Lin looked up to see a tall tree about three meters high. Lin's fingertips glowed slightly as he released the detection technique. The detection technique, a skill everyone knows, can obtain some basic information.
[Whip Tree] [Level: 8] [Introduction: Usually in a dormant state, it will attack life forms that pass by.]
Why didn't it attack when the skeleton warrior ran past just now? Skeleton warriors are not living beings and have no life aura, so they do not trigger the Whip Tree's attacks. However, when Lin entered, the Whip Tree launched an attack on him.
The Whip Tree continued to attack Lin. Although it wouldn't cause any harm, Lin wasn't foolish enough to just stand there and be hit. He quickly retreated dozens of meters, leaving the Whip Tree's attack range. The Whip Tree does not move, and after Lin retreated, it no longer attacked. Its long branches danced as if on alert.
"It's really well thought out." Lin understood the painstaking effort of the dungeon designers. From significantly weakened low-level monsters to level 8 monsters with the same strength as those in the outside world, they also selected this type of plant monster that can ambush but doesn't move for level 8.
The Whip Tree, with its ambush characteristic, allows new professional players to experience the dangers of the wilderness early on. Since the Whip Tree cannot move, there's no situation of chasing after players. Once in danger, new professional players can retreat comfortably, escaping its attack range. Furthermore, the Whip Tree's attack range is exactly the same as that of several ranged professions, which eliminates the possibility of ranged professions exploiting weaknesses.
Such design allows newcomers to fight against real level 8 monsters safely. The entire novice dungeon is imbued with the intent to protect newcomers and nurture newcomers. Under the premise of minimizing casualties, it allows newcomers to adapt to real combat and grow.
With the sound of teeth-grating clicks, the skeleton warriors returned. Sixteen skeleton warriors, like an army, surrounded Lin. Lin thought, and a skeleton warrior charged at the Whip Tree.
For the Whip Tree, which does not consider skeleton warriors as living beings, it did not react until the skeleton warrior took the initiative, slashing its trunk with a sword, prompting the Whip Tree to retaliate. Its huge branches, like whips, struck the skeleton warrior, making a metallic hitting sound. The Whip Tree's attack speed was very fast, its branches whipping around frenziedly, hitting the skeleton warrior three or four times a second.
But the skeleton warrior's attributes were too high, with a constitution of 550, its thick health and defense barely showed small cracks upon being hit, which then quickly recovered.
"Huh? It wasn't killed instantly!" Lin was slightly surprised. From level 1 to level 7 monsters, it had always been instant kills, but the situation changed with the level 8 monster. It was the first time a skeleton warrior hadn't instantly killed its target.
"How strong are the wilderness monsters? Let's see how many hits you can take." One hit, two hits, three hits. After four hits, the Whip Tree ceased all movement.
[Killed level 8 Whip Tree, experience +160] Seeing the prompt, the experience was much more than that from a level 7 brown bear. Lin calculated, in terms of cost-effectiveness, killing level 7 monsters was more profitable. After all, it was 70 experience per hit for them. The level 8 Whip Tree required four hits for only 160 experience. Although it seemed high, the per-hit cost-effectiveness had actually dropped.
However, the time spent looking for monsters also had to be considered. If time was wasted on searching for monsters, it would be less cost-effective to target lower-level monsters. Looking at the forest ahead, dense with trees, a large part of which were level 8 Whip Trees. If careful, Whip Trees could still be distinguished from regular trees. Here, there was no need to search for monsters. Just at a glance, there were hundreds in sight. Thus, efficiency greatly increased. This was practically a leveling paradise made for him.
Even Lin was a bit excited at this moment. With a thought, the skeleton warriors immediately dispersed, rushing into various parts of the forest. Their swords continually struck down on the Whip Trees. Four hits per tree, very clean. Experience began to soar again.
While others found their leveling speed drastically reduced after reaching level 5, Lin's was getting faster. Originally expecting it would take over an hour to level up, it took just 50 minutes for Lin to advance to level 6.
Outside the dungeon, the sky gradually darkened. It was now 7 p.m. From entering the dungeon at 9 a.m., it had been a full 10 hours. Lin, Principal Lu, and several headmasters, as well as Xia Dongyang, had not moved. They had been drinking tea all day, and food was brought to them when it was time to eat.
Each year, the headmasters did the same, staying put on the day the students entered the novice dungeon. Although accidents rarely happened, they couldn't guarantee there would be none. Since it was a real battle, injuries were inevitable, but there had also been cases where students died in the novice dungeon.
Xia Dongyang did not leave either. With Xia Xue in the dungeon, he, as a father, was similarly anxious. Missing his daughter's class change ceremony, he didn't want to miss her first dungeon experience either.
Suddenly, brilliant light radiated from the dungeon entrance, and everyone simultaneously looked up towards it. "Someone's coming out." "The time hasn't come yet; could it be that an accident occurred?"
There are two exits in the dungeon, one at the very end of the dungeon, past the forest guarded by level 8 monsters, and the other at the place of entry, from which one can also exit the dungeon.
Lin walked out from the light. Principal Lu quickly approached, "Lin, why have you come out?" Lin softly said, "I Killed them all, so I came out."
He killed them all, so he came out. This sentence left Principal Lu puzzled for a moment. Lin said it so indifferently, without a trace of expression on his face. The next second, Principal Lu saw Lin's level.
[Lin, Necromancer, Level 7]