129: Chapter 129 Send all its servants away!

Swish, swish, swish! Five hundred soul-energy arrows streaked across the sky, striking the Winter Sovereign.

-116! -116! -116! ... True damage from Shadow Erosion, which ignores defense, popped up above the Winter Sovereign's head.

Xu Qin watched the damage values and began to estimate in his mind.

Five hundred shots, 116 points of true damage per shot, 58,000 points of damage per round.

And the Winter Sovereign's health bar had visibly dropped a bit... though it was a very small amount.

"Chuan Yun, continue, second round!"

The second wave of arrow rain tore through the sky once again.

A dense cluster of damage numbers popped up, and this time, the health bar shifted down noticeably.

Xu Qin nodded.

Two rounds of true damage had dealt a total of 116,000 true damage.

The health bar had just dropped by about... two percent?

That would put the total health at around six million.

"Within five minutes, I can definitely take it down."

Xu Qin watched the Winter Sovereign, which was glowing blue from being struck by the arrows, and nodded slowly.

"Simpler than I thought."

But the next second, the Winter Sovereign suddenly turned its head to look at the archer formation in the distance, the ice-blue soul fire in its eye sockets beginning to flicker violently.

It cleaved a Bone Beast in front of it with a single sword strike, intending to charge toward the ranged archers.

However, one thousand tank-type Bone Beasts had already surrounded it tightly.

No matter how it slashed, the swarm of Bone Beasts showed no signs of collapsing.

The powerful health-lock passive allowed the Bone Beasts to stand there with incredible resilience.

The dark green healing light surrounding the Bone Beasts healed the cracks in their bones.

+540! +540! +540! ... The health bars of the Bone Beasts, which had just decreased, were immediately restored.

Xu Qin leaned against the railing of the Watchtower, arms crossed, watching this one-sided war of attrition below.

"Steady, just keep grinding it down like this."

The Winter Sovereign's health bar began to drop steadily.

Just over a minute later, its health points had fallen to around eighty percent.

Subsequently, the Winter Sovereign stopped swinging its sword.

It held its bone greatsword upright in front of itself, gripping the hilt with both hands.

Hum! A visible ice-blue pulse radiated outward from within its body.

Ding! [The Winter Sovereign casts "Winter's Arrival"!]

[Winter's Arrival: Deals 200 points of frost damage per second within a 150-meter radius. All units have their movement speed reduced by an additional 30% and attack speed by an additional 40%.]

Xu Qin raised an eyebrow.

One hundred and fifty meters? The Lich formation was only fifty meters away.

With this, they would all be covered.

Sure enough, once this skill was activated, the effect was immediate.

The five-meter-tall behemoth's movement speed looked like slow motion.

And that wasn't the most troublesome part.

What was more serious was the Lich legion.

Damage values began to float above their heads.

-200! -200! -200! ...

Although the Liches had all been strengthened, they had less than ten thousand health points themselves.

Losing two hundred per second, they would definitely fall within a minute.

Furthermore, their attack speed was reduced by 40%, and their spellcasting frequency dropped significantly.

The reduction in healing caused the Bone Beasts' health bars to start dropping chunk by chunk.

The Winter Sovereign seized the opportunity and swung its sword horizontally.

Bang! -1540! -1540! -1540!

Three Bone Beasts, whose health was already low, were struck simultaneously, their health bars bottoming out instantly.

Immediately after.

[Wraith Fury!]

Boom! Boom!

The three Bone Beasts self-destructed on the spot, each dealing 700% of their maximum health in area-of-effect damage.

-71000! -71000! -71000!

The Winter Sovereign's health bar dropped sharply by a chunk.

"Whoa."

Xu Qin's eyes lit up.

Immediately after, two more Bone Beasts were cut down.

Boom! Boom!

Another 140,000 damage.

The Winter Sovereign's health bar instantly dropped to around 50%.

Xu Qin reacted extremely quickly.

