Necromancer cutting down trees

Chapter 71 The first defeat
The large-scale combat mission adopts the progress mode. After the mission is started, each player can see the progress bar of the strategy in the interface.

"Different from the previous time defense, if we have spare capacity, we can consider taking the initiative to attack."

"We should wait and see."

Maple Leaf and Dolly are important female characters on both sides, and they naturally become the main leaders of the team.

However, the two had different opinions. Maple Leaf, who had experienced the defense of the altar, was very confident in the monster's strength. She believed that with so many people, taking the initiative to attack would complete the task faster.

But Dolly is more stubborn, and insists on focusing on defense without even giving a reason.

She felt that some of the remaining players were not strong enough, and the monsters on the second day were actually harder to fight than on the first day.

However, considering the face of other players, she just showed her attitude, which undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction among most players.

"What kind of game are you playing if you are so careful? It's boring."

"It's not like if you die, you will fail the mission. At worst, you can start all over again."

Players from the jungle are full of desire to explore, and now everyone just took the same task, the so-called leader can only guide most players how to do it.

"Then we will act separately, those who are unwilling to take the initiative to attack will stay, and the others will follow you."

"Killing monsters will also give you experience points. Don't regret it when we upgrade to level 7."

The temporary alliance temporarily negotiated countermeasures, and most players followed Maple Leaf to take the initiative to attack, heading towards the direction full of black spots in the distance.

Only a small number of players and NPCs stayed outside the fortress, including not only Wang Yue, but also Fat Cat and Roger who had been standing by his side.

"Today's cold weather is extraordinarily noisy."

There was no wind on the snowfield, but when there were more players gathered, a strong wind blew up and snowflakes fell.

Wang Yue also doesn't want to eat snowflakes in the heavy snow and let herself be covered by thick snow, but he is just a ruthless NPC now, so he won't get out of the way if he doesn't move.

"If you feel free, you can bring a few wild boars and see if the cat people will help us fight."

The monster is still far away, waiting in the cold wind is of course boring.

The players quickly found the nearby monsters to hunt, and the wild boars at level 5 could no longer contribute much experience points, and occasionally dropping equipment was something only one or two European emperors could get.

"It feels like they won't be so easy."

Seeing the aggressive players disappearing from sight, Wang Yue couldn't help feeling worried.

The system's letting NPCs join the battle is by no means just a decoration. Coupled with the existence of myself breaking into the Novice Village, I'm afraid it would be better to be defensive in this mission.

On the snow field, the players have already faced a new monster [Ice Field Yeti].

[Ice Field Snowman: The snowman who was dormant under the snow may have been awakened by something]

【Level: 7】

The skill held by the snowman is [Frost Arrow], which is exactly the same as the mage's second skill, which slows down the movement speed of the hit target after causing damage.

The red-named snowman immediately started casting spells after discovering the player, and the players didn't expect that they were so big that they were still mages who could cast spells from a distance.

"Don't be afraid. Professions with the ability to increase blood are optimistic about players with residual blood. Remember to drink medicine if you really can't."

[Basic Healing Potion] can immediately restore 50 points of health, most jungle players have not had a chance to use it, and now it is just a backup method.

"It hurts a bit, did they use Frostbolt?"

As the blue ice cubes hit the charging players, their blood bars immediately decreased by a bit.

While receiving 20 points of HP damage, his pace was also slowed down by the [Cold] effect.

The soldiers can use [Charge] to get close to the target immediately, but the knights are still some distance away.

Most people stopped and cast [Bright Healing] on themselves to restore blood, and some directly put on [Blessing of Power] on themselves against the lost blood volume to prepare for it.

Fortunately, long-distance occupations rely on their range advantage to output.

"Why is the snowman's blood volume so high? Isn't a level 7 monster 70 points of blood? I only hit 10% with a flaming arrow?"

After being approached by the player, the snowman gave up casting spells and directly attacked the melee player with his sandbag-sized fist. Even if the player successfully blocked it, they would suffer 5 points of damage.

"These ragged felt shoes are useless and a waste of my armor."

After the players got [Cat Fur Felt Shoes], they thought it would work immediately, but the 1% ice resistance really only has a 1% chance of resisting spells.

Since the felt boots have no armor, they also take more damage in melee.

Worse, they apparently underestimated the Yeti population.

Unlike the waves of monsters defending, this group of snowmen lined up in several rows and formed a group to attack the ice fortress.

That is to say, after approaching the snowman in the first row, melee players will be attacked by more [Frost Arrows] because they entered the range of other monsters.

"It's over, the speed of blood gain is simply not as fast as their blood loss."

Even the supporting priests in the distance hadn't finished chanting their spells, and some of them died from the [Frost Arrow] hit at the same time in close combat.

The assassins approaching with [stealth] don't need to show their heads. Before they get close to the monster, the soldiers in the first row are already dead.

"Everyone retreat, I underestimated the strength of the monsters. Pay attention to the monsters in the first row, and watch them from a distance to collect the remaining blood. Everyone's priority is to save their lives."

Not only Maple Leaf saw it, other players also realized that the situation was unfavorable.

The number of monsters is much more than that of players, and they are stronger than ordinary wild monsters. It is time to retreat to reduce losses.

"When I finish collecting this residual blood, I will go back to the fort to rest."

"You run away, I can still fight here for a while."

After drinking a bottle of healing potion, another soldier's blood line changed from 50% to 0%, directly turning into a soul state.

But the hunter of the greedy blood monster in the distance did not leave. When he bent his bow and set his arrow, he was stared at by several snowmen, and was directly smashed to death by an ice thicker than a wooden arrow.

The attacking team suffered heavy losses, because the resurrection in place could only be crushed by the snowmen, and they had only one choice—to perform [Weakness Resurrection] in the cemetery outside the Ice Fortress.

Players after [Weakness Resurrection] cannot maintain full combat power within 10 minutes, and can only wait until the time expires before joining the battle.

Although the attack failed, most players involved in the attack did not blame Maple Leafs.

On the one hand, it was because they wanted to go, and on the other hand, they didn't expect the monster to be so strong.

Maple Leaf kept apologizing, and finally brought only a dozen people back to the Ice Fortress.

However, after seeing Maple Leaf and the others who had returned in distress, Dolly not only did not blame them, but asked her subordinates to hand them food and drinks to restore their mana.

The snowman continued to attack after cleaning up the remaining players, moving slower than the players, and it took only 3 minutes to get close to the castle.

Wang Yue finally saw the 2-meter-high snowman. He moved his stiff limbs, thinking that he could finally start fighting before being frozen into ice.

　There are too many things going on recently, so the second one will be posted a little later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)