webnovelvip Chapter 609 Riddle Forest
Chapter 609 Riddle Forest
Giant Gorge City is precisely the front line where the beastmen and alien races are most active.
Here, there's no need to go out and find other races; they'll come to you on their own.
From shaman priests to wolf riders, from centurions to shaman elders, wave after wave of orcish armies provided Lin Tian with a continuous source of experience.
In addition, his AOE skills make him ridiculously efficient at clearing monsters.
Normal players would carefully pull monsters, control their health, and dodge skills when fighting a monster of the same level, but he did it all. He just threw out Shadow Strike and Shadow Grip and a whole bunch of monsters fell down.
That's why he never farms jungle monsters.
The higher the level of the monsters, the more scattered they are; they rarely live in groups.
Normal player teams would avoid high-level monsters that live in groups—not everyone is like Lin Tian, who can wipe out all monsters, regardless of their level or number, with a single AOE skill.
He glanced at the experience bar on the system panel: Level 74, 70% complete, still 30% away from Level 75.
Lin Tian estimated that, given the current intensity of the battle in Juxia City, the beastmen would most likely not let the matter rest, and the death of the shaman elder would certainly provoke even stronger retaliation.
I should be able to reach level 75 by the next wave of Orc attacks.
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Lin Tian brought up the private message interface.
I sent a private message to Zhang Tianya and Li Weiwei.
After sending the message, he leaned back in his chair and waited for a reply.
About two minutes later, Zhang Tianya replied to his private message.
"Lin Tian, haha, we're fighting a boss right now! Weiwei and I led 600 people to surround a level 45 Three-Eyed One-Horned Giant Python in the Riddle Forest, and we're almost done! I'll contact you as soon as we're done!"
Immediately after, Li Weiwei's private message arrived: "Brother Lin Tian, we're fighting a BOSS in the Riddle Forest!!!"
Lin Tian replied, "You guys finish the BOSS first, no rush."
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Riddle Forest.
Level 40 monster area in Luoxia City.
Thick fog swirled through the forest, tree trunks were covered with dark green moss, and the ground was covered with soft fallen leaves and humus.
Sunlight filters through the layers of tree canopy, creating dappled patterns of light on the ground.
The air was filled with the smell of damp earth and a faint fishy odor—the smell of the three-eyed, one-horned python.
At this moment, this normally quiet forest has been completely occupied by six hundred players.
Zhang Tianya stood at the very front, his body enveloped in a pale golden shield—the signature skill of the tank class: [Iron Will].
His armor, each plate engraved with defensive runes, refracted a dark metallic luster under the light.
In his left hand he held up a huge tower shield, on which was carved a roaring lion, whose eyes were inlaid with two rubies that shone faintly in the mist.
He held a one-handed warhammer in his right hand, the hammerhead with sharp edges on all four sides, looking heavy and deadly.
Behind him stood three hundred elite players from the alliance.
These 300 people have a clear division of labor: 50 tanks in the front row, 150 damage dealers in the back row, and 100 healers in the middle.
The tanks, equipped with identical plate armor and shields, stood in a row like a steel wall;
The main damage-dealing classes are mages and archers. The mages hold their staffs, with various magical lights dancing at their fingertips, while the archers nock their arrows and draw their bows, aiming the arrows at the BOSS's head and eyes.
The healing professions are mainly priests and druids, each holding a hand gesture for casting a healing spell, ready to heal at any time.
On the other side of the BOSS, Li Weiwei and her 300-member Blood Romance guild formed the same formation.
The majority of members of Blood Romance are female players.
Li Weiwei herself is an S-rank mage, known in the game for her high burst damage and high output, and her guild has inherited this style:
The damage-dealing classes account for as much as 60%, and their firepower is frighteningly strong.
Six hundred people surrounded the three-eyed, one-horned giant python, forming a huge oval shape, trapping the BOSS firmly in the middle.
Tanks stay inside the circle to tank the monsters, DPS stay outside the circle to focus fire, and healers stay in the back row to heal.
The entire formation operated like a precise machine, with smooth transitions and orderly advances and retreats.
The Alliance and Blood Romance have collaborated many times.
From dungeons to world bosses, from events to guild wars, the two guilds have become increasingly adept at cooperating, with their level of synergy even surpassing that of their respective guild teams.
Zhang Tianya and Li Weiwei thus became the most famous "cross-guild duo" in the game - one was a tank like an iron wall, and the other was a damage dealer like a raging wildfire. The two of them together were a perfect combination of offense and defense.
At this moment, the three-eyed unicorn python's health has been reduced to about 20%.
This BOSS is extremely terrifying in size—it is over sixty meters long, and the thickest part of its body is nearly two meters in diameter. Its entire body is covered with dark green scales, each of which is the size of an adult's palm and has edges as sharp as blades.
Its head is triangular, with three eyes located on its forehead and left and right sides. Each eye is as big as a basketball, with vertical pupils that gleam with a cold yellow light.
What's most terrifying is its tail.
Its tail was half the length of its body, and at the end was a bony, hammer-shaped structure covered with sharp barbs.
During the battle just now, a tank made a positioning mistake and was hit by the tail, his shield shattered on the spot, and his face turned pale when the healer behind him pulled him up.
However, such accidents never happened again after Zhang Tianya took over the main tank.
Zhang Tianya has been tanking the three-eyed unicorn python for almost ten minutes since the monster was first encountered.
He steadily caught every attack from the BOSS with his shield. Occasionally, an attack would miss and only scratch his skin, which the healers behind him could easily restore to full health.
"The guild leader is awesome!" a warrior from the guild couldn't help but shout. "Last time we fought this boss, even three tanks taking turns couldn't hold it down, but the guild leader managed to hold it down all by himself!"
"Nonsense, the guild leader is now an SSS-grade talent, do you even know the value of an SSS-grade talent?" A mage next to him chimed in, his tone full of pride.
"SSS rank is really different. I noticed that the guild leader's HP doesn't drop much at all."
"The healers are so bored they've started dealing damage themselves."
A priest in the group chuckled and chimed in, saying that she had indeed been using Smite on the BOSS the whole time, only occasionally casting Heal on Zhang Tianya.
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On the other side, Li Weiwei also didn't go all out.
She wore a deep red robe embroidered with golden flame patterns.