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“Camel, back off!” cried Unexpected Childe as he saw Lost Camel’s Mana levels decreasing rapidly from the frequent changing of pets. He took out an arrow from the quiver, which he carried behind his back.
Numerous beasts’ souls seemed to be gathered at the tip of this particular arrow, including a Tortoise’s Grunt, Sparrow’s Chirp, Tiger’s Growl, Ape’s Gibber!
[Beast Souls Arrow]: Attack Power 30 – 50. After the Beast Souls Arrow hits the target, a Beast Souls Barrier will be formed in the area. The Beast Souls Barrier has 2,000 Health Points.
Unexpected Childe only had two Beast Souls Arrows—and arrows were the most important assets of any Marksmanship Hunter!
With a flick of his right arm, the Beast Souls Arrow pierced through mid-air and gave off all kinds of beasts’ growls. The formed Beast Souls Barrier enclosed Lei Zhika in the middle. Its 2,000 health points would be able to hold off Lei Zhika’s attacks for at least a few seconds!
Within these few seconds, all the Savage Blade team members had somewhat recovered from their previous fight!
Lin Jie said with a serious expression, “The Boss’ health bar is now less than 20%, but the varieties of monsters he can summon out is still a lot! We may meet some weak monsters, but we may also… No matter what, everyone do your best! Victory is ours after we conquer this stage!”
“Sure!”
“Let’s go!”
Fireballs and arrows were blasted upon Lei Zhika’s body. The Boss’ rotting torso exploded into several portions, and pieces of his body were flung about everywhere. It was a very repulsive scene.
Following which, a strange smell spread around in the air…
‘So fragrant!’
This fragrance would draw out a human being’s innate carnivorous craving. Even Lin Jie couldn’t resist it and sniffed the air several times.
Splash, splash—
Bubbles appeared on the surface of the dark-greenish Epidemic Pond. The redolent pieces of Lei Zhika’s flesh were luring some monster out of the Epidemic Pond!
A vulture head emerged from the dirty pond waters. Rolling its eyes, it aimed for the sources of food he saw, and then… crawled out with his human-like limbs!
This was a human-shaped monster, except that it had a vulture’s head!
‘Darn it, it’s the Lord of Vultures!’ Lin Jie’s heart flopped.
[Lord of Vultures·Latika] (Dark Gold Boss)
Level 35
Health Points: 1,500,000
Magic Attack: 650-900
Defense: 450
Special Feature: Vulture’s Innate Ability. Any unit which dies will provide Rotten Flesh for the vulture. After consuming the Rotten Flesh, the vulture will recover 50% of its health bar.
The lower Lei Zhika’s health bar was, the more varieties of monsters he could summon! This was especially so when during the last 20% of his health bar. The monsters he could summon would include even Dark Gold Bosses, and the Lord of Vultures was one of the strongest among them!
Its health bar was as high as 1.5 million points, and doubled that of the main Boss Lei Zhika in the Epidemic Pond dungeon—not to mention its terrifying passive abilities!
When Lin Jie shared the monster’s Stats to the Team Column, everyone looked dismayed. They had finally seen some signs of victory, yet they had to face such a fellow now?! The most important thing was, they had absolutely no idea of its skills and attacking mechanisms!
Even in Lin Jie’s previous life, not a lot of players had information about the attacking strategy for Lord of Vultures. This was because it was even stronger than Lei Zhika! Any team would be wiped out when they faced it. As such, there had been an unwritten rule for all the teams trying to conquer the Epidemic Pond dungeons: to back off and reset the dungeon’s progress whenever they met the Lord of Vultures.
However, Lin Jie had beaten this monster before!
In fact, he had beat it with solo efforts! Even though he wasn’t as strong as he was in his previous life, he felt that the situation wouldn’t be too bleak, especially since he had help from the Savage Blade team now!
“Everyone, listen—especially Kid!” cried Lin Jie. “The Lord of Vultures only has four skills in total, and there are no changes to its skills!”
“No. 1: Summon soldiers! It will summon soldiers of the Normal level, Elite level, and Enhanced Elite levels randomly to fight on its behalf. The Stats of the soldiers are exactly the same as itself, but the only difference will be their health bar! The Normal level Vulture Soldier will have health bars of 50,000 health points, the Elite level Vulture Soldier 100,000 health points, and the Enhanced Elite 200,000 health points! Instakill the Normal and Elite soldiers, but don’t kill the Enhanced Elite soldiers, or else they will produce five more copies of themselves.”
