There wasn’t too much pressure when it comes to breaking their defense, that was good. The Armored Horseman gave out an angry cry, and rushed over with his halberd. The 14 other horsemen followed behind, shouting, “We will defend the dignity of our country!”
I quickly retreated. At the same time, I turned around and swung my sword down, activating [Binding Chains]. Like that, the very first horseman was bound to his original place while the rest rushed past him. The movement speed of these armored horsemen was just too fast, it was almost practically twice my own. I couldn’t even run away from them. Li Mu and Matcha caught up with me to help. I turned around and threw a [Seven Star Fragment Slash] to get some of the aggro. After that, my Cold Iron Sword flew out, as I threw [Blade Spin] into the crowd of horsemen.
Matcha softly called out, using [Justice Provocation] to lure another one. Li Mu on the other hand used [Covering Sword Slash]. Wan Er and Little Wolf stood beside the road and trapped another one of them. With the attacks of Dong Cheng Yue, Thousand Suns over Snowy Lands, and Dancing Forest, the first Armored Horseman fell with a cry within 7 seconds!
“Use your AOE Skills!”
I commanded the Cold Iron Sword to fly out once more, and added onto the aggro that was already on myself.
“Hummmm….”
One after another, the Armored Horsemen raised their halberds and activated [Halberd Throw]. At that moment, I felt a chain of sharp pains in my chest and multiple damage numbers flew up!
“1128!”
“1094!”
“1273!”
……
Within seconds, my health was cut in half. Behind me, Darling Duck immediately yelled out, “[Grip of Compassion]!”
“+8754!”
My health jumped back up to full. Hehe, fourth advancement healers are so helpful!
The attack power of an Armored Horseman is just too strong. They rushed our team and used [Iron Heel], a skill that had a splash damage effect. The people in the first row lost a lot of health, increasing the pressure on the two healers a lot. I was continuously signaling which Horseman to attack. Everyone’s pets also joined in on the attack, as we brought down the armored horsemen, one by one. This was the moment the benefits of great teamwork really stood out. In reality, our healers needed to consider every healing spell’s cooldown and the amount of damage that we were suffering. Darling Duck was extremely smart, and always chose me as the first healing target. Even if I had full health, her heals were always locked onto me, because she knew that I had the most aggro. Over 50% of the attacks from the next wave of monsters was focused on me. Just one attack from them made me lose over 1000 HP. It was just too painful. The heals must be locked onto me or else I would lose my life.
“Ding!” a “Level +1” popped up in front of me. My [Blade Spin] rose to level 7. After 30 seconds, there was another pop up, [Wall of Dou Qi] also rose to level 7. Like this, my defense rose by quite a bit. With a level 7 [Wall of Dou Qi] I would have 140% defense, and my parrying ability would increase as well. Now, it won’t be that easy for enemies to break through!
As expected, once [Wall of Dou Qi] rose to level 7, the damage that the Armored Horsemen dealt to me dropped to 900+ and didn’t break a thousand. Looking at these damage numbers was much more pleasing. The only problem was that the two skills used up mana way too quickly. A level 7 skill used up 490 mana, and the two together would use around a thousand. I only had around 3700 MaxMP. Like this, I could only use Level 1 [Wind Blade] and [Fierce Ice Blade] to attack. Reserving mana was also an art.
……
After cleaning up these 15 Armored Horsemen, we gained a lot of experience from these Thunder Tier monsters. It was practically 2-3 times that of a Phantom Tier, and their drop rates were also pretty high, as 15 of them dropped 3 equipments. I picked them up, and there was a silver tier, a gold tier, and there was even a chest plate that had a slight purple tinge to it. Looking at the stats, I was stunned, “This….. handsome men and beautiful wome, this time we seemed to have gotten lucky. This map can actually drop an equipment like this…..”
I waved my hand over it and the battle plate’s stats appeared. Little Wolf and Li Mu all jolted when they saw them——
[Desolate Sky Armor] (Purple Tier)
Type: Heavy Armor
Defense: 590
Strength: +51
Endurance: +44
Agility: +40
Additional: Increases the user’s defense by 11%
Additional: Increases the user’s attack by 9%
Outfit part: Desolate Sky Armor Set – Chest Plate
Introduction: Desolate Sky Armor, legend has it that during the Warring States period, in order to get more territory, each of the kingdoms would invite hermit smiths to create elite armor. One of those smiths used Cold Iron to create an insanely durable armor, which would then come to be known as the Desolate Sky Armor. Afterwards, it was scattered all over China, no one knows where it ended up.