hotmtlnovel Chapter 9: The Immortal's Hidden Breastplate - Immune to attacks!
Chapter 9: The Immortal's Hidden Breastplate - Immune to attacks!
This exceptionally well-equipped squad advanced at lightning speed.
In just over twenty minutes, they stood outside the mother insect's hatchery in the heart of the insect nest.
The female insect has an abdomen the size of an ordinary house and thick limbs.
The normal progression process is: Protection Paladins draw aggro, DPS players spread out to avoid acid spray, healers dispel debuffs at the right moment, and the fight is slow and gradual.
The current reality is:
Zhao Lei swung his double-sided tower shield and activated [Earthshaking Charge], forcefully pinning the mother insect against the rock wall.
Wen Yue's [Wind God's Heavy String] followed in quick succession, six cyan arrows carrying strong winds, pinning down all the joints of the mother insect's body.
Lin Chuxue reversed her wrist, and the red and blue colors at the tip of her staff compressed and converged, summoning a miniature lava ice explosion ball above the mother insect's head, which then slammed down.
Shen Xinglin transformed into a silver afterimage and leaped into the air, his spear piercing straight down.
A dazzling array of max-level killing moves.
The mother worm's disgusting maneuvers were aborted on the spot. Her full health bar was instantly reduced to zero, and before she could even utter a mournful roar, her massive body collapsed to the ground, turning into countless fragments.
Lu Yan's level has also skyrocketed, jumping from level 2 to level 20 in one fell swoop.
"It's still faster to upgrade your car by having someone guide you, hahaha."
Lu Yan rubbed his hands together and turned his gaze toward the exploding pillar of light.
Compared to the golden light brought by the previous low-level purple armored beetles, the visual impact caused by the mother beetle this time was much more violent.
The dark golden light intertwined to form a forest, even overshadowing the cave's original eerie green phosphorescence. Top-tier equipment, rare materials, and high-level crystal cores were scattered across the surrounding dozens of square meters of ground like water flowing freely.
And at the very center of this dark gold ocean.
A beam of orange light shot into the sky, breaking through the encirclement and piercing the shadowy dome of the insect hive with an extremely domineering manner.
That's the unique color of legendary items.
At first glance, this is just a boss in a low-level C-rank dungeon. In the regular loot pool, even epic blueprints are a one in ten million chance of slipping through the net.
However, with Lu Yan's intervention of a hundredfold increase in drop rate and quality improvement, the drop list of this mother insect changed, and it actually spat out an orange-tier item.
Everyone stopped moving at that moment.
Xiao Qianyu's gaze lingered on the orange light for half a second before she turned to look around.
Several frontline combat team members, seasoned veterans, lost their breathing rhythm upon seeing the orange beam of light. However, their exceptional tactical awareness and team discipline prevented any of them from taking a single step forward recklessly.
The three logistics personnel from the second team, clutching folded backpacks filled with gold equipment, stood frozen in a daze, not daring to even make a sound of swallowing.
Xiao Qianyu pointed ahead with her chin: "Lu Yan, go touch it."
The entire team knew perfectly well that if he hadn't been standing at the entrance with that aura, they would have wiped out all the insects in the entire hive and never seen such a thick orange beam of light.
Lu Yan wasn't being pretentious.
He strode over to the remains of the mother insect and reached into the blinding orange light.
The light contracted, and a half-body armor shimmering with a faint glow appeared in his hand.
It is extremely light to the touch, and the material is neither gold nor wood. It is like some kind of extraordinary shell that has been forged through countless trials, and the surface is covered with complex and mysterious ancient runes.
[Immortal's Lair Breastplate (Legendary)]
[Level Requirement: None (Adapts to wearer's level)]
【Job Requirements: None】
[Basic Attributes: Physical Defense +5000, Magic Resistance +4500, Maximum Health Increased by 30%]
[Entry 1: Self-consistent (Armor weight is reset to zero, without affecting movement speed.)]
[Entry 2: Absolute Bottom Line (Passive Effect: When receiving single-hit damage exceeding one's current maximum health, one is forcibly immune to that attack and forms a shield equal to 100% of one's own health for 10 seconds. Cooldown: 24 hours.)]
Looking at the virtual panel in front of him, Lu Yan's heart skipped a beat.
A rule-based life-saving artifact that requires no level or class enhancement and is purely for prolonging life.
Frankly speaking, for any front-line tanking warrior, this equipment allows them to withstand the boss's devastating ultimate attacks in various S-rank dungeons, maximizing their margin for error. Further analysis reveals that this equipment is actually most suitable for support personnel with zero combat power who lack any basic self-defense capabilities.
Lu Yan turned the breastplate over, his gaze falling on Zhao Leiguang: "Brother Zhao, you're the team's main tank, this thing..."
"No, no, no, no." Zhao Leiguang waved his hand to interrupt, his large palm clattering against his armor. "My epic set, combined with my talents, gives me so much health that those boss monsters will be killing me. This piece of equipment you have is a trump card that makes you immune to fatal damage. This kind of defensive artifact is most useful on you."
Wen Yue put away her recurve bow and chimed in, "You're a national treasure now. If you were ever killed by some unknown area-of-effect attack, the higher-ups would skin us alive. This breastplate would be perfect for you."
Xiao Qianyu made the final decision: "Put it on. Commander Li's seven-person ironclad formation plan for you does have gaps. With this equipment as a backup, as long as you are not hit by the ultra-high frequency of continuous instant-kill attacks, we can ensure that you leave the secret realm unharmed."
No need to push or pull anymore. Lu Yan simply fastened the legendary breastplate to his body.
The size automatically shrank, perfectly fitting his torso, as thin as a thermal undershirt, and then completely disappeared beneath his clothes, undetectable to the naked eye.
A sense of security has surged exponentially.
"The equipment has been distributed. Brothers in the back, don't just stand there, hurry up and sweep the floor." Zhao Leiguang turned around and called to the three people who were still standing on the outskirts of the hall.
The three members of the second team snapped out of their daze. They put down their nearly full folded bags and plunged into the ocean of dark gold and epic auras.
Twenty minutes later.
The entire corrupted insect nest was completely scavenged. Not even a single piece of insect hide with any attributes was left.
Return to the entrance teleportation point.
The three men, A, B, and C, who were usually full of energy at the Dragon Guard Base, collapsed haphazardly onto the purplish-black mud. A specially made medium-sized folding space backpack slammed heavily at their feet, its zipper bursting open, and several gold-grade bracers radiating attribute fluctuations spilled out conspicuously from the gap.
"I can't take it anymore, I'm dizzy from eating charcoal." Tool Man A gasped for breath, his hands outstretched, clutching the soil weakly. "I've never dreamed that I would strain my back from bending over to pick up some rare equipment."
"What a disaster." Tool B stared blankly at the cave ceiling. "I just saw a dark gold staff with penetrating mental energy, but I thought it was too long and took up too many horizontal spaces, so I just tossed it into a corner and picked up a smaller epic necklace. If this were in the black market trading hall outside, those merchant guilds would fight tooth and nail over that staff..."
Toolman C rolled over, listlessly saying, "I've never fought such an absurdly rich battle in my life. This is the first time I've experienced the feeling of picking up bags until I'm sick of it."
Listening to their complaints, the five big shots of the main team exchanged glances and burst out laughing. Even the usually icy mage Lin Chuxue softened her smile.
"This is the first time I've ever heard of someone getting so sick from hunting for loot that they feel dizzy from eating charcoal!"