Heavy Armor Warriors

"We succeeded!" Lan Yu shouted.

"We really did it. This is great, an epic boss!" Fierce Wine Clear Wind said.

Xia Yuwei and the members of Zhang Zibo's team were all caught up in excitement.

Once upon a time, they would have been thrilled just to clear the normal-difficulty Ogre Cliff, but Lu Yang had led them through the epic-difficulty version.

At the thought that the dropped equipment might be Silver-grade, everyone's gaze toward Lu Yang changed.

"Expert, hurry and check the loot," Xia Yuwei said.

In a team, only the party leader was qualified to loot equipment. Xia Yuwei had opened the loot before, but now she willingly let Lu Yang do it.

Lu Yang did not decline. In his previous life, even bosses that required two thousand people to defeat had been looted by him as the guild leader. This life would be no different.

Of course, although his brothers in the guild had often cursed him for having terrible luck in his previous life, Lu Yang felt that his luck had been quite good since his rebirth.

Walking up to the boss and opening the loot window, Lu Yang saw a silver glow shine across the area.

"Silver-grade!" someone shouted, and everyone's eyes turned green.

"Whose equipment is it?"

"A mage's or a warrior's?"

"A thief's. It has to be for a thief."

"A hunter's. It's for a hunter."

Listening to those familiar voices, Lu Yang could not help smiling. He turned back to the crowd and said, "It's a Silver-grade shield for defense warriors."

Lu Yang shared the shield's stats with everyone.

Cliff's Shield (Silver-grade)

Defense 7–22

Strength +2

Constitution +3

Block Value +8

"The defense is so high. It's actually on the same level as the Wyrm Battle Shield," Fierce Wine Clear Wind said in surprise after seeing the shield's attributes.

Xia Yuwei and Zhang Zibo hurried over to Lu Yang after seeing the item's stats. Xia Yuwei said, "Mr. Lu Yang, this shield is too valuable. We can't take it for free. I'm willing to pay 3,000 yuan for it."

Zhang Zibo nodded repeatedly.

Lu Yang had been about to give it to Zhang Zibo anyway. Hearing that, he laughed and asked, "Where did that come from? Why would you give me money?"

Zhang Zibo did not answer. He merely said seriously, "With this shield, I can tank Death Cave on any difficulty below epic. This is very important to us. I hope you'll let us buy it."

Lan Yu also said, "Yeah, Expert, sell it to us."

Lu Yang looked at Lan Yu speechlessly and said, "What are you butting in for, little girl? Go stand aside."

"You..." Lan Yu puffed out her cheeks and stalked off to the side in "anger."

Looking at the nervous Xia Yuwei and Zhang Zibo, Lu Yang said, "Have you forgotten our previous agreement? I said mage equipment would be mine, while all other equipment would be yours."

He gave the shield to Zhang Zibo.

System Notification: Player Lu Yang has given you Cliff's Shield

"You're really giving it to me for free?" Zhang Zibo had not expected Lu Yang to be so generous.

Xia Yuwei was also stunned. "Mr. Lu Yang, but... but..."

Lu Yang said, "There's no but. This isn't about money. It's about keeping one's word."

Xia Yuwei, Zhang Zibo, and the others were convinced. Lan Yu, meanwhile, looked at Lu Yang with even greater admiration.

Lu Yang clapped his hands and said to everyone, "All right, rest where you are. Once we've recovered, we'll continue onward and try to clear Death Cave within an hour."

"Okay," Zhang Zibo and the other team members answered one after another.

If everyone had still held doubts about Lu Yang before, then after defeating Cliff, they were now completely confident in him.

"Um, Captain, Zheng Yuan is still lying on the ground. Should we revive him?" a warrior from the team asked.

Only then did Xia Yuwei and the others remember that Zheng Yuan had been burned to death by the boss during the battle because he had refused to follow orders.

