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Having failed to accomplish my own expected task, I felt somewhat dejected.
“Sorry… um… I… I didn’t finish… one monster left… hmm!!!”
Before I could even finish speaking, Yingning had already tightly wrapped me in her arms.
Yingning didn’t say a word, but her body trembled incessantly. It seemed she was using all her strength, as if afraid I would drift away with the wind.
“Um… Master… you’re hurting me… could you let go, please…” I said, feeling incredibly embarrassed, my voice as faint as a mosquito’s.
“No!”
Even though we had only been apart for a day, Yingning looked as if she hadn’t seen me for years, her eyes filled with the relief of reunion.
“If I let go, you’ll go off and court death again…”
“Ah-ha… Isn’t this a rare opportunity? After all, there’s only one first kill—it’d be a shame not to try for it!” I said with an awkward laugh.
I had known all along that my actions would make Yingning worry, but I hadn’t expected her to have guessed my intentions back in daytime. Now, meeting again, she had already endured the torment of worry, and her emotions were extremely unstable.
“Alright, alright, quickly invite Cannon Fairy and Qingyu into the party… Our time is very tight; racing against those big guilds won’t be easy.”
I grouped Cannon Fairy and Qingyu into the party and pulled them into the instance. Only then did Yingning finally let me go.
The moment I entered the instance, I heard Cannon Fairy speaking with urgent anxiety.
“Those bastards from Sword Sweeping the World haven’t let up the siege at all. Now that our night shift team is online, those scumbags from Sword Sweeping are even more relentless in hunting down our main force. Right now, except for the three of us, everyone else is trapped at the respawn point!”
Since I still hadn’t joined Gunfire Rose, I had no idea what was happening in the guild. But just from Cannon Fairy’s description, I could roughly imagine the predicament Gunfire Rose was in—the guild channel must be chaotic, filled with cries for help and wails of despair.
“Sword Sweeping the World… They’ve gone too far!” At the mention of this, Yingning’s expression instantly turned grim, her voice laced with intense hatred.
“Holy crap! Wait a sec…” Cannon Fairy looked at the instance progress and suddenly widened her eyes, shouting in disbelief, “Th-this… why is our progress at the fourth boss, the Spider Queen? Could it really be…”
Prompted by Cannon Fairy, Yingning and Qingyu also noticed the instance progress, and their shock was as if they had seen a UFO.
“The fourth one… That’s the final boss! Clear this, and we conquer the Spider Nest on hard difficulty. And right now… it seems no one has claimed the first kill yet, right?” Cannon Fairy turned to look at me as if I were a god, almost dropping to her knees. “This must be another masterpiece of the Elegant God… Elegant God, please accept my knees!”
*If you knew I soloed this, would you pledge yourself to me?* Of course, I couldn’t tell the truth.
“My friend’s online time happened to be staggered with mine. Before they logged off, I asked them for the instance progress. From now on, the task of clearing the Spider Nest falls to us!”
The method of stalling instance progress could also be used by big guilds. But since the elite first squad couldn’t beat it, the second, third, and fourth squads—being far weaker—had even less hope. So far, this Spider Queen remained an insurmountable wall on hard difficulty.
“Have you all finished buying your equipment?” I asked.
“We bought it! All our money went into buying gear! Now I’m decked in full level 30 light purple—definitely a swap from a peashooter to a cannon! My damage output has doubled!” Cannon Fairy patted her chest, showing off the radiance of her equipment, speaking with pride.
“Same here,” Qingyu said succinctly.
“Me too,” Yingning added.
Since that was the case, our team’s overall strength should not be inferior to most guild elite teams. Even with one less member, the combined strength of four of us wasn’t low—after all, I could now act as a damage dealer on the side. As long as Yingning held aggro firmly and I had enough mana, I could fully compensate for the missing fifth member.
But if we could further boost the team’s strength, why not recruit another person? Even if an extra member meant an extra unit to divvy up the loot, at this moment, the instance clear speed was paramount! Loot distribution was a trivial matter!
“Do any of you have a trustworthy friend? Preferably a Priest or an Electric Mage… The final boss takes four times damage from Holy attribute skills, half damage from Electric, and only one-tenth from all other elements. But Priests have only one Holy attack skill with a long cooldown, so their overall damage output is comparable to an Electric Mage. Just find someone to bring in.”
I revealed the boss’s hidden stats—which I had painstakingly discovered—and asked everyone to figure something out.
Anyway, I definitely couldn’t find help, so it was up to Yingning’s guild to see if they had any spare combatants.
“There is one…” Qingyu said, glancing hesitantly at Cannon Fairy.
“Tch! If you want to invite them, just do it. Why are you looking at me? Time is tight; business comes first! I know what’s important!” Cannon Fairy pouted, crossed her arms, and said unhappily.
“Then I’ll call them,” Qingyu said.
After a while, since I was the party leader, a party application appeared before me.
[Mage “Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin” has requested to join the party.]
What a… what a name! Truly befitting of a subordinate of that little girl! They’re all destined to have their coffins overturned and get beaten to a pulp by those scientists sooner or later!
As soon as Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin joined the party, he started shouting: [Guild leader! I don’t want to leave the guild! I’m going to fight those bastards from Sword Sweeping the World to the death!]
[Ning Beibei: First accept the planar invitation; I’ll pull you into the instance.]
[Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin: Why are we doing an instance at a time like this! Will clearing an instance make those Sword Sweeping scumbags cry their eyes out?]
[Ning Beibei: If you stop dawdling, yes.]
[Cannon Fairy: Get the hell in here! Do as you’re told and stop wasting time! If Sword Sweeping snatches the first kill because of a one-second delay, I’ll find a hundred gay men to screw you to death!]
[System Notification: Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin has accepted the planar invitation.]
After entering the instance, Huo Jinjin started bickering again. While making a fuss, he opened the instance progress: “Make yourselves clear, how are we supposed to make those Sword Sweeping bastards cry? By running an instance? Don’t tell me we can actually steal the first kill from Sword Sweeping the World? They’ve at least pushed to the fourth boss on hard difficulty, while we’re just an unknown small guild. I’m not looking down on you all, but can you really… hic!”
Catching a glimpse of the instance progress from the corner of his eye, Huo Jinjun let out a “hic” and jerked as if struck by Parkinson’s, his eyes instantly bulging as if they would pop out and fall to the ground.
“R-really… the fourth boss…”
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