MMORPG: The Elementalist

Chapter 362: Dark Gold Key

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As soon as the Darkfrost Potion was activated, cold air emitted nonstop, filling up the dungeon corridor. The Twelve Frostramparts Formation became colder!

Harsh white frost combined with its chill seeped into the marrows of the spiders that were near the Frostramparts Formation. The frost slowly covered the spiders’ bodies!

It looked as if they were about to be frozen solid at any moment.

The spiders that were closest outside the Twelve Frostramparts Formation had it worse. They initially already had their movement and attack speed lowered, but now they were about to be frozen alive! It would be difficult to even move an inch. The surrounding spiders that were about ten meters from the upgraded Twelve Frostramparts Formation were all affected and their speeds were enormously lowered.

But the first one to be affected was the Mutated Mannequin Spider itself!

The Darkfrost Potion was specially prepared for it!

Even if it had reached the peak of Tier 4, the Mutated Mannequin Spider was still unable to fight against the current Twelve Frostramparts Formation that had its Chilled effect booster by 62%...

Unprepared, the boss took an immediate, direct hit!

The Mutated Mannequin Spider was affected by the Frostrampart Formation. Entering Chilled State; Movement Speed reduced by 54%, Attack Speed reduced by 54%.

As expected of a magic-type humanoid Boss. Its Magic Resistance was significantly higher than other typical Bosses.

What a pity!

Everything was out of its control as soon as it was trapped in the Twelve Frostramparts Formation!

Whoosh!

Poochie who already broke free from the battle at the rear, used Qin Ruo’s shoulder as support and shot into the air, above the Mutated Mannequin Spider...

It swung its tiny claws!

The Mutated Mannequin Spider suffered as if it was crushed by a huge stone!

Poochie’s target hit, Mutated Mannequin Spider received a hundred and twelve damage.

Stun Status activated for 3 seconds.

Qin Ruo could not help but secretly rejoice in his heart while reading all the battle notifications. Poochie’s attack would increase as soon as it levels up! Its damage would be tripled even when dueling a Tier 4 Boss (Regardless of whether it was caused by a status effect).

Being this happy, Qin Ruo no longer cared about the Mutated Mannequin Spider that was smashed to the ground...

After Poochie knocked down the Boss from the air, Slayer’s Heart impatiently rushed over! Under the condition of only exerting 50% of its original speed, how would the Mutated Mannequin Spider still be able to get away in one piece from Slayer’s Heart’s wrath?

Qin Ruo did not have to worry about Slayer’s Heart who was facing the Boss one-on-one. Qin Ruo requested Burning Rose and Xiaoxiao who were right behind him to speed up in their mass slaughtering of the monsters while giving Poochie instructions to kick out the Vampiric Spiders toward them... With the Darkfrost Potion’s influence, the damage dealt by Million Arrow Sleet slightly increased as well. But it might not be sufficient when facing the entire swarm of spider monsters in front of them, only the ones at the rear were more or less wiped out. They would only be able to instantly wipe the entire area clean if the three damage dealers combined their strengths!

Hmm...

But it seemed like it would not take much longer.

...

After experiencing near-death situations in the beginning, the party of ten was constantly on high-alert and completely focused. As soon as the third swarm of Mutated Mannequin Spider was wiped out, everything else was easily breezed through.

The battle ended and the harvest was abundant.

There were three small pieces of accessories, one of which was Dark Gold.

Forty-one pieces of Mana Core were dropped, the kind of dark mana cores which Dinosaurcerer would love to collect...

Additionally, one Mannequin Spider Pet Egg and two Vampiric Spider Pet Eggs had dropped.

Lastly, once the battlefield was swept clean of its items, everyone was informed by Slayer’s Heart that the Mutated Mannequin Spider dropped an unexpected reward—aside from the usual Dark Gold and Gold equipment, there was a lucky drop of one Pet Egg and one dark gold key.

It was not surprising that the Mutated Mannequin Spider would drop a Pet Egg.

The drop rates in Secret Dungeons were usually high. Additionally, mutated Bosses would usually have higher drop rates. With these two facts combined, not dropping one would actually be rare...

Qin Ruo laughed. His sight landed on Brother Da who was “vigorously resting” with his head facing the ground.

Slayer’s Heart and the other eight in the group all had their sights turned toward Brother Da.

After a few seconds of silence, Brother Da felt that the atmosphere was odd and raised his head. He raised his hands and laughed bitterly. “Can you guys not stare at me like this? I really am not into this. Yea, I hate spiders!” Brother Da found a good reason for himself.

“Are you sure you don’t want it?”

“Of course not! Who would want this ugly thing? You want it? You can have it!” Brother Da rolled his eyes at Qin Ruo. However, this statement seemed to have offended Poochie. The little fella angrily leaped onto his shoulders and started screaming while jumping on him. It clawed at him, as if intimidating him to take back his words.

