The system only gave them three opportunities to fight the Queen. The first time, they hadn’t developed a tacit understanding, so when the Queen reached 50% HP, they were all killed. The second time, they adjusted their play styles, changed their positioning and also had a little more group cohesion, so they fought a lot more smoothly..
Ye Zhizhou played a close range class, which wasn’t convenient for commanding so he gave the leadership role to Ge Lu, the one with many side accounts who was conveniently playing a long range class. As a GM and the creator of Dreaming Continent, Ge Lu was too familiar with all the mechanics of each boss. Although his commands were short, they were very precise. According to his commands, everyone exchanged positions and hit the key weaknesses, playing steadily. Seeing that the boss’ HP was on the last 15%, everyone was excited and became extremely focused. They were afraid that they’d make a mistake and harm the whole team.
“When the boss is at 10% HP, she'll enter berserk mode and will call a group of small monsters. CC classes will go first, then the three off-tanks will catch up and use aggro control, healers will heal them and then the main tank will raise a shield to block and reduce the boss' damage. The boss’ attacks will become stronger once it enters berserk mode. If you have low HP, retreat and dodge the meteorites, close range classes will circle around the back and give the tanks the position to raise their shield.”
Everyone promptly moved to their positions when they heard his words.
Ge Lu watched the boss’ HP bar and raised his voice as they approached 10% HP to say, “Main tank, raise the shield. CC classes, prepare in 3, 2, 1…” The battered queen suddenly roared, standing up while waving her limbs, causing the falling meteorites to fall faster and denser in midair.
“Spread out to the previously assigned positions! Off-tanks advance! Healers, use big heals”
Yu Jiangbo was already standing in his assigned position, the strings of the harp in his hands were constantly vibrating. He was ready to CC the little monsters in his range. Suddenly, there was an exclamation behind him but he only frowned and didn’t turn back to look. He focused on the little monsters that suddenly appeared from under the Queen that were quickly approaching.
“Jing Shu, what are you doing?! Ah!”
【Your teammate Flourishing Flowers Fall has died. 】
Terrible! How did one of their assigned healers die?!
The monster arrived before his eyes and although he was startled in his heart, his hand steadfastly played the harp. After a burst of clear high notes, the sound waves, like ripples, dispersed and held the small monster in place. Off-tank I Married for Wealth hurriedly stepped forward and used his aggro control skills to firmly draw the little monster’s aggro onto himself.
There was another exclamation behind him.
【Your teammate Jing Shu has died. 】
Yu Jiangbo inwardly cursed and quickly sent another attack to CC the little monster, to not let I Married for Wealth lose too much HP. Unfortunately, it was useless. All the healers assigned to their position died, no one was getting healed and the little monster’s attacks hurt. I Married For Wealth’s various damage mitigation skills were all used. He only lasted for a few seconds before he died. The off-tanks and healers were all dead, so the monster jumped towards the other squishy players. In just half a minute, the stable situation was broken and little monsters scattered around everywhere, biting others. Players in other positions weren’t able to respond in time and several of them quickly died.
Things happened too quickly so Ge Lu, who was in another position, couldn’t respond in time. At this moment, the team had become disordered, and the death toll was too much—it was hopeless to continue fighting the boss. He could only let everyone retreat and try his best to not let his teammates experience the feeling of death for no reason.
After everyone gathered to the original area to recover, Ge Lu stopped the healers before they could revive people and went to the “corpse” pile to ask, “What happened? I Married for Wealth, it was your position that broke first. What’s the reason?”
Married for Wealth maintained his miserable dead appearance and angrily typed. "Both healers were dead, I didn't get healed."
When Ge Lu heard this, he looked at the two healers who were lying in the distance. “Explain.”
Flourishing Flowers Fall had a bellyful of grievances and loudly typed out a paragraph. “I stood in my assigned position, dodging the meteorites while healing. In the end, Jing Shu suddenly ran into me and hurt me, directly hitting me into a meteorite and I got stunned. Later, when I became unstunned, I immediately healed myself to stabilize the situation, but she actually came to hit me again. At that time, a big meteorite came down and I took damage again, but this time it was too much and I directly died!”
“I didn’t!” A word bubble appeared over Jun Shujing's head. "I was only dodging the meteorites normally. You're wearing black clothes, who knew you were going to stand there!"
