Chapter 15: The Black Ice Knight (6)
The sun looked down on the depths of the eastern primordial forest in the west, staring at the vast frost fields with its scorching gaze, and even though it was so cold, it still had no intention of chasing the sun away, as ruthless as its lord, the Black Ice Knight.
But perhaps the enthusiastic gaze of the players will eventually be able to dispel the cold land.
Richard stood at the end of the woodland, at the entrance to the Frost Plains, his eyes fixed on the Ice Knight kneeling about 100 meters in front of him. The whole group has hooked up all the buffs they currently have, and is ready to go.
Immediately, he grasped the handle of the large shield with his left hand, and slowly drew his broadsword from his waist with his right hand. When the sword was completely unsheathed, his movements completely got rid of hesitation, and he simply slashed at the Black Ice Knight.
What kind of instructions should be given at this time? Two words, three words are not enough to set off the high fighting spirit of the 39 brave men behind him, and there is only one word, and only this kind of loud voice can be used as the best inspiration.
Richard took a deep breath and let out a loud roar with the muscles of his body.
"Kill!"
He roared and was the first to rush into the battlefield, and behind him, the 39 players let out an earth-shattering cry and poured in like a rushing river.
As the vanguard, after accepting Mr. Fujido, he assembled a tank group of two whole squads. They lead Richard and charge straight towards the boss, and then form a semicircle around the boss in front of them.
This was followed by a support group of 9 people. They circled clockwise to the left and set up at eight o'clock.
Then there is the remote group of 8 people. They rotated counterclockwise to the right and set up at 4 o'clock.
Finally, there are two-handed weapons and long-handled, one-handed weapons groups, which will place a second semicircle outside the tank group.
It was at this time that the results of the week-long training were revealed, just like the battle plan. At the same time as the support group was in place, the tank team rushed to the front of the boss.
The Ice Knight had barely stood up when Richard picked up his shield and slammed it down. His movements are not only done in one go but also without any extra swings, giving people a very skillful feeling. This blow is worthy of the "high-end player" he once prided, and it is very different from the average player.
Mysteryworld is a death game that doesn't have the usual class setting in MMORPGs, just a huge number of skills and a really endless number of combinations that come with it.
There is no profession, but the duty remains. Players still have to decide their position on the team.
Players will have to choose one or both of the three to attract monsters to attack and use themselves as a shield to protect their allies, attackers who specialize in attacks and take down monsters, and supporters who abandon attack and defense in favor of their teammates.
It's just that there is no career framework here to tell players what skills they should use, what parameters to improve to achieve their duties, no strategies and guides, and even the information given by the system is incomplete. Players must rely on their own exploration to find what they need and nurture it.
Richard and the players who eventually stepped into this battlefield like him were the ones who followed this rule, and one of the many things they achieved was the skill that Richard used on the boss at this time, Shield Deterrence.
This skill targets monsters with little to no damage, and at first glance it seems to be specifically designed for fights between players. However, it has the hidden effect of attracting the attention of monsters.
The muffled sound of Richard's shield hitting the boss was a reassuring blow to the ranged players who had just taken their seats. Immediately, they shot arrows and magic with peace of mind.
The attack of the eight people exploded on the Black Ice Knight almost at the same time, stirring up a smoke screen. And this is not painful for the boss at all, and he unhindered the long sword from the mist.
"Bang!"
Richard raised his shield to parry the sword, and a huge force instantly slammed down from head to toe, almost destroying his posture. And his HP was instantly wiped out by four-fifths and turned yellow.
In comparison, the boss's HP has barely decreased. That's not the purpose of this round of attacks by the remote group.
"Ailment is completely immune!" Fu Qingshu immediately reported the situation to all players.
At the same time, the second tank player also used his skills to take over the boss from Richard.
And Romania and Naine Hinata had already cast healing magic on Richard one step earlier. The combination of the green film of light and the holy rain of light lifted his HP back into place.
Two of the rest of the support group players are already preparing for the second round of tank changes, and the rest are unleashing spells such as imprisonment and bondage in a variety of ways. But without exception, all of these spells shattered the moment they came into contact with the boss.
"None of the action suppressions are ineffective!" said Romania as she threw out her healing spell and looked at the effect of the spell on the boss.
Hinata witnessed this scene from the sidelines and couldn't help but secretly admire. She is also the one responsible for healing the tank, but she must see that the opponent's HP is fully restored before she dares to distract herself. Because she wasn't sure if her skills were effective enough, she had to be ready to replenish them at all times.
The reason why Lomaria was able to do so confidently was that she correctly calculated the subject's HP needs and the amount of recovery from the two healing spells in an instant. Presumably, this is one of the qualities necessary to be a conductor.
Commanding a combat group already requires such a skill, so what kind of ability does Richard, who is responsible for commanding the whole regiment, have?
Thinking like this, Hinata Nain couldn't help but capture that figure with the corner of her eye.
It was at this time that Richard shouted the first command of the audience: "Retreat from 5 to 9!
This order to remove half of the tanks in one fell swoop really surprised all players. But the only Fujido general who was asked to be on top may be because of a high degree of mental concentration, and he has just joined the team, but at this time he did obey the order without distraction.
