The Great Thief

Chapter 1384: Mr. Arcane Explosion

“This is a Stronghold, so you will get a place to stay and work, as well as a position as the chief engineer. We are just a gaming guild, so I hope you don’t mind that,” Lu Li promised.

The age gap between Jia Ren and Jia Yi seemed quite large; it was at least 10-20 years.

The younger one, Jia Yi, had the image of a playboy and would spend his days chasing girls.

On the other hand, Jia Ren was almost the exact opposite. He lived like a gentle intellectual and generally kept to himself. Some people thought he lived like an old man; he had a simple life without much excitement.

Given that the younger brother could spend his time enjoying his life in that way, the two brothers clearly didn’t lack any money. They even had their own villa in Stormwind City.

This was why Lu Li had no idea how to win over this professor.

“That is good; I think that is very good. I really like playing games, but I’m just not very good.” Jia Ren seemed to just be in his own world. Lu Li felt like he was so detached that he didn’t feel much influence from Lu Li in Ruling Sword.

To put it bluntly, Lu Li was normally like a leader of a thousand fanatics.

However, to have a place to stay in the building that he designed already made Jia Ren happy. The fact that he would also get the engineering position meant that he might be responsible for the design of multiple Strongholds in the future, which wasn’t too bad at all.

With everything going as planned, Lu Li felt assured enough to continue his Instance Dungeon.

Those who got the First Clears were the real kings!

Even Sakura Memories’ first place on the Level Rankings was because of First Clears.

The sixth Boss was called Shazzrah. He was very lowly Boss, who was commonly called Mr. Arcane Explosion.

“Everyone, get ready. If we allow the First Clear to be delayed because of the Stronghold, then what use would the Stronghold be?”

Lu Li hoped that everyone would enter the Instance Dungeon and focus on it.

The process of fighting through the monsters had already caused the players to get wiped three times. If they continued in that state of mind, they might not defeat a single Boss today. This was not just to scare them; Shazzrah wasn’t a difficult Boss and everyone knew this. However, they were still struggling to defeat him.

“If we can’t even do the Instance Dungeons, then how can we fight the other players? We are going to lose the Stronghold to another group if we keep going like this.”

Azure Sea Breeze was very alert. Normally, you would have to force him to be like this, but he had been quite reliable this time.

“If we can’t defeat this Boss, then your new residences will be as good as lost,” Lu Li said cruelly.

This dramatically changed the emotions of the scene, as the threat of this sentence was just too great. The thought of having a place to live in the first Stronghold was a great thing. It was even more valuable than having a villa in Stormwind City as you could achieve that if you had the money. Ruling Sword’s Stronghold residence was something that money couldn’t buy.

“I’ll be going in,” Azure Sea Breeze announced as he took out a bow and shot an arrow, which successfully caught the attention of the Boss.

After stabilizing the aggro, there were a number of skills that were poured out by the ranged professions.

The intense damage appearing over the head of the Boss indicated that he didn’t have strong Defense. The Boss only hit Azure Sea Breeze for 400 damage, which was the same as the first few monsters that they fought at the start of the Instance Dungeon.

“Priest, Dispel the Boss.” Lu Li saw that buff that the Boss had and immediately directed a Priest to dispel it. He then added, “You don’t need to use such a strong Dispel.”

The buff was called Attenuate Magic, which had the effect of reducing the damage taken by the caster by 50% for 30 seconds. If this buff wasn’t dispelled, it meant that all damage would be reduced by half. Even if nothing else happened, it would take twice as long to get rid of this Boss.

Once Attenuate Magic was used, it was always immediately dispelled.

“Let’s give a burst of damage.”

Sakura Memories obediently cast Bloodlust at this command, and Shazzrah’s HP rapidly depleted.

Soon, Shazzrah began to show his power and the reason for his nickname of Mr. Arcane Explosion.

Arcane Explosion – casts a magical explosion centred around the caster which deals 1000 arcane damage to nearby enemies.

The Arcane Explosion area was very large, and covered almost half of the field. It was quite easy to get hit and take 1000 damage. This large-scale area of effect attack was the signature skill of this Boss.

This damage wouldn’t one-shot a player, but the worst part was that this skill wasn’t just used once. It had a very high release rate, which placed a lot of pressure on the healers. If they were just a little bit too slow, then the players would start being killed by the Arcane Explosions.

However, these rapid Arcane Explosions didn’t occur all the time and gave them some time to regain their composure.

“Mages, lift the curse!” Lu Li yelled as Shazzrah began to release a curse. His curse effect was incredibly strong, as it increased damage taken by nearby enemies by 100% for 5 minutes.

This was basically double damage!

In the absence of a curse, it would take two Arcane Explosions to kill someone, but once they were affected, the first explosion would kill them.

What was originally difficult to deal with now just felt oppressive. After all, this could turn the 1000 damage into 2000 damage. If either the healers didn’t heal on time or the curse wasn’t lifted in time, you could already imagine the aftermath.

If this was a fresh group of Mages, they probably would have been dumbfounded.

However, these Mages had already dealt with a few Bosses that required them to lift some curses, so they immediately sprung into action.

Lu Li had already said in the past that if a Boss required them to remove a curse, then they wouldn’t have to worry as much about dealing damage. However, if they needed to remove a curse but didn’t do it, this would result in the team being wiped. They would have to watch out for their guild points.

Several players around the Boss quickly had their curses removed and continued fighting the Boss without any problems.

However, what happened next dumbfounded the Mages.

The Boss actually teleported. It teleported to another group of players and immediately cast Arcane Explosion. The players who had been cursed there hadn’t been cured yet, and the Mages had thought it was safe for them because they were further away.

As a result, these cursed players were mostly one-shot. In the group, there some healers, which meant they got wiped.

Shazzrah was indeed a shameless Boss.

No other Boss used a combination of skills like these.

He had put out a curse, then used a teleport to break away from the Main Tank to move into a crowd and instantly cast Arcane Explosion. Players were who impatient hated this Boss the most, because he was just so incredibly frustrating.