Chapter 1151: Battle Astral Wind (1/2)
”What the hell happened…” Lin Yixin’s dumbfounded voice came from the party channel.
I replied in a quiet voice, ”We’ll keep the boss busy, but I don’t know how long we’ll last, so revive as soon as you can, Yiyi. This Sword Saint is no joke…”
”Yeah!”
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A small but sinister smile appeared on the Sword Saint’s face as swirls of true qi spun around him. ”Oh, you are definitely stronger than your usual travellers. A Master Swordsman of Death, an elite knight, a strong archer, a powerful priest, and the light wanderer I just killed. It’s unfortunate that you’re still not strong enough to fight against me!”
I gritted my teeth and said in a quiet voice again, ”I’ll try to pin him down with the apparition and the Phantom Wolf King. Beiming, prepare your Shock Arrow and try to stun him. We’ll have to fight this the smart way, or this won’t end well for us.”
”Mn!”
My dragon-riding apparition and my little wolf charged toward the Sword Saint at the same time. I tried scanning the Sword Saint’s stats with Dark Pupils, but, unsurprisingly, most of them were hidden—
Dylan the Sword Saint (Ancient Immortal Rank Boss)
Level: 265
Attack: ???
Defense: ???
HP: ???
Skills: ???
Introduction: The strongest expert in the history of War God Academy, Dylan was an orphan until he was taken in by the strongest swordmaster of the empire when he was four years old. As it turned out, his talent for martial arts was borderline supernatural. He became a Great Earth Swordsman at the age of 7, a Sky Swordsman at the age of 12, entered the Star Realm at the age of 17, and became the Sword Saint of Stars before he was 20. To this day, Dylan’s achievements remain unsurpassed by anyone. After Lin Na the Purgatory Sovereign personally traveled to the War God Academy and destroyed it with his own hands, Dylan’s refusal to succumb to death caused him to transform into an undead. Today, his mind only has room for carnage and vengeance.
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I took control of all three characters at once and made my apparition fire a sword aura at the Sword Saint!
Pu!
Unfortunately, the attack was dispelled by some sort of invisible astral wind right as it was about to touch Dylan’s skin. It failed to do even the tiniest amount of damage.
”Die!”
Dylan let out a furious roar before rushing toward the apparition like lightning. He retaliated with a fiery triple-hit flurry combo and dealt an insane amount of damage—
398821!
492282!
612677!
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One more basic attack later, the apparition with almost 1.5 million HP died just like that. I almost couldn’t believe that Dylan the Sword Saint had almost one-shot my apparition with my signature move, Burning Blade Slash. I thought I was the only one in the world to possess this powerful skill!
The apparition’s sacrifice wasn’t for nothing, however. I was able to dash behind the boss during this time and execute my strongest combo, Burning Blade Slash + Universe Break. From the beginning, Dylan the Sword Saint made fully clear that we either go all-out against him, or die.
Unfortunately, not only did all four skills result in a miss, I finally noticed this line in the combat log: Your ”Burning Blade Slash” has been nullified by Dylan the Sword Saint’s Battle Astral Wind. Battle Astral Wind has dropped to 97% durability!
Cold sweat spilled out of every pore of my body. 97% durability after a goddamn Burning Blade Slash? What the hell was this energy shield made of? Are you sure that you didn’t overtune this to hell and back, devs?
Thud!
Naturally, Beiming Xue’s Shock Arrow also resulted in a miss. While this was going on, Dylan the Sword Saint laughed maliciously. ”Have you realized how powerful my martial arts are, children of the future generation? Surrender and let me wet this drying land with your blood, hahaha! Now that I think about it, it’s been several hundred years since it rained, hasn’t it? I supposed that makes you the rainmaker of our academy…”
”Your sister’s a rainmaker!” I uttered while backing away from the boss and throwing my weapon at him again. Just like before, his Battle Astral Wind stopped my Coiling Dragon Revolution from advancing and blocked it completely. Until we destroyed it, we couldn’t harm even a hair on the boss's body!
Thud!
As the Ancient Divine Dragon clung firmly to the ground, I placed my fingers in front of my forehead and cast Myriad Swords Obliteration, riddling the boss with a seemingly infinite amount of swords. Not done yet, I pressed my palm to the ground and cast Rise of the Guardian Dragon, battering his Battle Astral Wind even further. Destroying his shield as soon as possible was our only chance at winning this!
Dylan simply laughed as Myriad Swords Obliteration smashed harmlessly against his skin. He jumped into the air and brought his sword down on my head, ”Still not giving up yet, boy?”
I remained cool-headed despite the massive pressure I was facing right now. I knew that panicking would only make things even worse than they already were. I brought my sword upward from a 30-degree angle, and the moment contact was made, excruciating pain immediately erupted from my arm. I managed to push Dylan the Sword Saint’s fatal strike away, but I still took almost 200k HP damage.
While the boss was open, I fired Dragon Slaying Slash straight at his head.
”Hahaha…”