19 - Mermaid's Tomb (4)

Chapter 19: Mermaid’s Tomb (4)

Finally ending the torture, Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua continued moving forward peacefully in the good friends’ resentful eyes.

The final boss of Mermaid’s Tomb, who rested in the ancestral hall on the back mountain, was the Lord-Level boss Enchanting Siren. That is, the ancestor of this branch of siren people. At that time, the mermaid tribes were being suppressed by natural enemies, so she led her tribe to find this paradise and settle. One hundred years later, Enchanting Siren couldn’t escape her fate, and now sleeps in this land forever.

The name ‘Mermaid’s Tomb’ was referring to her tomb.

When Enchanting Siren lifted the lid of her coffin in the ancestral hall to rampage, the four of them felt relieved.

After seeing so many sirens with spicy eyes 1 , there was finally a decent mermaid!

Enchanting Siren was worthy of being the ancestor of the mermaid people. She was very beautiful, with slightly curly waves of long hair hanging softly against her shoulders. She wore siren silk as thin as a cicada’s wings, and her beautiful figure was captivating underneath it.

Enchanting Siren’s lower body was a long fish tail. With a casual sway, the beautiful scales emitted shimmering dots, which was very beautiful.

It’s a pity that there were no straight men present ( I seem to have missed something ), 2 so the shameful picture of collectively straight men with shaking tiger bodies from last time didn’t happen. 3

Yiye Feihua lifted his spear and rushed forward to kill the monster. The accuracy of his technique, the violence of the operation……

Love between men and women? Nonexistent.

Enchanting Siren was a spellcasting boss. Except for the instantaneous Frostbolt, Lightning Chain, Frost Orb, and other abilities, all of her major attacks were large-area spells. There were three crispy cloth-wearers on their team, and it would be very painful if they were hit. 4

Enchanting Siren released two ice arrows, then clasped her hands in front of her chest, seeming to be singing 5 a spell.

Xiao Ran noticed a good time to take his shot with Reed Painting. With his equipment buff, his Reed Painting reached level 6, along with the buff halo for each skill. At that time, it was a terrifying level 7, so interrupting Enchanting Siren’s major attack was naturally not an issue.

“Splendid!” Yiye Feihua couldn’t help but compliment him. Of course, what he praised wasn’t Xiao Ran’s skill level, but the timing of when he released Reed Painting.

Although the boss’s major attack was sung, the process was quite short compared to players’ reaction time. If their skills were released early, the interruption would be unsuccessful. When the effect was over, the being would still use their major attack. If the interruption was too late, the major attack would already be released. If you wanted to escape, you couldn’t escape, and Enchanting Siren wouldn’t stand in place to let you attack. On the contrary – this boss’s mobility was very good at Level 40, so the timing of the interruption was extremely important. No average player could do that.

Enchanting Siren was bound tightly by the vines. The first time her major attack was interrupted, her hatred was transferred to Xiao Ran, since his damage output wasn’t weak. After the vines sunk back into the ground, a chain of lightning fell from the sky, but Xiao Ran’s reaction was faster. While jumping back and flicking his wrists, the word ‘deer’ quickly hit her heart. 6

Write a Chapter (Free Skill): Cause damage to a single enemy through writing. The more complex the written character and the more ink it consumes, the higher the attack power. Cooldown: 3 seconds.

Write a Chapter was a free skill that could be learned by a Shen Bi at Level 0. At that time, it was as high as Level 7.

In addition to the higher complexity of the single character yielding higher attack, Write a Chapter could also use continuous writing to achieve a high-level effect of cumulative damage.

The continuous writing couldn’t be random. It must have a structure, such as words or articles. Whenever one more character was written, a combo point would be gained. After all of the characters are completely written, a single ink dot is used as the node. The moment the ink dot is written, it means the writing is over, and the damage accumulated with the combo will be released one at a time. The more complex the articles, the higher the word count, the higher the accumulated combo point damage.

When the system determines damage, nothing was more effective for combos than ancient poetry, so what Xiao Ran was currently writing was Cao Cao’s short song line.

Enchanting Siren’s hands crossed her chest again, but they were aimed in Xiao Ran’s direction, stunning everyone.

Another major attack followed so quickly after a major attack?!

Lord-Level bosses weren’t so easy to predict, but Xiao Ran’s Reed Painting skill was still on cooldown. At that moment, Yiye Feihua waved his spear. That was the starting method for the skill Autumn Breeze Sweeping Leaves. Normally this skill could propel a selected target into the air, but a Lord-Level boss can weaken the effects of various skills by a certain degree, so this time she only rose slightly.

But even that small gap was seized by Yiye Feihua. The war spear Shenyuan Zhi Huo swept forward, staggering the boss who was meant to be knocked into the air. Although the skill’s effect was weakened, the major attack was finally interrupted.

Everyone couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The God of Slaughter was so strong!

That was the only impression left in the minds of Guaiwo Ge and Danshen Guai Shei.

Compared with Xiao Ran’s precise interruption timing, that spear swing for Autumn Breeze Sweeping Leaves just now couldn’t go wrong. If he were replaced with any of them, it was absolutely impossible to play that skill effect while floating so low in the air.

