Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
What should he do? After discovering what kind of party he had joined, Fatty couldn’t help but feel frustrated.
While he was pondering over this problem, Death Knight Bookworm up ahead took a few steps forward and bumped into the dungeon storyline.
On the forest-shaded path, an Undead Thief NPC staggered not far away and ran over. While he ran toward the party, he shouted as loud as he could, “Help! Someone help me!”
The party of players cautiously took a few steps forward to receive the Thief NPC. Seemingly because he had seen someone appear, the Thief NPC was very relieved. In the end, before they could even approach him, a jet-black dagger suddenly appeared behind his back and pierced him!
The Thief NPC suffered serious injuries and cried out. He fell in front of Fatty’s team and three figures emerged.
It was three Human Thieves!
These were enemies in the dungeon. No one cared about the unlucky Thief NPC. Instead, they all hurriedly prepared themselves for battle.
This was their first battle after entering the dungeon. Fatty also planned to observe the level of this party.
As the Death Knight of the party, Bookworm was naturally the one meant to resist the enemy. He shouted nervously, “I’m starting!” Then, before the other players could respond, he directly rushed toward one of the Human Thieves.
Upon seeing this, Fatty couldn’t help but sigh. Big Brother… The three Human Thieves didn’t budge, so why are you so excited!? Aren’t you going to ask whether your party members will stand in place and get prepared?
Except for the Death Knight Bookworm, both Dark Mage Smoking Without Fire and Pyromancer Playing With Fire stood in the middle. It didn’t matter that Fatty’s Venomancer was behind, but a DPS player like Thief Crayon Knife was also behind him!
Bookworm had been too nervous. He should have waited for Crayon Knife to stand with him and then should have started to kill the enemy when he could support him from the side…
Furthermore, there was another problem. Without knowing what the attacks of the three Human Thieves were, a melee class player had tried to resist against the enemy rashly. That was simply suicide! A range class player should have drawn one over to test the monster’s level and attack power before they made a plan…
They couldn’t take this lightly just because this was a novice dungeon. Small details seemed like nothing but were necessary for the party’s success!
Fatty had seen the level of this party through a small detail. Despite Bookworm’s mistake, Smoking Without Fire, who was the party leader, had not even noticed it. Instead, he shouted excitedly to make everyone start the attack.
Excluding Fatty, the other three players were also excited. They were probably excited because this was their first time clearing a dungeon! It was not hard to see that judging from their hasty entry…
After sighing quietly, Fatty could only follow everyone else. He lifted his hand to use the Level 2 Corrosion and a ball of green flare shot out of his staff before it reached the Human Thief that Bookworm was attacking!
At Level 12, Fatty had been able to upgrade the level of the Corrosion Skill with 30 Bronze Coins so that he could be more useful in the dungeon.
The Level 2 Corrosion Skill reduced the target’s Physical Armor by 4 points and could be stacked three times, which meant that its maximum was 12 points. However, after Fatty used the Corrosion on the Human Thief, he used the Miasma Skill.
These Human Thieves were the monsters of the Gerov Bandit Camp. As thieves, they had low defense and HP. Hence, using Corrosion once was enough. More than that would be a waste.
Bookworm’s mistake while drawing the monster’s attention had taken effect. The three Human Thieves surrounded and attacked him. Even a heavy-armored class like the Death Knight could not deal with that.
Bookworm was a Level 13 Death Knight. Based on every point added to his Strength and Constitution level, he had 26 Constitution Points. Along with his starting 3 Constitution Points, his HP should be 290. If a Human Thief attacked him once, they would reduce his HP by 10 to 12. If three Thieves attacked him once, more than 30 HP would be gone. According to this calculation, Bookworm could only endure 10 rounds of this attack.
Under the circumstances, there was no need to worry. After all, the party had a healing class player so they could be healed when they had low health. However, the problem was that the only one who could heal the party, Dark Mage Smoking Without Fire, was attacking excitedly along with everyone else!
