Chapter 362: The Boss’s Zone (2/2)

Lin Yixin was also frowning slightly. Our chances of winning were infinitely close to zero if we allowed this to continue.

But Commander Ziyu acted before we could change our strategy. He abruptly raised his sword and shouted, ”O’ Earth Spirits aslumber in the rocks, please listen to my summons. I offer a contract with my life as the cost—Howl of the Earth!”

Crack!

I knew it was bad when the earth beneath my feet suddenly cracked like a spider web, but it was too late. The next moment, countless rock spikes hit me and threw me into the air! Although the spell only had a range of 10 yards, I wasn’t able to dodge to safety!

3904!

3874!

3762!

……

I chugged a potion in the middle of the spell, but it still wasn’t good enough to keep me alive. My body turned cold—it was the sensation all players felt before they died—but instead of dying as I expected to, a bloody light enveloped me and brought me back to life!

Immortality? 10% plus 15 points of Luck gave me almost 20% chance to revive on the spot. Not bad at all!

I was overjoyed, but Lin Yixin wasn’t. She forgot to block the boss and the fact that the aggro would shift to her when she saw that I was killed. By the time she came to, an Armor Piercing Thrust had already torn apart her Profound Ice Armor!

8984!

Fuck! This is bad!

I cried in my head, but it was too late. Lin Yixin’s Defense was a lot worse than mine, so there was no way she could withstand the powerful blow. She stared at me defiantly as she collapsed to the ground, but there was no resisting death. She even dropped a couple of equipment in her bag!

Despair filled my heart as I ran across the temple grounds. What should I do? There’s no one left to block for me anymore!

Swhoosh swhoosh!

Two Dragon Slaying Slashes later, the boss's attention was drawn toward me again. This time, I summoned the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf and used it to block the boss!

It taxed me a lot to control two characters at once, so I wasn’t able to block the boss as well as Lin Yixin did. But the good news was the little wolf was fast, so it just about covered up this minor flaw.

I ran a half-arc around the temple grounds before grabbing all the Frozen Earth set pieces Lin Yixin dropped. I didn’t forget to run circles the ice totems and attack the boss from range, of course.

Unfortunately, my good luck couldn’t last forever. Commander Ziyu’s strength was insane, and he cut right through one of the totems. The 40-meter long pillar crashed to the ground just like that!

I continued to kite the boss around the hall. 10 minutes had passed since the start of the battle, and his HP had fallen to 97%. A bit of hope finally grew inside my heart. Ultimately, the boss's regeneration wasn’t higher than my DPS, so killing it wasn’t completely impossible. My chances of winning were still incredibly low, but the chance was there nonetheless.

The ice totems continued to fall one after another, and it wasn’t long before there was only one totem left in the entire hall. This totem was particularly thick, and at the center of it was a half-a-meter wide copper-like metal that probably supported the entire ice cave and kept it from collapsing due to crustal movement.

”Still struggling, peasant?!”

Ziyu’s disdainful taunt reached my ears as he attacked the totem with his sword aura. If the totem was destroyed, then I would be completely exposed. There was no way I could survive more than a few rounds like that.

Clang clang clang!

My eardrums vibrated uncomfortably as the Level 140 Spirit Rank boss continued hacking away at the totem. Finally, about a dozen or so strikes later, the ice surrounding the final totem was completely gone, and the copper totem started toppling sideways. It crashed against the southwest corner of the ice temple and punched a huge hole through the wall!

Boom!

The totem was about 70 meters long, and it crashed through the ice wall like it was made of wet paper, leaving behind a gap about dozens of meters long. Almost 50 meters of the totem were sticking out of the ice cave.

Ziyu smiled savagely and rushed toward me!

At this point, I wasn’t planning to do anything to the boss at all. It would be suicide to fight this Level 140 boss head-on, so I ran toward the gap in the wall like my life depended on it. I jumped out of the hole and ran along the totem!

I felt a chill when I was outside the ice cave. When I looked around me, I felt like my soul was about to leave my body. As it turned out, there was a hollow space outside the ice cave. More importantly, beneath my feet was a black, bottomless abyss that would kill me for sure if I fell into it. It wasn’t even a still environment! Snowy wind blew against my body and threatened to unbalance me as I wobbled like a dead leaf about to fall off its branches. It was such a frightening moment that the blood inside my veins felt like ice!

Right now, I was standing at one end of the totem like a circus performer, not daring to move even a muscle on my body. I would fall if I slipped, and this time I might not be as lucky as the first time.

My cape flapped wildly as the wind blew against it. I stared toward the front and felt both sorrow and despair. Ziyu was standing at the gap between the cave and staring at me with cold eyes. All he needed to do was plant his foot on the totem, and I would slip and fall to my death and turn into a frozen pancake. The only other alternative was to be killed by his blade!

But Ziyu wasn’t moving. He wasn’t moving at all!

Wait… is he a boss that can't leave his zone?