The Archer class could equip two types of weapons, namely the bow and the crossbow . Of these, the bow was high in damage and shooting range, but slower in its attacks . The crossbow was the complete opposite in that its shooting damage was relatively low and the range short, but the attacks were extremely quick .
Although the Murloc Crossbow was not extremely rare in and of itself, it was still much better than the +13 Frost Longbow Li Yi was currently using . Li Yi switched his weapon to the Murloc Crossbow and gave it a try . It felt decent .
He had the Magic Crystal now, so Li Yi skirted around a few waves of monsterlings and arrived in front of the Big Murloc Rudderman had mentioned .
The Big Murloc was called Goska . It was more than thirty meters tall, a failed product from the Vile King's experiments on transforming murlocs . Goska did not differentiate friend from foe, fighting anyone it saw, which was why it was tied down by a thick steel chain .
Li Yi took out the Magic Crystal and aimed it at Goska . A powerful beam of light shot out from the crystal and went into Goska's head . In no time at all, Goska was crouching down obediently in front of Li Yi .
Li Yi leaped onto Goska's shoulder . Goska roared furiously, and exerting force in both its arms, it tore free from the steel chains tying it down .
Right now, Li Yi had entered the mode where he controlled Goska . Just like with the airplanes, he could not use his own skills, but his arsenal now included three skills specific to Goska .
[Rage Hammer: Hammer the ground with its fists, dealing damage to all enemies within a 30-yard radius ahead . Cooldown time: 3 seconds . ]
[Murloc Feast: Capture a murloc and eat it . Recovers 30% of own HP . Cooldown time: 3 seconds . ]
[Furious Strike: Punch the enemy with 200% of its own ATK, may disorient enemy for 20 seconds . Skill cooldown time: 30 seconds . ]
Other than its own attributes, Goska also enjoyed an additional boost of 50% of its pilot's attributes . The culmination of both created quite a formidable destructive force .
"Awooo— Goska's really strong!"
Goska howled and rushed forward .
Although Goska could not fly, now that they were underwater, Li Yi controlled it just like he had flown those planes . This was because its large size meant that Goska moved very quickly in the water . One large stride was already several dozen meters .
Three Elite Murlocs spotted Goska and rushed up to surround it . Li Yi controlled Goska and made it use Rage Hammer .
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The Elite Murlocs rapidly lost their HP . The monsters that took Li Yi forever to fight could easily be defeated with a mere few blows from the terrifying Goska .
The three Elite Murlocs died . Goska leveled up once, but Li Yi only received 20% of his usual EXP .
He could not loot the bodies either . The main purpose he was using Goska to fight was to clear away the monsterlings in the Tidal Throne Dungeon .
Murlocs were pack creatures . Once he entered a boss battle, all the monsterlings would jump into the fray as well . If he did not kill them all first, things would get very hairy when he fought the boss later . This task was much easier with Goska around, too . He was overwhelmingly powerful and invincible, pulverizing every monsterling he saw .
"Awooo— Goska's really strong!"
More than ten Elite Murlocs rushed at it, brandishing their spears . Roaring, Goska used Rage Hammer to smash them, ending the battle in the blink of an eye .
The murloc monsterlings surrounding Goska increased and increased . There were only two or three at first, but now there were more than a hundred of them . Meanwhile, Goska proceeded on as usual, relying on its high HP and ATK to smash every incoming enemy to death .
Without Goska, the players would find it more than a little troublesome to clear away all these monsterlings . Of course, if the pilot was not well-versed with the control methods and allowed Goska to die, things would get much harder from then on because Goska could not be revived after dying once .
The most concentrated wave of monsterlings was done and dealt with, and very few monsterlings remained in the dungeon . Li Yi took a patrol around and did not see a single one . Only then did he relax and lead Goska toward the location of the first murloc boss .
The first murloc boss was about the same size as Goska . It was called Zambo and its HP was ten times more than Goska's, totaling up to a terrifying 10,000,000HP .
Just like Goska, Zambo was a murloc that the Vile King had transformed, but Zambo was considered a success . Not only was he extremely powerful, but he could also tell between friend and foe . That was precisely why the Vile King placed a lot of importance in him, putting him in charge of guarding the first Magical Crystal .
"Failure, why have you come here? Go back now!" Zambo waved his large fist at Goska .
Scared, Goska took a few steps back and was about to run when Li Yi used the Magic Crystal again, controlling his mind .
"Awooo— Goska's really strong!"
Roaring, Goska rushed up to Zambo and used the Furious Strike to render Zambo dizzy for 20 seconds .
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"Failure, you dare attack me!" howled Zambo angrily .
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Li Yi could not care less about him . While Goska was still 100% controlled, he kept using the Rage Hammer to smash it . By the time the 20 seconds were up, Zambo's HP had already been reduced by 10,000,000 .
"Damned failure, I'll never forgive you!" Zambo used the same move to retaliate against Goska .
"Furious Strike!"
Li Yi controlled Goska, dodging this skill which guaranteed the Dizzy effect . Immediately after Zambo's fists crashed onto the ground, he began to use Rage Hammer .
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Zambo's Rage Hammer took 100,000HP off with every hit, and it was an AoE skill as well . If Li Yi was too close to it, there was no way he would able to dodge it .
After nine hits, Goska only had a pitiful 100,000HP left . Just then, however, the cooldown for the Furious Strike ended . At the first chance he got, Li Yi used the skill and rendered Zambo dizzy .
More than 50 Little Murlocs with only 1,000HP had begun to swim up to them . These were all the reinforcements Zambo had summoned . They had low HP and average ATK, so the main reason they showed up was to allow the boss to eat them and recover his HP .
