“That’s not right, Big Shot! That didn’t look like a physical attack at all! We’re not the same!”
Li Dong couldn’t help but protest for himself.
“Stop it. Look at these bugs. Their carapaces aren’t seamless; there are parts of their flesh exposed!”
Xiao Nanchu, who had returned to the back to recover his health, responded to Li Dong without any courtesy.
After all, he wasn’t like Xiazhi, who had to consider his boss’s feelings.
“Gaps?” Li Dong was stunned. He then ran over to a bug that hadn’t dissipated yet and took a closer look.
“Holy crap, there really are! You should’ve said so earlier! I couldn’t see them from the back. If I’d known, I could’ve dealt damage too!”
“If you’d known, could you have hit them?”
Walking over to his childhood friend, Xiao Nanchu looked at the indignant Li Dong and asked with a grin.
“Ahem, of course! Don’t look down on my archery skills!” Looking at the gaps that were at most three fingers wide, Li Dong really couldn’t guarantee he could shoot into them.
“Pfft, I know exactly what your skill level is. Something that Big Shot Xiao Taozhi can do casually, you, a city-level archery competition champion, probably can’t do, right?”
“Bah! It’s because I rarely touched a bow after taking over the family business! Besides, even if I’m out of practice, I could still hit it easily!”
Li Dong insisted he could. Anyway, the monsters were dead, and no one could expose him now.
“Shall we keep moving forward now?”
Watching Li Dong and Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage with their arms around each other’s shoulders, not knowing what they were talking about, Luo Taozhi glanced at Left Hand’s mostly recovered health and started urging them.
She was still waiting to leave the Novice Village and level up Xiao Nanchu. She couldn’t waste too much time in this low-difficulty dungeon.
“No problem!”
The five of them continued forward. After everyone’s condition recovered along the way, they didn’t encounter a single monster.
Instead, they saw an arched light ahead, indicating they were about to exit.
And indeed, that was correct. As soon as the five stepped into the arched light, the scene before their eyes immediately changed.
It was a huge palace. In the middle of the palace was a magic circle, and in the center of the circle sat a monster nearly five meters tall.
Only when the five got closer could they see its appearance clearly.
It had a human head and a serpent’s body. Its head was twisted and deformed, oozing foul-smelling pus from the top. Its eyes were cloudy and white, and its mouth was split open to its ears, revealing sharp fangs.
Below its neck was a thick serpentine body with dull scales covered in bumps and tumors of various sizes. With every slight movement, the tumors shook, and pus dripped down the serpent body, corroding small black pits into the ground.
[Abyss Corruptor]
[Lv15]
[Health Points: 4000]
[Introduction: An insignificant vanguard in the Abyss Expeditionary Force, skilled at corroding the heart and turning the target into a member of the Abyss.]
Lv15, 4000 Health Points. Without a doubt, all five present knew this was the final BOSS of this dungeon.
“Can we win this?” Li Dong couldn’t help but click his tongue.
Based on his past gaming experience, the probability of a first-time kill on the first encounter was very low. Unless you overpowered it, facing a BOSS with completely unknown skills was really hard to kill.
“Win or lose, we can’t retreat, right?”
Xiao Nanchu, on the other hand, was getting eager. He had just killed so many small monsters and had already leveled up. He was now Lv8!
[ID: Left Hand High Damage, Right Hand High Damage (Switchable)]
[Level: Lv8]
[Health Points: 1380 (850+300)]
[Mana Points: 1080 (800+100)]
[Mental Power: 42(30+5)]
[Qi Attack: 1104 (700+220)]
[Qi Defense: 972 (700+110)]
[Assignable Attribute Points: 0]
[Learned Techniques: Qi Training Art (Gold)]
[Skills: Shield Bash, Slash, Block, One Who Stands Alone]
[Equipped Gear: Wolf King’s Cloak (Green), Wolf King’s Fang Pendant (Green)]
What surprised Xiao Nanchu the most was [Qi Training Art (Gold)]!
He never expected this technique could be carried over to another account!
It was one thing for the stat bonuses from equipment on another account to carry over, but he never thought the technique itself would be directly brought over.
His two accounts didn’t even share skills!
However, this was a good thing for him.
Stepping on one foot with the other, naturally, the higher the damage, the happier he was.
Right now, he really didn’t think much of that monster with only 4000 health.
Luo Taozhi felt the same.
Although her attributes weren’t as high as Xiao Nanchu’s, she was confident that unless this monster had a zero-frame startup area attack, it absolutely could not hit her even once!
Compared to the confidence of these two, the other three were less certain.
What Xiao Nanchu said was indeed true. They were already here, so they definitely couldn’t just leave.
But they were reluctant to blindly start the BOSS fight knowing nothing about it.
“How about… I go scout it out first?”
In the end, Xiazhi was the first to speak.
There was no helping it. Among the five present, he had the lowest damage and the lowest level, and his boss was right beside him. This kind of dirty, tiring work could only be done by him.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea. To be blunt, I don’t think you’d be able to figure out much.”
Luo Taozhi shook her head. Looking at the motionless Abyss Corruptor below, one piece of information in its introduction bothered her.
[Skilled at corroding the heart and turning the target into a member of the Abyss.]
Corroding the heart, converting…
This couldn’t help but remind her of the story she heard in the Large Hannya dungeon about Large Hannya’s sudden change in personality.
The peculiar nature of this so-called “game” made her suspect it was possible these two things appearing in the same place were connected.
If it was true, then an Abyss Corruptor capable of corrupting a Lv20 Large Hannya absolutely could not be this stiff and dull.
No matter what, she believed they needed to be cautious about this monster. They couldn’t treat it like the brainless Crawlers and bugs from before.
“But… if I don’t go, then who can? According to what you said, we even less should just start the BOSS directly, right?”
Xiazhi didn’t take Luo Taozhi’s words as her looking down on him.
First, he really was the weakest here. Second, he had just witnessed her skills; she did have the right to say that.
“I’ll go.”
As soon as Luo Taozhi finished speaking, she was immediately rejected by everyone else present.
“You can’t go. You’re the one who opened this dungeon. What if you die and we get forcibly kicked out?”
Xiao Nanchu was the fastest to object, almost guessing what she was going to say before she even said it.
“Right, I agree. While it might not be possible in other games, who knows with this one.”
Li Dong paused for a moment and also agreed with Xiao Nanchu. Although it sounded absurd at first, who could say for sure with this game?
“Should we just start the fight then?”