Chapter 148: Unstable Inferior Engineering Grenade

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“One two one…”

“One two one…”

“Let your body memorize your movements now! Water, Mixed Breathless remember to maintain your posture of gripping the shield! You’re both too bulky and will easily block the others’ route.”

After nearly one and half an hour of “sprinting in circles on the same spot” exercise, everyone’s body had already accepted the running methods. What’s next were some detailed adjustments, and then they could officially go for it.

The Explosion Region was different from the other area. If a player accidentally died within it, they would not be able to revive through means like retrieving their bodies—once they stood up, the Elves beside the player would explode. That would make one return to the cemetery and run to the body again, it was an infinite loop.

Just like how the astronauts needed to go through huge amounts of practice in virtual space capsules before entering the rocket, currently, what Savage Blade’s team was doing was just like that.

“A piece of bad news.” Netherblue took a look at the forum and said, “An organization named “Steel Alliance” was formed and it’s led by Triumphant Midnight. Their progress in clearing the second Boss is at 90%. They are most likely going to clear it soon, their members are still unknown.”

“Also, Dark-Robed Knights have successfully killed the second Boss.”

Lin Jie frowned. ‘How did Dark-robed Knights suddenly increased their pace so fast?’

Just as Netherblue finished her sentence, the system prompt message was sent. Steel Alliance had successfully killed Gnar and had started clearing the Explosion Region. The methods they chose was no different from Netherblue’s choice: luring and then killing the monsters one by one. Although the process was very slow, it was steady, step by step.

Lin Jie smiled and said, “Don’t worry, they will need to spend at least 20 hours if they want to kill the Elves one by one and leave the Boss for last.”

“I’m afraid we don’t have that much time,” said Netherblue seriously, playing a portion of the video in the air.

That was the record of Dark-Robed Knights clearing the Explosion Region. Besides Eighteen Massacres and Demon Robe these two melees, the other players were all wearing long robes. Eighteen Massacres’ body was enveloped in a strange dark fog. He charged into the pile of Elves, luring over 30 Elves in one go. The many players wearing robes immediately attacked and killed the Elves.

The violent explosion blew Eighteen Massacres that was right in the center of the explosion away, but he received no damage at all!

On the other hand, various damage values popped up from the others’ head, and their Health Points instantly dropped dangerously low!

Lin Jie’s pupils constricted, that was the unique skill that made Eighteen Massacres famous in Lin Jie’s previous life—Immortal Body!

Battle Emperor Fu Sheng, Lin Jie’s strength was recognized as “Emperor” level. Although that was a publicity stunt by busybodies, it still became a symbol that differentiated one’s ability.

Meanwhile, Eighteen Massacres’ title was: Undead Knight!

The reason Lin Jie could be stronger than him, much of it was attributed to Lin Jie’s Broken Blade. However, Eighteen Massacres’ skill that made him famous had already appeared—as long as he had teammates present, he could transfer the damage he received to his teammates.

A few years after The New Age was released, he had even gotten a spatial device that could transfer his teammates within it. Thus, his life-saving ability became even more formidable.

In the video, Eighteen Massacres made use of that bug-like damage transfer and made the explosion to be as concentrated as possible on him. With 14 people to share the damage, it was equal to Eighteen Massacres’ defensive attributes increased by 14 times. Hence, being able to tank the next wave of explosion was also reasonable.

Lin Jie became very nervous, as he immediately felt heavy pressure on him.

After the expansion pack was released, Lin Jie found a place on the map that was extremely similar to the Torn Treasure Map, it was very possible that another blade was hidden there. Also, that place seemed to be hidden, at least according to his memory in his previous life, Lin Jie was unable to reach that place.

Then, there must be a certain item that could help him get there, and that item was inside the Belief Church!

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“Get him!”

Lin Jie had already carried his dual swords on his back earlier on, and his Shield of Courage transformed into a heavy shield that was two meters tall. He then rushed out as though he was a fortress.

Great Elves’ original name was “Upper Rank Elf”, they were different from the Small Elves that looked like balls of light. Great Elves had a human figure and the energy stored within them was even scarier than high explosives.

Sizzle—

The edge of the shield had slid the forehead of the Great Elf, and the Elf waved its hand, the vigorous energy stored in its hands exploded as it chased Lin Jie.

At the same time, Mixed Breathless and Water had simultaneously finished their luring actions, the three of them revealed a triangle shape, moving all the Great Elves away!

In the sky, there were spiraling arrows that had hit each other. At the moment where they rubbed against each other, the gunpowder hidden within the tip of the arrowhead exploded, dispersing into bits and pieces of sparks, falling to the ground. With a loud roar, the ground began to burn, and a huge number of Elves was once again lured away. They started chasing Unexpected Childe and Lost Camel.

“Dark Speech Fog!” A layer of fog, about four yards in diameter, appeared near the surroundings of Qiu Yuan – that was the protective skill of the Shadow Priest, it could cause the line of sight of a unit near one to be temporarily reduced and enter poisoned status. Who expected she’d use it as an attacking-type skill, spreading it wherever she went? Currently, a huge group of Small Elves was following behind her.

Looking at the light in front of them being split into various areas, everyone became more nervous.

The whole process needed precise positioning and coordination, using the gaps between the concentrated spaces to move forward bit by bit, until they lured all the Elves to the inner part of the Explosion Region, right in front of the Boss.

Dejected Night and Bu Yi stood in the distance. As an Ice Mage, Dejected Night’s control abilities were fairly remarkable. At the crucial moment, he could use “Blink” together with “Frost Nova” combo to save his teammates from danger.

