Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1088 - 146: The Full 8-Man Squad!

Chapter 1088: Chapter 146: The Full 8-Man Squad!

The Delicious Wind Goose team was the first batch to enter Dennisiowa. After finding a place to stay, they couldn’t sit idle and began to take on some preliminary tasks to warm up.

The results were quite impressive—their efficiency in assassination missions was the highest among all players.

Next to them were the Four Dark Mahjong Tiles.

But their style was different.

The Four Dark Mahjong Tiles could be said to be true assassins—like playing the Vigilante game, using various mechanisms and props, successfully assassinating their targets without them even noticing, almost without using spells.

On the other hand, Delicious Wind Goose’s style was more... a piercing rainbow.

So after taking on a few tasks, they also found it a bit boring.

It just so happened that they saw a "joint mission" request initiated by Dragon Well Tea.

After consulting Annan, they received a positive response—even receiving Annan’s support.

Annan personally inquired whether he should accompany them.

According to Duke Annan’s words, his Gold class profession seemed to be a strong group swindler. Capable of swindling someone at the bronze level to fight at the silver level, it sounded like he could be Athena himself.

However, Delicious Wind Goose still politely declined Annan.

It wasn’t that they didn’t trust Annan.

But because they also felt there was something off with that ship, to avoid Annan getting into an accident.

—For such a "must not get into any accidents NPC", Delicious Wind Goose hoped he would stay in a safe place. Seeing Annan so obedient, they were immensely relieved.

At least they felt that their team up this time could be described as a strong alliance.

Even the enemies at the Gold level... might not be unbeatable.

Their team composition was the Delicious Wind Goose, a fragile Sword Saint with both close and long-range high output, Jiu’er the Berserker who needed to burn blood to activate, Defu Chocolate, a fragile output small group consisting of an assassin and Hunter, tied with Ade who had the largest healing amount among players.

Ade had successfully entered the White Jade Tower on Spring Island and smoothly transitioned to "White Robe Maiden."

As a "White Robe Maiden," she now possessed multiple healing methods.

She could use Divine Arts, Spells, rituals... even potions.

Yes, she also learned a bit of transformation Spells. Although she didn’t know many and didn’t understand the principle—she could at least make potion bottles now.

And they were not those cheap kinds of blood bottles.

This was a special ability unique to the "White Robe Maiden," or "White Goat Maiden"—she could configure a special kind of milky mixture using transformation Spells, then sanctify it with Divine Arts and preserve it.

Normally, she only needed to carry it close to her body to continuously accumulate "potion power"... not only does it not expire, but the quality of the potion also keeps improving.

Like brewing wine, the longer the time, the richer the flavor.

When needed, Ade simply needed to tie a wool thread to the blood bottle and tie a live knot, then she could distribute it to her teammates.

The teammates only needed to untie this live knot to activate the potion in the ritual and ensure that the accumulated potion power would not harm the user.

—This was a special potion only producible by the White Goat Maiden, a Healing Profession combining Divine Arts, Spells, ritual studies, and herbalism, called "Holy Goat Milk."

The key was that the potion sanctified in this process was not merely a "healing wounds" kind of red potion.

But a "pre-damage recovery potion." After drinking, in the time period that follows, blood energy accumulates within the body, and upon injury, automatically subtracts a portion to maintain full health.

Like the blood storage type healing items in ancient online games—like blood pools, red pudding, etc.

However, in the game, for balance considerations, usually, such items could only be used in non-combat states to prevent the situation where it’s literally impossible to kill someone, which would then lack a sense of urgency.

But here, there were no such restrictions.

For fragile professions, the potion nurtured by the White Goat Maiden could save their lives multiple times. Even without the Constant Ability of a "Transcendent physique," a single potion could bring them back several times.

And at the time of injury, usually, the wound is most amenable to healing. Typically, it’s after the wound has worsened for a while that the injury starts to become severe.

If treatment can be administered at the first moment, then even a throat-slitting level fatal injury is merely a shallow cut.

Besides this signature "Sheep Milk Healing Art," Annan had also mastered the "White Robe Maiden’s" most famous "Raise of Hand."

Its official name is "Mercy Spell," and an advanced version called "Great Mercy Spell." Its main selling points are long-distance casting, immediate effectiveness without a trajectory, and a notably potent healing effect—the closer to death, the more effective the healing.

Annan’s level is not high enough yet, and his skill level is relatively low.

For fatal wounds like decapitations or heart piercings, one Mercy Spell can nearly restore full health because the essence of this spell is not Silver Baron’s type of "promoting regeneration," but "denying death."

This spell can dissolve the "aura of death" entwined with fate; fundamentally, this spell has half the lineage of the School of Prophets. The closer to death, the more certain death seems, the stronger the healing effect when "bounced back" from the brink of death.

It can directly nullify "the direct cause of death"... namely, the fatal injury that would lead to death if neglected.

Similarly severed wounds from swords... this spell cannot heal a severed arm, but it can heal a severed head.

In the team where everyone is fragile, and with three members who must dive into the fray to deal damage...

With Annan’s support, their all-glass-cannon team’s combat strength undergoes a qualitative transformation.

At the least, Delicious Wind Goose won’t teleport in and immediately perish; Jiu’er won’t be whisked away by a spell after triggering a dire berserk state... Fragile Forest Cat won’t be instantly killed by an unknown AOE.

Now, they are a typical "rapid assault team."

That is, they research the route and map beforehand. Then buffed out of sight, chug potions...

Annan and the humanoid Chocolate, both fragile, wouldn’t even enter the field.

The two men and a cat sprinted furiously, reaching their target with a speed the others couldn’t react to in time.

Along the way, they killed any passerby conveniently, instantly killing those they could, bypassing those they couldn’t, and for traps, spells, and barriers, they would dodge if possible, or just plow through—emphasizing speed, retreating immediately after accomplishing their assassination.

The whole process was swift and efficient.

From the first sighting of them to their completion of the assassination, the entire mission did not exceed one minute.

This undoubtedly was a level that could be used for speedrunning.

If turned into a video, it could probably be set to the background music of "Shrimp Catcher"...

The only problem... was that their Shrimp Catcher lineup really couldn’t protect the rear.

You see, what determines how fast a sprint is... is not "agility," but "strength." Agility only ensures coordination and reaction speed, but the real running speed is directly dependent on muscle strength.

Like how, aside from endurance, chasing a horse over long distances mainly depends on strength rather than speed...

Once they start running at full force, the two at the rear would disappear in the blink of an eye.

And with the protection of the Dragon Well Tea team, Chocolate could now also contribute to damage dealing.

Silver-rank Hunter—a single arrow from him could be fatal.

They quickly held an internal team meeting, which was unanimously approved by all.

At three o’clock in the early morning the next day, all eight of them gathered below Dennisiowa’s Antler Sentry Tower.

At this moment, even though they hadn’t started live broadcasting themselves.

There was still intelligent camera operation, a god’s-eye view of the live broadcast, automatically initiated on the forum.

That was naturally a broadcast started by Annan himself.

Unless players were busy with tasks... those who were free also shifted their attention here.

Without the privilege of unlimited respawning, without countless other players’ tactic of sheer numbers—a fully assembled team of eight, consisting of one blue, two green, and five red professions, solemnly proved the players’ strength...

—The time had finally arrived!