Chapter 68 : New Use for World-Class Bosses
New Use for World-Class Bosses
The further they went, the more on edge the trio of slackers felt.
Players everywhere were fleeing in panic, with occasional screams piercing the air—ones that could only come from the truly hardcore gamers who had their pain simulation cranked up to a hundred percent.
What kind of event was this? The monsters' combat power was just absurd!
Players were being driven off in utter chaos, not even having the courage to fight back.
No wonder even Cecilia had to run back to lead the three of them in escape; in the face of such a monstrous army, even if all the players joined forces, they would still be crushed without a chance.
Chen Zixuan, however, did not find this particularly surprising. In fact, he felt it was only to be expected. After all, this was an annual event—if it was too easy and let the players get rewards just like that, that would have been truly abnormal.
At that moment, a terrifying roar suddenly came from several hundred meters ahead, and before long, a large group of players came running from that direction, their faces all filled with fear.
After all, this was the world's very first virtual reality game, and the immersion was just too convincing.
It was fun, yes, but also truly hardcore, feeling almost as if the cruel alternate world had been directly transplanted in.
Even knowing it was just a game, faced with terrifying, savage monsters, few could remain perfectly cool and rational.
"What on earth happened?"
At this point, there were still players who had been slacking off and were thoroughly confused. One of them grabbed a fleeing player to ask.
"There's a level 15 elite monster over there—a black bear four or five meters tall! It used just one skill and wiped out several teams at once!"
The slacker players went pale when they heard this—they didn't even dare fight ordinary goblins, never mind a monster on par with a world-class boss.
So, they hurriedly turned and joined the stampede.
While everyone else was fretting, Chen Zixuan actually felt a bit pleased. A level 15 black bear elite? Wasn't that just free experience?
Just then, another commotion erupted off to the right front in the distance. The silver-haired girl turned to look and saw, some two hundred meters away, a colossal Bramble Boar rampaging through the players. Many were being slaughtered.
"Bramble Boar?"
Chen Zixuan was taken aback. "Wait, this one is way too big."
Not long ago, back in the Nightshade Forest, he had killed a level 5 Bramble Boar, but this one was three or four times the size of that one. Its eyes were blood-red and its movements stiff, as if controlled by someone else.
His suspicions were once again confirmed—Chen Zixuan became even more certain that there was a mastermind behind the monster horde orchestrating the waves of monsters to hunt down the players participating in this event.
At that moment, Dawn's Light suddenly shouted a warning, "Cecilia, there's a monster coming up ahead!"
Chen Zixuan turned around and indeed saw that directly ahead of them, a two-meter-tall Minotaur was chasing down a lone player.
"Let's take it out!"
The silver-haired girl suddenly drew her dagger, saying coldly.
Chen Zixuan also wanted to know what these Minotaur monsters were capable of—did they pose any real threat?
"Alright, that Minotaur is dead meat!"
Hearing this, Yuewu immediately perked up.
She raised her staff and guided a Frost Arrow at it. The blue arrow cut through the air and struck the Minotaur's head, exploding into a shower of ice crystals.
-96!
Not only did she deal magic damage, the Minotaur was also inflicted with a 2-second slow, its hulking body suddenly slowed to a crawl.
Chen Zixuan didn't let such an opportunity slip. He picked up speed and left the three far behind him.
When he was still seven or eight meters away from the Minotaur, the silver-haired girl leaped up, used [Night Raid] in midair to instantaneously move two meters ahead of the Minotaur, stepped onto its knee, and drove her dagger into the top of its head.
With [Night Raid] at Lv.2, her next attack would deal double critical damage, plus the 20% vital strike crit rate from the Blood Moon Slayer's Dagger and 18 points of armor penetration—a bright red number immediately popped up from the Minotaur's head.
-549!
The Minotaur howled in pain, tossing its massive head and flinging the silver-haired girl away.
Under the worried gaze of the trio of slackers, Cecilia flipped in the air, adjusted her stance, and landed safely, with a red number appearing above her head.
-37!
Such high defense! Seeing this, Dawn's Light was taken aback.
Even now, wearing an epic-grade warrior set, he thought he didn't have defense this high.
And her armor wasn't even heavy—did assassins really have such high defense?
Chen Zixuan was also a bit surprised—the Minotaur's HP was quite something, it hadn't even been killed in one hit.
Not weak at all, huh?
Just then, the Minotaur shook off the slow debuff, blood still spraying from its head, and lowered its head to charge at the silver-haired girl.
Chen Zixuan was just about to use [Silverflash Pierce] to finish off the heavily wounded Minotaur, but Dawn's Light swept forward, hit it with [Smash], knocking it back, and dealt 98 damage while briefly stunning it.
Chen Zixuan seized the opportunity, went up to finish it off, and finally killed the level 10 Minotaur, granting the whole party +45 experience.
Having taken down a Minotaur, the group did not have time to celebrate—they pressed on, continuing to push forward against the flow.
The monsters' main force was still chasing other players, so this was their best chance to break through. With Cecilia as their sharp arrowhead, their four-person squad actually stood a real chance of penetrating enemy lines.
If they delayed much longer and the beast army regrouped, the difficulty would multiply.
After running for dozens more meters, Chen Zixuan started getting disoriented.
Humans weren't naturally good with direction, there was no map in this game, and the chaotic surroundings—all those fleeing players—left Chen Zixuan unsure which way to go.
If he accidentally drifted off course, they could end up running straight into the thickest part of the monster horde and, while he might have a chance to escape, Gu Yanxi and the others would be done for.
At that moment, Chen Zixuan suddenly remembered he had a little companion in his backpack with the [Scout] skill.
The Darkwing Demon Bat's base stats were abysmal, totally useless in battle, and its revival cost after death was too steep, so he had always subconsciously ignored it, leaving it in the pet inventory.
Now, though, was its time to shine.
Seeing Cecilia suddenly stop, Dawn's Light asked in surprise, "What's wrong? Something up?"
"No," the silver-haired girl shook her head and slowly raised her right hand, revealing a little black bat perched atop it.
"Let it scout the way for us first."