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"Hurry up, Jay Chou!" Yura continued speaking in a way that was hard to understand, then relentlessly pounded Balan with his tower shield. Actually, Solin's strength was the greatest here, because Solin himself didn't have a taunt skill. If it was Yura's turn to be stunned, Solin had to immediately unleash enough damage skills to hold the boss's aggro, unlike other shield warriors who could simply solve the problem with a taunt.

This is why one-handed swords aren't very popular. Of course, Thorin had his own reasons for using a one-handed sword, which I won't go into detail here. So, after playing passively for a while and estimating that the aggro was stable, he started to unleash his full damage output.

After being hit by Yura's shield charge, Balan was briefly stunned, but quickly recovered. He wielded his golden hammer and slammed it down on Yura, stunning him as well. However, Balan's basic attack already had a certain aggro-clearing effect. Halfway through his attack, Sorin used his one-handed sword to perform a six-hit combo, followed by [Final Blade], [Death Strike], then switched to his katana and used the Spirit Blade Greatspin Rising Dragon combo, instantly making himself the most aggro target. He then pulled the boss away from Yura.

"The DPS team can move in!" Seeing the opportunity, he immediately commanded, "5T, get ready to taunt and take the hit, 2T, get ready to taunt and pull the mobs after 5T is stunned!"

After the damage dealers caught up, General Balan's health began to drop at a steady but not rapid pace, which made Sorin sweat. After all, bosses usually activate skills and transition between phases when their health drops to a certain level, and General Balan's health had already dropped to 90%, meaning he could activate his skills at any moment.

Suddenly, after stunning 5T, Balan ignored the 2T who was taunting him and instead focused on the person between Sorin and 3T, charging towards him.

"Quick! Who's staring at me? Get behind me!" Sorin shouted. However, when the player who was stared at saw the five-meter-tall giant minotaur charging towards him with a golden warhammer bigger than a person, he was so nervous that he forgot his previous strategy and just stood there dumbfounded.

Then he was caught off guard by Balan's charge, and even his weapon fell to the ground. In his panic, he forgot all his previous plans and instinctively tried to pick up his weapon. However, Balan's second attack followed immediately, turning his initial stun into paralysis with a single blow.

32. A First Turn of Attack / A Second Opportunity

This threw everything into chaos. If that person had hidden behind Sorin and let him get hit by the charge, Yura on the other side could have easily turned Balan's attacks back on him with a taunt. But now, Balan, who had paralyzed that player, has... well, who knows who's got the aggro on him.

"5T, go up and taunt! Everyone else, stop firing and hold your ground! The primary threat is moving towards me!" Sorin shouted, maintaining his composure even in this urgent situation. "Team H, pull Nato away! Away from this battlefield! Hurry up!"

Everyone subconsciously glanced at their position on the hate list, and then Sorin saw Kirito move closer to him and stand behind him.

"Which team was that just now?" Solin asked with displeasure.

"I was in a bit of a rush and didn't see clearly, it looks like Team C... Watch out!" Kirito had only said half of what he wanted to say when he saw Balan's hammer coming straight at him.

Seeing this, Sorin immediately adjusted his position, using the arm shield equipped on his left hand to catch the hammer, which stunned him as well. Fortunately, even after recovering, 5T immediately followed up with a taunt, causing Balan to shift his target from Kirito to him, thus temporarily averting the crisis.

"Continue the strategy. Teams G and F, go and take down Nato. The rest of you stay put." Solin, recovering from his dizziness, breathed a sigh of relief, but for some inexplicable reason, he had a bad feeling. So he decided to send a group to take down the weakest one first, so that more people could help attack the boss, making it a safer approach.

Even with two fewer teams attacking Balan, the rate at which his health was decreasing was still quite fast. The subsequent ground stomps at 25% health and targeted attacks at 10% health simply added another person to the paralysis state. Meanwhile, on the other side, the two FG teams, working together with the "Legendary Warriors," took down Colonel Nato and returned to attacking Balan. Balan's health then plummeted like water, quickly dropping to the final 25%.

