Shameless Adventurers

24 spell slots may not sound like many, but once the opponent's spell slots are exhausted, even the strongest spellcaster becomes useless.

"Are you sure?" the Sword of the Fallen Angel asked, somewhat skeptical.

"Don't worry, I have a plan."

However, despite his confident demeanor, Xiao Yu was not as confident as he appeared on the surface.

To be honest, this was the first time Xiao Yu had ever encountered such an unreasonable boss that could wipe out a group of players with a single spell.

In the MMORPGs he had played before, due to the design of health and attributes, in order to ensure the balance of the game, no matter how powerful the BOSS was, even if it was a god, it was impossible for it to kill people easily. As long as you can enter a game dungeon, it means that you have the qualification to challenge that BOSS. As long as your strength is not too weak, you must have the hope of defeating the BOSS when fighting against other players.

Even if the BOSS has some powerful moves, they are usually used later in the game. Even the most useless player can still exchange blows with the BOSS.

Therefore, as long as players focus on increasing their attributes, developing skills, and accumulating equipment, they will always find opportunities to defeat bosses.

However, the BOSS in this game is nothing like that. One "Let the Dead Return to Death" can take your life, and one "Chain Lightning" can wipe out a whole group. It's completely different from previous games.

This completely unfamiliar game mode left even a veteran player feeling somewhat bewildered.

How exactly to play the game became a problem for the first time, proving that innovation isn't always a good thing.

However, despite feeling bewildered, he absolutely could not show it. As the team leader, Xiao Yu knew very well that he had to always present a confident expression. In a sense, boasting and acting like a master was one of the qualities a team leader must possess.

"Alright, we still have three chances, what's the rush? Let's go prepare for the second boss!" As he spoke, Xiao Yu led the team to trigger the battle.

After the flesh giant is defeated, the adventurers will next face the second boss, the skeleton knight.

This skeletal knight, riding a skeletal warhorse and wielding a long bone spear, guarded the Hall of Bones, surrounded by four skeleton servants.

Xiao Yu stood outside the BOSS room for a while, observing the Charge. He felt that this BOSS should be stronger than the previous flesh giant, at least there were four more minions. And since it was a knight BOSS, it should be able to Charge. If it charged to Salina, it might pose a great threat to her.

After a moment of contemplation, Xiao Yu turned to the group and said, "Very good, I've basically figured it out. The strategy for this time is this: I'll cast a Darkness Domain on Salina in a bit. While her vision is obscured, we'll attack in groups of three or four, continuously depleting her spells. With the help of our Skeleton Knight BOSS, we should be able to exhaust her spell slots. Alright, everyone, get ready."

Next, Xiao Yu became somewhat conflicted. He could now level up, and he had been debating whether to upgrade the Skeleton Swordsman or the Blasphemers. But now he felt there was no need to overthink it. Against a boss like this, a level one divine spell was far too ineffective. It was better to take a gamble and see what skills the Memory Fragments could provide.

With that in mind, he immediately chose to upgrade the Skeleton Swordsman's level.

With a flash of white light, Xiao Yu leveled up.

System notification: You have leveled up. Your current level is 'Level 4 Skeleton Swordsman/Level 1 Blasphemers'. You have obtained a new Memory Fragments, which you can view in your skill bar.

Xiao Yu opened the skill bar and activated the Memory Fragments directly.

Then, some memories suddenly appeared in his mind, and he mastered a new skill.

Skill Name: Deadly Throw.

Skill Description: Throw your weapon to attack a distant enemy. There is a chance to trigger Critical Strike. After using this skill, your weapon will temporarily disappear for 30 seconds, or until you pick it up again.

This skill is pretty good. Most importantly, it's a ranged skill, and because it's a dual-wielding weapon, it can be thrown twice.

Before long, Salina appeared in the Hall of Bones. It seemed that her spell slots had been fully restored, and she still had that leisurely gait. However, there was a hint of seriousness in her eyes, indicating that the previous battle had made her take this dungeon more seriously.

Soon, the boss battle began when Salina summoned a level 5 otherworldly creature.

