The First 138th: Momeidejia
The final boss, Bai Tianyu, remained unchanged, as if he were not important in this Instance Dungeon.
That's pathetic, they have absolutely no prestige!
In addition to the weakening and strengthening of bosses, some changes have also been made to the Instance Dungeon rules.
That means that once the Instance Dungeon starts, Player can leave a party but cannot join a new one, and parties that are short of members cannot recruit new members.
This was specifically targeted at several large guilds, who changed nearly two-thirds of their players when fighting the first and second bosses.
This update to the Instance Dungeon is basically useless for Normal Player, since they can't even get past the Stone Giant Brothers.
That's not quite right. Actually, it was still somewhat useful; at least they found out the name of the next boss.
For Old Wang and his group, this was crucial. Lowering the difficulty of the second boss and increasing the difficulty of the third boss almost brought the leading guilds to a level playing field.
Because Old Wang could no longer instantly kill Momeidejia, the Future Guild's progress would lag behind several other guilds that had already been wiped out by him for an entire day.
The Arena update affects everyone.
Recovery-type consumables can no longer be used in the Arena, and some special consumables have also been restricted.
Skills of Rare or higher will immediately go on cooldown upon entering the Arena, and can only be used after the cooldown ends.
Equipment skills are not subject to this restriction, and the value of some Special Equipment is about to skyrocket.
After reviewing the entire update, Old Wang sensed a strong sense of malice.
These things seem to apply to everyone, but who has been weakened more than him?
It doesn't matter anyway, he's cheating. As long as the cheats aren't banned, what can they do?
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"This is basically like fighting the third boss for the first time. Have you guys crafted your gear yet?"
The next day, after everyone logged on and gathered, Sister Hua asked them a question.
"We've already crafted the Rare, but we're still missing Instance Dungeon materials for the Perfect," Lin Qimeng.
"That means there's an improvement, so it should be easier to win!"
"When we fight the second boss later, Old Wang, don't use your ultimate skill. Let's test our true strength."
"That's right!"
As they talked, they entered the Instance Dungeon. After learning about the Stone Giant Brothers' skills, they realized that any team with a decent setup could easily clear it.
So naturally, it wasn't difficult for Old Wang and his team, but this time they didn't get any Perfect Equipment blueprints.
The next Blazing Lion Er Duo, became much easier after everyone had arranged their positions.
Although it was a difficult journey, the group still managed to capture him at the cost of 40 lives.
This time, Old Wang didn't use his ultimate move; he was taken down entirely through the team's coordinated efforts.
The two bosses were defeated in one fell swoop, which gave everyone a lot of confidence. Next, they would face Momeidejia, the boss who had been delayed yesterday.
He steadily and surely depleted his first bloodline and launched Desperate Counterattack, thus entering his second form.
The attributes of the other form are just so-so; with 50,000 HP, it won't last long against the combined attacks of the group.
Moreover, he is susceptible to being controlled, which means he can't handle it even with minimal effort from the group.
Then, using his Desperate Counterattack skill, he unleashed his second form.
With his health nearly depleted, he leaped into the suddenly opened underground cave beneath his feet, a cave filled with terrifying insect-like monsters.
As soon as Momeidejia jumped in, his figure vanished instantly, and a terrifying and disgusting figure appeared before everyone shortly afterward.
"Be careful, it's the second phase. Everyone remember to dodge skills and take out your prepared items!" Sister Hua immediately said to everyone.
Although they hadn't fought the boss before, that didn't prevent them from obtaining some information about it.
You can buy more than just equipment from Fatty You.
"This is absolutely inhuman!"
The crowd looked at the giant centipede that Momeidejia had transformed into, with two scythe-shaped claws, and felt Lingering Fear.
Momeidejia - Cyborg Form
Lord
LV30
HP: 300000
MP:30000
Attack: 640
Defense: 60
Skills: Claw Strike, Acid Spit, Poison Mist, Spine Spray, Muscle Enhancement, Carapace Enhancement,???
Note: Momeidejia had completely given up on being a human being; anger had utterly destroyed him.
At this moment, Momeidejia had become an immovable arena boss, firmly blocking the building where the final boss, Bai Tianyu, was located.
His upper body was a giant, human-faced centipede with two sickle-shaped claws, and his lower body was a constantly surging mass of Mutant Insect.
His appearance right now is absolutely disgusting—it's utterly repulsive!
As soon as the modified Momeidejia appeared, purple Poison Mist began to appear and spread across the field.
Everyone has seen this fog before; it's from the World Boss Hill. He relies on this skill to remain one of the most difficult bosses for Player to defeat.
When dealing with Hill, Old Wang could use consumables to cure the poison, but now he can't.
However, the group was not without a way to deal with this skill. They learned about the boss's skills from Fatty You and prepared a countermeasure.
Two exhaust fans were brought out by the group, and the Poison Mist was immediately guided away. This was the method people used to deal with Hill.
With the Poison Mist contained, everyone immediately began attacking.
