Chapter 1082: A Poisonous Dance (1/2)

”Hiss hiss…”

The Scorpion King’s face was ugly enough, but it also had 6 eyes that could spin all the way around. Its mouth was also filled with tiny needles and seven rows of sharp teeth. It was incredibly scary. The white foam dripping down its mouth was obviously its trademark venom. The tiniest contact with this thing could probably kill most things with ease.

Talons pressing against wet soil, the Ancient Divine Dragon backed away under my command while I scanned the boss with Dark Pupils. As I thought, the monsters at the borderland of the continent were of much higher level than any mob within Sky City domain, and that included the bosses—

Scorpion King (Immortal Rank Boss)

Level: 245

Attack: 24500~33000

Defense: 30000

HP: 35,000,000

Skills: Sting Attack, Venom Dance, Venom Mist

Introduction: The Scorpion King is one of the terrors of Iron Skull Wilderness and the king of the Venomous Scorpions. A single drop of its venom is enough to kill an adult Giant Dragon. Once, one of human leaders, Fia, sent 10000 elite soldiers to Iron Skull Wilderness to slay the Scorpion King, only to lose them all to its deadly mist. For tens of thousands of years, the Scorpion King ruled the Venomous Scorpions and a corner of Iron Skull Wilderness unchallenged.

……

I pursed my lips as I read its description. Heavens, this Scorpion King was at least an entire league ahead of most of the bosses I had encountered up until this point. With a base Attack of 33000 and god knows how much more hidden stat boosts granted by the system because of its boss status, I fully expected this monstrosity to give me a lot of trouble.

Swhoosh swhoosh!

I activated Great Earth Transformation. This was the type of fight one could not afford to spare Divine Energy Points.

I also activated undead energy, coating the translucent blade of the Purple Ying Sword in a sheen of red light. The Scorpion King was a living creature, so it should take extra damage from undead energy. Also, I refreshed my Venomous Scorpion Card to increase my poison resistance. Obviously, I would die way faster without it.

Finally, I summoned my apparition to join the battle. The three of us should be able to pose quite the threat to the boss.

”Let’s go!”

I let out a battle cry and charged toward the boss, tentatively firing Thousand Ice Slash when it was still 20 yards away. Thousands and thousands of icy blades immediately crashed onto the boss's body!

Boom!

Unfortunately, not only did the skill fail to freeze the Scorpion King, it only dealt 48992 damage. Its tough, black carapace gave it ridiculously high Defense, so much so that my damage was greatly diminished even with the improved Purple Ying Sword and Ancient Divine Dragon. This meant that I must locate and strike at its weak point as soon as possible, or I would most likely lose a battle of attrition.

The Scorpion King let out a screech of pain before skittering toward me with its six limbs at high speed. When it opened its mouth, a pitch black and obviously poisonous needle flew straight toward me. It was its first skill, Sting Attack!

Chiang!

I swung my sword and parried the skill successfully, but I still suffered over 70k damage, and my sword arm numbed temporarily. As expected, parries were almost useless against a Level 245 Immortal Rank boss. That being said, I would’ve suffered at least 100k damage from the skill if I hadn’t done it.

I raised the Dragon God Shield and charged again. At the same time, I raised my arm and executed God Binding Art. Unfortunately, it failed to do anything except create a big string of characters above the boss’s head, and they read “MISS”. Worse, I wasn’t able to locate a single weak point on its body with Dark Pupils. Even the eyes and the mouth didn’t count as weak points.

Chiang!

I tried Burning Blade Slash next and fired three flaming auras at the Scorpion King. They engulfed the boss, but dealt a less-than-encouraging amount of damage—

45920!

59282!

73767!

This couldn’t continue. The Scorpion King’s Defense was just too high. At this rate, it would take forever to kill it! The Scorpion King attacked!

Swhoosh! As the Scorpion King raised its hook-like telson, its stinger suddenly spun rapidly like a top. Then, it pierced my shoulder so fast that I wasn’t even able to react to it, inflicting a mind-numbing sensation and a disgusting amount of damage—

172388!