Chapter 461: A Different Tactic
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
There was a huge difference between those who knew the strategy and those who did not. Without exerting much of effort, the human-faced spiders had been eradicated, and Spider King's HP had been reduced to 95%. Furthermore, the death toll for Brother Windcloud Nine's party did not exceed 500.
"Brother, can we interrupt them now?" Flower Underpants' eyes were red in desperation.
Li Yi ignored him. The protective light barrier had already surrounded the combat area, and those within could no longer leave, nor can those from the outside enter. Things would remain this way until the battle had ended.
Some time had passed. Li Yi nodded his head and sent out the tactical map he had completed for everyone in his party to see. Spider King's HP was currently at 91%.
Brother Windcloud Nine and his party were doing pretty well, but Li Yi was confident that the legend that stated the Spider King's health could be brought no lower than 90% would hold true.
Back in his past life, Defiant Feifei was not banned, but what of it? In the end, they still could not bring down Spider King. What could it mean? It meant that the current Spider King was different from the one in the closed beta. It had undergone some changes!
"Halt!"
The moment Spider King's HP reached 90%, Brother Windcloud Nine shouted out the command. Everyone in the party halted immediately, and nobody dared to attack.
"Deploying Deflective Energy Shield! Deploying Deflective Energy Shield..."
Although Spider King's attacks did not undergo any changes, the surface of its body was coated with a crimson light. From then onwards, any attacks that were dealt to it would be amplified and reflected back.
It continuously swept the battlegrounds with its laser beams and showed no signs of stopping. The beams were extremely fast and the only way to evade them was to predict its movement and dodge preemptively. Since Brother Windcloud Nine had so many players in his team, evading the beams was not an easy task. Furthermore, there were only a few 'blind spots' in its beam attack, and as such, there were at least ten or so players who perished whenever it shot its beam.
Brother Windcloud Nine who was riding Cerberus was the first to charge towards Spider King. Trailing behind was Amber Sword Heart, and he was riding a gigantic kodo beast. Yang Xingchen had gotten up his mount as well and was tailing them.
Three of the top main tanks were in action!
"Hsst—"
A laser beam shot forth, and Brother Windcloud Nine lifted up his shield to block it. Unfortunately, his reaction was a bit slow, and by the time he had raised his shield, the laser beam had already landed squarely onto his chest, piercing him on the spot.
[−96534]
The blood red damage counter flew out from Brother Windcloud Nine's head, but this was Brother Windcloud Nine. Had it been any normal main tank, they would have collapsed immediately.
The healers furiously replenished his health, and in a flash, Brother Windcloud Nine was back to full health.
Without waiting for Spider King to unleash its second strike, Brother Windcloud Nine patted his dog's head and leaped from its back.
There was only one way to dismantle the Deflective Energy Shield, and that was to directly rip its components out from Spider King's body!
Though the mechanical monsters were intelligent, in the end, they were mere machines. As such, as long as the component responsible for forming the shield had been removed, they were easily overcome in this phase of the battle.
Spider King's body was composed of numerous components, and they needed to remove the correct components in order to disable the Deflective Energy Shield. Should they remove the wrong component though, it will cause an explosion that will take their lives...
There were three types of components on Spider King's body. They were red, white, and blue respectively. In order to disable the Deflective Energy Shield, the components should be removed in tandem.
Spider King unleashed its second laser beam, and Amber Sword Heart used his shield to block the attack. A damage counter of 8975 appear above his head and after sprinting for a few steps, he leaped onto its body as well.
Yang Xingchen's ascent was quite dangerous. Compared to Amber Sword Heart and Brother Windcloud Nine, he was much weaker. Even if he had used his shield to block the beam, the laser could still kill him instantly. Fortunately, a Priest caught wind of the situation and immediately cast Hand of Salvation, saving his life.
The three top-tier main tanks landed on Spider King's back simultaneously and immediately started scaling its back.
Now that Spider King's body was over fifty meters tall, searching for a small screw-like component was not an easy task.
The moment Brother Windcloud Nine and the others landed on Spider King's back, they started to lose HP. Their HP dropped every second, and the rate of HP loss increased as time went on. The healers were able to outpace the initial damage, but if they stayed for too long, the damage would exceed their healing capabilities.
They needed to find the components with haste!
"I've found the red one!" Brother Windcloud Nine roared and stopped moving.
"I've found the blue one!" yelled Amber Sword Heart.
"I've found the white one!" Yang Xingchen had located a component as well.
"3, 2, 1, Pull!"
The three of the top-tier main tanks tugged at the screws and a 30-second channeling bar appeared on top of their heads.
Tch-Tch-Tch—
The moment they attempted to pull out the screws, their HP dropped even more rapidly. The healers activated all their ultimate skills and frantically healed the three of them...
"Danger alert! Must stop them! Must stop..."
Spider King contracted all eight of its legs and bounded high up before stomping onto the ground below.
"Boom!'
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Brother Windcloud Nine and the others could no longer hold still, and as such, the channeling bar for the screw's removal above their heads faded...
"Squat down, hug it tightly, and pull!" Amber Sword Heart was quick to respond as usual. He had already devised a countermeasure, and without even hesitating, the other two wrapped their legs around the screws. Once again, the 30-second channeling bar had appeared.
"Boom! Boom!"
Spider King continued to jump up and down, but it was a futile effort. The three of them were gripping tenaciously onto the screws, and the channeling bar continued to whittle down.
It was a tense 30 seconds, and the teammates that were watching had their hearts in their mouths.
[30...27...21...17...13...8...]
