The Power of Fire Mages

Arcane Impact, the brainless main output skill for arcane mages, has a base damage of 22 points. Each time it deals damage to a target, it stacks a buff on the caster, increasing damage by 40% for 8 seconds, stacking up to three times.

This skill has very high damage, but each time the damage increases, the mana consumption increases by 40%. If killing monsters with low Blood Essence, Lu Yang would definitely recommend everyone use it, but when killing monsters with high Blood Essence, especially in a team battle where it's impossible to recover mana after killing several monsters, it's a garbage skill.

Lu Yang couldn't help but shout, "Zheng Yuan, switch to Fireball."

Zheng Yuan didn't listen and continued to cast Arcane Impact. He only had 250 mana. After stacking three layers of Arcane Impact buff, each use of the skill cost 33 mana. As a result, Zheng Yuan ran out of mana when he killed the first rebel soldier and could only stand aside.

There were only 12 damage dealers in total, and 5 of them were physical damage dealers. The damage was already insufficient. Now that there was one less mage, the mana consumption of the other mages suddenly increased. If Lu Yang's spell damage wasn't high and Fierce Wine Clear Wind and Xiao Liang's defense weren't high, these two monsters could have wiped them out.

After the two monsters were killed, while everyone was recovering, Lu Yang walked up to Zheng Yuan and asked, "I told you to use Fireball to attack the monsters, why did you use Arcane Impact?"

Zheng Yuan said with drooping eyelids, "What's wrong with me using Arcane Impact for output? Do you have a problem with that?"

"I'm asking you, I asked all the mages to use Fireball, why did you use Arcane Impact?" Lu Yang's eyes were cold.

Xiao Liang picked up his weapon and walked to Lu Yang's side, and Fierce Wine Clear Wind also walked over.

Lu Yang wasn't a person without a temper. He could tolerate small things before, but now that Zheng Yuan dared to delay the dungeon, Lu Yang absolutely couldn't agree.

Xia Yuwei saw that Lu Yang was about to get angry and hurried over, asking, "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Zheng Yuan pointed at Lu Yang and shouted, "Yuwei, I've tolerated the previous things, but I can't tolerate this. Why should he ask me to use Fireball to attack monsters? My Arcane damage is obviously higher. Why use Fireball? Isn't he just picking on me because he doesn't like me?"

Xia Yuwei didn't understand either and looked at Lu Yang.

Lu Yang said, "Is your damage really that high?"

"How can it not be high? Do you understand? After three attacks with Arcane Impact, I get a buff that stacks 2.2 times the damage. Except for you, who relies on equipment, my damage should be the highest." Zheng Yuan shouted in a shrill voice.

Zhang Zibo and the others walked over. Although they didn't agree with Zheng Yuan's character, Zheng Yuan's words were indeed true.

"Zheng Yuan, listen to Lu Yang's arrangements. He's the leader, we should listen to his command." Zhang Zibo couldn't help but persuade, worried that there would be more problems.

"Why should I? Why should I tolerate him if he's not doing things right?" Zheng Yuan wouldn't let it go.

Lu Yang sneered, pulled up the damage output from the game, and projected it in front of everyone, saying, "Then I'll let you see how much your output really is."

DPS Statistics:

First, Lu Yang, total output 6415 (79.4 DPS)

Second, Golden Serpent Swordsman, total output 1914 (21.2 DPS)

Third, Peerless, total output 1911 (21.1 DPS)

Fourth, Half-Life Morningstar, total output 1846 (20.5 DPS)

Fifth, Salted Fish Squad, total output 1845 (20.4 DPS)

Sixth, Black Guitar, total output 904 (10.0 DPS)

Seventh, Zheng Yuan, total output 901 (10.0 DPS)

From first to fifth, including Lu Yang, were all fire mages. Sixth was a warlock, and only seventh was Zheng Yuan.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this DPS data, and Zheng Yuan even shouted that it was impossible.

"How can Fireball's damage be so high? Are you guys hiding equipment?" Zheng Yuan turned his head and stared at the four hired mage players.

The four mages quickly shook their heads.

Half-Life Morningstar said, "Boss, don't accuse us. How would we dare to hide equipment? Besides, even if we had equipment, the output wouldn't be so high."

"Then what's going on?" Zheng Yuan asked.

"It seems that Team Leader Lu Yang used some skill. A buff appeared on the monster, and our damage increased by 75 points each time we attacked." Half-Life Morningstar said.

Xia Yuwei and the others looked at Lu Yang.

Lu Yang said, "That's right, this is my skill, so I asked you to use fire magic."

Zheng Yuan was speechless.

Lu Yang continued, "Also, your current mana can only allow you to cast Arcane Impact 8 times, and then you'll be out of mana. In other words, you only have the output data for one of these two monsters. You don't even have enough mana to attack the other monster. Do you know how much damage this does to the team? How much output do others have to share for you?"

Zheng Yuan's face was extremely ugly. He wanted to say that these people were hired by him and that it was their duty, but when he saw Lu Yang and the other two, he couldn't say it.

Xia Yuwei sighed helplessly in her heart when she saw this situation. Her father and Zheng Yuan's father were business partners, and the relationship between the two families was good. She couldn't watch Zheng Yuan being ridiculed by Lu Yang like this.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I apologize to you on his behalf. He will definitely not do it again next time." Xia Yuwei said.

Lu Yang looked at Xia Yuwei and sighed, "Just indulge him like this. Sooner or later, you will know the consequences."

Lu Yang remembered clearly in his previous life that Frost Ice Studio couldn't develop in the early stages because of Zheng Yuan's sabotage. Later, Xia Yuwei couldn't bear it anymore and kicked him out of the team, which allowed Frost Ice Studio to develop.

When Xia Yuwei became the Rose Queen, the Lord of Nine Cities, Zheng Yuan begged Xia Yuwei to return to Frost Ice Studio. Xia Yuwei let him return out of respect for her elders and made him the Lord of one of the cities, but Zheng Yuan lost seven cities because he couldn't resist the honey trap, and was almost kicked out of the game.

Of course, these were all later stories.

"Alright, everyone, follow me and continue forward." Lu Yang said.

After killing rebel soldiers along the way, Lu Yang led the team to a circular cave hall. The hall was very high, about 6 meters high, and about 80 yards in diameter. In the very center of the hall stood an ogre nearly 3 meters tall, holding a wooden giant club in his right hand.

Ogre Cliff (boss)

Level: 8

Blood Essence: 50000/50000

"How is his figure so much stronger than the normal version?" Lan Yu said in surprise.

"A lot?" Lu Yang asked.

"Of course! Normal Ogre are only 2.5 meters tall, but this one is 3 meters tall, and his muscles are so much bigger than the normal version," Lan Yu said, gesturing.

The single-headed Ogre Cliff in front of them had horns on his head, dark red skin all over his body, and bulging muscles on his arms and abdomen, bringing tremendous pressure to Xia Yuwei and the others.

Fierce Wine Clear Wind said, "Expert, this is not easy to fight. I don't feel like my 100+ defense can withstand it."