Reign of the Hunters

Chapter 61: The Beginning of the End

Ice covered everything as far as the eyes could see, transforming the depressing atmosphere of the dungeon into an enchanting scenery.

Ye Ci and a few ranged players were the only ones who survived the wave of frost, while the rest of the party were frozen solid. Their HP dropped rapidly under the effect of frost damage.

"Those Clerics who aren't frozen, hurry up and heal!" shouted Little Dan, who had not expected something like this to happen.

The Cleric who previously casted a healing spell was already frozen solid. Cherry Blossom was the only healer left among those players who could still move. She was standing not far away from Ye Ci, and she immediately raised her staff and chanted a spell slowly after hearing the order from Little Dan. It was the Novice Mass Light Healing.

Ye Ci was very familiar with the spell. As a veteran Human Sorceress, she spent most of her time dealing with Clerics. She could tell the skill that a Cleric was releasing just by looking at the character's action while casting the spell. But what surprised Ye Ci was the fact that Steel-Blooded Battle Spear managed to acquire a skill book for that healing skill.

Novice Mass Light Healing: Randomly heals a small amount of health of 8 random teammates within a 20 yards radius of the caster. Casting time: 5 seconds, cool down: 8 seconds

Most Clerics in the earlier stages of the game do not have any AOE healing spell. A mass healing spell is the deciding factor of a party's survivability and endurance.

But it was not the case this time.

The problem here was that if Cherry Blossom casted any healing spell, she would be the next to get frozen, along with the players within a 15 yards radius of her position.

"Cherry, don't heal..." Ye Ci immediately tried to stop her.

Little Dan exploded angrily, "Don't tell me you're just going to let them die? Gongzi You, where's your team spirit? Don't you know there's a death penalty?"

Cherry Blossom looked at Ye Ci with doubt in her eyes, and the latter sent her a private message, "Drink a large health potion later."

Cherry Blossom was alarmed. She understood that something bad would happen to her. As she was about to stop the incantation, Little Dan roared in anger, "Cherry, hurry up and heal them up!"

Her long term obedience kicked in and she continued casting the spell.

Knowing that it was impossible to stop Cherry Blossom from casting the spell, Ye Ci roughly calculated the distance between Cherry Blossom and herself and darted away. Cherry Blossom let out a surprised yelp just as Ye Ci stopped 15 yards away from her.

Just as expected, Cherry Blossom was frozen along with the players around her.

"Phew, that's peculiar." a lost gasp entered Ye Ci's ears. She turned around, and noticed that a Rogue had also managed to escape the freeze's area of effect.

Ye Ci was slightly surprised. She had not expected someone to have retreated away from the freeze's area of effect. She did it out of her past life's experience. So what caused the Rogue to have the same reaction? The Rogue grinned at her, "Heh, Gongzi You, we meet again."

The person was an Undead Rogue with ashen skin and withered limbs. His sunken eye sockets hid his pitch-black eyes. The Rogue was able to catch up with Ye Ci despite his small build, meaning that he was a full-Agility Rogue.

Ye Ci initially felt that he was somewhat familiar-looking and realized that he was the only Rogue who have not left the party when she led the first squadron to secure the Automaton Formation First Five.