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Chapter 10: Boss, Don’t Screw Over Your Lackeys, Alright?

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

“Oh cr*p!” All the Spiritual World members shouted at the same time. After everyone shouted, they all subconsciously retreated a single step. They were thinking about how fortunate it was that they didn’t party with this guy.

System Notice: Since you attacked Neidhardt, Neidhardt’s Favorability towards you has increased by 20. Current Favorability, Friendly.

“This brave warrior… I’m really injured…” Neidhardt pointed at his wound. “If you would please….”

“Please your sister! Fight the boss with me or else I’ll slap you into an idiot!” With that said, ‘pa!’, Li Huailin slapped Neidhardt on the face again.

“Brave warrior….”

“You’re still talking superfluous words, look at how I’ll deal with you!” Another wave of ‘pa! pa! pa!’, resounded the surroundings.

After a minute of this, Neidhardt wore a heroic expression on his face as he stood up in front of Li Huailin. “Great brave warrior, you’ve been immensely kind to me, even if I risk my life, I’ll help you take down Yazir!”

“What the heck? That worked?” The group of Spiritual World members stared at Neidhardt, who seemed to have been slapped into an idiot.

“How exactly has this guy been immensely kind to the NPC? Does violently slapping count as being immensely kind nowadays?” Spiritual World Fire Head said, dumbfounded.

“He’s truly proved himself to be the kickass brother…” On the side, Spiritual World War Spirit was already stupefied.

“What the f*ck? How did you do it?” On another side, even someone like Spiritual World Night Flyer already started to throw out profanities.

“I slapped him hard on the face, how else?” Li Huailin said in a matter-of-fact tone.

“That… that works?”Although this wasn’t the first time Night Flyer saw this, he never would’ve imagined that not only the village chief, but also an NPC in the wild would surrender to Li Huailin’s tyrannical abuse.

“Let’s go and kill the boss!” In a good mood, Li Huailin waved his hand assertively, leading the limping Neidhardt forward.

“Is… is this alright?” Spiritual World Bind Spirit asked Night Flyer.

“It can’t be helped… let’s take a look first, if this works then it works. If it doesn’t, then forget it, we’ll just give up on this quest,” Night Flyer said with a frown.

“Oh…” Bind Spirit nodded.

While continuing to lead Neidhardt forward, they suddenly arrived at a round room. This room was quite dark, however, since the surroundings were filled with oil lamps, they could still see clearly. There was a dark magic array in the center of the round room, on the magic array was a black sphere. Dark wave-shaped lines constantly spilled over from the surroundings of the sphere, it felt and looked somewhat terrifying.

Next to the black sphere, a man in a dark mage’s robe stood there, the dark hood on his robe covered his face/ This made them unable to see his expression clearly, however, the red name ‘Yazir’, still indicated his identity.

Yazir: Level ?? Boss, Health: ??, Physical Attack: ??, Physical Defense: ??, Magic Attack: ??, Magic Damage: ??

“The difference in our levels is too great, we can’t tell his stats,” Night Flyer explained to Li Huailin, who was somewhat bewildered at this sight.

“Oh, that’s right.” Li Huailin1 also remembered that if the level difference was five or greater, then one wouldn’t be able to tell the attributes of the monster. This was introduced on the official website, for example, since he was now level seven, he wouldn’t be able to see the attributes of a level 13 monster.

“Neidhardt, you actually came back! Haven’t I taught you enough?” Yazir’s voice was extremely hoarse, this made them unable to guess his actual age.

“Yazir! I’m here to put an end to you this time,” Neidhardt raised the sword in his hand as he said in a cold tone.

“You actually interrupted me twice at a key moment, I’m already angry. This time, I won’t let you go,” after Yazir said this, he waved his hand, the path that they came from was suddenly sealed with a black mist.

“Brave warriors, we no longer have any path of retreat, only by defeating him will we be able to get out of here alive,” Neidhardt shouted while he raised the sword in his hand.

“To think that you’d bring a bunch of newbies that haven’t changed classes, I don’t even need to personally act! My dark servants! Kill these annoying flies for me.” When Yazir waved his hand, 11 zombies gleaming with a dark radiance simultaneously appeared on the scene.

Darkened Zombies: Level 10, Health: 800, Physical Attack: 70, Physical Defense: 35

“I’ll deal with Yazir, you guys take care of these dark servants first,” Neidhardt suddenly bellowed, before waiting for a reply, he charged directly at Yazir.

“It seems that we have to dispose of 11 Darkened Zombies at this stage,” Night Flyer said as he looked at the zombies that circled around them, “Everyone, split up. These monsters aren’t that strong, we should be able to take care of them one-on-one.”

