How Level Zero Devil Destroys Player Experience

The teammates next to him noticed the difference in his expression and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What happened?"

"Strange, I think I stepped on something soft." The battlefield mage looked hesitantly at the ground below him, but in such a dim environment, even with the light of the fluorite lantern, he could not see clearly what was under the muddy swamp.

"I felt something I stepped on just now." His teammate patted his shoulder and comforted him, "It might just be some rotten plants or softened soil underneath. Don't think too much. By the way, after this operation, I will go back to my hometown to get married."

"Really? Actually, I have decided that I will confess my feelings to Miss Kalia after this operation."

"Haha, I wish you success."

"You too, remember to come and have a drink with us once in a while."

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No matter how the flags of the two people over there are set, the battle between the players on the other side is already going on fiercely.

As the battle progressed, they discovered that not only were the bosses difficult to deal with, but the monsters around them were also difficult to deal with. There were more types than before, and they all had various special negative effects, ranging from slowness and freezing to blindness and weakness.

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I had a drink at a banquet yesterday and fell asleep without writing, so I will only update once today. By the way, several of my favorite artists are very busy with their drafts, so I guess we won’t be able to commission them until after May.

Chapter 72: The Poison Thorn Ball Takes Effect

Although most of them are not fatal, they greatly increase the possibility of accidents during combat.

For example, you might be preparing to use a charge to avoid the explosion of the explosive tree, but it responds with a slowing effect; you might be trying to withstand the attack, but the corrosive liquid sprayed by the monster on the other side erodes your defense.

The existence of these characteristics makes players miserable.

"Tsk, the characteristics of these monsters are really troublesome." Hallelujah, the leader of the fifth group of the Siren Guild, waved the iron shield in his hand and flattened the soft tentacles in front of him. Looking at the slow effect on his body caused by the mucus, he couldn't help but frowned, "After this operation, we must quickly ask the pharmacists in the guild to refine more targeted potions."

This fell into the ears of his assistant, Luo Yangzhi, who couldn't help but tease, "With so many negative effects, which one do you want them to refine? Why not just refine the entire SCP500 and solve all the troubles at once?"

Hallelujah ignored the joke and raised his eyebrows slightly in dissatisfaction, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that what the other party said made sense. "Just refine the main ones, and the disgusting negative effects like slowness must be dealt with."

"Why don't you say that defense reduction is also disgusting." Luoyangzhi seemed to enjoy arguing with the other party, and even asked another deputy Yichen to help him speak, "Don't you think so, Achen... Achen?"

But after he called out a few times, the other party seemed to react and responded, "Well, what's the matter?"

Seeing this, Hallelujah and Luoyangzhi were a little confused, "Achen, what's wrong with you? Something was wrong since the last time you started the BOSS."

"I always feel a little uneasy, I don't know why." Yi Chen hesitated and expressed his opinion.

"What's there to be worried about? Don't we still have three or four chances to revive?" Hallelujah laughed and blocked the attack of the monster next to him and killed it at the same time.

Luoyang Zhi beside him also consoled him, "Look, he's not even afraid of Harley. Just let him go and die."

"Bah, what nonsense are you talking about, kid? Are you looking for a fight?"

Seeing his brother fooling around, Yi Chen felt a lot more relaxed. He shook his head and opened the character panel to check what negative effects he had so that the pharmacist in the guild could make the corresponding potion. However, he accidentally caught a glimpse of an inconspicuous place.

"... Strange, does this fire resistance feel a little less?"

This is the experience for the players, and the feeling given to the military is not much different.

The one who felt it the most was the pink-haired creature who designed all this. At this moment, he was waving his staff non-stop to bestow various blessings and treatments on Kai who was protecting him. At the same time, he had to be careful about whether there were monsters hidden in the swamp that might attack him, and he also had to keep an eye on the movements of the BOSS over there.

In addition, you must pay attention to your status bar. Once there is any adverse negative effect, you must immediately take out the corresponding potion, or use purification to remove it. The busy posture is almost like having to finish several math papers in an hour.

This made me silently complain in my heart.

"Damn it! Why couldn't this guy just pick a soft target? He had to pick the toughest one to deal with..."

Yes, the one who caused all this was naturally Lucina who was resisting the BOSS's attacks together with the surrounding teams in the front.

This guy presumptuously thought that as the core of a group of 100 people and the most core team among them, it was natural for him to lead us to find the most difficult demonized boss, the mutated explosive mother and child tree.

Hey, as a commander you must understand the importance of your own safety. Wouldn't it be nice for us to just hide in the fountain and direct the battle happily?

The mutated explosive mother tree is several times larger than ordinary mother and child trees, standing like a hill in the swamp and is very conspicuous. Even if you don't judge from its shape, just the dozens of explosive child trees growing around it will tell you that the other party is definitely not something to be trifled with. What's more, the characteristics of the suffix after demonization make it twice as strong as other bosses in all aspects, both in terms of health and attack and defense.

Not only that, in order to counter the army's attack yesterday, I also spent a lot of points to strengthen these leaders, especially the demonized mutated explosive mother and child tree in the middle, which has several more different characteristics compared to the ordinary explosive mother and child tree.

