Chapter 17: Kite Strategy
When Ryan was still about thirty yards away, Dreadfang Alpha Guderian suddenly roared and rose to his feet. A shimmering aura flickered around his body, activating a glowing buff.
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Guderian’s Demonic Ward (Arcane): Strengthens the host’s body, reducing incoming Arcane damage by 90% and granting a chance to reflect Arcane spells. The effect resets every 10 seconds.
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Demonic Ward was Guderian’s first skill. Every ten seconds, the shield randomly cycled—sometimes resisting spell damage, sometimes reducing physical hits, sometimes reflecting magic, and even bouncing back melee attacks. For any team, it usually meant at least one DPS would get knocked out of the fight early.
But in spite of that, there was one unique attribute in the game that ignored all of that—Radiant.
None of the game’s monsters, not even bosses, had Radiant resistance. It was the one attribute that bypassed everything. And so, unless Guderian rolled a physical shield, his defense did nothing to stop Ryan’s attacks.
As soon as the two made contact, Ryan was immediately hit hard by the boss’s opening strike.
−88
Eighty-eight damage—nearly a third of his health gone in a blink. But Ryan didn’t flinch. He countered with a strike of his green-tier longsword, and the numbers told the real story.
−332 (Critical)