"Are you blind?! I'm holding such a shiny weapon and also have bright skill effects!"
“It was your own weakness, yet you want to shift the blame onto others? You just hate me and want to frame me, don’t you?! Do you have any shame? We only have three chances to clear this, but you're taking the Holy Level Quest as a joke?!”
Flourishing Flowers Fall was stunned to speechless by her shameless fake accusations. It wasn't long before she angrily typed out another large wall of text and started fighting with her.
“Enough!” With a dark expression, Ge Lu interrupted their typing war and coldly looked at Jun Shujing, asking, “In order to prevent this position conflict, the positions I arranged for you guys were all very scattered so healers didn’t need to get close to heal. Tell me, why didn’t you stand in your assigned position but instead ran to Flourishing Flowers Fall’s position?”
Jun Shujing was unable to respond. After a while, she typed a response. “I saw that there was no one over there and wanted to fill the position…"
Flourishing Flowers Fall once again angrily sent out a large wall of text.
“Why did you go over when I didn't tell you to fill that spot? Can’t even stay in your own basic position, or listen to commands. This time, you might as well not participate.” Ge Lu didn’t have Ye Zhizhou’s good temper. He looked back and said to the other healers, "Revive everyone else and let Jing Shu lay here. We have enough DPS, who can sub as a healer? Come out."
Jun Shujing didn’t expect that he would say something like this. She quickly typed out. “Wouldn't a 50 player instance be unstable with only 49 players? Revive me. I promise that there will be no more problems. I have the best equipment for healers, and the substitute healer won't be able to heal as consistently as me."
“It's precisely without you that we will be able to play more consistently." After Married for Wealth was revived, he sneered. “Don't think I don't know that you did it on purpose. You hate that Brother Ye Zi triggered the Holy Level Quest and ruined your business. Unfortunately it was your own self that ruined your business."
After Yu Jiangbo was revived, he went to up Jun Shujing and looked down at her. His face was cold and his eyes were no longer warm like before. “Shujing, you greatly disappointed me."
[The probability of Yu Jiangbo and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 10%, may the host persist in his efforts. ]
Qi Xing met Ye Zhizhou's gaze, choked a bit and forced himself to say, “Jing Shu, you called me some time ago and wanted me to get close to Ye Zhizhou to sabotage his quest. It seems like you still haven't given up on this idea?"
Tang Ye turned to look at him, frowning. “She asked you to sabotage the quest? When?”
“Just a little while ago, when Ye Zhizhou’s quest needed to run instances.”
Tang Ye's face darkened. “It turns out that you’ve been deceiving me all along, Jing Shu.” At first, Jun Shujing had also asked him to get close to Ye Zhizhou, but her reason was because she was very happy that someone could unlock food buffs and hoped that he could go help. It turned out that her wanting to help was false because what she really wanted was for him to get close to Ye Zhizhou and then sabotage the quest. At that time, Jun Shujing’s business was still very good.
[The probability of Tang Ye and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 10%, may the host persist in his efforts. ]
The remaining male leads quickly talked with each other after hearing these words, only to find that Jun Shujing had told them all different kinds of excuses. Their expressions all became incredulous. The other experts listened to them talking with strange expressions. There were many rumors about how all seven of these rich second generation, who were all on the ranking boards, all liked Jun Shujing, but now it seems like it wasn't true…
[The probability of Sun Fanchen, Bao Yanan, He Nian and the protagonist falling in love has dropped to 10%, may the host persist in his efforts. ]
The wave of decreasing is steady!
Ye Zhizhou appeased Ge Lu, before looking at Jun Shujing and saying, “So it turns out that Great God Jing Shu didn’t really come here to help me with my quest. Then the Great God can just lay here, we'll fight by ourselves. I'll send you the labor payment afterwards."
The situation suddenly changed and Jun Shujing became flustered. She angrily typed. “Qi Xing, why are you slandering me?! I didn’t do it! I sincerely came to help you out, but you guys actually treat me like this. There are tens of thousands of players watching and all of you are bullying a girl together, are you still men?”
At last, Qi Xing completely gave up any hope towards Jun Shujing and totally refused to answer her.
