Chapter 126: Trying Out

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

At The Floating Temple.

Mixed Breathless and Dejected Night were reading the information about the dungeon while waiting for Lin Jie. This was a good reflection of their conscientious personalities.

Meanwhile, Lin Jie turned up with the few weirdos, a bitter-gourd-like expression pasted on his face. Star Kill was asking along the way why Bella did not come with them, and Lost Camel and Unexpected Childes were quarreling all the way as they wanted to find out who had better healing abilities.

The only thing worth mentioning was that Unexpected Childe also joined Lin Jie’s team.

He had a very simple motive for doing so—to beat Lost Camel and show that he was stronger!

Naturally, Lin Jie had not planned for only five people to join his team. As The New Age progressed, he would expand his team accordingly.

“Oh, they are here!” Dejected Night caught sight of Lin Jie, patted Mixed Breathless’s shoulders and smiled. “Fu Sheng’s team seems very… umm…”

His entire team comprised only of two Hunters and a Bandit? Yet the dungeon they were going to challenge now—the Floating Temple—was a Level 15 dungeon which would require a 10-person team! Surely another Priest would be coming, right?

Mixed Breathless nodded, but did not comment much about this.

Dejected Night observed these people carefully. Though they were rather low in their levels, their equipment seemed okay. These players seemed like they could barely reach the requirements to go inside the dungeon, but he was curious about their gaming skills.

“Bro, are you sure we are going for the expert-level dungeon?” asked Dejected Night weakly.

Lin Jie nodded.

“Any Healing jobs on the team?” Dejected Night continued asking.

Lin Jie pointed to Unexpected Childe, sighed and rolled his eyes. “He’s the Healing job.”

Unexpected Childe looked proud, took out a large roll of bandages and distributed it to everyone. “Here, everyone is welcome to get more!”

[Primary Bandage]: Restores 125 health points in 5 seconds.

Bandages were relatively good life skills for Bandits and Warriors, as they could replenish a certain amount of health points for them when they were in combat. However, to consider this as a form of ‘healing’…

Lost Camel snorted. “Such garbage items can restore HP?”

Star Kill frowned. “I don’t want to go inside the dungeon with such stuff and die if Bella’s not coming.”

“I hadn’t planned for any Healing jobs originally,” Lin Jie ignored the bandages distributed by Unexpected Childe and continued, “Six players can still manage a 10-person dungeon, it’s not that challenging. Let’s go.”

“…” Everyone was rendered speechless. Wth! It was indeed not that difficult for six people to challenge a 10-person dungeon, but that was referring to the Normal-level dungeon!

Yet, the system prompts of entering the expert-level Floating Temple dungeon had already been activated—’You have entered the expert-level dungeon Floating Temple. Good luck to you.’

Since things turned out like this, all of them had no choice but to enter it.

According to the myths, a Legendary grade weapon was enshrined at the Floating Temple. Its powerful force made the whole temple float up into the air. The power of that weapon also enslaved many creatures and turned them into the guardians for the Floating Temple.

There was only one Boss in the Floating Temple, but the expert-level dungeon would refresh a hidden Boss—this was Lin Jie’s goal: the Blade of Destruction!

“This dungeon will test whether you are eligible to join my team. As for what my real team will be like, you shall know when we clear the dungeon,” said Lin Jie in a serious tone.

This was an expert-level dungeon! All of them who were previously still joking around turned serious immediately. Just like in a sports competition, the attitude of the participants would be the deciding factor of whether they could win the race!

“The Floating Temple has three levels. The monsters guarding the first level are Lizard-like creatures, and there are two types of it,” explained Lin Jie. “Have you all prepared what I asked you to before we enter the dungeon? I shall tell you more about the monsters now. The first type of the Lizard creatures would be the Lizard Warrior. Their weapons are Axes or Long Spears, and the former will have an additional 30% chance of Critical Hit, while the latter has a 30% Armor Penetration effect. The second type of monsters are the Young Lizards. There are a huge number of them around, and each of them had around 1,000 HP on the average. 40% of them would have the Life-Steal skill.”

Dejected Night frowned. “We can still block off the Lizard Warriors’ attacks with Mixed Breathless around. In the Normal-level dungeon, even though the Young Lizards’ health bars are around 70 points, many MTs are still bitten and tortured by them. But now as we are facing the Expert-level dungeon, each of the Young Lizard has around 1,000 HP, how should we…”

Lin Jie glanced at Unexpected Childe and smiled. “Simple. Childe can take all the Young Lizards for a walk. Can you do that?”

