72: Bone Armor

"Let's go! Let's head deeper into the main hall; there must be more good stuff there!" Lin Fei's eyes flashed with excitement. The recently strengthened Meteor Fire Rain had filled him with confidence, and he was ready to sweep through the entire Thunder God Temple.

Xu Zhengyang and Lin Mengzi naturally had no objections and immediately followed him.

However, just as the three of them were about to step deeper into the shadows shrouding the main hall...

Rumble—!!!

The entire Thunder God Temple felt as if it had been violently shaken by an invisible giant hand!

The ground beneath their feet trembled violently, gravel fell from overhead, and dust filled the air!

"What's going on? Is it an earthquake?" Xu Zhengyang swayed, quickly steadying himself.

"No! Look at that statue!" Lin Mengzi exclaimed, pointing at the massive Cyclops statue in the center of the main hall!

The statue, which had been deathly still, was now "coming to life" before their eyes!

Its stone eye snapped open, shooting out two beams of crimson light!

Its cracked body emitted a harsh "click-clack" sound, as if something were struggling to break free from within!

【Warning! Warning! The temple's core defensive mechanism has been accidentally triggered by an unknown party!】

【Ancient Guardian · Eight-Armed Demon Elephant has awakened! Purging all intruders!】

The cold System notification exploded in the minds of all players within the Thunder God Temple area!

Boom!!!

Accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, the six-meter-tall Cyclops statue split open down the middle!

As the stone skin fell away and dust swirled, a much larger, more ferocious figure slowly emerged!

It was a giant elephant the size of a small truck, its entire body covered in dark golden armor!

It had eight thick, flexible arms like octopus tentacles, with each arm gripping a massive stone hammer or battle-axe crackling with arcs of electricity!

Most striking of all was the center of its forehead, where a basketball-sized, flawless giant gemstone was embedded, radiating a deep purple light!

Inside the gemstone, it seemed as if countless vengeful Souls were roaring and struggling, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of evil and death!

【Ancient Guardian · Eight-Armed Demon Elephant Lv20 (Lord-tier Boss)】

"It's a Boss! A Lord-tier one!"

"Damn it! Who was the idiot that triggered the mechanism?!"

"Run! There's no way we can fight this thing right now!"

"Retreat! Get out of the main hall immediately!"

The moment they saw this terrifying Boss appear, the remaining player parties in the main hall fell into total panic!

A Lord-tier Boss, and a Lv20 one at that!

Its strength was absolutely far beyond that of these players, who were generally only level fifteen or sixteen!

Trying to fight it head-on would only lead to death!

In an instant, all the players still in the main hall, including some teams that had been hiding deeper inside, scattered like frightened birds and beasts, fleeing desperately toward the entrance and other passages!

They didn't dare to linger for even a second!

The Eight-Armed Demon Elephant let out a deafening roar, like a resounding bell, making the entire main hall vibrate!

It took heavy strides, swinging the giant hammers and battle-axes in its eight arms, smashing indiscriminately at the players trying to escape!

Boom! Boom! Bang!

Every time a giant stone hammer landed, it smashed a deep crater into the ground, sending gravel flying everywhere!

Every time a sharp battle-axe swung, it left clear trails in the air, easily severing any stone pillars in its path!

A few slow-running players were instantly blasted to death by lightning or sliced in half by the battle-axes, their screams echoing one after another!

The scene was bloody and chaotic!

"Great opportunity!"

While everyone else was busy fleeing for their lives, Lin Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, staring intensely at the huge purple gemstone on the Eight-Armed Demon Elephant's forehead!

"That gemstone! It's a top-tier Rune Stone!"

What others saw as a desperate situation and certain death, he saw as a top-tier treasure ready for the taking!

A Lord-tier Boss?

Lv20?

In front of his 30,000 Spell Power, what does that even amount to?

"I'll take him down!"

Lin Fei let out a low shout, his voice filled with unquestionable confidence.

"Boss?! You want to fight that thing?!" Xu Zhengyang looked at the giant elephant, which resembled a demon god, and felt his scalp tingle.

Although Lin Mengzi was also a bit nervous, she had even more trust in Lin Fei: "Listen to Feifei! Feifei, how should I support you?"

"Just cheer, as loud as you can!" Lin Fei laughed.

"The bigger the waves, the bigger the fish!"

"Freeze for me!"

