Destiny Online: Halo Paladin - Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Complete First Blood

Complete First Blood

“Hunters, clear the mobs that are going for the healers, don’t let those monsters disturb the process,” Beitang Meng said after realizing the situation.

The legion’s priority should be the healers, otherwise if the healing stream got disrupted, the boss would be able to wipe them out.

As expected, after the Hunters led the little monsters away, the situation started to get under control.

Hunters were equipped with chainmail, their Defense was only second to plate, so they were able to take on several Fire Cloud Hornets at a time. Moreover, the hornets’ attack was nothing to be worried about, only their double element attack was a problem.

After the healing stream stabilized, things got easier. All the DPS classes helped to clear out the smaller hornets and the swarm was wiped out in an instant.

Even though the summon took out quite a number of players, it did not wipe out the entire legion. Since everyone had experienced it once, they would know how to react the next time the queen summoned her swarm.

As the boss’ HP gradually dropped, it summoned another swarm of hornets at 25% HP. With experience under their belts, the legion handled the situation a lot better. Even though there were some casualties, which could not be helped, it did not mess up the pace.

At the later stage of the fight, all Garheral did was blasting fire and summoning hornets to her aid. Though at 5% HP, the Fury stage became quite troublesome for the legion.

Sweep was used more frequently and it heavily damaged the melee classes, hence increasing pressure for the healers.

In the end, even Wind&Rum could not hold on. She had to swap out with other tanks to continue the fight.

Even though the boss got slightly better resistance at Provoke after having it cast multiple times, its HP had dropped low enough for the legion to swiftly take it out.

Nothing out of the blue happened and the legion managed to concentrate their attacks on the boss, taking it out in the end.

[Congratulations! Dreaming Back to Great Tang has taken First Blood on Level 18 world boss, Fire Cloud Hornet Queen Garheral under the lead of player Beitang Meng.]

[Players Beitang Meng, Wind&Rum, NaturalMilk, MapleCream, MySlimWaist acquired 9,000 EXP, 9 Gold and 900 reputation with all Castellans.]

“Yeah!”

“Wooohooo!”

The moment the boss went down, everyone who survived cheered loudly.

It was the first time Nocturne experienced the lively atmosphere of a guild.

“Meowmeow, what are you waiting for? Come and touch the body!”

“Okay! Coming!”

“I’m quite curious why Wind&Rum always asks you to touch the body, why doesn’t she touch it herself?”

“Between you and me, Beitang and Rum plus another Mage, who is not here, are known as the people with the worst luck in our guild. The thing is, Rum knows how unlucky she was, so she basically gave up on touching any dead monster for the loot; As for big sis, she has an image to maintain and somehow believes she might be lucky at times, so she will try to access the loot from time to time.”

“As for the last one, well that person has already lost himself. That Mage loved to access loot and treasure boxes regardless how unlucky she is,” Meowmeow Tang said to Nocturne as she walked closer to the dead hornet queen.

[Acquired: Firefin Chest Plate, Blazing Blade, Blazing Gem, Staff of Wrath, Skill Book: Poison, Skill Book: Blink, Skill Book: Fire Blast, Prescription: Intermediate Antidote, Plan: Blazing Guard, Fiery Red Bug Wings x 4, Venom Sting x 1, Small Talent Stone x 132]

As expected from getting First Blood on a world boss, the drop rate was off the charts! Four exalted blue gear, three skill books, a prescription and a plan!

“Good job everyone. The points for this raid will be distributed later based on your performance. Now, it’s time to distribute the loot.”

The distribution of loot using the guild system had a strict set of rules but Nocturne had never been in one and had no idea what the rules were. All he knew was that the guild would distribute points based on the member’s performance and the points had multiple uses.

The points could be used to exchange for gear that matched one’s class so that the player could better perform in a boss raid.

However, Nocturne had just joined the guild, so he did not have any points at the moment, hence no items for him.

The first one would be Firefin Chest Plate. Other than normal Strength and Stamina boost, the chest plate also added some Fire Resistance, it even had a special effect that could absorb 50 Fire damage and recover as HP.

In the end, Wind&Rum got it by bidding a high price.

Blazing Blade was a one-handed sword with a special effect of landing Burn effect on a target at a certain chance. It was taken away by some Rogue.

Blazing Gem and Staff of Wrath were standard Fire Elemental Mage exclusive weapons since the effects boosted a ton of Fire damage. Staff of Wrath even gave a huge surge to the Fireball spell and Faraway Song got it; Blazing Gem was taken by another Elemental Mage.

As for the three more skill books, Beitang Meng got one for herself, Skill Book: Poison.

The other two were Mages skills. Blink, a common displacement skill for Mages; Fire Blast, an instant burst skill for Fire Elemental Mages.

Both skill books were taken by an Arcane Mage and Elemental Mage respectively.

The plan and prescription were kept by Beitang Meng, she wanted to put them into the guild storage for their respective lifestyle classes.

“Okay, the event is over. Everyone is free to go now.” Beitang Meng called the team off since the boss raid was over.

After that, most of the players teleported away using a teleport scroll, some of them partied up and continued leveling in the valley.

Following the rise of major guilds, the First Blood of different world bosses happened frequently in the past few days and the ranking list had taken a big shuffle.

[Character Level Ranking List]

1. HighIMO. Human. Arcane Mage. Level 19. Magic Throne
2. Begger’s Chicken. Elf. Feral Druid. Level 19. Rubber Forest
3. Dwarf Low Slash. Dwarf. Arms Warrior. Level 18. Glory Flag
4. Furious. Orc. Fury Warrior. Level 18. Blood Legion
5. MySlimWaist. Human. Level 18. Dreaming Back to Great Tang
6. EvilBurnsOnYourHead. Orc. Affliction Warlock. Level 18. Burning Legion
7. CobaltGlow. Elf. Elemental Mage. Level 18. –
8. Green Light Empty Wine. Human. Retribution Paladin. Level 18. Nation’s Guardian Wing.
9. Beitang Meng. Human. Assassination Rogue. Level 18. Dreaming Back to Great Tang
10. EmperorNight. Elf. Elemental Mage. Level 18. Night Dynasty

[Achievement Ranking List]

1. Beitang Meng. Dreaming Back to Great Tang. 8
2. HighIMO. Magic Throne. 7
3. IDon’tWantToHeal. Glory Flag. 7
4. Green Light Empty Wine. Nation’s Guardian Wing. 7
5. AnEgg. Burning Legion. 7
6. EmperorNight. Night Dynasty. 7
7. Dwarf Low Slash. Glory Flag. 7
8. Wind&Rum. Dreaming Back to Great Tang. 7
9. Begger’s Chicken. Rubber Forest. 7
10. Stargazer. Stardust Pavillion. 7

“It’s getting late. Let’s call it a day then. We will come back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m.”

Beitang Meng called her party off since it was getting late.

After going offline, Nocturne did a background check about the guild so that he could make up for the information that he missed. He did not want to do some stupid mistake and mess things up.