“Hello, Carolina sends her regards. She hopes that my friends and I will escort you back to Moon Shadow Valley.” After waiting for everyone else to complete the Exploration Quest, Lu Li went up and interacted with Tap.
“Send my thanks to Chief Carolina. O brave Elf, you are finally here.” Upon seeing Lu Li, Tap regained some strength and stood up before saying: “Your friends have brought me some new information. The Cynocephali are trying to transport something from the other side of Sacrificial Altar. Go with your colleagues to destroy them. A couple of years ago I found a few skill books; they can be your rewards.”
Skill books!
Everyone’s eyes lit up.
All of them were only here to help out Lu Li with his Quest; they had no expectation that would yield such high exp and potentially net a skill book.
There were both newbies and strong players here, but this was the first time that any of them had heard of a quest with a skill book as a reward.
Only Lu Li who had experienced ‘rebirth’ knew that Dawn Quests didn’t have a set pattern. There was no guarantee that if you completed a quest with a certain number of stars you would receive a skill book. Sometimes, a quest that only required killing a few monsters could reward you with a skill book or a skill point. Other times, a quest of high difficulty would not reward you in this respect at all.
Skill Points would be part of the update next Monday. Every 2 levels, a Skill Point would be gained. Otherwise, you could gain them by getting lucky in quests or beating bosses. With these Skill Points and some gold, you could increase your skill level.
When Lu Li was reborn, he found out that many quests that gave Skill Points were currently compulsory. However, the current players had no idea about them.
Of course, that was something to be considered next Monday. Lu Li gawked for a bit, before decisively saying: “As one of the Elves, we will defend the dignity of Master Elune with my life. The dirty Cynocephali sacrificial offering will be completely torn to pieces.”
“Moon Goddess be with us.” What Lu Li had said was so inspiring that Tap began shaking with excitement. If not for the fact that he was determined by the system to be wounded, he would have already rushed into the Cynocephali mine.
The others had never seen a player talk to an NPC like this before and were dumbfounded. They slowly realized that Lu Li’s success wasn’t just because he was lucky; he played this game with a certain kind of earnestness.
“Let’s go,” Lu Li didn’t say any more, leading his party back into the mine.
The way to the Sacrificial Altar was clear, but after they had taken the quest, the Sacrificial Altar had changed significantly. Other than the 8 Cynocephali Mages that were gathered around the altar, there were 4 more level 12 Cynocephali Priests.
“There are 8 of them with shared aggro; I’ll stun one and kill another. Then, we’ll focus-fire one of them together, and after I’ve gotten aggro, we’ll just attack the closest ones. Remnant Dream, you can take one on, Azure Sea Breeze and Moonlight should be able to take 2 each.” There was not much strategy involved in this situation; they just needed DPS and healing.
“I can’t do this.” March Rain was the most nervous.
“Don’t worry about me or the other two Warrior’s HP. Just take care of your brother and Remnant Dream. Let’s go.” Lu Li went invisible and Sapped one of the Mages. He then turned around and used Cheap Shot on another.
Everyone else then selected their targets and started casting all of their spells.
March Rain who was the most worried found that after the fighting had started it wasn’t so bad. Azure Sea Breeze and Moonlight had a full set of equipment and a high level of armor. Even when they were hit by the Cynocephali Mages who were 3 to 4 levels higher than them, they only lost a little bit of HP.
Lu Li was responsible for two of the monsters; one of them was completely motionless and the other completely stunned, unable to raise its staff.
With Lu Li and Lonesome Flower both attacking, it quickly keeled over and died. After dealing with that, Lu Li escaped from the fight by going invisible and giving the target that was sapped another Sap (Sap can be chained but the stun duration will be reduced by a third). His next target was the monster that had already been taken to half-health by Moonlight.
Before long, the 8 Mages were all killed before they could do anything. Although the Priests were high-levelled, this didn’t translate into their attack damage. What was challenging about defeating them was their ability to restore HP.
However, this wasn’t really an issue either as there were 3 who could be considered experts in this party. Whenever, they saw a Healing skill being cast, they immediately stunned the caster to interrupt the skill.
Even if they missed a few times, this didn’t have much of an impact on the overall situation. Soon enough, all the Priests lay dead on the floor too.
“The power of darkness is coming and you insects will soon bow down to the Great Yogg-Saron,” the last priest said before falling into the Sacrificial Altar, his blood flowing like a river.