"This looks like the last stomp. Everyone be ready to retreat at any moment!" Solin warned. However, this time the situation seemed different. After a long time, Balan did not release a third stomp.

"What's going on?" Sorin still hadn't figured anything out by now, but Kirito's sudden remark reminded him.

"The first floor boss is the Kobold King, so why is the second floor boss a general?" he said.

Yes. Sorin had made the same comment before, but he had only taken it as a casual remark. However, after combining the names of the two monsters, Colonel Nato and General Balan, he realized the source of his ominous premonition.

"Everyone, focus fire on General Baran the Tauren! Don't worry about over-aggroing, hurry up!" he suddenly shouted. "Quickly, unleash a burst of DPS! There's probably another one behind!"

Upon hearing his words, the surrounding players immediately quickened their pace. General Balan's health plummeted like an avalanche, quickly dropping below 10%. But at that moment, in the center of the boss room, the ground marked with the bull icon suddenly rose, forming a three-tiered altar. Moreover, the altar was now shrouded in shadow, as if something was obeying a summons.

"Everyone, get into position near the altar! I'll pull this one away and kill it alone!" After seeing the shadow, Sorin confirmed his guess, then stepped forward and unleashed a combo that took away a significant amount of Taurus General Balan's HP. "The enemy's Servant is Berserker! Everyone be careful!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the shadow gradually materialized—a gigantic minotaur that almost reached the ceiling, with six health bars, below which its name was displayed: [King Asterius of the Taurus].

There's no time for nonsense now. Although Sorin has encountered many messy bosses before, this situation is quite rare, especially without any prior information.

He dodged Balan's hammer with a side roll, spun up and used the spin to deliver a [Death Strike] that knocked Balan down, followed by a vertical slash with his scythe [Final Blade], and finally sheathed his scythe and took out his usual finishing weapon, the katana.

"Dragon Ascension Sword! Swift as the wind! Face the gale!"

With a loud shout, a dazzling display of katana light enveloped Balan, taking away his last bit of health. However, at that moment, the Taurus King on the other side also began his performance.

Sorin had initially assumed that given its enormous size, it would be equipped with an even larger weapon. However, after spawning, this Taurus King did only one thing.

He stood still, gathering his strength for a long time, before unleashing a massive burst of energy. A destructive beam of white light struck more than twenty players, including Kirito and Asuna. This beam of light not only dealt extremely high damage but also inflicted a deadly paralysis debuff on everyone hit.

"WTF?" Sorin was stunned. However, being stunned was one thing, but he had to get to the boss's side immediately and work with the other tanks to buy time for those who were paralyzed to evacuate.

"Drink your medicine! Those who weren't hit by the wave, go and drag the ones who were hit out. Those who can still move, use taunts on me!"

However, he knew in his heart that with so many people paralyzed by the attack, the boss might not be able to be killed in a short time, and some people might even die here. The wisest decision now was for all the tanks present to stall for time and try to get everyone back out, so they could come up with a strategy and then attack the boss later.

However, a sudden whooshing sound came from the other side of the boss room. Sorin looked up and saw a round object flying past rapidly, tracing an arc before striking the Taurus King squarely between his two horns, interrupting his second charged breath attack and inflicting a [Slow] debuff on him.

"Who goes there? Is that the nuclear bomb monkey from Lian Ma's interstellar pirate crew?" Solin exclaimed in surprise, turning around to look. "Oh, it's the Third Prince. Here to give us an invincibility glitch... I forgot you can't commit suicide in this game..."

The visitors were none other than Nezha, who had traveled a great distance to be here, and Argo, the intelligence broker who had brought him.

"I'll hold off the boss, let's use this time to regroup!" Nezha shouted, throwing the [Ring of Belbas] once again, hitting the weak point between the Taurus King's two horns, causing him to slow down.

