【I don't know if your luck is good or bad.】
【If we say you have bad luck, Xuan Liu is ranked sixth, so he isn't in the Xiantian Rank. But if we say you have good luck, this Xuan Liu is the strongest of all the Houtian Rank Dark Dragon Guards.】
【Besides, Xuan Liu is a veteran player. He's even cleared a Three-Star Daily Dungeon once!】
【Generally speaking, players who have cleared Three-Star Daily Dungeons rarely get matched into One-Star difficulty dungeons, so Xuan Liu is highly likely carrying a novice.】
【You're so pitiful, OP.】
【Oh, right. Xuan Liu has a special talent called Two-Way Transfer.】
【Through physical contact, he can transfer his own Death Lock to another player, or transfer another player's Death Lock onto himself. It can only be used once per person per dungeon run, with a two-day cooldown.】
【He also owns a permanent specter item: the Vanity Mirror!】
【After grooming himself in front of the mirror, he can hide his real body inside the specter mirror and leave a phantom outside. The phantom can substitute for his death once.】
【Only after the phantom dies will his real body emerge from the mirror. The cooldown seems to be five days, meaning if the dungeon duration doesn't exceed five days, he can only use it once.】
【By the way, this phantom inherits all of his Death Locks. Once it's killed, the Death Locks disappear with it. However, it doesn't have any means of attack, so you can kill it easily without worry.】
【As for what consumable specter items he has on him, I'm not sure about that.】
Zuo Lin'an massaged his temples. He hadn't expected Xuan Liu to be this formidable.
Furthermore, this person had easily guessed that Xuan Liu was carrying a novice. But on second thought, it made sense. For a player who had cleared a Three-Star dungeon to match into a One-Star dungeon, wasn't that just a total stomp?
As for the others...
【The top scorer of the imperial examinations, Zeng Qiuning? I don't think I've heard of him. He shouldn't be anyone impressive. Just keep a slight eye on him, OP.】
【I know about Zhuang Feiyin. Because of her cold and ethereal beauty, I heard she was pursued by several men in a previous dungeon. Those men ended up killing each other in the dungeon, and they all died.】
【As for whether she has any talents or specter items, I don't know. Most likely not.】
【This Li Tie isn't anyone special himself, but he's a soldier of the Northern Pacification Army. There is a general in the Northern Pacification Army named Zhang Shenli. You must know who that is, right, OP?】
Zuo Lin'an was somewhat surprised. Li Tie was actually a soldier under Zhang Shenli's command.
And this Zhang Shenli was actually a general!
He hadn't seen this detail in the previous bounty thread for Zhang Shenli.
【What do those even count as?】
【If you ask me, the one most likely to clear this is definitely Tang Jianghe. Don't be fooled by how honest and submissive that old geezer looks; his heart is blacker than coal.】
【If you don't watch out for this guy, OP, be careful not to capsize in a calm river.】
【He has a special talent: Speak into Reality!】
【As long as what he says is logical, it will become reality. However, he will fall into a deep sleep afterward. The grander the statement, the longer he sleeps, though the maximum sleep duration won't exceed twelve hours. Still, this talent cannot create objects! The cooldown is three days.】
Someone replied below.
【A maximum sleep of only twelve hours? Doesn't that hard-cap the upper limit of this talent? Anything that would require a sleep of more than twelve hours cannot be realized.】
【Thank goodness he can't create objects. Otherwise, he could just say he wants a specter item. Even the worst specter item is still a specter item, which could be used to strike us poor bosses at a critical moment.】
Zuo Lin'an read through the replies one by one with a serious expression.
The ones everyone discussed the most were Xuan Liu and Tang Jianghe, followed by Zhuang Feiyin. As for the others, no one had much interest in them.
Once he had a general understanding of these players' information, he solemnly thanked these kind souls in the thread and then went back to focusing on observing the players.
Having learned that one person had already died in such a miserable state, none of them dared to wander around aimlessly now.
One by one, they huddled close to the bonfire.
Zuo Lin'an paid special attention to the Dark Dragon Guard member, Xuan Liu.
The person who posed the greatest threat to him right now was actually this man—a player who had already cleared a Three-Star dungeon!
Zuo Lin'an felt that this man absolutely had a specter item in his possession that could directly repel specters.
Moreover, his own 【Withered Leaf】 had fallen into Tang Wanrong's hands.
Since he had crafted the specter item himself, he was naturally very clear about its effects.
It could be used twice.
It could block one of a specter's death executions and guaranteed a hundred percent chance to evade the specter's next attack.
In other words, if he wanted to kill Tang Wanrong, he would have to use up at least two attacks to break the effect of this specter item.
But if he wanted to attack her, he would definitely have to avoid Xuan Liu.
However, Xuan Liu never left Tang Wanrong's side. Zuo Lin'an would have to get rid of Xuan Liu first before he could make a move on Tang Wanrong.
As for the other players.
The three commoners did not look like they had the spine to actively fight against a specter, so they did not require much attention.
Keeping them alive for now to serve as consumables to trigger the effects of the 【Withered Leaf】 later would be a good plan.
The ones he needed to pay extra attention to were actually Zhuang Feiyin and Li Tie.
“Hmm... Xuan Liu is too difficult to deal with. I definitely can't have anyone interfering when I face him.”
To put it nicely, Zhuang Feiyin was chivalrous; to put it bluntly, she was a busybody. Once he made a move on Xuan Liu, Zhuang Feiyin would definitely not stand idly by.
As for Li Tie?
He was currently taking orders from Xuan Liu. If Xuan Liu commanded him, he would definitely take action as well.
“Therefore, I must first kill Zhuang Feiyin, who loves playing the hero, and Li Tie, the soldier who follows orders. As for the civil official Zeng Qiuning and Tang Jianghe...”
Zuo Lin'an thought about it and decided to wait and see.
When he killed Zhuang Feiyin and Li Tie in a moment, he would see how they reacted. If there was any unusual behavior, it wouldn't be too late to adjust his plan.
He was currently hesitating on who would be better to kill first between Zhuang Feiyin and Li Tie.
Li Tie was the weakest, but if he killed Li Tie first...
Zhuang Feiyin, with her helpful nature, would definitely step in to assist.
But if he killed Zhuang Feiyin first... Hmm?
That's right, killing her first was indeed the best choice.
Although Zhuang Feiyin was a member of the orthodox path and valued loyalty, at the end of the day, she was still a martial artist of the jianghu.
On the other hand, the other eight players—excluding the three commoners—were basically all part of the imperial court's faction.
Furthermore, although Xuan Liu was very dangerous, he was ultimately here on the emperor's orders to protect Tang Wanrong.
This meant that as long as Tang Wanrong was safe, he would not act rashly.
Therefore, if he targeted Zhuang Feiyin first, no one would actually step up to help her.
Though it was somewhat cruel, this was reality.
While Zuo Lin'an was brainstorming how to deal with this group of players, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
This was way too troublesome!
Previously, he had thought that after becoming a Human-Specter Symbiont dungeon boss, he would be able to go on a killing spree, slaughtering these players one by one like slicing vegetables.
But only after actually becoming a dungeon boss did he realize...
It was so hard!
If luck was against you, the players you encountered would really be more difficult to handle than the last.
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