Chapter 252 - Killing the Lord of Vultures
Chapter 252: Killing the Lord of Vultures
“Soldier, Forward Charge!”
“Soldier, Forward Charge!”
The filthy water from the Epidemic Pond was splashed all around in the air, and a spine-chilling scene was reflected within the water droplets—several hundreds of Vulture Soldiers stared with bloodthirsty eyes straight ahead, carrying their long spears in front of them. Their sharp claws glistened behind their weapons as they charged ahead!
“Gather behind me!” cried Mixed Breathless in a hoarse voice. There were about 300+ Vulture Soldiers in front of them now, and the Lord of Vultures was continuously summoning more soldiers. However, only five Savage team members had remained alive: Lin Jie, Zheng Ziliang, Bu Yi, Baili Changcheng, and Mixed Breathless!
“Guardian Barrier!”
Ding~
A shield appeared on top of Lin Jie’s head. This was the Shield Specialist’s advanced skill, Guardian Barrier, and Mixed Breathless was using it to protect him now. This skill had a unique effect: when the health bar of the person being protected dropped to 50% or lower, the Damage Dealt this person received would be transferred to Mixed Breathless. Meanwhile, that person would increase 20% Damage Immunity!
“Soldier, Forward Charge!”
The Lord of Vultures’ voice was heard over the Vultures Wall. One by one, the Vulture Soldiers were being created, and they activated their Forward Charge skills at the remaining five players! The terrible combined attacks, which were at least 700 damage points, would instakill anyone if they got hit!
Lin Jie’s eyes gleamed. He picked up a corpse from the ground—coincidentally, it was Qiu Yuan’s corpse!
“Everyone, listen to my commands!” cried Lin Jie. “The only way to kill the Lord of Vultures is to divert the attention of the Vultures Wall! Ziliang and Baili, throw all the corpses over to the other side of the dungeon now! Bu Yi, Breathless, stall some time for us!”
Correct, one must penetrate through the almost unbeatable Vultures Wall if they want to kill the Lord of Vultures! Before the Vultures Wall was formed, everyone thought that as long as the team’s Mages and Hunter focused on attacking the Boss, they would be able to take down this level. Yet no one knew that once the Vultures Wall was formed all the vultures in the Vultures Wall would become Invincible!
This meant that players could only watch in desperation as they witnessed more and more vultures gathering to form walls around the Boss. Meanwhile, they would be killed off by the mass of Vulture Soldiers!
“Qiu Yuan, sorry!” muttered Lin Jie under his breath as he looked at Qiu Yuan’s corpse, which he carried in his arms now. Resolution flashed past his eyes—it was common knowledge that one needed to possess certain levels of mental tolerance to prepare for desperate moments in the game, in order to gain victory. Much as he was reluctant to let Qiu Yuan’s corpse be eaten by the vultures, this was the only way out!
Whoosh—
Lin Jie lifted Qiu Yuan’s corpse high up into the air, gritted his teeth and threw it about 10 meters in front of the Vultures Wall. The scent of dead corpses was the best bait for the vultures. A few of them broke off from the formation, and tore off bits of flesh from the corpse, flapping their wings excitedly!
Several of the other vultures became jealous, and they rushed towards Qiu Yuan’s corpse.
Zheng Ziliang gritted his teeth as he witnessed the vultures tear Qiu Yuan’s corpse apart, and blood filled his eyes—this scene was too much for him to handle!
Baili Changcheng patted his shoulders and consoled, “This is just a game!”
“I know, but…” Much as reluctant as Zheng Ziliang was, he tried his best to focus on the big picture. With a wave of his hands, he ordered his Gargoyle to clamp up Netherblue and Star Kill’s corpses, and threw them towards the vultures!
In fact, Baili Changcheng even used his Earth Elemental magic spells and tilted the floor towards the vultures, sliding the corpses towards them! 10+ corpses gave off alluring scents, just like how a piece of dog meat tempted a hungry monk!
Saliva dripped down from the vultures’ beaks, and they moved discreetly towards the corpses. With them gradually leaving their formation, the Lord of Vultures was finally revealed!
“It’s now! Forward Charge!” cried Lin Jie as he got into Enraged mode and activated Wild Charge, shooting inside the tiny crack within in the Vultures Wall like a dark shadow!
The Lord of Vultures, which only had 50% of its health bar left, stood before his eyes!
