“There’s something I want to say before we go in,” Lu Li calmly said, “As the team leader, I want one of the items we obtain.”
We haven’t even started, but he’s already talking about wanting one of the items. The two girls looked at him while pouting. This guy didn’t act like an expert at all.
“I’m fine with it.” Azure Sea Breeze said. Because of Lu Li, he had obtained a Bronze grade Ring and a Bronze grade Armour, so he was already satisfied.
“What is it?” Drinking Alone was curious.
“Jade Spider Web, a Blue Material. It’s something only Bosses drop.” Lu Li explained.
“How do you know the Boss will drop it?” Northern Tang Dream asked with wide eyes.
“I have a friend…”
“Cheh!”
The rest of the team couldn’t even be bothered to “cheh” at Lu Li, and they entered the Instance Dungeon.
The Spider Lair was dark and damp, and had a slightly rotten smell. There were spider webs everywhere, and the scuttling sounds of spiders’ legs echoed in the distance.
In front of them was the first wave of monsters - two spiders that were as large as small dogs. Their 8 furry legs were covered with spikes, and they savagely looked around with their countless eyes, causing everyone to shiver.
The LV5 Spider Lair was the lowest level Instance Dungeon, and its main purpose was for players to become used to the mechanics of Instance Dungeons. The first few waves of monsters were all normal monsters, which were slightly stronger than the monsters outside. The five man team quickly disposed of them.
After defeating 5 waves of monsters like this, they arrived at a brook.
Above the brook was a bridge, and a jade-green spider that was at least twice the size of the normal monsters was sitting on top. It was called a Spider Lair Guard.
“This is an Elite grade monster, it should be pretty strong.” Northern Tang Dream and Drinking Alone had tried out this Instance Dungeon the previous day, and both held a lingering fear towards Elite monsters.
“It’s not that bad. It just has an extra Venom Spit skill,” Lu Li dismissively said as he started to give out orders, “Sea Breeze go and draw aggro. When the charge bar for its Venom Spit is about two thirds full, use your Shieldstrike to interrupt it.”
If he used it before two thirds, the Guard would start to charge it up again. If he used it after two thirds, he wouldn’t be able to interrupt it.
These sorts of things were impossible to find out without trying a few times. However, Lu Li had experienced rebirth, and didn’t need to waste time on things like this.
After 30 seconds, the Spider Guard started to howl.
“Get ready, it’s starting to charge up…”
Just as Lu Li spoke, a light grey charge bar appeared above the Guard’s head.
Azure Sea Breeze held his breath, and as soon as the charge bar was two thirds full, he smashed into the Guard’s head with his shield.
The Guard was stunned, and its charge up was cancelled.
Things went smoothly from there. The Guard soon ran out of HP, and fell to the ground.
It was a pity that it didn’t drop any equipment, only a Mana Potion.
That was to be expected; the drop rate was quite low, and it was rare for even Elite monsters to drop equipment.
“This was even easier than trying to clear the Normal Instance Dungeon yesterday,” Northern Tang Dream’s eyes flashed with excitement, “Lu Li, how about you join our Union, and join the main group?”
The main group only had 100 people, and to a large Union with thousands of people, they were the elite of the elite. This was an excellent offer.
However, Lu Li shook his head and replied, “I’ll think about it.” He had joined the Star Moon Union for the game helmet. As soon as he had enough money to buy the game helmet, he would immediately leave them, but he didn’t plan on joining the Grand Hegemony either.
Comparatively speaking, the Grand Hegemony would offer him better treatment than the Star Moon Union, but it was less than ideal. After all, the thousands of people there all had their own agendas and goals.
Seeing that Lu Li had rejected her offer, the beauty didn’t seem offended, and continued to walk. However, Lu Li called out to stop her.
“Everyone, put your weapons into the brook.” Lu Li went around the bridge and put his Dagger into the brook.
What could be special about the water in a spider’s lair? The black water looked incredibly dirty, and had a striking smell to it. The two girls’ faces both became pale.
“After soaking your equipment in there for 30 seconds, you’ll gain a Buff which increases damage to Spider-type monsters by 20%...”
Hearing this, everyone charged over.
“This doesn’t work for Druids and Warlocks; only melee professions benefit from this…”
Drinking Alone and Northern Tang Kitty looked depressed.
This was why Lu Li said having a melee team wasn’t so bad. In Lu Li’s ‘past life’, everyone knew about the effects of the water here. People who were farming Spider-type monsters would come to the Instance Dungeon just to get this Buff, even though it only lasted for an hour.
After passing by the bridge, more and more monsters appeared. Sometimes, a wave would have two Spider Lair Guards, but with the Buff, the speed at which they advanced did not fall at all.
One of the elite monsters dropped a Bronze grade Bracer, which gave 3 Armour and 1 Strength. Northern Tang Dream graciously gave it to her fellow Warrior Azure Sea Breeze. After all, the stronger the Defence of the main tank, the easier the Druid’s job would be in healing him.
The Spider Lair had 2 Bosses. One of them was a big spider called the Fallen Spider Chief. The other was a man-faced spider called Mandelin.
