Chapter 61: The Monster’s Dying Words

Chen Mo thought more about it and felt this Instance Dungeon would be really difficult. There were only 300 Forest Crystals in the entire Instance Dungeon. Some players might use them midway to resurrect teammates. Plus, some might find the NPC first to exchange for items. Even if he killed everyone, by the end, he didn’t know if he would have even half the Forest Crystals in his possession.

The three-minute protection time ended, and the Trial officially began.

Chen Mo didn’t rush to act. Instead, he took off his equipment, told Little Warrior to stand still, and attacked her once.

A damage number of over thirty floated above Little Warrior’s head. Little Warrior was a bit confused.

“Did you get a System Notification saying I attacked you?” Chen Mo asked.

“No.” Little Warrior didn’t understand why, but she answered honestly.

“Good.” Chen Mo nodded.

Rule One said players could attack each other. It really meant not just attacking other teams, but even teammates could be attacked. However, what Chen Mo wanted to test was another setting.

After players left the Starter Village, if they were maliciously attacked by other players, a System Notification would appear, telling the player they were under malicious attack and could defend themselves. If they were maliciously killed, there would be a System Notification showing who killed them.

But if it was a Red-Named Player, whether they were attacked or killed by other players, there would be no notifications at all.

In this Instance Dungeon, Chen Mo actively attacked Little Warrior and there was no notification. That meant if you killed another player in the Instance Dungeon, the other player wouldn’t know who did it.

With a move of his hand, Chen Mo summoned the Mutant Slime King Big Fatty.

“Wow, so cute! Big brother, you actually caught it!”

As soon as Little Warrior saw Big Fatty, her eyes lit up, and she rushed over, hugging Big Fatty.

Big Fatty had big, pitch-black, cute eyes and a fat, amethyst-colored body. It was soft, smooth, and very likable.

“Alright, time is short. After we finish the Instance Dungeon and complete the Quest, you can play with it slowly.” Chen Mo pulled Little Warrior along.

“Okay.” Hearing about the Quest, Little Warrior immediately perked up.

“Be careful, follow behind me.”

Equipping his full set of top-tier gear, Chen Mo took the lead walking through the dark forest. Little Warrior followed closely behind him.

She wasn’t wearing any equipment and was very fragile. If an Elite Monster appeared, two attacks could kill her.

“Silence big brother, why not let it follow us?” Little Warrior asked, puzzled.

He had summoned Big Fatty, but Chen Mo made Big Fatty trail far behind. Little Warrior couldn’t even see it when she looked back.

“If we encounter monsters, we’ll call it over to help. There’s no hurry now.” Chen Mo didn’t explain much.

“Oh.” Little Warrior could only nod, feeling too embarrassed to ask further.

“Monster!”

A huge black shadow, two meters tall, appeared ahead. Little Warrior quickly jumped behind Chen Mo.

“Roar!”

The monster was a two-meter-tall black bear. It had a large aggro range. When Chen Mo and Little Warrior got closer, still over twenty meters away, it roared and charged at them on its own.

“Stand farther away, don’t get caught in it.”

Chen Mo didn’t dare be careless. He called Big Fatty over and told Little Warrior to keep her distance.

“Summon Slime King!”

As the black bear rapidly approached, Chen Mo summoned a fiery red Mutant Slime.

Although Big Fatty had one hundred thousand Health Points, its recovery speed wasn’t as fast as a real BOSS. Chen Mo wanted to use the Mutant Slime, which could be summoned once every five minutes, as a shield to minimize the damage Big Fatty took.

“Roar!”

Big Fatty was very fast. It arrived just as Chen Mo and the black bear began fighting.

As soon as he engaged the black bear, Chen Mo knew it was an Elite Monster. Its Health Points and attack power were considerable. He estimated its Health Points were around thirty thousand, and its Defense wasn’t low either. With his attack power, he only dealt less than two hundred Damage. If it were other players, they might only deal a few tens of points of Damage.

However, Chen Mo’s equipment added a series of Toxin Damage effects. Chen Mo applied all his buffs one by one. Combined with Big Fatty’s charge attacks, the black bear lost over a thousand Health Points per second.

“Battle Roar!”

To Chen Mo’s surprise, Little Warrior ran a few steps closer from behind, used a skill, and then quickly retreated.

Battle Roar—Chen Mo had read about this skill on the Forum. It was a buff skill Warriors could learn after reaching level 15. At Novice Level, using Battle Roar increased the Warrior’s and teammates’ attack power and attack speed by 10%. It was the most popular skill for the Warrior class. He didn’t expect Little Warrior to have learned it at level ten. It seemed Little Warrior’s Quests really weren’t done for nothing.

With Battle Roar, the black bear’s Health Points dropped even faster.

As an Elite Monster, and an Elite Monster in a Hell-level Instance Dungeon, the black bear was definitely not easy to kill. But facing Chen Mo, whose strength completely overwhelmed it, the black bear had no ability to fight back.

Most of its attacks landed on the Mutant Slime. Big Fatty took very little damage. Chen Mo was agile and nimble. With two pets acting as obstacles nearby, the black bear’s attacks couldn’t hit him at all.

In less than two minutes, the black bear’s Health Points were nearly depleted.

“You will not succeed! You absolutely will not succeed!”

The black bear’s Health Points ran out, and it fell to the ground dead. But the moment it fell, the black bear suddenly let out an angry roar like a human. Chen Mo and Little Warrior, caught off guard, were both startled.

“This monster can talk!”

Chen Mo recovered quickly, but Little Warrior was truly frightened, her face pale with fear.

“Never mind it, let’s continue.”

After the black bear died, it dropped a green crystal. Chen Mo picked it up. This green crystal was the Forest Crystal.

Forest Crystal: Quest item, cannot be traded, drops on death, disappears after leaving the Forest Hunter Instance Dungeon.

Chen Mo and Little Warrior continued forward. Not far ahead, they encountered a yellow tiger.

There seemed to be no ordinary monsters in the Instance Dungeon. The tiger they met was also an Elite Monster, with thirty-five thousand Health Points. Its attack was higher than the black bear’s, but its Defense was lower.

With Chen Mo’s Attributes and his two little followers, the Elite Monsters in the Instance Dungeon were naturally no match for him.

Two minutes later, the tiger’s Health Points were also depleted, and it was about to fall and die.

“You will not succeed! You absolutely will not succeed!”

At the moment of death, this tiger also roared angrily, just like the black bear did when it died.

After two Elite Monsters died in a row, both roaring the same phrase, Chen Mo could no longer ignore it.

‘Will not succeed’? What will not succeed?

Were these monsters saying they would absolutely not succeed in clearing the Instance Dungeon?

Chen Mo frowned.

In other places, there could be many possibilities. But in this Instance Dungeon, their goal was always only one: to clear the Instance Dungeon. Only then could they possibly complete the Hell-level Talent Trial.

Although it seemed like a curse-like roar the monsters let out when dying, Chen Mo didn’t think it was just a simple roar.

This was a Hell-level Talent Trial Instance Dungeon. Every monster roared this once. No matter how he thought about it, it couldn’t be just a useless sentence.

Not only Chen Mo, but the other expert players scattered in the Instance Dungeon, teams like Xiaolou Fengyu, etc., after each spending some effort to kill an Elite Monster, all heard the same sentence from the monsters.

As time passed, every time an Elite Monster was killed, they repeated this dying message. All the players in the Instance Dungeon vaguely felt that this Instance Dungeon was probably even more difficult to pass than they had expected!