Southwest of the main city of Jinyang, a figure was sprinting at full speed.
"Huff, huff!"
Jiang Yuan ran, panting heavily, thinking to himself, "Why doesn't this game sell mounts? Running on foot is going to kill me!"
Suddenly, Jiang Yuan, who was sprinting at top speed, slammed on the brakes and came to a halt.
"Damn, why am I running on my own? I have my little piggy!"
Jiang Yuan slapped his forehead, silently cursing his own stupidity, and summoned his wild boar.
"Giddyup!"
Plunking down onto the boar's back, he slapped its rump. The boar let out a grunt and tore off like crazy.
Before long, a forest appeared before Jiang Yuan. From a distance, he spotted a group of players, about a hundred or so, all with the "Aoshi" guild tag above their heads, surrounding a boss and unleashing a frenzy of attacks.
[Bandit Lord: Hu Tiehua] Level: 75 HP: 1,700,000 / 8,000,000 [Note: Due to the significant level gap between the player and the boss, detailed information cannot be obtained!]
Glancing quickly at the boss's info, Jiang Yuan felt a jolt of surprise.
"Wow, no wonder they're one of the most influential guilds in the Dragon Kingdom's online gaming scene. They've gathered this many people to whittle down an 800,000-HP field boss to just over 170,000. How long did that take?"
He had to admit, Aoshi Dragon Emperor's obsession with the guild token was downright admirable. Too bad, this time, he was just doing the grunt work for Jiang Yuan again.
As he was mulling this over, Hamster Pudding slipped into the grove, crept up to Jiang Yuan, and whispered, "Hey! I'm here!"
"Whoa!"
Startled, Jiang Yuan flinched, his whole body jerking, but he managed not to cry out.
"Damn, you scared me!"
Turning to see who it was, Jiang Yuan clutched his chest and muttered a curse at Hamster Pudding.
"Hehe, sorry! I just wanted to surprise you!"
Hamster Pudding stuck out her tongue, looking a bit sheepish as she smiled.
"Didn't feel like a surprise—more like a scare. Did you complete your class change?"
Jiang Yuan rolled his eyes at Hamster Pudding, catching a glimpse of the class icon next to her avatar in his peripheral vision.
"Yep! I'm a Divine Priest now, super powerful!"
Hamster Pudding had used the hidden class change scroll she'd obtained, switching from a regular priest to the hidden Divine Priest class. This class boasted all sorts of buffs and insane healing output, hailed as the number one support in "Ten Thousand Realms!"
"Oh really? What's so powerful about it?"
Jiang Yuan looked at her, bragging away, with a skeptical expression.
"Invisibility!"
No sooner had he spoken than Hamster Pudding cast an "Invisibility" buff on him.
"No way! That's awesome!"
Seeing his own translucent body, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but give Hamster Pudding a thumbs-up, though she couldn't see it anymore.
"Let's go! Let's snatch their boss and freak them out!"
Hamster Pudding flashed a mischievous grin at the Aoshi guild members not far ahead, cast Invisibility on herself, and then strutted boldly toward the boss alongside the equally invisible Jiang Yuan.
"Keep the warrior's taunt skill going non-stop! Healers, keep the main tank's HP topped up!"
Aoshi Dragon Emperor was focused on commanding his hundred-man squad, dead set on securing the second guild token in the entire server.
But he had no idea that, at that very moment, two figures, shielded by Invisibility, had silently crept up to the boss's side.
This time, Jiang Yuan didn't summon his boar to one-shot the boss. The Bandit Lord had already been worn down significantly, with the aggro firmly held by the Aoshi guild. Killing it now would only hand the loot to them on a silver platter.
"Smack!"
Hidden among the crowd, Jiang Yuan watched for a while, finally spotting the main tank holding the boss's aggro. He quietly switched to PK mode and landed a basic attack.
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A yellow critical damage number popped up above the Aoshi main tank's head, killing him instantly.
Hamster Pudding was quick on the draw. The moment Jiang Yuan became visible, she tossed another "Invisibility" on him.
With the main tank dead, the boss's aggro went haywire. It unleashed an AoE attack, and the Aoshi guild members screamed as they dropped dead on the spot!
Once the main tank fell, the boss, now without aggro, started rapidly regenerating HP. In the blink of an eye, its health had recovered to half.
"What's going on? Get the main tank back up!"
Aoshi Dragon Emperor, who had been grinding the boss down for over an hour and was on the verge of killing it, let out a shriek, bellowing at the team's healers.
"Smack!"
Jiang Yuan fired off another basic attack, and something unexpected happened!
"Roar!"
A skeletal general, about three meters tall, materialized beside Jiang Yuan, wielding a long blade. Its hollow eye sockets glowed with two eerie green flames as it swung a slash at the surrounding Aoshi players!
This attack had triggered the special effect of the "Bone Jade Staff," summoning ten thousand skeletal generals!
[Jiang Yuan's Summon: Skeletal General] HP: 50,000 Defense: 3,000 Attack: 2,500 Duration: 60 seconds
Since Jiang Yuan was in PK mode, the dense swarm of skeletal generals brandished their bone-made war blades. With each swing, damage numbers ranging from a few thousand to over ten thousand popped up above the heads of the nearby Aoshi players. Under the simultaneous assault of ten thousand skeletal generals, a huge empty space cleared around the boss!
"Ding! You have killed player Aoshi Xiao Kuang. Gained 1 kill point!"
"Ding! You have killed player Aoshi Dragon Emperor. Gained 1 kill point!"
"Ding! You have killed player Aoshi Yangyang. Gained 1 kill point!"
"Ding! You have killed player Aoshi Lamei. Gained 1 kill point!"
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A string of notification sounds rang out, and Jiang Yuan's kill points shot up to 78 in an instant!
A minute later, the screen full of skeletal generals vanished. With the Aoshi guild players wiped out by Jiang Yuan, the area around the boss was wide open, and Jiang Yuan's form could no longer stay hidden, appearing right before Aoshi Dragon Emperor.
"Ahhh! Jiang Yuan, why is it you again!"
Lying on the ground, Aoshi Dragon Emperor stared at Jiang Yuan, who had materialized like a ghost, and completely lost his mind!
After a dozen or so seconds, not a single Aoshi guild player remained, and the boss's HP was nearly full again.
Jiang Yuan immediately summoned five thousand wild boars. At his command, they joined the skeletal generals in attacking the boss, which had lost its aggro and was about to be at full health.
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Countless damage numbers kept popping up above the Bandit Lord Hu Tiehua's head. Poor thing—it had just recovered its HP and had no clue what was happening before it fell again in seconds!
Instantly, multicolored beams of light covered the entire ground!
"Jiang Yuan! I'll kill you! Aaaah!"
Seeing the light pillars within a five-meter radius on the ground, Aoshi Dragon Emperor, still lying dead and refusing to revive, let out a series of agonized howls on the public chat.
What infuriated him even more was that Jiang Yuan, while picking up the boss's loot, didn't forget to sing at his corpse.
"Listen to me, thank you, because of you, you warm the seasons..."