Slayer’s Heart, Violet Orchid and the rest looked at Brother Da, who was desperate to escape his current circumstance, all shook their head feebly...

“If you really don’t want it, I’ll have lassie release her Three-tailed Terratoise and bind with this then,” Violet Orchid’s suggestion made Gold Digger Babe’s face go pale as she stared at Brother Da in a panic. This must be a joke. Having her bring this spider brain around that makes weird laughing noises? She would not be able to take it mentally... Even if she was able to, her classmates would die from laughter if they found out.

‘F**ck, no way!’

Before the traumatized girl could object to it, Little Apple noticed how Brother Da looked like he could not wait to be reborn tomorrow and decided to cut in. “Fatty, think about it. The Mutated Mannequin Spider is not just any Boss. It’s a rare, mutated, flying-type, all-rounded ranged Boss. It is even better than another typical Level 49 Boss. So you’d better give it some proper thought. With your current capabilities matched with a flying-type Boss that launches short and long distant attacks, you’ll have a great advantage when dueling other players.”

“I don’t wanna...”

Brother Da secretly muttered weakly in his heart, ‘With this ugly thing around, how would I be able to attract chicks?’

In truth, him bringing a pet around was not for combat, it was to look stronger. He had a nobler and sacred goal⸺which was to have a massive audience of pretty girls to remember him. If he could have a little pet like Poochie that could fight, defend, and attract girls on the streets, that would be fantastic! But if he had brought some ugly spider with a brain that popped out around the streets, he would surely scare them all away!

Brother Da thought of how evil he would look and started shaking his head wildly like a rattle. “Nope! Over my dead body!”

“Brother Da.”

“Ah?”

Brother Da was startled as Gold Digger Babe glared at him with her big pair of eyes.

“Haven’t you always wanted an avant-garde pet?”

“Uhuh.”

“And you still don’t want this? It’s a flying-type mutated boss! Who else do you think has one?” Gold Digger Babe looked at Brother Da as if he was making a stupid decision. He immediately shook his head, “Nope, ugly.” Brother Da was still rejecting the spider brained pet.

“What do you mean ‘ugly’? You have no taste, it’s called ‘cool’. Get it right!”

“Ah?”

Brother Da blanked out. Before he could react, he was presumptuously pulled aside by Gold Digger Babe. She started entrapping him into a fantasy. “Brother Da, let’s talk about you. With your body like this, how do you think you look?”

“Rather decent!”

“That’s right. You’re only ‘rather decent’. In comparison with Big Bro Qin, you are no match. Whenever you stand next to Big Bro Qin, which pretty lady would actually notice you?”

“...”

Brother Da agreed silently⸺what she said did make sense.

“So, you need to prep yourself to look cooler. Go for something out of the ordinary. That way, you would stand out and give others a sort of ‘special’ impression. You could also improve how the girls think of you, understood?”

Qin Ruo and the rest looked at how Brother Da was nodding away in a daze as Gold Digger Babe was preaching and they all slapped their foreheads respectively...

“Look here, the Mutated Mannequin Spider’s brain maybe slightly less appealing. But just look at it from a different angle⸺the girls now just love really weird and exciting stuff. You get it? Hehe, you do don’t ya? If you have this, you would give out a very powerful and awe-striking aura...”

“Awe...”

Brother Da furrowed his brows and was about to open his mouth to speak, yet once again, he was cut off by the mischievous lassie. “Listen to me first. Flying-type magical monsters are rarely seen, this fact itself is already shocking. The extent of people noticing you would increase! And then, as soon as you could defeat a player who’s at a Field Commander level, it would be quite the performance! When that happens, would its appearance still matter to you? By that time, others would recognize your talents. Once you’re famous, you would definitely look cooler. Wouldn’t you never have to worry about not getting any girls?”

Brother Da listened and nodded continuously as this made sense to him too.

“Oh yeah, then why don’t you use it?”

Brother Da suddenly asked her.

The latter leaned back and blurted, “You’re a man! Of course it wouldn’t matter! But us ladies are more timid. How could we bring something like this along to scare ourselves?”

Her mischief was exposed.

Brother Da could not hold back his laughter and started chuckling wickedly at the nervous Gold Digger Babe. “Hehe, I caught you. This thing is quite fearsome isn’t it?”

“Fine. If you don’t want it, I’ll listen to Sister Orchid and bind it to myself. From today onward, I’ll have it stare at you every day,” Gold Digger Babe pouted and looked as if she was struck with bad luck. She went over and was prepared to take the Pet Egg from Slayer’s Heart.

‘Hehe.’

Brother Da’s fat stature sprinted over and snatched the Pet Egg from Slayer’s Heart. He smirked and said, “You naughty lass, did you think that your big bro here is so easily conned? However...” Brother Da changed his tone. He weighed the Pet Egg in his hand and said, “Lassie, what you said about acting cool was pretty interesting.”