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With a muffled ‘boom,’ the great hammer crashed heavily against the green crystal.
The crystal shattered into countless fragments amidst the resounding impact, while the central stone pillar crumbled into dust, dragging the surrounding earth down into a colossal, gaping black maw.
Amidst the earth-shattering tremor, a colossal creature emerged from the chasm—the Spider Lair’s first BOSS, [Venomous Earth Spider X-901].
Upon spotting the BOSS, the players instinctively pulled out their monster compendiums and aimed them at the target.
[Earth Spider: A demonic creation, sealed on the second underground level of the Spider Lair. It is a weapon of slaughter crafted by demons, fusing goblins and spiders. Available in A, B, E, S, and X types.]
[Shelf life: twelve months. Store at room temperature. Refrigerate after opening.]
[Net weight: Goblin 21kg, Spider 1.8t]
[X-series: A complimentary gift series. Free of charge. Welcome back for your next visit. We wish you a pleasant BOSS battle.]
‘Game writer, come out here! I promise I won’t beat you to death!’
After that string of utter nonsense, the real information we sought finally appeared.
[Venomous Earth Spider X-901 Attributes: Insect & Poison Level 32 HP 1,000,000]
[Quality: Blue-tinged Purple]
In this game, color dictates an item’s quality, and similarly, the shade of a color indicates different tiers within the same quality.
For instance, this monster, being ‘blue-tinged purple,’ signifies a quality between blue and purple.
It possesses an extremely low chance of dropping purple items, a moderate chance of dropping blue-tinged purple items, but a higher probability of yielding blue items.
Currently, no equipment of true purple quality exists in the game; the finest gear is merely blue-tinged purple.
This starkly illustrates just how minuscule the BOSS’s drop rate for purple items truly is.
‘Let’s go!’
Su Yingning charged forward first, serving as the team’s primary damage dealer and also shouldering the responsibility of tanking the monster.
Su Shunhua healed intermittently, constantly ensuring Su Yingning’s HP remained above ninety percent.
Conveniently, Su Yingning’s explosive damage output maintained a rock-solid aggro lead, preventing the monster from bothering Su Shunhua.
This meant Su Shunhua didn’t have to worry about mana sustain, as he could meditate to recover mana at any time without fear of being interrupted by the BOSS.
Cannon Fairy glanced at the BOSS’s HP: ‘Eighty percent! Watch out, the BOSS is about to spit silk and pull someone in.
Once the main tank is pulled, Xiaoya, immediately cast Cleanse to remove the poison… Holy sh*t!’
Before she could even finish her sentence, the BOSS obligingly spat out a web of sticky silk.
This silk flew with incredible speed, almost invisible to the naked eye, reaching its destination in an instant and precisely coiling around Su Yingning’s calf.
Yet, before the BOSS could even begin to reel her in, the sticky web evaporated in a flash, vanishing without a trace.
All of this transpired in the blink of an eye.
The onlookers merely witnessed the BOSS making a spitting motion, and then… there was nothing else.
‘??? Is it a bug?’ Qingyu, who was dealing damage from behind the BOSS, also paused in confusion.
‘Didn’t it say it would pull someone in, then stab them with a venomous barb for a combo attack?
How did it only spit silk but not pull anyone? Ning Beibei, did you learn Overlord Body?’
‘No,’ Su Yingning replied, momentarily stunned, before looking at Su Shunhua.
‘This S-tier pet is simply too powerful!’
‘It was Xiaoya… truly a god-tier player… a genuine god…’ Cannon Fairy finally snapped back to reality, having even forgotten to cast her own skills.
She murmured, ‘The BOSS’s silk-pulling combo takes about 0.2 seconds in total—0.1 seconds to spit the silk and 0.1 seconds to pull.
It’s practically an unavoidable skill… but Xiaoya, in the instant the BOSS finished spitting and began to reel back, cast Cleanse, removing the bind from Ning Beibei!
This… this is absolutely insane!’
With Cannon Fairy’s explanation, everyone finally understood what had transpired.
Yet, the BOSS, still oblivious to what had happened, foolishly executed its programmed combo attack against the empty air before it, failing to inflict any damage.
‘That reaction speed… truly worthy of the god-tier big sister who allowed Ning Beibei to instantly turn the tables (TL Note: A Chinese idiom, ‘xiányú fānshēn,’ literally meaning ‘salted fish turns over,’ implying a sudden and dramatic reversal of fortune or a rise from obscurity.), wouldn’t you say?
God-tier big sister, are you still accepting disciples? Count me in, please!’ Cannon Fairy’s eyes twinkled with stars of adoration.
Su Shunhua, playing along, adopted a profound and inscrutable demeanor, responding coolly, ‘My apologies, but I only take one true disciple in my lifetime.’
Having said this, Su Shunhua and Cannon Fairy exchanged glances and burst into laughter.
It had to be said, Ning Beibei’s two vice-guild leaders were excellent people.
After two battles fought side-by-side, they quickly became a cohesive unit.
This Venomous Earth Spider X-901 was considered a relatively weak BOSS.
While its normal attacks dealt high damage and were frequent, it lacked wide-area damage skills and burst ‘one-shot’ abilities.
Therefore, as long as the healing and damage output were sufficient, a virtuous cycle could be established, making its defeat a certainty.
However, this hinged on meeting those healing and damage benchmarks; otherwise, even superior skill wouldn’t compensate for insufficient stats.
The BOSS’s HP steadily continued to drop.
After another one of its silk-pulling attacks, the battle was poised to enter its third phase, which began when the BOSS reached thirty percent HP.
Upon entering the third phase, the BOSS would immediately execute a rapid dash, rushing directly to its aggro target—Su Yingning, the main tank.
It would then launch her airborne, followed by a full-screen poison attack that could only be dodged by leaping to a certain height.
Furthermore, Su Shunhua would have to instantly cast Cleanse to remove the poison, follow with a Thousand Jin Drop to land, and then unleash a massive heal to keep her alive.
‘Hold your fire, slow down the damage,’ Su Shunhua called out, ‘I just used Cleanse, and it’s not off cooldown yet.’
Qingyu, Cannon Fairy, and Su Yingning all obediently ceased their attacks upon hearing him.
If they continued dealing damage, the battle would immediately transition into the third phase.
If Su Yingning were poisoned and Su Shunhua’s Cleanse was unavailable, she would undoubtedly be poisoned to death.
With the main tank dead and aggro scattered wildly, they would face an extremely high probability of a party wipe.
The team should have patiently waited for Su Shunhua’s Cleanse skill to finish its cooldown.
However, a sudden, basin-sized fireball flew from the rear of the party, slamming heavily into the BOSS.
Concurrently, a line of red system text floated before them: [Warning! Battle entering third phase!]
And Su Shunhua’s Cleanse skill still had a full fifteen seconds remaining on its cooldown.
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