53: Chapter 53 Thorn Throat
This Iron-Jaw Destructor clearly possessed some intelligence; he was not the type of mindless minion that only knew how to attack blindly.
Upon realizing he was Poisoning and his health was dropping rapidly, he knew he had to finish off this kid in front of him as soon as possible.
He immediately launched [Charge].
Liu Xuan was still facing away from him, so he took the hit squarely and was stunned for two seconds.
The Iron-Jaw Destructor turned his head and continued to charge.
The disgusting thing about this skill was that if you got hit once, without tenacity to reduce crowd control, you would be chain-stunned.
Taking all 5 hits meant losing a full 7500 health points.
If a player in their 20s came to fight this boss without enough armor, teammates to protect them, damage reduction, or a healer spamming heals, they would definitely die.
But for Liu Xuan, this amount of damage was merely tickling him.
He now had over 300,000 health; the boss could ram into him all he wanted.
If he were not stunned and unable to move, he would have wanted to face away from the boss every time, just to humiliate him to death.
The Iron-Jaw Destructor felt more and more that something was wrong as he kept ramming; he was still being drained by the Poisoning status, and his health could not hold up.
However, there was nothing he could do about being Poisoning, as he had no way to cleanse it. He could only watch his health bar hit bottom, slice by slice, until it finally reached zero.
When he died, his eyes were wide open: usually, he was the one poisoning others to death; who could have imagined that today, he would run into someone even more poisonous than himself...
"Killed [Iron-Jaw Destructor (boss)], gained 1000 experience points."
"Killed [Poisoning] monster, base health +1."
As the boss fell, Liu Xuan glanced at the Golden-Blade Lord in the stands. That guy actually still had an interested expression on his face and simply was not angry.
Fine, so you are not angry, huh?
Liu Xuan walked over to the corpse of the Iron-Jaw Destructor, gave a thumbs-down gesture, then slowly turned around, aiming his arm slowly toward the Golden-Blade Lord.
The latter's expression changed slightly, the flesh on his face twitching; it was clear he was finally a bit annoyed.
He spat from his mouth a skull that had been gnawed clean.
At this moment, that white Destroyer was introducing the next opponent above the arena.
The Golden-Blade suddenly interrupted him with two hissing sounds, then said something else, and the white Destroyer nodded hurriedly.
Then he started the introduction again.
Liu Xuan frowned: It looked like the Golden-Blade still did not intend to enter the arena himself.
He would have to keep fighting.
Fighting was not an issue, but this was just a waste of time.
Maybe someone else would come up and immediately enrage the Golden-Blade; then that person would save time compared to him in this stage.
That damn Ascending Mainframe would definitely factor this situation in; was this not just a disguised way of lowering his score?
However, looking at that reaction just now, the Golden-Blade should already be a bit riled up. If he tried a little harder, he could probably bait him down.
At this moment, the iron gate opposite opened, but it was not the one the previous two monsters came out of, but another larger gate on the side.
Immediately following, a heavy stomping sound of a giant creature came from the ground, and a massive figure leaped out from behind the gate, slamming heavily onto the ground.
Dust filled the air.
Liu Xuan narrowed his eyes and saw a canine creature over three meters tall, covered in leaves.
[Thorn-Throat (boss)]
Level: 26
Attack: 1400
Health Points: 150000
Armor: 160
Magic Resistance: 100
Tenacity: 30%
Skills: [Thorn Sprawl: During battle, the thorns on the body will spread out, reflecting 10% of melee damage.]
[Roar: Deals 1500 damage to enemies in a fan-shaped area in front, and reduces speed by 50%.]
[Thorn Frenzy: When health is below 40%, Thorn-Throat enters a berserk state, channeling the power within. Sharp thorn bushes will grow along the path he passes, dealing 200 physical damage per second to enemies who come into contact.]
The boss's level had increased again.
Liu Xuan muttered to himself, if the Golden-Blade still did not come down, would it keep getting higher and higher?
