Chapter 16 : Chapter 16
Chapter 16: Arriving at the Final Area
Sun Xu happily learned the Healing Overload skill.
He had earned it honestly through his own labor.
He accepted it with a clear conscience.
As for Double Strike, Lin Yuan naturally had Ali learn it.
From the battle just now, Ali’s weakness had already been revealed.
He lacked staying power.
After instantly killing the battle robot, he had no burst skills left and could only fight Silver Fang in close combat.
Did that not drag down his entire aura at once?
And if Ali had not triggered a skill advancement when he used Rush just now—
raising C-Rank Rush to B-Rank Berserk Rush—
he might not actually have been able to kill the battle robot in one hit.
【Berserk Rush】(B-Rank)
Skill Description: Launches a charge at the target. Upon hitting, the target is stunned for 1 second, and the critical hit rate of the next attack increases by 50%.
In Sun Xu’s eyes, Ali had simply gotten lucky and triggered a critical hit.
But that was not the truth at all.
That was sheer strength.
Now that Ali had Double Strike, he finally had a regular damage skill.
If Silver Fang were to come back from the dead, he would not last five seconds in Ali’s hands.
Just as they finished collecting the spoils, the sound of stone crashing against stone suddenly came from behind them.
The entrance to the cave had been sealed shut by a massive boulder.
At the same time, the doors to the laboratory swung open.
Their road back had been completely blocked.
Lin Yuan could only continue forward.
“Brother Lin, I think we’ve already been exposed.”
Sun Xu pointed at the large screen inside the laboratory. On it was an armored Kobold watching Lin Yuan and the others.
“You don’t need to remind me. I’m not blind.”
Lin Yuan looked at the screen and asked casually, “Hey, you’re Golden Fang, right?”
“Stop hiding and come out to die.”
“I’m in a hurry.”
Hearing that, the Kobold on the screen fell silent for three seconds.
“Human, I admit that you have courage.”
“But this is as far as you go.”
“What you are about to face is the most elite force of the Golden Fang Clan.”
“You wish to see me? I am at the deepest part of the cave.”
“The premise is that you can defeat—”
Before the Kobold could finish putting on airs, Lin Yuan smashed the display screen apart with one punch.
“I hate people showing off in front of me.”
Silver Fang had been able to posture because the mechanics were there, and Lin Yuan had no choice but to endure it.
But this Golden Fang bastard had not even shown his face, yet he still wanted to act tough from a distance.
What rotten habits.
“Ali, let’s go. Once we kill this posturing fool, we’ll be moving into the villa district.”
The moment villas were mentioned, Sun Xu perked up.
“Brother Lin, when you move into the villa district, take me with you. Let’s be neighbors.”
Lin Yuan cast him a sidelong glance. “Can you cook?”
“Obviously.” Sun Xu thumped his chest. “My cooking is first-rate.”
“What are we having tonight?”
“Sliced pork in sweet vinegar sauce, stir-fried pork with scallions, smashed cucumber salad, and then cold dressed flower crab at the end. How does that sound?”
“Excellent!”
The two of them cheerfully settled on dinner as if nothing had happened.
Neither of them felt that Golden Fang could stir up any real trouble.
Failure?
It did not exist.
By now, more than half an hour had already passed since they entered the dungeon.
The other students were still struggling away inside the Beginner Difficulty dungeon.
Xu Jie’s team had just finished clearing their second camp.
By good luck, they had even gotten a piece of Blackiron equipment.
And it was a shield at that.
“Brother Xu, a Blackiron shield!”
“Our luck is incredible. A Blackiron shield gives 100 HP and 5 Defense. Our efficiency in killing monsters will improve by a lot.”
After equipping the Blackiron shield, Xu Jie was brimming with confidence.
“Everyone, pick up the pace. We’re going to clear it within two hours.”
At that very moment, Luo Qingqing’s team had already cleared the Beginner Difficulty.
Among them, Luo Qingqing alone accounted for as much as eighty-five percent of the total contribution.
