75: Chapter 75 Eleven Times Drop Rate Card BUG

Under Tian Ming's command,

the guardians in the remaining tunnels and forks were cleaned out one by one by the Ranged Troops.

For those stuck in the forks and unable to turn around,

the +20 Troglodytes would chisel a firing port from the side to allow the Ranged Troops to shoot.

A rain of arrows and bullets poured in.

So what if they had a hundred thousand HP?

As long as they were buried alive in a narrow space, they wouldn't even have a chance to fight back.

When the carapace of the last Guardian completely shattered,

[Battle Settlement!]

[Talent 'War Gift Lv.10' triggered! All loot quantity ×11!]

[Battle Evaluation: A]

[Leveling Progress: 5320/6000]

Xu Qin let out a long sigh of relief when he saw the soul energy column.

Seven hundred and forty-eight thousand!

In a single wave!

His energy anxiety was temporarily relieved.

He quickly put all of the thousands of remains into his inventory, then ran to the Forging Area to dismantle them.

The furnace flames surged, taking a full eight minutes to completely dismantle everything.

Ding!

[Dismantling complete! source crystal essence ×4334]

Plus the remaining 84 from before,

he now had 4418 pieces of essence!

But that wasn't the point.

The point was that he had left 20 remains at the bottom of the traps.

Those 20 remains were currently lying quietly at the bottom of the shafts, glowing with a faint orange light.

Xu Qin looked at the countdown.

There were four and a half minutes left.

"Tian Ming."

"Present."

"Withdraw the Ranged Troops to the high platform in the Underground Space and maintain combat readiness. Have all Troglodytes stand by nearby; do not leave the forks."

"Yes."

Xu Qin crossed his arms and opened the command panel with a solemn expression.

...

The four and a half minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

Xu Qin switched to the Sand Rat's perspective and stared at the twenty shafts.

3, 2, 1... 0!

Boom! Boom! Boom...

Dazzling orange light erupted simultaneously inside the twenty shafts!

On the panel, twenty bright red dots instantly appeared at the bottom of the pits.

The Guardians had resurrected.

"Attack."

Xu Qin's command was issued simultaneously.

Tian Ming waved his staff, and above the twenty shafts, the Ranged Troops divided into groups to focus their fire.

In less than a minute, the twenty newly resurrected Mineral Vein Guardians were shot back into remains.

They didn't even get a chance to crawl up.

Ding!

[Battle Settlement!]

[Talent 'War Gift Lv.10' triggered! All loot quantity ×11!]

[Battle Evaluation: A]

[Leveling Progress: 5440/6000]

At the bottom of the pits, which originally held only one set of remains,

eleven complete Guardian bodies instantly crammed the space.

That was a total of 220 Mineral Vein Guardians.

Xu Qin clenched his fist tightly.

"Excellent!"

"All forces, withdraw to the Underground Space. Do not touch those remains."

"Yes."

Tian Ming withdrew with the troops.

The twenty shafts fell silent once more.

Ten minutes later.

Boom, boom, boom!

The light and vibration were more than ten times greater than before!

Xu Qin felt the entire ground shaking!

He opened the Sand Rat's perspective.

He saw that the red dots in the twenty shafts had indeed skyrocketed to 220.

Verification successful!

"It's all real! Excellent!"

When the remains resurrected, the extra remains generated by the War Gift would also resurrect!

One turned into eleven!

"Hahaha..."

Xu Qin burst out laughing.

However, before his echoing laughter could fade,

he witnessed a bizarre scene.

The eleven Guardians at the bottom of each pit were piled on top of each other.

The more they struggled, the more they squeezed and trampled one another.

One had to know that these Guardians had a hundred thousand HP and possessed extremely fierce combat power.

If they exerted force together, the reinforcement layer of the shaft walls wouldn't be able to hold up at all.

Sure enough, the next second...

Crack.

The pit walls cracked.

Twenty shafts collapsed simultaneously.

Rumble!

