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Join the ServerThe first five stages were a piece of cake. The key was the sixth stage.
While managing his own output, Gu also kept his nerves taut, watching the battle intently. He was both the guild leader and the raid leader.
“The sixth stage only triggers when the boss drops to the last 5% health. Although it starts very late, once it does, the boss enters an extreme berserk state! Attack tripled! Speed tripled! Skill frequency tripled! At that point, no one can even withstand a single normal attack from the boss!”
Jiangu reiterated the information left by the vanguard force that had returned in defeat: “This is also the biggest obstacle that has kept the fourth boss on Hard Mode from being conquered! Every team has failed to survive the boss’s final frenzy, and there is only one way to overcome it!”
“That is—to erupt even more crazily than the boss!”
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Strangely, the fifth stage continued until the boss’s health dropped to 10% without appearing.
I stayed tense the whole time, ready to adapt at a moment’s notice to prevent a team wipe, but my nerves were about to snap. Yet the little spiders of the fifth stage kept spawning unhurriedly, and the red spiders behind Qingyu had formed a line like a train. Qingyu had nearly finished an ultra-long marathon, but the boss still showed no signs of eruption or counterattack.
A bug?
Did my bug spread to the boss?
Qingyu was panting like an ox, his tongue hanging out, already as exhausted as a husky. The aloof image of a wolf clan assassin was completely gone—he had been sprinting nonstop for nearly an hour!
If the game didn’t have an upper limit on fatigue, he would definitely be lying on the ground by now.
Previously, the boss’s five stages were all concentrated in the first 30% of health, which was already quite abnormal. Now, as the boss’s health dropped through the next 60%, there was still no sign of an eruption. It maintained the same attack frequency and skill release rate…
Could it be… that it had already erupted and was spent?
Impossible! Otherwise, the major guilds would have cleared it long ago!
There must be another huge trap ahead! One that had buried all the elite members of every guild!
The health continued to decline steadily. The little spiders spawned unhurriedly, dealing unhurried damage.
The more this happened, the more uneasy I felt.
9%.
8%.
7%.
6%.
Then came the health point where the final counterattack might occur…
5%.
“ROOOOOAR!”
Finally!
In an instant, the boss’s entire carapace shattered! Only its two sharp sickle-like forelimbs remained!
Its once slender spider legs, after the carapace broke, transformed into laser legs made entirely of dark green laser beams! And they merged together, leaving only two legs!
Now it no longer looked like a spider at all, but more like a humanoid with a huge belly—a bloated, obese blade wielder!
Here it was! The biggest trap had finally arrived!
“Don’t freeze! Ranged units, keep going all out!”
So fast!
Before my words even faded, the creature lunged out like a mantis spotting its prey, its scythes swinging, slashing at Yingning!
Yingning instinctively raised her weapon and barely blocked the Spider Queen’s swipe, but she was sent flying! Her health instantly dropped to near zero!
What a terrifying monster! Even with the Moon Goddess’s blessing, a blocked hit nearly one-shotted Yingning!
The Spider Queen continued leaping after Yingning. Fortunately, Yingning wasn’t far from me. After healing her, I lunged in front of her, both hands gripping my priest staff high above my head, barely blocking the boss’s second attack.
“ROAR!”
Two attacks blocked. The creature seemed even angrier, but then something even more terrifying happened…
Because during this brief moment, neither Yingning nor I had been dealing damage, and the distant mages entered the final phase. The boss’s health was less than 500,000, so they were mashing their keyboards, unleashing a frenzy of damage. This immediately skyrocketed their aggro, completely drawing the boss’s attention!
The boss’s target was Huo Jinjin!
The boss lunged straight at Huo Jinjin! Its speed was so fast it was almost invisible! And as an ordinary lightning mage, Huo Jinjin had no way to resist!
One slash! Instant kill!
[Team mage Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin has fallen!]
Immediately after, the boss locked onto Cannon Fairy, who was nearby.
Even though I quickly cast Holy Smite, which had just finished cooldown, it was… too late!
At this moment, the boss was like a phantom reaper! Wherever it went, one swing was enough! No one could withstand it; everyone died without exception!
[Team mage Cannon Fairy has fallen!]
The situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Although their deaths didn’t reduce our team’s output too much, every bit of damage was crucial now!
Yingning resumed attacking to pull aggro, but she was knocked flying again in an instant.
The boss’s normal attacks had a knockback effect! The main tank simply couldn’t hold aggro!
“Damage! Go all out! Throw out every skill you have before you die! Don’t hold back anymore!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, giving the order.
As the sixth stage began, the small red spiders behind Qingyu disappeared, finally freeing him to attack the boss.
“I’m coming in! I can only unleash one rotation!”
Qingyu knew his situation well. As a melee fighter against this boss, he had to dish out the highest damage at the fastest speed. Although physical attacks now dealt full damage to the boss, being so close meant he would be one-shot without a doubt in the next second, so his total damage output wouldn’t be high.
[Assassin Qingyu has fallen!]
The boss still had 4% health.
And in our team, only Yingning and I were still alive.
“Damage! Even if you die, die with empty mana!” Since Dong Jun was absent, Yun Zhong Jun was the raid leader for Ten Thousand Souls Hall.
The situation for Ten Thousand Souls Hall’s team was grim.
With four priests, their damage output was explosive, but once they entered this final stretch, they lost mobility. One slash per person. Even with insane healing, they couldn’t recover because there was no opportunity.
Health was at 3%.
“Main tank aggro… sigh…”
Yun Zhong Jun sighed, understanding that it wasn’t that the main tank, Jiu Ge, didn’t want to hold aggro, but that the boss’s movement speed was too fast, its movements too erratic. Jiu Ge couldn’t grab aggro even if he wanted to.
If the main tank could hold aggro, with the terrifying healing output of four priests focusing on one tank, they could surely outlast the fight… but the main tank couldn’t hold.
“All priests, watch your positioning! Watch your positioning! Don’t get hit!”
Yun Zhong Jun’s voice was feeble. Everyone understood the principle, but their awareness and reactions couldn’t keep up with the insane speed!
“Damage! Damage! Go all out! Any buff skills, berserk skills, activate them all, don’t save them! Are you going to save them until you’re dead? Use any trump cards, scrolls, magic artifacts you have! Use them now, or you won’t get another chance!”
Ten Thousand Souls Hall’s team undoubtedly had the highest damage output.
Health had dropped to 2%.
Another team member fell. At this point, only two remained—shield warrior Jiu Ge and priest Yun Zhong Jun.
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