"We don't have a resurrection spell. Let him run back in himself," Xia Yuwei said, suppressing her anger.

"Okay." The warrior sent Zheng Yuan a message.

At that moment, Zheng Yuan was standing outside the dungeon. According to the game rules, members could not enter while the dungeon was in battle.

After receiving word that he could enter, Zheng Yuan finally ran inside. However, when he reached the group and saw that the boss had already been killed, his expression shifted unpredictably.

Lu Yang could not be bothered with Zheng Yuan. He said to everyone, "Once you're recovered, we'll continue."

"Okay." Zhang Zibo and the other team members stood up excitedly and followed Lu Yang onward.

Zheng Yuan had thought Lu Yang would give him trouble, but Lu Yang did not even acknowledge him. That actually made him rather pleased.

He quickly went over to Xia Yuwei and said, "Yuwei, I bought the mage skills Blink and Flame Shield at the entrance just now. My abilities are the same as Lu Yang's now."

Xia Yuwei ignored Zheng Yuan. After making a fool of himself, Zheng Yuan wanted to speak with Lan Yu, but she had also walked over to Lu Yang.

"He only killed one boss. What's so impressive about that?" Zheng Yuan said unhappily.

Hearing Zheng Yuan's words, Zhang Zibo sighed. He could not be bothered wasting words on him either.

Passing through the wooden door of the cave hall, the group entered a broad natural tunnel.

On the right side of the tunnel was an underground river, while the left side was a mountain wall. About every three meters, a torch on the wall illuminated the surrounding area.

"There are eight humanoid Heavy Armor Warriors ahead. Everyone, be careful," the scout thief said as he ran back.

Heavy Armor Warriors were the Fals Empire's main fighting force. So-called Heavy Armor Warriors were soldiers dressed in full plate armor like those of medieval Europe, carrying a great shield in their left hand and a spear in their right.

Standing at the entrance to the tunnel, the group looked at the eight Heavy Armor Warriors thirty yards away. Fierce Wine Clear Wind said in surprise, "Why are they all level-five elites?"

"Weren't they like this in the normal dungeon?" Xia Yuwei asked.

"Of course not. There are only three normal monsters here in the normal dungeon," Fierce Wine Clear Wind said.

"What do we do? We definitely can't fight through eight elites."

The damage output of three elite monsters was already comparable to that of the boss. With five more elite monsters, even if the team had three defense warriors capable of tanking them, the priests would not be able to keep up with healing. One defense warrior alone required three priests to heal him, while the team only had five priests in total.

Xia Yuwei looked at Lu Yang and asked, "How about we go back? We're already satisfied just clearing Cliff."

Zhang Zibo also said, "Yeah, Expert. This is just too difficult."

Lu Yang said, "Don't worry. Let me think of a way first."

This obstacle had stumped countless players in his previous life. Even guilds full of experts equipped with Bronze and Black Iron gear found it difficult to get through.

However, after a fire mage player released a video, it was no longer a problem.

That fire mage player was already level six, far above the dungeon's intended level. Yet because he lacked equipment, he had no choice but to run this dungeon with a group. No matter what he did, though, he could not get past this section. After being stuck for three days, the fire mage found a solution.

On the side of the tunnel closest to the mountain wall, there was a drainage ditch nearly half a meter deep.

As the saying went, the higher the mountain, the deeper the water. The mountain was filled with countless cracks, and those cracks were full of water.

When it rained, the cracks filled with rainwater. If there were no caves inside the mountain, the water would remain stored there. If there were caves, the water would flow down through the cracks.

This bug made use of the drainage ditch. When the eight Heavy Armor Warriors approached, the fire mage used Flame Shield to forcibly blast them into the ditch.

The drainage ditch was about thirty centimeters deep and twenty centimeters wide. Once the Heavy Armor Warriors were blasted into it by Flame Shield, the plate boots on their feet would become stuck in the ditch, leaving them unable to get out and only able to endure the players' attacks.