A large amount of rubble and sand poured in, burying the Guardians inside along with the collapsed walls, leaving them completely unable to move.

Watching this, Xu Qin did not panic. Instead, he laughed again.

He turned to Tian Ming and said,

"When I designed this, I anticipated the scenario where multiple Guardians would fall into the same trap."

"So during excavation, I specifically had the Troglodytes make the walls thin."

"A single trap is more than enough to hold one Guardian, but eleven?"

"The more they struggle, the faster the walls collapse."

"And after it collapses? The soil from the entire pit caved in, burying them even tighter."

Looking at the cluster of red dots on the panel, Xu Qin issued an order to Tian Ming:

"Start the slaughter!"

"One by one, no rush."

Tian Ming's soul fire flickered, and he turned around, saying:

"Master."

Xu Qin raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"

Tian Ming bowed and said:

"For targets that are completely immobilized, the Ranged Troops' focused fire is highly efficient, but it requires the Troglodytes to chisel firing ports one by one, which takes too much time."

"I suggest letting Man Niu participate in close combat to kill them."

Xu Qin looked at Man Niu.

At this moment, it was holding the soul-eater halberd, standing motionless at the entrance of the tunnel.

"That works too." Xu Qin nodded. "Just in time to test how powerful Man Niu's halberd really is."

"Yes!"

Tian Ming immediately turned around and gave the order.

2,530 +20 Undead Troglodytes began chiseling at the side of the first collapsed shaft.

Man Niu advanced with its halberd, and Chuan Yun followed closely behind with the Ranged Troops.

Three minutes later.

A two-meter-wide opening was chiseled into the side of the first shaft.

The loose soil slid down, revealing the situation inside.

Eleven Guardians were piled on top of each other in a jumble, packed tightly by the soil and rocks.

The one closest to the opening

had one or two jointed limbs sticking out from the crevices, pawing weakly in the air.

But its body was pressed so tightly that it couldn't budge at all.

Tian Ming gave the order immediately.

"Attack!"

Man Niu swung the soul-eater halberd, cleaving down at the Guardian's exposed flank.

Crack!

-2217!

A piercing clashing sound rang out.

The Guardian's crystallized carapace was split right down the middle, with fragments flying three to four meters away.

Xu Qin's mouth twitched as he looked at the damage number.

Holy crap!!!

Two thousand two hundred!

And this was damage dealt directly to the Guardian.

One had to know that these guys' defense values were ridiculously high.

Arrows had to rely entirely on true damage to bypass their defense.

Yet, Man Niu's single halberd strike not only forced its way through the carapace but also dealt over two thousand physical damage.

Xu Qin opened Man Niu's panel.

Its attack power was 3,150, and the actual output had to subtract defense.

But this single hit dealt 2,217?

Oh, there was one thing he almost forgot.

That was Armor-Shattering Strike, which could ignore 45% of the target's physical defense.

Plus the attack power enhanced by the essence.

Calculating it this way, the Guardian's physical defense value was roughly...

"Around one thousand five hundred."

Xu Qin clicked his tongue.

No wonder ordinary arrows could only rely on true damage.

But with Man Niu's monster-level output, ignoring nearly half the defense after shattering armor, combined with the halberd's base attack bonus...

a single swing of the halberd was equivalent to hundreds of arrows from others.

"Chuan Yun, fire."

Tian Ming's voice came from ahead.

Chuan Yun released his bowstring.

Swish!

The arrow lodged into the crack of the split carapace.

-87!

Immediately after, thousands of Ranged Troops in the rear fired together.

-57! -57! -57! -39! -39! -39!

Archers dealt 57 true damage, and Musketeers dealt 39 after armor penetration.

A volley of fire.

Tian Ming wasn't idle either, casting Shadow Barrage.

-95! -99! -198!

A hundred thousand HP.

In less than five seconds.

The first Guardian's carapace exploded, turning into a pile of orange remains.

Man Niu had already stepped forward, its halberd cleaving toward the second one right next to it.

Boom!

-2350!

Even higher than the first hit.