With the powerful combination of Abyss Power and Explosive Arrow, Ye Chen swept through the enemy ranks without any obstacles and quickly reached the twentieth floor of the Heavenly Ladder Tower.
On the twentieth floor of the Heavenly Ladder Tower, Ye Chen encountered the first BOSS of the Heavenly Ladder Tower!
Tauren Chieftain
[Rank: Commander]
[Level: 25]
[Health Points: 250,000]
Attack Power: 8155
Physical Defense: 3755
[Magic Defense: 3687]
[Skills: Minotaur Battle Body, War Stomp, Earth-Shattering Strike...]
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Besides this level 25 boss, there are also ten level 25 elite monsters!
Shadow Priest
[Grade: Elite]
[Level: 25]
Health Points:
Attack Power: 4150
[Physical Defense: 1811]
[Magic Defense: 1955]
[Skills: Shadow Wave, Shadow Totem, Shadow Curse...]
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The Tauren Chieftain has high defense and health, and his passive skill, Tauren Warrior Body, reduces damage taken by 50%, making him a very troublesome opponent.
Moreover, the healing output of the ten elite Shadow Priests is also very sufficient.
Shadow Wave can emit a ricocheting beam of light that heals allies and damages enemies!
The summoned shadow totems can also continuously restore the health of nearby allies.
Most importantly, this level has a special rule: when the Tauren Chieftain is alive, the Shadow Priest takes 99% less AoE damage.
The combination of the Shadow Priest and the Tauren Chieftain with high attack, high defense, and high damage reduction significantly increases the difficulty of this level!
When the proctors saw this section, they all felt that this year's difficulty level was a bit beyond the curriculum!
While the twentieth floor is a hurdle, it shouldn't be this terrifying!
The very first boss is a combination of a Tauren Chieftain and a Shadow Priest, which is quite unfriendly to AoE damage classes!
The only way to take down the Shadow Priests is to use high-burst single-target skills one by one. Otherwise, as soon as you reduce the Tauren Chieftain's health by a little, the ten Shadow Priests can immediately recover!
Ye Chen has been using the combination of Abyss Power and Explosive Arrow to instantly kill monsters all along, but this level might present him with some obstacles.
But who knew that they had ultimately underestimated Ye Chen.
Without any hesitation, Ye Chen launched an attack!
God's Enhancement!
Dark Arrow!
Instead of following the conventional battle strategy of eliminating the Shadow Priests one by one, Ye Chen launched a direct attack on the Tauren Chieftain!
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The Dark Arrow, which was originally supposed to deal over 40,000 damage, only dealt a little over 20,000 damage. The Minotaur Chieftain's Minotaur Battle Body damage reduction effect was terrifying!
Shadow Wave!
The Shadow Priest behind the Tauren Chieftain unleashed a Shadow Wave, instantly restoring the Tauren Chieftain's lost health!
"It seems Ye Chen still lacks combat experience. He clearly can't directly deal with the Tauren Chieftain. The life recovery of ten Shadow Priests is terrifying!"
"Archers aren't a class that can unleash bursts of power instantly; Ye Chen has met his match this time!"
The proctors were somewhat disappointed to see Ye Chen attack the Minotaur chieftain first!
However, Ye Chen didn't care about the Tauren Chieftain's restored health. He just looked at the wisps of black energy swirling around the Tauren Chieftain and a smile appeared on his lips.
Super Multi-Arrow!
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-3727! (Mark of God)
-! (Critical Hit)
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Six golden arrows, like streaks of light, instantly pierced the Minotaur chieftain's body.
The Tauren Chieftain's health bar was instantly depleted, and even the Shadow Priests didn't have time to heal him!
Boom!
The Tauren chieftain's massive body crashed to the ground!
[Log: Successfully killed the level 25 Tauren Chieftain, gaining 10 million experience points.]
After the Tauren Chieftain fell, the Shadow Priest's damage reduction buff also disappeared instantly!
The power of the abyss!
Exploding Arrow!
Boom!
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Ten elite Shadow Priests were blasted to pieces, turning into experience points!
[Log: Successfully killed a level 25 Shadow Priest, gaining 3 million experience points.]
[Log: Successfully killed a level 25 Shadow Priest, gaining 3 million experience points.]
[Log: Successfully killed a level 25 Shadow Priest, gaining 3 million experience points.]
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The experience points are incredibly generous!
Ye Chen is now level 25, and his 10x experience cap is as high as 3.3 million, which means he will no longer waste any experience points from elite monsters of the same level.
Although killing a boss of the same level will still result in a significant loss of experience points, it's not a major issue, since the ladder tower is mostly populated by elite monsters.
Ye Chen was confident that once the Heavenly Ladder Tower ended, his skill level would rise to another level!
"Ah, this..."
Seeing Ye Chen instantly kill the Tauren Chieftain with a single skill, and then clear the map with an arrow, instantly killing all the Shadow Priests, left all the proctors watching the live stream almost petrified.
I simply can't believe it!
Even without the power of the abyss, Ye Chen was able to instantly kill the minotaur chieftain who possessed the Minotaur Battle Body.
This damage is so great that even the Bronze level couldn't compare, let alone the Iron level!
This is absolutely inhuman!
"Ye Chen's first skill should be a continuous damage amplification debuff, otherwise he could just kill him instantly!"
"As expected of a genius, his battle strategy is so clear!"
"Hmm? Didn't you just say that Ye Chen's combat experience is still somewhat lacking?"
"Haha...you misheard..."
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Ye Chen was naturally unaware of the conversation between the proctors in the examination room.
However, if he knew, he would just laugh it off.
There's no combat strategy involved; it's all about high damage output and being utterly inhuman!
The use of Dark Arrow was merely for added safety, as there was a concern that the Shadow Priest might simultaneously heal the Tauren Chieftain!
Without the Shadow Priest's healing, even without the Dark Arrow debuff, the damage from Super Multishot is enough to instantly kill the Tauren Chieftain!
"continue!"
The Heavenly Ladder Tower has four levels: the 20th, 50th, 80th, and the final 100th level.
These four hurdles signify a significant increase in difficulty, and can easily lead to life-or-death crises!
Having cleared level 20, it means that you won't encounter any bosses in the levels up to level 50, allowing players to take a breather!
However, the number of elite monsters in later levels will increase, and the monster combinations will become more bizarre, but at least it won't leave the challengers with no chance to escape using teleportation stones!
However, BOSS levels are different. The BOSS's high burst damage can easily kill the challenger instantly, leaving them no chance to escape even using the teleportation stone!
However, Ye Chen's eyes were filled with fighting spirit; he was determined to conquer this Heavenly Ladder Tower!
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