17 - Mermaid's Tomb (2)

Chapter 17: Mermaid’s Tomb (2)

Danshen Guai Shei and Guaiwo Ge.

They were actually a pair of good friends, which could be seen based on their names, but obviously the other parties hadn’t yet learned that. 1

The professional juxtaposition of their names was very unforgettable.

Although Danshen Guai Shei was a professional healer, all of his added skills were attack spells. He hadn’t learned even a single healing technique. He was a blatantly violent healer. That mistress Guaiwo Ge was the real healer, and his skills were accurate and experienced. After saying they would survive this instance, it would be hard to lie down on the street. 2 Even the Divine Doctor masters didn’t necessarily reach his level.

So when Danshen Guai Shei said ‘healers have self-respect,’ Guaiwo Ge blew up.

Xiao Ran’s friendship with them was pretty good. Although they weren’t as tragic and strong as life and death or wind and snow, after several instances and exchanged, they could be considered to have a relatively deep and meaningful friendship.

These two also performed at a skill level that was rare among players. Although they haven’t been able to fully make use of their career advantages at Level 40, they were more than enough to go to the Mermaid’s Tomb.

It was nice that he was able to temporarily grab two reliable players such as them to play this instance.

“This place was really easy to find, ah.” As soon as Guaiwo Ge approached, he hadn’t yet finished speaking, but he involuntarily took a few steps back when he saw Yiye Feihua. “Fuck?! God of Slaughter?? This is that person?!!” 3

God of Slaughter was the honorific title that Shenzhou players had for Yiye Feihua. Of course, it was a black title at the beginning. At that time, he had just arrived out of Fengdu, and he behaved aggressively and murdered en masse. Shenzhou players wanted to kill him quickly, but as Yiye Feihua became more and more inconspicuous, more Shenzhou players’ attitudes towards Yiye Feihua aligned more closely with that of the local great gods. After all, world domination was close at hand. No matter which faction he was, the gods who serve us are always better than those foreigners, ah!

The thin-skinned Xiao Ran spoke embarrassedly: “Yes. He’s my friend.”

Before Guaiwo Ge had time to digest that bomb, Yiye Feihua calmly threw another: “No, it’s boyfriend.”

Xiao Ran’s face blushed brightly.

Guaiwo Ge: “…….”

Ah! What was that sour smell in the air! 4

Underneath the sour smell, Guaiwo Ge’s shocked emotions were heavily suppressed.

Danshen Guai Shei approached at that time, and his attitude upon seeing Yiye Feihua was clearly calmer. After he politely said hello, he stared at the halo under Xiao Ran’s feet and said: “Eh? Good stuff, ah.”

Xiao Ran smiled. “Why don’t we find the instance? Let’s go.”

Xiao Ran added the two of them to his and Yiye Feihua’s team, then walked to the small mountain village. The sensation of the barrier seemed to disappear, and the four of them smoothly entered.

Xiao Ran heaved a sigh of relief. There were fortunately enough people, otherwise he wouldn’t have known where else to find someone to activate the instance.

When the four of them entered the Mermaid’s Tomb, the path they had used upon arrival disappeared and was replaced by an infinite wilderness. This was an instance map. Only through clearance or death could they exit, and this hidden instance map was one-time only. Once the mission was completed, it couldn’t be entered again.

A horn sounded and the tranquility of the mountain village was shattered. Four sirens not far away from the village gate were alerted first, so they rushed over with their weapons.

Siren – Level 41

The sirens were a group of mobs with human heads and fish bodies as well as two hands and feet. 5 Although they were also fish people, their sharp and rugged styles were far from the ‘mermaids’ of Western mythology.

There were two types of sirens, close-range and long-range. The weapons of the close-range sirens were harpoons, which were good for quick stabs and taunts, while the long-range sirens held projectiles and looked like they would get upset and attack whenever they saw you.

As for why the projectiles in their hands would appear out of nowhere 10 seconds after it was tossed away… don’t worry about such details.

