Chapter 753 – Boiling Mountains (2/2)
The Hellfire Tiger roared and swept its tail at Wan Er and Qing Qian, dealing 15,000 daamage. Thankfully it wasn’t life threatening. Following that attack, the flaming aura around the Hellfire Tiger’s body suddenly grew and flames rose from the tiger’s four paws. I was all too familiar with this attack. It was the [Burstfire Raid]! A tiger the size of a mountain was lunging right at us!
“Huh?!”
Dancing Forest and Xing Lie both didn’t get the chance to dodge and was instantly killed in the onslaught. They had both received close to 30,000 damage. I quickly opened my hand and activated, [Binding Chains]!
Peng!”
Iron chains burst through the floor and wrapped around the tierg’s legs, locking it in place. Matcha quickly charged over and attracted the BOSS to her again. Darling Duck quickly revived the two of them. This could be considered a warning that the BOSS was giving. If we underestimate it, then the price we pay would be equally as heavy.
“Surround it!” Li Mu roared/
Wang Jian and Old K lead a group of people over, surrounding the BOSS. As soon as it was trapped, the Hellfire Tiger roared again, creating a small whirlwind in the cave. It was his [Awe of the Lands] skill. Thankfully, Li Mu and Wang Jian had a lot of health. Both of them retreated with 25% of their health left, allowing Matcha and I to continue tanking the BOSS’ hits.
From then on, nobody dared to underestimate the enemy. Li Mu and Yao Yan all looked on from afar, waiting for Matcha and I to switch out when we hit critical health. This didn’t mean, however, that we didn’t have a chance. Matcha had the Lion King Shield to protect her, so killing her was a far too difficult task. I, on the other hand had 20% [Drain]. Additionally, with the Zhen Yue Blade and Dragon Reservoir’s attack, my survivability was also pretty incredibly. As long a we could hold our ground then we could survive.
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Around fifteen minutes later, with the combined effort of Dong Cheng, Dancing Forest and Xing Lie’s ranged attacks, the Hellfire Tiger was in critical health. Despite that, its attacks were just as equally fierce. Even though none of the people in our group had hit the Holy Domain, our advantage in intelligence exceeded that of the advantage in a Holy Domain and so killing the BOSS with our team work was not hard.
“Grrrr….”
The Hellfire Tiger suddenly stopped its attack. It raised its head towards the sky and let out a series of roars. The earth split and flames soared into the sky. Furthermore, magma bubbled out like water and spurt furth. At the same time, an enormous rock that looked like a mountain suddenly fell from the sky. Motherf*cker, so this is what the Boiling Mountain was. Flames spewed as though under a cauldron as the rivers water boiled and the boulder the size of a mountain. So that is where the skill name [Boiling Mountain] had come from.
“Careful!”
I gripped my Zhen Yue Blade and shouted, “Retreat, the attack range is a hundred yards!”
Qing Qian and Wan Er both quickly darted backwards. Anyone who couldn’t get out could only prepare their potions and take the attack head on. Matcha and I continued to attack. Even Meng Yao’s Verdant Peach was beside us, ramming into the BOSS. This [Boiling Mountain] effect lasted a whole twelve seconds. Three of the people in our team had died while Matcha and I had both fallen to critical health.
“Matcha, retreat!”
I covered for her. I could not let [Zhan Long]’s chief knight die. I myself had activated my [Chi You Body]’s unrivaled effect to take on the BOSS. It was 25 seconds long, enough time for everyone to regain full health.
The magic of the unrivaled body is that you could sustain attacks without taking damage to your health. It wasn’t like other unrivaled skills that don’t take attacks. This way, it was much easier to attract firepower and aggro.
Not long after Matcha, Meng Yao and Li Mu returned to full health and once again joined in the battle. The people who had died were all revived. In less than two minutes, the Hellfire Tiger cried out and collapsed in a pool of blood. It had finally died. Additionally, it dropped a pile of equipment. Among them, I saw another faint green skillbook. I felt my heart jump. Our luck wasn’t bad, looks like we got another skill!
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“We finally killed it!” Li Mu took a deep breath and said, “Guildmaster, quick, go and check out what we got.”
“Got it.”
I leapt off my horse and walked forward and picked up the drops. Afterwards, I took out the green skillbook first. I waved my hand over the skillbook to see the stats. It was the second [Unrivaled Spirit] book. This time, the three assassins ROLLed for it again and Wolf ended up as the victor. Wan Er’s beautiful eyes were practically red. “Wu wu” she cried. She had fought a week's worth of BOSSes trying to get the skill but it still hadn’t come. In the end, while we were in Deer Cry Cave, we got two in a row and she still couldn’t get it.
I smiled comfortingly to her and then rubbed her shoulder, “Don’t panic, you’ll get it eventually. Isn’t it just a skillbook? If it really doesn’t drop, then we’ll just buy it from another player.”
Wan Er nodded, “Well, looks to be that way….”
We continued looking through the rest. The Hellfire Tiger gave us four equipments and they all looked pretty impressive. However, what was most disappointing, was that of all four pieces, there wasn’t a single one that was worth our attention. The highest tier was a Saint Tier while the lowest was a Green tier. I gripped the Green tier sword, at least it had given us the [Unrivaled Spirit] book, otherwise it would’ve all been for nothing.
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“Everyone, stand over there!” Li Mu waved. Everyone followed his command and stood on the roulette plate at the center of the second floor. Like that, it would send us to the third floor.
“Shua!”
Magic light rose up all around us. I could hear the wind screeching from all sides. In the next moment, all twenty of us appeared on the third floor. I could hear the cries of deer in all directions. Birds sang and fragrant flowers bloomed. It looked nothing like the deadly battlefield that we had imagined. Have we finally arrived at the Qin Deer’s den?