Online Game: My Decay Drives the Entire Server Crazy

Chapter 5: Players exploited low health to steal kills, and everyone trying to take the boss got wiped out.Lin Ye crouched in front of the Wolf King, watching this once-arrogant ultimate boss of the Novice Village lie on the ground like a dead dog, breathing feebly. He felt incredibly satisfied.

The number of viewers in the livestream had already surpassed 500,000. The comments were flying by, filled with shouts of ”Brother Ye is awesome,” ”Is the official team not going to do anything?” and ”This Talent is way too sinister.”

Lin Ye glanced at the comments, a wicked smile playing on his lips. ”Don’t be in a rush; the real show is just beginning.”

He stood up and circled the Wolf King, carefully examining the boss’s status. 1 point of Attack, 1 point of Defense, 1 point of Movement Speed, 1 point of Attack Speed, and all skills disabled—it was nothing more than a practice dummy with a health bar.

But Lin Ye didn’t plan to kill it.

If he killed it, it would respawn, and he’d have to stack the debuffs all over again. That was too much trouble. It was better to keep it around and slowly fleece it.

He opened his Talent panel and adjusted the ”Precise Neutering” mode—preserving the Wolf King’s ”Health Regen” ability, but controlling the regen speed so it was just enough to keep it from being worn down to death. This way, the Wolf King’s health would fluctuate back and forth within a fixed range; it would never die, but it would never reach full health either.

”This is what you call—a perpetual motion machine.” Lin Ye nodded with satisfaction.

Then he began to try a new way to play: manipulating the health bar.

Lin Ye applied a layer of debuff to the Wolf King, watching its health drop from 50% to 49%, and then stopped. He waited for the Wolf King to slowly regenerate back to 50%, then applied another layer of debuff, dropping it back to 49%.

He repeated this process over and over. Every time the Wolf King regenerated health, he would use the debuff to wear it down, precisely locking the health in a 0.5% fluctuation range.

At first, Lin Ye wasn’t very skilled and would occasionally apply an extra layer, letting the Wolf King’s health drop to 48%. But after a few tries, he figured out the rhythm and became incredibly steady at locking it.

And every time the health fluctuated, the Wolf King would drop items.

That’s right, it dropped items.

This was a hidden mechanism in gods domain: origin—when a boss’s health fluctuated violently during combat, there was a chance for it to drop rare materials and equipment. The more drastic and frequent the fluctuations, the higher the drop rate.

Lin Ye’s maneuver was practically exploiting a bug.

With the first fluctuation, the Wolf King dropped a piece of [Wolf King Fur].

With the second fluctuation, a [Wolf Fang Dagger] (Green) dropped.

With the third fluctuation, a piece of [Wolf Skin Leggings] (Green) dropped.

The fourth time, the fifth time, the sixth time...

In just ten minutes, Lin Ye had fleeced over a dozen pieces of equipment and materials, ranging from Green to Blue. There was even a Blue-quality [Wolf King War Boots] with quite impressive stats.

”Holy crap! You can fleece a boss like this?!”

”This is so unscrupulous! Using the boss as an ATM?”

”I’m convinced. Brother Ye’s maneuver makes him the grandmaster of fleecing!”

”Official team, fix this now! How are others supposed to play?”

Lin Ye looked at the comments and smiled even more happily. Fix it? The official team couldn’t even check his Talent data, so how could they fix anything?

He continued to fleece, and the Wolf King continued to drop. After another ten minutes, his inventory was stuffed with over thirty pieces of equipment and materials, from Green to Blue, and even a Purple-quality [Wolf King Necklace]!

[Wolf King Necklace] (Purple · Rare)

Level Requirement: Level 8

Stats: Strength +15, Agility +10, Critical Rate +5%

Special Effect: Deals an additional 10% damage to beast-type monsters.

Purple equipment!

This was the highest quality equipment possible in the Novice Village, and there were barely any in the entire server. Lin Ye checked the stats and satisfied, he put it on.

Just as he was preparing to continue fleecing, a sudden sound of footsteps came from the entrance of the lair.

Lin Ye looked back and saw three players in novice gear peeking inside. Leading them was a warrior with the ID ”Overlord War God,” followed by a mage and a priest. All three had decent equipment; they were clearly big spenders.