Humans Appear in the Secret Realm
"Jiu Chen, could you create more skills like yours next time? I think I could buy one."
In the subsequent clearing of the smaller monsters, Blade Shadow and his companions were basically unable to get involved.
Watching Xiao Fan clear out a group of monsters all by himself, Blade Shadow felt envious.
Xiao Fan's skills are amazing, I want them!
Watching another group of robots be destroyed, Xiao Fan clapped his hands and turned to look at the Blade Shadow.
Are you teaching me how to do things?
Blade Shadow:... This sudden line has completely caught me off guard.
It wasn't that Xiao Fan didn't want to create such a skill for Blade Shadow and the others.
He's been developing skills lately and figuring things out.
Skills of the Yellow, Black, and Earth ranks, no matter how complex they are, are essentially physical attacks and do not rise to the level of conceptual attacks.
Only skills at the Heaven Rank or above can transcend the concept of physics and unleash other forms of attack.
Xiao Fan was somewhat disappointed. He had thought it would be an ordinary secret realm, but the iron elemental monsters limited the player's physical output, not to mention that everyone except Blade Shadow had a level advantage.
It's difficult for him to win alone, since his current skills are more geared towards support.
After Xiao Fan eliminated the eighth wave of robots...
The voice rang out again.
Warning! Warning! Complete Human detected. Cleaner failed to remove. Mechanical Overlord, please proceed with the removal!
As the sound rang out, Xiao Fan and his group of nine felt the ground shake.
"Spread!"
Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, a massive metal spine pierced the ground first, like an ancient beast breaking free from its cage. The enormous steel body tore through the earth's crust and slowly rose amidst the swirling yellow sand.
Name: Mechanical Overlord (BOSS)
Level: 15
HP: 6000/6000
The first boss of Cyberpunk City has appeared.
Without a doubt, this is also a robot.
Without any warning, the Mechanical Overlord began scanning the moment it appeared.
Unlike the Cleaner Robot, the Mechanical Overlord was covered in red rays, scanning Xiao Fan and his group of nine in the blink of an eye, leaving them no way to dodge.
"Humans, clean up!"
Xiao Fan suddenly sensed an extreme danger, which made his hair stand on end. Without hesitation, he immediately activated the skill <The Gift of the Saint>.
The next second, the red lines on the Mechanical Overlord transformed into solid lasers, densely packed, leaving nowhere to hide.
The shield provided by the skill absorbed a significant amount of laser damage, but even so, low-level players were almost instantly killed.
Fortunately, the BOSS's skill only lasts for a split second.
"Remote attack."
Upon hearing Xiao Fan's command, the Archer immediately fired an arrow at the BOSS.
Xiao Fan simply wanted to test whether physical attacks were effective against the BOSS.
Unfortunately, he was disappointed.
The only word displayed on the BOSS was "Immune".
"Huh? How come I'm immune to damage?" The Archer fell into self-doubt.
Seeing that his skill cooldown was over, Xiao Fan threw a <Sun and Moon Rotation> skill at the Mechanical Overlord.
The Mechanical Overlord's defenses and systems are far more advanced than those of the robot minions.
Xiao Fan's skill reduced the Mechanical Overlord's health, but failed to disrupt its system.
That makes it very difficult to fight.
Xiao Fan's expression turned ugly.
His damage skill has a long cooldown, even after upgrading it will still be 70 seconds. It's simply unrealistic to rely on him alone to slowly whittle down the boss's health.
"Jiu Chen, why don't we leave the secret realm? This realm is too difficult; we can't get through it." Blade Shadow approached Xiao Fan, his expression extremely grim.
Although he wasn't a particularly skilled player, he didn't even have a chance to make a move in this Level 15 Secret Realm, which was quite frustrating.
Xiao Fan shook his head. "We can't get out."
To exit the instance, the player must be out of combat.
This secret realm is special. As Complete Human caught in the Cleaning Mission by the Mechanical Overlord, they have no way to escape the battle or leave the secret realm.
Blade Shadow's face turned pale. "Then what do we do?"
Xiao Fan also felt that the BOSS's design was very unreasonable.
Some bosses have high physical defense, while others have high magical defense; this is perfectly normal.
However, it's abnormal for a creature like the Mechanical Overlord to be completely immune to physical damage; how are players supposed to fight against it?
But ironically, the BOSS setting is quite reasonable within the Cyberpunk theme of the dungeon.
When the difference in skill level is minimal, swords and spears cannot penetrate steel; who can argue that this is wrong?
The only solution now is to use his God-Tier Skill.
Replace the BOSS's HP and dual resistances with the attributes of the player with the lowest level among them.
But the first boss used his biggest trump card, how are we supposed to fight the rest?
"Forget it, why think so much? Let's just take down this boss and get out of the fight. If all else fails, we'll leave the secret realm."
This was the first time Xiao Fan had ever found a secret realm so troublesome.
It's not a problem with the mechanics, the difficulty, or even the skills; it's simply that we can't beat them.
"Hey, you guys come here right now!"
Just as Xiao Fan was about to use his skill, he suddenly heard a girl's voice.
Is anyone there?
"Who?"
Xiao Fan looked in the direction of the sound.
A large crater appeared where the Mechanical Overlord had appeared, and at that moment, a person wearing a yellow hat was lying at the edge of the crater, waving at them.
"Here! Come here quickly! Hurry up!"
"What's going on? A cutscene started happening halfway through fighting the boss?"
Xiao Fan frowned in thought.
Suddenly I feel like this is very possible!
This boss is designed to be so difficult that players have no way to defeat it; in theory, the game shouldn't leave players with no way to survive.
Perhaps this suddenly appearing NPC is the key to defeating the Mechanical Overlord!
"Someone... How could a human appear in the secret realm!"
Blade Shadow and his companions also saw the girl, and they were all speechless with shock.
The appearance of humans other than players in the secret realm has once again shattered their understanding of the game.
The Mermaid Princess who appeared in the previous Level 10 Trial Secret Realm, although she had a human appearance, was still a fish after all.
What's appearing now are real, living humans!
The girl became even more anxious when she saw that Xiao Fan and the others hadn't moved.
"You can't defeat the Overlord like this. Hurry up and come over, or the Yellow Sands will close!"
"Let's go, let's go over there first!"
From the girl's words, "You can't defeat the Overlord like this," Xiao Fan deduced that she must be a character from the story who was giving them a way to deal with the Overlord.
After unleashing its skill, the Mechanical Overlord seemed to be recovering its energy and hadn't moved for a while. But when it saw Xiao Fan and the others run away, its massive body started moving again.
"Humans, run! Kill!"
Immediately afterwards, Xiao Fan heard the sound of machinery turning behind him.
"The Overlord is about to fire! Run!"
Not far away, the girl in the yellow hat was blushing with anxiety.
"Shot?"
Xiao Fan turned around and noticed nine black gun barrels on the chest of the Mechanical Overlord.
"Holy crap! Run!"
Xiao Fan instantly activated his skill, and the group sped off towards the large pit.
Gunshots rang out behind him, and Xiao Fan was the first to run to the front of the crater.
"Quick! Get down here!"
Xiao Fan turned his head and glanced at the others, who followed suit and immediately jumped into the pit.
"Holy crap, that's so tall!"
Xiao Fan saw the girl lying on it and thought the pit wasn't too high, but when he jumped down, he realized it was quite deep.
Are you alright?
There was actually someone in the pit.