Chapter 62: Summoning the Silver Boss, A Desperate Dash to Level 20!

Qin Churan had not yet had the time to carefully ponder the true value of these buffs.
Right before her eyes, the venomous snake, still retaining a full eighty percent of its health bar, lunged forward.
Hastily gripping her dagger and steeling herself with a do-or-die attitude, she charged at the serpent.
"I'll fight you to the death!"
Just as Qin Churan had prepared herself to trade blows with the venomous snake, she unexpectedly discovered something astounding.
The damage dealt by a single slash of her blade was at least double what it had been just moments ago!
Slash! Slash! Slash!
-7395!
-7724!
-7498!
……
A complete combo attack left the venomous snake on the verge of death.
Faced with the snake's secondary attack, Qin Churan failed to dodge successfully. She had assumed that, based on the previous injury she sustained, certain death awaited her.
To her surprise, however, the snake's attack did not harm her in the slightest. All of the damage was completely absorbed by a layer of silver-hued shield enveloping her body!
Furthermore, the shield's value was regenerating every second at an astonishing speed!
Amidst her shock, Qin Churan regained her confidence.
Bolstered by the formidable array buffs bestowed by Lu Ming, she made quick work of the creature, effortlessly slaying this level-42 venomous snake across a nine-level gap without expending much effort!
Regaining her composure, Qin Churan turned around and stared at Lu Ming with an incredulous gaze. "How is the bonus effect of your array so powerful?"
"Is it a talent bonus? But shouldn't your account's talent belong to the summoning class?"
Qin Churan was utterly baffled.
Naturally, she could not have imagined that unlike a normal player who possessed only a single talent, Lu Ming's account boasted three talents!
Moreover, every single one of those talents was of the highest possible intensity: ten-star rank!
Lu Ming did not answer Qin Churan's question. Instead, changing the subject, he said, "Killing these monsters is useless. Our top priority is to find a way to fight our way out."
Lu Ming deliberately summoned a Undead Warrior to keep watch near the cave entrance.
Through vision sharing, he had already seen that Dragon Soul players were stationed just outside the mouth of the cave.
Therefore, the only way out was to fight their way through!
Comprehending the situation, Qin Churan realized they had been cornered in this cave by Dragon Soul.
Suddenly, inspiration struck her. "Right! I'll call for external reinforcements!"
"If only their Dragon Soul has level-50 players, surely my Godslayer guild does too?"
Lu Ming shook his head and said, "What you can think of, do you really think they didn't?"
"Why do you think they are only guarding the cave entrance instead of pursuing us inside?"
"Because this map has restrictions; messages cannot be transmitted outward."
Hearing this, Qin Churan tested it out and discovered that messages indeed could not be sent, making it completely impossible to establish contact with the outside world.
Therefore, if they wanted to escape, they would have to rely entirely on themselves!
Qin Churan knitted her delicate brows and said, "Regrettably, even with the buffs from your array, I am still no match for the Dragon Soul players."
Indeed.
Enhanced by Lu Ming's array, Qin Churan was capable of dispatching level-40-plus wild monsters that possessed little intelligence and mechanics.
However, facing that group of level-50 Dragon Soul players outside, who possessed advanced combat awareness and mechanics, she would undoubtedly lose.
After all, Lu Ming himself was only level 19.
For his array to enable a level-30 teammate to leap ten levels and slay level-40 enemies was already the absolute limit of his current stage.
To raise this ceiling, he had to break through to level 20!
A bold idea began to take shape in Lu Ming's mind.
Once he reached level 20, he would be able to equip the Bronze-tier Soul Set and simultaneously upgrade all three of his talents to Level 3!
For Lu Ming, that would represent a qualitative leap!
At that time, relying on his Undead Legion, he could launch a counter-offensive and break directly out of this venomous snake cave!
So now, a question arose.
"How can I break through to level 20 as quickly as possible?"
Looking at his current progress of level 19 with 63% experience, Lu Ming fell into a troubled contemplation.
The main issue was that being trapped in this cave, the only source of experience available to him was the surrounding level-42 venomous snakes.
"With my own strength, I simply cannot kill level-42 monsters."
