Mirror World Administrator

Chapter 18: Moths to the Flame
"I say, we really should continue." Yang Xu looked at the time and turned to remind the two people who were hit.

This copy is time-limited and is only open for one hour. They have wasted almost half an hour since they took on the task, but have not even seen the monster.

"set off!"

Wuxi and Mo Yu were just feeling a little emotional due to the blow, but they were not really depressed. They had already stood up while talking.

"Can you still lead the way for me?" Ah Fei asked without hesitation.

"Go, go, go. You go behind, I'll do it!" Wuxi straightened his back instantly, regained his original aura of a master, and strode to the front of the team.

"Come on, come on."

The gangster Ah Fei smiled awkwardly and consciously retreated to the back, taking up Wuxi's job of guarding the rear.

With Wuxi leading the way, the team was back on track.

Led by Wuxi, the three of them went straight to the third floor and stepped directly into the high-risk area. After a brief search in the area, they easily found the Mirror Ghost.

In the northwest corner of the third floor is an exhibition hall selling lanterns, with a variety of lanterns hung all over the hall.

Being in the mirror world, these lanterns were of course off, but after the four people approached, one of the cylindrical lanterns suddenly lit up.

Flames continuously burst out from this lantern and drifted towards the other lanterns around it.

Before they knew it, all the lanterns in the exhibition hall had been lit, illuminating the entire third floor.

The lantern that had undergone the initial mutation had now fallen from mid-air. Two pairs of wings, one large and one small, spread out on the lantern. Then, two cuts appeared on the top and bottom of the lantern, turning into eyes and a mouth.

[Encounter 1-star Mirror Ghost, Lantern Moth (LV9): Moths yearn for flames, but flames bring destruction. Formed from the resentment of countless moths burned in flames, the Mirror Ghost takes the form of a lantern with moth wings. It has the ability to illuminate surrounding lamps and summon flaming moths to attack enemies from a distance. It is often found in environments where lamps gather.]

"Everyone stand back!"

Wuxi shouted, but instead of retreating, he advanced and rushed towards the floating lantern with an axe.

The timing of this axe was very good, and it hit the lantern monster that had just flown close to the ground and had no time to change direction. The lantern monster was immediately knocked to the ground.

"Start killing!" Wuxi shouted.

The three people at the back had already prepared for the attack. As soon as Wuxi finished speaking, Mo Yu rolled over and appeared accurately beside the lantern ghost. He chopped down the lantern with the Tang sword in his hand, cutting a gap in the lantern paper on the lantern monster's body.

The lantern monster roared in pain, and the raging flames hidden in its body gushed out from the gap wildly, condensing into several burning moths in the air, biting towards Mo Yu. This was the lantern moth's second ability to summon fire moths.

"Oh!"

At this time, the gangster A Fei appeared quietly from behind, holding a brick in his hand. He hit the lantern monster on the head with great force, and brick fragments flew everywhere.

The lantern monster froze in place, stunned, unable to move for a second. The fire moth it had just summoned was also forcibly interrupted by the brick, turning into ash before it could hit Mo Yu.

"Good brick!" Wuxi praised A Fei for his timely brick, and rushed forward again to cooperate with the two to attack the lantern monster.

Yang Xu also threw fireballs from time to time in the back to make his presence felt, but his fireballs exploded in area damage, and his three teammates were all melee, so he had to be careful when throwing the fireballs, and only throw them when the three were not next to the monsters. After all, this was not a game, and there was no such thing as damage immunity to the same team.

Wuxi and Mo Yu's previous depression has not yet dissipated. Now facing the monster, they finally have a channel to vent.

Both men were extremely vigorous at this moment, swinging their weapons with all their might, as if they wanted to prove that their efforts over the past six months were not in vain and that the combat experience they had accumulated was also very valuable.

In this respect, they were indeed much stronger than the thug Ah Fei. Ah Fei's attributes were undoubtedly the highest among the group, but his responses to the Mirror Ghost were clearly less polished than those two. However, Yang Xu, taking in the overall situation from behind, noticed that Ah Fei's every move was methodical; every punch and kick wasn't a random throw. This method was different from the fluidity with which Wu Xi and the other two faced the monsters. Their fluency stemmed from their familiarity with the monsters, while Ah Fei seemed to have developed a unique set of moves.

Yang Xu remembered that Ah Fei had introduced himself before and seemed to have said that he was good at ancient martial arts. Could he really be a martial artist?

Regardless, the situation at the scene was under control. Just as Wuxi had predicted before the battle began, Yang Xu wasn't even needed; the three of them were enough to suppress Mirror Ghost in close combat, leaving him powerless to fight back.

Seeing that the battle situation was no longer suspenseful, Yang Xu had to start thinking about himself.

He silently stopped casting the spell, took out his hatchet, and began to move around the lantern monster, looking for an opportunity.

A moment later, the lantern monster in the field was chopped away by Wuxi again, and this time it rolled towards Yang Xu.

It's now!

Yang Xu moved sideways silently, and under his intentional control, the monster finally stopped about three meters in front of him.

Yang Xu's pupils shrank slightly, and the moment the monster fell to the ground, time stopped quietly.

The lantern ghost and the three people chasing him from the front were all frozen in place. Only Yang Xu could move in the entire world.

Yang Xu rushed forward and stopped in front of the lantern ghost. He swung the hatchet in his hand and chopped the lantern ghost three times on the center of its head. Then he quickly retreated back to his original position.

The time stop was also lifted at this time.

The three men rushed over and started beating up the Mirror Ghost again.

After completing the hidden mission, Yang Xu was no longer in a hurry. He resumed his slacking state and continued to wander around the periphery, watching the performance of the three people and throwing a fireball from time to time to add to the fun.

The three men were obviously unaware of what was happening and were in the mood to kill.

"Oh!"

The gangster Ah Fei threw another brick at the lantern monster's head.

"Well, you use bricks too much..." Wuxi tried to organize his words to comment.

He threw the bricks one after another, and it seemed very powerful, but apart from the first brick which was successful at the beginning, there was nothing else that stood out.

You know, the biggest role of a skill like Brick Attack isn't damage, but its control and interruption effects. As a result, Ah Fei's Brick Attack doesn't consider the timing at all, and uses it as soon as the cooldown is over. This is too unskilled...

"What do you think? I have strong skills, right?" But the person involved was still feeling proud of himself.

"Strong, strong, strong..." Wuxi smiled perfunctorily, but he didn't expect that another brick would be thrown at him by the opposite side just after he finished laughing.

Wuxi was stunned and asked, "How long is the cooldown of this skill?"

"10 seconds, there is a 30% chance of being stunned if hit on the head, isn't that awesome!" Ah Fei boasted.

This time Wuxi was genuinely surprised: "Only 10 seconds? Then your skin must be very compatible!"

This was not the first time he had seen the Storm City Thug skin. When he was in a wild team before, he had met a big guy who was over level 30 and was using this skin, but the guy's brick attack had a cooldown of nearly 20 seconds.

For the same skin, the skills are of course exactly the same. The only thing that affects the actual effect of the skills is the skin compatibility. The higher the compatibility, the stronger the skill power and the shorter the cooldown.

(End of this chapter)