Chapter 68: Boom!

Shen Wang looked at the forum post and knew that the first Level 20 player was the top of the Hidden Nickname leaderboard in their Huaxia region.

"How could the leaderboard top be him?" Shen Wang wondered.

"I'm also curious, but this is a fact."

Li Xiao threw a screenshot of the team interface to Shen Wang: "Besides, I also recorded some videos; I'll show you later—this guy is really strong."

"How strong." Shen Wang clicked his tongue.

"Much stronger than me; I'd guess it's on par with you, boss… even…" Li Xiao didn't continue.

Shen Wang raised his eyebrows; although Li Xiao didn't finish, he understood Li Xiao's meaning—that guy's operational level might even surpass his own?

Moreover, Li Xiao's level isn't bad either; at least he's an honorable player.

Furthermore, the reason Shen Wang can steadily sit as Chairman of Huan Yu is that, aside from Huan Yu being his own creation from the start, the Li clan's consortium only invested after the gaming scene rose.

Also, Shen Wang's own strength—in terms of gaming skill—there are no more than five people in the whole gaming circle who can reach his level.

"There's also this: that guy always gives me a familiar feeling, but I just can't place who he is." Li Xiao said somewhat hesitantly.

"Familiar?" Shen Wang also frowned.

……

At this moment, inside the castle hall.

The game still has four minutes left.

The boss's HP is still at eleven percent.

It's too late.

Everyone felt a bit discouraged; luck had been bad lately—although they accurately hit the weak point, the number of weak-point critical hits was too low.

"It's fine; let's try again tomorrow."

Lin Huan spoke up to comfort them.

"Anyway, now that we know the exact mechanism, tomorrow we can fight more easily—let Ah Sheng take off his gear, learn the skill, then come back; tomorrow we'll see us crush it." Li Wenwan also said.

This mission was originally Li Wenwan's task; she said all that, so nobody had anything else to say.

Pfft~

Just then, Li Wenwan tossed out a final fireball.

Boom! Hit the weak point!

Weak point critical hit!

A huge amount of damage popped up.

Just now, Su Sheng also thrust out a fang, triggering Rend.

The boss's HP suddenly dropped to ten percent.

Whoosh!

At that moment, the puppet boss's body instantly erupted with a huge amount of black energy, and it soared into the air again.

"Everyone, be careful."

Su Sheng spoke up to warn.

Obviously, this is the boss's ten-percent HP axis burst mechanism.

Too bad the game time isn't enough; otherwise, if the boss could withstand this burst mechanism wave, it would surely be defeated.

But for now, we can only see what this burst mechanism is; this counts as fully understanding all of the boss's mechanisms.

If we come back tomorrow, it should be easy.

Anyway, there's no chance to take down this boss; seeing the boss trigger the final burst mechanism, Su Sheng turned around and left directly.

Seeing this, everyone roughly understood Su Sheng's intent and also began to distance themselves to see what the boss's final burst method was.

All that could be seen was the puppet boss again floating up amid the black energy, then starting to repeatedly contract and expand.

Could it be the same healing skill as when the boss was at fifty percent HP axis before?

Everyone was somewhat doubtful.

But as the boss's expansion-contraction amplitude grew more exaggerated, Su Sheng's expression suddenly changed, and he had a guess in his mind.

"Holy shit! Everyone, quickly retreat from the hall!" Su Sheng hurriedly said.

"What?"

Everyone hadn't reacted yet.

"This damn thing is going to self-destruct!" Huan Yu Hao Tian also realized, turning and running.

"Huh?!"

The others turned back and glanced—only to see the whole boss had turned into the same lump as when they first entered the hall; at this moment it looked like a heart violently contracting and expanding!

Everyone's expressions changed dramatically!

At fifty percent HP, that previous full-field AOE was still fifty percent damage.

This time it's a self-destruct!

Unimaginable.

If there's no accident, it will definitely be a full-field AOE covering the whole hall; a Level 35 Elite Boss self-destructing at this stage means no player could possibly survive.

Su Sheng now can't do anything either; this thing is a super-large-range AOE, impossible to block.

Now the only option is to run; making it out of the hall gives a chance.

Lion Hunt!

Hunting stance activated!

Su Sheng's agility surged instantly!

Also, it's fortunate that we didn't use this skill while fighting the boss.

Thus, Su Sheng galloped away, heading outside.

Boom!

Just then, the BOSS exploded.

Black energy instantly swept across the entire hall.

On the team panel, everyone's information instantly turned black, except for Li Xiao and Su Sheng, who had already revived at the Huan Yu Main Base.

Dragon Scale!

In the instant the black energy exploded, Su Sheng had already, under the absolute speed of his Hunting Stance, stepped half a foot out of the hall's door.

But the black energy's explosion speed was too fast!

Seeing the team interface almost instantly go black, Su Sheng immediately activated his last survival tactic, Dragon Scale!

Even so, Su Sheng was grazed by the black energy's impact at the critical moment, losing balance and rolling out of the hall.

Battle notification: Congratulations to the player's team for successfully defeating the Elite BOSS, Ultimate Magic Puppet!

Swish~

The huge amount of experience was taken solely by Su Sheng, and the experience needed for Level 20 directly reached two-thirds.

There was no way; Su Sheng was the only one left alive on the scene, so naturally the experience could only be taken by him alone.

Su Sheng got up, glanced at his health bar—the Dragon Scale Shield had vanished, and his health was left at just over 200 points.

It's only thanks to my timely activation of Hunting Stance and the Dragon Scale Skill Veil that I merely got grazed.

"Great, Ah Sheng held on!"

Li Wenwan's delighted message came over the team channel.

"Ah Sheng, we still have two minutes of game time; let's clean up the battlefield first." Lin Huan also sent a message.

"I know." Su Sheng had already, using the agility of Hunting Stance, rushed into the hall.

The revived Huan Yu Hao Tian and Li Xiao stared at each other.

"What's going on? How did everyone get wiped out?" Li Xiao asked, puzzled.

"The BOSS self-destructed at the end; the damage was excessive, a full-field AOE." Huan Yu Hao Tian also said, feeling gloomy.

"It's fine, Mo Wen and Qian Chen aren't dead; they're picking up loot." Li Xiao said, seeing the team information at that moment.

Items scattered all over the ground.

Everyone in the team dropped their equipment; Su Sheng collected them all, then went to the center and picked up all the items the BOSS had scattered across the ground.

Su Sheng didn't have time to see exactly what had dropped, but he noticed a material, posted its image in the team channel, and then the game time ran out.

Swish~

The screen flashed, Su Sheng opened his eyes—he had been forcibly logged out by the system.