Chapter 72 – Killing His Highness (2/2)
The light on the war axe shone brightly and in an instant, the small tent broke apart. The moonlight scattered on all of our bodies.
“Go to hell!”
Prince Ming Jie, stomping on the rock, continued his flurry of attacks!
“Keng!”
“398!”
With his blows, he knocked back my Jade City Sword and at the same time, dealt out high damage. I also noticed that whenever the boss did a horizontal sweep, his war axe always glowed with a crimson red aura, it seemed like his main method of attacking was a horizontal sweep. Maybe that was the reason why he kept dealing out horizontal sweeps, causing my health to barely upkeep with his damage output.
What was worse is that I had been paying attention to the mana bar of the healer and the longest she could sustain the healing was around 5 minutes or so. If this went on, once her mana bar dropped to zero, I would surely be killed.
As for the mage, she had been consistently casting 【Icicle Spell]s to control Ming Jie’s attacking speed and movement speed; otherwise I would probably have been dead long ago.
“Shua!”
“+600!”
After self-healing myself for 600 health points, I looked around at my surroundings and while holding my sword, I retreated quickly. Behind me was a narrow pass between the mountains which was about a meter wide. Baiting him there, I decided that it was there that I shall exterminate this level 43 gold-tier boss!
“Darn brat, I shall break all your tendons and skin you alive, and you will feel what hell on earth means!”
Prince Ming Jie, carrying his war axe, rushed into the corridor and carried on with his usual horizontal sweeping attack pattern. However, the one meter long war axe immediately clashed into the mountains at both sides causing sparks to fly everywhere. Due to the lack of space, the war axe was unable to showcase its true prowess, causing his offensive power to take a huge dip, dishing out damage less than 200 with each strike. His methods of attacking with the war axe were either a vertically downwards cut or a horizontal sweep whereas with my Jade City Sword, my greatest expertise lied in stabbing, which also happened to deal the most damage. With the tides turning, my healing gradually started keeping up with the rate I was losing my health points. To add on, Baby Bobo was flying around and from time to time dealt an excruciating blow to Ming Jie!
Very soon, I began to see hope in killing this level 43 boss. Behind the corridor, the two NPC ladies also caught up and the pretty healer began to heal me using 【Therapy]. It was the situation I wanted to see, her being able to control her mana output.
“Damn it. Go to hell, all of you!”
When Ming Jie’s life had only around 10% of his health left, he suddenly lowered his body posture, and his body began to be surrounded by a dense and dark smoke. He was about to use his final technique – 【Night Dance of the Axes]
“Peng peng peng…”
The edge of his axe broke apart the mountain rocks at the side. Prince Ming Jie looked like a black rock rolling towards me.
I didn’t dare to let down my guard and immediately placed the long sword horizontally in front my chest, entering a defensive state!
“Keng keng keng…”
As the edge of the axe clashed with the blade, it sparked off a series of sparks. It was a way of fighting that placed one’s life on the line. The damage numbers continuously appeared, giving me no chance to heal myself —
“298!”
“301!”
“297!”
“344!”
……
In an instant, my health reached rock bottom and in the next moment, I appeared in a nearby grave as a wandering soul. Damn it, I was actually killed like that?!
But within the second that I was killed, a system notice appeared in front of my eyes —
“Di!”
Battle Notice: Healer Katarina used 【Revive], would you like to revive now?
……
Revive?! A level 40 healer skill!
I immediately chose to revive and in a flash of light, I appeared at the spot where I died with 50% health and mana. Raising my hands, I used 【Heal] and at the next moment, I was at full health once again. At the same, a white aura emanated from beneath my feet and I immediately activated 【Strength of a Thousand Men] and did a combo hit on the back of the boss!
With only 10% health remaining, the boss had already entered a dying state, its roar gradually getting softer and softer. At the same time, being stuck in this corridor, he was unable to use his full power. On top of that, the 【Night Dance of the Axes] had a cooldown time of at least 5 minutes and 5 minutes was sufficient time for me to remove that remaining 10% health from him!
The boss’s life bar gradually got shorter and shorter, my heart was about to leap out of my throat. Looking at my arm, the “10th Rank in Ba Huang City” signet on my arm had already disappeared. Damn it, losing one level had caused me to go out of the ranking.
With one slash after another, a sense of satisfaction built up within my heart. A 43 gold-tier boss, I wondered what treasures this Dark Dwarf Prince would drop for me.
The mystery was unraveled in two minutes. Along with a fierce blow from my 【Wind Blade], Prince Ming Jie cried in agony. Keng, the war axes in his hands broke into two parts and he knelt on the floor, his eyes filling with indignation, “Brat, if you kill me, my father will definitely lead his great army to seek revenge for me. Just wait and see…”
“Hua la la…”
At the moment the boss died, a few pieces of equipment dropped. At the same time, I leveled back up to level 38 and the “10th Rank in Ba Huang City” signet reappeared on my shoulders. How magnificent!
Silently moving forward to see the items that Ming Jie dropped, I saw a crimson red necklace which resembled the movements of a burning flame and a shield that seemed to be molded by cold metal. He also dropped 10+ gold coins together with a mysterious gemstone. The gemstone was clear without any flaws and shone brightly. Although I had no idea what type of item it was, an item dropped by a gold-tier boss couldn’t possibly be anything bad!