The boss could eat them, but so could Goska . He grabbed one and stuffed the fodder into his mouth, his HP instantly jumped up by 30% . By the time he finished eating three Little Murlocs , Goska's HP had already completely recovered .
"Rage Hammer!" Li Yi aimed at the remaining Little Murlocs and killed them all, without exception . He must never leave them alive, or else Zambo just had to grab and eat one to recover all of his HP as well .
Once he finished off all the Little Murlocs, Li Yi controlled Goska to turn around and smash his fist into Zambo .
Dodging the Furious Strike, eating the Little Murlocs to regenerate HP, knocking the boss dizzy — As long as he repeated this process without error, defeating Zambo was merely a matter of time .
When Li Yi reduced Zambo's HP to about 40,000, he leaped down from Goska and shot at Zambo madly using the Murloc Crossbow .
"Crippling Shot! Chain Arrow!"
The murloc's ATK SPD was extremely quick . A long line of damage notifications floated up from the top of Zambo's head, and soon he had less than half of his initial HP left .
"Zambo's gonna kill you!"
Zambo flew into a rage, aiming at Li Yi and using Rage Hammer . Just as the shockwave was about to envelope Li Yi, the Mermaid Princess appeared, taking him away to safety .
"Pfft-pfft! Pfft-pfft!"
The Murloc Crossbow continued to fire shot after shot . Within a mere dozen seconds or so, Li Yi had already knocked away the last of Zambo's HP .
Zambo gave a dull "hmph" and fell to his knees .
Li Yi obtained 300,000 EXP . Since he did not kill Zambo by controlling Goska, he received all of the EXP as well as the right to loot the body .
"Ding!"
[Congratulations, you have obtained Zambo's Fang…]
Li Yi could only shake his head in exasperation and tossed the Fang away casually . It was a useless miscellaneous item that was worth one Silver Coin at the most, and keeping it would have just been a waste of inventory space .
Zambo was a boss with a blue name, which meant that its drop rates were low to begin with . Add that to Li Yi's terrible Trash Hand, and what were the chances of getting anything good?
"Wow, Human, that sure was well done . You actually beat the murlocs' strongest warrior, Zambo! Do you want to destroy the Magic Crystal it's guarding? If you shatter this crystal, your ATK will rise by 30% . "
The Little Murloc Rudderman leaped out again, explaining the uses of the first Magic Crystal .
If he shattered the crystal, Li Yi would obtain a sustained buff that increased his own ATK by 30% . If he did not destroy it, this buff would go to the Vile King instead .
Li Yi did not shatter the Magic Crystal Zambo guarded . Instead, he took back control of Goska and went in search of the second murloc boss .
The second murloc boss was small in size and rode a red seahorse, holding a gold-colored crossbow in its hand . Its name was Prais, and it was a Shooting Archer who could use all the archery-related skills below Level 60 .
Just like Zambo, Prais' name was also blue .
Li Yi leaped down from Goska, got onto the Mermaid Princess, and began to engage Prais in battle .
He could not use the Big Murloc for this fight . Prais had a mount that moved rather quickly, so if he used Goska, it would just become a huge target .
Upon killing Prais, there was a 5% chance to receive his mount, the Deep-red Seahorse that increased underwater SPD by 180% . However, while Prais could ride the Deep-red Seahorse into battle, it became a non-combat mount when players obtained it . If a player entered a battle, it would be dismissed automatically .
The Deep-red Seahorse would passively increase its owner's INT by 10 points, and the player's INT was directly connected to their max MP limit . By increasing their INT, it would also increase their max MP limit . To Li Yi, the biggest benefit of obtaining the Deep-red Seahorse would be that he could shoot a few more arrows when using Shoot at Random .
"Give Prais' archery a shot!"
Prais waved the gold-colored crossbow in its hand and used a Forced Hunt Target on Li Yi .
The boss' version of the Hunt Target was rather over-powered . Players who got hit by this move would automatically lose some HP every 30 seconds . The first time they would lose 10 points, the second 20, the third 40, and so on, doubling each time . The longer the battle went on, the more disadvantageous it became for the player .
The battle between two archers began . Li Yi used the Murloc Crossbow to launch into a long-range shooting battle with Prais .
Prais was a Shooting Archer by class, so he could use all the Shooting Path techniques . He even had Heart of the Archer, the skill that Li Yi had always desired but never obtained, upgraded up to Level 20 . Not only could Heart of the Archer increase an Archer's damage, but it also increased the shooting range by 5 yards for every skill level . A max Level 20 skill meant that his shooting range had been extended by a whole 100 yards .
Going head-to-head in a long-range shoot-out with such an Archer was just suicidal, right?
"Finishing Shot! Resounding Shot! Triple Chain Arrows!"
Prais' attacks were relatively ferocious, and his skills nearly made Li Yi drool . Compared to Prais, even an over-powered player like Li Yi felt the blow to his ego . In other words, his skill repertoire was still not as comprehensive as Prais' .
Li Yi hid behind a coral and began his counterattack against Prais .
"Powered-up Spiralling Arrow!"
A spiraling crossbow shot came whizzing toward him, shattering the coral . The waves from the momentum crashed into Li Yi's body, instantly reducing his HP by 10% .
The Powered-up Arrow's final form was ridiculously powerful .
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Prais used the Powered-up Spiralling Arrow several dozen times in a row, shattering all the obstructions around them . It then chuckled a few times coldly, riding the Deep-red Seahorse to the center of the watery area . Its body shone with a layer of golden light .
"Shoot at Random!"
. . .
Chapter end
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