Fierce Battle Against Two Bosses (Third Update)
While talking to Chen Dong, Bai Xiaowen used his Insight to look at the information on Chen Dong and Ye Mazi.
[Ye Mazi (Level 7 Boss Tier) / Weakened Status]
[Race: Human Species / Human Race]
[Occupation: Wilderness Executioner]
[Attributes: Strength 70, Agility 31, Constitution 42, Spirit 15]
[Skill 1: Spiral Rolling Slash: Roll on the spot to perform Ground Hall Saber Art, increasing your own hit rate and reducing the opponent's hit rate. Attacking the enemy's legs has a chance to inflict a slowing effect.]
[Skill 2: Flying Sand: Throws sand to blind the enemy.]
[Skill 3: Decapitation: Attempts to end an opponent's life, dealing heavy damage and attempting to decapitate the target. The target must pass Instant-Death Check; otherwise, they die instantly. Can only be used on enemies with less than 30% Life Value.]
[Skill 4: Reverse Blood Flow: Grants temporary Super Armor, increasing attack power by 50%, defense by 50%, and speed by 100%. After the effect ends, the user enters a weakened state, reducing attack power and attack speed by 30% for 2 natural days.]
[Skill 5: Pirate Banner Lord LV2: Increases Life Value by 400 points, reduces the damage from abnormal statuses and control effects by 40%.]
After reading Ye Mazi's information, Bai Xiaowen secretly felt lucky. This guy, like White Ghost Queen, had the skill of "Instant-Death Check"! Moreover, as the "Chief Boss Tier", Ye Mazi's "Pirate Banner Lord" skill, a common skill of Advanced Boss, had reached LV2, increasing his Life Value even more and shortening the duration of his control skills.
Fortunately, Ye Mazi's Instant-Death Check skill is quite demanding to activate, requiring his Life Value to be below 30%. Moreover, and most importantly, Ye Mazi is currently under the negative effect of "Reverse Blood Flow," which greatly reduces his strength, with his attack power and attack speed decreasing by 30%, thus significantly reducing his threat level.
This is one of the reasons why Bai Xiaowen was able to detect all of the opponent's skills.
Bai Xiaowen could still see Ye Mazi's Life Value, which were not yet fully restored, totaling 622/820 points.
Next was Chen Dong's status.
[Chen Dong (Level 7 Boss Tier)]
[Race: Human Species / Human Race]
[Class: Windshadow Swordsman]
[Attributes: Strength 41, Agility 66, Constitution 35, Spirit 18]
[Skill 1: Chasing Wind Sword Formula: Chen Dong uses the Wind Chasing Sword Technique, employing a special sword routine to increase his own attack speed and Suppression the target's attack speed. It can stack up to five times, with each stack providing a 5% increase/decrease effect, lasting for 4 seconds.]
[Skill 2: Bloodbath: Inflicts an additional bleeding effect on Critical Hit. For each enemy in the vicinity affected by the bleeding effect, Chen Dong's attack power is increased by an additional 10%.]
[Skill 3:???]
[Skill 4:???]
[Skill 5: Pirate Banner Lord LV2: Omitted.]
Chen Dong's Life Value were also low. He had been surrounded for a longer period of time and had even been punched by Xu Hai. He was currently at 505/750.
After reviewing Chen Dong's information, Bai Xiaowen said to Li Shuyi in the Team Channel, "Don't go head-to-head with Chen Dong later. His skills... even just the detection skills are quite effective against you! However, if you can get the ' Chasing Wind Sword Formula ' Skill Book, you'll be in luck. It's definitely worth it to reset one of your skills."
In comparison, Chen Dong, with his agility, may not possess the terrifying Instant-Death Check skill of Ye Mazi, but he excels in prolonged battles. This is what Bai Xiaowen analyzed based solely on the two combat skills already detected.
