The platform on the mountainside has only one side against the mountain, while the other two sides are suspended in the air, with a bottomless abyss below.
As for the last side? That's the direction everyone came from.
The platform appears to be naturally formed, about sixty square meters in size, and is an irregular rectangular shape.
A few tenacious wild grasses occasionally sprout from the cracks in the rocks, adding some color to the stone platform and preventing it from being a desolate Gobi desert scene.
The Shield Guard's goal is to pull the Butcher to the side closest to the mountain, making it easier for them to defend and for the rest of the team to position themselves behind him for damage output.
Having not paid attention to the terrain, the male butcher unleashed a shockwave attack, knocking several of his companions off the cliff.
Chen Ling said that the Butcher's Concussion Strike has a knockback and slowing effect, which lasts for about ten seconds.
As Liu Nian was pondering, the shield guard took out a bottle of potion from his pocket and drank it.
He then slowly walked toward the butcher, his heavy armor making a rhythmic clanging sound.
When the boss saw the Shield Guard approaching, it switched from patrol mode to attack mode and ran towards the Shield Guard, with the Berserker following closely behind the Butcher.
Seeing the butcher approach, the shield guards slowly retreated towards the mountain wall.
With each step forward and backward, the Shield Guard was quickly caught up by the Butcher.
As the butcher's fist, as big as a sandbag, came crashing down, Liu Nian couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat for him.
As the Butcher saw the attack coming, he raised his left arm, and the Butcher's punch slammed into the Shield Guard's tower shield.
A loud "bang" resounded like a thunderclap in everyone's ears.
Despite its seemingly thin tower shield, its defensive capabilities were astonishing. The shield guard took the punch head-on, only staggering back a few steps before regaining his footing.
Using the momentum of their retreat, the shield guards retreated towards the mountainside.
After several rounds, the Shield Guard finally managed to safely pull the Butcher to the designated location.
During this time, Liu Nian used the Slowing Technique on the berserkers who were following the butcher, but they were resisted.
"Don't take the slowdown." I don't know if they know this or not, but Chen Ling didn't mention this point during the discussion earlier. This information still needs to be gathered together for everyone to discuss.
Liu Nian's original intention was to increase the distance between the Butcher and the Berserker, reduce the difficulty of separating the two bosses later, and avoid any unexpected events!
Seeing that the butcher had been successfully lured away, Chen Ling nodded to one of the soldiers beside her.
The off-tank warrior who was called out left Chen Ling's side and began to enter the fray to hold off the berserker.
He walked several meters behind the berserker and shouted, "Who dares to kill me!"
What the heck? Have I somehow traveled back to the Three Kingdoms period?!
Hearing this sentence made Liu Nian feel utterly absurd.
An even more outrageous scene unfolded: the Berserker, enraged by the words, abandoned following the Butcher as if losing his mind and turned to chase after the off-tank.
"This works?" Liu Nian was dumbfounded.
Of course, Liu Nian didn't know that this was a warrior's taunt skill, which could force a target to attack him.
As the distance between the two bosses grew further and further, the first step—creating distance between the bosses—was successfully completed.
The next step is to prioritize focusing fire on the berserker and kill it.
The hidden weakness of the healing profession is its extremely high taunt value, making it a primary target for elimination.
Liu Nian's curse amplifies damage, which is a boon to physical attackers. The group attacking from behind the berserker found that their weapons could break through its defenses more easily.
For a moment, the physical damage dealers seemed to have taken a super-powerful drug and were unleashing their firepower on the berserkers like crazy.
After calculating the timing, the off-tank raised his shield in one hand and took out a bottle of antidote with the other, then drank it.
Antidote can increase poison resistance by 20 points within an hour and also reduce the duration of poison effects.
It's most appropriate to use it here.
The most important thing in team battles is attrition warfare, and it seems they have quite a few capable people. Liu Nian thought of the freelancer Sun Buhuan.
With the Berserker completely surrounded, Liu Nian had no choice but to command his summoned creatures to attack the Butcher.
This time, Liu Nian once again only released a combination of six skeletons and five ghouls, but it was enough to shock everyone again.
