Hidden Gold Vault
Black Rod then gave a general overview of the two copies.
The first dungeon is called the Hidden Gold Vault. The background information is as follows: The Defias Brotherhood needed a large amount of funds to fight Stormwind City, so they mined a large amount of gold in the Deadmines, melted it down into gold coins, and hid it in a secret cave, guarding it closely. The leader of the People's Militia learned of this and issued a quest, calling on adventurers to find the Hidden Gold Vault and steal the treasure to weaken the Defias Brotherhood's power.
There are three bosses in this Hidden Gold Vault. One is the security captain in charge of guarding the vault's gate, which is currently held by an ogre boss.
The second boss is the treasure vault guardian inside the vault, which is considered the final boss of this dungeon.
However, besides that, there is a hidden boss in the treasure vault, which will only jump out and startle adventurers if certain conditions are triggered.
The missing boss in this instance is the hidden boss. The previous hidden boss was supposedly killed by a hero player from the Alliance while wandering in the wild.
The second instance is called Defias Armory. The background information for the instance is as follows: In order to fight against Stormwind City, the Defias Brotherhood needed a large number of armor and weapons, as well as engineering products. So they recruited skilled craftsmen at great expense and built a huge armory to mass-produce weapons. When the leader of the People's Militia learned of this, he issued a mission, calling on adventurers to destroy the armory in order to weaken the power of the Defias Brotherhood.
Defias Armory has three bosses: the Master Foundry (a dwarf boss), the Demolition Expert (a goblin boss), and the Archmage (a human mage boss). These three bosses were originally sufficient, but recently the dungeon has been cleared too many times, resulting in a slight loss. Therefore, Dark Rod decided to add a patrolling boss. This patrolling boss will follow a fixed patrol route. If adventurers are accidentally encountered by this patrolling boss while fighting the three bosses, it will almost certainly result in a party wipe, thus turning the situation around.
So, which of these two positions are you more interested in?
Xiao Yu disliked patrolling bosses the most. The biggest problem with these bosses was that they had no initiative whatsoever. You had to follow the patrol route, neither too fast nor too slow. As a result, whether or not a boss battle was triggered was entirely up to the adventurer. If they wanted to fight you, they could simply find a place to wait for you to come over. If they didn't want to fight you, they could just hide and you could only pretend not to see them and walk past. Even if you clearly saw them, it didn't matter. You couldn't fight them unless they entered your alert range.
Compared to that, the boss battles are more satisfying. If you want to pass an adventurer, you have to defeat me first.
After thinking it over, Xiao Yu decided to accept the first position. "I'll go to the Hidden Gold Vault and be the hidden boss."
Black Rod nodded. "Alright, it's settled then. Actually, with your current strength, you'd be strong enough to level up a few more times and become the final boss of a five-player dungeon. However, since there's no precedent for using a goblin boss as the final boss of a dungeon, we'll have to make do with you for now."
Xiao Yu nodded in understanding. He also found it hard to imagine that the final boss of a dungeon would be a goblin. Thinking back to the fantasy-themed online games he had played before, no matter how strong the goblin was, it was always just guarding the gate and running errands for the big boss. It had never really carried a heavy cauldron. In this light, it seemed that this goblin character really had no future.
Then let's Hidden Gold Vault; after all, it's a hidden boss.
Although the hidden boss isn't the final boss, it has its own advantages. As long as the adventurer doesn't trigger the boss battle conditions, the hidden boss doesn't need to appear at all, saving a lot of effort. Since I just wanted to make use of what I had, it was also more convenient.
"Then let's set off."
Half an hour later, Xiao Yu followed Black Rod to the entrance of the Hidden Gold Vault dungeon. This Hidden Gold Vault was built inside a cave in a desolate mountain, and its location was quite hidden. Of course, that was only relatively hidden; adventurers could easily find it if they wanted to.
