Chapter 278: Underground Lurker (1/2)
Pu!
A row of sharp, black spikes suddenly burst out of the ground and threw a whole column of warriors into the air. Despite their toughness, the attack still poked holes all over their bodies. A couple of them were even one-shot outright!
”The boss is here!”
Xu Yang pointed toward the front and yelled, ”Archers, loose! Drag that boss out of its hole!”
The archers immediately responded to his order and launched a rain of arrows at the ground in front of them. However, the cheap arrows that cost only several coppers per either missed completely or dealt a series of 1s at a particular area.
I crunched the grass beneath my foot and launched myself toward the area where the archers did damage. One second later, I made an educated guess and plunged my Purgatory Sword into the ground, unleashing Ice Ray!
Swhoosh!
Ice appeared around my weapon before they merged together into an icicle and pierced into the ground. The skill had a reasonable amount of attack distance, so it should be able to hit the boss!
Puchi!
2876!
As I had expected, Ice Ray did quite a bit of damage to it. What I wasn’t expecting however was the ground beneath shaking and splitting apart like some giant was about to emerge from the ground. Holy shit, this boss is way bigger than I expected!
I withdrew myself from the area just in time to avoid a pair of steely pincers bursting out of the ground. The moving, cragged pincers were spinning like the drill of a boring machine. I noticed that they looked very similar to a scorpion’s pincers, and my educated guess was proven the moment the boss emerged fully from the soil.
The giant scorpion had a pair of femurs that were as big as tree trunks, a pair of spinning pincers, an ugly head and three pairs of walking legs that gave it a surprising amount of agility. It stared at us with a pair of greedy little eyes as it raised its tail and poisonous sting menacingly.
Underground Lurker (Dark Gold Rank Boss)
Level: 80
Attack: 880~1090
Defense: 700
HP: 175000
Skills: Strangle, Poison Spit, Wild Swallow
Introduction: These venomous lurkers of the underground were turned into assassins after they fell under the control of the Night Creatures. They often lurk beneath the human domain to spy or assassinate a key target.
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”The boss is out! Attack!”
I shouted as I activated Charge. The boss was only Level 80, and its Attack 1090. At my current Defense it couldn’t deal nearly enough damage to threaten me, so I was just going to face-tank it and kill it where it stood!
Whoosh!
The stun was a success, and I quickly followed up with Pardon and Desperate Gambit!
MISS!
5654!
Not bad. With my current Attack, the Underground Lurker’s 700 Defense might as well not exist!
The boss's counterattack was weak to say the least. Its attacks only dealt around 300 damage to me, and 500 damage to Gui Guzi and He Yi. He Yi had Rock Shield, and Gui Guzi had Undying Shield. They were also super tanks with over 6000 HP, so there was no way in hell the boss would kill them in the foreseeable future.
The rest of the guild weren’t content to just sit by and watch, so they all tossed in their own DPS as well: Fireballs, wind blades, meteors, icicles, arrows, at-will magic spells and so on. The giant scorpion was a Level 80 Dark Gold Rank boss, but it was absolutely ravaged like a common mob. No matter how angrily it roared, there was no changing the fact that it was going to die today!
Clang!
My Purgatory Sword turned cold in my hands when I happened to hit one of its pincers. I immediately unleashed Purgatory Slash!
Bang!
The skill penetrated the boss and ended its life right there. Green liquid spilled all over the place as its humongous body hit the ground. It was both terrible and disgusting.
Pop pop pop...
He Yi picked up the equipment it had dropped, gave them a look and tossed them into Murong Mingyue’s arms. She said, ”Put them all in our guild warehouse. Once this quest is over, we’ll distribute the best equipment to those with the highest contribution.”
”Okay!”
In this regard, He Yi’s decision was very fair and praiseworthy. It was always important to be fair, especially when everyone was watching you.
Ding~!
System Announcement: Congratulations to player ”Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand” for successfully killing the Underground Lurker. 300 points are awarded to the player!