Free Web NovelChapter 739: Chapter 261: The Strange Off-field Skill
minutes, according to Ree Shil’s usual experience, was more than enough.
Not counting the final Boss, the time he needed to clear ten levels was, on average, 2 hours.
That’s 120 minutes.
Distributed across each level, it would be 12 minutes.
Of course, more troublesome event missions were excluded.
Like the mining mission with the Stone-eating Beast last time, he spent quite a while digging.
And the Kung Fu Tower before that, it took nearly 2 hours just to climb the mountain to the base of the tower.
The first gate is often the level with the most little monsters.
Adding the time spent on selecting inscriptions and cards, 20 minutes was just about right.
"It’s better to hurry just in case."
Not intending to delay, he stepped forward through the seawater.
Soon, he saw the first little monster in this level.
Its appearance was quite unique, resembling a flower or a lantern.
From its upward-facing mouth, a large bunch of soft transparent tentacles stretched out.
The tentacles were covered with tiny thorn-like structures, defying gravity as they extended upwards, swaying gently.
Ree Shil could roughly recognize what this creature was, or at least what it looked like.
It was an anemone, and a gigantic one at that.
The seawater obscured its red light warning circle, making it less obvious.
But even if he couldn’t see it, it didn’t matter, because the light circle was so large that it covered the entire road.
Unless he swam around it, he would definitely touch the light circle and trigger a battle.
Considering the air wall and the time limit, it was clear that taking a detour was impossible.
Moreover, Ree Shil hoped that every little monster would come to find him on their own because killing more little monsters meant having more options in their card pool.
Hum!
As soon as he stepped into the light circle, the card table unfolded immediately.
"As I thought, even if the card game is triggered, the time limit still keeps going."
Glancing at the sky, he was somewhat helpless.
He quickly set up his card deck, and the battle began.
Whoosh! x3
Three beams of light fell on the opposite card grid, revealing the anemone projection.
This was a 3VS9+1 card game.
"What the heck is this?"
When he saw the face of these three identical monster cards, he was a bit dumbfounded.
[Time-Eating Anemone]
Listening to the Wind, Attack 10, 500/500, 0/3
[Devouring Time - Passive]: For every round the Time-Eating Anemone exists, time is reduced by 3 seconds
points of attack power, very garbage. freёweɓnovel.com
health points, surprisingly high.
This was the most health he had seen for a little monster in the first gate of the Zero Checkpoint so far.
But with low attack power, even high health was useless.
Just bringing any healing card or not having a healing card at all would be enough to defeat them.
The problem was their skill, which left him speechless.
"Reducing time by 3 seconds" meant what?
Undoubtedly, it meant that his countdown would be reduced by 3 seconds.
"This is the first time I’ve encountered a PVE card that involves external factors."
"And the name of this card is quite unpleasant."
"Don’t they know my last name is Shi?"
Time-Eating Anemones, living for one round, would deduct his countdown by 9 seconds.
To take down one anemone, his Kung Fu Card Set with 300 points of DPS would take more than one round.
He roughly calculated that it would take about 4~5 rounds to take them down.
At the end of the first round, 9 seconds would be deducted.
At the end of the second round, 6 seconds would be deducted.
At the end of the third round, 3 seconds would be deducted.
At the fourth round, the battle would end.
In this way, 18 seconds would be lost.
Going back and forth, considering the time spent on the card table, wouldn’t it take more than 2 minutes?
After discovering this problem, he quickly took action.
Then, in the first round of card actions, he quickly set up autopilot mode.
The autopilot mode was fully automatic, saving him from wasting time on mechanical operations.
[Squeeze...]
When the last anemone monster was killed, 149+18=167 seconds, or 2 minutes and 47 seconds, had been used up.
[Please choose the inscription you need]
Just as the card table finished retracting, three panels popped up in front of him.
Ree Shil didn’t even have time to take a closer look, and it took him only 1 second to choose the only Balance Inscription.
Then, he started running right away.
"4 rounds to end the battle, and it still took almost 3 minutes."
"I never realized before that playing PVE would be so time-consuming."
"If I didn’t use the autopilot, it would take even longer."
"Usually, there are 3 to 5 waves of little monsters in the first gate. I hope there are only 3 in this one."
"And I hope this road isn’t too long."
Running, Ree Shil looked into the distance.
Heavy rain formed a curtain of water, obscuring his view, and he couldn’t see where the end was.
But one has to admit, he was quite looking forward to it.
He was expecting that the Time-Eating Anemone he had just encountered would become a selectable card, and what form would it take.
After all, there’s no way that a card involving external factors would appear on a PVP card table, right?
What would it be like?
『Time Devouring - Passive』: For each round the Time-Eating Anemone exists, the opposing card player’s life span is reduced by 3 seconds?
"Hahaha..."
Imagining up to this point, Ree Shil felt it was too hilarious.
If it were really such a card, it would undoubtedly be taunting even without the[Taunt]effect.
Hum!
Just as he was deep in thought, the card table suddenly unfolded in front of him.
"Damn, the rain is so heavy that I stepped into the light circle without even seeing the little monster."
He grumbled as he began to quickly arrange his cards.