The team stood in front of the Spider Chief. Team leader Lu Li was LV3, Azure Sea Breeze was LV5, and everyone else was LV4.
The Spider Chief was a LV5 Boss, and had 12,000HP.
“The Spider Chief isn’t very hard to beat. There are two stages that are important,” Due to his experience from his ‘past life’, Lu Li didn’t need to work out the Boss’ attack patterns bit by bit. He started to give out orders, “Every time it loses 20% of its HP, it will summon a wave of smaller monsters. We don’t have any Crowd Control, so don’t try to attack them. They’ll explode after 5 seconds, so just keep away from them. When its HP drops to 5%, it might go berserk. Our Druid needs to heal everyone as much as possible, and Azure Sea Breeze needs to prepare a lot of Potions to drink.”
“How did you know this? Oh, right, you have a lot of friends.” Northern Tang Dream was curious to the point of exploding, but she knew that Lu Li wouldn’t tell her. As such, she could only vent using some sarcasm.
“How much HP does the Boss in the Normal level Instance Dungeon have?” Azure Sea Breeze felt quite a bit of pressure. He had never heard of anyone killing the Spider Chief before. After all, only 5 people could enter this Instance Dungeon.
If the main tank’s equipment or skills weren’t up to scratch, or if the healer couldn’t heal enough, or if the attackers couldn’t deal enough damage, they were finished.
“The Normal Instance Dungeon’s Boss has about 10,000HP, and looks a bit smaller,” Drinking Alone bitterly smiled, “We only got the Boss down to 70% HP yesterday. I don’t think we’ll even be able to see this one go berserk.”
“Alright, let’s start. As long as you listen to my instructions, we’ll be fine.” Lu Li didn’t think that this Instance Dungeon would be difficult at all. If it wasn’t because of his equipment and lack of good Skills, he would even dare to solo this Instance Dungeon.
Azure Sea Breeze used Charge on the Boss, dealing 5 damage and a 1 second stun.
Even Lu Li was shocked by the damage taken by the Boss. He remembered that in his ‘past life’ when he had faced off against the Boss, the main tank’s equipment wasn’t much better than Azure Sea Breeze’s, but still dealt a lot more damage.
The truth was that in the beginning, the Spider Chief was very strong. It was only later that its Defence had been nerfed.
Although he was surprised, since they had started this, they would have to finish it.
Ambush, Shadowstrike…
The Boss’ Defence was higher than Lu Li had expected, but its Attack Power was about the same as what he had expected. Azure Sea Breeze wasn’t in much danger from this Boss.
Since Azure Sea Breeze could hold up as the tank, it all came down to the Druid’s healing and the attackers’ DPS.
Their Druid was quite experienced, but didn’t have any good healing skills yet, and didn’t have enough MP either. After healing 10 or so times, she was out.
This was when the Potions that Lu Li had ‘earned’ with everyone came into play.
Just as Azure Sea Breeze liked to say, “A Potion in the hand means no fear in the heart.”
System: Shadowstrike Skill Completion 80%, caused 89% Skill damage, stunned for 1 second.
Boom!
-14!
The Big Spider shrieked twice, and raised its back…
“Don’t worry about the boss anymore. Other than Sea Breeze, everyone gather next to me. After 4 seconds, Sea Breeze should use Charge on me” Lu Li calmly walked away from the boss, reminding everyone else of what to do. They quickly followed Lu Li away.
At this time, a large number of small spiders spawned out of the spiders back. They were the size of a fist and were all rushing towards everyone.
“…3, 4…” When Azure Sea Breeze counted 3 he had already started turning his body, and by the count of 4 he had already cast Charge.
The small spiders were rushing towards them like flowing water. The others turned pale with fear.
Drinking Alone’s party had mostly died because of these small spiders. Each small spider could deal significant damage to a player, and when multiple of them exploded, this could instantly kill them.
However, dealing with them was easy; you just needed to move around and stay out of range of them.
Lu Li led the small spiders around the boss. After a few seconds, the small spiders started to explode one by one. On the other side, Azure Sea Breeze had already started to lead the others to start hitting the boss again.
After experiencing that once, it was dealt with much more calmly when the Boss did that again.
In the second stage, when the Boss dropped to 5% HP, it went berserk as expected.
Northern Tang Kitty worked hard to keep healing in addition to the potions that Azure Sea Breeze had in hand. In the end, the Boss’ berserk mode wasn’t enough, and after a final cry it lay dead on the ground.
Lu Li was already about to level up. His whole body lit up as the exp bar completely filled, raising him to level 4.
“Can I loot the corpse?” He took a deep breath, really curious to know what items the Boss would drop.
“Stop!” said Azure Sea Breeze and Northern Tang Kitty with one voice. Drinking Alone and Northern Tang Dream didn’t say anything but looked worried nonetheless.
“What is it?”
“Are you sure you want to loot it” Northern Tang Kitty quickly said: “All this time, your roll points have never exceeded 20.”
Up till this point, there not many bronze equips had dropped. There had only been 3, but there were many commons and materials. While there were several rolls that had happened, with Lu Li undoubtedly performing the best, his rolls were 6, 13 and 2 successively. He hadn’t received a single piece of equipment.
