BXBX NOVEL Chapter 128: The Evil Eye [2]
Chapter 128: The Evil Eye [2]
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The skill book turned into white light, and a gorgeous sign appeared in Dejected Night’s Skill column—Flash.
Dejected Night waved his wand and stepped through a hole which appeared in the air suddenly. In the blink of an eye, he tore through space, and his body appeared 20 yards away!
There was no Casting time and Casting delay for the Flash skill!
“Ice Rain!” shouted Dejected Night.
Film-like ice dropped down from the air. This was the most basic Ice Mage’s Area-Of-Effect skill, and it only had an additional 15% bonus attack effect which was quite weak. However, it was one of the best skills to use to lure aggro successfully! Moreover, the deceleration effect of the skill had now turned into an advantage for the team. Now, with the assistance of Dejected Night and his Ice Rain skill, each of them just needed to lure 10 Evil Eye Avatars each, which was definitely much easier than before!
This was the perfect exemplification of how a single skill could affect the prowess of a job!
“Invaders, fear... is coming!”
The Evil Eye’s pupil turned dark, and the fifth wave of its avatars was refreshed!
“Gather the monsters all together! Night, control!” shouted Lin Jie.
All of them turned back and lured the Evil Eye Avatars to the middle of the level! Lin Jie bumped his way through into the center of the monsters crowd, creating a path so that the rest could get out. At the same time, as his health bar had decreased to less than 5% due to the attacks from the Evil Eye Avatars when he paved the way out for the others, he quickly activated the Undefeated Anger skill!
“Frost Nova!” Dejected Night bellowed, and ice surrounded all the present monsters!
“Great!” From where Lin Jie stood, his blood erupted like a volcano! Blood spewed out from both of his swords up to almost 20 feet high into the air! He activated the Death Rage, Blood Power and Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner skills altogether, and great damage figures jumped out. At the moment when his Attack Power was the highest, he activated Army Obliteration!
Broken Blade thrust out three consecutive times, and gusts of Blade Aura howled like hungry wild wolves against the blade which was covered in flames, biting onto the monsters ferociously!
-4,246! (Critical Hit)
-2,395!
-2,247!
...
Everyone was shocked by the great damage figures which floated up!
With the superimposition of Death Rage, Blood Power, Wind Rider Blade Aura Executioner and Flame Boost’s guaranteed 100% Damage, and lastly the 130% output from Army Obliteration, Lin Jie exhibited the full prowess of a Berserker!
Like a slumbering tiger waking up, the wrath of its claws shook the forest!
The huge Critical Hit figures left the others in shock and awe! Broken Blade’s blood reservoir was filled with blood while it drew a huge arc in the air. As the ice crystals formed on it ruptured, all the Evil Eye Avatars’ bodies were being torn apart instantly!
-4,857!
-4,543!
——”Achievement [One Wave Kill] is activated! When players kill more than 50 monsters at the same time, they get an extra 100% bonus EXP points! When players kill more than 300 monsters at the same time, they get an extra Speciality Point on top of the previous reward.”
– ‘You killed the Evil Eye Avatar, you gain 7,900 EXP points (Achievement bonus, EXP Gem bonus).’
– ‘You killed the Evil Eye Avatar, you gain...’
Everyone’s experience bar surged like crazy!
Lin Jie immediately sat down to restore his health. Though a Berserker’s attack output was very high, he had to wait for a very long cooldown time before he could launch his next attack! During the cooldown period, he would have to be very cautious.
By killing the Evil Eye Avatars, the Boss’ health bar had also dropped by about 50,000 points. It began to enter the second stage, or what players would jokingly call the ‘throwing of eyeballs’!
In the Normal-level dungeon, the Evil Eye would drop three eyeballs every 10 seconds, and the Warrior jobs could use the Counter Attack type of skills to throw them back to Evil Eye. Each successful hit on Evil Eye would cause 1,000 damage. Once 100,000 damage was attained, Evil Eye would enter its third and final stage.
As they were now in the Expert-level dungeon, the difficulty levels were increased to the extent which caught the team off guard!
“In the Expert-level dungeon, the Boss will drop 30 black and white eyeballs every 10 seconds! It hurts a lot if the black eyeballs hit you, and you will lose health points. When you use skills to hit the white eyeballs back, it can cause 500 Damage points to the Boss. Once we accumulate 100,000 damage points, the Boss will enter the final stage—this remains the same.” recalled Lin Jie as he informed his teammates.
“Now, everyone must go look for a spot to dodge the eyeballs. Breathless, we get ready to fight.” There was no other way, as there were only two Warrior type jobs in the team.
Everyone rushed to find their most favorable spots. Mixed Breathless nodded and entered battle mode, ready to meet the eyeballs.
Shoosh!
A huge shadow covered them, and 30 eyeballs fell down from the top! 27 were black, only three were white!
Everyone present was a gaming veteran, and they immediately understood that their team should aim to hit the white eyeballs!
Other than Mixed Breathless and Lin Jie, everyone else started dodging as fast as possible—there was no need for further reminders! Lin Jie and Mixed Breathless looked at each other, and both rushed to hit back the white eyeballs.
