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1.75% MMORPG: Rebirth of the Legendary Guardian / Chapter 15: The Black Claw

Chapitre 15: The Black Claw

Éditeur: EndlessFantasy Translation

Kindling Chest Hair died a little too fast, and that was even before other players had even entered combat! After killing Kindling Chest Hair, the two monsters quickly headed back to their original positions, surprising Zhang Yang who was waiting to intercept the aggro.

“Shit! What’s going on with you healers? Why didn’t you guys heal me?” yelled Kindling Chest Hair angrily.

Ocean Despair did not want to debate with this idiot anymore, and so, his own guild mate Prideful Babysitter replied, “You died too fast, I couldn’t react in time!”

Truthfully, Kindling Chest Hair was not killed within seconds. There was still a short moment of time for them to heal. It was just that they had never met this kind of monster so no one had the awareness for danger. A slight distraction and they would not be in time anymore.

Kindling Chest Hair kept quiet for a moment then said, “Revive me!”

Prideful Babysitter said, “Can’t do it!”

“Sacred Knight?” Kindling Chest Hair asked as he turned to Ocean Despair.

“Nope!”

“Fuck! How can you be a babysitter when you don’t even have a reviving skill?!” Kindling Chest Hair scolded again. He released his corpse and returned from the spawning point to where he died.

Ocean Despair was being ridiculed again, his expression turning even more sour.

[Resurrection] could be used to revive a fallen player who died out of combat, saving him the time and effort to return from the starting or spawning point. It was a useful and practical skill that could be learned by both Priests and Defenders. However, this skill could not be obtained from a class instructor and could only be attained from skill books found in monster’s loot.

<Resurrection>’s drop rate had always been low. Even 5 years after the game server had been launched, the <Resurrection> skill book was still in high demand and could be sold at the exorbitant price of several thousand Gold Coins. As of now, the people who possessed this skill would most likely be the main healers of large guilds.

Before the game had launched, the officials had wanted to help the players understand each profession clearer and had released introductions of skills attainable by each profession in their website including the functions and effects of skills, as well as the method of attaining said skills. However, the officials had kept quiet regarding skills attainable through hidden quests, allowing the players to figure out a way themselves.

Floral Shorts thought for a little while and said, “When the Defender comes back, the two tanks will each pull one monster. Healers stay alert. These two monsters seem fierce!”

Zhang Yang’s attention was not on this dungeon anymore. He had taken the chance to have a casual conversation in private messages with Hundred Shots. Even though Zhang Yang had already known about this guy’s future accomplishments, he would not pick his teammate solely based on skills. A player’s moral character would be of greater importance!

7 to 8 minutes later, Kindling Chest Hair had revived and stood once again amongst the party members.

“Hairy, recover your condition!” Floral Shorts said as he marked the two monsters with different symbols. “Defender, you’re to handle the monster marked with a star. Guardian, yours is the one with a sun mark. Go!”

Kindling Chest Hair consumed a piece of cake and had his HP and MP fully recovered. He then took out his war hammer and shield, going straight for the monsters.

“<Shield Toss>!”

Zhang Yang, too, used <Charge> and dashed towards the monster with a sun mark. With a swing of his sword, a damage text with the figure “-62” emerged above the monster’s head.

The ‘sun monster’ had recovered quickly and stabbed towards Zhang Yang with its spear.

“<Block>!”

“-42!” <Block> reflected damage.

“-102!” <Shield Bash>!

“-140!” <Horizontal Sweep>!

The aggro value was established in an instant.

The other teammates had unanimously picked Zhang Yang’s target as their attack target. Swords slashed and spells flew all at once.

Kindling Chest Hair was furious because even his own guildmates, Floral Shorts and Prideful Precepts did not dare to attack the monster he had pulled. How embarrassing!

“Ding! Executioner Gnome uses <Immolation Assault>!”

Zhang Yang reacted swiftly and slid back, leaving the monster’s melee attack range and caused <Immolation Assault> to hit nothing but air.

On the other side of the battle, Kindling Chest Hair was suffering major damage, causing Prideful Babysitter to spam cast his healing skills while reminding Kindling Chest Hair to use his own health recovery potion. Ocean Despair had long since given up on him.

After about 40 seconds, the ‘sun monster’ let out a wail, collapsing in its own pool of blood. The party turned and attacked the ‘star monster’ Kindling Chest Hair was pulling.

