My talent is 1.

On the Zhijie Plateau, Shen Mengli and Shen Youchu are fighting a BOSS, a level 30 epic BOSS called Guardian Tree.

The Guardian Tree has high defense and health, and also has ranged attacks.

However, it has a drawback: slow attack speed, long skill cast time, and the user cannot move until their health drops below 30% before they can get up.

Five million life points? Shen Youchu shook her head.

However, the Guardian Tree can only attack from directly in front of it; although it can turn around, it does so very slowly.

Moreover, if there is no target in front of you, you will not use any skills.

If she hadn't known all this, Shen Mengli really wouldn't have dared to come and fight.

She only summoned three summoned beasts, all of which had high attack speed and armor/magic penetration.

Even so, after four hours of fighting, the Guardian Tree still had around one million HP left.

Shen Mengli's profession is the hidden profession of Heavenly Summoning.

With the added blessing of the Beast Lord talent, he can currently summon up to 8 summoned beasts on the field at the same time.

However, the sheer number of such environments does not offer much advantage.

Instead, it was safest for the three ranged attackers to draw fire from outside the Guardian Tree's attack range, allowing Shen Youchu to continuously deal damage from behind.

Even now that the Guardian Tree has risen, Shen Mengli's summoned beasts continue to harass her, and the Guardian Tree's hatred remains focused on the summoned beasts.

Shen Youchu can still output damage with confidence.

Backstab damage increased by 50%, and with Shen Mengli's critical hits, the Guardian Tree's defense will be significantly reduced after getting up, creating many opportunities for Shen Youchu.

Shen Mengli pondered that after defeating this BOSS, she would have enough reputation points, but she was unsure whether it would drop guild tokens.

She hasn't accepted any other missions for so many days, only those that offer reputation and gold.

I've practically completed all the reputation quests and hidden quests in the three main cities.

I have 30,000 gold coins now. There's an S-level hidden quest that gives a lot of gold coins, but there are no experience or other rewards, only gold coins.

As a result, her reputation has reached nearly 10,000, and she can be considered the richest person in the game.

It should be noted that even if Zhao Wuji's several merchant guilds pooled their money together, and the gold coins of tens of thousands of people were added together, it would only amount to a little over 50,000 gold coins.

In this fantastical world, there's no such thing as paying to recharge. No matter how rich or powerful you were before, you start from scratch here.

The original government and chamber of commerce forces, knowing how to win people's hearts and how to build their teams, formed a large force early on by constantly merging smaller groups.

Needless to say, the military, having gone through life and death together with their comrades during the war, are more likely to unite as one.

Most factions aren't particularly short of money right now, but they really lack reputation, and what they lack most is guild tokens...

Zhao Wuji entered the dungeon to see if the first kill of the level 30 gold boss would drop a guild token.

As for Sikong Shen, he has already started a hidden quest after obtaining the ring.

Lin Xihang was a bit unlucky; he entered the game on the hard difficulty but failed to clear it, and was eliminated at the last level 40 gold boss.

You can only enter a dungeon once a day. Unless you get a dungeon scroll that drops inside, you can only run it again the next day.

When Lin Xihang saw the people from Xianyang Palace enter the instance, he smiled disdainfully.

When Lin Xihang saw Zhong Wuyai leading four people into the dungeon, he felt a mix of emotions. The first clear was going to be taken by this guy again.

In Hell difficulty, all the bandits are at a very high level.

After the third leader was dealt with, the elite bandits' health bars were comparable to those of a level 30 silver boss.

The experience points given are high, each person gets 450 points, and there's a 2250-point bonus for killing monsters above your level.

After playing for so long, some people have already reached level 14.

Once you defeat the boss, you'll be around level 15.

However, from this point on, a single fireball spell won't be enough to kill them instantly, and the monster-killing speed will decrease.

"Boss, BOSS, Second-in-Command, they're over there!"

"Is this boss crazy? He just stands there and watches his subordinates get slaughtered?"

"It's probably some kind of mechanism!"

After Zhong Wuyai dealt with all the henchmen, the BOSS made a move.

The second-in-command raised his broadsword above his head, and immediately a large group of elite bandits appeared behind him, charging towards Zhong Wuyai.

"Holy crap, it can summon?"

Zhong Wuyai noticed something amiss; the number of these elite bandits was exactly 100.

The same number as when they first arrived.

