Lin Yuan charged forward, facing the dozens of bony legs.
Nameless to withstand a direct collision, he slid the blade along the inside of the bone spikes. The first spike was drawn to the left and collided with the second; the third was lowered and pierced the joint of the fourth.
He passed through the gaps between the interlocking bones.
Kirito and Asuna followed closely behind. The light of the Dual Blades tore open the outer layer of the abdomen, and the rapier accurately pierced the crack created by the two swords. Agil's heavy axe then smashed down, and large pieces of ribs turned into fragments.
The boss's health dropped rapidly for the first time.
The Skeleton Hunter suddenly turned its body.
The tailbone swept across his back, silently piercing towards Lin Yuan's back. By the time Asuna's warning came, the spike was already inches away.
The final sword strike of " No Interval " had just ended. Lin Yuan had no time to turn around and could only lunge forward. His tailbone grazed his left shoulder, tearing his clothes and leaving a wound on his real flesh.
There was no HP to take the damage for him.
Fresh blood dripped down his arm.
Lin Yuan landed with a somersault, his hand still gripping the sword. The tailbone came after him again, but he took a half step to the side, letting the spike pass under his armpit. Then he clamped the joint with his arm and slashed down continuously along the seam with the Nameless Sword.
With the third strike, the end of the coccyx finally broke.
The Skeleton Hunter let out a sharp screech. All its remaining bony legs braced against the ground, lifting its massive body into the air.
Lin Yuan immediately understood its actions.
"Get out of there!"
The boss's entire body crashed down.
Most players managed to exit in time, but two were still pinned beneath the skeletal torso, their health instantly reduced to zero. The impact knocked over even more players, and the newly formed formation crumbled once more.
The death toll has reached ten.
The Skeleton Hunter used the remaining bone scythe as a fulcrum to spin its body, its broken tail sweeping across the hall. Heathcliff raised his shield to block at the forefront, the cross shield colliding with the tailbone, and he was thrown several meters away for the first time.
He quickly regained his footing and took the last bone scythe back to his shield.
"Only one health bar left!" Diabel shouted. "Don't panic, get back together!"
Lin Yuan pressed his left shoulder wound and looked at the bone scythe that was being held back by Heathcliff.
" Mountain Severance " is no longer usable, and " Nameless " cannot withstand a second head-on collision. But they no longer need to sever a sickle.
As long as Heathcliff can keep blocking it, they can attack his body.
Kirito, Asuna.
They both looked at him at the same time.
Lin Yuan pointed to the right side of the Boss where it had lost its forelimb. "Fight through from there. I'll hold it down."
The three of them rushed out at the same time.
The Skeleton Hunter deployed its six bony legs to block the right side. Lin Yuan stepped into the gap before the bone spikes completely intersected, diverting the attacks in sequence to adjacent directions.
The first and second poles collided.
The third one pierced the joint of the fourth one.
Lin Yuan slipped through the brief opening and severed the bony legs supporting the Boss's body with a single sword strike. The Boss suddenly sank to the right, its skeletal torso crashing heavily to the ground.
The road has been opened.
Kirito's two swords lit up simultaneously, unleashing sixteen slashes that advanced along his side. Asuna followed closely behind, each thrust landing in the cracks left by the swords.
The remaining bone sickles attempted to return to reinforce.
Heathcliff did not retreat; his cross shield blocked the scythe from below, dragging it to its original position.
"Ignore this place," he said. "End the fight."
The attacking force swarmed forward from the flanks.
Agil's heavy axe shattered ribs, and Klein's scimitar slashed through the gap. Diabel led the last squad to complete their sword technique, and the boss's remaining health was finally reduced to a sliver.
The Skeleton Hunter raised its head, its remaining bony feet thrusting indiscriminately in all directions.
The four players, low on health, were destroyed in the final round of attacks.
Fourteen people.
Those weren't numbers displayed before Lin Yuan, but rather the fourteen figures he had watched disappear with his own eyes. Some died from the first bone-foot thrust, while others fell just when victory was within reach. He couldn't remember everyone's names, but he remembered the location of every blue light that had risen.
Lin Yuan stepped onto the bone foot that was thrusting at him and sprinted forward along the skeletal torso. The sword could no longer withstand the brute force, so he did not use any moves. He simply thrust the Nameless into the crack between the two neck bones the instant the Boss raised its skull.
The sword's edge emerged from the other side.
Finally, her health dropped to zero.
All the skeletal legs, long tail, and scythes stopped in mid-air. The massive skeletal body began to disintegrate from the head, and blue light fragments swept through the hall like a storm.
Lin Yuan pulled out the Nameless and fell back to the ground from the vanished body.
The doors leading to the seventy-sixth floor slowly opened.
The survivors stood between the fourteen empty spaces.
Victory didn't fill those positions.
No one cheered.