This time, she summoned a ferocious ape from purgatory, a monster over three meters tall with bulging muscles that resembled a demonic muscle man.

She immediately unleashed a Chain Lightning, instantly killing four small monsters and injuring the Skeleton Knight. The Skeleton Knight then charged at her, but the foolish Skeleton Knight was immediately restrained by the Infernal Ferocious Ape. Salina remained a bystander, but this time, instead of leisurely pulling out a small stool to watch the spectacle, she cautiously observed her surroundings.

"Great, let's go too! Three at a time!"

This time, Xiao Yu still didn't have much hope. He was still observing, trying to see what kind of strength this female mage, Salina, really possessed.

He had roughly figured out that the staff in Salina's hand was probably the source of the Flame Missiles. When the three Zombie Jiangshi appeared first, Salina immediately started using the Flame Missiles to clear out these small monsters.

They released seven Flame Missiles in total before switching to Magic Missile.

Based on this, the opponent's staff should be able to be used seven times.

Then he discovered a second problem: when Salina was hit by a fierce Charge from the skeletal knight, cracks were clearly visible in her Mage Armor, indicating that a sufficiently powerful attack could penetrate the protective magic.

Furthermore, when Salina was too slow in clearing monsters, a skeleton Warrior rushed up to her and swung his axe twice in succession, causing the cracks in her Mage Armor to become even larger.

As wave after wave of monsters appeared, Salina's magic became noticeably more refined. Instead of using level four spells like Chain Lightning, she tried to clear out the monsters with level one and two spells.

Some spells that Xiao Yu had never seen before also appeared.

When the last person fell, Salina had used up 23 spell slots and all the Flame Missiles from her equipment.

Despite being wiped out once again, Xiao Yu's confidence in defeating Salina grew even stronger.

"That's about it," Xiao Yu thought. He had basically figured out how Salina dealt with the monsters. It seemed like there should be four monsters in one spawn, because to quickly clear out four monsters, he had to use high-level spells, otherwise the monsters would rush up to her and attack before he could kill them all.

The Mage Armor has a limited number of attacks it can withstand; it can be destroyed after being attacked by ordinary monsters about ten times.

With the added cost of defeating the BOSS, Xiao Yu confident he could exhaust his opponent's magic in the next BOSS battle.

"Boss, is this even working? We've worn her down so much and she's still not dead." After the battle ended and they respawned, everyone started complaining.

Xiao Yu thought to himself, "What a bunch of useless trash. They've only been wiped out twice and they're already complaining. No wonder they're a random team."

"Don't worry, I've already found a way to defeat her. I'll take care of her next time," Xiao Yu.

However, reality played a cruel joke on Xiao Yu. The third boss, the Ghost Wizard, should theoretically be stronger than the previous two bosses, but the problem was that he was a magic-type boss, and as everyone knows, magic-type bosses are inherently very fragile.

Especially since this ghost wizard is a ghost with ridiculously low health, he would be incredibly powerful against physical attackers (ghosts are immune to physical attacks). The problem is, he's facing a mage.

Unlike other games where bosses have huge health bars, this game's Ghost Wizard gave Xiao Yu the impression that it only had a few dozen health points and relied entirely on magic.

Before anyone could even get a chance to appear, Salina had already used several powerful Astral Plane spells to instantly kill the ghost wizard; the battle lasted only a dozen seconds.

This left Xiao Yu quite frustrated. Fortunately, there was one last chance, which was also the final boss of this dungeon— the Corpsefire.

"Alright everyone, don't be discouraged. We'll definitely get through this time. As the final boss, the Corpsefire can definitely hold out for a while. Once the fight starts, just follow our plan."

Xiao Yu's tactic this time was simple: first, use cannon fodder to deplete Salina's spell slots, and then all of them would gang up on her. If she only had Flame Missiles left, her firepower would be limited, and everyone could rush up to her. As long as they broke through her Mage Armor before everyone was dead, they could kill her.

