"Come on! Hit me! You rotten meat monster, you're worse than a maggot!"
Chuan Wenwu shouted, successfully activating the shield's Taunt skill. The Chimera Beast's hundreds of eyes fixed on him, and an even fiercer barrage came his way. Not a single stray bee stinger shot toward anyone else.
But faced with the Chimera Beast's storm of attacks, Chuan Wenwu simply thrust his massive shield forward, sheltering his entire body behind it. Every ranged attack was blocked. When the several Magic Beast heads growing from its body lunged in to bite him, he merely swung his shield to fight back.
Enhanced Shield Bash drove the Cross Shield's long end into one of the Chimera Beast's Magic Beast heads, splitting its hide and sending flesh and blood flying.
The Shield Hero certainly didn't lack damage! The stronger his opponent, the stronger he became!
"All right, everyone! I've got it pinned down! Attack with everything you have and wipe it out as quickly as possible! Let's end this Wave!"
Chuan Wenwu had barely finished giving the order when Bruce, who had long been waiting nearby with his strength gathered, ignited his greatsword and rushed in from the flank. The scorching, brilliant sword light cut through everything in its path, easily leaving a deep wound in the Chimera Beast's enormous body. A strange aroma of scorched protein drifted out.
Having benefited from substantial growth bonuses since his early levels, Bruce now possessed stats second only to those of the Heroes who had already come into their own. In attributes the Heroes weren't good at, he even surpassed them by a considerable margin!
Riiip!
Flesh churned inside the wound Bruce had opened, and a pair of enormous mantis blades soon grew out of it, larger and sharper than the arm blades of ordinary mantis