Chapter 248 Essence Oil and Membrane (1/2)
Unexpected Childe's damage output gave everyone a good shock!
This was the result of one's job compatibility with the weapons. Lin Jie was a Warrior, and although both Warriors and Bandits were allowed to use ranged weapons, Warriors would normally use them just to lure monsters. After all, melee jobs like Warriors were not meant to be experts in ranged attacks.
As such, Warriors had a fixed attack time of 3.2 seconds when they were using ranged weapons. Meanwhile, with their compatibility with ranged weapons and their nimble actions, Bandits' attack time when using ranged weapons would be as fast as 2.5 seconds.
This meant that Warriors would never be able to use ranged weapons to level up in the game. However, powerful the attributes of a Sub-Legendary gun was, it would not be able to display its full prowess in the hands of a Warrior.
Yet for Unexpected Childe, everything would be different! He was a Marksmanship Hunter and would enjoy additional 15% Ranged Penetration and Attack buffs whenever he used guns, crossbows, and bows. Moreover, his preparation time for shooting was only just one second, and he possessed skills which allowed him to proceed smoothly to subsequent moves. Coupled with the 5 Consecutive Shots and Continuous Silence effects, Unexpected Childe had become an almost invincible and unbeatable figure with the Silent Killer!
Like now, as Unexpected Childe got used to handling the Silent Killer, he was practically using it as if like a laser gun. The bullets shot out non-stop from the gun, sending thrills down his spine, and his DPS was getting as high as Lin Jie's DPS.
”Have a taste of Lei Zhika's specialty tidbits…”
Lei Zhika took out a light yellowish potion bottle and smashed it down on the ground. A pale yellow mist rose up—it was the Confusion Potion! This was Lei Zhika's best weapon for destroying teams. This potion could make players randomly attack their teammates within the next five seconds. What's most terrible was that during this period of time, Priests wouldn't be able to release their healing skills!
”Everyone put down their weapons!” shouted Lin Jie as he stuffed his Thunderbolt Sword into his backpack, and kept Broken Blade on his back. To prevent his body from taking out Broken Blade uncontrollably, he took out the Blank swords which he had kept in his backpack specially for this occasion and gripped tightly onto them in his hands.
At this moment, Kid, who observed the scene with wide eyes while lying on the ground, shouted out in glee, ”Everyone, move towards Big Sister Bu Yi! The big brothers who are carrying shields, run five steps towards the southeast direction, hurry!”
Bu Yi was in the midst of using the Mass Dispel skill to clear all the additional buffs everyone else had. Hearing Kid's excited cry, she and the rest of the team exchanged surprised looks. However, they heeded his advice and moved towards Bu Yi without hesitation.
Most of the teams would employ the same tactics to counter against the Confusion Potion: keep all weapons away to minimize damage, and then try their best to hold past the five seconds of its effects. This was also the most commonly known method used in Lin Jie's previous life. If Lin Jie didn't remember wrongly, there was absolutely no other way to avoid being hit by the mist-type Confusion Potion.
'Are there other methods to evade this potion's effects?' Lin Jie's heart flipped as he moved towards Bu Yi.
Ding~
—Battle prompt message: Venom Lei Zhika has used Confusion Potion on you. You suffered 723 Venom damage points.
A Damage Dealt figure jumped out from Lin Jie's head, but the Confounded effects were not activated!
”The healing jobs heal our health bars, MTs put up your defenses, Damage output jobs, prepare yourselves!” shouted Lin Jie excitedly as his heart started to beat fast. He didn't care how Kid could distinguish the effects of the Confusion Potion. So long as he could continue doing so, they would be able to take down the Epidemic Pond soon!
Lei Zhika's health bar decreased rapidly, and soon the third wave of monsters, Ender Undead, were summoned. A total of 60 such monsters were spawned—their specialty was that they could divert away any Mana damage they suffered, and then attack the player with the least health points at the scene. It was easy to take down these monsters—as long as Mixed Breathless' health points were maintained at 1,000 points while Fat Cattle blasted his Crowd Control Mana spells on them, all of them would get destroyed before the MTs.
Everyone was getting more and more familiar with killing the monsters. Lei Zhika's health bar had already decreased by half, and it was now deteriorating to 20%!
At this moment, a crisis appeared!
Lin Jie had not planned to take down the dungeon for this time round. As such, he had not passed the Perfect Natural Potions to the healing jobs, needless to say, his prized superior-grade magic potions.
As such, the MTs' equipment durability neared zero in no time under the corrosive effects of the potions, and everyone's equipment attributes also decreased tremendously! At the same time, the Silent Killer's Ease of Familiarity effect had worn off, and hence Unexpected Childe's damage output was greatly decreased.
Coupled with that, Kid's online time was more than three hours, and the system automatically logged him out. Thus, when the next wave of Confusion Potions rained down upon the Savage Blade team, the players who were already in bad shape ended up killing each other due to the Confusion Potions' effects. With a last crowd control AOE skill by Lei Zhika, the entire team was killed!
Ding~
—'You are dead now, and your EXP bar decreased by 10%. The dungeon's progress levels are reset.'
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Everyone found themselves revived at the cemetery.
”Darn it, I thought we could take it down!”
”There are some problems with our team's sustenance. I guess it's up to Leader to sort out this problem.”
”Come to think of it, how does that kid know where Lei Zhika will aim the Confusion Potion at? Ever since we got him to direct us, we never got hit by the Confusion Potion! Does he have some supernatural powers?”
Bu Yi shook her head and said, ”No, it's not supernatural powers. He just has a keen observation.”
”Yes, and he observed very carefully,” added Lin Jie. ”Actually, when every Boss use their skills, they would have some actions to signal it. It's just that we didn't notice it, or rather, we didn't have the time or energy to notice it. Kid wasn't involved in the battle, and thus he could focus all his energy on observing.”
”In any case, this shows that his observation skills are really great! And he's able to adapt to changes fast too—he's a potential expert gamer worth nurturing,” agreed Mixed Breathless.
Lin Jie thought about Mixed Breathless' words. Since Wine God Elder could not come online for the time being, why not pull Kid into the team for now?