Of course, Chen Guo didn't kill Ye Xiu and couldn't enter the Level 5 Green Forest as a Level 1. In the end, Chen Guo could only start completing the missions alone. No matter what was said, it was still faster than only killing monsters.
In his busy schedule, Ye Xiu made room to turn around and quickly glance at the character on her screen: "Chasing Haze? Where have I seen this ID before?"
Chen Guo almost knocked down the monitor with her head. Baring her teeth, she turned her head: "This is my main account's ID!"
"Oh, I thought so!" Ye Xiu's head had already turned back. Chen Guo suddenly discovered,Besides that time when I walked in with my face mask, I haven't seen this guy's front again. It's only the Skeleton Graveyard and nothing more. Does he really need to concentrate so hard?
But thinking about that, her temper cooled because he really did need to concentrate so hard. In the Skeleton Graveyard, monsters would often randomly pop up. A scattered skeleton in an obscure location could suddenly converge together into a skeleton or a skeleton might suddenly dig out of the ground. This dungeon didn't have a set route or a set number of monsters. The dungeon would change every time testing player's concentration and reaction time. What's more, Ye Xiu's party only had four members, so they needed to concentrate even more.
Looking at it like this, Ye Xiu's actions were reasonable. Her anger wasn't though. Chen Guo could only gloomily continue to complete her missions.
At this moment, it had only been a day since the opening of the tenth server. Beginners were still everywhere like clouds causing Chen Guo to advance with her missions very slowly. It had taken even Ye Xiu that sort of peak expert two hours to complete them all, Chen Guo needn't be said. Although the situation was better than yesterday, lining up, kill stealing, these patterns still existed.
During the process, she suddenly heard a cold laugh float by: "I knew it'd be like this."
Chen Guo grew angry, Is he making fun of me? But when she turned her head to look, Ye Xiu had his headphones put on properly and continued to dungeon with his party!Was he talking to himself? Chen Guo muttered to herself. In the end, it was best not to make trouble and continued to silently kill monsters.
To Ye Xiu and the others, this time, clearing the Skeleton Graveyard was more threatening than dangerous. The road was quite bumpy because Seven Fields and the others couldn't react in time to the dungeon's difficulties, to that sort of scare by the skeletons suddenly popping out.
When the final BOSS collapsed, Seven Fields and the others were all covered in sweat. If it weren't for Ye Xiu and instead had Sleeping Moon as the leader, they definitely wouldn't have cleared it. This didn't mean that the dungeon required a peak level expert to lead them, rather it was because the players would take a lot of damage and required a Priest to heal them. Evidently, this was the beginner village's lesson on dungeons letting them know the importance of class combinations.
In the end, with Ye Xiu's Stolord who could heal and kill monsters, they rolled through the Skeleton Graveyard. After coming out, Ye Xiu looked back. Chen Guo was still in the beginner area lining up and wasn't paying attention to him, so he entered again. Seven Fields and the others were a little nervous. They were holding the expert back a little. With brother expert's skill, he could easily find three other much more skilled partners. If they didn't perform well, would brother expert leave them?
As a result, Seven Fields and the others concentrated 120% it. Carefully and cautiously, they clearly improved when reacting to those skeletons suddenly popping out. Their clearing speed increased by a lot.
Skeleton Graveyard also had three hidden BOSSes: Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Mage, and Skeleton King. But the dungeon wouldn't give any hints if a hidden BOSS appeared because these three hidden BOSSes could come out of the shadows at any time. Only then would the system give a prompt. Often, in parties with bad luck, a member may have already been killed off by the time the system prompt came out.
With Ye Xiu leading, this type of careless error would never occur. Only, after clearing the second dungeon easily, the hidden BOSS still hadn't appeared yet.
They had already cleared the dungeon twice. Ye Xiu turned his head again to look at Chen Guo's progress. She was in the middle of kill stealing with others outside of beginner village. Ye Xiu searched a bit more and saw her character's level. It was already Level 4 and she was about to hit Level 5.
"Better hurry up and start again." Ye Xiu thought to himself and entered at once. Seven Fields and the others also didn't hesitate.
Kill kill kill, move move move. Suddenly, in front of them, a crooked gravestone gently shook. Seven Fields and others hadn't noticed this and continued forward. Ye Xiu had already hastily yelled: "Move back."