After dealing with these elite bandits once again, the second-in-command raised his sword above his head, and another hundred elite bandits charged in.

"Damn it, this is never going to end!"

Zhong Wuyai changed his tactics this time. When he killed the last two elite bandits, he only paralyzed them with a chain of lightning strikes, and then rushed towards the bandit's second leader.

Chain lightning...

Chain Lightning consumes 200 mana points per cast; casting it frequently can cause mana regeneration to be insufficient.

Therefore, Zhong Wuyai would only continue using it after the paralysis was relieved each time.

Now, facing the BOSS, Zhong Wuyai wasn't sure if he had enough mana.

"Who among you is carrying any medicine?"

"I didn't bring any, but I have some herbs I've gathered that might be of some use, though not much."

Give me all the mana potions.

There's no time to worry about that now. Zhong Wuyai looked at the herb that restored 10 mana points per second and felt a bit of a headache. And that only lasted for 5 seconds.

It seems we still need to focus on equipment restoration.

"Focus all your efforts on the second-in-command, ignore the others."

Chain lightning...

The group eagerly went up to start digging again...

After the two elites recovered, they charged towards Zhong Wuyai, who took the opportunity to lure the two bandits to the BOSS's side.

Chain lightning...

The lightning bolts bounced back and forth, making the boss's paralysis time even longer.

Fireball! Fireball! Fireball! ...

After a frenzied barrage of attacks, the two bandits fell to the ground, while the BOSS had less than 50% health left.

[Server-wide announcement: Congratulations to Gu Yan, Yang Kaisen, Sun Yao... team for clearing the Thousand Peaks Stronghold dungeon on Normal difficulty for the first time! Reward: 1000 Reputation, +1 to all attributes]

The server-wide announcement was made three times in a row, severely embarrassing countless people.

"That's impossible. Even Zhong Wuyai is an exception, and Lin Xihang, with his SS-level talent, couldn't clear it. How could they possibly succeed?"

"Exactly! I don't know about the others, but Sun Yao only has an A-level talent? I don't believe it!"

"Ha, sour grapes. They're from the Xianyang Palace, is that reason enough?"

In the national chat channel, someone from Xianyang Palace who had just emerged from a difficult dungeon was arguing with the others.

When they saw that the speaker's name ended with "Xianyang Palace," many people wisely shut their mouths.

But others don't think so.

"What's wrong with Xianyang Palace? I admit I can't compare to the Great God Wuya, but I refuse to believe that my S-rank talent plus rare profession is weaker than someone with an A-rank talent and ordinary profession!"

"Ignorant! You can't even imagine the power of Xianyang Palace!"

The 3000-point Five Elements attack might not be very useful later on, but at this stage, anyone who encounters it is doomed.

The tanks that are the most durable right now don't even have 10,000 HP. If they encounter the archers from Xianyang Palace, they'll be dead in a triple shot.

Of course, these things cannot be said.

Inside the instance...

"Damn it, the second team is taking the lead!"

"There's nothing we can do about it; both have elemental attacks, and attack speed is a huge advantage!"

"I'm even thinking of becoming an assassin!"

"I also want to switch to archer, and several archers in my guild have chosen the attack speed build, which is a huge advantage!"

"That's right. A triple shot deals 9000 damage, and with his own attribute bonuses, it's over 10,000. And the second team has four archers, all of whom have stacked agility and attack speed."

"What a pity, if we had three more minutes, we could have finished!"

"Don't waste it! Be careful, use the ice mage to slow down the boss, don't let it get close!"

The server-wide announcement left Shen Mengli somewhat dazed. Gu Yan, Yang Kaisen—who the hell were these people?

I've never even heard of this before, and they've already taken down Shoutong?

How is that possible!

"Mengli, what are you doing? Quickly draw their fire! The BOSS has turned around!"

Shen Youchu said as she ran, "If I hadn't reacted quickly, I would have been killed by the BOSS if I had been just a little slower!"

Shen Mengli immediately

After Zhong Wuyai dealt with the second-in-command, he didn't know how many levels the second-in-command was, but he certainly gave him plenty of experience.

The money is divided among five people, and I receive 60000 + 330000.

I don't know how much the others received, but they all got upgraded.

Now that's great, apart from myself, all four of the other people with deputy positions have a higher level.

