Chapter 1013
Lonesome Flower, Fat Monkey, Kitty Likes Meat and Sesame Rice Ball were all area of effect Magic professions . After their area of effect skills were cast, the entire room was almost covered .
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The illusions that had appeared vanished one at a time .
These illusions were all about to case an area of effect skill themselves, but they weren't able to take much damage and were quickly destroyed .
The players of Ruling Sword were quite powerful and the speed in which they could destroy these illusions was faster than the rate of their appearance .
The death of an illusion also dealt some damage, and it wasn't an insignificant amount . As such the players had to keep moving to avoid taking damage from the illusions .
However, this wasn't like when they had attempted the Death Mines . During that time, Hachi Chan and Remnant Dream had required Lu Li's direct instructions .
Now, they were like two agile mice, constantly weaving between illusions and avoiding almost every death . The four area of effect Mages required the most attention from the Healers . After all, most area of effect skills required a channeling time to cast .
As such, March Rain played a huge role here to ensure that everyone maintained an adequate amount of HP .
Everyone's HP was always kept above half, so that there was no way that they would get one-shot by the Boss . Azure Sea Breeze was also easily kept alive in this way .
In this stage, Blackwater appeared .
Wandering was responsible for observing Blackwater, but he still needed to avoid the damage from the illusions . It was hard to not notice the strenuous look on his face .
This guy, who was usually quite lazy, only showed his strength when he was under pressure .
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Lu Li couldn't do much to help him .
After about a minute and a half, the illusions ceased to appear . The Boss was now below 60% HP and the skill's duration had expired .
"Monkey died . I will Revive him first," Lu Li said as he turned into a leopard and used Resurrect on Fat Monkey .
Fat Monkey was always eager to deal as much damage as possible, so he hadn't added any points to his Constitution . Even his equipment was completely focused on damage output . Although March Rain also focused on Intelligence, she still chose at least a few pieces of equipment that made her tankier . This had saved her life on more than one occasion .
The price of high damage output was that he died more often .
He was the only person who had died in that stage . If it weren't for the fact that he was still useful, Lu Li wouldn't have Revived him as he probably wouldn't survive the next ultimate skill either .
The Boss' second ultimate skill was cast when it reached 33% HP .
This was not too different from the first one, but since only Fat Monkey had died previously, there wasn't much suspense as it played out .
Fat Monkey managed to survive, but Hachi Chan had cast Enhanced Tranquility at the last second to save his life . He was one step away from death .
When Jandis Barov reached 20% HP, she cast another illusion spell .
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This time, she only split into two illusions, which meant that they had to fight three Bosses . Unlike the previous illusions, these two looked exactly like Jandis Barov and had the same strength as her .
Under normal circumstances, Scholomance would require three Main Tanks just because of this stage .
However, Azure Sea Breeze's equipment allowed him to take on two of the Bosses at once .
Having more Main Tanks made the fight safer, but it would take up the DPS player slots . Without damage output, they couldn't beat the Boss anyway .
The previous illusions could be easily defeated, so they didn't need to worry about which one was the True Boss . As for these three bodies, they had to separate the real one from the fake ones .
Some players had tried fighting all three together since the Boss didn't have much HP left at this stage . However, this resulted in all three going Berserk at the same time, spilling much blood and tears . This was sadly dubbed the Scholomance Limit .
The only correct way to fight this Boss was to find the two illusions and get rid of them quickly .
During this period, the HP of the real body could not be reduced to less than 5% . Otherwise, the real body would definitely go Berserk, which would be shared with the other two illusions .
If one Boss went Berserk, Azure Sea Breeze could probably still survive, but if two of them went Berserk, he would have no chance .
"Slow down – we need to find out which is the fake one among these three," Lu Li said, deciding to get everyone to do it together . Perhaps they would be able to discover the fake bodies if everyone was involved .
"I think the one on the left is a bit darker . The other two are a bit paler…" Sakura Memories said .
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Lu Li glanced at the pale lamp hanging on the right side and unceremoniously rejected her guess .
"That's just because of the lighting . "
"Nails on the one in the middle is a bit longer . Can you guys see?" Remnant Dream cried out .
"Yeah, yeah I see it," Hachi Chan agreed .
"Both of you shut up . "
Lu Li didn't think that these two girls had any observational ability and didn't expect that they would notice something as trivial as the nail length .
After that, everyone eventually expressed their opinions on which ones might be the illusion .
Not all of them were wrong . Wandering noticed that the one on the right had a different pattern on its cloak, which was different from the illusions . However, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't have seen it .
"Actually, you should pay attention the aura under their feet," Lu Li finally said .
This was the most effective method that was officially recognized in the Instance Dungeon strategy . Only the true body had a ring of light around it with an effect . The others just received a ring of light from
that effect .
As such, the real ring of light was more obvious, while the other two were a little bit smaller .
After Lu Li told them, everyone could easily see the difference .
It was only Wandering who snorted at it coldly, because he still felt like his reason was the best .
Regardless of whether Wandering or Lu Li was correct, both methods pointed to the same body . As such, the group of players pounced onto the two illusions and fought with vigor .
The illusions quickly dissipated after being attacked .
The players then attacked the remaining body, which soon fell to critical HP . It then went into Berserk without any further incidents .
During this time, Lu Li didn't have time to read the information sent by Square Root 3 . After the end of this experience, he needed to see how Glory Capital was progressing .
Poor Glory Capital had already been wiped twice by Jandis Barov .
The first time was because of Blackwater and the second time was because they had been caught off guard by the sheer number of illusions . They were preparing for the third attempt, but their tactic was to find the real body among the large number of illusions .