At that instant, the true value of an S-Rank damage talent was displayed to the fullest in Luo Qingqing’s hands.
Luo Qingqing’s team’s clear time was 1 hour and 32 minutes, fifty minutes faster than the old record.
Under normal circumstances, that would have caused a massive sensation.
But now, it did not stir the slightest ripple.
Because the clear record for Beginner Difficulty Golden Fang Ruins had already been pushed down to forty-five minutes by Lin Yuan.
There was not the slightest change in Luo Qingqing’s expression.
It was only a beginner dungeon record.
Sooner or later, someone was bound to break it anyway.
What was there to be surprised about?
Last night, Luo Qingqing had casually asked about Summoners after returning home.
Of course, it had only been out of simple curiosity.
Her father was a Second Advancement Level 43 Gale Swordsman, and she herself had awakened an S-Rank talent.
The gap between them and Lin Yuan was destined to be as vast as heaven and earth.
Their paths would never truly intersect.
From her father, Luo Qingqing had learned one thing:
not a single Summoner had ever passed the class advancement mission at Level 20.
After learning that, Luo Qingqing had cast the name Lin Yuan to the back of her mind.
Yet who would have thought that Lin Yuan would go and break the beginner dungeon record?
With her deep understanding of class-holders, Luo Qingqing instantly thought of one possibility:
his Summoned Beast had mutated.
A fellow with rather good luck.
But that was all.
Could his luck continue forever?
To become a truly powerful class-holder, luck alone would never carry you very far.
At Luo Qingqing’s waist hung a green shortsword.
It was a Bronze weapon dropped by Boss Bronze Fang.
With that piece of equipment, she believed that even the Normal difficulty Golden Fang Ruins would not be able to block them for long.
“Teacher, we want to challenge the Normal difficulty.”
The moment Luo Qingqing said that, the teacher standing before the dungeon immediately shook his head.
“You’ll have to wait for now. You can continue challenging it only after the Enforcement Squad finishes its investigation.”
“The Enforcement Squad?” A puzzled look flashed across Luo Qingqing’s face. “What does that have to do with them?”
“Lin Yuan and Sun Xu entered Nightmare Difficulty. Their lives and deaths are still unknown, so the Enforcement Squad has come to investigate the matter.”
“Nightmare Difficulty?!”
One of Luo Qingqing’s teammates cried out in shock. “Have they gone mad? Didn’t the teachers already warn us that we absolutely must not challenge Nightmare Difficulty?”
This time, even Luo Qingqing showed surprise.
“Nightmare Difficulty...” Luo Qingqing shook her head. “Truly overestimating themselves.”
Some people simply could not see themselves clearly. They mistook luck for strength.
In the end, they harmed others and harmed themselves as well.
What a pity for Sun Xu.
An S-Rank Priest—
and he would die a completely meaningless death.
On the other side of the field, the two comrades from the Enforcement Squad had already finished investigating the entire matter.
One investigator by the name of Fang Han, a square-faced man, said to Chen Hongwei,
“I have already finished investigating the full course of events. The specific disciplinary result will still require some time before it can be determined.”
What were they waiting for?
Naturally, they were waiting to see whether Lin Yuan and Sun Xu died inside the dungeon.
In truth, there was no real need to keep waiting.
It had already been half an hour.
If they were going to come out, they should have done so by now.
If they still had not emerged at this point, then the chances were high that disaster had already befallen them.
As for the possibility that Lin Yuan and Sun Xu might clear the dungeon—
no one had even considered it.
...
At this moment, inside the Nightmare Difficulty Golden Fang Ruins,
Lin Yuan had already arrived at the area where the final Boss, Golden Fang, was located.
It was a martial arena.
The arena was as large as a football field.
Quite a few mechanical lamps had been installed along the surrounding walls.
The instant Lin Yuan stepped into the arena, a squad of roughly twenty Kobolds clad in iron armor emerged from the corner.