Chapter 253: First ClearTranslator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The Main Plot dungeon tested the whole team, not just a single player! The Epidemic Pond was all the more so as it not only tested the team’s battle strength but also the strength of those behind it, such as Potioneers, Enchant Masters, etc.

The last phase was the stage where almost all the Battling job players would be tortured so badly that it would make them beg and scream “no more, no more”!

Not to mention Berserkers, even if it were expert Shield Specialists like Mixed Breathless, they would not be able to endure one hit from the Boss. Lei Zhika, after it was enhanced, its attacks would deal over 2,000 points and ignore one’s armor. The attacks also had splash damage, so it was literally a humanoid meat grinder!

Not only so, but the Boss’ defense also reached as high as 1,000 points. Unless it was jobs like Bandits that specialized in Armor Penetration and Armor Ignore, which could deal some damage, but what use was it? Each attack only dealt tens of points, the monster wouldn’t even bat an eye!

The job which could smoothly pass this stage was not a Battling job, but… the Potioneers! The New Age was only released for a little more than two months, so besides Potioneers, who would study the properties of the medicines seriously, which Battling job would have the time to do so?

Take Lin Jie for example, killing the Boss today then doing missions tomorrow and clearing dungeons the day after, not to mention killing people too. Setting aside time to completely memorize all the special effects of the potions was simply impossible!

Moreover, not understanding the special features of the potions and anyhow mixing them then… Lei Zhika might even grow to become a Sub-Legendary Boss!

Don’t think that was a good thing, Lei Zhika was originally only a Dark Gold Boss so even if it grew, its drop-rate would not increase or else if one came back to overpower it after one’s level was higher, then wouldn’t they be able to unlimitedly farm for Sub-Legendary equipment drop-rate?

The movements of the Gargoyle now were the correct postures to kill the Boss—Potion Mixing! Using the negative effects produced by mixing completely conflicting potions to deal large amounts of damage!

Actually, from the start, Lei Zhika had consciously or unconsciously shown his reliance on potions, including his battling methods or summoning monsters and so on.

This kind of combat technique of giving him a taste of his own medicine, wasn’t this the legendary martial arts top-rate lost knowledge?

What a pity that normally, when people fought to this stage, their eyes would turn red from anger and their rage took the better of them, so their brain was left with one word, “Fight.” How would they still retain the logic to think of their battle method? Not to mention, the variety between potions was just too many, one wrong move and the whole game could be lost!

Huff puff—

Huff puff—

The Mechanical Gargoyle danced madly in the air, using their flying advantage to glide down as if it was predating and mixed two bottles of potions together.

Explosion sounds blasted one’s eardrums, and waves of over 10,000 damage dealt popped up!

Lin Jie took a look at the progress of major guilds, and his face darkened!

Steel Allies: 95%

Kingdom of Glory: 96%

Three Alliances: 97%

Meanwhile, Savage Blade was only at 90%! Each team was crawling forward at the speed of the snail. Whenever the data increased by 1%, it pulled the strings of countless players’ hearts!

Lord of Vultures had wasted too much of Savage Blade’s time! Even if the output of the Mechanical Gargoyle was over the roof, it was still difficult to chase back the difference! Lin Jie stared at the Three Alliances’ data; it was their biggest enemy!

When the progress of the Three Alliances reached 98%, the Mechanical Gargoyle flew right into Lei Zhika’s stomach! The stinky, dirty, rotten stomach was filled with blood-red flesh! The colorful potion dyed the pieces of meat as though colored flags, some here, some there, shocking to one’s eye!

Currently, Lin Jie was controlling the Mechanical Gargoyle, so it entering Lei Zhika was almost equal to Lin Jie sticking his head into Lei Zhika’s stomach! The good thing was that the Mechanical Gargoyle did not have the system of the sense of taste nor a mouth, or else Lin Jie would most probably faint!