"Chuan Yun, Tietang, stop ranged attacks!"

At the same time, he opened the command panel and maneuvered the Floating City to descend.

Hum! The Floating City descended rapidly.

A massive shield barrier instantly covered the entire Lich formation below.

The ice-blue pulse of Winter's Arrival hit the orange shield and was completely blocked outside.

In front of the Floating City's million-durability shield, this bit of AOE damage didn't even count as an itch.

And...

Ding! ["Lords Protection" takes effect!]

In an instant, the Bone Beasts' maximum health skyrocketed.

The Liches' healing amount surged from 540 per second to 810.

At this moment, the Liches hiding inside the shield were no longer taking the 200 points of damage per second from Winter's Arrival.

They all began to cast spells, zing!

+810! +810! +810! ...

Green numbers popped up one after another, instantly pulling the Bone Beasts' health bars back above the healthy line.

The Winter Sovereign struck down with its sword.

-2310!

Health locked.

The Liches healed it back in three seconds.

+810! +810! +810!

The situation fell into a stalemate once again.

Xu Qin let out a long breath and looked at Tian Ming, asking, "How much does it have left?"

"Reporting to Master, about 40% remains."

Xu Qin immediately ordered, "Chuan Yun, Tietang, fire at will!"

Five hundred archers raised their bows and guns simultaneously, bang, bang, bang!

A rain of arrows and barrage of fire shot out again.

The Winter Sovereign's health bar began to drop steadily once more.

Seeing that the Winter Sovereign's health was about to drop to 30%, Tian Ming suddenly spoke up.

"Master, its aura is fluctuating violently."

Xu Qin raised an eyebrow.

"Is it about to explode?"

"Yes, its condition is very unstable."

Sure enough, no sooner had he finished speaking than the Winter Sovereign stopped attacking the Bone Beasts, which were like city walls, and violently plunged its bone greatsword into the frozen ground.

Zing! The blade sank three meters deep into the ground.

Rumble! The entire stretch of frozen ground began to shake violently.

Immediately after.

Crackle! Cracks rapidly spread in all directions.

Snap! A skeletal arm reached out from a crack.

Then ten, one hundred...

Countless undead emerged from the frozen ground.

Their entire bodies were wrapped in a layer of frost-white ice shells, and ice-blue soul fire, the same color as the Winter Sovereign's, burned in their eye sockets.

The number quickly exceeded one thousand and was still increasing.

The entire ground split open, and dense swarms of Ice-Armored Undead surged from underground, instantly surrounding Xu Qin's Bone Beast army.

Moreover, wisps of white cold air rose from these Ice-Armored Undead, converging toward the Winter Sovereign.

The next second, the Winter Sovereign's health bar began to rise.

Not only that, but its body also started to grow larger.

"Master, it is absorbing the power of its minions to restore itself," Tian Ming explained from the side.

Xu Qin watched this scene with envy in his eyes.

"If I knew this move, I wouldn't have to turtle up in the Floating City every day."

He sighed, his expression still relaxed.

"Besides, lately it's all been easy pushes; it's not interesting at all. Honestly, fighting a wild boar back then was more exciting than this."

He raised his right hand and pointed at the Winter Sovereign.

"Long Gu. Take your brothers and wipe out all its minions for me."

Roar!

The Floating City's Combat Readiness Platform opened.

A massive skeletal figure soared into the sky.

Behind it, eighty Bone Dragons flew up in succession.

Their wingspans blotted out the sky.

Long Gu opened its massive maw.

Dark purple soul fire condensed in its throat.

Then, Breath!

Boom!!!

The soul fire instantly hit the group of Ice-Armored Undead on the Winter Sovereign's left flank, burning them directly into fly ash.

Subsequently, the eighty Bone Dragons also opened their skeletal maws.

Eighty streams of dragon breath fired simultaneously.

Boom, boom, boom! The entire stretch of frozen ground was instantly submerged in purple flames.