Chapter 34 – White Magician

In Miracle, there would be a small announcement on the world channel every time a new guild was created.

[The Food Squad Guild has been established! Welcome all players to join!

Once this message appeared on the world channel, a dozen applications popped up on the guild window. Ling Xuefeng's application was drowned out by the large number of people and didn't attract any special attention from Li Cangyu.

[Mapo Tofu has applied to join the guild.]

[Hot and Sour Potato has applied to join the guild.]

[I Love Pudding Milk has applied to join the guild.]

[Steamed Ba.s.s has applied to join the guild.]

……

Li Cangyu looked at the row of players on the list and suddenly felt hungry.

Bai Xuan opened the guild panel and saw the player IDs that applied for members.h.i.+p. He said helplessly, "You will attract many foodies instead of experts with such a guild name."

Li Cangyu replied seriously, "There must be masters among the foodies."

"…" He had a reason! Bai Xuan ignored it and asked, "Are you going to accept these applications?"

“Accept all of them." Li Cangyu explained, "The guild instance will open at level 50 and we can level faster."

In the Wind Colour training room, a prompt appeared on the computer screen. "Congratulations, President Love to Eat Braised Fish has accepted your members.h.i.+p application."

At the same time, a message from President Love to Eat Braised Fish appeared in the guild channel: [I want to welcome everyone who joined the guild. We will level up on our own, then I will take the guild to challenge the level 50 instance.]

There were cheers in the guild channel.

The various IDs such as Mapo Tofu, Hot and Sour Potato and Pudding easily stimulated a person's appet.i.te.

Ling Xuefeng's side account didn't speak on the guild channel. Since he entered the guild as an undercover, he decided to act in a low-key manner. He calmly minimized the Steamed Ba.s.s computer and paid attention to the Popular Land Under Heaven side.

***

In the blink of an eye, several people had already reached level 45. After level 45, playing the Frost Temple instance didn't give any experience. They could replace it with the Demon Forest instance or do the main storyline.

Li Cangyu found it troublesome to do missions so he went with his teammates to Demon Forest.

They were at the forefront of the rankings so no one could be seen at the instance's entrance.

As soon as everyone entered the instance, a female demon's gloomy voice was heard, "It is really good. Today there are fresh food delivered to the door!"

She laughed in a strange manner and a large group of black crows flew out, covering the sky and blocking the moonlight. The effect was really shocking.

Li Cangyu couldn't help saying, "The black crows that the boss summons is more annoying than Ling Xuefeng."

Ling Xuefeng was in the team but he wasn't in the voice room. Therefore, he couldn't hear Li Cangyu talking.

Bai Xuan couldn't help smiling. He really wanted to drag Ling Xuefeng to the voice channel and make him listen to how Cat G.o.d scolded him!

Gu Siming excitedly said, "Captain, we encountered Witch Lilian. Lilian is originally an elder of the Demon World. After rebelling, she hid in the magic environment of the Demon Forest. This is the Demon Forest dungeon's hidden mission!"

The probability of meeting a hidden story in an instance was one in one thousand. People couldn't ask to meet it.

Fortunately, Li Cangyu had encountered this Lilian the previous time he played the online game. He remembered that this witch was summoner. However, it had been too long that he forgot how to fight her.

“Do you remember the method to fight her?" Li Cangyu turned back and asked Bai Xuan.

"It was six years ago so I forgot." Bai Xuan paused before adding, "I remember that we played her with Ling Xuefeng. The team managed to beat her after three hours. After playing, he posted a strategy on the forum. Do you want to search for it?"

"Yes." Li Cangyu searched in the forum and sure a Witch Lilian strategy guide where the publisher's ID was only three letters: LXF.

This was the ID that the 18 year old Ling Xuefeng used in the online game.

Li Cangyu looked carefully. This strategy was really Ling Xuefeng's style as it was simple and concise. It only wrote the characteristics and effects of the boss, getting rid of any extra novice. It would be incomprehensible to a novice who saw it. But as long as the person had a good awareness, they could infer the correct strategy according to the characteristics of the boss skills.

He was studying the guide carefully when he heard Gu Siming's excited voice, "I also searched for a Lilian guide. Eh? This ID? It is written by Captain Ling! It is written simply and is less than 50 words…”

Bai Xuan smiled. "Captain Ling has always been concise. Xiao Gu, can you understand it?"

