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Join the ServerTime was pressing; not a moment could be wasted!
If that Prophet from Sword Sweeping the World had seen a successful run, over two and a half minutes would have already passed. That left me with barely two minutes!
Calculating with two minutes, 1,875,000 HP meant I needed a DPS of 15,625!
I tentatively cast a Holy Smite—1105.
As I suspected! The boss’s nerfs weren’t just to HP and attack—its resistances had been lowered too! With that shift, my Holy Smite was dealing over ten thousand damage! Several times my attack power!
Om’s Roar—12,013.
That meant the boss’s resistance reduction worked differently—subtraction instead of division! Its all-element resistance was now negative, just like the Spider Queen’s Light resistance! Not only was there no damage reduction, but skill damage was doubled!
So this was the real strategy for the dungeon!
“Earth Mastery!”
Earth Mastery lasted only a minute with a half-hour cooldown, so I had one chance… Without hesitation, I stacked all buffs and went all out!
The boss’s normal attacks were monotonous—just flamethrower after flamethrower. The fire rays flew fast and at tricky angles, but they weren’t impossible to dodge.
I backflipped over a fire ray and took the chance to spray a Flurry of Snow.
Critical! -36,018!
Seeing that damage number, Huo Jinjin rubbed his eyes in a daze.
Charming Voice!
Critical! -36,027!
[Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin (Dead): WTF are those skills! Since when did priests become so OP? I’m the mage here, and I feel inferior… Am I the priest?]
[Cannon Fairy (Dead): You? A priest? Do you even have heals?]
[Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin (Dead): No…]
[Cannon Fairy (Dead): Then shut up. Don’t disgrace the word ‘priest’. Look at you—no heals, paper-thin, and your DPS can’t even match a healer! So embarrassing! Just delete your account and jump off a building!]
DPS can’t even match a healer… Huo Jinjin took a critical hit to his pride, his soul form running in tears at the top of the dungeon.
[Ning Beibei (Dead): Keep going… Yaya… sis…]
[Cannon Fairy (Dead): Go, Goddess Ya!!!]
[Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin (Dead): Goddess Ya! Keep it up! If you actually take this guy down, I’ll kneel and lick… your toes!]
I had long since turned off the team channel, unable to see their dozens of pages of cheers. My ears were filled only with the tense battle BGM, like a death knell.
Five minutes was no longer my limit… I had to subtract three minutes from that. I only had two minutes left!
Now, only one minute remained.
The boss’s HP dropped to 65%.
“So itchy! You insect!”
Boom!
Here it comes! The full-screen flame insta-kill! Earlier, it also activated at the one-minute mark. It seemed this skill had a one-minute cooldown, not HP-based!
I gritted my teeth and stood still this time…
I couldn’t guess wrong! Absolutely couldn’t!
If my deduction was wrong, this skill would instantly kill me! The consequences would be unthinkable!
The scorching flame aura carefully swept over every inch of my body, burning my skin with a searing pain!
Don’t die! Don’t die! Don’t die!
-1000
1000 HP! I didn’t die!
I guessed right!
Instantly healing back that 1000 HP, I continued to go all out on the boss!
After the flame aura, the battle entered the second phase. The boss’s fire ray frequency increased slightly, and damage increased slightly.
Earth Master: One minute left, boss at 35% HP!
There was still a chance!
“Enough! Insect! I’m bored of playing!”
Phase three! A phase I had never seen!
I held my breath, ready for battle.
Suddenly, a fire ray shot out without warning! Extremely fast!
I quickly sidestepped to dodge, but that was just the appetizer!
Whoosh—
The frequency of the fire rays increased rapidly! Feeling the scorching remnants in the air, I knew without touching that these rays dealt massive damage!
Here it comes again!
[Immovable Ming King: Hang in there!]
[Cannon Fairy: This is bad… So fast! And getting faster! This is impossible for a human to dodge!]
Side roll! First one!
Side roll again! Second!
Big jump! Third!
[Cannon Fairy: Holy shit, actually dodged it… But it’s getting faster!]
Weight drop! Fourth!
After landing, I immediately did a backbend… Fifth!
“Bang!”
The battlefield suddenly exploded with a huge blast. The flame aura appeared again and instantly passed through my body.
-1000
So close! These two big skills had no cooldown between them! If I had been hit by even one fire ray before, taking this unexpected flame aura would have been certain death!
Fortunately, the fire rays stopped for a moment. The boss seemed to enter a brief attack lull.
Thirty seconds left! Boss at 20% HP!
Damn, not enough time!
****
Jiangu stared intently at the boss’s HP bar without saying much.
Last 10% remained.
The advance team hadn’t made it this far, so they had no idea if the boss had a deathbed burst at the last 10% HP. Even Jiangu himself had no certainty about this last 10%.
