Lin was momentarily taken aback, not expecting the dungeon boss to actually flee. As the Mine Wolf King retreated into the tunnel, howling continuously, echoes of wolf howls responded from within the tunnel. The situation seemed off!
Lin felt something was amiss and did not send his skeleton warriors in pursuit but instead had them regroup around him. The iron doors along the tunnel were flung open at the wolf king's howls, and bloodthirsty wolves emerged from the cells.
Mine Savage Wolves were revealed by Lin's detection spell, with each displaying considerably weaker attributes compared to the guards Lin had encountered in the mine's tunnels. However, their sheer numbers were overwhelming, with at least a hundred of them charging forth in a terrifying surge.
Lin, however, was unfazed. While the wolves were many, they lacked the strength to pose a real threat to his skeleton warriors. But he pondered how other teams managed to face these wolves, doubting a mere five-person team could handle such a multitude.
Observing the surrounding environment and noticing the narrow mine tunnel exit, Lin deduced other teams must utilize this bottleneck, with a knight blocking the passage and a healer for support, while mages utilized area-of-effect spells to whittle down the wolves.
Lin thought this strategy made sense for other teams, but he was unaware that other teams typically faced far fewer Mine Savage Wolves, a consequence of his thorough extermination of all monsters within the tunnels.
Pushing his initial surprise aside, Lin welcomed the challenge, viewing the approaching horde of wolves as nothing but a vast pool of experience points. His skeleton warriors, encircling him protectively, met the wolves' ferocity with unyielding resilience. Despite the wolves' fierce attacks, they could hardly dent the skeletons' defenses.
When all the wolves had gathered, Lin unleashed the Corpse Explosion spell, obliterating a wolf and, with his talent amplifying the effect, decimated the entire pack in an instant. The Mine Wolf King, returning limping and panicked at the sight of his pack's swift demise, too fell victim to Lin's merciless strategy. Despite its initial might, the wolf king stood no chance against the combined power of Lin and his skeleton warriors, collapsing under the successive explosions.
The Mine Wolf King's defeat granted Lin a substantial but, to him, unsatisfactory amount of experience, alongside valuable loot such as Wolf King Fangs and a Low-grade Monster Core. Lin noted the low efficiency in experience gain relative to the effort but appreciated the valuable drops, which promised good returns in the market, highlighting the true reward in challenging higher-level bosses.