Enchanting Siren, who was supposed to make the players unable to attack at all, was interrupted by Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua’s cooperation. She didn’t throw any of her ranged major attacks, so she was very aggrievedly beaten until she was beneath her blood line. 7

“Attention! Red blood soon!” Danshen Guai Shei keenly noticed that the scales on Enchanting Siren’s body were getting darker, so he couldn’t help but loudly remind them.

Guaiwo Ge immediately grasped his prayer beads when he heard the sound, ready to rescue them at any time.

Yiye Feihua and Xiao Ran were still calm and collected. Facing a boss’s rage, no matter what team someone was on, they would usually make some corresponding changes. Yet, those two men who had experienced many battles still maintained how they were before. Their rhythm made their good friends feel somewhat uneasy.

The scales on Enchanting Siren’s body changed into a deep sea blue, and even her skin was covered in a stiff shade of grey-blue. She held one hand high, and the vegetation surrounding the ancestral hall began flying in waves. A small energized water bomb gathered in her palm and was about to impact Yiye Feihua. When it was about to impact, Yiye Feihua suddenly moved away, and a dot of ink flew from behind him and hit the energized water bomb. At the same time, the spear in Xiao Ran’s hand also pierced Enchanting Siren’s heart.

They saw the boss’s 2% remaining health bar quickly drain, and she fell limply to the ground.

Sec Kill! 8

The short time for the spell song and the critical strike of the skill from the spear brush on the boss were almost simultaneous. From an effect point of view, that should have completed the kill.

“Intense!” Danshen Guai Shei praised sincerely.

“That trick was too fierce!” Guaiwo Ge was shocked.

That skill was a free skill that could be learned at a Shen Bi’s early stages, so Guaiwo Ge and Danshen Guai Shei had seen it many times, but Xiao Ran was without doubt the only one who could use the skill to such an extent!

That was because, even though it was a low-level skill, it was difficult to get started.

Memory and rhythm were difficult.

The more combo points someone wanted to get, the more complicated the characters would be, which was a test of the player’s memory.

But for a fast-paced pk, people couldn’t find north anymore 9 , and who could remember which character was written just now!

The system also stipulated that ‘the more repetitive, the lower the damage value,’ so when most people use that skill, they try to use short verses and characters as much as possible, so they don’t even reach a combo effect.

In addition to memory, it was also difficult to master a rhythm to release the max power of Write a Chapter. If Xiao Ran was in the process of playing against a boss, yet calculated that the accumulated combo points in the timespan of a short spell song were enough to kill the enraged boss in seconds, that would be terrifying!

Guaiwo Ge and Danshen Guai Shei’s hearts beat in unison.

That should be a coincidence! If not, then that couple was too terrible! Their operations prevent ordinary players from living!!

The boss produced a handful of purple weapons and 10 pieces of Siren Silk. Their luck could be considered overwhelming.

Their previous calculations were good. Adding these 10 Siren Silks, they had just enough to form a whole invitation letter for ‘Haizhong City’. Combining with the 30 Siren Silks in Xiao Ran’s bag, a gilded envelope appeared. 10

‘Haizhong City’ Invitation Letter: With this token, on the evening of June 20 th , you can take the merchant ship ‘Siren’s Wail’ off the western coast and arrive at ‘Haizhong City’. Invalid once expired.

It was mid-May. It seemed that Xiao Ran had to increase his level and wealth as soon as possible before June 20 th , and make plans for his max-level equipment.

The burst of purple equipment happened to be a weapon available to the Holy Monk at Level 40, the Zen Heart Orb. Guaiwo Ge was ecstatic. They weren’t a random team, so they didn’t need to share the drops with other people if there was a piece of equipment that could be used. They were all friends. Whoever could use the equipment could take it.

On one side, Xiao Ran was already happily distributing equipment amongst the four of them;

On the other side, the Shenyao players who had been waiting over an hour were still persevering while they acted as Wangfu Stones 11 in front of the instance.

Footnotes

anger, hatred, violent, etc. this is from the POV of Enchanting Siren – she missed that everyone there was gay shaking tiger body apparently means that there was no domineering spirit to exert power over others and/or to be surprised. I think the mermaid has no power and our team wasn’t surprised, in this case, but Im unfamiliar with this phrase cloth wearers tend to have the least amount of protection. Crispy means fragile. this is the same as chanting a spell, but since it’s a mermaid/siren she’s singing instead. It just means the spell isn’t instantaneous and needs a second or more to cast referring to the phrase ‘a little deer is jumping in my heart’, meaning someone is anxious or nervous or their heart is racing. Most often in the context of ‘butterflies in my stomach’ under the blood line, bosses go into a rage state or get more powers killing the enemy in seconds, slang from league of legends people get confused easily Okay so I feel like I should clarify that the siren silk is a fabric that the invitation is written on, hence the boss wearing clothing of the same material above. Wangfu means ‘look /expect/gaze towards husband’. Based on a legend in which a woman waits so long for her husband to return that she turns to stone/dies and is fossilized, still waiting.