"Well done...and you're breathing down my chest! Be careful to dodge!" Sorin had just finished praising him when he saw the Taurus King begin to gather his strength again, and he quickly reminded him.

However, Nezha dodged the breath attack with a sideways movement and also caught the returning [Belbas Ring].

"That Taurus King's breath only targets the furthest away from him, so leave it to us!" Argo shouted to Sorin. "Good luck! I went to great lengths to bring this kid here!"

"I understand." Solin nodded, then made up his mind to continue the strategy. "Those who are away from the boss, quickly use potions to remove the debuffs, everyone else follow up! DPS freely!"

33. Nezha's Resolve

With the help of a long-range point control, the raiding team defeated the Taurus King without much effort. After all, considering the second level, it was impossible to design a boss that was too overpowered. Sorin once again defeated the Taurus King and Taurus General's Loss of LA, but in front of everyone, he took out the LA reward and said that he would put it in the Edelweiss guild warehouse and use it to place a DKP (Dragon Kill Points) after the team reached the third level.

Most people were grateful for Nezhar's help. However, some people had doubts, such as why a blacksmith would be on the front lines, using such powerful-looking weapons.

The first to be affected were the players who had been tricked into giving away their weapons by Nezha.

"You must be a blacksmith... That weapon looks like a rare weapon that can only be obtained by killing monsters, and are blacksmiths really that rich?" One of the players, whose ID was Swata, asked with a gloomy face.

"OK, so we've completed the second boss level—the Taurus family. Thanks for watching, see you next time." Seeing things were going badly, Suolin quickly finished speaking and turned off the recording, then hesitated whether to temporarily suspend the live stream.

Get your snacks ready, and sit back and enjoy the show!

It feels like you've been hacked in WoW and someone traced your gear back to your internet connection.

[Rockets are plentiful, one every minute, please don't turn off the live stream]

After thinking it over, Suolin decided not to shut down the live stream. Of course, given his status, he couldn't just stand by and watch the show.

Nezha took the first action—he placed the [Ring of Belbas] on the ground, knelt beside it, supported himself with his hands on the ground, and slowly lowered his head.

“Before I enhanced them, I replaced Mr. Swata's and the other two's swords with the Terminator and tricked them into giving them away,” he said.

At that moment, the scene almost froze. Swata's fists were clenched, his face filled with resentment, clearly on the verge of exploding. The other two players were in a similar state, but they both restrained themselves, not exploding into a raging inferno on the spot.

The heavy silence was broken by Swata's words after a long pause.

"Do you still have the weapon that was stolen from you?"

“No…it’s already been exchanged for money…” When Nezha said this, his head, which was already lowered, dropped even further, almost touching the ground.

Swata closed her eyes, seemingly already anticipating this answer.

"What about the money? Can you use money to compensate us?"

Solin knew the money was gone, but his answer directly exposed the true nature of the scam. At least from what he knew, this absurd fraud was entirely a group operation. The other five members of the "Legendary Hero" were all implicated.

After all, they were wearing full sets of shiny gold gear, so it's impossible that they earned all of it themselves.

However, Nezha's next answer made Sorin's eyes widen.

"The money has already been spent...it's all gone on accommodations in luxury hotels and meals at upscale restaurants..."

He wanted to take the blame himself! He had protected his teammates who had condoned his fraud and even enjoyed the high-level equipment that came with it! Sorin thought to himself.

Standing beside Swata, the member of the [Dragon Riders] dressed in blue could no longer contain his anger. He stomped his foot on the ground and raised his hand high, as if about to strike at any moment.

"Do you even understand what this means?! You made me endure the pressure of my weapon breaking and almost being unable to return to the front lines, while you used this money to eat and drink extravagantly, used the rest to upgrade your equipment, and came here to indulge in your heroic fantasies?"