Upon entering the cave, you first encounter many Defias guards, but they are just ordinary monsters who are only there for show. Don't expect them to be able to stop the adventurers. After going deeper, you soon arrive at a heavy stone door, which is blocked by a huge obsidian statue. The statue is shaped like a dragon's head, with its mouth wide open, as if waiting to be fed.
It's not open; it seems this instance requires an instance key to open. Xiao Yu made this judgment in his mind.
Sure enough, Black Rod took a black crystal ball out of his bag and put it into the dragon's mouth. The obsidian dragon statue raised its neck, the crystal disappeared, and then with a whooshing sound of a mechanism being activated, the statue turned around, revealing a dark entrance with a clear blue light screen—the entrance to the dungeon.
As the two entered the instance, Xiao Yu casually asked, "How much do the crystals cost in this instance? You guys didn't actually put gold in the vault waiting for players to come and take it, did you?"
"Of course, otherwise why would it be called the Hidden Gold Vault? The key to this dungeon can only be bought with in-game currency, but there are still quite a few adventurers who come to play it because this dungeon produces a lot of gold coins, of course, not a lot of gold. Although there is a lot of gold in the vault, it is all locked in chests, so even if players clear the dungeon, they can only get a small portion of it."
The final boss in this dungeon carries a treasure chest key. Once you defeat the boss, you can use the key to open a Defias Treasure Chest. Inside, in addition to equipment, there will be a random amount of gold coins. With good luck, you might get hundreds of gold coins, but with bad luck, you'll only get a few gold coins for repairing your equipment.
Xiao Yu thought to himself, "Isn't this just a disguised way of selling gold coins? It's just done in a more subtle way."
As they talked, the two entered the instance. Inside was a tunnel, devoid of any monsters. After walking a short distance, they arrived at a large metal door. Outside the door was an empty cavern, where an ogre boss stood, flanked by four vault guards.
This ogre was clad in full iron armor, and instead of weapons, it carried a pair of snares shaped like tiger teeth. Then look at the BOSS's name.
Ural (Ogre Brawler) - Level 18 Boss.
The ogre boss looked blank and stood there with a wooden expression, showing no reaction whatsoever when the two walked in.
Black Rod walked up to the ogre and waved his hand in front of him. "Hehehe, someone's coming."
There was still no response.
"Damn, this guy must have gone to see a movie again. He's always slacking off at work," Black cursed, kicking the ogre hard, causing a -1 number to appear.
After a few seconds, the ogre finally reacted, "Damn it, who kicked me! Hey, Black, what are you doing here? You didn't come here specifically to check up on me, did you?"
"Of course not, I brought people over to take over," he said, pointing to Xiao Yu.
"Hello, I'm Da Kui, just call me Big Guy." It was the first time Xiao Yu had ever met a player who played an ogre character. He shook hands with the other person. Da Kui was clearly the other person's real name, but Xiao Yu wasn't quite used to using his real name. "Just call me Eric," he said.
"Haha, you can call me Ural. From now on, we're colleagues. It'll just be the two of us in this instance, so let's look out for each other."
Xiao Yu thought to himself, "They're supposed to be colleagues? It's like they're working at a company. But why are there only two of them? Weren't there supposed to be three bosses?"
"You'll see when you go in," he said, forcefully pushing open the door to the treasure cave. Inside, there was a spacious hall filled with locked treasure chests of wood, steel, gold, and silver—a dazzling array of treasures.
In the center of the hall stands a huge stone statue, with a health bar on its head.
Treasure Guardian (Battle Golem) - Level 20 BOSS.
"I see," Xiao Yu thought to himself.
Black Rod pointed to the battle golem, "This is the final boss of the dungeon. Once you defeat this battle golem, the adventurer will get a treasure chest key, which allows them to freely open any of the chests around it."
"But this has nothing to do with you," he said, leading Xiao Yu to a corner of the treasure room where there was a huge, sealed iron cage. He opened it and gestured for him to enter. "Alright, this is your post."