Chapter 100: The Proper Ways of Provocation (2/2)

Aside from the very few defensively-specialized players, all of their players would be instantly one-shot if the giant so much as grazed them, if not for the multiple cleric players that came with them on their journey barely being able to resurrect everyone as soon as they died, the players on their side would quickly start dwindling.

Even still, it was just a matter of time for when they would lose, they dropped experience with every death, if they ran out it would be game over, and not every player had enough in their reserve, plus if their clerics were killed en masse, their frontline would immediately break!

Besides that, the damage their players were outputting on the barren giant was almost negligible. Ten to twenty players had been continuously wailing on the monster for quite some time, and yet the stone giant’s health bar was still nine-tenths of the way full!

“We can’t beat this thing, we have to retreat!” Gou Dan realized that all his arrows were deflecting off their opponents’ rocky skin, shouting his concerns to Edward, “I can’t even break its defenses!”

Edward went silent as well.

Indeed, this barren giant was unlike anything they have ever faced before, their players’ abilities and revival skills couldn’t bring them to victory.

Edward furrowed his brows, no, although their abilities and revival skills couldn’t help them win alone, without the two, their players would all already be dead. Revives gave each player more time and more opportunities to damage their enemy, and their abilities helped them chip the giant’s health down little by little. Even if Gou Dan’s arrows couldn’t pierce the barren giant’s skin, it still took with it a minimum of 1 health point from the giant.

What they needed was an opening to attack.

Abilities were set in stone, but the players that used them were not, if they could use their abilities correctly, it could be possible that they would create unexpected effects.

“Its eyes could be its weak point… Joe, can you and the other warrior players get the giant’s attention for a bit?” Thus, Edward picked himself up and started commanding the other players. “Try to get it as far away as you can, we need time to prepare!”

“Got it! Hey, rock for brains!”

Joe and a group of warrior players tried to use Provoke on the barren giant, but they were all obviously ignored.

The barren giant was not mature yet, and it wasn’t as bright as it was strong, it wasn’t completely immune to Xi Wei’s laws of the game, but it wasn’t completely controlled by it either, a classic example of this was that crowd control abilities like Provoke had no effect on it—a player successfully used Air Launch on it, but they obviously weren’t able to launch the colossal beast.

At this rate, they wouldn’t even be able to gain aggro let alone lead the thing away.

It was then that Joe saw a stone golem starting to self-regenerate out of the corner of his eyes.

He had an idea, he quickly rushed over and jumped on top of the stone golem.

Elemental creatures were hard to kill, but it wasn’t so for these players—it didn’t matter if you were an elemental or whatever other monster, if you had a health bar, you were going to be killed.

Joe grasped his sword firmly with both hands and imbued his familiar spirit into the blade, he slashed down hard, and with a loud clunk, the stone golem stopped regenerating, a tight web of cracks started forming on its body before it crumbled into a pile of pebbles.

The barren giant stopped its advances towards the mages and clerics.

Joe gave it a very overdramatic apologetic look. “I’m so sorry, was that your aunt? Seems like I accidentally killed her.”

The barren giant slowly turned its head, the single eye on its craggly face staring straight at Joe.

The latter looked at it and used [Evil Blade—Mountain Strike], ignoring the ‘Hey don’t kill steal’ from the other players and sliced open another stone golem.

“Oh, was that your uncle? I’m terribly sorry, you all look so alike that I can’t tell you apart.”

It didn’t have a mouth or anything resembling that, but the barren giant let out a deafening roar, shaking the very earth as he charged towards Joe’s direction!