Gu Siming read it carefully and nodded. "I probably understand it. The main T's requirements are very high and the boss has random mobility skills…"

“Can you handle it?” Li Cangyu asked.

"I can!" The young boy was very confident.

Li Cangyu typed in the team channel: [Go to the forum and look for the Lilian strategy. After that, we will fight.]

He was naturally talking to Ling Xuefeng.

Ling Xuefeng replied: [Okay.]

This team was full of first-cla.s.s professional players. Li Cangyu didn't bother to give commands as he believed the five people could easily beat the boss.

However, it turned out that people who were too confident were only beaten.

***

In the instance, Lilian was wearing tight purple robes and standing not far away. Her lips were painted a glamorous red and she held a black staff. The huge black wings behind her represented that she was from the demon race and her mana was very high.

Once Li Cangyu saw that everyone was in a good position, he typed: [Ready to go.]

The eager Gu Siming immediately picked up his s.h.i.+eld once he heard the captain's words and rushed to press Lilian.

Everyone's screen flashed red, representing the official start of the hidden boss battle!

“Today's food is so fres.h.!.+” The strange voice was heard in their ears while at the same time, Lilian used a 360 super-wide range move as a welcoming gift!

There was a bang and four professional G.o.ds and one training G.o.d fell to the ground, dead.

Love to Eat Braised Fish: […]

Love to Eat Twice-cooked Pork: […]

Blossoming Tree: […]

As the Name Suggests: […]

Continuous ellipsis appeared on the screen.

Finally, Li Cangyu couldn't bear it anymore and typed: [Ling Xuefeng, what type of strategy did you write? Why didn't you write about the opening move?]

Ling Xuefeng calmly explained: [There must be a full team to fight this boss. Since we are missing one person, the boss probably became berserk.]

Li Cangyu: [Why didn't you say this earlier?]

Ling Xuefeng: [I only just remembered.]

Li Cangyu: [Can't you use your brain?]

Ling Xuefeng: [It is easy to use.]

Li Cangyu: […]

Bai Xuan saw the two of them arguing and looked straight ahead.

If this chat record was sent to the forum with an indication that it was a conversation between Cat G.o.d and Captain Ling, it would definitely set off a big wave. In the past, the two summoners had many fans and anti-fans fighting about who was stronger. It was estimated that those who still remained would have an even stronger combat effectiveness.

***

After dying in the instance, they could come back with resurrection. Li Cangyu pressed the resurrect b.u.t.ton and returned to the entrance of the instance. He typed: [I will find another person.]

The Demon Forest instance could be entered at level 45. At present, there weren't many people in the entire district who had reached level 45. The majority of them had IDs with 'Flying Feathers', showing that they were obviously masters of the Flying Feathers Guild.

The Flying Feathers Guild had many swordsmen. The swordsman was the first cla.s.s to learn a group attack skill and there would obviously be some advantages in the early stages. This was why the level of the Flying Feathers Guild was slightly higher than other guilds.

The Flying Feathers people obviously had a fixed team and it was impossible for them to come help with the boss. Li Cangyu quickly ignored those with Flying Feathers IDs and targeted a few players without a guild. He sent them a private message: [I encountered a hidden boss in the Demon Forest instance and am lacking an output. Do you want to play?]

Someone sent back: [Don't tease. You definitely can't beat a level 45 hidden boss so give up.]

Another person replied: [I am already in an instance and can't come out. Sorry.]

……

Only one person quickly replied: [Okay! I'll be right there!]

The person's ID was Awakened Magician.

Li Cangyu checked the information and saw that the player was a level 45 white magician.

The other person was quick and deft, applying to the team the moment he replied to the private chat. Li Cangyu accepted and the person quickly made their way to the instance map. On the way, they typed: [I finally got a team for the Demon Forest. It's great!]

Li Cangyu looked back and saw a long-legged beauty dressed in snow-white magician robes and holding a pale silver wand. A pair of white wings were behind her and long, curly blonde hair fell to the waist. There was also a glittering G.o.ddess crown on her head.

Gu Siming sent a row of drooling emojis: [Sister! Angel Sister is very beautiful!]

Awakened Magician: [I am a pure man.] This was followed by a row of laughing expressions.

Gu Siming: […]

Laugh at your sister! A dead man!

The young boy almost scolded him.

Li Cangyu was very calm about this. After all, there were many males playing female accounts on online games. As long as they weren't sc.u.m who used the female ident.i.ty to swindle money, he could understand them wanting to play simply for the appearance.