Forward Charge!
Forward Sprint!
Lin Jie’s movements were extremely fast. With a slight flash of his figure, one could only see a huge black eyeball remaining at his original spot. Black eyeballs could cause their targets to lose 200 health points every time they hit them!
Meanwhile, there was a faint sheen of light covering Broken Blade. It was directed at a white eyeball, and the next moment, it smashed into the white eyeball accurately!
Duang!
The white eyeball was flung back at Evil Eye!
-200!
Lin Jie was delighted to see that his first hit was successful.
In the Expert-level dungeon, the damage caused by the rebounds was greatly reduced to 1/5 of the Normal-level dungeon! Surely, this was too challenging!
Lin Jie narrowed his eyes slightly, and activated the Rocket Launcher! His body shot backward, and right at the second when the second white eyeball was about to touch the floor, he activated Rebel’s Fight and shot it back accurately!
-400!
Continuous hits could cause double Damage!
Meanwhile, Mixed Breathless’ actions seemed very stiff. While trying to dodge the black eyeballs, he activated Forward Charge in the direction of a white eyeball. However, as he did not calculate the distance properly when he activated the Reflective Shield skill, the white eyeball had already fallen to the ground!
He furrowed his brows, and couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile. ‘Why is there such a big gap between us?’
“Breathless, don’t be dejected, take your time to perfect your skills. The trick is to be careful of the direction where you fling the eyeball, and you have to control precisely when to cancel your skill.” As Lin Jie dodged the black eyeballs, he caught sight of Mixed Breathless’ expression and commented, “When you are using Forward Charge to get to the white eyeball, use a basic action to cancel your skill.”
The second wave of eyeballs was coming!
Mixed Breathless took heed of Lin Jie’s advice and brightened up. He aimed at one of the white eyeballs and activated Forward Charge! It looked like his steel-like figure couldn’t stop in time... yet at the last minute, he rolled onto the ground and canceled his skill forcibly! Activating Reflective Shield, he slammed his shield onto the white eyeball, and a crisp sound was heard as it bounced back!
There was no change to the Boss’ health bar, as the white eyeball had missed it!
Though Lost Camel was busy dodging the black eyeballs, he still managed to squeeze out a comment when he saw what happened. “Heck! Where did the eyeball go to?”
“...”
The eyeball that Mixed Breathless hit was nowhere to be seen, but the other two eyeballs which Lin Jie hit bounced straight back to the Evil Eye at the same time!
-200!
-400!
Mixed Breathless’ pupils shrank. ‘He alone was in charge of two eyeballs, yet he never missed anything!’
An uncomfortable feeling enshrouded him as Mixed Breathless sped up and prepared for his next attack!
The third wave of eyeballs was dropped! Mixed Breathless learned his lesson, ignored the teasing from Lost Camel, and used a basic action to cancel his skill at the nick of time and made another successful hit! This time round, he seemed more proficient, but the rebounded white eyeball still missed its target as he had not used the correct amount of force!
Meanwhile, Lin Jie successfully rebounded the other two white eyeballs again!
-200!
-400!
“Breathless, don’t be disheartened at this,” encouraged Lin Jie when he saw what happened.
“Yep!”
The fourth wave of eyeballs came! Mixed Breathless was even faster with his actions, and he was becoming more skilled in the whole process! This time round, the rebound was successful!
-200!
-400!
-800!
Dejected Night was using Flash to avoid the black eyeballs, but his eyes were fixed on his brother all the time. ‘This chap... I was correct about him, he did not disappoint me at all!’
“Great move, Breathless! Continue like this!” commended Dejected Night with a gratifying look on his face. Lin Jie also raised his thumb silently at Mixed Breathless.
“Heh, heh...” Mixed Breathless smiled embarrassedly, secretly pleased with himself.
The fifth wave and sixth wave of eyeballs came! Mixed Breathless and Lin Jie coordinated their moves better and better. In fact, they had successfully made nine consecutive hits!
...
A white eyeball slammed onto the Boss, and the Boss screamed in pain. The gigantic eyeball which had covered the whole of the roof disappeared—they had accumulated 100,000 damage points!
The second stage was finally over! Lin Jie was pleasantly surprised. He had underestimated Mixed Breathless’ potential! It actually took Mixed Breathless such a short time to learn the skills. If it was an average player doing this with him, he wouldn’t have comprehended the moves and be able to execute them that fast! In fact, it was normal for a team to be wiped out for more than ten times at this stage!
Indeed, Mixed Breathless had lived up to his name as an expert in Lin Jie’s previous life.
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. They were more or less smashed by the black eyeballs. Indeed, escaping also required good skills!
Star Kill was fantasizing about a scene now—Bella, who was dressed up as an adorable rabbit girl, would cast affectionate looks upon his back as he dodged the attacks. When she opened her lush red lips, the only comment that came out was this: “Brother Star Kill looked so suave no matter what he was doing, even if he was just escaping from attacks...”
