The Great Thief - Chapter 339

Chapter 339

Chapter 339: Regeneration Demon

Translator: Halcyon Translations  Editor: Halcyon Translations

If the four images were as Lu Li had said, he would have to tank all of their attacks without any support from his teammates .

This was something really difficult to do, even for a strong player .

"Please . Do you think that the images will coordinate their attacks on you?" Lu Li said quietly . "The four images might sometimes overlap their attacks, so your window might be longer than two seconds . "

Even with instant cast skills, he could only cast three of them in two seconds . He had to pull four mobs with three skills and reposition himself; it would simply have been impossible .

Fortunately, the four images weren’t well-coordinated .

Under normal circumstances, they wouldn’t wait until the effect was over before attacking again .

After Lu Li explained this, Wandering’s expression looked a little better .

However, there was still an immense amount of pressure on him . Lu Li was right when he said that the key player for this Boss was the off-tank . Only he could draw the aggro of the four images and allow the others to attack the Boss .

"Can I say no?" Wandering was lazy and really hated tasks like this .

"Nope," Lu Li rejected as he took off his shoes . "The most important thing for you is speed . Wear my shoes; we need you to be faster . "

"Wear your shoes?" Wandering had a look of disgust on his face . It wasn’t that he didn’t like their attributes, nor was it that they didn’t suit him as a Paladin . It was simply the fact that these were someone else’s shoes . He pinched his nose as he gingerly slipped them on .

"Anything else?" Azure Sea Breeze asked .

"Of course – you have to pay attention to the surroundings," Lu Li said . "Although we aren’t going to kill them, the images can be re-summoned, which means they will appear in a new location . When that happens, you will need to change your angle of attack and Wandering will need to move . You two will have to help him with that . "

"You want me to help that guy?" Azure Sea Breeze wasn’t happy .

It had always been someone that was helping him, so this was a blow to his pride as a main tank .

"I don’t care which one of you gets hit, as long as it’s not any of the other players . This Boss’ greatest strength is its HP regeneration . Everyone must be doing maximum DPS or its HP will not go down . "

Lu Li had no other way of putting it .

The Boss before them was level 30 and they were fighting it on Nightmare Difficulty .

At their current level and strength, their odds of defeating this Boss weren’t much greater than 50%, even with the additional NPC . As such, they needed to be perfect in every way they could .

In reality, completing the Instance Dungeon wasn’t that important . For example, in the Howling Caves, most teams just farmed the first three Bosses as opposed to clearing it . They would rather farm in the wild or go on to try and take First Clears in new Instance Dungeons .

Even at the present level, only the Elite groups of the big guilds were likely to finish playing through the Howling Caves .

Blackfathom was similar; they wouldn’t lose much even if they couldn’t defeat the final Boss . After all, they had received many good items on the way here .

However, Lu Li refused to willingly lose this battle .

This Instance Dungeon Scroll was the result of a quest . If they were unable to complete it, upgrading the Supreme Ring would be very difficult .

They would also be giving up on a World Announcement for their First Clear .

It would be inspiring for the players to see the Xin Xin Mercenary Group, known as the newly formed Ruling Sword, accomplish another First Clear . They had just received news from Square Root 3 that the guild was now level 3 and the number of players who were joining was constantly rising .

Square Root 3 was working tirelessly to screen these new applicants and Lu Li would feel bad if he didn’t at least bring home the First Clear .

"Everyone, don’t hold back any of your skills . Do as much damage as you can whenever possible . "

After addressing everything, Lu Li signaled Azure Sea Breeze to engage .

The Ancient Gods’ servant Aku’mai couldn’t speak, but it greeted Azure Sea Breeze with a spit of venom . A damage value of -436 appeared on Azure Sea Breeze head at first, which was followed by a cascade of -75s . The venom was very potent and taking any antidotes provided next to no resistance .

The damage was quite high, but they could still deal with it .

Lu Li ran up and stabbed the Boss with his dagger, causing it to lose over 60 HP . This amount of damage for a normal attack was acceptable .

They had managed to deal 500-600 damage to the Boss in their first wave of attacks, which was a good proportion of the Boss’ 120,000 HP . It just meant that Aku’mai was slightly more difficult than the regular Bosses .

That was everyone else’s impression .

However, Lu Li didn’t think that way . He stared at Aku’mai’s HP and watched as it made an obvious upwards jump .

+165 .

This was really cheating – it had gained 165 HP in three seconds . Aku’mai was definitely some kind of regeneration demon . Up until this point, Aku’mai had the fastest regeneration that Lu Li had ever seen . Of course, the Wind Wielder that Lu Li had seen in the Warsong Canyon didn’t count .

Because it had regenerated a chunk of its HP, they had lost a significant amount of progress .

If you didn’t count the NPC’s damage, Lu Li and the others could only do about 300 damage per second . However, if you considered the Boss’ regeneration and other skills, there would be no guarantee that they could even deal 100 damage per second .

"This is going to be another bitter struggle," Lu Li thought as his heart sank a little . He looked at Azure Sea Breeze and Wandering, wondering if this pair could continue to properly draw the Boss’ aggro .

Azure Sea Breeze turned and looked at Wandering and shuffled his feet slightly .

It wasn’t enough . Lu Li was struggling to hold himself back, but he needed to show that he trusted them . Sure enough, after two seconds, Azure Sea Breeze had cast his new taunt skills and moved again .

The reason why they didn’t want to do it in one go was because they were afraid of messing up the Boss’ aggro . These were still the early stages after all .

Wandering was now also moving . The two of the kept moving until the Boss spat some more venom and reared its head .

It was coming!

A dark crack opened up in front of the Boss, out of which shot four, identical tentacles . These were the same images as before . They had seen all sorts of things on the way here, but nothing could compare to the strength of these four images .

After the tentacles shot out, Wandering immediately moved to face them and casted Taunt . The tentacles paused for second before shooting towards Wandering .

Wandering was immediately frozen on the spot . However, it wasn’t just him – Sesame Rice Ball was also affected .

It was his first time, so these little mistakes were to be expected .

After two seconds, Sesame Rice Ball recovered and out of instinct, moved away from the tentacles to adjust his angle of attack .

The others were just struggling to deal as much damage as possible . They didn’t save any of their skills, but they deliberately avoided attacking the tentacles so that they wouldn’t draw their aggro .

If they were to fight this Boss normally, there was bound to be someone who would walk into Aku’mai’s attacks . There was no way to guarantee that no one would make any mistakes .

Lu Li had now left Wandering to deal with the images . With him pulling the aggro, the others had a much easier time .