The minute was nearly up, and Wu Shaozhen needed to reapply his poison. After a moment's thought, he summoned his clone and sent it ahead, following close behind.
The moment the clone entered attack range, a bolt of lightning struck it. A pillar of fire erupted beneath its feet immediately afterward, and the two attacks killed it outright.
Wu Shaozhen jumped in fright. His clone now had 100% of his stats, yet it had died in just two hits. That meant he would also be done for if he took two consecutive hits.
Still, that brief delay allowed him to reach the Thunderflame Spider King. He swung Godslayer viciously at it, but just then, fire began raining from the sky, covering a full thirty-meter radius.
Seeing that he could no longer dodge, Wu Shaozhen activated Shadow Sevenfold Strike, applying seven stacks of poison to the Thunderflame Spider King. But the rain of fire continued even after his skill ended. With no other choice, he reset Blink's cooldown and immediately blinked away.
However, Blink only took him twenty-five meters, while the fire rain covered thirty. The instant he blinked, Wu Shaozhen kept running outward without pause.
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Three damage numbers of over twenty thousand rose above Wu Shaozhen's head. Fortunately, he managed to escape the fire rain's attack range.
Looking at his remaining few thousand health, Wu Shaozhen wiped the sweat from his forehead. If his Lava Heart hadn't reduced fire damage by 50%, he would already have been dead.
"So it really was keeping an ultimate move in reserve. Platinum bosses really aren't easy to kill," Wu Shaozhen said with a sigh.
He might not have been in so much danger if he had used Void just now. But Void had a cooldown of only two minutes, meaning