LWGP - Chapter 180
Chapter 180: Corpse Explosion
Even the lowest-grade flying device from a mechanical sapper was a product of the Eternal Night Race, putting it in a completely different league. While its speed might not surpass all flying pets, the ones belonging to the people from Nightless Territory were low-level, creating a significant gap. So when Wang Jiu shot up high into the sky, transforming into an azure arc, the crowd couldn't even catch a glimpse of her figure.
The twenty people from Nevernight, who had previously dominated the skies on their flying pets, coldly watching Wang Jiu being besieged and Gobi Territory teetering on the brink of collapse, were now horrified.
This???
"Don't be afraid. She's just one person. Her mobility in the sky can't compare to on the ground, even if her attributes are a little higher than ours..."
The words "a little higher" still faintly echoed in the sky as the speaker was sliced in half at the waist by a blade aura.
A person with 5,000 in all attributes was slaughtered as easily as a complete novice.
It wasn't just the enemies who were dumbfounded; even Xie Lu and the others couldn't figure out what had just happened.
Liao Luo secretly glanced at Wang Jiu's attributes. They were the same as before, 8,000 across the board.
Her skills were all in place, and the buff from Nightmare Descent was active.
It had been active the whole time, leading them to believe her 8,000 base attributes were the result of the buff.
Perhaps she wanted others to think that, so she had fabricated the "Descent" state.
In reality, 8,000 was her base attribute. As for her true attributes after the buff, only those she killed would ever know.
But he couldn't say anything, because his HP had been instantly depleted and his name had greyed out in the party list, silencing him forever. The rest had no time to ask what was going on.
Because after killing one person, Wang Jiu, standing on her flying device, flicked her blade. The blood flowing down it was flung off before gravity could even pull it downward, the blade's edge flashing like light.
"Go!"
"Run!!"
The leader was sharp and made an immediate judgment call, but a blade had already plunged into his chest.
It wasn't just a stab; it was a horizontal slice. The man could almost hear the sound of the blade cutting through his organs and bones.
A thrust, a slice, and his HP was empty.
After the slice, Spirit Tentacles shot out, grabbed a fleeing person, and yanked them back. She seized his collar, and the blade went from bottom to top... the edge driving up from his jaw and piercing through his skull.
She pulled it out, dripping with blood.
The flying device zipped around like a stream of light. The blade spun in her right hand. When wielding it one-handed, her left hand would produce a staff to control Witch Bolt and Flowing Light for ranged attacks. When she gripped the blade with both hands, she could switch weapons at any moment.
In truth, these people weren't completely powerless. After Wang Jiu killed three of them with lightning speed, they finally realized they were too slow to escape her hunting ground. Her combat system was too complete—she lacked nothing in terms of debuffs, buffs, attacks, ranged combat, or melee. In the game's terminology, her kind of class was called a Controller, someone who could do a bit of everything. With no specialization, she had no absolute weakness.
The path of the Controller often leads to mediocrity, but once one rises to the top, they become an extremely terrifying existence.
"Surround her! Quick, silence her Bloodthirst skill first..."
"Fuck, it can't be silenced! Her skill is hidden! Wrong position!"
"What!"
The silence took effect, but on the wrong target. The Trickery Badge made Wang Jiu completely unpredictable. By the time she made her move, her fangs were already at their necks.
Left with no other choice, they did their best to create distance and launched a wave of ranged attacks.
It had to be said that these people were all elites, their combat capabilities absolutely formidable. In a short time, they accurately judged the distance in the sky, and all their attacks effectively struck Wang Jiu.
At this moment, Wang Jiu's barrier had been taken down, likely for repairs. So was she completely defenseless?
No, she used a low-level Golden Armor.
Then a barrage of attacks slammed into her... creating a brilliant halo of light. But before the group could rejoice, the halo exploded, and Wang Jiu charged out with her blade, looking just like a boss with a massive health bar.
"How is that possible! Even with attributes over ten thousand, she couldn't have tanked our attacks without taking any damage!!"