After 10 seconds or so, the monster let out an enraged cry and ignored Kindling Chest Hair, charging towards Hundred Shots!

“He’s been pulling aggro for over a minute and still managed to get OT. It’s really a wonder of wonders!” Flame Emperor was more than shocked.

<Charge>!

Zhang Yang quickly chased after the ‘star monster’. He was not competing for aggro with Kindling Chest Hair, so he naturally had full Rage as he did not use any Rage consuming skills. Zhang Yang used <Horizontal Sweep> followed by a normal attack and then continued with 3 <Force Strike>, causing a large amount of damage and aggro.

Once the ‘star monster’ recovered, Zhang Yang used <Provoke> and forced the monster to attack him for 2 seconds.

“<Block>!”

“-42!”

“<Shield Bash>!”

“-102!”

Hundred Shots’ performance was commendable. He had stopped attacking and had waited for Zhang Yang to hold the monster’s aggro. After the 2 seconds ended, the ’star monster’ was still attacking Zhang Yang, confirming its complete aggro lock on Zhang Yang.

Kindling Chest Hair kept his mouth shut. With this situation in hand, however shameless he was, remaining silent would be his best course of action. If he had quibbled, he would only be setting himself up as a joke – not like he was not one already.

In due course, the ‘star monster’ had died.

The party progressed and after clearing 5 waves of monsters, they had finally encountered the first boss. It was a black colossal hound the size of a public bus, its fur a shining black. The boss was currently sleeping on the floor, snoring thunderously loud and drooling all over.

[Black Claw, Guardian Beast of the Crypt Entrance] (Black-Metal Boss)

Level: 12

HP: 36000

There was only a lone boss in this overly large cave and no minions around.

“What’s the plan?” Snowy Death asked in the party channel while staring at the fearsome monstrous beast.

“Easy! Tanks pull, damage dealers attack and healers heal! It’s simple!” Prideful Precepts said with ease.

Zhang Yang shook his head and said, “This boss has two skills the first being <Death Stare>. It’s a skill that causes the player with the highest aggro to receive extra damage. The target will receive an extra 100% damage when attacked and this skill can be stacked indefinitely. In this case, theoretically, this boss requires 2 tanks. When one tank has accumulated high stacks of <Death Stare>, the other tank takes over. When the debuff ends, the first tank will replace the second tank once again! Of course, if the DPSers are strong enough, we could still do this with only one tank, killing the boss in the shortest amount of time.”

The players looked at each other, neither of them trusting Kindling Chest Hair to hold aggro. To believe that he could do it would be would be more unlikely than to believe that all prostitutes are virgins! The only way to do it was to go all out on dealing damage and to kill it forcefully.

“The second skill is <Venom Spit>. It will target players at random and cause around 200 basic damage in Normal Mode. The cast rate is very high so there will be substantial healing pressure.” Zhang Yang continued.

Prideful Precepts gave a skeptic look and asked, “How did you know? You’re not making this up just for the sake of bragging, are you?”

Zhang Yang had cleared this dungeon numerous times in his previous life, how could he not know?! Zhang Yang smiled and said, “There are a lot of dungeon information on the official forum, I saw it in passing.”

Everyone believed him without a doubt.

“Hairy, which of you two would be the main tank?” Floral Shorts still had faith in Kindling Chest Hair.

“Of course it would be me! He won’t survive a hit from the boss with that petty HP!” Kindling Chest Hair had yet to realize the difference in ability between him and Zhang Yang. He had a big hat but no cattle.

Ocean Despair could not help but chuckle.

Kindling Chest Hair had been displeased with him for a while, and yelled, “What are you laughing for? Was I wrong?”

Ocean Despair remained silent but posted the ‘Heal Received Statistics’ in the channel.

[Heal Received Statistics]

1. Kindling Chest Hair, 57632, 92%

2. Snowy Death, 1579, 3%

3. Flowery Pants, 1553, 3%

4. Zhan Yu, 1422, 2 %

“Is this for real?” Everyone looked at the list and was beyond surprised.

What did it mean?

Zhang Yang had not only locked a monster’s aggro, his attack evasion was on another level!

He did have less HP compared to Kindling Chest Hair but based solely on his skills, monsters’ attacks could barely graze him! If so, why does it matter whether he had high or low HP in the first place?