“Too bad they didn’t drop anything,” Azure Sea Breeze disappointedly said as he kicked the body of the Mages.
“You can’t be sure, maybe it’s not over,” Lu Li shook his head.
Even though he hadn’t done this quest in his previous life, his experience told him that it wouldn’t be this easy.
“Are you talking about the blood?” Moonlight was similarly curious.
“This blood flow is definitely more than usual.” The others were beginning to become suspicious.
The 4 Priests that were killed on the altar weren’t moving. However, their wounds hadn’t stopped bleeding after they died. The whole Sacrificial Altar was now filled with blood.
The symbols on the Sacrificial Altar gradually lit up.
“Oh no, there’s no way Yogg-Saron will really be summoned right? That’s just too insane.” Azure Sea Breeze held his shield tightly, somewhat anxious.
“Yogg-Saron was one of the Old Gods, dubbed The Beast with a Thousand Maws. Even the Titans couldn’t destroy its evil, they could only imprison it deep underground. There’s no way it would be so easy to summon,” Lu Li thought otherwise.
In his previous life, 25 people who were level 40 couldn’t even defeat the Tentacle of Yogg-Saron, which was the final Boss of an Instance Dungeon.
The dark light on the Altar shone unceasingly, before finally gathering together to form a Cynocephali Elder—Cynocephali Elder Allen.
“Why is it a Cynocephali?” Azure Sea Breeze had been anticipating something bigger, but was disappointed.
“Don’t underestimate it, this is a Boss.” Lu Li suddenly thought of something that he had read before about Bosses, one of which was Cynocephali Elder Allen. One of its skills was Charm, which possessed players.
For players, Charm was a Warlock skill that made the target aimlessly wander around for a while.
But for Allen, it was different: he could directly control the players. He could control a healer to heal him or force a damage dealer to attack a teammate.
Other than Allen, there was a level 15 public Instance Dungeon boss that knew this skill. When Lu Li was fighting this boss in his previous life, he became so frustrated that he wanted to kill himself.
At the moment everyone was only level 5-6, but they had bumped into Allen who was level 10. Even Lu Li felt a bit of despair.
“Have you fought this Boss before? Is this Boss difficult?” Moonlight saw that something was wrong based on Lu Li’s facial expression and sent him a private message.
“I have a friend who was in the beta that ran into this Boss. Its attack and defence is very ordinary, but it has a skill that is very hard to deal with…” Lu Li generally described what the Boss could do and saw that Moonlight was also frowning.
But Moonlight wasn’t disheartened, messaging back: “I heard from Azure Sea Breeze that you intend to make a fixed group. If you are, you will need someone to take on the role of commander. You cannot be hesitant like this. The question is simple, what do we give up and where can we attack back? Even if we lose, we only lose some exp. On this trip today, I’ve already gained more than 50% exp.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Li felt like his mind had cleared. That’s right, it was only some exp. He didn’t feel nervous anymore, instead clapping his hands and saying, “Let’s give it a shot. If anyone has any ideas speak up!”
“We’re waiting for your direction; how do we fight it?” This was the blind trust that Azure Sea Breeze had for Lu Li.
Lu Li waved his hand, saying, “Main Tank attack the Boss and receive healing, everyone else deal damage.”
“That’s it?” Everyone stared at him in disbelief.
“It’s my first time too; I don’t know what to do either. This Boss probably has Charm, so whoever is controlled will either heal it or attack us. If that happens, don’t panic. If a healer gets controlled, then we can use crowd control to stop it, but if an attacker gets controlled, we should all hide.”
The text that he read didn’t have any strategy written to beat the boss; it only described its despicable skill. As such, Lu Li could only arrange a countermeasure based on that description.
Although they were unwilling, they could only attack it with the standard method for now.
Azure Sea Breeze charged in and successfully stunned the Boss for a second. It looked like the Boss wasn’t immune to Crown Control.
Some Bosses in Dawn could be Crowd Controlled, but others had attributes that stopped this from happening. All you could do was hit them when they cast a spell, or counterattack with a Mage to cancel it.
There had been people who tried to take Professions with a higher number of crowd control abilities to control Bosses. However, they soon discovered that some Bosses were immune to crowd control skills. Moreover, attempting to use these skills on a Boss may cause it to go into berserk mode earlier and wreak havoc.
