3 Crownless Kings
Night Emperor walked to the center of the room, though in the cave, here is actually pretty bright, it's like there's a sun in the sky.
"Umm, don't we need a tank for a boss fight?", Xia Yun asked Seven Conqueror, after talking the last time, they can be said to be a friend.
"Don't worry about it, that guy right there is the best tank we can get", Seven Conqueror said with confidence.
After perfectly at the center of the cave, a hiss sounded. And the bright room became darker and darker and the sound of something crawling through the wall, something big.
After a while, a huge, hairy stick showed from the shadow, no, it's a leg. Then followed by the second leg, and then it slowly reveals the creature which is a huge statured spider.
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[Brute Spider Mother]
Level 3
HP: 1200
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"Dark!", Night Emperor shouted.
Dark Prime quickly chanted something and a fireball condensed from his staff, he then shoots the fireball to the boss, resulting in numbers damage to show up and some Damage over Time (DoT).
-10
-1
-1
-1
-2
The dot keeps hurting the boss for a while and Dark Prime chanted another spell, of course, the boss is not stupid and tried to attack him, but just when he came close, a sword light flashed and it straightly hit the eyes of the spider.
This resulting in critical damage there is also DoT because of the bleed effect that came from the skill Night Emperor used and the attack also stunned the boss which cancels the attack and making it immobile. There's also a support attack from Seven Conqueror, chipping away, bit by bit of the boss hp
-8
-3
-4
-4
It's pretty much smooth sailing, two ranged attacks that give damage, and every time the boss wanted to attack, Night Emperor will interrupt and stun it in place. This is perfect teamwork.
Though, she felt pretty useless for not doing anything. That is because no one is taking damage at all. Although Night Emperor was really close to the boss, he always moves specifically to dodge the boss attack at a hair range, making the attack hit nothing at all.
This made her worried again. But after the boss's health fell to 25%, Night Emperor immediately shouted, "Cloud! get ready!".
This made her immediately became focused and readied her staff.
The boss immediately entered enraged mode, increasing its speed by 50%. This made Night Emperor, which was easily dodging the attack last time, become troubled at dodging any, and damage after damage number appeared on his head. Luckily, Xia Yun healed him so, the consecutive damage didn't kill him immediately.
-14
-14
+5
-12
-0
+6
Of course, Night Emperor didn't forget to parry the attack, which significantly reduced the damage and there's sometimes a perfect parry that makes him take no damage.
This continued until the boss stopped being enraged and it entered a weakened state, Plummetting its defense and speed. This also let Night Emperor, which only has 5% health left, take a break.
He immediately takes a health potion and said, "Heal me whenever you can", to Xia Yun.
Xia Yun obeyed and whenever the cooldown for her skills was to finish, she would cast heal on him, quickly bringing Night Emperor's health back to 60%.
At the same time, they keep attacking the weakened boss, making the health plummeted to 10%, this is the last milestone because after hitting the 10%, the boss cast a move on them called "Skill Lock", this will lock one random skill of the random person in the party, making it unusable throughout the battle.
Not only that, but the boss also reentered an enraged state, boosting its speed by 100%.
"Who gets it?!", Night Emperor turned to look at them.
"I-I cannot use my heal!", Xia Yun tried to use heal a few times but failed.
"Sh*t!", Night Emperor unconsciously swear. The worst-case scenario happens, the only healing skill in the team is unusable.
This makes Night Emperor that was in the frontline having difficulty keeping up with the attack. Drinking potion doesn't help either, because of the 15 seconds cooldown.
"Attack with everything you got!", Night Emperor shouted to all of them.
Seven Conqueror immediately used the skill, [Rapid-fire], increasing his attack speed by 20%.
Meanwhile, Dark Prime used the shield barrier again. But this time, the one he's protecting is only Night Emperor so the shield is only as small as him. Not only that, but he also provided fire support making the boss quickly lose health.
All this tension makes Xia Yun forgot her other skill that not locked, so she just standing still while watching the fight.
The boss's health plummeted quickly as the fight going, but so does Night Emperor's Health.
Boss | Night Emperor's health.
