169: Chapter 165 New Rune: Void Sacrifice!

As his voice fell, Lu Zhentian shot directly into the battlefield.

Boom!

The golden shield rippled with holy waves.

It shook the surrounding monsters, turning all of them into blood mist.

Shield raised, Lu Zhentian charged straight toward the Emperor-class Boss.

Boom—!

Golden light erupted, and both man and snake were sent flying back simultaneously.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

Afterward, Lu Zhentian began to engage the Emperor-class Boss.

No one supported him.

Yet, relying on the shield in his hand, Lu Zhentian managed to hold off the Emperor-class Boss, preventing it from advancing even half a step.

The city walls were filled with excitement!

"Too strong!"

"Good! Truly worthy of being the Strongest Shield!"

"Elder Lu is still as vigorous as ever!"

"Too strong! Blocking an Emperor-class Boss with his own strength!"

Seeing this scene, a look of reminiscence appeared in General Yuan Muzhi's eyes.

"Elder Lu's divine might is a model for us all!"

"However, this is not yet Elder Lu's peak.

Back in the day, Elder Lu could single-handedly hold off seven Emperor-class Bosses at once..."

"Back then, I was just a rookie, only able to look up at Elder Lu's back from within the crowd."

"I never expected that today, I would be able to fight side-by-side with Elder Lu!"

He drew his war blade and roared loudly:

"Brothers! Follow me and charge out!

Although we may not have the qualifications to fight the Emperor-class Boss, we must still do our part; we cannot let these low-level monsters harass Elder Lu!"

"Kill!"

"..."

For a moment, the sounds of battle shook the heavens.

Lu Yuan naturally would not let his grandfather fight the Emperor-class Boss alone.

Lu Zhentian's defensive capabilities were indeed very strong, but he was only a Paladin, and his offensive methods were relatively lacking.

Killing an Emperor-class Boss was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Lu Yuan wanted to send the Slime to provide support, but there were too many monsters; if the Slime were to leave by force, it would affect the entire battle situation and might cause more people to die.

The best method was to have the nearest Little Skeleton go support first.

But although the Little Skeleton was tanky enough, it did not possess the damage output to solo an Emperor-class Boss.

Lu Yuan stretched his limbs, feeling somewhat excited.

"Could it be that this is the moment for me to make my first move?"

After his Second Advancement, Lu Yuan was the strongest one.

Just at this moment, a pillar of white light suddenly rose from the Little Skeleton.

It leveled up?

Lu Yuan's eyes lit up.

The Little Skeleton reached level 40!

It could choose a new Hextech Rune.

With a slight shift of his will, three cards appeared out of thin air before him.

[Prismatic · Orbital Laser]: Grants the skill Orbital Laser. After a delay, summons an orbital laser beam to strike down, dealing 25% True Damage of the target's maximum health to all targets, plus high continuous damage.

[Prismatic · Archmage]: Casting a skill reduces the cooldown of another random skill.

[Prismatic · Void Sacrifice]: Grants the Mythic-grade equipment · Void Sacrifice. After taking or dealing damage, deals 1% True Damage of maximum health to a random enemy every second.

"Hiss—!" They were all Prismatic Runes.

And, each one was more broken than the last.

Orbital Laser was very suitable for the Little Skeleton, able to compensate for its lack of damage output.

Archmage was also not bad; with it, the Little Skeleton's defensive skills could be active throughout the entire duration, giving this coward more sense of security.

But after seeing the third rune, Lu Yuan did not hesitate at all and selected it directly.

[Void Sacrifice!]

This rune was practically tailor-made for the Little Skeleton.

The Little Skeleton paused, looking at the faint purple flames enveloping its body.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap..."

"This is too broken!"

"Master has bestowed another heaven-defying ability upon me!"

Lu Yuan revealed an excited smile.

"Go, Little Skeleton, go help Grandfather finish off that Emperor-class Boss!"

"Yes! Master!"

If it were in the past, upon hearing that it had to face an Emperor-class Boss, the Little Skeleton's first reaction would definitely be to cower.

But now, the times were different!

