Chapter 574 - Naive and Innocent

"Please select the dungeon difficulty that you wish to challenge…"

Normal, Advanced, Heroic, Regal, Hell.

In the dark, a multiple-choice panel had appeared and floated before Li Yi's eyes.

Soul Gate dungeon had five difficulty levels. There were no requirements imposed on them, and players could choose whichever difficulty they wanted.

Shangguan Bailu asked, "What should we select?"

Everyone had their eyes on Li Yi. He was the party leader and would be calling the shots once they entered the dungeon.

Li Yi thought for a long time before he finally said the word that failed to excite many. "Normal!"

Brother Windcloud Nine was taken aback. "Did you just say that we're going to go for Normal mode?"

"We should first familiarize ourselves with the dungeon."

Even Jiaojiao was unwilling to do so. "Even if we don't do Inferno mode, we should at least go for Heroic or Regal, right? Lil' Yizi, I never thought that you're the kind to shrink away from a challenge like this."

Ouyang Qian agreed with the previous sentiment. "I agree with Lil' Jiao's point. While our party might not claim to be the best skilled in the server, we're still considered the cream of the crop, no? You're now asking us to go for the Normal mode for a dungeon that only opens once every half-month? This… This doesn't really live up to our reputation."

Many party members had joined in the discussion. Aside from Li Yi and a few others, many felt that they should go for a harder mode.

They could not be blamed for their actions, though. After all, Miss Jiaojiao had gotten the 10 million Gold Coins quite easily. Thus, this had indirectly caused many to underestimate Soul Gate dungeon's difficulty and assume it was nothing to worry about. Even if they could not defeat the Soul King, just seeing him should be easy to do.

The first player to enter Soul Gate would obtain 10 million Gold Coins as a reward!

The first player to be embraced by the Soul King would obtain 10 million Gold Coins as a reward!

The first party to kill the Soul King would obtain one Epic-level soul mount for each member of the party!

The first party to kill the King of Souls in Hell Mode would obtain one Epic-level flying soul mount for each member of the party!

Now, the reward for entering Soul Gate had already been obtained by Queen Jiao. No one had gotten the hug reward yet, though, and many people were hoping to get the 10 million Gold Coins reward from getting embraced by the Soul King.

Li Yi said lightly, "Anyone that does not want to do it can quit the party."

"Lil' Yizi, this is tyranny, I will not give…"

Before Jiaojiao could finish her sentence with the word 'in', Li Yi had kicked her out of the party without any hesitation.

All of the party members were stunned.

"Everyone will be treated equally. All members who do not wish to join us can quit the party now."

Many people were dumbfounded by this. No one dared to speak anymore.

"Ahem, I don't have any opinions on this." Brother Windcloud Nine was the first to comment. In this party, there were seven players from the Whole of Windcloud. This was the only way he could express his opinion and stance.

"You dare to kick me out? Wah, wah, wah, I'll fight you to the death!" Jiaojiao was so enraged that she started to shout and scream. However, before she could run towards Li Yi, she was forcefully sent to another dimension.

The Mirror Dimension that Li Yi and the others were in was the party mirror. Jiaojiao was kicked out of the party, and she would be forcefully sent away to an individual mirror dimension.

The individual mirror dimensions were where party-less individual players were sent to so that they could contact others to form a party.

"Another one has come in. Hey? Do you want to form a party?"

Jiaojiao heard a harsh female voice the moment she had entered the mirror dimension. She raised her head to find that the person speaking was The Cat that Sings. There were only five players within the individual mirror dimension, The Cat that Sings included.

"Yes!"

Jiaojiao was still furious, and she had agreed to the proposition without much thought.

The Cat that Sings clapped happily. "Now we have six of us. Don't be anxious, once we have ten of us, we'll start killing everything and their dad if they're in our way."

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Jiaojiao had joined The Cat that Sings' party. Li Yi did not ask her to rejoin his party either. He clicked on 'Confirm' and led all 23 of his party members to teleport into the Soul Land.

