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He was already close to ascending to level 22. His EXP bar was already 86% filled!
At such, his death at Su Chen’s hands was equivalent to losing two levels!
Worse still, and more importantly, since it had only been a while since he equipped the rented equipment, upon his death, he immediately lost the equipment!
Those equipment did not belong to him, he had merely rented them!
Now that he had lost the equipment, the only choice left for him was to be killed all the way back to the newbie dungeon, or, he would have to pay the owner of the rental equipment in full.
Or, he could pawn his current green rank equipment as compensation!
However, his current green rank equipment was worth over 20,000 Gold Coins!
It was a piece of equipment that he had obtained after completing several quests and saving his hard-earned money! He could not bear to part ways with it!
However, he needed to deal with the situation one way or another.
As such, upon walking out of the Resurrection Temple, Zhou Pengtai began to brainstorm ideas. After some time, he received a flash of inspiration and immediately pulled up the chat interface of the company [ Unstoppable ] that he had rented the equipment from.
After quickly explaining his circumstances and coming up with a proposal, Zhou Pengtai then revealed Su Chen’s current location, including his coordinates and the details of the mini dungeon he was in.
At the same time, he also urged the members of [ Unstoppable ] to make their way there via their teleportation talismans, as they would miss their window of opportunity otherwise.
“Screw you. How dare you kick me out of the party, and you even dropped my level as well as my equipment. Don’t you dare think that I’ll let you get off easily.”
Feeling that he had killed two birds with one stone, a smug grin then appeared on Zhou Pengtai’s face.
…
Back in the real world.
Magic Capital.
Snow Abyss game company.
In the office on the second floor of the building, a middle-aged greasy man with dark circles under his eyes was constantly drinking Starbucks to keep himself awake.
He had already been in the office for several days, going as far as to sleep and eat there.
The young master of his company had initially told him to investigate the identity of the big shot who had a full compatibility score.
Then, he was told to look into a player named Su Chen, as well as his whereabouts after entering the [ Ancient Town ] dungeon. He was told to determine which town he had been assigned to.
He arranged for professional hackers as well as staff from his own company to look into the matter as well, but it was to no avail. As if that was not enough on his plate, he still needed to maintain business operations throughout all his investigations as well.
Why is my life so hard…
Suddenly, he heard a knock on his door.
“Come in.”
The greasy middle-aged man said.
The next moment, he saw a figure walk in quickly. “Chief Wang, I found it…”
“You found it?!”
“You found the newbie with the full compatibility score!?”
“Or did you find out which town Su Chen is in?”
“You should’ve just barged in if you had such an important piece of information! I can’t believe how polite you youngsters are these days!”
Wang Lei stood up with a wide grin on his face.
“Erm… It’s neither of them.”
The person holding the laptop in his hands replied awkwardly.
“Neither… Neither you say?! Then why did you bother coming over!?”
“I’m not asking for much, I don’t need you to give me both their information, but you can’t even provide me information of a single one of them? Can’t you see how much I care for all of you? I’m even staying behind with all of you throughout this ordeal!”
Wang Lei lay back on his seat again and said with indignation.
“Chief Wang, that’s what I’m trying to tell you. Both of them are the same person!”
The bald technical staff looked at Wang Lei and explained his findings in an easily digestible and succinct manner.
“This… !”
“Good job my boy! Splendid work!”
“Employees like you are truly a gem! I’ll see to it that you’ll get a raise this month.”
Wang Lei patted him on the shoulder and told him to go back and rest.
He finally let out a long sigh of relief. He could relay some proper information to the young masters.
He picked up his phone and dialed Si Luo’s number excitedly. He could not wait to report the findings!
…
[ Ark ].
[ Thousand Snakes Lair ], final section.
A massive two-headed serpent that was seven to eight meters tall and covered in colorful scales was facing a burly man who was attacking it. The four-colored serpent head on the left spat out blazing flames and struck the burly man hard!
479!
“F*ck, that hurt!”
