Outside the entrance to the dungeon, as a large number of players were being kicked out on the verge of death, those who had been prepared to enter suddenly became timid. The difficulty of this dungeon was beyond many people's expectations.
However, some people persisted after all.
At least hundreds of thousands of people entered the first batch. Even if nine out of ten were kicked out, there would still be tens of thousands of people left. These people are obviously the real elite!
So most players chose to wait and see, waiting for all the first batch of elite players to come out and listen to what they have to say before making a decision.
And everyone did not wait too long. After more than ten minutes, the first batch of expedition teams were finally kicked out due to timeout, and the forum instantly became active again.
Players above level ten continued to show up and give their own opinions, and most of what they brought back became positive news.
First and most important: as long as you can survive in the dungeon, the benefits will never be low!
Let’s not talk about the experience income, just talk about the material income. As soon as the first dungeon ended, someone immediately posted a photo of the equipment just synthesized in the blacksmith shop on the forum: a black iron grade sky breastplate.
Sky breastplate: A breastplate with an overall blue-white appearance. The synthetic formula is: one green magic crystal, three blue magic crystals, and 15 slug skins. Its attribute is to increase physical defense by 5 points.
For black iron-level equipment, this attribute can only be regarded as barely qualified, but after all, it is a set part. As more parts are collected, the value will continue to increase.
A complete black iron suit is no less powerful than a set of ordinary equipment of the same quantity.
More importantly, this player only used one copy to acquire such a piece of equipment!
According to this efficiency, it only takes a few days to collect a complete set of suits. For most players who have been in open beta for so long and still can't even get six binding slots, this is really a huge temptation!
Some of these elite players who have played the dungeon have reorganized their teams and invested in the dungeon again, and some have begun to try to write some strategies. However, due to incomplete information, most of the strategy content is relatively scattered, and there are obvious errors and omissions.
It wasn't until half an hour later that the first relatively formal strategy post was finally born.
"Auroville Strategy Group: First Floor of the Dungeon, Preliminary Exploration Report." 》
The poster of this post is the famous guide master 'Blue Eyes White Dragon', and the content is certainly much more reliable than those of ordinary players.
Everyone who couldn't wait hurriedly clicked to check.
"Note that the effective area of this strategy is limited to the west of the first level, or even the route I explored. See the picture."
Followed by a picture, the picture is a winding hand-drawn route map, only marking the monsters and items encountered on the route.
From the direction of the route, it can be clearly seen that the dungeon is indeed a maze. Going in many directions will lead to dead ends. You can only go back and find a way out, so you get out of this twists and turns effect.
"In general, there are three things you need to pay attention to when entering the dungeon."
"First, the monsters on the first floor are mainly composed of slimes, disease slugs, mushroom men of different shapes, spore fungi, etc. Among them, except for the mushroom men, the other three are poisonous, so you must be careful before entering. Be prepared with poison-resistant equipment and detoxification methods.”
"In this regard, you can use the 'poison glands' obtained in the dungeon to exchange for antidote and poison resistance powder in the drug store. The antidote can instantly remove the toxins on the body, and the poison resistance powder can greatly increase the poison resistance within an hour. , and at the same time, it can make players below level 10 immune to poisonous gas."
"Second, different methods need to be used to deal with different monsters. For example, slimes must be killed with long-range attacks. Otherwise, the toxin traps that erupt around the slimes when they die are enough to kill them within a few seconds. Take away more than 5,000 life points of melee personnel. On the contrary, the mushroom man must be killed with physical attacks, because such creatures often appear in groups, have no vision and hearing, and are only sensitive to magic. Once used A magical attack will instantly attract a large swarm of mushroom men to attack you."
"Finally, there is the spore fungus. This thing itself has no attack power. It is characterized by self-destruction when it encounters people. It will also produce a tracking toxin missile after death. Unless it can outrun the missile, it will almost certainly withstand 500 points. poisonous injury."
"There is no good way to deal with this kind of thing. You can basically resist it forcefully. However, the advantage is that after death, this thing will steadily drop a poison gland, which can be picked up without spending physical energy. This is also the poison gland of the copy. Primary Sources.”
"Third, the team mix must be reasonable. There must be melee and long-range, warriors and mages to deal with various situations. In addition, there must be a healer! Even if there are no dedicated healers, there must be multiple healers in the team. You have to use magic to sustain the battery. Otherwise, unless your team has an average strength of level 15 or above, you will inevitably be kicked out on the verge of death. It’s just a matter of how long you last..."
The content of the post is not much, but it is all useful information.
