The massive, ferocious Direwolf, after spinning a 360-degree whirlwind that sent two people flying, planted its two front paws firmly on the ground, then let out a long, ear-splitting roar, raising its head to the sky!
“Holy crap, I’m telling you, Direwolf bro, you’re just too cool! Not only did you just spin like a Tigrex, doing a 360-degree attack, you’re now roaring like a Thunderjaw! It’s like a cow trying to do a handstand!” Zhang Xing Yu almost yelled it out loud!
“Never seen an attack like that before. Don’t worry, let’s heal first!” Odilia quickly got back to her feet, her eyes fixed on the Direwolf with vigilance.
The Direwolf seemed to be still in its “posing” phase, and hadn’t launched another attack right away, but after its roar, it stared at the two with bloodshot eyes.
Both of them used a Mega Potion.
Glug glug—
The difficulty of Monster Hunter also lies in healing, because chugging potions takes some time, and you can only move slowly during the process. Many players, when attacked and their health drops, will panic and start chugging potions. But, players forget, they’re right under the monster’s nose!
And then, before their health is fully restored, they’re killed by the monster’s follow-up attack!
Even though most players understand, after several tries, that they need to find an opportunity to heal, the habit developed from playing computer games hasn’t changed, or perhaps it’s still wishful thinking, and because the dream world feels so real—the pressure of facing a huge monster, the fear of death, make many players scared and just immediately pull out potions to start healing!
Of course, the endings for most of those players are quite tragic.
The monsters of Nightmare World are far smarter than their counterparts in the game, and their desire to attack those who dare to chug potions under their very eyes is much higher!
Once their health was full, Odilia’s spirits soared. However, the Direwolf also transitioned from its “posing” state to a vigilant combat state.
Just as Odilia was about to continue her attack, she noticed, to her surprise, that there was some movement in the bushes around them. Then, six Direwolves appeared on the battlefield!
Not only Odilia, even Zhang Xing Yu widened his eyes.
—So, your roar was just to call for reinforcements!
Zhang Xing Yu didn’t notice that the Nightmare Lord, who had been busy modifying the Nightmare World, had been watching the fight. As soon as the Direwolf summoned its minions, he again let out a creepy smile. (Nightmare Lord: You keep making me do all the work, now you’re going to be dogpiled by the monsters I created!)
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About five minutes later, both of them were defeated.
The danger posed by the Direwolf far exceeded Zhang Xing Yu’s expectations. The most crucial point is, Zhang Xing Yu was unfamiliar with this Direwolf!
As an experienced hunter, in the original world, Zhang Xing Yu could easily defeat a Master Rank Direwolf, even without wearing any armor, just wielding a longsword. But this time, Zhang Xing Yu said he was not holding back at all, and he was still brutally killed!
The reason is simple.
First, it’s the difference in game style. Although Zhang Xing Yu was familiar with the game, there is a difference between directly using a longsword to fight monsters yourself and operating a game on your computer. Plus, this Direwolf was incredibly fierce, and its attack patterns were different from the ones in the game, so even Zhang Xing Yu needed to get acquainted, like fighting an entirely new monster.
You know, when fighting new monsters, almost every hunter will die a few times. Only after becoming familiar with the monster’s attack patterns will they have a chance of killing it.
On the other hand, Zhang Xing Yu finally realized how troublesome the Direwolves were, especially when facing multiple ones—these Direwolves were like mad dogs. Even a longsword wasn’t easy to hit them with!
Zhang Xing Yu felt something was wrong, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.
At this moment, Zhang Xing Yu heard the Nightmare Lord’s creepy laughter.
“…………” Zhang Xing Yu probably knew where the problem lay: “Stop that creepy laughter of yours, you find it funny to watch me die, don’t you?”
Zhang Xing Yu was having a mental conversation with the Nightmare Lord.
“Hahaha————” The Nightmare Lord couldn’t help but burst into laughter, saying: “It is quite funny. I’m happy!”
“How many skills did you add to these monsters? I mean, can players actually kill them?”
“Not many… I just added some new ‘attributes’ to some monsters based on your settings. And it just so happens that this monster you’re facing is one of those with new ‘attributes’ added to it,” The Nightmare Lord’s entire eyes and mouth were narrowed into half-circles, looking quite “terrifying.” But Zhang Xing Yu had been with the Nightmare Lord for so long, he was used to the Nightmare Lord’s “creepy and intangible” appearance, and at this moment, he actually found his expression quite cute.
It was rare for Zhang Xing Yu to see the Nightmare Lord laughing so happily… Well, even though the Nightmare Lord was happy in a gloating way, and the source of his joy was himself...
Working continuously on Zhang Xing Yu’s plans, and all those weird requests from Zhang Xing Yu—patch this, add that—the Nightmare Lord had accumulated a fair amount of “resentment” recently. Now, seeing that he had easily tricked Zhang Xing Yu with a simple setting, the Nightmare Lord was feeling quite pleased.
On the other side, seeing Zhang Xing Yu spacing out, Odilia thought that Zhang Xing Yu was feeling disheartened by his hunting failure and was trying to comfort him. But, the little lolita didn’t seem to be very good at comforting people, and she was hesitant, not knowing what to say.
Zhang Xing Yu felt he needed to check the current state of the game. After so long, even a simple Direwolf was so difficult to beat. There must be a lot of players who are even more resentful than the Nightmare Lord!
Also, Zhang Xing Yu wanted to let the players know, through a “version upgrade,” that they were “in a game server”!
If they really couldn’t win, then let the almighty system, or the version upgrade, help them!
So, at this moment, all players in the Nightmare World received an emergency system notification!
【The Nightmare World will be undergoing a major version update in 10 minutes. Please log off within 10 minutes, or you will be forcibly logged off. 】
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