Slaying Eliki

Losing 10% of maximum Life Value per second means being eliminated in 10 seconds! Even with resistance reduction, it only extends this time to a dozen seconds. However, after Bai Xiaowen gained the Shadow Sanctuary effect, the rate at which his Life Value dropped decreased rapidly, meaning he could survive for a much longer period.

The expressions on Qi Ruifeng and the other four people's faces became interesting once again.

"Fine, I admit defeat." Bao Yiming's figure flashed and disappeared into the Dead Spirit Lake space.

Duanmucheng shook his head, a hint of reluctance in his eyes, and chose to return.

Qi Ruifeng forced a smile, "Bai Xiaowen, you probably won't be able to hold on much longer, will you? I'll be going now."

All three Hero Class wisely chose to leave.

There's no way around it, those two aura skills are just too overpowered.

The Despair Aura truly lives up to its name. First, it immobilizes the entire player, and then it prevents the regeneration of Life Value and Divine Might.

The prohibition here not only bans the natural regeneration of Life Value, but also blocks most means of Life Value regeneration—food and potions aside, skill-based regeneration refers to two types: one is through the effect of skill life Blood Drain, such as Kitz's Bloodlust Attack skill, or Li Shuyi's Golden Longsword with the "Blood Drain" skill; the second is healing skills, such as Healing Spell, Holy Light, etc. Neither of these two types of skills can restore health.

The Shadow Aura is a continuous area-of-effect (AOE) attack that drains 10% of Life Value per second. Without Life Value regeneration, no one can withstand it.

Bai Xiaowen severed the Life Sharing with Rageclaw, gripped his gun with both hands, and steadily activated the Desert Eagle's Rapid-Fire Mode, firing shot after shot at Eliki.

After the Divine Descent took effect, Eliki remained in a praying state with her six arms raised, but the immunity to attacks on her body had dissipated, replaced by a black shield that could absorb 1,000 points of damage!

This is also why Qi Ruifeng and the others chose to leave. Without this shield as thick as a city wall, they could have tried to kill the low-health Eliki with ranged attacks, skills, or items—if they could kill the BOSS, then the two aura skills should have become ineffective.

However, facing a shield with 1000 absorption points, Qi Ruifeng and the others knew they would have difficulty breaking through it, especially since their Life Value would be reduced to zero within ten seconds due to the effect of the Shadow Aura.

Li Shuyi showed a hint of regret. "I didn't expect the BOSS's Divine Descent to be so terrifying. I can't stay with you."

Bai Xiaowen nodded, still holding the gun firmly in both hands, firing with unwavering composure. "You go back first. Don't worry about me."

Li Shuyi said with a smile, "Don't be stubborn. If it doesn't work out, just go back."

A flash of white light, Li Shuyi left the Dead Spirit Lake space.

Eliki, in a state of Divine Descent and prayer, stared at Bai Xiaowen with bloodshot vertical pupils and said, "Run! If you don't run, you'll only face death!"

Bai Xiaowen smiled slightly, "I won't die."

After being weakened by both its inherent resistance and the Shadow Sanctuary status, the Shadow Aura, which theoretically deals 29 points of shadow damage per second, only deals about 10 points of damage to Bai Xiaowen.

Of course, 10 points of damage per second may not seem like much, but it's enough to kill Bai Xiaowen within half a minute. After all, his maximum Life Value is 290 points, and his Life Value wasn't full after the previous battle.

However, Bai Xiaowen has another trump card, which is the Dark Gold Tier ornament: Absolon's Blood Essence Stone!

The Blood Thirst skill is "roughly equivalent" to a 10% Blood Drain skill, but not entirely the same. This is because Blood Thirst doesn't directly Blood Drain Bai Xiaowen by draining his life; instead, it stores 10% of the damage Bai Xiaowen deals as additional Life Value in his Blood Essence Stone!

The Despair Aura's effect of preventing Life Value regeneration does not affect the extra Life Value storage of Blood Essence Stone.

After losing Life Value, Bai Xiaowen can then use the extra Life Value stored in the Blood Essence Stone to restore an equal amount of Life Value to himself.

Bai Xiaowen wasn't sure if the extra Life Value from the Blood Essence Stone would conflict with the Despair Aura, but the Blood Essence Stone itself had a powerful description: the Blood Thirst skill was unaffected by any Life Value- regenerating effects.

Bai Xiaowen tried to use the extra Life Value from the Blood Essence Stone to heal himself, and sure enough, he found that his health was slowly recovering. This was the reason why he had the confidence to stay and withstand the two halos of Eliki's Divine Descent, and tough it out against the BOSS's thousand-point shield!

