novelraw Chapter 198-3: Star Bone Sacred Beast, Dark Dragonfire That Burns Life (3)
Chapter 198-3: Star Bone Sacred Beast, Dark Dragonfire That Burns Life (3)
“Goddamn it!”
Lin Xun clenched his teeth. No one could have imagined that such an enormous creature could be so agile.
It wasn’t like a strength-focused monster at all, but more like an agile, long-range boss.
[Your racial talent Bloodsoaked Wrath is activated!]
[Your giant body abruptly turned entirely blood-red, countless capillaries rupturing on your skin as endless frenzied strength flooded into you.]
[The Ancient Dragonfang Greatclub, heavy as six thousand kilograms, now felt as light as a feather in your grasp!]
[Your mind was filled with murderous rage, and you wanted nothing more than to tear everything before you to shreds!]
[The Star Bone Giant Beast turned its body, maw contracting again, about to spew another barrage of acid…]
[You let out a thunderous roar. Your thick arms swelled further, gripping the flaming weapon as you rammed it viciously toward the monster’s maw!]
[At that instant, a colossal beastly shadow rose behind you. Its claw joined yours on the weapon, a savage roar erupting as the greatclub drove straight into the enemy’s weak point!][Your attack triggered the special effect of the Beastmen Giant Chieftain’s Spirit Essence.]
[This attack will deal double damage!]
[The acid hadn’t even spewed forth before the greatclub drove it back down its gullet. Unending frenzied power forced the entire club deep into the monster’s maw.]
[Your eyes remained ablaze with wrath. You twisted the greatclub violently, grinding the maw filled with spherical glands into pulp.]
[Jets of acid burst out. As the Star Bone Giant Beast tried to open its mouth to spew the acid, you released the weapon and, as if crazed, clamped your hands onto its jaws.]
[The acid flooded back inside the monster. The Star Bone Sacred Beast let out a pained wail, its cries choked off by your grip.]
[An arrow wreathed in a hurricane shot precisely through a gap, piercing the monster’s maw. The exploding power of the arrow blew the twisted maw wide open.]
[The Star Bone Sacred Beast has suffered severe injuries!]
Lin Xun drew a deep breath, cursing the hellish difficulty of this game under his breath.
With the Earth Giant’s health in tatters, he had triggered the unique racial talent of the Thunderbeast Mammoth race – Bloodsoaked Wrath.
After Weak Point Insight revealed the weak point, he even triggered a double critical attack.
The force of this blow was probably the strongest attack he had ever unleashed, the damage far surpassing even the usual Falling Starlight.
Yet this tremendous strike, combined with the Valkyrie’s arrow, had only inflicted severe injuries on the boss rather than killing it outright or reducing it to near-fatal injuries.
[The Star Bone Sacred Beast finally tore free of your grasp, retreating again and again. It seemed your all-out assault had inflicted profound psychological trauma.]
[It shook its massive body, and the chitinous carapace already covered in cracks shattered and fell away, revealing the dark purple flesh beneath.]
[After shedding its heavy armor, the Star Bone Sacred Beast abruptly lifted into the air, ascending rapidly higher and higher.]
[The monster’s flying speed was far greater than the slow crawl it had shown before!]
[Do you wish to pursue it?]
“This boss has a second phase?!”
Lin Xun was stunned by this twisted trick of the hellish game.
He couldn’t imagine, if the Veiled Aberration Overlord had still been alive, a purely melee boss, how could it possibly have dealt with this flying, long-range monstrosity?
Of course, Lin Xun didn’t know, if he hadn’t managed to snipe it under the siege of countless behemoths, the Veiled Aberration Overlord would have ultimately defeated all the other giants and evolved an absolutely terrifying ability.
There was no time to think further. He immediately gave chase.
[You possess the shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association!]
[The Battle Angel – Valkyrie took you in her arms and soared after the fleeing monster.]
Lin Xun did not use Falling Starlight or Pleasure-Hazed Sight. After using two skills, the President’s shell was already displaying a status of slightly fatigued.
With the boss’s absurdly high health, this chase might turn into a prolonged battle.
[You looked up at the soaring monster, raised your palm, and the Stored Spell Treasure Ring began to glow.]
