MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1526: The Final Challenge

Chapter 1526: Chapter 1526: The Final Challenge

However, the situation now is that Starfire’s victory is essentially certain.

As long as Starfire completes the third challenge, even if their performance isn’t great, they will certainly emerge victorious and become the only team to pass this stage out of the four teams.

It’s just that the other teams still feel a glimmer of hope, unwilling to give up, just in case Starfire fails spectacularly.

Although that is merely a dream, what’s the difference between a person without dreams and a salted fish?

In the third round, the drawing of lots was still the process, and this time, Starfire’s luck was average, while the American team drew the first lot.

However, the drawing of lots doesn’t really affect much in the third round. Why is that?

Because the third round is essentially about facing the three monsters they have already encountered; they had more or less understood the characteristics of these monsters, so the order of who goes first or last doesn’t have a big impact anymore.

"System: The third challenge allows for team battles, with up to four people in a team, but a team with four players will not receive an SSS or higher rating."

"System: For every member less, the rating bonus increases by one quarter."

"System: For two people, the monster’s health will be 260% of the original, and for four people, it will be 320%."

"System: The Dragon Beast, Black Horned Dragon, and Skyrocket Cannon will make consecutive appearances. In a solo challenge, the second monster will appear fifteen minutes after the first, and so on. For a duo, the interval is twelve minutes, and for three or more, it’s ten minutes. If the monster is killed before the interval ends, the next monster will appear after one minute."

The new challenge rules are actually quite simple: it is about killing three monsters consecutively, which only seems easy.

But in reality, it involves intricate strategies requiring teams to find the best configuration based on their own circumstances.

Some think that the increase in monster health with each additional person isn’t worth it, but this isn’t the case.

One more person means one more target for aggression, greatly increasing the chances of surviving. Of course, it’s also a fact that the monsters are stronger.

But overall, forming a team is the best way to tackle the challenge.

This is concluded based on the current players’ judgment. Why? It’s quite simple. Among individual players, apart from the abnormal Li Yao, the next best is the Great Alchemist.

Yet even he took forty minutes to complete the challenge, and that was just the performance in the second round.

And that profession is not suitable for facing the Dragon Beast; it’s too easy to get instantly killed. Even after drinking a slew of enhancement potions, with resistance to fire and explosions, you might withstand one or two hits, but what about three or four?

One careless moment being hit by three explosive scales and you’re done for.

And that’s not even the key point; the bigger issue is that this Dragon Beast is too cunning, often taking flight, leaving very few opportunities for melee attacks.

Even for ranged attacks, it’s difficult to reach, and killing the Dragon Beast within a quarter of an hour by oneself is simply unrealistic.

And before you’ve even managed to kill it, the Black Horned Dragon enters, and the situation becomes chaotic. Assuming you survive, what about after a quarter of an hour when three monsters appear at the same time? Just thinking about that scenario makes one’s scalp tingle.

So, the best configuration is either two people or four people; there’s no point in even considering three people.

The first battle, the American team chose a two-person setup, which included a Pharmacist.

The combat style of the Violent Scale Dragon is just like that; with the pairing and skilled coordination, it’s indeed much easier; plus the formidable enhancement of the Pharmacist, and when one explosive scale can’t kill both players, the margin for error increases by several notches.

However, even so, a quarter of an hour later, the Black Horned Dragon entered the fray.

What was originally a rhythmic duo started to descend into chaos, their output time diminished, spending more time dodging.

After all, the charge of the Black Horned Dragon and the Skyrocket Cannon are extremely troublesome, let alone combined with a Violent Scale Dragon, it’s utterly disgusting.

And what’s more disgusting for them is that the Hammer Blast Dragon also emerged, with three monsters wildly bombarding the arena, the two players, although formidable, managed only to kill the Violent Scale Dragon amidst the onslaught of the three monsters and the high intensity of the fight drained their resources greatly.

The potions of the Pharmacist aren’t infinite, and even if they were, as Li Yao learning Engineering doesn’t allow indiscriminate use of various control ammunition, the number of times each potion can be used in a battle is limited.

What’s more, even outside of dungeons, various monsters and bosses have resistance to different controls; otherwise, if a team were to fight a boss, and each person controlled the boss, it would be game over. The same applies to the inherent buffs; consuming potions also leads to reduced enhancement effects beyond a certain limit, this is the inherent drug resistance.

This is magical reality, and with the increase of the level, it becomes closer to reality, while the traces of the System’s rules become less obvious.

After more than an hour of intense fighting, the Pharmacist’s potions were almost used up, his combat effectiveness reduced a lot excluding his own special attack potions.

That is the reason for their failure; the failure of the Pharmacist also made other teams realize the harshness of the challenge; they severely underestimated the intensity of the three crazed monsters rampaging through the arena.

The second team to take the stage was the African team, who learned from the previous lesson, and sent out four people for caution’s sake.

The setup was clear, focusing on survival; for example, when facing the Violent Scale Dragon, melee professionals need not aim for achievements but to avoid mistakes. Preserving their lives was considered a victory.

As for the ranged attackers, they tried to deal damage, and with four people targeting four different enemies, the danger of all being chased by a single foe was greatly alleviated.

As long as they don’t relentlessly chase down a single person, or have extremely bad luck and get instantly killed, for these super masters it’s still pretty stable.

At least that was the case against the Violent Scale Dragon, the teammates coordinated silently, not only did they spread out the aggro, but they also aided each other, and with mutual buffs, the rhythm was very good; they completed severing the tail and smashing the head.

The appearance of the Black Horned Dragon was no different; they focused on survival, only attacking when there was an opportunity. Although it was time-consuming, the rhythm was steady.

This approach, on the contrary, meant that they killed the Violent Scale Dragon before the third monster appeared, which made things much simpler from there on.

After their arduous and extraordinary struggle of nearly two hours, only one of the four was left standing, but ultimately they succeeded in the challenge.

Only the Black Horned Dragon remained in the end, and the last class standing, not being a battle-tortoise, was still very adept at defense, wielding a Shield, and continuously turtled under the frenzied attacks of the Black Horned Dragon.

Then, using health potions to slowly heal, and looking for opportunities to attack a few times, if no opportunity presented then defend, defend, and defend some more.

In fact, it took them less than an hour to kill the first two monsters, and the last hour was spent grinding down the Black Horned Dragon.

Moreover, they managed to break many parts; both legs and wings of the Black Horned Dragon were broken, and the abdomen and tail of the Hammer Blast Dragon were destroyed.

In the end, the System rated them S++, which satisfied them greatly, the third battle was Starfire’s, also a battle determining fate...