Familiar spots of light appeared on the Thunder Giant's skin again, a sign that it was about to release an electric attack.
Xia Yao got up from the ground, switched to the exorcist poet form with a click, and ran while drawing the bow and shooting arrows.
Since she received a 30% bonus to all attributes in Ares City, not only did her attack strength increase, but even her prerequisite skill [Soul Drain] that specifically accumulated soul fragments was also strengthened.
Before, each [Soul Drain] could only accumulate 0.5-1 layers of soul for her, but now she could get a full 3 layers at once!
Three layers were enough for her to unleash her ultimate skill, [Natural Disaster], but unfortunately, she had already used this skill in the Cosona Plains, and was currently frozen for 12 hours.
There are no restrictions on other skills.
So he moved in an S shape all the way, used [Soul Corrosion] to cause 150%+30% damage to the Lightning Giant, then used [Soul Burning] to continuously burn the enemy's health for 3 seconds, and finally used [Soul Fury] to wipe out the remaining 10% of the giant's health!
The Thunder Giant let out the same wailing sound as the Storm Giant before, and because he was standing on an upward slope, he suddenly lost his strength and his huge body fell backwards like half of the sky collapsing.
With a deafening roar, the thunder giant fell backwards to the ground and died on his back.
Then there is only the last one left, which is also the Frost Giant with the highest level and the most health.
The players who were previously in a negative state just returned to normal, and they launched an attack under the leadership of Xia Yao.
There is strength in numbers. Although the Frost Giant's health was not dropping as fast as the other two, it was still decreasing at a steady rate. By the time it stepped out of Hughes Highlands, its health bar had been reduced to 39%.
From 60% to 39%, this efficiency is actually very high. After all, the total health of the Frost Giant is more than 13 million, and its level is 91, which is the highest level that all players in the server have seen so far.
It's quite impressive that they were able to reduce the giant's health by 21% in 45 minutes.
But there is still 39% of blood left.
But they didn't have much time left, only 1 hour and 8 minutes.
No, the players made a bold prediction that they didn't even have to wait for this time to end, the giants would be able to enter the royal city in advance.
Because there is only a small map called Deadwood Forest to the south of Hughes Highlands, and further south of the Deadwood Forest is a nameless grassland, which players jokingly call the Nameless Grassland. It is very small and a giant can cross it in a few steps, and across it is the location of the royal city.
In other words, the players no longer have any effective means of blocking.
Hughes Heights should have been their most advantageous place for counterattack, but they did not seize the opportunity. Instead, they were hit by the debuff of the Thunder Giant, causing them to lose most of their combat effectiveness at once.
If half of them had been like the big boss and not been affected by the negative status, the Frost Giant's health would definitely be less than 20% now.
I regret it every time I think about it.
The players gritted their teeth unwillingly and chased after the Frost Giant with all their might!
We can’t let the giant pass, we can’t let the giant pass!
They must protect the most important royal city!
Just as they were fighting hard, a large group of people suddenly rushed out from the royal city at the bottom of the slope.
Those people were wearing silver armor and holding heavy weapons. Some of them were riding war horses and holding shields. It was obvious at a glance that they were soldiers from the royal city!
They went to battle!
The players' eyes suddenly lit up!
"It's NPC soldiers! The king has sent troops to support us!"
"I saw it too. The sergeant who worked with me on the military industry mission last time is also in there!"
"Great, we, we still have hope of victory..."
Some players started crying while talking.
The teammates around them patted their shoulders with understanding. Although they didn't say anything to each other, just a look was enough to give them silent encouragement and strength.
Xia Yao stood at a high point in the dead woods, reached out her hand, and caught the carrier pigeon that flew down from the sky.
He took out the thing from the claw, unscrewed the mechanism, and took out the small note inside.
[The message has been delivered. The king will soon send troops to support us! —Ashaya]
She breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she had contacted someone in the city.
The carrier pigeon borrowed from Rex was indeed very useful. It had a very strong sense of direction and accurately delivered her letter for help to the Academy of Scholars.
Asaya is the person she trusts the most, and she will definitely find a way to assist the player after receiving the letter.