At the moment when Fujido was attacked by the boss, Richard and the young man named "Gao Li", who was in charge of the second tank, exchanged a look. The latter was worthy of being the first tank of Duke's team, and at once he understood that he had temporarily taken over the tasks that should be in charge of Richard in order.
And this is to make it easier for Richard to make overall tactical adjustments.
"The boss's basic attack ignores defense, and the fixed damage is 2000!"
Hearing this, among all the players, the five tanks that retreated were the most shocked, especially No. 5 gasped. Although the defense of the five of them is not low, if you talk about HP, the highest is only 1995. If Richard had been a little slower in giving instructions, and the others had not said anything else, at least Tank 5 would have been dead.
"The tank is up to me, Gorly, Bordeaux, Katori and Fujido, and the rest of the people change their weapons and transfer to injury!"
After the conversation was closed, Richard stepped forward again to take the boss's attack.
Watching the five tanks change weapons and change duties, Edelman, who had been waiting for the hatred to establish stability, sharpened his shoulders a little.
"I said Richard, it's time to do it! I'm getting impatient!"
Richard didn't answer, he was just calculating, and when the boss's attack had passed another round, he shouted, "Please!"
"You're holding on!" Edman shouted excitedly, and then picked up his huge two-handed sword, which was the width of a man, and rushed out with all his might, using all his strength to "leap and split".
The great sword slashed down, and there was the loudest crash since the beginning of the battle. Immediately afterwards, Edman took a step back and pulled the big sword back vertically, and then stabbed it violently, which was the martial art "Fierce Rush".
"Bang!"
There was another loud bang, and although the boss's HP was reduced, it didn't move.
"Cut. Knock off doesn't work!"
As he spoke, he picked up his great sword and spun it around his head, and the sword glowed crimson. That's exactly what he does.
"Ahh
With a loud shout, the big sword fell.
"Whew!"
The Black Ice Knight took a step back with a wail, and his movements came to an abrupt halt. Edelman grinned.
"Magic Skill Hard, Pass!"
"Tactic 34!" Richard commanded. At the moment when his words fell, the players of the two-handed weapon group rose up and summoned their strongest single-shot martial arts on the boss, and they withdrew with one blow like a dragonfly. As soon as they retreated, two arrows and five magic arrows hit the boss.
At this point, the short-lived stun effect finally ends, and the boss regains his mobility. However, there was one other person in the remote group who did not participate in the attack just now.
Fu Qingshu looked at the boss and sneered, and the horizontal bow was actually mounted with three arrows.
"Buzz!"
The bowstring snapped, and three arrows shot out at the same time with three different light effects, drawing different arcs in the air, and finally hitting the same spot on the boss's chest.
Then, another wail sounded, and the boss froze again. At this point, the long-handled, one-handed weapons group, which rotated with the two-handed weapon group, attacked, and the original tank crew members joined in. Unlike the former, which pursues single-click violence, the latter have long-handled weapons but no heavy weapons, so they use not qualitative but quantitative combos to achieve their damage goals.
After that, it was the attack of the ranged group again, and this time there was an arrow from Fu Qingshu, who had the highest damage.
And just like the long-handled, one-handed weapon group, there is one person in the long-handled, one-handed weapon group who did not participate in the attack, and that is Li Mengxi.
At this time, knowing that the time had come for him to contribute, he couldn't help but shake the crimson double-headed spear in his hand - Haotian. To be honest, he didn't really want to show this piece of equipment with an artifact value in front of others, because maybe it would get into trouble, after all, people are jealous. But as Nayin Hinata said at the earlier gathering, "You can't be willful"!
So, at the moment when the boss regained his mobility, Li Mengxi charged over without hesitation. At the moment when the blade of the gun hit the target, he squeezed his hands and launched the first blow of the "Four Styles" with this action, and the gun head rotated with a light effect as if it were a drill.
A tightened fist to control the spear in the position of the horizontal blade, and the light effect was changed. Rotate 190 degrees from the left side with the human gun, and the front edge is the second hit, and the back edge is the third hit with the new light effect.
The barrel of the gun rotates again, changing the horizontal blade into a vertical blade, the fourth light effect lights up, and the fourth blow is completed by pressing forward and picking back.
At this point, the whole gun takes off its hand and idles forward once, the rear edge becomes the front edge, and the front edge becomes the rear edge. Li Mengxi's left hand had already reached out and covered the end of the gun, but he didn't hold it firmly, but he used the force under his feet to charge. As he marched, he held the barrel of the gun in his left hand and moved forward until the middle of the way, holding it tightly and taking the spear with him.
Li Mengxi swung his spear sideways while reaching his destination, and handed the spear from his left hand to his right hand while rotating his body, and when he stood still facing the boss, it was exactly the same as before the attack.
And this series of actions is actually no longer than Edman and Fu Qingshu's single-shot magic skills. The most breathtaking thing is the connection with the charge skill at the end, as if this one-shot skill was originally part of the combo.
For a while, all the players were stunned. Although they had seen Li Mengxi make this kind of acrobatic action more than once in training, they were still a little shocked to see that this kind of action was really used in actual combat. However, it didn't make them completely forget what they were in.
