The three monsters quickly fell, one of them was an elite monster, dropping a Vine Armor Bracer that increased constitution, strength, and both defenses.

Kyushu has a multi-path mode. Equipment is not limited to professions. Vine Armor can be worn by any profession, but it doesn’t have corresponding constitution. Wearing heavy armor will reduce movement speed, so it’s not the mainstream choice for light armor.

Yinglong and Young Master Hate both chose to give it up.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: Little Jie, this is for you.

He was the main tank, and his equipment was decent. Ten Thousand Men Hero, who followed the light cavalry route, was more suitable for it.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Hero: Thanks, Wan Ge.

Ten Thousand Men Enemy gave the equipment to him.

They continued to fight monsters.

Ten Thousand Men Enemy kept testing the limit of how many monsters he could pull. 3 was stable, 4 was barely manageable, and 5 would easily kill him. In the end, he stayed at 3 at a time. After grinding for half an hour, they finally cleared the dozen or so monsters in the passage.

They dropped three pieces of equipment, besides the bracer, there were also a pair of fine cloth boots, a hemp belt, and some cattail reeds.

The boots and belt both increased agility and intelligence. They were given to Young Master Hate and Pharmacist Exquisite according to contribution. Ten Thousand Women Charm didn’t get anything. But her equipment wasn’t much worse than the drops, so she wasn’t dissatisfied.

The cattail reeds can restore mana in battle, equivalent to a mana potion. Everyone got a bit.

The passage ended, and the first boss, the Fish Spirit, was already waiting for them with his trident.

Everyone sat on the floor to replenish their health and mana. Yinglong brewed a sachet of instant coffee and took a couple of sips to refresh herself.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: Get ready, type 1

[Party] Ten Thousand Women Charm: 1

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Hero: 1

[Party] Young Master Hate: 1

[Party] Pharmacist Exquisite: 1

Ten Thousand Men Enemy stood up and used [Challenge] and [Horn] to start the fight.

The boss was indeed a boss. It gave the players a warning right from the start. It swung its trident in a wide arc, and both Ten Thousand Men Enemy and Ten Thousand Men Hero, who were a little further away, were hit by its damage wave, both losing half their health.

Ten Thousand Women Charm had more equipment. She had used throwing knives to clear the small monsters, but she switched to needles and ribbons for pure healing when fighting the boss. Seeing that the two had lost a lot of blood, she immediately cast [Acupuncture] on Ten Thousand Men Enemy, restoring a large amount of his health, and then cast [Moxibustion].

[Moxibustion]: Needle-based healing skill, restores a small amount of health and removes all negative states.

She was busy, and Yinglong wasn’t idle either. She cast [Hemostasis] on Ten Thousand Men Hero, giving him a small heal. But seeing Ten Thousand Men Enemy’s health quickly recover, she knew it wasn’t good. If she healed him too much before he secured aggro, the boss’s aggro would immediately transfer to the healer.

Sure enough, the Fish Spirit targeted Ten Thousand Women Charm. Its ferocious arm raised high, and it swung its slingshot. A giant stone flew towards her.

Ten Thousand Women Charm’s reaction was not bad. Seeing that she had attracted aggro, she wanted to run away. The slingshot was a lock-on skill, and she was slow. She ran a few steps but was still hit, and her health bar instantly dropped to one-fifth.

Pharmacist Exquisite immediately used Acupuncture on her, raising her health to fifty percent.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Hero: Aggro

Now, Pharmacist Exquisite had attracted aggro.

Yinglong quickly tapped the keyboard. She activated Spirit Flying Step before Acupuncture, increasing her movement speed. She didn’t run far, but charged towards the boss. The slingshot was ranged, and it wouldn’t trigger at close range.

She controlled Pharmacist Exquisite to run in front of the boss and started circling around it and Ten Thousand Men Enemy.

In the game settings, besides a few specific moves, most damage has a prerequisite – it must be face-to-face, roughly 180° from the character’s facing direction.

