MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Will Miracles Happen?

“No way, are we starting the Boss fight now?” AdorkableTong had always been bold, but she jumped when Li Yao told them they were going to start the fight now. “But we haven’t made any preparations yet.”

“Aren’t we preparing now? If we don’t fight the Boss, we won’t know what it is going to do.” Li Yao observed the Boss. “Let us try first, there is rope on your side that slides to the bottom, always be ready to run away. After all, this is our first time fighting it, don’t think about getting it over with in just one go.”

Tong stared at him wide-eyed, she asked naively, “Don’t you have everything prepared, why do we have to run away?”

“Come on, I’m not a god, and I have never fought this Boss before. Who knows what the situation will be like? I’m imagining what the scenario will be like. It’s very simple, each of you will stay by one rope, when I tell you to switch, switch to the other platform through the ropes. If I tell you to escape, use the other rope to propel to the ground, we might be able to escape and maybe get out of the fight, then we will attempt again.”

“Okay, okay, we got it.” Tong waved her hand impassively.

“Right,” Li Yao looked back again. “I heard that few hundred people placed bets using ingots, now the numbers must have increased, right?”

Their minds went blank, the fans and audience that were still watching their livestream were at a loss.

“Master Liao Yuan is ready to run away with the money.”

“Their valuables are ready, when the Boss starts chasing them, they will be prepared to run away and that will be the end of today’s livestream.”

“They can’t get pass the Boss anyway, why did they even bother to continue clearing the stage, Summer should livestream her leveling up instead.”

“Yes, don’t turn off the livestream. It’s not easy to get a chance to see Summer Sis.”

“I strongly object against this.”

“Master Liao Yuan has exhausted his skills, confirmation complete.”

“Alas, the legend ends here.”

Qin Fengyi looked at the messages that had covered up the entire screen. “Thousands of ingots have arrived, you won, but, forget it. You should focus on the task at hand.” Fengyi said helplessly.

“Hmph, what do these people know. No one can kill a Boss in one go, why do they keep criticizing Big Bro.” Tong pouted, she was dissatisfied with the things that the fans were saying about Li Yao.

“We’ve already gotten the ingots, don’t be bothered about what they have to say. If they really do look up to us, would they still be foolish enough to bet on ingots?” Li Yao exclaimed.

“Big Boss, you haven’t lost yet.” ShadowDancer said.

“Big Bro, you seem to have a point there.” Tong was suddenly enlightened.

Fengyi was still speechless, there was nothing she could say.

Her fans were infuriated and clamoring noisily. Initially, they were not interested in the gamble, but now they have asked Fengyi to set up the gambling game again. They were saying that if Liao Yuan gets pass the Boss, they would top-up more ingots.

Fengyi had no choice but to set up the gamble. In just moments, hundreds of people have loaded up the ingots.

AdorkableTong was baffled, he chatted with Li Yao privately, “Big Bro, this way, you’re scamming their money.”

“I just said a few words to stand up for myself, if they don’t trust me, I might as well have some trust in myself, don’t you think so?” Li Yao replied, sounding rather righteous.

Tong tilted her head as she tried to process what he had just said, but she was still clueless. Even though she was smart, she was still just a little kid.

“Alright, get ready. The Boss has finally entered my attacking range.”

Li Yao began to get serious, he aimed with the Heavy Crossbow in his hands.

The Boss was big and tall, at least four yards in height and had a wide body that could hold in at least two Li Yaos. It also had big paws.

Since its whole body was made of metals bonded together with Arcane magic, it was very heavy. Its body made heavy clanking sounds as it walked.

Pap…

A steel arrow struck the Boss’s body, but the arrow simply set off a spark and was knocked away. An awkward damage figure flashed on the screen in the corner of his eye.

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When dealing with a Level 5 Boss, the Heavy Crossbow could cause almost two hundred damage points. But when the attack hit this Boss, it only caused a few damage points.

“Intruder alert, executing the command to destroy.”

The Boss’s gaze scanned Li Yao’s body, then it ran toward Li Yao.

Li Yao saw the Boss running to the second platform in high speed and was almost reaching the dome, Li Yao did not hesitate.

He grabbed two mountaineering pickaxes and hooked the pickaxes on the hanging rope.

Li Yao slid like a cable car down the rope at high speed and reached the dome of the first platform.

“Start attacking, remember to pay attention, if the Boss passes through the spiral corridor it will draw out more Elites. Ignore the Boss and attack the Elites first, the Elites’ levels are too high and we won’t be able to withstand their attacks. If you feel that it’s too dangerous, slide to the bottom ground.”

Li Yao carefully balanced his body and took out a rifle. It was a double-handed rifle, and was awkwardly long.

Li Yao made these rifles to bring up his engineering proficiency to the intermediate level. The rifles he made were of course of Green-grade.

However, Li Yao used a Leader-tier Battle Soul that he had obtained from killing the Leader-tier Velociraptor Boss. He upgraded the Stats of an uncommon Rifle to Blue-grade.

Self-made Rifle

Grade: Blue (Rare)

Attack: 15-22

Strength: 10

Agility: 9

Piercing Shot: While attacking, there is a small chance to ignore the opponent’s armor and cause a piercing effect.

