Before Xiao Fan could react, the Boss within the black fog launched another frenzied attack.
The ink-thick dark fog rapidly condensed into a foul, acrid torrent of corrosion and spewed straight at Xiao Fan's face!
It came so fast that Xiao Fan had no time to react or block.
The corrosive black fog grazed his shoulder as it tore past. In an instant, searing, bone-deep agony pierced layer after layer of armor, stabbing into his flesh and marrow.
Burning pain raced wildly along his nerves, making the muscles in his shoulder spasm and tense.
Gritting through the agony, Xiao Fan used the momentum of his sideways dodge to roll along the ground. Awkward but precise, he shed the force of his movement, then drove his foot hard into the rubble-strewn floor, barely managing to steady himself.
But the next second, a dazzling crimson damage number burst above his head:
-6666!
"Six!" Xiao Fan's pupils contracted sharply, and his expression turned utterly grave.
"That actually took off a twentieth of my health."
That damage was terrifyingly high!
Xiao Fan was definitely not humblebragging.
His armor was unlike ordinary game equipment. Its stats kept rising as Zijin grew stronger.
Yet even with such overwhelming defense, a mere graze from the Boss's corrosive breath had stripped away a full twentieth of his health!
Its terrifying damage output had already exceeded his expectations.
What made Xiao Fan's heart sink even further was the Boss's hidden lethal trait-[Void-Erosion Corrosion].
It continuously applied a shadow buff to nearby targets, steadily reducing their defense and energy regeneration.
The constant defense reduction meant that the longer the battle dragged on, the harder the Boss's attacks would hit, with damage surging in stages.
And the reduced energy regeneration was effectively cutting off his health supply, squeezing him closer to