Chapter 537: It Seems Like This Is the First Boss
After lighting the bonfire, Qiu Hengyang continued forward.
Ahead, he encountered more and more living corpses, though they were still scattered. Some individual corpses could be dealt with in one blow using a plunging attack.
But these seemingly insignificant minor enemies caused Qiu Hengyang a lot of trouble.
If he wasn't careful and let these living corpses slash him twice, he could see a huge chunk of his health bar drop, which was painful to watch.
Combined with the vibration feedback from his body, sometimes getting hit from behind would make Qiu Hengyang jolt violently. The sensation was absolutely agonizing...
Qiu Hengyang secretly wondered, what the hell was going on?
Where was the promised lawn-mowing game? If even the grass could take this much health with one swing, what was there to mow?!
But Qiu Hengyang kept his composure. After all, this wasn't his first time playing a VR game.
After suffering two losses, Qiu Hengyang learned to cautiously raise his shield to block the monsters' attacks. Besides, the first few minor enemies were indeed very easy, so after drinking two health potions, he managed to kill them all and arrived at a relatively spacious courtyard.
In the courtyard, a towering giant knelt on the ground, a sword embedded in his chest.
Qiu Hengyang approached the giant and noticed that the sword in its chest was emitting a faint, prompting glow. It seemed to be an interactable item.
"Hmm? What's this? NPC? Or..."
He reached out and pulled the sword from the giant's chest.
The giant stood up.
The boss battle began.
After a long and arduous struggle, Qiu Hengyang was once again sent back to the bonfire by the boss.
"F*ck this! This feels even harder than the Crystal Lizard!"
"Could this also be an area I shouldn't be in right now? But this time, the ground didn't have the words 'Turn Back' written on it?"
"Well, obviously, this shouldn't be a fight for a player at my level. I'll go explore other parts of the map instead." Qiu Hengyang muttered to himself.
The impression that Iudex Gundyr had left on Qiu Hengyang was too overwhelming, so he didn't want to face this boss again for the time being. Instead, he went down other paths to see if there were any hidden routes.
After exploring the entire starting area for a long time, getting slashed several times by minor enemies along the way, Qiu Hengyang finally reached a conclusion: It seemed like there was no other way!
Yes, after leaving the spawn point, aside from the path with the unbeatable Crystal Lizard, the only way forward seemed to lead to Iudex Gundyr...
Combining all the clues, Qiu Hengyang arrived at a very despairing conclusion.
It seemed like this was the game's first boss...
"Is this a lawn-mowing game?!"
Qiu Hengyang was shocked. This had nothing to do with a lawn-mowing game at all!
It felt more like the boss was the one mowing the lawn, taking down a player in three hits!
And Qiu Hengyang had chosen the Knight class, which started with a full set of armor. Even if it was grass, it should be the tougher kind. If the Knight was like this, what about the other classes...
Qiu Hengyang's mind was filled with curses, but he kept reminding himself to calm down.
"Calm down, calm down. Chen Mo shouldn't make such a low-level mistake. Could it be a major failure in the stat design? Or an unknown bug in the program? A special issue caused by the Pangu System?"
"But Chen Mo should have tested this himself. If the game's difficulty was this messed up, he would have noticed."
Qiu Hengyang thought it over and decided that Chen Mo wouldn't make such a basic error.
He sat by the bonfire for a while and decided to challenge the boss again.
"Alright, maybe I just entered the room wrong last time. A second try should work."
As he thought this, Qiu Hengyang returned to the courtyard where Gundyr was and stepped through the white mist gate.
As soon as he entered, he saw Gundyr charging at him again, swinging his greatsword. This time, Qiu Hengyang decided to play more aggressively. Last time, he held up his shield the whole time without doing much and got beaten down by the boss. Clearly, he needed to be more offensive this time. Maybe the boss didn't have that much health?