Chapter 60

Level 60 Bosses were already the highest tier of wild, free-range Bosses. Bosses stronger than that only appeared in quests or storyline events. These Bosses were rumored to be more intelligent, more powerful, and to drop better loot, but their whereabouts were equally legendary. They required certain conditions to trigger their appearance, making them much rarer than wild Bosses.

The Parallel World game designers didn't want to see players forming groups to farm these wild Bosses at fixed times and locations every day, so they made their movements very unpredictable. This meant that Bosses of all levels didn't just stick to their designated leveling areas like regular monsters; they wandered all over the place.

This led to the question: what happens if a high-level Boss wanders into a low-level player's leveling area? The system responded with ruthless mockery: What's there to do? Avoid it. It's just passing through; it'll be gone in a little while...

There was a legend in the game: In the early days, when players' levels were still very low, a high-level Boss wandered around and eventually ended up near the gates of the main city. Countless players, not knowing what it was, died at its hands. When they finally realized what it was and tried to avoid it, the Boss actually lumbered into the city. The players panicked, thinking a massacre was about to happen, but then two seemingly ordinary guards, who were always hanging out at the city gate, stepped in and took care of the Boss in a few moves.

This legend taught players two things.

First, the system guards were very, very powerful, probably at the highest Boss level. Don't underestimate them.

Second, the Boss that died at the hands of the guards that day actually dropped loot, and it was quite spectacular, causing a mad scramble among the surrounding players. No one knows who ended up with the loot, but any high-level player who emerged in that main city was always met with suspicion and subjected to ambushes, sneak attacks, and backstabbing. The resulting PK (player versus player) bloodshed was countless, eventually fostering a culture of impulsive violence in the city.

This legendary main city was called Moonlit Night City.

Then, one day, an unknown player suddenly formed a guild that quickly became the strongest in Moonlit Night City, bullying all the other players into silence. People finally realized that this guy, who had been hiding his strength and suddenly seized power in Moonlit Night City, was the one who had gotten lucky with the Boss at the city gate. This lucky player was called Yin Yue.

Just one high-level Boss wandering near the city gates had brought so much turmoil to an entire city. Whether the system's "wandering Boss" setting was good or bad was impossible to say. However, after that incident, no high-level Boss ever wandered near the city gates again. Later, the game developers listened to player feedback and made it so that Bosses wouldn't wander so frequently, stopping and resting from time to time.

Later, players would sing of the Bosses in Parallel World: You are the lone wolf, forever wandering alone in the boundless wilderness of the leveling area.

The Bosses in Parallel World were so unpredictable, but the Mist Shadow Assassin was an exception. His background was that of a lost wanderer, and lost wanderers often end up back where they started. This was also true for the Mist Shadow Assassin. Although he didn't exactly go around in circles, his movement speed was very slow. That's why, after being discovered by Shou Fa Ruan, they were able to find him again so quickly.

"Quick, make way, let me see!!" There were quite a few people watching the Boss fight, and Ye Xiao Wu squeezed his way to the front. On their monitoring screen, the mist in Mist Shadow City was completely cleared, and the camera could be freely zoomed in and out. Currently, it was zoomed out to show the whole scene. Ye Xiao Wu could clearly see the Mist Shadow Assassin walking silently through the mist in the picture. Not far from him, a group of players was on high alert.

"Who has aggro?" Ye Xiao Wu asked. As a designer, he knew the Mist Shadow Assassin's greatest characteristic. Besides being a lost wanderer, he also had a unique aggro system. The Mist Shadow Assassin's aggro range was extremely wide. More importantly, once he had identified a target, the aggro system would stop calculating. In other words, until that target died, the Mist Shadow Assassin's aggro target would not change for any reason. It also meant that the aggro could not be removed.

"Can the aggro really not be removed?" A colleague from the monitoring team, who also knew about the Mist Shadow Assassin's characteristics, immediately asked this question, wanting to confirm it with the senior designer Ye Xiao Wu.

"There are only two ways: kill the Mist Shadow Assassin, or log off," Ye Xiao Wu replied.

Everyone fell silent. That was the same as not being able to remove it.

The reason for creating such a special aggro system was because most online games these days had players using meat shield characters to tank the Boss while the damage dealers went all out. Ye Xiao Wu and his colleagues had deliberately created this Boss to counter that.

You want to draw aggro, do you? Fine, no need to trouble yourself. Our Mist Shadow Assassin will lock onto a target, and you won't be able to change it.

You want to concentrate the aggro on your tank? Sorry, our Mist Shadow Assassin will only choose his own target. Random attacks or skills designed to generate aggro won't work on him.

It was an extremely despicable design. Ye Xiao Wu and his colleagues proudly called the Mist Shadow Assassin's aggro system "the assassin's composure." As for how players were supposed to fight him with such a setting, they hadn't even thought about it. It seemed that making things difficult for players was the pleasure of this group of people.