5% | 40%
4% | 26%
3% | 14%
2% | 1%.
In the end, Night Emperor can't last against the boss and died. But even so, the two didn't stop their attack, making them the focus of the boss.
When the boss's health fell to 1% Dark Prime was killed and Seven Conqueror becomes the focus of the boss.
When the boss only has 20 health points left, Seven Conqueror also died. This made Xia Yun the only one standing, and of course, the boss last target.
The boss swiftly arrived in front of her, and swing its big and sharp feet at her.
Xia Yun saw the attack coming, but she felt weird. Slow, the attack comes at her at a very slow pace, or so how she looks at it.
This is her special condition which she had in the real world. Whenever she saw a normal speed thing, she would see it normally. But, when she saw a fast-moving thing, in her eyes, it becomes abnormally slow. It's not because of magic or something like that.
This is because she unconsciously increased the speed at which information was processed by the brain, making everything on her body, work 10x faster, and this trigger when she saw a fast-speed moving object or things. Of course, in real life though her body can't respond to such speed but here, she has stats.
So now, when she saw the attack coming at her, she quickly searches for a solution, and she immediately remembers her only attack skill [Light Judgement]. In that 0.4 seconds, she chanted the spell in her mind and finished it. And because the game was mainly operated by thought, this read as a successful spell chant and it makes a light appeared in front of her and attacked the spider.
Giving the light damage of -50, which is also critical damage. This huge damage is because the environment because the spider is always in the dark they had innate dark elemental core, they accepted far more damage from fire and light, especially light damage.
The boss died and becomes a particle of light. Which exploded into a bunch of items, yes, the drop she got is a jackpot.
*Congratulations for completing the hidden dungeon Brute Spider Dens. 50+ reputation points*
*Would you like to announce your achievements? 'double reputations points earned'*
*Yes/No*
Xia Yun picks No. Night Emperor said that they want to do this secretly so it's better not to announce the hidden dungeon completion.
*Congratulations for killing Brute Spider Mother (Hidden Dungeon Boss) and earning 2700 exp, 80 silvers, 50+ reputation points, and a guild book (silver)
*Congratulations to be the first to be the first to complete a hidden dungeon. +10 free stats points and 100+ reputation points*
Light particles then appeared around her, indicating her level up. Because all the party except her died then she the only one that got all the exp, boosting her to level 1 and close to level 2.
Not only that, there is this hideous-looking sword in the middle, this sword giving off an evil aura around the place. Though, Xia Yun didn't feel anything.
Because Night Emperor didn't set the loot to be the only leader who can take it, she can take all of it. She picks up a lot of items and equipment also a few gold and silver coins. Of course even if he did, she's the only one that is here so she can also take it either way.
She picks the sword last as it looks scary so she didn't really want to touch it. But it's one of the loot, and what if the others become angry if she didn't pick everything, so she picked it anyway.
When she holds the sword, it immediately changed color, instead of the hideous black-colored sword, it became a pure-white-colored sword. Not only that, after it changed color, Xia Yun can feel a strange connection with the sword, as if... this sword was waiting and finally met her.
Then a screen pops out in front of her.
[Seven Hope] (Divine Weapon, One-handed sword)
Equipment level: 0 (Can be leveled up by killing evil forces 0/5) (Evolved with the wielder will)
Attack Power +20
All Attributes +15
Ignore enemy level by 5. Attack has 30% to cause (+100% light damage), 20% chance of healing wielder by 2% of the wielder max hp. Increase all light damage given by the wielder by 50%.
All skill Levels +2 and Increased Stats Points gained each level up by 3.
