LWGP - Chapter 178
Chapter 178: Little Corpse King
On the city wall, following Xie Lu’s command, all the players held back their ultimate skills. They only used basic active skills or minor abilities that didn’t consume much spirit power and had short cooldowns to attack the nearest layer of monsters below, trying to minimize the damage the undead dealt to the barrier.
However, they were now discovering just how formidable the top-ranked territory in the ninth district was.
The attacks of several tens of thousands of players were actually comparable in destructive power to the territory’s forty high, medium, and low-level magic and arrow towers.
The high-level towers, in particular, were devastating. Even silver-grade bosses had to avoid their attacks. While the bosses could dodge, the densely packed mobs could not, resulting in a destructive sweep.
“So strong.”
“Badass!”
“I’ve seen their prices, nearly ten thousand gold for one. Damn, it’s worth every coin!”
“No wonder my friend in Mo Jiang Territory is always so salty, saying buying them now is a waste of money…”
“The Lord is so rich.”
As they fought and prepared, they also kept a close eye on Wang Jiu’s progress in pulling the monsters.
She had three already!
“She’s got three, but this won’t work. They have ranged skills and aren’t stupid. They could easily use a ranged attack and break the aggro line.”
Everyone was anxious, but besides Wang Jiu, no one else on their side could charge into the undead horde to pull monsters.
Not even Xie Lu, Zhao Si, and Liu Guang, who had the highest attributes, could do it.
However, they soon breathed a sigh of relief, because the three Four-Directions Corpses did not use any ranged skills.
Why?
Because their ranged skills had been silenced.
But silencing one was one thing; how could she silence all three at once? Could she have a group silence skill?
“It’s probably timing. First, her silence skill has a very short cooldown. Second, she’s timing the silence to rotate between the three bosses’ ranged skills. Before the final cooldown finishes, she uses skills like stun, blind, or paralysis to interrupt the first boss.”
This was the micro-management of gaming.
The crowd had no more time to sing Lao Wang’s praises for her micro-management, because Wang Jiu was already leading the three bosses over.
“Get ready! Hold your positions! Support captains, follow my lead! Supports, use your skills on my mark!”
“Priests, buff! Go! Prepare for spirit power recovery!”
“Main combatants, use your AoE attacks! Everyone else, clear the low and mid-tier mobs within a hundred-meter radius to reduce interference!”
Various support skills, mostly group-based, were cast directly onto the three bosses.
Weaken, immobilize, blind, stun, paralysis, and all sorts of other negative effects, along with skills like Qiao Xuejing’s Trap Art, or alchemists who specialized in dirty tricks. All kinds of professions had emerged by now. As the System had said, everyone’s profession was essentially the same, just with different areas and degrees of focus.
Once the support skills landed, the priests’ buffs were already on the main combatants.
In fact, Gobi had far more priests than Mo Jiang Territory. This was mainly because Gobi had developed rapidly and powerfully, and it was free of messy internal strife. After all, Lao Wang didn’t like to bullshit, nor did she enjoy scheming with her subordinates. The moment she established the territory, she had written out a version of the 《Criminal Code》. Anyone who caused trouble was either killed or kicked out without a shred of mercy. The territory’s internal stability was insanely high, which was a paradise for priests who depended on a stable environment. As a result, many priests had flocked to Gobi.
Although only forty people had attributes over 1000, that was a very high proportion of the total 300.
More priests meant more powerful buffs. The main combatants’ attributes skyrocketed as they launched a group assault on the three Four-Directions Corpses at the base of the territory wall.
Truth be told, if it were a single boss, Wang Jiu could have killed it by herself. But with three, she needed the group’s combined attack.
The crowd unleashed a powerful wave of AoE attacks, instantly knocking off 40% of each of the three golden bosses’ health. Wang Jiu didn’t attack with them. She waited for the damage increase, and after the three bosses took damage, she drained the blood from them and seven nearby silver bosses, unleashing a stream of critical hits.
Boom!
One fell. The other two focused all their skills on Wang Jiu, but the barrier held. It trembled slightly but was undamaged.
Just as the crowd was about to launch another wave of attacks, Xie Lu suddenly stopped them. “Wait.”
Wait?
While they were wondering, they saw two more golden bosses scuttling over from another direction like giant spiders.
“Two more!”
“What’s going on?!”
“Should we have the Lord come back up?”
Given their current attack power and pace, if there were four at once, could Lao Wang handle it?
She could. Their ranged attacks had already arrived.
Boom!! The barrier trembled two or three times more frequently than before, but it remained undamaged. Clearly, it hadn’t reached its breaking point yet.
A level-nine barrier was terrifying.
As Wang Shu and the others marveled, the rest suddenly saw a dark object leap out in front of Wang Jiu.
“Watch out, it’s a monster!”
Everyone was startled. Wang Shu, while throwing an arcane flame, explained, “No, no, that’s my master’s pet, Hei Hei.”
Hearing this, Bai Bai was furious. It roared up at the city wall, “Fatty, who told you to call me Hei Hei? Get down here if you’ve got the guts!”
Despite its cursing, it helped Wang Jiu fight the two newly arrived bosses.
Wang Jiu definitely couldn’t handle four bosses alone. She could withstand the first wave, but the stacking damage would easily damage and eventually shatter the barrier. However, Bai Bai could take on one boss by itself, so with its help, the pressure on Wang Jiu didn’t increase by much. And the crowd’s second wave of ultimate skills was ready.
