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Chapter 235: Crystallization of the Old Man's Love for Marathon

"The boss of this floor, [Crystal Elder], is very good at running away, and the venue is very large, so it is difficult to catch up with him under normal circumstances."

"Even if you finally catch up with him, he will run away before you can even hit him twice, and you need to keep repeating the process."

"When the damage to the boss accumulates to a certain level, it will control the monsters on the ceiling to launch a magic bombardment on the ground. So far, no one has been able to survive it."

Luluwo shook her head and said, "Even I can't make it through, let alone others."

You are so confident. Tulsi admitted that the other party was very good at strategy, but.
"What's the matter with what you told me before, that the left side is much easier?" Her face darkened. "The intensity of the battle here is too high!"

When she was being chased by many monsters, when she had to carefully avoid monsters, when she fell into the trap of the Kirigakure nobleman. Whenever she encountered danger, she thought of Luluwo.

I want to beat to death the guy who told her false information!
"But you know magic, right? You can use invisibility and get here, right?" Luluwo said as she warmed up. "Comprehensively speaking, this place is definitely easier for you. I will analyze the information I give you based on the actual situation."

Tulsi opened her mouth, but in the end she couldn't refute. Invisibility here is simply a wheelchair, but it is a wheelchair with a very high threshold for use.

She could foresee how profitable it would be to sell invisibility scrolls once the Lake Lienia area became popular.

"By the way, you just said Stellan also came in and walked to the right?" Luluwo suddenly asked.

"Yes." Tulsi looked at her: "What's wrong?"

"Then let's rest here for a while and wait for them."

Luluwo asked everyone to rest on the spot, and then explained: "Both sides can be connected to the boss's venue. Normally, no matter which side you go, you will end up in the boss's venue, but I found a shortcut today. It not only leads directly to the venue gate, but also connects the left and right sides."

"What's the difference?" Seth asked, "Can we explore other paths in reverse?"

"No, it's the position." Luluwo smiled mysteriously, "Our position is very important when triggering the boss battle."

"If you go in through the main gate, you can seize the initiative."

While waiting, everyone chatted idly and shared the information they knew.

There was no doubt about the outcome of the matter. Luluwo knew everything that Tulsi and her group knew, and she knew it in even more detail.

"Just think of it as a way to give back to old customers. I'll tell you some information for free." She took a sip of the hot water. "The scenes on the left and right are similar. The only difference is the monsters and the mechanisms. You have seen the portrait of the Moon Princess, right?"

Everyone nodded, and she continued:

"The portrait hanging in the same position on the right is of the Full Moon Queen. It is preliminarily speculated that she is the mother of the Moon Princess. How about this news? Is it exciting?"

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Everyone was speechless for a while, mainly because they had no idea how "big" these two suspected big shots were, so there was no reason to be excited.

Luluwo curled her lips, feeling a little bored.

After waiting for a long time, the elves didn't come here. She finally couldn't sit still any longer, so she stood up, patted her butt and said, "Let's go, if we don't start fighting now, we'll miss dinner."

She used a peculiarly shaped key to open the heavy stone door, passed through the narrow and long tunnel, and suddenly the view in front of her opened up.

Opposite is an identical tunnel, connected to the right branch, and next to it is a big door engraved with an incomprehensible emblem. Pushing the door open is the boss battle site of [Crystal Old Man].

Just as Luluwo put her hand on the door, she finally began to explain:

"If you go in from here, you will appear behind the boss. If you run fast, you can take the opportunity to cut a few times. If you go in from the left or right, the enemy will attack you first, and the distance is very far."

So that’s what it means to seize the initiative.

Including Tulsi and her group, the number of adventurers here has reached twenty-five, and none of them are small fry. Can such a force not take down the Crystal Elder?
The door was slowly pushed open, and when it was just wide enough for one person to enter, Luluwo rushed in like an afterimage.

The rest of the people followed in one after another, and it seemed that they were already familiar with the process, and some of them had numb expressions.

"what?"

Tulsi also hurried in to see what the legendary crystal old man was like and how he could hold back so many adventurers. However, just as she stepped through the door, she suddenly heard Luluwo's ​​surprised cry.

Did anything unexpected happen?

After she saw the situation inside clearly, she finally understood why the other party screamed.

Normally, after entering through the gate, you will see the Crystal Old Man with his back to the adventurer within twenty meters in front of you. At this time, anyone with quick feet can rush up and give him a hard blow.

But I don't know if it's a protection mechanism, but he's like a producer of Aincrad who has turned on a health lock, so he can't be killed instantly. If the damage he takes is too high, he will become like this.

I saw an old crystal man with a vague figure hanging high in the sky, rubbing a magic ball formed by crystal magic in his hand, and the densely packed laser bugs hanging on the ceiling were charging lasers, as if they would start bombing the ground in the next second!