Many people suddenly realized after reading it, no wonder they died so quickly before, but this dungeon requires so much attention. Not only do they need to prepare antidote items, but they also need to keep the team's professions in order.
Among the players, the most powerful melee players are those who use bows, crossbows, and guns, and then the mages. Among the mages, there are very few who can heal spells. The overall proportion is not even one-tenth.
As soon as this post came out, the treatment staff immediately became popular.
"Looking for a professional treatment team. Those who pass the test will be given a purple suit..."
"For a fee, I'm looking for a healing player who will join the team for a long time. The treatment is good..."
"Sirius Guild is recruiting healing professionals at a high price. There is no limit to the number. The more the better..."
…
On the forum team page, there were a large number of posts recruiting healers in an instant.
The value of treatment staff has soared. Many posts show people vying for a treatment, and there are even various kinds of bidding, just like at an auction site.
Lin Hai is a well-known anchor. Many people know that he has a nun skin, which has an amazing amount of healing. He can also use various common auxiliary magics. His level is also high. It can be said that he is one of the auxiliary personnel that best meets the requirements of dungeon copies.
Within a few minutes after this post was posted, Lin Hai received thousands of team invitations backstage, including invitations from various well-known forces and experts. In addition, colleagues from the business alliance also sent private messages wanting to join him. Team up.
However, Lin Hai chose to decline all these invitations, even those colleagues from the Merchant Alliance who he got along with day and night, and his reasons were very sufficient: "The city lord invited me!"
Just six words left everyone speechless: If it were other characters, some of the masters might have tried to compete, but Captain Ghost, who dares to say that his team can be stronger than this boss? Moreover, with this wave of favorable relations with the city lord, it will be easy to get a long-term stable position in the future. This kind of condition is something they cannot provide anyway, so everyone has to give up.
At this time, Mu You had already gathered his troops and arrived at the entrance of the dungeon.
In addition to Lin Hai, he also specially invited another member of the business alliance: Xia Chong Yubing.
When he entered the dungeon, spawning monsters was only one aspect. The most important thing was to advance the progress of the dungeon as quickly as possible. To do this, he needed to find the exit to the second floor as soon as possible.
The first thing Mu You thought of was Xia Chong Yubing's 'honesty coin'.
This coin allows her to walk on the 'most correct path' every step of the way. For a maze like a dungeon, the most correct place is either a place where high-value treasures are hidden, or there is only an exit, Mu You added Prefer the latter.
Xia Chong Yubing suddenly received an invitation from the city lord, and was very surprised. After listening to Mu You's explanation, she was relieved. In addition, the other party promised to give her a long-term high-level position as reward, Xia Chong Yubing did not No matter how hesitant he was, he agreed to this job.
[You formed a team with the red sickle girl, Qingya Shuxiang, Lin Haihai, and Xia Chong Yubing, and entered the first floor of the dungeon together. 】
[You have lit up the soul lamp on the first floor of the dungeon. When entering the dungeon, you can choose to appear on any level where the soul lamp has been lit. 】
'Qingya Shuxiang' in the team is the name of Xiaoya's stand-in card that she just activated.
Upon entering the dungeon, Mu You first tried to release dark teleportation.
As a result, a prompt pops up: [The dungeon is a special environment, and all space magic cannot be released. 】
As expected, the teleportation array cannot be deployed...
Mu You was not too surprised, but all space magic is blocked here, which means that even spells such as teleportation and transposition cannot be used.
[Your team appears in front of a crystal mine. To your left is a cluster of green crystal minerals. Do you want to mine it? 】
"yes."
As soon as he entered, he encountered a cluster of gems, and Mu You tried mining them first.
[When you come to the crystal mine, the team's mobility is -1, mining is in progress, and it is expected to end in five minutes...]
[You have obtained Green Magic Crystal*2. 】
[Green Magic Crystal: One of the most common low-level gems on the first floor of the dungeon. It has abundant magic power and good hardness, and can be used to make a variety of black iron-level sky suit components. 】
[You see that the crystal clusters you excavated automatically retracted into the rocks and disappeared. They will not reappear until they grow to a sufficient size. 】
It seems that the ores in this dungeon are specially equipped with a resource protection mechanism. The gems on the surface will automatically retract after being mined to prevent greedy people from mining the roots as well, causing the lake to dry up.
Having said that, it takes five minutes to complete a collection, which is inefficient. A total of one copy only takes an hour.
So the text then asked whether to continue collecting the crystal ore next to it, and Muyou decisively chose no.
It's enough to understand the mechanism once. They are here to try speedrunning and they can't waste too much time on mining.
