Chapter 706: Dragonlight Shatter (1/2)
Buzz!
Golden light surged toward the sky as a pair of translucent wings appeared behind my back before vanishing into my armor. Visually my avatar hadn’t changed whatsoever, but Resurrection Art was definitely online. The boss would have a much harder time to kill me now.
I pressed my sword to the King of Strange Beasts’ weak point and unleashed Burning Blade Slash, deleting an entire chunk of HP. However, it continued to ignore me and channel Stampede of the Hundred Beasts almost as if it knew that I would die as long as it kept this up. Certainly, I couldn’t withstand its ultimate for more than 10 seconds even with the Armored Ice Qilin Horse empowering me.
Crack crack...
My body shook like a leaf as countless blue energies penetrated my body. Finally, I died where I stood!
However, I received a system notice saying that I had come back to life. It was Immortality that revived me back to life!
At this point, I threw all caution to the wind and attacked its weak point with everything I got. After all the trouble it put me through today, I swore I was going to cut down the animal no matter what!
Stampede of the Hundred Beasts continued to impact my body until finally, I died a second time. This time I wasn’t lucky enough to trigger the passive revival, so I had no choice but to revive myself at the cost of a level. The moment I did so, a golden light flew away from my body and vanished into the sky. God dammit, an entire Level worth of experience was gone just like that!
I continued hacking away at the boss's weak point until it was an unrecognizable mess of flesh and blood. The size of the weak point also grew as more and more dragon scales fell off. In pain, the boss's bloodcurdling screams resounded non-stop inside the canyon.
Swhoosh swhoosh...
Another two animalistic energies penetrated my body and deleted more than half of my 130k health pool in an instant. It wasn’t long before I died again without triggering Immortality, and was forced to revive myself at the cost of one Level!
Luckily, Resurrection Art kept me from losing my equipment, and since my death wasn’t a ”true” death I didn’t even need to reapply my buffs. The Armored Ice Qilin Horse and I simply rose back to our feet and hacked away at the boss's weak point like zombies. Speaking of which, the Phantom Wolf King had died and returned to the pet space a long time ago, and behind me Beiming Xue and Moonlight Stone had dropped a pair of boots and a necklace each. It looked like the girls were even unluckier than me today, seeing as they had dropped an equipment upon death.
……
Inside the party channel, He Yi asked me, ”How is it going, Lu Chen?”
”I died three times and lost two levels…”
”...”
Beiming Xue said encouragingly, ”Big bro, we’ll be there in three minutes, so hang on…”
……
I didn’t stop swinging my sword while I was chatting with the girls as a matter of course. The good news was that Stampede of the Hundred Beasts only lasted about 120 seconds or so, and I finally triggered Immortality again when I died for the fourth time, reviving at no cost to myself!
”Roar roar!”
After the King of Strange Beasts had done channeling its ultimate, it let out an angry roar and attempted to gore me with its horns. God damn, this motherfucker had used its Dragonblade Pierce immediately after it used its ultimate. How bullshit was that? Of course I couldn’t let it get the better of me, so I crossed my sword in front of me and used Guard. I was the only player in the area, so I didn’t need to worry about OT.
Bang bang bang!
A ripple spread around my body every time I took a hit. It looked like a full Guard was stronger than a magic knight’s Holy Shield because I only lose 30k HP or so after the attack. It was within my ability to withstand for sure.
I raised my hand and used the God Binding Art!
Four divine weapons fell from the sky and surrounded the boss, forming a barrier.This time, it shackled the near berserk boss almost perfectly. Finally, after failing to take effect countless times in the past, God Binding Art finally worked on the boss. Maybe it was because it had lost too much health, or maybe it was because a huge hole had appeared in its defenses. It didn’t matter. What mattered was that God Binding Art had bought me some much needed breathing room and reduced my chances of dying again. After all, who in their right mind would want to lose a level if they had any other choice? If this boss wasn’t a legendary Heaven Rank super boss, I would’ve invincible teleported back to the main city a long time ago! I would gladly surrender my role to anyone who was willing to throw their Level away like it was nothing!
……
While the boss was immobilized, I moved as far away as I could before tossing Dragon Slaying Slashes toward its head. After all the damage I did, its HP had dropped to 8% or so. It was very close to passing through death’s door now.
Not far behind me, reinforcements had finally arrived. It was He Yi and Murong Mingyue riding together on one horse. The Dragonlight Armored Horse was swift, so He Yi brought Murong Mingyue over first. It was the right decision because a priest was exactly what we needed to guarantee our survivability.
”Let’s go!”
I let out a chuckle and raced toward the boss again.
Two minutes later, Beiming Xue and Moonlight Stone returned as well. With Freezing Arrows, Ice Dragon Howls and more crowd control skills reducing the boss's mobility, our inevitable victory became even more secure.
The King of Strange Beasts kept roaring angrily, but there wasn’t really anything it could do to threaten us. Both He Yi and I were top-tier main tanks were a ridiculous amount of HP and Defense, and as powerful as it was it lacked the ability to one-shot either of us. If we were a normal Level 140 hundred-man party, the King of Strange Beasts could’ve one-shot the frontliners again and again before their priests a chance to heal them. At the very least, Dragonblade Pierce would be one-shot one-kill as there were less than 10 players who could tank a full Dragonblade Pierce in Sky City right now.
Time passed little by little. When the boss's HP dropped to 1%, He Yi abruptly pulled away and said, ”Beiming, Moonlight Stone, stop. If Lu Chen kills this boss we’ll get more equipment and reward, and he needs the experience to restore the levels he lost anyway!”
The two girls nodded and backed away in unison. Murong Mingyue was the only one who stayed behind to heal me.
It was at this moment I triggered the Cyan Netherworld Sword’s passive, Cyan Netherworld Divine Dragon again. This was the 12th time the passive triggered throughout this entire boss fight, and it was the strike that deleted the boss's final sliver of HP!
Boom!
The ferocious boss let out a furious scream as the draconic soul ravaged its gigantic body. It finally collapsed to the ground and died!
Swhoosh swhoosh swhoosh!
I leveled up 3 times in a row, and the girls in my party at least once. That was one helluva increase in experience. Not only did I recoup the 2 levels I lost, I was sitting at Level 158 right now!
He Yi then said to me with a smile, ”Lu Chen, why don’t you see what the boss dropped? It should’ve dropped a ton of equipment knowing your Luck stat.”
However, my heart turned ice cold when I kicked away the boss's legs and checked the loot beneath them. ”It looks like my Luck didn’t work this time. I only see three items...”
”What…?” Even He Yi sounded a bit speechless.
There were three pieces of equipment lying on the ground. The first equipment was a metal armor helmet shining a bloody light, the second equipment was a spiky longhammer shining a rainbow light, and the last equipment was a red necklace with an intimidating gleam. I wondered what was the history behind these equipment?