Chapter 37

"Let's test the attack and defense first." Li Huailin thought as he slashed at the BOSS, immediately seeing a -491 normal attack. Looking at the BOSS's health bar, he saw that it had only lost about 2% of its health. It seemed the BOSS's defense was average, but its health bar was incredibly thick, with at least 20,000 HP.

The Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas retaliated with a physical attack, swinging his staff at Li Huailin.

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The damage was much higher than that of the lesser enemies, but it was still within an acceptable range. Li Huailin wasn't worried about the BOSS's normal attacks killing him; he was more concerned about the skills.

"This is my wrath!" After a normal attack, the Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas immediately used its first skill, raising its left hand, which wasn't holding the staff, and casually waving it. Three green orbs immediately flew toward Li Huailin, Hongyue, and Hongpiaodai.

-228, this was the number above Li Huailin's head.

-291, -466 (Critical Hit), these were the numbers above the two women's heads.

Not only did it deal direct damage, but Li Huailin's buff bar also showed a new effect: Poisoned: Increases 75 HP every 5 seconds, lasting 15 seconds. The two women, whose HP was less than 1,000, must be feeling very uncomfortable.

"Drink potions, heal them up, don't worry about me for now." Li Huailin turned and said. His own HP was replenished by the BOSS, but the other two were in pain, especially Hongpiaodai, who was a Hunter with low HP and might fall due to the critical hit.

"Okay." Hongyan, seeing Li Huailin's serious expression, also became serious and immediately cast two healing spells on the two women, while starting to pre-read a healing spell to restore Hongpiaodai's HP.

"In general, the first skill isn't a threat to me." Li Huailin thought. Although the skill dealt more damage than it healed, the total damage was only about a dozen points, which wasn't too bad.

He immediately attacked the BOSS a few more times. After thinking that the hate was stable, he turned and shouted, "Hongyue, Hongyue, Hongpiaodai, all come and attack, let's take him down quickly."

"Everyone, go all out, don't worry about pulling hate." Hongyue immediately commanded, seeing Li Huailin's damage. With experience, she knew that no matter how much damage they dealt, they wouldn't pull hate from Li Huailin, so she made the right decision.

Hongchen Yanyu immediately started casting Fireball, Hongpiaodai drew her bow, and Hongyue continued her melee attacks. Although their damage output wasn't as high as Li Huailin's, it still helped. In less than 30 seconds, they had reduced the BOSS's HP by about 25%.

"Feel my anger, mortal!" The Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas suddenly shouted, raising his hand. The two snake-shaped carvings on the altar turned into real venomous snakes and charged at Li Huailin, who was closest to them.

"This is a good move." Li Huailin was pleased. The BOSS's second skill, which summoned minions, seemed to be working against itself. Facing the two elite-level snake monsters, Li Huailin quickly established hate with a few slashes.

"Don't attack the minions, focus on the BOSS." Li Huailin immediately said.

"Okay." Hongyue nodded.

Checking his status bar, Li Huailin indeed found the Poisoned buff, which healed 35 HP every 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 layers, and there were two of them. This was reassuring.

Dragging the two minions, Li Huailin continued to attack the BOSS. The BOSS kept attacking Li Huailin and occasionally threw a Poison Arrow that hit three targets. Although it posed some danger to the others, no one fell.

"My servants will tear you apart!" At 50% HP, the BOSS used the summoning skill again, summoning two more elite snake monsters, which made Li Huailin happy. The elite snake monsters' normal attacks dealt about 40 damage to Li Huailin, but each one healed 175 HP, which was incredible.

"Keep it up, we should be able to make it." Li Huailin nodded and shouted.

The BOSS's HP dropped rapidly, quickly reaching 25%. Just as Li Huailin thought the BOSS would summon more minions to heal itself, the BOSS's skills suddenly changed.

"Feel my power!" The Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas shouted, his hand flashing purple. His black snake eyes immediately turned red, and the four snakes he had summoned also turned into red-eyed snakes.

Li Huailin immediately felt the change. The BOSS's attack power suddenly increased, dealing about 100 damage per hit, and its attack speed also increased. The four snakes' attack power and speed also increased, similar to the first BOSS, Dusla, when it went into a frenzy, but this was a group frenzy.

Since Li Huailin's healing didn't change, the increased attack power and speed of the five units immediately put pressure on his HP. His health bar started to drop noticeably, though not too quickly, making Li Huailin feel tense for the first time, but also excited. This was the tension of gaming.

"Shui'er, pay attention to Huailin's HP." Hongyue immediately said, noticing Li Huailin's dropping HP.

"Don't worry." Since the overall healing pressure wasn't high, Hongyan's mana was well-preserved, and she had time to drink a slow-recovery mana potion between attacks, so healing wasn't a problem.

