"Fuck, why are there so many elite monsters!" When the forty-four thieves saw the dense group of monsters under the stairs, their scalps suddenly went numb and they couldn't help cursing.
Fa Shangpiao also frowned. In the dungeon, no matter how many elite monsters there are, they can slowly clear them. After all, the final boss is always theirs, and no one can snatch it away! But it’s different for wild bosses. Time is money. They finally got here first, which is a huge advantage. If they spend time clearing monsters, it will be a waste!
"Where's Zhan Yu?" Yourong Naida suddenly asked, "According to the information we got earlier, he should have arrived here before us, but there are still so many monsters. Could it be that he didn't come here?"
Manbutshang said: "Didn't the system say that the monster refresh rate here has increased by 1000%? Maybe those monsters that were killed have already respawned!"
“Impossible!” Fa Shangpiao immediately shook his head and said, “According to official information, ordinary monsters outside the Novice Village refresh every 3 hours, and elite monsters every 5 hours. Even if the speed is increased by 1000%, it will still take half an hour to refresh! The system announcement was released only 20 minutes ago, and there is absolutely no monster here that has ever died!”
"Could he still sneak around?" Juhua Canshi said with a smile.
The forty-four thieves immediately shook their heads and said, "Stealth is useless. These monsters have true vision. After I enter stealth mode, I can see the blue eyes floating above their heads!"
Monsters with true vision are naturally anti-stealth. Thieves, especially those with subtlety, hate this kind of monster the most!
"... Could it be that he really didn't come here?" Fa Shangpiao murmured to himself.
"Forget about him, let's clear it out first! It doesn't matter if that guy doesn't come in, but if he does, we'll kill him!" The forty-four thieves said murderously. He had been killed three times by Zhang Yang before, and although it was just business and there was no personal grudge, he couldn't swallow it, and was laughed at by other members for a long time!
Fa Shangpiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, let's go around and try to attract as few monsters as possible!"
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Connecting the first and second floors of the pagoda mausoleum is a row of long and winding stone steps. Zhang Yang walked around it at least seven or eight times before he reached the second floor.
Like the first floor, the entire second floor was another huge square, but the number of monsters on the square had dropped sharply, estimated to be less than 10% of the first floor! Moreover, the type of monster remained the same, still a level 36 Tower Mausoleum Skeleton Guard.
How come the difficulty has been lowered
This doesn't make sense!
Zhang Yang was not happy about the small number of monsters here, but frowned. As the saying goes, something must be wrong when things are abnormal. The game company is definitely not so kind as to put so many elite monsters on the first floor and then let them go on the second floor!
He observed carefully again.
He really saw something special in this one look! Unlike the first floor, the ground of the second floor was paved with black or white square stones, a bit like a Go chessboard, generally speaking, there were more black and less white.
Moreover, the activity areas of those monsters are all on the black square stones!
Zhang Yang's heart moved, and he came to the edge of the square, first stepping on the black square stone - nothing happened. He retracted his foot, moved a little to the side, and then stepped on the white square stone.
"-1600!"
Boom! A stream of fire suddenly erupted from under the white square stone, causing considerable damage to Zhang Yang!
Sure enough! Although this place looks a little small, it is full of traps. If you take a wrong step, it will lead to disaster!
Zhang Yang glanced and saw a Taling Skeleton Guard suddenly spawned not far away, but it was standing on a white stone, which was immediately burned, removing 2000 health points. The monster immediately moved away and stepped on a black stone.
But the AI of the elite monster is relatively simple. The monster is set to patrol around, so even if there are traps on the ground, it will start patrolling without hesitation!
"-2000!"
"-2000!"
"… "
Damage numbers kept floating above its head. Although 50,000 health points were considerable, it could not withstand such tossing back and forth. In just one minute, it let out a wail and returned to the arms of the God of the Undead.
Zhang Yang looked around and saw monsters appearing in many places, but they were all swallowed by the ruthless traps.
It turns out that it's not that there are fewer monsters here, but that the traps here are so cruel that they kill even their own people! The ones who survived are all active in the Black Stone area.
Knowing the secret of this place, Zhang Yang was naturally no longer afraid. He immediately stepped out, stepped on a black stone, and walked forward along the direction of the black stone, sometimes jumping left and right. In this way, Zhang Yang could no longer hide from the monsters patrolling back and forth.
"Roar!"
A skeleton monster quickly drew Zhang Yang into the battle.
Zhang Yang took a quick look, immediately decided on a tactic, and retreated seven steps.
The monster rushed forward and slashed at Zhang Yang with its sword.
"Parry!"
"-224!" Block and counterattack.
"-2000!"
The monster was standing on the white stone trap Zhang Yang had set for it, and a huge damage number immediately popped up. Just two seconds later, the ground fire rose again, causing another 2,000 points of damage to the monster.
