Chapter 63: You Guys Really Are Terrible! |
But clearly, Jiang Chen had no intention of running away.
At this point, Jiang Chen had already completely figured out all of this elite monster’s skills and attack patterns.
Looking at the magic patterns appearing in the sky and the red zones appearing on the ground—
“This is the water ball attack.”
Jiang Chen moved slightly to the left before making a backward leap.
The enormous water ball descended from the sky and was easily dodged, while the backward jump also caused the sweeping tentacle attack to miss completely.
Then, seizing that opening, he immediately closed in on the monster and unleashed several more rounds of attacks before retreating far away again before the monster’s next attack arrived.
Jiang Chen glanced at the Octopus Monster’s HP bar from the corner of his eye.
【Aaron, Five-Ring, Deep Sea Octopus Monster】
“Hm?”
Jiang Chen was somewhat surprised.
Under normal circumstances, when challenging a boss, many bosses would enter a berserk state once their HP dropped below one-tenth.
Without instant burst damage skills, Jiang Chen had been somewhat worried the whole time while fighting this thing.
But it seemed he had overthought it.
“So that means there’s still a huge difference between elite monsters and Bosses in this game.”
Looking at the gigantic Octopus Monster, Jiang Chen had subconsciously been treating it like a boss.
And honestly, considering the difficulty of this fight, calling it a boss would not have been an exaggeration.
Only now, after the Octopus Monster’s HP was nearly depleted, did Jiang Chen finally understand the difference.
“If it were a Boss, then with this game’s nonsense design philosophy, it probably would’ve already entered berserk mode by now.”
“But elite monsters don’t have that mechanic, and their HP recovery is also extremely slow.”
In terms of damage output and skill attack frequency alone, this Octopus Monster was indeed far stronger than the monster from the Eternal Tower.
However, because this monster was merely an elite monster, it lacked many important mechanics—such as HP regeneration.
Based on Jiang Chen’s estimate, if this had been a Boss, then 40,000 HP would actually have translated into an effective HP pool of at least seventy to eighty thousand.
There was no helping it. Those things regenerated HP way too quickly.
But for this elite monster, however much HP it displayed really was all the HP it had, and its recovery speed was negligible.
Looking at the Octopus Monster’s nearly depleted HP—
Jiang Chen suddenly found the battle rather dull.
“The attack patterns are way too simple. You just need to memorize the startup motions and attack ranges of the various skills, along with how the skills combo together.”
“And if you roughly remember the skill cooldowns too, then fighting this thing is basically effortless.”
Jiang Chen felt absolutely no pressure.
“If that NPC from earlier had still been here, this might’ve become her highlight moment.”
“But unfortunately.”
What Jiang Chen did not know was that at this very moment, atop a hill not far from the battlefield—
......
A group of people was standing there, watching Jiang Chen battle the Monster in the distance.
And Aelia was among them.
“So this is Vivian, the one who’s been making such a huge splash recently.”
“She’s really too powerful. With combat techniques like these, she’ll probably become another magic-combat genius in the future.”
“Yeah. Even among veteran warrior classes, many probably wouldn’t compare to her combat techniques, let alone the fact that Vivian also possesses magical talent.”
At this moment, hearing her colleagues discussing Vivian, Aelia’s emotions were extremely complicated.
Having personally witnessed Vivian fight, she knew very well that Vivian’s strongest aspect was magic.
As unbelievable as it sounded, Vivian was a pure mage class. Her combat techniques were merely an added bonus.
At this moment, Aelia finally understood the saying that sometimes the gap between people was even greater than the gap between people and dogs.
“Huff... huff... huff...”
Just as the group was still commenting on the battle in the distance, Lilith’s figure appeared nearby.
At this moment, Lilith came running over while gasping for breath.
The moment she arrived, she glared viciously at Aelia.
“Damn it! Doesn’t your conscience hurt after doing something like this?!”
Hearing this, Aelia awkwardly scratched her head.
“Um... the weather’s pretty nice today.”
Only heaven knew what Lilith had just experienced.
Vivian had told her to take this half-dead Aelia and leave first.
Meanwhile, Vivian herself stayed behind to cover their retreat.
And then what happened?
Lilith had used every ounce of strength she had to carry this woman while running an enormous distance. Just when she was completely exhausted and unable to continue—
The half-dead woman on her back suddenly jumped down.
Then she ran away by herself.
At that moment, how could Lilith still not understand?
This woman had been pretending the entire time.
She had still been able to jump around perfectly fine.
“You terrible people! You guys really are terrible! You were clearly still capable of fighting, yet you abandoned Vivian and ran away yourselves!”
What angered her the most was that this awful woman had actually used her as the rear guard.
Only after confirming that Lilith was genuinely too exhausted to continue carrying her did this horrible woman jump off her back and immediately flee without hesitation.
“Um, I was merely leaving opportunities for the younger generation.”
“Think about it. Defeating such a powerful Monster alone—do you know what kind of achievement that represents?”
Aelia spoke without the slightest change in expression or heartbeat.
But just as she was about to continue speaking, her face suddenly changed.
Because on the battlefield, the Octopus Monster, which had been completely suppressed moments ago, had suddenly seized an opportunity to counterattack.
On both Vivian’s left and right sides, magic had blocked off her escape routes, while a gigantic tentacle descending from the sky had already slammed downward.
The surrounding area had also somehow become covered in black sticky fluid released by the Octopus Monster.
Virtually every escape route had already been sealed off.
“Hahahaha!”
The Octopus Monster Aaron’s wild laughter rang out.
“You never expected I still had this move, did you?!”
At this moment, Aaron finally felt like he had regained some pride.
Through the previous exchanges, Aaron understood very clearly that with Vivian’s movement skills, it was simply impossible for him to land a hit on her.
The final result would only be him getting worn down to death by Vivian.
That was something Aaron absolutely could not accept.
So he had been laying a trap this whole time.
Through the subsequent battle, he had gradually made Vivian lower her guard while he searched for a chance to kill her in a single strike.
Aaron understood one principle very clearly—
He could afford to make countless mistakes, but Vivian only had one chance.
Now all of Vivian’s paths had been sealed off. She would be forced to take this attack head-on.
“You thought you were the hunter who could easily defeat me? Little did you know that you had already become the prey. Die!”
.......
Seeing this scene, Lilith instantly panicked in the distance.
“What are you all standing around for?! Hurry up and save Vivian!”
“She stayed behind to protect all of you! Are you seriously just going to stand there and watch her die?!”
Hearing Lilith’s words, everyone present exchanged glances with one another.
Lilith was right, but the problem was that not only was the distance too great for them to save her, even if they could, none of them dared to go.
They had personally witnessed the strength of that Octopus Monster earlier.
But if they truly did nothing now, it also felt impossible to justify.
Thus—
“Wuwuwu... Vivian, your death is so tragic! We’ll avenge you!” Tears came to Aelia instantly.
Seeing Aelia’s performance, the other Enforcement Officers immediately reacted as well and quickly followed her example.
“Y-You guys!!”
Lilith pointed at the group, unable to utter a single complete sentence for a long while.