Lei Zhika’s mouth was open wide! The Gargoyle Lin Jie was controlling instantly opened the plug of quite the number of potions, then used its mouth to pull them together, and then a stinky smell started to spread!

Bang—

“Scram, damn Gargoyle!” shouted the Boss loudly while in pain as it punched its fist on the body of the Mechanical Gargoyle, and its health bar instantly dropped to the bottom! The Mechanical Gargoyle couldn’t hold much longer!

The Mechanical Gargoyle exploded with a boom, and the contract disappeared, returning into Zheng Ziliang’s body.

-40,000!

The good thing was the instant before the Gargoyle exploded, Lin Jie, finally, successfully mixed the potion, and it became effective.

The results of the attack were significant! The progress of the Savage Blade instantly jumped up to 98%! Meanwhile, the Three Alliances had increased to 99%!

“Jie! Good luck!”

“Hey! You didn’t turn on the team communication mode, right?” asked Qiu Yuan in a worried tone.

“Don’t turn on the team communication, don’t disturb him!” Baili Changcheng’s face was stern. “Oh no, my heart’s jumping too fast, I-I…”

Everyone looked at him with a panicky face, afraid that he would faint from a heart attack.

“I need to go and bet some money to calm down.”

“…” Everyone rolled their eyes at him.

After a while, Baili Changcheng heaved a sigh of relief, he smiled and said, “I bet 1,000,000, one for seven! The betting ratio now is not bad.”

Everyone: “…”

The members of Savage Blade were in the same live forum as the audiences in the whole nation, staring at the increase in the data!

At the Epidemic Pond!

Lin Jie stared at the Boss without blinking, its health bar was only left with 20,000 points! If he could succeed one more time! Just once more! He only needed to jump into the disgusting stomach of the Boss, mix the potion, and that’s it!

It’s simple to say, but the difficulty was definitely not lower than “eating a smelly zombie raw”! Even if it was in the game, it also tested much on one’s mental capacity. Those who learned how to swim before, all knew how difficult it was to open one’s eyes in the water for the first time. However, Lin Jie’s not in the water, but he had to be in the Boss’ disgusting body and gastric juice!

“F*ck it, I’m going all out!” Lin Jie roared explosively!

Hunter’s Forward Charge! Wild Charge! Enrage! Death Rage!

The Blood Vigor on Lin Jie became more and more abundant, dyeing him as if he was the God of War! His iron Behemoth-like body left extremely untidy footprints on the ground.

Bu Yi looked at Lin Jie’s actions as if she was in a daze and shouted in surprise, “He, it can’t be he’s planning to… Ah!”

Bu Yi, Netherblue, even Baili Changcheng, and the others widened their eyes in horror; their lips trembled slightly, and the word “unbelievable” was written all over their faces!

Mechanical Gargoyles were, in the end, not humans. Although their attacks to the Boss were quite disgusting, they could forcibly accept it, but, but…

Lei Zhika’s swollen dead corpse stood on the ground, within its stomach revealed the top half of Lin Jie’s body, his legs kicked the air continuously, and gurgling sounds could be heard.

Lin Jie’s head was inside the Boss’ stomach! He tried his best to open his eyes, rotten flesh, worms, blood… were all mixed together, it was like a living hell! He could feel the disgusting viscous liquid surrounding his head and the worms even crawling onto the skin of his head, which sent shivers down his spine, it was extremely disgusting!

Bang—

Lin Jie held a bottle of potion in both hands, then used his mouth to open the plug and mixed them together before sucking them all into his mouth in one shot—the damage of two potions mixed would not be enough to instantly kill the Boss, so he needed another two more bottles! Therefore, he needed to store the potions like that!

He forcefully endured the uncomfortable feeling in his mouth then grabbed a bottle of Death Potion and Restless Potion, mixing them together.

The Boss could feel the discomfort inside him, tears dripped down like raindrops from his hideous face, and it raised its fist high before smashing it towards Lin Jie!

