Heroes' Prison

Chapter 174 I’ve Always Been Watching You

Random Skills are abilities only found in high-level bosses. For instance, the Zombie King on the 41st Level doesn’t have any Random Skills. That one is the weakest of the Zombie Kings, with all Basic Skills, and you figure out the tactics after one go. As you climb the levels, the Zombie Kings get increasingly stronger. Besides the enhancement of their basic Attributes, the main difference is in their Random Skills. They randomly deploy a few from hundreds of potential skills, making them unpredictable! Now we’re on the 50th Level, where the Zombie Kings are at their strongest. Their Random Skills come as naturally as breathing, with no discernible pattern.

Due to the existence of Random Skills, the effectiveness of guidebooks is greatly diminished. Even the strategies from top teams can’t cover every Random Skill, so the ability to improvise becomes especially crucial.

At Lin Yiqin’s command, Huang Yi, along with the other Melee Classes, charged forward, blocking the oncoming Corpse Worms. He raised his hammer and slammed it down on a Corpse Worm, cracking its carapace but not completely shattering it, resulting in only 30% Health Points lost!

With Huang Yi’s Attack Power, he could only inflict that level of damage, and there were still more than a thousand such Corpse Worms left on the battlefield! A significant loss of life seemed inevitable!

"Death by a thousand cuts!" At that moment, Dao Feng snorted coldly, his body radiating golden light that reflected off his golden Armor, like a War God descending to the earth!

He wielded his huge War Blade, vigorously slashing a semicircle in front of him. Hundreds of Sword Qi blades, golden and radiant, shot out in a fan-shaped spread, densely packed and brightly shining, creating a dazzling sea of Sword Qi on the battlefield!

Then, those hundreds of blades of Sword Qi penetrated the bodies of hundreds of Corpse Worms!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The next moment, the field was filled with a series of explosions as the Corpse Worms attacked by Dao Feng burst open, scattering debris everywhere!

With just one move, he instakilled hundreds of Corpse Worms, clearing a large area of the battlefield and halting the assault of the Corpse Worms, thereby reducing the pressure on the Melee Classes.

Seeing this, Huang Yi’s eyelids twitched. His own killing power seemed novice compared to Dao Feng’s. Dao Feng, truly one of the top players in the world, showed the disparity with just one action, on a completely different level. If he were to duel with Dao Feng now, he probably would be cut down in one slash, without even a chance to activate a Life-saving Skill.

However, Dao Feng had reached a bottleneck stage, where his power increased at a slower pace, while Huang Yi had boundless potential and was rapidly catching up. With time, the gap between them would only shrink, and once Huang Yi completed his first Job Change, he would be on the same level as Dao Feng.

"Scorched Earth!"

"Judgment!"

At that moment, Huang Yi activated those two wide-range Attack effects again. Plague and Magma covered a two-hundred-meter radius, engulfing all the Corpse Worms and damaging them continuously. Although these two skills didn’t have Dao Feng’s strength of attack, they excelled in their extensive range, attacking thousands of Corpse Worms simultaneously, with the overall efficiency of damage output not far behind Dao Feng’s.

"Brother Instakill, let’s have a blast killing, and see who can take down more!" Dao Feng turned to glance at Huang Yi, flashing a cheerful smile, then wielding his golden War Blade, he charged into the thickest swarm of Corpse Worms.

"Blades of Blood and Shadow!"

"Cut in Two with a Single Slash!"

"Mountain Blade, Sea of Fire!"

Plunging into the mass of Corpse Worms, Dao Feng began to unleash his overwhelming combat prowess, with unseen skills flashing from his golden War Blade, each strike instakilling a swath of Corpse Worms. As a top, Job Changed master in the world, although he was only a few Levels above everyone in the Yanhuang Legion, his strength was several times greater!

The 9th Stage of War Soul is a massive chasm.

The first Job Change is also a massive chasm.

Overcoming either can leave other players far behind!

Watching Dao Feng’s dashing heroics, Huang Yi felt a chill in his heart. Dao Feng, so genial in everyday life, had transformed into a wholly different person in battle, exhibiting unstoppable sharpness. Unmatched and unstoppable!

"Alright, then let’s enjoy a rousing bout!" Huang Yi turned to look at the Corpse Worms pouring out of the Abyss and slowly lifted his foot.

On his feet, he wore the only pair of Legendary Boots in the China Region!

Following that, he stomped fiercely onto the ground, activating the attached skill of the Legendary Boots—"End of the World!"

In an instant, with him as the center, swirling magma erupted violently within a 300-meter radius! The scene was as if he had stomped life into the ground to bring forth the magma himself!