Encountering the second stage as soon as entering the venue? ? ? She hurriedly looked at Luluwo, but the latter pointed to the other side of the vast venue.

There, a group of elves stood out. They were Stellan and her group.

How come these guys have already started a fight with the leader!
"That shouldn't be the case. I clearly left a familiar on the right side, and they should report to me once they are found." Luluwo was puzzled, but the current situation did not allow her to think too much, so she quickly shouted:

"Find a spot on the field that's not covered by shadows and stand there!"

A place not covered by shadows?

Both Stellan and Tulsi looked around immediately. The entire place was shrouded in shadows cast by the laser bugs on the ceiling, but there were indeed some brighter gaps beneath the layers of shadows, enough for one or two people to stand.

There are quite a few such gaps, but they are not easy to find if no one reminds them.

"We can hide from the first wave of attacks there!"

Everyone hurried to find a gap, but they were still a step too slow. The crystal old man was already accumulating strength before they came in!

Tulsi had just pulled Set to find a gap when the lasers from the sky fell like a storm!

"Bang bang bang!"

It was only then that she understood why standing in the gap could avoid the laser.

The laser bugs are all hanging on the ceiling, and there will definitely be collisions and squeezing between them, which will inevitably lead to gaps. These gaps are where the lasers cannot hit!

The explosion created by the laser is very small, so don't worry about being caught in the gap.

Amid the continuous bombing, those who did not have time to dodge were sent back to the door to accompany Roger, while Luluwo used the amplification magic to shout loudly:
"Prepare the bubble shield!"

Tulsi was stunned, and felt that the name of this magic was familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

The magician among the surviving adventurers chanted a spell amid the lasers, and soon, a layer of huge elastic bubbles appeared on everyone's body, resembling a magic shield and filled with the smell of seafood.

I remembered, this is the magic of the mermaids! I haven't seen such a rare thing for a long time!
She remembered that [Bubble Shield] was also a defensive magic, but its effect was a bit weird. It didn't have a high defense performance against attacks - in Gong Qiying's words, the damage reduction rate was very low - but it had a magical effect: automatic repair.

Before the total magic power is exhausted or encountering an overly strong attack, this slippery soap bubble-like shield can automatically repair damage less than one tenth of its own area, at least twice, and has a slight deflection effect on ranged attacks. It can be said that it sacrifices the damage reduction rate in exchange for a long-term duration.

In most cases no one uses it in actual combat, however.

It is useful to deal with the random lasers after a round of laser bugs!

Luluwo discovered a pattern: most lasers would first lock onto the adventurer's head, aiming to hit the head with every shot, and the head was naturally a small target compared to the body.

Although the laser bugs have high accuracy, the adventurers will jump up and down, and the slight deflection effect brought by the bubble shield is enough to protect the adventurers!
As for those lasers that are not aimed at the head, you can only rely on the ordinary damage reduction rate of the bubble shield and your physical fitness to withstand them.

Being able to resist fatal injuries is already a great achievement, and you can't ask for more.

By the way, she also discovered this mermaid magic, [Bubble Shield], by chance in the lake area. She didn't expect that it could be used to fight against the crystal old man. This was really a pleasant surprise.

This is in line with the rule she had summarized before: "Use dungeon products to deal with dungeons."

The old man with crystals rubbed a magic ball that hung in the sky and released scattered crystals. It then fell to the ground. The adventurers who had been eyeing it eagerly rushed up quickly.

But before the adventurer in the front could rush to him, he shrank his body and disappeared in an instant, moving to the edge where there were the least adventurers in the blink of an eye.

People had no choice but to chase again, and the magic, arrows and other long-range attacks fired at the Crystal Old Man would be intercepted by the highly accurate lasers, and deceleration magic was also ineffective against him.

This should be considered the second stage of the Crystal Elder, but apart from the random lasers and crystals, the rest of the moves are not much different from the first stage.
Just as Tulsi was thinking this, she suddenly saw the bubble shields on people burst one by one, and they were once again hit by the lasers and fled for their lives.

This... duration is too short, isn't it?
No, it's because the laser attack frequency is too high, causing the shield to be consumed quickly.

The magicians need to replenish everyone's shields. It's okay once or twice, but if it happens too many times, problems will inevitably arise.

The firing rate of the laser will become faster and faster. Magicians need to maintain the release of magic during high-intensity movement, which requires a certain level of quality, and the reserve of magic power is also a problem. These lasers will even prioritize attacking people who drink medicine!

Soon, Tulsi understood what Luluwo meant by the "number of people" problem.

They need more people to challenge the Crystal Elder together to keep the cycle of magic going!

The key to the strategy is looping!
As long as the release speed of the bubble shield can keep up with the speed of its rupture, then killing the crystal old man is only a matter of time.

At the same time, Luluwo also appeared beside her and said:

"Do you understand? We can't win this time. Let's go out and recruit accomplices!"

(End of this chapter)