The boss also followed this rule. When Pharmacist Exquisite circled behind it, it would turn to attack her.

The trident is a heavy weapon, and the damage area is a 180°-200° arc in front of the boss.

Pharmacist Exquisite, wearing a rough cloth short robe, nimbly circled around it and the DPS. Ten Thousand Men Enemy and Ten Thousand Men Hero also had rich OT (aggro loss) experience. They desperately output to pull back aggro. After the two melee fighters beat it up, aggro was finally attracted back to them.

Pharmacist Exquisite, with one-third of her health bar remaining, quickly retreated and used Hemostasis to slowly restore her health.

The first wave of danger was averted.

The boss’s health was down to 90%.

Without any big moves, it focused on melee combat with Ten Thousand Men Enemy and Ten Thousand Men Hero.

Young Master Hate saw that they had secured aggro and slowly increased his output. Pharmacist Exquisite’s health was restored to 90%, and she also joined the output, mainly using [Plucking Flowers to Sever Veins] to lower the boss’s defense. [Smoke Screen] and [Intoxicating Heart Flower] were low level, and their control effects were resisted by the boss. They could only deal a small amount of damage.

At 85%, the boss used a Splitting Palm, reducing Ten Thousand Men Enemy’s health to 50%.

This time, Ten Thousand Women Charm learned her lesson and used Hemostasis to slowly heal with Pharmacist Exquisite. Ten Thousand Men Hero temporarily increased his output, taking over the role of main tank, and switched back when Ten Thousand Men Enemy’s health was restored.

This is the advantage of having two healers and two tanks. It’s slow, but it’s stable.

80%, the trident swept again.

65%, Splitting Palm.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Hero: It seems like it’s 100%, 80%, 60%, 40%, 20% for the sweep, 85%, 65%, 45%, 25% for the Splitting Palm.

[Party] Ten Thousand Women Charm: It probably has a big move at 50%. Be careful.

[Party] Young Master Hate: Maybe there are others. The boss has more than two weapons.

Yinglong watched them discuss while yawning.

The advantage of being in a top team is that there are no idiots. Everyone uses their brains to play the game. She agreed: [I think so too. It has a fishing net on its back.]

The Fish Spirit has a trident in its hand, a slingshot around its waist, and a net on its back. All three weapons will definitely be used.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: It’s probably 50%. Be careful.

The Fish Spirit’s health bar reached 52%, then 51, 50.

Everyone focused their attention, preparing to deal with it, and the boss didn’t disappoint them. At 50%, it suddenly spoke.

[Iron Skin Fish Spirit]: You wretched humans, I will never let you leave!

Then, it yanked the fishing net off its back and flung it towards the players, covering them from head to toe.

Ten Thousand Men Enemy and Ten Thousand Men Hero were both melee fighters, very close to the boss. They were inevitably caught. Ten Thousand Women Charm and Young Master Hate were a little further away, about ten steps. They ran in different directions, but they couldn’t escape. The fishing net was actually a 360-degree, no-dead-angle AoE skill, covering more than fifteen meters.

After being caught by the fishing net, characters cannot move, cannot release skills, and continue to lose health.

Only Pharmacist Exquisite wasn’t caught.

Because she jumped up and stayed in the air for 1 second the moment the fishing net spread out.

This is a basic operation in Kyushu. W is forward, S is backward, A is left, D is right, and spacebar is jump. There was a simple guide when you first started. Her teammates were naturally familiar with this. Most games have this operation mode.

Jumping is only half a meter. You can’t avoid the fishing net’s capture just by pressing the spacebar. Yinglong saw the reef by the pond, and she jumped while activating Spirit Flying Step. She jumped again in the light skill state, a level 2 jump of 3 meters, staying in the air for 1 second.

The fishing net’s coverage radius is 15 meters, height is 3 meters, and the reef is 0.5 meters high, just enough to avoid it.

The four teammates were trapped in place, losing health at the same time.

The boss started attacking Pharmacist Exquisite. It’s a melee physical damage monster, not very fast. It takes two steps to reach her.

