Chapter 549: The Ghost God’s Curse (1/2)
Whoosh!
I rushed out like a howling gale and Gui Guzi had already started charging forward with his troop of cavalry behind me. Chaos Moon and High Fighting Spirits were also running in with a group of players on foot.
The jaws of everyone present hit the ground. No one had expected that Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls would launch the attack first and even Stranger of Three Lifetimes desperately tried to grab the corner of my clothes. “Hey, hey! Don’t do anything impulsive, you bunch of idiots…”
I couldn’t help but grin. If we are idiots, then so be it! There’s no way I will let Li Chengfeng rush in all by himself.
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Lin Yixin flipped onto her Frostscythe Warhorse as she stared at our mad charge. Disbelief filled her delicate face as she exclaimed, ”Hmph, why did that bastard Lu Chen choose to launch his attack now? He really does have a terrible sense of timing! Snowy Cathaya, prepare for battle! Let’s go grab the boss's dragon scale and help protect our allies from Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls while we’re at it!”
Purple Marquis and the rest of Snowy Cathaya drew their sharp blades as they waited for Lin Yixin’s command.
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”Oh, what exactly is happening here? How come that brat Lu Chen lost his nerve all of a sudden? Even I haven’t gotten anxious yet, so why is he all worked up for…” Luo River God of the Capital raised her magic staff in the air as she spat out those incredulous words. After that, she turned around and shouted toward the Purple Lily players, ”Prepare to attack! Our goal is to steal the boss's dragon scale. Purple Lily must have a role to play when we reach the B9 floor!”
”Yes!”
Purple Lily also prepared themselves for battle.
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Our actions truly had a domino effect on the rest of our allies. The moment Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls charged into battle, Snowy Cathaya, The Monarch Descends, and Purple Lily immediately sprang into action as well.
”Charge!”
Warsky raised his sharp blade in the air as he ordered nearly one thousand Warsky Alliance players to launch a sudden attack. The boss's health had dropped below 20%, and if everyone launched their attacks in unison, it wouldn’t be able to hold on for much longer. The dragon scale was right in front of us, so no one was going to let the chance to grab this precious item slip by.
”Kill God’s Dance first!” I yelled.
Beiming Xue swiftly shot off a Shock Arrow, but a huge ”MISS” flew up above God’s Dance’s head. The mage had some pretty good resistances, and Magic Shield made it extremely likely for CC effects to MISS as well, allowing God’s Dance to shrug off that Shock Arrow. This was also the reason I didn’t bother using God Binding Art either. A restriction-type skill would rarely bother a mage whose shield wasn’t broken. For mages, there was one rule to live by. The second your shield breaks, you are dead. But as long as their shield is up, killing them is a tall task.
Rustle...
God’s Dance’s feet rustled against the sand as she backpedaled. She seemed to be in peak condition. As she weaved along the frontlines, she shot an Ice Arrow Spell at both High Fighting Spirits and Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun, stalling their advance considerably.
Tempest Shadow rushed through our lines on his valiant-looking warhorse as his spear cut left and right. It weaved a dance of blood and death until Gui Guzi smashed straight into him. Both of them started exchanging blows with both spear and shield, causing brilliant sparks to fly in the air whenever one magic knight smashed his spear into the other’s shield. Their battle looked incredibly intense, but since both of them were magic knights, there was no way that a victor would be decided any time soon. After all, duels between magic knights were battles of attrition, and it was very common for arena battles between them to last for the full ten minutes.
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Whoosh!
I made a beeline for God’s Dance as a blazing spiral of indigo energy started swirling around the edge of my Heaven-stealing Sword. An Eight Trigrams formation appeared beneath my feet when I stabbed my sword at the location that God’s Dance appeared to be twirling toward. If this Universe Break hit God’s Dance, it would be just about enough to break her shield and kill her. After all, my Universe Break largely ignored the durability of any Magic Shield, so it was mags’ worst nightmare!
”Hmph!”
God’s Dance gave a disdainful little laugh as she suddenly spun in another direction. Her shoes danced on top of a bunch of rocky protrusions that were sticking out of the ground as she retreated swiftly, causing my Universe Break to just barely scratch the surface of her shield as she twirled backward. She’d actually managed to dodge my attack!
”Woah, that little girlie actually dodged Lu Chen’s attack. What a beast…” High Fighting Spirits yelled.
However, I had already rushed forward before God’s Dance even had a chance to reply. I swiftly slashed downward, causing three fiery blades of sword energy to smash against her Magic Shield. I had managed to connect with my flurry skill, Burning Blade Slash!
1792!
2809!
5891!
My three consecutive strikes hacked God’s Dance’s Magic Shield apart. All the color drained from her pretty face. The best mage in Candle Dragon knew that even an archer would be able to one-shot her once her shield was broken.
”Kill!” High Fighting Spirits roared in fury as he smashed down with Invincible. A cone of blazing energy appeared in front of his axe once he used his Barrier Break skill. The muscles of his arms suddenly bulged as the long blade of his axe came to a stop just millimeters above God’s Dance’s chest. As long as he twitched a muscle, God’s Dance would die where she was standing.
It was at this exact moment that a dark-red figure suddenly launched a surprise attack from the side. He smashed into High Fighting Spirits, sending him reeling backward and when the assailant sprang to his feet, I realized that it was Candlelight Shadow!
”I’m gonna kill you!” Candlelight Shadow yelled as a look of fury crossed his face. He spun on his heel as his blade flashed out thrice. He used Blazing Purgatory Slash! His sword hit High Fighting Spirits from three different angles and he had even altered the strength with which he had swung his sword all three times. His attack had made High Fighting Spirits look foolish as he tried to parry those three sword strikes and three lines of blood exploded across his chest as the sound of flesh rending filled the air. His HP plummeted as a string of damage numbers popped up above his head.
8902!
10981!
+7098!
+4890!
10229!
Fortunately for him, Murong Mingyue had reacted with lightning quickness and she had already popped off two heals on High Fighting Spirits before Candlelight Shadow had even landed his third blow. If it wasn’t for her incredibly fast reaction speed, High Fighting Spirits would have been one-shot by Candlelight Shadow. This bastard’s attack power was simply incredible, it wasn’t something that any of us could really defend against.
Boom!
A beam of sword energy shot through our ranks. Blue Sky Scar had launched his attack and it had been shot off from an extremely sublime angle. His line attack hit both High Fighting Spirits and Eighteen Steeds of You and Yun, dropping High Fighting Spirits’ health dangerously low once more. However, Moon Dew was ready with a Greater Heal, so he managed to survive once more. At this point, all of Candle Dragon’s attacks seemed to be focused on High Fighting Spirits.