Lin Fei didn't hesitate in the slightest, raising his hand and clapping toward the Eight-Armed Demon Elephant!

Cold energy instantly condensed in his palm, and the temperature of the air plummeted!

A whistling cold wind rose from thin air, swirling and condensing within the main hall!

It formed a massive ice-blue tornado connecting the heaven and earth!

It was none other than 【Ice Dragon Twister】!

"Moo—?!!!"

The Eight-Armed Demon Elephant clearly sensed the threat; it stopped chasing the other players, turned its crimson Cyclops eye toward Lin Fei, and let out an angry roar!

It tried to swing its stone hammers at the Ice Dragon Twister, but it was already too late!

The massive Ice Dragon Twister seemed to possess a life of its own, instantly sweeping the Eight-Armed Demon Elephant's massive body into its vortex!

Countless sharp ice blades cut wildly within the tornado, and the bone-chilling cold eroded its armor like maggots on bones!

Even more terrifying was the freezing effect!

It made its massive body sluggish, and a thick layer of frost rapidly condensed on its surface!

In just a few seconds, the arrogant Eight-Armed Demon Elephant was completely frozen in the center of the Ice Dragon Twister.

"Extreme Icefall!"

"Meteor Fire Rain!"

"Ice and Fire double heaven! I'll smash you to death!"

Lin Fei's eyes flared with brilliance as the two extreme elemental powers of ice and fire began to circulate frantically within him!

The Twin Star Spell Sword reduced channeling time by 70%.

Under Dual Casting, the Spells were almost instantaneous!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sky seemed to split open!

Two massive ice-blue meteorites, nearly two meters in diameter and radiating an aura that could freeze everything, crashed down!

Then came the wide-area fire stones.

A full hundred blazing Meteor Fire Rain, trailing long tails of flame like an apocalyptic event!

As if following an order, they descended from the sky!

With pinpoint accuracy, they smashed fiercely down onto that massive Demon Elephant ice sculpture!

The entire Thunder God Temple seemed to tremble violently under this terrifying elemental storm!

The powers of ice and fire ravaged, collided, and annihilated one another on the Demon Elephant!

The extreme ice froze its structure, while the raging fire burned and melted it!

The extreme torture of both ice and fire caused the surface of the incredibly sturdy ice sculpture to instantly fill with dense, spiderweb-like cracks!

Crack—Boom!!!

A deafening roar was heard!

The frozen Eight-Armed Demon Elephant, along with the massive Ice Dragon Twister, was completely blasted into rubble by this earth-destroying elemental strike!

Not even a complete corpse remained!

【You have slain the Ancient Guardian · Eight-Armed Demon Elephant (Lv20 Lord-tier Boss)! Obtained 30,000 EXP!】

Ding!

A crisp, pleasant sound rang out.

At the spot where the Demon Elephant had exploded, a fist-sized purple Rune Stone, inside which countless twisted Soul phantoms seemed to be floating, radiating a thick aura of death and curses, floated quietly in mid-air.

"It dropped!" Xu Zhengyang watched, dumbfounded, and only managed to choke out after a long while, "Boss... you're too fierce..."

One control skill, two burst skills, and you directly one-shot a Lv20 Lord Boss?!

What kind of insane damage is that?!

Lin Mengzi's beautiful eyes also shone with brilliance; this brother of hers was becoming more and more unfathomable.

Lin Fei let out a long breath, dispersed the elemental fluctuations around him, walked forward, and took the purple Rune Stone.

It felt ice-cold to the touch, and a pure power of death emanated from it, faintly resonating with the undead aura on Lin Mengzi.

【Obtained Super Rare Skill Rune Stone: Bone Armor (Purple Super Rare)!】

【Undead Resurrection: Can strengthen specified 'Undead Summoning' type Spells. After strengthening, your summoned undead creatures will gain a layer of powerful Bone Armor shield, greatly increasing armor and magic resistance.】

"Big sister, this is for you; it's very suitable for your Necromancer." Lin Fei handed the Rune Stone to Lin Mengzi.

"Arigato! Feifei!" Lin Mengzi took it with pleasant surprise; she could feel that this Rune Stone would be a huge boost for her!

She immediately used the Rune Stone to strengthen her core summoning Spell, 【Undead Resurrection】.

A deeper, more powerful force of death began to circulate within her body.