Chapter 268: Rain of Fire (2/2)
I immediately followed up with Pardon + Desperate Gambit!
MISS!
17568!
Hell yeah, I got a critical hit on my first strike! It looks like today is my lucky day!
But at the same time, I was chilled to see that our combined attacks—over 25k damage in total—deleted less than 5% of the boss's HP only, meaning that the King of Destruction had at least 500k HP. This wouldn’t be an easy fight!
”Damned humans!”
Dogus raised his spear and swung it down. ”I sentence all of you to death! Die for your greed and your hypocrisy!”
My hands were covered in cold sweat. His spear had come to a sudden stop just when it was about to hit me. Miraculously, He Yi had managed to stun the boss briefly with her Charge!
I took two hasty steps backward before circling to the boss's right flank. Two basic attacks later, a paralytic feeling suddenly shot up my arm. Eh? It’s the paralysis effect!
Thank heavens for three seconds of hard CC!
Everyone dished out as much damage as they could during this short but valuable opening. The boss was still affected by Extreme Break, so it was losing HP rapidly!
At the distance, Beiming Xue was flicking her bow and maximizing the damage output of her Evil Spirit Volley. Even Murong Mingyue had decided to fire a Hellish Rockfall first and heal later!
A bunch of hits later, the boss's HP finally dropped to 90% or so. What the heck, it’s so much tougher than the usual bosses!
”Lowly humans, die!”
The boss abruptly moved again and thrust its spear at me. It was so fast that I couldn’t even Guard in time!
Puchi!
A despairingly high amount of damage rose above my head as pain shot through my body—2874!
It was too much. The boss could kill me in two or three hits at most! This is insane!
I wasn’t the only one who was losing HP, however. Both He Yi and Lin Yixin shivered as they took splash damage—
1293!
1293!
This was the most dangerous part of it all. The King of Destruction was plenty powerful already, but his basic attacks also did a whopping 45% splash damage! It was one disaster after another!
Lin Yixin shouted, ”Sister Mingyue, heal Lu Chen first! He’s going to die…”
I wanted to say I wasn’t going to, but excessive stubbornness would only lead to death and level loss!
Swhoosh swhoosh!
+1045!
+1238!
Murong Mingyue’s heals were swift and effective. Her cooldown-reducing Prayer Scepter was starting to show off its true power!
However, the boss was still very powerful. It swung its spear twice and silenced Lin Yixin and He Yi immediately.
2764!
3102!
Lin Yixin almost died, and He Yi lost two-thirds of her HP, all in two basic attacks and the splash damage that came with them! It looked like the boss was completely out of our league right now!
Crack!
Lin Yixin dished out one last attack before retreating out of range. Chugging a HP potion down her throat, she shouted, ”Lu Chen, Sister He Yi, let’s engage it one by one! Its splash damage is just too powerful for us to attack it together!”
”Mn!”
He Yi retreated and left me behind. Murong Mingyue immediately focused all her healing on me.
Still, the boss was insanely powerful. Even after a 150% increase to her healing powers, I was just barely surviving its powerful swings! Every hit that struck my body felt so painful that I wanted to die!
2894!
3001!
I drank an HP potion immediately and healed for 2500 HP!
+2500!
I barely managed to cling onto life while Murong Mingyue continued to heal me. Of course, I wasn’t just standing there and letting it hit me for free. Sometimes I would trigger a Purgatory Slash, and sometimes I would trigger my ring’s paralysis effect. Whatever I did, I aimed to slow down the rate I was dying by even little. Even so, the situation was way too precarious for my liking!
”Roar! You damned human foot soldier!”
Dogus suddenly roared and coated his spear in a sheen of bloody light. I immediately fell into despair!
6784!
It was a critical hit and a one-shot…
Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, you have triggered ”Immortality VIII” and revived with full HP!
……
Awesome! At Rank 8, the skill only had an 8% chance to trigger on death, but it still activated and saved my life. Meanwhile, He Yi and Lin Yixin were trying and failing to keep the aggro I just lost. If I didn’t regain its attention soon, a party wipe was all but certain! I immediately activated Charge and hit the boss like a bolt of lightning!
Whoosh!
It was a successful stun. It looked like the goddess of luck was smiling upon me again!