Chapter 71: Guild Chat Chaos!
Ryan’s health currently stood at a formidable 1,376 points, making him the highest-HP player in the world.
Though the two gatekeepers hit hard, Ryan’s squad tore through them with ease. The group advanced swiftly, barely breaking stride. But before long, grim news came through the guild channel.
The second squad that had entered the Corrupted Forest had been wiped out.
They’d managed to bring down one of the gatekeepers, but the other had split off mid-fight, overwhelming the team’s tank. He couldn’t withstand the sheer power of its attacks and fell quickly. Two members, who had been near the dungeon entrance, managed to escape in time. The rest weren’t so lucky.
Of the two squads assigned to attack the Willitan Estate, it was surprisingly SwordSaint01’s team that bypassed the gatekeepers. Evelyn’s squad, the more experienced and better geared group, had been defeated at their feet.
"Damn those specters! Too much evasion! They just wore us down!" Evelyn vented in the guild channel. Her messages were fragmented and frustrated, but it didn’t take long for everyone to piece together what had gone wrong.
The gatekeepers of Willitan Estate were Specter Wardens—two of them. Their base evasion was already high at 20%, but once their health dropped past a certain threshold, they’d activate a skill that boosted their evasion to a staggering 95%.
And they didn’t just dodge well—they hit like a truck. With most attacks missing and mana draining fast, Evelyn’s squad had been quickly overwhelmed.
What puzzled everyone was how SwordSaint01’s team had taken them down—especially considering that his gear was clearly inferior to Evelyn’s.
"It was nothing, really. TheUsualMutts is an Arms Warrior, and he’s got a skill called Suppress. It can’t be dodged," SwordSaint01 explained casually.
TheUsualMutts was a quiet, no-nonsense Arms Warrior—almost as silent as Archress Mageress herself. Evelyn had personally recruited him into the guild.
"So... without an Arms Warrior, it’s impossible?" Evelyn asked, her tone uncertain.