198: Golden BOSS, one move to wipe out the entire group

The battle had ended, but the spectators in the stands were still replaying it in their minds.

"Those two... their skill level isn't that great! I feel like I could do it too..."

"Does it feel like their mechanics are very crude?"

"Exactly..."

"It's normal, just path dependency... There's a classic saying in the arena: out of ten summoners, nine are trash, and the last one is exceptionally trash... But in reality, they are the group with the highest win rate in the arena!"

"..."

On Xu Shian's side.

He was stunned to see his share of the ticket dividends: 512 life spirit crystals.

He knew from the betting that there were many people, but he hadn't expected this many.

Over ten thousand people watched this single match?

Looking at the two achievement prompts below, Shian felt more and more that a ten-win streak in the arena seemed quite important.

Advanced achievements usually gave good things, but a ten-win streak was clearly not enough to trigger one... Whether it was important or not was just how it went.

After the match, Shian was immediately teleported back to the Snow Peak Plain.

Shian now had ten Bronze Badges in his hand.

He already met the minimum requirement to purchase a bloodline potion.

However, after some thought, he wasn't in a hurry for now.

This was because Shian's exploration of the Snow Peak Plain had yielded some results.

He seemed to have found the BOSS's location.

He had already appeared at the entrance of an elite BOSS.

If he hadn't been suddenly teleported to the arena just now, this elite monster would have already been taken down.

[Cursed Cult Deacon]

[Humanoid Elite Monster]

[Level: 45]

[HP: 100,000]

[MP: 120,000]

[Magic Attack: 3,600]

[Strength: 760]

[Agility: 780]

[Constitution: 1,000]

[spirit: 1,200]

[physical defense: 780]

[Magic Defense: 780]

[Skills]

[Dark Curse]: Blinds the target and causes loss of mobility; Duration 10 seconds, Cooldown 30 seconds.

[Weakness Curse]: Reduces all attributes of the target by 50% and movement speed by 30%; Duration 10 seconds, Cooldown 30 seconds.

[Dark Fangs]: Fires six consecutive Dark Fangs to perform a ranged strike on the target; each dark fang deals 220% magic damage to the target.

[Attack Backlash]: Curses the target, causing 30% of their attacks to reflect back as backlash; Duration 20 seconds, Cooldown 30 seconds.

[Aging Curse]: Reduces the target's maximum HP and MP by 25%; Duration 1 minute, Cooldown 70 seconds.

While this thing's curses were scary, its offensive methods weren't that impressive.

However, as a missionary of the Cursed Cult, there was always a row of Cursed Cult members kneeling before him!

In other words, this guy was an elite monster with 100 underlings.

Of course, this wouldn't stump Shian... In fact, he actually wanted to recruit this guy as an underling.

Unfortunately, his level wasn't higher than the monster's, so he couldn't use Contract Summoning to capture it as a pet.

As for the return to silence card album?

Don't be ridiculous. Shian often couldn't even remember that he had an underling like the Murloc Ben Boer Ba!

It wasn't that he deliberately forgot!

Mainly, as his strength increased, general battles no longer required Shian to go all out.

Plus, over the last few days, Shian's main focus had been on finding the BOSS.

The main forces out roaming were the two ravens.

So now, Shian was unwilling to waste soul sand grains to capture a Rare Elite.

He wouldn't be willing even if it only cost ten or twenty thousand.

Moreover, this was a humanoid monster!

According to Shian's experience, in places where there were Rare Elites, there was usually a BOSS most of the time!

It was as if this was the BOSS's status... With a thought, Shian summoned ten Wind Serpents!

A Rare Elite?

Shian could pull out any random underling, and their attributes would be much higher than its.

As soon as the Wind Serpents appeared, they didn't bother with any nonsense.

Chain Lightning, go!

With a magic attack as high as 7500+ combined with 300% initial magic damage!

The ten Wind Serpents killed the [Cursed Cult Deacon] in a single round!

After two rounds of Chain Lightning, the small monsters on the scene were also completely wiped out.

They were truly experts at bullying weaklings!