The pitiful Kindling Chest Hair was still unable to grasp the overall picture and had laughed egoistically after looking at the statistics, “Now you guys know my pain! I’ve pulled so many monsters, of course they would attack me!”

Ocean Despair smirked, “Pain your ass! Healing you is the real pain!”

Kindling Chest Hair was livid. Just as he had wanted to refute Ocean Despair’s comment, he was flooded by blames from the rest of the party, criticizing his weak ability in locking aggro, as whoever was supposed to deal damage to his monster would definitely OT. Feeling overwhelmed, he wanted to find the other 3 Pride guildmates as support but saw them intentionally turn their heads away, pretending to miss the conversation.

“Alright, alright. The two of you go together. Whoever holds the aggro will tank it!” Floral Shorts finally decided, an attempt to help Kindling Chest Hair but everybody had known that this was just for show. Let’s not compare Kindling Chest Hair’s aggro to Zhang Yang. Perhaps, even healers’ could build higher aggro than him!

“Go!”

Zhang Yang unsheathed his Refined Iron Sword and dashed towards Black Claw. Not wanting to be outshone, Kindling Chest Hair also rushed towards the boss.

“<Charge>!”

“<Shield Toss>!”

Zhang Yang dashed towards the boss like a train, arriving right in front of Black Claw almost immediately. He swung his sword and slashed the boss.

“-52!”

The damage was reduced by roughly 20 points due to the boss’ high defense.

At this time, Kindling Chest Hair had also arrived and smashed his war hammer furiously.

“-1!”

Tragedy. He could not break its defense and had only caused 1 point of damage.

At the same time, Kindling Chest Hair activated <Devotion>. A glowing golden light appeared beneath his feet and another “-1” damage text appeared above the boss’s head.

2 seconds later, the boss had recovered from the stun and clawed at Zhang Yang.

“<Block>!”

“-36!”

“<Shield Bash>!”

“-96!”

“<Horizontal Sweep>!”

“-136!”

“Start the attack!” Zhang Yang announced in the party channel.


Chapitre 16: Barbarians and Their Barbaric Ways

Éditeur: EndlessFantasy Translation

“<Justice Defense>!”

Realizing that he could not beat Zhang Yang, Kindling Chest Hair had immediately provoked the boss to temporarily pull Black Claw’s aggro over.

“Ding! You are affected by <Death Stare> (Stack 1). All damage received increased by 100%, lasts for 12 seconds!”

Kindling Chest Hair really had the worst luck. Just as he provoked the boss, Black Claw had activated <Death Stare>. His body flashed in a crimson glow and a debuff appeared above his avatar.

This skill could not be dodged or blocked.

The provoke effect had worn off after 2 seconds and Black Claw returned to attack Zhang Yang.

“Fire up the DPS1!” Zhang Yang said in the party channel. He was not worried about being instantly killed under the stacking effect of <Death Stare> but more so that the longer they took to kill the boss, the more Black Claw would cast <Venom Spit>, ultimately wrecking the party when the healers became overwhelmed.

Of course, in this Normal Mode he could easily solo kill the boss alone!

After a while, Black Claw turned around and took aim at Prideful Precepts, spitting black spittle on him.

“F*ck, is that how you pull the monster, noob warrior! How could you let the boss attack me?” Prideful Precepts rebuked and then hollered at the same time, “Heal me!” He had a total of 300HP but 200 was gone instantly.

“You’re the f*cking noob! That’s the boss’ <Venom Spit>. Zhan Yu had explained it very clearly just now, it randomly targets a player! What are you barking at?” Defiant Monk could not hold his anger anymore and finally exploded.

Grunting, Prideful Precepts remained displeased and begrudged but did not fight back.

10 seconds later, Kindling Chest Hair initiated another provoke and temporarily pulled Black Claw’s aggro over again.

“Ding! You are affected by <Death Stare> (Stack 2). All damage received increased by 200%, lasts for 12 seconds!”

Poor thing, he had just drew the boss over and was immediately stacked with another <Death Stare>.

Zhang Yang exclaimed internally, who said this guy was a noob, he’s been provoking precisely when the boss casts <Death Stare>! Such a genius!

After beating up Kindling Chest Hair, Black Claw turned again and Zhang Yang took over the aggro.