“Just because I’ve rolled low numbers doesn’t mean I can’t loot the body. Generally when I loot corpses I find good things” Lu Li had a dark expression and tried to defend himself.
Many years ago, there was someone called Lei Feng. He took pleasure in serving others, putting other people before himself.
And Lu Li clearly was someone who was hurt for the benefit of others.
When he looted he always found good things, but could never win in rolls.
The others were doubtful, but they didn’t want to put their team leader to shame.
Everyone just thought it would be fine to let him be unlucky this one time.
After a long gaze, Lu Li slowly squatted and reached over to the Boss with both hands.
“Silver Light Crossbow (Steel): Damage 12-20, Agility +3, Attack Speed +1, Level Requirement LV4, Durability 16/25”
A Steel weapon, probably the first in the game, too bad… it was a crossbow.
Although a crossbow could be used by melee classes, only in the hands of a hunter could its true potential be unleashed. Other people could only use it as bait.
“How come it’s not a Magic Staff, how unlucky” Northern Tang Kitty couldn’t hold in her disappointment.
“Please, you already have a bronze weapon. I’m still using a common and you’re sad it’s not a Magic Staff” Northern Tang Dream had a nasty expression on her face.
“Shadow Cloak (Bronze): 2 Armour, Intelligence +1, Level Requirement LV3, Durability 14/18. And one potion, that’s it.”
Druid Northern Tang Kitty and Warlock Drinking Alone’s eyes immediately lit up. Although the cloak was just general equipment, cloak drop rates were extremely low. They hadn’t even seen a common cloak before.
“Did the Jade Spider Web you want not drop?” Northern Tang Dream was somewhat disappointed, but she was also curious as to what exactly the material Lu Li wanted was.
“Drop rate is low” Lu Li was not disheartened, “Silver light crossbow, 3 occupation specific items to roll for, I’ll just go for it.”
23 points.
“Pfftt” Northern Tang Dream laughed, and casually rolled an 87.
“It should be mine, just so you guys know. Sea Breeze big brother is not only handsome, I also roll with power” Azure Sea Breeze said complacently.
99 points.
Oh my, so he does, everyone stared at him viciously, wondering if his luck came from the heavens.
Azure Sea Breeze was also surprised, laughing: “Split it amongst yourselves, 3 points of agility is more useful to you guys, count it as a payment of your compassion.”
In Dawn, any occupation could equip a ranged weapon. Physical professions equipped crossbows, Magic professions equipped magic wands and other special profession had their own ranged equips – like the Shaman’s totem, and the Paladin’s Holy Covenant…
Lu Li then bluntly equipped it on himself, his recent level up allowing him to do so.
“Have you guys already exchanged rings…?” Northern Tang Kitty said peculiarly: “I didn’t think you guys had that kind of relationship…”
Rotten girl…
Then, Drinking Alone successfully rolled the Cloak. Northern Tang Kitty was fuming, resolving to practice rolling when she got back.
They continued onwards, and with the increase in level and additional equips, it wasn’t long before they faced the final boss – Mandelin.
Mandelin was a massive spider with a human face with 8 Guards protecting it.
“The difficulty of this Boss lies in the guards.” Lu Li recalled his previous experience and said: “The damage of these guards is not less than the Boss itself, we have no choice but to wipe them all out.”
Azure Sea Breeze laughed: “That also means we can only take them on one at a time?”
“You’re smart” Lu Li didn’t wait for him to be satisfied but continued: “But the aggro on these Guards is very sensitive, if we aggro one, we will have to face all 8. If we try to bait it like normal, well, there isn’t a way to only get 1”
“Since you know this, surely you know the solution as well?” Drinking Alone had full confidence in Lu Li.
The 8 Elites were circling together, if there wasn’t a shortcut past them then they currently had no solution to this difficult problem.
“I’ll go pull them, you guys stay back until we reach around the corner. There it won’t draw agro” Lu Li changed his weapon, taking out the recently equipped Steel crossbow.
The crossbow arrow drop rate was high; everyone’s backpack usually contained over 100 of these. They were used mostly as a distraction or as a baiting tool.
Everyone else fell back, poking their heads out from round the corner. They were all curious as to what Lu Li was going to do.
Lu Li simply shot an arrow at one of the Guards.
The boss didn’t move, but the 8 Guards immediately called out and started rushing towards him.
Lu Li turned to run, rushing till he turned the corner before stopping. The 8 Guards then lost aggro and turned back to leave.
Lu Li then walked a few steps forwards, and shot an arrow at the last Guard. The 8 turned their heads to pursue him once more.
This happened over and over, going back and forth.
“No way, brother, what are you doing, do you plan to kill the Guards with exhaustion?” Azure Sea Breeze asked unbearably as he couldn’t see any positive effects.
Lu Li ignored him, and continued what he was doing.
Finally, as everyone was getting impatient, Lu Li shot an arrow and this time only that Guard turned its head. The others all returned to the Boss.
“What are you guys staring at, go attack!”
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