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[System Prompt: You have chosen to continue exploring the dungeon. The fourth stage of the dungeon – The Rise of the Generals will automatically begin! Time limit: 3 hours. Player, please make your preparations. 3-2-1, quest begins!]
When entering the fourth stage of the dungeon, Yang Rui did not forget to grab the quest item. The moment the wooden box was opened, Yang Rui could clearly see the outline of the quest item – a bundle of books! Now that he had it in his hands, Yang Rui immediately checked it out.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War (Thirteen Chapters): Introduction Chapter, Battle Chapter, Strategy and Attack Chapter, Military Form Chapter, Military Momentum Chapter, Illusions and Reality Chapter, Military Struggle Chapter, Nine Changes Chapter, Marching Chapter, Topography Chapter, Nine Lands Chapter, Fire Attack Chapter, Tactics Chapter …"
[Tai Gong Liu Tao (6 volumes): Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6 …]
After checking, Yang Rui discovered that the quest item this time was actually two sets of Art of War! They were Sun Tzu's Art of War and Tai Gong Liu Tao. The two sets of books were stacked together into a big bundle. At the same time, they were separated into different volumes. This reminded Yang Rui of the seventeen volumes of Taiping Techniques that he had obtained in the Yellow Turban Uprising storyline.
At that time, the Taiping Techniques were similar to these two sets of Art of War. They could only be browsed through and could not be used like skill books. Later on, Zhang Ning proved that they had great value. The formula for the "Asahi Pill" was obtained from the Taiping Techniques.
Now that these two sets of Art of War were so similar, Yang Rui guessed that they must also have great value. Therefore, he carefully stored these two sets of Art of War in his backpack, waiting to slowly study them in the future.
After entering the fourth stage of the dungeon, Yang Rui's soldiers had automatically returned to the city at the end of the third stage. Now, he was the only one left to fight alone. However, after using a Vitality Pill, Yang Rui had obtained the Conscription Order and two sets of Art of War. It was already worth it.
Moreover, he had already explored the fourth stage of the Terracotta Soldier dungeon. It should have exceeded Predator Sword's original expectations. Therefore, in the following instance dungeons, if Yang Rui could still gain something, it could be considered as squeezing out the remaining value! Yang Rui had completely relaxed and was prepared to leave the Terracotta Soldier instance dungeon at any moment.
After passing through the instance dungeon's corridor, Yang Rui was presented with two paths. Every fork in the road had another box. Yang Rui picked them up and put them into his backpack. Previously, Yang Rui had obtained several chests, but they were all locked. Such chests could only be opened by a special craftsman after exiting the dungeon, and the process would cost a certain amount of money.
Yang Rui only realized it when he approached the box. There was a large word engraved on the ground at the entrance of each of the two paths. The words were "General" and "Commander" respectively. Although the two words were large, in the darkness of the dungeon space, if one did not look carefully, one would not be able to notice them.
Seeing the two words and connecting them to the name of this storyline segment, Yang Rui pondered for a moment before walking towards the entrance with the word "General". If Yang Rui's guess was correct. The two paths marked by the words "General" and "Commander" could very well represent two different types of quest.
After entering the "General" door, his field of vision lit up. Another circular hall appeared before Yang Rui's eyes. In the middle of the hall was another high platform. A total of 12 large Terracotta Soldiers were positioned in the middle of the high platform. Each of the 12 Terracotta Soldiers was larger than the previous. The smallest one was only as tall as a person while the largest ones were over 10 metres tall.
Among these Terracotta Soldiers, there were three or four that were much larger compared to the Hammer General Terracotta Soldier that Yang Rui had faced earlier. Their strength was definitely not low! In the second segment, the Spear General Terracotta Soldier already possessed the strength of a High Class Warrior. In the third segment, although the Hammer General Terracotta Soldier did not use any skills, its strength was likely above the Spear General Terracotta Soldier. At this moment, the largest Terracotta Soldiers on the high platform had most likely surpassed the High Class Warrior level.
After Yang Rui entered the hall, he automatically triggered the smallest Terracotta Soldier. This Terracotta Soldier charged down from the high platform and began fighting with Yang Rui. After exchanging two or three blows, Yang Rui was able to determine the strength of this Terracotta Soldier – it should be a Beginner Class Terracotta Soldier.
Given Yang Rui's current state, without using any skills, he could basically defeat a Beginner Class Warrior. A small Beginner Class Terracotta Soldier was naturally not enough. Yang Rui only needed to casually stab the Terracotta Soldier a few times to cause great damage to it. In just a few blows, the Terracotta Soldier was turned into a pile of rocks.
One Terracotta Soldier was destroyed by Yang Rui. At the same time, another Terracotta Soldier was automatically activated. Additionally, each Terracotta Soldier was bigger and stronger than the previous one. After three Beginner Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers were consecutively killed by Yang Rui, a slightly bigger Terracotta Soldier charged down from the high platform and began fighting with Yang Rui. This Terracotta Soldier's strength had already reached the Intermediate Class Warrior standard.
From the way these Terracotta Soldiers were automatically activated and appeared before him, Yang Rui was able to see through this. Yang Rui seemed to have vaguely grasped the pattern within. The terracotta soldiers on the stage were going to test Yang Rui's strength from the weakest to the strongest!