[Ding, congratulations on killing the Level 45 Rare Elite 'Cursed Cult Deacon'. For killing a monster 23 levels above you, you receive a 300% experience bonus. Experience +22,500, Extra Lifespan +2,250 days.]

[Congratulations, you have obtained: Gold +450, Items: Cursed Stone, Equipment: Cursed Staff (Golden Grade), Boots of Calm (Silver Tier), Cursed Robe (Silver Tier).]

[Cursed Staff]

[Two-handed, Staff]

[Golden Grade]

[Equipment Rating: 400]

[Requirements: Constitution 450, spirit 600]

[Magic Attack +300]

[Constitution +100]

[spirit +150]

[Haste +100]

[Equip: Attacks have a 20% chance to apply one of four curses—'Darkness', 'Weakness', 'Backlash', or 'Aging'—to the target for 3 seconds. Internal cooldown 10 seconds.]

[Durability: 150/150]

(I can curse you even without drawing circles!)

Shian cursed inwardly; this was really messing with his head.

A rating of 400... You're a Level 45 elite monster, wouldn't it be better to drop a 450 Golden staff for me?

Kukimototaka happened to be stuck at a bottleneck, and his Novice Staff hadn't had its attributes updated for over a month.

The upgrade speed for the two pieces of equipment he had to craft himself, like the linen robe, had also fallen into a strange stagnation... If this were a 450 staff, he could have gone home and relaxed today!

Actually, if the equipment were a bit worse, Shian wouldn't have cared!

He probably would have been happy for a long time.

This 400 rating was just awkward... As for the remaining two Silver pieces?

To be honest, even just these boots had a rating of 220, and their attributes were already quite a bit better than the agile treasure boots on Shian's feet.

But the agile treasure boots had Movement Speed +5!

For Shian, was that bit of attribute gain from equipment important?

...Actually, it was quite important!

But undoubtedly, the Movement Speed attribute was more important... Therefore, for Shian, as long as the boots' movement speed didn't increase, it was impossible to change shoes!

...The place where the Cursed Cult was located was the only hilly area in this plain.

The headquarters of the Cursed Cult was hidden within these rolling hills.

Shian had followed the level distribution of the Cursed Cult lackeys to find his way here.

Entering a cave, a magnificent Cursed Hall was actually hidden inside.

The BOSS Shian had been trying everything to find was right here... [Dark Pope Everett, Light Pope Isadora]

[Golden Grade BOSS]

[Level: 50]

[HP: 6,000,000]

[MP: 8,000,000]

[Physical Attack: 30,000]

[Magic Attack: 80,000]

[Strength: 1,500]

[Agility: 1,500]

[Constitution: 3,000]

[spirit: 4,000]

[physical defense: 6,000]

[Magic Defense: 6,000]

[Skills]... Shian hadn't expected that in the territory of the East Dragon Empire,

the popes of an evil cult would actually be two foreigners... Then again... if they were from the East Dragon Empire, they'd probably be called something like the White Lotus Cult.

How could they have a name as low-class as the Cursed Cult?

The first thing he did upon meeting was tentatively throw out a Scouting Technique... Good news: the BOSS's attributes were revealed.

Bad news: it was better not knowing... Shian had already witnessed the strength of a Bronze Level BOSS.

He thought Golden Grade was only two tiers higher than Bronze Level, how strong could it be?

"Intruder? And there's only one?"

Light Pope Isadora lifted her staff, jogged a few steps toward Shian, and began casting!

"Holy crap, throwing a Scouting Technique from this far away can trigger combat?"

Complaining aside.

Instinctively, Shian felt he couldn't let Isadora's skill hit him in the face.

Shian quickly raised a hand, and two bears, ten Wind Serpents, and two wild boars all appeared inside the Cursed Hall.

Pigsy charged and rampaged.

Bear One and Bear Two also each pulled a BOSS to fight them separately.

Shian himself retreated rapidly.

Then, he saw a scene that shocked him.

The Dark BOSS finished casting, and an area-of-effect Shadow Bolt hit every unit in the hall.

Damage numbers of -120,000 popped up over all of Shian's underlings... and then they all died together!