At present, some people already have level four skills, so everyone knows how much magic points and other energy are needed to upgrade a skill to level five.
These two skills, both clearly at level 5, practically scream that this man has a lot of magic power, and sometimes having a lot of magic power means being very strong.
For example, Li Ming also had to calculate his mana regeneration and was very stingy with his output.
On the contrary, Liu Nian did not have this idea; if the damage amplification was gone, he would immediately replenish it.
Li Ming, who had been watching Liu Nian closely, visibly trembled, finally realizing what kind of monster he had provoked.
Unlike other professions that focus on outputting damage, Liu Nian can leisurely play a supporting role, except for releasing damage amplification.
If it weren't for the need to consider other people's feelings, Liu Nian would have taken out a cold drink and flipped through a few pages of "Intimate Paradise"!
The damage bonus of up to 10 points made physical damage output explode, and the Berserker's healing skills were used much more frequently than before.
Unfortunately, the health bar would quickly return to normal after each treatment by the professionals.
If it weren't for its ability to spray poison in a fan-shaped area, it would have been surrounded long ago.
After all, alchemists can't create something out of nothing; materials are limited, and they can only barely supply a few high-ranking figures.
However, skeletons are not afraid of poison rain, and the Butcher, being thick-skinned, is rendered useless after being hit by the Berserker's group healing.
Liu Nian withdrew the skeletons and attacked the berserker from the front.
Meanwhile, the Shield Guardian was left all alone to fight the Butcher.
However, he was not lonely, as three female healers were always watching over him.
After the Butcher stuns the Shield Guard, three healers will keep an eye on the Shield Guard's status and can immediately cast a healing spell if things look bad.
Shockwave attacks are easier to defend against; you just need to raise a shield and withstand the attack.
Moreover, before the fight began, the Shieldbearer drank a potion, a basic Titan potion.
This is the masterpiece of Chief Alchemist Chen Ling, increasing health by thirty points and defense by five points.
There are currently no items that can permanently increase attributes, so the effect of this potion is simply incredible.
However, the required materials are equally incredible, as they can increase health. I think they could fetch a good price if sold on the market.
The tower shield he held was of blue quality with a defense of 12-18. Combined with the damage reduction and defense boost granted by the shield, he was not worried at all.
The pressure on the off-tank is even less. The Berserker's output is significantly weaker than the Butcher's, it's practically negligible.
He can handle it perfectly well.
Soon, the unwilling berserker was defeated with a wail.
Some people couldn't help but cheer, and everyone's morale was greatly boosted.
They've never gotten this far before, but today they've finally achieved it.
Even Chen Ling's tense expression softened into a smile.
The professionals who were besieging the berserkers rushed straight to the butcher's back without waiting for Chen Ling's order.
The butcher over there also heard the wail, and suddenly interrupted his prepared shockwave attack, instead casting a skill called Life Link.
"Boss, something's wrong with the boss." The shield guard noticed that the boss had forcibly interrupted his skill, which should have been used.
Liu Nian also noticed this: a skill that could interrupt the boss's attack?
Alarm bells rang in Liu Nian's mind, and he blurted out, "Quickly interrupt his spellcasting!"
This skill might just turn the tide!
Unfortunately, this sound was drowned out by the excited roars of the professionals.
Few physical damage dealers can interrupt skills, and by this time they were already positioned behind the Butcher.
It must be said that Chen Ling is usually a capable leader, but at this moment she has become Liu Nian's nightmare.
Liu Nian thought of the effect of Zhang Jiaojin, but unfortunately, her body was too big to squeeze in, and she was squeezed to the outside by the physics majors.
He watched anxiously as the progress bar on the butcher's panel drew ever closer.
It's too late, Liu Nian thought.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and then the scrolling bar reaches its end.
Chen Ling also noticed Liu Nian's anxiety, but she couldn't control the situation either; the other professions excitedly took their positions in advance.
The morale boost from defeating the berserkers made them ignore everything around them.
As the loading bar reached its end, the long-dead Berserker was resurrected by the Butcher.
As Liu Nian watched its pale purple skin turn dark purple, a shadow fell over her heart.
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