Chapter 122 – Difficulty Increase: Boss Star Upgrade
"Damn!"
King's Glory was shocked as a Dragon Flame attack knocked off half of his health: "Such high damage!"
At this moment, three priest girls in the rear cast spells in unison, green light falling on players with low health, restoring them, and with the use of health potions, everyone quickly recovered their health!
Taking advantage of Shigula's descent, Zhang Yi cleverly dodged the Dragon Flame attack with a Blink and launched his attack.
Freeze Spell!
Fireball Spell!
Chain Lightning!
Boom boom boom!
Due to Shigula's massive size, Zhang Yi's three attacks easily hit it—
-1002!
-1798 Critical Hit!
-976!
Fortunately, with Zhang Yi's attack power of over 1100, he could still deal significant damage to the BOSS.
The three attacks dealt nearly 4000 points of damage, reducing Shigula's health bar by 1%! Its total health was 400,000.
Compared to the level 20, 1-star BOSS Skeleton King with 1.25 million health, the level 30 Shigula had half the health.
This was because, as the BOSS of the Safe Zone invasion battle, the Skeleton King was designed this way. Normally, a level 20, 1-star BOSS wouldn't have such high health, so Shigula's health was normal for its level and star rating.
Apart from Zhang Yi, others could only deal four to five hundred points of damage to Shigula. A round of focused attacks from several archers and mages also knocked off 1% of the BOSS's health.
Taking this opportunity, Zhang Yi checked the BOSS's stats.
400,000 health, 1500 attack, 600 magic resistance.
Rare Talent: Lord of Greed (For every enemy around Shigula, it gains an additional 0.5% damage bonus, up to 50%)
"Roar!"
A deafening dragon roar echoed, visible light waves radiating from Shigula's body, sweeping across the field.
"Ding~ Greedy Dragon Emperor, Shigula used [Intimidation], reducing your damage by 15% for 30 seconds! Movement speed and attack speed reduced by 20%!"
Almost all players, including Zhang Yi, were affected by Shigula's [Intimidation].
Immediately after, Shigula unleashed another [Greedy Storm].
This time, prepared, six knights shielded the fragile priests and mages, withstanding Shigula's damage without any casualties!
Previously in the City of Energy, only four buff scrolls were used. Each type—attack, defense, speed, and life buff scroll—still had one left, which Zhang Yi quickly used.
With the four buffs, Zhang Yi swiftly swung his staff, launching several normal attacks mixed with a freshly cooled-down [Fireball Spell] at Shigula—
-968!
-1936 Critical Hit!
-1936 Critical Hit!
-968!
-2588 Critical Hit!
The 20% attack speed bonus from the speed buff, combined with the 55% from the Undead Set, gave Zhang Yi a 75% attack speed bonus. With the agility bonus from 189 points, his attack speed nearly doubled!
A mage, managing to achieve the speed and critical hits that even an all-agility Assassin couldn't!
Green light fell, and under Han Yaru's [Undead Healing] and [Slow Heal], Zhang Yi's health bar recovered from two-thirds to nearly full!
Facing a flying BOSS like Shigula, the team's combat power was halved, as melee knights, warriors, and assassins were useless.
So, the warriors and knights focused on protecting their teammates.
With 12 knights and warriors on the field, they could almost perfectly protect each other one-on-one!
This significantly reduced the team's damage.
Additionally, Zhang Yi was a key protection target because, as the captain, if he fell, the dungeon would fail.
Boom boom boom boom!
Under Zhang Yi's continuous and rapid attacks, combined with the attacks from other archers and mages, Shigula, flying low, saw its health bar slowly decrease visibly.
Although not very strong, the players present were already the highest level and best-equipped from the King's World and Storm Family teams, and their contributions were significant.
Of course, a crucial point was that the dungeon was currently at its lowest difficulty, Normal, making it easier to handle.
Gradually, after understanding Shigula's combat patterns, the battle became smoother.
Half an hour passed, and the BOSS's health had safely passed the 30% mutation phase, gradually dropping to 10%!
Even though more than half of the King's World and Storm Family players had fallen, the remaining ones could definitely take down the BOSS!
Seeing the BOSS's health dwindling, King's Glory, who was drawing his bow and shooting, excitedly said, "Come on, guys, the BOSS is almost down!"
After all, during the Safe Zone invasion battle, the Skeleton King dropped four 3-star equipment pieces! Plus a purple skill book and other priceless treasures.
And as a 1-star quality BOSS, the Greedy Dragon Emperor Shigula's level was higher than the Skeleton King, so its loot would definitely not be inferior!
The surviving players were all extremely excited.
Especially Zhang Yi.
Because soon, he would obtain the top-tier Demonic Beast from the Dragon Emperor's Tomb that he had coveted for a week!
Once he got the rewards from the Dragon Emperor's Tomb, Zhang Yi would have the capital to establish himself in the Main City early on.
So, the battle continued.
The BOSS's health gradually dropped to 8%... 7%... 6%!
However, at this moment, two consecutive system prompts suddenly echoed from the sky—
"Ding~ Due to an increase in dungeon participants, with more than 30 people entering, the dungeon difficulty has been raised to [Elite]!"
"Ding~ Due to an increase in dungeon participants, with more than 50 people entering, the dungeon difficulty has been raised to [Nightmare]!"
"Damn!" Upon hearing these two system prompts, King's Glory was shocked: "What the hell is going on? Who entered the dungeon?!"
"Shouldn't you be asking yourself that?"
Storm Angel looked at King's Glory: "Didn't you tell your people to guard the dungeon entrance? Or was it your people who entered?!"
"Impossible!" King's Glory said, "I made it very clear to them, telling them to guard outside and not let anyone in, and they definitely couldn't enter themselves. They couldn't have come in!"
As he spoke, at that moment, with a resounding "roar," the nearly dying Greedy Dragon Emperor Shigula suddenly radiated a red glow all over!
"Ding~ Due to the increase in dungeon difficulty, [Greedy Dragon Emperor, Shigula]'s strength has been enhanced, and its quality has been upgraded to: 2-star!"