After some time, Black Claw stopped his actions and aimed at Snowy Death, casting <Venom Spit> and dealing 200 HP of damage to him.

Kindling Chest Hair casted the third provoke on the boss after <Justice Defense>’s cooldown had completed.

“Ding! You are affected by <Death Stare> (Stack 3). All damage received increased b 300%, lasts for 12 seconds!”

Black Claw’s <Death Stare> was casted every 10 seconds, coincidentally the same as the cooldown time of <Justice Defense>. This was the reason Kindling Chest Hair had been the receiver of <Death Stare> each time he had provoked the boss.

“-528!”

Black Claw’s normal attack damage was already around 150 points usually and since Kindling Chest Hair had 3 stacks of <Death Stare> on him, his basic damage had reached an approximate 600 points! Deducting the Defender’s passive 15% damage reduction and character defense, the damage had still amounted to 500 plus points!

Reduced to almost nothing from a total of 700 HP in an instant, Kindling Chest Hair panicked and screamed, “Heal me!”

“+76!”

“+73!”

“+100!”

Three green numbers floated across Kindling Chest Hair’s head. They were the healing done by Prideful Babysitter, Ocean Despair, and his own ingested bottle of red pot respectively, raising his HP to 421 points. Although Ocean Despair had hated Kindling Chest Hair, he had still dutifully healed him at such a critical moment.

“-509!”

Black Claw made another blow in an instant and the hit landed on Kindling Chest Hair.

“Ding! Player Kindling Chest Hair has died!”

Black Claw turned and continued attacking Zhang Yang.

Unable to contain it anymore, Flame Emperor laughed and said in the party channel, “It seems that the Defender does have some contribution! He’d endured three times of <Death Stare> for Zhan Yu! Your death was not in vain!”

“Yeah, a hero!”

“You can rest in peace!”

Players that were not from Pride were talking merrily in the party channel, their words causing Kindling Chest Hair to fume with anger. His intention was not even to help Zhang Yang, he merely wanted to throw a tantrum. Who would have known that he would be triple stacked with <Death Stare> which allowed him to be instantly killed by the boss!

He had dug his own grave, provoking the boss continuously to have Black Claw become immune to the effects. Zhang Yang could not have saved him even if he wanted to! Of course, Zhang Yang had no interest in saving such a foolish and arrogant guy even without the provoke immunity. He was not that kind!

“Speed up the DPS1!” Zhang Yang said in the party channel.

“OK!” the crowd replied. Zhang Yang won their respect with his capabilities.

Without Kindling Chest Hair ‘snagging’ <Death Stare>, Zhang Yang had quickly gotten stacked with many levels of the <Death Stare> debuff. Death would be an absolute certainty had the boss even touched him lightly. However, Zhang Yang had maneuvered himself with such agility, moving and dodging, not giving Black Claw a single opening to land a strike!

While <Venom Spit> had caused a certain degree of burden to the healers, because they did not need to heal their tank, a lot of MP was conserved and they had more than enough to heal the other players. The party had not lost any more members.

“80%! 70%!”

Under the constant attacks the party, the boss’ HP had decreased steadily. Nearly 3 minutes later, Black Claw’s HP was left with a mere 10%.

“Ding! Party Leader Floral Shorts has changed Group Looting Parameters to Master Loot!” A system notification popped up suddenly to indicate the change of distribution method.

“Floral Shorts! What are you doing?” Defiant Monk quickly questioned.

“I’m afraid that people will mess up the loot, so I’ll split it myself!” Floral Shorts said in a self-righteous tone.

Everyone kept mum and continued attacking the boss.

“Ding! The party you are in has killed Black Claw! Obtained 3,650 EXP (50 points Party Bonus)!”

Black Claw fell to the ground and dropped 3 to 4 equipment and a heap of gold coins.

“Let’s see what the drops are!” Equipment was every player’s main motivation to enter dungeons. When the boss had died, everyone had automatically surrounded the loot. However, due to the Master Loot Mode, they could only look at the equipment dropped but were unable to pick them up.