“No. 2: Forward Charge! The Lord of Vultures will command its soldiers to activate the Forward Charge skill, and the skill can cover a distance of 100 meters, stopping when they encounter any units of obstruction. As long as you see the Lord of Vultures raise its hands, hide behind the MTs and try to recover as much of your health points as possible!”
“No. 3: Substitute! The Boss will change positions with any of its soldiers, and cause an explosion within a tiny effective area. This explosion will kill anyone immediately!”
“No. 4: Vultures Wall! This skill is activated when the Boss’ health bar is less than 50%. It will summon a vulture every five seconds, and take note—nine vultures will form a Vultures Wall, and any damage dealt to this Vultures Wall will be immuned then. If four Vultures Walls are formed around the Lord of Vultures, it will become invincible and can summon endless Vulture Soldiers. As such, we need people to kill the vultures all the time!”
At this point of time, the team members had no interest to wonder where Lin Jie got this information. They turned to Kid instead—this bunch of information was too much for them to digest. Like most players, they could just barely remember the Boss’s attacking mechanisms. Much as the members of the Savage Blade team were experts, they wouldn’t be able to work out a strategy for battling the Boss with just a few sentences of information.
Kid pondered for a few seconds, and he had an idea. “MTs form a Shield wall, and all healing jobs stand behind the MTs and heal them continuously! Hunters and Bandits focus on attacking the Boss and heck care about the rest. Big brother, Fat Cattle, Qiu Yuan, Night and Baili, activate your Area-Of-Effect skills and focus on battling the Vulture Soldiers which are summoned out!
“Since the Vulture Soldiers can activate the Forward Charge skill, it means that their advances can be blocked off. Hence, all the MTs can gather them in the middle with the Shield wall, and then others use the Area-Of-Effect skills to kill them! The task of killing the Boss will be up to the rest of the team.”
“Everyone, just focus on your own job! Finish whatever potions you have left!”
After Kid finished, he looked at Lin Jie and asked, “Is this okay?”
“Since you decided that this is the best strategy, then it will work,” approved Lin Jie as he instructed, “MTs, get into a straight line and form your Shield wall! Star Kill, Camel and Childe, attack the Boss! Qiu Yuan put Dark Fog for us. Ziliang, order your Gargoyle up in the air and make it activate its Water Surge skill constantly so as to decrease the enemies’ speed!”
“Sure!”
“Sure!”
Mixed Breathless, The Heavenly Shield and Silver Shield stood side by side and placed their shields beside one another. After they got into their defense poses, they looked literally like a wall made up of shields!
The Lord of Vultures looked coldly at the human players and sneered darkly. “Are you the ones who touched my food? Soldiers, catch them!”
Swoosh—
A half-human Vulture Soldier appeared in mid-air—it was of Normal level! It activated Forward Charge, and its spear slashed past the team just within the blink of an eye.
-746!
“What, such high damage!”
Mixed Breathless was alarmed, but he continued slamming his shield onto the soldier’s face. Everyone else gathered their spirits and focused on attacking the soldier, killing it in one shot!
At this moment, the Boss had finished summoning two more Vulture Soldiers, and one of them was an Enhanced Elite level Vulture Soldier, which had near to 200,000 health points! Not only that, this Vulture Soldier would be divided into five more copies of itself if it was being killed!
However, the Enhanced Elite’s attack was the same as the Normal soldiers.
“Dark Fog!” With a wave of her hands, a dense fog covered the vicinity. Although this skill only had a slight chance of obstructing the Vulture Soldiers, it would still be great if the players could just be protected throughout one round of attacks by these monsters!
The Boss summoned out five more soldiers, and they charged at the players with the Forward Charge skill!
-742!
-627!
…
Mixed Breathless’ eyes gleamed as he commented, “Oh, their Stats are the same! As long as the healing jobs keep up with their healing, we can hold them off!”
“Activate your Area-Of-Effect skills!” shouted Lin Jie as he activated Flame Boost and Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner! The slashes from the Army Obliteration skill tore through the soldiers’ bodies, and a large batch of damage figures jumped up. The health points of the monsters dropped visibly!
