VRMMO Botanist - Chapter 18

Translator: Larbre Studio

Editor: Larbre Studio

“From what Mr. Jack said, this person should be very powerful, but even so, his Level is lower, so he shouldn’t be able to resist us. Should we make a move and snatch the Boss?” Noticing this window of opportunity, the gears in the Assassin’s mind churned.

The several people around him apparently shared the same idea, and they all looked towards Jack.

Stealing a Boss was justified under the rules of the system. No one needed would feel any guiltiness, but whether they would actually proceed with it depended on Jack giving the go-ahead. After all, they were still under Jack’s employment.

Although it was difficult to get any good loot from a Level 15 Boss, killing a Boss, even if it did not drop anything, was still something that left people feeling refreshed afterwards.

“Snatch the Boss just before the Botanist dies? It’s not impossible. If you only dispatch one person and kill the Botanist, then we will rob the Boss.” The fatty smiled, with a treacherous look on his face.

Several people around looked at each other, not knowing what the fatty was plotting. However, among them, one of the Assassin adventurers hesitated before resolving herself.

“I’ll go. I don’t believe that I can’t kill a guy five levels lower than me!”

Although the Botanist focused mainly on Spirit, Spirit affected an adventurer’s perception. Adventurers with high perception could know the location of the Assassins in stealth. However, for such a low-level spiritually-trained adventurer, his perception would definitely be trash, nothing fear-inspiring. As long as he snuck past, with an Assassin’s high attack, the Botanist whose HP was thinner than paper could be killed directly!

“Fuck! The Botanist rushed out!”

The Assassin wanted to wait for a little longer. When the Boss had less HP, he would go into stealth, and then launch an attack on the Botanist. However, at this time, several people were surprised to see that the Botanist had suddenly put on a strange set of non-Botanist equipment, rushing forward and stabbing the Boss fiercely. He then quickly retreated backwards in the next moment!

What left them even more shocked to see was the Boss turning sharply, and the Bone Maller that was initially aiming for the top of the giant stone smashed down towards the Botanist!

If one was struck by the Bone Maller of the Boss, with the paper-thin HP of a Botanist, there was simply no possibility of survival!

However, the rapidly descending Bone Maller was actually within a few centimetres from the Botanist but narrowly missed the Botanist. The Botanist actually did not suffer a point of damage at all!

“What happened? What happened just now? How did he escape?!” Several people frenziedly shouted the team channel. They all imagined that the Botanist would be mangled to bits by Boss, but the Botanist miraculously survived.

“It seems that at the moment when the Boss made a move, his footsteps seemed to have faltered… And then he avoided the attack,” one adventurer speculated doubtfully.

This was a genuine expert!

While the surrounding adventurers were still excitedly discussing how Ye Chen escaped the Boss’s attack, the fatty’s eyes were narrowed into a thin slit, while a strange glimmer was shining through the slit!

This person actually used this method to transfer the aggro of Boss to himself at the instance when the Boss was ready to attack Durian Bomb Tree. This way, the Durian Bomb Tree could survive, and the Boss would be unable to kill the Durian Bomb Tree. At this rate, it was just a matter of time before it was bombarded to death by the Durian Bomb Tree.

However, in doing so, it also carried an extremely high risk of being spiked to death by the Boss in a moment of carelessness, and wasting all of one’s efforts!

If it was someone else, the fatty might have felt that such action is a last resort attempt. However, judging from the reactions of the Botanist, the fatty had no such feeling at all. The Botanist obviously had excellent control over the Boss’s attack rhythm, evading its attack easily!

While the fatty stood amidst the discussion among the several other people, the Botanist repeated the same tactic again. This time, the Boss attack failed as well.

Once again, the same phenomenon had occurred. Even the adventurers who were a little dull became aware of the intentions of the Botanist.

“This guy is so perverted! Isn’t he going to kill the Boss like this?” Several people were horrified.

“It’s not strange. After a few more times, the Boss would really be killed!” Another person gasped, his face ashen with terror.

They thought that if they were targeted by the Bone Maller attack of the Boss, they would absolutely not be able to avoid it. However, the Botanist in front of them had already avoided it twice in a row!

“Okay, who else is going to kill him? It’ll be too late if you don’t go now,” the fatty smilingly urged his subordinates.

