Chapter 9 The Underwater Tomb

The ninth boss in the Sky Mausoleum is a water battle.

For most players, water battles are exceptionally unfamiliar. It is precisely for this reason that the ninth boss of the Sky Mausoleum has been evaluated as even more difficult than the final boss.

Fighting a Boss in the water is a completely different matter from PK in the water.

In underwater PK, things are fair for both sides. The changes to a character caused by water resistance affect everyone equally. But facing a Boss is another story. That shameless creature, with the system's shameless support, won't follow the conventional rules in the water.

Imagine players struggling with water resistance, their movements slowed down. But the Boss is as lively and vigorous as if freely soaring in the sky. It would be strange if such an opponent wasn't difficult.

Ye Xiu wasn't surprised that Seven Fields and the other Knights couldn't withstand the water battle Boss.

The most basic and frequent operation for a Knight tanking a monster is to raise their shield to meet the attack when it comes. The shield's function must be brought into full play no matter what. A Knight's identity as a tank can be said to be half dependent on the shield's defensive power, damage reduction, and mitigation effects.

But in water battles, there is a huge speed difference when facing the Boss. This gap makes it difficult for players to master the rhythm. Even the simplest action of raising the shield to defend becomes difficult to execute properly.

If the shield's function can't be brought into play, then the Knight is also fragile, and the healers naturally won't be able to keep up.

If the equipment were strong enough, perhaps they wouldn't need a shield and could just stand there and withstand the attacks with their body armor. But Seven Fields and the others are still trying to conquer this dungeon! How could their equipment be at that level of crushing superiority? The ninth Boss of the Sky Mausoleum isn't really about equipment. No dungeon would have such an excessive requirement that you need to have gear that far outclasses it to clear. The ninth Boss is actually about technique, water battle technique.

This technique isn't even complex. As long as you can block the Boss's attacks with your shield in the water battle, that's all you need to do.

But the problem is that players are so unfamiliar with water battles, and the Boss shamelessly ignores the effects of resistance in the water, making it impossible for too many players to perform even this small operation that would be so easy on land.

But for a player of Ye Xiu's level, such a small operation is really only at the "slightly understand" level. More advanced and sharper water battle techniques aren't needed here at all. Just raising the shield to meet the attacks is enough for Seven Fields' equipment to clear it.

Of course, if he were wearing Unrivaled Super Hottie's low-grade gear, even Ye Xiu would feel some pressure. He would have to rely on positioning and dodging to tank the Boss. Players move slowly in the water, but the Boss is unaffected, making dodging much harder than hard tanking.

That's why the ninth Boss is also one of the Bosses on Ye Xiu's list that required gear.

Now that he has the equipment in hand, Ye Xiu doesn't find this Boss difficult at all. It's just the most ordinary stand-and-tank style of play: he stands and tanks the monster, the damage dealers do their damage, and the healers do their healing. When Happy Sheep kept asking him how to fight, Ye Xiu really didn't know what to say. It's just the basic way to fight, what's there to say?

This is also the reason why Happy Sheep's team frequently wipes here but can't come up with any solutions. Because there's no tactical element here. The Boss doesn't have any overly abnormal ultimate moves. It's just the speed difference between the two sides in the water and the fact that players are unfamiliar with water battles. If they wipe a few more times and the MT gets the hang of the rhythm, they might be able to easily defeat this Boss without even realizing it.

"Don't worry! Just follow me!" After Ye Xiu said this, he simply ignored Happy Sheep's opinion and directly activated the mechanism.

As soon as the mechanism was activated, the surrounding scene closed in, and water began to flood in. After submerging everyone, the Boss made a dazzling entrance with his lines. The Happy Sheep team, who had wiped countless times here, were all sweating in their palms, watching nervously. As a result, Unrivaled Super Hottie had already charged up. Using Charge, he broke through the waves and struck the Boss directly.

The battle began.

The Boss's strength was as consistent as ever, but what about Happy Sheep's team? The MT's equipment hadn't changed, but the person under that equipment had. The bubbles and waves stirred up by the two sides' attacks and defenses made it impossible for everyone to even see Unrivaled Super Hottie's name. The healers stared intently at Unrivaled Super Hottie's health in the team list.

This guy spoke with such confidence, but don't let him get killed after just a few hits! Such things had happened before. The MT had just opened the monster, but he hadn't figured it out himself, and everyone else hadn't figured it out either, and he was already floating dead.

But what about Unrivaled Super Hottie? Too many bubbles made it difficult for everyone to see what he was doing, but they could see that his health was decreasing, but not quickly. Amidst the rolling water, a muffled collision sound came, indicating that the two sides were fighting in a团, but Unrivaled Super Hottie was withstanding the Boss's attacks.

"He can block it!!"

Seven Fields and the other Knights immediately realized the problem. They had taken turns rushing this Boss, and they all knew the reason. It was that their shields had become decorations, and they could never block the Boss's attacks. This problem was inherent, and they couldn't solve it even if they noticed it. They had been trying hard to figure it out, but today, they finally saw someone do it simply.

"Heal!" Unrivaled Super Hottie gave the command, and the healers began to act.

"Output!" Unrivaled Super Hottie gave another command, and the damage dealers began to act.

"End!" Unrivaled Super Hottie said, and the Boss floated dead.