Domestic Fat Cattle rubbed his hands and threw the Pyroblast spell which was otherwise known as ‘Mage’s Face Basin’ upon the soldiers’ faces. After a series of sparks and sizzling flames, numerous 300+ Damage Dealt floated up. Meanwhile, Baili Changcheng and Dejected Night activated their ice-based skills while the fires blazed on—the conflicting natures of the fire and ice skills actually resulted in additional Damage Dealt!
Ding~
—’You have killed the Vulture Soldier. You receive 12,000 EXP points.’
—’You have killed the Vulture Soldier. You receive 15,000 EXP points.’
The system notification kept appearing. The creatures summoned by the Lord of Vultures allowed EXP to be earned when they were killed. In fact, there would be certain chances of them dropping the extremely rare Vulture’s Eye, which could then be engraved upon one’s weapons and used to increase its Life-Steal attributes.
This was even more so for the Lord of Vultures! As a Dark Gold Boss, it was independent of Lei Zhika. As such, the items it spawned would be even more rewarding.
“Big brother, be careful!”
At this moment, the soldier before Lin Jie suddenly faded away. The Lord of Vultures, which was numerous times bigger the size of the original Vulture Soldier appeared in front of Lin Jie. It looked as if it was about to explode, and Lin Jie would definitely be caught by its flames considering his proximity to the Lord of Vultures!
Bang—
The explosion occurred after a loud bang! However, Lin Jie was flung out from the area of the explosion, a corpse lied down on the spot where he was originally standing—it was Qiu Yuan! Qiu Yuan had kicked Lin Jie out of the explosion area and died in Lin Jie’s place!
The Lord of Vultures only allowed the players to react for less than half a second. Lin Jie was caught off guard by its appearance, as he was looking at the Boss’ damage suffered system notification!
“Jie, focus!” growled Zheng Ziliang in a low voice, as he continuously cast the Contract Strengthening spell with his right hand. This was one of the few more practical Contract Summoner’s skills, which could help increase the attributes of his Summoned Beast.
Lin Jie nodded and concentrated on his increasing his damage output. With the Flame Boost and Thunder Descent effects, his damage output was no less than the aggressive Fire Mage Domestic Fat Cattle! Meanwhile, when the Lord of Vultures realized that he got good results from using the explosion of his substitute skill, the highly-intelligent Boss focused its entire energy on Lin Jie. Yet it did not succeed even though it launched its attacks at Lin Jie for tens of times!
However… with the passing of time, the number of Vulture Soldiers present increased, and there were many Enhanced Elites within them which the team could not kill. When the Boss’ health bar dropped to about 50% or so, the number of Vulture Soldiers present already reached 20—and all of them were Enhanced Elites!
The three MTs suffered the most—if every one of the soldiers dealt out one blow at them, they would suffer at least ten thousand Damage Dealt. Much as they had tried to parry off the attacks with clever tactics and the healing jobs were all focused on healing them, their health bars were still dropping crazily.
“Oh, hehehehe… Pitiful humans, do you think you can really hurt me?”
The Lord of Vultures’ health bar dropped to 50%, and its most terrifying stage came! Numerous vultures flew out from the Boss’ body and formed a Vultures Wall in mid-air. Any attacks on the Vultures Wall would be immuned!
Not only that, the Vulture Soldiers’ appearance frequency was increased by multiple folds!
“Soldier, Forward Charge!”
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With tens of soldiers activating their Forward Charge skills at the MTs, a crowd of 800+ Damage Dealt jumped up. Even with the help of the healing jobs, they still were unable to hold these soldiers off!
“Shield Fortress!” Mixed Breathless gritted his teeth as he shouted aloud. His Block Index was increased by 100% temporarily, and his powerful skill of 20% Immunity was activated! Meanwhile, The Heavenly Shield and Silver Shield were killed instantly by this wave of monsters!
Bu Yi gritted her teeth as she cast the Power Word Shield and Healing Spell upon Mixed Breathless, lifting his health bar!
At the moment, the Boss was still commanding his underlings to continue attacking everyone.
“Soldier, Forward Charge!”
-360!
-352!
-355!
…
It was fortunate that Mixed Breathless was able to hold off this wave of attacks with Bu Yi’s healing and supporting skills. His health bar rose and fell quickly, making cold sweat formed on everyone’s foreheads! Once Mixed Breathless was taken down, the bloody massacre by the Vulture Soldiers would commence!
Meanwhile, the Vulture Soldiers were being summoned from the mid-air one by one. In the blink of an eye, they killed most of the Savage Blade team members!
