Chapter 22: Death Mode
"Master Zhang, are you still playing Death Mode?" Xue Zhongsha looked at Zhang Yang with full of hope, afraid that he would say half a word to decline. It wasn't just him, the others also had their eyes filled with longing, pitifully looking at Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang has already proven with his strength that he has the power to challenge, and even break through the death mode copy! And for players, what's more glorious than a server-wide announcement?
That row of characters with fluttering red clothes, just thinking about it makes people's faces flush and their scalps tingle!
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "Of course I'll fight!"
Everyone else showed joyful smiles when they heard his promise.
"However, I need to say something first!" Zhang Yang said seriously, "I need a blueprint that drops from the BOSS Mo Mo in death mode, so if anyone has any objections, please speak up now and avoid embarrassment later!"
"Master brother, don't mention a single piece of equipment, even if you take all the equipment I've obtained, I won't have any objections!" Xue Zhong said excitedly.
The server is red-hot, which is more powerful than any equipment!
"We have no opinion either!" everyone chimed in.
"Alright, let's switch to Death Mode!" Zhang Yang adjusted the difficulty of the instance and said, "Let's go in!"
Ten people stepped through the entrance of the instance, entering the Banga Cave for the third time.
"Ding! You have entered Bhangra Cave (Death Mode)!"
"Hiss, hiss, hiss, Death Mode, this sound alone makes one's blood boil!" The old monk said with a proud smile, "Are we the first team in the entire server to enter the Banga Cave Death Mode?"
"That's a must!" The melancholy of the deep sea also rarely boasted about it.
"Warrior brothers, how confident are you that you can take down the death mode?" Behind Chu Lian Huo's seemingly casual tone, a huge expectation was hidden. As a guild leader, he was more eager than anyone else to be the first to take down the death mode server, which would greatly help increase the guild's reputation!
Originally, Chi Yan Huo just came to personally inspect Zhang Yang's standards and decide what treatment to give him to recruit him into his guild. However, Zhang Yang's performance in Hard Mode has already amazed him, but if he can clear Death Mode, that would be an unexpected surprise for Chi Yan Huo!
"The Bangde Hole is the first copy of the game, so even in death mode it's not that difficult. As long as everyone follows the tactics and works together, there's still a good chance of passing!" Zhang Yang said, still being somewhat conservative.
Chi Yan's fire was surprisingly excited, saying: "Ling Tian Gong Hui and Ba Zhe Gong Hui are both playing the old death mode, it seems like they've already been eliminated more than a dozen times. Can we really surpass them?"
Ling Tian and Ba Zhe are old-school gaming guilds in the Chinese region. In previous online games, they were giants with impressive records! This time around, "Shen Ji" has started, and they have also arranged for their main members to enter the game. Although Lost Paradise is also a semi-professional player guild sponsored by enterprises, compared to Ling Tian and Ba Zhe, it can only be relegated to a second- or third-rate small guild!
Zhang Yang smiled and said, "It should be okay!"
"I believe in Brother Gao!" Xue Zhongsha immediately expressed his admiration for Zhang Yang, with a look of absolute loyalty.
Zhang Yang stood up straight, his battle blade at the ready. "Alright, let's get started! Those with potions, drink them up! The monsters in death mode are still very fierce, we need to maximize our output!" With a swift step, he charged forward, launching himself at the six-man group of small monsters by the door. "-70", a normal attack struck one of the creatures.
Anger value rose to 21 points, Zhang Yang swung out another "horizontal sweep".
“－144！”
“－159！”
“－143！”
“－900！”
“－153！”
“－148！”
"My day!" A huge "-900" floated above the monster's head, and Kiyotaka couldn't help but blurt out a curse. And he wasn't the only one - everyone else was stunned!
Zhang Yang was also somewhat unexpected, the reason why such a terrible injury was caused was quite coincidental: the critical hit overlapped with Lucky Strike, causing six times the damage!
Lucky Strike, deals triple damage, trigger rate determined by luck value.
Due to the monster's high defense, professions that rely on high agility to eat, such as thieves and hunters, have ordinary attacks that are quite ineffective, dealing only around 10 points of damage. Only when skills are used can they deal relatively large amounts of damage, but even then it's only around 30-50 points. Seeing this terrifying number of 900, who wouldn't be shocked?
