Boss System Settings
Setting 1: --Please select your BOSS tactic. This is a 5-player normal difficulty dungeon, and you can choose one BOSS tactic.
Tactic 1, Combat Support. Summon a group of follower monsters to fight alongside you during lulls in the battle.
Tactic 2, Leader of the Army: At the start of battle, lead a group of monster minions.
Tactic 3, Life Enhancement: Increases your health, raising your maximum health by 33%.
Tactic 4, Skill Enhancement: Increases the power of your skills by 20%.
Tactic 5: Conceal your strength. Choose one skill to hide and activate it when your health drops to 20%. The hidden skill will be greatly enhanced.
Tactic 6, Master of Mechanics: Design a mechanism to deal with adventurers in battle.
Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment. He was a magic damage-type BOSS with very low health, so strengthening his health didn't seem to make much sense. The best option was to rely on his skills. Therefore, Tactic 4 and Tactic 5 were both good choices. However, considering that he only had 3,000 health, and 20% would mean 600 health left, which was quite dangerous, he decided to choose Tactic 4 if he wanted to strengthen his skills.
On the other hand, since I rely on skills, having a tank would be a great option, so Tactic 2 is also worth considering. As for whether to choose Tactic 2 or Tactic 4, I'll decide based on what kind of minions I can lead.
Xiao Yu first chose strategy 2, and the system prompted: Based on your past storyline experiences, you can hire the following servants.
1. Goblin Assault Team: A strike team consisting of three goblin Warrior and two goblin scouts.
2. Goblin Labor Team: A labor team consisting of four goblin laborers and two goblin overseers.
3. The troll, a wandering troll.
4. Blackrock Orcs Combat Team: A combat team consisting of three Blackrock Orcs.
5. Fire Elemental, an elite fire elemental from the Fire Elemental Plane -- Selecting this minion will disable your Summon Fire Elemental ability.
There are quite a few options, but unfortunately they're all just ordinary monsters, which don't seem to offer much help in combat. The only elite monster has limitations, which is a bit of a dilemma.
However, considering that elemental creatures are much stronger than ordinary monsters, and they are elites, they are still a worthwhile choice. Okay, you're the one.
System notification: You have selected a fire elemental as your battle companion. It will automatically come to your side when you fight adventurers.
Setting 2 -- Please design your BOSS's dialogue.
As a boss, you can't fight adventurers in silence; you have to say something. But you can't just say anything randomly. To avoid breaking character, you have to design the lines in advance.
The BOSS's lines are divided into entrance lines, switching lines, skill usage lines, Enrage lines, Taunt lines, death lines, etc. Players can design their own BOSS lines, or the system can generate them automatically.
Xiao Yu didn't have the time for that, so he directly chose to have the system generate it.
Next is choosing the skills to use. Unlike world bosses, not all skills can be used in dungeons. Depending on the number of players and the difficulty of the dungeon, the boss can choose a certain number of skills to use in the dungeon.
Since it's only a five-player, normal difficulty dungeon, Xiao Yu can only equip three skills.
He didn't have many skills to begin with, and Summon Fire Elemental was disabled, so choosing wasn't too difficult, and he made his selection quickly.
Then let's use Flame Bomb Storm, Wind Barrier, and Lesser Fireball.
System notification: Skill selection complete, data correction in progress, skill data correction complete.
The skills equipped by dungeon bosses undergo data correction when used in dungeons. This system is designed to prevent game bugs.
[System notification: The cooldown of your Flame Bomb Storm skill has been increased to 20 seconds.]
[System notification: Your Lesser Fireball skill has been enhanced; its power has been increased.]
[System notification: Your Wind Barrier skill has unlimited duration and can be unlocked when your health drops below 30%.]
"Not bad," Xiao Yu thought to himself, "The result of this data correction is acceptable."
Before the battle began, Xiao Yu observed the adventurer team in front of him. The team's class composition was quite reasonable.
A mage, a priest, a Warrior —a classic warrior-mage-priest combination—plus two hunters with pets.
The highest level is the Warrior at level 21, and the lowest is the hunter at level 17. This lineup is a bit challenging for a level 18 boss, but it's still acceptable.
Seeing that the adventurers were ready, a goblin jumped onto the stage, picked up a megaphone, and started shouting.
Goblin Host: "Ladies and gentlemen, orcs and goblins, all monsters of Westfall, welcome to the Death Arena! Here, blood and death unfold daily. So, who will bring us this spectacle today? Behold, a group of adventurers from Stormwind City have inadvertently stumbled into our territory. Now, they face only two paths: victory or death. Who will end their reign? Who will claim victory? Will they pass the test and leave with their spoils, or will they stain the sands with blood, becoming yet another sacrifice in the Death Arena? Let us wait and see!"
After saying this, the goblin host picked up a stick and slammed it hard against the gong in front of him, officially starting the dungeon battle.
"Hey, Big Brother, all set?" The one who spoke was the level 17 hunter. It was his first time running a dungeon today, so he was a little nervous.
"Don't worry, I checked the strategy guide for this dungeon on the forum. As long as we coordinate well, we can definitely beat it!"
The Warrior, referred to as the Big Brother," raised his steel shield. "I'll hold off any monsters, you guys just focus on healing and I'll unleash my full damage potential. If any mobs are pulled away by the hunter, it'll be fine. Everyone get ready, the mobs are about to spawn."
Before they could finish speaking, a group of kobolds had already been driven into the arena.
These pathetic kobolds are only level three to five on average. Although there are quite a few of them, they don't seem to have any chance of winning.
"Let us out! Help!" Upon entering the arena and seeing the five adventurers before them, the kobolds immediately screamed in terror. Clearly, even with their pitiful intelligence, they could see that they were no match for these adventurers. The monsters in the stands burst into laughter, showing no sympathy whatsoever for the fact that everyone was a monster.
"Ha, looks so weak." A hunter said, firing an arrow. The battle instantly erupted. One kobold was shot dead, and the remaining kobolds, seeing no way to dodge, had no choice but to charge forward, brandishing their pickaxes.
In less than two minutes, the kobolds were lying dead everywhere, all of them were gone.
"That's really easy!" the hunter exclaimed in surprise. "It looks like it has absolutely no difficulty."
This time, the Big Brother shook his head instead, "Don't be careless, this is just a warm-up challenge; the challenges that follow will get progressively tougher."
Sure enough, the second wave consisted of two orcs that had been captured from who-knows-where. Both were around level 13 or 14, much stronger than the previous kobolds. However, the result was the same: they were easily killed. The third wave consisted of a pack of wolves, which was a bit more difficult this time. Although they were eventually wiped out without taking any damage, the priest had consumed a third of his mana.
The Big Brother said, "Everyone, hurry up and eat and drink. A boss will spawn every three waves of monsters in this dungeon. The boss is coming soon."
Sure enough, no sooner had the Warrior finished speaking than a gruff voice rang out from the stands, "A bunch of useless trash. Looks like I'll have to step in." Before the words were even finished, a burly minotaur leaped off the stands.
Aristock (Tauren Warrior): "I am Aristock, the Tauren! Now, let me have some fun with you."
Goblin Host: "Look! It's the Tauren Warrior from Kalimdor! This ferocious Tauren has killed countless adventurers during his wandering journey. Today, facing a well-equipped adventurer team, what will the outcome be? Let's wait and see!"