The skeletal roc was incredibly fast; a single flap of its wings could cover 500 meters, and a single flap could cover 5 kilometers, its movement speed almost like teleportation. However, the ice arrow was equally fast; by the time Jiang Hao noticed it, the giant ice shard had already crashed into him.
With a deafening boom, the massive ice shards crashed into the skeletal roc, exploding like fireworks into countless ice fragments. The impact and explosion propelled the skeletal roc backward over a thousand meters. Caught off guard, Jiang Hao was struck by the immense force and sent flying backward. Fortunately, he was caught by the bones in the skeletal roc's tail. He was struck again with tremendous force and was about to fall when, in desperation, he grabbed a bone, preventing himself from plummeting from the sky.
The impact left Jiang Hao dizzy and disoriented. Although he felt no pain, the vertigo made him want to vomit. After the skeletal roc regained its footing, Jiang Hao took a few deep breaths and finally managed to suppress the nausea in his heart.
The Skeleton Roc suffered a loss of nearly three million HP from its thirty million HP. Although Jiang Hao was not directly attacked, he still lost 250,000 HP due to the two impacts.
Seeing the massive ice crystals in the air reforming and about to crash into them, Jiang Hao turned pale with fright. With only 10,000 health points, he couldn't possibly withstand another attack. But the ice crystals were already upon them in the blink of an eye. The skeletal roc flapped its wings, narrowly avoiding the ice crystals by scraping the edge.
The skeletal roc carried Jiang Hao as it plunged into the thick clouds, and Jiang Hao finally breathed a long sigh of relief. Since entering the battlefield, Jiang Hao had never faced such danger. If that piece of ice had struck him directly, he would likely have been sent straight out of the battlefield.
As expected, only players from the Rabbit Kingdom can inflict the greatest damage on players from the Rabbit Kingdom.
Jiang Hao regretted not having dealt with that traitor from the Rabbit Kingdom sooner, while simultaneously feeling fortunate to have had the Skeleton Roc to help him escape. After circling in mid-air several times, Jiang Hao's health finally recovered to almost full.
The clouds were blown away by the wind, revealing a large area of the battlefield below. It was the mage formation of the Western Temple Guild from the beautiful country. Abandoning Darkness and Embracing Light stood easily among the large group of Westerners. Perhaps because he had slain a powerful enemy, he was now surrounded by his Western teammates, while the Chinese players behind him clearly looked on with envy. This made Abandoning Darkness's expression even more smug.
Jiang Hao felt utterly disgusted by his appearance and quickly raised his staff, swinging it down at him. As the staff fell, Abandoned Darkness and Become Light appeared beneath it, his health bar of over a thousand points emptied, and with a flash of white light, he vanished from the battlefield.
Jiang Hao felt as if every pore on his body had been opened. Countless players had died under his staff on the battlefield, but this one who had abandoned darkness for light made Jiang Hao feel an unprecedented sense of comfort.
Because of the absence of Abandoned Darkness and Turned to Light, the Western Temple Guild of the Beautiful Country saw their thousands of mages in the mage formation unleash their ice arrows, all landing in empty spaces, unable to conjure any more massive ice formations. The mages' discontent instantly turned red. Seeing the empty spot where Abandoned Darkness and Turned to Light had stood, their anger intensified.
Jiang Hao smiled slightly, thinking that once these players left the battlefield, perhaps they would know whether he had truly chosen the light or the darkness.
With a flap of its wings, the skeletal roc arrived at the very center of the battlefield. Without the ranged healing from the Royal Guard's priest phalanx several kilometers away, the Rose Crusaders of Sausage Kingdom had lost their former ferocity. Faced with the attack of nearly a hundred gold-level two-legged merfolk, they had already suffered heavy casualties. The remaining five hundred warrior players, under the full-force healing of the surrounding priests, were barely clinging to life.
Jiang Hao discovered that not only had the number of warriors decreased, but their attack and defense capabilities had also been reduced by more than half. A single slash from a murloc could take away a third of a warrior's health, while their attacks could barely penetrate the murloc monsters anymore. Where was the bravery they had shown in the small fortress? They were merely slightly stronger than ordinary warriors.
This phenomenon puzzled Jiang Hao. Could it be that the number of them affected their individual combat strength?
As one Rose Crusaders warrior after another was killed by the two-legged merfolk, their defense and attack power dwindled. Even with three or four priests healing a warrior, they couldn't withstand a single blow from a two-legged merfolk. And their attacks could no longer even penetrate the merfolk's defenses.
It seems that it really is true.
A moment later, only about a hundred Rose Crusaders remained. They could no longer stop the two-legged merfolk's attack and could only helplessly let the two-legged merfolk rush into the player group and slaughter them at will.
The most eye-catching fortress on the field was busy defending against the giant boss's attack and couldn't spare any attention, so it could only watch the battlefield situation with great anxiety.
He simply couldn't imagine who could dismantle his carefully assembled team so easily, like pulling out nails.
First, John Bull's MI7 guild said they encountered a powerful enemy and their guild leader was killed. Then, the Freemasons of South Korea said a player, standing on a giant skeletal bird, killed one of their guild's female players.
Even something like this needs to be reported? A lackey is a lackey, utterly hopeless!
But then John Bull's Royal Guard reported that their priest's magic circle was being attacked by the giant skeletal bird, which really touched a nerve. Even though he immediately ordered the Western Temple's mage phalanx to snipe at it, they still couldn't save the healer.
Is the giant skeletal bird Death's mount? Can it instantly eliminate players?
The fortress would never believe such absurd claims from the Royal Guard!
Why did Death choose to kill me, the healer, of all people? Without his long-range and powerful healing, what's the point of fighting this giant boss?
Someone must be up to no good behind this!
Moreover, he was someone who knew their legion extremely well.
But looking at the dozens of countries that are on good terms with the United States, which one has such terrifying capabilities?
Opening the individual kill leaderboard, Fortress saw the number one spot: the Lord of Hell from the Rabbit Kingdom!
Fortress found this interesting. He knew about this Lord of Hell; he'd heard the server-wide announcement. But even the strongest individual couldn't match the power of a legion.
Although the Lord of Hell had killed a considerable number of enemies, in the eyes of the Fortress, he was still not enough. If he hadn't been busy conquering the final boss of the killing battlefield, he could definitely have reached that number as well.
With doubts in mind, Fortress opened the individual monster kill leaderboard again. When he saw that the person in first place had killed more than 120,000 monsters, and that person's ID was the same as the previous leaderboard, still "Lord of Hell"!
An intuition surged into the fortress's mind, and he believed, without any reason, that the giant skeletal bird must be a summoned creature of the Lord of Hell!
Could it be that the Lord of Hell has already arrived? And he's alone?
Suddenly, the fortress felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, causing this god-like man on the battlefield to tremble with fear.
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