[Witch Lillian, do you know how to fight her?] Li Cangyu asked on the team channel.

[I don't know but I will listen to the commander.] Awakened Magician continued sending laughing emojis. [Does Captain have a voice room?]

Li Cangyu immediately sent him the voice channel and pa.s.sword.

Ling Xuefeng saw this and also entered the voice room.

He had just entered when he heard a hearty voice saying, "Awakened, I will tell you about this boss' style. Lilian is a demon summoner who has four skills. The first is to summon black crows to block our vision. We have to quickly get rid of the crows. The second is to summon skeleton infantry to randomly imprison a person other than the healer. The imprisoned person will lose a lot of blood in 10 seconds. This will test the healing speed of the healer."

“The third is to summon a banshee who will randomly name someone. The person named will involuntarily rush to her and will be killed once they get close. At this time, the outputs must quickly break the black halo around the named person and Charm will be lifted."

"The fourth is to summon the demon G.o.d. There will be a 360 degree large-scale magic group attack. Countless black holes will appear randomly on the group and she will be flying all over the place. The main T must keep up with her and stay in her range, while the others quickly avoid the black holes at their feet."

Li Cangyu patiently explained before asking, "Do you understand?"

A single line appeared in the team channel. [I understand!]

***

Ling Xuefeng had been silently listening to Li Cangyu talk.

He heard Li Cangyu's voice again after three years and it was still as clear and confident as his memories.

This person was always so clear and orderly when commanding, with no extra nonsense. Therefore, people were involuntarily convinced by him and thought it was right to listen to him.

Li Cangyu, he wasn't a forceful leader but made people willing to follow him.

He seemed to have a unique charm. He was strong and courageous, decisive, loyal and placed a high value of friends.h.i.+p. He carefully calculated the opponent's moves and every time he encountered fish, he was like a cat. He would abandon his principles and unconditionally follow the cat…

He was a very strange person, making people always remember him.

Ling Xuefeng heard the voice that showed no signs of being defeated by his team's disbandment and finally let go of his worries.

[The third stage will be difficult to fight. The two ranged remotes will cooperate to handle it.] Ling Xuefeng typed on the team channel.

Li Cangyu naturally knew what he meant and also typed on the team channel: [When it comes to dealing with the banshee's big move, you will be '1' and I will be '2'.]

[Okay.]

Six years ago, they killed Lilian together. It was the first time they encountered this hidden boss and they fought and investigated strategies for a full three hours. Finally, the two of them cooperated with each other to quickly rescue their teammates and barely beat the boss.

Fighting together again today and using the same approach… perhaps this was a strange fate?

Li Cangyu stopped thinking about it and quickly marked six positions on the field with his mouse. Then he typed: [The main T is at the red point, the healer is at the white point, the swordsman at the green point and the three remotes at the red point. Let's go.]

It took him less than five seconds to do so many operations. Awakened Magician's chin almost fell to the keyboard!

What was this decisiveness? Captain, aren't you too energetic?

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Chapter 35 – Lilian (Beginning)

Witch Lilian was a summoning boss, constantly calling her younger siblings as a means of attacking players. The younger siblings she would summon were the four pets of a demon summoner: the crows, banshee, skeleton infantry and demon G.o.d.

Of course, the boss' summoned pets were stronger than the player's pets, with a higher damage.

After the resurrection, everyone stood in the positions marked by Li Cangyu. Gu Siming once again moved towards Lilian. Ling Xuefeng's speculation was correct. Lilian didn't use the big move against the six people. She spoke a few lines before the boss battle officially started.

In the first stage, Lilian would summon crows to block the players' vision. Every time her blood volume dropped by 5%, a large number of crows would fill the sky, turning their eyes black. This stage wasn't difficult as long as everyone could quickly clean up the crows and restore their vision. Xie Shurong's swordsman played a big role. He used Light and Shadow Rotation and the crows were almost gone instantly.

Everyone successfully lowered the boss' blood to 80% and entered the second stage.

In the second stage, Lilian's summoned pet was the skeleton infantry.

This is a demon's melee pet. It looked like a skeleton model in the anatomy room but the demon skeleton's body was pure black and emitted an evil aura. It had the skill Death Imprisonment that could seal a player in place, causing them to lose blood every second. This was Ling Xuefeng's most frequently used pet. He would control the opponent with the skeleton infantry and then hit them with a set of combos to deal great damage..

Boss Lilian would summon one skeleton every 10 seconds to randomly control a person other than the healer.

