Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards-Chapter 301 - 249: Eliminating the Guards
As everyone knows, the body of a fly is very fragile, and in this transformed state, he was just as vulnerable. So, in an instant, he was scared back into his human form to avoid being directly killed by the incoming whirlwind.
In his rush to revert back to human form, he didn’t abandon his goal. He quickly exploded into speed, dashing towards the towering fruit tree that was now very close, planning to pluck a fruit first. Perhaps he could risk injury and complete the task.
But as soon as his outstretched hand was about to touch a fruit, many pale blue arms formed by water streams attacked him from nearby, grabbling him securely and forcibly pulling him back from within reach, then flinging him high into the air and sending him crashing heavily onto the ground.
"This dungeon is deliberately targeting me! Why are these two guards so powerful! I can’t even clear it! Do others have any hope of clearing it?! Trash! Trash dungeon! Trash game!"
Suffering yet another defeat, the long-haired bearded man felt somewhat broken down at this moment. Lying on the ground after being thrown by the guard, he cursed at the sky, his emotions quite unstable.
His curses were mainly because he felt targeted. This feeling grew stronger after he once struck it lucky in a dungeon and obtained powerful abilities that could transform into various creatures. This time, he had reason to suspect that the dungeon was purposely trying to make it tough for him and wanted to kill him off. Otherwise, as such an excellent player, he shouldn’t have struggled so much in a fitting level dungeon, being tormented by two troublesome guards for days and still unable to clear it.
"Master... we’ve dragged you down..."
The male player beside him, who was healing, saw the condition of his thigh was abnormal, and immediately felt somewhat downhearted as well. He initially thought, with such a powerful player leading them, despite some setbacks, they would eventually clear it. Unexpectedly, this dungeon was so cunning, stalling him at the final step, and also the powerful lead player, making the hope of clearing the dungeon seem increasingly dim.
After all, this place was extremely difficult to find. Other players might spend a long time without locating it, and even if they did, who could be stronger than this lead player? The lead wouldn’t dare to take on the two guards directly, let alone other players.
Moreover, having spent so many days on this island, their supplies were running short, and if delayed further, not only would healing injuries become an issue, but supplementing physical strength couldn’t be done, fearing they might have to eat leaves and gnaw on bark from trees on the island.
Just when these two repeatedly defeated players felt somewhat disheartened, a somewhat fast-paced sequence of footsteps echoed from a patch of forest nearby, catching their attention.
The two barely stood up from the ground and looked towards the source of the sound, discovering it was a tall figure in a hat briskly heading towards the center fruit tree, clearly signifying he was also a player.
"Hey! Just in time! Help us distract those two guards! Let the master find a chance to pluck the fruit!"
Seeing someone arriving, the almost done healing male player immediately shouted to him, planning to have the incoming person and him separately attract one guard’s attention, relying on the powerful long-haired bearded player to explode with speed and pluck the fruit. It was a relatively hopeful strategy. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
But soon, he realized the newly arrived player seemed quite indifferent, not responding to his words, and didn’t even look at the two players stuck in this stage. Instead, he headed straight towards the tall fruit tree guarded by the two element guards.
"Heh... let this guy suffer a bit too... otherwise he won’t obediently cooperate."
This male player showed a bit of an amused expression at the sight. He knew very well how tricky those two element guards were ahead and not something any odd man with a hat could handle.
Similarly holding this amusement mindset was the not far off long-haired bearded player, an equally competent player who actually had a deeper sense of how powerful the water and wind elements ahead were. He hadn’t exactly tried hard battling them the past few days, but the outcome was rather miserable, costing him a bottle of his most precious healing potion to recover, and causing two companions to get severely injured and die. He was quite curious about how the rushing player would handle being potentially crushed and whether he had enough medicine for recovery.
Under the gaze of these two watching players, Wang Zhifan had already reached the water and wind elemental guards. He certainly heard the words from the player just now, yet having his own judgment and possessing a perception far beyond imagination made him clearly aware of the roughly estimated power of the two elemental guards ahead, thus deducing these opponents didn’t need collaboration from others to handle, he alone was enough.
In the blink of an eye, as the two onlookers expected Wang Zhifan to be immediately caught and thrown back by the two guards, something unexpected happened. They saw the hat-wearing player did not directly charge at the tall fruit tree attempting to pluck a fruit but instead actively approached the two guards and launched an attack.
"Hehe... a self-overestimating fellow..."
The long-haired bearded player, who originally expected Wang Zhifan to be fiercely thrown back by the guards, couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight, feeling this new player was a bit like him initially, believing he was strong enough to challenge the guards, yet unaware the attacks from guards were much harsher than attempting fruit theft, something he couldn’t quite handle.
Boom!
At this moment, the battle finally erupted.
Water arms extending forward from the blue guard intending to attack Wang Zhifan suddenly froze into a large iceberg without warning and then, with a flash from a knife in his hand, the giant iceberg split in half before it could even start falling. A core, also frozen, was exposed, leading to the guard’s body swiftly collapsing.
After single-handedly resolving one enemy, Wang Zhifan didn’t pause in the slightest, quickly turned his body and dashed towards the wind elemental guard on the other side, the opponent launching numerous fierce whirlwinds seeking to encircle him, yet he chose not to dodge but charge straight ahead.
His direct charge seemed unaffected by the whirlwinds ahead, neither hindered nor injured, as a shadow he swiftly penetrated the enemy’s whirlwinds, nearing its front.
Soon, an identical second figure suddenly appeared behind the wind elemental guard. This shadow accurately sliced the whirlwind-composed body of the wind elemental guard, the knife light breaking through a concealed core surrounded by hurricanes, alongside a surge of lightning from the blade, utterly destroying the wind elemental guard.
"Oh shit!"
"What the hell!"
Two incredulous exclamations echoed nearly simultaneously as the guards were wiped out. This moment, whether assassin player or long-haired bearded player, both were stunned, unable to believe those guards, which stalled them for days and tortured them, were effortlessly annihilated by the newcomer, one slice per guard.
While these two fell into shock, only able to swear, Wang Zhifan himself felt nothing special. From his perspective, he merely took it a bit seriously just now, handling two potential obstacles. He then neatly sheathed his knife and went towards the tall fruit tree, observing the sea-blue fruits hanging nearby.
[Forbidden Fruit]
[A mystical fruit cultivated by the Sea God’s messenger following divine orders. Only those who have braved difficulties to find Forbidden Fruit Island and passed the test of Forbidden Fruit Guards can possess it.]
[Eating a forbidden fruit can heal all diseases, prolong life, and grant the blessing of the Sea God.]
[Note: Non-believers of the Sea God might suffer divine punishment if consuming this fruit.]
