Chapter 543 (1/2)
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“Roar roar…”
The earth dragon's roar rocked the entire underground. When It suddenly sprung into action, its gigantic body nearly broke the ceiling above our heads. Worse, its humongous size didn't seem to slow it down in the slightest, and like a snake it crawled toward us as quick as lightning!
“Dodge!”
I hurriedly backed away and pushed both Chaos Moon and Moon Dew behind a rock, and not a second too soon because the boss' horns pa.s.sed through the s.p.a.ce we were just a moment ago. It would've been bad if we got hit there.
……
But what goes up must eventually come down, and the Great Earth Dragon chased us all the way to the pa.s.sage we came through earlier. If we backed any further than this, this wouldn't be a boss fight, but an escape for our lives!
“Get ready to heal me! Here I go!”
I backed a few steps and activated Thunderous Charge!
Swhoos.h.!.+
Luck was in my favor this time, and a Stunned icon appeared on the boss' head!
The formation of the universe appearing beneath my feet, I stabbed a cone of cyan flames into the thick scales of the Great Earth Dragon and followed up with a Burning Blade Slash right after. A bunch of damage numbers appeared—
16902!
5892!
8901!
12001!
It wasn't a particularly impressive amount of damage because the boss' Defense was pretty high. Moreover, a boss' armor was naturally stronger than a mob's, and the Great Earth Dragon was no exception.
Chaos Moon also pounced forward and landed a Barrier Break and a Rock Crush on the boss' head. Surprisingly, Rock Crush dealt over 5000 damage to the boss. This meant that the skill had pretty high Defense penetration. Her Barrier Break also dealt over 14k damage, although this was considerably less surprising to me. As the owner of the four Bone Scythe equipment, also the only three-star Outstanding Spirit-grade equipment set in the entire server right now, I would find it stranger if her damage was poor.
The stun faded quickly, and the enraged Great Earth Dragon swung its gigantic claws at us the second it recovered. With nowhere to dodge, the only thing we could do was raise our weapons in defense!
Bang!
A terrible pain exploded across my arm. This Earth-rank was no less deadly than the ones I fought earlier, deleting over 13k HP in an instant. So painful!
That wasn't the deadliest attack it had, however. The Great Earth Dragon abruptly lowered its head and attempted to gore me with its three sharp horns. It was none other than the skill “Draconic Hornblade”!
“Oh no, it's over…” Chaos Moon's mouth fell open.
Bang! I shook like a leaf as the number 18k appeared above my head. If Moon Dew hadn't hit me with a Greater Heal just now, I would've been one-shot where I stood already!
The powerful strike sent me rolling unceremoniously across the ground, the girls running right beside me. If even I was no match for the boss, they didn't think they would fare any better.
“Run! We're no match for it!”
I got up and used an Earth Triceradragon card, buffing my max HP by 30%. A Tenacity of the Dead later, I just barely pulled myself away from the brink of death.
Chaos Moon tried to tank a hit, but the Earth Dragon quickly shattered her dreams with a 16k damage slap to the face. Even with four Bone Scythe equipment, her Defense was hardly out of the world. Before the Great Earth Dragon, she was nothing but a small and fragile flower that could be destroyed at any moment.
……
We ran full speed toward the exit while I dumped two Ice Cyclone Domains behind me to slow down the boss. Unfortunately, the boss had high movement speed to begin with, and the Ice Cyclone Domains barely affected it at all. It was definitely catching up to us.
I stared at my skill window and waited for the G.o.d Binding Art to finish its cooldown. The second it was ready, I turned around and used it again. It's all on you now, G.o.d Binding Art!
Swhoos.h.!.+
The four divine weapons descended from the sky again, and this time it didn't disappoint me. We now had 15 precious seconds to escape from the boss!
We continued to run like mad toward the exit. I grabbed Moon Dew's hand so she could keep up with us while Chaos Moon opened the path ahead of us.
“Wait!”
Suddenly, I let out a shout and stopped everyone in their tracks. “Chaos Moon, look!”
“Huh?”
Chaos Moon looked at the direction I was pointing. It was the small cave where we killed the Earth PanG.o.dragon some time ago. She shot me a puzzled look and asked, “What's with the cave? Wait, you aren't planning to…”
Her beautiful features abruptly turned paler. “No! I'm not going in there! Those Earth PanG.o.dragons are absolutely disgusting, and it's so dark and scary inside…”
“The h.e.l.l are you afraid about? And don't you want to kill the boss?”
I put my hands behind her back and pushed her repeatedly. “You should go in first and open up the path. Moon Dew will go next and heal both of us. Finally, I'll go last and stop the Great Earth Dragon from coming in. If everything goes well, we may just have a chance to beat the boss. Now quickly, the boss is going to break free of the G.o.d Binding Art any moment now!”
“Uuuu…”
Chaos Moon whined in protest, but my brain automatically filtered in out of my head. Any amount of sacrifice was acceptable if it meant killing a boss, not to mention that there was no such thing as a squeamish top expert? Do you want to kill a boss? Do you want to become a top expert? Then you better man up and do what's necessary even if it was something as disgusting as fighting inside a literal pile of dragon dung...
……
The girls quickly entered the cave. In fact, the cave was so narrow that it was almost impossible to turn around, much less fit the Earth Dragon's gigantic claw. On the other hand, I could a repertoire of ranged skills to attack the boss with such as Dragon Slaying Slash, Burning Blade Slash, War Crush and so on. They were all pretty powerful especially since I was buffed by Martial G.o.d.
The best part of this whole plan was that I could attack the boss, but the boss couldn't attack me. I was also one hundred percent sure that this exploit was intentionally left behind by the devs because they could've removed it to no detriment to the experience at all. Of course, most people would be too scared to notice this. Only a person with a calm and collected mind would notice this.