[Two enormous spears trailing the radiance of Knowledge shot straight into the monster’s body. Blood rained down, drenching both you and the Valkyrie below.]
[The monster’s anguished wail echoed through the sky…]
Lin Xun’s eyes lit up.
The boss’s second form had an obvious flaw as well.
Although its speed had increased considerably, losing the protective carapace undoubtedly made its defenses much weaker.
The President’s spell attacks could now inflict much higher damage!
[Amid its wailing, the monster’s climbing speed accelerated further.]
[But the Valkyrie carrying you could only ascend to about a hundred meters before she lacked the strength to keep rising. The monster was about to disappear from your view…]
“I can’t keep saving my mana!”
Lin Xun gritted his teeth and activated another control skill.
[You opened a pink eye…]
[Special skill Pleasure-Hazed Sight activated!]
[The monster, flying higher and higher, abruptly froze in midair and plummeted straight down.]
[You raised your staff, chanting a complex incantation…]
[The Valkyrie swiftly carried you out of the way as the colossal monster fell from the sky toward the ground…]
[Just before crashing into the earth, it regained consciousness, stabilized its flight posture, and shot back upward, soaring straight into the sky.]
[Very soon, the Star Bone Sacred Beast was about to vanish from your sight again…]
Lin Xun had no choice but to use the control skill once more.
This time, after using Pleasure-Hazed Sight, the President’s shell displayed ‘you feel extremely fatigued.’
However, before Falling Starlight’s incantation could finish, the boss shamelessly began fleeing again.
It was as if the boss knew the Valkyrie’s maximum carrying altitude. Rather than fleeing horizontally, it escaped by rising straight up and down.
The tactic made Lin Xun grind his teeth in frustration. Even when he equipped the Abyss Lantern, he couldn’t suppress the monster’s desperate will to escape.
[…]
[The monster, climbing ever higher, suddenly froze again and plummeted straight down.]
[You uttered the final syllable of your intricate incantation…]
[Dazzling starlight burst forth!]
[Its deafening wail stung your eardrums.]
[The Star Bone Sacred Beast has suffered near-fatal injuries!]
[You feel utterly exhausted, your mind swimming. Even lifting your hand slightly feels like an impossible effort.]
[The Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association collapsed from overexertion.]
[The Star Bone Sacred Beast, dragging its mutilated body, began to rise into the sky once more. But this time, you could only watch as it flew higher and higher…]
[Do you want the Valkyrie to abandon you and pursue the enemy alone?]
Lin Xun took a deep breath.
The boss had now sustained lethal injuries. One more Falling Starlight should be enough to finish it off.
But the Valkyrie’s powerful arrows were exhausted. The remaining ordinary arrows might not bring it down before she ran out.
At this point, he could only attempt a skill normally unfit for standard use and hope to kill the boss before his shell died!
[You possess the shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Hermit!]
[The Valkyrie looked at you with regret, but unable to disobey your command, she released you from a height of a hundred meters and flew off alone to pursue the monster.]
Lin Xun pressed the skill button without hesitation!
[As you fell from the sky, you opened your maw full of fangs and unleashed a roar that shook the heavens!]
[Your body suddenly expanded, becoming enormous. Your limbs thickened, your claws and teeth sharpened, and a massive dragon tail extended behind you.]
[From your shoulder blades, bulging growths tore open, and an immense pair of dragon wings burst free of your scales!]
[You beat your wings, raising a fearsome gale. Your falling body abruptly shot upward into the sky!]
[With every second of flight, your life force drained away, but you flew faster and faster…]
[You overtook the Valkyrie chasing the monster, baring your fanged jaws at the fleeing creature.]
[Dark dragonfire gathered in your throat…]
[In your mind, you recalled the Hermit Progenitor’s final dragon breath that had burned its life away…]
[With the Progenitor’s final bloodline, you unleashed annihilating dragonfire!]
[The surging flames engulfed the sky, swallowing the fleeing monster in an instant…]
[…]
[Its mangled corpse plummeted to the ground. The dark purple body had been corroded into an unrecognizable shape.]
[You have defeated the Star Bone Sacred Beast. Your experience has increased tremendously!]
[The power within your shell began to boil. The Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association’s shell level has risen. Current shell level: 57 (+2)]