Wu Shaochen looked at the coffin placed in the middle. If he really wanted to get out, the only breakthrough point seemed to be this coffin. However, for some reason, whenever he looked at this coffin, Wu Shaochen always felt a sense of unease, as if there was something terrifying inside.
"Well, let's first see what's going on with the four guards beside the coffin," Wu Shaochen thought to himself. There were now four stone statues beside the coffin, different from the coffin guards. They were taller and more imposing, with longer spears in their hands.
"It's either good fortune or disaster, and I can't avoid disaster," Wu Shaochen encouraged himself. He didn't have any other options now. He cautiously approached the statues, and just like before, the stone on the statues quickly deteriorated when he was within one meter of them. Wu Shaochen quickly stepped back.
A few seconds later, the four statues revived, and Wu Shaochen quickly used his Insight skill.
[Guardian]Golden Boss
Level: 30
Health: 1.8 million
Physical Attack: 4800
Physical Defense: 2200
Magic Defense: 2000
Movement Speed: 150
Skills: 1. Cloud Break Spear, 2. Triple Thrust
Skill 3: Sweeping Army - Sweeps the long spear, dealing 180% physical damage to all targets within a 3-meter range. Cooldown: 1 minute.
Skill 4: Thunderous Strike - Locks onto the target and throws the long spear, dealing 220% physical damage. Cooldown: 5 minutes.
"Holy shit, four golden bosses!" Wu Shaochen was dumbfounded. This was really dangerous, and people could die.
As he watched the four guardians slowly approaching him, Wu Shaochen frowned deeply. These guys had outrageously high attack power. Just one skill from each of them consecutively would almost kill him. Even with a bunch of life-saving skills, they were useless because the cooldown time was too long. It wasn't like fighting the coffin guards, where he could take a couple of hits and run away. These were golden bosses with 1.8 million health. Even stacking five layers of poison wouldn't kill them. If he didn't finish them off quickly, they would just heal back to full health.
While Wu Shaochen was still thinking of a solution, suddenly, four long spears flashing with thunderous light flew towards him at lightning speed, seemingly trying to take him out in one strike.
"Damn it, should I go all out?!" Wu Shaochen immediately used Flash to dodge the attacks and appeared in front of several guards.
"Since we're going to fight, let's do it." With the Void and Shadow Seven Kills in his hands, Wu Shaochen was actually quite confident in his ability to fight. The only inconvenience would be having to pick up the dropped weapons later. He activated Extreme Speed and Attack Speed Boost, swiftly slashing at the nearest guardian with four strikes. He had expected them to retaliate with their own skills, so he had prepared to use Shadow Seven Kills. However, to his surprise, their first reaction was not to counterattack but to retrieve the thrown spears.
"Could it be?" Wu Shaochen's eyes lit up. He had initially thought that the spears would automatically return to their hands after being thrown, but it seemed they had to pick them up. If that was the case, it didn't seem impossible to defeat them after all.
Wu Shaochen activated Field Suppression, reducing the already slow speed of the guardians by an additional 20%. He firmly held back the guardian who was attacking him, preventing it from retrieving its weapon. At the same time, he summoned Silver Wolf to hold off another guardian.
The restrained guardian, unable to break free, gave up on retrieving its weapon and instead launched punches at Wu Shaochen.
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Seeing the damage, Wu Shaochen smiled. Without a weapon, the guardian's attack power was reduced by half. Normally, with its 4800 attack power reduced by 20% due to Field Suppression, and further reduced by Wu Shaochen's defense and damage reduction, its basic attacks would probably still deal around 1700 damage. But now, it was reduced to just over 900 damage. Moreover, it seemed that without its spear, it was unable to use its skills, which was quite interesting.
To prevent it from retrieving its weapon, Wu Shaochen directly confronted it. Unfortunately, its defense was too high, and Wu Shaochen's normal attacks only dealt a few dozen points of damage. It made Wu Shaochen lose the mood to swing his dagger. Fortunately, at this moment, Silver Wolf activated its Inspire skill, increasing Wu Shaochen's defense and damage slightly.
Meanwhile, the other two guardians, who were not being held back by Wu Shaochen and Silver Wolf, had already picked up their weapons and were once again approaching Wu Shaochen.
"Little Wolf, hold them back," Wu Shaochen commanded. He needed to quickly deal with one of them to make the fight easier. Otherwise, if they regrouped, it would be difficult to handle. Fortunately, they had already used their Thunderous Strike, and within the next five minutes, they wouldn't have any long-range attacks. Silver Wolf's speed was enough to hold them back; they just needed to avoid losing aggro.
Silver Wolf obediently let out a wolf howl towards the other two guardians, successfully diverting their attention. Then, with the three guardians in tow, Wu Shaochen ran towards a distant area, ensuring they wouldn't interfere with him.
"Little Wolf is getting smarter." Wu Shaochen smiled with satisfaction. He focused on dealing with this toothless tiger. Once Field Suppression and Inspire wore off, Wu Shaochen no longer bothered with normal attacks. He dodged its attacks while preventing it from retrieving its weapon.
In the end, this guardian could only withstand less than three minutes before reluctantly falling to the ground, granting Wu Shaochen 120,000 experience points and Silver Wolf 80,000 experience points, as well as a scattered pile of items.
"This feels great." Wu Shaochen happily picked up everything from the ground. There were a total of 6 gold and 45 silver coins, 2 pieces of gold equipment, 3 pieces of silver equipment, 5 pieces of bronze equipment, a scroll, a skill book, and a peculiar-looking key. What made Wu Shaochen happy was that he could use one of the gold equipment pieces.
[Guardian Ring]Gold Grade: +900 Health, +470 Physical Attack, -10% Cooldown Reduction. Additional Attributes: +35 Strength, +35 Constitution, +35 Root Bone. Additional Skill: Cooldown Reduction: Reduces the cooldown time of a designated skill by 5 minutes. Cooldown: 5 minutes. Equipment Requirement: Physical class profession.
He quickly equipped the ring. The skill it provided was incredibly timely. He had been worried about long cooldown times, but with this ring, it was like having an extra Void or Shadow Seven Kills. With that, the pressure from the remaining three guardians wasn't as significant.
The skill book was Triple Stab, a powerful attack, but it required a spear as a weapon, which only Warriors and Shieldbearers could equip. Wu Shaochen could only sigh in disappointment.
However, the remaining scroll caught Wu Shaochen's attention.
[Skill Extraction Scroll]: Extracts the attached skill from a designated piece of equipment. The extracted skill has no learning requirements and cannot be upgraded.
Wu Shaochen quickly stored it away. This was a great item. Equipment could be replaced, but many equipment-based skills were very useful. For example, the Flash skill attached to his necklace and the Cooldown Reduction from the ring were both practical. Once extracted and turned into a skill, they would be useful for a lifetime. As for the unidentified key, Wu Shaochen couldn't be bothered and simply put it in his backpack.
Looking at the three guardians chasing after Silver Wolf, Wu Shaochen activated Stealth and quietly approached one of them from behind. He swiftly stunned it with a single strike, allowing Silver Wolf to take the other two elsewhere to play. Wu Shaochen focused on dealing with this one. It had a weapon, but facing it alone wasn't too much pressure since it didn't have any control skills.