#13Chapter 13: Raid the Monster Lair!
No one wants to get hurt in the wilderness, so everyone is extremely cautious. Lin Qingyu is clinging tightly to the back of your clone, seemingly treating it as a reliable shield.
Fortunately, the assessment team is, after all, a team of gifted professionals. Although their experience is a bit immature, they can quickly counterattack against the attacking monsters. Apart from helping the assessment team to resist a few wild monsters that managed to rush close to the team, your clone didn't actually feel any extra pressure.
That is, until approaching the target location of this assessment! A nest occupied by Kobolds, a level 5 wild monster!
Looking at the nest occupied by Kobolds in front of you, your clone couldn't help but ask Lin Qingyu, 'Is this nest your assessment target?'
After receiving Lin Qingyu's nod of approval, your clone's heart was immediately filled with galloping horses. It was both marveling at how the Iron-Blood Society, which would be able to form a battle group in the future, even had such a difficult task as conquering a wild monster nest for its core new recruit assessment, and lamenting whether the person who issued the assessment had some kind of feud with these newbies, determined to put them to death.
A wild monster nest is one of the special names for wild monster gathering points. Generally speaking, wild monsters do not have fixed gathering points. They wander around, and the stronger the monster, the further away it is from human cities.
But once monsters gather, they become gathering places like monster nests. If they are not cleaned up for a long time, the monsters in the monster nest will continue to become stronger and constantly attract higher-level monsters to approach. Eventually, the scale of the monster gathering place will become larger and larger, not only squeezing the living space of humans, but also, after expanding to a certain extent, actively launching attacks on human cities!
The main goal of battle groups and armies in wasteland reclamation is actually to clean up monster gathering places, thereby eliminating the threat of regional monsters to human cities.
The Kobold nest in front of you, although it is only a newly formed monster gathering place, with the highest monster level being only level 8, even so, there must be a large number of wild monsters inside.
The 'large number' here is not the 'large number' of a dozen or dozens of miscellaneous monsters like in a dungeon, but a number that is very likely to be thousands or even tens of thousands!
Letting a group of new professionals clean up a nest can't be said to be crazy, it can only be said to be seriously ill. Even if this team of new professionals are all elites with silver-grade or higher talents! This cannot hide the fact that they are just newbies.
Unfortunately, it is too late for the clone who has already entered the nest to run away. He can only poke Lin Qingyu's back hard and tell Lin Qingyu in a low voice that this job is too dangerous and needs more money.
Lin Qingyu angrily told the clone that she had no money. The clone then directly told Lin Qingyu that if she didn't add money, then don't blame him for not working hard and not being able to guarantee Lin Qingyu's safety.
"...." Lin Qingyu looked at the clone's familiar yet unfamiliar face in disbelief, and gritted her teeth to tell the clone to give him an extra 10,000 when she went back.
"Add at least 20,000." Clone.
"You!!"
"Going or not?" The clone glanced sideways.
Just at this moment, a pile of Kobolds poured out of the nest, howling and screaming, their ferocious and crazy appearance instantly shattered Lin Qingyu's psychological defenses.
"I'll add it! You go to the front quickly!" Lin Qingyu succumbed.
The clone, who received the promise, immediately rushed up happily.
"You still have the nerve to say I'm a simp? How is your face any better than a simp's?" Link couldn't help but complain in reality.
But the clone in the simulation did not respond.
The cruel conquest began.
As the assessment team entered the nest, countless Kobold monsters who sensed the human aura rushed towards the assessment team like crazy.
Your clone and the assessment team immediately fell into a bitter battle. Fortunately, your clone is actually a level 10 first-job-change warrior, and has also learned the bronze-level skill Bullying, which is specially used for bullying the weak. This makes your clone have super high damage immunity in the face of these Kobolds, most of whom are level 5. The Kobolds' claws scratched on the clone's body, at most scratching the clone's skin and flesh, and could not cause serious damage that could not be restored by healing spells.
Although pain is inevitable, your clone not only has no physiological emotions, but also no emotions such as fear and dread of pain that would affect combat effectiveness. The mere skin and flesh injuries are not even qualified to make your clone frown, let alone retreat after being attacked like ordinary human professionals.