At the start of the final battle, Salina summoned another level 5 summoned creature to fight Corpsefire. However, Corpsefire was the final boss and was clearly stronger than Salina's summoned creature, so Salina had to buff her summoned creature with Fire Damage Resistance.

As soon as the battle began, Xiao Yu sent his men up in groups of four to die.

Since Salina couldn't kill them with Flame Missiles, she could only use spells to keep clearing them out.

After sending out several waves of spells, Xiao Yu calculated that Salina's spell slots were almost used up, but Xiao Yu's group only had seven people left.

Because of the well-arranged number of participants, there were actually three more than the first time.

"Holy gods, grant me your power and protect me from any harm!" -- Lesser Divine Favor.

With a flash of golden light, a protective layer appeared on Xiao Yu's body.

"Alright, now's the time! Everyone, charge!"

This time, Xiao Yu did not choose to disperse the formation, as that would be too wasteful of time. He had already calculated that Salina had no spell slots left, and a group of Undead swarmed forward.

Salina was momentarily stunned, not expecting that the Undead who had come to their deaths in the previous few days would suddenly increase.

However, she only had the Flame Missiles left to use, so she had to call out names one by one.

Three of them were killed in the blink of an eye, but the remaining few rushed up to her.

He started wildly slashing at Salina with his weapon.

Ripples immediately spread through the air around Salina.

The Mage Armor began to crack under the attack.

"Now— Guiying Wuzong!"

Having understood, the leader instantly appeared behind Salina Guiying Wuzong, while Xiao Yu thrust forward with his twin swords crossed from the front.

Faced with attacks from both sides, Salina seemed a little flustered. However, because the previous Guiying Wuzong had left such a deep impression on her, she instinctively threw a Fireball at her face.

Kill the Guiying Wuzong.

Right now, Xiao Yu unleashed a flurry of sword Consecutive Sword Strikes, all three strikes piercing the same spot on the Mage Armor. With a crack, Salina's Greater Mage Armor shattered.

"How is this possible!" With a cry of surprise, Salina turned around abruptly, but it was too late. Two longswords, one on each side, pierced Salina's body simultaneously, and then were pulled out with a swift motion.

Blood immediately flowed freely.

Haha, let's see if you don't die! Xiao Yu felt a surge of excitement.

Salina then raised her hand and fired Flame Missiles that sent Xiao Yu staggering back several steps. Fortunately, he was protected by Divine Favor and survived the attack.

Salina, covered in blood, took two steps back, then suddenly pulled a bottle of medicine from her pocket and gulped it down.

"Damn it! "Xiao Yu thought to himself, "Shameless! Fighting while drinking potions!"

Not only that, but Salina then gritted her teeth, pulled a magic scroll from her pocket, and was about to tear it open.

"Damn, there are magic scrolls too?" Xiao Yu was immediately shocked. He had planned everything perfectly, but he had overlooked this consumable item.

Seeing that his opponent was about to cast another spell, Xiao Yu, in a moment of desperation, suddenly threw his long sword.

Deadly Throw! With a soft thud, the sword struck the female mage's hand, pinning it to the wall.

Immediately after, Xiao Yu delivered another Deadly Throw, sending a second sword flying through Salina's chest.

With a soft "plop," the female mage was pinned to the wall.

This time, it was finally hopeless. Salina struggled a couple of times, then stopped moving.

Thank goodness, the guy is finally dead. The few people still standing exchanged glances, all of them showing a mixture of excitement and lingering fear.

Although this boss had so little health, and was killed with just a dual-sword combo and two Deadly Throw, it felt more daunting than any other boss I'd encountered before. Nevertheless, it was defeated.

Check what's fallen.

Everyone spoke excitedly, but the most excited were undoubtedly Guiying Wuzong, Xiao Yu, and the Sword of the Fallen Angel. No wonder, none of the three had made a move in the previous assignments, they were just waiting for this moment.

This boss dropped a total of four items.

A staff, the very one the BOSS held.

A ring, made of mithril with a sapphire set in it, clearly not an ordinary item.

A magic scroll, it seems to be the one that was almost used.

Finally, there was a black hardcover notebook.