Xia Yao touched the pigeon's back gratefully. It felt smooth and comfortable. As a thank you, she took out some snacks from her backpack and fed them to the pigeon.
Unexpectedly, two messages popped up one after another.
[The porcupine doesn't like you feeding the pigeons and grunts in dissatisfaction.]
[The Golden Mutant Lizard (Cub) is hungry and wants to eat what's in your hand.]
Xia Yao was stunned.
Wasn't she just feeding Rex's pigeons? Why were the two little ones so upset?
Forget it. In order to avoid pop-ups during the battle later and affecting her vision, Xia Yao decided to calm them down first.
The battle pet stayed in the battle pet home. After Xia Yao opened the panel, she saw a porcupine and a golden mutant lizard curled up on the left and right of the home respectively.
The two guys did not interfere with each other and even kept the farthest distance from each other, making it clear that I don't like you and you don't come near me.
Xia Yao was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. She stretched out her fingers and touched them. Only then did the two little guys move in the corner, indicating that they received her comfort.
[The porcupine enjoys your touch and hums happily.]
[The Golden Mutant Lizard (Cub) is happy, but it's hungry. Please feed it.]
Xia Yao took out the snacks from her backpack and dragged them into the home. However, her hand slipped and the snacks fell right in the middle of the home, right in the middle between the porcupine and the golden mutant lizard.
This is a bit embarrassing.
If she digs to the left, the cub will be unhappy. If she digs to the right, it will be even worse. The porcupine will probably groan to the sky.
Well, she decided to drag the snacks in again.
But in the blink of an eye, when my sight returned to my home, I found that the porcupine and its cub were fighting in the middle of the house!!!
"Stop! Stop right there!" she yelled, using her fingers to separate the two guys. "We're all family, we can't fight, okay?"
After a pause, he said with a stern face: "Piggy, you are older than your brother, how can you hit your brother? Brother, you too, if you want to eat, just tell your brother. I am not going to give it to you."
The porcupine and its cub suddenly became Xia Yao's brother and younger brother.
The two little guys rolled their eyes at each other, finally loosened their teeth, turned their heads back to the previous corner, and continued squatting. No one wanted to grab the snack that fell in the middle, as if it was poisonous after being touched by the other.
Xia Yao was both amused and confused. She hurriedly dragged the new snacks to them. Seeing them eating happily, she exited the interface and returned to the present.
The king sent out about 1,000 soldiers this time. Although their number was far less than that of the players, their levels were not low, generally above level 40, which was much higher than the average level of the players.
Therefore, under the joint attack of players and soldiers, the Frost Giant's blood speed was reduced to 22%.
"It's just the last bit. Come on everyone, hold on, victory is just around the corner~" The players cheered each other on.
But a very serious problem then lay before them - they were running out of physical strength.
Yes, they fought their way from north to south, even their equipment's durability had been reduced to zero, not to mention the physical strength they had consumed. Even if they drank physical potions and ate food, it was far from enough to keep up with the rate of consumption.
Therefore, players who have been fighting without dying, or have only died a few times, will soon be warned by the system [Current physical strength is less than 10, there is a risk of fainting].
Immediately afterwards, a large number of players fainted in Kurumulin.
This includes most people from Sword and Rose and the Northern Dark City.
They were always fighting on the front line, and their physical strength was consumed much faster than others. If they had not relied on eating fruits crazily in the later period to keep going, they would have collapsed on Hughes Heights long ago.
But the fruit has marginal utility. When you first eat it, it can increase your physical strength a little, but after eating 10 of them, it will be completely useless.
They could only watch helplessly as their stamina ran out, and eventually they fell one by one in various places in the dead woods.
As for the remaining players who had not fainted, some had been taking advantage of the situation and pretending to fight, while others had joined the battle halfway through. In short, their combat capabilities were much inferior to those who had fallen.
Xia Yao didn't expect them to be able to stop the giant.
Her physical strength was only 14 points left.
There were less than 3 kilometers left for the giants to attack the royal city. According to the giants' pace, one step was 74 meters on average, so 3,000 meters only required more than 400 steps.