Seeing [Thorn-Throat] appear, the Golden-Blade Lord in the stands was clearly excited.
This beast was his pet. Originally, another strong warrior among the Destroyers was supposed to come up, but the Golden-Blade Lord wanted to see his pet tear the arrogant human in front of him into pieces, so he made a last-minute substitution.
At this moment, watching his pet appear, the Golden-Blade was so happy that he even sat up a bit. He scooped up a piece of bloody meat from the tray in front of him and threw it in front of [Thorn-Throat].
The latter seemed quite hungry and devoured the piece of meat ravenously.
After finishing, he licked the bloodstains from the corners of his mouth, looking like he still wanted more.
After all, compared to his massive body, that bit of meat was indeed not enough.
The Golden-Blade pointed at Liu Xuan and called out twice, and [Thorn-Throat] immediately locked his vicious gaze onto Liu Xuan.
It was the gaze of looking at food.
However, in order to enrage the Golden-Blade, Liu Xuan completely ignored him and instead kept staring at the bloated figure in the stands, beckoning with his finger.
Without caring if the other side could understand him or not: "You should come yourself, lest I end up killing your pet later."
The Golden-Blade roared angrily at [Thorn-Throat], signaling him to hurry up and attack, while he himself still had no intention of entering the arena.
Liu Xuan felt a bit helpless: It seemed he had to keep fighting.
However, looking at [Thorn-Throat]'s skill set, he had an idea that should be able to enrage the Golden-Blade to the greatest extent.
Three skills, two are passives, and one is a slow.
If he were fighting someone else, the combination would be quite disgusting.
If a melee fighter went up to hit him, they would take reflected damage.
In the berserk stage, [Thorn-Throat] would run around everywhere, causing thorns to appear all over the arena, restricting everyone's movement.
If he followed that up with a [Roar] to slow you down, ask yourself if that would be annoying or not.
But unfortunately, running into Liu Xuan, you only have one active skill, so that will be fun.
Besides, I do not have any melee attacks at all, not even basic attacks, which directly renders one of your passives useless.
Liu Xuan took out the [Heavenly Man] shield again and guarded in front of himself.
Opposite him, [Thorn-Throat] had long been dominated by hunger. He let out a low growl and lunged over fiercely like a cheetah.
This leap actually spanned nearly half the arena.
If it were the previous Liu Xuan, it would have been very difficult to avoid, but now he had [Body of Agility], and his movement speed was so fast that even the boss could not keep up.
He easily dodged [Thorn-Throat]'s lunge.
[Thorn-Throat] missed his attack and was somewhat annoyed:
Why could the food not just lie honestly on the ground and let him eat it?
After entering combat, thorns sprouted from beneath the leaves on his body, wrapping around him, making him look even more ferocious and menacing.
Seeing that Liu Xuan was not running, but just swaying in front of him, [Thorn-Throat] swiped a claw over, wanting to tear this detestable guy to pieces.
But Liu Xuan sidestepped again, dodging with ease.
Not a bit too much, not a bit too little.
[Thorn-Throat]'s claw landed just right beside him, looking as if it would have hit if it had been just a little bit off.
"Roar!"
[Thorn-Throat] completely lost his temper, clawing and biting, chasing after Liu Xuan in a frenzy.
But not once could he land a hit.
To the surrounding audience, this stupid beast was like a mad dog, purely being walked around and played with by Liu Xuan.
The Golden-Blade in the stands was the most dissatisfied: this was his pet, and it was his face being lost.
"Hiss!"
He could not help but curse loudly, and [Thorn-Throat] immediately shuddered all over, as if recalling something that filled him with Fear.
Afterward, he finally calmed down, looked at Liu Xuan standing not far away, pawed at the ground with his front claws, and slowly opened his large mouth.
Liu Xuan's mouth curled up slightly: It is coming, is it not?
Little puppy, do you know you only have one active skill?