Chapter 154: Maze Exploration, [Tina’s Crystal of Obsession]_1
Translator: 549690339
Su Yu had some understanding about clearing the maze dungeons.
The worst thing you could do in a maze dungeon is barge in blindly.
The internal walls of the maze are almost identical. It’s easy to misjudge your direction if you stroll around aimlessly, which can lead you to lose your way completely.
Clearing a maze dungeon is actually quite simple.
As soon as Su Yu entered the maze, he pulled out a pen and paper from his bag and recorded all the routes he had taken.
He moved forward at a constant speed with every step being 0.6 meters apart. Whenever he crossed a fork, he would clearly mark the distance he had just walked and the position of the fork.
Every time he turned a corner, he would rotate the paper 90 degrees.
In this way, it was unlikely to lose his way and he could easily navigate through the maze.
Although the maze section was simple, this was, after all, the main storyline, and there were a lot of other elements mixed in the maze.
Just as Su Yu reached the second junction, he ran into four monsters.
Two of them were giant snakes.
Skill: [Venomous Bite]: Bite the target, causing 240% attack damage, apply a layer of [Venom], and refresh the duration of [Venom] on the target.
[Venom]: Causes 35 points of poison damage per second, lasting for 4 seconds. Can stack up to 10 times.
[Serpent’s Swiftness (Passive)]: Has a 15% chance to dodge single target attacks and spells.
Note: Tina was not afraid of snakes when she was a child, until she was bitten by a poisonous snake in the forest .
The other two are giant spiders.
Skill: [Web of Restraint]: Spits a web towards the target, causing 150% attack damage and causing the target to be [Bound] for 3 seconds.
[Poisonous Sting]: Pounces and stabs the target, causing 120%——600% attack damage. The lower the target’s health, the higher the damage, causing the target to be [Poisoned], causing 35 points of poison damage per second, lasting for 4 seconds.
[Spider’s Agility (Passive)]: Has a 15% chance to dodge single target attacks and spells.
Note: Tina had a pet spider as a child, but she later adopted a cute stray cat and abandoned the spider.
These four monsters were of ordinary level and posed no challenge to Su Yu.
Su Yu used his [Summoning Rock Element] skill and a large rock element, over three meters tall and made entirely of granite, appeared by his side.
Under his control, the rock element stretched out its huge stone fist and pounced at the four monsters.
The spiders and pythons obviously also noticed the invading rock element and launched attacks at it.
The python’s large mouth and the spider’s poisonous pincers struck the rock element, scraping off a large amount of gravel.
Su Yu was not slow either. After the rock element used [Mass Taunt] to control the monsters, he unreservedly launched his [Rain of Fire] and [Flash Chain] spells.
Su Yu’s spells were powerful and his skill damage bonus was very high. Just two spells caused the four monsters’ HP to quickly drop to zero amidst a storm of lightning and flames, turning them into experience points and some drops.
Su Yu went forward to check the drops from the monsters.
In addition to equipment, spiritual energy coins and other basic drops, the four monsters also dropped four consumables called [Tina’s Crystal of Obsession].
[Tina’s Crystal of Obsession (Consumable)]
Effect: Use on BOSS [Tina’s Perseverance] to reduce its all attributes by 1%, and the score gained from killing the boss rises by 5%. Can stack up, lasting for 2 minutes.
Seeing this item, Su Yu immediately understood: “It seems that clearing the maze is only part of the task. The more exploration we do in the maze, the more monsters we kill, the higher the rewards we’ll get from the task in the end.”
Having thought of this, Su Yu started to take action.
He collected the loot from the four monsters, put on the dual-speed leather armor, and began to explore the entire maze.
Besides spiders and pythons, two types of small monsters, there were occasional poisonous gas and fire traps on the ground and walls of the maze.
But these were just minor nuisances to Su Yu.
What really posed a threat to Su Yu was a creature called the [Ghost Cat].
Skill: [Ghost Strike]: The Ghost Cat pounces on the target, inflicting 100% of the target’s total health in true damage, ignoring shields and damage reduction skills.
[Ghost Body (Passive)]: In its ghost state, it can easily pass through the maze walls.
[Silent (Passive)]: Produces no sound while moving and attacking.
Note: A stray cat adopted by Tina in her childhood, died of a malignant disease, one of the sources of Tina’s obsession.
The Ghost Cat moved silently, struck quickly, and was very hard to detect.
For Su Yu, if the Ghost Cat appeared in front of him, he could use [Flash Skill] and [Ice Barrier] to dodge the attack.
If the Ghost Cat appeared behind him or within his blind spot, it would be difficult to defend. He could only use the [Maze Amulet] to fend off the damage.
In the following 50 minutes, Su Yu, while always being aware of any Ghost Cats appearing, fought monsters to collect the Crystals of Obsession and look for the maze’s exit.
Finally, after 42 minutes, Su Yu successfully explored 100% of the maze, killed two mini-bosses – [Spider Queen Eilis] and [The Embrace of the Serpent Goddess Cassiopeia], and arrived at the exit of the maze.
Now, he only had two uses left for his [Maze Amulet], and he collected 40 [Tina’s Crystals of Obsession]!
As he exited the maze, he breathed a long sigh of relief at the open plain in front of him.
He had been dizzy from constantly moving in the confined and dark maze, almost developing claustrophobia.
But now, seeing the open plain before him, he felt incredibly refreshed!
However, the maze dungeon was not over yet.
About a hundred meters from the exit of the maze, a 30-meter-tall giant metal Golem was standing. This should be the final BOSS of the maze dungeon.
The upper body of the Golem was red with a large “thunder” character; its abdomen was green and held a huge “wind” character; its lower limbs were blue with an enormous “water” character.
Looking at the whole, it seemed like the golem was composed of three constructs.
[Guardian of the Gate lv27 (Excellent)]
Skills:[Dragon Flash Strike], [Wind Dragon’s Sweep], [Water Dragon’s Roar]
Note: A large construct composed of the Thunder Demon God-Sanga, the Wind Demon God-Xuga, and the Water Demon God-Skaga, possessing an incredibly strong power.
Seeing this boss, Su Yu couldn’t help but sigh: “It seems that the players who complete the main storyline must have the ability to fight bosses of the same level. Ordinary players can’t even complete the main storyline.”
While sighing, Su Yu changed into a full set of cloth armor and began to cast a 20-fold power [Thunderfall Skill] intending to kill the boss in one shot.
But before casting his spell, Su Yu glanced at the [Rock Element] standing beside him.
Looking at the Rock Element’s rugged physique, a new idea suddenly popped up in his mind: “Maybe I could try this.”