In Lin Jie’s previous life, he had followed a wild team—and a devious one at that—to explore the Epidemic Pond. The team had coordinated cleverly and prevented the casual adventurers from getting most of the gains. During that time, all players in the team had attained Level 50 or above, and it had been considerably smooth throughout their ventures in the Epidemic Pond dungeon. In fact, they had been quite lucky—two Dark Gold pieces had been spawned during the battles.
Yet these two Dark Gold pieces had been pocketed by the main team members straight away. Lin Jie had only gotten a few Gold coins.
Lin Jie had first encountered the Lord of Vultures during that time! This Dark Gold Boss, which was almost comparable to Lei Zhika, had tortured everyone in the team with its almost despicable skills. Disgruntled by his treatment, Lin Jie had chosen to save himself and focus on maintaining his health bar throughout the battle. This resulted in him staying alive until the end when all the others had been killed!
To save his own neck, Lin Jie had thrown all his teammates’ corpses to the vultures to divert their attention. What he had not expected was that the Vultures Wall had opened up! Due to no choice, Lin Jie had rushed into the space within the Vultures Wall and discovered that the Lord of Vultures had been trapped in an extremely tiny space, where it couldn’t even summon more Vulture Soldiers to fight for it. In the end, the Lord of Vultures had been slashed to death by Lin Jie, and he had walked off with the best rewards from the dungeon!
In Lin Jie’s previous life, when he had seen the vultures tearing his teammates’ corpses apart, all he had felt was satisfaction from carrying out his revenge.
Yet now… he felt extremely excruciating to look upon this scene! He had tried to think of all other possible ways to kill the Lord of Vultures, yet his efforts did not pay off—he still had to resort to this method in the end.
“Jie!”
“Jie!”
Zheng Ziliang shouted frantically when he saw Lin Jie charging at the Boss. Yet he did not get any reply. At this moment, Bu Yi and Mixed Breathless died in their combats against the soldiers!
There were only now three people left in the whole dungeon—Baili Changcheng, Zheng Ziliang, and Lin Jie!
“Calm down!” shouted Baili Changcheng angrily. Zheng Ziliang was in a rather hysterical state ever since he had seen his teammates’ bodies being devoured by the vultures. He was in a blank state of mind until Baili Changcheng shouted him back to his senses.
“Elevate your Gargoyle. It doesn’t matter if you die, your Gargoyle cannot die!” Baili Changcheng had his eyes focused on the monsters surrounding them as he stuck his sword into the ground, and a light shield encased them. He said, “Use the Soul Replacement Contract and hand over the Gargoyle’s ownership to Fu Sheng temporarily. Hurry! I will stall some time for you!”
“Earth Shield!”
[Earth Shield]: You use up 200 Mana Points initially to cast an Earth Shield with Earth Elements in front of you, transferring all the Damage Dealt on your teammate to yourself. When using the Earth Shield, your Defense and Mana Defense are increased by 100 points temporarily.
Elemental Sword Artist Specialization: You can use extra Mana Points to increase the effective area of the Earth Shield.
Baili Changcheng’s powerful Earth Shield skill nearly emptied his Mana bar, which wasn’t a lot in the first place!
Zheng Ziliang gritted his teeth and started carving the runes with his hands in mid-air. This was the Soul Replacement Contract, which could allow one’s pet to listen to another player’s commands for the following five hours.
The time required for writing the contract was at least 10 seconds!
-839!
-625!
-565!
…
Baili Changcheng’s body trembled vigorously, and his health bar was emptied swiftly! He was just an Elemental Sword Artist after all, and when he did not use the Ice-type magic, his Defense capabilities were extremely lousy!
One long spear pierced through the Earth Shield, and the 1,000+ Damage Dealt killed Baili Changcheng in one shot! At this moment, Zheng Ziliang had just barely finished the writing of the Soul Replacement Contract. Within the blink of an eye, he was killed by all the Vulture Soldiers which swarmed up to him!
‘We meet again, Lord of Vultures!’ Lin Jie looked hard at the Lord of Vultures as he slashed Broken Blade down on it with gusts of Blade Auras. The Lord of Vultures could not move at all within the Vultures Wall. Even if it summoned its Vulture Soldiers, they could only appear outside of the Vultures Wall. Some more, the Vulture Soldiers’ Forward Charge skill was unable to penetrate through the Vultures Walls, so they would not be able to come to its aid!
