After listening to Liu Xinxin and the others.
The Dwarf King looked at Lu Ran with a doubtful gaze.
He said worriedly, “You probably don’t understand how much damage Dwarf mechanisms can do. It’s a lot. I don’t know what kind of defensive methods you have, but please, don’t even try. You really will die. Even I, right now, haven’t thought of a good way to get through. I know you human professionals have many healing classes and defensive skills. Maybe when you’re a higher level, you could try forming a large raid group, but at this stage…”
The Dwarf King didn’t continue.
But his meaning was clear enough.
He didn’t think Lu Ran could make it through right now.
Even if Lu Ran could summon a legion of the undead, that represented his combat power and had nothing to do with his own survivability.
Of course.
This was just the Dwarf King’s assumption, made without understanding Lu Ran’s abilities. It was understandable.
Anyone else would think the same way.
Lu Ran waved his hand nonchalantly and said, “Let’s begin.”
The Dwarf King hesitated, as if wanting to say something more.
He sighed and said, “How about this: I’ll open the gate first, and you can test the damage using your skeleton soldiers. Then you’ll understand.”
His aim, naturally, was still to make Lu Ran back down upon realizing the difficulty.
Lu Ran didn’t say anything more and just nodded.
Only then did the Dwarf King take a deep breath, step forward, and the hammer in his hand began to glow.
Next.
It was as if some force was urging the enormous stone gate forward.
Rumble~
It slowly opened from the middle, revealing the passageway inside.
Although the light inside was dim, luminous crystals were embedded in the walls not too far apart, so you could see clearly enough.
It was just that…
Didn’t this passageway look rather ordinary?
Contrary to the cramped, narrow dwarven tunnel Lu Ran had imagined, it was actually quite wide.
The Dwarf King seemed to see what Lu Ran was thinking.
He explained, “The mechanisms are all hidden, and there are several types. Each type deals very high damage. You can try using one of your skeleton soldiers.”
Lu Ran glanced at Zhou Wei.
He casually pulled over a skeleton soldier and, with a thought, made it wobble its way into the passage.
Lu Ran’s goal, of course, wasn’t just to test the damage of the mechanisms.
A bigger reason was to see how the mechanisms dealt their damage.
Because although any damage he received would be transferred to his summons, the pain from being hit was still very real.
Just as he was thinking about this…
Bang!
The walls on the left and right suddenly slammed together hard, like hands clapping!
In an instant, the skeleton soldier was crushed flat!
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30000
A damage number floated up from the skeleton soldier’s head.
Thirty thousand damage was enough to instantly kill a skeleton soldier.
Well, that was true for the skeleton soldiers from before.
Now.
All of Lu Ran’s summons had received a tenfold boost, and the skeleton soldier’s health had exceeded one hundred thousand.
It wouldn’t die from a single mechanism hit!
Next, the mechanism retracted, and the skeleton soldier continued forward.
Bang!
Another hit, the same mechanism.
The skeleton soldier took damage again and kept going.
After enduring four of these slams, its health was finally depleted, and it collapsed into a small pile of bones.
“See? The damage is very high. Walking all the way through, stacking the damage from all the mechanisms, without a healer to restore your health… you’re looking at at least three million damage!” The Dwarf King said to Lu Ran.
No wonder the Dwarf King thought Lu Ran couldn’t make it.
Which level 60 professional at this stage could have three million health?
The only way would be to form a large raid group with healing classes to go through together. During the whole process, the healers would need to constantly stabilize everyone’s health!
And that’s while enduring the pain from the various mechanisms while trying to cast spells!
The difficulty would be immense!
Of course, this amount of damage was just the tiniest fraction for Lu Ran.
After the Dwarf King finished speaking.
He thought Lu Ran and his group would back down upon realizing the danger, but instead, he saw relaxed and carefree expressions on the faces of Lu Ran, Liu Xinxin, and the others.
Ah?
That reaction didn’t seem right, did it?
It’s three million damage!
“Alright, no more testing. Let’s just go for it directly.” Lu Ran gritted his teeth and said.
Since he wouldn’t die anyway, he might as well just go for it.
It was just that the process probably wouldn’t be very comfortable.
Ye Hongyi and the others standing by saw the strange expression on Lu Ran’s face and couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
“Little brother, I really feel for you this time.”
“No worries, you won’t die anyway. Go for it, Lu Ran!”
“Try to move as fast as you can. It’ll mean less suffering.”
…
But Lu Ran also understood.
The damage the Dwarf King mentioned was definitely based on going through as fast as possible.
If one mechanism did thirty thousand damage, and there were other mechanisms later on, it would add up to hundreds of hits!
Clearly.
This mechanism corridor wasn’t short!
Although Lu Ran knew this was just part of a data-driven quest storyline, it was still so frustrating!
“Alright, alright, let’s just do it!” Lu Ran took a deep breath to hype himself up.
Then, with a thought.
He dismissed the legion of the undead. At the same time, he also dismissed Silulu and the Carp Spirit. The Carp Spirit wasn’t very useful at this stage anyway.
But Silulu, as a level 100 Dark Elf Queen, was an absolute ace up his sleeve at a critical moment!
Next.
Lu Ran didn’t hesitate. He stepped into the passage.
“Don’t be impulsive!” The Dwarf King hadn’t expected Lu Ran to just go for it like that!
He had already told him the damage, shown him how terrifying the mechanisms were, and he still went in. Wasn’t this just throwing his life away?
Wasn’t there something wrong with his head?
As soon as he finished speaking…
Bang!
The stone walls slammed together again, but this time, the target wasn’t a skeleton soldier—it was Lu Ran.
When the walls came together, Lu Ran’s figure was completely hidden from view!
But thankfully, in this data-driven world, as long as you don’t die, you won’t actually be crushed into a pancake.
The mechanism retreated, and Lu Ran stood there, dazed, not quite processing what had just happened.
His head was buzzing.
“Holy mother!” Lu Ran couldn’t help but yell.
It was true he wouldn’t die, and the damage was transferred to his summons, but the feeling of being slammed like that was just way too insane!
A whole new experience!
“Pfft haha… Little brother, are you okay?” Ye Hongyi was laughing hysterically and couldn’t help but shout.
“I’m fi—”
Bang!
Before Lu Ran could even finish speaking.
The stone walls slammed together again, cutting his words short.
Liu Xinxin looked between amused and exasperated, saying, “You’d better move faster. It looks like the mechanism triggers pretty frequently.”
Hearing that.
Lu Ran dared not waste another word and quickly sped up, dashing forward.
The Dwarf King, however, stood there, stunned.
He had clearly seen Lu Ran get hit twice by the wall mechanisms.
But…
He didn’t lose any health!
He was completely unharmed!
He turned his gaze towards Liu Xinxin and the others in sudden understanding. This Lu Ran, not only could he summon a legion of the undead, but his own survivability and defense were also this terrifying?
Facing dwarven mechanisms, he didn’t even lose a single point of health?
This corridor, once the sturdiest defense of the Hill Dwarves, couldn’t even scratch Lu Ran.
A human like this, who could also summon a legion of the undead—if someone provoked him, the consequences would be far too dreadful!
