Venomancer Of Gaming - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Playing With Fire

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up.

“Really?” Fated Sky asked in pleasant surprise, “Can we really make the list?”

“Well, more or less. I have counted. If we clear the entire dungeon within 1 hour and 10 minutes, we might be on the list!” Fatty then added, “It has only been five minutes since we entered. In other words, when we arrive at the Bandit Camp, on top of killing the monsters and Boss, we will only have one hour. The sooner we finish, the more likely it is we will be at the top of the list! I believe that the parties on the list also used this method and directly avoided the Forest Wolves. Otherwise, no matter how I calculate it, the time is not enough.”

“That makes sense!” Everyone nodded their heads.

“However, if we want to avoid the Forest Wolves, I’m afraid it won’t be easy, right?” Luo Moling asked. “The monsters in the dungeon are all the type to attack actively. Even though they are asleep, who knows whether we will wake them up when we approach them?”

“We definitely will. There is no doubt about that!” Fatty said, “Therefore, you guys will follow me and mimic how I walk. Don’t make any mistakes. Do you understand?”

“You have a way to do this?” Luo Moling asked in confusion.

“You guys can only believe me!” Fatty didn’t answer her directly but turned his head and told Fated Sky, “Later, you will walk behind the whole party in case any accidents occur. That way, you can immediately deal with them!”

“Alright!” Fated Sky nodded his head.

After briefing them, Fatty didn’t move forward in a hurry. Instead, he stood still and looked at the pack of wolves in the forest far away. After he silently calculated, he started to take his first step.

Everyone nervously followed. After seeing his footing, they followed him one by one.

They first encountered two sleeping Forest Wolves lying on both sides of the ground. After a little visual inspection of the distance between the two Forest Wolves, Fatty confidently led everyone between the two wolves…

They were safe! They hadn’t alarmed the two Forest Wolves…

After they took a few steps, three Forest Wolves appeared in front of them. The distance between the three Forest Wolves was too small for them to walk through the middle, so Fatty looked at both sides before he raised his legs to go around the left side…

After advancing for a short distance, Fatty stopped and observed for a while before he frowned. When he raised his leg again, he suddenly turned back in one direction…

Everyone stopped and walked like this. They followed Fatty like going through a maze. Although they were dizzy from going around, they did not dare make any noise, afraid that their loud voices would wake up the wolf pack.

Fatty didn’t make any mistakes while walking. After successfully walking out of the gathering place of the Forest Wolves, everyone was relieved!

When they caught their breath, Luo Moling couldn’t wait to tell Fatty, “My god! How did you do that? We actually walked through safely?”

The other players looked at Fatty curiously, wanting to listen to his answer.

“Do you guys want to know?” Fatty was also a little proud. He felt like a painter finally finishing a painting that he was satisfied with and wanting to take it out for others to comment on. Even if Luo Moling and the rest had not asked, Fatty supposed that he would have been unable to contain himself and would have explained to show off.

In fact, it was very simple. Remember when Playing With Fire had used his Flaming Imp to draw away the Forest Wolves the first time they had entered the dungeon? At the time, when the three Forest Wolves had been drawn over at once, Fatty had noticed that the distance between the three Forest Wolves had been about the same, which was approximately five steps away from ordinary people. The other undisturbed Forest Wolves had been more than five steps away from the Forest Wolf that had been hit by the flame arrow. Hence, Fatty had wondered at the time whether these Forest Wolves’ alert distance was also the same distance.

Reality had proved that Fatty’s way of thinking had been correct. As long as he kept a distance of five steps while passing by the Forest Wolves, they would not be alarmed!

This was the difference between the night and day of the system time. During the daytime, monsters would wander around, so a safe distance was difficult to control. However, at night, non-Undead monsters would stay in place and fall asleep. This way, the players could better judge what was a safe distance.

Of course, this was only theoretical, The actual operation was much more difficult. Plus, night had an impact on the players’ vision. Thus, Fatty couldn’t see clearly where all the Forest Wolves were. As a result, he could only walk and stop several times. Through the vision developed after each advancement, he had continued to outline the location of these Forest Wolves in his mind to find a safe path to walk through.

