Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Xu Jiawei quickly escaped from the melee and entered the entrance. The others stopped fighting and ceased their actions. After all 132 players had entered, the door behind them slammed shut, plunging the entire space into darkness.

The sudden darkness caused a brief commotion among the crowd, but since they were all elite players, they quickly regained their composure.

"Why were you fighting?" Some people joined the fight without knowing why it started.

The group that attacked Xu Jiawei earlier were already dead, so Xu Jiawei and her companions naturally wouldn't invite trouble. For a moment, the hall fell silent.

Torches lit up one after another all around, and soon all the torches were lit. By the light of the torches, the entire space was revealed to everyone.

The space resembled an ancient church, with strange patterns painted on the walls. A staircase leading upwards was blocked by a huge black monster, which opened its eyes as the torches were lit.

[Ding! Welcome to the tower climbing game! The tower has seven floors. The higher the floor, the greater the rewards. Please proceed according to your ability.]

[First level quest: Defeat the extraterrestrial monster (Health display is now enabled to increase your chances of survival)]

At this moment, the monster's health bar was displayed above its head, a full 5000 health points. When everyone only had a few dozen attack points, 5000 health points was an astronomical number. Moreover, almost every boss had high defense, so your 50 attack points might only deal 10 or 20 damage to the boss.

"Si Yunming, what exactly is your talent? Is it percentage-based attack or high-multiplier attack attenuation or something like that?" Xu Jiawei asked.

Si Yunming hummed in agreement.

Si Yunming's talent deducts 45% of his total health and deals an additional 10% of his current health as damage to the enemy, so his attack power decreases the more he fights.

Xu Jiawei thought about it for a moment and realized that it was no wonder that Si Yunming's attack power was getting lower and lower when fighting the flower monster. Although his talent was very strong, with a noble percentage-based damage, it also had great limitations. It was easy for him to kill himself, so he didn't seem that strong anymore.

"It seems your talent has significant limitations."

Si Yunming nodded. His talent had been upgraded to C-level. His previous talent had more limitations. It changed from 3% of the target's health as damage to 5%, then to 10%, and the percentage of health deducted decreased from 60% to 45%.

"I'll leave the fight to you when your health is high, and I'll attack when it's low." Xu Jiawei's parasitic spores may inflict damage slowly and have low overall damage, but they are high-value true damage that can stack, making the damage quite considerable when stacked.

"it is good."

"Then I'll take charge of the mid-game offense." With the 50-point strength bonus from the golden weapon, plus his talent Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon, which guarantees critical hits, and with the increased attack speed, Zhang Yunting's damage was also considerable.

"Then I'll be in charge of interfering with it." Li Ming scratched his head.

"My attacks will always stun the opponent, which is also a talent of mine, since I'm a blacksmith," Bai Yu said, revealing his talent.

The group finished assigning their duties in less than a minute. At this moment, the monster stood up, yawned, and instead of attacking the players immediately, it quietly observed them. The two sides remained deadlocked.

Finally, one player couldn't resist and struck the monster with a single blow, reducing its health by 5 points. The player's expression changed, "Damn it, my attack power is 37, and with my weapon it can reach 67!"

Based on this, the monster's defense is approximately 62 points.

The monster raised its claw and knocked the player away. The player crashed into the wall, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and died.

Upon seeing this, all the players' expressions changed drastically. This monster not only had ridiculously strong defense, but also incredibly strong attack power. Coupled with its insane health, it was simply a nightmare for the players.

After the first player made a move, the other players rushed forward, and Xu Jiawei used her bow and arrow to harass them.

After using the attribute mushrooms to boost her stats, Xu Jiawei's strength has reached 43. With the added strength bonus from her golden weapon, her total attack has exceeded 90.

An arrow struck the monster, dealing 31 points of damage. While that's negligible compared to 5000 damage, it's still significantly better than what others have done.

However, the damage varies depending on where the shot hits. For example, shooting the claws or tail will only deal 10 damage.

This is reasonable, since I've never heard of killing someone by stabbing their toes. Generally, even if you cut off someone's toes, they won't die. Just like how game bosses always have weaknesses, in reality, people's weaknesses are their neck, head, and heart. Xu Jiawei feels that Warcraft also has weaknesses.

Xu Jiawei prepared to try it out and see which spot would deal more damage.

Si Yunming cleaved the monster's head with his sword, dealing 530 points of damage. The players were stunned. Was this even human?

Xu Jiawei's lips twitched; this talent was still too overpowered.

Xu Jiawei aimed her bow and arrow at the monster's eye, but kept missing. Although she had practiced archery recently, she wasn't a professional. After shooting more than ten arrows, luck finally smiled on Xu Jiawei, and one arrow hit the monster's eye, instantly reducing its health by 50 points. Its weak point was in its eye!

Si Yunming immediately noticed and stabbed the monster's eye with his second sword, dealing 496 damage.

After being struck twice with his sword, Si Yunming was no longer able to fight, so he stepped back to drink his medicine.

Xu Jiawei shot an arrow into the monster's head. The arrow turned into vines that wrapped around the monster, but it broke free in less than a second. Even using a fire arrow only burned a little bit of its fur, and an ice arrow was completely ineffective.

Fortunately, Si Yunming retreated safely. The monsters were now staring intently at Si Yunming, their expressions suggesting they wanted to tear him apart. Si Yunming's high damage output attracted most of the aggro.

As the monster charged toward them, Rainbow grew larger and blocked it, punching the monster on the head. The monster then bit Rainbow's arm and tore it off.

"Rainbow, back off." Xu Jiawei was heartbroken. She had only suffered minor injuries when fighting the flower monster before, but now her arm had been torn off.

Rainbow looked at her arm that had been torn off, snatched it back from the monster's mouth, and put it back on.

Is this even possible? And the arm is detachable? Xu Jiawei shot an arrow into the monster's open mouth, and the monster's mouth was instantly engulfed in flames, charred beyond recognition. It seems that shooting into the mouth is more effective than shooting into the eye.

Seeing that it had dealt 60 points of damage, Xu Jiawei fired another arrow, this time a freezing arrow, which froze its tongue. The sudden change from cold to heat was also unpleasant for the monster, so it had to retreat.

Si Yunming pressed his advantage, striking twice more with his sword, bringing the monster's health to 3000 points.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten the hellish melee that had just begun, and the casualties were relatively small. They tacitly refrained from attacking each other, but things might change when the monster's health was low. There was a chance that many people would try to land the final blow.

Soon, the monster's health dropped to less than half under the combined attack of the group. Zhang Yunting immediately activated his talent and jumped onto the monster's back. Zhang Yunting's attack speed was extremely fast, almost two strikes per second, each strike dealing nearly 70 damage. In less than 10 seconds, Zhang Yunting seemed to have exhausted all his strength and was thrown away, lying weakly on the ground.

Xu Jiawei wanted to give Zhang Yunting a stamina potion, but Zhang Yunting refused, saying, "Xiao Xu, don't worry about me. I will enter a period of weakness after using my talent to its fullest extent. I'll be fine in a little while."