To Yang Rui's surprise, be it the three Beginner Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers or this Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers, they did not use any special skills or advanced special skills. Yang Rui even began to think that this instance dungeon was incapable of using skills.
"Huo!"
After Yang Rui unleashed his Six Forms of Wild Goose Descending Special Skill, he realized that it was not as he had guessed. Skills could be used in this hall. After Yang Rui unleashed his Special Skill, the Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers who were fighting against him also unleashed a similar skill, further proving his point.
However, after unleashing his Special Skill, Yang Rui made a new discovery – if Yang Rui used a skill to attack, the Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers would also use a skill to counter it. If Yang Rui continued to stab forward, the Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers would not take the initiative to use a skill.
Yang Rui had originally wanted to preserve some of his inner strength to deal with the more powerful Terracotta Soldiers. After unleashing his Special Skill, he continued to stab forward to fight against the Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers. In the end, the Intermediate Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers did not use any skills and continued to stab forward to fight against Yang Rui.
If the following Terracotta Soldiers were in the same situation, to Yang Rui, it would definitely be good news. Yang Rui's current state was most formidable because of his high attack power. However, skills were Yang Rui's weakness. Previously, Yang Rui had consecutively killed the Spear General Terracotta Soldiers and the Hammer General Terracotta Soldiers. If the Hammer General Terracotta Soldiers were able to use their skills, the result of Yang Rui fighting against them would be hard to say.
"Huo!"
Following that, when facing against another Advanced Class Warrior Terracotta Soldier Terracotta Soldiers, Yang Rui once again tried to use his skill. The situation was similar to before. This Advanced Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers only used their skills once before stopping and continued to stab forward to stab at Yang Rui. The Terracotta Soldiers here actually did not know how to use their skills!
After understanding this characteristic, Yang Rui's heart was filled with confidence. At the same time, Yang Rui even had a sliver of hope. He did not know how strong of a Terracotta Soldier Terracotta Soldiers he could kill with his normal attacks.
Naturally, those below the Advanced Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers were not Yang Rui's opponents. In less than an hour, Yang Rui had already killed 8 Terracotta Soldiers. Amongst them, there was a Large Blade Advanced Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers that was comparable in strength to the Hammer General Terracotta Soldiers. This was also because Yang Rui had purposely controlled the tempo of his attacks.
In actual fact, Yang Rui was also somewhat apprehensive. The last few Terracotta Soldiers were all over 10 meters tall, just looking at them would cause one's heart to turn cold. According to the previous rule of 3 Terracotta Soldiers per level, the last 3 Terracotta Soldiers should have already surpassed the Advanced Class Warrior level. Therefore, they would definitely be very difficult to deal with.
When he killed the Large Blade Advanced Class Warrior Terracotta Soldiers, Yang Rui did not feel much pressure. Currently, Yang Rui's combat strength of 90 points was not for show. Among all the Terracotta Soldiers on the platform, there might not be a single one that could reach this value. Furthermore, Yang Rui's defense was not bad as well. Although he might not be able to match up to the largest Terracotta Soldiers, he should still be able to block a few of their normal attacks.
It was precisely because of Yang Rui's thinking that his confidence was boosted, allowing him to use his full strength to deal with the Terracotta Soldiers. This caused his speed of killing the Terracotta Soldiers to increase greatly. It was also because of this estimation that Yang Rui nearly died for the first time in the game.
When Yang Rui killed off the Large Blade Terracotta Soldiers one by one, the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier at the back gave Yang Rui a 'huge surprise'. Originally, after exchanging two blows with the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier, Yang Rui felt that although the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier's combat strength had increased, it was still a distance away from 90 points. Therefore, he was slightly careless and thought that he only needed to fight steadily and surely. Who knew that the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier's third attack would actually be a combo!
A combo was similar to the speed of a skill's attack. It was an attack style that Yang Rui had never come into contact with before. Normally, even if one increased the attack speed of a normal attack, it would still not reach the speed of a skill's attack. However, the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier was able to do so. Therefore, Yang Rui was immediately hit by the attack.
More importantly, Yang Rui actually received a blow that broke through his defense. Even though Yang Rui was wearing the Billowing Silver Armour, he was still left with less than half of his health points. Yang Rui was so shocked that he broke out in cold sweat. Fortunately, only one of the two attacks was hit. Otherwise, he would be in danger. Yang Rui quickly drank a Health Potion and slowly recovered his health points.
This attack also made Yang Rui realize how powerful it was to have a combat strength that was close to the threshold of 90 points. This caused him to be more vigilant against the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier's full attack. After Yang Rui was fully focused on defending, although the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier's combo was sharp, Yang Rui was able to dodge all of them. He did not give the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier another chance.
However, because of this, Yang Rui's attack was greatly weakened and his efficiency decreased by a lot. Fortunately, he still had the additional effect of the Trident Spear. When the special effect was triggered, Yang Rui seized the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier. Not long after that, the Large Blade Terracotta Soldier was defeated.
The last two Large Blade Terracotta Soldiers also had a combo skill. However, since Yang Rui was prepared, this skill was basically useless. What was worth mentioning was that the Large Axe Terracotta Soldier's combat strength was extremely close to 90 points. It was almost the same as Yang Rui. Its attack was terrifyingly high. Yang Rui carefully dealt with it for about two hours. After triggering the additional effect of the Trident Spear, he finally defeated the Large Axe Terracotta Soldier.
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