Within the black space, countless spirits floated around. In this place called the Soul Land, it was natural that the types of monsters present were soul-related.

Li Yi ordered, "Brother Nine, Unmatched, Mad Dragon, go forward! Others, stay on standby!"

The three main tanks had charged forward, each taking a direction to pull the spirit monsterlings together.

It required great skill for the main tanks to gather the monsterlings together. The monsterlings were very spread out, and it was not easy to gather all of them together. Thus, gathering monsterlings as quickly as possible was one of the basic benchmarks to evaluate whether a main tank was good or not.

Unending Unmatched was the quickest. By piercing left and right with his sword, Taunting, Thunder Striking and throwing a javelin faraway, he had quickly gathered a bunch of monsters. Mad Dragon was not too bad either, as he was only slightly behind Unending Unmatched after roaring at the front and turning to stomp at the back. He had attracted a group of monsterlings too.

Among the three famous main tanks, only Brother Windcloud Nine had poor skills when it came to gathering monsterlings. After exerting a huge effort and running back for a long time, he had only managed to gather four monsterlings with him. Many monsterlings were still wandering around him…

When it came to equipment, Brother Windcloud Nine was better than both Unending Unmatched and Mad Dragon combined. However, when it came to skill in gathering monsters, ten Brother Windcloud Nines would not match up to even one Unending Unmatched. One of the main reasons he was ranked the lowest in the top ten main tanks ranking in the past life was his monster gathering skills.

"Everyone, don't deal damage for now. Wait for me to gather all of them before you start attacking!"

Brother Windcloud Nine was so busy that sweat had started appearing on his forehead. He had finally managed to gather all of the spirit monsterlings around him together after all the spirit monsterlings that Unending Unmatched and Mad Dragon were already killed…

Brother Windcloud Nine was overjoyed. "You can start dealing damage now!"

The DPS players replied with a resounding 'Okay'. After just a few splatters of attacks, three of the spirit monsterlings had escaped the group and ran towards the crowd.

Brother Windcloud Nine managed to get one of them back to him after using Taunt. However, the other two were stopped by Unending Unmatched and Mad Dragon. Thanks to them, the party had closely evaded potential disaster.

These spirit monsterlings were not to be underestimated. Each of them had an extremely high attack power and would definitely take out a DPS or Healer in three hits if they came into contact with them.

Brother Windcloud Nine was feeling quite awkward. "Next time, attack slower. Start attacking only after I have a steady aggro."

"Hubby, you're the best! Good luck!" Sister Windcloud Nine chose this inopportune moment to cheer Brother Nine on. As a result, Brother Nine's face flushed red for a moment before it turned pale. The atmosphere became somewhat more awkward.

"Let's continue. Everyone, pay close attention."

The three famous main tanks marched forward again so that they could attract and gather the monsters.

Brother Windcloud Nine still did not improve much. Even though he managed to gather the monsterlings with much difficulty, he could not maintain his aggro. Once the DPS players started to attack, there would at least be a few monsterlings that would OT (over-threat) …

Brother Windcloud Nine awkwardly said, "There's something wrong with these spirits. Their aggro keeps shifting."

The naive Sister Nine asked again, "Hubby, why didn't the monsters of the other main tanks shift their aggro?"

"Hahaha…"

Everyone in the party laughed.

Brother Windcloud Nine glared at Sister Windcloud Nine. The level of awkwardness was off the charts. After all, it was very embarrassing for a main tank if they could not control the aggro of monsterlings.

After clearing a dozen more waves of monsterlings, Brother Windcloud Nine's performance was still the same. Everyone else did not comment much on that. Only Sister Windcloud Nine was still enthusiastically cheering him on.

In the end, Li Yi could not stand by and watch on anymore. He secretly messaged Sister Windcloud Nine and told her, "Stop talking so much, your husband is going to have a breakout soon."

"A breakout?"

"He's getting angry soon."

"Why?"

Sister Windcloud Nine was stunned for a moment. She stared at Li Yi with wide eyes, naive and innocent, clear as crystal…

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