Chapter Thirty-Nine: Healing Chain

  "...Ding Qiang was speechless for a moment, did they really use this method to grind the little monsters to death one by one? Moreover, even if they could grind their way through, what about the boss? How can you fight the boss without healing? You know that players all die, but the boss has full health restored."

  As the last two small monsters charged over, one Honor Medal left the battle and immediately followed up with a Forced Charge and then a Bloodthirsty Charge to open up distance from the small monsters. Ding quickly rushed out of the instance.

  Having left the team, Ding Qiang wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead. This kind of move was too ruthless, he had never heard or seen anything like it before.

  "Backup channel: Dark cave open group, four missing one..."

  Just after shouting a couple of sentences, Ding Qiang saw a female player bouncing and jumping over from the side. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an acquaintance, Xiao Ai.

  "What a coincidence! You're here too." Xiao Ai said excitedly.

  "Hmm, it's quite a coincidence." Ding Qiang didn't know why, but he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

  "What are you doing here?" Xia Ai asked.

  "Looking for someone in a dark cave." Ding Qiang replied: "What are you doing?"

  "You're really stupid." Xiao Ai said: "I'm chatting with you."

  Here comes here comes, Ding Qiang only felt dizzy, although he had a premonition, but when it came to the front, he still couldn't bear this girl's way of answering.

  "What were you saying before we chatted? What's wrong?" Ding Qiang said while shouting and forming a team.

  "Oh, I was just about to head into the dark cave, are you alone? Or would you like to join my party?" Xiao Ai said: "Our party has two people already, adding you makes three."

  "Hmm..." Ding Qiang hesitated for a moment, while Xiao Ai stared at him with wide eyes that didn't blink.

  "Alright."

  After joining Xiao Ai's team, Ding Qiang only discovered that there was already someone in the team - domineering little daze, a 17th-level hunter.

  "My sister!" Xiao Ai introduced.

  "Oh." Looking at the two words "overbearing", Ding Qiang muttered to himself, wondering if it was that overbearing group of people.

  "One more healer is needed." Looking at the professional composition of the team, Ding Qiang asked Xiao Ai to transfer permissions and shouted a few sentences in the deputy channel. Soon, a 15-level priest and a 16-level thief joined the team.

  "When does it start?" the thief asked.

  "We're already at the entrance of the copy, you guys hurry up." Ding Qiang said.

  "Oh, wait for two minutes, I'll go fix the equipment on me," said the pastor.

  "Uh-huh."

  As they spoke, the domineering little daze who had previously teamed up with Xiao Ai also arrived at the entrance of the instance. As soon as he saw Ding Qiang, the domineering little daze suddenly shouted: "Is it you?"

  The domineering little fool looks young, around sixteen or seventeen years old, and is petite and lovely. However, looking at her face, Ding Qiang vaguely feels that she seems somewhat familiar.

  "Ah?" Ding Qiang was stunned, took a closer look, and suddenly felt happy. This arrogant little fool wasn't someone else, but that girl from the other day who had run into a tree and fainted...

  "Ah, it's you, you rascal." The domineering little fool pointed at Ding Qiang and shouted.

  He shrugged, saw the domineering little fool over there jumping up and down pointing at himself and Xiao Ai tattling, saw that behind him was the gathering stone of the duplicate, Ding Qiang deliberately made a fierce appearance.

  "Ah......" The domineering and confused little guy panicked in his heart and turned around to run.

  Boom!

  Oh no......

  As expected, the domineering and confused little girl bumped her head on the gathering stone, and retreated a few steps in a daze. Fortunately, Xiao Ai was quick-witted and grabbed her, preventing her from falling to the ground with a thud.

  "What are you doing crashing into the wall?" Little Ai supported the domineering little dazedly and asked.

  "Is she your sister?" Ding Qiang asked with a suppressed smile.

  "Uh-huh." Xiao Ai nodded.

  Ding Qiang took a glance at Xiao Ai and then looked at the domineering little daze, nodded, and indeed they were sisters.

  "Sister, it's him, he's the bad guy I told you about last time, let's not team up with him." The domineering little daze shouted while rubbing her forehead.

  "Really?" Xiao Ai looked at Ding Qiang with some confusion, then looked at her sister: "You've got the wrong person, right? This stupid but not dead little strong guy may be a bit silly, but he's still a good person. He even helped Sister Nan Gong out of a big trouble before, so even if he did something wrong, you should forgive him..."

  “……”

  As they spoke, the thief and the priest also arrived at the entrance of the instance.

  Ding Qiang took a glance at the equipment of the Cleric and Thief, which was still alright, then immediately entered the instance.

  Watching several people enter the instance one after another, Xiaoyi stomped her foot and followed them in with a determined look.

  "I'll be the meat shield." Xiao Ai said excitedly, her secondary occupation was a miner, but her combat profession was a warrior, and she had followed Nan Gong Xiao Yue and others down to Angry Flame Gorge several times, so her equipment wasn't bad, and she could withstand the Dark Cave.

  "This...". Since he didn't want to take this risk, Ding Qiang said: "My level is higher than yours, I'll do it instead."

  "Oh."

  "Are you not using a shield?" the pastor asked in puzzlement.

  "Don't worry, I won't put too much pressure on you." Ding Qiang replied casually.

  The pastor raised an eyebrow, somewhat skeptical.

  But soon, the disbelief on his face turned into admiration.

  Ding Qiang, although not holding a shield, relied on his operation and movement. Either using his movement to dodge the monster's attack or using the wide blade of his dual swords to trigger a blocking effect, in short, although he didn't hold a shield, his health was always floating above 60%, truly without any pressure at all.

