Heroes' Prison

Chapter 167: Fire Dance (Extra for kulamingyue)

"Among the remaining four teams, the United Kingdom’s Crusaders and China’s Hall of Famous Generals are competing for the second BOSS; currently, China’s Hall of Famous Generals has a clear lead and is almost guaranteed the first kill. As for the third BOSS, the Zombie King, it is being targeted by Dao Feng’s Yanhuang Legion and the Pope’s Angel Legion, whose progress is nearly identical. It remains unknown which team will land the first kill; that will depend on who the Yanhuang Legion decides to collaborate with next."

Following that, the author of this post focused on the Yanhuang Legion: "Since Thunder God left, Dao Feng’s Yanhuang Legion has been without a powerful main tank, hence choosing the Zombie King as their third BOSS is out of necessity. The Zombie King has high defense but lower attack, which doesn’t demand much from a main tank, fitting the current team composition of the Yanhuang Legion. Moreover, the Yanhuang Legion’s Chief Mage—Dong Huan is the world’s number one Fire Mage, and that is exactly what the Zombie King fears most - fire attacks. However, compared to the Pope’s Angel Legion, the Yanhuang Legion still lacks a strong airborne class!"

"Starting from the 45th layer’s 500-person mode, once the Zombie King’s health drops to 1%, it will unleash a fixed skill called Corpse Water Torrent that floods the entire ground and deals very high damage, causing players to lose 20% of their health every second. With such a fast team-wide health drain, no amount of priests can keep up with healing, and the Zombie King needs to be killed within a few seconds; otherwise, the team will be wiped out. The Zombie King on the 50th layer is even stronger; if it uses this skill, it could nearly wipe out any team. However, judging by the Yanhuang Legion’s current output, they clearly cannot deplete 1% of the Zombie King’s health in just a few seconds, making an airborne class crucial for killing the Zombie King."

"However, at present, across the whole world, players with airborne capabilities are extremely rare. The most famous is the Fallen Angel from the Pope’s Angel Legion, which also happens to be their biggest advantage in competing for the first kill of the Zombie King. If the Yanhuang Legion wants to kill the Zombie King, they must find a strong player with airborne abilities. According to the data on the top players in the China Region, there is only one best candidate, and that’s Instakill!"

"In the battle at Wind Forest Stronghold, Instakill demonstrated a capability to pull enemies into high-altitude combat, a skill unseen before that likely belongs to a Rare Class exclusive skill. Hence, Dao Feng might very well choose to collaborate with Instakill in order to defeat the Zombie King! Once the BOSS’s health falls to the last 1% and it uses the Corpse Water Torrent skill, if the Yanhuang Legion is wiped, only Instakill would be able to turn the tide by pulling the BOSS into the air and soloing the Zombie King in its Bare Life State!"

After reading this post, Huang Yi couldn’t help but admire the author’s clear organization and deep knowledge of The Second World’s celebrities, down to the details of each team’s members, even speculating that Dao Feng would seek to collaborate with him!

And that’s not all—the author even guessed what role Huang Yi would play in this collaboration, something Huang Yi himself didn’t know. He hadn’t been aware of what the 50th layer’s Zombie King was like, having only killed the Zombie King on the 41st layer.

Huang Yi couldn’t help but check the author of the post, realizing immediately that the author was none other than Poet! A celebrity on the forums whose posts generally earned everyone’s recognition, it was no wonder the author could guess that Dao Feng would seek a collaboration with him.

In a sense, Poet is just as strong a talent as Dao Feng and the others, having profound insight into the experts from all over the world, and the capability to analyze valuable information based on each expert’s characteristics, which is a very rare ability indeed.

Next, Huang Yi returned to the homepage and casually looked up guides for the Zombie King without paying too much attention.

The higher you go, in addition to the BOSS’s basic skills, there are several hundred uncertain skills left, a few of which will randomly appear each time. Guides are quite limited in usefulness, serving only to acquaint players with some of the BOSS’s basic skills and time-saving tricks. As for those random skills, there’s no helping it; even strong teams cannot fully research every one of the BOSS’s random skills.

Currently, it’s mostly the newcomers who refer to guides, while top-end players hardly bother with them, opting to explore the BOSS’s basic skills through trial and error a few times themselves.

After browsing these posts, Huang Yi entered The Second World to start a new round of battles in the Tower of Pantheons.

After amassing some experience points, he advanced his Life Soul to the 3rd stage with a 98% success rate and a consumption of 20% experience. Following the upgrade, his bonus increase was at the minimum value of 3%.