Wei Xian, in particular, doesn't have a main profession, only a blacksmith profession, and his attributes are terrible.

The current level is the highest, level 15 with a 62% experience bar.

The guild chat has already started swearing.

"Those four guys are fucking enviable!"

"Exactly! We spent gold coins just to waste money, look at them, they've made a fortune!"

"Alright, at least we killed two bosses and reached level 14, so it's not a complete loss!"

"Let's go, let's go back and store the materials first, then go to the mine. We can't let someone take over while we're gone."

"Anyone who dares to take it, we don't even need the boss to lift a finger, just the few of us will beat the shit out of them!"

Xiang Yang and Yang Yimu are having some trouble on the difficult difficulty level; the second-in-command setting is giving everyone a headache.

In normal difficulty, the second-in-command is just a normal level 25 silver boss.

However, in the hard difficulty, it also becomes a feature that allows you to summon bandits, but only 30 can be summoned each time.

Even on the hardest difficulty, 30 level 32 elite bandits pose a significant challenge for 10 players who are only around level 10.

It took two hours of back-and-forth to finally deal with the second-in-command.

"Thank goodness we have elemental attacks, otherwise we would have had to leave the dungeon!"

"Damn it, why is this dungeon so hard?!"

"Even if it were easy, it wouldn't be our turn. Didn't you see Zhao Wuji and Lin Youqiang outside when you came in? I just don't know if Sikong Shen has entered the instance yet."

"Whether we get in or not is irrelevant now, we've already secured the first pass."

"Not necessarily. The server-wide announcement only mentions the normal dungeon. So, will there also be announcements for the first clear of the hard and hell difficulties?"

"I'm not sure, but the rewards for the first clear of the new dungeon seem a bit low!"

"This is low? A +1 to all attributes is considered low?"

"That's not what I meant. I meant, if the boss were to be the first to go through hell, would they receive more?"

"I don't know."

[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to players Shen Mengli and Shen Youchu for being the first to defeat the level 30 Epic Boss Guardian Tree! Rewards include 8000 Reputation, 10 Free Attribute Points, and 1 Epic Gift Box]

"Holy crap, what's up with Shen Mengli? Two people killing an epic boss?"

"Damn, I thought the highest level was the Gold Boss!"

"Does the Epic Gift Box contain Epic equipment?"

"I don't even know what gold-tier equipment looks like, but this guy already has epic gear!"

"Is this even fair? I can't even beat level 15 mobs!"

Upon seeing this server-wide announcement, Zhong Wuyai was also stunned for a moment.

Even with SSS-level talents, you might not be able to defeat an epic boss.

Could it be that both of them have SSS-level talents and hidden professions, or that they have cheat codes like me?

Impossible. There won't be many of these things hanging around. At most, it'll be a matter of strong talent or class advantage.

But this is still pretty impressive. A level 30 epic boss is definitely no worse than these question mark bosses I've been fighting!

There are many strong people out there, so I still need to work harder!

Shen Mengli ignored everything else and immediately put the token she had been longing for into her bag, then began picking up the dropped items.

Meanwhile, within the Dragon Empire, a group of people were frantically bidding on something: a guild token.

"Jervis, don't try to take it from me. Zhong Wuyai is clearly from the Dragon Kingdom, and there are quite a few Dragon Kingdom people in the Demon Dragon Empire now. We must unite!"

"Charlie, this is a fantasy world. You are no longer a nobleman. My talent is no less than yours. Why should I listen to you? I can lead the Americans to restore their former glory."

"Seventy thousand gold coins!"

"Eighty thousand gold coins!"

"Jervis, are you crazy? Don't you think developing a guild costs money?"

"Charlie, this isn't something you need to worry about. My team supports me in doing this!"

"One hundred thousand gold coins!" "Jervis, you dare to challenge me again!"

"150,000 gold coins, Charlie, that's all the money I have. If you have any left, I'll take it!"

"You win, Jarvis!"

Jervis was overjoyed to receive the guild token.

"We will be the second to establish a guild. Let's work together to overthrow the old nobles and become the new nobles!..."

"We will win!"

"Victory is certain!"

While Jarvis was giving a speech to everyone...

[World Announcement: Congratulations to player Shen Mengli for establishing the second guild in the Fantasy World, 'Bloom'! Reward: Guild Level +1, Guild Resource Box *8]

In this life, Shen Mengli will shine brightly.

