Xia Cheng asked cautiously, "'Less probability'?"
He stated explicitly, "It's probably around 5%."
Xia Cheng: "..." Using three-star hunter gear to fight this boss would probably take ten to twenty minutes to trigger once, and you'd have to break all the parts, plus there's only a 5% chance of it dropping—truly the devilish style of Blue Star!
"There's no way around it, if you want to become handsome, you always have to put in some effort."
Mingyan smiled and opened the mailbox next to him, receiving a letter from the game GM. He then converted all the materials in his backpack into 999 sets, which was the biggest perk of the internal test.
Xia Cheng, a man of great integrity: "I won't use these materials—"
Mingyan: "Hmm?"
Xia Cheng: "I don't... have enough. Should we ask the GM to give us more?"
A few minutes later, carrying two extremely cool greatswords, "Tsukumogami: Yuzuki" and "Enma-tō", Xia Cheng walked out of the weapon shop with great satisfaction.
Mingyan switched to a longsword called "Infinite Ice Slash" and transformed it into an ice-attribute weapon.
The two then went to an armor shop and replaced all their equipment with fire resistance gear, and also added stun resistance enchantments and gems.
Xia Cheng felt dizzy just looking at the resources required for this set of equipment and said, "Did the players collect all of this bit by bit?"
Mingyan smiled kindly: "Yes, accumulating resources is part of the fun of the game, and we understand the players' feelings."
Xia Cheng: "...If I don't make this set of equipment, can I still fight the Volcanic Dragon?"
“Of course it’s possible,” Ming said. “You’ll lose 20 health points per second, and you’ll need to be careful to dodge the volcanic dragon’s fire breath attacks and avoid being hit by any random drops from the volcano. The difficulty is about the same as completing ‘The Shell of the Ancient God’ without taking damage on Mortal Soul.”
Xia Cheng: Okay, no need to say anything more, I admit defeat.jpg
A little while later, GM sent the two of them another set of emails.
As soon as Mingyan opened it, a huge pile of props and potions burst out.
Mingyan continued, rattling off a list of items with practiced ease: "This is a GPS tracker. You need to use a long-range weapon to shoot it into your prey's body. It can maintain location tracking for 30 minutes; this is lava paste, which further increases fire resistance; this is a cooling agent, which you can use to put out any fires you accidentally catch; this is a universal antidote, as random chemical products called air will appear in volcanic terrain, and you need to use this to counteract various adverse reactions; oh, this is a shovel, which I'll use to dig you out if you get buried..."
As Xia Cheng listened, he raised his hand and asked a crucial question: "How many times is this mission allowed to result in a total team wipe?"
Mingyan smiled and said, "The first boss you encounter in each star level is called an 'encounter battle.' There is no limit to the total number of resurrections; you just need to defeat it within the 30-minute time limit."
Xia Cheng instantly became excited: "That's easy! With unlimited resurrections, what's there to be afraid of!"
Thirty minutes later.
Xia Cheng squatted in the corner with his hands wrapped around his knees.
"..."
Ming said, "Well, it's normal to fail the first mission. After all, we're not familiar with the monsters' attack patterns, and we wasted a lot of time figuring it out."
Xia Cheng hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
Mingyan looked knowing and sat down next to him to give him a hug.
After absorbing Ming Xiaoyan's energy for a while, Xia Xiaocheng was fully healed: "Let's go, wife! I know how to fight this time! The essence of Souls-like games lies in blocking and counter-attacking!!!"
Thirty minutes later, a deafening roar erupted.
The monster, its body bathed in lava, crashed headfirst into the black volcanic rock, letting out a painful roar.
With bloodied claws and tattered wings, it clung to the edge of the rock, trying to escape the hunter's pursuit.
Swoosh.
An arrow carrying frost shot out, shattering the last balance. The volcanic dragon could no longer maintain its balance and unfortunately continued to fall to the ground.
Not far away, Mingyan, carrying a longbow, whistled.
Xia Xiaocheng drew his sword and shield, leaped high into the air, and delivered the final blow!
"Heh." Xia Cheng coldly stepped on the volcanic dragon's corpse. "e. (Mission complete)."
He then raised his shield in his left hand and his longsword in his right, trying to strike a cool pose for a screenshot.
...but he failed.
—Sword and shield just don't look as cool as the Greatsword! What a mistake! It turns out, being strong is just a matter of changing weapons, but looking cool is for life!
Enraged, Xia Cheng sheathed his weapon, pulled out his hunter's knife, and began scraping resources from the volcanic dragon's corpse.
Well, he recovered two dragon scales, a tattered dragon wing, and a bottle of dragon blood.
The total weight shall not exceed 30 kilograms.
Then the enormous, multi-story-high, tens-of-tons-weight volcanic dragon corpse was completely consumed and then vanished.
Xia Cheng: What the hell? Why?
Mingyan, however, fell into deep thought: "..."
Dragon Heart (5% drop rate), Dragon Claw (18% drop rate), Complete Dragon Wing (50% drop rate), Dragon Tooth (80% drop rate, 1-3 pieces) – did I just happen to get all of them randomly without them dropping?
And the dragon scales and dragon blood that are guaranteed to drop are randomly assigned the smallest number, 1, right?
Chief Engineer Ming took out his notebook.
The devil himself wasn't so devilish today. He thought: If Comrade Xia Cheng comes to farm forging materials for the Greatsword in the future, and it takes him a hundred tries to equal what others do in ten, then he'll be unhappy.