So, when he heard that someone wanted to hunt the Mist Shadow Assassin, Ye Xiao Wu was very excited. But when he heard that they had been hunting for a while and no one had died yet, he was very surprised.

At this time, someone pointed out the player attracting the aggro on the screen: "It's that person."

The camera was zoomed out, so Ye Xiao Wu could only see that it was a mage in a black robe, and he couldn't see his face clearly. But he already had a bad feeling in his heart: Could it be him?

Ye Xiao Wu said as he went to zoom in.

"Hey, hey, hey!!!" Everyone was dissatisfied. This kind of activity was supposed to be about seeing the whole picture. What was the point of zooming in on one person?

It didn't need to be too close; it was already enough for Ye Xiao Wu to recognize the person.

"It really is him..." Ye Xiao Wu felt like crying.

"This mage is very skilled; he's been able to block the Boss's attacks every time," said a colleague from the monitoring team. This person was obviously newly transferred and didn't know the story between Ye Xiao Wu and this mage. Many people in the monitoring team knew these stories. This mage had made Ye Xiao Wu, the designer, throw a tantrum many times.

"He's attacking!!!" The new colleague suddenly shouted. In the picture, the Mist Shadow Assassin circled the group of players before suddenly lunging forward. Everyone knew that the target was the mage, and they could only watch how he would resolve it.

The result was naturally predictable, and the new colleague looked very excited: "Ha, see? He blocked it again!!"

Everyone was silent. Some people were sneaking glances at Ye Xiao Wu's face. Some even wished they were in the game so they could quickly send a private message to the new colleague and tell him to consider Ye Xiao Wu's feelings instead of acting like a fan of the mage!

"But after blocking and blocking, it seems like he's only using a few moves. There's nothing new," the new colleague said. He had discovered this battle with the Mist Shadow Assassin and was immediately attracted by Gu Fei's diverse ways of dealing with the Boss. He had been looking forward to seeing some new and unique moves, but so far, there hadn't been any new developments for a long time.

"I don't think it's that he doesn't have any new moves. It's that the Boss only has a few ways of attacking, so he naturally only needs to use the same methods to deal with it," another colleague said. This person was obviously even newer. He didn't even recognize Ye Xiao Wu and was trying to cozy up to this stranger who had squeezed his way to the front: "You're right, aren't you? By the way, my name is xxx. I just got here three days ago. I haven't seen you before."

All the colleagues silently thought of the famous line from Fist of the North Star: You are already dead.

Ye Xiao Wu's expression was indeed very unpleasant. The leader of the monitoring team quickly arranged: "Xiao Liu, go set up a separate machine for Ye Zong over there, lock the screen here, and let him observe this cross-level Boss fight so he can improve the settings!" Everyone was familiar with the excuse that Ye Xiao Wu often used to come to the monitoring team.

Ye Xiao Wu went to a single seat, and he could still hear the newcomer asking behind him: "Ye Zong? Which Zong?" (Zong is a respectful way to address someone in Chinese, in this case, the newcomer is asking which higher up Ye is)

Back in the game, only Bai Shi Jing Lun had accurately hit the target in the Mist Shadow Assassin's wave of attacks. However, Jian Gui and the others had the opportunity to fight the Boss directly, and they were getting more and more used to it. They had improved a lot compared to before.

But more importantly, Han Jia Gongzi and You Ge were muttering to each other and nodding repeatedly. In this round of confrontation, Gu Fei didn't suffer any damage, but he still spammed a wave of healing spells, even casting them on everyone once, which made everyone a little confused.

Han Jia Gongzi explained to everyone at this time: "It seems that my guess was correct. This Boss's aggro cannot be drawn."

"What do you mean?"

"Qian Li has only attacked once, but they've been fighting for so long. Normally, the Boss's aggro on him wouldn't be very high. And I've repeatedly used healing spells in front of him many times. Any monster should have targeted me by now. So I believe that this Boss must have some special aggro system, and he's already locked onto Qian Li as his aggro target," Han Jia Gongzi said.

"Is there such a thing? Could it be that the aggro you generated with your healing spells isn't high enough?" Zhan Wu Shang said.

"Look." This time it was You Ge who spoke, holding up his notebook and saying: "The healing spell aggro data should be xx. Gongzi has healed a total of xx times, and I have roughly recorded the distance between him and the Boss each time, and the distance between the healing spell and the Boss. According to the formula xxxxxx, the aggro value created by Gongzi should be xxx. Qian Li's side, on the other hand..."

"Do you understand?" The Mist Shadow Assassin had already attacked twice while You Ge was explaining, "Adding these two times..."

"Alright..." Zhan Wu Shang reached out to stop him from continuing to explain, "We don't understand, but we believe you. But if you explain to us like this again next time, I'll hit you."

"I'll help hit you," Yu Tian Shen Ming added.

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Updating~ This chapter took a surprisingly long time to write... Why is that? Uh, can this be a reason to ask for monthly tickets? Let me try...