Chapter 1 Replacing Xi Zhiyang

Invincible Most Handsome very naturally replaced Xi Zhiyang as the team's commander, and even his tone changed. The first to be lectured was Xi Zhiyang, the team leader.

Many people were indignant. Although they hadn't killed this Boss yet, Invincible Most Handsome had only glanced at the strategy guide ten minutes before entering the dungeon. What right did he have to command so strictly? Was he just reciting the guide? Anyone could do that!

Someone couldn't help but want to mock him, but suddenly saw Aymut, the tombkeeper of the final Boss, Airborne Tomb, raise the iron shovel in his hand, which looked more like a grave robber's tool than a tombkeeper's, and slam it onto the ground.

Cracks immediately appeared on the ground, with light flowing through them. It looked like some kind of mana fluctuation. In an instant, they drilled out from the cracks and flew around in a terrifying manner. Everyone who had wanted to speak shut their mouths.

Because they shockingly saw that Xi Zhiyang, who had been moving slowly and scolded by Invincible Most Handsome, was instantly strangled by these mana fluctuations that emerged from the cracks on the ground, leaving no corpse behind.

"Everyone, move!" Before the others could even express their shock, the command rang out again. The death of the team leader didn't shake Invincible Most Handsome in the slightest. When the tombkeeper slammed down the iron shovel, he had already moved to the tombkeeper's right side. None of the flying mana fluctuations touched him.

The aggro target moved, and the Boss naturally turned around to follow. No one dared to be slow here, and they all rushed to stand directly behind the Boss. They had clearly seen that the cracks created by the iron shovel formed a roughly 90-degree right angle with the Boss as the vertex, spreading left and right. Invincible Most Handsome had repeatedly reminded and scolded Xi Zhiyang for not moving fast enough, and now he had been instantly killed.

However, the team leader's sacrifice was valuable, at least letting everyone see the horror of this skill. This personal experience couldn't be gained from watching videos or reading guides. The guides only mentioned the skill's range and how to dodge it, but as an observer, you wouldn't think it was anything special. Only when you were there would you realize how quickly the skill activated, and how difficult it was to dodge. Xi Zhiyang had been told to move faster by Invincible Most Handsome, but he still couldn't escape the range and was instantly killed.

"Melee classes, don't crowd! Mid-range and close-range attack skills should be used alternately with forward and backward movements. Maintain space in your positions, and retreat consciously after using close-range skills," Invincible Most Handsome continued to command.

Hundred-player dungeons were designed so that many players could spread out to fight, so the Bosses were usually large in size, allowing several players to surround them for close combat. You wouldn't have to queue up to deal damage. But a tombkeeper Aymut, with such a freakish skill, turned a quarter of the area into a no-go zone, and the melee classes immediately found that there wasn't enough space. This Aymut was tall, but not like a dragon that could be surrounded by dozens of people. Now that the players had witnessed the horror of that skill, they were not just dodging 90 degrees, but 180 degrees. So everyone crowded behind the Boss. The ranged classes were fine, but the melee classes had trouble finding room to maneuver.

Although they had received pointers from Ye Xiu, a single sentence was not enough for everyone to understand. The melee classes were still in chaos, while the ranged gunners and mages were thriving.

Just as they were enjoying dealing damage, Invincible Most Handsome pointed out, "The ranged classes are standing too far back. The movement range is too large, and you won't be able to react in time!"

These were actually the things that Ye Xiu had summarized and explained before the fight. But in the heat of battle, it was easy to get distracted. They were too busy operating their skills and dealing damage, and they forgot some of the instructions. Hearing the command to move closer, the ranged classes quickly moved forward.

Just then, the Boss used another ultimate skill, shoveling the ground with his iron shovel, twisting his body and starting to spin.

"Run counterclockwise, quick, quick, quick!" Invincible Most Handsome shouted. Everyone saw that the place where the iron shovel scraped had almost dug a ditch, and the light emanating from it was the same as that seeping from the cracks earlier, only now the momentum was even more magnificent.

The crowd scattered in terror, running in the direction Invincible Most Handsome had said. However, some people were clever and didn't run in circles, but tried to retreat far away. As a result, when the iron shovel passed, the mana fluctuations that surged out of the ditch instantly engulfed the player characters on either side, swallowing them and causing them to disappear regardless of their class.

With just that one attack, Xi Zhiyang's team lost six more people, and the rest dared not slack off. They realized that every command from Invincible Most Handsome was not without reason. When he told you to run in circles, you ran in circles. Look at the team leader and these six guys, that's what happens when you don't listen!

Of course, Xi Zhiyang was just a little slow to react at the beginning. As for those six, they were really being smart and disobedient.

