Chapter 31

**Ding!** An item dropped from the blood puppet. The ball that had been flying around Mu Feng shot up and shot out a red beam to pick up the equipment. However, due to the team leader being Xueyue Qinfeng, it automatically fell into her backpack.

"There's only one piece of blue leather pants!" Xueyue Qinfeng said dejectedly, showing the equipment stats. It was a 25th-level gold elite boss, yet it only dropped a blue item. Wasn't this just a rip-off?

**Undead Leather Pants:** Quality (Excellent) +21 Agility, +19 Intelligence, +35 Armor. Required Level 17. A decent blue output leather pants.

"There's no need to be depressed. This means the final boss will definitely drop something good! Tianji Company has said that the first kill rewards in dungeons are generous! Wait... damn!" While checking the equipment stats, the stats of the already equipped item in the same slot would also appear for comparison. Mu Feng then realized that he was still wearing the 5th-level white pants he had bought from the equipment shop when he entered the Trial Cave at level 5!

Upon a closer look, he found that he was also wearing a 5th-level white wristguard and 3rd-level green gloves. Compared to his other blue and purple equipment, these were quite shabby. If this dungeon didn't drop anything, he would go to the auction house to replace them!

"Should we roll for it?" Although he wanted to take it directly, Qinfeng and Chuchun were both leather-wearing classes, and this blue pants also added a significant amount of intelligence. Mu Feng couldn't just say he wanted it.

"Go ahead, I know you chose the Reaper talent, which benefits from both agility and intelligence. For us, only the intelligence is useful, and we wouldn't have been able to defeat the boss without you!" Qinfeng said with a smile, directly assigning the pants to Mu Feng. Chuchun, who was running back to her corpse, knew her sister's temperament and wouldn't want it either.

**Ding, Congratulations on obtaining Undead Leather Pants.**

"Thanks, I won't be shy." Putting on the Undead Leather Pants, Mu Feng's attack increased by 42 points, and his spell damage increased by 19 points.

"Phew... finally back!" Chuchun's voice came from behind. Her little face was slightly flushed from the long run. She was the only one in the team who could resurrect, so when he and Dasha died, they had to run back to their corpses. If their souls hit the dungeon barrier, they would automatically resurrect at the dungeon entrance.

"Where's Dasha?" Mu Feng asked curiously.

"I'm an elf, and the Elf Soul increases corpse-running speed by 75%, so I'm much faster than Dasha. I told him not to run, and I'll save him once I'm back in the dungeon!" Chuchun replied. Mu Feng, who had never died before, had forgotten about this racial talent.

Chuchun came to Dasha's corpse and began casting the resurrection spell on his body, which had its head buried in the ground. Once her level increased, the druid could learn the in-combat resurrection spell, which was very practical. In the case of Dasha being instantly killed, Chuchun could quickly revive him and heal him to full health, allowing him to rush back and hold the boss.

"Ugh! Spit, spit, spit!" Dasha immediately pulled his head out of the ground upon resurrection and kept spitting out dirt. The tank class was a punching bag, and if anyone played a tank with pain feedback enabled, they were definitely a masochist.

"Damn, just a little more, and we would have gotten the boss experience!" Dasha lamented the lost boss experience. The first kill of a heroic-level dungeon boss was very rewarding, and the three survivors had all leveled up.

After leveling up, Mu Feng allocated all 5 of his free attribute points to intelligence. After choosing the dual-path Reaper talent, Mu Feng's spell damage was clearly insufficient. As a powerful skill that boosted both physical and spell damage, Dark Slash dealt the lowest damage among his skills.

As for the new talent point, Mu Feng allocated it to the already decided Suppression, increasing his hit rate by 1%.

"Let's push forward with all our might!" The team regrouped, and as the temporary leader, Mu Feng gave the order.

"Alright!" Successfully defeating the 25th-level gold elite boss, everyone was in high spirits. Today's goal was to secure the first kill of the Demon's Den!

The blood puppets and plague zombies were actually demons guarding the entrance. After passing through the cave where the blood puppet was, the five of them finally entered the demons' territory.

A terrifying demon was patrolling the corridor with several hellhounds, which were slightly smaller than the Hell Reapers. Mu Feng's eyes lit up! He had consumed a lot of demonic energy in the previous battle and could finally replenish it.

**Demon Patroller:** 22nd-level elite, 22,000 HP. A low-level demon in the Demon's Den, responsible for preparing experimental materials and guarding.

