Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Rush!

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

“Follow me, everyone! Don’t run in front of me. After the monsters see me first, all of you come up.”

As soon as they entered the dungeon, Li Huailin directly charged towards the first group of monsters without any hesitation.

“Hey, Huailin! We haven’t given you buffs yet!” Red Moon exclaimed.

“Don’t mind it! Just keep up with me.” As he spoke, Li Huailin lifted his sword and slashed at the green snake nearby, causing 450 damage. Although Li Huailin’s attack had improved, the damage remained roughly the same because the monsters’ defense had also increased since they levelled up in this difficulty.

In theory, Li Huailin was able to kill the green snake with two to three attacks. However, Li Huailin didn’t do so.

After giving the first green snake a hack, Li Huailin immediately turned to attack the second green snake. After that, he switched his target to the red snake. He killed none of the snakes, and he also didn’t have the plan. Meanwhile, when the three snakes were still biting Li Huailin, he immediately rushed toward the second group of monsters.

After the three snakes attacked Li Huailin for 5 times, the poison debuff made Li Huailin regenerate 125 Health Points every 5 seconds. Since there were three snakes, Li Huailin now could gain 375 Health Points every 5 seconds, it was far more than the physical damage caused by the snakes. To put it simply, while the snakes continued chasing and attacking Li Huailin, they had actually become three small blood bags for him.

The ladies behind had no idea what Li Huailin wanted to do. While they watched Li Huailin drag two groups of monsters around, they were very confused. Obviously, this was very dangerous in their eyes.

“What is he doing?” Red Dust Misty Rain couldn’t help but ask the others.

“I don’t know…” Red Moon found that Li Huailin’s so-called strategy had completely overturned her understanding of challenging a dungeon. She felt very confused as she spoke to the rest of the ladies, “Let’s follow him, I think he has a plan.”

The ladies nodded in agreement before following Li Huailin, they carefully kept at a distance away.

By now, Li Huailin had run to the second group of monsters. With the same tactics as earlier, he gave each monster a slash and then continued to drag them to the third group of monsters.

Even though Viper Cave was a relatively small dungeon, it was still filled with patrolling monsters. An ordinary party would spend at least 45 minutes to an hour just to pass Normal Mode since they would have to kill the monsters group by group. With his freakish attack damage, Li Huailin only spent slightly more than 20 minutes just to complete Normal Mode. If time was also recorded in Normal Mode, his speed would have scared a lot of people.

This time, Li Huailin had no intention of stopping to fight the monsters. He simply gave each of them a slash and dragged them along. After slightly more than 7 minutes, Li Huailin had appeared in front of the first boss – Great Snake Duras.

Countless red and green snakes were behind Li Huailin, they kept launching their most vicious attacks on him. This scene nauseated Red Pennant because she had mild Trypophobia.

These snakes didn’t bother Li Huailin at all. What’s more was that the countless stacks of debuffs from the vipers’ venom were piling themselves up in his status bar. A flood of data kept flashing on Li Huailin’s Battle Record page, new figures of damage and healing kept jumping out.

“I’ll attack the boss now!”

After Li Huailin said this to the ladies, he immediately jumped on the huge snake and slashed at it.

“Hiss!”

Despite Great Snake Duras still looking the same, its skills had changed a little. When the huge snake saw Li Huailin coming, Duras opened its mouth and directly shot a mouthful of green liquid at Li Huailin. This was a skill that Li Huailin didn’t see in Normal Mode.

“Pa!” The green liquid precisely hit Li Huailin. As shown above his head, the amount of damage caused was 327. Meanwhile, a new debuff appeared in his status bar.

Corrupted Armor: Increases 2-2 Physical Defense every 10 seconds, continues for 30 seconds.

Normally, ordinary parties wouldn’t be able to handle this kind of debuff. Li Huailin immediately realized how horrible this skill was. Since killing the boss would usually take an ordinary team around 4 to 5 minutes, if they only had one single tank during this entire time, then in 5 minutes, the tank’s physical defense would be lowered by 60. This alone would be a devastating blow to players wearing the current mainstream equipment. Towards the end of the battle, the entire party was even more likely to be killed. Once the boss kills their tank with a critical hit, the rest of the party members would all die quickly even if the boss only had a little life left.

This skill didn’t bother Li Huailin at all. It had even increased his physical defense. In this way, the small snakes that continued attacking had become even less threatening to him. With the stacks of debuffs adding onto his health points, the boss’ skill turned out to be a great help to Li Huailin.

This was the problem—the skill was only effective for 30 seconds. Suddenly, Li Huailin had an even better idea — he decided to keep this boss on him while he challenged the second boss.

“Follow me! We’re going to kill the second boss!” Li Huailin exclaimed aloud to the rest of the party members.

By now, Red Moon, Red Face Drinks Water, and Red Dust Misty Rain had already calmed themselves down despite the fact that what they just witnessed was incredibly unreal. After all, this wasn’t the first time that they were startled by Li Huailin. However, since it was Red Pennant’s first time being in a dungeon with him, her mind had gone blank.

The three of them had realized what he was trying to do. Li Huailin was trying to take the aggro of all the monsters along the way. It seemed that Li Huailin planned on gathering all the monsters and kill them in one go. Before they could snap back to reality, Li Huailin had already dragged away the first boss.

“Brother-in-law, are we leaving the giant snake?” While Li Huailin continued running ahead, Red Face Drinks Water shouted at him.

“We’ll keep it for now. It’s quite useful for me! After killing the second boss, we’ll kill it!” Li Huailin looked back and replied.

At this time, his eyes suddenly lit up, he saw a wooden chest that spawned beside a group of monsters.

“Leader! There’s a chest here!” Li Huailin pointed in a direction as he called out to her.

“That’s it! That’s the treasure chest we’re looking for! We can find recipes in these chests.” Red Moon was extremely excited upon seeing the chest. No matter what kind of recipe they would find, it would always benefit the guild. This only happened because the chances of treasure chests spawning in Abyss Mode was indeed much higher than Normal Mode. She recalled that there was nothing here in Normal Mode.

Without any hesitation, Li Huailin charged at another group of monsters and gave each of them a slash to stabilize aggro. He then continued to run towards the second boss. It seemed that after the first boss, human-shaped monsters who didn’t use any venom started to appear, and thus, they were unable to heal Li Huailin. Fortunately, Li Huailin hadn’t lost any health points so far because he had too many debuffs on him right now.

“You ladies stay here and open the chest. Catch up with me after you’re done!” Li Huailin yelled back at the women before rushing at the next group of monsters.

“We will!” Red Moon nodded since she knew that Li Huailin was trying to complete this dungeon as quickly as possible.

Just like this, alongside all the debuffs he got from the monsters and the first boss, Li Huailin dragged them all the way to the second boss, Abyss Mode Serpent Manipulator Durjash.

Because of the great number of monsters chasing after him. He didn’t lose any health points at all. In addition, his physical defense had been steadily increasing during this time.

Li Huailin realized that the ladies hadn’t caught up to him yet, but he couldn’t wait any longer. He charged at the Serpent Manipulator Durjash.