Lu Ming glanced at Qin Churan and muttered, "And the level gap between her and me exceeds 10 levels. According to the mechanics of the Heavenly Abyss world, even if she beats the venomous snake down to a sliver of health and leaves the final blow for me, I won't gain a single point of experience from it..."
Qin Churan turned her head and gave Lu Ming a strange look. "What are you mumbling about?"
Lu Ming racked his brain, and suddenly, an item surfaced in his mind!
He opened his inventory and fixed his gaze on the two Silver BOSS-tier summoning scrolls resting inside!
"How much experience does a level-30 Silver BOSS give?" Lu Ming suddenly asked.
Although she had no idea what Lu Ming was planning to do, Qin Churan answered earnestly, "As it happens, I killed a level-33 Silver BOSS just yesterday. Let me check the combat log... 500,000 experience points."
"Extrapolating from that, the experience of a level-30 Silver BOSS should be somewhere between 400,000 and 450,000."
Lu Ming opened his status bar and discovered that advancing from level 19 to level 20 required a total of 2,000,000 experience points, while his current experience was locked at 1,260,000!
He was short 740,000 experience points to level up.
If Qin Churan's estimate was correct, the experience from these two Silver-tier bosses would be precisely enough for Lu Ming to reach level 20!
Originally, worried about his insufficient strength, he had planned to reach level 20 first before safely taking down these two bosses.
But now, Lu Ming had no other options left.
Without hesitation, he immediately crushed one of the scrolls.
As the scroll in his hand vanished, the next second—
Whoosh!
A patch of open space directly ahead manifested a blood-red barrier. Following that, a massive level-30 Silver-tier BOSS, the Brutal Saber-Toothed Tiger King, spawned right inside the barrier!
Seeing this, Qin Churan asked in bewilderment, "What... on earth are you trying to do?"
Lu Ming looked at Qin Churan with a steadfast gaze and said, "I have a favor to ask of you."
"Help me intercept those venomous snakes and keep them from coming over to interfere with me. Can you do that?"
Meeting Lu Ming's gaze, which held such hopeful trust in her, Qin Churan suddenly felt her entire body surge with strength.
She stared blankly into Lu Ming's eyes.
"Okay!"
"No problem, leave it to me!"
As her voice trailed off, Qin Churan gripped her dagger and darted toward the nearby venomous snakes like a phantom.
Swish, swish, swish, swish!
Employing the Art of的分身 (Clones), she unleashed several illusory duplicates to draw the aggro of all nearby venomous snakes that posed a threat to Lu Ming, utilizing clever footwork and ultimate positioning to keep them constrained.
Qin Churan's combat prowess was indeed formidable.
Seeing that Qin Churan had successfully kept the venomous snakes occupied, Lu Ming devoted his full attention to the level-30 Silver BOSS before him: the [Brutal Saber-Toothed Tiger King].
[Ding~ Please note: The Brutal Saber-Toothed Tiger King will disappear in ten minutes. Please slay the BOSS within the time limit!]
As the system prompt faded, Lu Ming cast an Appraisal skill on the BOSS.
[Brutal Saber-Toothed Tiger King] (Level-30 Silver-tier BOSS · Physical Class)
[Physical Attack Power: 3500]
[Armor: 2800]
[Magic Resistance: 2460]
[Speed: 1760]
[Qi and Blood (HP): 288,000]
[Skills: Berserk Roar (D-tier), Lethal Charge (E-tier), Fatal Rend (E-tier)...]
[Description: As the leader of the saber-toothed tiger clan, the formidable bite force possessed by the Saber-Toothed Tiger King can easily tear your body to shreds. Without sufficient strength, do not attempt to solo the Saber-Toothed Tiger King......]
As expected of a Silver-tier BOSS!
Its attributes were truly formidable beyond the ordinary!
Even a group of players in their early thirties would likely find it difficult to contend with the Saber-Toothed Tiger King!
Yet today.
At this very moment.
Before Lu Ming, a Array Strategist of merely level 19—
"You must die!"
Mid-speech, while summoning his Undead Legion, Lu Ming reached behind his back.
D-tier Sword Draw—