The appearance of the deep valley was rather sudden, especially the collapse of the wall. Everyone, including Ye Ci, did not expect the wall to collapse. According to Ye Ci's guess, after the Warlock finished the game, a mini-boss would appear. After killing the mini-boss, it would drop quest items such as keys or maps that would allow them to continue the game. Who would have thought that the design of this dungeon would be so straightforward? After finishing the game, they would destroy a wall and enter the next scene.
The ten of them stood at the edge of the collapsed wall and looked down. They only felt the wind blowing from underground. Even though it wasn't pitch-black below, the light wasn't bright either. Looking down from the dim light, one could only see rectangular building structures standing in the empty valley.
"Are we going down?" The priest looked into the pitch-black ravine and gulped.
"If there are no accidents, we should be heading down." The Berserker beside him grinned at the Cleric and chuckled.
"No way …" The Priest immediately wailed.
This made Ye Ci feel a little strange. She looked at the priest and asked, "What's wrong?"
The priest immediately chuckled, "Young Master, he has acrophobia. Looking at such a high place makes him dizzy …"
Ye Ci was speechless. No way. Acrophobia? Isn't this a game? Why would a fear of heights be brought in? Perhaps it was because she didn't have acrophobia, so she really couldn't understand the fear people with acrophobia had towards heights. But looking at the pale face of the priest, she still asked hesitantly, "Is it serious?"
"It's very serious. Whenever our second party encounters a gully in a dungeon, he'll either find someone to cast Featherfall on him or find someone to carry him down. Otherwise, he won't be able to go down by himself." One of the MTs, the Warrior, sighed helplessly as he looked at Ye Ci.
Ye Ci sympathized with the Reverend. After all, it was quite embarrassing for a man to have such a serious fear of heights, wasn't it?
"How am I supposed to get down from this height?" The Cleric boldly looked at the ravine again, but quickly withdrew his gaze and wailed.
"I'll carry you down." The MT smiled helplessly and took out a rope from his inventory. He found a place to secure it and threw the end of the rope down the ravine. He then waved at the Cleric and said, "Hey, why aren't you a girl? Why do you think I'm carrying a man on my back?"
The priest glared at him. "I'll get my revenge."
These few people were originally the elites of the second squadron, and their relationship was usually very good. They often jested like this, and didn't mind the conversation between the two of them. Instead, they laughed at the side.
Ye Ci looked at them quietly. She felt relieved. This was probably how comfortable it was for a team to get along. As she was thinking this, she suddenly heard a system notification. It said that the central control room was about to collapse. Everyone only had two minutes to escape from the central control room to the ravine.
After that, the system repeatedly reminded them to get ready. It seemed that the system would start the countdown as soon as someone started to descend into the ravine.
"Damn, this can't be, right? This again?! I've never hated a countdown so much. "The Berserker could not help but curse when he heard the system's urging.
"Two minutes?" The MT frowned slightly. He seemed a little uneasy.
"What's wrong?" Ye Ci asked when she saw the MT's strange expression.
"I'm afraid that I won't be able to reach the bottom of the ravine in two minutes with the Cleric on my back. This is the first time I've carried him down such a high place.
I'll be very slow … "The MT's question was indeed a very troublesome one, especially when the system was shamelessly urging them to hurry up.
Ye Ci looked at the ravine and estimated the height. Then, she calculated her own Strength and Dexterity. In the end, she said, "I'll carry him. You guys go down first. I'll be right behind you."
"Guild Leader …" Even though Ye Ci had told them not to call her Guild Leader, the words were still uttered in unison when they heard her call out to Ye Ci.
Ye Ci raised her hand to stop everyone from saying anything else. Instead, she said, "In a dungeon, the most important thing is cooperation. It has nothing to do with anything else." She turned to look at the slightly nervous Cleric and said with a smile, "If you're worried about gender, you don't have to. In this game, there are only classes. There are no gender differences. Just remember this." As she said this, she walked up to the Cleric and took the rope from his hand. Then, she tied the rope firmly to the Cleric's waist.
While Ye Ci was preparing, the other players had also put down the rope. They waited for Ye Ci to tie the rope so that they could jump down from the central control room.
The few of them stood at the gap. Ye Ci nodded at them, and then everyone jumped down at the same time.
Unlike the Warriors who jumped down steadily, Ye Ci seemed to be in free fall when she jumped down. Her hair was blown up by the wind, and there was only the sound of air friction. Cough … There was also the scream of the Cleric tied to Ye Ci's back. Of course, it wasn't just the scream. The Cleric was clinging to Ye Ci like an octopus. It was hard to tell that he was his usual suave self.
Ye Ci felt as if her eardrums were about to burst. Such a shrill cry did not sound like something a man would let out. But in reality, it was coming from a man. She sighed to herself. Just as the two of them were about to fall to their deaths, the cat claw she had been holding in her hand was thrown out. It hung firmly on the rock, and in the next moment, they stopped.
They were only a few centimeters from the ground. Ye Ci waited until they came to a stop. Then, she let go of the cat claw and landed easily on the ground. The Cleric was still screaming. She quickly untied the rope around her waist and said to the Cleric, "We're on the ground."