Spider King continuously struggled, and the channeling bar above their heads constantly flashed. It would fade in and out, and it seemed like a perilous task.
At long last, the channeling bar had finally been depleted, and with a chuck and a whirr, black smoke billowed from Spider King's body. The Deflective Light Shield on its body had disappeared, and its HP bar had instantly reached 10%!
"We're scr*wed! We're scr*wed! We're scr*wed..." Flower Underpants covered up his face, he could not bear to witness any longer.
Infuriated, Li Yi retorted, "What are you talking about? That's not even its real HP."
"Real HP? What do you mean?"
Flower Underpants rubbed his eyes, and after observing properly, he understood what he had meant.
Spider King's HP had indeed been reduced to 10%, but that was because Spider King had shrugged off the tattered remains of its outer shell. Its body was smaller now, and the HP that Flower Underpants saw was actually the outer shell that Spider King no longer needed.
The shrunken Spider King's HP was displayed as 100%!
"Bang!"
A thunderous explosion rang out. Spider King's disposed shell had exploded, sending Brother Windcloud Nine, Amber Sword Heart, and Yang Xingchen spiraling through the air. By the time they landed on the ground, their HP had already bottomed out. All three of them were dead...
This was the consequence for removing the screws incorrectly...
Their party members were dumbfounded.
"Fight! Keep on fighting! Don't just stand around!" Though he was dead, Brother Windcloud Nine continued to give orders.
The members snapped out of their reverie and continued to attack.
The three top-tier main tanks were down, but Spider King had only lost a single shell. Furthermore, it had received no damage, and it had even recovered its HP back to 100%. This dealt a huge blow to the members' morale, and they were fighting with less spirit than before.
A laser beam swept across the battlefield, killing over a hundred members. Spider King soared up high and dived down onto the crowd, pulverizing several thousand members...
It was chaotic. Everything had descended into chaos. The longer it fought, the stronger Spider King became. On the other hand, Brother Windcloud Nine's party became less and less energetic as time went on. Players died constantly, and win a short span of ten minutes, not a single player remained of the 10,000-player party. Spider King had slaughtered all of them.
Due to Brother Windcloud Nine and the other's mistake in removing the screws, the party was gloriously annihilated...
"Defiantly Tyrannical, what the f*ck was that strategy you told us about?" Brother Windcloud Nine was fuming.
"There's nothing wrong with the strategy. You guys must've messed up!" Defiantly Tyrannical retorted angrily.
Brother Windcloud Nine had lost it. "Get out of my sight you mother*cker! I cooperated with you, paid you money, and you dare to trick me?!"
"Old Nine, though my character is usually dubious, I swear that I did not lie to you today."
The corpses on the ground disappeared one after another, but Defiantly Tyrannical and Brother Windcloud Nine's argument continued. None of them trusted the other side's words. One was adamant that the strategy was flawed, and the other insisted that they wrongly removed the screws.
Li Yi would definitely laugh if he had heard their debate.
Defiantly Tyrannical's strategy was indeed correct, but that was the sequence of removal within the closed beta. Now that the game was officially released, the method of removal had changed.
Brother Windcloud Nine and his men were transported out of the dungeon, leaving Li Yi's party as the only one remaining in Glory.
Flower Underpants mused, "Hahaha, this is good. Even if we lose the battle, it wouldn't matter much."
He definitely had a straightforward personality. Whatever he thought of would immediately come out of his mouth, and he would not keep it to himself.
"It's time for us to move." Li Yi checked the clock.
"Guild Masters, please position yourselves on your designated spots! Everyone else, get into the tanks!" Li Yi issued his orders.
The party scrambled to action.
Brother Windcloud Nine's refusal to use the tanks had become Li Yi's advantage. He rounded them up and allocated a person to each tank. With that, he had 100 or so tanks waltzing nonchalantly into Spider King's territory.
Li Yi did not choose to attack when Spider King was in 'Counter-attack' mode, and instead, opted to attack when it was in its feasting state.
The battle had begun in earnest, with around 100 tanks charging forward, tightly surrounding Spider King. The others had followed Li Yi's instruction and were standing in their designated spots, pouring all their energy into their tasks.
"Annihilate the intruders! Prototype B7 initializing Feasting protocol. Identifying target... Target confirmed..."
"Annihilate the intruders! Prototype B7 initializing Feasting protocol. Identifying target... Target confirmed..."
"Annihilate the intruders! Prototype B7 initializing Feasting protocol. Identifying target... Target confirmed..."
Spider King spouted its robotic lines endlessly, and due to the absurd number of tanks, it was in a feasting frenzy.
"Ka-ka-ka-cha..."
"Ka-ka-ka-cha..."
It took around three seconds to swallow an entire tank whole. Its size increased with every tank it consumed and its movements became more agile.
"Move forward and let it consume you!'
The hundred or so suicidal tanks wrapped closely around Spider King's side. They had no intention of fleeing and waited patiently for Spider King to consume them.
Spider King could be defeated in any mode it was in. However, they would need to employ different tactics to defeat it. Taking Li Yi's current endeavor as an example, he was capitalizing on Spider King's feasting behavior and was purposely feeding it to increase its size. His tactic was based on Qian'er's theory, who hypothesized that the larger its body, the blunter its senses!
Spider King's body constantly grew, and out of the hundred or so tanks, only one remained. The others had all been devoured.
"Feasting complete, entering Satiated mode..."
Spider King's body now covered the entire territory, and its claws were larger than several hundred players combined...
"Unmatched! Golden Gun! Follow me to remove the screws!"
Li Yi howled thunderously and activated God Mode. He flew onto Spider King's back and tossed down an Engineering Cable...
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