Chapter 28: Brother Fatty Is Exercising
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Fatty was not a hero. Sacrificing himself for others wasn't his style either.
Since they had entered the dungeon, Fatty didn't want to gain nothing. Since it was hopeless to hope that they would clear the dungeon, at least he had to figure out what the Boss' attack and defense were, what skills it had, how he should deal with the Elites that were with the Boss, and so on. That way, he could be prepared to enter the dungeon next time.
It was normal for such scattered parties to fail the dungeon during their first try. A party formed last minute didn't have enough matching classes or teamwork. However, if they still failed next time, it would be a little embarrassing…
After assigning a task to each player, the party once again started attacking.
First, they attacked the bandits in the periphery, who posed no problem at all. By using the Flaming Imp's range flame arrow spell, they drew them one by one before they besieged ten bandits one after another, turning them into EXP.
After killing the bandits in the periphery, each of them obtained 700 EXP and the money dropped was a total of 2 Silver Coins and 25 Bronze Coins. Each of them received 45 Bronze Coins. Furthermore, there were two Level 10 Warrior Blueprints. One of them was a Greatsword of the Warrior Class, while the other was a Staff Blueprint.
The Greatsword Blueprint was taken by Bookworm, who was unable to hide his happiness.
The Staff Blueprint could be used by all three players of the party. However, due to the low output of Fatty's Venomancer, he ranked lower in the Party Contribution. Although Smoking Without Fire had a healing output, after deducting the additional 20 points of the party leader, his ranking was lower than the ranking of Playing With Fire.
Smoking Without Fire had thought that when the system allowed him to choose first, he would choose to give up and let the system rotate to Playing With Fire.
Indeed, the dungeon rewards were very rich. If they could obtain a few blueprints after killing these monsters, one could imagine how many rewards they could obtain if they managed to kill the Boss and Elites.
After the allocation was over, the battle with the Boss was finally left.
Playing With Fire's Flaming Imp threw a flame arrow over to Bandit Chief Jason from afar. Once it hit him, Gerov, Jason, and Bellamy, who had been sitting beside the campfire, shouted right away, "Intruders!" Then, they suddenly stood up and very quickly rushed toward everyone.
"Attention!"
Upon hearing Fatty's reminder, Bookworm couldn't help but clench the longsword in his hand nervously.
The Two Elite Deputy Bandit Chiefs were on the front line. After Bookworm shouted and his longsword hacked at Elite Bellamy, Fatty released his Miasma Skill and hit Boss Gerov, who was in the back.
"-3"
The damage was terrifyingly low. At Level 12, although Fatty didn't add any points to his Intelligence stat, he relied on leveling up to obtain basic points. Now, he had exactly 10 points plus 2 initial damage points of the Miasma Skill. The magic attack that directly hit was around 18 points. He had actually only caused single-digit damage!
However, it was fine as long as he dealt damage. When he saw that Gerov had targeted him, Fatty controlled his character and broke into a run!
After Bookworm managed to tank Elite Deputy Bellamy, Playing With Fire hurriedly made his Flaming Imp draw away Elite Deputy Jason. Then, Crayon Knife and Smoking Without Fire hurriedly joined the fight.
After Fatty drew Boss Gerov away from the battlefield, he realized he was in deep trouble.
Gerov's movement speed was not just a little faster than he had imagined, but much faster! This Boss was the Agility type. Since he was a bandit, he naturally belonged to the Thief Class. Compared to his movement speed, Fatty was as slow as a tortoise.
Not long after he ran away, Gerov caught up with him and hit him on the butt…
"-62"
Damn it! Fatty saw with his own eyes that his butt had really been hit, causing him to feel awful. During the pause after Gerov attacked him, Fatty hurriedly ran in another direction.
By running in a zig-zag manner, he could avoid some physical attacks and those monsters that could not move easily. However, this did not apply to Bandit Chief Gerov.
Last time, in order to kill the 5-star Goblin, Fatty had added two free stats to his Luck. However, after leveling up, he had made up for it. Overall, he had still added 1 point to Luck and 1 point to his Constitution. Now, he was at Level 12 and he had a total of 24 Constitution Points and 260 HP. Despite Gerov's high attack power, Fatty could still withstand it a few times.
However, the zig-zag method did not play its role. The amount of health he had spent was in vain. Hence, when he saw Gerov once again catch up with him and prepare to attack him, Fatty played his trump card!
He pulled off a very intense side roll!
As a product of the previous stage of virtual games, the holographic gaming device had appeared about 20 to 30 years ago. During that period of online games, the actions of the characters had already been very close to reality. The characters in the game could perform thousands of different actions that allowed the player to exercise, which were recorded with motion capture. While the player controlled his game character, he could even perform an action like picking his nose…
Correspondingly, because of the big number of actions, the traditional keyboard operation had become incompetent, so the keyboard on the controller of the holographic gaming device had been improved a lot!