Equipment skill: First Hope. Every attack heals the surrounding allies by 50% of the damage given by the wielder. Duration: 40 seconds. Cooldown: 1 hour. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Second Hope. Boost light damage to the wielder by 100% and any damage to the surrounding allies by 50%. Duration 30 seconds. Cooldown: 5 hours. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Third Hope. Create a hammer of light that attacks the target, giving AoE light damage by 200%. Cooldown: 15 hours. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Fourth Hope. Immune to any damage for 5 seconds. Cooldown: 1 day. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Fifth Hope. Resurrect an ally and gave them a shield of 30% of the wielder max hp. Cooldown: 5 days. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Sixth Hope. Create a dome of light, the size depends on the user mana. Heals all allies inside and gives Light DoT for the enemy inside the dome. Duration: 2 minutes. Cooldown: 5 days. (Sealed)
Additional skill: Last Hope. Sacrifice 100% of the wielder HP to create a sword of light that gives 1000% light damage to enemies, the wielder will be immune to death for 7 seconds. Cooldown: 30 days. (Sealed)
This sword was personally created by the highest ??? of the ??? race, using the purest light source as its core material. Used by the strongest sword saint of the ??? race. Unfortunately, this sword was stolen by the ??? and was reforged using dark energy making the spirit inside the sword doesn't have any choice but to obey. But even so, the spirit of the sword still didn't give up, wailing every day as it waits for the blood of its master to hold it again.
Special Effect: Descendant of the sword saint(Any sword skill acquired proficiency gained x5).
This sword stat appeared in front of her. She hasn't realized that the sword was automatically equipped for her and her staff already returned to her inventory.
"Divine weapon? is that good?", Xia Yun looked at the stats of the sword with confusion. There are too many things she didn't understand and stats was one of them.
"Well, I can ask Night Emperor later, first... how do I get out of here?", Xia Yun looked around the room. The way they entered is impossible, she didn't have any skill such as that. She even becomes exhausted even before she arrived here, how can she run quickly past those spiders?.
So she walks around the room, for some reason, after the boss was defeated, the room became bright again. This made it easier for her to roam around looking for something. But after roaming around the room, she didn't find anything that could let her out of this place at all.
That was until she steps to the center of the room and a weird sound came from the floor. It's like the floor beneath was empty, so she touched the surrounding floor until she finds a small gap between the floor. She then pulls it and the floor came off, revealing the bottom, which is a chest.
The chest is gold-colored with a silver marking all around it. She pulled the chest up, the chest felt pretty heavy so she immediately dropped it after it went out the floor.
Luckily, the chest doesn't need any key, opening it, she found a scroll and an iron plate.
She took the scroll and look at its description.
[Recall Scroll] x1
(Teleport to the last spawn place).
This is it, this is what she needs to go out of the place. Xia Yun immediately becomes excited. But before that, she tried to take a look at the iron plate, when she tried to lift it, it felt super heavy that she dropped it again.
Also, the corner of the plate is pretty sharp so it scratched her hand and makes it bleed. The blood then dropped exactly on top of the iron plate. Then something weird happens, the stone plate disappears right in front of her.
"Huh? where is it?", Xia Yun felt confused and then tried to search around for that stone plate, unfortunately, she didn't find it.
Since she didn't find it, then she didn't have anything to do here anymore. So she took out the recall scroll, "If I remember correctly, this is how you use it", she then use it according to the guide she read.
She then turned into particles of light and disappeared from the place.
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At the spawn point of Seven Bloom Town.
Unlike the first time Xia Yun arrived, it was now crowded with players.
The three were already spawned and felt heavy frustration.
"So, we failed", Night Emperor sighed.
"Yeah...", Seven Conqueror felt pretty depressed.
"Hah... don't worry, we still have time before it happened", Night Emperor comforts him.
"...", Seven Conqueror didn't feel happy at all. Dark Prime also has a change of expression on his face.
"Yo! you guys seem to have a bad time", a voice called to them from the side.
The three guys then turned to look at the source of the voice.
It was a big man called 'Harem King' surrounded by a group of girls, each one is really pretty, and when they saw the Night Emperor group, each one was attracted to them.
The big man noticed this and felt dissatisfied, so he wanted to embarrass them in public.
"Let me guess, you were killed by a monster? and it probably a weak goblin or something right? hahaha!", the man said gleefully.
"...", Seven Conqueror expressions darkened.
"I'm right? hahaha, no wonder no girl is in your party, you guys are useless!", the man thought that he got the thing that happens to them.