**Hellhound:** 20th-level elite, 20,000 HP. A terrifying creature raised by demons.

"Chuchun, don't use Rejuvenation or Wild Growth! Only use Nourish!" Stopping the eager Dasha, Mu Feng quickly reminded her. He still vividly remembered the Hell Reaper in the Trial Cave that almost killed him. There were many of these here, and if they also devoured magic, Dasha with three layers of Life Bloom and Rejuvenation would definitely be instantly killed.

"Understood!" Although she didn't know why Mu Feng gave this order, Chuchun, who had transformed back into a cute little tree, immediately agreed. Without the two continuous healing spells, her healing would be much more difficult.

"I'm going in!" Seeing Mu Feng nod, Dasha roared and charged forward, using a Thunder Clap to gather all the monsters. After the second Thunder Clap, confirming that Dasha had firmly held the aggro, Mu Feng, Qinfeng, and Baihe began their attacks.

Without the healing support from Wild Growth and Rejuvenation, Chuchun's healing was insufficient, and Dasha's HP quickly dropped to the bottom. Mu Feng immediately threw the bronze grenade he had prepared, stunning the three hellhounds and giving Chuchun a precious opportunity to heal. After the 2.5-second stun, Dasha's HP returned to a safe level. The group quickly defeated this wave of monsters.

Moving further in, they encountered several more waves of similar monsters. This was the first five-man dungeon, and Tianji Company hadn't designed too many variations. What faced the players of the Light Alliance in China was a dungeon that purely tested equipment, level, and skill. The team that would be the first to clear the dungeon would be the one with the highest combined total of these three factors.

"Another boss!" Finally, after clearing several waves of small monsters, Mu Feng and his team saw the final boss of the dungeon and sat down to rest and drink. Having leveled up to nearly level 20, they had long abandoned low-level clear water and started using fresh milk.

**Fresh Milk:** Restores 500 mana over 10 seconds, can only be used outside of combat. Fresh milk will spoil after 12 hours, and drinking it will cause poisoning!

Locking onto the boss not far away, Mu Feng received the information about the final boss of this heroic dungeon.

**Dark Researcher:** 27th-level gold elite boss, 216,000 HP. The overall head of the Demon's Den, responsible for researching plagues that can destroy humanity. He seems to be close to success!

It was actually a huge Infernal! The Infernal's skin was fiery red, standing in front of a large iron pot. The pot was filled with a dark green liquid that was boiling, with countless disgusting limbs floating and sinking in it, and the entire space was filled with a nauseating stench.

"Ugh, it stinks!" Although everyone had checked the strategy before coming, they still felt extremely disgusted upon experiencing it firsthand.

"How do we fight this boss?" Everyone looked at Mu Feng, hoping he would give the order. On the journey, he had unknowingly established enough authority. Especially after Dasha was instantly killed, everyone thought they would wipe. Unexpectedly, Mu Feng managed to hold on for nearly 20 seconds before finally defeating the boss.

"Ugh..." Mu Feng was also troubled because he didn't know the boss's skills.

"I think we should wipe once without using our skills to see what happens." Mu Feng said helplessly.

"Why?" Although dying in a dungeon didn't result in experience loss like in the wild, the three women had never heard of someone deliberately seeking a wipe.

"Previously, the boss Blood Puppet used a new skill, Ground Slam, not mentioned in the strategy, and its attack during the final frenzy unexpectedly killed Dasha. Although I managed to hold on and defeat the boss, as the final boss, I think we shouldn't be so reckless. We should first test the boss's skills without using our long-cooldown abilities, understand its mechanics, and then formulate a strategy before fighting seriously!"

"Is that so..." The three women were still a bit confused.

"I guess you've played many games, but you haven't participated in high-end dungeon clears, right?" Mu Feng asked.

"You're right. Although I've played for a few years, I've never been a top player. This time, being able to stand out in Tianji was partly due to luck." Qinfeng said humbly. In fact, Tianji was the first game she had seriously played from the beta test.

"During the first kill competition in dungeons, no one knows the boss's skills, and there are no strategies. Everything is figured out through countless wipes by the clearing team. That's why the honor of the first kill is so precious! It represents our complete conquest of the boss, not just following someone else's method!" Mu Feng couldn't help but feel nostalgic, remembering the days of dungeon clears. It was often non-stop, with wipes lasting for 10 to 20 hours in front of a boss. After a day's rest, they would continue. Until they found a way to defeat the boss. The moment the boss fell, the sense of satisfaction was overwhelming. Those were memorable days.

"Alright, let's go!" Ending his reminiscence, Mu Feng gave the order, and the five charged at the boss. This was a suicidal charge, just to understand the boss's skills.

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**End of Chapter**