Chapter 14: Gua Sha? I'm Not Done With It!

Deep within the Gubao.

The originally eerie corridor was now undergoing even more bizarre changes.

The rotting, damp smell in the air gradually vanished, replaced by a fishy-sweet scent of blood that seemed to have fermented for a long time.

The skull lamps burning with ghostly blue flames on the walls suddenly flared violently, their color shifting from ghostly blue to dark purple.

"Something's wrong!"

Xia Qingyue, leading the way, abruptly stopped.

She stared fixedly at the churning mist ahead, then scanned the changing surroundings.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

Zhang Kai, following behind, was somewhat dazed and instinctively asked.

Xia Qingyue kept scanning the surroundings, as if repeatedly confirming something, before finally uttering a sentence:

"It's Abyssalizing..."

The moment those words were spoken, the expressions of the others instantly froze.

Everyone knew very well what Abyssalizing meant.

"A-Abyssalizing?"

Terrified, Zhang Kai's legs gave way; he fumbled frantically to pull out that 【Return Scroll】.

A faint light emanated from the scroll, but nothing happened.

"The Return Scroll isn't reacting. It's... it's really Abyssalizing." Zhang Kai's voice trembled, his eyes hollow and despairing.

Despair spread through the team.

Liu Weiwei, that timid priestess girl, was already crying with her hands over her mouth, and even the burly Wang Meng's hand gripping his shield shook uncontrollably.

"What do we do?"

Zhang Kai looked at Xia Qingyue, then at Lin Mo.

Before entering the Team Fuben, everyone's gaze toward Lin Mo might have been disdainful, seeing him as a wealthy family's useless heir.

But after enduring a barrage of attacks along the way, Lin Mo had already somewhat replaced Xia Qingyue as the team's backbone.

"Lin Shao..."

Zhang Kai's voice trembled, laced with tears: "What... what should we do now?"

Lin Mo looked at the pitch-black path ahead, feeling equally speechless in his heart.

What the hell is going on?

Eighteen years, and finally I get a golden finger, only to run into a one-in-a-hundred-thousand probability the moment I step out?

My luck is truly unmatched.

An Abyss Team Fuben! That's something that requires an entire squad of the most elite to even have a chance of clearing.

【The 'Fireball' skill is greedily devouring the Abyssal energy in the air!】

【The 'Fireball' skill is trembling with excitement: This scent... this scent full of violence, destruction, and corruption! It's too wonderful!】

【The 'Fireball' skill lets out a manic laugh: Hahaha! This is what a Team Fuben should be! All the previous ones were just play-acting! This seat feels the blood in my body burning! It's a call from Hell!】

【Current Mood: Extremely Excited (Abyss-type monster damage +200%!)】

Looking at this skill that thrived on chaos, Lin Mo sighed.

So this guy gets stronger against stronger opponents, huh?

But even with a 200% damage boost, it doesn't guarantee a victory against the Abyss BOSS.

Lin Mo brushed the snack crumbs off his hands and said calmly:

"Alright, stop making those gloomy faces."

"Since there's no way back, we can only move forward."

Xia Qingyue took a deep breath, gripped her staff tightly again, and her eyes became resolute:

"Lin Shao is right. Crying is useless; we can only fight!"

"Everyone listen! Tighten the formation, protect Lin Shao, and we... charge in!"

The journey that followed was nothing short of brutal.

The Abyssalized monsters not only had skyrocketed stats but their attack desire had become utterly insane.

Monsters that previously could be dealt with by a few Fireballs now required far more firepower to cover.

Fortunately, Lin Mo's "Purple Cloud Set" had such perverted cooldown reduction effects, combined with Hearing Xiao Huo's "Abyss-type damage +200%" BUFF, the team managed to push all the way to the deepest part of the Team Fuben with only narrow escapes.

And Lin Mo's level had reached Lv. 6, while everyone else's levels had reached Lv. 5.

Before a massive black gate standing ten meters tall.

"We're here."

Xia Qingyue's voice was hoarse. "The BOSS is inside."

Boom-boom-boom—

Before anyone could push the gate open, the massive gate slowly swung open on its own to both sides.

