter 15: Spider Cave (4)

Editor: GravityTales

Shadow Clone Technique was a type of deception(ing) skill. Only towards experienced opponents, it was easy to see through the trick. As a result, the trick really only worked on NPCs. When players dueled, the Shadow Clone Technique was most commonly used by the Ninja as an instant movement skill.

Now, Stolord used it like this. The fake body was kept in the original position while his real body used the Shadow Clone Technique to instantly move to what was originally Sleeping Moon's 4 o'clock position.

Everyone was still worried though because level 10 Battle Mages didn't have any displacement skills yet. How would Stolord knock-back the spider BOSS?

They quickly realized that they were worrying too much. Stolord didn't have any skill that could do so, but he had technique. A Sky Strike knocked-up the spider BOSS a little bit. Using this short time frame, he immediately rushed forward and hit it twice, pushing the spider BOSS towards Sleeping Moon.

Sleeping Moon was already standing on Stolord's original 11 o'clock position. Stolord's fake body still stood next to him. At this moment, Sleeping Moon felt absolutely embarrassed. He even hoped that Stolord would reprimand him a few times. But in the end, Stolord didn't say a thing and just accurately pushed the BOSS towards him.

Sleeping Moon understood what he needed to do. With a Lunge, the big spider was once again kicked away.

Sleeping Moon mentally prepared for the incoming criticism from everyone, but in the end, he heard everyone amazed: "It's bleeding."

It wasn't a person that was bleeding, it was the spider BOSS. The Bleed status effect couldn't be made through a normal attack. It had to either come from a weapon effect or a skill effect.

At the present, no one's weapon had this effect.

But there were skills that could cause this effect.

Double-Stab, a Battle Mage skill. Only, the Bleed effect from the Stab was a hidden effect. It wasn't triggered through chance. It relied on the player himself to trigger it.

The method to activating it was by having both strikes from Double-Stab hit the exact same spot. This didn't mean that both of them hitting an arm was fine. It meant that the second strike had to hit the hole that was stabbed open by the first strike. Only after doing this would there be a chance for the Bleed effect to take place. As for the probability of this happening, especially for a hidden effect, the data didn't display it. After players tested it, it was believed to have more or less a 50% probability.

This probability could already be considered quite high. Only, it could only be done after completing a specific action. It was easy to perform this action on a dead target, but in non-stop combat, it required precision and reaction speed.

Glory had a lot of similar hidden skill effects, which all required difficult actions to activate.

If a normal player were to Stab out a Bleed, Seven Fields and the others would've considered it to be luck. But for Stolord to do so, they all considered it to be skill. With regards to Ye Xiu's skill, they were already thoroughly convinced. It wasn't just his individual skill, but his command over the team in this BOSS fight too. He wasn't an ordinary expert, he was an expert among experts.

Seven Fields already felt somewhat embarrassed over trying to rope in Ye Xiu because their Full Moon Guild wasn't even considered a top guild. In the heavenly domain, they were ranked over fifty. They held no records in any of the dungeons there. In this sort of common guild, Seven Fields felt that they couldn't accommodate for this player.

The others didn't know if they all had the same thoughts as Seven Fields, so everyone just silently attacked. In the process, it was hard to avoid a few minor slips. But Ye Xiu promptly warned them, so disaster never occurred. Just like this, BOSS #1 was easily killed. After looting the corpse, they found a Blue equipment. But because it was low-leveled, no one really cared much about it. It would become outdated in an instant anyways. At this moment, however, they all required that Stolord picked it up. Even though Sleeping Moon didn't say anything, he also silently chose to give it up.

Ye Xiu looked and saw that it wasn't much better than a Green Level 10 Belt. But since everyone renounced it, he could only courteously accept it and wear it. They continued forward.

Afterwards, they employed the same tactic. BOSS #2 was a web-spitting long-ranged type spider. Annoyingly, It would frequently spit out webs onto the cave flying and jumping around like Spider-Man. But under Ye Xiu's leadership, the five finally brought this fellow into a corner. Only this time they didn't play billiards with it, instead they used skills that stunned one after another. Ye Xiu dispatched BOSS #2 through chain stuns, so it wouldn't be able to spit out webs again.

Naturally, the four players began worshipping Ye Xiu to a whole new level. This person was their MT as well as their main damage dealer. From time to time, he would even Heal them. After doing so, he would plan tactics and then carry it out...The four could no longer use words to describe him and could only worship, worship, and worship him again.

The Spider Cave's Spider Lord was another difficult part of the dungeon. This guy had the strengths of both small spider BOSSes: web-spitting and poisonous. It had eight hairy legs and a belly full of patterns. It was twice as big as a small BOSS and was extremely nauseating.

Confronting this final BOSS, Seven Fields and the others weren't nervous at all because they knew that under Stolord's commands, there wouldn't be any problems beating this two-in-one boss.

As expected, this fight was just as easy as the last ones. This two-in-one Spider Lord was just a bit fatter and had a few extra tricks. Under Ye Xiu's commands, they controlled the field smoothly dispatched it.

First clear!

At this moment, the announcement system impressively lined up the names of their five-player party.

Sleeping Moon, Seven Fields, Sunset Clouds, Drifting Water, Stolord; Tenth Server First Spider Cave Clear!

Seven Fields and the others were all astonished and went into an ecstasy. Although their leveling wasn't considered slow, they wouldn't have ever thought that they could be the first ones to clear Spider Cave. This was all thanks to the great expert Stolord, or it else it wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

"D*mn!" And at this moment, another party of five in the Spider Cave all shouted together when they saw this announcement.

In front of them, there was only a sliver of health left on the Spider Lord. They would've been able to finish it given ten more seconds. But now, they lost to these ten seconds.

Regretful and unwilling, the five players all dreamt of the countless ways they could've made up for those ten seconds. In the end, they could only admit to reality. Their dream was to have their guild be the first to clear every dungeon in the tenth server. But just then in this second dungeon, their dreams had already been crushed.

Ten seconds. They had only lost by ten seconds.

"Stolord? Wasn't this the person that was the first to kill the Midnight Phantom Cat?" The Spider Lord had already collapsed. The five players had smoothly cleared the dungeon, but they weren't happy at all.

"I think so."

"Where did this person come from? This person has also been on the announced twice. Blue River, he's just like you!"


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