Crack!
The purple-black scales that ordinary players could barely scratch split beneath the blade, leaving a horrific wound a hundred meters long.
Black blood sprayed everywhere.
At almost the same instant, a vast surge of life force flowed back through the Horse-Slaying Blade and into Soaring Dragon.
The sliver of health he had lost to the poisonous breath filled up in the blink of an eye.
His Attack Power stat climbed again, jumping sharply higher.
"Roar!"
The Abyss Archlord howled in pain and brought its Hellfire Great Axe down.
Soaring Dragon did not retreat. He swung the Horse-Slaying Blade upward to meet the axe head-on.
The metallic crash left ordinary players within several kilometers clutching their aching ears.
The recoil drove the Abyss Archlord three steps back, its enormous feet crushing swathes of rock.
Soaring Dragon merely rolled his shoulders.
"Again!"
Soaring Dragon had thrown himself completely into the fight. He whirled the Horse-Slaying Blade like a windmill.
One slash.
Two slashes.
Ten slashes!
The effects of [War and Greed] stacked at a frantic pace.
Every cut did more than drain health. It stripped away the Abyss Archlord's reserves of law power.
The vice president of the Dragon Soaring Guild watched from nearby and swallowed hard.
"The boss's fighting style gets more ridiculous every day..." the vice president shouted over Guild Channel. "Stay back! He's nearly drained the physical constants out of that whole area!"
At the center of the battlefield.
The Abyss Archlord's Health Bar dropped in chunks visible to the naked eye.
It tried to use Void Leap to put some distance between them, but the domain of [War and Greed] had locked down the surrounding space.
It could not escape. It could not win.
Three minutes later.
Soaring Dragon leaped, planted a foot on the Abyss Archlord's