Chapter 396: Stars Falling, Stars Falling, Stars Falling

【Battle start!】

【Current turn: 1】

【Due to the effect of the skill 【Quick Eyes and Fast Hands】 from the equipment 【Red Oil Candle】, Brenna acts first!】

"These guys don't look easy to deal with."

After the battle began, Yun Mu looked at the attributes of the two fungal monsters opposite her and sighed in her heart.

Although she had long expected that Master-level monsters would have a lot of HP, it was still inevitably tricky when she actually saw it.

The Fungal Guard had 220 HP!

And what is that trait? Skin Hardening can reduce damage by 10%, and Primary Magic Resistance can reduce magic damage by another 10%.

And this final Demonization... what connection is there between fungi and demons? Yun Mu guessed that this was likely the influence caused by the Abyss Gate; if nothing went wrong, perhaps all the monsters encountered from here on out would have the Demonization trait.

Does it immediately recover 50% of its HP after the health bar hits zero?

Looking at the description, it seems there are no further effects; if it's just healing, it doesn't count as too much trouble.

"Miss Yun, what should I do?"

At this moment, after digesting the battle tutorial that appeared in her mind, Brenna looked at Yun Mu and asked.

After entering a Master-level Dungeon, the friendly units appearing in battle were no longer fictional phantoms.

Upon hearing Brenna's inquiry, Yun Mu clicked on her character panel and examined it carefully.

Hmm... Brenna has many skills, but 90% of them are buffs for mechanical bodies or thermal weapons.

The few skills that can attack directly don't have great stats, but that doesn't matter.

Previously, in the notes of the Game Panel, it was said that class-bound equipment would not be counted in the equipment slots.

And Brenna has another trait, which is—

【Quick Preparation: At the start of battle, you can immediately use an equipment skill once, and it will not skip your action turn.】

"Brenna, just summon Princess, and then use..." Yun Mu paused and glanced at Princess's attribute panel: "Just use 【Judgment Time has Arrived】."

"Eh?" Brenna was slightly stunned after hearing Yun Mu's words, and then her cheeks turned rosy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Y-y-y-you, how did you know..." She looked at Yun Mu, her speech somewhat tangled.

"What?" Yun Mu was a bit confused, but she reacted quickly, a look of sudden realization appearing on her face.

She had thought those skill names for Princess were named by the Game Panel itself; so it was Brenna who thought of them? "Oh my, I really learned something interesting." She covered her mouth and chuckled softly.

"Ugh!" Steam seemed to be venting from the top of Brenna's head; she wished she could immediately burrow into the mud beneath her feet.

【Deploy!】

Glaring at Yun Mu with some shame and anger, Brenna decisively summoned Princess, and then, in the next second.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Terrifying firepower poured out from Princess's chassis, as if Brenna wanted to erase the chuunibyou names she had hidden in her heart along with it.

【Judgment Time has Arrived!】

【-203!】(Critical Hit!) 【-229!】(Critical Hit!) "Argh!"

Under the effect of the skill 【Quick Eyes and Fast Hands】 from the equipment 【Red Oil Candle】.

Brenna can not only act for the first time in the first turn of the battle, but her damage is also increased by 15%, and the critical hit rate for this attack is increased by another 8%.

Combined with the 12 points of critical hit attribute added by the 【Red Oil Candle】 itself.

Both fungal monsters were actually hit by critical strikes!

The Fungal Guard only had 17 HP left, and the Spore Disseminator died on the spot! No, the opponent was not dead yet.

【Demonization!】

Cystic flesh proliferated from within the Spore Disseminator's body, and after a short while, it actually stitched its shattered body back together! 【Spore Disseminator: 90/180】

"Huh, it really does resurrect, and it's so disgusting." Seeing this, Yun Mu couldn't help but complain.

At the same time, according to speed, it was now Yun Mu's action turn.

【Player Yun Mu begins to act!】

"Hmm... what should I use to attack?"

During her own action turn, Yun Mu rubbed her chin and pondered for a moment.

She was no longer the her from before who could only use Mental Shock; now she was a true Artist!

In that case, 【Construct into Reality!】

Using her finger as a brush, Yun Mu drew a lifelike water dragon in less than half a second.

Eat my Water Dragon Bullet Technique! (Artist version) "Roar~"

The water dragon roared at the sky, then spiraled toward the two fungal monsters.