However, he wasn’t too concerned; in the future, when he reaches the 9th stage, he can still go back and re-select the 3rd stage—any stage could be repeated indefinitely, and eventually, he could get a 4% boost.

Now, as he had finished upgrading the first three stages, he had officially completed the first tier, accumulating an 8% increase in health points.

Next, he was to start on the second phase, which included the fourth layer, the fifth layer, and the sixth layer. These stages were more difficult, requiring large amounts of experience and having lower success rates.

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Days went by.

One day, a girl arrived in Black Sand Town.

She was about 20 years old, wearing a blue magic robe, with flowing long hair and an average face, but a good figure. Underneath her delicate robe was a curvy body, showing a young girl maturing into adulthood.

Such a young girl walking through a small town like Black Sand Town was very eye-catching, even some NPC youths couldn’t help but give her several glances.

"What are you looking at? Keep looking and I’ll dig your eyeballs out!" the girl brandished her magic wand and threatened a youth, who immediately turned red and quickly looked away.

"This Instakill, really coming to such a broken place, so much dust, it’s filthy! Our Xuanyuan Town is so much prettier!" the girl muttered to herself while walking, wrinkling her nose.

Soon, the girl arrived at the teleportation field of Black Sand Town, looking around, but the field was empty without a single soul in sight. It was a low peak for logins, and this town was also remote and sparsely populated, so she did not see the person she was supposed to meet.

Just then, a man suddenly appeared before the girl. This man was dressed in exquisite chainmail and held a gigantic hammer in his hand, still with traces of blood on it, obviously having just teleported from the Tower of Pantheons.

"Are you Instakill?" Seeing this person’s attire, the girl blurted out.

The man turned his head to look at her and nodded.

The man was indeed Huang Yi. He had guessed the girl’s background. When he parted with Dao Feng the other day, he was told that someone would be sent to fetch him after some time, and now time had passed, the girl had just arrived here; she was probably the person sent by Dao Feng to meet him.

"My name is Fire Dance, Big Brother Dao Feng sent me to pick you up," said the girl, sizing up Huang Yi and introducing herself.

"Yeah, I know," Huang Yi nodded.

"Then let’s go!" said Fire Dance, immediately waving her magic wand in the air and drawing a circle while shouting, "Teleportation Gate, Xuanyuan Town!"

As her words fell, an oval-shaped portal gradually appeared in the air, surrounded by a milky white glow that kept spreading outward. The center was a deep black hole, leading to some mysterious place.

Having done all this, Fire Dance seemed a bit tired. She wiped the sweat from her forehead, puffed out her chest, raised her eyebrows, and proudly said to Huang Yi, "Hurry up and go in! This is an exclusive skill of my Rare Race, able to teleport you directly to our Xuanyuan Clan Guild’s territory in Xuanyuan Town. But this teleportation gate only lasts for one minute, miss it and there will be no chance!" After that, Fire Dance took the lead and walked into the black hole, disappearing inside.

Huang Yi glanced at the black hole and stepped through as well.

The next moment, a familiar force of suction came, and with a noise in his ears, Huang Yi found himself in a whole new place.

Here was a bustling teleportation field, not big, just about the size of a basketball court, with some players teleporting in and out. The buildings around the square were all brand new, seeming to have been recently constructed. This small town was not very large, roughly the size of Black Sand Town.

But this small town radiated a vigorous vitality, with construction sites visible everywhere and players of building classes laboring diligently.

"How about it, our Xuanyuan Town is beautiful, right? It’s still under construction, but when it’s finished, it will become a really big city! It won’t be worse than Muguang City!" At that moment, Fire Dance’s voice came, filled with pride.

"Yes! It is indeed nice!" Huang Yi nodded slightly. He had heard of Muguang City, which was the capital of Windhammer Kingdom thirty years ago. Muguang City, situated in the southeastern part of the continent, was the most beautiful coastal city and was said to be the first in the continent to witness the sunrise. However, it was later ravaged by Demon King Uk’arl’s Undead Army, turning it to ruins. The fate of the incompetent king was unknown until he was killed by Dragon Spike a few days ago, and even the Imperial Jade Seal was dropped.

"If you join our Xuanyuan Clan, you can live in such a beautiful city every day! Come on! Let me take you to meet Big Brother Dao Feng!" said Fire Dance, immediately leading the way.

Huang Yi followed closely behind, walking with Fire Dance towards the tallest building in the center of Xuanyuan City.