Chapter 35: The Only Chance to Escape! Death Scythe! Flame Monarch, Defeated!

The Nine-Head Undying Bird looked immensely powerful, and its terrifying aura made the already desperate members of the Heaven Hunt Guild feel even more helpless.

But Jiang Fang quickly noticed something amiss.

This newly appeared monster seemed to target the Flame Monarch! Moreover, with the appearance of the Nine-Head Undying Bird, a black fire spirit monster also emerged, attacking those fire demon puppets.

Realizing this, Jiang Fang immediately shouted, "Everyone, run! This monster bird's target is the Flame Monarch; this is our only chance to escape!"

Everyone, including Luo Chenfeng, was instantly startled, scanned the area, and indeed found, as Jiang Fang said, that the monster bird was not attacking them; the next moment, everyone fled for their lives!

Run, run hard, and get out of Fire God Island's hopeless instance space as quickly as possible.

The Nine-Head Undying Bird's target truly was the Flame Monarch, a level‑200 overlord‑grade BOSS that yields massive experience; killing it would let the currently level‑83 Nine-Head Undying Bird level up again! Over sixty percent of the monsters on Fire God Island have already been slain by Lu Zheng, and the rest will refresh tomorrow; this level‑200 experience package cannot be missed.

The Flame Monarch's flame domain is vast, but once the Nine-Head Undying Bird appeared, the Undying Fire Sea swiftly devoured that expanse, becoming part of the Undying Fire Sea, and the fire demon puppets were blown to pieces by the Undying Fire Spirits' explosive skill.

Those fire demon puppets were over a hundred levels each, yielding considerable experience; eliminating all of them would raise the Nine-Head Undying Bird's level by one! Sensing the threat, the Flame Monarch immediately unleashed a powerful single‑target skill, the Flame Divine Sword.

In the high sky, fire elements instantly coalesced into a massive dark‑red sword thirty‑three meters long, blazing with fierce flames; the blade fell as if to annihilate the entire instance space! The overwhelming pressure made the Heaven Hunt Guild members, already at the instance's edge, flee outward in even greater terror.

However, faced with this terrifying attack, the Nine-Head Undying Bird did not dodge or evade; instead it countered directly with an identical single‑target skill! 【Skill: Death Scythe】

【Effect: Minimum cost 10,000 mana, condensing a flame scythe that channels Power of Death, dealing at least 20,000 physical damage, 10,000 flame damage, and 40,000 Power of Death spell damage to the target; Power of Death erodes the soul, adding an extra 4,000 spell damage per second】

All the skills list only the minimum cost; when enough mana is infused, the skill's power becomes immeasurably great.

The Nine-Head Undying Bird poured in 100,000 mana, and a colossal black flame scythe eighty‑eight meters long suddenly materialized, slashing toward the Flame Monarch's body.

Its appearance was like a massive wound in the sky, from which endless Power of Death poured out; just a glance made one feel as if the soul were being tugged, breaking out in a cold sweat.

Facing such a terrifying attack, the Flame Monarch reacted immediately.

A crimson protective barrier suddenly enveloped its whole body—this was the effect of its 'Flame Armor Shield' skill. The shield's defense is strong, able to ignore flame spell damage below 100,000 and physical damage below 50,000, and it can autonomously absorb surrounding fire elements to restore the Flame Monarch's mana.

When the Death Scythe struck the Flame Monarch, the flame damage was unquestionably blocked entirely by the 'Flame Armor Shield', but the overwhelming force caused the shield to collapse.

At this point, the Death Scythe's physical damage reached a terrifying 200,000; 50,000 of that was negated by the Flame Armor Shield, leaving 150,000 damage dealt to the Flame Monarch.

The Flame Monarch, being a semi‑elemental being, only lost 20,000 health from that 150,000 physical damage.

But the main event was the Power of Death spell damage accompanying it; this indiscriminate energy eroded the Flame Monarch's soul, polluted its body, causing an immediate drop of 400,000 health, followed by a continuous loss of 40,000 health per second.

A gray‑white aura pervaded the Flame Monarch's body—that was Power of Death. If it isn't dispelled quickly, the force will keep dealing damage; even with a massive 5,000,000 health pool, it won't last long. Meanwhile, the Flame Monarch's Flame Divine Sword also struck the Nine-Head Undying Bird; all flame energy damage was immune, and it only inflicted 20,000 physical damage.

That loss of health is a matter of only a few dozen seconds of recovery for the now level‑84 Nine-Head Undying Bird.

Moreover, under the passive skill 'Nine-Head Undying Body', as long as it doesn't die within three minutes, its HP fully restores, making this damage negligible.

Wounded by the Death Scythe, the Flame Monarch must immediately find a way to purge the Power of Death from its body; after all, losing 40,000 health per second means its remaining 4,500,000 health would be wiped out in under two minutes! Yet the Nine-Head Undying Bird would never give it that chance.

All transformed Undead Fire Spirits appeared around the Flame Monarch, charging recklessly toward it and, upon reaching it, detonating themselves!

That counts as a hidden skill.

The Undead Fire Spirit's self‑detonation generates a huge burst of damage, enough to break the defenses of a level‑200 Flame Monarch, and the Power of Death within adds extra damage.

A single Undead Fire Spirit deals very little damage; the Flame Monarch could even recover within a second.

But when tens of thousands of Undead Fire Spirits explode together, the relentless bombardment shrouds the Flame Monarch in a gray‑white aura, and its health visibly drops by more than half; from five million, after about ninety percent of the spirits self‑detonate, it plummets to roughly two million.

Even more lethal, additional Power of Death floods in, worsening the health loss to the point where a "‑80,000 HP" indicator appears each second!

Meanwhile, the Nine-Head Undying Bird, seizing the moment the Undead Fire Spirits launch their suicide attacks, releases another powerful single‑target skill.

【Skill: Netherfire Line】

【Effect: Base cost 10,000 mana, sustaining a minimum of 5,000 mana per second, continuously releasing a Netherfire Line imbued with Power of Death on a single target; it deals at least 10,000 flame damage per second, and the Netherforce strikes body and soul for an additional minimum of 20,000 spell damage per second】

A bucket‑thick stream of dark flame coalesced in front of the Nine-Head Undying Bird and fell onto the Flame Monarch; the health loss per second jumped from 80,000 to 100,000.

It struggled desperately, but all was in vain; in less than twenty seconds, a success chime for killing the Flame Monarch rang in Lu Zheng's ears.

【Your summoned beast 'Nine-Head Undying Bird' killed LV. 200 Flame Monarch ×1; your summoned beast 'Nine-Head Undying Bird' gained 40,000,000 experience; you gained 10,000,000 experience】

【You obtained 'Flame Crown' ×1】

【You obtained the gem 'Heart of the Flame Monarch' ×1】

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