If Eliki were still immune to attacks, Bai Xiaowen would be helpless—without a target, the Blood Essence Stone couldn't store Life Value. However, this wasn't realistic; Eliki would be invincible, even a level 10 Boss Tier wouldn't be able to do anything, completely disrupting the balance.

After confirming that he could restore his health using the Blood Essence Stone, Bai Xiaowen calmed down and cast a spell.

The Killing Intent Talisman increases Critical Hit rate by 35% for 120 seconds!

Bullets rained down on Eliki. Unable to dodge due to her prayer pose, Eliki could only take Bai Xiaowen's attacks head-on. Each bullet took away dozens of points of her shield, and the frequent Critical Hit could take away a hundred points of shield value in a single shot!

It's important to know that the Desert Eagle's +4 enhancement increases Critical Hit damage to 250% (up from 200%), making the benefit of Critical Hit incredibly powerful. Not to mention, every three shots include a bullet with Piercing effect, ignoring armor and dealing the full theoretical damage!

The Blood Essence Stone stores 10% of the damage dealt as additional Life Value, which perfectly keeps up with Bai Xiaowen's rate of Life Value loss, and may even exceed it.

Thus, under the effect of the Shadow Aura, Bai Xiaowen's health not only did not decrease, but instead slowly recovered.

As for the loss of Divine Might, the Desert Eagle consumes 1 point of Divine Might every 3 seconds. Bai Xiaowen's current Divine Might limit is 50 points. Although 10 points of the limit are occupied by the Rageclaw, the remaining 40 points of Divine Might are enough to maintain the Rapid-Fire Mode for 120 seconds.

Moreover, the Blood Essence Stone also possesses the Mana Thirst skill, granting an additional 17 points to the maximum Divine Might. This allows for a 50-second Rapid-Fire Mode, and the Mana Thirst skill also stores some of the Divine Might consumed by Bai Xiaowen...

Therefore, Bai Xiaowen was very confident that if he and Eliki fought it out, he would be the one to have the last laugh.

The only thing that Bai Xiaowen regretted was that his summoned creatures couldn't regenerate health. Under the effect of the Shadow Aura, their Life Value were reduced to zero within tens of seconds, and they died one after another. This was unavoidable, since summoned creatures couldn't be recalled during combat; they could only be recalled 10 seconds after leaving combat.

In fact, the 1,000-point shield on Eliki's body only lasted for a little over a minute before it vanished.

"Ee... ya!"

With a shriek, Eliki finally ended the prayer state of the Divine Descent. Dragging her battered body, she brandished six weapons and charged towards Bai Xiaowen!

As the prayer ended, the giant Hydra Statue behind Eliki, its black light completely dissipated. The effects of the two major aura skills, Despair Aura and Shadow Aura, ended.

Bai Xiaowen suddenly noticed that Eliki's movement speed and attack speed had decreased significantly, and her overall strength had dropped by about half. He used his Insight skill again and discovered that there was now a negative status effect after Eliki's name.

[Life Sacrifice: Eliki sacrifices her life force to Amotava, reducing all her attributes by half. This effect is permanent and can only be removed Hydra Amotava re-infusing his life force into Eliki.]

Bai Xiaowen suddenly realized why Eliki hadn't used the Divine Descent at first; it turned out it had such a terrifying negative effect, and it was permanent.

"It seems the god you worship really is an evil god," Bai Xiaowen said with a sigh.

Eliki shrieked, "Shut up! Don't you Desecration the great Snake God! Now that all your minions have been wiped out, even with my strength greatly diminished, I can still kill you!"

As she spoke, Eliki had already rushed in front of Bai Xiaowen, brandishing six weapons and slashing at Bai Xiaowen. Although all her attributes were halved, six arms were still six arms, and Eliki's attack speed was still terrifying.

Bai Xiaowen shook his head slightly, put away the Desert Eagle, and lunged forward, punching Eliki in the chest and abdomen, causing her to bend over.

Flaming punches rained down, each one stunning Eliki, leaving her completely helpless! This was because Bai Xiaowen had completely Suppression Eliki in terms of strength and agility.

At this moment, Eliki's strength and agility are only in the teens. Bai Xiaowen's agility remains unchanged at 22 points. What is his strength?

In the past 39 seconds, Bai Xiaowen has taken a total of approximately 360 points of shadow damage.

Under the passive skill of the Gold Equipment Ring of Torment: Agony Potential, Bai Xiaowen's strength soared to a terrifying 58 points, even higher than his spirit!