Upon seeing this, Fatty wanted to curse!
The Dark Mage belonged to the Priest Class. Besides having a certain output based on skills, Dark Mages could produce a regenerative effect. Furthermore, in the later stages, they also had more debuffing skills. The Dark Mage could be considered a healing, supporting role.
However, Smoking Without Fire had completely ignored this role. He constantly used the Dark Mage’s skill called Dark Origin to hit the Human Thief that Bookworm was attacking. This Level 2 Dark Origin Skill could produce an additional 10 points of magic damage when it landed on the enemy. However, if it landed on a party member, it would cause a regenerative effect of around 23 points. With such a simple comparison, anyone could see that their healing effect would have a better effect than their attacks. However, Smoking Without Fire had not learned this.
In this case, a party of players were all attacking, yet nobody cared about poor Death Knight Bookworm. They let him, who resisted against the enemies, continuously lose HP.
Eventually, Fatty couldn’t stand it anymore. He shouted on the party channel through the headset, “Big Brother, heal the Death Knight!”
Everyone had been fighting happily, so they were stunned before they reacted.
Smoking Without Fire responded and used the Dark Origin on Bookworm in a hurry.
After he was healed, Bookworm was refreshed. He seemed to be much more courageous and he attacked with even more power. Smoking Without Fire, who was also proud, lifted his hand to heal Bookworm again.
In the end, Fatty shouted on the party channel again, “Big Brother, what are you anxious about? Keep your mana!”
Fatty might have been born with a talent for annoying people. When he shouted ‘Big Brother’, he sounded helpless, miserable, and aggrieved. He sounded as if he’d expected better from them. Smoking Without Fire couldn’t help but tremble. He couldn’t release his Dark Origin Skill anymore…
After suffering such a stimulus, Smoking Without Fire couldn’t help but turn around and glare at Fatty fiercely.
Fatty had known this would happen because Smoking Without Fire was the party’s commander. Although he had shouted like that to warn them, he was challenging the authority of a commander. It would be weird if he was not hated for that.
However, Fatty had been forced to shout. Bookworm had enough HP as a Death Knight, so it would be fine as long as they maintained a systematic healing rate and didn’t let him die. They now only had three enemies. What was the use if Smoking Without Fire healed him vigorously to his maximum HP? He might as well maintain half of his health. After their enemies were all killed, he should sit down and slowly regenerate. This way, the healer’s mana consumption would also be smaller and he could regenerate to his full health in a short time. Wasn’t this more efficient?
This was basic knowledge of clearing a dungeon, but Smoking With Fire didn’t know any of these things… The most unfortunate thing was that he was actually staring at Fatty!
At this thought, Fatty couldn’t help but get angry.
The three Human Thieves of the Gerov Camp were not hard to kill. After spending some time, they managed to kill them.
Besides Undead Thief Crayon Knife and Fatty’s Venomancer, who both hadn’t made any mistakes, the other three had acted recklessly.
Bookworm had boldly rushed forward to resist against the three Human Thieves, only causing himself to lose more than half of his HP and making Smoking With Fire consume a lot of mana. Furthermore, because Smoking With Fire had attacked along with the party in the beginning, he had wasted a lot of mana. By the time the last battle ended, his mana had actually run out!
Even Pyromancer Playing With Fire had made a mistake. In fact, if he had made use of the Flaming Imps he had summoned to kill the three Human Thieves, he could have drawn each of them over one by one to kill them. The Flaming Imps could release ranged flame arrows that went further than anyone present and were definitely experts at drawing monsters over.
However, he hadn’t come to his senses or allowed Bookworm to resist against the three enemies as a Death Knight…
After recalling the course of events while they had killed the enemies just now, Fatty was speechless.
He was not afraid of god-like opponents but of dumb party members! It seemed like they might not clear this novice dungeon…