For example, the combo ability of the buried fire, the fire explosion - when the attack of the mutated explosive tree hits the enemy, if the opponent is carrying the effect of the fire, the fire will explode in advance.

Another example is the ability that is not much different from the Explosion Mode, the fission tree species - every time the health of the mutated explosive mother tree is reduced by 5%, a different number of tree species will be randomly buried within a radius of yards. The tree species will grow into different types of monsters to attack the surrounding players.

This is also the reason why I am so busy now——

If shadow trees grow around, it would be a disaster for a fragile mage like me. To use an old saying to describe the current situation, it seems that he is asking for trouble.

Lucina in the front row was also not feeling well. The demonized mutated explosive mother tree was huge in size, and its attack range was extremely wide, making it difficult to dodge. Once attacked, it would be accompanied by the effect of fire. In addition, it was surrounded by sub-trees, so it was easy to explode the fire directly, causing the health line to drop rapidly.

Even Lucina, an elite warrior, couldn't hold out for long. Seeing that the priest couldn't heal her health, she immediately withdrew.

"Why does the damage feel a little off?" Lucina used up the recovery potion supplied by the army to temporarily recuperate, and frowned as she looked at her rising health.

But Lucina didn't think much about it. When she saw that the effect of the antidote had disappeared from her body, she took out a bottle of antidote and drank it.

Just at this time, the blood volume was almost restored, and Lucina stepped forward again to help her comrades resist the attack of the demonized leader. After more than an hour of attack, they finally beat the BOSS to below 20% of its blood line.

I believe it can be solved soon, and then we can help other teams defeat other BOSSes one by one.

What Lucina, who was a little excited, didn't notice was that the poisoning effect on her body had not been eliminated even after taking the antidote, and it seemed that it had changed slightly over time, and seemed to blend with the other burning effect on her body -

Primary Fire Poison: While deducting a certain amount of health during the duration, it also reduces one's own fire resistance.

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Chapter 73 The protagonist always appears last

And this situation did not only happen to Lucina. Many army soldiers in the swamp, or not just them, even the players had noticed that something was wrong.

"Strange, why doesn't this medicine work?"

"What's going on? I've used three bottles of antidote, but the poisoning still hasn't been resolved."

"Wait, what is this painful blindness? Why have I never heard of it before?"

Noticing the unusual commotion around me, I guessed something and couldn't help but laugh to myself, "Sure enough, the effect of the poisonous thorn ball has begun to take effect."

That’s right, yesterday I placed a large area of ​​poisonous thorn balls around the area where the boss-level monsters gathered.

In such a fierce battle, coupled with the concealment of the poisonous thorn ball, no one would notice what they stepped on or were infected with any special effects. Even if they did notice it, they would probably just think it was debris under the swamp.

Then, as the battle with these bosses lasts longer, the poisoning that is strengthened by the poisonous thorn ball and cannot be removed, coupled with the toxins in the poisonous thorn ball itself, and more or less mixed with other continuous damage effects, can accelerate the negative effects of the redstone potion.

Some people may ask, if this is the case, why not place these poisonous thorn balls in the front of the swamp in advance? In this way, the poisoning effect in the swamp can be strengthened earlier so that it cannot be removed, thereby activating the redstone potion to destroy the fire resistance effect more quickly.

In fact, this is not the case. If the army and those players find that they still cannot remove the poisoning effect after using antidotes, they will definitely use purification skills. At that time, the effect of the poisonous thorn ball will also be eliminated, which is definitely not worth the loss.

But at this point, some people may want to ask, in this kind of fierce battle situation, for those priests and paladins, isn't purification often used immediately after the cooldown ends?

But others may not know, I know very well that this kind of purification mechanism in the early stage of the game in Era can only remove three kinds of negative effects on the body at the same time, starting from the highest priority control DEBUFF to the continuous negative gains of different damage levels.

The weak poisoning effects like the Poison Thorn Ball are usually settled at the end, which is why so many people hated it in the previous life. Similarly, this is why I designed so many monsters in this area that have abnormal states when attacking.

Not only can the priority of the Poison Thorn Ball drop to the bottom, but the most important thing is that the Poison Thorn Ball has a special ability after being strengthened by me - Wonderful Reaction, which allows it to merge the DEBUFF carried by the player or the army into a new effect.

So, everything that others can think of is naturally what I have already thought of. How can you doubt my ability to torture my opponents?

"It will take some time to reduce these people's fire resistance to a certain level." I made a rough estimate and decided that it would be better to put the highlight a little later, so as to give them a complete surprise.

Yes, no matter how many bosses there are, no matter how powerful they are, and no matter how well they coordinate with the surrounding monsters and terrain, they are all arranged by me to delay the army and players' attacks, mainly to make the negative effects of the redstone potion take full effect. Naturally, I can't put all my cards on them.

If the most important troops are not eliminated, they will always fall under the endless attacks of players and the army.

However, having said that, there is one thing they did quite well, and that is reducing the number of resurrection times for players.

