12 - Han Bing Xue Field (7)

Chapter 12: Han Bing Xue Field (7)

Translated by rabbitrisu

When Xiao Ran returned to the Xuenu’s room, all of the others were shocked when they saw him.

“How are you back here?! Where’s the hunter???”

Xiao Ran shrugged and spoke shortly about what had just happened, and then everyone was silent.

What the fuck? That’s also an option?

–Of course it’s an option! It wasn’t just great; it was worth celebrating! After listening to Xiao Ran’s inspiring words before, they went to defeat the Xuenu with fierce methods. It was only after they started that they realized that it wasn’t that simple at all QAQ!

This boss’s mental confusion debuff was really disgusting!

Xiao Ran’s reappearance was equivalent to a divine blessing. After clearly analyzing the situation, he joined the damage output team.

At that time, the Xuenu’s blood volume was at less than half. Xiao Ran’s participation was like a divine blessing. Everyone worked together to smoothly force the Xuenu’s blood volume beneath the threshold, and the Xuenu began her power enhancement and chanted spells.

Seeing the frosty energy in the air grow stronger and stronger, Xiao Ran hurriedly reminded them: “Xigua, interrupt.”

With regards to interrupting big spells, Xigua Jingling could be considered familiar with the course after an entire instance. He cast his Reed Painting skill, but then his face twisted, “Not good! My Reed Painting skill level is too low to interrupt!”

Their complexions all changed. The Xuenu’s ultimate move was a widespread water spell, Falling Frost. It not only had a powerful damage range, but it could also reduce the targets’ speed by 50%. By that time, it was too late to run out of the attack’s area of effect. Could it be that after they finally made their way to this place, they would fall short?

At that moment, plants and vines arose from the magic circle beneath the Xuenu to firmly restrain her, and the frosty energy in the air immediately disappeared.

What was that grandson 1 joking for! It really could be interrupted, ma!

Everyone was relieved yet angry, but they didn’t dare to get distracted in such a situation. They combined their burst damage output and finally defeated the boss.

The woman in white let out a scream. Her black hair rapidly turned white, her gorgeous face rapidly aged, and her entire body seemed to be sucked dry. Just a layer of skin and bones fell to the ground, turned into a golden light, and disappeared.

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao: “Xigua, you stinky brat, you scared Baba 2 to death!”

Liang Xia: “I’ll tell a joke and beat you up later, ah.”

Xigua Jingling was in tears: “I wasn’t kidding. I didn’t cast the Reed Painting skill just now.”

Everyone was shocked. There were only two Shen Bi on the team, and if Xigua’s Reed Drawing technique couldn’t interrupt it, then just now……

Xigua Jingling stared at Xiao Ran: “So you also have the Reed Painting skill. Why didn’t you say it earlier. Reminding me to interrupt skills, reminding me of farts, ah!”

Xiao Ran turned his head. “I did it to enhance your game literacy, not because I wanted to be lazy.”

Xigua Jingling: “That’s certainly true, ah!”

Although Xigua complained about it, he still worshipped Xiao Ran within his heart. His Reed Painting skill was Level 4, which was considered good for a Shen Bi player at his level. Even he couldn’t interrupt the boss’s skill, but Xiao Ran’s Reed Painting skill could firmly restrain her. The boss didn’t even have a chance to struggle. His skill level must definitely be two levels higher than his. What does it mean to have a Reed Painting skill at Level 6? It means that a Shen Bi player did not eat or drink, he would have had to train his Reed Painting skill 24 hours a day for an entire half of a month!

This was a monster, ma! It didn’t matter if his techniques were good and his equipment was good. His skill level was so high it made others not want to live!

After the Xuenu disappeared, two pieces of purple equipment and three rare Elder Silk materials 3 appeared on the ground.

It was a double purple egg 4 , such good luck. In general, the blue boss’s equipment would be dropped in an instance. The probability of purple equipment was very low. He didn’t expect that after already having purple equipment drop from the Xue Qiu Elite earlier, that they could still be blessed with a double purple egg from the Xuenu.

The double purple eggs were the Level 35 Holy Monk equipment, Buddhist Robes, and the Level 35 Shen Bi handguards, Light Snow Gauntlets. Dafeng bought out the Buddhist Robes for the low price of 1 gold coin and 50 silver coins, and the money was distributed to the other five team members. It was, after all, the team’s internal pricing, so it was naturally much cheaper than buying it externally.

As for the Shen Bi gauntlets, neither Xiao Ran nor Xigua Jingling needed them. Xigua would take care of them, and the money would be distributed amongst them all after they were sold at the auction house.

After the instance was completed, the six people were forced out together. At the same time, a messege from the system also appeared within each of their views—

The Hunter survived the level without damage. You received the Hidden Instance’s bonus reward ‘Lesser Instance Buff Halo’: +150 Physical Attack, +150 Magic Attack, +1 All Skill Levels. Lasts 3 hours, takes effect within the instance.