  "It turns out that Brother is actually a master." said the Pastor.

  "It's just casual play," Ding Qiang replied casually.

  This time, there were no surprises. With Ding Qiang leading the team, they quickly defeated the first few bosses of the Dark Cavern and arrived in front of the final boss - the Dark Overlord.

  The Dark Lord is a personal-type creature, profession and domineering little confused, is an archer, only with ordinary players can only bring one pet is different from her feet, then squatting two leopards.

  "I resisted the dark lord, Hunter, your pet resisted a leopard, and then you kite another leopard..." Thinking of this, Ding Qiang saw that the hall was full of pillars, suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but ask with some concern: "Will it be alright?"

  "Hmph, no problem." The domineering little fool made a face at Ding Qiang and responded.

  “……”

  Return full life magic, Ding Qiang launched a charge and opened the prelude to battle.

  Because he was really worried about this confused sister, Ding Qiang specially paid attention to the surrounding situation.

  Something beyond his expectation was that the domineering little confused one controlled the pet to rush towards the leopard on the left side of the boss, then casually marked it with an arrow and pulled over the boss on the right side, immediately turned around and ran away. The whole set of actions was neat and efficient, without any dragging or hesitation.

  Watching the domineering and familiar little dazed person dodging pillar after pillar with ease, using speed to kite the small monsters without any tendency of crashing into the pillars, Ding Qiang also put his mind at ease and began to focus on dealing with the boss.

  With Xiao Ai and Zei's help, the leopard on the left was quickly taken down.

  "Hunter, you can come back." Ding Qiang looked into the distance and shouted at the domineering little daze.

  "Ah......" From a distance, he saw Ding Qiang glance over this way. The arrogant little fool didn't know what was happening, his heart panicked, and he turned around a bit slower, staring blankly at a pillar in his field of vision that was getting bigger and bigger...

  Boom!

  Oh no......

  The domineering little daze sat on the ground with a thud, and the boss's pet caught up from behind in a few steps. With a few swishes of its sword, her life was reduced by more than half.

  Fortunately, Xiao Ai and the thief arrived in time, which saved Xiao Mihu.

  "You were driving well just now, how did you suddenly crash?" Xiao Ai asked.

  "I..." Little Meng's mouth opened and closed, but nothing came out.

  Ding Qiang was speechless for a moment, was he really that terrifying?

  Soon, a few people will take care of this second leopard, and then everyone will shift their firepower and aim at the boss.

  After losing two pets, the Dark Lord was like a toothless tiger, roaring continuously but not putting too much pressure on everyone.

  "Loose arrows!" The Dark Lord's throat issued a vague language, saying that the longbow was like a spring, and a burst of chaotic sounds.

  The arrow branches in the sky suddenly fell like raindrops.

  "Close combat disperses, exit the range of chaotic arrow attacks." Ding Qiang immediately ordered.

  Xiao Ai and the thief moved swiftly, retreating to the back with a whooshing sound, while Ding Qiang crouched down and slipped past the boss's side, moving to its rear.

  The boss's attack is a 180° frontal release, the only safe place is behind it, but just now in the rush, there was no time to explain to Xiaoyi and the thief.

  After dodging several random arrows, the boss's life gradually decreased, and soon let out a miserable cry, falling to the ground.

  After defeating the boss, Ding Qiang retreated two steps, recovering his health while asking: "Who's going to loot the corpse?"

  "Here I come...here I come..." The pastor in the group rubbed his hands together and jogged over from behind: "My hands are very red, let me do it."

  "Uh-huh."

  The pastor came over and bent down to touch it.

  Whoosh!

  A full row of equipment list appeared in front of Ding Qiang...

  Five blue ones, six green ones... a skill book...

  "I'm dizzy..." The crowd was stunned for a moment.

  Normally, a small copy, even the final boss, can drop two or three blues at most. But this guy is an exception, and he actually dropped five blues...

  "Good job!" The crowd exclaimed in praise.

  "Haha, I told you so!"

  Equipment doesn't need to be said, everyone has their own needs, if there's a conflict then roll the dice to decide. Ding Qiang had a set of Guardian armor on him so he didn't really need anything else and only rolled for an accessory.

  [Dark Shell]: After use, a shell with 100 HP is formed around your body. The shell absorbs all damage taken during its existence, lasting for 15 seconds, cooldown time 3 minutes.

  This shell doesn't seem to have anything too exaggerated from the text description, it's just a temporary increase of 100 points in life limit. However, because of his experience from his previous life, Ding Qiang knows that this Dark Shell is actually a very perverted accessory if used well.

  The reason is that no matter how many attacks this dark shell receives, the blow that makes it disappear will not be accumulated and calculated on the player's life.

  In other words, even if the player only has 1 point of life left, once the Dark Guest is activated, even if they receive a 10,000-point attack, the Dark Shell disappears, but the remaining 9,900 points of damage still accumulate on the player's life.

  This point is quite perverted, if used well, its effect can be said to be instantly invincible.

  Ding Qiang only rolled for this equipment, and everyone else automatically gave up on the item. In the end, Ding Qiang obtained it with 5 points.

  Equipment distribution is complete. Xiao Ai, Xiao Mi Hui and Thief three people simultaneously used their skills to return to the city. The deputy leader was left with only two people...

  The two people both looked towards the skill book in their inventory.

  Healing Chain: Priest only, releases a healing chain that restores 200 health to the current target, then automatically jumps to the next target, decreasing in effectiveness by 50% with each jump, up to three jumps. Cooldown: 15 seconds.