"Damn, I'm starting to like this place now!" Zhang Yang was overjoyed, and activated the "Block" skill. It only had a one-second cooldown, so he might as well use it.
"Parry!"
"Parry!"
"Parry!"
This monster could only swing a sword once every two seconds, and it didn't have any special skills. Even without a weapon, Zhang Yang could bounce it back to death with just the "block" skill! Not to mention that this guy was stepping on a trap, and with Zhang Yang's powerful output, he turned into white light and died in just over half a minute, giving Zhang Yang a lot of experience points.
The reason why it was so easy was, of course, because of the amazing "Block" skill! With a one-second cooldown, it completely ignored monsters with long attack intervals! Unless the monster's normal attack was followed by a skill damage, it would not be able to break through the Block level!
No wonder the “block” function was cut, there is no pressure at all to deal with shield warriors this way!
"Awesome!" One monster gives 50,000 experience points, and it only takes less than half a minute. This efficiency is so high that Zhang Yang couldn't help but grin and praise.
Picking up the things dropped by the monster, Zhang Yang continued to move forward.
The second one, the third one... the seventh one, the tenth one!
Understanding the characteristics of this place and making use of them, Zhang Yang walked around like a leisurely stroll in a garden, clearing out monsters one by one and soon reached the end of the second floor.
"The first floor requires a lot of numbers, otherwise you'll be killed by a dozen monsters! The second floor has a limit on the number of people, if everyone rushes in together, they'll definitely die in a mess! Hehe, this place is quite interesting, I wonder what the third floor is like?"
Zhang Yang muttered to himself. He had never been to this place in his previous life, because the map of "Miracle" was too big. There were eleven level 30 maps alone. When he entered the game in his previous life, the low-level maps were already sparsely populated, with few people and many monsters. Just one map was enough to upgrade from level 30 to level 40!
After reaching level 50, because the eight main cities no longer have independent maps, the leveling area will be much more lively and crowded. Especially after entering the level 100 map, players from the eight major regions and 64 main cities in the world will all gather together, then it will be really lively and there will be fights every day!
Walking down the stone steps, Zhang Yang arrived at the third floor of the Pagoda Mausoleum.
It was still a huge square, but the types of monsters standing inside had changed. They had become spell-type monsters. Although they were also skeletons, they were wearing wizard robes. There were very few of them, and there was no other monster within ten meters of each monster.
[Magic Tower Evil Mage] (Elite)
Level: 36
HP: 30,000
The same level, both are elites, but the health of the evil wizard is nearly half of that of the skeleton guards on the two floors above! Spell monsters are naturally thin-skinned, but Zhang Yang is not necessarily relaxed, because the shield warrior is most afraid of spell monsters, "blocking" is useless!
No matter what, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Kill!
Zhang Yang walked forward with the sword in hand and soon entered the hateful field of vision of an evil wizard. The evil wizard immediately faced Zhang Yang, raised his staff high, and began to chant spells.
This is... Shadow Arrow!
Zhang Yang was suddenly delighted, and quickly drank a primary dark resistance potion. When he ran into the charging range, he rushed forward.
The evil wizard hadn't even finished casting his shadow arrow spell when he was knocked unconscious by Zhang Yang, and the spell naturally came to an abrupt end.
"-743!"
"-3022!"
After a normal attack, a sweep was performed, which actually resulted in a critical hit, and a huge damage number suddenly appeared.
The evil wizard soon woke up from his coma. Although there was no expression on his face, which was only a skeleton, his teeth were shaking up and down, and he was saying some curse words. The reading bar of Shadow Arrow continued to sing under his avatar.
One second, two seconds, three seconds!
"Bang", a shadow bomb blasted out, dealing "-700" damage to Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang's anger suddenly soared by 62 points, and he immediately launched a series of attacks, first filling up the five layers of armor-breaking armor. With the help of Eagle Eye, the monster suddenly became 0 armor.
Destruction Strike! Powerful Strike! Sweep! Zhang Yang prioritized Destruction Strike and Sweep, making sure that the Armor Break would not fail. Then, during the cooldown period of these two skills, he used Powerful Strike to vent his anger.
20 seconds later, Zhang Yang was hit by six shadow arrows, and his health dropped to 550 points! He immediately clicked on a blood bottle, which increased his health by 1,000 points, and he was able to withstand two more shadow arrows for a total of 6 seconds!
At this time, Zhang Yang only had 150 points of health left, while the evil wizard of the Demon Tower still had a little over 10,000 health points.
"I can't win without using skills!" Zhang Yang sighed and clicked on Fury Recovery. Suddenly, a green number "+4750" popped up, and his health was instantly full.
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