"Damn… A hidden boss actually spawned."
Tidus, who was in the middle of grinding monsters, stared at the system announcement on his screen, stunned. There was no need to guess. The Gold Boar King's "revenge" was obviously triggered because he had wiped out more than three hundred Wild Boars with Blizzard.
This was a hidden boss unique to Novice Villages, incredibly rare. Among the dozens of server clusters in North America, each cluster had thousands of Novice Villages, yet only one would spawn this boss.
In short, pure luck.
But Tidus wasn't in a hurry to return and kill the boss. If he remembered correctly, the Gold Boar King had several hundred thousand health. Players would need at least half a day to chip away at its HP.
By then, he could swoop in and steal the kill…
With that thought, he continued grinding while opening a streaming site to monitor the boss's status, ready to return at the perfect moment.
One of the hottest streaming platforms was Twitch.
Tidus opened the in-game browser and logged into Twitch.
God World dominated the platform, almost all the streamers were playing it.
Sure enough, he found a stream titled [Blood Rose Garden East Coast 950 Novice Village].
He clicked in.
"Jealous of Village 950. Damn, they really got the hidden boss…"
"Village 950 is stupid lucky! Out of thousands of villages in the East Coast Server, only they got a hidden boss!"
"Sigh, whoever gets that last hit is set for life!"
"Solo players can forget it. A boss like this always ends up monopolized by guilds…"
The stream chat was buzzing. Many players were grinding monsters while watching, all filled with envy.
On the stream, Tidus saw an enormous mountain-sized Wild Boar, golden from head to toe, stomp its way to the village entrance. In just a few hits, it crushed the guards to death.
Players from Overlord Alliance, Blood Rose Garden, United Dynasty, and other major guilds were desperately throwing everything they had at the Gold Boar King, but the boss's health was absurdly thick, it barely dropped 1% per minute.
"Hm… it's her."
Among the crowd, Tidus spotted a familiar ID, Crimson Rose. In his previous life, she was a legendary figure, a core force in national wars. On top of that, she was stunningly beautiful, hailed as one of the two queens of the East Coast Server.
He didn't expect to end up in the same Novice Village as her.
"Let's hope she doesn't become an enemy. Otherwise, I'll have no choice but to crush the flower."
A faint smile curled at his lips.
While watching the stream, he continued grinding. Silvermoon Wolves were fast, had high stats, and tended to swarm in packs, making them troublesome to fight. His efficiency had dropped noticeably…
One hour passed.
Two hours passed.
Two full hours later, Tidus checked his backpack. He had finally collected 300 Moon Wolf Eyes.
The village chief's quest was complete.
During those two hours of grinding, he had killed over three hundred Silvermoon Wolves, earning about sixteen thousand experience, barely one tenth of the one hundred sixty thousand required to upgrade Blizzard Shot.
As for loot, he gained two black-iron items, three whiteboard items, 160 gold, a few potions, and one silver-quality Executioner Shoulder Guard.
Executioner Shoulder Guard (Executioner Set 1/7)
Quality: Silver
Effects: +3 Defense, +3 Agility, +10% Critical Chance
Description: A shoulder guard once worn by an executioner, stained with the blood of the innocent.
Not bad…
He didn't expect another Executioner set piece to drop. That made two pieces out of seven. With two pieces equipped, he now had the set bonus of ignoring 4 points of enemy defense.
Tidus immediately equipped the shoulder guard and opened his character panel to review his stats.
Character: Tyrant
Level: 5
Race: Dragonborn
Class: Royal Archer
Talents: Tenfold Attack Speed, Half-Dragon Bloodline, Royal Marksman
Skill: Blizzard Shot (Lv1)
Set Bonus: Ignore 4 Defense
Potential: 11 Stars
Attack: 125
Defense: 8
Health: 310
Mana: 300
Attributes:
Strength 11 (affects health, regen, and defense)
Agility 56 (affects attack speed, evasion, and movement speed; primary stat for archers)
Intelligence 19 (affects the character's magic damage, mana pool, and mana regeneration.)
Constitution 11 (affects the character's health, mana pool, resistance, and defense.)
Luck: Hidden.
Archers and assassins both belong to agility-based classes. Agility provides additional attack power, and the class characteristics are high attack, fast attack speed, and flexible movement.
However, the disadvantages are also obvious, they're too fragile.
And their resistance is very low.
After checking the attributes, Tidus glanced at the livestream again. Under the new players' successive "suicidal" attacks, the [Gold Boar King] was down to only 20% health remaining. He decisively rushed back along the original route.
In God World, Boss kills aren't determined by who has the highest damage output, but by who lands the final blow.
However, this Hidden Boss was 100% going to be Tidus's.
If anyone dared to steal it...