Legend of Mir 2: Seeking the Truth in Marfa

"Xiaotian, Xiaolin, Xiaoxin, follow me to the middle. The rest of you should form groups of two and spread out to level up. Find the boss and tell him. If you can't beat him, call for help. If you encounter an enemy, don't fight to the death, gather in the middle first." Huo Jinshan assigned the people to level up and did not forget to remind them of any hostile personnel they might encounter.

"Boss, do you think Brook is using randomness and is still in the death coffin?" Ye Xiaotian asked.

"If he is a smart man, he should use the return to city; if he uses the random one, it only means that he is a fool. There are so many of us, we can beat him away again. How many random cards can he carry?" Huo Jinshan was very confident.

"What the boss said makes sense. That guy must have flown back to the city. What's the point of staying here?" Huo Xiaolin flattered him.

Brook and Bayin discussed the opposing team's situation. Brook saw nine, Bayin saw one. That made a total of ten: two warriors, four mages, and four Taoist priests. The highest-level warriors were likely the two warriors, estimated to be level 9 each, and the others were all above level 1. Their overall strength was not to be underestimated.

Brook and Bayin only had about ten bundles of magic potions left, but they still had plenty of Golden Wound Medicine. Bayin had over ten Strong Sun Waters, Brook over twenty. Bayin had six Random Scrolls, and Brook had eight. These items were believed to be enough for a small-scale battle.

"If they disperse, we'll defeat them one by one; if they don't disperse, we'll harass them; if they all press forward, we'll retreat to the entrance," Bayin explained. In the Corpse King's Palace, she once single-handedly faced off against nearly 30 enemies, killing six through guerrilla warfare and ultimately escaping unscathed by exploiting the terrain. However, the terrain of this Death Coffin wasn't ideal, and in case of danger, the only route was back to the entrance.

"So it's best to make sure the entrance behind is clear. Let's wait a while and see if they come over," Brooke said. The two discussed again. Although the terrain here is narrow and not conducive to guerrilla warfare, they can make full use of the fire wall and the baby's advantages.

A small wave of monsters descended, and Brook and the other two killed all of them. Bayin hid her five wheel babies in the upper left corner to let them rest. This was her trump card, to be used at a critical moment. Then she quietly waited for the enemy to arrive.

After a while, they saw a Taoist priest and a mage running towards them. Seeing that there were only two of them, Brook and Bayin did not attack and ran towards them directly.

The Taoist priest and mage on the other side were stunned when they saw the two men. How audacious! They hadn't even returned to the city. Not only had they not fled, but they were running towards them. Wasn't this a classic case of a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth? Then, remembering Huo Jinshan's instructions, they hurriedly called for help.

"Boss, those two haven't left yet. They are right here at the entrance." Zhang Xiaoli, a level 2 male mage, informed Huo Jinshan in the team.

"Haha, they actually dare to level up here?" said Huo Xiaolin, the 24th male Taoist priest in the team.

"They are running towards us." Zhang Xiaoli continued.

"Fight! Move towards the center while fighting. We'll be there soon. The rest of you continue leveling up." Huo Jinshan, Ye Xiaotian, Huo Xiaolin, and the other four were in the center of the death coffin, ready to support the others at any time. He felt that the four of them were enough.

"Understood." Zhang Xiaoli received the instruction and launched a lightning attack at Bayin. Tian Xiaoning, a level 22 female Taoist priest beside him, released a soul fire talisman at Brook.

"Go after the mage first, use poison," Zhang Xiaoli said. It was a 2v2 situation, and with strong support behind him, he felt very relieved.

"Oh, okay. But we're out of poison, sorry." Tian Xiaoning felt wronged. He couldn't buy the Taoist's poison in Tucheng. The two small packets of poison he had made in Biqi were already used up.

Brook and Bayin had already rushed over to the two men. Brook cast a poison spell on Zhang Xiaoli, increasing the opponent's damage by 20%. Then he continued running forward.

"Hurry up and run towards the boss." Seeing that the other party had come to his side, Zhang Xiaoli remembered that his boss had instructed him not to fight to the end, so he wanted to retreat.