【-468!】(Critical Hit!) 【-358!】

Whoa, four hundred! Even Yun Mu herself was startled by the damage number she had dealt.

Both being Master-level, and both being critical hits, her damage number was actually twice that of Brenna's? Did this mean that compared to ordinary Master-level Transcendents, her strength was more than twice theirs? No, that's not right; Brenna couldn't be considered an ordinary Master-level Transcendent, because she was much stronger than a normal Master-level Transcendent.

And Yun Mu's damage was twice Brenna's! Well, it's normal, nothing to be surprised about.

Not closed means it's open? Even if the game limits the number of equipment, she, the Yun Heavenly Emperor, still... cough cough, never mind, no more bragging.

The health bar of the 【Spore Disseminator】 was emptied, while the Fungal Guard triggered the 【Demonization】 trait and lingered on for a while longer.

Unfortunately, it was destined to have no chance to act.

【Plague Mad Crocodile begins to act!】

【Wait】

【Resilience +5】

【Critical Hit +15% (one turn)】

As the turn just began, the Plague Mad Crocodile's body lurked in the soil beneath it. Speaking of which, this guy can lurk even when not on swamp terrain?

Yun Mu complained, then decisively ordered: "Use the skill Pounce!"

"Roar!"

The Plague Mad Crocodile let out an angry roar and leaped out from the soil, its mouth full of sharp teeth biting fiercely into the Fungus Guard!

【-131!】 (Critical Hit!) 【Bleeding!】

The Fungus Guard died, its form quickly turning into ashes and dissipating.

Yun Mu looked at the Plague Mad Crocodile with some surprise.

Although this guy is only level 35, its damage is unexpectedly decent.

Although this includes various buff effects such as equipment and the damage increase from the Civilization Path.

Speaking of buff effects, "Oops!"

Yun Mu suddenly remembered something.

She forgot to equip her teammate with the equipment Mask of the Pleasure God! Although the equipment's +25 Stealth attribute doesn't seem to have much use, its skill 【Pleasure Party】 is still quite powerful.

She forgot this item when distributing equipment. Now that she has entered the game Dungeon, she can't change it even if she wants to.

What a pity.

Yun Mu shook her head in regret, preparing to check the rewards for winning this battle, but to her surprise, the battle had not ended yet.

She saw three new Fungus monsters suddenly refresh in front of her.

【You have encountered enemies—【Fungus Parasite · Armor lv64 (Master)】【Fungus Guard lv60 (Master)】【Spore Disseminator lv62 (Master)】】【Fungus Parasite · Armor lv64 (Master) Max HP: 245 Race: Fungus · Demon

Attack 68, Spell Strength 0, Defense 70, Resilience 15, Dodge 30, Speed 24, Precision Correction 80, Critical Hit 2% Traits: Skin Hardening, Primary Magic Resistance, Demonization, Steel Torso (A steel body possesses powerful resistance, Resilience +5, and is immune to negative states like Bleeding and Poison.) 【Note: The effect of Skin Hardening is enhanced by Steel Torso, increasing damage reduction to 20%.】

Skills: Clumsy Slash, Sweep Slash, Desperate Pounce.】 The newly appeared monsters are more humanoid than any Fungus monsters Yun Mu has seen before. If you ask why... nonsense, the thing it is parasitizing is a suit of metal armor, how could it not be humanoid? However, Yun Mu seems to have discovered a small bug; isn't the background of this Dungeon the Dwarf Kingdom? The armor this guy is parasitizing clearly looks like a tall human Knight! Of course, she was just complaining a little; after all, this kind of bug doesn't affect anything.

However, Yun Mu looked at the game's action bar with some surprise.

【Current Turn Number · 1】

【Lilia Lucy begins to act!】

The turn does not seem to have reset... Yun Mu frowned subconsciously, because this basically means they are going to take a round of attacks from the monsters.

Relying on the trait 【Demonization】 to lock HP, and then using multiple waves of monster refreshes to drag it out until the monsters' action turn?

Fortunately, they have a healer on their side, so they are not lacking in recovery methods.

It seems that developing the team in a more all-around direction was correct.

If one only pursued output, thinking about eliminating all monsters before they could act, it would probably be troublesome to encounter the current situation.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Yun Mu issued an order: ". Lilia use Star Fall, then Lucy use the second spell effect of Lijianzuo."

