The three of them were all rich second-generations. They had never suffered such hardships in their daily lives. Being able to hold on until now was already considered good willpower.
Just as Victor said, they came in with the determination to die once, not afraid of being killed by monsters, but they couldn't accept being frozen to death for nothing before even seeing a monster.
Zhou Li didn't speak, but looked at Claire: "What about you?"
"I... I, stay... stay."
Claire's teeth were chattering from the cold, but she persisted, unwilling to withdraw.
Unlike Marcus and the others, she was from a poor family, and her willpower was far beyond theirs.
Noah nodded and looked at the three of them: "I won't stop you, but you need to think carefully. If you insist on staying, I still have a certain degree of confidence in leading you to clear the instance together."
"The instance can't keep us from finding monsters all the time. I suspect this extremely cold environment is the first difficulty. Ten minutes have passed now, it should be almost time."
Marcus and the others also knew that what Noah said was very likely, but they had never suffered such hardship and really couldn't bear it anymore.
A minute later, looking at the figures of Marcus and the others slowly disappearing, Noah's expression was calm.
With his speed, he could have gone ahead, found the Orcs, and brought back any possible cold-resistant items, but Noah wasn't a nanny. His relationship with Marcus and the others was just that. He had led them to get two first clears, which was already doing his best.
Anyway, he had already decided that after entering this time, he wouldn't leave unless he cleared the instance.
"Orcs."
After walking for a while longer, just as Claire was about to give up, a fiercely burning bonfire appeared ahead, and three dark figures were sitting beside the bonfire warming themselves.
Their appearance startled the three dark figures, and they stood up abruptly.
Minotaur bodies, tall and burly figures, wrapped in thick fur.
"As expected, they are Minotaurs. It is said that Minotaurs are not that aggressive, but this is an instance, they might have been given a hate mechanism, or our identities might have been set as having a blood feud with them."
Seeing the three Minotaurs charging towards them with murderous intent without even asking, Claire sniffled and quickly analyzed.
These Minotaurs were very tall, about two meters two or three. They held the leg bones of unknown animals in their hands, and their charge was astonishing.
However, neither Noah nor Claire's expressions changed.
"Hiss~"
A white longsword, which could be called huge, appeared in Noah's hand. It was one meter seven long, with a thick and wide blade, weighing up to fifty kilograms, and was incredibly ferocious.
It was the Excellent-grade weapon he obtained from the Goblin Forest instance, a Two-Handed Greatsword.
This giant sword, which would be difficult for an Ordinary person to hold with both hands, was extremely easy in Noah's hands. He didn't even use both hands, holding the hilt with his right hand and swinging it fiercely.
At the same time, Magic Shadow Step was activated.
Noah's figure disappeared from the spot and appeared in front of the Minotaur charging the fastest. A cold light flashed, and the descending greatsword cut into the Minotaur's shoulder, then its chest, abdomen, and legs, splitting it in half as if cutting through a piece of tofu.
"Too brutal."
Noah's eyes lit up; this two-handed greatsword was perfect for him now, allowing his formidable strength to be fully utilized.
Minotaurs were worthy of the Orcs name; the tragic deaths of their companions did not scare them, and two Minotaurs with bloodshot eyes swung their tightly gripped beast bones fiercely at Noah.
However, this time, Noah did not cleanly cut them down; instead, he rapidly retreated over ten meters, plunged the two-handed greatsword into the ground, and met the two beasts bare-handed.
Occasionally, he would block their attacks with his hand.
With his current powerful physique, his defense was astonishingly strong; even if struck by a beast bone, it was only a flesh wound that would heal in no time.
It could be said that as long as he avoided vital points, Noah could stand there and let them hit him, and they might not be able to kill him.
After a while, Noah suddenly retreated, pulling out the embedded two-handed greatsword.
"Swish."
The greatsword arced, slicing the two pursuing Minotaurs in half at the waist.
"These Minotaurs have very low Spirit, around 70 in Strength, over 60 in Agility, and the highest in Constitution, over 80," Noah said after easily dealing with the three small monsters.
Claire on the side quickly took notes.
"Such exaggerated stats, besides Spirit, the other three attributes are almost comparable to the Boss thugs in Blood Battle Miller Family Fortress, right?" Claire was deeply shocked.
"Indeed, it's exaggerated."
Noah nodded: "The difficulty of the Advancement Instance is completely different from the Trial Instance."
Although the small monsters' physical attributes were only close to the Boss thugs, in a real fight, with the latter's perfected demonic skills and weapons, defeating the former would be easy.
But these were just small monsters.
One could imagine how astonishingly strong the Elite monsters and Boss would be.
"Noah, do you have confidence?" Seeing the small monsters' attributes firsthand, Claire, who had been full of confidence in Noah, also felt uncertain.
"Time is on our side," Noah said with a smile.
This instance could be described as vast with sparse beasts; they walked for half an hour before finding three waves of monsters, the third wave consisting of seven Minotaurs, including an exceptionally burly Elite monster over two meters seven tall.
After disposing of them one by one without much effort, Noah also obtained the stats for the Elite monster, the Minotaur Warrior.
Strength over 100, Agility over 90, Constitution the highest, exceeding 120.
Constitution was the highest attribute for Minotaurs, which was understandable, as a strong physique allowed them to survive in this harsh, cold land.
High Constitution meant high defense.
If Noah were using an Ordinary weapon, no matter how great his strength, against this powerful Constitution of 120, he wouldn't be able to cut very deep, and it would be better to use his own fists.