Bloodthirsty Frenzy Slash

The long spear in General Kevil's hand, equal to its own height, possessed a lethal sharpness.

The spearhead, in particular, was forged from General Kevil's own toxic crab fangs.

The shaft was made from its own leg bones.

The spearhead shimmered with a ghostly green, highly toxic glow, making it clear to everyone that anyone touched by that tip would surely die.

After General Kevil swung the long spear in a wide arc, it collided with Ling Zhan head-on for the first time.

Creak!

A teeth-gritting sound rang out.

The next second, the long spear in General Kevil's hand suddenly felt light.

Not good.

Just as this thought surfaced in its mind, its body, hanging upside down from the ceiling of the great hall, lost its balance!

At the same time, an unbearable, sharp pain shot from its eyeball into its brain!

Squelch!

Dark green blood splattered outward.

"Aaaah!!"

General Kevil's scream echoed through the palace.

It had actually been blinded in one eye.

One of its eyes, originally as large as a lantern, had been sliced across, and foul-smelling, toxic dark green blood sprayed from the wound.

They say the fingers are connected to the heart, but having an eyeball pierced was even more painful!

The excruciating pain of the pierced eyeball stimulated General Kevil, making it impossible to remain hanging from the ceiling.

Its mountain-like frame crashed heavily into the floor of the hall, kicking up clouds of dust.

"Damn human!"

"To think you would suddenly use the basic assassin skill—Shadow Stealth—while facing me."

"My eye!"

"Damn you!"

Lying on the ground, General Kevil could not fathom how this happened.

Its upper body, composed of giant human bones, shook incessantly from rage.

In truth, when it used Arc Sweep, Ling Zhan had already used the basic archer skill Flash Step to dodge the attack and reach the ceiling.

The skill Flash Step could be used even while in mid-air.

However, Invincible Slide could not.

Invincible Slide required the user to be on the ground.

After the Flash Step, Ling Zhan had immediately followed up with the basic assassin skill Shadow Stealth, seizing the opportunity to pierce its eye.

General Kevil never dreamed that in less than 0.5 seconds, Ling Zhan would use two instant-cast skills.

Furthermore, the reason General Kevil's defense was so high was that the armor it wore was a piece of defensive equipment.

That was why Ling Zhan chose to target the eye, which had no armor protection.

Without a doubt, the eyeball was the part of the body with the lowest defense.

In the very first moment of the battle, Ling Zhan had achieved a significant result: the elite monster's left eye had been poked out.

General Kevil, which had two eyes, had only lost its left one; while the pain was immense, the loss to its combat power and HP was minimal.

At the same time, it completely ignited the monster's bestial nature.

However, just as it was about to fly into a rage, Ling Zhan did not stop using the Shadow Stealth skill. Thanks to various buffs, his movement distance and speed had received a terrifying boost!

Shadow Stealth made him move like a ghostly shadow.

He had already appeared behind General Kevil.

"Aaaah!!"

General Kevil was filled with boundless rage. It had guarded this level for countless years, and those laughable high school humans had never successfully broken through.

Not only that, but these naive humans were usually hunted down by it and hung from the ceiling.

Now, a human actually dared to humiliate it like this!

Anger!

A sea of rage burned in General Kevil's heart!

Boom!

Dust swirled around its body, and countless pebbles and gravel began to levitate at this moment.

It began to enter a chanting state!

As the chanting began, a golden light emerged from the surface of its body.

A terrifying pressure was about to awaken from within General Kevil.

Clearly, it was about to activate its trump card skill.

Its emotions toward this human were complex.

There was rage, killing intent, and contempt...

But there was also wariness!

This human had poked out one of its eyes the moment the fight started without saying a word.

The key was that it had been left with no power to counterattack!

That meant a simple contest of flesh and strength would no longer suffice; it had to use skills!

Otherwise, it would be easy to capsize in the gutter.

However, when Ling Zhan saw the opponent's skill about to be unleashed, a cold sneer curled his lips.

Do you think I'll just watch you activate your skill?

Note: Whether it was a monster or a human, any skill that required chanting could be forcibly interrupted.

For example, mage skills—especially most high-power skills—required chanting and could only be released once the chant was finished.

During the chanting process, if one fell into an abnormal status, took damage, or was hit by a specific skill, the chant would be forcibly interrupted.

For instance, if a mage was chanting a Fireball skill and was accidentally hit with the Silence status by an enemy, even if the chant was ninety-nine percent complete, it would be forcibly cut off!

And would Ling Zhan, knowing full well that this elite monster was chanting a trump card skill, just watch it succeed?

Of course not!

Thus, the greatsword in his hand vanished in an instant!

In less than half a second, his innate talent, Weapon Master, activated, placing a scepter in Ling Zhan's hand.

Note: A scepter and a staff were not the same weapon.

A staff was a mage's weapon, while a scepter was a shadow priest's weapon.

As it happened, among all the basic skills of a shadow priest, there was exactly one that could silence an enemy for one second.

This skill was called Silencer.

[Silencer (F+)]: A non-chanting skill. Fires a black beam of light at the enemy, dealing minor damage and silencing the enemy for one second.

Many people felt that a one-second silence skill was useless.

But for Ling Zhan, this was a top-tier skill that, if used well, could instantly turn the tide of battle!

Whoosh!

A dark beam of light shot out from the scepter.

It struck General Kevil directly.

It dealt 10 points of HP damage.

It could be said that it didn't even count as a scratch.

But a silence status bar appeared directly above its head!

Because of this, the monster, which was in the middle of chanting, was instantly interrupted.

The release of the skill was terminated right there.

General Kevil, originally filled with rage, was silenced for one second.

It stood there, stunned for that same second.

But it was that crucial second.

Ling Zhan switched weapons again, and the greatsword was back in his hand.

A blazing blood-red light bloomed, and his aura surged to a terrifying level!

"Bloodthirsty Frenzy Slash!"

Ling Zhan whispered inwardly.

The heavy sword, carrying a sharp, blood-red edge, slashed wildly at General Kevil, one strike after another.

[Bloodthirsty Frenzy Slash (F+)]: A basic berserker skill. Wield the heavy sword to deliver fifteen consecutive slashes. Each hit inflicts massive stagger on the enemy and applies a "Heavy Wound" status. Heavy Wound can stack up to three times. The user consumes 50% of their current HP.]

[Note: Under the Heavy Wound status, the damage taken by the enemy increases by 30%, and all healing effects received are halved.]