"Damn it, we finally have to deal with these two bosses. Let's quickly have the thieves in the guild go over and grab as many equipment as possible. Remember to keep an eye out for the people from the Siren, Azure Coast, and Waxing Moon guilds nearby."

Vice President Mo Jin of Shadow Poetry swept an ice tornado towards the group of monsters in front of him. Looking at the mutated flaming mother and child trees and the corrupted wood spirit elder whose health was about to drop below 5% not far away, he immediately issued an order in the guild channel.

Then, as if he remembered something, he asked his assistant next to him, "According to the data compiled by the intelligence department, how many times have our people died in the ruins so far?"

"The average is 3.06 times, which means that most people still have two chances to enter the ruins, while the other part has been resurrected four times and only has one life left." The deputy looked at the data, sorted it out, and replied, "The other guilds should be similar to us."

Mo Jin couldn't help but frowned when he heard this. "Tell those who have been resurrected four times to be careful and not rush too far forward. As long as we deal with these bosses, we can soon break through the swamp and perhaps follow the army directly into the next level."

Because of the gains brought by the event, the first two thousand players to enter the second level will have two additional opportunities to choose abilities, and can also get a lot of contributions, which they must strive for.

Just as he finished his words, countless attacks from all around finally fell on the two bosses not far away, taking away all of their remaining blood.

As the huge body collapsed, it also detonated all nearby players, who rushed to the position under the BOSS, intending to grab one or two powerful equipment from it.

As these two BOSSes were resolved, it seemed as if the beginning had been broken. Several more boss-level monsters fell to the players one after another. The loot dropped, plus the huge points and contributions obtained, greatly boosted everyone's morale.

The army was naturally no exception. After Lucina stabbed the sword in her hand heavily into the body of the demonized mutated explosive mother-and-child tree in front of her, she kicked the tree with her long legs, leaped backwards, turned around and started charging, and landed perfectly in the opponent's explosion before death, looking relaxed and elegant.

The largest and most difficult monster was solved, which immediately inspired the surrounding soldiers and made them cheer.

“Haha, that’s great.”

"Finally got rid of this monster!"

"Okay, now that you've rested, go support the other teams."

Lucina also breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from her forehead and smiled with satisfaction. She put away her weapons and directed the team to rest for a while. When she accidentally saw a petite figure in the team, she couldn't help but walk towards it, "Your Highness, thank you for your hard work. Miss Kai and Miss Shim have also worked hard."

Kai and Shim nodded in response.

"It's okay. It's Sister Lucina who has worked hard." I shook my sore arms and blinked at her.

Lucina said nothing. She smiled and turned to look at the few remaining twenty or so bosses in the distance. "We will be able to kill them all soon. Then we can completely break through this swamp, or even break through to the next level directly."

Is it really that smooth?

The corners of my mouth curled up in an imperceptible arc, and I looked up at the distant sky, as if to remind the other person.

"Wait, Sister Lucina, what do you see there?"

Chapter 74: Flames Sweeping

Lucina subconsciously looked up when she heard that.

There, in the dim environment, one could only see the top of the cave with countless scattered stone pillars. But now, under the illumination of the firefly light above the head of the Corrupted Wood Spirit Elder, one seemed to be able to vaguely see a figure flying towards this side.

At the same time, there were several balls of flames that were getting bigger and bigger.

"Be careful, a new enemy has appeared!"

Lucina was startled and reacted subconsciously, and quickly shouted a warning to the army and players in front.

However, sound could not be transmitted over a distance of a hundred yards, let alone in such a fierce battle situation. Even if Lucina's voice reminded these people, they seemed unable to dodge the dozens of scorching fireballs flying towards them.

These flames drew graceful trajectories in the air and fell down. The scorching temperature ignited the methane contained in the swamp, and in an instant, it exploded with powerful heat.

Boom boom boom.

Explosions sounded continuously, and in just a single encounter, about 100 to 200 people were killed and wounded on the players and the military side. Although the vast majority were players, there were also many guild elites among them.

"Haha, you guys think you can force your way into Lord Naidoru's territory? You are overestimating yourself. I will kill you all right here!"

A clear and vibrant sound rang out in the sky above the swamp. The players and troops who had been attracted by the sudden explosion subconsciously cast their eyes upwards, where a figure in a black skirt and armor appeared at some point.

The gray skin and the blazing flames on both sides present a sharp contrast, making the delicate face even more charming.

"Wow, she's a beautiful girl."

"Extra points for being a womanizer, I can do that!"

Some players seem to have a different focus.

"It's a leader-level BOSS, and it's level 30, hiss..."

"Evil Corpse Princess, could this be the Nadoru described in the incident?"

"Impossible, they must be the subordinates of the evil spirit princess Nadoro."

"Wait, this is only the first floor. Could it be that this boss named Naidoru has more leader-level subordinates?"

The other group of people were more realistic and discovered a lot of information. Moreover, the leaders of those big guilds were considering whether they could eliminate the boss who suddenly appeared.

Even though the members of these guilds don't have many chances to be resurrected, if you take into account the number of more than 20,000 players, and with the assistance of the army, they still have a great chance of winning. After all, there are only a dozen or so boss monsters left here, which can't hinder them much.

The military's reaction was similar.