However, based on the boss’s previous skill pattern, it counterattacked based on time, not HP… So he should focus on time, not the boss’s HP.
Okay… Thirty seconds to go!
The boss was quiet, seemingly out of tricks—still the same three patterns: fire rays, high-frequency fire rays, and flame aura.
At the current DPS, the team would kill the boss in the last 10 seconds or so!
Glancing at the time channel, Jiangu felt somewhat relieved… In 20 seconds, their names would appear on the world channel.
It was time to shut up those troublemakers who thrived on chaos.
Sword Sweeping the World was always Sword Sweeping the World.
Still 9%.
****
18%… I kept outputting frantically without stopping for a second. The name under the status bar had grown dim from the frantic full output.
As soon as equipment skills were off cooldown, I shouted and released them.
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8%.
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16%.
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7%.
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14%.
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6%.
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12%.
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5%.
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10%.
At this rate, I’d run out of mana in a few seconds… Even a second of meditation could make me miss the final chance.
But I had an equipment skill for mana recovery about to come off cooldown, so running out wasn’t a problem.
Output! Output with all I had!
At the final moment, I could only take a gamble!
****
4%.
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8%.
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3%.
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6%.
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2%.
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4%.
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1%. Jiangu held his breath, as if afraid that his spirit form’s breathing might affect the team’s efficiency.
“Roar!”
Green Giant raised his shield and complained bitterly: “Damn, a fire blast at this time!”
Green Dog: “Enough time! Use shield block to hold a bit! If we get one-shot, all efforts wasted!”
Jiangu frowned, sensing trouble.
[Jiangu (Dead): No! All-out DPS!]
****
2%.
However, the flames on the boss suddenly surged again, and the high-frequency fire rays started once more!
Meow… Not dodging anymore!
Going all in!
1%.
****
0%.
The boss exploded with a bang. Cheers erupted in the Sword Sweeping the World guild.
We got it! First kill!
Sword Sweeping the World once again proved the kingly status of that golden giant sword!
[Jiangu (Dead): Wait! Look carefully at the boss’s HP bar!]
Although the boss’s body exploded, something seemed off…
No treasure chest appeared.
No system prompt appeared.
The boss’s HP bar still floating in the air seemed indeed depleted.
But when the team reached out to the HP bar to check the exact number, their faces instantly turned pale.
[HP: 3/3,750,000]
3 HP left?!
Why?
How could this be? Wasn’t it over? A bug?
Or was there another phase? How did it explode with 3 HP left?
Where’s the chest?
Where’s the EXP?
Where’s the first-kill notification?
Where’s the achievement reward box?
Oh! It’s here! Finally here!
A system prompt suddenly appeared before everyone, making them finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But after reading the content, their faces turned as colorful as if they had eaten shit.
[Sorry, because another team has achieved 100% progress perfect clear of the Spider Nest Hell difficulty, the Spider Nest dungeon is about to close. Your battle is forcibly stopped. You will be teleported out in 10 seconds—10, 9, 8…]
Since Jiangu had been streaming to the guild, guild members could see both the moment of clear and this prompt…
After seeing this prompt, the Sword Sweeping the World guild channel fell into dead silence again.
At the same time, golden system messages began to flood the world channel.
[Congratulations to a team for achieving the first clear of Spider Nest Hell difficulty! All Saint-tier of the Nine Hua Alliance sends their congratulations!]
[The team members are: MC Mary Sue, Zi Mengxue, Ya Shangxue, Ning Beibei, Qingyu, Cannon Fairy, Immovable Ming King Huo Jinjin!]
f*ck, it’s them again!
Is this never-ending? What kind of shit luck do they have! Are they the game company’s favorites? Are they cheating? That weak-ass guild… How is this possible! What a joke!!!
[Congratulations to a team for achieving 100% perfect clear of Spider Nest Hell difficulty! Condition: Solo! All Saint-tier of the Nine Hua Alliance sends their congratulations!]
[System Announcement: The Spider Nest dungeon is permanently closed. The Spider Nest Trial Grounds are now open. Trial Grounds level: 20. Players wishing to trial can enter through trial officers in major cities!]
Several shocking, unbelievable news items instantly stirred up a storm in the hearts of the players.
Especially the members of Sword Sweeping the World and Ten Thousand Souls Hall felt it the most.
Gunfire Rose… Gunfire Rose… Gunfire Rose!
This ant on the verge of destruction!
This… was this your revenge?
However, another new system message suddenly appeared on the world channel, increasing the explosive discussion tenfold!
[Guild System Notice: Gunfire Rose has declared a guild raid war on Sword Sweeping the World!]
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