Chapter 417: The Demon King Who Recedes Step by Step, Withering Back to His True Form

Green light burst open, like a brilliant star explosion in the night sky.

Jiang Chen's finishing move begins with a Deadly Poison Star Explosion.

This Level 48 Deadly Poison Star Explosion, amplified by talent, deals 24,000 damage per second.

Combined with the Strong Soldier skill's 500% damage, the damage per second equals that of 144,000 strength.

Jiang Chen does not value the direct threat of that 144,000‑strength damage to the Flame Demon King, but rather another unique property of the Deadly Poison Star Explosion.

In a poisoned state, self‑healing is suppressed, which is exactly the trait of poison‑type skills.

Given the Demon King's formidable regeneration, this suppression could be a crucial factor in Jiang Chen's finishing action.

First, Jiang Chen's initial step is to cut off the Flame Demon King's regeneration.

At this moment, the corpse is positioned, hovering overhead.

The Flame Demon King still sneers, "I didn't expect you to have a poison skill, but this little attack can't even hurt me."

Can it really not hurt?

Jiang Chen now fires both sides, detonating the fresh corpse.

The booming roar instantly drowns out the Flame Demon King's maniacal laughter.

The Skeleton Great Mage and the Skeleton Sharpshooter go all out this time.

In almost an instant, they shatter the Flame Demon King's defenses.

The next second, the Flame Demon King's wail erupts sky‑high.

The Skeleton Berserker lunges forward like lightning.

The four‑dimensional balanced Skeleton Berserker, with strength and agility perfectly matched, has nearly 800,000 agility, granting lightning‑fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, the Skeleton Warrior reaches the Flame Demon King, its axe glowing with Red Light as the skill erupts.

"Frenzied Bombardment (Level 1): Deals 500% of own strength as damage to the target, cooldown 1

0 minutes."

What does it feel like to have 800,000 strength multiplied another six times?

The axe swings down with nearly 4,800,000 points of strength.

The Flame Demon King's defense is torn apart like paper; black blood, blazing with fire, sprays through the air.

The wail rises another eight octaves, unbearably sharp.

The Skeleton Berserker is the true finishing move, Jiang Chen's most powerful attack.

It far surpasses the Skeleton Great Mage's Elemental Explosion and the Sharpshooter's guaranteed arrow.

Corpse Explosion, Elemental Explosion, the Sharpshooter's piercing arrow, and the Skeleton Berserker's Frenzied Bombardment.

Combined as one, they grievously wound the Flame Demon King in an instant.

Amid the wail, the Flame Demon King frantically tries to flee, roaring, "Jiang Chen, you dare trap me!"

It only now realizes that everything before was Jiang Chen's act.

It pretended to be a pig, and now wants to eat the tiger.

The Flame Demon King tries to take off, but finds the Lich General that ran forward earlier clutching its Tentacle tightly, refusing to let it go.

Not only them, the Skeleton Berserker also thrusts its bony palm into its own wound, gripping itself tightly.

The Flame Demon King thrashes wildly, its terrifying flames erupting fully, raging over the Lich General and the Skeleton Berserker.

The Flame Demon King's power is terrifying; at full strength, it drags the Skeleton Berserker and the Lich General into the air.

At that moment, a flash of fire glints in Jiang Chen's palm.

Soul Burn, with a 500% damage bonus, descends straight onto it.

The wail again pierces the heavens, just as it attempts to rise it crashes down with a boom.

The Flame Demon King nearly passed out from the pain.

Pain—so damn painful.

Unprecedented intense pain robs it of any ability to think.

For a moment, its soul‑brain goes completely blank.

Only after a full half‑second does it react, screaming wildly, "What skill is this, why does it hurt so much!"

Fear tinges its voice.

It realizes for the first time that it shouldn't have come after Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen isn't human at all; his face is that of a monster.

How could anyone below Level 50 beat a Demon King like this?

The Flame Demon King is on the verge of tears, feeling he might die here.

Jiang Chen's assault continues.

There are only 30 seconds left, not much.

Ten seconds have already passed.

Although the Flame Demon King is severely wounded, Jiang Chen knows it's still insufficient to kill him.

The Flame Demon King thrashes wildly, sprouting more eyes all over his body.

Moreover, the eyes become flat, as if squinting.

Immediately, beams shoot out like sharp swords.

Skill: Death Cut!

It is no longer the Death Ray.

It looks similar, but the effect is completely different.

The Death Ray carries massive impact force and also contains explosive energy.