Even a simple punch landing on Eliki would be as terrifying as a train collision, let alone the fact that Bai Xiaowen used the Kusanagi-Style Ancient Martial Arts, which also added fire damage—the fire damage calculation was based on Bai Xiaowen's 50 points of spirit, and when added to the physical damage of the punch, it was even more astonishing.

Eliki kept coughing up blood. After finishing a combo, her Life Value had plummeted to rock bottom.

"You... you deserve to die..."

Eliki lay helplessly on the ground, her arms barely supporting her body. She tilted her head back, her vicious eyes fixed on Bai Xiaowen, as if she wanted to devour him.

Bai Xiaowen shook his head, grabbed Eliki by the throat, and with a burst of strength, lifted her up.

"Majik sends his greetings."

Eliki's snake-like eyes suddenly shrank. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but no words came out. Bai Xiaowen's right hand, which was gripping her neck, suddenly erupted with a dazzling flame, completely wiping out her last bit of Life Value.

After Eliki died, a magnificent Golden Treasure Chest decorated with Dark Gold Tier patterns appeared before Bai Xiaowen.

Bai Xiaowen put away Eliki's treasure chest and breathed a sigh of relief. He took out the animal hide scroll he had obtained from the Shadow Prophet Magik's crystal ball and said in a low voice, "Perhaps I have no right to say this, but I still have to say it... your wish has been fulfilled."

In fact, the Lobsterfolk's Boss Tier, the old prophet Majik, spent the rest of his life wishing to free the Lobsterfolk Tribe from the enslavement of the Snakefolk Tribe.

Bai Xiaowen obtained the crystal ball from Majik, and the animal hide scroll inside contained the method to enter the Internal Isolation Array, which was normal. However, the fact that the animal hide scroll also recorded how to destroy the Internal Isolation Array, the Snake Formation of the altar, and Eliki's Divine Descent ability was abnormal.

When Bai Xiaowen saw the scroll, he had a guess: Did the old Lobsterfolk Majik deliberately leave behind this crucial information so that outsiders with sufficient strength could break through the Internal Isolation Array and eliminate the two major bosses of the Snakefolk Tribe?

However, using one's own life as the key to transmit information seemed too high a price to pay. Bai Xiaowen was cautious and did not blindly believe or follow. After entering the Snakefolk Tribe, he first captured some of the Snakefolk Tribe's civilians, read some of their memories, and confirmed that the information from the Snake Formation matched before he finally believed Majik.

Looking back, the fight with Majik seemed a bit strange. Think about it, Majik could silently cast even a large-area spell like Shadow Ripple, so why did he have to use such exaggerated movements to chant "Prophecy of Suffering," a single-target skill? It's a good thing Bai Xiaowen had anticipated his silent Prophecy of Suffering and told everyone to get out of the way.

As for why Majik didn't defect directly but instead chose to die, Bai Xiaowen estimated that it was because Majik had been branded with the "Slave Mark."

The Snakefolk Boss Tier should be able to monitor Majik through the Slave Mark, much like the shared vision of summoned creatures. Moreover, Bai Xiaowen deduced that the Snakefolk Tribe likely held the power of life and death over the lobster -Lobsterfolk Tribe Lobsterman Tribe with a single word. This is why Majik was hesitant to act rashly and had no choice but to willingly sacrifice himself.

With Majik dead, the shared vision of the Slave Mark naturally disappears, and the image of Bai Xiaowen obtaining the animal skin scroll from the crystal ball will no longer be known to the Snakefolk Tribe. Moreover, because Majik "died in battle out of loyalty," the Snakefolk Tribe will not wipe out the Lobsterman Tribe.

Then consider this: it's probably not a coincidence that Majik would find a highly targeted item like the "Shadow Sanctuary Scroll." His desire to rebel against the Snakefolk Tribe must have been brewing for a long time.

The Lobsterfolk Tribe likely has more than just Majik as a boss; there may be other, younger bosses, such as Majik's disciples or students, who have already gone into hiding. After this group of outsiders leaves, the Lobsterfolk, under the leadership of a new prophet, may break free from their enslavement, and even seize control of the Internal Isolation Array. It's also possible that they could alter the entry ritual and rebuild it.

"Hopefully, Majik's successor will be competent. If the Lobsterfolk Tribe can hide within the Internal Isolation Array and live a peaceful life away from the world, it wouldn't be a bad ending."

Bai Xiaowen's thoughts were wandering a bit too far, until a shout of battle brought him back to reality.

A squad of Snakefolk warriors charged forward.

"No need to think too much... The Treasure Ground Space should still be open for a few more days, so I can practice my Battle Specialty and proficiency. Hmm, anyway, let's find a safe place first and open the two boss chests."

I wrote down the number 17/50 very seriously, please don't laugh!