Chapter 404 - First Clear Again (1/2)
The Shadow Queen’s cheapest move was to cast Mass Spirit Control along with her scoundrel-like Shadow Sacrifice. Compared to these two moves used as a combo, her Mass Shadow Arrows were pretty tame.
It was the most dangerous moment now. Five people were called out, including the absurdly strong Lin Jie.
“It was a good thing he took off his armor earlier. Otherwise, we really cannot avoid being wiped out.” The Heavenly Shield instantly charged towards the space between the five players and Shadow Queen. He stood in front of the five players and slammed his shield onto the ground. It stretched out to form a thick wall that seemed to be made out of countless shields.
This was The Heavenly Shield’s strongest skill, the enhanced version of [Shield Fortress]—[Iron Will Fortress]. Only those with over 80 points of Willpower would be able to use this skill. It could increase the user’s Defense by 300 points temporarily and block others from passing through.
Bam!
Lin Jie was the first to run into the fortress. The other four followed closely, and there were several “bams!” as they ran, head first, into the wall like blind people, before bumping into each other. It was a beautiful sight to behold. With The Heavenly Shield’s skill, he managed to block all of them in time.
“Hurry up! I can’t hold them back much longer!”
Fat Cattle and the others had also given up on attacking the Shadow Queen. They turned around and immediately focused all their attacks on Lin Jie. In Savage Blade, Lin Jie was the strongest, so it was crucial for them to save him first.
Under their constant attacks, Lin Jie’s health bar was finally depleted to zero, and he came to his senses. Lin Jie instantly cast a few buffs and slashed out a few Blade Auras. In no time, he saved the others as well. After this wave of attacks, the Boss’ health also dropped down to the last 15%.
As long as she did not enter her enraged state, the Shadow Queen was not that powerful!
“Peasants, you have angered me. You’ve offended the most beautiful queen.” The Shadow Queen screeched. The shadow power in her body emerged wildly, bursting out of her beautiful body. She floated in the air like a scarecrow hanging.
Transformation state—Demon Queen!
“Everybody get close to her quickly!” Lin Jie shouted, and they all rushed towards the Boss.
In just a second, they were all gathered underneath the queen. At that moment, a dark storm began blowing violently outside their radius. It was so powerful it almost tore the roof off!
The first skill the Boss used after transformation was Shadow Storm. This skill covered the entire map, and it was impossible to avoid it. On top of that, it dealt damage of over 2,000 points per second. If one were caught in it for over two seconds, they would surely die. The only way to avoid it was to be near the Boss since she was in the eye of the storm. This was a really devious move. Normally when people saw the Boss casting a large skill, their first reaction would be to retreat. If they were to encounter this move of hers, it would be their doom.
-485!
-492!
…
Numbers were popping up above all their heads. However, these numbers were nothing compared to if they were outside in that scary storm. As long as the healers paid attention to the team members’ health, nobody would die.
Following after was her second skill! The Shadow Queen dispersed her Dark Flames in all directions. Those who came in contact with her Dark Flame would receive 500 points of damage per second and spread this effect to other players within a radius of 15 yards. Each time she would cast five Dark Flames. Once stacked, the damage would be so high that nobody would be able to handle it.
Lin Jie had already selected a few coordinates beforehand. Upon seeing the Boss cast her spell, he ordered the team members to immediately head towards those coordinates. Only the main tanks with sufficient health points stayed to tank the incoming wave of flames. Shadow Flame was slow and could be easily dodged. However, they had to tank at least one attack, or the Boss would double her attacks in the next wave.
“Attack!” shouted Lin Jie.
In the second stage, the Shadow Queen would enter Enraged Mode if the battle was “longer than 30 seconds”. This meant that the team had to kill the Shadow Queen within 30 seconds. Otherwise, she would become enraged!
“Shadow Arrow!”
“Shadow Arrow!”
“Dark Flame!”
The Boss suddenly unleashed her power. Two Shadow Arrows headed straight towards “I’m No. 4” and killed him instantly. Following right after was a stream of purplish-black spirit being pulled out of his corpse. This was the Boss’ skill [Corpse Consumption], which could heal her by 20,000 health points per second.
“Outraged Roar! Dragon’s Roar! Ice Spirit Slash!”
Lin Jie used all of his crowd control skills consecutively. However, the Boss’ resistance was too high. Even with Lin Jie’s stats, he only got three Miss. Luckily, Wantless’ Arcane Blast successfully interrupted the Boss. Otherwise, it would have been really bad.
When I’m No. 4 was suddenly killed, everybody became fearful! It was a piece of cake for the Boss to instakill anybody in her last state with her terrifying stats. Even with two main tanks together, they were constantly in fear that the Boss might suddenly kill them instantly with magic attacks.
“Shadow Arrow! Shadow Arrow!”
When the Boss’ health bar dropped to 5%, there was another outrage, more violent than the previous. The Mass Shadow Arrows were like black bullets raining down on everybody. It was impossible to dodge them! There were at least four arrows headed straight for each person there.
At that moment—
Curse Emperor Abstruse Gray Wind waved his staff lightly, and strange runes landed on the Boss’ body. The mass Shadow Arrows summoned by her disappeared completely! Those runes increased in size as if they had devoured a feast of beasts.
[Shadow Control]: Directly control any skill of a Shadow, Undead, or Dark unit, and interrupt it.
A Spellcaster of Curse’s Epic Skill!
“Go, Gray Wind!”
“Good job!”
The Shadow Queen in front of them was growing extremely weak. With a last burst of attack, everybody depleted her health bar.
“Even though I’m… so beautiful…” The Shadow Queen whined as she slowly landed on the ground.
Ding~
—”Congratulations! Your team has killed the Shadow Queen. You received the special title [Man Who Is Not Tempted By Beauty]. You will gain +20% favor from those of the opposite sex, and +50 points favor from all girls.”
Lin Jie did not know whether to laugh or cry at this title.
Bu Yi blinked and pursed her lips. “What an awful title.”