Why Is My Mecha Game Different from Everyone Else's?
Chapter 15

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Everyone immediately began outputting damage. Wang Qiantuo, reminded by Sister Cat, deliberately waited a moment before attacking.

His damage output was significantly higher than everyone else's. If not careful, just a few hits could disrupt the Wolf King's aggro.

Aggro disruption here didn't mean the Wolf King would stop attacking Sword of Miracles and turn on him. Instead, it meant the Wolf King would stop attacking a single target as dictated by the system and randomly attack everyone.

This situation usually occurred the instant aggro transferred, and the probability wasn't low.

Wang Qiantuo, of course, wasn't afraid of the wolf turning on him. With his defense and HP, the wolf could keep him busy for a while.

Not to mention he had high-grade potions...

Sword of Miracles' performance remained formidable. He parried the Wolf King's attacks without taking any damage, using footwork and offensive techniques that Wang Qiantuo couldn't comprehend.

The Wolf King's surprise attacks and crushing bites couldn't harm him in the slightest; in fact, he even seemed to have some leeway.

Everyone followed his rhythm, attacking methodically, and soon pushed the Wolf King's HP down to two-thirds.

As soon as its HP reached two-thirds, the Wolf King broke free from Sword of Miracles and leaped backward, beginning to gather demonic energy. This was the prelude to its skill, Wolf King's Roar.

Wolf King's Roar was the Dire Wolf King's ultimate skill, which summoned a pack of 12 Dire Wolves.

Wang Qiantuo had watched videos of others clearing this dungeon. In those videos, the players had the off-tank pull the summoned wolves the moment the Dire Wolf King summoned them. Then, the party would switch targets to kill the adds, while the main tank kited the Wolf King, waiting for the party's support.

This was also why the dungeon required two tanks. Without two tanks, anyone without a shield would struggle to withstand the pack of Dire Wolves in the early stages.

However, Sword of Miracles and his party's strategy differed from others. During the Dire Wolf King's skill charge time, they bombarded it with their own skills.

-81, -81

Weak Point Break -67, Stun 0.1s

Weak Point Break -33, -33, Stagger 0.1s

The five players' skills hit the Wolf King one after another. Except for Wang Qiantuo, the other four all landed weak point breaks, and Sword of Miracles and Call Me Wushen even achieved stuns.

Wang Qiantuo felt like he was playing a different game than them. How did their beginner skills have crowd control? Were these even beginner skills?

"No need to be confused. This game looks like a typical, fully stat-based online game, but in reality, it has a high degree of freedom.

Hitting different parts of a monster with skills has a high chance of triggering different effects.

It's not that difficult. Just practice more and memorize the weak point locations!"

Yun Zhongge, noticing Wang Qiantuo's confusion from Zero's slower movements, provided an explanation.

"Thank you!" Wang Qiantuo said sincerely.

In this society, no one was obligated to teach you anything. You could choose not to accept someone's kind offer to teach you, but at least you should be grateful.

"Haha, you're welcome!"

The two only exchanged a few words, as they were still fighting a boss. At least show some respect.

However, with its skill interrupted, the Wolf King posed little threat to Sword of Miracles.

After dodging another pounce from the Wolf King, the party pushed its HP down to one-third. The Wolf King initiated its second skill.

The group immediately used their skills to interrupt it, but something unexpected happened. All four players' skills hit weak points, but they didn't trigger any crowd control effects.

"We're done for. Yun Zhonghe, prepare to kite the adds. We..."

Call Me Wushen's words were cut short as a silver beam directly hit the Wolf King.

-850, Stun 0.2s

A massive damage number appeared above the Wolf King's head. Not only did it interrupt its skill, but it also brought the Wolf King to its last sliver of HP.

Simultaneously, the Wolf King's aggro instantly transferred, and it lunged towards Wang Qiantuo.

The four players were momentarily stunned, still thinking about the previous damage, allowing the Wolf King to directly lunge at Wang Qiantuo.

-140

-141

The first damage number was the Wolf King hitting Wang Qiantuo; the second was the damage he dealt back with a single strike.

This single strike directly depleted the Wolf King's remaining HP, causing it to fall to the ground.