“The players aren't blind.” Married for Wealth wiped his broadsword a couple of times before standing in front of her, sneering. “You just obediently lie there.”
The girl who was secretly in love with Shi Zhe took the initiative to volunteer as healer, and Ge Lu reassigned her position. Everyone tacitly ignored Jun Shujing, who constantly had word bubbles appearing over her head. Taking advantage of her resurrection cooldown not being up yet, he opened the instance again, leaving her no chance to revive.
In the instance, blades and swords flashed in heated combat once again, and the world channel began to explode like fireworks in the horizon.
I Love Crayfish: If I’m not blind, Jing Shu seemed to have done it on purpose. I saw her sneaking towards Flourishing Flowers Fall.
Chrysanthemum Eye: Doing this during such an important quest? Simply too malicious!
Angel Wings: You're all slandering her! Jing Shu baby was obviously misled by that Flourishing Flowers Fall! Jing Shu baby saw that there was an empty spot, so she kindly went to fill it but she was tricked! It's all that Flourishing Flower Fall's fault! Are you all blind!
Butts Up for the Crowd: Obviously it's you being blind.
Passerby A: Upstairs +1
Little Reporter: Weakly raising my hand. I recorded the events that happened just now.
This time, without Jun Shujing causing trouble, the fight to defeat the Queen was very smooth. Half an hour later, the Queen fell to the ground. The golden prompt changed, and the cave instantly became a gorgeous and magnificent hall, filled with various kitchen utensils and treasure boxes, with the Queen’s meat already processed and set aside.
Cooking this dish was the last step to the quest. Ye Zhizhou washed his hands and walked forward. Jun Shujing, who had been automatically revived by the system, moved with her hand at her waist. Jun Zhenzhen, who had been standing in a corner watching her, directly opened a revenge PK upon seeing her movement. She quickly rushed towards Jun Shujing and knocked her to the ground with a few skills before killing her in another few hits.
Foolishly shocked by her death, Jun Shujing angrily typed after falling to the ground. “What was that for?!”
Brother Married for Wealth rubbed his chin. “Since you can revenge PK now, we’ve left the instance area? So, where is this? A new map?” As he said this, he also opened a revenge PK towards Jun Shujing and sat beside her to watch her corpse. “Before Brother Ye Zi completes his task, you'd best behave.”
"Y-you guys only know how to bully a girl like me!"
“What a familiar line, Sister.” Jun Zhenzhen stopped staying silent like a wallflower in the background. She bent over and pulled a small sachet from Jun Shujing's waist with a cold expression. After opening it, she sniffed it and sneered. "You actually bring this kind of disgusting thing with you everywhere. What, since you failed to sabotage the fight against the Queen, you want to poison Ye Zhizhou's ingredients now?"
The experts were all shocked and Jun Shujing was also shocked. “W-what did you call me?”
“Sister ah, you didn’t expect this did you? I didn’t die, and I didn’t go with Father back to his hometown. Your scheme failed.” Jun Zhenzhen threw the sachet to Yu Jiangbo, who was standing at the front, and said indifferently, “Look at it, it was this thing that almost killed you all.”
Yu Jiangbo frowned, opened it and smelled it before handing the sachet over to He Nian, who was standing next to him. He looked at Jun Shujing deeply, not saying a word.
Jun Shujing suddenly felt a little glad that she was a corpse right now.
“To celebrate our victory against the Queen.” Jun Zhenzhen looked at the surrounding experts and asked Ge Lu for the leader position. She opened team sharing. "I'll show you guys something wonderful."
Jun Shujing became flustered when she heard these words—the livestream was still going on right now! If Jun Zhenzhen said anything that shouldn’t be said… It was just convenient that she automatically resurrected at that moment, so she hurriedly got up and rushed towards Jun Zhenzhen, shouting, “Zhenzhen! You’re crazy! We’re blood sisters!”
Jun Zhenzhen unsheathed her weapon, attacking Jun Shujing once again. After killing her in another few hits, she disdainfully pulled back. Her eyes were full of resentment. “Since you know that we’re sisters, then why did you want to kill me back then?”
"I didn't, no…"
Next up more face slapping for the protagonist!! aaaa 2 more weeks and it’ll be another arc. Next arc is …OTL