The iron shovel only drew a semicircle on the ground. The ranged classes finally understood why they couldn't stand too far away. Standing too far away meant a larger radius, and a longer circumference to run around, making it possible to be slower than the iron shovel. To dodge this skill, you had to run ahead of the iron shovel. As long as you fell behind, even if you didn't make contact with the attack, you would be swallowed by the light spewing from the ditch.

With two consecutive ultimate skills, each one resulting in deaths, the players of Xi Zhiyang's team became increasingly nervous. Although they knew that the final Boss would never be defeated with a simple stand-and-attack method, the actual difficulty was beyond everyone's expectations. For example, with that spin just now, if Invincible Most Handsome hadn't shouted in advance, no one would have realized that the Boss was about to use that ultimate skill. They might have been wiped out by now...

"Leave three squares! Healers, pay attention and watch everyone's health!"

Before the players could recover, Invincible Most Handsome's reminder came again, and everyone knew that the Boss was about to use another ultimate skill.

Leave three squares! This seemingly unclear instruction had been explained in detail by Invincible Most Handsome before. Three squares meant the position three body lengths away from the Boss. At this time, no one could be within that circle. In addition, pay attention to everyone's health. This instruction also reminded everyone of what the Boss was about to do. After all, even if they hadn't eaten pork, they had seen pigs run.

As soon as Invincible Most Handsome finished speaking, the Boss began to continuously shovel the ground in circles with his iron shovel, throwing it into the air again and again. The position being shoveled was precisely three body lengths away from him.

Although the players received instructions, in just a moment, some people failed to accurately judge how far three squares was. Some were confused and moved forward when they should have stayed put.

As a result, some were killed directly by the shovel as it came down.

Others were shoveled up and sent flying.

After a series of screams, the shoveled up mud finally fell. The mud faintly carried mana fluctuations, but the aura didn't seem too strong. After being thrown around like this, it rained down in all directions, 360 degrees around the Boss. At this time, it was impossible for the players to escape this range. The Boss had completed this action in an instant.

Seeing the mud falling, everyone panicked and wanted to dodge, but they vaguely remembered that there was something important to remember!

"Pay attention to dodging the three squares!" Fortunately, the reminder came just in time, and those confused players shuddered, realizing that the direction they were moving in seemed to be towards the three squares, scaring them into a cold sweat. Looking again, there were those who hadn't paid attention to the reminder in time. As soon as they approached the three squares, they were caught and killed by the surging mana fluctuations.

The players now understood that if the tombkeeper Aymut were to be classified according to the 24 classes of Glory, he should be a Thief, someone who played with traps! His ultimate skill was basically a group of trap placements! Was this guy a tombkeeper or a tomb robber?

At this time, no one could bother with such details. It was impossible to dodge all the falling mud, but fortunately, the mud's damage wasn't too terrible. The healers focused their attention and quickly pulled back the dropping health of each player. The busy healers even forgot a problem they should have been paying attention to at this moment.

The MT! (Main Tank)

The MT, who should have been constantly losing health and needing the healers to keep an eye on him at all times, didn't need their help at all during this tense moment. The healers looked at the health bars in the team list and clicked on names, but they never clicked on Invincible Most Handsome's name.

Until all the mud had fallen and this wave of attacks was over, and all the player characters' health had been restored, the healers naturally began to continue paying attention to the MT, but they still didn't notice the problem.

Because they weren't alone.

Even if they hadn't healed the MT for a while, it didn't mean that other healers hadn't healed him either. So when they saw the safe and sound Invincible Most Handsome, no one thought that this MT had survived this period without the care of a healer.

"Don't panic. The Boss's ultimate skill is these three iron shovels. Focus your attention, and it's easy to dodge!"

After three ultimate skills, Xi Zhiyang's team had lost 14 people, including their team leader. But they didn't know that as a pioneering team facing the final Boss for the first time, their losses were already light.

In fact, no team would have had it as easy as Xi Zhiyang's team when facing the tombkeeper Aymut's third ultimate skill. Because they didn't have an MT of Ye Xiu's level.

With an ordinary team, the healers would have to take care of the MT and the entire team during the third ultimate skill, which would put them under extreme pressure. Once they couldn't handle it, they would start dying in droves. But Xi Zhiyang was fortunate to have an MT of Ye Xiu's level. At that moment, he didn't need the healers to take care of him at all. The healers were able to free up their hands to take care of the other players in the team, which allowed them to get through this part without any major danger. If it had been still Seven Leaves One Flower and those other MTs, it wouldn't have been surprising if half the people had fallen during this attack.