Brook had already run ahead of the two, then summoned Xiaobai to his side with a skeleton, and attacked the mage Zhang Xiaoli. His soul fire talisman, Xiaobai's axe, and Bayin's lightning spell all hit Zhang Xiaoli at the same time, and the level 2 mage with 91 health was instantly killed, and potions exploded on the ground.

The Taoist priestess Tian Xiaoning was shocked. Her teammate died after just one encounter?! She turned around and ran away. Brook took two steps and blocked her right in front of him, casting a poison spell on her. Tian Xiaoning paused, stuck in her position and unable to run, so she could only go around Brook's side. At this time, Bayin had come to her side, and with a thought, five wheel babies that were originally resting in the corner were summoned over. Tian Xiaoning was startled, and then she found herself surrounded. When she reacted and wanted to use the random scroll, Bayin and Brook brought their babies to focus their fire, and without any suspense, the 2nd level Taoist priest with 5 health points was killed instantly.

The two picked up the bundles of potions dropped by each other, and threw away the scattered potions on the ground and the ordinary equipment that dropped from each other's backpacks.

"The enemy must be leveling up separately. Let's rush over and kill a few more of them before they gather." Brook said as he continued running forward.

Bayin ordered the five wheel babies to rest where they were and he followed Brooke.

After being killed, Zhang Xiaoli and Tian Xiaoning lay on the ground, looking at Bayin's five-wheeled baby parked next to them. They wanted to remind Huo Jinshan and others in the team, but they found that they had automatically withdrawn from the group after death, and they could only worry.

"Xiao Li and Xiao Ning have quit the group!" said 24-year-old female mage Huo Xiaoxin in surprise.

Huo Jinshan and his four companions were all shocked. They were killed so quickly? Could it be that the enemy had reinforcements?

"There are enemies heading towards the entrance. Everyone, gather in the middle," Huo Jinshan stopped and called to the group. The middle he was referring to was the fork in the V-shaped Death Coffin, where there were two relatively open areas.

Brook and Bayin continued running. The entrance and the V-shaped fork in the middle were very close, and soon they saw four people stopping. Huo Jinshan also saw Brook. He frowned as he watched Brook and Bayin rushing towards him. Only two people? There was no time to think about it. Since the other side only had two people, while they had four people, including two level 4 warriors, why would they be afraid?

"There are only two people on the opposite side. Everyone, head towards the entrance and kill them!" Huo Jinshan took the lead and rushed forward, not forgetting to remind the four people who had not arrived yet.

Brook continued to rush forward, but Bayin turned and ran away. Huo Jinshan was stunned, not understanding what was going on with the female mage.

The two sides engaged in close combat. Huo Xiaoxin's lightning and Huo Xiaolin's poison spell hit Brook first, followed by Huo Jinshan and Ye Xiaotian's level 25 assassination swordsmanship. Brook's body leaned back several times, with the lightning spell dealing 30 damage, Huo Jinshan's assassination dealing 26 damage, and Ye Xiaotian's assassination dealing 24 damage, for a total of 82 health points.

The Warrior's level 25 skill, Assassination Swordsmanship, can attack in a straight line up to two squares, making it a ranged attack. I'd heard from a fan before that the second square of the Assassination attack could even break defense. Brook silently calculated that Bayin, with 2 HP at level 27, could only withstand two rounds of attack if attacked by Huo Jinshan and Ye Xiaotian simultaneously. A Warrior with Assassination Swordsmanship was a real threat to a low-HP Mage.

After being attacked, Brook showed no intention of fighting back and simply ran away, leaving only the skeleton baby, Xiaobai, to attack Hocking Mountain. Hocking Mountain and his four companions were initially stunned to see Bayin flee, but now, seeing Brook flee as well, they felt a wave of disdain. It turns out these two were just bullies who only feared the strong and the weak. They were indeed experts, running so decisively. Unfortunately, we killed the expert.

"Ignore this level 7 skeleton. Let Xiaolin's level 5 skeleton entangle it while we continue chasing!"

Brooke saw the other party take the bait and chuckled inwardly. He ran over to get hit because, firstly, he wanted to test the other party's attack power; secondly, he wanted to let the other party attack first because he didn't want to be a red name; and thirdly, he wanted to seduce the other party.