It's over?

A Boss that had stumped everyone for weeks, making them kneel, flop, and float in various poses, fell so plainly.

There was no thrill, no excitement, no twists and turns. It wasn't even as heart-stopping as when they first entered the dungeon and saw the spear traps emerge from the ground to stab Unrivaled Super Hottie.

The players of Happy Sheep's team were silent.

A Boss that had given them a splitting headache knelt in such an ordinary way that they couldn't accept it. This battle should have been thrilling, it should have been filled with screams, it should have been fraught with danger, it should have been filled with countless touching details, and in the days to come, when they brought new players to this Boss again, they could describe the earth-shattering nature of this battle with flying spittle in nine thousand words three times a day.

But no, there was nothing. There wasn't even a commander during this Boss's kill. Any random spot along the way where they killed small monsters was more lively than this.

A Boss that had given the entire team a headache was killed so pallidly.

The Boss fell, the mechanism was destroyed, and the accumulated water in the scene drained away. The entire Sky Mausoleum underwent a series of earth-shattering changes. The sound of the final Boss, which Happy Sheep's team had never seen before, began to echo throughout the scene. The earth-shattering sound seemed to be coming from all directions, and it finally woke everyone up from their daze.

"The final Boss." Unrivaled Super Hottie was calling them to open the way.

The crowd followed numbly. After walking out for two minutes, someone suddenly came back to their senses: "Guild leader, did we pick up the equipment?"

"Oh crap!" Happy Sheep hurriedly turned back. They had left without picking up the equipment dropped by the ninth Boss. They were in a daze to a certain extent.

The final Boss was something that Happy Sheep's team had never faced before, so it could be said to be a first clear. It should have been very tense and uncertain. However, since the ninth Boss, which was said to be the most difficult, had been killed so easily, the final Boss was just a cloud, right?

No one had any expectations for the final Boss anymore. Everyone numbly followed behind Unrivaled Super Hottie, outputting, healing, and advancing layer by layer, finally arriving in front of the final Boss.

"You've only cleared up to the ninth one, so you haven't killed this Boss before, right?" Unrivaled Super Hottie said.

"No," Happy Sheep said.

"Have you read the strategy guide?"

"Strategy guide..." Happy Sheep was slightly stunned. He had read the strategy guide, but he hadn't studied it yet. Because they had been stuck on the ninth Boss, week after week, and they hadn't had time to think about the final Boss yet!

"Then let me briefly explain it," Unrivaled Super Hottie said.

"You tank the monster, the damage dealers deal damage, and the healers heal, right? I got it," Happy Sheep said.

"It's not that simple," Unrivaled Super Hottie scorned him and then listed the main points to pay attention to for the final Boss, one, two, three, four, in a simple and clear manner.

"So complicated?" Everyone exclaimed. They had seen the strategy guide for the final Boss, but it had been too long since they had reached this stage, and no one had studied it in detail, so they had forgotten most of it.

"Why does it sound harder than the ninth Boss?" Someone said.

"Nonsense, the final Boss is of course harder than the small Boss," Unrivaled Super Hottie said.

"Isn't the ninth Boss said to be the hardest?" Someone asked doubtfully.

"Only people who don't understand water battles would say that," Unrivaled Super Hottie said.

"Water battles, who would understand that..." Everyone said.

"I do!"

"Aren't you just slightly knowledgeable?"

"That's a modest term, don't you understand?"

"Slightly knowledgeable..." Everyone was in tears.

"Do you all remember what I just said?" At this time, Unrivaled Super Hottie asked everyone if they had understood what he had just taught.

"We remember," everyone answered, but after answering, they felt something was wrong. Damn it, they were the hundred-man dungeon team of Tyrannical Ambition's fourth branch, so why were they being taught by someone like newbies now?

But then again, facing a dungeon they hadn't cleared and a Boss they hadn't fought, they were indeed considered newbies. But the problem was, didn't this guy seem to have only looked at the strategy guide before coming to the dungeon? He didn't even know how to walk through the mechanisms after entering the door, so how did he suddenly start pointing fingers at them like an expert?

"If there are no problems, then I'll open it!"

Before everyone could question him, Unrivaled Super Hottie had already opened the Boss with a Charge.

Damn it, he was really too decisive, and everyone hurriedly followed.

"Spread out the formation, stand in a fan shape! Don't leave anyone in the ninety-degree area in front, didn't you remember that!!" Just as they started, Unrivaled Super Hottie was already lecturing them.

Everyone was in tears. Damn it, they hadn't even seen which way the Boss's face was facing yet? Did he have to be so strict!

"What's wrong with that healer? Standing behind me is courting death! Stand to the side, in the area outside the ninety-degree fan."

Everyone looked and fell silent. Damn it, the one standing behind him was Happy Sheep! Even the guild leader was being lectured like a dog, this was the aura of a powerful MT! Speaking of which, everyone seemed to be too used to Seven Fields' nice guy style.

"Can't you figure out ninety degrees? Then take the Boss as the vertex, and the straight line between me and the Boss as the axis, and the area outside the fan that deviates two o'clock to the left and right!"

Everyone silently watched, feeling sad in their hearts. Guild leader, please be more assertive! You're so slow and your math is so bad, it's really embarrassing!