Xue Feng was the individual who had been struck by the flames. His charge had been interrupted halfway, and he was forced to temporarily retreat.
At the same time, the three-colored serpent head on the right was attacking Mu Long.
Using the acceleration that was granted by his [ Assassin ] class stealth ability, Mu Long had managed to avoid the attack by a hair’s breadth!
After dealing with the Zhou Pengtai situation, Xue Feng and the others had to deal with several monsters and traps along the way to the level 25 Boss. It was for this reason that their timing had been delayed.
As a result, they only managed to reach the [ Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent ] when it was nearing the end of its weakened period.
The intelligence report claimed that the [ Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent ] possessed high HP, high Attack, but low Defense. It turned out that it was completely true.
The Boss had a thick HP pool of 22,000 HP, and its consecutive chain of attacks from both heads was indeed rather fearsome.
Its attacks had caused them a lot of trouble. and the party was constantly forced to drink HP potions.
Fortunately for them, its Defenses were quite low.
Xue Feng was able to consistently deal 800+ damage, whereas Mu Long’s daggers (short sword) were capable of dealing somewhere in the ballpark of 700 damage each strike.
Not to mention…
998!
+50!
1,020!
+50!
Su Chen, who was at the rear of the party, was constantly consuming MP potions to unleash skills non-stop.
Since his position at the rear was too far removed from the actual battlefield, Su Chen was unable to using [ Lifesteal ] this time. As such, he had relegated to casting his half-as-efficient [ Gourd Arts ] instead to heal his allies.
Much to his surprise, it had worked rather well to maintain his allies’ HP.
The only drawback was that he was losing mana at a staggering rate.
“Little Lin, come over and pull the aggro. I need to take some HP potions!”
The level 17 [ Assassin ] , Mu Long, who had taken a few blasts of [ Blizzard Tide ] from the tricolored Serpent on the right, was at low HP. As such, he immediately called out for his brother to cover for him.
Mu Lin, the level 18 [ Crossbowman ] , immediately charged forward to direct the Boss’ aggro towards him.
“Brother Su, I need some heals, please.”
At the same time, Mu Long also communicated with Su Chen.
831!
-453!
Xue Feng, who had been hit by the serpent’s flame breath again, gritted his teeth. As the [ Heavy Swordsman ] in the party, he was the member with the highest HP, and thus, he needed to maintain the aggro of the four-colored serpent head, which had the higher damage among the two heads.
“The Boss only has 12,000 hp left. Patience, men, patience! We’ll get through this!”
Xue Feng shouted loudly. At the same time, he used the downtime between the serpent head’s attacks to quickly recover his HP via potions.
“Brother Su, I know that you must be consuming a lot of MP potions right now. Don’t worry, I’ll cover all your potion costs with the leftover 3,000 Gold Coins!”
Xue Feng assured Su Chen before charging forward once more.
His decision to invite Su Chen for this fight had been the right move. He had never expected Su Chen’s subclass to be a Gourdmaster, albeit one whose level was clearly quite low.
Nevertheless, the fact that he could heal whilst dealing IMMENSE damage made him a great addition to the party!
“Okay.”
Su Chen gave a curt reply as he launched his bombardment of Fireballs once more.
The HP of the level 25[ Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent ] continued to drop.
12,000!
10,000!
8,000!
5,000!
As the Boss’ HP continued to drop, the party’s coordination skills continued to improve. Be it in terms of rotating aggro or laying cover fire for one another, their teamwork was making a definite improvement.
However, throughout all this, Su Chen had never left his spot at the rear. He had only one main job, which was to serve as the party’s absolute ‘”damage machine”!
4,200!
3,400!
Seeing that the Boss’ HP was being whittled away, everyone, including Su Chen, smiled. However, they did not speak out in case jinxing anything.
Celebrations could be held once the foe was properly defeated.
However, around the Boss’ 1,300 HP mark…
Suddenly!
An arrow that shone with a magnificent radiance streaked across the air.