It wasn't a big problem to be controlled at this stage. Those who were sealed could still use skills to hit the boss. The key was that the person imprisoned would lose a serious amount of health every second for 10 seconds. If the healer couldn't keep up, it was easy for the player to die.

Cat G.o.d was too powerful. Since entering the new district, Bai Xuan had been playing the instances as a soy sauce, only lazily adding blood.

Today they encountered a difficult hidden boss battle and Bai Xuan finally concentrated.

The handsome man carefully stared at the computer, his fingers placed on the keyboard in the best position. His middle and index fingers were slightly bent, prepared to press the W and E keys which he set the most common healing skills he used.

Death Imprisonment!

The first skeleton infantry that the boss called imprisoned Gu Siming.

Bai Xuan immediately pressed the W key and used Healing Language on Xiao Gu. This was a healing buff that didn't need to be chanted and was released instantly. It restored 1% of blood per second for 10 seconds and could stack up to five layers. Bai Xuan could quickly burst out the healing state, so that a player could recover 5% of his blood per second and recover to 50% after 10 seconds.

Gu Siming was a paladin and his defense was very high. After being imprisoned by the infantry, his blood loss wasn't very serious. Therefore, Bai Xuan only gave him one layer of Healing Language and left him alone temporarily.

The boss soon summoned a skeleton infantry again and imprisoned the angel white magician who just joined the team.

Bai Xuan didn't hesitate to let out a burst of hand speed to quickly give five layers of Healing Language. Then he used the skill 'Treatment' to raise his blood level. Demons dealt bonus damage to angels so it was very dangerous for the white magician to be imprisoned.

However, the white magician's blood volume hadn't been completely filled up yet when Li Cangyu was imprisoned, making things worse.

A general healer would be in a rush but who was Bai Xuan? He had a lot of experience with difficulties in the compet.i.tive matches and was always calm. Bai Xuan didn't panic when he looked at Cat G.o.d's blood. He gave Li Cangyu five layers of Healing Language and then turned back to heal the b.l.o.o.d.y white magician.

Next, Ling Xuefeng was imprisoned. Bai Xuan gave him a Healing Language to ensure he wouldn't die and at this time, the white magician's blood volume had returned to around 50%.

Unfortunately, the new team member seemed very unlucky today. It wasn't too long after he lost the effect that he was named by the boss again!

Once he saw Awakened Magician's health fall to 10%, Bai Xuan no longer hesitated and immediately used a big move.

Divine Blessing!

A white light fell from the sky. The priest's level 40 group skill accurately covered all four teammates who lost blood!

Gu Siming, Cat G.o.d and Captain Ling immediately regained full blood while Awakened was rescued from the brink of death. Bai Xuan gave him the five layers healing buff and then used a healing skill to return his blood to full.

Awakened thought he would die and hadn't expected to be returned to full blood in an instant. He couldn't help sending a row of thumbs up in the team channel: [Milk Dad's full force!]

Bai Xuan returned a smiley expression.

Xie Shurong was lucky today and hadn't been named by the boss. While attacking the boss, he also paid attention to Bai Xuan's blood supply.

During Lilian's second stage, teammates would randomly lose blood and the pressure on the healer was very large. Bai Xuan didn't panic and was quite methodical. He ran and added blood, only using group skills at the critical time. He added a single increase to the white magician, continued to layer buffs on other teammates, used a small healing skill… he filled up the blood of all his teammates but only had 20% blue left.

It could be seen that each of his skills weren't wasted. The healing amounts didn't overflow and he also managed his blue.

Xie Shurong saw this scene and couldn't help feeling admiration. This type of blood filing technique was definitely the most rea.s.suring thing for teammates on the field. Bai Xuan had stayed by Li Cangyu's side for many years. He might not be as radiant as Cat G.o.d but his calm healing was enough to bring great trouble to his opponent.

Vice-Captain Bai was very careful and calculated every single time he added blood. He was reluctant to waste one skill and his consumption of blue was very low. A healer might not be as eye-catching as outputs but having a good treatment was equivalent to half a life.

Xie Shurong suddenly felt that it was really wise to join this team. At first, he wondered if Cat G.o.d's words were reliable. However, in the past few days, he developed a complete trust in Li Cangyu and Bai Xuan and was full of confidence of beating the league with them in the future!

***

Li Cangyu had always been confident in Bai Xuan's blood adding technique. Once the boss battle started, he didn't look at his blood and just focused on dealing the maximum output to the boss.

