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!"
This Blue River was also like Stolord and had been announced by the system twice. His background wasn't small. He belonged to one of the three great guilds, Blue Brook Guild. In the heavenly domain, he possessed the Blade Master, Blue Bridge Spring Snow, one of the five top experts of Blue Brook Guild. But as all veterans knew, peak guilds like Blue Brook Guild had a professional club backing them. The five great experts weren't their best. The experts of the professional team behind them were.
Behind the Blue Brook Guild was the Blue Rain Club's team. The number one player on their team was called Huang Shaotian. His account was a Blade Master called Troubling Rain. In the Glory community, he was known as the Sword Saint and was as equally famous as the Battle God Ever-Stay.
When the tenth server opened, Blue Brook Guild sent Blue River along with other helpers to be pioneers in the new server and help establish their power by absorbing fresh blood. No one else but a player from one of those three great guilds would dream of dominating the dungeon records in a new server. Who would have thought that their dreams would have ended already in the Spider Cave? Not only that but they were only off by ten seconds. His brothers were all depressed and Blue River wasn't feeling good either.
"Stolord… …" Discussing the name, Blue River and everyone else were at a loss. The guilds that wrestled for power from Blue Brook Guild mainly did so in the heavenly domain. After competing for so many years, they all learned of each other's experts. This time, all of the experts that were sent out to the tenth server had been scouted out. The information was thorough and accurate. But Stolord had never appeared in their list of names. Was it possible that it that he snuck in?
"Is there any information on his four teammates?" Blue River asked.
"None." All of the brothers said.
Get in touch with all of our brothers in each of the villages. See if anyone knows him." Blue River said. Beginners were put into villages randomly. Even their Blue Brook Guild people couldn't meet up with each other easily, most of them were on their own. While they leveled up, they also dug out future prospects. When they reached level 20 and left beginner village, they would join together after establishing a guild.
The Blue Brook Guild players that came were headed by Blue River. And his side naturally became the command center. In reality, no big guild would go so far as to cover all of the beginner villages. The player distribution was too random so it wasn't possible to be so precise. But when Blue River once again went into Spider Cave to quickly level up, the information they had requested finally arrived.
Only, this information not only didn't tell them clearly who those players were, but instead made the situation even more chaotic.
The information report told them that outside of the Green Forest at some village, just then Sleeping Moon had slandered and criticized Stolord saying that he had intentionally tricked and robbed them of the hidden BOSS.
"What type of hideous mess is this?" Hearing this, everyone was puzzled.
This Stolord swindled a player to obtain the first hidden BOSS kill and then formed a party with that player to be the first to clear Spider Cave? This odd situation made these five experienced veterans to be extremely puzzled.
"Let's not worry about this first. Let's hurry up and train. There'll definitely be an opportunity to meet them when we reach level 20." Blue River said gloomily and continued to lead his party.
Outside of some village's Spider Cave, Seven Fields and the others were still immersed in the excitement of being the first ones to clear a dungeon and couldn't free themselves from it. They were lacking compared to Blue River and those experts by several grades. As a result, with regards to a first clear, it was basically a dream come true. Who would have thought that they truly had the chance to complete it? In that moment, they were excited beyond words.
And their great leader Stolord? He was still deathly silent. He only dully said a few words: "Pretty good experience!"
"Expert, it's all thanks to you!" Seven Fields and the others all surrounded Stolord. After playing Glory for so long, today was the day they finally understood what peak expert meant. A peak expert could let novices like them clear a difficult dungeon with ease. Seven Fields felt that for this sort of expert, even leaving his guild to follow him was worth it.
In comparison to the other three in high spirits, Sleeping Moon's mood was quite gloomy. What had originally been his hated enemy turned into his brothers' hero. Not only that but just a moment ago in the dungeon, he himself looked like a vile person giving his brothers a bad opinion of him. Now, if he didn't say anything, then his face really would just fall off. Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth and jumped in front of Stolord: "Your skill is really good. I admit to this. Only, I swear that there will be a day I catch up to you!"
"Are you serious?" Ye Xiu laughed.
"Yes!" Sleeping Moon said in an extremely provocative manner.
"Go for it!" Ye Xiu replied back and left.
"D*mn… …" Sleeping Moon was about to go insane. You should look down on me. You should hate me! You should mocking me! Wasn't this how experts were supposed to respond to challenges? To not care and just say "Go for it!" as if nothing had happened, what was that?
"Little Moon Moon, knock it off." Seven Fields went over to ease him.
"F*ck, you're the Little Moon Moon." Sleeping Moon said angrily.
"Calm down, calm down. Let's hurry up and train." The other two brothers Sunset Clouds and Drifting Water called out. Then, they gladly and diligently caught up to Stolord to try make him their good friends.
"D*mn, why didn't they call me over too?" Seven Fields immediately rushed over.
While Sleeping Moon grinded his teeth, he unexpectedly received a friend request from Stolord.
Decline. Sleeping Moon happily declined it.
If he asked again… … Sleeping Moon thought. But that sort of development didn't happen. Stolord had already entered the dungeon. Seven Fields and the two others followed closely. Sleeping Moon had been swept to the side. Only after a long time did he receive an invite from Seven Fields. Sleeping Moon was depressed. When they entered the dungeon, d*mn, the four others didn't wait for him at all. They slaughtered their way through and as if he weren't there.
Sleeping Moon wanted to leave the dungeon, but Seven Fields invited him again. Sleeping Moon still enjoyed his brother's concerns, so he had seconds thoughts thinking that he couldn't ignore his brother's concern just because of that guy. In the end, he still caught up with them. Seven Fields still had a good relationship with him. He keenly discovered that Sleeping Moon wasn't feeling too good and sent another private message to cheer him up. Sleeping Moon's mood improved a lot.
This time, they breezed through the dungeon just like before. In an instant, they slaughtered their way through. Without saying another word, they entered for a third round. But when they entered the dungeon they received a system prompt: You have mistakenly entered the Spider Emperor's Cave.
"Hidden BOSS." Seven Fields cried out in alarm and then looked to Stolord.
If they didn't have this expert, they definitely wouldn't dare attempt the hidden BOSS. The system also empathized on this point. The hidden BOSS wouldn't stop players from clearing a dungeon. They could kill it or choose not to. Killing the final BOSS was still the end goal. Now, the players unanimously looked towards Stolord. They wanted to see if this expert had a way to defeat the hidden BOSS.
"Oh, there's a hidden BOSS!" Ye Xiu said, "Heh, if it's a hidden BOSS… …"
"We can't kill it?" Seven Fields and the others were a little disappointed.
"It's not that we can't kill it. I just have a few conditions. The Spider Emperor should drop Strong Spider Silk. Can you guys give me this? I'll give up on the other materials and equipment. You guys can have them all." Ye Xiu said.
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