"You will all die!" The Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas shot another Poison Arrow, hitting Li Huailin, Hongpiaodai, and Hongchen Yanyu. Li Huailin noticed that the Poison Arrow's damage didn't change, but the frequency increased, which was likely due to the BOSS's skill enhancement.

"Why does the BOSS's Poison Arrow always hit Hongpiaodai? What did you do to it?" Hongyan suddenly said.

Indeed, thinking about it, the BOSS's Poison Arrow randomly hit three targets, but it always chose Hongpiaodai, even though Li Huailin wasn't always hit. Hongpiaodai's luck was truly astonishing.

"I... I didn't mean to..." Hongpiaodai quickly tried to explain.

"Stop talking, let's focus on the BOSS." Hongyue interrupted.

The Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas had 10% HP left, and Li Huailin's HP was around 50%. Hongyue felt they could make it.

"Snap" "Snap" "Snap" Three more Poison Arrows hit Hongpiaodai, Hongyue, and Hongyan, and the BOSS's HP dropped to 6%.

"Drink potions, Shui'er, focus on healing Huailin, ignore the others, let's push through!" Hongyue said, drinking a potion herself.

"Got it!" Hongyan nodded, drank a potion, and started healing Li Huailin.

"Damn mortals, you will pay for this!" With a roar, the Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas finally ran out of HP. Another purple light flashed, and the BOSS's form slowly faded, turning into purple light and disappearing into the air.

"We made it!" Hongyue smiled happily.

"Yay!" Hongyan shouted, excitedly hugging Li Huailin's arm, "Brother-in-law, we cleared the Abyss Dungeon!"

"One for each, what's borrowed must be returned." Li Huailin was also excited; this was the sense of achievement in gaming.

System Notice: You have defeated the hidden BOSS, Shadow of Serpent Deity Dick Imas, in the "Viper Cave." Experience deducted: 1550.

The system notice immediately dampened Li Huailin's mood; he had forgotten about the experience deduction.

System Notice: Dungeon cleared, final evaluation in progress.

System Notice: Clear time: 17 minutes 42 seconds, completion rate: 95%, final evaluation: S, experience deducted: 3000.

Then, the team leader Hongyue received a system notification.

System Notice: Your team is the first to clear the "Viper Cave" dungeon. Please name your team.

Hongyue thought for a moment and then transferred the team leader position to Li Huailin.

Li Huailin was still upset about the experience deduction when he suddenly became the team leader and saw an option to name the team. He looked at Hongyue curiously and asked, "What's going on?"

"Well, I thought about it carefully. Our guild doesn't need to be too famous. Most of our members are women, and they didn't join to compete. If we really want to compete with the big guilds, we don't have the strength, especially the funds. I think our guild should focus on being elite, quietly making money, and growing strong so that other guilds won't dare to mess with us. Being the first to clear the Abyss Dungeon would make us stand out, which isn't a good thing." Hongyue quickly outlined the guild's development direction.

"Hmm?" Li Huailin thought about it and found it reasonable, but he didn't care much since he wasn't good at managing a guild. Since he was naming the team, he decided to make it sound cool.

After some thought, Li Huailin named the team. As soon as he confirmed, a huge red announcement appeared in all players' chat boxes.

Server Announcement: The team "I'm Just That Cool" has successfully cleared the Abyss Dungeon, Viper Cave, with an overall evaluation of S, clear time of 17 minutes 42 seconds. Team members: Xionghuai Rulin (Leader), Hongyue, Hongpiaodai, Hongyan, Hongchen Yanyu. Reward: 10,000 experience, 2 gold, and a place in the continent's glorious history.

Server Announcement: The team "I'm Just That Cool" has successfully cleared the Abyss Dungeon, Viper Cave, with an overall evaluation of S, clear time of 17 minutes 42 seconds. Team members: Xionghuai Rulin (Leader), Hongyue, Hongpiaodai, Hongyan, Hongchen Yanyu. Reward: 10,000 experience, 2 gold, and a place in the continent's glorious history.

Server Announcement: The team "I'm Just That Cool" has successfully cleared the Abyss Dungeon, Viper Cave, with an overall evaluation of S, clear time of 17 minutes 42 seconds. Team members: Xionghuai Rulin (Leader), Hongyue, Hongpiaodai, Hongyan, Hongchen Yanyu. Reward: 10,000 experience, 2 gold, and a place in the continent's glorious history.

The huge announcement repeated three times in all players' chat boxes, causing a sensation.

However, Li Huailin didn't have time to deal with this because something amazing happened. As the system announced, the five members of Li Huailin's team, including himself, were bathed in golden light and all leveled up. Li Huailin was stunned. It was fine that the other four leveled up, but how did he level up? Didn't he lose 10,000 experience? Could leveling down also cause a golden flash?

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