The hatred value of the abomination was firmly held onto him by the shield guard.
The other melee classes surrounded the Abomination and began unleashing their skills, and for a moment, the colorful light emitted by the skills fell upon it.
"Armor Break." Some warriors used this move, which further weakened the Abomination's defense, increasing the melee damage it received.
Those who change their class to a wanderer will use another skill.
Bleeding: This skill increases the melee damage a target takes by two points over twenty hits.
These two skills, combined with Liu Nian's Amplify Damage and Disintegrate Ray, drastically reduced the Abomination's defense value, making even a defense-soaked Abomination as vulnerable as a lamb to the slaughter.
At this moment, Liu Nian expressed his views on the Abomination skill to Dugu Xing.
Dugu Xing readily agreed and arranged for all ranged classes to gather together and hide behind the skeleton.
To be honest, that ability to extend one's arm is really hard to defend against.
If Liu Nian's idea fails, there's nothing that can be done; it's a risk that must be taken.
If successful, the security of remote units will be greatly improved.
Therefore, after careful consideration, he agreed with Liu Nian's point of view and used this as a test to hate the skill he had just used.
Since we're going to take risks anyway, we might as well be proactive and minimize the losses.
Fortunately, there were enough skeletons to easily surround ten people.
Moreover, ranged classes feel much more at ease knowing that there are skeletons protecting them and that they are not exposed to the Abominations' vision without any protection.
I also think this is a good idea. If I still get infected, it's my own fault and I can't blame anyone else.
The five ranged classes include Lone Star, three archers, two mages, one ice mage, and one lightning mage.
Dugu Xing is a lightning mage, and his most powerful spell is lightning.
Having the same class as the boss, the Ice Mage is much more meager, with only the Frostbolt spell, which was the reward from the recent monster siege.
Lightning magic has a chance to inflict an electrocution effect on the target, increasing the damage they take and having a chance to trigger a paralysis effect.
Ice magic is easy to understand; when a spell hits, it reduces the target unit's attack speed and movement speed.
Although it's easy to understand, the debuffs are quite effective, especially the reduction in attack speed, which is equivalent to indirectly increasing the survivability of melee classes.
The archers are in a very awkward position, as they need to find the right angle to attack, which leaves them with little room to maneuver.
If you find a good angle, you also need to be wary of the Abomination's unpredictable ability to pull people away.
They can only aim and then launch the projectile, since there is no friendly fire. If they hit a melee class, it would be very awkward, so their damage output is reduced.
After attacking the Abomination for a while, the group's coordination became increasingly seamless.
The Abomination, enraged, stretched out its arm again and attacked the ranged units. The ranged units kept attacking, and since they couldn't outrun it, they might as well risk their lives to deal damage.
Just as Liu Nian had predicted, the skeleton warrior standing in front of him was the first to come into contact with the abomination and was instantly pulled away by its long arms.
Unfortunately, the skeleton warrior had low health and turned into dust before it could be pulled back to the abomination.
The fact that there were no casualties greatly boosted the morale of Dugu Xing's team, and they wielded their weapons much faster.
The ranged classes breathed a sigh of relief and focused on dealing damage.
The Abomination's health was quickly reduced to around 1200 by the group.
With just a few more attacks, defeating the Abomination is a sure thing.
Thinking of this, the ranged classes began to take out blue bottles and drink them. They were not Liu Nian. Even if all their attribute points were put into intelligence, their mana was still very limited. Unlike Liu Nian, who was a spellcasting machine without any emotion.
If it weren't for the supply from alchemists, they would have had to reduce their output power.
Many hands make light work. Fortunately, some team members were able to obtain material cards to provide to the alchemists, allowing them to continuously produce potions.
Even so, magic potions remain in short supply.
Enough of the small talk. Just when everyone was having a good time, Abomination began to make its move, and the huge maw on its belly slowly opened.
The shield guard saw it from the front and a sense of unease flashed through his mind.
Shout loudly: "This monster's belly is splitting open! Watch out for its attacks!"
As soon as he finished speaking, green poison gas began to spew out from the gaping hole in his stomach. The poison gas spread very quickly, and except for a few agile classes who hid in the range of the poison gas, the rest of the classes, including the shield guard himself, were enveloped in the poison gas.
The stench and corrosive fumes caused the health of melee classes enveloped in the fumes to drop rapidly.
Meanwhile, the shield guard, who still retained his sanity, wanted to leave the range of the poison gas, but the poison gas seemed to reduce his movement speed, and he felt that his movements were very slow.
Even worse, the dense poison gas obscures the vision of healers, preventing them from healing injured players.
Their skills require a target to be selected; they cannot be used without a target unless they have a wide-range healing skill, which unfortunately they do not possess.
The situation suddenly reversed again; if the poison gas wasn't neutralized in time, all the trapped melee classes would perish.
"Does anyone have items like wind? Or a movement skill that forces Abominations to move?" Liu Nian looked at the dense fog, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he asked the obviously flustered crowd.
As Dugu Xing was pondering a solution, he heard Liu Nian speak and remembered that he had a prop that he might be able to use.
Let's try anything, even if it's a desperate situation. If we don't act soon, half of our melee fighters will be wiped out.
Without further hesitation, he calmly pulled a card from his pocket and materialized it; it was a wand-like item.
The prop is about the length of an adult's forearm, and the wooden tent is decorated with green crystal fragments.
【Force Wand】(Disposable Item)
Force: Can force a target unit to move five meters in the direction it is facing.
Number of uses: 1/1
Fortunately, the Abomination was tall, and the poisonous fog only reached its chest, leaving its conspicuous bald head exposed to everyone's view.
Dugu Xing stepped forward, aimed his wand at Abomination, and chose to unleash the Force.
The wand emitted a green pulse aimed at the abomination in the center, which was pulled forward several meters as if by an invisible force.
The thick fog surrounding the group began to thin as hatred was pushed away.
The healer was finally able to spot the melee class lying on the ground, on the verge of death, and quickly used healing spells to save their companion in distress.
Melee classes were fortunate enough to survive thanks to the active rescue efforts of healers, but they were unable to continue fighting.
Even worse, some of them suffered extensive corrosion damage, risking disfigurement. In some cases, their equipment and skin were fused together, and their condition remained far from optimistic.
Once everyone recovered from the chaos, they discovered that two melee classes were missing.
Upon seeing this, Liu Nian immediately summoned two Black Warriors to join the battle, replacing the original Shield Guards.
The abomination turned around, its massive maw closing, and the thick green fog gradually dissipated.
However, fragments of clothing belonging to the two missing melee fighters remained at the crack.
Everyone saw it clearly, and thinking of their companions who might have already perished, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts!
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