Online Game: The Strongest Landlord

Chapter 39: Entering the Dungeon (1)

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

In the next few days, Lao Yao continued to level up in the Death Swamp.

Actually, it wasn’t that Lao Yao wanted to stay in this godforsaken place. Instead, it was because he discovered that the training grounds of the other maps were filled with people. It was just like the scene in the novice village!

Under such circumstances, there were countless PK incidents occurring every day. Most of them were caused by fighting for monsters. It couldn’t be helped. The places that were suitable for everyone to level up were always so harsh. The monsters weren’t too high-leveled, their defense wasn’t too strong, their HP wasn’t too high, and there were enough of them. Only then could it be called a leveling spot. Everyone wanted to occupy such a place, and no one wanted to give it to others. Thus, disputes arose.

Moreover, after entering the main city, some guilds, clans, and studios could gather manpower. Often, these factions with large numbers would cause large-scale PKs in order to occupy the entire venue. As a result, the leveling points could be said to be extremely chaotic. Lao Yao really did not want to participate, so he could only come to this Death Swamp to level up.

This place had a fishy smell of mud and there would often be well-hidden swamps, and it was really uncomfortable to be in such humid weather. However, the only benefit was that the level of the monsters was high enough. There were very few players who came here to level up, so it was very suitable for solo players like Lao Yao to train alone.

Lao Yao was now Level 14. He was almost at Level 15. At that time, not only could he continue with the main storyline mission, but he could also enter dungeons to farm equipment and learn life skills. At that time, the truly rich game content would gradually appear.

Previously, the five red-named players from the Battlefield Clan had dropped exactly five pieces of equipment. On average, each of them had dropped one piece of equipment. However, three of them were white-grade equipment that Lao Yao’s Assassin class could not use. Lao Yao had thrown them into the shop to exchange for money. The remaining two pieces of green-grade equipment were not considered good either. They had only added a few points to his attributes. It was better than nothing for Lao Yao to put them on.

It couldn’t be helped. Although killing white-name and red-name players would drop equipment, the equipment drop order was from low to high. In other words, if you were wearing high-level equipment and low-level equipment, the most likely drop would be the low-level equipment. However, the chances of red-name players dropping equipment were much higher than white-name players.

How should he put it? This setting seemed to encourage players to PK each other. However, as players’ equipment levels gradually increased, such a setting began to protect players. After the later stages of the game, when the equipment was strengthened with gems, the equipment would be bound and could not be dropped. In that case, even if players wanted to earn money by killing people and snatching equipment, they would not be able to do so. Their targets would casually wear a white-grade equipment and then drop it for them. Anyway, it was not worth much. Just take it! For players who wanted to do this, it was simply like spending money on potions for PK!

Lao Yao did not know what the programmer was thinking. In any case, he did not want to rely on this method to earn money. He focused on farming monsters in the Death Swamp and waited for him to reach Level 15 before leaving this godforsaken place.

As Yang Yongle and the others had entered the main city earlier than Lao Yao and had been leveling up in teams, their speed was not slower than Lao Yao. They had already reached Level 15 these few days and were discussing how to enter the dungeon.

The Level 15 Instance Dungeon was called “Hissing Cave”. Some people had already revealed the content on the forum and some online gaming websites. There were currently three difficulties in the Instance Dungeon. They were Normal, Nightmare, and Hell! The maximum number of people who could enter was six, which was the number of a full party. It was said that no one could even clear the simplest Normal difficulty level. One reason was the number of people who could enter, and the other was the limitation of equipment.

It was said that there was a team that had gone the furthest. They rushed to the last Boss, but they also fell there. After they posted the process on the forum, they attracted a lot of attention.

The final boss was a Swamp Lizard! From the pictures, this Swamp Lizard actually had three heads. According to the players who posted it, not only did the Swamp Lizard have the ability to summon small monsters, but its attacks also had a petrification effect. The probability of petrification was also very high. The most amazing thing was that when the boss used its ultimate skill, if it was attacked by players, not only would it not lose HP, but it would also recover its own HP. The later it was, the more frequent the probability of using its ultimate skill.

The settings of the Instance Dungeon were as such. The experience from the monsters that were cleared after entering the Instance Dungeon would not be given to the players immediately. Instead, it would be stored. If the players could successfully clear the Instance Dungeon, the system would evaluate the completion rate based on the players’ performance in the Instance Dungeon. If the completion rate was high enough, the EXP saved would be given a bonus. On the contrary, if they could not clear the Instance Dungeon, they would not be able to obtain this EXP.

