If the four images were as Lu Li had said, he would have to tank all of their attacks without any supportfrom his teammates.This was something really difficult to do, even for a strong player."Please. Do you think that the images will coordinate their attacks on you?" Lu Li said quietly. "The fourimages might sometimes overlap their attacks, so your window might be longer than two seconds."Even with instant cast skills, he could only cast three of them in two seconds. He had to pull four mobswith three skills and reposition himself; it would simply have been impossible.Fortunately, the four images werent well-coordinated.Under normal circumstances, they wouldnt wait until the effect was over before attacking again.After Lu Li explained this, Wanderings expression looked a little better.However, there was still an immense amount of pressure on him. Lu Li was right when he said that thekey player for this Boss was the off-tank. Only he could draw the aggro of the four images and allow theothers to attack the Boss."Can I say no?" Wandering was lazy and really hated tasks like this."Nope," Lu Li rejected as he took off his shoes. "The most important thing for you is speed. Wear myshoes; we need you to be faster.""Wear your shoes?" Wandering had a look of disgust on his face. It wasnt that he didnt like theirattributes, nor was it that they didnt suit him as a Paladin. It was simply the fact that these weresomeone elses shoes. He pinched his nose as he gingerly slipped them on."Anything else?" Azure Sea Breeze asked."Of course you have to pay attention to the surroundings," Lu Li said. "Although we arent going to killthem, the images can be re-summoned, which means they will appear in a new location. When thathappens, you will need to change your angle of attack and Wandering will need to move. You two willhave to help him with that.""You want me to help that guy?" Azure Sea Breeze wasnt happy.It had always been someone that was helping him, so this was a blow to his pride as a main tank."I dont care which one of you gets hit, as long as its not any of the other players. This Boss greateststrength is its HP regeneration. Everyone must be doing maximum DPS or its HP will not go down."Lu Li had no other way of putting it.The Boss before them was level 30 and they were fighting it on Nightmare Difficulty.At their current level and strength, their odds of defeating this Boss werent much greater than 50%,even with the additional NPC. As such, they needed to be perfect in every way they could.In reality, completing the Instance Dungeon wasnt that important. For example, in the Howling Caves,most teams just farmed the first three Bosses as opposed to clearing it. They would rather farm in thewild or go on to try and take First Clears in new Instance Dungeons.Even at the present level, only the Elite groups of the big guilds were likely to finish playing through theHowling Caves.Blackfathom was similar; they wouldnt lose much even if they couldnt defeat the final Boss. After all,they had received many good items on the way here.However, Lu Li refused to willingly lose this battle.This Instance Dungeon Scroll was the result of a quest. If they were unable to complete it, upgrading theSupreme Ring would be very difficult.They would also be giving up on a World Announcement for their First Clear.It would be inspiring for the players to see the Xin Xin Mercenary Group, known as the newly formedRuling Sword, accomplish another First Clear. They had just received news from Square Root 3 that theguild was now level 3 and the number of players who were joining was constantly rising.Square Root 3 was working tirelessly to screen these new applicants and Lu Li would feel bad if he didnt (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); at least bring home the First Clear."Everyone, dont hold back any of your skills. Do as much damage as you can whenever possible."After addressing everything, Lu Li signaled Azure Sea Breeze to engage.The Ancient Gods servant Akumai couldnt speak, but it greeted Azure Sea Breeze with a spit of venom.A damage value of -436 appeared on Azure Sea Breeze head at first, which was followed by a cascade of-75s. The venom was very potent and taking any antidotes provided next to no resistance.The damage was quite high, but they could still deal with it.Lu Li ran up and stabbed the Boss with his dagger, causing it to lose over 60 HP. This amount of damagefor a normal attack was acceptable.They had managed to deal 500-600 damage to the Boss in their first wave of attacks, which was a goodproportion of the Boss 120,000 HP. It just meant that Akumai was slightly more difficult than theregular Bosses.That was everyone elses impression.However, Lu Li didnt think that way. He stared at Akumais HP and watched as it made an obviousupwards jump.+165.This was really cheating it had gained 165 HP in three seconds. Akumai was definitely some kind ofregeneration demon. Up until this point, Akumai had the fastest regeneration that Lu Li had ever seen.Of course, the Wind Wielder that Lu Li had seen in the Warsong Canyon didnt count.Because it had regenerated a chunk of its HP, they had lost a significant amount of progress.If you didnt count the NPCs damage, Lu Li and the others could only do about 300 damage per second.However, if you considered the Boss regeneration and other skills, there would be no guarantee thatthey could even deal 100 damage per second."This is going to be another bitter struggle," Lu Li thought as his heart sank a little. He looked at AzureSea Breeze and Wandering, wondering if this pair could continue to properly draw the Boss aggro.Azure Sea Breeze turned and looked at Wandering and shuffled his feet slightly.It wasnt enough. Lu Li was struggling to hold himself back, but he needed to show that he trusted them.Sure enough, after two seconds, Azure Sea Breeze had cast his new taunt skills and moved again.The reason why they didnt want to do it in one go was because they were afraid of messing up theBoss aggro. These were still the early stages after all.Wandering was now also moving. The two of the kept moving until the Boss spat some more venom andreared its head.It was coming!A dark crack opened up in front of the Boss, out of which shot four, identical tentacles. These were thesame images as before. They had seen all sorts of things on the way here, but nothing could compare tothe strength of these four images.After the tentacles shot out, Wandering immediately moved to face them and casted Taunt. Thetentacles paused for second before shooting towards Wandering.Wandering was immediately frozen on the spot. However, it wasnt just him Sesame Rice Ball was alsoaffected.It was his first time, so these little mistakes were to be expected.After two seconds, Sesame Rice Ball recovered and out of instinct, moved away from the tentacles toadjust his angle of attack.The others were just struggling to deal as much damage as possible. They didnt save any of their skills,but they deliberately avoided attacking the tentacles so that they wouldnt draw their aggro.If they were to fight this Boss normally, there was bound to be someone who would walk into Akumaisattacks. There was no way to guarantee that no one would make any mistakes.Lu Li had now left Wandering to deal with the images. With him pulling the aggro, the others had amuch easier time.