I have an Apocalypse City-Chapter 872 - 873 Recovery_1
Chapter 872: Chapter 873 Recovery_1
The level 40 Lord Boss, with Vitality Points exceeding one hundred thousand, was a number that spelled despair for the average player. For Song Jian, however, it was just a matter of executing the Thousand Swords Art a few more times;
At this moment, the Guardian Boss had already charged onto the shore, lifting the enormous warhammer in its hand and smashing it towards Song Jian;
Seeing the Boss’s robust body and the two warhammers it wielded, Song Jian knew it was a strength-based Boss and, of course, would not confront it head-on.
With a swift dodge, Song Jian took cover behind a rock at the lake’s shore;
With a “boom”, the place where Song Jian just stood had immediately formed a large crater, and a powerful gust surged towards him, nearly causing him to lose control of his body;
“So even a regular attack comes with a knockback effect? Truly troublesome,” Song Jian frowned slightly; it was only at this moment that he realized why the players who had initially attacked the Boss on the small island at the center of the lake couldn’t hold aggro steadily. It turned out not that they were afraid to draw too much hate upon themselves, but that every strike from the Boss came with a knockback effect, preventing the warriors who wanted to hold aggro from establishing sufficient enmity in a short period;
After the Boss smashed a huge pit into the ground, it swung its momentum to shatter the large rock beside Song Jian into smithereens.
With the Guardian Boss’s overwhelming strength, its attacks could be said to be near unstoppable; even a forty-man team would easily be wiped out if the tanks were poorly equipped and the Boss landed a one-shot kill on them;
The thirty-odd players on the small island initially could have taken down this Boss if they had unified their efforts, especially since their gear was all Dark Gold, Epic, or even Legendary quality;
Song Jian took a Weakness Potion out of his inventory and hurled it fiercely at the Boss, enveloping it in a cloud of gray dust. However, the potion seemed to have no effect on the Boss, which emerged from the smoke with the word “immune” floating above its head and charged forward with large strides;
Song Jian narrowed his eyes, encountering such a situation for the first time. Even demons from the Abyss couldn’t resist the Weakness Potion; he hadn’t expected that this big fellow before him would have such high resistance to it!
However, for Song Jian, reducing the Boss’s defense was nothing more than icing on the cake. With his damage output, there was no concern about failing to break through the Boss’s defenses;
Facing the Boss’s frenzied attacks, Song Jian stepped nimbly aside and teleported next to the Boss. His Sky-breaking Sword drew a line across its waist, leaving behind a trail of blood. Before the Boss could react, Song Jian leaped high and stabbed towards the Boss’s back-heart area;
Thud!
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A stream of blood sprayed out as Song Jian fiercely kicked the Boss’s back, retreating backwards. At this moment, although the Boss’s swinging warhammers failed to hit Song Jian, the intense wind they generated caused even the exposed skin of Song Jian to feel the pain of being sliced by a knife;
Glancing at his skill bar, the cooldown for the Ten Thousand Swords Flying Immortal Art had ended. Mid-air, Song Jian swung fiercely at the Boss, and more than thirty Spirit Swords, floating around his body, followed the direction of his sword swing, tracing arcs through the air like swimming fish as they chopped towards the Boss;
At this point, Song Jian had firmly locked onto the Boss. He could not only focus the Spirit Swords on a single target but could even control the flight trajectory of the swords;
However, controlling the trajectory was too much of a mental strain for Song Jian; as long as he locked onto the Boss, it was enough to have more than thirty Spirit Swords concentrated on attacking it;
Boom, boom, boom~
Each Spirit Sword exploded violently upon slashing into the BOSS, leaving a series of blasts in their wake. The BOSS’s body was drenched in blood, covered in dense, interlaced sword wounds;
The BOSS’s Vitality Points suddenly plummeted to the halfway mark, with even its left eye struck by a Spirit Sword, as filthy blood nearly obscured half of its face;
Such horrific damage shocked the NPC professional who had been lurking at the bottom of the lake, watching Song Jian all along. His previously steady breathing became erratic, and a string of bubbles rose from the lakebed;
Just then, Song Jian unfurled a pair of steel wings behind him. He hesitated slightly, furrowed his eyebrows, and after a moment’s hesitation, he turned and flew towards the small island in the middle of the lake;
With the BOSS’s speed, it would take at least fifteen seconds to reach the island from the lake shore. By the time it reached the island, Song Jian’s Thousand Swords Art cooldown would have ended, and if he was lucky, he could directly take out the half-depleted BOSS;
“As for the little mouse hiding at the bottom of the lake, hehe…” Song Jian, flying midair, glanced down at the lake and revealed a sly smile;
If the person hiding in the lakebed hadn’t been too close to Song Jian, already within ten meters, if it wasn’t for his surprise at Song Jian’s Thousand Swords Art damage that disturbed his breathing, Song Jian might not have noticed him at all. After all, his stealth skill was of Epic Quality, eluding Song Jian’s perceptive scouting completely;
At this moment, Gases’s mind was filled with the scene of Song Jian executing the Thousand Swords Art, the terrifying damage to the level 40 Lord BOSS still making his heart tremble. He was no longer as confident in becoming the final victor as he had been before.
“He hasn’t found me, as long as he hasn’t found me, I still have a chance!” Gases looked at his skill bar and silently psyched himself up.
He originally planned to emerge as the last victor after the BOSS killed Song Jian, but now, it was questionable whether the BOSS could even bring Song Jian down to critical health;
Song Jian flew to the small island in the center of the lake, turned around, and stared at the BOSS swimming towards him. An ordinary player without any swimming speed boost skills would take several minutes to swim to the island. Yet, the Guardian BOSS seemed to have a skill to accelerate in the water, moving extremely fast;
Song Jian checked his skill bar, with three seconds left on the Thousand Swords Art cooldown. The BOSS had already swum halfway, but to Song Jian’s surprise, the Guardian BOSS’s Vitality Points started to slowly recover in the water.
By the time the BOSS reached the heart of the island, its Vitality Points had recovered from the halfway mark to 70%. Song Jian looked around at the lake water with a sinking feeling; it seemed that killing the BOSS was not going to be as straightforward as he had thought.
Thousand Swords Art!
Song Jian waved his right hand, and more than ten Spirit Swords appeared, flying towards the BOSS still in the water. Another series of explosions occurred, and Song Jian realized that the Guardian BOSS’s defense and resistance to critical hits were significantly enhanced in the water. The more than ten Spirit Swords only managed to reduce the BOSS’s Vitality Points by less than eight thousand;
“It seems I can’t let it touch the water!” Song Jian thought to himself;
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