“This beginner village’s Sli King… has been killed?”
Chen Mo had killed the Mutated Sli King nine tis. He was on his tenth when he discovered to his shock that the Sli King was not in its customary spawn location.
The Sli King respawn ti was three days. If he had killed the Sli King here two days ago then it had yet to respawn but Chen Mo knew that it was not he who had killed it.
Every Ayer Town map had a different serial number. This was Ayer Town 3014 and Chen Mo had never been here before.
He walked around the area to check if the Sli King had been lured away by other players. Nope, it had definitely been killed.
The Sli King was not a difficult BOSS to kill. It had only those few skills and if players had the right equipnt and thod, a party could take it down. The Richie Rich Club only managed to kill it using a sea of bodies because they simply had no real plan and just went at it. Take Chen Mo, for example. With the right thod, it was possible to take it down single-handedly.
Chen Mo knew that it was just a matter of ti before other players started killing the Sli King. Ten days had passed. He suspected that a party of players had gotten sufficient equipnt from the 3 main human cities, and figured out a way to let all party mbers spawn in the sa beginner village.
He did not think that his competitors were killing the Sli King one-on-one like he was. Players were always approaching the Sli King so it was not possible that they were digging pits to kill it. Even with Chen Mo’s current equipnt, there was no chance that he would be able to take it head-on. He wouldn’t be able to dodge its attacks without the help of obstacles either.
Only a party with players who can attack, block and heal can kill the the Sli King in a face-to-face fight.
So, Chen Mo went on the forums and did so digging. He confird his hypothesis.
The situation was more serious than he’d imagined. Two parties had popped out of the blue and they were doing what he was – killing a Sli King BOSS a day. Soone ntioned them in a post of the forums two days ago but Chen Mo suspected that they had been active for so ti before that.
One of the two parties had a video taken of them while they were killing the Sli King.
“It’s no wonder. They have a silencing skill as their weapon.”
The Sli King had a group attack too but it was not as powerful as the Mutated Sli King’s. However, the attack would in all likelihood insta-kill party mbers with low HP. Even if the mbers did not get insta-killed, the entire party would suffer great damage and have a very tough ti in the fight afterwards.
The priest player in the party could use the “Silence” skill. Right before the Sli King used a skill, the priest used Silence and cancelled its skill. This ensured that the Sli King would not be able to use all its big moves and its death was only a matter of ti.
Rivals had appeared – and not just one.
Chen Mo was unperturbed. This was an internet ga after all. Rivals were as common as grass and nothing to agonise over.
There were quite a number of beginner villages and just these few rivals. The chances of them running into each other was not high and besides, he only lacked a few pieces of equipnt. He would need to spend a few days more at most if his luck held.
Back in the ga, Chen Mo promptly committed suicide.
He appeared in another beginner village. This ti, after he left Goblin Valley, he went to the Sli Plains first to check if the Sli King was still there before levelling up to Level 10.
“It’s there.” This beginner village’s Sli King was still there. Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
He was turning around to go level up when he stopped in his tracks.
Wait a minute… This Sli King’s colour is a little different from what he usually saw. It also seed more llow.
Was he just imagining things?
No! Chen Mo was very confident in his powers of observation. This Sli King was indeed slightly different.
Chen Mo thought for a bit, then took out a bottle of Sli Poison and downed it.
“Roar!”
A distance away, the Sli King roared aggressively. Its body swelled, erald green skin darkened and its eyes filled with rage as it charged at Chen Mo.
“Its aggro range increased, body size increased, its attributes should have also gone up but… It’s not mutating!”
Chen Mo was surprised. He was only testing an idea but the result was unexpected.
This Sli King must have been killed once and was a freshly spawned Sli King!
It had not killed many players so its colour was not as deep as those which had killed dozens. It was also less aggressive.
Chen Mo had two hypotheses on why it did not mutate when he drank Sli Poison.
Hypothesis one: BOSSes only mutate once in a set period of ti even if the mutation conditions were t. After it dies, it will only mutate after a certain period of ti. BOSS mutations therefore, like player skills, have a cooldown ti.
Hypothesis two: Not all conditions have been t for the BOSS to mutate. Sli Poison is just one of the conditions for mutation and the other condition is what a freshly-spawned BOSS lacks but an ‘old’ one has t – which was what Chen Mo had surmised at first. The BOSS needs to have killed a certain number of players before it can mutate.*
*ARGH! This guy writes in such circles sotis! He must have very buff arms from beating about the bush so much.
The non-mutation could be due to one or both of his hypotheses.
Whatever it may be, he could not kill this non-mutating Sli King.
Good thing he had co first to check or he would have wasted a whole day getting to Level 10. Right now, he had wasted only over an hour of ti spent in getting out of Goblin Valley.
Wordlessly, Chen Mo committed suicide and started over. He should still make it to Level 10 by nightfall.
After exiting Goblin Valley, Chen Mo checked on the Sli King again.
This beginner village’s Sli King was still alive and was a good, deep colour. It looked like it had not been killed by anyone yet.
Chen Mo turned back and quickly started on levelling up.
Those two parties did not have to wait for nightfall to kill the Sli King like he did. He needed to use his ti wisely.
Chen Mo was not in that much of a hurry either. Even if he levelled up quickly, he still had to wait till night ti to kill the Mutated Sli King. He did not want his thod of killing the Mutated Sli King to be leaked or his rivals won’t just be these two parties. It’ll be difficult to even find a Sli King to kill if his thod was known to all.
Luck was on his side. The two parties had not turned up while he was levelling up. Chen Mo got to Level 10, paid so players to dig him a pit and wasted no ti in killing the Mutated Sli King.
“What… Skill Mutation Scroll again? Ha! A piece of Purple equipnt too!”
The appearance of rivals made him waste an extra days’ ti but Chen Mo found that his luck was returning. He got the third piece of Purple armour on top of the Skill Mutation Scroll!
rcury Wrist Guards
Description: A pair of tal wrist guards made from rcury with special poison resistance effect.
Equipnt grade: Purple
Limit: Level 10 and above
Attributes:
Basic Physical Attack 12
Basic Magic Attack 15
Physical Defence 20
Magic Defence 25
Strength 15
Intelligence 15
Additional effect: Poison Protection
Poison Protection: Passive effect. When equipped, poison damage to player is reduced by 10% and there is a 10% chance to beco immune to all poison damage.
A pair of Purple Grade wrist guards!
Wrist guards were unique among the five defence equipnt. It was the only one which raised the Basic Physical Attack and Basic Magic Attack. On the other hand, the defence capabilities of the wrist guards were more or less the sa as the other pieces.
However, players preferred to go for attack over defence, so the wrist guards, like shoes, were popular among players, and therefore priced higher than the other defence equipnt.
Chen Mo was feeling pretty good about his day after getting one more piece of Purple Grade equipnt; he committed suicide after putting his things in order.
About half an hour after Chen Mo committed suicide, a richly-equipped party appeared in the Sli King spawning area.
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