Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Lin Mo's SSS-level skills, combined with Ning Xi's tenfold amplified attacks, targeted the defense-broken Corpse King and instantly dealt tons of damage.
-13865!
-15135!
-2735! -2817! -2902!
-29258!
-28983!
Lin Mo completely gave up competing.
'Looks like no matter how much I improve, my damage still can't beat Ning Xi's.'
After one round of attacks, the boss's HP dropped by a full quarter.
Qin Feng and the others were completely dumbfounded.
"Big brother, big sister!"
"No way… that's a Tier 3 boss! Are you treating it like a regular mob? Show it a little respect!"
After Lin Mo and Ning Xi finished their burst round, the boss's defense break effect disappeared, and its defense returned to normal.
Continuing to attack at that moment would cause their damage to drop sharply. So Lin Mo had Strong-Maned Pig hold the boss in front, covering the transition period.
Good thing Strong-Maned Pig was tough enough.
The Corpse King had 7800 attack, plus the Corpse Roar buff increasing its damage by 30%.
If that D-rank combo of Rampage Charge and Earth-Splitting Cleave landed on Lin Mo, even he probably wouldn't survive it.
But under Strong-Maned Pig's 50% damage reduction talent, even after taking the boss's full combo, the two hits combined only took a little over 6000 HP.
For Strong-Maned Pig, which had 148,800 HP, that was basically nothing.
With 1488 HP recovered every second, it didn't even take five seconds to fully recover.
Seeing Strong-Maned Pig's absurd tankiness, Qin Feng and Xia Wanwan, who originally had little interest in raising pets, suddenly developed a huge fascination with pets.
When the boss launched its second round of Corpse Roar, Lin Mo and Ning Xi's skill cooldowns had just finished.
They immediately triggered the boss's weakness defense break again.
Then unleashed another storm-like barrage of attacks.
As the saying goes, when a man and a woman work together, the job feels easy.
Two SSS-talent users working together.
It only took three minutes to kill this Level 42 Tier 3 boss, which normal players right now would basically see as invincible.
BOOM!
The moment the Corpse King's massive body crashed to the ground, the pleasant system notifications rang in everyone's ears.
[Ding~ Congratulations! You and your teammates have killed the Level 42 Tier 3 dungeon boss Corpse King · Ryan. EXP +4,800,000 (120%), Reputation +100!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! You have completed the Corrosion City dungeon mission. Please submit the quest to clear the dungeon!]
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several golden beams of light fell one after another.
Thanks to the massive EXP reward from this Level 42 Tier 3 boss, Ning Xi, Ling Xiao, Qin Feng, and Xia Wanwan all leveled up.
Even Lin Mo and Strong-Maned Pig leveled up.
[Ding~ Congratulations! You have reached Level 37. All five attributes +1, free attribute points +3. EXP needed for next level: 14,000,000!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your pet Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig has reached Level 31!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your pet Black Gold · Strong-Maned Pig has reached Level 32!]
Arriving beside the Corpse King's corpse, Lin Mo picked up all the boss drops: 41 gold coins, 300 bottles of Corrosive Agent, One C-rank Warrior pet skill book · Rampage Charge, One C-rank Berserker skill book · Heavy Slash, One C-rank magic scroll · Roar.
(PS: pet skill books have a chance to drop when players bring pets to fight monsters)
The first kill of any boss is always the most valuable.
The more people that run it later, the worse the drops get and the less it's worth.
The total value of these items alone already exceeded one million.
However, just like the lottery rewards earlier, Lin Mo had no intention of selling them.
He planned to store them instead.
A C-rank skill book could easily sell for 200,000.
But when Lin Mo eventually built his guild and one of his Berserker members needed a C-rank Heavy Slash, trying to buy it for 200,000 at that time would probably be nearly impossible.
Because money can always be earned.
But high-level skill books are extremely rare.
Building the strongest guild in the Divine Oracle world was the same as founding a Fortune 500 company in the real world.
Relying purely on the natural ability of employees wasn't enough.
As the boss, you also had to invest and train your staff.
Lin Mo didn't just want guild members with strong personal ability.
He, as the boss, also needed to help boost the hardware strength of his people.
After completing the dungeon mission, Lin Mo and the others immediately went to submit it.
———
Meanwhile—
[Outside the Corrosion City Dungeon]
A thousand NPC soldiers stood guard heavily around the entrance!
Some passing players drawn by the spectacle whispered among themselves.
Player A: "We're struggling to even clear Level 32 dungeons, and they've already started attacking Level 42 dungeons! Damn… that's insane!"
Player B: "Rulebound's team has been inside for 25 minutes already. Based on the settings of the Snake King Island and Venom Swamp dungeons before, you probably have to clear Corrosion City within half an hour to get the perfect rating, right?"
Player C: "Rulebound already got perfect clears on the previous two dungeons. Don't tell me he's going to get another perfect rating this time?"
Player D: "Hard to say. It's already been 25 minutes, and this is a Level 42 dungeon. The difficulty is way higher than the previous two. Normal players would get one-shot the moment they walk in. I doubt Rulebound's team can even clear it, let alone get a perfect rating!"
Just as the surrounding players were discussing, suddenly, a loud system announcement descended from the sky and echoed across the entire Blazing Ember City—
[Regional Announcement (Blazing Ember City): "Ding~ Congratulations to players Rulebound, Liuli, Shadow Chaser, Wind Whistling, Evening Breeze for clearing the dungeon Corrosion City. As the first team in Blazing Ember City to clear Corrosion City, all members receive rewards: Gold +30, Reputation +100, First-Clear Dungeon Gift Pack +1!"]
All the nearby players shouted the same thing at once.
"Holy crap!"
"A Level 42 dungeon, and they cleared it in 25 minutes?"
"Are they even human?"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The next second, Lin Mo and the other four were teleported out of the dungeon.
The system directly rewarded 30 gold coins, plus 70 gold coins from the first-clear gift pack.
That meant the pure gold value of the first clear alone reached 100 gold coins, equivalent to over 800,000 yuan.
Besides that, the gift pack also included: 200 bottles of Corrosive Agent and two C-rank skill books.
The first-clear gift pack rewards this time were clearly even more luxurious than the previous two dungeons.
So after pooling the rewards from all five members, Lin Mo instantly obtained—
500 gold coins!
1000 bottles of Corrosive Agent!
Ten C-rank skill books, magic scrolls, or pet skill books!
Including the dungeon quest rewards and drops from the boss and monsters, from just one dungeon run, Lin Mo collected nearly 1500 bottles of Corrosive Agent.
And these Corrosive Agents were exactly the materials needed to upgrade the Venom Set's tier.
Lin Mo checked the numbers.
"One bottle of Corrosive Agent only gives 0.1% growth to a single Venom equipment piece. That means 1000 bottles are needed to upgrade one piece to Tier 3."
"There are eight equipment slots, which means 8000 bottles are needed to upgrade them all."
Lin Mo sighed, "Looks like I'll have to work harder."
So Lin Mo, clearly having planned this already, sent a message to Dragon Soul Aoshi, ["Level 42 dungeon Corrosion City, 36 clear slots. Want them?"]
Ding!
Not long after, Dragon Soul Aoshi replied.
["Yes!"]
["I want all of them!"]
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