My attacks completely enrage the prince of the Dark Dwarves. He roars and brandishes his war axes, cutting downwards. Crimson red flames appear after his axes, indicating the usage of his level 40 skill – 【Flame Blade】!
I hastily retreat and try to dodge by moving out of the axe’s trajectory. But, due to my agility being much lower than the boss, there is an intense pain on the back of my shoulders and with the downward cut of the axe, I am almost beheaded–
“679!”
Looking at those damage numbers, my soul goes into a frenzy, I can feel my heart breaking apart. If the boss attacks me once more, I would most certainly be KO-ed. Waving my arms around, the light of recovery appears on my sword and with a glow of light on me, I recover 600 health points. At the same time, I punch the ground.
“Peng!”
A long metal chain emerges from the ground and entangles around the feet of Ming Jie. A LV-4 Binding Chain lasts for only 2.1 seconds against Ming Jie due to the natural resistance of boss-tier monsters; otherwise it would last for at least 3 seconds.
Baby Bobo begins an attacking frenzy and continuously stings the boss. At the same time, I swiftly move to the right side of the boss. A white aura emanates from beneath from my feet, and I activate【Strength of a Thousand Men】. A flurry of a five combo hit slashes at the boss in a time-frame of 1.2 seconds. However, the fourth hit doesn’t manage to break the boss’s defense. As for the final strike, 【Wind Blade】, it only deals 409 damage. But it can’t be considered too bad, because no matter what, the monster in front of me is a gold-tier boss.
After 2.1 seconds pass, Prince Ming Jie roars and once again, lifts his war axe and does a 【Heavy Strike】 against Baby Bobo!
“709!”
Baby Bobo trembles. Fortunately, Baby Bobo is already at level 38 and his health has risen considerably. Otherwise, it would probably be a one hit KO!
I start to panic and immediately move Baby Bobo backwards while I move myself up to take its place. Pah pah, with a stab and a slash from the Jade City Sword, I remove 400 health points from the boss, angering the Dark Dwarf once again. Holding the war axe, he does a horizontal sweep, causing my health to drop rapidly. Fortunately, the beautiful healer behind me is continuously waving her staff and casting one 【Heal】 after another, recovering my health points by 750 each time.
However, the boss’s attacks continue furiously, and in the blink of an eye, I am still unable to hold my ground.
“Peng!”
The light on the war axe shines brightly and in an instant, the small tent breaks apart. The moonlight scatters on all of our bodies.
“Go to hell!”
Prince Ming Jie, stomping on the rock, continues his flurry of attacks!
“Keng!”
“398!”
With his blows, he knocks back my Jade City Sword and at the same time, deals out high damage. I also notice that whenever the boss does a horizontal sweep, his war axe always glows with a crimson red aura, it seems like his main method of attacking is a horizontal sweep. Maybe that’s the reason why he keeps dealing out horizontal sweeps, causing my health to barely upkeep with his damage output.
What’s worse is that I have been paying attention to the mana bar of the healer and the longest she can sustain the healings is around 5 minutes or so. If this goes on, once her mana bar drops to zero, I will surely be killed.
As for the mage, she has been consistently casting 【Icicle Spell】s to control Ming Jie’s attacking speed and movement speed; otherwise I would probably have been dead long ago.
“Shua!”
“+600!”
After self-healing myself for 600 health points, I look around at my surroundings and while holding my sword, I retreat quickly. Behind me is a narrow pass between the mountains which is about a meter wide. Baiting him there, I decide that it was there that I shall exterminate this level 43 gold-tier boss!
“Darn brat, I shall break all your tendons and skin you alive, and you will feel what hell on earth means!”
Prince Ming Jie, carrying his war axe, rushes into the corridor and carries on with his usual horizontal sweeping attack pattern. However, the one meter long war axe immediately clashes into the mountains at both sides causing sparks to fly everywhere. Due to the lack of space, the war axe is unable to showcase its true prowess, causing his offensive power to take a huge dip, dishing out damage less than 200 with each strike. His methods of attacking with the war axe are either a vertically downwards cut or a horizontal sweep whereas with my Jade City Sword, my greatest expertise lies in stabbing, which also happens to deal the most damage. With the tides turning, my healing gradually starts keeping up with the rate I was losing my health points. To add on, Baby Bobo is flying around and from time to time deals an excruciating blow to Ming Jie!
Very soon, I begin to see hope in killing this level 43 boss. Behind the corridor, the two NPC ladies also catch up and the pretty healer begins to heal me using 【Therapy】. It is the situation I want to see, her being able to control her mana output.