However, after seeing that the Botanist had such a devilish technique, several people around him had no confidence in whether they could kill the Botanist. They were all in the Level 16 to 20 range. If they weren’t careful, failing to kill the Botanist or even dying due to the Botanist or the Boss, the consequences would be beyond tragic. Under the rules of the game, the chances of their equipment dropping would be 100%.

“Since no one is going, we’ll wait to see what equipment the Boss will drop.”

The fatty looked at the Boss. The Boss was about to die. Although they weren’t the ones who finished the Boss, it was not a bad idea to see what the Boss will drop. As for snatching the Boss, the fatty didn’t have much interest.

A Level 15 Boss that had been toyed with others to such an extent, what useful items could it possibly drop? The benefits were far from the point where the fatty would go to offend this expert.

And for Boss below Level 30, as long as the adventurer’s level was higher than the Boss’s level, the drop from killing the Boss would be significantly reduced. It was already challenging to expect the low-level Boss to drop any good loot, and it may not be surprising that nothing dropped at all.

As they were speaking, the HP of the Boss was getting lower and lower, and the lethality of the Durian Bomb Tree was extremely fatal to a Boss of Level 15 with a 70% defense reduction. The Kobold Leader fell to the ground with a loud bang under the watch of the crowd.

The fatty and the others were a bit curious about what the Kobold Leader would drop, but that was all. They didn’t harbor much expectation from the lowest-level Boss.

But the moment the Kobold Leader fell, a pile of colourful, shiny objects fell from the Kobold body. Several people who witnessed the sight could not help but become stunned again.

“Fuck, the Boss has exploded! This scene is almost as spectacular as the first kill of the Boss!”

“I seem to see a skill book! Is it blue or red…?”

“There are hundreds of gold coins!”

Several adventurers around were clamoring in a frenzy, and the fatty’s jaw dropped when he saw it.

…

“Wow, I levelled up, and there are so many goodies as well!”

The Kobold Leader died, and Ye Chen and Xiao Ai’s bodies both shone with a pillar of light, symbolizing their levelling up. They both rose to Level 11.

Killing a Boss gave an immense amount of experience. Much less to say that the two even killed the Boss, despite a five-level suppression. With the experience bonus, both of them were able to get a lot of experience in one fell swoop.

“Three pieces of Level 15 Silver-grade, three pieces of black-Iron-Grade, two pieces of Bronze-grade, and four pieces of White-grade… This explosion is really bountiful… 119 gold coins… But all these are rubbish, these two skill books are the most valuable things!”

Ye Chen and Xiao Ai were both a little excited as they walked towards the stone. They picked up all the items and found that the items dropped by the Kobold Leader this time were even more incredible than the first time it was killed!

“This ‘Spring Rain’ Priest skill is genuinely quite good. After you learn it, the effect may not be apparent initially. Still, when the skill level is high enough, it will be handy in the future.”

There were two skill books, one was the skill Spring Rain that many Priests desperately sought for but were unable to find.

“Oh, is that so? I’ll see the effects after learning it.” Xiao Ai accepted the Spring Rain skill book and then clicked to learn the skill.

In the game, many skill books had no learning requirements. Spring Rain was such a skill. An emerald light flashed around Xiao Ai’s body, and the skill book disappeared from her hands.

“Consumes 100 points of MP. Adventurers within 10 meters of the designated target will continuously recover HP for 5 minutes… It seems to be very powerful.”

Xiao Ai immediately applied the Spring Rain skill to herself and Ye Chen. A hazy green raindrop immediately fell from the sky and enveloped the two. Then, both of them entered a continuous HP recovery state.

“It only recovers 6 HP every second, that’s so little.” Looking at the values rising above their heads, Xiao Ai immediately wrinkled her small face and complained.

“The effect of this skill has a lot to do with the Spirit attribute points. As you progress to higher levels, the skill level will also rise. The effect of the Spring Rain skill will be significantly improved, and you can save a lot of HP potions by using it,” Ye Chen explained. For Priests with the advanced Spring Rain skill, as long as they were correctly used, the entire team basically would not need to consume any HP potions. Considering the constraints of the upper limit of drug resistance, Priests with such a skill will be heartily welcomed no matter where they go.

“As for this ‘Illusions of Time’, it’s a skill used by Botanists, so I’ll accept it.” Looking at the other skill book, Ye Chen couldn’t help the excitement rising in his heart!