16: Chapter 16 Level Two Monster Lord! Li Hao's Shady Tactics!

Lin Fan was feeling a bit frustrated right now.

Although the fan club behind him was growing larger and larger, with the number already exceeding fifty, the quality was truly lacking.

[Ding! Defense + 0.1!] [Ding! Defense + 0.1!]

Hearing these notification sounds was making his ears callous.

"Is there no one who can actually fight?"

"This Mist Forest is useless too. They said it was riddled with crises, but this is it?"

Lin Fan casually slapped away a rabbit attempting to bite his crotch, his face showing complete boredom.

Just at this moment, a strange fragrance suddenly wafted into his nose.

The smell was a bit like low-quality perfume mixed with some kind of fishy stench, extremely pungent.

"What is that smell?" Lin Fan sniffed.

Before he could react, the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to shake violently!

That sensation of vibration was far more intense than when dozens of monsters ran together before!

It was as if a heavy tank was charging at full speed!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

With every heavy footstep that landed, the surrounding trees would tremble.

Even the group of low-level monsters that had been following Lin Fan and attacking him frantically were so scared they wet themselves the moment they felt this aura.

One by one, they tucked their tails, ignoring the Taunt Aura, and scattered in all directions.

Some even stuck their heads directly into the dirt to play dead.

This was an absolute suppression from the depths of their bloodlines!

Lin Fan's eyes lit up.

"Oh? A big one has arrived?"

He looked in the direction from which the vibration came.

He saw the mist ahead being violently torn apart.

A giant bear, over three meters tall and covered in black, metallic-lustered scales, charged out of the forest!

[Iron-Armored Violent Bear]!

A Level 2 Mid-tier Monster Lord!

This was a terrifying existence that even an ordinary Level 3 Martial Master would have to detour to avoid!

A single swipe of its paw was enough to shatter a block of granite!

At this moment, the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's eyes were bloodshot, and it was snorting heavily through its nostrils.

It seemed to have been attracted by some kind of scent and was in an extremely irritable state.

And the moment it saw Lin Fan, combined with the all-encompassing mental pollution of the [Taunt Aura], the Iron-Armored Violent Bear instantly treated Lin Fan as its sworn enemy!

"Roar!!!" With one roar, the sound wave directly shattered the surrounding leaves!

The students watching from afar were so scared their legs turned to jelly when they saw this scene.

"Holy crap! It's an Iron-Armored Violent Bear!"

"This is a Lord-level BOSS! How did it run to the outer perimeter?"

"Run! This thing can smash us into meat paste with one slap!" The crowd retreated in a panic.

Only Li Hao was hiding behind a large tree, looking disheveled and sweating profusely.

Trying to draw the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's aggro without getting hit by it was truly difficult!

Several times, he had almost been slapped to death before he could even lure it to Lin Fan's side!

Fortunately, he succeeded! Watching this scene, his face twisted with a grin.

"Hahahaha! Lin Fan! Let's see if you die this time!"

"This is a Level 2 Mid-tier Lord! Its attack power is comparable to a human Level 3 Martial Master!"

"With that F-grade trash body of yours, one slap will turn you into a smashed watermelon!"

The reason Li Hao dared to lure this thing over was that he had calculated that Lin Fan couldn't escape.

As long as Lin Fan died or was crippled, all the auras would disappear.

Then he could come out to clean up; even if he couldn't beat it, he could still run away.

Lin Fan looked at the Iron-Armored Violent Bear pressing over like a mountain of flesh.

Not only was he not afraid, but he was excitedly rubbing his hands together.

"Good, good, good! This one is big!"

"This one has enough kick!"

"Come on! Hit here! Don't be polite!"

Lin Fan puffed out his chest and walked straight up to meet it.

The Iron-Armored Violent Bear felt its dignity had been challenged.

It roared and raised that bear paw, which was as big as a millstone.

It flickered with an earthy yellow light; clearly, it had used its monster power!

Whoosh—! This palm strike swung down, and the air even emitted a sonic boom!

"Bang!!!" A loud noise! It was as if a bomb had exploded on Lin Fan's chest!

Lin Fan's entire body was like a cannonball, directly sent flying!

Crack! Crack! Crack! He knocked down three large trees in succession and finally smashed heavily into a giant rock, creating a human-shaped crater in the boulder!

Pfft! Lin Fan opened his mouth and sprayed out a large mouthful of blood.

His face instantly turned pale.

His chest was sunken in; clearly, several ribs were broken! This blow was truly too heavy!

The onlookers were dead silent.

"It's over..."

"This time it's really over..."

"I said you shouldn't court death like this; this is an Iron-Armored Violent Bear!"

Xia Wanqiu saw this scene and covered her eyes in fear.

Li Hao excitedly pumped his fist.

"Dead for sure! Definitely dead!"

However, just when everyone thought Lin Fan had become a corpse, the figure embedded in the rock suddenly moved.

Immediately after, a fit of violent coughing came.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough..."

Lin Fan spat out blood-stained saliva while tremblingly crawling out of the pile of rubble.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were frighteningly bright!

It was like a wolf that had been hungry for three days seeing meat!

"Awesome!!!" Lin Fan's voice was filled with ecstasy.

He looked at the system panel.

[Ding! Suffered a critical hit from a Level 2 Mid-tier Lord (Iron-Armored Violent Bear)! Defense + 180!]

[Ding! Ribs fractured! Bones remodeling! Bone density significantly increased!]

[Ding! Internal organs shaken! Internal organ resilience significantly increased!]

180 points of Defense in one go!

This one slap was worth half a day of those small monsters scratching at him!

