I Finally Got In!

"Ah!"

Boom—

As the boss rapidly closed in, Landfall's pupils shrank. Before he could even react, he was smashed to pieces in the next second, turning into Wax Ash and becoming a wandering soul, his eyes vacant.

"Fuck, I—"

After standing there dumbfounded for a moment, Landfall immediately launched into a string of colorful, heavily censored profanity.

"You were crawling like a snail just now, and the next second you turned into a dump truck going 180, is that it?!"

"What kind of shitty monsters are in this damn cave? Were they specifically designed to disgust mages? The game designers are seriously fucking—"

Landfall was so furious that his face and neck had turned red. As a wandering soul, he pointed at Fire-Igniter Leckmod and cursed him out, but the latter showed no reaction at all, slowly burrowing back into the hole...

He had only managed to deal with the previous monsters by pulling them together and making them fight each other.

To clear the dungeon quickly, he had even abandoned several side paths, thinking he would see whether the boss was easier to fight, clear the dungeon first, and come back later.

But what he had not expected was... the boss had been easy enough to fight at first, yet in the next second, it suddenly turned into a dump truck and rammed him into a mess!

And this was not even the first time Landfall had been hit like that... otherwise, he would not have been so frantic.

After cursing for a while, he let out a long sigh. "Forget it. I'm almost out of wax oil. I'll try one last time. If I still can't beat it, I'm done for now..."

Landfall could only make this miserable decision.

After all, in this dungeon, Living Bone took an extra hit for mages to kill, Howling Sea Anemones could attack from range, and he was fragile. A moment of carelessness could get him killed by regular monsters...

At this point, he could only give up for the time being, or his wax oil would be completely drained.

...This dungeon was really full of malice toward mages!

Compared to the other players, Niuniu's approach was utterly shameless.

When Fire-Igniter Leckmod first emerged, there was a period when it needed to assemble its body.

Most players would probably have treated it as story content or a cutscene and watched it play out.

But Niuniu clearly had no intention of taking the usual path.

After testing it and finding that his body was not restricted, his eyes immediately lit up. Sword in hand, he rushed forward and launched a barrage of sneak attacks, only reluctantly backing away once the other party's body had fully assembled.

Next, he tried pulling monsters together to make them fight each other.

However, that move caused a huge disaster.

Whether it was Living Bone or the Howling Sea Anemones, they simply ignored Fire-Igniter Leckmod and would not attack it at all.

As a result, while Fire-Igniter Leckmod relentlessly pursued him, Niuniu had also drawn the aggro of quite a few other monsters.

"Fuck! Why won't you attack it?!"

Niuniu, who had been smug just moments ago, instantly felt like crying without tears.

Hounded by a swarm of monsters, he was driven into a dead end. In the end, Fire-Igniter Leckmod used Knight's Charge to ram him to death against the stone wall...

In comparison.

Brother Mangzi, who had also entered the cave to explore, was currently enjoying his battle to the fullest.

He was wielding his club against a group of Living Bones, pounding away at them. Shattered bones flew everywhere, and the sound of bone striking bone rang out without end.

Pulling monsters? Tactics? Retreating?

None of those words existed in Brother Mangzi's dictionary.

Back on Candlewood Island, Li Miao and Yuanfang could still hold him back and make him choose more rational methods of fighting.

Brother Mangzi had been willing to cooperate with them. After all, acting on his own in a team would affect everyone else.

But things were different now.

Having entered a solo dungeon, Brother Mangzi felt as though he had arrived in heaven!

Tactics? Fuck tactics!

This old man only had one tactic—charge headfirst!

There was no monster in this world that could not be beaten to death. If one blow was not enough, then he would swing again, and keep swinging until it died!

"Battle!"

Brother Mangzi let out a furious roar that echoed through the entire cave. He completely unleashed his true nature... after all, no one was watching.

Fighting Living Bones was fine. It was just a lot of clanging.

But when he fought Howling Sea Anemones, that was true chaos.

When injured, Howling Sea Anemones would howl incessantly and spit out gastric fluid. Their bloated bellies were also filled with all kinds of viscous organ juices...

"Die!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Roar—blegh..."

Splash!

After that barrage of blows, the Howling Sea Anemone turned straight into a fountain. Organ fluids and gastric juice mixed together and splattered everywhere, creating an utterly gruesome scene...

While some players were still suffering, Li Miao had already met up with Yuanfang beside the entrance to Nearshore Cave.

When Li Miao came out, he saw Yuanfang already waiting quietly.

He felt a little ashamed... as expected of a top player.

His clearing speed was already quite fast, yet Yuanfang had been even faster, and it looked like he had been waiting for quite some time.

The two quickly exchanged information about Nearshore Cave and summarized what they had learned.

It was only from Yuanfang that Li Miao learned that the white currents around Living Bone could resist magical attacks.

"This new dungeon isn't difficult for melee players. As long as they have basic combat skills, it won't be too hard."

"But for mages using wooden staves... it'll be rather troublesome."

Yuanfang summed it up.

Li Miao could not help laughing. "Brother Wei's probably having a rough time right now..."

Just imagining Landfall, who always showed off in front of him, getting bullied by a bunch of regular monsters inside the cave made the corners of Li Miao's mouth rise uncontrollably...

The veteran players' exploration of the new dungeon was in full swing.

Meanwhile, Rogue's work had not stopped.

He planned to release another fifty player slots. Including the friendship slots, the player cap would reach ninety.

Although that was a little crowded for Candlewood Island, Rogue was not worried about overcrowding. Once players became proficient in combat, most of them would head out to sea, while new players would gradually join in.

And today, after accumulating enough wax oil, Rogue summoned three players at once.

However, these three players seemed a little...

After the familiar round of shouting and astonishment, the three players could not help turning their gazes toward one another.

"This Venerable One Suppresses All Enemies? Hiss... your ID looks awfully familiar..."

A player named "Storyteller" stroked his chin and frowned at the player beside him.

"It's that forum troll!"

The remaining player, whose ID was "A Zheng Can't Speak," immediately went for the throat and pointed him out without the slightest restraint.

"..." Rogue.

Rogue, who had been watching the show from the side, could barely hold it together. He remembered this kid too. He had not expected to summon him here as well.

But Rogue was not worried. As one of the Candle Keepers... his authority was absolute!

If someone did not behave, he could just kick them out.

However, just as he was preparing to do exactly that, he suddenly realized that the situation seemed a little different from what he had expected.

"Heh heh..."

This Venerable One, who had sculpted his face into that of an internet-famous male model, suddenly lowered his head and let out a cold laugh.

Storyteller and A Zheng stared at him in confusion.

Rogue raised an eyebrow as well. If this kid dared start a fight in front of him, he could kick him out immediately.

Yet who would have thought that after lowering his head and covering his face as he chuckled twice, This Venerable One would suddenly raise his head to the sky and burst into unrestrained laughter.

"Heh... hahahahahahaha!"

"I got in! I fucking finally got in! Heaven has eyes! Heaven has eyes—hahahahahahaha!"

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