32: The boss of Chapter 32 is already reserved!

Inside the Thunder Ruins, Chen Xi led the two women as they sped toward the northeast.

"Zzzzt—!" A Thunder Beast, its body wreathed in electric arcs and shaped like a cheetah, suddenly lunged out from behind a giant rock. It bared its fangs and let out a low growl at the three of them.

"Let me handle this!" Su Xiaoxiao's eyes sharpened, and she instinctively moved to raise the magic staff in her hand.

"Stop!" Chen Xi was quick to react. He grabbed Su Xiaoxiao's arm, which was already glowing with magical radiance, and shook his head helplessly: "Don't be rash."

"Your skills are all those earth-shattering, large-area AOE attacks. Using them on a single small monster like this is too much of a waste of mental energy."

Su Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, then realized he was right.

Indeed, her class characteristics meant she was born for big battles.

In this multi-player dungeon, which was filled with crises and where one could encounter other teams stealing monsters or launching sneak attacks at any time, maintaining a full state of mental energy was crucial.

"Then... what should we do? Go around it?" Su Xiaoxiao put away her magic staff and asked, feeling a bit awkward.

"Yes, go around it." Chen Xi gave the order decisively: "The experience points from this kind of small monster aren't even enough to get stuck in your teeth; there's no need to waste time on it. Our target is only the Thunder Roar Berserk; others will naturally handle these small monsters."

Su Xiaoxiao nodded in understanding.

Thus, led by Chen Xi, the three-person team began a slightly "sneaky" advance.

Whenever they encountered a lone monster, they used the terrain to their advantage, avoiding or bypassing it whenever possible.

At this moment, the Thunder Ruins were teeming with Professional teams leveling up.

The monsters Chen Xi and his group bypassed would often only chase them for a few steps before being excitedly intercepted and pulled away by other passing teams.

This saved Chen Xi and his group a lot of trouble, allowing them to rush toward the depths of the Thunder Ruins with almost no obstacles.

However, this avoidance of combat along the way also made Chen Xi realize a fatal shortcoming currently existing in the Nirvana Battle Team.

Mu Rou was the ultimate in crowd control, and Xiao Xiao was the ultimate in group attacks and burst damage.

This lineup was truly invincible when facing dungeons with dense monster concentrations or large-scale BOSS battles.

However... once they encountered situations where monsters were scattered, or elite monsters that were small, fast, and few in number, they would appear very clumsy and struggle.

If they were forced to have Su Xiaoxiao use her ultimate skills to blast a single monster, not only would the efficiency be low, but if they encountered agile, assassin-type monsters, it would be very easy to miss with her skills.

And although Li Murou could crowd-control a monster to death, having two support characters just standing there auto-attacking to whittle down health... that image was too beautiful to behold.

"We lack a high-mobility, high-single-target-burst finisher..." Chen Xi rubbed his chin, and the images of classes like Assassins, Archers, or Berserkers involuntarily appeared in his mind.

"It seems that for the next fourth teammate, I must find a class that excels at single-target sniping and can complement Xiao Xiao."

"Only by filling this gap can the Nirvana Battle Team truly be called all-around with no blind spots."

Just as Chen Xi was contemplating the future blueprint for team building, the surrounding environment changed imperceptibly.

The previously ubiquitous broken walls and ruins gradually decreased, replaced by tall, twisted, black dead trees.

These trees were pitch black, as if scorched by thunder, with not a single leaf; only grotesque branches pointed straight at the sky.

The concentration of thunder elements in the air also reached a heart-palpitating peak at this moment.

Even the air they breathed in carried a tingling sensation of electric current.

"We're here."

Chen Xi stopped, his gaze piercing through the dense black forest before him to stare directly at a pitch-black cave in the distance.

He reached out and pointed straight at the deep cave entrance in front, saying: "That Thunder Roar Berserk should be inside here."

"We're finally here!" Hearing that the BOSS was right in front of them, Li Murou's little face immediately lit up with excitement.

All the hiding along the way had made her feel a bit stifled, and now she could finally have a big fight.

"Let's go! Let's go take down that big guy!" Li Murou waved her little fist and shouted with full energy.

"Yeah!" Su Xiaoxiao also tightened her grip on the magic staff, her eyes filled with fighting spirit.

The three looked at each other, no longer hesitating, and stepped forward, ready to enter this thunder-struck forest filled with a dangerous aura.

However, just as Chen Xi lifted his leg,

"Vroom—!" A sharp sound of wind breaking suddenly rang out!

A heavy greatsword with an exaggerated design, the size of a door panel, descended from the sky with a whistling sound!

"Boom!" The greatsword slammed heavily into the ground in front of Chen Xi and the two women, splashing up gravel and dust.

The powerful airwave forced the three to stop and take half a step back.

Immediately after, a slightly lazy but undeniably arrogant voice came from a tree trunk nearby: "Hey, you three over there, stop."

Chen Xi frowned slightly and looked in the direction of the voice.

He saw a young man wearing heavy silver armor squatting on the trunk of a huge thunder-struck tree nearby.

He had eye-catching dark blue short hair, a blade of withered grass hanging from his mouth, and was looking down at Chen Xi and the two women from a high vantage point.

Seeing that the three had stopped, the blue-haired youth supported himself on the tree trunk with one hand, jumped down lightly, pulled the greatsword from the ground, and shouldered it.

He pointed his thumb at the forest behind him and said lazily: "Students, sorry about this. This round of the Thunder Roar Berserk has already been reserved by us."

"Reserved?" Hearing this word, Chen Xi raised an eyebrow, and a playful smile appeared on his lips.

"Since when did a public dungeon become your private backyard?"

Chen Xi was not intimidated by the other party's aura and asked back in a flat tone: "The Thunder Ruins are a resource shared by the entire school, so the BOSS naturally belongs to whoever has the ability to take it. You want to block the road with just one word, 'reserved'?"

"Oh? A prickly one, are you?" The blue-haired youth didn't seem to expect that this Professional in front of him would dare to talk back under his pressure.

He spat out the withered grass in his mouth, his eyes gradually becoming sharp.

As his voice fell.

Swish! Swish!

Two figures walked out from the shadows on both sides of the forest and stood beside the blue-haired youth.

On the left was a short-haired girl wearing purple mage robes, holding a magic staff inlaid with lightning gems, her eyes indifferent.

On the right was a tall, thin man wearing a pure white priest robe with curly golden hair, a hypocritical, gentle smile on his face, holding a thick holy tome in his hands.

The three of them standing together exuded a powerful aura that was enough to make ordinary students feel suffocated.

"Let me introduce myself." The curly-haired priest pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and nodded slightly at Chen Xi: "I am the vice-captain of the Holy Light Battle Team, Zhao Zixuan."

He pointed to the blue-haired youth and the purple-robed girl beside him: "These two are the captains of Tidal Surge and Purple Lightning, respectively: Lei Zhen and Lin Ya."

After announcing this string of resounding names, Zhao Zixuan looked at Chen Xi with an expression that said, "You should be sensible now": "Our three teams have been preparing for a whole week to clear this Thunder Roar Berserk."

"This BOSS is taken by our three teams."

"So, student, please turn back."