At this moment, the Lord of Vultures was just a vulnerable lamb waiting to be slaughtered!
The Lord of Vultures was a weakling once it lost its skill of summoning Vulture Soldiers! Its attacking style was similar to that of a Summoner—when its Summoned Beasts were not around itself, it could not deal out any damage to Lin Jie even though it had as high as 700 Attack Power.
Army Obliteration! Shield Cut! Blood Light Multi-Slash!
Lin Jie downed all the Berserker Potions he had. Gusts of Blade Auras slashed past the Lord of Vultures’ face continuously as he activated his signature skills. Its health bar dropped by volumes, and in less than 10 minutes, its health bar was only left with 10%!
Army Obliteration!
-1,536!
-1,556!
-1,386!
-1,990!
Four enormous Critical Hit figures jumped out, and a hole was blown right through the Lord of Vultures’ body! The gigantic body finally fell down slowly.
A giant bead rolled out from its heart area! At the same time, a letter was dropped.
Ding~
—’You have received 55 silver coins.’
—’You received [Yellow Sand Heart] (Dark Gold Fragment).’
—’You received [Lost Desert’s Letter].’
[Yellow Sand Heart] (Dark Gold Fragment)
Special Accessory
Requires: Level 30
All Attributes +1
Additional effect: You can summon three to six Vulture Soldiers to fight for you. Each Vulture Soldier has 10 Health Points and 300 Attack Power. Cooldown time is 30 minutes.
The moment the Lord of Vultures died, all the Vulture Soldiers transformed into sand and vanished in the dungeon!
When the vultures disappeared, Lin Jie’s pupils constricted to almost a slit as he realized that all his teammates had died. This included Zheng Ziliang and Baili Changcheng, who had died when trying to hold off the Forward Charge attacks by the Vulture Soldiers.
Splash… splash…
Lei Zhika jumped out from the Epidemic Pond, and cackled, as if extremely delighted at his work! His health bar was only left with 15%!
He was in his third stage now! During this stage, Lei Zhika would be immune to all Mana attacks and Ranged attacks and would drink a potion every five seconds. Every potion would either increase or decrease his attributes until the effects were superimposed for 100 times. Meanwhile, the Boss would also change its attack style to melee attacks rather than throwing potions. Every one of his attacks had splashing effect, which would result in a minimal 1.500 Damage Dealt!
“Lei Zhika wishes to play with you by himself…” laughed the Boss loudly as he stuffed bottles and bottles of potions into his stomach. The already rotting stomach was now squeezed with all types of potions, which gave off bubbling sounds.
The Boss’ attributes rose crazily—his Attack Power broke through 1,500 points, while his defense broke through 1,000 points. Much as powerful as Lin Jie was, he wouldn’t be able to take it down by issuing blows to it head-on!
There was only one way to kill the Boss now—using its potions against it! The Boss’ potions had different effects when mixed together. If the mixed effects could help the Boss, its abilities would rise up again! On the other hand, if the mixed effects harmed the Boss…
‘Darn it, a Warrior’s Jump and Movement abilities cannot last for long,’ pondered Lin Jie.
Did this mean that he needed to leave the dungeon and think of another attack strategy again? If this was the case, wouldn’t he lose the opportunity to obtain the first clear of the dungeon?
At this moment, a warm glow spread out from Lin Jie’s hands.
Ding~
—’Your teammate, Innocent Killer used the Soul Replacement Contract on you. You are allowed to use the Mechanical Gargoyle within the next five hours.’
Swoosh—
The Mechanical Gargoyle flew down from the sky and rubbed affectionately against Lin Jie’s cheeks.
‘Ziliang…’ Lin Jie was ecstatic. He took a few steps back and stared coldly at the Boss’ actions of stabbing its stomach with potions!
One bottle, two bottles… 50 bottles, 60 bottles… 100 bottles!
The Boss did not look like a human at all now—it was simply a walking dead full of test-tubes poking out from everywhere of his body!
“Let’s go!” cried Lin Jie as he manipulated the Mechanical Gargoyle towards Lei Zhika, changing directions every now and then in mid-air to confuse the Boss’ judgment. It was getting nearer and nearer, and…
Suddenly! The Mechanical Gargoyle clawed at the test tubes which covered the Boss’ stomach, and a dark-greyish colored potion got mixed with a pale yellowish colored potion. With a ‘bang’ sound, black smoke rose up.
-16,253!