Chapter 68: Spring Realm
Translated by Karai of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Addis
The morning of the day the scroll opened, the sun was shining brightly, and as soon as Su Mo came online, he saw ClearWind discussing things with ScarletFruit, and it seemed that a couple of teams had already broken through the first level and were heading for the second level last night.
“That CloudTraveller team hasn’t come out overnight.” ScarletFruit, “I haven’t inquired about any other news, but the forums still have some gossip, and the first boss is rumored to be particularly thick with blood.”
Because it was a FACTION dungeon, many PLAYERS chose to discuss it privately instead of publicizing the dungeon mechanics, but from the forum tweets it seemed that the first level’s boss this time around wasn’t easy.
Su Mo went online and saw that the game mail had some of the cheat clues from UnchainedWanderer, which he should have collected himself, with a small portion of the first level boss’s mechanics. He collected the email and sent another, ‘Thanks brother.’
That side quickly returned the message- ”No, does your head still hurt today?”
Momo: It doesn’t hurt anymore.
UnchainedWanderer: ok, let me know, if you’re not feeling well.
“Why did FireworksAndLanterns come over? I thought they’d bring a physical swordsman to make a CP with me.” ClearWind looked at the list, “And what’s Big Watermelon doing here? When I asked him the day before yesterday, he said he wasn’t going.”
ScarletFruit, “Oh, you don’t know this, I heard that FireworksAndLanterns was the first to sign up, he’s the most active in the whole Fruit gang.”
ZenSlasher saw them discussing and asked suspiciously, “I’ve been meaning to ask, aren’t they a Fruit gang? Why isn’t he called Fruit? Won’t he be kicked out, if he doesn’t change his name?”
“Oh, he’s related.” ScarletFruit well versed in the gossip of the big guys, “FireworksAndLanterns is after the sub-faction to the Fruit gang side, before he was in the Veiled Cloud Sanctuary, I do not know what happened, in the guild most of the people were in the Eclipse, while he actually gave the sub-Abyss, and then defected to his good friend Apple.”
ClearWind, “ZenSlasher, you don’t understand, there are a lot of unspoken rules in a big guild.”
ScarletFruit, “His situation is called entering a family, he’ll end up changing his name to a fruit.”
ZenSlasher stood in awe.
Su Mo was speechless.
Yu Zhen was speechless. After chatting for a few minutes, the Fruit Platter team of five arrived, and ZenSlasher saw FireworksAndLanterns for the first time, and this summoner’s physical stats were a bit special. The whole person walking over was glowing with light, looking extremely rich.
ScarletFruit was silent and whispered, “I forgot to mention that FireworksAndLanterns is tenth on the wealth list.”
ZenSlasher didn’t get it, “Does being that rich count as being in the family?”
ClearWind, “You don’t know love.”
Yu Zhen looked at Su Mo who seemed to have something on his mind, so he asked, “What’s wrong?”
Su Mo paused for a while before saying, “The money seems to be understated.”
Bitter Melon was like a big brother, leading the excited kids and the three management members with fake smiles on their faces to Su Mo, “Hey, I wanted to call Strawberry Banana and others, but I didn’t know that one of them has to work overtime, and some of them also have to accompany their girlfriends, so this lineup should be fine, right?”
“No problem.” Su Mo, “It’s on then.”
The place where the Mystic Realm of Departed Souls was located was within a remote valley in Celestial Horizon, and even this valley didn’t have any markings on the map yet. The group of people sought their way to the target location through the coordinates given by the officials, the swirling mountain walls scattered gusts of gloomy wind, and the head of the group, Momo, stepped forward to apply for it.
[You have applied for the challenge of the [Mystic Realm of Departed Souls (79)], and now we are checking the professions].
[The number of player team profession genres has been verified at 8, meeting the specific limitations of the challenge, now opening the challenge of the Mystic Realm of Departed Souls (10/10), please confirm.]
Su Mo clicked OK, and a group of ten people were teleported into the first level of the Departed Souls Realm.
Just after entering the scene, the gloomy winds of the valley disappeared, and a spring breeze greeted them, while the vast grassland entered everyone’s vision.
[You have entered the first level of the Mystic Realm of Departed Souls (Realm of Spring)]
The realm of spring, the first level that stopped the vanguard team for two whole days, before entering the dungeon, there was a daredevil squad in the Fruit gang that had challenged it and did not pass, but gained part of the intelligence, this part of the intelligence clues only stayed before 50%, the realm after 50% was the secret of those teams that had just passed the level yesterday, and now no one knew about it.
Above the grassland, there is a distinctive sky-high tree.
At this moment, a person was sitting on the upper side. Was this the heavy Guardian Deity of the Mystic Realm, the son of the spring realm? The boss of the spring realm looked like a young child, surrounded by green clothing, sitting on the tree looking down at the players, his clear turquoise eyes full of curiosity.
The boss was known to have three main mechanic skills in addition to scattered skill damage before 50%.
- Seeding: boss will summon small monsters through seeding, visible to the naked eye area are his seeding range, the summoned small monsters’ attack is very strong, the longer they survive the stronger their defense is, need to be killed at first try.
