Chapter 297 Scout Radner (1/2)
”Alright, alright! All of you, please stop bickering over such stuff!” Windy Hum coughed dryly and smiled at Lin Jie. ”Please excuse us, these brothers of mine are disgracing themselves thoroughly!”
Lin Jie laughed. ”Oh, no need for that. To be honest, I quite envy your team—all of you seem so at ease with one another. My mission also requires me to do something about Scout Radner. After all, the more specimens I collect, the better the rewards I will get. I shall shamelessly depend on you guys for help with the Boss then, hope you all don't mind!”
”Okay!”
—'Player Windy Hum invited you to join their team. Do you accept?'
Yes!
Upon joining the team, Lin Jie realized that all of them openly revealed their names and levels in the group's channel. In fact, one just needεδ to click on another player's profile picture, and they could view all of that player's equipment!
This meant one had to disclose one's Stats when they joined this group!
Indeed, Orcc smiled and walked up to Lin Jie the next second. ”Bro, here are three bottles of the Holy Light Rejuvenation Potion. Please accept them as a form of compensation.”
An idea occurred to Lin Jie. He kept one of the potions, and commented in a grateful tone, ”Thank you so much. Wow, it's the Holy Light Rejuvenation Potion! I have seen them before, you need five Merit Points to exchange for one bottle of this potion! If only I knew that I would be killing Scout Radner with you guys beforehand, I wouldn't have spent my Merit Points carelessly…”
”Oh, what did you buy? Can you let us see it?”
Bitterness covered Lin Jie's face as he revealed the Seed of Holy Light. Golden light immediately surrounded his body, and it was so shiny until almost all of the equipment he had were hidden from view. ”I spent 10 Merit Points to exchange for a random reward. I thought I could get an Epic or Legendary grade equipment, yet I just got this thing, whose only use is to hide one's equipment, level, appearance, and Stats. When you use it actively, you can still hide within the Holy Light for a while.”
Windy Hum's eyes gleamed. In a split second, he already activated his Inspect spell, and he wore a look of surprise on his face. ”What, there's actually such a skill? Let me see… Oh yeah, I really can't see your Stats now! By the way, bro, did you hide your Stats panel?”
”Nope. This skill can't be called off when it's just activated. I also feel super dumb now,” lamented Lin Jie.
”This skill can really hide your whereabouts?”
”Yes. I will show it to you now.”
Lin Jie shook his body. The Seed of Holy Light spun around his body faster and faster, until his figure disappeared in the surroundings.
Fog Concealment!
It was easy enough to use this skill and fool others now since thick bloody mists were present almost everywhere in Blood Swamp.
Windy Hum was stunned. 'Is this for real? But… it is impossible for Warriors to enter Stealth mode. Yet he wasn't seen by all of us just now. Perhaps, what he said was true?'
”Wth, there's still such a skill? I also want to exchange my Merit Points for this skill. With this, I won't be scared even if I met a whole group of Dark Blood Bandits again! Hahahaha…” The Bandit, Li, who was scoffed at previously for using his skills to escape danger, slapped his legs and commented in envy. He looked extremely sincere, and his words went along very well with his supposed 'cowardly' persona. Everyone laughed and threw him looks of despise.
The whole group livened up. The estranged atmosphere caused by Windy Hum's interrogation of Lin Jie faded away.
”Alrighty, stop chatting! With the addition of our new brother here, our chances of killing Scout Radner will be increased! On your guards now, Scout Radner is about to appear!” With a command from Windy Hum, everyone put on serious expressions on their faces.
Huff puff—
A cyclone seemed to rise up from beneath the ground. The wet, muddy Blood Swamp was curled up into a huge ball. Mud flew about everywhere and spun around in mid-air!
This was the Bloody Cyclone!
The cyclone made bigger rounds, and howled more fiercely! Layers of earth beneath the players' feet had all been sucked up by the cyclone as if being swept away by a huge thunderstorm!
Finally, the cyclone stopped and transformed into a mountain-like, blood-red demonic figure, with a single eyeball on top of it. With its appearance, the bloody mist around the region got even thicker.
-95! -95!
The players who had lesser resistance were struck down with the Blood Toxins already. The upper limit of their health bars began to decrease. Along with this effect, their armors were also being corroded.
This huge demonic figure was Scout Radner, one of the three main Raid Commanders within Blood Swamp!
Dwarvish Identify!
[Scout Radner] (Dark Gold Overlord)
Level: 45
Health Points: ???
Magic Attack: ???
Defense: 0-1,500
Note: This is a major Commander of Blood Swamp! It controls almost half of the Undead armed forces in Blood Swamp. Killing it will help the Guild of Light have an easier time in their battle. Meanwhile, the Scout is almost invincible!
As the Boss' levels were too high, Lin Jie's Inspection spells were unable to provide him with much useful information. Luckily, it was still able to disclose the Boss' Defense points: 0-1,500!
Radner had two different modes of defense: when its body was actualized, its Mana Defense would be 1,500 points while its Physical Defense would be 0 points. When its body was not actualized, its Physical Defense would be 1,500 points, while its Mana Defense would be 0 points.
Lin Jie did not consider this as an obstacle. As long as one managed to time his attacks accurately, he would still be able to cause damage to the Boss. However, the difficulty of attacking Radner was something far beyond this!
As one of the major Raid Commanders at Blood Swamp, the Scout had a very off-putting signature skill. It would throw out a Blood Seed, which contained the Blood Toxins, every 30 seconds. This seed would run wild around an area of 100 meters from where it was being released, and cause Blood Toxins Damage equivalent to a Bloody Skeleton's attacks to any players that it hit! Meanwhile, every time the seeds touched the Boss, they would help the Boss recover 10,000 health points!
The seeds would not disappear. Over time there would just be more of them around during the battle until they filled up the whole screen! What's more, the accompanying 'Blood Explosion' skill was also very horrid. When the Boss used this skill, it would make one of the seeds attached to a random player, and explode after three seconds. The strength of the explosion would not be any less impactful than that of a Mage's Sea of Flame skill.
Last but not least, the Boss also had a skill which was common among all Bosses of the Overlord level—summon underlings! When the Boss got into Enrage mode, it would make use of the dead players' bodies present and transform them into Bloody Skeletons!
As such, one would require superior positioning skills when fighting against this Boss!