Bai Xiaowen quickly devised a tactic. It's better to cut off one finger than to injure all ten. Ignore Ye Mazi's weakened state for now and concentrate on killing Chen Dong! As for the two men's Elite Tier Wokou Pirates followers, leave them to Zhang Ting and the other two captains to deal with.
The reason Ye Mazi wasn't the primary target was because he posed relatively little threat. Moreover, being in a weakened state didn't mean Severe Injury. Although Ye Mazi's offensive capabilities were greatly reduced, his Life Value, armor, and other defensive attributes remained unchanged, so killing him wasn't actually any easier.
At Bai Xiaowen's command, the summoned creatures began their Sprint.
The Shadow Assassin, the Bone Warlock, the Rageclaw, the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier and Shieldman, the Vampire Kitz, and Bai Xiaowen himself all targeted Chen Dong.
Li Shuyi, along with the Stitched Monster Fatty, intercepted Ye Mazi and used hit-and-run tactics to delay him.
Ye Mazi drew his broadsword and unleashed a Spiral Rolling Slash Ground Hall Saber Art, focusing on the lower body. The bright blade light enveloped Li Shuyi's legs, forcing Li Shuyi to bend slightly to Parry or attack, a style quite different from normal combat.
This is what makes the "Spiral Rolling Slash" special: it reduces the opponent's hit rate while increasing your own.
However, the role of the Stitched Monster, Fatty, becomes apparent. Under Bai Xiaowen's control, it doesn't need to deal much damage. It only needs to take a half-step when Li Shuyi doesn't have time to dodge, using its massive body to absorb a wave of damage for Li Shuyi.
On the other side, the battle with Chen Dong was truly intense.
Chen Dong used the Chasing Wind Sword Formula, and his attack speed would increase after each strike, while the Chasing Wind Sword Formula speed of his opponents would be reduced.
Fortunately, Bai Xiaowen had anticipated this and dispatched multiple summoned creatures to gang up on Chen Dong. No matter how powerful Chen Dong's Chasing Wind Sword Formula was, it could only reduce the attack speed of a single opponent, allowing the other summoned creatures to attack freely.
The summoned creature that Chen Dong targeted to reduce the attack speed of his Chasing Wind Sword Formula was undoubtedly the Rageclaw, a level 5 Boss Template Wolf King, which posed the greatest threat to Chen Dong.
Moreover, Chen Dong's One-Handed Swordsmanship Battle Specialty clearly exceptionally strong, surpassing Bai Xiaowen's! With a few light sword strikes, he pierced several wounds on the Rageclaw's body, one of which triggered Critical Hit, causing bleeding. A layer of blood-red light covered Chen Dong's body, increasing his attack power!
Fortunately, the Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier are immune to bleeding, which prevents Chen Dong's "Bloodbath" skill from stacking too many layers. This was a tactical strategy devised by Bai Xiaowen after careful consideration.
Being surrounded by a group of enemies was undoubtedly a disadvantage for an agile boss like Chen Dong. After several rounds of fighting, Chen Dong's body suddenly glowed, and his figure transformed into a series of Afterimage, slashing horizontally and vertically. The Life Value the summoned creatures around him dropped sharply, and two Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldier were directly cleaved in two!
Bai Xiaowen received a notification from the Spirit Realm Rules:
"The skill of the Wokou Pirates Boss Tier Chen Dong: Shadowless Slash activated."
During the Shadowless Slash, Chen Dong could not be targeted and could move as a shadow. After the Shadowless Slash's several strikes ended, Chen Dong's figure reformed, having broken free from the encirclement formed by the summoned creatures like Rageclaw. His figure, like a falcon, Pounce towards Bai Xiaowen, who was directing from afar!
With a whoosh, a slightly illusory Chen Dong appeared behind Bai Xiaowen, raising his sword at the same time as the physical Chen Dong in front of him, and two illusory dragon-shaped energy blasts slashed down simultaneously.
"Twin Dragon Flash!"