"The boss spawned!"
With a shout of surprise.
Lin Mo looked back, and sure enough he saw, deep inside Herb Valley, a gigantic man-eating flower with three heads and three bloody maws refresh in a clearing.
The players were fired up.
"Everyone get out of my way! I saw this boss first, it's mine!"
"What are you even looking at! Why don't you say you're the one who spawned it too?"
"Stop yapping! Whoever takes it down first, it belongs to them! Strength decides everything!"
From all directions, countless players grabbed their newbie swords charged toward the Man-eating Flower Boss.
Clearly everyone knew how valuable a level 5 boss was in the early stage.
This was the key to pulling far ahead of other players and getting close to the top ten on Yunbian Town's level-rush ranking, to win at least ten thousand and at most a hundred thousand in prize money.
However, they only saw how high the boss's value was. They completely ignored how trash their own strength was.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
The Man-eating Flower Boss kept spitting green slime from its mouths, attacking the players who tried to get close.
Splat!
Splat!
-78!
-77!
The insanely high damage meant that every single player who got hit was instantly killed without exception.
After all, every player only started with 3 Constitution.
In the early stage, no player would waste their level-up stat points on Constitution.
Even if every level automatically added +1 to each of the five main stats, a level 3 player only had 6 Constitution, which translated into 60 HP.
Obviously they could not withstand the Man-eating Flower Boss's damage.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Beams of white light shot one after another.
Only then were the players' charging steps scared to a halt.
"Holy crap! The damage is that high!"
"Holy shit! I can't even take one hit! Show your face and you're killed?"
"Brothers, you guys go! I'm out, I'll give this boss to you!"
"Thank you so much! There really are still good people in this world!"
The players were all dumbfounded and no longer dared approach rashly.
After all, even with Divine Oracle's setting that players are under newbie protection before level 10, each death still loses 10% of your current level's EXP.
Go back and forth from the novice village like that, and at least half an hour would be totally wasted.
While the players were helpless in the face of this high-damage level 5 boss, only daring to watch from afar and not play up close, from the crowd, a lone figure broke away and walked straight toward the Man-eating Flower Boss.
Immediately, everyone's gaze focused on this early bird.
With the effects and glow hidden, the gold-quality [World-Shatter · Flowing Light Sword] and the orange-quality Newbie Pants looked no different from ordinary white-quality newbie sword and newbie pants.
When the onlookers saw that this early bird was also just a newbie scrub in full newbie gear like them, mocking voices instantly rose from the crowd.
"So there really is someone who isn't afraid of dying?"
"Young man, if you don't have the strength, don't pretend to be tough. Just stay put obediently like us and wait for some high-tier talent powerhouse or a whale to come and clean up."
"If you don't listen to your elders, you'll suffer right in front of your eyes. Really a brat who doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick the earth is."
Lin Mo was all about doing his own thing.
He completely ignored the cold ridicule around him.
As he walked toward the Man-eating Flower Boss, he tossed out a Detection.
Man-eating Flower Boss, level 5 boss, 80 Attack, 40 Defense, 810 HP.
Aside from its base stats being slightly higher than normal man-eating flowers, it also had a skill: Liquid Corrosion (spits corrosive liquid at enemies, dealing 110% Attack as damage and applying 3 seconds of Corrosion, dealing damage equal to 8% of this damage per second).
For ordinary level 3-ish players at this stage, this boss showing up now was indeed a calamity.
But for Lin Mo, already level 5 and holding a gold weapon and orange armor, it was nothing worth mentioning.
As soon as Lin Mo entered attack range—
Liquid Corrosion!
Splat!
The Man-eating Flower Boss opened its bloody maw and spat a glob of green slime straight at Lin Mo.
Relying on the extra 20 Agility from the gold weapon Flowing Light Sword, and his total of 28 Agility, Lin Mo leaped aside and dodged the attack in a flash.
This scene actually made the onlookers a bit surprised.
"He actually dodged the Man-eating Flower Boss's attack?"
"Tch! Just luck! Even if he dodged once, can he dodge twice?"
Right as a four-eyed kid watching the fun finished his sentence.
Whoosh!
Lin Mo tilted his body to the side and easily missed the Man-eating Flower Boss's second round of ranged attack.
Four-eyes froze for a moment.
Then he snorted coldly again with disdain, "So what if he can dodge? The key is whether he can hit hard. In this world, strength is what counts!"
As soon as he finished, Lin Mo quickly closed in on the Man-eating Flower Boss.
Slash!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
With the blessing of 28 Agility, he swung his sword and unleashed a rapid combo.
The next second, damage numbers that shocked everyone popped up above the Man-eating Flower Boss's head one after another: -90!
-135 (Crit)!
-135 (Crit)!
With super high Agility, not only was Lin Mo's movement fast, his attack speed was high and his crit rate was insane too.
In just a few swings, he had nearly chopped off half of the Man-eating Flower Boss's HP.
From the crowd came a unified gasp of cold air.
"What the hell is this damage?"
"Holy crap! Is this guy using hacks?"
"At first glance I thought he was just some scrub, didn't expect him to be a hidden big shot!"
While the players were passionately discussing, Lin Mo took a bite from the Man-eating Flower Boss at close range and lost 28 HP.
Then he quickly swung his sword again and easily finished off the Man-eating Flower Boss.
[Ding～ You killed level 5 boss Man-eating Flower Boss, EXP +800, Reputation +3!]
One boss was equivalent to the EXP of 20 normal monsters of the same level.
'So satisfying!'
Boom!
With a loud crash, the massive body of the Man-eating Flower Boss fell heavily to the ground.
Clatter!
A small pile of loot rolled off its corpse.
At the same time, the players watching were getting restless.
But Lin Mo seemed to have expected this.
He didn't say a word.
Slash!
He suddenly stabbed the Flowing Light Sword he had just used to kill the Man-eating Flower Boss into the ground.
This movement clearly expressed to the surrounding players:
'Whoever dares to come and steal the loot, I'll kill whoever it is.'
Intimidated by Lin Mo, the players around who were drooling over the boss's loot, in the end, no one dared move.
After all, they had seen with their own eyes how strong Lin Mo was.
In their minds, a player of this level definitely had extremely high status and background in the real world as well.
If they offended such a big shot for the sake of some petty profit and ended up being kill-on-sight across the whole server, it would not be worth it.
So, under everyone's gaze, Lin Mo slowly picked up all the loot.
[Ding～ You picked up 3 silver coins and 25 copper coins!]
[Ding～ You picked up E-tier Skill Book · Poisoning!]
[Ding～ You picked up Tier 1 · blue equipment Highly Poisonous Ring!]
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