Shengxing stared at the corpses strewn across the ground and nearly passed out.
No, seriously. I said you could die once or twice, but I never told you to throw your lives away!
Couldn’t you dodge that lightning attack?
Six of you died at once. Do you all think my HP bar is too long?
It suddenly found itself missing its previous batch of guards. Unfortunately, they had all perished in the Battle of Dawn City.
The human counterattack back then had been far too fierce. For the sake of its own safety, it had simply fled.
The six guards had stayed behind to cover its retreat, and every one of them had died without even getting a chance to revive.
These six still had a chance to come back, though…
The High Priest was furious, but it had no choice except to consume some of its maximum HP and revive the six idiots.
What else could it do? It had no combat ability of its own and still needed these fellows to risk their lives for it.
Thus, the corpses of the bosses that had just fallen instantly stood back up, fully restored.
The guards lowered their heads and looked at themselves, then at one another. Sure enough, they were all alive again, and they couldn’t help feeling touched.
The High Priest really was an honest and loyal leader.
Six people, thirty thousand—no, three hundred thousand points of maximum HP, and it had revived them without hesitation.
Working for a leader like that was worth it!
They had to put in more effort and hack that human to death.
So, as if injected with adrenaline, they once again surrounded Liu Xuan and hacked away at him.
Not giving him an inch!
As for Liu Xuan, he looked at the damage of 【Thunder Aura】 in his skill list, which had soared to 460,000, and the corners of his mouth curled upward.
“Sorry, but it’s my turn now!”
No, that was wrong. It had been his turn from the very beginning.
He should say: “My turn—and still my turn!”
With a casual use of 【Heavenly Man】, Liu Xuan blocked several attacks that were clearly aimed at him, looking completely at ease.
Although he had already lost more than 100,000 HP, and it seemed that the bosses might be able to grind his health down if they revived themselves several more times, he knew perfectly well that the balance of victory had already tipped completely in his favor.
What did 460,000 damage from 【Thunder Aura】 mean?
It meant he could now instantly kill bosses such as 【Redwing】, with 280,000 HP; 【Spines】, with 450,000; and 【Lightfoot】, with 400,000.
Combined with the chain damage from 【Corpse Explosion】, one wave of lightning every five seconds would definitely wipe out all the bosses.
They simply wouldn’t have the chance to keep attacking for a long time like before. Every five seconds, they would be sent back to the floor.
Shengxing had only 900,000 HP left. Even if it completely sacrificed itself, that would only be enough to revive the entire group three times.
And they thought three revivals would be enough to kill Liu Xuan?
He still had nearly 400,000 HP left. He could stand there and let them attack him, and it still wouldn’t matter.
After reviving the guards, Shengxing felt it was absolutely necessary to explain things to them. These fellows were too stupid; there was no way they could understand its intentions otherwise.
“Lightning… dodge…”
That was about as concise as it could get.
Liu Xuan heard it too, but he wasn’t worried in the slightest. They might be able to run, but their hideout couldn’t.
If those bosses dodged the lightning, then he would simply go after the High Priest.
So, when 【Thunder】 came off cooldown, all the bosses retreated in advance. Liu Xuan immediately charged toward Shengxing.
Terrified, it hurriedly shouted, “Stop… him…”
The bosses all rushed over in a panic.
But in their desperation, they failed to realize one thing: although 【Thunder Aura】 had a five-second cooldown, it didn’t automatically strike once every five seconds.
There had to be an enemy within range for it to activate.
Just now, everyone had run out of range. The aura’s cooldown had finished, but it hadn’t triggered.
Now, as they hurried back to “rescue” their leader, none of them dared to fall behind.
The result was that every single one of them was caught by the lightning.
As expected, the three bosses with the lowest health—【Redwing】, 【Spines】, and 【Lightfoot】—were killed instantly.
The damage of the heavenly lightning increased by 850,000 in one strike, reaching a terrifying 1.31 million!
The remaining bosses were also taken out by 【Corpse Explosion】.
Shengxing stared at all six of its fallen guards.
“…”
I told you to save me! You didn’t all have to charge in together!
Couldn’t one or two of you have gone first and drawn out the lightning?
And where were your control skills?
You’re getting dumber and dumber as the fight goes on. You don’t even know how to use your skills anymore. All you can do is block attacks with your bodies?
Actually, the guards couldn’t really be blamed. Who wouldn’t become more and more confused when fighting Liu Xuan?
Attacking was wrong, but not attacking was wrong too.
Using skills was wrong, but not using them was wrong too.
Dodging was wrong, and not dodging was wrong as well.
How could anyone avoid becoming “stupider” under those circumstances?
Besides, they hadn’t expected Liu Xuan’s heavenly lightning to suddenly become capable of killing them in one shot.
Looking at the guards lying on the ground, Shengxing hesitated for a moment before making a decision.
It couldn’t revive these idiots again.
Although it didn’t know why, this human’s damage had become so high that he could kill them instantly. Reviving them would only turn them into cannon fodder—a pure waste of its own vitality.
There was only one option left.
Run!
As luck would have it, this human seemed to understand their language. That could be used to its advantage.
Shengxing raised its head. A faint glow spread across its body, as though it were casting a spell.
“Foolish… get up… continue fighting…”
When Liu Xuan heard this, he didn’t rush forward to finish it off.
Once Shengxing revived the guards, he could stack the damage of three more bosses onto 【Thunder Aura】.
Then, after killing Shengxing, he would gain another several hundred thousand damage.
However, he soon realized that something was wrong. When Shengxing had revived the bosses earlier, it hadn’t needed such a long casting animation.
“Oh no. It’s trying to run!”
Thinking of Shengxing’s abilities, Liu Xuan realized what it intended to do and hurried toward it.
Unfortunately, being one step too late meant losing every step after that. Before he could reach Shengxing, its figure had already slowly slipped into the narrow spatial rift in the blue-green boulder—the one it had bitten open earlier.
“What a shame.”
Liu Xuan sighed. This boss actually had some intelligence.
It had thought of using the fact that he could understand their language to mislead him.
Still, his aura’s cooldown hadn’t finished. Even if he had realized what was happening sooner, he wouldn’t have been able to stop it.
Letting the boss escape was secondary. The real problem was that the battle objective required him to “kill all the destroyers inside the city.” What was he supposed to do now that one of them had escaped?
He waited there for a while, but the system didn’t display any message announcing either the success or failure of the battle.
Since it hadn’t failed, that meant he could continue.
But where was he supposed to find Shengxing?
Liu Xuan glanced back at the six corpses of the bosses on the ground. They hadn’t given him any experience or dropped any loot. The rewards were probably supposed to be calculated together after he killed Shengxing.
Now that Shengxing had fled, all of it was gone.
Liu Xuan couldn’t help thinking: The only thing I gained this time was a huge boost to the damage of 【Thunder Aura】.
Was it a loss?
Not really, he supposed.
“Sigh. I’ll find somewhere to rest, then head back first thing tomorrow morning. That’ll put me right on time for the promotion defense battle.”
Liu Xuan shook his head and prepared to find a place to stay.
He subconsciously swept his gaze across the surroundings. The ruins were completely flat, with only a section of city wall remaining to the south.
“Wait. ‘Remaining’?”
Liu Xuan slapped his thigh.
“How could I have forgotten about that?”
The battle required “killing all the destroyers in the city.” Shengxing had fled, and according to the rules, as long as it was no longer in the city, it shouldn’t count.
So the battle hadn’t failed to signal completion because of Shengxing. It was because there was still another destroyer in the city:
“The [Greatblade Destroyer] that escaped earlier!”
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