Among their group, three people possessed the Bloodthirst skill. They were here to kill and each had plenty of powerful abilities. They had all just attacked with their full strength, so how could Wang Jiu have just tanked it?
"Unless her current attributes are over ten thousand!"
someone speculated in horror.
But Wang Jiu wasn't about to stop and explain it to them. She continued the slaughter.
In truth, there was nothing flashy about it. She was simply using single skills to kill them quickly, because her attributes were already high enough to one-shot them.
Speaking of which, her 8,000 attributes were her base attributes.
After being activated by the order from the Cloud Travel Book, Nightmare Descent's attribute buff had reached 100%. Therefore, her attributes were at 16,000. Although there was a time limit, her combat power at this moment was indeed formidable, basically killing everything in one strike.
Originally, she had deliberately disguised her attributes for the Little Corpse King to observe, not using Nightmare Descent, in order to conceal her true strength and lure out the final boss of this Undead territory invasion.
As for why she was certain a Purple Gold boss existed, the logic was actually quite simple. After the Undead Race appeared and began attacking the territory, she observed their assault formations. From the information provided by the System, she could tell that the Undead Race was an exceptionally proud one. Twelve bosses of similar strength would have resulted in a split command structure, with each leading one-twelfth of the minions. However, she noticed that the thirty thousand minions moved as a single, orderly unit, not following their individual bosses. This indicated that there was a single, universally recognized ruler within the entire Undead invasion force.
Since she knew this boss existed but couldn't find it with her Demon's Eye, it meant the opponent possessed a higher level of concealment. The fact that it still hadn't shown itself also proved its cunning.
A Gold boss wasn't nearly as valuable as a Purple Gold one, so she had to lure it out.
If she could face it head-on, great. If not, she would take to the skies and kite it, eventually grinding it down. After all, her flying device and vast mineral resources weren't just for show. Wang Jiu's plans were solid; she had accounted for scenarios A and B, but she never expected a scenario C to emerge.
The organization behind Bian Moshu was deeply hidden, and she had neither the time nor the inclination to investigate it, so she had let it be. She truly never imagined that twenty people from Nightless Territory would crash the party with flying pets. This was a situation Wang Jiu had never anticipated.
In fact, the enemy's methods were quite brilliant. Their timing was perfect, and they had interrupted all of Wang Jiu's arrangements, raising the difficulty of the situation by a whole level. Even with her flying device, she was now delayed.
If she fought the boss, that group would attack the territory barrier. If she fought them, the boss would lead its minions to attack the territory barrier.
It wasn't that she couldn't fight them, but that Wang Jiu couldn't afford to lose the time.
The barrier's health bar couldn't drop too quickly, otherwise the Undead minions would easily chew through it, and the entire territory would be steamrolled... Wang Jiu's thoughts raced, and she decided to throw out the Mystic Realm boss.
While she would certainly lose some of the dungeon's benefits, it would at least resolve the current situation.
Everyone had their own calculations and their own surprises. It all came down to who was better at dealing with the unexpected on the fly.
High in the sky, Wang Jiu went on a killing spree, depleting the HP of every last one of them. Her opponents were terrified. Several screamed for mercy, willing to sacrifice their gains to save their lives, but Wang Jiu ignored them completely. Instead, she sped up, determined to slaughter them all, leaving none behind.
Her cruel nature was on full display, but this was hardly anything new.
Mutilated corpses and severed limbs fell from the sky, landing without a sound as they were instantly engulfed by the countless Undead below.
All of these people's resources were sent to Wang Jiu's mailbox.
On the other side, the battle between the Heavenly Wolf Chief and the Little Corpse King sent sand and stones flying. However, the latter was ultimately being suppressed by the former. The sounds of their fight echoed across the entire battlefield, where seven golden Four-Directions Corpses were also battling the lesser wolves. Logically, this should have relieved a great deal of pressure on the territory, but in reality, the rate at which the territory barrier was losing health had actually increased.
