Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
In front of the Dark Priest, ten level 65 Black Demons with three heads, six arms, and twelve eyes appeared at once.
Dark energy continuously spread from the Black Demons and gathered into the Dark Priest's body.
Clearly, the culprits that had corrupted the Divine Guards and turned them into Dark Priests were these Black Demons from the Black Demon Race.
"According to the Oracle records, the Black Demon Race is only one of the lowest ordinary races on the Oracle Continent. Their race is weak, but they excel at releasing dark power and corrupting the corpses of powerful beings from other races, turning them into their own strength."
Strategist Zhuge Jie analyzed seriously, "The Black Demon Race found this divine tomb and intended to corrupt the Divine Guards buried here, turning these powerful Divine Guards into puppets of the Black Demon Race to increase their power and strength."
"But because an extremely powerful divine force is suppressing this tomb, these Black Demons are unable to completely control all the Divine Guards. Instead, they themselves have become trapped inside the divine tomb."
"An extremely powerful divine force?", Blood Dance Berserker thought for a moment, "Could it be the Seventh Princess of the God Race, Siya, mentioned in the dungeon background story?"
Zhuge Jie nodded seriously, "Most likely."
While the two were discussing it seriously, Wang Junjie's roar came from the front, "Strategist! Damn it!"
"Stop explaining already! I'm about to get beaten to death!"
"Can somebody save me?"
Turning to look, they realized that Wang Junjie had already fallen into the Black Demons' siege.
Four Black Demons had bitten onto his arms and legs.
Another one was pulling his head.
They were almost tearing him apart.
Seeing this, Light Wizard Han Ruoli immediately entered combat mode.
Her slender hand gripped her staff tightly. With a slight lift of her right hand—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Streams of white light descended from the sky and landed on the Black Demons surrounding Wang Junjie, greatly slowing them down and easing Wang Junjie's suffering from being "pulled apart."
The biggest difference between a Dark Wizard and a Light Wizard was: The former specialized in hard crowd control such as freezing, petrification, immobilization, and stuns, but could only control a limited number of targets. Most skills could only affect one target at a time.
The latter specialized in soft crowd control such as slowing, silencing, and disarming. Their skills also covered a wider area, with most of them able to affect multiple targets at once, creating large-scale group control.
Taking advantage of Han Ruoli's large-area slow spell...
Buzz!
Blood Dance Berserker directly activated his ultimate skill, Bloodthirsty Frenzy. Wrapped in a burst of red light erupting from his body, he swung his axe and charged into the monsters.
At the same time, Divine Marksman Han Ruoxi and Elementalist Chaotic Zhuge provided fire support from the rear.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
-10835!
-10193!
-9997!
Even though they were facing level 65 monsters eight levels above them, the damage they dealt was far from low.
Before entering the dungeon, Wang Junjie had spent fifty million to equip everyone entering the dungeon with top-tier level 55 fourth-tier orange equipment or better.
They also all had skills of at least B-rank.
Although they couldn't compare to Lin Mo, who wore a full fifth-tier golden set and possessed a full skill list of SSS-rank abilities, compared to over ninety percent of the players in Inferno City who were still wearing second- or third-tier blue and purple gear, their hardware strength was already maxed out.
In his berserk state, Blood Dance Berserker swung his axe repeatedly. Combined with Han Ruoxi's and Chaotic Zhuge's firepower from behind, he quickly killed two Black Demons.
Having escaped danger, Wang Junjie climbed to his feet and proudly said, "Tch! I thought they'd be tougher than this! Looks like the monsters in this rare hidden dungeon are nothing special after all."
Just then, the Dark Priest behind the Black Demons, who had not moved at all and seemed like nothing more than decoration, suddenly raised his staff.
BOOM!
The moment the staff struck the ground, a shadow aura spread across the floor and covered all the Black Demons ahead.
At the same time, Wang Junjie raised his sword and slashed heavily at a Black Demon on his left.
-12369!
A huge damage number popped above the Black Demon.
Before Wang Junjie could feel pleased with himself, a rebound effect struck him, and his entire body turned to stone.
"Damn it!"
Refusing to believe it, Wang Junjie recovered from the half-second petrification and immediately swung his sword again.
The next second, another rebound effect hit him, freezing him solid.
At the same time, Han Ruoxi and Chaotic Zhuge, who were attacking the Black Demons from a distance, were also frozen and stunned one after another.
Han Ruoli immediately realized what was happening.
"It's the Dark Priest's aura?"
"Inside the aura's range, attacking the Black Demons causes us to receive a random control rebound effect."
The facts proved it.
As long as they attacked a Black Demon, they would be controlled.
Although each control effect only lasted 0.5 seconds, being controlled for half a second every time they touched a Black Demon was still extremely annoying.
As a result, the group fought while constantly being interrupted by crowd control.
Fortunately, their equipment and stats were strong enough that they could barely withstand the Black Demons' damage.
Otherwise, if ordinary players were trapped in continuous control effects like this, they would have already been wiped out.
Using all kinds of magic scrolls they had prepared beforehand, Wang Junjie and the others finally managed to eliminate the Black Demons after considerable effort.
[Ding~ Successfully purified a Divine Guard. Congratulations, your team has earned 10 dungeon points.]
After suffering through the entire battle, Wang Junjie finally regained his confidence when it was over.
Straightening his back, he laughed, "Our strength is clearly way above the required level."
"Looks like clearing this dungeon is guaranteed."
———
[Elsewhere in the Dungeon]
Tyrant, Tyrannosaur, and three other teammates were also working together against a squad of Black Demons.
It was the same setup: ten Black Demons and one Dark Priest.
They faced the same rebound problem.
As long as they attacked a Black Demon, they would be controlled.
Their equipment, skills, and overall hardware strength were obviously inferior to Wang Junjie's team.
Although before entering the dungeon, Nether had used talents stolen from other players to grant each of them a high-grade talent of B-rank or even A-rank, talent alone was nowhere near enough to defeat these Black Demons.
Under endless crowd control, the Black Demons launched a counterattack.
Amid screams, the Magic Knight in the team died first.
Soon after, the Sword-and-Shield Warrior and the Assassin were also killed.
Watching three beams of white light rise ahead, the only two remaining, Chen Jun and Zhang Long, were shocked.
"Damn it!"
"Holy shit!"
"These dungeon monsters are this strong?"
Zhang Long panicked, "Brother Jun, what do we do?"
"If this keeps up, we'll be wiped out before we even find Rulebound."
Chen Jun gritted his teeth.
"Pass the order. Tell everyone to stop clearing the dungeon and report their locations. Gather up."
"Our goal is only to kill Rulebound."
"Got it!"
At the same time, Chen Jun let out a cold snort.
"The dungeon isn't difficult because of damage. It's because of the control effects! No matter how high-grade our talents are, they're useless against crowd control!"
"But Rulebound doesn't have control abilities. Using our talents against him will be easy."
"Rulebound is vulnerable to control too. Let's see how he handles this dungeon."
"Rulebound, don't let the dungeon monsters kill you. If I can't personally kill you and steal your talent, that would be too boring."
A sharp gleam flashed through Chen Jun's eyes.
"After Nether kills you and takes your talent..."
"I'll personally kill you over and over until you're back at level 0."
"So you can properly experience what it feels like to be trash."