Online Games: From Professional Gold Farmer to Night King

"No doubt about it, this ultimate skill doesn't deal much damage, but that skill itself wasn't designed for dealing damage!"

Hearing the Heavenly Emperor's explanation, Wang Xing was somewhat puzzled: "What do you mean? The ultimate skill isn't used to deal damage? Then what's it for?"

"Take a look at your status bar."

Although Wang Xing was somewhat puzzled, he still opened the status bar.

Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly been subjected to three debuffs.

[Affected by the Desert Giant Scorpion King's sandstorm, accuracy reduced by 30%]

[Affected by the Desert Giant Scorpion King's sandstorm, attack speed and movement speed are reduced by 20%]

[Due to the sandstorm caused by the Desert Giant Scorpion King, the vulnerability effect is increased by 30%]

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The so-called "vulnerability" effect, simply put, is the additional damage you take when you are injured.

However, there is a prerequisite: the damage must break through the defense. This vulnerability damage is based on the damage value being dealt, and then increased by 30%, rather than directly increasing the attack damage by 30%.

A 30% vulnerability is equivalent to increasing your own damage taken by 30%, which is almost equivalent to increasing the boss's damage by 30%.

After looking at his status bar, Wang Xing's brows furrowed instantly.

"Everything else is fine, but this 30% hit rate..."

Looking up, I saw that the shadow bullets fired by the night raven were missing in large numbers, and the additional damage was also missing in large numbers.

"Oh no! Night Raven!"

Realizing what was happening, Wang Xing immediately controlled the night crow to fly into the air. After flying for about 30 meters, it finally flew out of the sandstorm's coverage area.

Fortunately, although the sandstorm covered an area of ​​over 100 meters, its range in the air was only 30 meters, which at least gave the night raven a chance to survive.

How long will this sandstorm last?

The Heavenly Emperor looked at the Giant Scorpion King with a solemn expression and slowly shook his head. "We don't know either. Last time, we fought to this extent before the boss unleashed its power and took us all down. Last time, it took about three minutes until our last member died, but this sandstorm persisted!"

"Three minutes?! That means... this sandstorm skill might be indefinite, until the boss dies?"

"That's right! Not only that, look at the BOSS's health bar. In the sandstorm, its health regeneration rate increases by almost 200%. If the damage isn't enough, the BOSS not only doesn't lose health, but it also regenerates health rapidly!"

At this moment, Wang Xing finally began to take the giant desert scorpion king seriously.

I previously thought that although the Giant Scorpion King was powerful, it was still inferior to the Berserk Giant Ape, since the damage output of the two was incomparable.

But only now did he realize that no lord boss is weak!

For a team, these three debuffs are a nightmare, enough to bring them down.

"roar!"

Just then, the boss used the quicksand skill again, and a large number of damage values ​​appeared above the heads of the remaining players.

These players don't have Wang Xing's high magic defense. Although the sandstorm only deals three or four hundred damage, they definitely won't be able to withstand it for long.

With the addition of a 30% vulnerability effect, the damage becomes even higher. Currently, with the stacking damage from quicksand, the rate at which health drops by nearly a thousand per second!

"Boss! We can't hold on any longer!"

One of the shield warriors shouted first, and the next second, he was slammed to the ground by the giant scorpion king's pincers and disappeared in a flash of white light.

This was just the beginning; as time went on, more and more players were resurrected as white light.

Half a minute later, there were less than 70 players left standing on the field.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Emperor brought so many priests, otherwise the entire army would probably have been wiped out by now.

"Brother Heavenly Emperor, this can't go on, we have to think of something! Can we lure the boss out of the sandstorm's range and then slowly kill it?"

The Heavenly Emperor shook his head. "No! We've tried it. This sandstorm is centered on the Giant Scorpion King. Wherever the Giant Scorpion King goes, that's where the center of the sandstorm is."

"It can even move!?"

At this moment, Wang Xing was completely shocked by the Giant Scorpion King's skills. He had thought that the Giant Scorpion King was not as good as the Berserk Giant Ape, but now it seemed that the opposite was true. The Berserk Giant Ape was not as powerful as the Giant Scorpion King.

If their team had faced the Giant Scorpion King back then, they probably wouldn't have been able to kill it even after two or three more attempts.

This sandstorm skill is incredibly effective against King Star; it's practically designed specifically to counter Night Raven.

"Brother Heavenly Emperor, since we can't retreat out of the sandstorm's area, you should immediately send out a small team to act as targets and draw the boss's aggro at the crucial moment. I'll try to reduce the boss's health to below 10% as soon as possible. As for whether we can be the first to kill this boss, that depends on our luck today!"

Although I don't understand Wang Xing's tactics, since he said it that way, he must have his reasons.

"Priest Squad 6, Summoner Squad 2, and Shield Warrior Squad 5, immediately withdraw from combat, go outside to recover, and await further orders!"

At a command, more than a dozen players retreated rapidly, running quickly toward the outer edge of the sandstorm.

Seeing that the giant scorpion king still had 41% of its health remaining, Wang Xing couldn't care less about anything else.

"Focus fire! Poison spells! Give us all the firepower!"

At his command, all the summoned beasts and pets immediately launched a fierce attack on the Giant Scorpion King. Even the Night Raven flew down and bravely endured the damage to unleash Shadow Bullets.

Wang Xing's goal was clear: as soon as Night Raven died, he would immediately summon it again and unleash the Bloodlust Berserk skill.

However, before that, the boss's health must be reduced to below 20%.

Otherwise, even if Wang Xing activated Bloodlust Berserk, he wouldn't have been able to withstand the sandstorm and kill the boss.

As time went on, fewer and fewer players remained, until finally only five players, including Wang Xing, were left.

The remaining twenty-odd players ran out of the sandstorm area and hid outside, waiting for support at any time.

Looking at the Heavenly Emperor, who had only a third of his health remaining, and Chang'e, who was almost at full health, Wang Xing hesitated for a moment before shouting, "Heavenly Emperor, you take the others and retreat. Just leave Chang'e alone. She can come to support me anytime!"

Are you sure?

"Sure!"

The Heavenly Emperor hesitated for a moment, only half a second, before immediately leading his men away.

At this point, only Wang Xing, Chang'e Fairy, and Da Mao remained fighting within the sandstorm's area.

As for Night Raven, since the Sandstorm's range is 30 meters and the Shadow Bullet's attack range is also 30 meters, Night Raven can defeat the boss without taking any damage, which is where Wang Xing's confidence comes from.

As long as the night raven is alive, everything else is negotiable.

"Chang'e, you only need to heal and buff Da Mao, you don't need to heal me. Also, be prepared to be instantly killed by the boss's berserk mode, and you must help me block damage at crucial moments!"

Chang'e glanced at Wang Xing with her cool, aloof eyes, then nodded gently. "Understood."