Everyone was shocked.

This was in a dungeon! Unlike in the wild, there would be a large area with many dead ends for positioning. At the very least, a player could still mislead the aggro of the monsters and escape if he really was driven into a corner. However, the aggro range of monsters within a dungeon was endless, and one must always pay attention to his positioning. Otherwise, he would find himself being overcrowded by the monsters!

“Yes.” Unexpected Childe put on a confident smile. Kite-Flying was his best skill!

“As there are no Healing jobs around, we will be putting a great emphasis on the controlling skills,” Lin Jie continued, “A single wave of monsters has about three Lizard Warriors and 25 Young Lizards. Those three Lizard Warriors have very high output. I shall block off one of them, while Mixed Breathless will be in charge of blocking off the remaining two. Star Kill, your job will be to control one of them so that it cannot deal out attacks.”

Star Kill played around with his dagger, smiled and said, “I can do this!”

“Camel, what’s your pet?”

“It’s a Jackal,” Lost Camel suddenly released a gigantic-sized Wolf—it was lame at one leg! He introduced proudly, “Meet this Rare Elite! Its attacks had 3% Armor Penetration effect which can be superimposed to a maximum of five times. Don’t be envious of me!”

Lin Jie nodded, though he secretly thought Lost Camel’s choice of pets was indeed “unique”!

“Then, let’s go!”

At the first level of the Floating Temple.

The building which did not abide by the laws of gravity was floating freely in the air. Lizard Warriors, which held on to Long Spears or Giant Axes, wandered around aimlessly.

[Lizard Warrior]

Level 15

Health Points: 9,600

Attack: 184-300

Defense: 105

Additional effect: Lizard’s Poison. Each attack will result in you losing the number of health points 3% of the value of your health bar’s maximum cap.

[Young Lizard]

Level 15

Health Points: 1,000

Attack: 70-100

Defense: 0

Additional effect: Have a 1% chance of ignoring your Defense.

Three Lizard Warriors and 25 Young Lizard formed a team. At first glance, they crowded the area and seemed unbeatable.

The surface of Mixed Breathless’ shield emitted golden light. He activated Shield Guard and Forward Charge!

The shield slammed onto the face of a Lizard Warrior accurately. Mixed Breathless tripped the second monster with his left foot, and activated Taunt to lure the third to him. Right after that, he backed off into a defensive posture, while the saber he held in his hand slit the neck of the Lizard Warrior accurately. Aggro of the monsters surged!

“It’s my turn now,” Unexpected Childe laughed merrily. His arrows were covered with some unknown substances, making them green like a camouflage uniform. A strange scent spread out in the air.

Whoosh!

The arrows shot into the group of Young Lizards, and all of them rushed towards Unexpected Childe as if they were heifers in their estrus periods!

This was the egg extract of a female Lizard, and it could attract the Young Lizards effectively.

Unexpected Childe ran off and continued shooting his arrows at the Young Lizards, taking them for a run.

The Lizard Warriors screamed and slashed at Mixed Breathless, and their Giant Axes smashed out almost half of the light emitted from the surface of his heavy shield! The Long Spears pierced into his shoulder and dealt out a near 100 point Damage!

“Continuous Spur!” The Lizard Warrior raised its Long Spear, and thrust out three times in a row!

‘Ding~’

‘Ding~’

‘Ding~’

The Long Spear did not come in contact with Mixed Breathless’ body, but it hit Broken Blade which suddenly appeared in front. Lin Jie was in front of Mixed Breathless in a jiffy, helping him resist the attack. He activated Army Obliteration, shot out several gusts of Blade Aura and thrust the sword into the Lizard Warrior’s blood-red mouth, dealing more than 200 points of damage! The Dark Slaughter Longsword pierced into its head instantly robbing the aggro.

Mixed Breathless nodded slightly, and with one step at a time, he smashed his shield onto the Lizard Warrior standing in front of him until it couldn’t hold on anymore and started to retreat backward! The unique Immune effect of Shield Specialist was superimposed up to four layers! The monsters’ attacks now could only cause around 80 damage points to him.

