Reborn with Infinite System Points, I Can Directly Change Item's Value-Chapter 27 --The Assassination of the Zone 4 Lord Player Fails, and the Final Boss Appears
[Aegis Shade Guard] Lv.25
[HP]: 31,000
[Attack]: 1,500
[Defense]: 2,000
[Skill]: Guard the Lord (When an enemy attempts to attack the lord, they must attack the guards first)
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"You think this can stop me?"
John glanced at the stats of the two guards and sneered inwardly.
He lifted his gaze and saw that the Lord Class Player was also silently watching him.
The other party clearly had great confidence in those two guards. He had no intention of fleeing, even while standing before an assassin like John.
Killing intent surged in John’s eyes as his gaze locked onto the area behind the two guards.
In the next instant—
Phantom Blink activated, and his figure appeared wherever his eyes were fixed.
Bzzz!
Sensing that the Lord Class Player was in danger, the two Armored Shades immediately activated their guard skill.
They tried to force John’s attack target to shift onto them.
But what surprised the Lord Class Player was this—
John’s Bloodfang had been aimed at those two Armored Shades from the very beginning!
[-40310!]
[-40310!]
Two terrifying damage numbers burst forth!
Absolute True Damage, combined with the Assassin Class critical strike, and stacked with the damage amplification from Phantom Blink and a series of other buffs—
In a single instant, the HP bars of both Armored Shades were wiped clean.
From start to finish, they never even had the chance to resist.
Chi—chi—chi—
The Armored Shades let out metallic cries of breaking and collapsing before their bodies crashed to the ground and turned to dust.
The instant kill of both guards had clearly caught the Lord Class Player off guard.
The man’s eyes beneath his hood darkened, and he began to retreat.
After killing the two guards, John shook his head inwardly.
The levels of these summons are still too low for Zone 4’s pace of development.
If not for the unique traits of the Lord Class, these people might very well have been the ones leading overall progression right now.
Zone 4’s Order Faction was exceptionally united.
Their top guilds often adopted a strategy of an entire guild feeding resources into a single player.
Had it been any other class, the man before him might already have broken past Level 40.
But this Lord Class Player clearly had methods—and guts.
He had actually dared to cross zones and enter Zone 5.
He had even interfered with the monster tide, releasing summons and farming Zone 5 players as though they were monsters.
"To have cross-zone capability not long after the server opened, and to even influence the monster tide in a world-level event..."
John licked his lips.
"The stuff you’re carrying is making me very eager to kill you."
At this moment, the Lord Class Player had already been deeply shaken by the power John had displayed.
As he retreated, he activated a skill that tore open space itself.
In an instant, intact space was forcibly ripped apart, creating a massive gash.
The terrifying spatial turbulence even affected John’s Phantom Blink.
At the same time, it blew the hood from the Lord Class Player’s head, revealing his true face.
He was a player John had absolutely no memory of from his previous life.
A man with red hair.
His skin was deathly pale, without the slightest trace of blood, like that of a corpse.
Just before leaping into the spatial rift, the man cast John a sidelong glance with dead-fish eyes.
That gaze was filled with dense malice.
Clearly, John’s sudden assassination attempt had ruined his plans.
Whoosh!
John’s figure appeared behind the man.
But at the very instant Bloodfang was about to stab into his back—
The spatial rift closed.
The man vanished without a trace.
Naturally, John’s assassination strike missed.
[Miss!]
Since his rebirth, this was the first time he had failed.
John stared at the empty space before him, and a nameless fury rose in his chest.
"Damn it. What a slippery bastard."
Judging from how efficiently the man had torn open space—and from his ability to cross zones—it was probably another skill no lower than S-rank.
What angered John even more was that he had made thorough preparations just to catch this guy.
And yet in the end, it had all come to nothing.
At the same time, doubt also surfaced in John’s heart.
A Lord Class Player with that many absurdly overpowered skills should never have been some nameless nobody in his previous life.
So why did John have no memory of him at all?
"Could it be that my rebirth has caused some kind of change?"
John frowned slightly, and his heart sank.
...
Meanwhile—
Because the Lord Class Player had left, the Armored Shades within the monster tide abruptly dissolved into nothingness.
They had existed only because of that Lord Class Player in the first place.
The moment he left the zone, they naturally lost the vessel anchoring them here.
"Those armored monsters are gone! Counterattack, now!"
The female knight was the first to notice.
She immediately shouted to the NPCs, raising her spear high as she spurred the giant wolf beneath her onward.
She charged at the remaining monsters first.
[-3716!]
[-3127!]
Without the Armored Shades serving as the main force, the remaining monsters were nothing worth mentioning.
The NPCs had already been pushed down by the Armored Shades for far too long and were full of pent-up rage.
Now that they saw a chance to strike back, every one of them rushed forward faster than the last.
"You dare invade our village? Die!"
"Our sacred home will not be defiled by filth like you!"
"Bow your heads and stay still—I’m chopping them off!"
The NPCs were like a sharp blade, swiftly stabbing straight into the heart of the monster tide.
In the enraged eyes of the NPCs, the monster tide’s HP looked as thin and fragile as paper.
One red-eyed monster after another fell beneath their blades.
Seeing the situation turn, the players also began taking advantage of the favorable momentum.
They followed behind the NPCs, finishing off weakened enemies and scavenging kills.
Not a trace remained of the dispirited panic with which they had been fleeing just moments earlier.
Before long, the monster tide that had surrounded Novice Village so tightly was gradually cleaned up under the NPCs’ fierce assault.
[-3184!]
When the final red-eyed monster was pierced through by the female knight’s spear—
A system notification rang out across the sky.
[All monster tide forces have been eliminated. The final BOSS is about to descend!]
The voice was urgent and sharp.
It carried the crushing pressure of a final battle.
All players and NPCs looked up in unison.
They saw the several spatial rifts being squeezed together as though by some invisible giant hand.
Bit by bit, they fused into one another.
In the end, they formed an enormous spatial rift.
ROAR!
A deep beastly growl emerged from within the rift.
Immediately afterward, a savage eagle head slowly thrust its way out.
Its colossal body was like a mountain, blotting out all the moonlight.
It had a pair of wings on its back. Its front half was that of an eagle, complete with hooked beak and feathered chest, while its rear half was leonine, with a mane and tail.
It was, unmistakably, a griffin!
Even before anyone cast Detection on it, all the players felt the pressure in their hearts skyrocket.
"Th-This final BOSS is way too strong, isn’t it?"
"I feel like one swipe from its claw would kill all of us."
"Tell me... do we still have any hope at all?"
KREEEE—!
When the griffin fully revealed itself, it suddenly threw its eagle head toward the heavens and let out a piercing cry.
Its level and attributes appeared on their own.
[Griffin King] Lv.35 (Gold-grade)
[HP]: 50,000
[Attack]: 5,186
[Defense]: 6,177
[Skills]: Gale Blades (A), Eagle Strike (B), Lionhawk Roar (B)
...
Just as the griffin was preparing to further display its overwhelming majesty before the crowd—
A ghostlike figure suddenly flashed into existence behind it!