The crowded Elves were like the falling tide, moving backward.

“Bu Yi, keep up,” shouted Dejected Night, keeping tens of yards distance while following the main battlefield and moving forward.

“Breathless, handover!” shouted Lin Jie.

The hardest part of the plan was the handover of the monster aggro. No matter how high one’s kite-flying means were, facing Upper Rank Elves that had intelligence comparable to wild beasts, they would still be backed into a corner.

In that regard, the direction Lin Jie planned was five ring shapes, each ring had two intersection points. One just had to hand over the Elves aggro value at the intersection point, and then they could reset the gap between the spaces.

As Lin Jie was about to pass by, Mixed Breathless’ face reddened, and an angry beast-like roar came from his throat. He had used Taunt to attract the Great Elves’ aggro towards him.

Meanwhile, Lin Jie had already run to another coordinate – a Blade Aura was slashed straight through and took over the monsters behind Water. Then, he changed direction and continued running.

Following that, Water reached another intersection point and took over the monsters in Wine God Elder’s hands… Everything was in perfect order, and yet again, another gap appeared in the crowded Explosion Region.

“Good! Continue!” Lin Jie was elated.

The team continued to handover the monsters non-stop and gradually moved forward. However, as they entered deeper within the map, the number of spawned Elves steadily increased. The handover that was originally once per three minutes shortened to every 20 seconds. The high frequency of handing over the monsters caused the aggro value to be quite hard to control.

Mixed Breathless and Water were Shield Specialists, so they naturally had aggro value skills. Meanwhile, Lin Jie’s damage output was extremely high, wanting to attract aggro value was very simple.

However, the others were in trouble.

Taking Star Kill for example, as a Bandit, he had only one Area-Of-Effect skill, Fan of Knives. It was a fan-shaped attack that dealt 30% damage to the target, and its aggro value was considerably low. Handing over every time needed the other person to be very cooperative and reduce his or her aggro. Star Kill even had to transfer part of the aggro again through Bu Yi’s Power Word Shield, so that he could carry on the handover.

Presently, it was probably very hard for him to pull all the aggro value of the large numbers of monsters in one go!

“Star Kill, handover!” The handover partner this time was Qiu Yuan, she withdrew her Dark Speech Fog and decreased her aggro.

Star Kill said bitterly, “Your aggro value is too high, I’m afraid I can’t pull them over.”

“Huh?” Qiu Yuan was shocked. One had to know that the handover time was only about half a second. If they failed to handover, then the next few handovers would also fail, leading to the wipeout of the whole team!

If they wanted to use that method to get through the Explosion Region, nobody could make a mistake! It was no longer a time when a single person’s technique could save everything!

Dejected Night noticed that point and grabbed onto his staff tightly. If it was needed, then he would sacrifice himself! He would freeze the monsters and temporarily cut off the monster chain, allowing everyone to escape.

Zheng Ziliang looked from a distance and realized that they had a problem. He gritted his teeth and threw an item, shouting, “Star Kill, use this!”

Star Kill stretched out his hand to catch the item. It was a round black grenade!

[Unstable Inferior Engineering Grenade]: Made by Innocent Killer, 20% rate of a successful release. Deals 300 points of damage to targets within a 5×5 yards radius. Deals 300% damage to mechanic-type creatures and simple-structured life forms.

That was the byproduct produced by Innocent Killer when he was trying to rapidly increase his proficiency for Engineering. From the blueprint to its creation, he had accomplished everything on his own. That grenade was best used for leveling up as it was hard to obtain its material, Black Fine Gunpowder. It only had a limited 50 sets of respawning in the Engineering shop daily. In addition, its success rate was just way too low, so it was unable to be mass produced.

To attract aggro, one had to deal a huge amount of damage in a short period of time! Star Kill took a look at the grenade in his hand, made up his mind, pulled the pin, and then he fell to the ground.

Dong—

The crisp collision sound was extremely ear-piercing, the grenade did not explode!

Dejected Night was very nervous. He started to rush towards the monsters, ready to activate Frost Nova and Blink.

Just at that moment, the grenade suddenly let out a deafeningly loud sound, and what immediately followed was a shocking explosion! The blast came tumbling and blew Star Kill’s body away too!

-900!

-900!

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A big wave of damage values popped up. At the same time, Star Kill gulped down a bottle of Health Potion. There was blood at the corner of his mouth, but he could not help but curve his mouth into a smile.

Handover, successful!

Baili Changcheng who was paying attention to them silently in the distance heaved a sigh of relief, the light that filled his fingertips gradually dispersed.

“Prepare to get rid of the monsters!” Lin Jie’s eyes darkened.

Entering deep into the central region, the huge thick Light Tree Boss stood there, towering down on them. An elderly face was carved on the tree bark, the tree branch made of light turned into hands and gave out an ear-piercing rubbing sound.

[Light Ancient Tree]: Level 15 Enhanced Overlord, Health Points: 2,500,000

The health bar of the Ancient Tree while undergoing Hero-level reached 2,500,000!

Meanwhile, below the health bar of the Light Ancient Tree was an iconic mark.

[Level 16 Light Hardened Skin]: The damage from a single attack cannot be above 100 points.

Even if they finished clearing the Small Elves, facing the defenseless Light Ancient Tree, normal teams would also need to spend up to several hours before they could kill it!

However, now…

“Explode!” shouted Lin Jie as he pointed his sword at the tree.