149: Instant kill! Powerful basic attack

As the countdown ended, countless rays of light flashed, followed by the appearance of a Giant Porcupine with red skin all over its body, accompanied by the previously empty ground transforming into a Dense Forest.

Ye Xiao surveyed the boss in front of him.

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【Giant Porcupine (Boss)】

【Level: 90】

【HP: 1,000,000】

【Attack: 15,000】

【Defense: 15,000】

【Skills: Porcupine Charge, Arcane Bombardment, Hardened Skin, Snout Spray.】

【Description: The first-floor boss of the Endless Trial, thanks to the rules' blessing, possesses extremely strong survival capabilities. Beware of its Arcane Bombardment, which can ignore target resistance.】

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Looking at the Giant Porcupine's information and the previous description of the boss, Ye Xiao couldn't help but sigh, realizing that the Endless Trial was indeed as abnormal as the rumors said.

As a boss of the same level, its attributes in all aspects were higher than those of ordinary Professionals.

Its 1,000,000 HP was double that of the Level 90 Skeleton King he had encountered before.

Its attack and defense also far exceeded the Skeleton King's.

With these attributes, normally, it would be impossible for a Level 90 Professional to solo it.

What's more, there was now an additional special rule buff: Hardened Skin, which reduced non-critical damage to 20%.

This was simply a nightmare for Professionals without critical strike builds.

And precisely, a purely elemental skill damage class like a mage would not stack critical strike, because skills cannot trigger critical strikes.

In other words, a magic-user facing a boss with Hardened Skin would have their natural damage reduced to 20%. How could they even play?

However, while Hardened Skin might be an insurmountable obstacle for other magic-user Professionals, Ye Xiao was only slightly surprised before his expression returned to normal.

Under normal circumstances, no Professional would challenge the Endless Trial immediately after advancing to the third tier.

At the very least, they would only choose to challenge it after initially building their skill style.

Someone like Ye Xiao, who rushed in immediately after advancing, could only be considered an exception.

After all, he now possessed a magic weapon, which could barely be considered the core of a style, and coupled with his own heaven-defying attributes, he naturally had nothing to fear.

"Roar!"

At this moment, the Giant Porcupine let out an earth-shattering roar, then stomped its four feet and charged towards Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao, however, had already made his move the instant the Giant Porcupine stirred.

Fireball rained down, covering the Dense Forest indiscriminately.

With his current combat power, even if he could only deal 20% of the damage, a single Fireball could still inflict nearly ten to twenty thousand points of damage on the Giant Porcupine.

Hundreds of Fireball rained down, though not all of them hit.

But the Giant Porcupine, with only 1,000,000 HP, had no room for resistance whatsoever.

Its massive body, still maintaining its high-speed charge, was completely engulfed by flames.

Boom!

The huge body crashed heavily in mid-air.

Instant kill!

Immediately, a message popped up.

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【Ding! You have killed the Giant Porcupine and gained 550,000 experience points.】

【Ding! You have killed the Giant Porcupine and gained 100 points.】

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As the messages popped up, two teleportation vortexes appeared before Ye Xiao.

One was to enter the next floor to continue the challenge.

The other was to enter the points shop to select and redeem rewards, after which he would leave.

Given the strength of the Giant Porcupine just now, Ye Xiao naturally had no hesitation and directly chose to challenge the next floor.

Soon, as Ye Xiao stepped into the teleportation vortex for the next floor, his vision changed again, and he found himself in a dark, damp cave.

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【Ding! This is the second floor of the Endless Trial. Corresponding monster boss attributes are being generated...】

【Ding! Monster boss generation successful. The monster boss you will challenge on the second floor of the Endless Trial is: Giant Poisonous Spider.】

【Blessed by the rules, the Giant Poisonous Spider possesses a special buff—Evasion Enhancement, significantly increasing evasion chance.】

【The battle will begin in 10 seconds. Please prepare.】

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The rules changed again this time?

Ye Xiao looked at the description in the message and began to ponder countermeasures.

