Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 428 How to Kill
"Good grief! I forgot about that!"

"But can the rain you summoned through your shamanic ritual really work? And this fire doesn't look like an ordinary fire at all!"

Other players weren't too optimistic about the [Pray for Rain] skill.

After all, it topped the list of "Completely Useless Skills That Require Account Deletion and Restarting" on gaming forums. Alongside it were the even more useless [Pray for Clear Skies], the completely unknowable [Summon Clouds], and the [Exorcise God], which could never summon any deity.

Taking advantage of the BOSS's "stun" state and the fact that it hadn't used any other skills, Renxin Huadao lazily shouted in the group voice chat, "Let's give it a try, we don't have any better ideas anyway!"

"111"

A player claiming to have the "Pray for Rain" skill excitedly typed and started casting.

In the game "Ten Continents Chronicles", every player will have an initial skill equally. As for what that initial skill will be, that's not equal, but depends on luck.

It's worth noting that this extremely unequal, luck-based initial skill is the only free skill that doesn't require serious learning and can be used simply by "casting a spell." Other spells and techniques require players to actually learn them. Of course, other minor skills can be learned through skill books dropped in the wild and through quests, such as [Wind Control], [Swiftness], and [Great Strength], which are also in the initial skill pool. However, unlike the initial skill, these can't be obtained for free; they either drop by chance or are purchased from other lucky players.

The player with the [Pray for Rain] skill is called [The Road is Long and Difficult]. In reality, he is a high school student. Although he is also subject to anti-addiction restrictions, he has always kept up with the majority of players because he was one of the earliest players.

[The road ahead is long and arduous] He initially joined the Chang'an community, but the Chang'an community was particularly fond of "encouraging him to study." As soon as they heard he was a high school student, they would start urging him to do his homework, making him play the game with trepidation every time he logged on. Later, when the Haoqi Changcun community posted a recruitment notice for a pioneering team, he decisively "abandoned the light and joined the darkness" and went to this small community, which was not even ranked at the time.

Unexpectedly, this unassuming little village turned out to be a dark horse. Because of its enthusiasm for exploration, it unexpectedly acquired an entire small world, becoming a village truly "built on a mine"! Later, it became so wealthy that it jumped into the top ranks of the entire server!
As a relatively veteran player, even though his level wasn't in the top tier, he was close to the Golden Core stage, just a little bit more experience and cultivation points away from condensing his core! Therefore, in addition to the initial skill [Praying for Rain], [The Road is Long and Difficult] had also farmed many skill books and learned everything that was needed. The reason he was accepted into the top five exploration team by Ni Cai was because he had an extraordinary talent—he was incredibly fast at running away.

Not only does he have a full set of skills related to running away, such as [Wind Control] and [Swift Movement], but his reaction speed with [Long and Difficult Road] is also extremely fast. Several times, he has served as the fastest tank in the raid, carrying three or four enemies at once. He runs fast and has stable aggro, so the raid members jokingly call him "Running Bro".

As for the skill [Pray for Rain], which he had almost forgotten about and hardly ever used, it was similar to the [Pray for Sunshine] skill that another unlucky player had drawn. Its description was very mysterious, and its consumption was not a fixed value or percentage like other skills, but rather "consumes all spiritual power".

This brings us to the point that the spiritual power values ​​of players in the Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core stages are vastly different. If the skill effects were all the same, wouldn't it mean that the higher a player's cultivation level and cultivation, the lower their skill level would be? Therefore, many players have discussed and speculated that the effect of this skill release might be related to the player's spiritual power value. However, since they have never had a chance to use this skill in the game, they have no way to make a comparison, so these statements are just speculations.

However, today's situation is a perfect opportunity for this skill to shine, so [The Road is Long and Difficult] is particularly excited. After finishing the incantation, he uncontrollably took several steps and formed several hand seals, his fingers were about to cramp!
Within a minute or two, dark clouds began to gather in the sky, and then, accompanied by lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured down.

This famous, seemingly useless skill finally made a spectacular comeback at this moment. The raging fire was greatly reduced by the torrential rain, and a series of splattering sounds rang out, which were the sounds of rain extinguishing the flames and hitting the red-hot rocks and beast bones.

However, the fire was not completely extinguished. This fire did not seem to be an ordinary flame. Even with such heavy rain, the bluish-white flames only turned orange-red, and the height dropped from more than half a meter to a few feet. Most of the fire was only extinguished by the rain, but it quickly reignited as if it had been ignited by something.

The fire was extinguished and then reignited, repeating this process until the fire remained so intense that players still couldn't find a place to land.