The standard traditional keyboard had 107 keys. Although different key combinations could be used to achieve more operations, it still seemed insufficient. The virtual keyboard of the holographic device had 176 keys with more key combinations. Based on the initial statement, the virtual keyboard of the holographic device could tentatively be sufficient for most actions of the characters in the game.
Moreover, the operation of the holographic virtual keyboard later incorporated somatosensory technology. The so-called somatosensory technology generally used a combination of optical passive reception and inertial motion measurement to record. The most popular point was motion capture, which was used to track and record the motion trajectories in the three-dimensional space of the human body, such as raising hands and kicking legs.
This technology had existed for a long time, but when applied to the holographic virtual keyboard, it suddenly made more changes to this operation method. At the same time, it simplified the speed requirements of some operations.
However, this mode of operation still involved a lot of hand-speed applications. It was more difficult to use without a certain foundation and practice, which was also the reason that holographic gaming devices were gradually eliminated later.
At present, since there were electroencephalogram access devices, very few players still insisted on using holographic devices like Fatty.
However, in addition to his fear of pain, there was actually another reason buried deep in Fatty's heart. This reason might probably be why he truly wanted to choose a holographic device…
Do you remember the small script program that Fatty had loaded when the game had started? The purpose of that program was to optimize and merge the numerous keys of holographic operation for some commonly-used operations to become shortcut keys so that Fatty could perform these actions faster.
Using the side roll as an example, he only needed to control the direction of the roll and then hit the shortcut keys that had been set up for rolling. As long as Fatty sat firmly on the chair, the somatosensory technology could stabilize his character so that it wouldn't fall while rolling!
It was complicated to explain, but it was actually only a matter of hitting a few keys. Fatty had been playing this game for more than four years and had gotten familiar with it. He looked very proficient while performing this action!
Thanks to this side roll, Fatty's character suddenly escaped Gerov's attack range, making his enemy miss. After getting up, Fatty quickly flung some Miasma out that landed on Gerov.
This time, the toxin effect appeared.
Although they were killing the Elite Deputy Chief, Crayon Knife and the others still paid some attention to Fatty. They were afraid that if he was killed by the Boss accidentally, they would also have to run away.
However, when they saw the skillful roll of Fatty's character and realized that he was still able to counterattack after evading the attack, their eyeballs nearly fell out!
Who could imagine that a fat… Well, it wasn't right to speak like this. Anyway, could one imagine a big-sized man with movements as nimble as a gymnast's do a side cartwheel?
Yes. Given Fatty's build, he couldn't perform such an action in reality, not even with an electroencephalogram connector. However, he could pull off what he couldn't do through the keyboard by using the holographic access device!
This was probably Fatty's true reason for choosing the holographic access device…
These action skills were completely allowed in the game, so he could do it with confidence. Although these actions might not play any role at certain times, they could be life-saving when one really needed it!
"F*ck! Is Brother Chicken a gymnast?" Crayon Knife said in a daze. "It doesn't seem so. His build… is more like a wrestler's in my opinion…"
Bookworm and the rest nodded their heads immediately, approving of what Crayon Knife had said.
"What the hell are you looking at?" Fatty couldn't help but scold them "Your whole family is a bunch of gymnasts! Hurry up and kill them! How long do you think I can keep doing this?"
As a result, Crayon Knife and the rest quickly continued killing Elite Deputy Chief Bellamy.
While being chased by Gerov all this time, Fatty had been surrounded by peril many times. Although he could use an action to avoid these attacks, there was also a timing problem involved. If he avoided an attack too early, there wouldn't be a sudden effect. Gerov would very soon change direction and continue to catch up to him. If he performed the action too late, Gerov's attack would hit him way sooner…
After dragging this on for over two minutes, Fatty had made two mistakes that had caused him to be hacked twice by Gerov. His health was basically low, but Elite Deputy Chief Bellamy that Bookworm and the others were killing only had one-third of health left.
"Hurry up!"
Fatty was on the brink of being killed so he'd started to get nervous. However, Bookworm and the others became so anxious that even Smoking Without Fire joined the attacks. After all, this was an Elite. It had 1,600 HP, which was much more than a normal monster had!
Bookworm and the rest could only deduct 60 HP per round of attack. It was not easy for them until this moment.
Upon seeing the situation before his eyes, Fatty could only take a Novice Healing Potion out of his backpack. He had bought this at the NPC store.
The Novice Healing potion regenerated 80 HP in 6 seconds and would be interrupted when attacked. It was sold at the store for 2 Silver Coins!
In his backpack were only two such potions. He had clenched his teeth and bought them. Most players were still earning 1 Bronze Coin at a time, so a Healing Potion that was worth 2 Silver Coins was definitely a luxury reserved for wealthy players. If he hadn't sold that Rune Crafting Skill Book and obtained 40 Silver Coins from Night Blood Phoenix, he couldn't have afforded such a Healing Potion.
After using the Healing Potion, Fatty could only run for his life!
He definitely couldn't be hit, at least not before the potion's effect vanished…
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