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Chapter 771 - 390 Underground City Cleared_2

Chapter 771: Chapter 390 Underground City Cleared_2

[A chilling shriek resounds within the beehive.]

[You feel the earth tremble slightly, a giant Killer Bee, with a body length of seven to eight meters, emerges from the mountain pass, passing through the light membrane in front of the beehive and appears before you.]

[Killer Bee Queen (Level 26): Attack 20, Defense 450, Magic Defense 450, Life 170,000, Abilities: Hive Nourishment, Queen Bee Aura, Hive Frenzy...]

Mu You raises his eyebrows as if it seems all his efforts to exterminate the bees have brought out the Queen Bee.

With an attack power of just 20 and a bizarrely high life defense, it can be inferred that the Queen Bee is not an offensive monster, but a supporting one, enhancing Killer Bees’ abilities. The real fighting power is in the swarm.

Mu You quickly browses the Queen Bee’s abilities and discovers that only the first three are the most critical.

’Queen Bee Aura’ is the source of the poison of those little Killer Bees, while ’Hive Frenzy’ is triggered when the Queen Bee actively comes into a combat situation, causing all Killer Bees to automatically enter into a berserk state, significantly increasing their combat power and speed.

There are several other similar aura skills after that, all geared towards increasing the combat power of the swarm.

Regardless of how drastically the swarm’s power is enhanced, it doesn’t really affect Mu You. His fighting style is akin to freeze-frame fighting, there’s no chance the swarm can attack him. Even if the attack power of all Killer Bees rises to ten thousand points, it would be to no avail.

What is troublesome is ’Hive Nourishment’: when the Queen Bee personally enters the battle, it doubles the Thick Shell Carapace of the surrounding Killer Bees.

In other words, when the Queen Bee comes out, the number of attacks the Killer Bees can resist will change from ten to twenty!

This means that Mu You would need to throw twice as many fireballs to kill the Killer Bees, effectively halving his monster-killing efficiency.

He is in a race against time right now, how could he afford this kind of delay?

Without any other choice, Mu You swiftly shifts his attack focus to the Queen Bee. Without exterminating this beast first, his efficiency would undoubtedly be substandard.

[You cast the Fireball Technique at the Queen Bee! Titan Slayer skill activated, you deal seven times the damage to the Queen Bee, the surrounding Killer Bees get enraged!]

[You cast the Fireball Technique at the Queen Bee... The Killer Bees around began to rage, rushing towards you recklessly!]

[You aim at the Queen Bee...]

...

Indeed, attacking the Queen Bee attracts the hatred of all the bees. As soon as he started attacking, the other bees went berserk, just that none of them could stop Mu You no matter how mad they were.

Moreover, the Queen Bee’s body size triggered the ’Titan’ condition. The increased damage from the Titan Slayer skill could completely offset rank suppression. The 170,000 hit points diminished visibly under Mu You’s second by second firepower in the form of a fireball, as if it were made of paper.

During this time, Mu You stood in the same place and cast fireballs for ten full minutes, finally draining the Queen Bee’s Health Points.

[The Queen Bee collapsed with a mournful scream under the barrage of countless fireballs hurdling towards it. The noise died down.]

[Citywide Announcement: The final monster of the seventh layer of the Underground City, ’Killer Bee Queen’, has been slain. Slayer: Ghost Captain.]

"Huh?"

Mu You is stunned. The final monster?

The seventh layer map region has been extensively explored, yet the boss’s location has never been found by players. Therefore, many exploratory groups are constantly wandering around in the hopes of being the first to locate the boss.

However, the Killer Beehive was among the early regions that players had discovered. The reason it was not targeted was due to the high difficulty and low efficiency of killing its monsters. Surprisingly, this Queen Bee turns out to be the ultimate boss of the seventh layer?

Initially, Mu You was quite puzzled. Weren’t the bosses of the previous six layers all hidden in the palace and called something like Lord Whatever? Why did this change on the seventh layer to this common wild monster?

Upon deeper contemplation, he quickly understands what’s going on.

The palaces exist in the previous six layers because they serve as entrances to the next layer. Since the seventh layer is the bottommost layer, naturally, there would not be a palace.

Regaining his senses, Mu You can not help but find this amusing, feeling that everyone else had fallen into a trap of circular reasoning. They saw the bosses of the previous layers become progressively stronger and more impressive, leading them to instinctively assume that the boss of the seventh layer must be hiding in an even more grand and opulent structure. Who could have thought that a prestigious boss would be casually placed by the roadside like a common monster village?

As a result, while all the exploratory groups were digging around for the boss, Mu You was simply looking for a place to grind experience, inadvertently ended up toppling the final boss...

It’s not just Mu You, the others of the Dawn City exploratory groups were also stunned at the news.

"What? The Killer Bee Queen?"

"The one from the Killer Beehive that we pass by a hundred times a day? That thing is the boss?"

This dialogue is happening in most of the exploratory groups.

After snapping back to reality, members of the exploratory group could only beat their chests in regret: if this is true, then this had definitely been the boss with the least competition, and not a single person had noticed. What a pity!

As for the common inhabitants of Dawn City, their reactions aren’t as drastic. For the majority of them who are still stuck on the first layer of the Underground City, they have no idea what has transpired on the seventh layer.

After seeing the announcement that Ghost Captain has, once again, slain a boss, they no longer found the news surprising. They might say something along the lines of ’admiring the great’ or ’great one, please take me along’.

In the end, the news of the seventh layer’s boss being killed did not cause much of a stir in the forums.