By then, the ground was no longer scorched earth; it had turned into a volcano, continuously spewing scorching magma, submerging all the Corpse Worms within a 300-meter radius! Not only that, the magma engulfed both the Yanhuang Legion and the Zombie King, drowning everyone in its fiery grasp!

Countless cries of despair resonated across the field as they thought the BOSS had released a new skill meant to wipe them out!

However, since they were in a party with Huang Yi, they sustained no damage and soon realized that Huang Yi had unleashed a new skill; they finally felt at ease.

But the sensation of being engulfed by magma remained indelibly imprinted in their minds, a visual impact unparalleled; had this been an enemy’s doing, the pain would have been unimaginable.

After ten seconds, all the Corpse Worms emitted a puff of green smoke and died off completely!

Huang Yi’s Normal Attacks were incapable of instakilling these Corpse Worms, but just like the Zombie King, they feared fire damage. Huang Yi’s skill was linked to Harbinger of Doomsday, Lucifer—an unparalleled powerhouse—and within merely ten seconds, he cleared all the Corpse Worms from the field.

Moreover, the magma flowed into the abyss, as if finding an outlet, flushing all the Corpse Worms that hadn’t had the chance to climb up back down.

A powerful Random Skill from a BOSS had thus been countered straightforwardly by Huang Yi.

"Instakill, your skills are truly unprecedented!" Dao Feng shook his head with a smile, sheathing his War Blade. Although he was brave, cutting through Corpse Worms as if they were nothing, in terms of Attack Range, he simply couldn’t compare to Huang Yi.

"Alright, Brother Instakill has solved a big problem for us again. Everyone, attack the Zombie King quickly; it’s more fragile and easier to kill in this form!" Lin Yiqin commanded with a hint of excitement in his voice.

All the Ranged Classes continued their assault on the Zombie King, rapidly depleting its Health Points. Each time the Zombie King resurrected, it indeed came back stronger, yet more fragile than before.

Next, the Zombie King deployed several skills, some Basic Skills they encountered every time, and some Random Skills. However, none of them was as fierce as the earlier wave of Corpse Worms, and soon, under Lin Yiqin’s command, the Yanhuang Legion killed the BOSS again.

"Everyone, pay attention. The BOSS has been resurrected for the third time; this time, there are five times as many insta-kill mini zombies. The Melee Classes can’t hold them back anymore; Ranged Classes dodge on your own. This time our goal is to have half of us survive!" Lin Yiqin’s voice was unprecedentedly solemn.

Immediately after, from the BOSS’s body, insta-kill mini zombies surged out for the third time, and their numbers far exceeded any previous occasion! They swarmed like a massive army, instakilling anyone they touched with a single hit!

This was the most brutal moment of battling the Zombie King, a phase during which any team—even the world-renowned for low casualties, the Pope Legion—would suffer over a thousand deaths, significantly weakening the team’s strength.

At this point, all members of the Yanhuang Legion were filled with tension, endlessly using various Control Skills like Slow, Trap Technique, Freeze, Bind, Petrification, Quagmire, to delay these monsters’ onslaught. But their sheer numbers and surprising speed, comparable to nimble monkeys, were unstoppable, and they quickly broke into the ranks, commencing a one-sided slaughter!

This was a stage with no ability to fight back, one could only evade with all their might. A failure to dodge meant instant death. Looking around, player after player fell at every moment, and the number of bodies on the ground kept increasing, while the survivors dwindled.

Sixty seconds later, the massacre finally ceased; the little zombies disappeared completely, and the battlefield was emptied by more than half. Corpses were strewn across the ground like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

"The number of survivors now is 2,511—well done, everyone. We’ve reached a survival rate of fifty percent. Up next is the tough part. This Zombie King is the weakest, but its damage ability is the strongest. Let’s focus and aim to bring this Zombie King down to 10% Health Points today. Now, return to your posts. All Redemption Priests, prioritize resurrecting the fallen Redemption Priests first, then resurrected Redemption Priests should prioritize bringing back powerful Ranged Classes!" For once, Lin Yiqin energized the morale, immediately instructing Redemption Priests to use Combat Resurrection without conserving the skill.

All the Redemption Priests began bringing back the fallen, as some may have died before using their Combat Resurrection, garnering them top priority for the skill. Once they were alive again, they used their Combat Resurrection on others, greatly increasing the number of resurrected players.

"Alright! The Zombie King has resurrected, everyone prepare for the final assault. The battle has now lasted two minutes less than our best record, well done everyone!" At this point, Dao Feng spoke, lifting spirits.

The atmosphere on the field notably heated up; now was the time for boosted morale, as they were on the verge of battling the Zombie King’s final form.