Chapter 37- Centaur
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Explorer Foothills was not a large area since it was initially designed for people to get some rest on long journeys. However, as time passed by, supply camps were replaced with various trees or plants, adding a sense of isolation to the area.
As the team moved in, Left-handed love took the lead. The two girls would scream each time they saw a snake or bug, and each time Left-handed love would wave his weapon and cut the pest into pieces.
Left-handed love knew the way from his last trip, so the team was able to move quickly. After twenty minutes, they arrived at a stream for water and a short break.
After the rest, Left-handed love led the team toward the east side of the stream.
"Welcome to Hyde Park! AP+25!" Ivan got a system message.
Left-handed love warned, "Watch out! If I remember right, Centaurs are in this area. It is a creature with the head, arms, and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse.”
"Got it!" Everyone held their weapon tightly.
A few minutes after they were in Hyde Park, a sharp weapon flew through the air toward them.
"Leo, weapon at 3 o'clock direction!" Thanks to Ranger's gift, Claire was more sensitive than other team members in the weedy forest.
"Okay," as his voice fell down, a white arrow approached them.
Leo raised his knife to stop it.
Ding!
Leo slowed down the iron arrow and changed its flight path so that it ended up in the trunk of a tree.
"Nice!" Praised Ivan and Left-handedLove.
A creature appeared in front of the team, waving his arms and supporting himself on four legs. Ivan realized that it must be Centaur Left-handed love just mentioned, the only difference was this creature was taller and fiercer than he expected.
Ivan hurried to check the Stats.
Sharpshooter (Common)
Level: 17
ATK: 40
HP: 600
DEF: 15
Profile: The Pioneer officer of the Centaur community. Sharpshooter is known with speed.
"Humans, get out of here," said Centaur.
"What? Even a mob has lines in the game? What a design!" Leo wiped his knife and praised.
Left-handed love smiled and gave out his command, "Bunny, use Frost Arrow! FierceKiller, you get its attention! Rest of the team! Let's kill it!"
"You can call me Leo!" Leo waved his knife.
“Ha-ha, now you realize how inconvenient it is to have such a long name! Bunny! What a perfect name! I even admire myself!” Claire smiled.
As she talked, she raised the bow and arrow that were covered by frost, and then took aim before shooting.
As soon as the Centaur was shot with the Frost Arrow, blue frost spread over its body. Clearly the Frost Arrow successfully slowed down its attack and speed.
"Get it!" Leo quickly approached Centaur and cut its back hip.
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"Wow, Leo, nice attack!” Left-handed love looked at the injury and praised.
What a poor mob to be attacked by so many players. Ivan had just learned a new skill from the Poison-ace Priest. Of course, he wouldn’t waste a chance.
"Poisoning!" Ivan waved his staff, and then a green glow hung over Centaur's head.
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"What happened? Centaur's defense seems to have diminished," Leo was surprised at the increased damage value.
"I thought you were a Priest? How do you know this skill? "FallenAngel asked the question that all people were curious.
"Secret!"
People only knew his class was Priest, however, no one knew he was a Poison-ace Priest.
After his transfer, Ivan spent several days working on his new poisons. Normally, there were several kinds of powder Poison-ace Priest always used. The green powder was used to diminish defense and HP, the red powder was used to diminish ATK, while yellow powder could reduce AGI. Luckily, Ivan bought several of them in Logan.
With a loud cry, Centaur went down on his knees and vanished into ashes. Each player gained 100 XP and one silver coin and some horseshoes landed on the ground. Leo who stood closest to the Centaur picked up all materials. Unexpectedly, Ivan received a system message telling him that he just got 20 Coins. It seemed that money was always equally distributed to team members. Of course, Leo kept horseshoes because he was the one who picked them up.
"Let’s keep moving," Left-handed love warned, as he watched as the sky darken.
However, there was more trouble before they made it too far.
As they laughed and walked in the woods, a dozen arrows suddenly flew toward them. They all hurried to get their weapon and fight back, but arrows came wave by wave.
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Seeing the minus number kept jumping above their heads, Ivan hurried to case Mass Heal again and again.
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Everyone felt HP came back and their whole body was refilled, then they gave the thumbs up to Ivan to show their gratitude.
"You son of b***h! Show yourselves if you dare! Taunt!” Leo roared and waved his knife in all directions. Seeing the faint red light, people recognized that it was the basic skill of Warrior.
Thanks to the Taunt, a dozen of Sharpshooters appeared in front of them. Ivan guessed they were drawn from the screams of the first Sharpshooter.
As the attack was getting tighter and tighter, Ivan and the other people had no time to speak. Ivan kept casting Mass Heal, while the rest of the team used their weapons to fend off the attack.
Most Centaurs were at the same level as Ivan and other team members but the team had constant support from Ivan, while Centaurs could do nothing but take the damage. They all knew it was only a matter of time before they killed all mobs.
"I love you, Ivan! I love you, Priest! Yeah! We don't need to worry about HP anymore!"
Even though they were surrounded by mobs, the team was excited when they saw that was getting more and more XP.
A change came when most Centaurs were killed by the team.
"Stupid human beings, how dare you? I will take your lives in memory, my people!"
Ivan and other team members looked back and found a giant mob at the edge of the woods. The mob was even larger than the Centaur they killed before. He was covered in rusted iron armor, reminding them just how long the mob had lived there.
The mob, holding a giant sickle, opened his mouth, "You will all die!"
"Looks like a hard bone! Do you think that’s the Golden boss we are looking for?" Leo was not frightened but asked with a smile.
"Hum...I am not sure…” Left-handed love was also puzzled.
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