And The Heavenly Path’s Hint also promptly resounded at this moment.
[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Warning! Warning! You have maliciously destroyed the special seal, and the SSS-level Special BOSS is about to descend! Please leave immediately! Please leave immediately!!!]
[The Heavenly Path’s Hint: Warning...]
As The Heavenly Path’s Hint was issued repeatedly, the surrounding ground also began to tremble slightly.
This scene scared Ling Feng so much that he immediately jumped to hide behind Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue!
As the black fog grew thicker, a series of dull, puffing sounds kept coming from below.
It seemed as if something was getting closer and closer from underground.
"Yingyue, Ling Feng, you two should go hide far away."
After Chen Mo said this, Yan Yingyue, already familiar with the routine, immediately led Ling Feng, and they both hid far away.
At this scene, Ling Feng was a bit surprised. "Ah? Aren’t you going to help him?"
"I am helping him right now."
Yan Yingyue finished speaking, then crouched behind a big tree and didn’t move anymore.
What Yan Yingyue meant was that not causing trouble counted as helping, but Ling Feng thought Yan Yingyue was preparing some special support measures.
After all, following the instance where they instantly killed the Flying BOSS, in the subconscious minds of most people, Chen Mo and Yan Yingyue combined were the reason for their extraordinary performance.
By this time, Chen Mo had already used his perception ability to sense the thing emerging from underground!
It was a pitch-black, strange creature.
Chen Mo immediately used an exploration skill on it.
[Monster Name]: Dark Enigma
[Monster Rank]: Special BOSS (SSS-level)
〖Life〗: 150 million / 150 million
〖Energy〗: 150 million / 150 million
〖Physical Attack〗: 3,118
〖Magic Attack〗: 3,118
〖Physical Defense〗: 1,272
〖Magic Defense〗: 1,272
〖Critical Damage〗: 2,000%
[Active Skills]: Midnight Withering (area percentage maximum Health damage), Black Hole (area powerful control skill), Enigma Summon (group summon), Dark Nova (single target stun), Dark Invasion (group blinding)
[Passive Skills]: Non-corporeal, Energy Body, Lord of Darkness
〖Non-corporeal〗: Can only be damaged by Spell damage, True Damage, or Chaos Damage; immune to most abnormal conditions affecting corporeal entities.
〖Energy Body〗: When taking damage, Energy is deducted first; 1 point of Energy can offset 10 points of damage.
〖Lord of Darkness〗: Ignores all effects of dark-type skills.
This thing is pretty powerful, huh!
After looking through the BOSS’s description, Chen Mo couldn’t help but feel this BOSS was rather annoying.
Especially this Non-corporeal ability.
It only takes Spell damage, True Damage, and Chaos Damage. Doesn’t this mean the fixed damage from my shield is useless? I wonder if poison explosion would still work. But this thing doesn’t even have a physical body, let alone the chance of being poisoned; it would likely be completely ineffective.
This is tough. It even has an Energy Body ability. Factoring in its Energy, this thing probably has over a billion Health. With such a high amount of Health and its Non-corporeal ability making it immune to most damage, this BOSS is truly a pain.
Having ascertained the opponent’s attributes, Chen Mo had already retreated before it emerged, commanding the Skeleton Monsters to attack.
Unfortunately, among the Skeleton Monsters summoned by Chen Mo, only those wielding Magic Wands could perform Magic Attacks.
And there weren’t many of this type of Skeleton Monster in a typical batch.
For example, in this wave of 1,700 Skeleton Monsters, only 100 were capable of launching Magic Attacks.
My offensive options are still too few; I can’t kill it instantly!
If anyone heard Chen Mo always wanting to instantly kill monsters, they would surely criticize him relentlessly.
He was now facing a Level 20 golden-grade BOSS, something players at their level weren’t supposed to challenge easily.
Not only did he take on the challenge, but he could even handle it solo.
Yet, he was still complaining about not being able to kill it instantly. He was seriously showing off!
But Chen Mo keenly felt the inadequacy of his current abilities now that they were truly needed.
All he could do now was rely on his 100 Mage Skeleton Monsters for offense.
He did not forget to put a shield on these Skeleton Monsters.
This way, when the Dark Enigma attacked the shielded Skeleton Monsters, it would at least trigger Lightning Chain. This would provide a degree of magic damage counterattack and simultaneously trigger his own talent effect, thereby doubling the Mage Skeleton Monsters’ output.
With a wave of Chen Mo’s Magic Wand, Unwinding Worship began immediately.
Instantly, all the Skeleton Monsters became energized as if they were on stimulants, their bodies vibrating at a different frequency.
At Chen Mo’s command, a barrage of Energy Bullets assaulted the Dark Enigma before it even fully emerged.
At the same time, a multitude of shielded Skeleton Monsters leaped into the pit.
Chen Mo knew that the physical attacks of these Skeleton Monsters were useless, but the shields they bore were very useful.
As these Skeleton Monsters voluntarily leaped into the pit, the Dark Enigma, naturally not tolerating such insolence, attacked them.
However, its attacks on the shields not only failed to harm the Skeleton Monsters but also triggered Lightning Chain, damaging itself. This infuriated it.
It suddenly swayed, and in the next moment, a ring of bizarre corrosive liquid gushed out from around its body.
When the Skeleton Monsters were tainted by this liquid, their shields, capable of resisting any damage, were directly bypassed, and the Skeleton Monsters began to lose their own Health.
Seeing this, Chen Mo remained calm.
After all, he had already identified this as the Dark Enigma’s first skill—’Midnight Withering’! It was an area-of-effect skill inflicting damage based on a percentage of maximum Health, categorized as a health-loss effect.
This type of damage effect is quite unique, representing a kind of energy drain and decay akin to one’s own vitality diminishing.
Naturally, it couldn’t be blocked by a shield.
Although it deducted a full 12% of maximum Health per second, it only lasted for 5 seconds. This meant these Skeleton Monsters only lost 60% of their maximum Health from this skill, which wasn’t a major concern. None of the Dark Enigma’s other skills could bypass the shields. Whether these Skeleton Monsters had 40% of their maximum Health remaining or merely 4%, the Dark Enigma couldn’t easily defeat them.
Nine hundred Skeleton Monsters, each with shields boasting tens of millions in durability, swarmed forward, pinning the BOSS underground, while the one hundred Mage Skeleton Monsters above attacked relentlessly.
Their efficiency was quite high. Although only 100 Skeleton Monsters were dealing damage and the poison explosion was ineffective, the nine hundred Skeleton Monsters, by being attacked by the BOSS’s various skills, continuously triggered Lightning Chain, inflicting considerable damage.
Chen Mo’s own Magic Attack was as high as seven thousand, facing a BOSS with just over one thousand defense. The final damage dealt would fluctuate between 6,300 and 7,100.
It would have been manageable if the Dark Enigma hadn’t used area-of-effect skills. But once it did, it would directly trigger Lightning Chain from all nine hundred shields.
Take the Black Hole skill it was using now, for example. It was a channeled skill; as long as it was being channeled, a Black Hole with immense pulling power would be summoned before it. Throughout its duration, the Black Hole would continuously deal damage to units within its radius.
Because the Black Hole cast by the Dark Enigma had a sufficiently large radius, all nine hundred shielded Skeleton Monsters were enveloped within its range.
Instantly, Lightning Chains frantically bombarded the Dark Enigma, creating a series of sharp CRACKLING sounds. A multitude of damage numbers continuously popped up above the Dark Enigma’s head.
-105,971! (Critical Hit!)