With Void Sacrifice, let alone an Emperor-class, even if it were a World-class Boss, it would dare to fight it head-on!

The Little Skeleton stood in the midst of the beast horde, dropping all defenses.

It let countless monsters attack it crazily.

But every time an attack landed on it, a ball of strange purple flame would appear out of thin air, enveloping a monster.

-219,000

-219,000

-219,000

Each purple flame dealt nearly 200,000 damage.

Seeing this scene, Lu Yuan's eyes shone.

The characteristics of Void Sacrifice were just too suitable for this kind of situation!

As long as someone attacked the Little Skeleton, a ball of Void Flame would be generated, dealing 1% of the Little Skeleton's maximum health as True Damage to surrounding enemies.

The current Little Skeleton had a maximum health of over 20 million.

1% was 200,000!

And it was area-of-effect True Damage!

I just want to ask, who else is there!?

The monsters that had originally surrounded the Little Skeleton were reduced to ashes in the purple flames in the blink of an eye.

"Hehe!"

The Little Skeleton quickly carved a path through the beast horde, trampling who knows how many monsters.

Soon, the Little Skeleton arrived at Lu Zhentian's side.

Lu Yuan transmitted his voice: "Grandfather, I have come to assist you!"

Lu Zhentian had just climbed out of the ruins and coughed a few times before laughing loudly:

"Good! Today, we grandfather and grandson will destroy this Emperor-class Boss!"

Boom!

The Little Skeleton rushed forward and slapped one of the heads of the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python, directly sending it flying.

"?"

The Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python climbed up from the ruins, looking with a bewildered expression at the Skeleton Soldier before it, whose size was even more terrifying than its own.

Haa—

It spat out a sky-covering poisonous mist, completely enveloping the Little Skeleton.

The poisonous mist corroded, and the golden bones on the Little Skeleton's body began to melt.

-550,000!

-530,000!

-540,000!

The Nine-Headed Soul-Devouring Python's damage was extremely terrifying, and the poison-attribute damage would also continuously stack.

The longer the time, the heavier the damage received would be.

Although the Little Skeleton had over 20 million health, it couldn't hold on for too long!!

"Release Demon Body!" Lu Yuan's command came through.

The Little Skeleton roared, and its size suddenly surged again.

[Demon Body]

In an instant, all attributes surged ten times, and the 24K gold bones on the skeleton body became even more robust.

Its health surged from nearly 30 million to nearly 300 million!

Although there was still a huge gap compared to the Nine-Headed Soul-Devouring Python, the Little Skeleton had the advantage in size!

It pressed down on two of the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python's heads, firmly pinning its body underneath.

It let the opponent attack, but simply would not let go.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Soon, purple flames boiled up from within the Little Skeleton, enveloping the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python within them.

-2,100,000!

-2,100,000!

-2,100,000!

With 10 times the health, the 1% maximum health damage naturally increased by 10 times as well.

The initial damage of Void Sacrifice changed from 210,000 to 2,100,000.

Dense numbers of damage kept floating out from above the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python's head.

Its health was dropping rapidly.

"How is this possible..."

The Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python was stunned.

This low-level Skeleton Soldier could actually deal damage to it?

And each tick was 2.1 million!

But it quickly calmed down.

"It doesn't matter. Although your health is high, it is still far from comparing to mine.

If we drag this out, the winner will still be me."

The Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python began to crazily release poisonous mist, wanting to wear the Little Skeleton to death.

Just at this moment—

A glimmer of starlight flashed in the Little Skeleton's eyes.

Star Guardian!

90% damage reduction!

The 500,000 damage instantly became only 50,000.

Immediately after, other defensive skills all stacked up.

The damage remaining was less than 10,000 points.

This damage, for the Little Skeleton with 300 million maximum health, was just a drizzle.

It could be directly ignored.

The Little Skeleton didn't care about that anymore; it excitedly grabbed the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python's tail.

Swinging left and right, it slammed it fiercely onto the ground.

Boom, boom, boom, boom—!

For a moment, the Nine-Heaven Soul-Devouring Python, in the hands of the Little Skeleton, actually had no power to fight back!