"Whoa, Brother Qianwang, what skill was that? 850 damage, that's insane!"

The four ignored the fallen Wolf King. Yun Zhongge directly voiced the question on everyone's mind.

"Don't call me Qianwang. My surname is Wang, just call me Old Wang.

This skill was obtained from a quest, along with the sword."

Wang Qiantuo continued to fabricate a story. He couldn't possibly tell them it was a cash-shop reward, or they'd send him for dissection!

"A 6x attack bonus... is that a Perfect-grade skill?" Canghai Mingyue asked.

"Are you stupid? A skill of this level that can be learned as Perfect would still be Perfect-grade? It's at least Legendary!" Call Me Wushen retorted.

Yun Zhongge: "Indeed. Plus, this skill has crowd control, and its mana cost isn't very high. If it's not instant cast, it should be an area-of-effect skill."

These people are indeed very skilled. With just this little bit of information, they've almost completely analyzed the data for [Chain Lightning] in just a few words.

This requires the deepest understanding of the game, which truly made Wang Qianduo admire them a bit.

"[Chain Lightning]"

Seeing their curiosity, Wang Qianduo directly sent the skill's attributes to the team channel.

"Very strong, I'm envious!"

"Looks like we can pull a few more monsters later, this skill only has a 10-second cooldown."

"This is the first legendary skill I've seen in the game, truly worthy of the name 'legendary'!"

"Alright, stop being envious, your curiosity is satisfied enough. Let's continue the dungeon. Cat Cat, go touch the boss!"

"Roger that!" Call Me Wushen replied.

Miracle Sword seemed to have a lot of authority among them. As soon as he spoke, everyone immediately stopped discussing.

The Terror Wolf boss dropped three items for everyone: a blueprint for an exquisite-grade claw weapon, an exquisite-grade material, and a normal-grade material.

In other games, if a boss dropped this kind of loot, those games might be close to bankruptcy.

But this game has one attitude: play it or don't.

After everyone confirmed Wang Qianduo didn't want it, the blueprint was assigned to Sister Cat.

It's said that claw weapons have always been her favorite, and it's good luck to get one on the first try.

"Brother Qian Wang, what are your attack, defense, and HP?"

As they recovered and walked towards the dungeon exit, Call Me Wushen, who was Sister Cat, asked Wang Qianduo.

Wang Qianduo's equipment advantage was something they, as professional players, couldn't ignore, but they still needed to understand it first.

"Attack 167, Defense 28, HP 1300."

Wang Qianduo thought about it and decided to tell them truthfully. Although he hadn't told them his attack and defense stats, they should have already had a rough estimate in their minds.

But even with an estimate, hearing such monstrous stats still made them a little unable to remain calm.

"F*ck (a plant)"

Yun Zhongge couldn't help but curse.

"It's indeed quite monstrous, but this makes our dungeon run much easier. Listen to my commands later, and we'll clear this normal difficulty dungeon quickly. With your help, maybe we can try for Abyss. By the way, are you going into the Abyss dungeon?" Cat Sister asked, looking at Wang Qianduo.

"Yes, I was just about to ask you. I have a quest here, let's discuss it later. I'll share it with you, and you can see how we can get the highest reward!"

Wang Qianduo shared General Huang's quest with them. He definitely couldn't complete this quest himself. Rather than finding other unreliable teammates, it was better to share it directly with these experts. It would also reduce their suspicion about his equipment sources.

At the same time, although Wang Qianduo hadn't known them for long, he had a good impression of them. With their skills, it was impossible for them not to realize Wang Qianduo was a novice, but they never showed any disdain. This was not easy. Although the mecha obscured his vision, he could still discern their emotions from their words.

"A unique hidden quest, no wonder your equipment is so good!"

"This quest is clearly a long-term one, it seems your rise is unstoppable!"

After looking at the quest, although they tried to appear calm, they couldn't help themselves.

At this moment, everyone on both sides had only one thought: to recruit Wang Qianduo into their guild. With this quest, what if their gameplay was a bit lacking? Gameplay could be improved, but this unique quest was rare and hard to come by. The quest could even be shared. Whichever guild gained his membership would be far ahead of others; at least, establishing an early advantage would be easy. They had to recruit him!

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