Chapter 22 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After Li Yao had run for a distance, he took aim with his Heavy Crossbow.

This time, the arrow struck the Troll Priest, Scragil’s chest. His body was now armored and was merely knocked back slightly by the arrow’s impact. He steadied himself and continued to approach Li Yao.

Li Yao put away the crossbow. At this moment, the Troll Priest was only few dozen yards away. Li Yao quickly ran toward the valley entrance.

The Troll Priest was fast, but Li Yao was not any slower either. Every time the Troll showed signs of returning back to the campfire, Li Yao would shoot him with a self-made bow, bringing back his Rage.

This boss was a humanoid, its fighting style was different from animalistic bosses and was more inclined to adventure stage boss fights. It had a Rage mechanism and was an intelligent creature, making it different from the programmed Rage mechanism from previous games.

“Get ready for the Boss.” Li Yao quickly ran to his position with other ranged players.

TwinkleBeauty charged toward the Troll Priest.

Avenger’s Shield!

A golden holy shield with wings struck the boss’s head.

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Low-level Priest-Scargil

Rank: 4th Level low rank chief.

Health: 10,725/11,000

Skills: Lightning Bolt, Lightning Chain, Summoning Venomous Cobras, Cobra Shapeshift, Toxic Breath, Poison Diffusion, Poisoned Barbs

LilRainDrop shrieked, “The boss’s health was 8,000 when encountered with a five-player squad, 11,000 for six players, this…”

Li Yao was glad that the squad could not see the stack of skills the Boss had, otherwise they would have felt discouraged to continue fighting. When compared to the Boss, players were nothing but flies.

“Listen to my instructions. Jia, Raindrop and Dreamer, all of you get together and attack with your full strength. Dragon, you will stand on the right of the boss to take care of the summoned cobras.” Li Yao said hurriedly.

“What are you doing? Stop ordering people around.” Dragon muttered, unimpressed.

Li Yao frowned, “Follow my orders, or I’ll kick you out. I’ll say this one last time, I’ll handle the cobras on the boss’s left. Remember to surround the boss and fend off the snakes. If anyone starts to question my orders again, I’ll kick you out.”

Dragon grunted. Seeing that nobody stood up for him, he sighed and followed Li Yao’s orders.

“His Rage status has stabilized, we can attack now,” said Twinkle.

“Give in everything you have! Do not panic when the boss uses Lightning Chain, just keep on attacking. Healing is not a problem, right?” Li Yao asked.

“I have fought with this boss once. If he only uses Lightning Chain, I can heal the damage taken.” Dreamer replied hurriedly.

Li Yao nodded and took out his Heavy Crossbow. He joined the others to stack up their DPS.

LilRainDrop was a summoner, she was able to provide speed buff to the squad. Blessing of Kings could increase everyone’s overall stats, and Li Yao’s Trueshot Aura provided 10% buff to ranged players.

With the summoner’s Faerie Fire, Li Jia’s Shadow Bolt and Dragon’s archery, they began attacking the boss.

Their damage output was around 18 to 22. Because Li Jia was wearing the elite equipment given by Li Yao, her output was not any less than the others.

However, Li Yao’s one-shot arrow caused more than eighty damage, the others were terrified by the numbers. It took him four seconds to shoot an arrow and the others only required two seconds, but Li Yao’s total damage output was still double of the others’ output.

This was in fact not surprising at all. Firstly, Li Yao’s equipment were more superior. When combined with various buffs and the Platinum Medal’s attribute upgrade, his high damage output was not surprising at all.

Scargil used Lightning Chain, causing the three ranged players to lose half of their health. The squad healer rushed to heal the players.

Another two minutes had passed by, the Boss’s health had dropped below 10,000.

“Get ready, once the cobras are summoned, draw them away. You have to manage their Rage well, do not let them escape to the crowd and self-detonate.”

Li Yao switched his bow.

“Heed my call, Lord Poison.”

The Troll Priest raised his staff and began to call out loudly. A pillar of green light appeared behind of him. Green cobras appeared to his left and right.

Poisonous Cobra

Rank: Level 4 Common Mob

Health: 3,000

Skills: Venomous Bite, Toxic Detonation

Although Li Yao knew the health of the summoned cobras, he still cursed at the sight of it. The cobras’ health was much higher than normal Elites. This was the reason why wild Bosses were much more difficult to kill. The more players there were, the more overpowered the Boss would become. With more players, the mobs’ health could possibly reach ten thousand or more.

Stunning Arrow!

A blue arrow was shot, followed by a Charged Arrow. The cobras’ Rage was pulled toward Li Yao. Li Yao began running and shooting at the Boss.

Li Yao grasped the situation very well. He did not attack the mobs unless the mobs’ Rage was disengaged, he would then shoot an arrow at the mobs. He would then continue to attack the Boss.

As the pace had quickened, Li Yao’s commands were getting faster. Everyone started to get anxious.

Ten seconds had passed. The Troll shouted again and more cobras were summoned. Dragon tried to keep up by following whatever Li Yao was doing. He went round and round the boss while he continuously attacked the Boss.

As time passed by, there were twelve cobras behind Li Yao, nine were behind Dragon.

Things were getting disorderly for Dragon. He was attacked by the cobras from time to time.

“Dreamer, heal me.”

“Dreamer, quick! Heal me!”

“Quick! Replenish my health, it’s running low!”

“My health is less than a third now. If I die, it will be game over for everyone.”

Dragon’s voice was getting louder each time he spoke.

At that moment, the Boss had lost 40% of his health and his attacks were getting more frequent. BlueDreamer felt more and more pressured each time Dragon shouted at her. She lost her temper and began shouting, “Can you stop shouting! From what I can see, you’re not low in health yet. If you continue to shout like this, we can’t hear his commands.”