Global Game: I Can Choose Instance Rewards-Chapter 476 - 337: Ritual and Mutation
At this moment, on the edge of the area covered by the lamplight in the underground wilderness, sinister and evil figures appeared one by one. In places where the light could not reach at all, there were sounds and movements that sent chills down people’s spines, as if all the nearby monsters were rushing towards here.
"Please help us deal with the incoming monsters! I will complete the ceremony as soon as possible!"
The mage elder, with a solemn face, said this to Wang Zhifan. Once Wang Zhifan nodded, he turned around and headed to the small mound beside him to continue his spellcasting.
"Brother, you’re a melee class and I’m a ranged class, how about we team up?"
The gunslinger player, wearing a cowboy hat, immediately smiled and invited Wang Zhifan. Apparently, he didn’t find anything inappropriate about doing so in this dungeon.
"Alright."
Wang Zhifan glanced at him and responded nonchalantly, not minding at all that the dungeon had removed the punishment mechanism, which meant the gunslinger player could fire at him from the back without any burden and might even team up with the surrounding NPC to target him.
This confidence came from strength; he knew that even if these people ambushed him, he could easily turn the tables and fight back. Moreover, it was almost impossible for them to launch a successful sneak attack.
"You guys guard that side! We’ll handle the other directions!"
The archer, with a longbow in hand, shouted to them, allocating each person’s defense tasks.
The task allocation was quite reasonable. There were nine people present in total, excluding the mage elder who was casting spells, two people were assigned to defend each direction, fully prepared to confront the gathering monsters.
Wang Zhifan wasn’t really interested in the monsters they were about to battle. He could sense their approximate strength from afar, which seemed impressive but was actually not that strong. However, to gather intelligence smoothly, he decided to play his part as a ceremony guard.
So, in this area of the underground wilderness illuminated by the lamp suspended above the gravestones, Wang Zhifan coordinated with the cowboy hat-wearing gunslinger behind him.
He charged forward actively, drawing the Wolf-Slaying Blade to slash at the incoming monsters, working with the gunslinger behind him to secure their direction, leaving the other directions to the NPCs.
Some people were warriors and archers working together, while others were dual mages casting magic bombardment. Each demonstrated their abilities, steadily eliminating the monsters one by one. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Swish! Swish! Bang!
As the blade flashed, a wolf-headed monster in front of Wang Zhifan was instantly killed by one slash. Then he turned and charged to the flank, slicing another monster in half with a single strike.
The gunslinger youth behind him simultaneously fired his pistols, accurately targeting the monsters that Wang Zhifan couldn’t cover.
The two were initially cooperating quite smoothly, but soon, the gunslinger youth in charge of rear firepower noticed a strange phenomenon:
More and more monsters bypassed the warrior in front and rushed straight towards him, as if they weren’t very interested in the person holding the frontline, preferring him, the one providing firepower from the back.
"Brother! Hold the aggro! The monsters are all running towards me!"
Feeling puzzled, the gunslinger youth shouted to Wang Zhifan in the front, hoping he didn’t slack off and shifted too much pressure onto him.
"I’m trying! But these monsters just like you! There’s nothing I can do!"
Wang Zhifan replied while killing monsters, even speeding up his killing pace a bit, indicating he was already operating at "full capacity," showing he wasn’t slacking, but the monsters simply didn’t find him attractive.
Many varied-shaped monsters managed to bypass Wang Zhifan and charged at the cowboy-hatted gunslinger youth, forcing him to increase his shooting pace and constantly jump and circle to evade the monsters’ close attacks, making him no longer relaxed.
"This is really odd! Am I naturally born to be a meat shield?!"
While attacking, he pondered over this, unable to figure out the reason, as he had done long-range and close-combat coordination before but never encountered something so absurd. If it weren’t for the person in the front trying his best to block, he felt all the monsters from the current direction would attack him.
"Hehe... Want me to bear all the pressure alone, no chance of that."
Wang Zhifan naturally knew what was going on. It was because the monsters were colluding, resulting in them not proactively attacking him, thus rushing towards the gunslinger youth. If he wanted to be mean, he could let all monsters attack this person, but for fairness, he intercepted about half of them.
As these two were fighting monsters diligently, the other directions’ NPCs were also progressing smoothly. By just looking at their appearances, it could be told that they were quite skilled professionals. Facing the monster group, which had only some quantity but was not outstanding in quality, they could control the situation. Before long, the nearby land was covered with various monster corpses, and the number of subsequent monsters became increasingly sparse, signaling that this stage of difficulty had been passed.
Seeing fewer and fewer reckless monsters coming, Wang Zhifan shifted his attention to the mage elder in the central position. He noticed that the elder was still chanting incomprehensible spells with closed eyes, but the lamplight above the grave became slightly dim, as if something was flickering in the flame.
"Is the ceremony almost complete?"
Not understanding the progress, he asked the cowboy hat-wearing gunslinger who had also just finished dealing with the monsters. Beads of sweat could be seen on the guy’s forehead, clearly having exerted great effort to evade those monsters earlier.