With that said, a wave of dark light suddenly erupted by Yazir’s side before covering the entire field.

“What?” Li Huailin was quite startled because he suddenly discovered that a +50 health buff had appeared above his head. When he saw Yazir glowing all over with dark light, he assumed that Yazir was going to unleash an ultimate move, in the end… Yazir gave him a buff that granted additional 50 health?

“Damn it, it’s a Shadow Halo! As expected of an AA-rank quest, it’s not that simple. Everyone, drink a blood potion quickly!” Night Flyer suddenly shouted.

“A Shadow Halo?” Li Huailin was baffled. ‘Why are you guys so nervous? isn’t this a skill that increases health?’ Just as he found this matter strange, he suddenly discovered a magic buff on the status bar. He hurriedly took a look.

Shadow Halo: Increases 50 health points every two seconds.

“Oh crap, I understand now!” Li Huailin suddenly figured it out, this Shadow Halo was originally a damage skill, it would normally decrease 50 health points every two seconds. However, since his character was bugged, all magic debuffs had now become magic buffs for him and all magic buffs became magic debuffs.

While he was thinking about this, a Darkened Zombie dove at Li Huailin. The latter instinctively raised his sword and slashed back, -41. At the same time, the Darkened Zombie hit Li Huailin, -60, +50.

“Phew!” Li Huailin worked up a sweat, he didn’t have any health potions to begin with. A set of newbie equipment from top to bottom was all he had, he figured that he really couldn’t defeat these level 10 small monsters that easily. Fortunately, he had the help of the boss—this boss truly screwed over his own lackeys.

A few members of the Spiritual World guild were terribly ruined by the Shadow Halo, fortunately, they had health potions. It recovered their health points by 20 every second while the Shadow Halo decreased 50 points every two seconds, this computed to a loss of 5 health points every second—a level 10 character usually had around 500 health points—this wasn’t extremely distressing.

The second team of the Spiritual World guild had exquisite coordination with each other, within a single minute, the 10 Darkened Zombies turned into black light and disappeared. The last one to kill the monster was Li Huailin. Upon checking his battle records, Li Huailin let out a breath of relief. “Fortunately, these summoned monsters don’t give any experience, or else I would’ve been doomed. I could’ve directly dropped back to level 6.”

Just as he momentarily relaxed, the tragic screams of Neidhardt could be heard from the other side. Everyone quickly turned around to look, Neidhardt was chained on the ground by a dozen black chains. Every chain was tied up to a black pillar, the pillars were also spread out in every corner of the room. The Boss, Yazir, had already returned to the black sphere’s side in the middle of the room, he seemed to be casting a spell.

“Everyone! Hurry up and break the black chains bundled on my body! Yazir is about to summon dark energy, if he isn’t stopped, he will become even more powerful!” Neidhardt couldn’t move because he was chained on the ground, he could only shout at the players.

“It’s the second stage, cut down the pillars!” Spiritual World Night Flyer immediately ordered.

“You think I’ll let you guys save him so easily?” Yazir, who stood in the middle, suddenly waved his hand and a black magic blast flew towards Spiritual World Night Flyer.

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The huge amount of damage scared the other members.

Night Flyer was also quite surprised, his Health Points dropped by half just like this, however, he immediately restored his composure. “Don’t be afraid, he probably won’t attack just a single person! Everyone cut down the pillars quickly!”

As expected, Yazir immediately waved his hand again, this time, the black magic blast flew directly at Li Huailin.

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“Oh crap, that took out over half my life!” Li Huailin was also startled, however, the Shadow Halo buff was still present, it immediately popped a +50 above his head. “It seems that I’ll still lose blood from a direct attack, only a buff or debuff will become opposites.”

The objective now was to cut down the pillars as soon as possible. Li Huailin immediately slashed at the nearest black pillar, he discovered that the pillar actually had 1,000 Health Points while his slash only shaved off 51 Health Points.

“Drink a Medium Health Potion!” Night Flyer also slashed the pillar once, and then, he did some calculations before quickly shouting.

The battle’s pace was extremely tight. Fortunately, the Spiritual World guild knew that they were here to fight a boss, because of that, they prepared many health potions. This allowed them to barely withstand the boss’ attack.

Following the collapse of the last black pillar, Neidhardt, who was chained on the ground suddenly roared, and then, with a forceful shake, all the black chains immediately turned into fragments.

“Come, Yazir!” Neidhardt shouted at Yazir.

“It’s too late, Neidhardt.” Suddenly, Yazir glowed with a black light, his entire body turned into a pitch-black color.