Bloom was finally relieved about figuring out the secret of these monsters.
"What's the trick here?" Nara shouted as she was already fighting one of these monsters with five other players.
"Does anyone have a stun skill?" Bloom didn't explain now as there was no time to do so. His question was met with a strange silence from everyone.
"Tsk, I thought so," he shook his head before adding, "just trigger the ability of monsters each ten seconds intervals at least."
He then checked his own skills, dash wasn't the only one with a stun effect. He had a myriad of other skills that also stunned the monsters.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Just as he said this, two monsters roared at the same time. "It seems I was a bit late," he muttered before pointing his sword to one of them. "Dash!"
His body moved on its own to hit the monster. This timely stun helped to stop the ability of the monster, yet six monsters already launched their darts towards the player triggered the ability.
"Move behind the monster, fast," he hurried to say and the player just reacted in time. As for Bloom, he just stepped aside, making room for the eighteen darts to hit the monster and cause eighteen thousand damage.
"One down, one left," he muttered before turning to glance at the player.
"System alert: Player Manty of your team group has died!"
The notification came faster than his sword, as one dart was fast enough to hit the player before he could activate his dash skill. "Oh, so once killed the player they would cause an AOE attack?" he was speechless there as the next moment the player fell down, the remaining seventeen darts went crazy and targeted seventeen players.
"No time to waste, dash!" he moved with his fastest reaction to hit and stun the monster, cancelling its skill. "Take the monsters as shelter," he hurried the others, yet only five remained of such attack.
"Scary!" he muttered as he now knew how bad these monsters were! "We need to be more careful," he urged the remaining twenty players to follow his words.
"They sure will," Jeffrey said before adding, "one monster at a time?"
"One monster at a time," Bloom agreed on such a strategy as this was the perfect tactic right now. The remaining eight monsters were targeted one by one, as they activated the special ability and Bloom just worked his best to deactivate it.
In less than two minutes these monsters died, yet they lost seven more players during this.
This came because their numbers weren't enough to stop the remaining monsters. So when one of them reached the staff holders and light daughters, a massacre erupted in no time!
Bloom interfered and stunned the monster twice in a row, expiring one dash and one dash piercer skills at the same time to stop the monster twice.
"Phew, that was crazy!" Nara said while glancing over the alive ones. "We need to wait for others to come," she said before recalling the path to here.
She glanced at Bloom and he just nodded. "We need to clear their path using my way then," he said before adding, "contact them and when they are nearby, I will act."
Nara glanced over Jeffrey who took the mission and started contacting everyone. "The secret lies in stun skills then?" she finally had time to ask more about the trick behind these monsters' supreme skills.
"Sure, the three holed monsters need stun skill and high agility players, the double trunked monsters need players with many skills and short cooldown. As for the double horned monsters, they need high DPS players, and also need veteran players knowing how to use their skills without following the system guidance."
He paused as he was thinking out loud. "Each monster here seemed to have one condition at least to be beaten. This is unique, this is really interesting."
"And hard," she sighed before adding, "what about the loot? Like usual?"
Since they started attacking these monsters, he refrained from taking any loot. The money fallen here wasn't much to begin with, and the equipment was scarce, low leveled and maximum green grade. He didn't need them, he had a lot of wealth already and he had his eyes on the higher levels and grades gear for his Pandora's box.
"Sure, share them with others," he said.
"May I suggest something," she paused before adding, "in the future we will have a guild, right?"
"A guild?" he muttered before saying, "sure, a guild will be established soon. Why?"
"If so then we need to accumulate materials for our lifestyle players."
"Blacksmiths and alchemists?"
"Yes, they are like a bottomless pit. Training a bunch of them would require too much materials and resources."
He thought about it for a moment. 'This Pandora box seems to be much more important than I initially thought,' he said to himself before saying to her, "Do as you see fit, alright?"
She gave him a silent glance before walking away, feeling he wasn't much enthusiastic about the whole idea. He wasn't that interested, actually, in establishing a guild but he knew he would have to own one.
Guilds had the right to establish villages, towns, and own cities. So he would prefer to do so to have one of his dreams come true.
As they waited for their dead team members to come here, a message popped up in front of Bloom's face.
"New development, master."
It was sent from Muna. "Say," he replied back to her knowing already what she was going to say.
"A group of a hundred players left the village and are coming for you now."
"A hundred? That's too few," he shook his head not knowing what to say about this. He previously fought hundreds, not just one.
"This group is different," she sent before pausing for a while. "Players here wanted the prize on your head, yet they all demanded for your level to be at least ten or lower. So Panty asked for reinforcements, and this group just arrived here."