Chapter 553: Su Sheng Gets One‑Shot

It's the final 1%!

Finally!

Finally I win once!

Ye Tianzi is excited; although the heavy casualties sting a bit, the greater feeling is the satisfaction of avenging the great grudge.

Next is the loot from the upcoming pseudo‑lord‑level BOSS.

"Kill!"

"Melee players, charge in batches for me!"

Ye Tianzi feels the manpower.

Since no guild has been formed yet, the manpower is a mess.

Moreover, because of collision volume, if melee players swarm forward without a guild mode, let's not even talk about friendly fire.

The collision issue limits the number of players who can hit the BOSS at once, and it also hinders other ranged players.

Therefore, melee players who want to deal damage must plan staggered charges (suicide runs).

Anyway it's down to the final 1% HP; it shouldn't take long.

Then the Imperial Dynasty's melee classes charge in batches to besiege.

All the Priests also stop healing and start hurling holy light bombs at the BOSS.

Everyone gets one‑shot; how to heal? What to use for healing?

Immunity~

Immunity~

-1

-2

-1

-1

…

A heap of horrendous damage, a massive amount of immunity.

The gap is just too huge.

But after the ants gnaw the elephant, the BOSS is left with only 40,000 unrecoverable HP.

After the Imperial Dynasty's forces suffer another thousand‑plus casualties, the BOSS finally has its HP completely drained.

"Impossible!"

"You mortals, ants, vermin!!"

"I! I am immortal!!!"

After its HP is emptied, the BOSS roars a few times before slowly falling from its skeletal warhorse.

Splash~

A huge mass bursts out.

All of it… white!

With a streak of orange in the middle.

Finally dead!

This time, I won!

Ye Tianzi watches the BOSS fall, a look of excitement as they spur their horse forward to claim the loot.

Only…

"Hm?"

At the moment the loot drops, Ye Tianzi can't help but freeze.

What the heck?

White… orange?

Just a single orange streak.

Normally, a lord‑level BOSS guarantees a legendary drop; where's my red glow?

That's not right!

And what the heck is this exploding thing?

Ye Tianzi dismounts to pick up…

Ding~

System Notification: This is a settlement building material; the player has no settlement storage for it, so it cannot be picked up for now.

"???"

What is this?

Startled, Ye Tianzi immediately runs toward the orange beam.

Clang~

And then…

Can't get through, it just collides with something out of thin air.

Ye Tianzi freezes, then snaps back: Assassin!

Stealth Assassin! Yanhuang! Assassin Alliance!

Ye Tianzi suddenly breaks out in cold sweat!

No! This is terribly wrong!

At this moment, the assassin who had been struck silently emerged.

Shadow Wing!

But Shadow Wing ignored Ye Tianzi and, in front of Ye Tianzi, directly picked up a portion of the building materials.

"Ye Tianzi Chairman, thanks, you really are a good person."

After Shadow Wing finished picking up the items, he looked up, smiled, and greeted Ye Tianzi.

At this point, even a foolish Ye Tianzi finally realized something was off.

Swish swish~

The loot around them vanished one after another.

"Archer! Detection Arrow!"

Ye Tianzi let out an instinctive roar.

Snap~

Snap~

The few remaining archers of the Imperial Dynasty fired Detection Arrows, shrouding the area of the loot.

Large swaths of assassin silhouettes were illuminated.

Yan Huang! Assassin Alliance!

Indeed, the ones picking up the loot were clearly the Yan Huang Assassin Team.

At this moment, the Assassin Guild, swaggering under the detection, made no attempt to evade.

Swish swish swish~

One after another, the assassins instantly revealed themselves.

The Yan Huang Assassin Team, almost the entire roster, arrived!

Ye Tianzi's face turned ashen!

At this point, the Imperial Guild had only about three thousand members left; the Yan Huang Assassin Team was originally the former Assassin Alliance, so naturally they were not timid, and there were also over two hundred Hidden Dragon assassins.

Swish~

Su Sheng's figure floated before that orange pillar of light.

"Ye Tianzi Chairman, thank you for your hard work."

"Traveling thousands of miles with all members of the Imperial Dynasty to add bricks and tiles to our base construction."

"For this, we have suffered such heavy casualties; we are truly sorry."

Su Sheng gave a half‑smile, looked at Ye Tianzi, then slowly bent down to pick up the orange light on the ground.

"That's mine!"

Ye Tianzi glared angrily!

"Hahaha, Ye Tianzi Chairman, even if I give it to you you can't use it; it's all base material for the base."

"Moreover, this Boss Itself is the boss of our base mission."

By this time, Su Sheng had already picked up the orange loot.

Regardless of what this orange loot actually is, given the difficulty of this boss, it is indeed rather petty.

Even if it's a blueprint, at least give a red one.

However, the moment Su Sheng picked up the loot,

Clack clack clack~

The BOSS corpse beside Su Sheng, which had not yet respawned, suddenly stood up.

At the same time, all the scattered bones around were combined onto the boss's body.

In less than a second, a massive silhouette had already coalesced into form.

A skeletal monster nearly four to five meters tall!

"Whoa!"

Su Sheng was startled!

"I told you, I'm immortal!"

The monster roared!

At the same time, a pair of gigantic skeletal arms slammed down directly at the nearest Su Sheng.

Dodge!

No way, the monster's size is too huge, its arms' range is vast, and there was no time to dodge.

Moreover, the Lion Hunt's duration had long since ended.

Shield Raise!

Defensive Stance!

Fireworks Blessing!

Boom!

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Pachi~

Su Sheng just lay down.

Dead…

When Su Sheng was sneaking, he had already dismounted, and he was still wearing the Cloak of Invisibility; lacking the honor emblem, his attributes were far weaker.

Furthermore, his HP had not received the mount bonus.

As for the magic rune…

Without the Combat State stacking the magic rune, there's not even ten layers.

So, Su Sheng was flamboyantly taken down in a single hammer‑stroke.

Su Sheng lay there, his face full of shock, as a corpse.

No, big brother…

You're already a corpse, the loot has dropped, why can you still stand up?

Su Sheng went numb…

He glanced at the combat information.

Skeleton War God (Lord‑level BOSS)

Level:???

HP:??? (continuously decreasing, five percent per second)

Attack:???

??

??

Whoa, a proper Lord‑level BOSS!

"Run, don't clash with this BOSS!"

Even though he's already dead, in soul state Su Sheng can still send messages in the Guild Channel.

"Got it, Brother Sheng, I've already fled, but this BOSS's HP keeps dropping automatically."

Chen Guan replied in the Guild Channel.

Su Sheng directly posted the BOSS's status panel.

Losing five percent HP per second means, most likely, this is also an Easter egg for the BOSS—it can only survive twenty seconds.

Su Sheng was previously puzzled why the BOSS was dead yet there was no quest‑completion notice…