"Be careful of the enemy warriors who might assassinate you from behind." He reminded Bayin in the team. Bayin was used to using the Fire Ring to deal with close-range attacks from warriors, but now that the enemy warriors had mastered the sword technique, Bayin had to be careful.

"Okay," Bayin replied. She was busy releasing the wall of fire.

Brook drank his wound medicine as he ran, turning his head to look behind him. For some reason, he was able to outrun his opponent. It wasn't that he ran faster, but rather that his opponent would occasionally make mistakes. Sometimes, they would be hindered by the terrain or their teammates, and running would become walking; or sometimes, there would be inexplicable, subtle pauses. Eventually, the distance between them gradually widened, and Brook took the opportunity to stop, cast poison spells on them, and then continue running.

Brook and the other four ran to a narrow strip of land near the entrance. They saw a wall of fire covering the road. Brook and Bayin were a team, so they were not harmed by the fire wall and passed through it directly.

"You think you can stop us with a fire wall? That's just wishful thinking! Charge!" Huo Jinshan scoffed behind him. Fire Wall is a level 24 mage skill, and Huo Xiaoxin knows it. But this level 1 fire wall is too weak, useless. He currently has a pair of top-grade demon-slaying rings with 1-3 attack and 0-4 magic defense. With the help of the Ghost Shield, his magic defense has reached 2-16. A mere fire wall is no problem for him.

Bayin stood at the end of the narrow area, where it was relatively open. She continued to lay the fire wall, preparing to cover the entire narrow strip.

A group of people ran into Bayin's wall of fire. Over Huo Jinshan's head, a health deduction message of -9, -8, and -9 floated. A level 25 warrior had 314 HP, so the single-digit damage was nothing to him. He continued to chase. Mage Huo Xiaoxin and Taoist Huo Xiaolin also took similar damage. The worst hit was Ye Xiaotian, who wore a pair of top-grade coral rings with 0-5 damage and a skull helmet with 0-1 attack and 2-3 defense. His only clothing and heavy armor had 2-3 magic resistance, and the wall of fire dealt him around 15 points of damage.

At first, the few people didn't feel anything, but after only a few seconds, Huo Xiaoxin at the back of the team immediately felt something was wrong, because after running a few steps, her health was only half. She stopped and was about to open her mouth to remind them, but she found that the three people in front still had a lot of health and were still chasing, so she closed her mouth unconsciously. She thought it was her own problem, because the mage's health was too low and she was too weak. But Boss Huo and the others had high health and good equipment, so they were not afraid of the fire wall. She also knew about this fire wall. A level 1 fire wall was not very powerful. She must be too weak. Hey, just take the medicine silently, keep up, and don't fall behind.

While a level 1 fire wall's power isn't great, it also depends on the mage's mana. The power of a level 1 fire wall is calculated as 60% of the mage's current mana + 7. Bayin's fire wall can average 18 points of power per attack. While this factor in the opponent's magic defense is deducted, the final damage isn't significant, but it's sufficient. Remember, the fire wall's damage is calculated based on landing point, with each landing adding damage. Since a monk can run two steps per second, they'll take at least two hits while running through the fire wall. It's like boiling a frog in warm water; by the time they feel the heat, it's too late.

Brooke looked back at the others as he ran. Seeing that the other party had completely entered the range of the fire wall, he began to prepare for a counterattack. At this time, he saw the opponent's mage Huo Xiaoxin pause. Guessing that the other party was burned, he immediately turned around and launched a Soul Fire Talisman attack on Huo Xiaoxin.

"Mage!" Brook said. Bayin's lightning and Brook's fire talisman simultaneously hit Huo Xiaoxin, who was half-health. Huo Xiaoxin didn't even have a chance to drink the sun water and was killed instantly.

Huo Jinshan remained calm upon seeing his mage teammate die. He caught up to Brook and launched a swift assassination attack, knocking out 28 points of his health. Then Ye Xiaotian also ran to Brook's side, but the terrain was too narrow to allow him to strike elsewhere, so he could only close in with a sword attack, knocking out 20 points of Brook's health. Huo Xiaolin's Soul Fire Talisman also flew over, knocking out 16 points of Brook's health.