The astonishment was only brief for a moment, and then the two-handed weapon group and the ranged group attacked one after the other.
At this point, the content of Tactic No. 34 is clear, it is the use of magic skills to inflict continuous hard blows on the boss and he has no power to fight back.
Nearly half of the 40 players in the room had at least one magic skill, and after unleashing them one by one as planned, the team easily eliminated the first HP of the Black Ice Knight.
However, the long cooldown of the spell meant that this tactic could not be looped forever. The Black Ice Knight was finally freed from the dilemma of infinite stiffness, and at this moment, his left hand was also wrapped around the ice mist that shone with blue light.
As the boss swung his arm vigorously, a chill erupted directly below one of the two-handed weapon team members, slashing him by a third of his HP and freezing it up.
However, the support team had already had a strategy to deal with it, and the members in charge completed the magic input as quickly as possible. As soon as he pushed the window out, a fireball shot at the frozen members.
However, the unexpected arose.
The members of the ice cube showed painful expressions, and their HP dropped to less than half of it, but the ice cube did not melt. Depending on the situation, the fire magic dealt damage to the player, but failed to remove the ice.
How is this possible? Fire magic can remove the freezing effect cast by the player during training!
The support group was immediately shaken by this, and if the fire magic could not be thawed, the tactical deployment was problematic, so the whole group had to retreat immediately, and in the condition that the frozen companions were left behind. And those who are left behind will definitely be 100% killed.
No one wants to see this outcome, and the players in the support group don't want to kill their teammates because of themselves. But the more this happens, the more overwhelmed they become. At this time, the boss has already made the move to unleash magic again.
At this moment, a wave of fire fell from the sky and poured on the frozen members. The ice shattered instantly, releasing the imprisoned people without causing any harm.
What saved the scene in this crisis situation was that not many people paid attention, and even Romaria did not think of the fire attribute dispelling magic. Everyone's eyes couldn't help but focus on the caster, Hinata Nain.
When Naine Hinata and Li Mengxi were attacking the task maze together, they encountered a scene similar to just now.
The second boss they fought with the Cursed Emissary used a dark wall that cut through the entire field. At that time, the barrier, which could not be penetrated by any attack, immediately collapsed under the light attribute dispel magic.
Therefore, Hinata Nain was in a hurry and thought of using fire attribute dispel magic to deal with the ice. And her successful response finally stabilized the minds of others.
However, without giving him a chance to breathe, the Ice Knight unleashed a second Cryo Spell that trapped one of the players in the ranged group.
Seeing this, Hinata Naine hurriedly exhaled out the spell casting window, but the input speed was significantly slower than before.
"I'm sorry if I had thought of this magic a long time ago......" she said with some guilt as she cast the spell.
"You'll just have to give it your all now!" replied Romania loudly.
And this kind of reproach and encouraging words are compared to simple comfort, but what Hinata Nain needs at this time.
"Understood!" she replied confidently, regaining her strength.
"Hinata is in charge of dispersing!, everyone else has their own business!" Rosea then ordered.
"However, in that case, the person in charge of restoration will ......"
"I'll do her job!" said Romania, who decided not to hide her secrets. And what she did next was something shocking enough to leave Li Mengxi's superb skills and Hinata's rescue scene behind her. Because that's an act that almost subverts the common sense that players have built up to now.
Romania was no doubt ready to use magic, but instead of summoning the input window, she just pointed her finger in front of her. With a green glow on her fingertips, she wrote at high speed in the empty void, leaving behind the handwriting, which was also the character of magic.
Twenty-three symbols were drawn in one stroke, and as her fingers swept them out, they immediately turned into restoration magic applied to the tank. The cast time is two-thirds shorter than usual.
This method of casting spells is simpler than simply using one hundred and eight keystrokes, and it feels more magical, and it is also more handsome and gorgeous. If this method is widespread, I am afraid that the number of magicians in the battle group will be doubled. It's the way to cast spells, and it's a milestone in the path of magical skills.
It's no wonder that Lomaria didn't show this technique until now, otherwise the threshold of her family would have been kicked through by those who asked for advice.
"It's coming!" Just as the support team was a little distracted by this, a loud shout from Lomaria made them tense up again. Then it's time to put their skills to the test.
When the second HP bottomed out, the boss finally used his third skill, and a cold chill swept out from under his feet in all directions, and all 40 players were hit.
Although this blow is not as perverted as the boss's usual attacks, the damage is not bad, and almost everyone's HP drops below half after the blow. The men in the melee positions were all overturned to the ground.
However, in the next instant, starting from the tank group, all players have light effects on their bodies one after another, and the damage caused by the boss's skills is canceled out by the players in the support group in a very short time.
Richard, feeling the pain in his flesh disappear, rose from the ground, and raised his shield just in time to meet the sword slashed by the Ice Knight. This scene was so similar to the scene that had happened at the beginning of the battle, however, at this moment, Richard's body did not even tremble in the slightest.
The boss's strength has not weakened, his parameter value has not increased, and what supports him is the confidence that exists in his heart!
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