24 Hits Guide

"I forgot." Ye Kai's answer was so simple and unadorned that Chen Guo couldn't find any fault with it. She was just queuing up and competing for monsters, not feeling any pressure at all. She quickly minimized the game and started searching online for a guide to the Skeleton Graveyard, asking Ye Kai as she clicked, "Which boss was it again?"

"The Skeleton Warrior. Mainly, I need to see how to guarantee a drop of its sword." Ye Kai said.

"Sword drop? Guaranteed?" For Chen Guo, it had been five years since she was the right level to run this dungeon. She knew about the sword because she occasionally took new players through the dungeon and remembered it, but she had no idea there was such content in the guide. After all, her memories were mostly of overpowering the dungeon with her high-level account, not needing to look at any guides.

"Yes, just search with that as the main keyword." Ye Kai answered confidently. Although he had forgotten the specifics, he remembered there definitely was such a thing because he was the one who wrote it.

Chen Guo quickly added keywords like "Skeleton Warrior," "sword," and "100%" to her search, and sure enough, she found it. Seeing the date of the post, it was already ten years old. Chen Guo clicked in and immediately exclaimed, "It's a post written by Ye Kai." The author's name was Autumn Leaf, which was no secret in the Glory circle. Everyone knew that before the professional league started when Glory was just an online game, Ye Kai was already a famous expert under this ID. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been invited to become a professional player as soon as the league was established.

"Right, that one. Check how many hits are needed on the sword's hilt." Ye Kai said.

"Huh?" Chen Guo had never seen this post before and didn't know what Ye Kai was talking about. She quickly skimmed through it and actually found what Ye Kai was asking for.

"24 hits, and there's even a diagram of the effective area. Want to see it?" Chen Guo said.

"Zoom in for me." Ye Kai said.

Chen Guo opened the image and maximized it, "Hey, look!"

Then she saw Ye Kai turn his head back with lightning speed, pausing for less than a second before turning back again.

"Done looking?" Chen Guo was surprised.

"Yeah." Ye Kai said.

"Need anything else?"

"No, that's all." Ye Kai said. He remembered that there were also requirements for physical attacks. Although he couldn't remember the specifics, with the Thousand Machine Umbrella's 180 physical attack, plus the strength attribute, he believed Lord Grim would definitely meet the standard.

"Tian Qi, move to the left; Mu Yunshen, circle to the back; Qian Li, step back a bit, the next slash's shockwave will hit you." Ye Kai began directing the three of them, while he started looking for an opportunity to attack. Until now, the four of them had only been dodging without Ye Kai's command to attack. Tian Qi and the others thought Ye Kai was looking for a way to deal with the Skeleton Warrior, not knowing that Ye Kai didn't need to look at the guide to deal with the Skeleton Warrior; he was just looking for a way to guarantee a drop of the sword.

The sword was just a decorative accessory and had no effect on the character's strength, which is why there was a method to guarantee its drop, but it required extremely high skill.

At this moment, Chen Guo had already put down her game and stood behind Ye Kai. She wanted to see how Ye Kai could manage to hit the sword's hilt 24 times. She had seen the guide, and the hilt was on the Skeleton Warrior's waist, square-shaped and not large. From the real-time game footage, it was impossible to aim at from a distance of less than two meters.

Yet, Ye Kai was already controlling Lord Grim to face it. During his healing process for the four of them, the Skeleton Warrior had already locked Lord Grim as its primary target. Lord Grim was constantly dodging left and right, while Tian Qi and the others were wandering around, waiting for Ye Kai to finish reading the guide and start attacking under his command.

However, after understanding the guide, Ye Kai's arrangement for the three was to position them even further away. The three of them didn't know Ye Kai's intention, only following orders. Seeing Lord Grim charging at the Skeleton Warrior, they all tensed up: it was finally starting.

The Skeleton Warrior charged forward, its bones making a dull and piercing friction sound. Ye Kai commanded Lord Grim to quickly meet it, but his gaze was only searching around the Skeleton Warrior's waist. Standing behind him, Chen Guo realized: this practical operation was much harder than the guide. The guide clearly cut out the hilt for people to see, but in actual combat, the Skeleton Warrior's swaying movements and many unintentional coverings made it difficult.

The Skeleton Warrior, tall and with a long sword, had already raised its giant sword when it was still two meters away from Lord Grim. Ye Kai remained calm. In terms of attack speed, his Thousand Machine Umbrella's speed of 5 was definitely faster than the giant sword's, which was generally the slowest at 1. In terms of attack distance, although the Skeleton Warrior's giant sword was huge, it couldn't compare to a spear, which was a direct long weapon.

Ye Kai steadily pushed the mouse, and Lord Grim's spear flicked out, striking first despite being later. The Skeleton Warrior stiffened briefly, and Lord Grim had already closed in for a Sky Strike.

The Skeleton Warrior was heavier than a Night Cat Demon but not as heavy as the fat spiders in the Spider Cave. After being hit by Sky Strike, it floated neither too high nor too low. Lord Grim took advantage of the situation to swipe with his spear, and a "scrape" sound was heard, different from the sound of hitting the Skeleton Warrior's bones.

"Hit it." Chen Guo excitedly called out from behind Ye Kai.

"Just once." Ye Kai casually replied, flicking his finger, and Lord Grim, after the spear thrust, turned around for another slash. The Skeleton Warrior, flipped over by the Sky Strike, received a sweeping attack, and again, a "scrape" was heard as the strike hit the hilt on its waist.

Ye Kai didn't get greedy. After hitting twice, he immediately controlled Lord Grim to jump away. The Skeleton Warrior, getting up, pushed off the ground, sending out a small-range shockwave in a 360-degree radius. To prevent shameless players from endlessly tormenting with knockdown and sweeping attacks, most bosses have this kind of ground-shaking shockwave attack when getting up.

Chen Guo watched from behind, seeing the hilt hit twice, initially happy for Ye Kai's good start. But upon further reflection, she realized that hitting the small hilt twice in such a brief moment was actually quite a terrifying feat. As she was lost in thought, another "scrape" sound rang in her ears.

Lord Grim's jump away was perfectly timed, just narrowly avoiding the edge of the rising shockwave. Once the shockwave attack passed, Ye Kai had already commanded Lord Grim to charge again, with the lance hitting the hilt precisely.

The Skeleton Warrior flipped its hands for a reverse sweep, but Lord Grim executed a perfect backward roll, the giant sword seemingly grazing past his body. The onlooking Tian Qi and the other two couldn't even tell if the sword had caused any damage to Lord Grim. Only by observing the shared health and mana values in their team list did they realize that the sword had been completely dodged.