A terrifying pressure instantly swept out!

In the center of the hall, atop a throne piled from white bones, sat a terrifying figure.

【Abyss · Bone Knight (BOSS), Lv. 5】

It wore tattered black heavy armor; beneath its helmet lay no face, only two flickering purple soul fires.

In its hand, it held a two-meter-long greatsword, and beneath it rode a skeletal warhorse burning with nether flames.

"Intruders..."

"Roar—!!!"

A terrifying, hoarse roar echoed through the hall.

Accompanying this roar, a wave of killing intent rushed toward them.

In just a single glance, Zhang Kai and Liu Weiwei found their breathing difficult, and they were on the verge of losing even the courage to raise their weapons.

Even the ever-calm Wang Meng's hand, gripping his shield, trembled violently.

Although it was only a level 5 BOSS, that terrifying Abyssal aura was countless times more dreadful than any monster they had ever encountered!

【Fireball is extremely excited: This is the true opponent! Let this Seat go and meet it!】

Xia Qingyue forced down the fear in her heart, waved her staff, and shouted loudly:

"Don't be afraid! It's only level 5! With Lin Shao here, we still have a chance to win!"

"Wang Meng, hold the line! Lin Shao, prepare..."

Before the words finished.

There was no need for Lin Mo to even raise his hand.

Whoosh—!

An orange-red afterimage shot past everyone, heading straight for the skeletal knight on the throne!

Boom—!!!

A deafening explosion instantly erupted within the vast hall.

With the terrifying bonus of 【Abyss Damage +200%】, the power of this fireball was astonishing.

"It... it hit!"

Zhang Kai's face lit up with joy as he clenched his fist.

However, the next second, his smile froze on his face.

The smoke and dust cleared, and the flames extinguished.

The skeletal knight still sat upright on the throne, its posture not shifting even a fraction.

Around its body, a layer of translucent shield swirling with eerie purple emitted a cold, dim light.

That previous strike hadn't even managed to crack a single fissure in that shield!

【Fireball is stunned:???】

【Fireball is incredulous: Didn't break the defense? This was an angry strike with 200% damage added by this Seat! This isn't scientific!】

"Roar—"

The skeletal knight slowly raised its head, and a mockery radiated from those two soul fires.

Immediately, it rose onto a skeletal warhorse, dug its spurs into the horse's flanks, and launched a charge toward everyone, wreathed in blue nether flames.

The ground trembled!

"Careful! Wang Meng! Block it!"

Xia Qingyue immediately shouted orders.

"Ahhh! I'll fight you to the death! Unmoving as a Mountain!"

Wang Meng's eyes turned blood-red; he roared and slammed his Tower Shield, Heavily Fortified, into the crack in the ground, his whole body glowing with a yellow-earth light.

The next moment, that five-meter-long greatsword crashed heavily down onto the Tower Shield.

Clang—!

"Pfft!"

Wang Meng, shield and all, was sent flying backward, spitting a huge mouthful of fresh blood in mid-air, before crashing heavily against the wall more than ten meters away.

"Wang Meng!"

Liu Weiwei screamed and rushed over.

"How can this be... even a fireball with Lin Shao's power couldn't move it..."

Zhang Kai's face turned ashen.

Lin Mo stood in the middle of the party, not too panicked, merely frowning slightly.

"This is a bit troublesome..."

"Hearing Xiao Huo, don't stop, blast it back, don't let it get close."

【Fireball roars: I don't need you to tell me! I'm not done with it!】

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Firelight surged toward the sky inside the hall, and the sound of explosions never ceased.

Under the successive bombardment of Fireball and Multi-Burst Fireball, the skeletal knight was blasted backward repeatedly.

However, when the firelight cleared.

That layer of purple-swirling shield remained completely intact.

Lin Mo watched this scene, his eyes darkening slightly.

It seems that unless this shield is broken, this BOSS cannot be killed.

【Fireball stopped cursing; it stared fixedly at that shield.】

【Fireball fell into deep thought: Why? Why can't it be blasted apart?】

【Status: Deep Thinking (Seems like a brain is growing... Intelligence is taking the high ground...)】

"... Is it about to have an epiphany?"

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow.