Chapter 33: 20th-Floor
[Floor 18 Has Been Cleared.]
[Players Who Want To Retreat, Please Pass Through The Portal.]
[Players Who Want To Enter Floor 19, Please Proceed Through The Door.]
Ziro and the rest of the party passed through the door and entered the 19th floor with the rest of the players.
A total of 7968 players participated in the dungeon raid, and only 3867 players were left now; the rest either died or retreated.
LNA had a world system where players could ascend to the second world once they reached a certain level. And the other worlds had their own raids and events; sometimes interlinked with other worlds, sometimes exclusive.
Floor 19 Has Been Cleared.]
[Players Who Want To Retreat, Please Pass Through The Portal.]
Some players retreated as the 20th floor was the boss floor.
[Players Who Want To Enter Floor 20, Please Proceed Through The Door.]
As Alina had instructed the party, no one tried to attack the monsters and reached the 20th-floor dealing minimal damage to the monsters.
Ziro's score was 583.
Alina's score was 409.
Kiana's score was 388.
Kevin's score was 388.
Sera's score was 601.
The top score and the number one spot was to the guild name 'Red Dragon', and their score was 676899.
The second spot was to the party named 'Dancing Monkeys', and their score was 516878.
The third spot was to the guild named 'Sly Serpent', and their score was 489670.
The fourth spot was to the guild named 'Merciless Mercenaries', and their score was 458686.
The fifth spot was to the party named 'Vibing Cats', and their score was 458666.
"Look at the names of the top five guilds and parties. They are so cool!" Alina awed.
"They are lame as a fork." Ziro scoffed and added, "Not that forks are lame."
"Well…" Ziro looked at their party name and nodded before saying, "Our party name is the lamest, to be honest."
Their party name was 'Hell Slayers', and their score was 2369.
"Do you know who came up with that name for our party?" Kiana asked.
Ziro glanced at Alina and scoffed, "Must be this little demon, right?"
Alina raised her brows and uttered, "No. It was the booby monster."
Ziro turned to Sera with a tense look on his face and found her glaring at him.
"I was simply trying to tease Alina. Our party name is great."
"Guys, I think we should focus on fighting now. The manticore boss has spawned as the 20th-floor boss."
Three manticore bosses with double the size of humans spawned and roared.
Manticore, a legendary monster with a head and the body of a lion, horns and the tail of a dragon and scorpion. Their speed is fast as light, and their claws were sharp as a razor.
Once caught in its grasp, one would always die. Manticores were considered as one of the worst monsters in this game, even at a low level.
"Are they strong?" Ziro asked dumbfounded, with a puzzled look on his face, knowing nothing about how dreadful the manticores were.
"Its one hit can deal you over 1200+ damage, and if a critical hit, then it can deal over 23+ damage," Kevin answered.
"That means…"
"The players having less HP and DEF than that would definitely die," Alina asserted.
Ziro was level 16, but the skills and abilities he got from the fire spirit monster made him stronger than 80% of the players in the game— if he used them properly.
Ziro's stats were: Sword user.
Level- 16
HP- 280 (+ 40)
ATK- 151 (+ 20)
DEF- 120.
AGILITY- 132.
MP - 110.
"Well, the HP gets divided by the DEF, and the DMG or ATK of the opponents is added to the result. So if I simply calculate everything beforehand and use my skills… I will be a bad bicth of this game."
That was indeed true. Ziro had massive advantages in LNA. Not only was he athletic, which already made him one of the most talented players in the game, but he was intelligent, and he could use his knowledge in the game to calculate everything before trying something.
The possibility would probably be less, but his 'System' also played a significant role in that, although Ziro or anyone else wasn't aware of that.
All the players braced themselves and got ready to fight the manticores. The sword users were in the front lines with the tank players, and the magic users and healers were behind them with the range weapon users.
However, none of them cared about other players other than their own teammates and party members, so there wasn't any trust or bond between them.
Alina, Ziro, Sera, Kiana, and Kevin were standing together on the side of the front line.
Alina's stats were: Sword user.
Level- 49
HP- 580 (+100)
ATK- 444 (+ 230)
DEF- 200. (+30)
AGILITY- 220(+200)
MP - 1800 (+2000)
Sera's stats were: Sword user
Level- 71
HP- 820
ATK- 900
DEF- 100
AGILITY- 400
MP - 140
Kiana's stats were: Gunslinger.
Level- 41
HP- 400 (+120)
ATK- 290 (×2)
DEF- 210.
AGILITY- 120
MP - 180.
Kevin's stats were: Tank
Level- 41
HP- 2200 (+ 400)
ATK- 130
DEF- 800 (+300)
AGILITY- 110.
MP - 110.
Their skills and abilities boosted their stats, but still, Ziro had become the strongest of them all, with his real-world abilities and knowledge, and in-game skills.
Two of the three manticores dashed to the crowd of players in the opposite directions—one in the middle and one at the side where Ziro and the rest were.
The manticore that dashed in the middle jumped and killed 20 players at once. Then, it wagged its tail and killed ten more players.
ROAR!
It roared and began killing the magic users and healers with its claws. And within a minute, it had killed over 500 players.
"I wish I could retreat or log out in the middle of the battle." Those were the words of a player spoken just before he was eaten and ripped apart by the manticore.
The other manticore who was dashing at Ziro and the other increased its speed and jumped towards Ziro.
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