Chapter 63
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Sure enough, the giant crocodile let out a pained roar, then suddenly kicked its powerful hind legs in the water, accelerating towards Ye Bai.
Ye Bai was already prepared. She immediately rolled backward, dodging the attack from the Crocodile King, and pulled it away from the direction of the others to a shallow area on the other side.
The mercenaries finally realized what was happening; their employer was actually a mage!
No wonder they were caught off guard—who would have thought there would be a sword-wielding mage? Ye Bai had always given them the impression of being a skilled physical class, fully aware of the characteristics of all their physical skills.
In Mei Luo City, the status of a mage was anything but ordinary, leaving all the mercenaries with a lingering impression of mystery and power.
Now that they had discovered this, it undoubtedly gave everyone a boost of confidence.
They quickly followed Ye Bai's earlier instructions to deal with the remaining crocodiles, eager to free their hands to help her.
Meanwhile, Ye Bai was already engaged in a classic dance of dodging, rolling, and striking against the Crocodile King BOSS.
As a game developer, if she couldn't handle a BOSS of equal level, she might as well hang herself with a noodle.
Especially now that Ye Bai had switched to the hidden class ‘Mystic’, capable of using all types of spells, her abilities had transformed from night to day.
‘-6’
Swish!
The snow-white sword glided across the Crocodile King's scales, leaving behind a rather impressive damage number.
But in the next moment, the effect of her spell-casting speed increasing by 100% triggered, allowing Ye Bai to skip the usual casting time and instantly unleash her spell.
【Lightning Spell】
“Zzzzz…”
A bolt of lightning enveloped the Crocodile King, and combined with the ‘Wet’ buff it had just received from emerging from the water—reducing blunt damage by 10% and giving a 5% chance to disarm, while also increasing lightning damage by 20%—the spell hit hard.
‘-545’, ‘-571’, ‘-546’, ‘-572’
The four consecutive lightning strikes triggered the additional damage from the Wet buff, and one of the Crocodile King's unnoticed weaknesses was its negative resistance to lightning. With this one spell, Ye Bai had the Crocodile King firmly in her grasp.
Not to mention, Ye Bai also had a 40% movement speed boost from her Light Feather set, the spell damage recovery effect from her class skill 【Mana Siphon】, and a flexible combination of all types of spells…
More than ten minutes later, the mercenaries quickly finished off the remaining spotted crocodiles and hurried over to assist Ye Bai.
From the side, they could see the massive figure of the Crocodile King completely blocking Ye Bai from view. If it weren't for the occasional roar of the BOSS, they wouldn't have been able to confirm their employer's safety.
In their minds, mages were ranged classes that needed protection from melee fighters to maximize their effectiveness. Even though their employer was agile and mysterious, facing a terrifying enemy like the Crocodile King would surely be a challenge.
Just as they arrived, they saw sharp stone spikes suddenly erupting from the ground, piercing the Crocodile King's feet and eliciting a pained cry.
And their employer popped up from the other side, greeting them:
“You're here?”
…Were they almost too late to help?
**Chapter 44**
The mercenaries had thought Ye Bai was in a perilous situation, but little did they know she was handling it with ease.
Especially as they got closer and witnessed her fighting style, their expressions shifted from awe to confusion, as they couldn't tell whether their employer was a swordsman or a mage.
Who had ever seen a mage charging at monsters, fighting while casting spells?!
As mercenaries in Mei Luo City, they had mostly taken on contracts that involved cooperating with mages in battle, and even if they hadn’t, they had heard that one of the basic conditions for spellcasting was that mages needed to maintain focus in a stable environment. If anything interrupted them mid-cast, their spells would be disrupted, right?
So typically, all mages would stand at the maximum casting range during battles, with melee fighters shielding them in front, allowing them to act as ruthless spell cannons from a safe distance.
That was how it usually went.
Because aside from the Ice Bolt, which was the lowest damage ‘magic missile’ type spell, all the other spells Ye Bai had mastered, even Fireball, had a fixed casting time of 0.3 seconds, commonly referred to as ‘casting time’.
Before learning the 【Mobile Casting】 technique, mages couldn’t even move during their casting time, let alone take damage; otherwise, their spells would be interrupted.
However, the peculiar trait of the snow-white sword Ye Bai had found allowed her to increase her casting speed by 100% while attacking, effectively solving this problem.
For other mage players, wielding this sword would enhance their casting speed based on the original speed of each skill. But because of Ye Bai's hidden class ‘Magic All-Rounder’, all her spells were essentially counted as ‘class abilities’ rather than separate skills. Thus, when calculating various spell enhancements, the maximum value was taken.
Among all the spells Ye Bai had mastered, the ones with the longest casting times were Slow, Light Arrow, and Mind Ray, which took 3 seconds, 2.5 seconds, and 5 seconds, respectively.
The increased casting speed was calculated based on the 5-second casting time of Mind Ray, effectively reducing it by 2.5 seconds. Therefore, any spell with a casting time of 2.5 seconds or less became an instant-cast spell for Ye Bai.
Combined with the movement speed boost from the Light Feather set, her keen grasp of information in this world, and her flexible skill combinations, Ye Bai had created a unique melee mage combat system.
“Just shoot from a distance with your crossbows, don’t get too close!” Ye Bai called out as the mercenaries joined the fray.
To be honest, Ye Bai could handle the Spotted Crocodile King on her own; the only difference would be that it would take her longer. She was reluctant to let the mercenaries engage in melee attacks. If the BOSS used a skill and injured one of them, she wouldn’t know where to cry.
“Oh, oh… right!”
Upon hearing Ye Bai's words, the mercenaries were momentarily stunned, then quickly snapped back to reality, following her instructions to stay at a safe distance and shoot at the Crocodile King with their crossbows.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”
The Crocodile King's massive body was so large that the mercenaries didn’t even have to worry about accuracy; they couldn’t possibly hit Ye Bai by mistake.
‘-210’, ‘-231’, ‘-217’…
A series of damage numbers popped up, but compared to other ordinary crocodiles, the Crocodile King had much higher defense due to its scales, and with the ‘Wet’ buff, it had a natural advantage against physical attacks.
Ye Bai’s figure, in contrast to the enormous BOSS, resembled a nimble butterfly, dancing and flitting around it.
However, this ‘butterfly’ was not to be underestimated; every now and then, flashes of lightning would erupt from the Crocodile King, and after a while, the air began to carry a faint scent reminiscent of grilled meat.
With Ye Bai’s ‘electrotherapy’ firmly drawing its aggro, the Crocodile King completely ignored the crossbow bolts sticking into its body, paying no attention to the mercenaries shooting from the sidelines.
Although they had a remarkably safe environment for dealing damage, the mercenaries couldn’t help but feel a bit strange, their expressions awkward—wasn’t it a bit off for a physical damage warrior class to have a mage fighting up close with the monster while they shot arrows from behind?
…
“Roar~~~”
As time passed, the Crocodile King's health dropped to the final 5%. It suddenly spun around, swinging its tail and letting out a fierce howl.
The mercenaries all tensed up and shouted to the retreating Ye Bai, “Watch out, employer! It’s going all out!”
The scene was reminiscent of when Ye Bai had faced the nearly defeated Ragehorn Beast in a dungeon; NPCs were aware of monster behaviors, and this warning essentially meant the BOSS was about to unleash a powerful attack.
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