Time is running out.
While taking out the flying prop from her backpack, she contacted someone in the royal city: "It's 3 kilometers away. Can the artillery fire here?"
The other end: "Okay, but you..."
Xia Yao: "Don't worry about me, just bombard them."
There was a moment of silence on the other end, and then he said, "Okay, we'll try not to hit you."
After hanging up the voice call, Qin Feng, the president of Qingfengyu Pavilion, looked ahead and took a deep breath.
He stood on the city wall at the north gate of the royal city, slowly raised his hand, and then dropped it with force.
"put!"
With his order, the cannons neatly arranged on the north gate fired shells with a bang!
Some of these cannons were brought by the royal city, and some were dragged out by him from the guild warehouse. They were originally a lifestyle guild, and he was the president and an engineer, so there were countless defensive turrets.
I didn't expect that the artillery that I had stored for so long would come in handy at this moment.
After Qin Feng was teleported back from the Sword and Rose base, he immediately ordered people to prepare these things, and then negotiated with the NPC leader at the north gate to obtain the right to climb the city wall.
It’s a pity that the maximum firing range of the artillery is only 3 kilometers, so even though they discovered the giant in the dead forest long ago, they could only watch anxiously from afar.
Now that the giant has finally entered the shooting range, Qin Feng immediately ordered to fire as soon as he received the news from Xia Yao!
The giant in the distance was hit by a cannonball, and white smoke rose from every part of its body.
And in this cloud of smoke, whether it was Qin Feng and others at the North Gate, or the players in the Deadwood Forest, they all saw a figure running on the giant!
"Fuck, it's the boss!"
"She actually climbed onto the giant!"
"What is she doing? Why is she just running and jumping instead of attacking?"
"Could it be that... she wants to take advantage of the monster's non-damage immunity mechanism?!"
"But this is too difficult! The opponent is a giant. If you can't dodge a slap from him, you will die and return to the city!"
Xia Yao didn’t know whether to return to the city or not. She only knew that this was the only possible way to deal with the giant.
It was risky, but she had to try it!
Using the hook-like props given by Wushan Leng, she climbed and jumped on the giant's head, shoulders, arms and back like a little monkey.
The frost giant was annoyed by her and waved his hands vigorously, trying to drive her away.
Whenever this happened, Xia Yao would quickly dodge and let the slap fall on herself!
The slap was very powerful, causing 10,000 to 50,000 damage to the giant each time. Coupled with the cooperation of the turrets on the city wall and the reluctant output of the remaining players, its health bar kept dropping.
16%, 15%, 14%...
12%, 11%, 10.9%...
It’s almost there, it’s almost there!
Just hold on a little longer, you will succeed soon!
Xia Yao gritted her teeth and ran desperately on the giant.
[Please note that your current physical strength is 11]
[Please note that your current stamina is 10]
[Warning, current physical strength is less than 10, there is a risk of fainting]
"Oh my god, the boss seems to be exhausted!" A player in the distance exclaimed.
Physical exhaustion will be quickly reflected in the player's actions, specifically slow movements and weak steps.
Xia Yao's movement in the air just now was extremely smooth, but in the blink of an eye, she felt as if her whole body was nailed by nails, so heavy that she could hardly take a step.
She was forced to let go, and her whole body fell into the giant's right palm!
The giant looked down at her, with pride, ridicule and evil flashing in his eyes.
I saw it slowly raise its left palm.
As the players screamed again.
With a snap!
The giant's left hand slammed heavily on his right hand!
The author has something to say:
My memory is worse than a goldfish, and I got the skill setting data wrong. Now I update it as follows:
[Soul Corrosion: Consumes 0.5 souls and 50 mana points, deals 150% damage to a single target, no cooldown]
[Soul Burning: Consumes 1 soul and 50 mana points, deals 120% damage to all targets, lasts 3 seconds, cooldown time 30 seconds]
[Soul Fury: Consumes 2 souls and 50 mana points, causing full damage to all targets with health below 10%. Cooldown time: 45 seconds.]
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