The result of Cat G.o.d's outbreak was that the damage data on the output list immediately soared to an alarming level!

Ling Xuefeng saw him focus on the boss and also followed his hand speed. Thus, the two summoners competed with each other and the amount of damage soared. In less than half a minute, the damage per second exceeded 10,000!

Awakened Magician looked at the output statistics list of Love to Eat Braised Fish and Popular Land Under Heaven and couldn't help feeling scared. What type of team had he joined? Were these people using cheating software as a group?

Gu Siming saw the output list and cried out excitedly, "Captain, work hard! Don't be crushed by him!"

Bai Xuan, “…”

How could a young boy speak such words? The world of adults wasn't this pure.

Ling Xuefeng's hand seemed to have slipped when he heard this. Li Cangyu was very calm and took advantage of Ling Xuefeng's wandering attention to use a big move, instantly overtaking Ling Xuefeng's output. In the statistics panel, Ling Xuefeng was pushed below him.

Li Cangyu was very satisfied with this result.

Ling Xuefeng felt quite helpless. He must compete with Cat G.o.d in the instance. Was Cat G.o.d already getting into the habit of fighting him?

***

Under Bai Xuan's careful and stable healing, the second stage pa.s.sed smoothly as Lilian's blood volume fell below 50%.

The third stage was the most troublesome part of killing Lilian because Lilian would summon the most special pet of the demon race, the banshee.

This pet looked like a typical witch in a Western fantasy game. She wore a tight black dress, had long curly hair to her waist and a S-shaped body that was simply at the level of a model.

The banshee had the single control skill 'Charm' in the early stages. Charm would designate an opponent, forcing the opponent to lose control and be pulled towards her.

Later, there was a stronger skill called Lich's Curse. This was a very terrible large-scale group charm. It made the opponents lose a lot of blood while also losing control, equivalent to a group pulling skill.

Whenever Ling Xuefeng put down Lich's Curse in a match, the other side would be pulled over as a group if they didn't hide. This was also the reason why many teams in the Miracle League were afraid of Ling Xuefeng. His summoned banshee was one of the most difficult to deal with among all pets. Of course, there was also Li Cangyu's wind spirit. However, there was no player who played the elf summoner after Li Cangyu left Miracle and the wind spirit didn't appear in the Miracle stadiums again.

The banshee that Lilian summoned could only use Charm, which would force the designated player to go over to her to be killed. She couldn't use Lich's Curse, otherwise there was no need to fight. The players would basically be killed.

Lilian summoned a banshee that was twice as large as the player's pet, with clothing that was much more gorgeous. Once she appeared, Li Cangyu immediately typed on the team channel: [Disperse!]

The melee swordsman Xie Shurong and Paladin Gu Siming no longer controlled the boss, immediately moving away from the banshee.

Three seconds later, a player's name appeared above the banshee's head.

[Love to Eat Twice-cooked Pork, come over and let me smell the scent of your body~]

The strange voice entered the ears and everyone got gooseb.u.mps.

The named Bai Xuan immediately lost control and walked towards the banshee. There was also a black halo around his body, the symbol of Charm.

"Everyone else continue to attack the boss." Li Cangyu quickly said on the voice channel. "You solve this Charm."

'You' naturally referred to Ling Xuefeng. Ling Xuefeng replied: [Yes.]

As soon as he typed this, he let out a burst of hand speed and self-exploded a skeleton infantry near the black halo. Then he used a summoner's general attack to quickly hit the halo. In less than five seconds, it was successfully broken. Bai Xuan was rescued and he moved away from the banshee.

The banshee started to name someone again. [Blossoming Tree…]

Xie Shurong, who had been very comfortable today, was finally named once. Li Cangyu immediately s.h.i.+fted his target and attacked the black halo around A'Shu. Once again, it took less than five seconds to break the halo and rescue A'Shu who was almost killed by the banshee.

Next, Li Cangyu was named and Ling Xuefeng quickly transferred targets to save Li Cangyu.

Gu Siming was named and Li Cangyu transferred targets to save Xiao Gu.

The ability of these two to instantly change targets was frightening.

Awakened Magician watched with a stunned expression before realizing he should attack the boss.

The man on the other side of the computer attacked the boss while wondering, 'What are the origins of these two summoners? Isn't this a bit exaggerated? Isn't Popular Land Under Heaven the president of Wind Colour? How can he be with the Food Squad?'

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