Chapter 210 – Slaughter Fiend Medallion (Thief) (1/2)
Chapter 210 – Slaughter Fiend Medallion (Thief)
Nie Yan was absolutely confident in his ability to kill a Scaled Frog. After leveling up, his speed had increased a lot, and he could completely disregard even a Lord-class Scaled Frog. Now that there was only a one-level gap between them, he could do massive damage to it on his own.
Under the cover of stealth, Nie Yan crept up to a Lord-class Scaled Frog until he was only ten meters away. The monster still hadn’t noticed Nie Yan, who then scanned it with Transcendent Insight.
Scaled Frog (Lord): Level 30
Health: 50,000/50,000
Nie Yan estimated that it would only take twenty minutes for him to whittle down this Scaled Frog’s health with his current damage output. Back when Tang Yao had first taken down one of these, it had taken him a full ten hours. Although his lower level and damage output at the time was part of this disparity, no Mage’s cast speed could compare to the rapid-fire offense of a Thief like Nie Yan. Additionally, Nie Yan could now induce high amounts of continuous damage using the Splitting Edge to cause bleed and the Scarlet Poison Ring to inflict poison. With these items, just a casual attack could cause an enemy to lose 50 hitpoints per second, which would increase to more than 70 or even 80 health per second when stacked with a bleed skill like Eviscerate. Just the continuous damage alone would take a huge chunk of the boss’s health. Unlike attack damage, continuous damage ignored defense. This made it especially effective on high-level monsters with tough defenses.
“You be careful then,” Yao Yao fretted. She was worried about his safety.
“Don’t worry.” With a faint curve of his mouth, Nie Yan snuck up behind the Lord-class Scaled Frog. The monster had just felt something and was about to turn around to investigate when Nie Yan suddenly rushed at him with a burst of speed and struck out with a Concussive Blow.
The Scaled Frog froze, having been stunned for a couple of seconds.
Nie Yan’s dagger stabbed into the monster’s back with an Eviscerate, cutting it open and causing blood to spurt out.
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A stream of damage values floated up from the Scaled Frog’s head. First came the damage from his attack, followed by bleed from Splitting Edge, then poison damage, and finally Eviscerate bleed damage. This frighteningly high damage output was even greater than that of a mage wearing a high-damage set. Continuous damage was extremely terrifying, especially against monsters like the Scaled Frog with strong defense.
With Nie Yan’s current damage output, he could rightfully look down upon anything equal to his level. Even fighting creatures above his level wouldn’t be much of a problem.
The Lord-class Scaled Frog turned its head and, looking almost like a massive tank, charged towards Nie Yan. Accurately predicting where its attack would land, Nie Yan’s figure flashed as he circled behind the giant frog once more. The dagger in his hand once more easily pierced its hard scales as he quickly used Backstab.
His dagger stabbed into the Scaled Frog’s back repeatedly despite its attempt to turn around and face its foe. Damage values continued to stream into the air above its head one by one.
Nie Yan’s movements were as moving clouds and flowing water1. He was so fast that each time his adversary tried to attack him, he could immediately predict the trajectory of its attack from its starting movements and dodge just enough to avoid the attack.
These flexible maneuvers weren’t much worse than what a true Shadow Dancer could do.
This was what shadow dancing was all about. This level of skill allowed a thief to look down upon all magic users. Even Fighters without impact skills that did area-of-effect knockback would only die before a Shadow Dancer.
His dagger released a dazzling light, as blood gushed out into air like flowers blooming.
The Lord-class Scaled Frog’s health quickly fell, chunk by chunk. Nie Yan’s damaging capabilities were simply too fierce. Even though the boss was recovering 20 hit points per second, that measly healing was no use in the face of massive bleed and poison damage.
As Sun watched Nie Yan’s actions closely, his eyes took on a wolfish glint. This level of skill was exactly what he needed to achieve! Such accurate judgement, and such gorgeous dodges! His mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration as he saw what a true Thief was supposed to be!
The master opened the door, but the step was his to take2. Nie Yan had already shown Sun what shadow dancing looked like. It was now up to him to comprehend it for himself.
Nie Yan’s damage output alone was enough to kill this Lord-class Scaled Frog. There was no need for others to intervene.
However, Yao Yao still waved her staff and cast Holy Smite. The spell struck the Scaled Frog’s body, dealing 15 points of damage to its health. Although this bit of peanut damage wasn’t much, any bit helped. With Nie Yan doing so much damage to it, she had no fear of accidentally shifting the enemy’s aggro onto herself.
Yu Lan, Sun, and Bai Kaishui also took out their weapons and began attacking the boss. Even though they could only do 1 or 2 damage per hit, it was still better than doing nothing.
After about ten minutes, the Lord-class Scaled Frog still had not landed a single hit on Nie Yan. Suddenly, its mouth opened and spat out a scarlet cloud of toxins, which quickly billowed through the air.
When Nie Yan saw this poisonous cloud, he quickly retreated. Because of his excellent timing, the toxin didn’t affect him in the slightest.
Despite the Lord-class Scaled Frog being obscured by the toxic red fog, continuous damage values could still be seen floating up nonstop from its head. Its recovery speed had increased somewhat, but that still couldn’t keep up with the incredible continuous damage inflicted by Nie Yan.