The two bosses with depleted health bars were finished off by Wang Jiu and Bai Bai in succession, leaving only the last two.
This was a very stable way to take down a boss.
The crowd hadn’t been very confident about this battle initially, but seeing three bosses defeated in less than fifteen minutes, with two more on the verge of death, their confidence soared, and their cohesion grew.
But the undead weren’t idiots. Seeing the situation, the mobs swarmed over madly, trying to interfere with Wang Jiu and Bai Bai’s final kill on the last two bosses. There were too many of them, and the low-to-mid-tier players on the wall couldn’t stop them.
“Should we redirect the towers to fire on them?”
“Captain Xie?”
Xie Lu: “No need. The towers are for long-range targets. We need to maximize their effectiveness against ranged enemies to reduce the pressure of being completely surrounded by melee units.”
For a commander, certain rhythms couldn’t be changed. Once altered, they were hard to restore. One concession made it difficult to advance.
Then what about Lao Wang?
The mobs surged forward like a zombie apocalypse, about to engulf Wang Jiu and Bai Bai.
Wang Jiu was fine, protected by her barrier, but Bai Bai couldn’t defend itself perfectly. If it didn’t want to get its health chipped away, it would have to burrow underground. But the undead were also subterranean creatures; they could burrow too.
Lin Guiwan had fought alongside Bai Bai before and knew its strengths and details. She immediately seized the opportunity for an air strike, assigning ten priests, including herself, to cast numerous buffs on Bai Bai, plus a 10-second armor that reduced damage by 50%.
Bai Bai could handle the remaining 50% damage, and in 10 seconds…
Bang, bang!
With its health bar dropping rapidly, Bai Bai unleashed a chain of charging skills. Its body suddenly expanded dozens of times, transforming into a massive black fox. With a ferocious swipe of its claws, it tore one of the Four-Directions Corpses to shreds.
And three seconds before that, the other boss had been taken down by Wang Jiu.
With five bosses cleared, the crowd had used up about two-thirds of their spirit power after three consecutive waves of high output.
“Switch out! Second team, take their places! Everyone else, go to the priests to recover spirit power and stamina!”
“Wait five minutes, the Lord is going to pull the second wave!”
Once the main force was replaced, the rate at which the mobs broke through increased, and the barrier’s health dropped twice as fast. But it couldn’t be helped; resources for restoring spirit power and stamina were too scarce.
Wang Jiu had Bai Bai go up to the city wall to recover its spirit power, while she continued outward to pull the other bosses.
There were still seven left. It wasn’t over yet.
All the bosses had to be defeated within half an hour.
“The corpse qi released by these bosses is a war buff. The longer it goes on, the more corpse qi they release, and the stronger the other mobs become. The mobs already have one-third more armor and attack than before.”
Qiao Xuejing’s mind was sharp. While assisting and leading her team, she was still calculating the mobs’ stats.
With another calculation, she guessed that half an hour was the time limit Wang Jiu had set.
The latter had always been ruthless, even to her own side.
Because Wang Shu had recklessly asked, “What if we go over half an hour?”
Wang Shu hadn’t expected the normally quiet-during-battle Wang Jiu to reply: “If I don’t make a mistake, then there’s only one reason—you’re all trash.”
She showed no mercy, just stating the facts.
Well… perhaps in other territories, if a lord were so arrogant and domineering, losing the people’s support would be a matter of time. But in Gobi, since nine out of ten residents had been brutally conquered and annexed by her, they had a different perspective after being abused. It was like seeing beauty in the eyes of an enemy; they didn’t really mind it.
In truth, human nature was a bit cheap. A saint couldn’t make a mistake, but a demon king could.
After all, even the outsider Liu Guang chuckled lightly. “Director Wang hasn’t changed a bit.”
Qiao Xuejing and Lin Guiwan both glanced at him.
He seemed to know Wang Jiu very well. To know her so well and still come here willingly… with his strength, he could go anywhere. He didn’t seem to be from Luoyang either.
But according to Wang Shu’s description, when he first met Wang Jiu, she hadn’t revealed her true nature.
Unless he had been keeping a close watch on Wang Jiu’s situation afterward.
For now, everything was proceeding smoothly. The high-level barrier’s health bar was still a healthy green, and Wang Jiu’s rhythm of pulling monsters was stable. Her positioning was still stylish, and the crowd’s recovery progress was good.
Wang Jiu and Bai Bai each pulled three and two bosses from opposite sides, preparing for one final wave.
But at that moment, both Wang Jiu and Bai Bai’s scalps tightened simultaneously. They felt as if they had been locked onto, and they felt fear!
A high-level version of fear.
All their skills were weakened.
For Wang Jiu’s attributes to be directly affected by a fear that broke through her defenses, how strong must the opponent be?
Then, with a crack and a boom, the ground suddenly split open. In the area between where they were luring the monsters, a three-meter-tall armored corpse general with a blade burst out of the earth. A purple-gold halo swirled with terrifying, almost liquid corpse qi. In mid-air, its boots stomped on the flying dust, launching it forward as if stepping on nothing, and then it pointed its blade.
The brilliance in Wang Jiu’s eyes was captured by the blade’s sharp glint.
In an instant, it performed a jumping slash. The light of the blade condensed vertically, as if it had been quenched in all the moonlight of the three o’clock morning.
Purple Gold Undead Little Corpse King, Level 45.
It had been observing slyly from underground for a long time, finally confirming the true strength of this territory’s leader, Wang, and had seized its chance.
It had finally arrived.
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