Wotkud's First Death

On the monitor screen, the battle in the Lost Temple continued. In this massive raid involving 100,000 players, most adventure teams were able to defeat the first two bosses relatively easily, with a maximum of two or three wipes, before they could summarize their winning strategies.

However, a large number of teams got stuck on the third boss, Lady Xiwadelin. After all, not everyone has experience with the Naga Cavern dungeon. Lady Xiwadelin's Mutation Control and Resurrection Mutation skills are incredibly powerful, and it will definitely take repeated attempts to find a solution.

By the end of the first day the dungeon was open, only thirty-seven teams had defeated this boss and entered the room of the fourth boss.

The fourth boss in the Lost Temple dungeon is the Mermaid Ariel, a 4-skull-level boss with 5.17 million HP.

This Ariel is none other than Qin Shiyue from the Song of the Ocean Guild.

Ariel is undoubtedly the most beautiful character in the entire dungeon. Mermaids are a beautiful race to begin with, and with the added beauty of her royal bloodline, adventurers who see Ariel for the first time are amazed. Many adventurers from Horde even called for a vote to have the game company change the new race Naga, into a mermaid.

Strictly speaking, Ariel is not a subordinate of the Elemental King, but more like an ally. However, since the Elemental King became the Destroyer, the mermaid was forced to join the bandwagon. Because she doesn't have the [World Destroyer's Servant] buff, her skeleton level is not high, but her strength is surprisingly powerful.

Because she has the added bonus of the Lord template, and as a descendant of the mermaid royal family, she has the blood of the sea god flowing through her veins and possesses incredibly powerful magic.

As a result, all thirty-seven teams got stuck in front of this boss.

Ariel (Mermaid Queen): "I am Ariel, the Ariel, daughter of the Sea God. My kingdom is shattered, and now only Lord Azathoth can help me restore my people's glory. Adventurers, I am sorry that I must fight you. I hope that when you die, your souls can rest in the embrace of the sea. Now, face the power of the sea!"

This line quickly became everyone's nightmare, because they had to hear it again and again, only to be wiped out as a result.

The entire Ariel boss battle is divided into five phases.

In the first phase, as usual, it's a freebie; the Mermaid Queen will only use two skills: Summon Mermaid Guard and Frost Spray.

In the second stage, the difficulty increases as the Mermaid Queen unlocks two skills: Summon Lobster Man and Frostbolt Rain.

In the third phase, the difficulty increases further. The Mermaid Queen unlocks two skills: Summon Dragon Turtle and Tidal Fury. Since the Dragon Turtle also has the AOE skill Ocean Current Impact, the bombardment of the triple AOE magic caused most teams to experience their first wipe at this point.

The fourth stage is incredibly difficult. The Mermaid Queen will use the skills Summon Sea Giant and Ocean Storm. The continuous damage from the Ocean Storm, combined with the crushing attacks of the Sea Giants, makes any adventurer team that reaches this stage almost helpless, resulting in complete annihilation.

The fifth stage is not as difficult as imagined. The Mermaid Queen will use the Sea God's Avatar skill, transforming into the Sea God and possessing powerful divine spellcasting abilities. Her destructive power is incredibly explosive. Basically, adventurers at full health and full condition will be killed in about fifteen seconds without using damage reduction or survival skills, and healing will not be able to keep up. However, in the Sea God's Avatar state, the Mermaid Queen will continuously lose health, so as long as you can survive for one minute without being wiped out, you can get through it.

But even that one minute left most adventure teams completely helpless. However, people eventually found a way to break through it, including the Glory War Soul Guild.

Ariel (Mermaid Queen): "Face the power of the sea god!" With a furious shout, Ariel's body suddenly grew enormous, and a hazy phantom overlapped with her. The fallen sea god appeared once again before everyone.

This is the seventh time For Glory War Soul has reached Phase 5. In the past, they were wiped out in less than 30 seconds each time, but this time they were well prepared.

War Soul King: "It's Phase 5 now. As planned, everyone heal those Paladin. If we can hold out for 60 seconds, we'll win!" War Soul King roared. Under the Mermaid Queen's powerful magical attacks, the team quickly suffered casualties, and soon only four Paladin remained, all within twenty seconds.

"Let's activate Divine Shield together!"

Divine Shield! All four Paladin simultaneously erected protective shields, becoming Invincible for a full 15 seconds.

No matter how powerful the magic was, the four Paladin protected by the Divine Shield remained unharmed.

The instant the Divine Shield effect wore off— Divine Protection! Both Paladin simultaneously cast this strongest protective spell on their ally.

Divine Protection: Sacrifice your own life to summon powerful Holy Light, making you Invincible for 15 seconds.

Two Paladin fell, but the other two held on for another 15 seconds, just as time was about to expire.

Divine Protection! One of the Paladin cast this spell on another Paladin, and then he too fell.

Finally, she held on for another 10 seconds, and at that moment, Ariel's health reached zero.

Ariel (Mermaid Queen): "No, this is impossible! The power of the sea god is Invincible! My mission is not yet complete, the glory of my people has not yet been restored, I—I am not reconciled!"

With a scream, the Mermaid Queen finally collapsed.

The War Soul King and his team cheered, but unfortunately they weren't the first team to defeat the Mermaid Queen. Four other teams had already cleared the boss before them.

However, the loot is still plentiful. This mermaid queen drops all sorts of top-tier magic-based equipment, including the legendary item [Mermaid Empress's Crown], but unfortunately, it only drops in hard mode.

This time, because it was on normal difficulty, only six epic items dropped.

After dividing the spoils, For Glory War Soul set off for the next boss.

