Chapter 1036: Environmental Damage

Although Su Sheng was very curious, he was now nothing but a skeleton frame, and without vocal cords, how could he produce a sound?

But this is ultimately just a game; although Teng Long claims to have the most realistic physics engine, it's a game with a magical background, so violating some physics rules is normal.

Of course, now is not the time to dwell on these things.

That surging flame longsword, under the boss's swing, came down heavily on Su Sheng.

Triggered the Health Axis.

However, the boss's Hate Value was not cleared.

So Su Sheng remained the primary target unit.

Facing the boss's attack, Su Sheng raised his shield and activated Defensive Stance.

Boom!!

The flame longsword struck Su Sheng's shield and exploded violently!

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This strike dealt over 90,000 damage.

This was after damage reduction from Defensive Stance and various other reductions, and after offsetting the shield from the lion-dragon's Fireworks Blessing skill.

Terrifying!

No wonder the boss's Health Axis skill doesn't clear Hate Value.

With this damage, even without clearing Hate Value, this hit could instantly kill a tank.

Fortunately, the tank at this moment is Su Sheng.

Even if the Earth Shield Guardian Wu Zhaodi's HP, boosted by Holy Words buff, is just over 100,000.

Furthermore, Wu Zhaodi lacks the lion-dragon's shield, and her damage tolerance is not as high as Su Sheng's.

If Wu Zhaodi were swapped in, she would likely be instantly killed by this hit.

After all, Wu Zhaodi's equipment still can't catch up to Su Sheng's.

Moreover, Su Sheng also has the lion-dragon's mounted HP bonus.

Not only that!

After that flame longsword struck Su Sheng's shield, it exploded into a sheet of flame that splashed outward in all directions, covering a 50 by 50 area.

Tsk!

Seeing this, everyone knew those splashing flames must cause damage.

In other words, although the boss's Health Axis mechanism does not clear Hate Value,

it still pairs massive single-target damage with an AOE!

However, Su Sheng was at the center and wasn't hit by those flame arrows, yet no one doubts the flames' damage.

Ordinary players would likely be instantly killed standing in those flames.

"Melee fighters, don't get close yet; wait until those flames die out."

"Ranged players, hurry up and suppress the boss's healing; Hate Value hasn't cleared and remains steady on the Chairman."

"Priests, don't fall behind on your healing spells; catch up quickly!"

As the boss's Health Axis ended, Zhang Zhi immediately commanded everyone to start outputting.

Moreover, the priests' healing must keep up; otherwise Su Sheng would have only about half his HP left. According to the boss's damage, a critical hit could take him down in two strikes.

Although Su Sheng has survival skills as a fallback, for this tough boss, the longer the fallback can be delayed, the better.

Even without a crit, at most three strikes.

Fortunately, everyone present is an elite of the Yanhuang faction, and support is quick.

Healing and ranged output caught up immediately.

Even so, it delayed a few seconds; aside from the Magic Snake's poison effect, the boss's HP recovered over 1,000,000.

But there's nothing to be done about it.

Still, overall, with Rend and Phoenix Flame ineffective, the Magic Snake's poison at least can chip away at this boss.

Otherwise, this thousand-person team present would likely fail to take down the boss; they'd be unable to keep up with its recovery.

If it weren't for the Magic Snake's poison skill, this dungeon would probably have to be abandoned at this point.

One must admit, often a single skill is a crucial turning point.

After the flames on the ground dissipated.

Su Sheng still firmly held the Hate.

The boss's strategy continued.

…

As time passed, the boss's HP continued to drop.

Although the fight is tough, each time we need to coordinate Su Sheng's Magic Snake poison and then unleash a burst to effectively reduce HP.

But overall, progress is still being made.

As for the boss's Health Axis mechanism, each time it does not clear Hate Value.

Besides that slash just now, there are similar attacks, but Su Sheng can withstand each one.

With the priests' healing keeping up, Su Sheng simply cannot be killed.

The only hassle is the burning condition inflicted by the boss, which led Feng Wu Jiu Tian, per Zhang Zhi's arrangement, to ignore everyone else and just monitor Su Sheng's status bar.

As soon as Su Sheng gets that layer of burn, they immediately use Holy Words Purification.

As for the other players, they can only hope for the best.

No way, whose fault is it that ordinary priests' Purification doesn't work?

However, during this period a few emergencies also arose.

It was Su Sheng again who fell into a burning state, but Feng Wu Jiu Tian's Purification skill had not yet cooled down.

Yet at the critical moment, the Suanni beneath the seat again achieved its merit.

Level‑65 skill!

Auspicious Breath!

This group Purification skill can also cleanse that burning state.

But that Purification skill's CD is also quite long—5 minutes—much longer than the specialized Purification skills of Feng Wu Jiu Tian's Priests.

Nevertheless, used in a critical moment to rescue, it can have miraculous effect.

Thus a few bouts of chaos occurred, but they were brought back on track.

…

Stumbling and tripping, they fought forward.

Under Zhang Zhi's measured command, combined with our own elite level, so far there have been no casualties.

After all, the batch lacking elite level had already been sent out of the Dungeon in earlier raids.

As for the members sent out of the Dungeon, because there were no monsters nearby, they simply used a Return City Scroll to return to Yanhuang Town.

In any case, dying in the Dungeon only loses 50% of current‑level experience, no level loss.

The BOSS's HP, with everyone's cooperation, finally approached 50%.

Little Frenzy skill!

Just like the Health Axis skill, it left only Su Sheng at the spot.

"You intruders, you indeed have something."

"But disturbing the ignorant slumber, you still must die."

"Accept the baptism of flame!"

As the BOSS recited its lines, the faint flame that had enveloped the BOSS suddenly surged.

Not only that, the tiny burial mounds around all began to blaze with red flame.

Those red flames and the BOSS's red flame began to reflect each other.

Finally the BOSS was entirely shrouded by those red flames.

The surrounding environment suddenly became scorching.

Ding—

Environment alert: in scorching environment, suffering mild burn effect, losing 10 HP per second.

As time passes, those flames grow larger.

And the environmental burn effect grows higher…

30 per second

50 per second

80 per second

…

Almost every second, the environmental damage updates once.