The three heard Ye Xiu and without thinking, immediately followed his command, neatly retreating. Stolord's figure had already moved past them in a flash. After that gravestone gently shook, suddenly, it flew out of the dirt towards the four of them.
Ye Xiu shouted "Careful". The prepared Seven Fields and the others quickly dodged it. Half of a skeleton body arose from out of the hole where the gravestone flew out of. Seeing that intact skeleton, they knew it wasn't any ordinary monster. The system also solemnly announced: You have entered the Skeleton Warrior's place of eternal rest.
"We've finally run into one." Ye Xiu was gratified.
"How do we fight it?" Seven Fields and the others immediately asked.
The half-exposed Skeleton Warrior leaped out of the cavity like a rocket showing off his powerful jumping ability. In midair, polluted dirt rolled out from his body crashing down onto the ground like rain. In his hand, he carried an enormous but extremely damaged sword around the size of a person.
"Too bad." Ye Xiu said.
"What's wrong?" Seven Fields and the others all asked.
"I forgot to look at a guide." Ye Xiu said.
The three felt like throwing up blood. Brother expert you're too mystical!
"I can help you look." Sunset Clouds yelled.
"No good, if he attacks you then you're dead." Ye Xiu said. The Skeleton Warrior had already dropped to the ground causing the earth to quake and the mountains to shake. The attack range was extremely large. Drifting Water was too slow and didn't dodge in time. He was hit by the shock wave and fell flat on his face.
The Skeleton Warrior's two black eyes swept over them as if searching for a target to attack.
"Then someone draw it out. I'll check a guide!" Sunset Clouds said.
"No need." While Ye Xiu said this, he took off his headphone and turned around to shout: "Boss, boss."
"What!" Chen Guo tapped her keyboard replying, but didn't turn her head.
"Help me look up a guide." Ye Xiu said.
"Guide? What guide?" Chen Guo was astonished and looked towards him.
"A Skeleton Warrior guide." Ye Xiu controlled Stolord while pointing to his screen.
Chen Guo's head almost knocked over the monitor again: "You starting looking up a guide after you've met the boss? What have you been doing up until now?"
"I forgot." Ye Xiu replied simply, which made Chen Guo unable to pick at it. She was currently lining up to steal kills and nothing more. She wasn't in any danger at all, so she quickly switched out of the game and searched up a Skeleton Graveyard guide. She asked Ye Xiu: "Which BOSS?"
"Skeleton Warrior. Mainly look for how to make it so that he drops the Saber 100% of the time." Ye Xiu said.
"Saber? 100% drop?" Chen Guo hadn't done this type of low-level dungeon in five years. She knew what the Saber was because she would bring others to look for this item from time to time. But she didn't know about any guides having this information. After all, her memories were all of her rolling through the dungeon with her main account, why would she have needed to look up a guide?
"Yeah, use that as the main subject." Ye Xiu replied with confidence. Although he forgot the details, he knew that it definitely existed because he had written about it before.
Chen Guo promptly searched the keywords "Skeleton Warrior", "Saber", "100%" and sure enough results appeared. Seeing the forum post's date, it was already ten years old. Chen Guo clicked on it and looked. She was immediately surprised: "It's a post by Ye Qiu." The original poster's name was, to her shock, Ever-Stay. This wasn't a secret in the Glory community. Everyone knew that before the Glory Professional Alliance came into existence, Ye Qiu's ID had already become a famous expert. Otherwise, the Professional Alliance wouldn't have invited him as a pro-gamer.
"Right, that one. See how many times I need to hit the Buckle fastening the Saber." Ye Xiu said.
"What?" Chen Guo had never seen this post. For a moment, she had no idea what Ye Xiu was talking about. She quickly skimmed over the post and finally found what Ye Xiu wanted.
"24 times. There are also pictures of where to hit it. Do you need to see it?" Chen Guo said.
"Enlarge it so I can see." Ye Xiu said.
Chen Guo opened the diagram and enlarged it: "Hey, look!"
Ye Xiu turned his head like lightning and stopped on it for less than a second before turning back.
"You're done?" Chen Guo was flabbergasted.
"Yup." Ye Xiu said. "Do you need anything else?"
"No." Ye Xiu said. He remembered that he needed to do enough damage to the targets. Although he didn't remember exactly how much, but with the Kaleidescope Parasol's 180 Physical Attack plus his strength, he believed that Stolord reached that requirement.