"Warrior, I'm now glad you're not a Berserker! If you had used a dual-handed weapon for that 'Sweep' just now, the damage would have definitely exceeded 1500!" Qitian patted his chest, with a look of relief on his face, and immediately gave up any thoughts of competing with Zhang Yang in terms of output.
Zhang Yang burst out laughing and said: "Hurry up and get it over with, finish early and get off work early!"
There's something that has been bottled up in my heart and hasn't been said, which is that after the inheritance version is opened in the future, all major professions will have the opportunity to obtain "inheritance". For example, warriors will have inheritances such as "Soul Swordsman", "Barbarian", "War God" and so on. Like "Soul Swordsman", when using sword-type weapons to attack, all damage is increased by 30%!
But among them, the most powerful is still the "War God" inheritance, which belongs to the unique inheritance, and only one person in the entire world can get it! One of the effects of the "War God" inheritance is that it allows shield warriors and berserkers to use two-handed weapons, dual-wield single-handed weapons, and equip shields on their off-hand.
That is to say, as long as Zhang Yang gets the "War God" inheritance, he can still use dual-handed weapons and dual-wield single-handed weapons in the future! However, the opening of the inheritance version will have to wait until a player reaches level 100, which will be at least a year later!
The terrifying damage ability displayed by Zhang Yang stimulated everyone, and they all gritted their teeth to increase their output. Although they couldn't compare to this pervert, they definitely couldn't lose to anyone else again!
Under such an atmosphere, group after group of small monsters were cleaned up, and the team of ten quickly advanced to the first BOSS Hei Zhao.
This is the third time I've seen that familiar dog face!
Kor'kron Elite (Black Claw, Guardian of the Earthhole Entrance)
Level: 12
Life: 72000
Compared with normal mode, the blood volume has doubled and even rose from black iron level to bronze level leader!
"I've taken a huge hit, over 700,000 damage, this is just too exaggerated!" Han Chubuzi wiped his mouth and looked at the pitiful 300 health points of Little White Pig beside him, and couldn't help but tear up. "Yangzi, can we capture this BOSS as our baby?"
"What do you think?" Zhang Yang glared at Bao Zi with a bad temper, then said, "This BOSS is still not difficult, it's just that the damage has increased a bit. The damage from 'Toxic Spray' has reached 400 points, hopefully it won't use it too many times!"
Zhang Yang had previously obtained a "dog head", his blood volume reached 410 points, apart from him, only Huo Fa Emperor and Xue Zhong Sha's life value exceeded the 400 mark, others would be instantly killed if they were hit by the poisonous liquid spray.
Zhang Yang thought for a moment and said: "Qing Si, try to ensure that every player with more than 320 health points has a Holy Shield, abandon the others!"
The Holy Shield can absorb 80 points of damage. For those with more than 320 health, equipping the shield allows them to withstand a poisonous spray attack. Those with less than 320 health will not survive even with the shield equipped, making it a waste of healing magic to give them the shield.
"Up!" Zhang Yang walked a few steps forward and rushed to Hei Zhao's side.
"-57!" A sword slashed across, and a white damage number floated above the BOSS's head.
Hei Zhao quickly regained consciousness from the daze of the charge, and suddenly let out a loud roar, swinging his sharp claws towards Zhang Yang's head.
Zhang Yang hastily dodged and weaved, avoiding a swipe from the black claw, while his hand rose with the war blade, striking out in another ordinary attack.
“－60！”
Anger value rose to 29 points, Zhang Yang made a "horizontal sweep".
“－145！”
He reserved the "dodge" skill without using it, because in death mode, the BOSS's attack speed is quite fast, even Zhang Yang can't guarantee that he can dodge the BOSS's attack! So, he must reserve the "dodge" skill, just in case he can't dodge and use the skill to avoid damage!
"Ding! You are affected by Death's Gaze, increasing damage taken by 100% for 12 seconds!"
Soon, Zhang Yang's body was overlaid with a layer of dead eyes effect.
Others had already launched their attacks at the same time Zhang Yang took over BOSS, and they challenged this death mode BOSS.
"Ding! You are affected by Death's Gaze (Level 2), increasing damage taken by 200% for 12 seconds!"