- Evocation: Naming and binding, grass within the grassland are its means of control, randomly naming, binding and strangling, players with low blood will be killed in one fell swoop. Prioritize the player with the lowest blood level in the group.
- Spring Breeze: A wide range group attack that knocks back players and deals a lot of damage.
Su Mo assigned members of the group, with 1 team as the main fixed group, and 2 teams as auxiliary output.
Team 1: Warrior Bitter Gourd, Magical Swordsman Apple, Assassin Watermelon, Summoner Fireworks And Lanterns and Healer Yellow Peach.
Team 2: Physical swordsman ClearWind, Array master UnchainedWanderer, Assassin ZenSlasher, Summoner Momo, and Cleric ScarletFruit.
“Master Yellow Peach milk warriors, prioritize helping warriors,” Su Mo looked at the map. It didn’t really have any hiding spots or places to avoid damage, and from what the information said about the Spring Breeze skill, it would most likely also disrupt the players’ alignment.
Yu Zhen said, “I’ll try to pull off the distance.”
The boss’s yellow-named monster needed an active attack to enter combat.
The Array master put a defense shield on himself along with his movement speed and went straight forward, a pummel triggered the attack, followed by the boss immediately locking on to him, the vines on the big tree attacked with swiftness, knocking 30% of the Array master’s blood off in a single move.
Su Mo, “Others back off, don’t get close.”
The others immediately backed off when they saw this, and right then, the Array master had already pulled away tens of meters, getting further and further away until the silhouette became smaller and the boss was out of the fight.
“Crap, this distance is also too far!” ScarletFruit looked directly dumbfounded, “Is it a hundred meters?”
Yu Zhen came back from afar and directly reported the data, “Plug-in shows it’s 120 meters, it won’t move, counting outwards in a circle with it as the center, all within 120 meters is the attack range.”
Su Mo slightly paused, “You guys pay attention to the position, once there are only 3 people left in the group, stop the battle immediately.”
“Exciting!” FireworksAndLanterns , “A 120 meter race!”
Yellow Peach Sauce blushed.
ClearWind said, “It’s not that bad, a matter of seconds.”
ScarletFruit couldn’t help but say, “I’m afraid the boss will screw me over before I reach the finish line.”
This challenge also had the same rule of expulsion, if the whole group died, once the whole group was judged to have failed, they would be docked experience, and the best way to deal with it was to stop the battle.
“Open up.” Su Mo marked the location at a point in the boss’ vicinity, “Everyone else stand in position…… Bitter Gourd?”
The others quickly took their positions, only to see that Bitter Gourd was still down at the end of the line.
Watermelon couldn’t help but say, “Boss, you walk faster.”
Apple, “Sorry, our boss has slow legs.”
“Coming.” The boss of the Fruit Gang, Bitter Melon who was a warrior, was the last one to get in place, after arriving at the place everyone else turned on their statuses before he inserted his shield and drew his sword, striking the boss directly, dragging it out for more than a minute before their group formally started the fight.
The boss raised his hand, a gust of wind rushed head-on, blowing the players standing on the original layout of the fixed position directly scattered. The players in the group were all veterans, and used light energy to slow down their speed the first time they were blown away, but the wind came fast and furious, and the light energy was completely banned, so they flew straight up.
Su Mo inserted his lantern staff into the ground at the first time, but the fierce wind still blew him back ten meters, and the staff cut a long gully in the ground.
He looked up and found that all of his teammates had been scattered, especially the two healers, who were directly blown 50 meters away. On top of that, there was a sky full of summoned beasts, and the scene was very messy for a while, causing Su Mo to be unable to find words to describe it for a moment.
“Bitter Gourd open the shield.” Su Mo, “Everyone else…fall back into position.”
A few seconds passed just as everyone homed in on the center.
The boss raised his hand again once more, and a gust of wind struck once more, blowing the slowest running ScarletFruit into the air once more, directly interrupting everyone’s output cycle.
…… No, this is going to break the healing!
“Give shift speed!” The moment Su Mo spoke out, Yu Zhen had already acted.
The Array master’s shift array landed on healer Yellow Peach, directly sending Yellow Peach over.
Healer Yellow Peach moved quickly to set a big plus on warrior Bitter Gourd, pulling 40% of his blood up, “Milked it.”
ScarletFruit then ran over to the player who had been bled out by Spring Breeze to raise his blood level.
“Slow down with your weapon.” Su Mo marked the spot again, “Don’t get blown away by Spring Wind.”
The other players quickly returned to their positions, and just then, the third Spring Wind came.
Su Mo’s heart lifted, however not everyone’s weapon was able to plunge into the ground, only to see half of them ride the wind as soon as the Spring Wind arrived and fly straight into the distance.
Most people retreated 40+ meters, ScarletFruit flew 60+ meters, and the most exaggerated would be FireworksAndLanterns, who flew 80+ meters.
The opening three gusts of wind woke up the sleepy members of the group straight away.