Engrossed in his thoughts, Star Kill felt as if he was at the top of the world...
“There’s nothing much to say for the third stage! The Boss is now only left with 100,000 HP, let’s go all out to kill it!” shouted Lin Jie.
“Childe, bring all the monsters up to the third level! I am giving you 10 minutes to do so!”
Evil Eye, which was previously hanging high up in the air, slowly disappeared, and condensed on the ground into an object similar to a spider egg! Within 10 minutes, the team would have to rip off the remaining 100,000 health points from it. Otherwise, the Boss would utilize the ‘Map Kill’ skill and wipe out the entire team!
“We will be clearing the dungeon soon!” Dejected Night was delighted.
If everyone put in their best attacks, it was possible to cause 100,000 damage points in 10 minutes.
However, when he raised his hands, he was shocked to discover that he could not use any magic!
“The third stage of the Expert-level dungeon forbids players to use any sort of skills,” commented Lin Jie.
Star Kill ran to the Boss, and slit the Boss’s vulnerable areas with his dagger.
-134!
-67!
Damage figures floated up on Star Kill’s head instead.
The Boss had damage reflect skills!
Lin Jie glanced at Star Kill and said, “Use Combo Attacks. If you can make a combo of at least 15 strikes and above, the Boss will be unable to utilize the damage reflect skills.”
With that, Lin Jie began to slash down upon Evil Eye. As the team could not use their skills, their Attack outputs decreased instantly! It was even more so for Dejected Night as he was a Mage, using his Wand to hit the Boss, he could only cause one damage point in every few hits. This made him so depressed until he gave up entirely and went off to squat at a corner...
-354!
-389!
Although Lin Jie’s flat cut moves could deal out quite high damage, the most he could do was just about 7,000 damage points per minute! What’s worse was that the 50% damage reflect effect by the Boss gradually made his health bar decrease, and even if he drank as many health potions as he could, his health bar soon dropped to 15%.
When Star Kill finally reached the combo attack of 15 strikes, the Boss’ damage reflect effect became invalid.
When Lin Jie thrust his Broken Blade into the Boss, he felt as if he had plunged his weapon into something soft like a sponge—such was the unique attributes of the eyeball! The Dark Slaughter Longsword followed suit and stabbed into it.
Combo 2!
Lin Jie curved up his lips into a smile. Drops of Blood Essence jumped out, boosted his attacks and restored his health points. Coupled with the Life-Steal effect of the Wolf Soul Necklace, Lin Jie’s health bar stabilized at around 15%, but his Attack output increased steadily!
-485!
-614!
-835!
...
His combo attacks stacked up and made a breakthrough! Evil Eye was an eyeball, which meant that it had vulnerable areas all over its body. As long as one attacked any parts of its body, they would be able to cause Weak point damage. It was even easier to attack than static wooden stakes!
Blood Essence, which covered the entire space, dissolved into Lin Jie’s body, who was enjoying dealing out the combo attacks.
When his combo attack broke through 1,500 consecutive strikes, the drop of blood essence was the size of a head!
The Boss was left with only 10,000 HP now!
“I am coming!” Unexpected Childe rushed in, and there was still a long trail of monsters following behind him. He had brought over more than 100 goblins, and more than 300 Young Lizards up.
Star Kill slashed his dagger across the spider egg-like creature and said, “My powers are exploding soon.”
Lin Jie nodded.
Bandits’ combo mechanism was ‘Saving up to explode later!’ The higher the number of combo attacks towards the same target, the more damage it could cause.
“Explode!”
-4,563!
As Star Kill used his powers, the Broken Blade also stabbed deeply into the Boss’s body!
——’You have killed Evil Eye. You received 150,000 EXP.’
The Boss swelled up like a balloon, and white gas was vented out! A shining sword erupted out of the Boss!
That was the Blade of Elemental Destruction!
Feather Drop Spell!
Lin Jie made a great leap and half-squatted on the Blade of Elemental Destruction!
[Blade of Elemental Destruction]: Level 15 Overlord, Health Points: 10,000
The Blade of Elemental Destruction was a flying unit that had an 80% chance of hiding from players’ attacks.
“Here, I am giving all these to you!” Unexpected Childe threw a Misdirection spell at Lin Jie. All the monsters changed their target immediately!
“Gawr...!” The goblins screamed, and the bombs vibrated loudly in their hands, while the Young Lizards flew towards him like a locust attack!
Lin Jie smiled, and jumped backward, making a handsome backflip in the air. He landed smoothly on the ground.
All the monsters rushed towards the Blade of Elemental Destruction!
Weng—
The Blade of Elemental Destruction was covered by this batch of monsters, and its health bar decreased visibly.
Tizz—
The Blade of Elemental Destruction suddenly shot out a gust of blade aura!
This powerful blade aura instantly killed all the monsters. Everyone’s experience bar surged wildly. The Blade of Destruction made a bursting sound and fluttered about in the air.
“Break!”
After a bloody arc drew past the air and the surrounding blade auras dissipated, the Blade of Elemental Destruction fell to the ground.