Behind the screen, Xiao Yu didn't feel much about Ariel's death, because it was her own choice. Losing a mermaid queen was rewarded with the game company's full investment in the Song of the Ocean Guild, as well as a series of benefits such as advertising endorsements. Qin Shiyue could be said to have gotten what she wanted.

But the fifth boss next made him a little worried.

Sairen (High Priestess of the Sea), a 5-skull level boss with 6.23 million HP.

Sairen were among his old subordinates, the first to join him and the boss who followed him through the Maelstrom to Hydra City. Now, she has become the fifth boss of the Lost Temple.

It was already the third day that the players were able to reach the Sairen.

Sairen (High Priestess of the Sea): "Lord Azathoth's glory must not be tarnished. This is a sacred place. Intruders, you will pay the price for your insolence."

Like the mermaid Ariel, the boss Sairen is also a magic-based boss. Generally speaking, magic-based bosses cannot be defeated by simple tactics such as tanks holding aggro, healers adding good DPS to keep attacking. Magic-based bosses do not have such high requirements for tanks, but they require a very high level of overall teamwork and coordination.

The Sairen are divided into three phases.

In the first stage, it possesses two skills Tidal Fury and Summon Water Elemental.

The second stage grants the user two skills: Song of the Ocean and Summon Sea Elemental.

In the third stage, it possesses two skills: Ocean Storm and Summon Deep Sea Elemental.

Sairen's skill set is somewhat similar to Ariel's, but overall weaker. However, due to the [World Destroyer's Servant] buff, her skills are much more powerful. But like Ariel, after adventurers repeatedly wipe out their party and figure out the patterns and tactics of her skills, Sairen will still be unable to escape death.

Sairen (High Priestess of the Sea): "Is this the end? So dark, so cold. This is not the ending I foresaw. But if this is fate, I will accept it. The sea will devour my soul. Lord Azathoth, please forgive my failure."

Watching the Sairen fall on the screen, Xiao Yu felt a pang of sorrow, yet the battle continued.

The sixth boss, the Elemental Elders Council, is a combined boss consisting of a Deep Sea Elemental Elder, a Sea Elemental Elder, a Water Elemental Elder, and an Ice Elemental Elder.

This boss has become even stronger. Although each of them is quite ordinary, and may even be inferior to the Little Murloc boss, the four of them together are a different story.

Because all four elemental elders possess area-of-effect attack skills, the sea elemental elder's ultimate skill is Lightning Storm, the deep sea elemental elder's ultimate skill is Maelstrom, the Water Elemental's ultimate skill is Blizzard, and the ice elemental elder's ultimate skill is Frost Burst.

Furthermore, the skills of these four bosses can be stacked on each other. For example, after the Water Elemental Elder freezes the enemy with his Blizzard, the Ice Elemental Elder can use Frost Burst to deal 200% damage, which is almost an instant kill.

After the Deep Sea Elemental Elder uses the Maelstrom, the Sea Elemental Elder's Lightning Storm will also receive an enhanced conductivity effect.

The combination of the Water Elemental Elder's Blizzard and the Deep Sea Elemental Elder's Maelstrom will also produce a special effect: it will turn the Maelstrom into an ice whirlpool, Freeze adventurers in place for a long time until they die.

To figure out this rhythm, the adventurer teams died and died again until the fifth day when they finally found a way to break it. The method was to have four tanks each hold one of the four elemental elders, and then focus their fire on them, constantly controlling the health of the four elemental elders to ensure that their skills were not released at the same time. It had to be very precise. The four elemental elders would only use their ultimate skills at specific health levels. As long as they could ensure that two of them would not use their ultimate skills at the same time, they could survive and finally defeat the BOSS.

By the end of the first week, only five teams had defeated the Elemental Elders Council.

Deep within the Lost Temple, they encountered the final boss of this instance—Boss #6, Water Elemental Lord Walter Kud, a 6-skull-level boss with 10.45 million health.

Wotkud (Water Elemental Lord): "Adventurers? I'm quite surprised that you've arrived here. It seems the others have failed. But it doesn't matter. As long as I have a breath left, I will never allow you to take the Lost Temple. Lord Azathoth entrusted me with the task of guarding the Lost Temple. Only by stepping over my dead body can you seize it. Now, face the power of the Pure Water Stream."

Wotkud, as the final boss of this expansion, is undoubtedly the most powerful one in this dungeon. His skills are relatively standard, just like those of any Water Elemental Lord.

However, the skill's power is surprisingly astonishing. This BOSS cannot be defeated by some tricks. Both tanks and ordinary team members must have extremely high qualities to defeat it.

However, these five adventure teams that made it this far have nothing to lack. They are all top-tier guilds in the game, and in terms of equipment and tactics, they are absolutely the best in the game.

Furthermore, they prepared a large amount of ice resistance equipment and ice resistance potions for this dungeon.

As a result, the boss, Wotkud, only lasted three days before being defeated. The first kill honor was won by a Horde guild, Ironblood Heart Guild.

Wotkud (Water Elemental Lord): "My life has come to an end, adventurers. You have won, but it is meaningless. Lord Azathoth will reign supreme, the will of the Elemental King will rise, and all your efforts will be in vain. Soon, the Elemental Tide will engulf this world. Sadly, I will not live to see that day. The Immortals —immortal, eternal! Ah!!!"

With a scream, Wotkud, the powerful Water Elemental Lord and the most loyal servant of the Elemental King, exploded into a spray of water.

As Xiao Yu looked at the scene on the screen, he suddenly felt something inside him shatter, and a bitter feeling spread across his lips.