The shouts were hysterical, like a venting... no, that was it, a venting of anger directed at someone who had already been identified as having wronged them.

"After you tricked me out of my sword, I almost thought I wouldn't be able to go to the front lines! Luckily, my friends helped me collect enhancement materials and got me a new weapon... You not only betrayed us, you even betrayed them... You betrayed all the frontline players!"

The two men's roars acted as a fuse, igniting the anger of all the players behind them. The scene quickly spiraled out of control. Accusations came from all directions, surrounding Nezhar. The immense pressure bent his back even further, and Sorin even wondered if he would be crushed by such overwhelming pressure.

However, Sorin's attitude towards the matter remained unchanged. From the beginning, he stated that no matter how Nezha was dealt with, it was his own fault. However, Sorin still had to step forward now. Firstly, he was the only one who could represent the voice of the vast majority of players present. Secondly, he genuinely needed to stabilize the situation and at least prevent an execution—an event that was malicious from any perspective—from occurring.

"Ahem... Friends, please be quiet. I think there's at least a chance for compensation." He coughed twice and stood between Nezha and the three people whose equipment had been stolen. "In my opinion, even if Nezha did something extremely outrageous, it seems to be just a dispute over money and time. So, regarding the money..."

"It's not just about money and time, Commander Sorin!" another person retorted loudly, their voice unusually shrill. "I know that many people have been tricked out of their weapons by this guy. One of them used a cheap weapon bought from the store to farm monsters and got killed by a monster he could have easily defeated!"

"Wh...what! Then this isn't just a scam, it's a p..."

“That’s right, this is PK!” he then pointed at Nezhajie and asked, “This man is a murderer! He’s a PK!”

The situation escalated once again. While Solin had a way to handle the matter, whatever he did would damage his prestige among the guild members. More importantly, Solin now understood that if his teammates could step forward and share the blame, there was at least a chance for things to turn around; otherwise…

Even you yourselves aren't planning to care about your teammates, so how can you expect me to step in and save them? Although the words were a bit cold-blooded, after considering it for a while, Solin still chose to stand aside and remain silent.

"No matter what kind of punishment you want to impose on me... I am willing to accept it."

Nezha's hands trembled, and his voice was incredibly weak. Everyone present understood the meaning of the word "sanction," making the atmosphere in the boss's room even more tense.

"Well said, then you'll take responsibility!"

As soon as someone uttered those words, the atmosphere in the room instantly reached an extremely heated level, no less intense than the scene during the "delete data" incident years ago, when the "delete data" groups were like "delete data" and "delete data" and several "delete data" groups.

"Aton for your sins with your death, you liar!"

"You should have just died! You liar!"

"Take your own life! (Without mercy)"

Amidst this relentless clamor of criticism, the first to act was not Sorin, nor Kirito, Asuna, or Nezuha himself, but rather—

Aside from Nezuha, the other five members of the [Legendary Heroes].

34. The Legendary Heroes

They slowly walked out of the room, their heavy armor creaking, toward Nezha lying on the ground. Their captain, Orlando, lowered his mask, obscuring his face. The others followed silently behind Orlando, heads bowed.

"This atmosphere is very mysterious, there's a story behind it, it's not ordinary." Solin watched the show with a cold eye. The three people who had been tricked out of their equipment earlier subconsciously moved aside when they saw this unusual atmosphere.

Nezha realized that Orlando and the others were standing behind him, but he still didn't raise his head, remaining in the dogeza (prostration) posture. Orlando paused for a moment, then forcefully drew his one-handed sword from his waist.

"What is he going to do?" Kirito exclaimed. "He should be one of Nezuha's comrades, right? At this time, he actually... I can't just stand by and do nothing!"

"Don't move, Kirito." Sorin placed his hand on Kirito's right wrist without making a sound and said in a deep voice, "If you're going to watch a show, you should be prepared to watch a show. At least for now, none of us should move."

"Just watch him like that..."