Soon, 10 seconds passed.

A Giant Poisonous Spider burst out of the ground in the cave.

Its movements were incredibly fast, appearing before Ye Xiao almost in the blink of an eye.

Ye Xiao quickly scanned the Giant Poisonous Spider's information.

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【Giant Poisonous Spider (Boss)】

【Level: 90】

【HP: 1,100,000】

【Attack: 16,500】

【Defense: 16,500】

【Skills: Web Bind, Arcane Bombardment, Evasion Enhancement, Venomous Corrosion.】

【Description: The second-floor boss of the Endless Trial, thanks to the rules' blessing, possesses superior movement speed. It is extremely difficult to hit it. Beware of its Arcane Bombardment, which can ignore target resistance.】

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The attributes were indeed 10% higher than the first-floor Giant Porcupine.

However, without Hardened Skin, in Ye Xiao's opinion, this amount of HP was no different from being squishy.

The only thing to watch out for was the opponent's movement speed.

Therefore, as soon as the Giant Poisonous Spider emerged, Ye Xiao had already launched his attack first.

Still, Fireball filled the sky.

Ye Xiao's idea was simple: even if the opponent had superior evasion, he would cover the entire cave with Fireball, ensuring the Giant Poisonous Spider could not escape.

However, Ye Xiao realized the next moment that he had underestimated the Giant Poisonous Spider.

At this time, the Giant Poisonous Spider showed no fear in the face of Ye Xiao's sky-filling Fireball.

Its sixteen slender long legs moved rapidly, and despite its massive body, it skillfully dodged all the Fireball.

This bizarre movement technique truly shocked Ye Xiao.

In the blink of an eye, the Giant Poisonous Spider had appeared less than a meter in front of Ye Xiao.

Then, the Giant Poisonous Spider opened its ferocious, gaping maw and spat out a stream of web at Ye Xiao.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao activated Divinity Speed, immediately retreated, and barely escaped the binding range of the web.

At the same time, he quickly cast Fireball again.

Having failed to land a hit, the Giant Poisonous Spider was clearly enraged.

Its body immediately leaped, dodging all of Ye Xiao's Fireball again, and then once more closed in on Ye Xiao, who was using Divinity Speed.

Watching this scene, Ye Xiao cursed inwardly, this rule was truly ridiculously exaggerated.

His Fireball projectile speed had been improved several times, yet it could still be dodged.

At this moment, he finally understood what Evasion Enhancement meant.

Then, Ye Xiao, not believing it, directly unleashed his only area-of-effect skill—Flame Whirlwind!

However, the result was that the Giant Poisonous Spider could even easily dodge area-of-effect skills, which was quite unbelievable.

At this time, the Giant Poisonous Spider dodged all of Ye Xiao's skills and appeared before him again.

Ye Xiao could even see a hint of human-like mockery in the Giant Poisonous Spider's eight red eyes.

As if saying, 'Comparing speed with me? You're seeking death.'

Being mocked by a beast was something Ye Xiao had not expected, and he immediately became angry.

Did it really think he had no way to deal with it?

Thinking this, Ye Xiao's body did not retreat but advanced, relying on his HP, which was more than double that of his opponent, and directly used his staff as a wooden club.

He swung it out viciously.

If you can dodge all my ranged skills, then try my basic attack.

The Giant Poisonous Spider apparently also didn't expect this human to be so foolish, a mage, yet choosing to directly confront it.

At this moment, a gleam of excited, bloodthirsty light flashed in its eyes.

But this gleam had just risen when, with a crisp cracking sound, it completely froze.

Boom!

The Giant Poisonous Spider hadn't even understood what had happened before its entire body was blown to pieces.

Even the powerfulfluctuation caused the entire cave to shake uncontrollably.

And at the original location of the Giant Poisonous Spider, Ye Xiao stood with his staff raised, his expression slightly excited.

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【Ding! You have killed the Giant Poisonous Spider and gained 550,000 experience points.】

【Ding! You have killed the Giant Poisonous Spider and gained 200 points.】

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