Free Web NovelChapter 418: Chapter 348: The Tide Has Turned
Yan Qing summoned a decoy to trigger the battle.
With his current puppet lineup, defeating the eight demons is absolutely no problem. The burst damage of the eight demons should be around ten thousand, but their health is in the hundreds of thousands, making them very resilient.
The only problem is, what price he has to pay.
If in order to kill the eight demons, "Qiongqi" is sacrificed, losing most of a day’s development time, it would be tantamount to a serious loss. But as long as "Qiongqi" doesn’t die, with the double acceleration from the second accessory, the next half-day will be a feast of snowballing into an avalanche!
The moment the decoy touched the White Lion King, the White Lion King grabbed its spear, pinning the decoy dead with one thrust! "Qiongqi", "Bai Ze", and "Ascended Six Ears" split into three directions to flank, avoiding taking the area damage of the White Lion King together.
The White Lion King doesn’t possess area damage and goes back and forth with "Ascended Six Ears". "Ascended Six Ears" is a perfect tank because of the "True and False Monkey King" trait, its battle values always align with "Qiongqi". This means that even if it loses health in battle, its health will be equal to "Qiongqi’s" in the next fight.
Yan Qing raised his wrist to take a look and found the White Lion King’s damage wasn’t very high, just over a thousand. Considering "Qiongqi" now has over fifty thousand health, even if the White Lion King has a million health, "Qiongqi" only needs twenty rounds to defeat it, while the White Lion King could only chip away less than half of its health in the same amount of time.
"Yellow Dog." Ying Rushi called softly.
"Wait a bit." Yan Qing didn’t think the White Lion King would be that easy and held Ying Rushi back from joining.
Soon, as the White Lion King’s health dropped, the blood flowed onto its spear, igniting a blood flame, increasing its attack speed and damage, evaporating the fountain entirely.
In just a blink, the White Lion King’s attack power soared to two thousand, with three attacks per round!
This turns out to be a berserker-type Demon King!
The lower the health, the higher the output!
If it can’t be killed instantly with a burst attack, in the final stages, it could potentially wipe everyone out with one spear!
"It’s up to you now," Yan Qing said calmly, "Once the ’Unity Lock’ is triggered, withdraw back."
Ying Rushi didn’t respond, and with a step from her Shadow Spider Boots, she transformed into a phantom and joined this terrifying sixth-turn battle. She took three consecutive steps, surprisingly spinning in place. Each spin, the Heaven-Swaying Sword cut across the White Lion King’s right leg, buttocks, and left leg. One step could make three turns; three steps made nine turns!
Even though Yan Qing repeatedly overestimated Ying Rushi, he was still astounded by her brilliance. This must have been her spur-of-the-moment tactic, using the burst power of the Shadow Spider Boots to spin, yet she was somehow already adept at controlling such an unconventional strategy right after putting it on. In about ten seconds, she could execute it four times, spinning 36 times, attacking 108 times in total. [Chaos World] accumulated damage of... 147,150!
This output efficiency was no less than that of the over ten thousand stat attribute of "Bai Ze", far beyond what a Third-Turn Messenger could achieve. Only because the White Lion King was aggroed by "Qiongqi", coupled with her genius implementation and execution of this damage-increasing method, could such an absurd effect be achieved!
At this moment, Murong Hui, wearing Golden Fish Goggles, face changed. Pointing to another path on the large plaza, she said, "Baibao Guards are coming over!"
"How many?"
"Twenty, very fast!"
Indeed very fast, as Yan Qing already saw them turning the corner. Twenty fully armed Baibao Guards charged over with heavy steps, showing no surprise at finding them, as if they were long-awaited ambushers, launching a fatal charge!
"Confront them," Yan Qing walked over to the intersection, raised his wrist, and summoned a decoy to charge over. Although there were only twenty of them, Baibao Guards were not something that two-thousand-stat puppets could provoke, at most, they could only withstand one round of attacks!
The Baibao Guards’ sprint speed increased, as if once they exceeded a certain speed, their heavy armor became their inertia, turning them into twenty unstoppable heavy trucks charging over.
Yan Qing glanced around, finding no terrain to leverage. The buildings were too low, collapsed rubble couldn’t block the main road. Behind him, the battle with the White Lion King reached a fever pitch; its attack speed was now two times per round, and it could take a significant chunk of "Qiongqi’s" health in one go!