And the lines of the Death Cut are flatter and razor‑sharp.

The terrifying cutting force strikes the Skeleton Berserker.

The terrifying power actually splits the Skeleton Berserker in two.

The Skeleton Berserker dies, and the fully linked talent fails again.

Then the Death Ray cuts the Lich General.

Perhaps because the Lich General's constitution is too strong, the Death Ray does not cut through him.

But the Lich General is also blasted away by a massive impact.

Jiang Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.

Why does his talent fail again?

Why was the previous Death Ray fine, but changing to another skill makes it different?

Is it because of the Flame Demon King's talent? Or some other reason.

Jiang Chen

He couldn't figure it out for a moment.

"Die!"

Amid the roar, the Flame Demon King controls the Death Cut, sweeping toward Jiang Chen.

Because the Skeleton Berserker example came first, Jiang Chen dares not to meet it with his flesh.

If the talent fails, even if he dies he has nowhere to cry.

He retreats quickly, while another Skeleton Berserker, fearless of death, charges forward.

Having fought to this point, we absolutely cannot give up halfway.

With less than 20 seconds left, if he cannot slay the Flame Demon King, the one who dies will be himself.

At this point, he can only advance, not retreat.

Advancing still holds a chance of survival; retreat guarantees certain death.

Moreover, Jiang Chen believes the Flame Demon King's skill cannot be used without limit.

Otherwise, why wouldn't it be used at the start?

Under the sweep of the Death Cut Skill, countless Skeleton Berserkers are sliced into fragments, dying on the spot.

But more Skeleton Berserkers charge forward from behind.

It still kills fewer than those that charge.

The charging Skeleton Warriors swing their axes and hack.

First unleash his strongest strike, then grab it, not letting it escape.

The Flame Demon King shrieks wildly, the Death Ray sweeping continuously.

Skeleton Berserkers die batch after batch.

Jiang Chen throws the spare Skeleton Berserker from the Summon Queue into the fray, joining the Undead Legion.

The Skeleton Great Mage and the Skeleton Divine Archer also disperse quickly during the attack, preventing the Flame Demon King from using any new skill.

In just five or six seconds, the Flame Demon King, with thousands of compound eyes plus a pair of main eyes, fires tens of thousands of Death Cut Rays.

At least more than three Skeleton Berserkers are killed.

What he gets in return is the Flame Demon King's injuries worsening.

The entire spherical body has already been

knocked down, like a balloon that has lost its air.

The flames on its body are no longer raging, feeling rather feeble.

Jiang Chen continues to add insult to injury, without any pause.

Another batch of fresh corpses arrives, instantly becoming Jiang Chen's weapons.

The booming sound reverberates again.

When the "Strong Soldier" skill has ten seconds left, a thunderous crash erupts.

The Flame Demon King explodes.

The erupting fire almost spreads across the entire Plateau Three.

The Abyssal Fire in the sky falls like raindrops, and the whole Instance is drenched in Fire Rain.

Jiang Chen not only does not relax, but becomes more vigilant.

He has not received any notice of the Flame Demon King's death, indicating the Flame Demon King is still alive.

Amid the flames, he sees a tiny shadow, a frail Demon.

The original Flame Demon King was spherical, over five meters in diameter.

But now it is a skinny Demon less than a meter tall.

Jiang Chen instinctively uses Detection Technique to look over.

"Dwarf Fire Demon (Demon King rank)"

"Level: 90"

Jiang Chen immediately realizes this is the true form of the Flame Demon King.

It turns out the Flame Demon King's true form is a Dwarf Fire Demon.

And the Dwarf Fire Demon is merely a very lowly, weak race in the Abyss.

Among the Abyss's Demons, it ranks at the bottom, only slightly above mindless monsters.

In the Abyss, the law of the strong eating the weak makes its low status solely due to its weak power.

Unexpectedly, the Flame Demon King turned out to be a Demon King formed by a Dwarf Fire Demon.

I have no idea what tremendous opportunity was obtained.

Jiang Chen instantly understood that someone like the Flame Demon King, even after becoming a Demon King, is still one of the weakest among the many Demon Kings.

If people were to learn that his true form is

a dwarf fire demon, they'd probably be seized by a more powerful Demon King and forced to reveal what opportunity was obtained.

After all, the opportunity that could turn a dwarf fire demon into a Demon King must be immensely powerful.

"I'm going all out with you!"

After the Flame Demon King was forced to reveal his true form, he lunged at Jiang Chen like lightning.