Chapter 266: Speculation on triggering the hidden boss!

As Kha'Zix kept harvesting,

its scythes landed on the infantry like lightning.

The high damage shocked everyone's eyes.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The sound of mechs exploding rang out one after another.

All the students couldn't believe the scene before them,

but the prompts refreshing on the panel wouldn't lie.

They had indeed gained experience,

a very considerable amount of experience!

"It's over?"

"It hasn't even been ten seconds since the battle started, right? It's over already?"

"Are you kidding me? These are Reinforced Elites! Reinforced Elites in a twenty-person dungeon!"

"Good heavens! Just how high must the damage of Captain Li Yao's summoned beasts be!?"

"High?" Li Yao heard the students' discussion.

This damage, for the current eight-winged Dark-Winged Black Dragon,

could only be said to be extremely low.

After activating 【Distance is No Obstacle】, the Dark-Winged Black Dragon's spirit attribute was close to sixteen thousand!

Plus various damage bonuses,

this bit of damage was a bit lackluster.

Li Yao looked at the infantry's attribute description.

"It should be that Heat Resistance skill, right?"

"It can reduce fire-attribute damage."

Li Yao led everyone out of the starting area

and moved forward quickly.

Everyone witnessed how easily those summoned beasts slaughtered the monsters—basically one-shotting them!

No monster could last ten seconds under the combination of the Dark-Winged Black Dragon and Kha'Zix!

This level of monster wasn't even worth mentioning in front of Li Yao!

The dungeon had only just begun,

and in the hearts of the students,

they no longer doubted at all whether Li Yao could clear the 【Abyssal Fortress】.

Now they were curious:

could Captain Li Yao lead them to refresh the clear record!

Soon, everyone reached the end of the first floor.

Jumping down from the square hole in front, they could enter the second floor.

Li Yao took a look.

His experience had reached level 35, 7%.

That is to say, there were over seventy monsters on the first floor.

The leveling efficiency greatly exceeded Li Yao's expectations.

Li Yao was just about to leap down the hole,

but was stopped by Shang Shang Yana, who hadn't spoken the whole time.

Inside the dungeon,

Shang Shang Yana usually wouldn't take the initiative to disturb Li Yao.

She hoped Li Yao could put all his energy into dealing with the monsters,

and didn't want to see Li Yao get hurt.

"Student Li Yao, are you trying to trigger the hidden boss?"

"Hmm?"

"Xiao Ya, do you know how to trigger it?"

Li Yao did indeed have this idea.

A monster that even his teacher's team had encountered a Waterloo against!

Its strength must be extremely formidable!

Correspondingly,

the loot would also be very generous!

But the 【Abyssal Fortress】 hidden boss had only appeared once.

Even his teacher didn't know how they had triggered it back then.

How would Xiao Ya know?

As expected,

Shang Shang Yana said: "I don't know how to trigger it,"

"but we can try."

"Oh?" Li Yao's eyes lit up. "How do we try?"

"I looked for strategies on the forum."

"The other five teams that successfully cleared it didn't trigger the hidden boss."

"So we can look at what they all did and rule things out."

"Of the six teams, three have released strategy videos."

"I studied them, and there are three hypotheses for triggering the hidden boss."

Shang Shang Yana explained slowly.

Li Yao just looked at Shang Shang Yana, listening to her,

but discovered that Shang Shang Yana seemed to have put on makeup today,

especially around her eyes.

Li Yao had never seen Shang Shang Yana wear makeup when running dungeons.

"Stayed up late reading strategies yesterday?"

"Ah?" Shang Shang Yana was stunned, her expression becoming a bit flustered,

like a little girl caught doing something wrong: "No, I just couldn't sleep, so I looked at them for a bit."

"Hmm, go on."

Li Yao chuckled without saying more.

"Okay, okay."

"The first hypothesis is that the number of monsters killed on the first floor by those three teams was seventy-three."

"Student Li Yao also killed seventy-three. Can we look around again to see if there are any extra monsters?"

"In some dungeons, you have to kill all the monsters, or a certain number of monsters, to trigger the hidden boss."

Li Yao nodded, feeling it made sense.

He left Kha'Zix on the side and sent all the other chess pieces out to search for missed monsters.

Seeing Li Yao take her advice,

Shang Shang Yana's eyes curved into crescents, and she smiled softly,

continuing:

"The second hypothesis, which I think has the highest probability,"

"is destroying the terrain—no, it should be said, destroying the entire dungeon!"

"Because General Xue's team back then had an SSS-tier professional who specialized in large-scale bombing."

"While killing monsters, they destroyed the entire dungeon until it was unbearable to look at."

"In the end, the hidden boss appeared. I think Student Li Yao should try it."

Hearing this, Li Yao scanned the ruins around him.

The first floor—

it should be considered destroyed enough, right?

Li Yao decisively made up his mind:

for the next few floors, he would follow this.

"Then the last hypothesis is the simplest!"

Shang Shang Yana's eyes sparkled with little stars, looking at Li Yao with admiration:

"It's simple, but only Student Li Yao can complete it!"

"That is the clear time!"

"As long as you clear the dungeon within a certain time, the hidden boss will come out."

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"General Xue and their clear speed happened to be the fastest."

"I see," Li Yao said thoughtfully.

"Since that's the case, let's leave the clear time for the next run. I'll clear the dungeon at full speed."

"For this run, let's try your first two hypotheses!"

"Mm-hmm, that's what I thought too," Shang Shang Yana nodded repeatedly.

At this time,

several chess pieces returned to Li Yao's side.

They had searched everywhere they could, but found no other monsters.

Li Yao led the team and jumped down the hole.

Just as his feet touched the ground,

the Devourer blocked in front of everyone.

The next second,

countless beams of light shot over, landing on the Devourer.

【-4023】

【-9748 (Weakness Attack)】

【-4275】

Dense damage values appeared.

The Devourer's HP bar dropped by a small notch.

In the strategy, this part required a professional with an invincibility skill to step forward

and block all attacks with one second of invincibility.

But Li Yao didn't think it was necessary.

This bit of damage hadn't even taken off one-tenth of the Devourer's HP bar.

Immediately after, more beams shot over repeatedly,

all of which were tanked by the Devourer.

Under these attacks, the Devourer activated Titan's Resolve, its size growing infinitely,

directly piercing through the ceiling.

Li Yao also followed the direction of the beams and saw the attackers.

Spherical monsters were floating in the air, about one meter from the ground.

Metal spheres, about half a meter in diameter.

An eye grew in the central area,

and the eye occupied more than 80% of the monster's body.

It was from the eye that the beams were emitted.

Li Yao casually cast an Appraisal spell.

【Icathian Monitor】

【Level 45 (Reinforced Elite)】

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A very interesting monster.

Agility and Spirit were zero.