"That Little Corpse King and the Four-Directions Corpses are constantly releasing corpse qi. The minions' strength is increasing rapidly, especially their agility. Their dodge speed is much faster, their armor is higher, and they're getting harder and harder to kill."
"Dammit, and they're cunning too. As soon as our main forces rotate out to recover, they swarm in for a concentrated assault. The moment the main forces return, they scatter and attack from a distance."
Dao Dao and the others ground their teeth in frustration.
The enemy was growing stronger, while their own Spirit Power consumption was increasing. No matter how fast they recovered, it couldn't keep pace with their expenditure. At this rate, the power balance would shift to their disadvantage in the later stages of the battle.
"We have to solve the corpse qi problem. Who here are the wind-based arcanists and mages? Have them cast wind spells. We don't need them to attack, just to generate airflow!"
"If you don't have the relevant skills, go buy them! The territory will provide reimbursement."
"It doesn't matter if it's one of us or not, all wind-based arcanists and mages within the territory, come forward."
Xie Lu gave the order decisively and also sent a notice to everyone inside the territory.
Out of a hundred thousand people, some were bound to meet the criteria. Soon, more than four hundred people had gathered. Under a unified command, they used their skills in unison, and sure enough, a third of the corpse qi on the battlefield was blown away. This at least slowed the rate at which the enemy was growing stronger.
But Xie Lu glanced at the territory's health bar, which had already dropped to the 50% mark, and frowned slightly. Only forty-five minutes had passed, a much faster rate of depletion than they had originally anticipated.
If they didn't deal with that Little Corpse King and the seven Gold bosses soon, the situation would likely become...
As Xie Lu was thinking this, he subconsciously looked toward the sky. With that glance, he saw that Wang Jiu had finished slaughtering all twenty people and was now plummeting downward.
Blood drain, critical hit, leaping slash.
Boom!! The Little Corpse King, which had been dodging and scrambling all over the place but had still been beaten down to 20% health by the Heavenly Wolf Chief, let out a mournful howl. It plunged its blade into the ground, half-kneeling.
It could see the Heavenly Wolf Chief rapidly charging toward it from a distance, and it could see the ruthless human before it.
Its eyes were filled with unwillingness, but also with a cold, cruel light.
It knew it was doomed to die.
The Undead Race was a race of corpses; their blood was cold. At the final moment, it let out a low hiss and, at the instant it was completely defeated by Wang Jiu, it activated an ability unique to Undead of the Little Corpse King level and above—Corpse Explosion!
Boom!!
Its body completely exploded. All its flesh and blood turned to a fine corpse powder, leaving only a skeleton behind.
This explosion wasn't listed as a skill, so Wang Jiu hadn't foreseen it.
In the emergency, with a single thought, she summoned her fully repaired barrier, but half of the corpse powder still got through.
This corpse powder didn't just explode randomly; it drifted in a single cloud and descended upon Wang Jiu. The moment it landed on her skin, it burrowed in completely, a perfect armor-piercing attack!
Wang Jiu immediately felt pain and discomfort all over her body. The physical sensations were secondary; the main issue was that her status had been affected. This suicidal corpse poison caused her attributes to drop directly to twelve thousand, instantly creating a gap between her and the Heavenly Wolf Chief.
Moreover, this corpse powder was terrifying. It couldn't be cleansed, exempted, or immunized against. She could only wait for the poison's duration to naturally expire, unless she possessed a top-tier item specifically for curing corpse poison.
But Wang Jiu didn't have one. Such an item couldn't be bought, since even low-level detoxification resources were completely sold out.
Uh, the Heavenly Wolf Chief wasn't touched by the corpse powder?
One grew stronger as the other grew weaker.
That damn Little Corpse King had managed to screw Wang Jiu over even as it died.
As expected, one should never underestimate any opponent.
The Heavenly Wolf Chief was highly intelligent. Seeing that Wang Jiu had been significantly weakened, it immediately charged. Its longsword flew, and with a raise of its hand, the sky rumbled as ferocious lightning descended like a meteor.
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