Jervis, who was halfway through his sentence, was stunned. His mouth gaped open, and he couldn't utter another word!

"Jervis, stop standing there, hurry up and register for the third guild!"

"Yes, yes, yes... Follow me, everyone, to the City Lord's Mansion!"

[World Announcement: Congratulations to player Jervis for establishing the third guild in the Fantasy World, 'Dawn'! Reward: 5 Guild Resource Boxes]

Today is an unusual day; server-wide announcements keep popping up, leaving everyone feeling disoriented...

Has the gap already become so large after only a short time in this fantastical world?

As time goes by, the gap between people will only widen.

The world channel and the national channel were both silent.

Everyone should continue grinding monsters and completing quests.

Nobody wants to be left behind, nobody wants to be fish on a chopping board and slaughtered at will.

Zhong Wuyai, accompanied by four goofballs, has already reached level 16. There's no way around it; the experience points they give are just too high.

Although he didn't know what level of bandits these question marks were, the experience they provided made Zhong Wuyai's hands tremble.

[Ding! Elite bandit defeated, gaining 1200 experience points. An additional 9600 experience points are gained from defeating a monster of a higher level.]

This was the result of the experience being split equally among the five people, but on the panels of Wei Xian and the other three...

[Ding! Elite bandit defeated, gaining 1200 experience points. An additional 15600 experience points are gained from defeating a monster of a higher level.]

If Zhong Wuyai had been fighting alone, he would probably have leveled up twice by now.

The Apprentice's Book is now fully upgraded.

【Magic Notes】

Special growth-type equipment for mages, does not occupy an equipment slot, and is only available to mages.

bound

Durability: 50/50

Grade: Silver (261/10000)

Wearing level: 20

Intelligence +100

Spirit +100

Magic attack +10%

Magic damage increased by 10%.

Skill cooldown reduced by 5%

The Apprentice's Book has not only been upgraded to Silver, but its attributes are comparable to those of Gold equipment.

If it weren't for the lack of an attribute, it would definitely be a gold-tier item.

I wonder if it will truly become gold-tier equipment after being fully upgraded again...

Zhong Wuyai was scrolling through the list of elite bandits, while the others were grinning from ear to ear.

This lying-flying motion is so comfortable...

Leaving aside the bosses, just defeating these elite bandits will basically level you up.

Zhong Wuyai needs 22 million experience points to level up from level 22 to level 23. He is still more than 500,000 short. After completing these tasks, he will be close to level 23.

Inside the council hall, there were ten elite bandits, one question mark gold BOSS, and another question mark epic BOSS.

Zhong Wuyai was somewhat bewildered upon seeing this. These were two BOSSes?

Meanwhile, Xiang Yang and Yang Yimu were also somewhat bewildered as they looked at the question mark-shaped golden BOSS in front of them.

"How do we fight this?"

"How should I know!"

"Tank up, controllers and healers, keep an eye on things, don't let the tank die!"

Zhong Wuyai was in a bit of a predicament. He couldn't tell the level of the elite bandits, and he was afraid that if he made a move against one, the BOSS would also come to kill him.

However... with two bosses next to each other, perhaps there's a chance!

The only problem is whether my own blue buff can hold up.

It restores 24 mana points per second, Fireball restores 10 mana points, and Fire Seed is not worth mentioning as it doesn't do much damage and consumes a lot of mana.

Chain Lightning costs 200 mana, so you must control the paralysis duration well. Then, use Fireball for the main damage.

"Zou Shu, cast a fireball to lure the thugs away, then attack the one in the middle!"

Before Zou Shu could even unleash his skill, two ruthless bandits had already charged over. After he finished using his skill, all ten bandits rushed over.

Zhong Wuyai was relieved that the BOSS didn't move, which made the fight easier.

"Oh my god~ Boss, help me~!"

"Chain Lightning!"

As soon as the bandits rushed up, Zhong Wuyai unleashed a Chain Lightning spell, followed by a Fireball attack.

Because they were all lured to the entrance of the council hall at once, they stood quite densely, and the chain lightning bounced back and forth on the 10 thugs.

Seeing that they had everything under control, the men grew bolder...

"Guys, let's start digging!"

"Okay!"

With Zhong Wuyai's continuous attacks, it wasn't long before all ten elite bandits were taken care of.