[Black Claw] (Black-Steel, Fist Gloves)

Weapon Attack: 7 – 13

Attack Interval: 1.9 seconds

Level Requirement: 5

[Heavy Chest Plate] (Black-Steel, Heavy Armor)

Defense: +2

Vitality: +3

Strength: +1

Level Requirement: 5

[Black Leather Boots] (Black-Steel, Cloth Armor)

Defense: +1

Vitality: +2

Intelligence: +1

Level Requirement: 5

According to the dungeon setting, equipment dropped from Hardcore Mode would be one grade higher than Difficult Mode; and equipment dropped from Difficult Mode would be another grade higher than Normal Mode. Since Bangar Crypt was the lowest level dungeon in the game, only Hardcore Mode would drop Green-Copper equipment. If it had been according to the setting, the equipment dropped in Normal mode should only be White-tiered!

However, the game company had taken into consideration that if the first dungeon had only dropped White-tiered equipment, it would have discouraged the players! Compromising, they decided that Normal Mode would also drop Black-Steel equipment but its level requirement was reduced to Level 5 while Difficult Mode and Hardcore Mode continued dropping Level 10 Black-Steel and Green-Copper equipment respectively.

“Ding! Player Floral Shorts has obtained Black Claw!”

“Ding! Player Kindling Chest Hair has obtained Heavy Chest Plate!”

“Ding! Player Prideful Precepts has obtained Black Leather Boots!”

“Ding! You have been distributed with 96 copper coins!”

A series of system notifications rang. Party leader Floral Shorts had distributed all the equipment in a flash while simultaneously obtaining the gold coins and distributing them to each party member through the system.

This had caused a wave of disapproval among the party members.

“What the f*ck? How can you distribute the equipment without asking!”

“F*ck, barbarians hijacking equipment!”

“What did you think we were? Your workers?”

Floral Shorts snorted and said, “I am the party leader, of course I have the priority for equipment! Hairy is the main tanker, if it wasn’t for him tanking the boss’ <Death Stare>, we wouldn’t have beaten the boss, and he died twice. Is it wrong to prioritize him in equipment distribution? As for Precepts… he dealt the highest DPS among those who wore robes!”

“F*ck you! You can’t even command as a leader and had zero contribution to the party! How dare you put yourself as priority?”

“The Defender is a complete joke! There’s no difference to our party with or without him around! Zhan Yu got stacked with 13 stacks of <Death Stare> and he was alright. What difference would 3 stacks make?”

“Look at the damage statistics yourself! If you’re not blind, Precepts was much worse than Flame Emperor!”

Prideful Magus replied immediately, “The damage statistics is not even accurate. How is it possible that our Guardian ranks first every single time? I’ve been attacking all the time, I might as well commit suicide if my attack is lower than a tank!”

The rest of the players got even more enraged listening to his self-righteous argument.

“Let’s go on, let’s go on. It’s just a few equipment, everyone can get them after a few more rounds!” Prideful Babysitter pacified the party.

“Change the party leader or we’ll quit!” Hundred Shots said.

“Yeah, change the leader!” the others followed.

“Ding! Player Floral Shorts has made player Prideful Precepts the Party Leader!”

Is this showcasing the lowest level of one’s IQ?

“F*ck! You are all shameless!” Defiant Monk was rendered speechless by these Pride members’ scoundrel ways.

“Either change the leader to Zhan Yu or disband!” Hundred Shots said while the others agreed immediately.

The four Pride members were at a loss.

“Ding! Player Prideful Precepts has made player Zhan Yu the Party Leader!”

Zhang Yang had encountered plenty of barbarians in his previous life but those who could compete with the Pride members were indeed few! These men should have joined the Rogue Clan! He smiled lightly and changed the Group Looting Parameters to Roll-the-Dice Mode and said “Let’s continue!”

He did not care for the loot from Normal Mode, there would be more good stuff waiting in Difficult Mode and Hardcore Mode!

He had wanted to kick the four Prideful players out but had quickly changed his mind. Expelling them was not the best way to punish them. The best way to release his anger was letting them know that this party had the ability to clear Difficult and even Hardcore Mode so these selfish, greedy guys should have tried to snitch better equipment, then kick the others out at that time to drive them mad with jealousy and regret!

Translator Notes

1 DPS in this case refers to the original term of the term DPS which means damage per second. In most cases, DPS, like many other gaming terminology, can be used interchangeably. DPS could also mean a type of class or role that focuses on dealing as much damage as possible. E.g. “We need another 3 DPSers to fill our party! PM for invite plez”


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