Update Time: 2014-02-14
The boss still had half its health left. After the boss got back up, Lin Zheng once again kited it. This time, Yang Qi and Xiao Meng paid more attention to Lin Zheng’s attacks. If Lin Zheng’s attack missed, they immediately stopped attacking to avoid drawing the boss’s aggro!
After a few minutes, the boss’s health had dropped to about 5%. Everyone was both excited and nervous! Because the boss still had one skill it hadn’t used yet!
Icy Sword Qi had already been experienced; its attack was incredibly abnormal, and it had a certain chance to freeze the target, making it incredibly powerful!
The other skill, “Ice Explosion Slash,” sounded like an area-of-effect skill. Could it be a full-screen kill?
Excited and anxious, the group carefully whittled down the boss’s health. In a short while, the boss’s health finally dropped to 5%!
“Roar! Invaders! You have thoroughly enraged me! Perish! Turn into ice shards under my mighty power! Ice Explosion Slash!” The boss let out an arrogant declaration, then raised the greatsword in its hand. Yang Qi’s pupils constricted, and she immediately pulled Xiao Meng and ran!
“Run! Damn it! This stance, if it’s not a full-screen kill, it’s close! Run! The farther, the better!” Yang Qi roared loudly.
“Damn it!” Lin Zheng cursed under his breath and took off running. Just a few steps later, the boss’s greatsword slammed heavily into the ground. Instantly, centered on the boss, ice Explosions appeared like countless blooming ice flowers, rapidly spreading outwards. Although Lin Zheng ran very fast, he was still caught by the Explosion ice flowers!
Several ice flowers bloomed around Lin Zheng, and their sharp ice spikes all pierced him. -60, -70, -58… Countless damage numbers floated up from Lin Zheng’s body. Although each damage number was small, the sheer quantity was terrifying! In an instant, Lin Zheng’s health dropped by half!
Fortunately, the Ice Explosion attack was nearing its end and finally dissipated after taking half of Lin Zheng’s health! Lin Zheng, relieved, looked at the others. They were all in a sorry state. The worst off was Yang Qi; to save Xiao Meng, her health was almost at zero. If she hadn’t consumed potions and bread, she would have already gone back to Tianshuang City to draw circles!
As for the others, they were fine, but they had all lost about half their health. The boss’s skill had a massive damage range. If Yang Qi hadn’t warned them beforehand, they might have been wiped out here!
“Lilith! Heal! Heal!” Yang Qi, having narrowly escaped death, shouted. Lilith, having just let out a sigh of relief, quickly restored Yang Qi’s health. With full health, Yang Qi finally felt a bit more secure. She turned around, raised her sword, and charged towards the boss!
The boss seemed to pay a heavy price for using this Ice Explosion Slash. Its health was now less than 1%, making it a perfect opportunity to strike while it was down!
“Shadow Raid!” Yang Qi immediately charged towards the boss. The boss’s massive size prevented it from being knocked back, but it was still knocked to the ground. With a furious slash, the boss’s health was reduced by nearly 800 points again. At this moment, Xiao Meng also came up to join the attack, dealing 850 points of damage with a Blazing Slash, even higher than Yang Qi’s!
The fallen boss tried to sweep Yang Qi and Xiao Meng away with its sword, but Lin Zheng instantly rushed forward, using a Low Kick and Stomp, dealing about 1300 damage to the boss. The boss roared unwillingly, its raised sword falling back down, and countless treasures burst forth around it!
Swish, swish, swish! Golden light emitted from everyone’s bodies; they all leveled up! Lin Zheng, who killed the boss, gained the most experience, leveling up to level 29 in one go.
Once the boss died, everyone’s attention wasn’t immediately on the treasures, but rather on the boss’s enormous body rapidly dissolving into points of light. Finally, the massive boss disappeared, leaving behind only a transparent soul. To everyone’s surprise, the incredibly mighty boss was actually the manifestation of a female soul. Yes, the soul before them was clearly female. Even as a semi-transparent soul body, her valiant and heroic posture was still discernible!
“Quest triggered: ‘Millennium’s Affection.’ Please have one person from your team accept the quest!”
Hearing the system prompt, everyone looked at each other.
“Ahem!” Yang Qi cleared her throat and said, “For quests like this, the rewards are usually very good. To be fair, let’s roll dice to decide!”
Everyone nodded, indicating no objections. Directly giving it to someone would be a bit awkward, so it was better to leave it to the old heaven!
Lin Zheng rolled first, then he dejectedly ran to the side to draw circles—1 point! It was impossible to get a lower score than that! Yang Qi burst out laughing and rolled second. However, her laughter abruptly stopped, and she joined Lin Zheng in drawing circles—2 points!
Lilith covered her mouth, giggling, and rolled, getting 78 points. Xiao Meng then rolled 67. Finally, Youxi rolled carelessly, getting 100 points! A perfect score!
Youxi was pushed forward, her gem-like eyes blinking softly as she looked at the still-unconscious swordsman’s soul on the ground. As soon as Youxi approached, the female swordsman awoke. She slowly got up, looking around in a daze. Suddenly, her lifeless eyes regained their brilliance, and she cried out, “Dragon Soul Grass! I must find Dragon Soul Grass quickly! Otherwise, they will kill Linglong!” Listening to the female swordsman’s soul words, Lin Zheng and the others felt a inexplicable heaviness.
This female swordsman still didn’t know that she was already dead; her Yixin was still thinking of saving the person named Linglong. But a millennium had already passed. Even if the person she wanted to save hadn’t been killed, time would have taken that person’s life!
Perhaps in the eyes of players, this was merely a fictional story, but for the female swordsman in the story, everything was real! In this game, where the line between fiction and reality truly lay was very difficult to say! Feeling the female swordsman’s genuine emotions, Lin Zheng and the others couldn’t help but feel sorrow for her!
“It’s enough!” Youxi said softly, her eyes fixed on the anxious female swordsman.
“Enough? What’s enough?”
“Look at your body, you are already dead. The person you wanted to save is also dead. A thousand years have passed! Everything you were familiar with is no longer here!” Youxi spoke the harsh reality, making Lin Zheng and the others feel a bit unbearable, as if she were rubbing salt into a wound!
“I… I’m… already, dead?!” The female swordsman looked astonished. She trembled, slowly extending her right hand in front of her eyes. Seeing her transparent palm, the female swordsman instantly froze!
“How could this be… how could this be… how could it be like this!?” The female swordsman muttered in a daze, “It’s been a thousand years, I’ve been dead for a thousand years, my Linglong! My poor Linglong! Big sister was useless, I couldn’t save you! I couldn’t save you! Wuwuwu!” By the end, the female swordsman covered her face and cried, heartbroken!
“Please!” The female swordsman threw herself in front of Youxi, “Take me back, back to my hometown! Linglong and I made a promise, I would definitely go back to find her. That silly girl, if I didn’t go back, she would definitely! Definitely be waiting for me there!”
“I understand!” Youxi nodded gently, “I will help you find her!”
“Thank you! Thank you!” The female swordsman was overcome with gratitude. After speaking, the female swordsman’s soul quickly transformed into countless sparkling points of light. All the points of light attached themselves to the back of Youxi’s right hand, forming several sword-shaped blue patterns. With this, the quest “Millennium’s Affection” came to an end!