As the ripples before him gradually faded, Jiang Yuan found himself already inside Red Cloud Temple. He looked around and noticed that the temple's interior consisted of three buildings: the Grand Hall stood in the center, flanked by the Discipline Hall on the left and the Arhat Hall on the right.
"Come on, this way," Hamster Pudding, who had already cleared this dungeon before, led the way with ease.
"Little hamster, let me take the lead." Letting a priest lead the way felt like an affront to the dignity of a warrior class, so Conquering the World said this to Hamster Pudding, then stepped up to walk beside her.
"Hey! Don't move, let me handle this!" Jiang Yuan stepped forward, reached out to push Conquering the World and Hamster Pudding aside, and squeezed between them.
Then, under the shocked gazes of the three, Jiang Yuan raised his hand and summoned two thousand wild boars!
"Heh heh, with ten thousand boars in hand, I rule the land!" Seeing his summoned boars fill the entire Red Cloud Temple, Jiang Yuan said to the other three with immense pride.
"Holy crap, this... this...!" Staring at the dense sea of boars before him, Conquering the World's face was frozen in shock. He pointed at the boars, stammering, unable to form words.
In the team, Hamster Pudding and Ding Ye looked at Conquering the World's mouth, wide enough to fit two eggs, then simultaneously shifted their gaze to the terrifyingly massive boars.
"Holy crap! So many boars, at least a thousand or two, right?" As Jiang Yuan's best friend, Ding Ye let out a strange yell, while Hamster Pudding covered her cherry-like mouth with her hand, her face full of disbelief.
"Jiang Yuan, did you really summon all these?" Even though the boars clearly had "Jiang Yuan's Summon" written above their heads, Conquering the World and the others still found it hard to accept seeing such a terrifying number of summons for the first time. In their understanding, a summoner could at most summon around five creatures. Seeing someone like Jiang Yuan, who could summon thousands with a wave of his hand, was a first for Conquering the World.
"Don't be so surprised, they're just a few thousand little piggies!" Jiang Yuan puffed out his chest and started showing off. If not now, when?
"But I remember the summoner's summon limit is supposed to be five. Why can you summon so many?" Before the game launched, Hamster Pudding had done in-depth research on several classes in *Ten Thousand Realms*. She was initially charmed by the loli-like summoner class, but after learning about the summoner's skills, she found the class too weak and decisively gave it up.
"That's for ordinary summoners. Am I an ordinary summoner? Hmph!" Jiang Yuan crossed his arms, avoiding a direct answer to Hamster Pudding's question, and continued to show off.
"Come on, tell me!" Seeing Jiang Yuan still being coy, Hamster Pudding immediately put on a sweet, coaxing tone. The moment she did, Jiang Yuan couldn't hold out, and goosebumps erupted all over his body!
"Alright, alright, I'll tell you, okay? I just got lucky and drew a super-mythical passive skill that boosts my summons' stats tenfold and raises the summon limit to ten thousand!" Jiang Yuan spread his hands and revealed the truth, which immediately drew wild complaints from the other three!
"A super-mythical skill! Damn it, why don't I have that kind of luck!" After hearing Jiang Yuan, Conquering the World said in frustration.
"From your tone, did you also get a draw?" Jiang Yuan had never met another player who got a system-granted draw chance like him, so he quickly asked Conquering the World.
"Yeah, but I only got an epic weapon, and it's only usable at level 75." Conquering the World let out a long sigh, feeling that comparing himself to others could really drive a person crazy!
"Me too, me too! I got a hidden class transfer book for the priest class. Once I reach level 30, I can transfer to a hidden class!" Hamster Pudding said excitedly. Though it wasn't as powerful as Jiang Yuan's super-mythical passive skill, it had still kept her thrilled for an entire night!
"Holy crap! How come you all got a draw chance, but I didn't!" Listening to the three of them, Ding Ye felt a deep sense of unfairness.
"Idiots don't get draw chances!" As his best friend, Jiang Yuan reflexively delivered a cutting remark.
"Screw you!" Hearing Jiang Yuan's taunt, Ding Ye rolled his eyes and shot back. Over the past decade, they had built a deep bond through this back-and-forth of teasing and retorts!
"Let's go, no time to waste. I'll take you guys to get the first-clear achievement!" After chatting for about thirty or forty seconds, the boars Jiang Yuan had summoned reached their time limit and disappeared. So he summoned over a thousand new boars, said a word to the others, and started walking in the direction Hamster Pudding had pointed.
"Ding! Congratulations on defeating the Red Cloud Monk. You gained 500 experience points!" "Ding! Congratulations on defeating the Bloodthirsty Monk. You gained 500 experience points!" The Red Cloud Temple dungeon only had two types of minor monsters. With Jiang Yuan's boars clearing the way like a blooming flower, the group swept through everything effortlessly, as if entering an unguarded territory.
After a series of notification sounds, Jiang Yuan and the others successfully arrived at the Arhat Hall on the left side of the Grand Hall, where they saw the Bloodthirsty Monk leaning against the outer wall.
"Is this the Bloodthirsty Monk?" Looking at the monk before him—wearing a bamboo hat, holding a water-polished staff, and boasting explosively muscular arms—Jiang Yuan checked its stats.
[Bloodthirsty Monk] Level: 55 Health: 750,000 [Note: Due to the large level gap between the player and the boss, detailed information cannot be obtained!]
"Wow, that's five times the health of the Zombie King!" Seeing the health bar above the Bloodthirsty Monk's head, Jiang Yuan finally understood why even large guilds like Hamster Pudding's and Conquering the World's couldn't clear this dungeon.
With the attack power of players around level 25, how could they possibly take down a boss with 750,000 health?
But in his view, it wasn't a problem. As his level increased, Jiang Yuan had maxed out his boar summoning skill!
At max level, a boar had 700 health and 150 attack. With the tenfold passive boost, each of Jiang Yuan's boars now had 1,500 attack. With a thousand of them combined...
"With ten thousand boars in hand, I rule the land! Go, Pikachu Pig!" Facing the first dungeon boss for new players, Jiang Yuan even had time to crack a lame joke!
After maxing out the skill, the boars were even larger, now over five meters long and three meters tall!
Receiving their master's command, the countless boars snorted out two white jets of air from their snouts and surged toward the Bloodthirsty Monk, lifting their hooves.
"Smack!" With a single stomp from thousands of boars, the Bloodthirsty Monk's health bar instantly emptied, and colorful beams of light appeared on the ground!
"Heh heh, first clear is that simple!" Watching the Bloodthirsty Monk get killed in one stomp, Jiang Yuan chuckled smugly and said to the three beside him.