The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 4277 Heroes Strike! (Part 9)
"What the hell!" he shouted. "What kind of skill is this? How can it deal so much damage???"

“It should be a skill that requires a cast time,” Lord Batman said calmly. “These monsters don’t have any awareness of anti-cast time. If you let them finish casting, they’ll take full damage. Moreover, this damage should be multiplied by a certain number of numbers, and the damage increase becomes more and more exaggerated as you cast. It looks like it’s specifically designed to deal with monsters.”

Lord Superman breathed a slight sigh of relief. He thought about it and realized it made sense. Schiller had been writing medical records for ages, probably just casting a spell, taking advantage of the monster's lack of understanding of skill mechanics. There were no weaklings in this game; basically, no one would give him time to cast a spell.

Bruce did the math in his head. Schiller had been standing there for over ten seconds. Even if he hadn't been casting the entire time, it would have taken several seconds. If he had been interrupted, he probably wouldn't have taken so much damage.

Greed himself was aware of this situation. He said, "No wonder the negative status effect of mental instability is 'mistake.' As long as you read for a second or two, you can inflict several 'mistake' effects on the opponent. It's not so easy to interrupt them."

“That’s right,” Gray Mist said, “but our skill sets are more geared towards fighting monsters, and we still have a big weakness when it comes to fighting players. Should we help them take care of that robot too?”

"No, we've done what we had to do. Let's withdraw from the combat zone and explore further."

After saying that, Greed turned and walked out. The other two didn't stop him. He had indeed contributed the most to the battle, so it was understandable that he went in first. Besides, such a large place couldn't possibly have only one monster, and it wasn't a matter of who went out first getting the treasure. If they stayed a little longer, Greed might take care of the other monsters.

Greed didn't expect to find treasure immediately after he left. He knew his luck was terrible. However, he did find a switch in a room, turned it off to remove his blindness, and then returned to the corridor.

Just then, he saw some faint, swaying shadows on the wall, almost invisible, like ripples on water. Greed, curious, focused intently on them and discovered that these shadows were attackable.

He stood at a distance, chanted first, then calculated the result. With a bang, the opponent was blasted off the wall.

It turned out to be a spider with a ring of legs, its body semi-transparent, making it difficult to see in bright light. Greed suddenly realized that if he hadn't turned off the lights, his vision would have been completely blurred, and he would definitely have been ambushed by this thing.

Greed killed only this one, but he saw that there seemed to be a few more on the wall, so he could only leave them for Lord Superman and Bruce as a surprise.

As he walked further in, sure enough, there were patrolling robots inside, but they weren't the large kind; they were about the size of a human, and there were only two of them at a time.

Without teammates to draw attention, it's indeed quite troublesome to cast a spell while greedily casting it. However, he discovered that the spell cannot be interrupted by normal attacks, and the opponent's skill is a straight beam of light, which is relatively easy to dodge.

Greedy maneuvered and chanted, writing words to the robot as he muttered to himself. He quickly took down the goalkeeper.

As expected, there were some things in the room. Greed began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets, finding some supplies and two pieces of equipment, but unfortunately, he couldn't use either.

One was an electromagnetic gun, which looked like Stark's equipment, but didn't have any special attributes. Greedy thought it could be added to Stark's arsenal, but such a common weapon would just pollute the gacha pool and was pointless.

The other is a "cape cleaner," which sounds like something Batman would use, but anyone can actually use it to increase movement speed. However, considering the small combat area with the player, increasing movement speed too much could easily lead to crashing into walls, so Greed decided against using it.

Everyone else moves using superpowers, but no matter how fast he moves on his two legs, it's useless; he's also prone to running into other people's area-of-effect skills.

However, he still kept the two items, because he thought the gray fog might come in handy.

"Sigh, nothing good," Gray Mist sighed. "Is there anything that increases luck? Otherwise, we'll probably only get that necklace this round."

Greed shook his head. They had already used up all their luck to get Gray Mist's exclusive equipment, so it was normal for them to get junk next. After all, if they were to get exclusive equipment, then no one else would have a chance to play.

Greed is a little curious about what its own exclusive equipment is, but it will probably be like Gray Mist's exclusive equipment, with both advantages and disadvantages. Hopefully, it will be an item that increases casting speed or something similar.

The remaining two quickly defeated the robot. After they came out, they didn't leave together, each choosing a direction and turning into different rooms.

Lord Superman was lucky; the room he entered had no guards. Once inside, he started rummaging through drawers and cabinets, muttering, "I hope I find something good."

Lord Batman could sense that he still harbored some resentment about his sacrifice, but now, many people had been replaced, and they weren't exactly last, so it was about time.

Who knew that after rummaging around for a while, Lord Superman actually found something. The item was called "Explorer's Skateboard".

Upon seeing these attributes, Lord Superman immediately became excited and exclaimed, "Look, Batman, this is your exclusive equipment!"

"Explorer's Skateboard: See how slippery you are. Doubles the success rate of your dodge skill. Each successful dodge grants an additional two action points. Action points can be overloaded. Each additional action point will provide a 5% damage increase to the explorer's next attack."