"Look at all this beauty beside me, all of them came to me because they know my strength, but hey... if you want to be my dogs, then I can let you join my party for a while", the man said while laughing.
"You-", Seven Conqueror become furious, but just as he's losing composure and wanted to attack the man, he was stopped by Night Emperor.
"No need to bother let's just wait for cloud to respawn", Night Emperor calm him down.
"...", Seven Conqueror didn't say anything anymore.
"Heh", The man felt really satisfied with himself.
He didn't know that he been ignored fully by the Night Emperor group.
"Why is she taking so long?", Seven Conqueror asked.
But just as she asked this question a light particle appeared in the middle of the spawn point. The light particles then started to disappear, revealing Silvery-white haired beauty. This beauty is, of course, Xia Yun that used the recall scroll.
"Oh, Night Emperor!", Xia Yun immediately noticed Night Emperor and came up to them, not realizing that she has become the center of attention.
"Level 1 player!", It was unknown who said this, but it created many discussions among the player.
"Wow, a pro, not only that it was a beauty as well".
"Awesome, big sister carry me, I can give as much money as you want".
Leveling up is really hard on this game, a level 0 monster can only give so much and it was harder to fight level 1 monsters.
Xia Yun heard the discussion around her and become really nervous. Night Emperor noticed this and told the group to leave to find a more safe place to talk.
But just as they wanted to leave, their group was stopped by Harem King.
He looked at Xia Yun with lecherous eyes, none of the girls in his group even come close to this kind of beauty, not only that, an expert as well. If he can get her then he is set.
The girls in his group also looked at Xia Yun with envy and jealousy.
"Excuse me, may I know your name pretty lady", the harem king asked with a smile.
The first time Xia Yun saw this guy, she didn't like him already, especially the look on his eyes, it makes her uncomfortable.
"No need to bother with him, let's just leave", Night Emperor ignored the guy and told the group to leave immediately. But he once again stopped by the Harem King.
"I'm talking to the pretty lady, you can go on your own, trash", Harem King told him with the air of superiority.
...
Even the most patient person will be angry if bothered over and over again, and this guy just stepped into the line Night Emperor has set.
With a series of movements, he turned the Harem King upside down and then beckoned the group to leave.
The Harem King took a while to process what's happening and after processing it, he started to shout madly, "Guard! someone dare to attack in the town!".
But the patrolling guard ignores him as if nothing happened, and so, he just sitting there like a dog that eats its own sh*t.
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They arrived in front of the hotel, on the way, Xia Yun was curious and asked why didn't the guard react to the fight.
"Bodily contact happens a lot, so it didn't register as an attack, I only made him tripped, so the system didn't register the damage to be mine", Night Emperor explained.
"Oh...", Xia Yun understands... well, most of it.
In the hotel, they rented a room for 30 bronze and gone inside the room.
"Well, did you kill it?", Night Emperor asked after entering the room and locking the door.
"Yes", Xia Yun quickly understand that he was asking about the boss.
"...how?", Night Emperor asked. No matter how you look at it, a priest doesn't have any attack power. If she said that she runs away, then he might believe it immediately.
"Other than heal, I have other skill", Xia Yun told them about her other skill and its effect.
"You get 2 skills when you first played?", Seven Conqueror with an unbelievable expression on his face.
"Yes... I thought its normal...", Xia Yun nodded.
"How? also it's not normal okay? you usually only given 1 skill a person when you first started", Seven Conqueror said with a dissatisfied expression. Hey, even I only have 1 skill okay?.
"It's a long story...", Xia Yun didn't explain because she might tell them something private.
"...", Night Emperor understand this and beckoned all of them to the other side of the room except Xia Yun for a discussion.
"Did you believe her?", Seven Conqueror asked.
"I didn't feel any malice from her, so I think she said the truth", Dark Prime for the first time, open his mouth to talk.
"How about some test", Night Emperor said.
"A test?", Seven Conqueror didn't understand.
"Well, it's a simple one, this would prove if she can be trusted or not.
Both of them agreed, and let Night Emperor test her. So all of them then came up to her.
"Does the boss drop anything?", Night Emperor asked.
