290: The mantis stalks the cicada, Huang Chen is behind.

Huang Chen observed from high altitude for a while, ultimately deciding to continue watching. Once the battle below was nearly finished, he would play the role of the oriole stalking the mantis.

With his current physique, even activating the Golden Bell Shield wouldn't allow him to withstand the focused fire of hundreds of people. However, since the ones attacking the Kui Niu were all ranged magic classes, activating the Black and Yellow Body would allow him to temporarily immunize himself against these attacks.

The sight of hundreds of people besieging the Kui Niu was quite spectacular, with skill lights intertwining with the wind, rain, thunder, and lightning summoned by the Kui Niu.

The five factions were clearly demarcated, each occupying a direction and engaging in skirmishes.

His gaze turned toward Li Ruo and Elise of the Elf Clan with interest. While attacking, Li Ruo seemed to be incessantly whispering something into Elise's ear, causing Elise's face to flicker between red and pale, suggesting she was experiencing intense internal struggle.

By this point, the Kui Niu's health had dropped below 20%. The faces of the besieging Trial Takers showed urgency, and the five major camps unconsciously began to slowly push forward.

This was 10,000 points walking around! If one was lucky enough to land the final blow, even dying afterward would still net 9,000 points. It was a profitable deal no matter how you looked at it.

But they ignored the fact that there was only one Kui Niu. With so many people, unless they were grouped, only one person could gain the Kui Niu's points.

Facing the advancing Trial Takers, the Kui Niu was clearly enraged. It glared with its two lantern-like eyes, suddenly tilted its head back... and opened its mouth wide.

“Oh no!”

Seeing this, Huang Chen in the air rapidly retreated, simultaneously sending a message to Li Ruo's panel.

[Huang Chen: Retreat quickly!]

Huang Chen had experienced this area attack from the Kui Niu before. Even with his perfected Golden Bell Shield, each strike inflicted a thousand points of damage. For someone like Li Ruo, whose defensive skill was only minorly achieved, she would likely be crippled or killed after one round of attacks.

“Husband!” Li Ruo murmured the instant she received the message, but she didn't hesitate for a second, immediately grabbing Elise's hand and retreating rapidly.

“Awooo...”

The Kui Niu stomped the ground fiercely with its single leg, letting out a massive roar. Countless wind, thunder, rain, and lightning bolts materialized out of thin air, then shot out in all directions, directly covering an area of nearly a hundred meters around it!

“Ah~”

“Retreat quickly!”

Exclamations and screams erupted everywhere. Dense clusters of thousands of damage points appeared above the Trial Takers' camp. Trial Takers positioned in the front row continuously turned into white light and left the battlefield during this round of attacks, while the survivors frantically consumed potions and retreated desperately.

“Li Ruo!!!”

Elise's voice trembled with a mix of fright and relief. “How did you know it was going to use that skill?”

“Heh heh!” Li Ruo pulled Elise back to a safe zone, smiled, looked around, and said, “My husband is here!”

“Are you saying... God Huang is here?” Elise looked around as well, but she couldn't see Huang Chen's figure.

“Stop looking, he's probably in Stealth mode,” Li Ruo said.

“Isn't God Huang a Metal Element User?” Elise asked in surprise. “How can he use Stealth?”

Li Ruo merely smiled without answering, turning her eyes back to the enraged Kui Niu.

Seeing that Li Ruo didn't answer, Elise stopped pressing the issue. After all, asking about someone's trump card was indeed impolite, and as the noble Saintess of the Elf Clan, she disdained such behavior.

She also turned her gaze toward the Kui Niu, forcibly suppressing the urge to rush forward, and asked, “The Kui Niu is about to run out of health. Aren't we going in?”

Li Ruo shook her head, looked at Elise, and laughed, “My husband is here. Do you think anyone else here stands a chance? He's the man who can solo kill the Kui Niu!!”

After a pause, Li Ruo added, “That explosive impact will definitely make you never want to leave.”

Hearing Li Ruo's suggestive words, Elise's face instantly flushed red. She thought, “Are you Huaxia Clan members always this simple and crude? Not elegant at all.”

However, Li Ruo's words brought Huang Chen's figure—dominating the world during the Arena Competition—back into her mind. A look of longing involuntarily appeared on Elise's face.

What woman doesn't admire strength?

Especially a Saintess like her, who shoulders the destiny of her clan. If a hero were to descend from the heavens right now, stepping on Auspicious Multicolored Clouds, and gently tell her, “Don't worry! I've got this!”, that would instantly capture their hearts.

However, she was a noble Elf Clan member. Any elf within their clan only takes one partner for their entire life.

Although she yearned for the explosive strength Li Ruo mentioned... for the moment, she still instinctively felt some resistance toward the idea of dozens of women sharing one man.

Yet! That man... was so powerful that all the Heavenly Talents paled in comparison... and so unique... “Elise, what are you doing? Why aren't you joining the team?”

Just as Elise was indulging in wild thoughts, Li Ruo's voice suddenly startled her awake.

“Ah! Ah~ What?” A blush spread across Elise's cheeks. Like a startled fawn whose thoughts had been seen through, she answered incoherently.

“I'm inviting you to re-team! With my husband!” Li Ruo quickly said. “He's about to make his move. Don't you want the points?”

“Oh! Okay! Okay!” Elise answered flusteredly while operating her panel to join the team.

[Team Chat] Elise: Hello, God Huang! I've long admired your name!

[Team Chat] Huang Chen: Hello Elise, we met during the Arena Competition.

[Team Chat] Elise: Yes!

[Team Chat] Huang Chen: Let's add each other as friends!

[Team Chat] Elise: Okay!

...[Team Chat] Li Ruo: If you two keep chatting, the Boss is going to be killed... Seeing Li Ruo's message, Huang Chen finally focused his attention on the Kui Niu. Its health had dropped to 10%. Based on the efficiency of the besieging Trial Takers, it should be killed within 30 seconds.

This meant that the Kui Niu was losing 1% of its health every 3 seconds under the siege.

Huang Chen estimated that his strongest attack could take away about 1% of the Kui Niu's health. In other words, he only needed to strike within the last three seconds to land the final blow on the Kui Niu.

Thinking of this, Huang Chen immediately descended into the Green Camp and slowly approached the Kui Niu, stopping only when he reached a distance of about 50 meters from it.

At this position, skills coming from other camps were relatively sparse, and he could fully withstand them by activating the Golden Bell Shield and consuming some Wuhua.

If he got any closer, he could be instantly killed by the overwhelming barrage of skills at any moment.

Huang Chen waited like a hunting beast, hunched over, anticipating the perfect moment.

As time passed, the Kui Niu became increasingly savage. It used the area skill Summon Thunderstorm almost continuously, stacking at least four or five layers around itself.

At this moment, white lights constantly flared up around the Kui Niu. These were the teleportation lights of Assassins who shared Huang Chen's idea, but were instantly knocked out by the indiscriminate skill bombardment and the Kui Niu's Thunderstorm skill.

The Kui Niu's health was steadily dropping. The Metal Element Users in the camps also began to stir restlessly, their eyes glued to the Kui Niu's health bar, preparing to activate Black and Yellow and charge in at the last moment.

9%;

8%;

...3%;

2%;

“Now!”

“Black and Yellow Body!”

“Soul Severing Stab!”

Huang Chen roared, his figure materializing and transforming into an afterimage as he charged directly toward the Kui Niu...