After Allen was stunned by Charge, Lu Li’s cast Cheap Shot, which only stunned for 2.5 seconds out of the usual 4 seconds. It appeared as though the Boss had some kind of gradual immunity to crowd control skills.
Fortunately, most Cynocephali’s had weak defense, and the Elder was no exception. Azure Sea Breeze could deal 3 damage, while Lu Li’s normal attack could deal around 5 damage.
However, its total HP was 45,000!
Not accounting for any incidents, it would take an hour if the 5 of them kept attacking it.
They didn’t have a choice though; the highest-level member was not even level 7 and the Boss was level 10. The difference in level was simply just too great. If the Boss was a wild beast that had high defence, there would be no chance of them ever taking it down.
“Dammit, this dog’s hits hurt. It’s much stronger than the turtle boss.” Azure Sea Breeze was knocked down by the Cynocephali Elder and lost 23 HP.
“Of course, it’s a level 10 Boss,” Lu Li responded.
“I’m really curious as to how yout beat the first Wild Boss,” Moonlight said.
“How else? The two of us just kept hitting until it died,” Azure Sea Breeze answered, “But that Boss was easier to kill, because its attack wasn’t very high and it didn’t have such a special skill. It just had high defence and a lot of HP.”
“That Boss lives in the water and when its HP reached a certain level, it would return to the water to heal. So we pulled the boss into the woods…”
“You guys are so vulgar, what did you do to the Boss in the woods?” Lonesome Flower hadn’t said anything all day, and this was what he contributed when finally did.
“Hehe, just the same as before.” Azure Sea Breeze was just as bad.
“For the two of you to be able to kill a Boss is something to be proud of,” Moonlight said emotionally. He was an expert and had played several games in his career, but he had never heard of two people killing a Boss on the second day in a game. He could already feel Dawn’s developers crying about this.
They talked while they fought the boss so they wouldn’t be bored.
Occasionally, the Boss would use its stick to cast a spell that was like Blizzard. It dealt a lot of damage; Lu Li was hit and he lost over 30 HP. If not for the fact that it only occasionally cast this spell, they would have already given up.
When the Boss HP dropped below 70%, it held up its stick (Magic Staff) and started an incantation in an obscure language. Remnant Dream slowly aimed her Crossbow at Lonesome Flower with a stone face.
“Sister, why do you resent me? Why are you pointing your weapon at me?” Lonesome Flower stepped aside and put on a long face.
“Help, help, what do I do? I can’t control myself” Remnant Dream was already nervous, but this made her unable to speak properly.
“Don’t panic, the Boss is using its skill to control you. Look at your own UI; how long does it last for?” Lu Li calmly called out, attempting to comfort the nervousness of his party members.
“There’s 52 seconds left,” Remnant Dream immediately called out after checking.
“Get out of here, don’t let Remnant Dream hit you.” It was the good thing that the respawn time of the monsters wasn’t very fast, so they had some space to fight.
The little Hunter now had a Steel Weapon equipped, so her attacks would be something to watch out for.
While casting Charm, the Boss didn’t attempt anything further, which was good news in their current predicament. The pressure on Priest March Rain to heal had finally been relaxed for a while.
Lu Li attacked Allen while explain to her, “When you are healing don’t panic. If you can, don’t over-heal, especially when someone receives a minor wound. Don’t heal every time Blizzard is cast; we can be hit 2 or 3 times before we die. But make sure to keep everyone relatively healthy as well, you never know what the Boss might do. The best you can do is keep everyone above half health.”
“If one of the damage dealers is controlled, the Healer can go and drink a mana potion,” Moonlight added.
Although Lu Li’s damage output wasn’t very high, this wasn’t the biggest problem with this Boss. The biggest problem was healing!
After fighting for over an hour, it became apparent that managing the mana potions was key. Each mana potion needed to be used to its maximum restoration potential. March Rain over healed a lot, which meant that they were safe, but a lot of the healing was also wasted.
As these two experts were giving advice, Charm was cast a second time. This time Lu Li was the target and March Rain decisively ran off to restore mana.
This was the difference between fighting a Wild Boss and an Instance Dungeon Boss. The aggro range was different: a Wild Boss’ aggro range was much smaller, while an Instance Dungeon Boss’ aggro range was based on terrain and vision. Some of them would stick to you for as long as you were in their Instance Dungeon.
After Lu Li had been controlled, the person that he started chasing after was Lonesome Flower.
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