Yinglong actually didn’t remember the monster’s specific skills. After leveling up, she didn’t even look at the skills when fighting low-level dungeons. She could kill them with two moves. Now, she could only run far away and see if she could reduce the damage to her teammates.

It made no difference. The fishing net’s damage was continuous and constant, but the skill lock’s paralysis effect disappeared after 3 seconds. Ten Thousand Women Charm cast [Moxibustion] to dispel the negative effects on herself and her teammates, then activated [Bone Setting], increasing the attributes of herself and her teammates within range by 10 points, increasing physical defense by 10%, becoming immune to control effects for 3 seconds, and slowly restoring a small amount of mana.

Pharmacist Exquisite took the opportunity to circle back and cast [Acupuncture] to heal Young Master Hate, who had the lowest health, and cast [Hemostasis] on Ten Thousand Men Hero.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: Be careful, watch your health. We have 6 seconds left.

The fishing net’s control effect lasted for 15 seconds. If they hadn’t bought game currency to change equipment beforehand, they might have died and wiped out. Unexpectedly, the one with the worst equipment, the one most likely to die, Pharmacist Exquisite, actually avoided the big move. Her operation and awareness were both excellent.

She should be recruited if there’s an opportunity.

Yinglong managed to survive the 15 seconds with some effort.

Her equipment was too bad, her defense was almost nonexistent. She could only rely on her operation to take less damage.

Fortunately, she was only twenty years old this year, young enough. She could still focus at 4 am. In ten years, no matter how good her awareness was, her eyelids wouldn’t cooperate.

She lured the boss down to 47% and handed it back to Ten Thousand Men Enemy.

After that, there was nothing worth mentioning. Just dodge the AoE attacks on even numbers and the big damage attacks on multiples of five.

They grinded and grinded. At a little past 4 am, they defeated the first boss.

It generously dropped 3 pieces of equipment.

A green Fish Scale Breastplate, increasing physical defense and strength.

A pair of green pants, increasing health, Yuan Qi, and agility.

A blue sword-type weapon.

In Kyushu, the quality of equipment is set according to most games: White (Normal) < Green (Fine) < Blue (Rare) < Purple (Precious) < Orange (Legendary) < Gold (Divine Weapon).

According to the dungeon data table, Ten Thousand Men Hero was ranked first. He had taken on some damage and was a melee DPS, so he was the most qualified to take it.

But he said: [I already got one. Wan Ge, take the Breastplate.]

The Breastplate was only suitable for the Military Family. He didn’t want it. Ten Thousand Men Enemy, as the MT, hadn’t gotten one either, so everyone agreed that it should go to him.

The green pants could be used by both the Confucian Family and the Medical Family. Young Master Hate considered it for a moment and said: [Give it to the healer.]

He didn’t say specifically who.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: Pharmacist, can you give this to Ten Thousand Women Charm? She hasn’t gotten anything yet.

[Party] Pharmacist Exquisite: ok

The last sword was the hardest to distribute. Young Master Hate was a Confucian Family disciple, and his weapons were brushes, guqin, books, and swords. But he was third in contribution. If they gave him the best weapon, everyone might not be happy. Giving it to Ten Thousand Men Hero would seem like favoritism towards his own people.

Ten Thousand Men Enemy weighed his options and said: [Let’s hold onto the sword for now. Let’s see what the second boss drops.]

Everyone agreed and continued forward.

After crossing the pass guarded by the Fish Spirit, there was a river that reached halfway up their bodies. Wading through the river would consume stamina, and everyone’s speed slowed down significantly. They also had to be wary of the “water grass” that would entangle them at any time. This was a new type of monster.

They don’t move, but the water grass can cause “slow” and “bind” effects, making them more troublesome than the shrimp soldiers and crab generals at the entrance.

[Party] Pharmacist Exquisite: The next one should be a magic damage monster.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Hero: Possible.

[Party] Ten Thousand Men Enemy: Magic damage is hard to deal with.