There was no reason to retreat; this was the turning point!
Murong Hui had prepared the Lightning Battle Saber, ready to strike once the Baibao Guards were within optimal attack range. Yan Qing took a deep breath, drawing the Bingzi Pepper Forest and two White Iron Straight Sabers.
Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps! In just a moment, the Baibao Guards covered dozens of steps, Yan Qing could even make out their ferocious masks and the cold gleam of their spears. Murong Hui’s Lightning Battle Saber couldn’t even slow their steps; they were now relying on pure inertia in their charge, unstoppable!
Even the Mountain Heart-Protecting Mirror couldn’t sustain many of their attacks.
When the distance shrunk to three steps, Yan Qing didn’t hesitate, raising the Bingzi Pepper Forest high, the inscriptions on the blade flaring with orange flames, [Heaven-Covering] shockwave blowing them away instantly!
But they didn’t fall to the ground, quickly regaining their footing and initiating another charge. This time, in their way was the Heaven-Covering Blade Aura from the Bingzi Pepper Forest!
With the consumption of two White Iron Straight Sabers, the Bingzi Pepper Forest’s panel damage reached 270, and as long as the theoretical damage exceeded 100 points, it could trigger residual blade aura, causing 20 points of concussive blunt force damage over 0.05 seconds.
Although these damages would deal true damage, Yan Qing didn’t care, because what he needed now was the instant delay caused by the concussive blunt force damage!
The "Ranger Rain Boots" slid across the long street, Yan Qing swept the three-meter-long blade aura across the twenty Baibao Guards, his arms instantly pierced by thousands of needles, bleeding profusely. He immediately bit open the Blood Replenishing Pill in his mouth to heal, even having time to look back, seeing the Baibao Guards suddenly pause, sliding on the ground, their newly gained momentum completely exhausted.
He stopped, stomping the stone slabs of the long street into a spider-web-like crack, turning to swing the Bingzi Pepper Forest again.
His overburdened arms were nearly torn apart, flesh fragments flying as he swung. Yan Qing let out a bitter smile, lamenting the vast difference between real character performance and small character performance—a small character could survive even heavy counterattacks as long as Blood Replenishing Pills were consumed fast enough, while he, although his health wasn’t entirely depleted, barely had the strength to lift his arms after two waves of counterattacks.
But it was enough.
As he retreated, he heard an unwilling howl from the White Lion King, turning to see it engulfed in a blazing blood flame, crashing to the ground.
A shadowy figure rushed to catch him, last night’s seductive eyes now filled with red streaks, showing determination instead of tenderness, "I’ll take over—"
"Take a good rest." Yan Qing held Ying Rushi as they ran back, "It’s over."
Yes, it’s over.
"Qiongqi" brushed past Yan Qing, moving towards the Baibao Guards. The leading Baibao Guard stabbed without hesitation, "Qiongqi" snorted two jets of white mist, and its forehoof kicked towards the opponent.
"Qiongqi’s" health abruptly dropped by 800, though it seemed little, it was damage dealt by a single Baibao Guard, even in a group of twenty. If two hundred attacked together, even eight demons couldn’t last several rounds.
At the moment "Qiongqi" hit the foremost Baibao Guard, all other Baibao Guards’ defense barriers shattered, and their bodies were simultaneously covered in countless wounds, bleeding heavily, nearly collapsing to the ground.
This is the price of [United Hearts], meaning dying together when sharing damage.
"Qiongqi"’s attack power was now 53,000, divided among twenty individuals was 2,650 each. The Liang Kingdom’s specialty Heart-Protecting Mirror had a maximum damage tolerance of only 2,800, and not every Baibao Guard could possess defense artifacts of the Heart-Protecting Mirror’s level. Besides, they already took a hit from Yan Qing and Murong Hui’s ambush, consuming their protection barriers once.
The leading Baibao Guard was knocked to the ground, making its best effort to escape at the brink of death, but "Qiongqi" had two forelegs, pressing down, crushing the Baibao Guard’s armor and embedding the fragments into its chest.
Meanwhile, the hearts of the other nineteen Baibao Guards burst in unison!