"Seven Fields, go to the left; Sunset Clouds, go around to the back; Drifting Water move back a bit or the next shock wave will hit you." Ye Xiu began directing the three into position, while he continued to look for an opportunity to attack. Before, the four players were only dodging. Without Ye Xiu's orders, no one went in to attack. When Ye Xiu was looking for a guide, Seven Fields and the others didn't know that he wasn't looking for a guide on how to beat the Skeleton Warrior, but rather on how to make his Saber drop 100% of the time.
This Saber was only an ornamental equipment. It had no effects on a person's strength which is why there was such a 100% drop method. But the method still required exceptionally high skill to pull off.
Chen Guo had already thrown away her game and stood behind Ye Xiu. She wanted to see how Ye Xiu would hit the Saber Buckle 24 times. She had looked at the guide. That buckle was located on the Skeleton Warrior's waist. The player would have to hit the small buckle from every direction. From the screen, if the player didn't get in close to at least two meters, then there was no way to hit it.
Ye Xiu had already controlled Stolord to meet the BOSS face to face. When he healed the party, the Skeleton Warrior had locked onto Stolord as the number one target. Stolord had been dodging left and right the entire time while Seven Fields and the others wandered around waiting for Ye Xiu to tell them when to attack.
After Ye Xiu got a hold of the guide, he arranged the three far away. The three didn't know Ye Xiu's intentions and could only listen to his orders. Seeing that Stolord met the Skeleton Warrior face to face, their hearts tightened: the battle was finally going to start.
The Skeleton Warrior rushed up in large strides. From head to toe, the skeleton screeched out an ear-piercing friction sound. Ye Xiu directed Stolord to quickly face it, but his gaze only looked at the Skeleton Warrior's waist. Chen Guo, who was standing behind him, discovered: it was much more difficult than it seemed. The guide made the targets on the Buckle easy to see. But in battle, the Skeleton Warrior swayed back and forth. Its movements inadvertently masked the targets on the Buckle.
The Skeleton Warrior raised its body-sized sword two meters away from Ye Xiu. Calm and unhurried, Ye Xiu quickly attacked. His Kaleidescope Parasol's attack speed of 5 was definitely higher than the gigantic sword. Usually, gigantic swords had an attack speed of 1. In this distance, although the Skeleton Warrior's gigantic sword was huge, its length couldn't compare to a battle Parasol's.
Ye Xiu calmly pushed his mouse. Stolord's battle Parasol shot out late but arrived first, stabbing it head-on with a Dragon Tooth. While the Skeleton Warrior's was briefly stunned, Stolord had already closed in at used a Sky Strike.
The Skeleton Warrior's body was heavier compared to the Midnight Phantom Cat's, but was still lighter than that big-headed and fat-bellied Spider BOSS. After a Sky Strike, the Skeleton Warrior was knocked up neither high nor low. Stolord took advantage and slashed. The attack made a sound that completely differed from the sound made by hitting the Skeleton Warrior's bones.
"You hit it." Chen Guo excitedly shouted.
"It's only once." Ye Xiu spoke without thinking. With a flick of his fingers, Stolord turned around and struck again. He swept the floor with his lance and the Skeleton Warrior that had been flipped over by the Sky Strike was hit again with a "peng" sound. This attack had also hit his buckle.
Ye Xiu wasn't greedy. After two hits, he immediately controlled Stolord to retreat. As the Skeleton Warrior got up, he hit the ground to support himself creating a small 360 degree shock wave. This was to prevent shameless players from endlessly comboing him with a knock down and floor sweep skill. The majority of BOSSes had these sort of shock wave attacks when getting up.
Chen Guo watched and saw that he had hit the buckle twice. At first, she felt excited for Ye Xiu's good beginning. But after reflecting on it, she felt that the two precise hits onto the small belt were quite frightening. While she stood distracted, another "peng" sound echoed through her ear.
Stolord had jumped out at the perfect time, dodging the edge of the shock wave. After the shock wave attack passed, Ye Xiu already directed Stolord to rush up once again. With a thrust, his lance stabbed the buckle again.
The Skeleton Warrior's two hands crashed down. Stolord swiftly rolled back and that gigantic sword smashed past him. Even the spectating Seven Fields and the others couldn't tell whether Stolord had been hurt or not. They quickly looked at the party list showing his HP and MP and discovered that he had completely dodged the sword.
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