Since Momeidejia cannot move during this phase, this is a boss that doesn't require tanking; everyone just needs to dodge the skills and deal damage.
The Future Guild adjusted its team structure for this raid; 10 Defense Mech were too many, only 5 were needed.
Initially, they decided to find 10 Defense Mech because they were worried that the monsters in the Instance Dungeon would deal too much damage.
They should have changed the configuration yesterday, but Old Wang and others weren't the kind of qualified managers who could bring themselves to do it.
To put it bluntly, they are somewhat indecisive, which is one area where they need to grow.
Although the group had made some preparations before entering the battle, they were still somewhat flustered.
In its field form, Momeidejia has only three attack methods: Claw Strike for melee, flying spikes for ranged attacks, and random area-of-effect Acid Spray.
However, Claw Strike or a flying dagger will reduce a target's health to half, while Acid Spray will instantly kill the target.
At the same time, his flying dagger skills are very dense, just like the bullet hell in a shooting game.
Acid Spray is an area-of-effect (AOE) skill. Even if it sprays onto the ground, you can't touch it before the acid disappears, or you'll die within two seconds.
This is a boss in the Momeidejia phase that truly tests your skills. This battle is practically a skill-dodging show by professional players like Sword of Miracles and Song in the Clouds.
They were basically unaffected by any of his attacks, even in the later stages, they used various skill mechanics to dodge all of his attacks.
Old Wang's performance in this battle also impressed Sword of Miracles and others. Apart from being hit by the boss once because he was too greedy for output, he was not injured again.
"Well done, Old Wang! You've made great progress!"
After Momeidejia was defeated and fell into the cave in the second phase, the group waiting for him to enter the third phase spoke to Wang Qianduo.
"I go to the Training Ground to practice for at least two hours every day, so isn't improvement to be expected?" Wang Qianduo said dismissively.
He has top-tier players to consult and countless resources at his disposal. If he were to remain stagnant, that would be the real problem, okay?
"Great! All that effort wasn't for nothing!"
"Can hard work be wasted? Your efforts won't lie."
"No problem! But you're quite adept at spouting motivational platitudes!"
"Hahaha!"
"Stop talking about that, he's about to enter the third stage, let's proceed according to plan!" Sister Hua said.
Everyone nodded, confirming that it was indeed a post-VIP, third-stage Momeidejia emerging from Underground, or rather, it could no longer be called Momeidejia.
Nightmare Centipede King
Lord
LV30
HP: 300000
MP:30000
Attack: 640
Defense: 60
Skills: Ambush, Tail Sweep, Dig, Dark Ball, Darkness Burst, Shadow Armor, Rampage
Note: Those who manipulate nature will ultimately be destroyed by nature!
At this stage, Momeidejia is actually dead; the enemy now facing the people is the Nightmare Centipede King.
It is no smaller than Momeidejia in the second phase, but it is a boss that can move freely.
And he's very fast, but that's not the key point.
Because it has completely transformed from a humanoid boss into a beast-like one, it is particularly vulnerable to Taunt- type skills; its speed alone is insufficient to make the most of it.
However, according to intelligence, the trouble with this boss lies in its skill called Shadow Shield Armor.
This is a passive skill that provides a Dark Element shield.
Dark Element inherently reduces damage from all attributes except Light Element, and passive defensive skills provide even greater reduction.
Not to mention, this skill has a very annoying characteristic: attacking it with skills other than those of the Light Element has a 5% chance of inflicting a negative status effect that lasts for 5 seconds.
These negative states include dizziness, silence, and blindness, which are extremely nasty forms of control or hard control.
That's not the most important thing. Once Player has a negative status effect, they will be hit by his Shadow Ball after 3 seconds.
Random negative status effects are annoying enough, not to mention the Shadow Ball skill that's coming at any moment, not to mention the full-screen skill Darkness Burst.
Although it is countered by Light Element Mecha, there are only a few Light Element Mecha in the entire fleet.
In any case, the only Future Guild who can be considered to Light Element in the future are Old Wang's Lord of the Elements and Yu Xiaoxin's Spark of Light.
If the previous stage tested the Player's skills, then this stage will test the capabilities of the Support Mech in each guild.
Therefore, no other guild has been able to defeat this boss so far. The only guild to clear it in the Future is still relying on Old Wang's delayed skill.
However, the Hard at this stage are actually relative to other guilds; they are not worried about the Future because they possess the strongest support skills in the game.
"Sapokere"—no, it's "the Sunlight Fills the Sky!"
"Everyone switch to DPS mode and get him killed!"
As the sun rose, the Nightmare Centipede King let out a painful howl, while the members of the Future Guild were as energetic as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
Although they will still be afflicted with negative status effects, they will be purified in the next instant.
The Dark Centipede's light didn't last more than a few seconds before turning to ashes. Everyone was still at full health when it was destroyed.
OK, that's easy!
"Let's open the box, and then we'll go play with Maka Baka!"