Chapter 64: Pincer Attack
The ghostly fire in the boss’s eyes flared up, and his posture sank, clearly having devised a countermeasure. After the swamp dissipated, the bone horse returned on its own.
“Wish – Vines!” Countless vines tightened up, instantly binding the bone horse, leaving it unable to move.
Fortunately, although it was ineffective against the Death Knight, it still worked on the mount.
Without a mount, the power of Charge was greatly reduced, preventing a repeat of being instantly killed.
At the same time, Starry quickly approached the boss, launching an attack from Lord Xisi’s blind spot!
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Over two hundred damage seemed insignificant against 10k+ health; Starry was no longer at a significant advantage in facing this boss!
A magic bullet flew in from afar, crashing into the Death Knight.
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The two successive attacks delayed his actions for a moment, buying time for the flying stone.
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No way, the stone’s attacks could no longer break through defenses significantly; its attributes and level were completely crushed!
Even if the stone hit all its targets, it would only take about 1200 health. Glancing at the health bar, there were still 13597 left!
Is this a boss that a player can fight? Just a touch and he’s nearly dead, even instantly killed.
In fact, this boss was not designed for players at this stage.
Logically speaking, players who are level 20 or above should have at least one control skill, and the challenge with this Death Knight lies in his three high-damage signature moves and that ball of ghostly fire immune to ice and wood control effects. As long as one can perfectly interrupt all of his skills, this boss would just be a paper tiger.
Normal attacks are not lethal; at least they only dealt 500+ damage to Endless Sea.
Now, Zane’s three control skills had two wasted, and just the root was clearly not enough for control time. Moreover, the Death Knight could jump off the horse to escape. If Endless Sea were still around, he could use taunt to buy more time, but he had been instantly killed by Charge.
Lord Xisi appeared to be at an advantage, but his damage output was hardly impactful. With his health, if he took a Dark Slash head-on, he would undoubtedly die!
Sure enough, what he feared arrived; dark energy surged, Dark Slash!
Oh no, too late to interrupt!
Lord Xisi understood the horror of this attack, as the giant stick gleamed with red light, a heavy hit!
He wanted to break the sword’s energy!
“Bang!”
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The crimson number popped up, it was a critical hit! And Lord Xisi’s health bar dropped directly to 0, transforming into a white light and returning to pet space, even losing a level!
Not only that, but the Dark Slash continued unabated, striking Youyoufen behind him!
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She was instantly killed without any suspense.
“…” Zane clenched his fists; this guy…!
Brother Shiu’s face turned ashen, this boss was too hard to fight, they were probably going to wipe!
“A pesky mouse,” the Death Knight said softly as the bone horse broke free from the vines and came to his side. Lord Xisi mounted the horse in one swift motion.
Charge!
Target: Brother Shiu!
Crap, the mage’s agility was nowhere near enough for Brother Shiu to dodge; he could only watch as a streak of black light flew towards him.
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Brother Shiu fell too!
“Two left.” The Death Knight said indifferently as he charged towards Starry; with the mount’s boost, Starry simply couldn’t escape!
Not a chance! Starry jumped forward, safely landing on the Gray Wolf, swiftly disappearing in a blur.
“Gray Wolf?” Lord Xisi was momentarily stunned; where did this Gray Wolf come from? How did he not know?
“You can’t escape.”
The bone horse raised its front hooves and charged forward.
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“Holy crap, you all went down?” Endless Sea exclaimed, surprised that this Death Knight was so fierce, far outclassing the Blood Bat King!
“Actually…I died before I even had a chance to react,” Youyoufen said shyly.
“The skills’ damage is too high, there’s no room for error.” Brother Shiu shook his head. “They’ll probably be arriving soon; let’s wait here a moment.”
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The bone horse, with just a few skeletons left, surprisingly didn’t run slow.
In a swift state, it could slowly create distance, but once that state ended, it would quickly close the gap.
As the distance shifted, the Death Knight was already hot on their heels.
Just as it was about to get close, Charge!
Starry was constantly glancing backwards; how could she not notice? Zane immediately leaned down and drifted away!
Then, he threw Starry off!
Damn, not used to drifting for the first time!
Starry steadied herself after touching the ground.
At least she avoided the Charge.
But this meant there was no escaping the subsequent attack.
What to do?
“Whoosh!”
As Zane hesitated whether to preserve a character’s level, an arrow whistled through the air!
Armor-Piercing Arrow!
“Crack”
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The Iron Arrow was deflected by the heavy armor but successfully left a debuff that reduced defense on the Death Knight.
The boss’s Physical Defense had dropped to 52! A reduction of a full 30 points, far superior to the Armor-Piercing effect of the Poison Blade.
Lord Xisi seemed a bit surprised, “You’re still alive?”
Following the direction the boss was looking, there was a lithe figure; a bright green longbow reflected a greenish light under the moon, with the name above her head reading ‘Fenghuayue’!
“Adventurers are not so easily killed!” she smiled lightly, drawing the longbow; the arrow flew out instantly,
The Death Knight was about to change direction when Zane realized this was an opportunity! He quickly commanded Starry to attack.
The power of ice and snow enveloped the Qiu Yue Sword, and at the same time, the Qiu Yue Sword radiated a warm power as its passive triggered!
Opportunities to attack were rare; this time it had to hit!
Thousand Flash Step!
Like a bolt of lightning, Starry approached the Death Knight, aiming for the ghostly green flames in his eyes, and slashed down mightily!
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Blue numbers popped up, dealing weak point damage!
A massive amount of damage forced the Death Knight and his bone horse to retreat several steps, closely exposed to the chilling frost; the flames flickered violently, making one doubt that a single breath could extinguish the fire.
In a state of Armor-Piercing, the Ice Moon Slash boosted by Qiu Yue was nearly invincible!
Even Fenghuayue slightly opened her mouth, murmuring, “How is that possible…”
But she did not stop her actions, as twilight gathered on the arrow,
Healing Arrow!
“Pfft!”
The boss was pierced through the heart by this arrow, seemingly triggering a restrained effect.
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And thanks to this arrow, he was shot off his horse and fell to the ground.
The previous Ice Moon Slash had caused him great injury; now he clutched his eyes, turning in pain.
While he was down, Zane took advantage to strike!
Forget about hiding anything; he immediately transformed into Alna.
“Wish – Vines!” First, bind the bone horse!
“Wish – Mud!” Next, ensnare the Death Knight himself!
The prelude was over; the killing blow came! “Wish – Fire!”
The Fire Curtain enveloped the Death Knight’s body.
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The Death Knight’s health bar was visibly dropping; if it weren’t for the berserk mechanism, this boss would have been easily overcome!
However, Zane noticed something.
He pointed the longbow at Fenghuayue.