There were two long-range attackers in the four-man team, as well as one healer. Of course, pulling the monsters fell to Yiye Feihua’s body as the only close-combat fighter. 6

Yiye Feihua aimed his spear to the left, then stabbed a harpoon siren. He then raised it up into the air and hit the siren who was about to throw a projectile at the back. The two sirens crashed together. Taking advantage of the gap, he turned around and stabbed forward, impaling the siren who was diagonally in front of him. While retracting his spear, he suddenly moved behind another long-range siren. While the long-range siren was turning around, the harpoon siren screamed and ran toward that side.

Yiye Feihua noticed and at the right time, he released a Cloud Piercing Thorn, 7 piercing the two sirens together.

He wove in and out from left to right, and within a short time had stabilized the hatred of the four mobs.

“Beautiful!” With that sharp and precise technique, Danshen Guai Shen couldn’t resist admiring that monster, regardless of his facial paralysis.

“Attack, ba.” Yiye Feihua said.

Then their brilliant spells bombarded the four sirens’ heads one after another.

Yiye Feihua’s level was currently the max Level 60, but due to his faction curse, his current combat power was just around Level 40. Without the 20 level difference, the sirens would have already been killed in one stab.

But that was fine. Team experience was allocated according to damage output. If they let Yiye Feihua fight alone, Xiao Ran and the others wouldn’t be able to share the experience.

It didn’t take more than a moment for the four mobs to turn into golden light and disappear, leaving behind a few shiny items. Before Xiao Ran could pick them up, another horn sounded. Five sirens were approaching from the corner!

Yiye Feihua tried the same tricks to taunt the mobs. This time when everyone hit the last two mobs until their skin was bloody, the horn sounded again and five more sirens approached.

Yiye Feihua looked at the time display within his view, saying: “That thing sounds once every three minutes. If we can’t finish the previous wave before then, it will become more troublesome and accumulate.”

More troublesome…… Great God, are you serious……

Guaiwo Ge rushed to heal everyone. He looked at most of his healing skills, which were on cooldown, and his thoughts fell slightly.

The difficulty of a hidden instance was generally higher than that of a normal instance, and there were usually some abnormal tricks to embarrass the players, like how they’re now taking the initiative to continuously bring out new strange mobs.

Of course, the benefits were also better than ordinary instances. Not even mentioning the experience, the burst rate of equipment was several times higher than externally. Looking at the shining coins and equipment on the ground that they didn’t have time to pick up, Guaiwo Ge felt a throbbing pain at the corner of his mouth.

But his emotions didn’t last long. Yiye Feihua’s sudden acceleration made his spirit tense completely.

He squeezed his prayer beads and was ready to rescue the great god at any moment, but what he didn’t expect there was…… no need at all.

His operational speed was increased, but his dodge rate and hit rate were still very high. His zero-error operations even reduced the pressure for Guaiwo Ge to heal.

Yiye Feihua was the focal point of the entire team. As soon as he sped up, the others also more or less sped up their operations, and the five new mobs were taken care of before the horn sounded again.

The number of mobs gradually increased in each wave, from four at the beginning up to ten, and the speed of Yiye Feihua’s operations also increased again and again. The dazzling skills dumbfounded both Guaiwo Ge and Duanshen Guai Shei.

The only one who could barely keep up with Yiye Feihua’s speed was Xiao Ran. He could see Yiye Feihua’s attacks clearly and calculate the damage values, so each of his hits could assist Yiye Feihua just right. There was no OT 8 problem at all, and with the assistance of the buff halo, his output was no less than Yiye Feihua’s after his strength was suppressed.

Thirty minutes later, a total of ten waves of mobs finally fell under the four people’s siege.

The horn, which was originally enough for the players to rush again and again, passed in such a dull manner.

The good friends who didn’t have much of a chance to perform: “……”

Those husbands were looking for the two of them solely for the purpose of showing off their operations to an audience, ba!

Guaiwo Ge squeezed his prayer beads and thought chaotically in the wind.

Footnotes

Danshen Guai Shei = Who to blame for being single, Guaiwo Ge = Blame me slightly After confirming his pride in his skills, it would be hard to take an insult like that I thought I already TLd Feihua’s title, but I couldn’t find it anywhere in the earlier chapters, so RIP if I have and it was something different. sour = vinegar = jealousy Yes, it does say feet. I’m not questioning it. pulling their hatred toward himself (taunting) attack/weapon off-tank, someone taking attention away from the main tank (MT)