More than 20 seconds later, Zhang Yang's body was covered with two layers of dead eyes! In death mode, the melee damage of Black Claw reached around 200, plus the influence of negative effects. At this time, Zhang Yang would take around 600 damage if he was touched by the BOSS, even considering his 20% damage reduction, it was still difficult to escape being killed instantly!
"Wow, this BOSS's attack speed is so fast!" Gui Tian watched with a quivering body, thinking to himself that if he could dodge one out of 100 attacks from the BOSS, it would be considered good! But as the BOSS's attack speed increased, Zhang Yang's reaction speed also increased, seemingly able to infinitely upgrade!
In fact, with Zhang Yang's reaction speed, he is still far from reaching his limit now, but due to the constraints of equipment, not agile enough, he can only do so much!
Apart from Zhang Yang himself, everyone else was terrified, afraid that Zhang Yang would be killed by the BOSS at any moment. It's like walking on a tightrope on a cliff, one misstep and it's all over!
As the saying goes, "A man may miss his mark, a horse may slip its hoof." If you're always by the river, how can your feet stay dry? Zhang Yang isn't a robot either, and finally made a small mistake, slowing down half a beat!
A fatal half-beat!
Everyone saw Zhang Yang, and it was impossible to avoid the BOSS's giant claws. In addition to disappointment, everyone couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief - after all, people make mistakes sometimes, otherwise they would be gods!
"Ding! You blocked Hei Zhuo's attack!"
"Minus 39!" The gear reversed and was injured.
"Shield Bash - 204!" The shield bash dealt a critical hit.
Under the gaze of a pair of unbelievable eyes, Zhang Yang staged a desperate counterattack. The "gear" that had been reserved for a long time finally played a lifesaving role, and the absolutely deadly attack was miraculously resolved!
"Is that okay?" Chi Yan's heart was shocked! He believed that the two tanks would absolutely not have enough reaction time to activate the "Gear Shift" skill when dodging the BOSS's attack!
Hei Zhao launched a frenzied attack on Zhang Yang for a while, then turned his head and sprayed a black poisonous liquid at Bai Fa Yizhong.
"Ding! Player died with 100% accuracy!"
Up to 400 points of damage, instantly killing with a single shot.
"Hurry up and output, or everyone will die!" Zhang Yang shouted lightly, his war blade trembling as he poured the damage onto Hei Zhao's head.
90%, 80%...... The blood volume of Hei Zhao began to slowly decrease.
"Ding! Player Gui Tian has died!"
……
70%！
"Ding! Player DeepSea's melancholy has died!"
……
10%！
"Ding! Player Chi Lian Huo has died!"
Hei Zhao only has 10% of his blood left, and Zhang Yang's team is also left with only three people: him, Han Baozi and Qing Silan!
"Come on!" All seven people who fell to the ground were cheering and encouraging each other.
8%，7%，6%，5%！
"Ding! Player Slender Beauty Boy has died!"
"Alright, Qing Si, stop stalling and let's output together!" Zhang Yang shouted loudly. If he was left alone, the BOSS's "Toxic Spray" would also be cast on him. In normal mode or even hard mode, he had confidence in dodging this skill, but in death mode, the BOSS's skill casting speed was simply too fast, and the distance between them was so close that it was impossible to dodge!
Qīng sī rú xuě dā yìng yī shēng, lì kè cuō qǐ le shèng guāng shǎn.
Translation:
The blue silk was like snow, and with a soft reply, the holy light flashed immediately.
4%，3%！
"Ding! Player Qing Si Ru Xue has died!"
"Come on, put in some more effort!"
"Got it!"
"It's up to you now, expert!"
Han Paozi and others were excited, shouting loudly with their throats, no one wanted the BOSS they had been fighting for half a day to die at 1%.
2%！
1%！
Suddenly, Hei Zhuo's attack paused, and a stream of black toxic liquid spewed out from its mouth!
"What a mess!" everyone exclaimed in their hearts.
Zhang Yang remained calm and continued to swing his sword, dealing two more hits of damage.
"Minus 62!" Normal attack.
"?840!" Sweep, Critical Hit with Lucky Strike!
"Ding! Player Warrior has died!"
"Ding! Your party has killed Blackclaw!"
Two system alert sounds rang out almost simultaneously, and Zhang Yang and Hei Zhao fell to the ground at the same time.
