[Ding~ Players Rulebound, Liuli, Wind Whistling, Shadow Chasing the Wind, and Gentle Evening Breeze, welcome to the Lv. 65 Rare Hidden Dungeon: Divine Tomb! Dungeon mission has been issued!]
As the system notification ended, Lin Mo's five-man party was randomly teleported to a corner of the Divine Tomb.
A familiar place.
A familiar feeling.
The dungeon mission was just as familiar as before: earn a total of 500 points by evolving Divine Guards within 120 minutes to complete the mission.
Ever since their last Divine Tomb run, Lin Mo had finally been waiting for this day.
According to Siya, all the treasure chests hidden throughout the Divine Tomb had actually been formed from the divine power released from her body during the twenty years she lay buried in the Princess's Tomb.
Through the Eternal Heart, she could absorb the divine power within those treasure chests again, allowing them to obtain the chests much faster.
This time, with Siya here, Lin Mo was determined to claim every treasure chest in the Divine Tomb.
As the dungeon countdown began, Qin Feng, the level 60 Sword and Shield Warrior, drew his sword with a swish and said excitedly, "Let's go, everyone!"
The moment he finished speaking, Lin Mo calmly took out a golden magic scroll from his backpack. It radiated an extraordinary glow.
The excitement in Qin Feng's eyes instantly disappeared.
"No way... You're clearing the whole map again?"
"Brother Mo, there's seriously no chance to show off when I'm with you. I wanted to let you see how strong I've gotten!"
Xia Wanwan tilted her head.
"Question: What's the point of us entering the dungeon?"
Ling Xiao replied, "Answer: To make up the numbers."
Qin Feng burst into laughter.
"Hahaha! Great! We're making up the numbers again."
Just as Lin Mo was about to end the fight quickly by using the scroll to wipe out the entire map and start looting treasure chests as fast as possible,
Divine Advent Seraph Siya suddenly stopped him.
"Brother Lin Mo, if you do that, I won't be able to sense the divine power inside the treasure chests."
After thinking it over for a moment, Lin Mo roughly understood what she meant.
She probably had to personally purify the Divine Guards corrupted by dark power, in other words, the Dark Priests, to use the Eternal Heart to collect treasure chests more efficiently.
If Lin Mo, Ning Xi, or anyone else killed them instead, they wouldn't be able to maximize the speed of collecting treasure chests.
Just as Qin Feng was secretly delighted, thinking that the magic scroll wouldn't be used this time and that he would finally get a chance to show what he could do, Lin Mo held the magic scroll out toward Siya.
"Alright, then you use it."
Qin Feng sighed, "So in the end, we still can't escape the magic scroll... Forget it. I'll just lie back. Lying flat isn't so bad."
But Siya shook her head, "Brother Lin Mo, if they're too far away, I still can't sense the divine power."
It looked like automatic mode wouldn't work.
This time, they could only use manual mode.
Still, whichever method let them collect treasure chests most efficiently was the one they'd use.
Besides, they had a full two hours in the dungeon.
Even without clearing the map using the magic scroll, they had plenty of time.
So Lin Mo put the SSS-rank magic scroll back into his backpack.
Qin Feng saw that and was overjoyed.
"Hahaha! Awesome!"
"I finally get a chance to show what I can do!"
Since it was a shared dungeon, all players who entered the Divine Tomb at the same time were in the same dungeon area.
Just then, not far ahead, five female players were working together to fight monsters.
They were facing a group consisting of one level 65 Dark Priest and seven or eight level 65 Black Demons.
The Dark Priest, the core of the group, continuously cast a Dark Aura, giving all the Black Demons a passive effect: every time they attacked or were attacked, they had a chance to inflict a random 0.5-second crowd control effect on their target.
The girls, all below level 60, were clearly struggling.
The team's level 59 Holy Knight, Pretty Girl Xinxin, was surrounded by several Black Demons at once. She kept getting crowd-controlled until she couldn't move, while her HP dropped rapidly.
Even the two Healer Doctors behind her, Pretty Girl Tiantian and Pretty Girl Shanshan, healing together at full power, couldn't keep her alive.
The Archer, Pretty Girl Xiaoxiao, and the Elementalist, Pretty Girl Manman, had decent damage.
But they got crowd-controlled after almost every attack.
It was incredibly frustrating.
They barely had any chance to deal damage.
Their damage couldn't keep up, causing the entire battle to drag on as the team's rhythm completely fell apart.
"These monsters keep interrupting me! I'm getting crowd-controlled every second! It's so annoying!"
"We can't beat them at all! Let's retreat!"
"Xinxin's surrounded! Let's get her out first, then we'll retreat together!"
"But she's crowd-controlled so badly she can't even move! What do we do?"
"If we'd known this dungeon was this hard, we never should've come in to throw our lives away."
Just as the five girls were about to be overwhelmed, Qin Feng looked over.
"Oh?"
"A perfect chance to play the hero and save the beauties!"
"Brother Mo, I'm going first!"
Without another word, Qin Feng charged over with his longsword.
As soon as he entered attack range...
Slash!
He drove his sword into the ground.
Sword and Shield Warrior C-rank ultimate!
Blade Storm!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless sword shadows swept across the Black Demons and the five girls.
The girls thought someone had come to take advantage of the situation.
Then they realized they had been marked as protected targets and weren't taking any damage.
Meanwhile, huge crimson damage numbers popped up above the Black Demons one after another.
-23,695!
-22,999!
-23,346!
At the same time, the Elementalist Xia Wanwan joined the battle.
She swung her staff and cast her ultimate.
Blizzard!
Crash!
An icy storm descended.
Five-digit damage numbers continuously floated above the Black Demons.
Magic Knight Ling Xiao raised his shield and charged into the monsters.
He activated his A-rank skill, Soul Trample.
By consuming his own HP, he continuously dealt heavy area damage to all nearby enemies.
In the backline, beneath Divine Advent Seraph Siya, Circles of golden light continuously spread across the battlefield.
They granted Ling Xiao, Qin Feng, Xia Wanwan, and the others immunity to crowd control.
The Black Demons' control effects had no effect on them at all.
Ling Xiao held the monsters' aggro, while Qin Feng and Xia Wanwan poured on the damage.
In moments, all eight Black Demons were killed.
The five rescued girls were stunned.
"Wow! They're so strong!"
"Wait, why aren't they getting crowd-controlled when they attack the Black Demons?"
"Is this what top players are like? That's so cool!"
It wasn't just the girls.
To be honest, even Lin Mo in the backline was surprised by how much stronger Qin Feng, Ling Xiao, and the others had become.
They still couldn't compare to Lin Mo himself.
But being able to wipe out eight level 65 monsters in under ten seconds was already enough for ordinary players of the same level to call them true experts.
It seemed that whenever Lin Mo found good equipment and immediately gave it to Ling Xiao and the others if they needed it, his efforts to support and train them hadn't been wasted.
Qin Feng and the others only dealt with the Black Demons.
They deliberately left the Dark Priest for Siya.
Following Lin Mo's mental command, Siya locked onto the Dark Priest. She gently raised her right hand, and the Eternal Heart on her wrist began to circulate as waves of golden magical energy surged outward.
The unique and gorgeous attack effect left the five girls on the battlefield staring in astonishment.