Chapter 241 (1/2)
Chapter 241: Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Priestess! I bring grave news!” Zhang Yang retold the events that had happened where Kalor had led an attack to assault the Thunderstorm Castle which failed miserably when King Arthur slaughtered them all.
Merlinda listened and could only express her sadness and rage. After a while, she finally opened her mouth to speak. “The Sword in the Stone is a godly relic with unlimited power. Legend has it that only the bravest of warriors could lift the sword out of the stone. Warrior, I would need your help! As I am now imprisoned, I would need you to find the Frozen Key that is on the person of the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre! You’ll need to get the key and the Staff of Prophecy! Only then, will I be able to confront King Arthur with his Sword in the Stone!”
‘Ding! Quest Change: Kill King Arthur. The quest requires you to kill the Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre and get the Frozen Key and the Staff of Prophecy for Merlinda!’
“O’ brave warrior! Please take extreme caution! Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre has powerful Ice magic! She cannot be defeated easily!” Merlinda warned Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang nodded. “Priestess, rest assured. I shall return with the key and the staff!”
After getting out of the Middle Wing, Zhang Yang had to pass through the flower garden. Along the way, he spotted many more [Frozen Ice Weeding] and was extremely agitated. Soon later, a man who sat atop a bear entered the Back Wing, having killed more than 10 monsters along the way.
The largest area in palace was the Middle Wing, and the smallest was the Back Wing. As expected, ‘smaller’ was just a relative term. It was still huge. The area was supported by 12 humongous pillars. Each pillar was at least 60 to 70 meters tall. Close to the ceiling were carvings that looked like the Moon God. Along the pillars were 12 Spectre Warriors sitting atop Skeletal War Horses, standing guard beside their respective pillars. Each of the warrior was fully clad in thick metal armor, with only the green-emerald flaming eyes visible through the gaps of the helmet visors.
[Frozen Fractal Death Knight] (Elite, Spectre)
Level: 65
HP: 300,000
Defense: 1,000
Note: Beware the Harbinger of Doom! Beware their swords.
In the deepest part of the palace, there was a huge majestic throne. Sitting on the throne was a huge being with the name tag “Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, Luke Vick”. Even though it was a spectre, it did not possess any skeletal body like the normal spectre monster. This one looked like a mighty monarch, a dominating and powerful aura being emitted from its throne.
[Frozen Fractal Witch Spectre, Luke Vick] (Yellow-Gold, Spectre)
Level: 68
HP: 10,000,000
MP: 5,000,000
Defense: 1,200
Zhang Yang smirked. He might have trouble against any other boss with such stats. But this particular one was clearly ice-based! It would be nothing but an easy target for his bear!
Now, before worrying about the boss, its best to take care of the 12 death knights!
Zhang Yang picked up a small rock about the size of his palm and tossed it at one of the death knight.
Pak!
It hit. The rock toss was nothing but a provocation. It did not inflict any sort of damage to it. The death knight that was hit by the rock turned around and bellowed. It pulled the reins of its skeletal horse and charged towards Zhang Yang.
What a cheater! How could it use a mount inside an indoor environment!
Zhang Yang sighed and took several steps back, waiting for the right timing as the monster entered his own effective range.
Shuush!
Zhang Yang glided across the floor with {Charge} and quickly inflicted several layers of {Cripple Defense}. He quickly chained a normal attack after and dealt 1,726 damage.
The Death Knight recovered quickly after Zhang Yang’s {Charge}, this time, before it could even lift it sword, Zhang Yang commanded the white bear to use {Wild Charge} and stunned the monster again. After one second, the monster recovered again and finally able to attack. It lifted its huge sword and swung it towards Zhang Yang.
{Block}!
Having completed the five layers of {Cripple Defense}, Zhang Yang’s attack was raised to a higher level. Slowly, each strike of his axe increased in damage over time.
Suddenly, the emerald flames in its eyes glowed with a sudden burst of flame, and the sword in its hands burst out in dark green flames!
‘Ding! Frozen Fractal Death Knight has used {Death Strike}. All damage increased by 100%!’
‘-6,212!’
The {Death Strike} was similar to a Critical strike, it did double damage. Its basic attacking power had reached 10,000! Only a tank could survive after taking the hit! If other classes were to replace him, he or she would surely die!
Zhang Yang jumped in surprise. He quickly hopped atop the bear’s saddle. {Shared Life} was automatically applied, boosting up his HP to 41,920.
Technically, Zhang Yang’s and Gold-Eared Bear King’s combined attacks were superior to that of the Death Knights. However, they would be unable to hold for too long as the monster had 300,000 HP. Zhang Yang was forced to use {Shield Wall}, {Berserker’s Heal}, and even {Merlinda’s Shadow} to kill the monster.
At his current level, Zhang Yang had already upgraded {Shield Wall} to Level six. Coupled with the set-equipment’s set-effect that reduced {Shield Wall}’s cool down by one minute, {Shield Wall}’s current cool down was only at three minutes and 30 seconds! This was only 30 seconds more than {Berserker’s Heal}’s cool down.
After eating some recovery snacks, Zhang Yang waited for two minutes before attacking the second Death Knight. Since each Death Knight would take up some time, and Zhang Yang would need to wait for his skill to finish their cool down, he would spend more than 50 minutes to kill all 12 Death Knights. All that was left now was only the boss itself! But before he started the fight, Zhang Yang decided to wait until all his skills were ready to be used.
Zhang Yang paced slowly to the bear and gently patted the white’s fluffy head. “It’s time, Whitey. Bite that sucker!”
Whitey growled and kicked off his velvety paws, rushing towards the boss. Since mounts were generally faster than a character’s movement speed, the white bear reached the boss’s aggro range fairly quickly.
Luke Vick stood up in surprise and bellowed angrily. “The living? How could the living be in my palace! Die!”
It raised it’s the staff in its right hand and started casting a {Frost Arrow}. With a quick mental command, Zhang Yang made the bear U-turn sharply. Before the boss could finish casting the spell, the bear had already ran out of the effective range, wagging its stumpy, fluffy white tail at the boss to stare.