Chapter 554: Taking a Turn for the Worse (1/2)
My sword dangled loosely in my hand as I sprinted back toward the rest of the party. I reached a spot within range of nearly twenty healers as soon as I could. No matter how we were going to kill this boss, my first priority was to preserve my own life.
The Star Dragon’s furious roar echoed behind me and I suddenly felt a scorching sensation brush against my back. I immediately turned around to see that the Star Dragon was stretching its great jaws open. In the next instant, I saw a huge stream of dragonfire shoot out of its mouth. It looked like a concentrated beam of celestial flames that could instantly melt even steel.
I raised my hand desperately to ward off the dragonfire. Not the face!
Boom!
I bore the full brunt of that blast of dragonfire and the impact pushed me more than a few steps back. I felt as if parts of my body had been torn apart as it was assaulted by a burning pain. My vision swirled for just a second as a huge damage number popped up above my head.
27984!
……
”What the hell…”
As Li Chengfeng, who was standing a fair distance away, stared at that damage number, he took his sword and grabbed High Fighting Spirits by the collar as he sprinted backward. He had reacted just in time because that blast of dragonfire hadn’t stopped at me. It continued traveling in a perfectly straight line, scorching everything in its path. Even though Li Chengfeng had been alert enough to avoid this calamitous blast of cosmic flame, three mages and seven archers had been caught up in that blast. All of them were immediately reduced to piles of ashes!
As the damage numbers flew up in the air, I shook my head in dismay. This Star Dragon had taken out 10% of our party with just the first blast of its breath and the incredible damage that it had dealt had chilled our hearts.
”So this is a Heaven Rank boss huh? This… this is a little bit too crazy, isn’t it? It’s… it’s way too insane…” Xu Yang stuttered.
There were some players whose courage had been broken by that attack but there was at least one person who still recklessly charged at the Star Dragon. A brilliant light radiated out from Lin Yixin’s White Moon at the same time her eyes flashed with moonlight. She used Moon Gaze on the Star Dragon and White Moon soon whistled toward it after that. It stabbed right into the purple dragon’s abdomen. After she had stabbed it in the belly, Lin Yixin immediately flew backward as she switched to her Frozen Sword and attacked the dragon with an Ice Flame Slash!
Boom!
18992!
24980!
10982!
15881!
19827!
……
Gui Guzi and He Yi hit it with their usual Barrier Breaks before immediately following up with their flurry attack skills. Everyone was trying to do as much damage to the boss while the effects of Extreme Break lasted. During these fifteen seconds, the Star Dragon’s Defense had turned into paper, but once its effects ended, it would be a lot harder to deal damage to it.
Arrows rained down on the purple dragon from behind as Beiming Xue and her troop of archers rained down suppressive fire on it. Shock Arrows, Devil Piercing Arrows and Volleys screamed toward the Star Dragon as they took advantage of the armor break effect of Extreme Break. This was the only time that most of them could break its Defense, and the boss had actually lost a good chunk of health after all the arrows had found their mark.
”Rooooaaar…”
The gigantic dragon reared back its head and howled as it swiped its claws at us. It had actually used a sweeping blow that heavily struck Gui Guzi, He Yi, and I. A tearing pain radiated from my right shoulder as three damage numbers popped up in the air.
16273!
19828!
14289!
……
Among the three of us, Gui Guzi’s Defense was the highest and He Yi’s Defense was the lowest, but all of us could endure attacks of this degree. Furthermore, the big group of priests behind us started healing us all rapidly and Murong Mingyue even cast a Pool of Life around us. She yelled, ”Please don’t leave the radius of my Pool of Life unless you absolutely have to!”
Who would even want to willingly leave the radius of a quick HP regen spell? Needless to say, none of us would move out of this Pool of Life unless the dragon spat its flames at us again!
Before we even finished speaking, the boss swiped at us with its claws again. The four main tanks were hit by a flurry of attacks and our health started to drop to dangerous levels. The healing from our priests alleviated some of the danger, but all of us noticed that we actually didn’t have enough healing to keep up with the Star Dragon’s DPS.
Bang!
As the Star Dragon’s blade-like claws smashed into Lin Yixin’s chestplate, she gritted her teeth and hissed in a worried voice, ”We can’t continue on like this. The priests are barely keeping us afloat and our HP bars won’t rise above 50%. This boss's attack speed is way too high…”
I nodded. ”We need to use our health potions. If we don’t, there’s no way we can keep fighting this boss. Also, let’s switch up our strategy a little. Gui Guzi and I will tank the first round of attacks and when our HP drops to about 25%, we will immediately retreat. Yiyi, you’ll have to come up with a way to grab the boss's aggro at that time, and you and Eve will tank the next wave of attacks. Gui Guzi and I will heal up during that time, and if we keep rotating the main tanks like this, there’s a chance that we will win this fight.”
Lin Yixin let out a soft laugh as she nodded in agreement. ”Yeah, that’s a great idea!”