Chapter 53: 53, (Amumu’s Sorrow) Dungeon (Lower) 1
Translator: 549690339
Throughout, Amumu continually attacked the main body of the Desert
Emperor, but his damage was still unbearable to look at, only inflicting -5, -8.
Once his health dropped to 30%, the Desert Emperor entered the second phase.
In the second phase, all the Sand Soldiers vanished from the battlefield in an instant, the body of the Desert Emperor broke apart and transformed into 10 golden lights.
The 10 golden lights traced out 10 parabolic curves and landed on the ground, turning into 10 golden roosters.
Out of these 10 roosters, one was the physical body of the Desert Emperor, and the remaining nine were illusions.
The roosters stood widely spaced apart, pecking leisurely at the yellow sand on the ground, their health gradually recovering at a rate of 1% per second.
The players needed to distinguish the real boss from the illusions, unleashing all their power on the real one in order to kill it.
If the players misjudge and attack an illusion with all their might, the boss’s health would restore to full, forcing them to start over.
All ten roosters appeared identical on the surface, but the real one differed slightly from the others in detail. Essentially, it’s a “spot the difference” game.
Su Yu was really good at these types of games. His sharp eyes quickly identified the physical body of the boss in the convolution of roosters – a rooster with a black spot on its comb.
A series of high-level spells continuously assail the boss, bringing its health to zero, and a golden ethereal figure takes away the Desert Emperor’s soul.
It left behind a shining golden chest in its place. The boss was vanquished easily!
Opening the chest, he found a scepter inside, a blue rarity level scepter at that!
[Desert Emperor Scepter IVIO (Rare)]
Magic Strength +30 Intelligence +10 Trait: During your attack or casting spells, there’s a 5% chance of summoning a [Sand Soldier] to fight for you.
“It’s a rare-level scepter!” Su Yu’s eyes lit up.
In the game, monsters below level 10 can only drop “excellent” level equipment at most, while monsters at levels 10-29 can drop “rare” level pieces.
Unexpectedly, Su Yu received a rare category equipment on his first clearance of a level 10 boss monster!
Su Yu immediately equipped the scepter and upgraded it to an epic quality.
“Ding, please select the enhancement direction for the [Desert Emperor
Scepter]: 1. Magic Strength +10; 2. Trait activation probability increased to
After thinking, Su Yu decided that summoning [Sand Soldiers] wasn’t that beneficial, so he chose “Magic Strength +10”.
After equipping the new scepter, his Magic Strength increased by 23 points, reaching 89, this led to a significant increase in the damage he could inflict!
At that moment, Amumu slowly walked to the spot where the Desert Emperor’s soul was taken, muttering, “Did you see, Annie? I defeated Desert Emperor Azir; I have the power to protect you now. Would you be with me?”
“In your dreams!”
A red figure suddenly appeared atop the pyramid in front; it was Annie!
“Look at how poor, ugly, short, and wretched you are. Even if I die, I wouldn’t be with you!” Annie said decisively.
“Ahh
Amumu let out a scream of despair. The surrounding desert scene filled with yellow sand broke apart in an instant, transitioning the instance into the second scene.
The second scene was a pitch-black Dark Forest.
“Annie, don’t leave me! This must be a test from you, isn’t it?” “You are my entire world; how could I live without you?”
Amumu collapsed onto the soil of the Dark Forest, crying bitterly.
After shedding some tears, he slowly stood up, “No! Annie must be ahead! Adventurer, are you willing to accompany me in finding Annie?” “Of course.” Su Yu shrugged.
The second phase of the instance took place in the ghastly forest.
Amumu’s spirit had collapsed by now, so all the monsters in the second phase were giant eye-covered tentacles and some horror-indescribable creatures, all very Lovecraftian.
They continued along, defeating these monsters, until they finally reached the second boss.
The second boss was [Annie and Tibbers].
In this battle, Annie and Tibbers, the teddy bear, would both attack the player.
Annie had her usual set of skills, [Fractured Fire], [Burn], [Magma shield].
However, the tricky part of this boss battle was that while the players were required to defeat Tibbers, they must not deal any damage to Annie, who needed to maintain 100% health.
If any player accidentally injured Annie with magic or physical attacks, Amumu would go berserk, unleashing the [Mummy’s Curse], dealing “-9999” damage to all players!
Moreover, Annie was very aware of this. She would often walk into the line of fire between the ranged classes and Tibbers, intentionally wanting the players to hurt her.
Thankfully, Su Yu had upgraded his [Magic Bullet].
With the help of the upgraded “short-range guidance” trait of the [Magic Bullet], Su Yu successfully managed to bypass Annie and kill Tibbers.
After Tibbers died, Annie glanced coldly at Amumu, “Give it up. My heart belongs to the Swift Scout ‘Teemo’ from Bandle City. He’s much more attractive than you!”
“Ahh
Amumu howled in despair yet again, causing the surrounding Dark Forest scene to shatter.
The instance transitioned to its third scene, the sunny Bandle City.
Amumu lay prostrate on the ground, sobbing, “Annie, I swear I’ll find you. But before that, Teemo must die!”
Amumu’s eyes flared up with rage, “Adventurer, are you willing to go with me to Bandle City and eliminate Teemo?”
“Whatever.” Su Yu shrugged.
They continued along the sole path of the instance, casually eliminating minor monsters.
Finally, Su Yu and Amumu arrived at a massive lawn.
On the other side of the lawn was the final boss of the instance—[Swift Scout Timo].
Upon reaching here, Su Yu started to get serious.
That’s because Teemo was a tough boss to conquer, even with his current strength, it would still be difficult.
At the start of the boss fight, the vast lawn in front would be divided into 16×30 blocks, totaling to 480 blocks, with 99 of them containing Teemo’s mushrooms.
When a player steps on a block, if there’s a mushroom around it, the block would display number ‘1’. If there are two mushrooms around, the block would show ‘2’, and so forth….
If there are no mushrooms around, the block will display the details of the surrounding blocks, until it displays a block with numbers on it.
If any player steps on a block containing a mushroom, all players would be instantly killed.
Passing over all blocks without stepping on a mushroom within ten minutes would result in a successful pass.
This play style is derived from the classic game “Minesweeper”.
The game even took it a step further.
While players “sweep” for mines, they also have to endure attacks from boss Teemo.
Teemo would spit darts to blind players, causing them to be unable to see the numbers near them, and stand still as a result.
Additionally, Teemo would change the location of the mushrooms, making this a great challenge to the player’s memory.
For Su Yu, this boss was tough to handle.
Originally, this was a five-person instance of “Minesweeper”. As he was attempting to clear the instance alone, he would have to step on all blocks by himself, making it five times more difficult!
However, Su Yu had no other choice. Since he had reached this far, there was no going back. He had to face it head-on..