nashuaworldcup Chapter 196 Is this... the leader's hobby?
Chapter 196 Is this... the leader's hobby?
A weathered face, etched with hatred and pain, was exposed to the blood-red moonlight.
His eyes were tightly closed, but his overwhelming rage seemed to pierce through his eyelids and set the entire courtyard ablaze.
"A thousand years..."
Augustus's voice seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of the earth's crust, each word carrying a dull echo, filled with epic sorrow.
"The king's lament burns my soul day and night! The glory of the past has become an eternal shackle! And you..."
"Dude, that's enough."
Chen You couldn't listen to it anymore, so he raised his hand to interrupt the BOSS's opening remarks that had been brewing for a thousand years.
"I understand the logic, can we just start fighting?"
Augustus: "..."
His face, filled with grief and indignation, visibly stiffened for a moment.
It seems to be hesitating about whether to skip the "opening animation".
The next moment, a scarlet health bar appeared.
【General Augustus (LV35 Elite Lord)】
"Oh, so obedient?"
Just as Augustus's health bar completely solidified, he moved.
Heaven-Shattering Sword Technique - Startling Swan!
A sword light, condensed to its extreme, disregarded spatial distance and instantly slashed in front of Augustus.
But then a bizarre scene unfolded.
"Snapped!"
The henchman holding the long whip struck Augustus on the back again.
A layer of pale golden ripples spread from Augustus's body, forming a semi-transparent shield.
【absorb!】
Chen You's sword light struck the shield, only causing a ripple, without even a damage number appearing.
Immediately afterwards, another henchman holding a branding iron also pressed the red-hot branding iron hard onto the surface.
"Sizzle—"
[+89555!]
A green healing number appeared above Augustus's head.
Chen You: "?"
His treatment doesn't even qualify as scraping, while your two underlings are using a whip and a branding iron, one providing a shield and the other healing.
What kind of SM combination technique is this?
At the same time, two more figures emerged from the shadows around the courtyard.
They had no physical form, appearing as translucent, vengeful spirits, and pointed at Chen You as they raised their hands.
An invisible spiritual shock instantly enveloped them.
[The "Control" effect is triggered, granting immunity to silence effects.]
[The "Control" effect is triggered, granting immunity to Soul Shackles.]
……
Chen You raised an eyebrow and instantly understood.
How did Luna's Radiance and her gang get wiped out?
First, the tank rushed in and found that it couldn't damage the BOSS because two minions were frantically casting shields to heal themselves.
Secondly, the healers and DPS were silenced and controlled by the small monsters that suddenly appeared from the side, leaving them standing there in a daze.
Finally, BOSS Augustus unleashed a powerful attack, wiping out this group of sitting ducks who couldn't damage the monsters or use their skills in one fell swoop.
A near-perfect closed loop of total annihilation.
"I see, the mechanism is quite simple."
Chen You felt nothing, only a little embarrassed.
So this is what it means when you say "I can't understand it".
Having figured this out, Chen You already had a strategy in mind.
"Forget all that, let's just group them all together and A!"
To prevent the monsters from being scattered, he immediately charged in.
At the same time, with a thought, the Jade Emperor Sword split in two.
The servant wielding the long whip reacted extremely quickly. Seeing Chen You charging towards him, he immediately turned the whip around and lashed it at Chen You's face with a whooshing sound.
But Chen You was faster.
"Pfft!"
The sword light struck first, striking its throat with pinpoint accuracy.
-21034!
A huge damage number appeared.
This is just the beginning.
"Scattered stars!"
The two jade swords that were shot out instantly transformed into two ring-shaped sword nets.
Thousands of star-like sword beams erupted with a thunderous roar.
"Puff puff puff puff puff—"
Amidst the dense piercing sound of sword energy, the vengeful spirit monster, along with its two whip-wielding servants, was churned into countless specks of light.
The entire process was smooth and quick, taking no more than five seconds.
Boss Augustus didn't even have time to unleash a single skill.
He seemed to have finally recovered from the lapse in concentration caused by being interrupted, and felt the loss of his companion.
"roar--!!!"
A roar, even more ferocious and furious than before, resounded through the sky!
"Snap! Snap, snap!"
[General Augustus has entered a berserk state!]
Attack power increased by 200%!
Attack speed increased by 100%!
[Gained new skills: Landslide and Devastating Charge!]
Augustus suddenly stood up, his nearly thirty-meter-tall body exuding an unparalleled sense of oppression, like a moving mountain.
His bloodshot eyes were fixed on Chen You.
"Foolish adventurer...you...have successfully angered me!"
"oh."
Chen You's response was simple and unpretentious.
The next second, Augustus's enormous fist crashed down with a sonic boom that tore through the air.
Chen You neither dodged nor evaded, nor even bothered to parry; he simply held the Jade Emperor Sword horizontally in front of him.
boom!!!
The fist collided with the sword, producing a deafening roar.
The violent shockwave whipped up a thick layer of dust from the ground, which then spread wildly in all directions.
The smoke and dust cleared.
Chen You remained standing in the same spot, motionless.
-189!
"Not bad strength," Chen You commented, before disappearing from sight.
He appeared to Augustus's calf and thrust his sword out.
A stunning sight!
-20114!
Augustus, in pain, roared and slapped back.
Chen You had already appeared on his other side, and with another sword strike, he struck again.
-19886!
The ensuing battle turned into a one-sided thrashing.
All of Augustus's attacks, whether the powerful "Landslide" or the extremely fast "Destructive Charge", were devastating.
If it lands on Chen You, it will only cause a maximum of two hundred points of damage.
Each of Chen You's sword strikes precisely took away 20,000 of his health points.
As one side gains and the other loses, Augustus's frighteningly long health bar is rapidly decreasing at a visible rate.
"No...it's impossible..."
Chen You didn't bother with it at all and just focused on his own output.
The screen was instantly filled with dense damage numbers, completely covering Augustus's massive body.
[-28389! (Critical Hit)]
-19166!
-19083!
……
"I'm not reconciled to this!!!"
Finally, with a roar of extreme grief and anger, the first boss of the dungeon, General Augustus, knelt down once again.
The world is now peaceful.
Chen You sheathed his sword and stood there.
"That's it? What on earth are those people from Luna's Radiance fighting?"
He shook his head, feeling somewhat bored.
Just when he thought the first boss was gone.
"Rumble—rumble—"
The entire earth began to tremble violently.
It wasn't a slight tremor, but rather like an earthworm turning over, causing the entire space to shake.
Chen You immediately steadied himself and looked around warily.
The dry, straight riverbed in the center of the courtyard was suddenly filled with billowing black liquid.
The liquid was as black as ink and exuded an ominous aura.
Immediately afterwards, in the withered gardens on both sides of the river, the ground cracked inch by inch, and round stone pillars about one meter high slowly rose from the ground.
These stone piers are arranged neatly and in a staggered manner.
When they were fully raised, Chen You's pupils contracted slightly.
He saw that on the top of each stone pier, a single character was inscribed in ancient script.
In his garden, on the raised stone piers, were carved in bright red the characters for "official," "minister," "chariot," "horse," "cannon," and "soldier"...
On the opposite bank of that black river, on the raised stone piers, were carved in jet black the characters for "Advisor," "Elephant," "Chariot," "Horse," "Cannon," and "Pawn"...
The two rivers were clearly separated, and a chilling atmosphere immediately enveloped them.
The second phase of the boss [Warrior Augustus] has begun.
A cold system notification sounded in Chen You's ears.
Chen You stood there, looking at the huge chessboard that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.
He finally understood that this was what Yuezhiya meant by "not understanding".