The priest's reaction seemed to be a step slower. He continued to scream for a few seconds before he finally reacted. He quietly opened his eyes, then quickly looked around and touched his body. Only then did he exclaim in a surprised tone, "I didn't fall to my death!"
Ye Ci was speechless. She laughed dryly and sat on the ground to rest while waiting for the others to arrive.
Not long after, the others arrived. However, unlike Ye Ci, who jumped down directly, they obediently slid down the rope. Of course, they all saw Ye Ci's heroic jump. Even if they didn't see the Cleric scream like a pig being slaughtered, they still heard it …
After landing, the few of them expressed their heartfelt admiration for Ye Ci's reckless actions. They also expressed their deep sympathy for the Cleric's scream.
In the middle of this deep valley was the boss — Bob the Rebellious Architect.
The ten of them passed through the cuboid obstacles and quickly found Bob the Rebellious Architect. He was sitting on a flat surface with a ruler in his hand, scribbling something on a piece of paper. His hair was long and messy, and his clothes were tattered. He looked like a wanderer who had wandered around for many years. Of course, this wasn't the most eye-catching thing. The most eye-catching thing was a metal chain as thick as an arm hanging around Bob's neck. The other end of the chain was fastened to a metal button protruding from the ground. The length of the chain was roughly five meters.
In other words, with the metal button as the center, Bob's range of movement was within a five-meter radius. If this boss was a physical attacker, it would be easy to take him down. As long as the Main Tank pulled aggro, the ranged attackers could focus fire on him.
Ye Ci noticed the problem, and so did the rest of the party. That was why they fought the BOSS from the very beginning. But it was obvious that the system would not design such an idiotic BOSS battle. Bob was indeed a physical attacker. However, when the boss's health fell to 80%, he started using two skills in rapid succession. One was "Drag", and the other was "Wrath".
Drag allowed Bob to randomly select a player and drag that player to his side with a chain. He would then slam that player into the ground, dealing a large amount of damage and using the dragged player's HP to unleash an AOE Earth Spike attack that increased the target's HP by five times.
In other words, if the stalled player had 5,000 HP when they were at full HP, then the next Rage skill would deal 25,000 damage to all players within its attack range. At this stage of the game, no matter how high the HP of an MT was, they would be killed instantly, not to mention a Mage class.
The range of this skill was a circle with a diameter of 25 meters.
With such a large range, it basically covered all the space around Bob. In other words, as long as Bob used this skill, no one would be able to escape.
Of course, the game developers didn't design this boss to be invincible. For example, after Bob's 80% skill burst, nine out of ten players died, and Ye Ci was the only one left.
This wasn't because Ye Ci had high health and high defense. She was only able to survive this time purely by luck. When she saw the boss's Wrath skill being channeled, she jumped up out of habit. She jumped up and landed on the nearest cube. As soon as she landed on the cube, Bob's ultimate skill was unleashed …
Wrath was a skill that dealt flat damage, not three-dimensional damage. In other words, it was only effective against players standing within its range. Players who jumped up to a certain height or stood on high ground would not be affected. So, when everyone was unfortunately killed, Ye Ci was lucky enough to survive …
When Ye Ci turned around, she saw the ground littered with corpses. Countless black lines appeared on her forehead. No way, this was too dramatic.
"Let's revive …" the Cleric suggested. If they didn't revive, they wouldn't be able to clear this dungeon.
"Don't revive." Ye Ci quickly stopped them in the party channel, "The path here is blocked. Even if we revive, we won't be able to enter this place. Let me think. Let me see if we can kill this guy. That way, we won't have wasted our time."
"Guild Leader, you want to fight him one-on-one?" They were shocked.
Ye Ci smiled bitterly, "I'm not a GM. How can I fight him one-on-one? I can only think of a way."
Ye Ci stopped everyone from reviving because she suddenly realized something when she was on the cube. These cuboids seemed to be arranged in an interesting order. They were the same distance from each other, but at different angles. There were five cuboids around Bob, and Ye Ci was standing on one of them. Because she was standing there, the feeling in her heart became stronger. These cuboids were actually very similar to one thing.
They were, dominoes.
Anyone who had seen dominoes before knew that as long as the first piece was pushed, the dominoes would fall down uncontrollably until all the pieces fell down.
Ye Ci took a closer look at the square in the valley, and realized that the rectangular objects were dominoes. In the Fate's Labyrinth dungeon, nothing was designed for nothing. Everything had a purpose behind it, and these dominoes were definitely not there to block the players' path. Ye Ci looked at the five dominoes surrounding Bob. She had a feeling that these dominoes were actually used to deal with the BOSS.
Each of these cuboids was about 15 to 20 meters tall. If they fell, they would fall right on top of Bob … …
"Wait a moment. Don't revive. I'll be right back." Ye Ci did not care if she would be out of the battle if she left the area. She dashed towards the edge of the Omphalos.
The group laid on the ground and looked at their monochrome vision. They did not know what Ye Ci was doing, so they could only chat idly. Just as they were chatting enthusiastically, the ground began to shake violently. Ever since they entered this dungeon, the ground had been shaking non-stop … …
Before they could react to what had happened, they saw a cuboid falling down. It fell right on top of Bob, who was sitting in the middle of the floor!
The MT checked Bob's health bar. When the cuboid fell, not only did it kick up a cloud of dust, it also took away 19% of Bob's health! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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