Chapter 406: Mechanism

Despite Huang Mingxin's insistence, they still signed a new contract.

Only the breach penalty was altered by Su Sheng to one million; this is merely a contract, not a deed of sale—talk of a ten‑million penalty is just for intimidation…

Moreover, Huang Mingxin is trustworthy to Su Sheng—after all, she's been with Su Sheng's family's Huan Jie for years.

…

Game time…

Everyone gathered at Qinglong City at coordinates 4444, 4444.

"Are you ready? I'm about to start the dungeon."

Su Sheng glanced at everyone.

"No problem!"

"Ready!"

…

Everyone responded in turn.

Su Sheng nodded and took out the treasure map.

Activate!

A teleport array entrance appeared on this ordinary stone tablet.

Then the party entered single file, and the dungeon's teleport entrance closed as well.

That stone tablet then returned to its ordinary state.

This scene was recorded by an assassin player from the Universe who was hiding far away, and sent to Shen Wang.

…

Dungeon prompt:

Enter the dungeon, the Great Elf's tomb.

Dungeon requirements: none

Dungeon restrictions: none

Clearance requirement: eliminate all monsters.

A dungeon with no restrictions or requirements…

But Su Sheng's expression was not exactly relaxed,

The more relaxed the requirements, the greater the difficulty.

"Maintain battle formation, we advance."

Su Sheng raised his shield and rode his horse.

This is the tomb passage, but it's quite spacious; Su Sheng can easily fight while mounted.

Soon…

They soon encountered the first wave of monsters.

Tomb skeletons

Level: 40

Attack: 1500

Defense: 1200

HP: 12000

Skills: none

Description: brief

Level 40 trash skeletons?

Su Sheng raised his eyebrows, "Such trashy monsters?" Of course Su Sheng remembered, the dungeon's minimum level is 40.

"Clear them out…"

These ordinary skeletons are naturally no problem for this full‑strength ten‑person elite team.

The priest's buff was applied immediately upon entering the dungeon.

Su Sheng and Wu Zhaodi held their shields at the front, while Chen Guan and Shen Yang dealt damage from the sides.

The rear ranged classes went all‑out on damage…

The only difference is, Wu Zhaodi bore a huge tower shield and wielded a longsword, able to inflict only modest damage on the skeleton frames.

Even though Wu Zhaodi's level exceeds those skeleton frames and her gear is excellent, they merely scratch her, yet as a defensive knight she cannot deal high damage either.

After all, a pure‑tank defensive knight sacrifices their own damage output.

But in front of Su Sheng it's different—those skeleton frames' attacks on him are just scratches, yet each of his spear thrusts deals arterial‑level damage… right, skeleton frames have no arteries…

Crack crack crack~

In an instant, the skeleton frames throughout the tomb passage flew everywhere.

These level‑40 normal monsters are numerous only in number.

All the way, crushing through…

Although the dungeon gives relatively high experience rewards, everyone present is at least level 44, Su Sheng being level 48, so these skeleton frames provide hardly any experience.

Crack!

Just as everything was going smoothly, a clear ringing sound suddenly rang out.

Whoosh~

A sound of tearing through the air, extremely swift.

Everyone didn't react in time…

Bang!

A muffled sound.

Wu Zhaodi, who had been holding up her shield just fine, was thrown backward.

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A massive amount of damage erupted from Wu Zhaodi's head.

Everyone jumped in fright, only then noticing that it was a… huge crossbow bolt.

Whoosh~

At the same time, two Healing Techniques fell, restoring Wu Zhaodi's HP.

Although Wu Zhaodi's stats aren't as exaggerated as Su Sheng's, as a 45th‑level top‑tier Shield Guard, with the Priest's buff her defense already reaches four thousand, and her HP is thirty thousand.

That alone took away a third of Wu Zhaodi's HP; if it were anyone else, everyone except Su Sheng would have been instantly killed.

"Everyone watch your footing; just now Sister Zhaodi must have stepped on a trap," Su Sheng said, glancing at the tomb corridor floor.

The blue‑brick floor gave no clue which spots were traps… which were safe.

However, the blue brick where Wu Zhaodi had been standing was sunken.

Obviously, that was the trap.

And these Skeleton Frames don't trigger the tomb's traps.

"Huan Jie, Detection Arrow," Su Sheng, alone, positioned himself at the tomb's center, sweeping his spear, drawing the hatred of all Skeleton Frames.

He didn't know whether any of these tomb traps left a clue, so he tried the Detection Arrow first.

An archer's Detection Arrow inherently has scouting capability; it's not limited to detecting a rogue's stealth.

Swish~

A cluster of Detection Arrows shot forward.

And indeed, it found something.

Although the path was filled with countless Skeleton Frames, blocking the Detection Arrows' scan of the blue bricks.

But where the Detection Arrows passed, there were several red spots on both sides of the passage, clearly indicating the trap locations.

"Mark those spots and don't step on them," Su Sheng instructed.

"Got it!" the others replied.

At this point, Wu Zhaodi, having recovered, raised her shield again: "Those trap crossbow bolts have a forced knock‑back effect."

"And they also have Armor Break," Wu Zhaodi added.

Su Sheng nodded slightly, realizing why it dealt over ten thousand pure‑tank HP.

"Keep advancing; a single trap shouldn't instantly kill me and Sister Zhaodi."

"Huan Jie, maintain the Detection Arrow cadence."

"As for the floor's blue bricks, watch the spots Sister Zhaodi and I step on!"

"Advance!"

Then the group kept advancing; each time they moved forward, Lin Huan fired a Detection Arrow.

They all noted and avoided the detected trap spots, and even successfully identified two red‑marked blue bricks.

Nevertheless, everyone still cautiously followed the path taken by Su Sheng and Wu Zhaodi.

Because many blue bricks were hidden behind Skeleton Frames, making them undetectable.

Other members would be instantly killed by a single trap.

After advancing safely for a while like that.

Click~

A light sound.

Su Sheng felt the ground beneath his feet give way.

Trap!

Swish~

A crossbow bolt shot straight at him.

Shield Raise!

Fireworks Blessing!

Because these Skeleton Frames only provide a light scrape, the mythical lion's Fireworks Blessing never activated.

When the trap first triggered, Su Sheng didn't have time to cast it on Wu Zhaodi; he was simply caught off guard.

That bolt wasn't a regular one; it was a Bed Crossbow bolt like those used in siege defense. No wonder it dealt such high damage and forced knock‑back.

Knowing the details of these bolts, Su Sheng remained calm.

Ignoring the Skeleton Frame "Technician" in front of him that was just scraping him, Su Sheng stared intently at the incoming bolt.

He couldn't dodge away; actually Su Sheng could have easily evaded, but his teammates were behind him, and if he dodged they'd be in trouble.