Chapter 14: Inhuman Countermeasure

Fortunately, at the instant the Wolf Kiss bore down, the 4-second stun time was up!

Su Sheng directly thrust out the novice long sword in his hand.

Fang!

Su Sheng had been holding his Fang skill ready, waiting to go head-to-head with the Wolf King's Bite skill.

At such close range, Su Sheng didn't need to make any predictions; thrusting out his novice long sword was like the Wolf King itself lunging forward with its mouth open.

Forceful Heavy Pressure,

Rip~

Weak Point Critical Hit!

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Ripping Bleed!

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With a whimper, the Wolf King's skill was interrupted this time.

Immediately afterwards, Su Sheng retreated a few steps and raised his sword and shield again.

Next came the usual rhythm of attack and defense.

It looks like the previous rhythm has been restored, but only Su Sheng himself knows that he can't afford any mistakes.

If he makes a mistake, who knows what other mishaps might occur after the long wait to respawn in Newbie Village?

After all, as time passes, players' levels will surely rise gradually, and this patch of forest will surely welcome players' patronage.

If he makes another mistake, the chance to take down this Wolf King will be very low.

So thereafter Su Sheng focused even more intently; as time passed, the Hill Wolf King's HP steadily decreased, and Su Sheng's rhythm never faltered.

However, when the Wolf King's HP approached sixty percent, Su Sheng stopped, waiting for the Wolf King's HP to recover a bit before striking again to suppress its HP.

But it was about time, and he stopped again.

The fully focused Su Sheng wore a solemn expression as he calculated in his heart.

Each time, he repeated this: whenever the Wolf King Boss's HP approached sixty percent, he would stop, let it recover a bit, then suppress it again, keeping the Wolf King Boss's HP roughly at a certain level.

Based on previous experience, when the HP reaches twenty percent, it should trigger the Wolf King Boss's Howl skill once.

So Su Sheng needs to devise a way to smoothly get past this twenty-percent HP hurdle of the Wolf King.

For now, Su Sheng already has an idea, but he must calculate the damage very carefully and also rely on luck.

How to put it? The Wolf King can make countless mistakes, but I can afford zero mistakes.

After all, if Su Sheng gets stunned again now, it's 100% game over.

Su Sheng attacked again, pressing the Wolf King's HP to a certain point, then his eyes narrowed slightly—about time!

Ugh!

The Wolf King opened its bloody maw again, using the Bite skill.

The first opportunity has come, but I don't know how my luck will be; calculating damage and HP control for so long is really not easy.

Hope it succeeds; otherwise I'll have to do it all over again.

Fang!

It precisely pierced into the Wolf King's bloody maw.

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Weak Point Critical Hit!

Rend triggered!

Su Sheng's eyes lit up; he didn't look back, pulled free and turned to run.

The Wolf King, hit by the heavy blow, staggered for a moment, while Su Sheng had already run a considerable distance.

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The health line has been reached, sixty percent.

As expected, the Wolf King raised its head and let out a long howl.

Aooo!!

But this time, Su Sheng had already retreated a considerable distance, so it was destined to be futile.

Looking at the coverage of the Wolf King's howl wave, Su Sheng curled his lips, feeling he had retreated too far.

The Wolf King's howl range is only five meters.

Afterwards, Su Sheng walked back a few steps; he must take over the attack immediately when the Wolf King's howl ends, otherwise the Wolf King's HP will recover a lot.

This is the method Su Sheng came up with: using the bleeding effect from Fang Rend, letting the bleed damage cross that trigger HP threshold.

But to achieve this, he must very carefully control the Wolf King's HP and also make precise calculations.

After all, the Rend Bleed damage, counting the initial hit and lasting five seconds, totals only sixty points.

To control this sixty-point damage and cross the trigger health line is not that easy.

Furthermore, it must be activated when the Wolf King uses its Bite skill, ensuring that the Fang attack simultaneously triggers Weak Point Critical Hit and Rend to succeed.

So, precise calculation and luck are both indispensable.

After all, ordinary Fang attacks usually trigger only a single effect—either just Rend, or just Weak Point Critical Hit without Rend.

Also, thanks to the mouth's position, even a mere Weak Spot Attack from the Fang skill can deal over three hundred damage, counting as a heavy blow that can interrupt the Wolf King's Bite skill.

Good thing my luck was decent; I succeeded on the first try. Next, I just need to wait for the Wolf King's HP to drop to forty percent for another round.

I just don't know at what HP the Wolf King's final skill triggers.

However, Su Sheng guessed it's either twenty percent or ten percent.

This is Teng Long Company's usual style when designing bosses, and it's also the boss mechanism and ability of the Newbie Village, so it shouldn't be too extreme.

Otherwise, no player could clear it.

If other players knew Su Sheng's actions, they'd definitely drop their jaws in shock— is this even human?

Just hearing about this operation makes it seem impossible for a human to pull off.

Actually, the appearance of an elite boss in the Newbie Village already surprised Su Sheng.

In the game Heroes before, Su Sheng still remembered that he and his buddy had practically scoured the whole Newbie Village, trying to find some game encounter or something.

After all, after reading so many novels, isn't it always that the Newbie Village protagonist gets a heaven-defying opportunity, then proceeds to crush all the masters and reach the pinnacle of life?

However, facts proved that Su Sheng and his buddy back then overthought things; they combed the Newbie Village map, indeed picking up a few trivial side quests, but the rewards were all novice-level.

Even if the bosses were all normal bosses, the drops were only novice‑stage items.

So, Su Sheng was truly caught off guard by an elite boss appearing in the Newbie Village.

Next, when the Wolf King's HP was at forty percent, Su Sheng's luck wasn't great.

He lost twice in a row; the first time he scored a crit but didn't trigger Fang Rend, so Su Sheng could only wait for the Wolf King's HP to recover and for the next skill cooldown.

The second time he triggered Rend, but the skill didn't crit, which directly left Su Sheng feeling frustrated.

However, the will forged from his military service made this minor setback nothing.

The third time, he succeeded as wished.

Immediately after, the assault on the Wolf King boss entered its final stage.

Su Sheng hadn't forgotten that the boss still had one last skill.

As time passed, the Wolf King boss's HP kept dropping, and Su Sheng made no further mistakes.

This level of thing is basically nothing.

Seven years of military service forged Su Sheng's will, tougher than steel.

Back then, Su Sheng wasn't in an ordinary unit; some of the training was quite overt.

Next, at twenty percent HP, perhaps Teng Long Company's game system didn't want to make things hard for Su Sheng, and he succeeded in one go.