Level: 5

Equipment requirement: Hunter, Warrior

Creator: Liao Yuan

“Big bro, when did you change your weapon?” Tong asked curiously, but her hands did not stop attacking. She began placing her totems in position.

The Earthbound Totem, in particular, was placed in a dead corner. If things get out of hand, it would do a great job in restricting the mobs from ascending to the dome.

Li Yao quickly loaded the bullets into his rifle, and began to take aim. “It’s difficult to exert force when on the dome when it’s already difficult enough to maintain balance when on it. It’s not a problem with guns and crossbows, but definitely not with bows.”

Everyone was enlightened, especially Hunters, they were thinking that they should prepare more weapons on hand.

The three players attacked the Boss rapidly. Lightning Arrows, Aging Curses and Arcane Shots crackled and landed on the stumbling Boss as it walked out of the platform. It tried to get through the spiral corridor to the first platform.

Being on the dome was also disadvantageous to Fengyi. After all, she was a Necromancer, and not having a Necromancer Pet to assist her, she had to do things on her own.

The spectators were helpless when they saw the damage caused by the squad. Although they had expected their attacks to only cause low damage on the Boss, no one expected it to be this bad.

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The string of damage figures made some people gloat. Knowing that this Boss had long-ranged skills, they expected the Boss to kill Liao Yuan in one hit. It was a pleasure for many to see a master player return to being an average player. Only Li Yao’s attack damage was high, but it was no better than the rest. After all, the Boss had more than 70,000 Health.

Li Yao had his eyes fixated on the Boss. He saw the Boss’s arm lunging toward him, it was glowing with Arcane energy.

“Summer, when you see the Boss launching its Arcane Explosion’s projectile, seize the timing to summon a Skeleton Warrior on time. My life is in your hands.”

There was nothing Li Yao could do when he could barely balance his body on the dome. If he wanted to dodge the attack quickly, or use Shadow Flip, it would be an act of suicide. He would plummet to ground and die.

“Don’t worry.”

Whoosh…

As light shot out of the Boss’s arm, all the spectators held their breaths. If Li Yao were to die, their stage clearance would be a failure.

The Arcane projectile was very fast, although it was shot from several dozens of yards away, it almost reached him in the blink of an eye. Just as the Arcane projectile was about to hit Li Yao, a Skeleton Warrior was summoned, blocking the projectile from reaching Li Yao.

Boom…

Without a single delay, the summoned Skeleton Warrior was blown to pieces by the Arcane Explosion.

Li Yao did not even flinch or make a move to evade the attack, he was still rapidly reloading, firing, reloading, and firing.

Fengyi did the same, she did not even look at Li Yao after summoning the skeleton. She immediately recited the spell for Bone Spear and did not delay her attacks even in the slightest.

“Holy crap, this operation could make it to the weekly highlights!” KB stood up in shock again. “I didn’t expect Summer to have capabilities comparable to top professional players.”

“Care to enlighten us? A lot of viewers do not understand what had just happened. They don’t think that this operation is that big of a deal.” Tina said.

“It’s all about timing, using the Skeleton Warrior to block the Boss’s skill requires a good grasp in timing with no mistakes. You guys have to remember that this is the first time the Boss used this skill, the trajectory speed of the projectile requires quick judgement and summoning Skeletons takes time. This block is only possible if the skeleton was summoned right at the time when the projectile is about to hit Liao Yuan’s body.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to summon the skeleton early? This Boss’s skill doesn’t seem to be locked.” Tina wondered out loud.

KB pointed at the dome. “They have to be careful when standing on the dome, the skeleton will slip down the moment it appears on the dome. If it were summoned a second later, the projectile will hit Liao Yuan and he will die. This process may seem brief, but it requires exact calculation, proper judgement, and precise control all at the same time. This operation is so demanding that even an average professional would hardly be able to execute it this well.”

Tina gestured at the screen to playback the scene in slow-mo. The audience cheered as they watched the scene again, it was addictive. This was the moment between life and death.

“Summer Sis, this move is too awesome!” ShadowDancer applauded loudly, he wanted so much to go up and attack the Boss.

“Don’t get distracted, this is a critical moment.” Li Yao said while attacking.

A few points of damage did nothing much to the Boss’s Health.

The Boss unleashed its next skill and started dashing, it began to approach the first wave of Wretched Patrols in the corridor.

Everyone held their breaths, if the Elites followed behind the Boss and attack Li Yao’s squad, the difficulty of this battle would be increased by fewfolds. The chances of their squad getting wiped out would be greater.

When the Boss and Elite Wretched Patrol bumped shoulders, time seemed to have frozen everything in place.

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Then, Li Yao and his squad let out a sigh of relief, the fans and spectators began cheering. Although many people wished for Liao Yuan to fail, many more wished that his squad could create a miracle.

And now, it seemde that they have seen the glimmer of hope that they were able to defeat the Boss.

Although they had been attacking for a very long time, the Boss’s Health did not seem to have taken much damage, but at least the difficulty did not increase. Everything else rested upon whether the plan laid out by Liao Yuan would work out or his squad would make any mistakes.

“Tong, don’t get carried away. Get ready, I’ll let you retreat, climb the rope to the second platform immediately. Don’t stop attacking.”

Tong attacked on the platform. When the Boss reached the first platform, the first person it would see was Tong. Li Yao was afraid she would stop attacking, that was why he reminded her…