"Oh, it drops a lot of stuff actually", Xia Yun immediately showed them all things that were dropped by the boss except the sword, because she didn't find it on her inventory so she just showed everything in her inventory.
"... Is it a jackpot?", Night Emperor became really surprised with how many items there are, this could boost their fighting strength in the early stage.
"A jackpot? what's that?", Xia Yun was confused.
"Ahahaha, a jackpot is when the boss dropped more items than normal", Night Emperor laughed at her ignorance. He then said to the two, "This pretty much a pass right?".
Both of them nodded while looking at the item stats.
There are many pieces of equipment here, mostly an individual piece of level 1 bronze rank equipment.
There are also some level 1 iron rank weapons of bow and sword. There is also a level 2 iron-rank staff.
There are also health and mana potions, some magic scrolls, and accessories.
"Anyway Cloud, did you found any black-colored sword?", Night Emperor look around the item but didn't found the thing he searches for so he asked Xia Yun.
"I have it but...", Xia Yun tried to find the white-colored sword on her inventory but couldn't find it.
"Also, why do you use a sword?", Night Emperor asked while pointing the white-colored sword at her waist.
"Huh? why is it here?", Xia Yun became confused, she didn't feel it because the sword was so light, she didn't even felt discomfort when bringing it around.
"This is the sword you ask for, but it changed color... I didn't know why", Xia Yun wanted to give the sword to him as he uses a sword, but when she tried to unequip the sword, the system notifies her that she cannot unequip it, "Huh?".
"What happened?", Night Emperor asked, because he noticed her troubled look.
"I-I cannot unequip it, what should I do?", Xia Yun panicked.
"... Well, can you show me its stats?", Night Emperor thought for a while and ask her.
"Ah, I can", Xia Yun showed them the stats of [Seven Hope].
But when they see the stats they immediately become stunned.
"W-what is this crazy weapon?", Seven Conqueror was the first to talk.
"This is indeed abnormal stats", Dark Prime agreed with his reaction but his expression still looked calm.
"Is this really the sword? its name is different", Seven Conqueror asked.
"It's initially black color, right? then it changed when you touched it", Night Emperor asked Xia Yun. Seeing Xia Yun nodded. He started to think of something.
"Well, all I know that he won't have it so this can be said to be successful", Night Emperor said.
"Huh, who didn't have it?", Xia Yun asked, she didn't know who is this "he" Night Emperor was talking about.
"It's nothing, you cannot equip it right? then it's yours", Night Emperor told her.
"But... I'm a priest", Xia Yun said.
"Don't worry about it, usually a job can only be equipped by its job items such as sword for warrior and something like that. So, since you can use the sword, that means your job isn't 100% a priest. You say it right? it only showed question marks on it, then it might not be a priest at all", Night Emperor explained.
"...But, how can I heal like this?", Xia Yun thought that without the staff, she won't be able to use her healing skill.
"You thought it wrong, staff is only to give you extra stats, you don't need it to cast magic at all", Night Emperor told her.
"...So it's mine?", Xia Yun unsheaths the sword from its scabbard, showing a pure white blade with the golden markings of wings on it.
"It's yours", Night Emperor nodded.
"Um... the pay won't be reduced right?", Xia Yun nervously asked.
Night Emperor almost lost his composure, if it something else then he wants to pay her more as long as she stayed on his team. If he guessed right, then she is the child of the system. Partnering with her will only bring benefit, so he would be stupid not to seal the contract.
"So, do you want to accept the contract?", Night Emperor asked while showing her the contract.
"...", Xia Yun read the contract thoroughly, not missing a single word and to her surprise, the contract isn't that strict. She only needs to online every day at the designated time. She can join other parties, but if Night Emperor or anyone in the Crownless Kings invited her, then she needs to prioritize them first, other than that she basically free. She needs to pay a total of 2x the fine fees if she broke the contract.
"I accept", Xia Yun wrote her signature on the bottom, on the side of Night Emperor's name. The contract is then turned into particles of light, which signifies that the contract is sealed.
"Well then, let's welcome our 10th member of the Crownless Kings guild!", Night Emperor said loudly.