"Indeed quite good," Lord Batman commented, "It's a pity that Schiller's side has also changed personnel. If it were paired with that fog-like anti-armor..."

Lord Superman also imagined this scene.

It is known that Gray Mist's anti-armor is an area-of-effect anti-armor; once within combat range, if Gray Mist loses health, everyone else also loses health. He cannot control who loses health or who doesn't, but this health loss is also affected by evasion.

If Lord Batman, carrying this skateboard, enters the gray fog's area, everyone else will lose health, but Lord Batman can dodge. Moreover, if he successfully dodges, he will receive extra action points, which can be used to increase damage.

He attacks the gray mist, the gray mist reflects damage, he dodges, he gains increased damage, then he attacks again, immediately gets reflected damage again, dodges again, gains increased damage again. Isn't this an infinite loop?
Furthermore, in a group battle, besides him attacking the gray fog, others will also be attacking, and he will also benefit from the group's counter-damage. Thanks to his high evasion, he won't take much damage, but he can gain a lot of action points and increased damage. Once the increased damage is stacked up, how could he possibly be a match for him?
Unfortunately, Batman lacks some burst damage abilities. While the Barrage of Arrows is useful, it comes at the cost of one of his lives, making it not very worthwhile. If he only throws darts from the toolbox, only the first dart has increased damage, and the overall damage output probably won't be very high.

However, Lord Batman realized the power of this skill, saying, "The key is action points. If we successfully dodge 10 times, we'll have 10 action points. I wonder if there's a limit to overload. If not, we might get several action points from a single fight. In this game, time is life."

Lord Superman understood. Since actions outside of combat are turn-based, while others only have 5 points per turn and can only move 5 squares before being stuck, these guys have dozens of points per turn and can roam the entire map freely. Wouldn't all these loot areas be theirs?
Lord Superman was overjoyed and rushed excitedly to the next room.

Bruce wasn't very lucky; the room he encountered had a gatekeeper. Luckily, he could easily defeat these ordinary robots, taking them down in no time. He also managed to find an item inside, but it was rather inexplicable.

"Treasure Bag: Can store 5 additional items. When the Treasure Bag is full, the success rate of all judgments made by the owner of the Treasure Bag increases by 30%. If the judgment is successful, the number of items required to trigger the Treasure Bag skill is reduced by 1, and the success rate is increased by an additional 10%."

"What is this?" Bruce looked at the leather bag in his hand with some confusion, and then said, "Does our item limit exist? But I don't have any judgment skills."

“Perhaps it’s a prop for someone who hasn’t played yet,” Selena said. “Right now, we don’t know what Steve and Bucky’s abilities are. Oh, and by the way, we don’t know what my abilities are either.”

“I suspect this thing is unique to you,” Bruce said. “Your skill set is very likely to need to be assessed.”

“Oh, shit!” Selena cursed. “I hate this kind of probability-based stuff the most.”

"It's okay. You've already gotten your exclusive equipment, right? It increases the success rate of judgment by 30%, and you can keep stacking it up until it reaches 100%. I just don't know if the skills you need to judge are strong enough."

“He better be strong enough,” Selena said, “but I still think it would be best if you could fight to the death without me having to lift a finger.”

“I’ll do my best,” Bruce said with a smile.

He had barely finished speaking when he felt the ground shake. He instinctively looked in the direction of the shaking, but quickly saw through the window next to him that the spaceship was actually lifting off the ground.

Lord Superman also noticed this, and he was completely bewildered: "Wait, man, we're back on Krypton???"

“It must be Schiller’s doing!” Bruce said. “This instance shouldn’t have much of a plot, so how could the spaceship start? Shouldn’t the later part of the plot involve the frozen alien monsters escaping?”

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Selena exclaimed, "Schiller jumped! We'd better jump too!"

Bruce rushed to the window and looked down. Sure enough, Schiller had landed. He seemed to have lost some blood, but because he jumped early, the bleeding wasn't much.

But by the time they realized the spaceship had taken off, it was already more than ten meters off the ground. Bruce muttered bitterly, "Why does a strategy game have a Y-axis? Jumping from that height, you'd definitely die!"
His shield could only block attacks, not protect him from fall damage, and he didn't have any skills to increase his defense. Then, in the blink of an eye, he saw Lord Superman jump down as well, the other man holding the sun aloft, but he was left with only a sliver of health. In other words, even with a high defense bonus, the fall damage from that jump almost killed him instantly. If he jumped like that, he'd have to be replaced the moment he landed.

"Don't hesitate, Bruce, jump already!" Selena said, looking at the screen. "If it takes you right out of the competition area, we'll lose!"

Bruce gritted his teeth, punched the glass to shatter it, stood in the cold wind and cursed a thousand times, but still closed his eyes and jumped.

Immediately afterwards, a white light shone on the snow.

"We succeeded!" Greed and Gray Mist cheered simultaneously.

(End of this chapter)