Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 99 Recruit Training
The players watched as Weiwei walked up to the Mermaid Queen with white crystal grass in her hands and formed a circle around her with the stone-shaped herbs.

As the herb emitted a dazzling white light, the queen gently raised her fingers.

But the wound on her chest was too severe and could not heal. The mermaid's magic could only stop the blue blood from flowing out.

The hemostatic effect of white crystal grass is not ideal.

"If the herbs are made into a potion, will the Queen's illness be cured?"

After seeing this, Wang Yue first thought of pharmacist Baby. If a master pharmacist took action, the hemostatic potion made with white crystal grass might be able to heal the wound.

Weiwei was satisfied with the players' efforts, but she understood that even if the queen woke up, the bubble protecting the palace would burst sooner or later.

She had only two choices: either send her people away or destroy all the demons in the holy land.

But completing any option requires one condition: a sufficiently strong army.

"Thank you for the herbs. On behalf of all mermaids, I welcome the adventurers."

The bubble that wrapped the player burst at this moment, and the bubble turned into smaller and thinner bubbles, clinging to the player's body.

[Blessing of the Mermaid: Underwater movement speed increased to 100%, only available in the Mermaid Holy Land]

Each player saw his or her mission reward and began to experience the joy of moving without resistance in the palace.

"But now we are in trouble. In order to find herbs for the queen, almost all the guards we sent out died at the hands of demons."

Hearing this, the players lowered their heads in shame, but fortunately, Weiwei did not hold the players accountable. Instead, she issued a task request.

"We are short of manpower. I hope you can help train new recruits so that more mermaids can be put to use."

[Mission objective: Defeat the mermaid recruits (0/12)]

[Quest Reward: Mermaid Amulet]

After issuing the task, Weiwei hurried to the gap in the barrier. She also wanted to join the battle and kill this wave of attacking enemies.

Before leaving, she pointed the direction for the players. Behind the palace, there was a group of [Mermaid recruits] waiting for the players' training.

[Mermaid recruits: rookies who only know basic combat skills and lack practical training]

【Level: 9】

It is called training, but in fact it is a battle without death. Players need to reduce the health of the recruits to 10% to win, and they will also receive experience points as rewards.

The new recruits are all yellow-named monsters, giving players ample time to prepare.

"I'll go first."

In a one-on-one fight, Fat Cat is not afraid of any enemy, and because the player has the first attack, she can go behind the monster and start with [Backstab].

[Damage caused: 60]

After being hit, the recruit immediately turned around and stabbed the fat cat that stabbed him in the back.

"1, 1.2, Shadow Strike."

Fat Cat calculated the interval between his attacks, and used his newly learned skill [Shadow Strike] at the exact moment when the second knife landed.

[Damage caused: 15]

[Damage caused: 5 (10 absorbed)]

The skill effect of [Shadow Strike] is to launch an attack immediately, and the timing of use is the suggestion given by Wang Yue.

Using a skill at the moment of a normal attack can instantly cause two damages, and using it at this time can make the timing of the second normal attack not be affected by the skill action.

"This technique is very useful. You can use this skill once as long as the skill cooldown is over."

Wang Yue, who was watching from the sidelines, clapped for the fat cat in her heart. The difficulty of this technique lies in the countdown. If the skill is used too quickly, it will interfere with one's normal attacks, so one must calculate the timing well.

It only took Fat Cat 1.5 seconds from the start to the monster falling. The players who noticed her saw the recruits wrapped in blisters before they could react.

The defeated recruit's name turns green, the player can no longer attack him, then the bubble protecting him begins to shrink, and finally the bubble returns to the necklace around the recruit's neck.

Perhaps because the fat cat was too successful, other players felt that the recruits were weaker than ordinary monsters, and they all rushed to attack the recruits.

"Don't steal my monster. Can't you see I was here first?"

"It was obviously me who did it first. My flaming arrow flew past you before you did."

"So everyone please stop fighting, can we just follow the first come, first served principle?"

In addition to being protected by bubbles when health is too low, if a recruit is attacked by two players, protection will appear in advance, reducing all attacks to 0.

Therefore, players have to assign monsters to other places in advance to avoid that no one fails to complete the task.

"Let's stop arguing and divide the area according to the team. The captain will arrange the monsters in the area by himself, and remember to take care of the monster progress of the healing profession."

It was Maple Leaf who stepped forward at the critical moment. Under her organization, the players stopped fighting over monsters and focused on each area.

After all, this group of players plays the game to satisfy their desire for exploration. If the mission cannot be completed, there is no way of knowing what will happen next.

"Luckily, the players here are very easy to talk to, otherwise if we encounter unreasonable players who cause trouble, no one would want to play anymore."

Wang Yue was pleased to see that the players had quickly assigned the monsters, but he also made up his mind to have the game system delete such tasks tonight.

Even if these players have noble character, he shouldn't judge everyone with the greatest kindness.

"It's about time. I calculated that after completing the training mission, the players should log off."

The number of 12 is not too many for output professions, but it is quite difficult for healing professions and healing-output mixed professions.

What Wang Yue likes to watch most is the Priest fighting against the [Mermaid Recruit]. Both sides have shield skills and their attack power is not high.

The priest swung his hammer and finally broke the mermaid's shield, but before he did much damage, the opponent's [Tidal Shield] was restored.

"We still need to strengthen the early output of the healing profession. I'll write it down in my notebook and ask Xiao Nuo to revise it in the evening."

In the end, each team was just waiting for their healer to slowly fight with 12 monsters, and everyone was yawning.

The painful time soon ended, and the players returned to the palace to find Weiwei to complete the task.

Wang Yue planned to wait until the player went offline before doing the task herself, because the task reward [Tidal Amulet] was also an important special equipment.

"Although the equipment attribute is only +10 to the maximum health, the hidden effect will be triggered during the boss battle, just like when fighting the Snowman King. Not wearing it will cause unnecessary trouble."

[5 minutes left for the fourth day of testing]

【Please arrange your offline time reasonably】

The countdown to the offline reminder is longer than the past three days.

The players were still considering whether to use the last time to train with the mermaid recruits when the palace suddenly began to shake.

The giant whale let out a loud wail and its body was shaking violently.

The bubble protecting the mermaid queen was affected and burst. The queen fell into the white crystal grass, and the blood from her chest kept flowing out.

Cracks began to appear in the palace's barrier, and it could completely shatter at any moment.

Before the frightened players had time to go out to check the situation, the countdown for the test had ended and everyone was forced to log off.

(End of this chapter)