With a speed that made it barely visible to the naked eye, the arrow went past Xue Feng and the Mu Siblings and landed directly onto the [ Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent ]!
1496!
“[ Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent ] has been defeated!”
Klink klink klink….
Large amounts of gold coins gushed out from the corpse of the Boss.
Following this, three streaks of green light appeared.
“Who?!”
Upon noticing that the final blow had not been struck by Su Chen’s blue flames, but a glowing arrow instead, Xue Feng’s temper instantly flared!
“Who the f*ck stole my Boss!”
He angrily looked towards the entrance to the hall behind him.
Mu long and Mu Lin were stunned for a moment. Upon realizing that they were unable to pick up the loot, they immediately whipped their heads around,
However, they were greeted with the sight of Su Chen’s HP depleting rapidly!
1,000 HP had been wiped off of Su Chen’s HP bar.
“Brother Su!”
After being hit by another crossbow bolt, Su Chen hurriedly activated [ Seeking Plums in the Midst of Snow ] and retreated towards his party’s end!
While doing so, he also consumed his HP potions and glared coldly at the direction of his assailants!
Before long, his gaze landed on a spot in front of him, where three figures gradually walked out.
“Hey, hey, hey, don’t block us from collecting OUR equipment.”
The leader of the group, a [ Heavy Shield Warrior ]whose ID was Zeng Jiang, stated.
He was level 25!
“Yeah, it wasn’t easy for us to defeat this Boss.”
Two more figures walked out from behind Zeng Jiang. One was a [ Crossbowman ] , and the other was a [ Bowman ] .
They were level 25 and… level 28!!
“You guys…”
Xue Feng, who was standing beside Su Chen, was stunned once he saw their levels. Then, he cursed within his heart.
Mu Long and Mu Lin were also stunned. They originally planned to kill their attackers as a way to vent their anger.
However, they had never expected the intruders to be a three-man party with levels above level 25!
“Do you guys still plan on resisting us?”
Zeng Jiang, who was carrying a giant silver shield on his back, asked them with a threatening smile.
“I don’t think there’s a need for that.”
“Cutting straight to the chase, there are two paths available to you right now. Either you all commit suicide and we’ll call it even, OR, we’ll hunt you all until you return to the newbie dungeon. We’ll keep tabs on your accounts, and we’ll be constantly out to get you. You shouldn’t even consider playing on the same accounts anymore if you choose option 2.”
“Take your pick.”
An expression of shock washed over Mu Long and Mu Lin’s face as they went silent.
On the other hand, the burly Xue Feng was gnashing his teeth non-stop, and both his eyes and face had turned bright red with anger. He looked as if he was ready to lash out at the trio.
However, before he could take action, someone had already shouted out!
“KEEP DREAMING!”
It was Suchen!
After recovering his HP, he then walked past Xue Feng and stood at the forefront.
As soon as he finished speaking.
Zeng Jiang and the other two raised their eyebrows in surprise. Then, their expressions changed drastically as they glared coldly down at Su Chen.
In an instant.
The atmosphere in the cave became extremely tense.
The furious Xue Feng, Mu Lin, and Mu Long, who had finally made up their minds, stood beside Su Chen at the same time.
“Who was the one who took the cheap shot earlier!?”
Su Chen asked.
Hearing this.
The level 28 Bowman behind Zeng Jiang heard this and walked forward. In a cold but ridiculing manner, he then answered, “Us.”
“All three of us, What’s wrong? Have a bone to pick with us?”
“You and your merry bunch of level 10 garbage?”
As his voice fell.
Su Chen, who was stepping on the Gold Coins dropped by the Rainbow-scaled Twin-headed Serpent, consumed his potions silently. Then, with a brilliant flash, six intense rays of green light burst forth from him!
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Su Chen, who had activated all the special effects of his equipment, slowly rubbed the [ Jade Tide Wrist Guard ] on his wrist.
While looking at Zeng Jiang and the other two, he said in a bone-chilling voice.
“Nothing much. All I want to say is that…”
“You three will die here today.”
“That is all..”