Your clone is like a stabilizing needle! No matter how the monsters in front impact, it remains motionless. On the other hand, the members of the assessment team who have stronger talents are constantly retreating because they are afraid of pain. In the blink of an eye, you, an outsider, have become the front shield of the entire assessment team.
Seeing this scene, the captain of the assessment team quickly suppressed the shock in his heart and began to order all members of the team to stabilize the line with the clone as the front row.
The powerful firepower belonging to the silver and even gold-grade talent professional team, after a brief panic, quickly vented out again with the help of the captain's command and the clone's help in stabilizing the monster's offensive and buying them time to adjust! For a time, countless extremely precious bronze-level skills covered the area around your clone like raindrops. The Kobolds, who were only level 5, were almost instantly killed in pieces, greatly reducing the pressure on your clone.
Immediately afterwards, your clone led a group of assessment team members, fighting and advancing, and finally built a defensive position in front of a narrow passage.
Reality is not a network game where models can overlap, and Kobolds do not have the ability to destroy terrain. Therefore, by taking advantage of the terrain, the number advantage of Kobolds can be greatly limited. Even if there are thousands or tens of thousands of Kobolds, they can only honestly take turns to pour in one by one, so that the clone can achieve a feat similar to one man guarding the pass, and ten thousand men unable to open it.
Relying on the terrain, the originally precarious situation immediately became more than enough. The calmed down assessment team members re-exerted the combat skills they had learned in school. They took turns fighting and recovering their status in groups of 3. Ordinary monsters of level 5 were simply unable to get close to these elite professionals, whose lowest level was level 7, and who were almost fully equipped with bronze, silver, and even gold-grade equipment, and who had all learned bronze-level skills in advance.
Even Lin Qingyu, the scumbag in the clone's eyes, also showed her strength as a gold-grade talent holder. As a magic source talent holder, she not only has 5 times the mana value of ordinary professionals, but also recovers mana 5 times faster than ordinary professionals. With the cooperation of some mana recovery acceleration equipment, she can even infinitely release low-level spells.
Your clone was also replaced at this time, because as the situation stabilized, the monster wave's impact was no longer a threat to the assessment team, but instead became a feast for gaining experience!
Even if there is a level suppression of 2 levels or more, which makes the experience they get only 25% of the initial value, the number of Kobolds is really too large. Under the absolute number, even if each Kobold can only share 2 points of experience per person, hundreds of them are enough for them to increase by 1 level. They naturally will not let the clone share a portion of the experience.
Your clone didn't say much. The world is inherently unfair. No matter how well he performs, bronze-grade talent is ultimately just bronze-grade talent. He is a qualified cannon fodder, but it is impossible to become an equal comrade-in-arms who fights alongside them.
However, he was originally a mercenary, and he didn't expect to get the treatment of a regular army. For the clone, it is enough to have money to take.
This experience harvesting feast lasted for seventeen hours.
During this period, although Kobolds and even higher-level Kobold elites tried to break through the assessment team's defense line, under the tacit cooperation of the assessment team, everything was just in vain.
Until the last Kobold whimpered and was killed by the members of the assessment team, the monster nest in front of them had basically lost its resistance. Next, they only need to destroy the magic crystal in the middle of the nest to completely destroy the gathering place. In the future, for at least several years, there will be no large-scale monster gatherings within a few miles around.
Except for your clone, the gains of each member of the assessment team can be described as rich! Not only are they about to complete the assessment and thus obtain the core member qualifications of the Iron-Blood Society, but the levels of the assessment team members have also been broken through in the battle.
In addition, there are also a large number of drops. Although most of them are garbage equipment without even a grade, occasionally there will be precious ores such as gold ore and mithril ore. The price of the metals refined from these ores is generally between 500 federal coins and 20,000 federal coins per gram. Even if it is calculated that 1 ton of ore only produces 10 grams of precious metal, the value of these dropped ores will exceed 500,000 federal coins.
Everything seems to be going smoothly. If this continues, this assessment task seems to be able to be perfectly concluded, but as the assessment team enters the core area of the monster nest, your clone always feels that things will not be so simple.
