Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint
Xiao Yu then opened the Hero Hall section, where the scene was completely different. Most of the videos were of various heroes defeating various bosses. Xiao Yu even saw a video of Esmehalda killing Amalarui, but unfortunately it wasn't particularly popular.
Although Esmehalda has advanced to the rank of a high-level hero, she is not particularly outstanding among the many shining heroes. Recently, due to a large number of wealthy players entering the hero field, many studios have also begun to get involved in this field and develop a brand new business called hero bodyguard.
A hero afraid of death? No problem, we'll dispatch a troop of adventurers to your command. If one troop isn't enough, we'll send two. A hero wants to fight a boss but isn't strong enough for a story kill? No problem, we'll help you. You just need to wait to collect kills and reputation.
As a result, every hero, whether a guild hero or a solo hero, is always accompanied by a large group of adventurers helping them kill monsters and earn reputation. Therefore, the speed at which heroes advance is much faster than the speed at which BOSS templates advance. While the BOSSes that players are playing are generally still struggling to get the first skeleton, the heroes that players are playing are already shining brightly, including many three-star and four-star heroes. Xiao Yu even saw a few five-star heroes.
The hero rankings are also different from the boss rankings in the Demon King Hall. The Demon King Hall rankings are based on monster factions, and a single monster faction often has several, or even dozens, of bosses of varying sizes. However, heroes are ranked individually to highlight their extraordinary qualities. Otherwise, how could the term "individual heroism" exist?
The hero list displays a list of fifty heroes, including heroes from the Alliance and Horde, as well as some neutral heroes.
Among them, Xiao Yu even saw an old acquaintance, Phoenix (Lightbringer) from the Light of Dawn Guild, who is currently ranked seventeenth on the Hero Reputation Ranking. On the one hand, he is strong enough, and on the other hand, his good looks must have given him a great advantage.
The top-ranked hero was an Orcs six-star hero named Xingtian (Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint). His kill list included a three-skull-level Ancient Red Dragon, specifically noted as a solo kill. This was hard for Xiao Yu to believe. A three-skull-level Ancient Red Dragon must have over ten million HP, right? Even as a six-star hero, the Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint's HP probably wouldn't exceed two hundred thousand. How could he possibly win? He'd be worn down to death even if he tried.
However, there was video evidence below, so Xiao Yu hurriedly clicked on the battle video. Upon watching it, he discovered that he had indeed misunderstood; the Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint had indeed fought an ancient red dragon one-on-one.
Inside a massive lair, a green-skinned Orcs wielded a straight-edged, single-bladed longsword, fiercely battling a red dragon hundreds or even thousands of times his size. The Orcs relentlessly breathed fire at the orc, occasionally launching melee attacks with its claws and tail. The dragon's breath ignited the surroundings, illuminating the Orc Blademaster movements. He easily dodged the Dragon Claw's claw Pounce and tail sweeps, remaining unfazed by the dragon's breath. His body shimmered with a strange red light, as if he carried some kind of treasure that could resist the dragon's breath's damage.
His weapon, however, was a legendary weapon that shimmered with a strange red light. Xiao Yu recognized the weapon's name at a glance: the Blood-Drinking Demon Sword, currently ranked fourth on the weapon ranking list. This sword not only had extremely high attack power, but it could also convert 20% of the damage dealt into the user's own health.
So that's how it is. Once Xiao Yu recognized the sword, he immediately understood why this Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint could fight the Ancient Red Dragon one-on-one.
This Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint deals incredibly high damage, capable of inflicting thousands or even tens of thousands of damage with Critical Strike hits, allowing him to potentially deal 20,000 to 30,000 damage with a lucky hit. This means he can absorb at least 1,000 to 2,000 health per strike, and up to 5,000 to 6,000. Furthermore, his attack speed is extremely fast. With high output, high damage, and high health regeneration, he doesn't even need a healer. In contrast, the Ancient Red Dragon's strongest breath attack on Xingtian only dealt the Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint a little over 10,000 damage. Ordinary dragon breaths or Dragon Claw attacks only inflict a few thousand damage, which the Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint easily recovers with just a couple of strikes.
Seeing that he was about to lose, the Primordial Red Dragon suddenly devoured Xingtian.
However, only a few seconds after swallowing it, the ancient red dragon let out a series of miserable screams, rolled on the ground, and its health dropped rapidly. When its health was almost gone, it burst open from its belly with a "plop" sound, and a blood-covered Orcs crawled out of it.
With a deafening roar, the ancient red dragon lay motionless, having been killed in a one-on-one battle.
This has somewhat shattered Xiao Yu's common sense. It seems he was truly ignorant. In the past, no matter how powerful the heroes he encountered were, a large group of adventurers were always needed as cannon fodder to defeat a boss of the same level, unless the rank difference was too great or it was a low-level five-player dungeon. Otherwise, the higher the level of the hero, the more help from adventurers they needed when fighting a boss of the same rank. Now it seems that this is not the case. As long as the skills are properly combined, it is not entirely impossible for a hero to fight a boss alone. It seems that the road to the strongest boss is long and arduous this time.
However, even though the Dragon-Slaying Sword Saint was powerful, he was not without flaws in Xiao Yu's eyes. His biggest weakness was the lack of area-of-effect attacks. If hundreds of adventurers attacked together, unleashing various restriction skills and Curse, it would not be difficult to kill him once he was controlled.
As Xiao Yu pondered this, he continued browsing through the information and videos of these heroes. After all, he might have to deal with these heroes or even fight in story battles in the future, so it was always good to have some understanding of them. Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory in every battle.
Just as Xiao Yu was engrossed in reading, a message suddenly popped up on his computer.
When Xiao Yu opened it, he saw that it was sent by Black Rod, whose name in his contacts was "Little Black".
The two hadn't been in contact for a long time. Ever since his Rampage in Stormwind City, Xiao Yu had been busy leveling up new characters and Defias Brotherhood, with no interaction whatsoever. So why had he found him now?
Thinking to himself, Xiao Yu opened the message and took a look.
Little Black: Or, I have something to tell you, it's very important, contact me when you come online.
Xiao Yu quickly sent a message, "I'm here. Did you need something?"
Little Black: "A few days ago, someone came to our studio to investigate you."