After completing some of the more complex operations within instances that require skillful technique to achieve, the system would send out different levels of ‘Instance Buff Halos’ as rewards to the players based on the difficulty of the operations.

Everyone noticed at that time that there was a glowing white magic circle beneath their feet with complicated runes painted within it. The circle was scattered with stars, and it was eye-catching to those in the group.

“Buff Halo! Fuck!” The group cursed secretly, then looked at Xiao Ran with worshipful stares.

The conditions for a Buff Halo appearing were very strict, as could be seen based on the excessive properties of the halo. The condition of ‘the Hunter surviving the level without damage’ was definitely based on Xiao Ran’s work.

The biggest issue in the Xuenu Cave Hidden Instance was figuring out how to defeat the Xuenu as soon as possible while ensuring the safety of the Hunter. Xiao Ran wasn’t the first, and will certainly never be the last, person who would think of kiting the Hunter, but being able to control the Hunter during such a powerful attack without him being harmed at all would be beyond hope.

Although there was an element of luck involved, it still didn’t affect how everyone was worshiping Xiao Ran.

They had been playing alongside gods for so long, and this was the first time they had completed an instance and gained a Buff Halo! With such a thing, no instances at their level couldn’t be completed!

But—

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao’s face was tearful: “The four of us have maxed out the number of times we can enter an instance today…”

In addition to the limit on the number of times for a single instance, the total number of times that the players could enter any instance per day was also limited to a total of 20 times. This number was to prevent some players from maliciously repeating hidden or broken games. 5

Not all hidden instances were reached before the final battle. Many hidden instances would be triggered as soon as then enter an instance, so in order to farm 6 the rare materials dropped by such bosses, some players would team up to enter and exit those instances repeatedly.

Who would they care about losing only 5% of their experience after dying in an instance, ne.

Compared to death in the wild, where they lose 50% of their experience and have a 100% chance of dropping a piece of equipment, that cost was obviously not very much.

In general, the max number of instances wouldn’t be used up. Especially at higher levels, ordinary instances couldn’t be cleared within an hour, let alone large instances that are attempted once or three times a week.

Except for very few unlucky people like Naozhong and them—

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao was so angry that he was scratching the wall. If he had known that he would be this good, he would have let Xiao Ma-ge join early in the morning, ah!

But this was the end of the matter, regardless of how upset he was. Gaosu Gonglu comforted him: “So the number of instances has been used up. We could use the halo to go to a leveling area and clear out mobs?”

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao immediately became energetic again. Yeah! What was a Buff Halo? It was the same as an instance record, the first boss kill, a symbol of honor! A team that could gain an instance record may not necessarily be able to gain a halo, ne!

After all, conditions like the Hunter’s damage-free completion weren’t rigid. Players who grab an instance record or the first kill have no space for delicate operations. They just released waves of violent output, so the Buff Halos usually don’t appear for teams of players who gain records.

Since they couldn’t enter an instance, then driving a halo around the players’ leveling area would also be very cool, ah!

Naozhong Ni Bie Nao sharpened his knife: “Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go quickly, ba!”

Xigua Jingling suddenly spoke nonchalantly: “I still have something to do with my guild, so I won’t accompany you.”

“I won’t accompany you either.” Xiao Ran also said. It would be a waste not to enter an instance in such a state.

Naozhong and the others expressed their understanding. After adding Xigua and Xiao Ran as friends, they left, and the group stepped on four portals and ran to the nearby Level 42-44 leveling area to show off their power.

After Xigua Jingling and Xiao Ran said goodbye, he looked at Xiao Ran’s back regretfully as they separated. If such a master would enter his guild, that would be great.

Xigua Jingling, who was always thinking about his team and his guild, thought about that, and became even more curious about Xiao Ran’s identity. He dug around in his, and after rubbing off a Town Portal Scroll, he rushed back to his guild headquarters without delay.

Footnotes

a term of disrespect, opposite vibes to calling oneself dad/grandfather/ancestor, etc. Father, but informal. Closer to dad/daddy/papa. Keeping pinyin in case fuqin/diedie/etc. show up later and I need to differentiate. Literal TL for this would be White Head Silk, but im p sure author is using the metaphorical meaning of white-haired person, which would be an Elder, instead of whiteheads like pimples. It’s not a head scarf because that would be equipment, not material egg can be slang for the loot/burst drop actual word is ‘negative’ game instead of broken game, but it’s negative in the sense that overplaying it would give those players an advantage, or that there’s something glitchy about the game that makes it so playing it is more advantageous than other games at that level. to farm is to repeatedly perform an action hoping to gain a lot of a certain reward, usually experience points/certain materials/certain equipment