25.4 - Breakthrough Mission (Three in One)

Chapter 25: Breakthrough Mission (Three in One) – Part Four

When Yiye Feihua arrived, he had automatically changed into his Fentou Bengdi character. Otherwise, as a max-level player, he wouldn’t be able to participate or help with the final stage.

In the last stage of the breakthrough mission, if a player really feels like they can’t make it through, they can ask another player to help them. If they’re popular enough, they can directly invite five other players to help them. It was possible to form an entire team to participate in the last stage, but the levels of the helping platers cannot exceed their own level by two. Fentou Bengdi was just at Level 42, which met the requirements for that range.

As soon as the unusually tall dragon knight player appeared, it attracted the attention of most of the nearby players.

The great god’s character was still in the rough and wild animal skin. The cold and serious man walked straight toward the younger man. His expressionless appearance made people think that there was a grudge between the two. Just as the players surrounding them were all afraid for the smaller youth, the larger man hugged the man. Although he wasn’t petite, he was extremely small compared to him.

The people around them were fed steaming hot dog food.

“Okay, let’s enter the instance.” Xiao Ran spoke in embarrassment.

“If you forget the agreement between us next time, I wont settle for simply hugging you in public.” The large man threatened with a husky voice. After saying that, he stopped embarrassing his shy lover, and touched his slightly warm cheek. He grabbed his hand and spoke with the old painter Hua Wuxin, then entered the team instance of the final stage.

There was a flash of white light in front of them, and when they opened their eyes once more, the two had arrived in a dim forest.

Xiao Ran looked around and saw that they were now in a forest territory. The surrounding land was very damp and sticky, and the extremely moist soil was still slightly watery, like a small swamp.

It was a swamp forest.

Xiao Ran and his partner were standing on one of the few dry spots of land in the forest, surrounded by four other players, who were randomly matched to them as teammates by the system.

Before Xiao Ran and his partner could greet their new teammates, the cold, unnatural voice of the system exploded throughout the forest—

[Welcome to the team instance Swamp Forest. In year 898 of the Shenzhou calendar, dignitaries who were used to torturing and playing with slaves came up with a new and wonderful way to have fun. They drove the servants who knew martial arts into this swamp forest and made a bet that only the last remaining team would be able to exit the forest.]

[Brave adventurers, you will play as five domestic servant teams in this instance and venture into the forest. Not only must you be wary of the fierce beasts and vicious swamp spirits in the forest, but you must also guard against hostility from your own kind. There is no time limit for this mission. When the last team is determined, that team will win the team instance.]

[There are five teams total with six people per team. The self-selected captain mode will be turned on. After the introduction, you will have the chance to choose a captain. The IDs of the 30 adventurers can be viewed in the team list on the left side of your field of vision. Each member and each team can communicate through audio. Please be wary of possible betrayers in the team.]

[Additionally, players who die in this instance will not be teleported, but will instead be directly lowered one level and re-cast into any part of the forest for ‘rebirth’. If you’d like to abandon this task, please return to your team’s spawn point and select to quit the instance. This will not deduct any experience or equipment.]

[The basic information about this team instance has been shared. I wish you good luck.]

The team instance was randomly set each time. Except for the cruel elimination rule of ‘five versus one,’ the commonalities between the instances were pitiful. Some instances had no penalty for failure, and some instances caused a 20% loss of experience. This Swamp Forest was without a doubt an example of one of the instances with the highest cost of failure. If you die, you would be immediately sent out, and there was no guarantee that you would be able to teleport out immediately when you wanted to take a break.

To some extent, that kind of rule would become a killing paradise for some mad PK demons.

Hopefully there wasn’t that kind of bad person in this team instance.

Xiao Ran was just thinking that way when the four teammates surrounding them came forward to say hello one by one.

Apart from the great god and Xiao Ran, the other players in the team had the immortal cultivator career, spirit fox, infinite swordsman, and puppeteer.

It just so happened that there were none of the two healer careers, the holy monk or the divine doctor.

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The spirit fox player, Yang Yang, saw the career configuration and cried out on the spot: “This is it? This character make-up is too bad! How can we survive a team instance without a healer, ah?”

The puppeteer player was a soft girl named Maomao Yin. With two furry ears on a headband atop her head, she looked very gentle and cute as she suggested: “Didn’t the rules say that each of our teams can communicate with each other? Why don’t we find another team of players to join an alliance with us.”

The other three players all agreed whole-heartedly, but Xiao Ran and the great god didn’t care. In fact, the two of them alone were enough to clear the instance. It was only a Level 40 instance. If they couldn’t beat it, then one wasn’t good enough to be the top ranked master, and the other wasn’t a god-level AI.

Xiao Ran and Yiye Feihua stood whispering to the side, leaving the four of them to go about their business.

The rest of the team didn’t know that those two inconspicuous players had such great backgrounds. They just actively opened up the team list, and when they were about to contact another team, they suddenly received a voice message from one of them.

Because it was sent to the team, as long as one person clicks on it, everyone else could hear.

A familiar male voice entered their ears—

“Hello everyone, I am a member of the elite team of the God of the Underworld guild. Our entire team is from the elite reserve team of the God of the Underworld Guild. All of our members are equipped with purple outfits and purple weapons. We are bound to win this team instance, but we do not wish to cause any unnecessary casualties. Please immediately exit the instance at your spawn point, and do not struggle unnecessarily. Of course, if you’d like to face us, you may try. We will give you five minutes to think about it. Please make the right choice as soon as possible.” The arrogant voice of Luobi Kuangfeng reached everyone’s ears.

Luobi Kuangfeng? Wasn’t that the same Shen Bi player who took the same weapon as the great god from him? 1

What a coincidence!

TL Notes: I got so many new responsibilities at work its terrible im so busy criiii

Footnotes

Recall chapter 2 😊