You must know that this is a monster nest! If monster nests can be destroyed so easily, then is there still a need for battle groups to clean them up? Wouldn't any folk professional team that has completed a job change be able to clear the nest? How could they still exist on such a large scale in the world and become a major concern for humans?
Harboring this sense of unease, your clone took a few steps back inconspicuously from the assessment team.
Although he did receive money from Lin Qingyu, the clone doesn't have any contract spirit. As for wanting to hurt you unless you step over my corpse, it's okay to say it, but if you really encounter danger, the clone runs faster than anyone else.
However, the assessment team, immersed in the joy of harvest, did not notice the clone's abnormality.
In their opinion, the monsters in this nest have been cleaned up by them. Even if there are a few fish that slipped through the net, they cannot pose a threat to them. Therefore, no one cares whether the clone continues to pave the way for them.
As the saying goes, 'extreme joy begets sorrow', although not the same meaning, but what happened next was similar.
Just as the members of the assessment team went all the way like a hot knife through butter, entered the core hinterland of the monster nest, and were about to reach the location of the magic crystal.
A Dragon Vein Kobold Warlock named Doranir, who was as high as level 10, suddenly slowly appeared from the darkness of the mine!
Named BOSS!
Although not a lord, the BOSS with its own name is far from the same concept as an ordinary BOSS! What's more, there are no strategies for wild BOSS to refer to, everything is unknown!
Almost in just one encounter, the assessment team, which was helpless even against thousands of Kobolds, immediately suffered heavy casualties. Two front-row professionals who were too close were directly sprayed by the Dragon's Breath of the Dragon Vein Kobold Warlock BOSS! Although the substantial damage of the Dragon's Breath was far from enough to threaten their lives, the pain of being burned was not something ordinary people could bear.
The two front rows immediately screamed and fell to the ground. The pain forced them to roll around on the ground frantically, unable to think about what terrible consequences this behavior would bring to the entire team!
Without the front row blocking, the Dragon Vein Kobold Warlock BOSS Doranir directly killed the remaining assessment team members. The only two front rows, a scout and a swordsman, were as fragile as loli and fell with one touch. Almost in just one encounter, Doranir killed to the front of the back row professionals!
At this time, the back row professionals had just had time to launch an attack on Doranir, but unlike the dungeon BOSS in the dungeon who clearly knew how much damage this attack caused to the BOSS, the attack in reality hit Doranir's body, and from the surface it looked like it was just scratching the BOSS's itch. Doranir almost broke into the assessment team's crowd without any impact. Immediately afterwards, the Dragon's Breath turned into fire dragons and roared out as if it didn't cost money. For a time, the entire mine was filled with the screams of the assessment members, not to mention any organized counterattack.
Seeing this, the clone, who had secretly taken a few steps back from the assessment team and was spared, turned around and ran almost without hesitation.
But just after running a few steps, your clone abruptly stopped his escape and turned back again, rushing fiercely towards the BOSS Doranir, who was preparing to kill the assessment team members who had lost their combat ability.
It's not that the clone suddenly awakened some noble idea of sacrificing himself to save others, but your clone suddenly thought that in the last simulation, he clearly saw Lin Qingyu, whose level had reached level 15, nestled in a man's arms after being forced to drop out of school.
Lin Qingyu in the first simulation was able to live to level 15, there is no reason why this Lin Qingyu would die in the assessment.
Moreover, this is ultimately just an internal assessment of a student club. Even if the president of the Iron-Blood Society is Zong Heng, the super genius who ranks first on the Heavenly Ranking of Donghua University, his current identity is still just a student. Where does he get the courage to joke about the lives of so many alumni? What's more, a group of alumni who are war group seeds with silver and even gold-level talents.
If the logic doesn't make sense, it means that all of this is just an illusion!
No matter how terrifying Doranier's current performance is, the assessment members present are definitely not in any life-threatening danger. If he really escapes, wouldn't I have to pay Lin Qingyu three times the penalty after she returns?
Three times 80,000 is 240,000. A 240,000 penalty... isn't that going to cost this clone its life?!
Having figured all of this out, the clone immediately charged towards Doranier, fearless of death, and loudly urged the assessment team members to overcome their fear and resist bravely!