[Xia Chong Yubing: Next, take the middle road. 】
The group of people continued to move forward, and when they encountered the next fork in the road, Xia Chong Yubing gave a prompt prompt.
As the captain, Mu You was responsible for controlling the team's direction of action. At this time, he chose the middle route and recorded the route on the paper at hand.
[You choose to continue going straight. 】
[You saw three green jelly-like creatures blocking the front. After discovering you, they immediately squirmed towards you. 】
[Acid Slime (level 11), attack power 15-17, defense power 35, health value: 4000 points, ability: acid spray, activates poison trap when dying. 】
[You released the Fire Spear Technique towards the slimes. Continuous fire spears shot out from your hands, igniting all the slimes. 】
[Under the high amount of burning damage, the health of the three slimes dropped rapidly until they died. 】
[You kill slimes*3, life span +3, experience value +10, and get 'Slime Gel'*3, 'Poison Gland'*3. 】
[The slime explosion produced ripples of poison that spread in circles, but it did not affect you and your teammates. 】
…
The team moved forward smoothly, and the monsters they encountered were basically killed instantly.
After all, a few people came in after reading the guide, and they were prepared for various situations. Even if they encountered monsters not mentioned in the guide, Mu You had an omniscient crystal. If that didn't work, he had a pocket watch to backtrack, so the error tolerance rate was extremely high. .
But even so, there are still some troubles that cannot be avoided even if you want to.
"To the left."
At the next intersection, Xia Chong Yubing gave the usual prompt.
The group had no objection and continued moving forward.
However, after walking for a while, Mu You quickly discovered something was wrong and hurriedly backtracked according to the table.
"Everyone stop and stand back!"
Mu You typed this sentence as quickly as possible, but it was still a step too late.
[You see a large number of floating spore fungi crawling in mid-air at the intersection ahead. 】
[The excessive number of spores here makes you realize that you may have broken into the nest of spore fungus. 】
[A large number of spores are floating toward you, and you and your team members quickly retreat. 】
[Hundreds of spores exploded in the air one after another, turning into green toxin missiles and attacking you rapidly. 】
[You luckily escaped the pursuit of the missiles, but the red sickle girl who fell at the end was submerged in the green poisonous mist explosion...]
[The red sickle girl entered a dying state and was automatically teleported back to the surface. 】
Spore fungus, this thing is a bit like the dungeon version of the self-destructing fish. It will rush towards people and explode itself when it encounters people. It will cause poisonous damage and is difficult to avoid.
This wave of others managed to withdraw, but Lin Xue was left behind because she was still in a weak state and too slow. As a result, she blocked the knife for them and was drowned by a large amount of poisonous gas and returned to the city.
"Ah, I'm sorry..."
Xia Chong Yubing was immediately panicked. She was the one who led the way. Unexpectedly, she led the team into the monster's lair right after they started, thus directly reducing the number of members in the team.
[Red Sickle Girl: It’s okay, it’s okay, just keep going. 】
Lin Xue comforted Xia Chong Yubing in the game, and then sent a private message to Mu You.
"You guys go ahead, I won't follow you. My health is too low right now and I can barely react to emergencies. If I follow you, I will be holding you back."
Mu You naturally understood what Lin Xue meant. Her current attributes were all in single digits, which caused her life to be maintained at an extremely low level. It was really not suitable for her to start a book, so she did not force her to have a good rest and lead the team. keep going.
[You picked up 'Poison Glands'*113 from around. 】
[You continue to move forward with your team, and soon you find that there are two plant tubes similar to giant morning glory growing on the mountain wall ahead, protected by a layer of light film. 】
[This is the 'fungus vent', the mother nest of spore fungi, which will automatically produce a spore fungus every minute on average. After being ejected, the spores will pass through the light film and float to every corner of the first floor of the dungeon like a dandelion. 】
[Because the fungus vent is protected within a special barrier, it is inaccessible to ordinary people. But as the city lord, you have the right to revoke and establish any barriers in the dungeon at any time. Open the barrier and permanently eliminate this fungal vent? 】
"no."
Mu You nodded directly.
Although spores are annoying, the dropped poison glands are one of the necessary materials in the dungeon. He doesn't need them himself, but other players will definitely need them, so of course he can't destroy them casually.
But having said that, since he can build a barrier at any time, he can find a suitable place in the dungeon to place the queen ant eggs he obtained previously.
In this way, waiting for the queen ant to mature can not only provide the player with an additional option to spawn monsters, but he can also regularly harvest the blood and flesh of a wave of queen ants as a source of meat for the shadow wolf.
(End of chapter)