Watermelon couldn’t help but say, “Absolutely, a strong wind machine? My hair is all messed up.”
FireworksAndLanterns was dumbfounded and asked as he ran, “Is he targeting me and why am I flying so far?”
ClearWind covered his face, “Brother Firework, your summoned beast pounced on my face!”
FireworksAndLanterns , “Sorry sorry sorry, I’ll go back and educate them.”
Opening the game is unavoidably the skill tryout, intelligence is one thing, actually on the field Su Mo realized why it was rated 7 stars, because its skill was very fast paced. In the opening 30 seconds, the Spring Breeze skill appeared 3 times, appearing every 10 seconds on average.
“Once every 10 seconds Spring Breeze, the weight affects the flight, you can increase the weight with weapons and skill.” Su Mo noted the mechanics of Spring Wind: three times the wind blows, the players that fly the furthest are the smaller looking players in the group, and the players that have stepped on the Shift will be blown away as well.
Shift speed will reduce the weight of the player to increase the movement speed, warrior Bittersweet has the shortest movement distance because of the giant mountain shield for defense, which means that this spring wind is not completely insurmountable, but can be circumvented by the theoretical skill, the heavier the weight of the person, the more advantageous it is.
Soon, 10 seconds arrived again.
The group were all players with the right operational awareness, with the experience of the first three winds, this time they started to test the defense skill, this time the moving distance was around 20 meters, part of the defense skill can be used, part of the skill can’t increase the weight …… and the wind’s rhythm is fast, the defense skill needs to be the first time to cycle. Time cycle was, coincidentally, less in their group with a physical swordsman and array master.
After a round of testing, only the array master’s defense formation, warrior’s giant mountain shield, physical swordsman and magical swordsman’s great sword formation can increase the weight.
Su Mo calmly said, “Don’t waste skill, first defense array and then big sword array, line stop, ClearWind, Apple you three come.”
ZenSlasher added, “Assassin’s sneak works.”
Assassin’s sneak was a skill that allowed you to completely blend yourself into your environment.
It’s no better than stealth, which lasts only 10 seconds in full state, but it can make you vanish and melt with trees, so it’s completely possible to vanish into the grass and move around within this scenario, but it requires a 12-second CD, and it will be hard to keep up with the pace.
Su Mo, “Keep it to save your life.”
The boss Child of the Spring Realm’s gesture changed, and countless seeds fell.
Ten green grass-looking mini-monsters emerged from the grassland.
“The others clear the small monsters first.” Su Mo said, “Array master, stay behind to protect the healers.”
The blood level of the small monsters spawned by the sowing of seeds was thin, but it would get thicker and thicker as time increased.
And it was high offense monsters, not clearing them was a big threat to them.
The Summoner was fine with the Magical Swordsman and could hit the output remotely.
However, Physical Swordsman and Assassin were not as lucky, especially when Seeding came up with Spring Breeze, they could be seen halfway to the sky when hit by monsters.
FireworksAndLanterns , “Wow, Watermelon you flew farther than ClearWind this time!”
ClearWind, “I’m honored to win by weight.”
Watermelon, “I thank you, so envious you came to fly?”
“The next Springbok is going to break the cycle.” Yu Zhen warned.
Su Mo frowned slightly, thinking quickly in his head, intending to find a reasonable solution from their current lineup.
Warrior’s Giant Mountain Shield could only be used by itself, and with three Skills on their side, playing cycle defense might break! Plus, the skill defense didn’t completely cover all the players on their side, and some players might be blown away.
If there was another Array master or physical swordsman, their skill cycle and CD would be able to keep up with Spring Breeze every 10 seconds, but in this case, they brought two Summoners……
Summoner……Su Mo suddenly thought.
Yu Zhen’s afterglow glanced at Su Mo’s eyes, and his eyes moved slightly. For a while the internal voice channel was buzzing with activity.
Apple, “Alright, no more skill, everyone prepare for takeoff.”
ClearWind, “Should we all hold hands? Fruit, you can hold my waist.”
ScarletFruit did it right away and can’t help but say, “Windy, why didn’t I realize before that you’re such a spook!”
ClearWind inclined his head at ZenSlasher, “Sister ZenSlasher, want to hold hands? Brother’s gentlemanly hand is reserved for you.”
ZenSlasher, “I’ll dive in first.”
FireworksAndLanterns zigzaged, “Staff inserted! I’m definitely not flying the farthest this time.”
Apple, “I’m sticking my sword in too, you stay close and let’s pull together.”
Watermelon, “…… I’m out of dives.”
Yellowpeach, “Wouldn’t it be nice to fly together?”
Everyone was ready to take off, those who should hug their waists and those who should hold hands were waiting to take off at any time, just as the boss was about to raise his hand-
There was a slight movement of the ground, and the bear that was as tall as a mountain and had the thickest bloodstrip and heaviest weight in the summoned beast system appeared in front of everyone with a loud bang, shielding everyone from the wind and rain with its burly body, and fronting up to the boss’s strong winds.
Su Mo retrieved his lamp staff, “No need to fly, keep outputting.”
Everyone:!!!