"Moo moo!"

After receiving the order, Lilia raised her head and hummed softly, mysterious starlight enveloping the two horns on her head.

Subsequently, a stone about the size of a fist, wreathed in starlight, fell from the sky.

Why call it a stone? Because Yun Mu absolutely refuses to admit that something of that size can be called a star!

But then again, if a meteorite the size of a star really fell from the sky... forget it, better not think about it.

【Star Fall!】

【-18!】

【-30!】

【-50!】

The damage was predictably difficult to describe, as the damage of Star Fall is not high to begin with.

Moreover, the enemies have two damage-reducing traits: Skin Hardening and Primary Magic Resistance.

It would be truly strange if this could deal significant damage.

But it doesn't matter, Yun Mu never counted on Lilia to deal damage anyway.

【+98!】

A line of gray-black text jumped up above Lilia's head, and then 98 points of gray-black shield value appeared out of thin air in front of her HP bar.

As expected of equipment that is only one step away from becoming an Artifact, the damage caused by AOE can actually be converted into shield value at a 100% rate.

Purely overpowered equipment! Besides this, all enemies have been afflicted with a layer of 【Growing Fear】.

And the 【Decay】 debuff from Decay Touch.

Randomly reducing 15 points of attribute values! Hehehe, take this, this is her blood-boiling combo! And following Star Fall, the next to come was Lucy's skill.

【Constellation Magic: Blade Constellation!】

Countless starlight gathered into blades floating behind Lucy, and with a wave of her hand, they pierced toward the three Fungus monsters in front like a downpour.

Speaking of which, because it is not a phantom, Lucy did not chant fixed skill lines.

Tsk, it's somewhat regrettable; Yun Mu actually quite likes hearing the phantom Lucy chant spells, as she never gets to see it otherwise.

【-55!】

【-69!】

【-88!】

Hmm... the damage is a bit low, but there is no help for that, as Lucy's level is a bit behind.

And considering fault tolerance, three of the pieces of equipment are mainly for increasing defense; the only output equipment is the Crocodile Tooth Necklace.

It only has a simple 15 armor penetration and 4% critical hit attribute bonus.

Next, it should be the enemies' turn to act; according to speed, the first to act is... 【Spore Disseminator begins to act!】

【Spore Spray!】

Dark green mist sprayed out from the Spore Disseminator's mouth, flying toward Yun Mu and the others along the airflow.

Without a doubt, these mists were composed of spores that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

【Immune】 【Immune】 【Immune】 【Immune】

【Parasitism!】

Possessing the 【Favorite of the Gods】 80% all-attribute resistance, Yun Mu naturally would not be affected.

As for Brenna, she was hiding inside the cockpit of the Princess, so she would likewise not be infected by the spores.

Liliya, for her part, possessed the Divine protection trait, which granted +60% resistance to negative effects.

As for Lucy, she had understood this before; as a Blood Clan and Bloodline capable of manipulating blood, anything that attempted to invade her body would be repelled by her blood.

Thus, the only one who got hit was the Plague Mad Crocodile; this guy's hidden resistance attribute should be quite high, but unfortunately, the level gap was too large, and it was still parasitized.

Yun Mu tapped open the panel.

【Parasitism: Spores have parasitized your body, gaining 【Slow】, 【Fungus Transformation】, and 【Mark】 effects.】 (Three turns) 【Slow: Speed reduced by 30%, Dodge -20.】

【Fungus Transformation: Deduct 10 HP every turn.】

【Mark: When a monster of the Fungus race attacks you—Damage Correction +25, Precision Correction +20, Critical Hit +5%.】

The effects were quite troublesome, but fortunately, their side had high resistance to negative effects, so they basically would not be affected.

【Fungus Parasite Armor begins its turn!】

【Sweep Slash!】

The monster with armor covered in mushrooms sluggishly swung its longsword, hacking toward the Plague Mad Crocodile at position 1 and Yun Mu at position 2.

【Immune!】

【-6】

The Plague Mad Crocodile's trait 【Slippery Scales】 took effect, causing the enemy's attack to slide off.

As for Yun Mu, the shield from her Earth Dragon Scale Armor blocked 20 points of damage, and in the end, only six points landed on her.

And her HP. 【Yun Mu: 354/360】

"Pfft," forgive her for laughing unkindly.

(End of chapter)