The adaptability of humans was very frightening. Lin Jie’s body no longer trembled, and he had completely overcome the fear in his heart. He mixed the two potions, then sucked them into his mouth in one go! The four types of conflicting potions jumped vigorously in his mouth as if he had eaten popping candy!

When Lei Zhika’s punch landed, Lin Jie’s body had already… exploded in advance!

Boom—

-20,486!

As Lin Jie’s body exploded, his few Heritage equipment also flew out in a swoosh! At the same time, the Boss Lei Zhika’s body also exploded into pieces with broken arms and gore scattered all over, it was an extremely bloody scene!

“Ah!!!!”

“The first clear! We’ve gotten it! Gotten it!”

“Hahahaha, Jie, good job! Good job!”

“F*ck, I’ve made a fortune! Today I’ll treat, I’ll treat, so everyone come and have a drink!”

Everyone was crazy! Baili Changcheng waved his hand and already had his subordinates to reserve the entire restaurant to have a scrumptious feast. The three girls were so excited they started wailing, Baili Changcheng wiped off the tear at the corner of her eye. “He… He’s been through a lot.”

“Eh, why hasn’t the system announcement been released yet?”

After that question, everyone immediately became silent.

Immediately after, the system announcement appeared.

—’System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Eighteen Massacres” on leading Kingdom of Glory and obtaining the first clear on Epidemic Pond! He is rewarded with 160,000 EXP points, 20 gold coins, 300 Guild of Light Reputation, 500 War of Light Light points, and a high-level job skill book!

—’System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Shallow Smile” for the first clear of Epidemic Pond! She is rewarded with 160,000 EXP points, 20 gold coins, 300 Guild of Light Reputation, 500 War of Light Light points, and Dark Gold Fragment [Toxic Staff]!’

—’System Announcement: Congratulations to player “Cigarette Butt” for the first clear of Epidemic Pond! She is rewarded with 160,000 EXP points, 20 gold coins, 300 Guild of Light Reputation, 500 War of Light Light points, and Dark Gold Fragment [Shadow Dual Sword]!’

…

The announcement was released for a total of 20 times! The whole of The New Age was filled with the messages of Kingdom of Glory snatching the first clear!

Lin Jie’s eyes were widened so much they almost cracked.

Impossible! Impossible! The time of Savage Blade’s first clear was already more than tens of hours earlier than in his previous life, so why was it like this?!

The whole forum was also shocked. The last battle, everyone originally had thought it had been the fight between the Three Alliances that had taken the lead from the beginning and Savage Blade, which had caught up afterward. Even An Xiaoran had purposely increased the betting ratios, who would have expected that the results would be like this!?

“Ah, hahahaha! I’m f*cking lucky that I betted on Kingdom of Glory, I’m rich, I’m rich!”

“I betted on the Three Alliances, f*ck! Those sh*tty bast*rds!”

“So what? I bet everything on Savage Blade in the end, with that momentum they actually did not chase up to Kingdom of Glory, I’m bankrupt now!”

Some were elated, whereas some were depressed, once the results were out, the voices of the players resounded the air!

At the Epidemic Pond.

Lin Jie’s figure was the first to appear. Although he had suffered a heavy mental blow, the mindset of “first taking back his Heritage equipment” still pushed him to run back earlier and grasp the equipment in his hands.

Behind him, the bodies of his teammates appeared one after another.

They wanted to speak, but it was as if their throats were stuffed with something such that no one could actually speak.

“Big brother… It’s all my fault! If I hadn’t thrown my temper around at the beginning and learned my lesson earlier, then it would not be like this.”

“Jie, don’t be like this, you’re scaring me.”

“Team leader, I’m sorry, I should not have anyhow used the God’s Will Compass.”

“Fu Sheng, stand up! What attitude is this? Stand up and blame me! If it wasn’t that I had to be a close-combat Shadow Priest, we would’ve cleared it long ago.”

…

Looking at the people in front of him, Lin Jie was moved. He shook his head dispirited and said, “This time… It’s my mistake.”