Chapter 242: Light and Darkness (1/2)
Cardin The Third became enraged after his skill was interrupted twice in a row. He actually started swinging his scepter at us!
Thud thud!
Both He Yi and I felt a scorching pain when his scepter cut across our chests!
1764!
2109!
We were about to cry foul when we saw how much damage he had dealt to us in just one hit. It made no sense for a mage to have this much physical attack! Could he be one of those legendary close-combat mages?
But I shook my head immediately. That couldn’t be right, and speaking of which, I hadn’t checked the boss's stats until now. Considering how much damage he had dealt to Xinran, it made no sense for him to be a weakling.
I stared at Cardin The Third and summoned his stat screen. What I saw immediately drained the blood from my face.
Ruler of Floating Ice City Cardin (Purple Gold Rank Boss)
Level: 90
Magic Attack: ???
Defense: ???
HP: ???
Skills: ???
Introduction: The Cardin Family was a famous family during the later period of Spirit of Grief. Countless heroes had emerged from the family and fought against the undead. But after the Dragon Domain was turned into a wasteland, the final protectors of the human race, the Dragon Speakers, perished one after another. The cracks of hell were once again opened, and countless evil spirits took control of the continent. After a series of terrible battles, the Cardin Family barely managed to secure a patch of free land and establish the kingdom known as Floating Ice City. However, a thousand years ago, an evil undead magus managed to seize control of Cardin The Third's body and turn him into a powerful puppet.
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Holy shit, it’s a Level 90 boss, a Level 90 Purple Gold Rank boss no less! I couldn’t see his stats at all, but it didn’t take much imagination to estimate how high they were considering that the boss was twelve levels ahead of me. No wonder he was able to make my life a living hell with just one low-level spell!
There was no way we could beat this boss at our current strength. Xinran’s help was absolutely necessary if we were to have any shot at completing this quest at all.
Swhoosh!
Xinran once again fired a bloody beam from the Dragonbone Spear and deleted over forty thousand HP from the boss's health pool. By now, the corrupted king had lost over three-fourths of his HP, and he should die in less than half a minute if Xinran kept attacking!
However, Cardin The Third waved his scepter again and shouted angrily, “O’ depraved purgatory of darkness, heed my call and heal my wounds with the strength of your fallen souls. In the name of Cardilla, I cast—Tenacity of the Dead!”
Swhoosh!
+160000!
“Attack!”
It was looking to become a war of attrition, but there was nothing we could do except fight to the last. No one could’ve predicted that the boss would also have Tenacity of the Dead.
He Yi and I ganged up on the boss again after downing an HP potion each. Beiming Xue continued to slow him down with Freezing Arrows. In a battle like this, Freezing Arrow was a godly skill because it reduced the boss's casting speed by 35% or more!
Cardin The Third immediately channeled another spell after Tenacity of the Dead by stabbing his scepter into the ground in front of him. Suddenly, a ton of icy blades burst out of the earth and attacked everyone!
“Watch out!”
I grabbed He Yi and tried to dodge out of the way, but I was too late. Pain exploded from my legs as the icy blades punched through my legguards.
Behind me, Murong Mingyue let out a cry of surprise. “Not good…”
Pacha!
Murong Mingyue slowly collapsed to the ground as an icicle penetrated her body. She became the first player in our party to die since the start of the quest!
Everyone started panicking after we lost our priest. He Yi and I dropped to low health, and Beiming Xue was barely keeping out of harm’s way because she had high agility.
1784!
1698!
The boss's magic attack was just too powerful for us to handle; he hadn’t even used a single target spell except that one time he attacked me! I highly doubted that He Yi or I was going to survive if he decided to switch to single-target spells instead!
“Hmph!”
Eyes full of anger, Xinran snacked the boss right in the head before chanting, “Xinran offers a contract to the blades of death slumbering beneath the depths of hell. Awaken and devour everything—Ice Scythe!”
Crack!
Icicles burst out of the blade of the Dragonbone Spear and transformed into a humongous, bloody scythe of pure ice, cutting apart Cardin The Third’s flesh and bones and taking off an entire half of a shoulder. A horrific stench assaulted everyone’s nostrils as a shocking column of damage numbers appeared above his head—
107462!
118754!