The Lizard Warrior which held the axe raised his weapon high up in the air, but his head burst out bleeding suddenly, and he entered a dizzy state! Star Kill’s figure was seen around it, and he activated Ambush, Cold Blood, and Pierce Bone skills all at once, instantly ripping almost 1,000 health points off the Lizard Warrior! His dagger turned at his fingertips, and it stabbed through his meridians!

“Zeh zeh, Gold equipment really does make a great difference.”

The Lizard Warrior which held the axe wriggled his body around in a frenzied manner due to the pain, but Star Kill was like a bone-stricken scorpion which attacked him furiously. Until the dagger was forced to leave his hands, Star Kill had reached the combo of 21 consecutive strikes! Damage figures stacked up, and the monster’s health bar was decreased visibly!

As he looked on, Dejected Night became more and more shocked!

Within the team, Unexpected Childe and Lost Camel were arguing with each other while they led the dozens of monsters behind them. In front of them, there was a Bandit who could deal out dozens of attacks within a Combo, and a Berserker who could block off hundreds of enemies…. This was a dream team that everyone would like to own! It was extremely exhilarating to be part of such a team! Dejected Night felt full of enthusiasm now!

“Camel, lure the second batch of monsters over.”

Lin Jie activated Flame Boost, and with a mighty sweep of his sword, damage figures of 300 to 400 points jumped out. Indeed, it was deserving of him to be crowned as the ‘King of Output’ within this team!

Lost Camel immediately manipulated his jackal to attract the attention of the second wave of Young Lizards. His timing was perfect—everyone just killed the first batch of Lizard Warriors, and the second batch of Lizard Warriors was coming!

Following which, he threw a Misdirection spell onto Unexpected Childe, smiled and said, “No need to thank me!”

There was another group of Young Lizards following Childe around.

Mixed Breathless had a 70% chance of blocking off the attacks effectively, and his health bar decreased slowly. In addition, due to the superimposed Immune and Armor effects throughout the battle, even if there were no Priests around, he could stabilize his health bar just with the health potions and bandages.

After the first round of cooperation, everyone became more used to one another’s style, and the entire attack process flowed on smoothly.

Blood Soul Multi-Slash!

-1,455!

-1,395!

When the head of the last Lizard Warrior dropped down to the ground, the first level of the Floating Temple was finally cleared!

“That’s all?” Star Kill swiveled his dagger in his hands, rotating it like a windmill. “I haven’t even warmed up.”

Lin Jie smiled and picked up all the spoils. There was a total of 12 silver coins and 49 bronze coins. It was so much worse when compared to killing Dark Iron Dwarves. Lizard Warriors would only spawn two kinds of equipment, one would be the Floating Axe, while the other, the Floating Spear. Without exception, they were all Gold grade equipment.

This entire level of Lizard Warriors only spawned a single Floating Spear.

[Floating Spear] (Gold)

Can be used by Paladins.

Requires: Level 15

Attack: 65-130

Strength: +20

Armor Penetration: +10

Additional effect: Your Spur skill will have a 20% Armor Penetration effect.

Additional: Your attack has a 10% chance to make your target float in the air for 0.5 sec.

Weight: 4 pounds

Spear type weapons had a larger gap between the upper and lower limits of their attacks because this was entirely dependent on a player’s attacking style and the type of skill they chose to use. Only Spurring skills could produce maximum damage when one used a spear. If one used the Slashing type of skills, the damage output would drop by as much as 40%.

Correspondingly, the attack speed of a Spear was much slower than other weapons.

As such, Eighteen Massacres was revered for his use of the Seven Style Spear! Using the spear, he could still deal out powerful attacks and change attacking styles according to his wishes to make up for the disadvantages in those complex moves.

In addition, 50 medium-quality lizard skins were also spawned. These could be made into Level 10 to Level 15 Silver leather armors.

“Let’s pack up, and prepare to go to the second level,” Lin Jie smiled and said.

Star Kill, Lost Camel, Mixed Breathless and Dejected Night looked at one another. Mixed Breathless looked like he wanted to speak, but he just nodded his head slightly along with everyone else.

Lin Jie felt as if he missed out something, but he brushed it aside and commented, “Let’s go!”

Other than Unexpected Childe who was still running around with more than 300 Young Lizards on the first level of the Floating Temple, everything seemed alright.