Lin Fan felt a warm current inside his body frantically repairing his damaged physique.

That tingling, numb sensation was even more stimulating than the previous intense pain.

He held his waist and raised his middle finger at the somewhat stunned Iron-Armored Violent Bear.

"That's it?"

"Can you hit any harder?"

"Did you not eat just now?"

"Come again! Hit this mouthful of blood out for me! The last one was a bit stuck!"

The whole audience was dumbfounded.

The Iron-Armored Violent Bear was also stunned.

It looked at its own paw, then at the human who was still jumping around.

For the first time in its bear life, it felt doubt.

Did I not use force just now?

With this slap, even stone should have shattered into dust, right?

How could this thing still stand up and talk? And be so arrogant?

Although he was shouting happily, Lin Fan knew the score.

That hit just now really hurt.

It hurt so much he almost thought he was going to see his great-grandmother.

Although his Defense Level wasn't low, he was still a bit fragile when facing a Level 2 Mid-tier Lord monster.

If that hit had landed on his head, he might have really cracked his skull open.

"I can't tank it head-on, at least not constantly right now."

"I need to grind my Defense up a bit more first to get past this critical threshold."

Lin Fan's brain worked at high speed.

This Iron-Armored Violent Bear was a top-tier experience pack; he absolutely couldn't let it go.

But to take it down, he needed a strategy.

Since the quality wasn't enough, he would make up for it with quantity!

Lin Fan looked at the small monsters shivering in the corners because of the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's appearance.

A wicked smile curled at the corners of his mouth.

"Big Brother Bear, you rest for a while; let me eat some appetizers first!"

After saying that, Lin Fan turned and ran.

But he didn't run to an empty place.

Instead, he specifically dove into the bushes where monsters were clustered!

"Taunt Aura! Full power!" Lin Fan yelled at the top of his lungs while running.

"Hey! You mouse over there! What are you looking at? Keep looking and I'll dig your eyes out!"

"You snake over there, you look so ugly, it's an insult to the snake species!"

"And that pack of wolves, why are you barking? A bunch of huskies!"

Under the blessing of the Taunt Aura, plus Lin Fan's punchable verbal attacks, the small monsters that had been intimidated by the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's pressure lost their reason once again.

Fear was replaced by anger!

"Roar!" A Wind Blade Wolf couldn't take it anymore and pounced with a howl.

With the first one, came the second.

In the blink of an eye, a long train of monsters was trailing behind Lin Fan again.

He was like a bulldozer, regardless of anything else, drawing every living creature he could see toward him.

If the surrounding students hadn't retreated quickly, he would even have let those students join in and beat him up!

Then, he led this group of small monsters and started running in circles right under the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's nose.

The Iron-Armored Violent Bear was furious.

It felt it had been ignored!

A dignified Lord, actually being treated as a background prop?

"Roar!!!" The Iron-Armored Violent Bear roared and took large strides to chase after him.

But its size was too large; although it was fast, its agility was lacking.

Lin Fan relied on his small size to weave through the group of small monsters.

The Iron-Armored Violent Bear slapped down.

Lin Fan dodged with a slide.

"Bang!"

This slap didn't hit Lin Fan but instead killed five or six Wind Blade Wolves that were following Lin Fan.

Lin Fan seized the opportunity to rush into the pile of monsters and tanked a few attacks from the small monsters.

[Ding! Defense + 1!] [Ding! Defense + 2!] [Ding! Defense + 1.5!]

Although the increase per hit wasn't much, they added up!

Moreover, because the Iron-Armored Violent Bear was chasing behind, the shockwaves and aftershocks it emitted from time to time that swept onto Lin Fan meant dozens of points of Defense gained!

[Ding! Suffered the aftershock of the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's stomp! Defense + 35!]

[Ding! Suffered the sound wave of the Iron-Armored Violent Bear's roar! Mental Resistance + 5!]

Lin Fan spat blood while laughing wildly.

"Awesome! So awesome!"

"This feeling of walking on the edge of life and death is simply intoxicating!"

The surrounding students were dumbfounded.

"Is he playing Snake?"

"Isn't he running for his life? Why does he look so excited?"

"Look, he's spitting blood again! That blood is spraying like a fountain; is he really okay?"

Li Hao hid behind a tree, his face turning green as he watched.

"Is this kid a cockroach? Why can't he be beaten to death?"

"Iron-Armored Violent Bear! Get your aim right! Slap him to death!"

Lin Fan's condition right now was actually not good.

He didn't know how many bones in his body were broken, and his internal organs were displaced.

But the light in his eyes was growing brighter and brighter.

Because he could feel that with every injury and repair, his body was undergoing a qualitative leap.

The pain that was originally fragile at a touch was slowly weakening.

Replacing it was an indestructible sense of solidity!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Defense Level increased to LV18!]

[Ding! New passive skill tree unlocked!]

[Detected that the host is in a combat state and Defense value is increasing rapidly; passive skill automatically selected!]

[Obtained skill: Pain Conversion (When taking damage, pain is reduced by 50%, and pain is converted into adrenaline, increasing reaction speed and strength)!]

Lin Fan only felt his brain buzz.

The original piercing, intense pain instantly reduced by more than half!

And a violent force surged from the depths of his body!

He felt like he could kill a cow right now!

"Hahahaha!"

"Little ones! Did you not eat? Use more force!"

Lin Fan suddenly stopped.

He wasn't running anymore!

He turned to face the group of small monsters that had chased him with bloodshot eyes, and the Iron-Armored Violent Bear that was enraged to the extreme.

He opened his arms, making a gesture of an embrace.

"Come on! The main course has begun!"