However, the effects of the heavy rain were quite noticeable; at least Nietzsche could clearly feel the temperature dropping, and it was no longer as unbearably hot as before.

Meanwhile, in the team chat, a quick-thinking mage player excitedly typed—

"Holy crap! Great opportunity! Throw a lightning talisman! Use the lightning spell!" Other players were confused: "Why are you suddenly saying this?"

As the mage charged towards the boss's location, he sent a voice message in the team chat: "Are you idiots?! Lightning talismans and lightning spells are more powerful in this weather! And lightning spells cost less mana!"

After speaking, the mage player shouted "Eat shit!" and unleashed a lightning spell at the BOSS, which was made of bones and stones and was as big as a mountain.

However, this attack seemed to be completely ineffective.

No, it wasn't entirely useless. At least the BOSS, which had seemed to be in a daze, was jerked and twisted its body. Then, a huge mouth suddenly opened on its body and swallowed the mage player whole before he could even scream "Holy crap!"

Then, the player's name went gray in the team panel, indicating that he had entered the resurrection cooldown.

A silence fell over the team channel. The players who had originally planned to follow the mage to attack the BOSS obediently turned around and ran back to the main group, no longer daring to make any moves, and just waited anxiously for Nietzsche's command.

Nietzsche witnessed this scene and fell silent for a moment.

The mage player who rushed up was a pro player and one of the top players in the raiding party. He often studied the numerical values ​​in the game "Ten Continents Chronicles" that were not explicitly displayed. He personally stayed up all night to test the effects of various medicines and skills. Not to mention in the community, even on the game forum, his strategy posts and review posts were the most famous and had the most collections.

His action of rushing in without prior notice was actually based on his own judgment. This situation is quite common. Although as a team, everyone is usually required to strictly follow the leader's instructions, in the face of such fleeting special opportunities, it is also necessary for team members to trust their own judgment and "take a gamble".

Especially for the skilled players in the team, who bear the expectation of making excellent plays and the responsibility of choosing the right time to play, they also have to accept the consequences of misjudgment, which causes the team to lose another skilled player.

However, neither Nietzsche nor any of the other members complained, nor did they criticize the skilled mage player. Raiding is a process of constant exploration; it's impossible for everything to go smoothly. This is just the beginning!
Instead, the skilled mage who was locked in the small dark room awkwardly typed in the team chat: "I never expected this! I've died twice already and it's still an instant kill mechanism!"

"It's alright, everyone dies when pioneering new lands," Nietzsche casually reassured her before continuing, "But let's not make unnecessary sacrifices and waste resources. Let's ask the NPC if she has any solutions or guidance. Baozi and Huangzhucao, aren't you two with the NPC? Help ask her!"

Ever since Nietzsche realized that this might actually be the real world, he has always been hesitant to give orders, fearing that he might make some irreversible decisions.

The simplest example is that it's not terrible for their raiding party to wipe out; what's terrible is if they wipe out and can't find a way to re-enter the same instance, or if the NPC that Uncle Tian explicitly instructed them to protect and bring out dies as a result. Leaving aside whether it was Uncle Tian's request, possibly from a high-ranking official in the Chinese government, that NPC is a living, breathing human being! How could she not make a careful decision?
"You really do have some tricks up your sleeve. This fire is the life-giving fire nurtured by the Demon Lord. Although you didn't gain anything from the battle just now, it suffered even greater damage!"

Perhaps sensing everyone's hesitation and embarrassment, Feng Liqi, who had been observing the group from a distance, took the initiative to speak to Guantangbao and Huangzhucao: "This Demon Lord was nearly killed by the Dragon Lord back then, and he hasn't recovered even after tens of thousands of years. That's why you had the chance. Otherwise, with your cultivation levels, how could you possibly fight him? If it were the Demon Lord of the past, he would have already waved his hand and killed you all a hundred or eighty times over!"

"But I really didn't expect that you could blow up its carefully nurtured physical body, and even extinguish its life-giving flames in such a pathetic state..."

At this point, she suddenly sighed, her voice filled with regret, "Alas, if it had been like this back then, it would have been no match for the Dragon King! The Dragon King wouldn't have perished here!"

Guantangbao scratched her head, assuming it was just an NPC going through the storyline. But after Fengliqi finished sighing and explaining, she, who had just heard Nietzsche's instructions in the group chat, asked, "Um... fellow Daoist, may I ask, given its current level, how do we kill it? I feel like it always has a way to revive itself?"

Tomorrow is New Year's Day! I'll be adding even more chapters tomorrow!!!