This was why he had often walked back. Many times, when he had just started to see the path and the fog had appeared after some distance, he would realize that he couldn’t go through that place. Thus, he would have to find another path…

The players who had followed him, of course, could not have known that this seemingly simple evasion of monsters actually involved so many details. Hence, after listening to Fatty’s explanation, they couldn’t help but gasp!

While they were facing a pack of Forest Wolves, if Fatty had accidentally made a mistake, they might have been attacked by a large pack of Forest Wolves. This party might have no problem dealing with three Forest Wolves independently, but it might be strenuous to deal with five of them and they might die terribly if there were seven of them. If they were not careful, they might face a Total Party Kill!

Fatty had played with fire!

At this thought, everyone felt a lingering fear…

“It took us a total of eight minutes. It’s fine, it’s fine!” Fatty ignored the bitter looks of everyone and said, “Alright. Moving on to the last Bandit Camp. After we clear the monsters, July, you will be in charge of drawing them away with the Imp along with an Elite. Fated Sky, tank the other Elite and kill it with all your might. After killing those two Elites, we’ll kill the Boss.”

“Brother Chicken, you won’t be the one to draw away the Boss again, right?” Crayon Knife asked while feeling tongue-tied.

“Don’t tell me it will be you?” Fatty couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

“That’s very dangerous. What if you get killed? Snail of Darkness doesn’t have the resurrecting skill yet!” Crayon Knife said gloomily.

“Don’t worry. I am confident that I will persist longer this time. Did you forget the Speed Scrolls that I told you to buy?” Fatty responded.

“Oh, alright. I’ll listen to you!”

“However…” Fatty suddenly changed the topic and said, “Try to kill faster. I don’t know how long I can last. Do you guys understand?”

“Understood!’ Everyone nodded their heads.

As they once again killed their way into the Gerov Bandit Camp, while everyone was drawing away and killing the bandits, Fatty opened his talent skill list.

He gained a few talent points with every level-up. Fatty was now at Level 13 and had 6 talent points. To kill the 5-Star Goblin, he had added two points to the Dense Skill to enhance his Miasma Skill. However, he had not added any more talent points from then on. After all, wasting his talent skill on the Miasma Skill was simply not worth it.

Still, after learning the Poison Sting Skill, it was worth investing talent points in it.

Rather than saying that the Venomancer belonged to the magic class, one was more inclined to the crowd control class. Therefore, generally speaking, it was best to use talent points on the crowd control skills to strengthen them.

After learning it, the Poison Sting Skill only had a speed reduction effect that caused no damage. However, it could be strengthened by the Barb Skill of the talent skill tree.

[Barb]: Passive skill. It increases the poison damage of Level 1 skills after hitting the target and extends the skill’s speed reduction by 1 second!

Such a talent skill could be increased by 3 levels in total, so Fatty reached the maximum. After the skill effect hit a target, the toxin effect of Level 3 skill increased and the skill’s speed reduction effect was extended by 3 seconds.

In other words, after Fatty’s current Poison Sting Skill hit a target, it could cause a 10% speed reduction effect for 8 seconds. During that period, the target would lose 3 HP per second!

When the character level reached a certain level and the Poison Sting Skill was upgraded in the future, due to the addition of this talent skill, the poison damage would gradually increase and the percentage of the speed reduction effect would also increase. This was a very useful skill.

As long as he released the Poison Sting Skill on the Boss Gerov to slow him down, Fatty would be safer.

Of course, Gerov’s movement speed was much faster than Fatty’s speed. It was hard to say how useful the 10% speed reduction effect of the Poison Sting Skill would be on Gerov. Furthermore, Gerov also had the Instant Death Skill that quickly closed up on the target. Thus, to prevent accidents, Fatty had asked Crayon Knife to purchase the Speed Scrolls.

[Novice Speed Scroll]: After use, it will increase movement speed by 15%. The effect lasts for 6 seconds.

There were only five scrolls, so they had to be used if he couldn’t avoid Gerov. However, thanks to the Poison Sting Skill and Speed Scrolls, Fatty had a greater grasp on his task to delay and restrain the Boss…

After clearing up the bandits, everyone sat down to restore their health and mana to full capacity. After all, they all knew that the next battle with the Boss might be a hard fight…