Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 867: Chapter 825: Out of Control!_1 Chapter 867: Chapter 825: Out of Control!_1 Victoria was not fully certain whether this black-haired zombie was a BOSS or not.

But since she has started recruiting others for help, it must be!

It has to be even if it’s not!

If she was chased around by a small elite monster, wouldn’t that be a huge embarrassment?

“Here we come!” Shuihua was the first one on the scene.

Generally, as long as conditions allowed, Victoria would have Shuihua in her team.

To such an extent that she set Shuihua as a Pinned Favorite User in her friends list.

This was a special treatment solely reserved for Shuihua, even Xiaomei was relegated to the second spot.

“Hold it off while I recruit more people!” Victoria was almost crawling.

She was so focused on this task that she didn’t have the liquor gourd she usually relied on for healing.

She had already lost 20% of her health from the previous hits, despite successful blocks, so her situation was kind of desperate.

“Hold on a little longer!

Enable the group invite, I will find you a strong henchman!”

“I can’t bear it anymore!” Victoria opened the group invite to everyone while wailing.

Shuihua could see her health bar and knew she could hold on.

She calmly invited Lance over before grabbing for her longbow to find a good vantage point.

Lance took over Shuihua’s task, rushing forward to steal the BOSS’s aggro from Victoria.

Because of the [VR Boxing King] match arrangement – although it was over now, Lance did not participate in the initial battle for the first kill in “Chang’an”.

This task fell on Roger.

But Roger, who had been skipping side tasks until now, had finally encountered an unskippable task: learn horsemanship and participate in an actual horse race.

Otherwise, his sister’s horse-riding instructor would not believe him to be Shirley’s real brother.

The exact phrase was: “Your sister is so skilled that she became a notable rider in just one year.

If you were really her brother, you shouldn’t be too bad.”

“If you are, I’ll gift you a horse as compensation.”

“But if you’re not, there’s no way I’m telling you where Shirley is.”

It’s the task of being gifted a horse.

Even for the most casual players who have no plans for combat, a horse could greatly enhance the game experience.

Thus, this task was unskippable.

And so, Roger was currently bonding with his horse.

Lance, who had found the perfect moment, rushed in swinging two swords.

He cleverly aimed for the elbow and knee of the Black Zombie – his goal is clear: limit and possibly render the Black Zombie immobile.

However, his strike diverted upon hitting the black fur and when his sword touched the knee bone, it sounded like two pieces of metal colliding!

Not to mention, the act of stealing the aggro wasn’t very effective.

Lance was forced to make a risky move by attacking from the front.

After six continuous sword slashes and a heavy slap to the face, he finally managed to grab the aggro.

Now that Victoria finally had some free time, she started to frantically invite people:

Queenie?

Come!

Room Administrator?

Come!

Viewers?

Come!

Yelang?

What are you doing here?

Nevermind…Come!

Everyone just come!

…

While Victoria invited as many as she could, the new members greeted her one by one:

“Senior Schoolgirl!”, “Yi!”, “Victoria!”, “Idol!”, “Big Sister!”…

The greetings started to give her a headache: “Stop greeting me, go fight the BOSS!”

The crowd rushed forward to attack the BOSS.

It was then that everyone realized the primary weapons used by the crowd had started to vary –

Swords were still the most common, but the proportion of those using sabers wasn’t low, most of them were standard Ringheaded Sabers.

Shuihua used a bow, and her shots were highly accurate, she even showed off her three-arrow shot skill.

It was a shame, though, because if this move were used on people, the damage would be impressive.

But against black-haired zombies with shocking defense, it had almost no effect.

In addition to that, several people were using staffs and spears, and two people were still using grass forks, either because they had grown fond of it during the closed beta or they were just going along with the anchor’s attempt at making things interesting.

Once Victoria saw a dozen people surrounding the Black Zombie, creating a crowded space, she decided it was time to halt the recruiting.

By that time, there were already 68 players in their team.

“This should be enough!

You brought this on yourselves!” Victoria felt a little triumphant watching the surrounded BOSS.

However, before her smile could fade, she saw one of the players get slapped squarely in the face by the BOSS.

The player was knocked off his feet like a bowling pin, tumbling on those behind him and screaming past Victoria.

When Victoria looked back, he was hanging from a tree, incapacitated and hanging upside down.

Seeing Victoria look back at him, he asked meekly, “Could you help me get down?”

Victoria facepalmed her way over to pull him down.

The ‘brother’ feeling embarrassed about his inability of blocking the attack, fished out the liquor gourd and chugged a few gulps down.

Feeling a lot better, he rushed back into the fight.

Victoria didn’t rush to join the fray but observed for a few seconds.

She quickly noticed a problem –

Everyone had clustered too closely around the BOSS, leaving no room to dodge incoming attacks.

They could only block the counterattacks from the BOSS or take the hits directly.

If they failed to block the BOSS’s slap, they would be sent flying, creating a “bowling” effect.

No sooner had this realization hit her than the eager ‘brother’ took another face slap.

With an “Ah!”, he was sent flying through the air.

After taking out six people, he ended up hanging from a tree again, with little health, incapacitated, and still upside-down.

He looked at Victoria sheepishly, too embarrassed to even ask for help.