In short, if you could clear the dungeon, you would receive a high EXP reward. If you could not get through, sorry, there would be nothing…

Such a setting made the players who saw the post exclaim that it was really abnormal. At the same time, they were also competitive. No one thought that they were inferior to others. This was determined by human self-esteem. Therefore, every player was very interested in challenging the Instance Dungeon. Once they could successfully pass the Instance Dungeon, they would be able to release the pictures of the completion. That would be a huge reputation!

Even Yang Yongle and the others had been studying the dungeon for the past few days. It could be seen that they were also interested in challenging the dungeon.

If they could clear the dungeon, not only did it mean a lot of experience and equipment, but it also meant that he had successfully challenged himself!

Lao Yao was naturally very interested. That was why he worked so hard to level up. One had to know that although it was fast to level up alone, it was also very boring. Wasn’t Lao Yao so patient to level up just to enter the dungeon to take a look?

Backhand Sword!

“Critical hit! -420!”

Backhand Sword!

“Critical hit! -410!”

Shadow Sword!

“Critical hit! -1460!”

It was another continuous combo. After Lao Yao killed the Level 17 Undead in front of him, he finally reached Level 15 as he wished!

During this period of time, Lao Yao had been killing monsters above his level to level up…

Lao Yao knew that the proficiency was difficult to improve. Therefore, during this period of time, he had been training the Backhand Sword skill. This was not only because of the double damage effect of the Backhand Sword when the target was stunned, but also because this was a skill he had created himself. It was natural for him to have feelings for it.

Moreover, the basic damage of the Backhand Sword was much lower than the Forehand Sword. If he wanted to increase the damage, he could only work hard to increase his proficiency and try to upgrade the Backhand Sword skill as soon as possible.

Ever since he saw Director Lin’s words on the news that day, Lao Yao had a vague idea in his heart. However, when he wanted to verify it in the game, he realized that he did not know where to start. That feeling was still blurry, making Lao Yao unable to grasp it even if he wanted to several times.

Let’s take it slow! Sometimes, one needs inspiration to do things! After Lao Yao figured this out, he was temporarily relieved.

After Level 15, Lao Yao’s attributes were as follows:

Character: Lao Yao

Profession: Assassin

Level: 15

Strength: 40

Agility: 206

Intelligence: 33

Attack: 210~384

Attack Power: 2.4

Physical Defense: 36

Magic Defense: 3

Health: 450

Energy: 100/100

Critical Strike Rate: 7%

Weapon in the right hand:

Sharp Wolf Fang (Blue One-Handed Dagger)

Level For Use: 10

Spirit Attribute: Attack 35~55

+5 Strength

+10 Agility

Soul Attribute: Attack Power +1

Weapon in the left hand:

Sharp Hunting Knife (Green One-handed Dagger)

Attack: 10~20

+5 Agility

Equipment:

Agile Light Armor (Green)

Level For Use: 6

Physical Defense +10

Agility +5

Health +50

Worn Boots (White)

Defense: 2

Leggings of Strength (Green)

Defense: 4

+1 Strength

+20 Health

This was Lao Yao’s current attributes. He dealt extremely high damage, which made him secretly happy. After the five red names of the Battlefield Clan were killed, the reward was the green hunting knife that increased Agility by 5, as well as the leggings that increased HP by 20. Among them, the hunting knife was given by the Hunter called Wandering Soul, and the leggings were given by the Priest. Wandering Soul was originally coveting Lao Yao’s weapon, but he did not expect to end up losing his melee weapon to Lao Yao. If it weren’t for the fact that the Hunter mainly attacked with long-range bows and arrows, the Hunter would probably have cried to death.

As for the Priest who gave him the leggings, he was considered unlucky. His PK awareness was relatively good. When Lao Yao stunned the Hunter beside him, he also understood that he, a Priest, did not have much combat strength to fight against Lao Yao. Therefore, he wanted to save the Hunter from the stunned state first. In the end, he did not expect Lao Yao’s attack power to be really abnormal. Lao Yao easily killed him, a Blood Priest, with two slashes. He even dropped a piece of equipment that was not bad for Lao Yao…

During this period of time, Lao Yao had been thinking about entering the dungeon and also considering the problem of his equipment. As the Assassin profession could increase Attack Power by adding points to Strength, it was unlike the Warrior, Mage, and Priest professions who could increase their HP by adding points to their strength. To Assassins, HP had always been a weakness. Therefore, Lao Yao had been thinking that if he entered the dungeon, he would probably have to get some equipment to increase his health points…