Moreover, the experience points given this time were doubled, with everyone receiving over 20,000 experience points. Even Zhu Shen, who was at a lower level, leveled up to level 16.

"The boss is starting. Be careful, watch out for the boss's paralysis duration. If my Chain Lightning stops bouncing, retreat immediately!"

"Got it, boss!"

Zhong Wuyai immediately used Chain Lightning to open the BOSS. The leader didn't know that it was an epic BOSS with a knife in his hand. The key was that the strategist of Qianfeng Mountain Village next to him was a mage. If he used a skill, not only would others be killed, but he himself might also be killed.

The chain lightning bounced back and forth between the two bosses, and the paralysis duration was difficult to determine immediately, but the damage was significant.

Zhong Wuyai only dealt a little over 80,000 damage. With the damage from the two Five Elements attacks and the two ruthless true damage attacks, the total damage was barely 90,000.

While the chain lightning's ricochet damage isn't high, the two elemental attacks it inflicts with each ricochet are still quite significant.

Even so, the leader's health bar only decreased by a tiny bit.

"Holy crap, how much blood did that take?!"

Under Zhong Wuyai's relentless fireball attacks, he barely managed to deduce that the leader's health had exceeded ten million.

The strategist of Qianfeng Mountain Stronghold has approximately 300 million health points.

The difference is just too big.

Fortunately, there were enough ejections, and the paralysis lasted a long time. When it ended, the four of them immediately retreated.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

In less than four seconds, approximately 3.5-3.8 seconds, the leader was freed from paralysis.

The strategist was still complacent when the final blow struck him.

Zhong Wuyai was too lazy to calculate the strategist's abilities and decided to play the zither for now.

"Chain Lightning~!"

"Focus fire on the boss!"

Even if they were just tickling, each tick would still deal 3000 elemental damage, and the four of them working together could inflict a significant amount of damage.

Outside the instance, as soon as Shen Mengli arrived, she was surrounded by a large group of people asking her all sorts of questions, most of whom wanted to join the Blooming event.

Shen Mengli ignored everyone and led Shen Youchu into the instance.

"Mengli, are we really going to have to play on the difficult difficulty?"

"You're already level 18, you can do it now. Besides, there are some techniques for the Thousand Peaks Stronghold dungeon."

"Skill?"

"Yes, ignore the monsters completely. Go invisible directly to the council hall, place this at the Big Boss's feet, and then come out. Remember, don't stray too far from the council hall!"

"A trap scroll? I'll place a trap right under the BOSS's feet, do you think I'll survive?"

"This trap takes 10 seconds to activate after being placed. Time your invisibility well; go invisible immediately after placing it and stay outside the council hall. Don't run away. Wait for the leader to come out, then sneak towards the three thatched huts. I'll take a detour now; just watch me!"

The reason they didn't enter the dungeon before was because their levels were too low and they didn't have level 15 skills, so they had no chance at all.

However, after level 15, Shen Youchu's new skill increases the invisibility time and shortens the cooldown time, making her operable.

However, things didn't go as planned. In the hellish dungeon, Zhong Wuyai had already reduced the BOSS's health by two-thirds.

Xiang Yang and Yang Yimu also reduced the leader's health by half.

Compared to Shen Mengli, the Xianyang Palace team with 10 attacks based on the Five Elements has a greater advantage.

Seeing the leader running towards the council hall at an extremely fast speed, Shen Youchu quickly used her speed-up skill to run towards the three thatched huts.

Shen Mengli was already around the thatched hut. She released all eight of her summoned beasts, six of which went up to the roof, while the remaining two stayed by her side to protect her.

"Youchu, go invisible, leave the rest to me!"

Shen Mengli knew the leader's weakness: his short attack range.

Another unique feature is that it attacks whoever attacks it, switching targets every 5 seconds.

These three thatched huts are just within the attack range of my summoned beasts. As long as I position myself well and control the frequency of my attacks, I can kite the boss to death.

[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to the team of players Zhong Wuyai, Wei Xian, Chen Kai, Zou Shu, and Zhu Shen for being the first to defeat the level 50 Gold BOSS, Thousand Peaks Stronghold Strategist. Reward: 5000 Reputation Points, 1 Gold Gift Box]

……

Just as expected, this guy definitely has the ability to take down the BOSS! Shen Mengli thought to herself.

However, I must be the first to clear the hard dungeon!