205: Chapter 205 What can you do with an upgraded sword puppet? After the upgrade: It's amazing!

A silver-white body and determined gaze. It was clearly a familiar figure.

The two men's mouths hung open, unable to believe their own eyes. The one blocking the boss was actually the Round-faced Instructor's Sword Puppet?

Although this blow reduced the Sword Puppet's HP by more than half, it had still blocked it.

The Round-faced Instructor himself was somewhat incredulous, muttering, "I only just upgraded it to Rank 45, and it can actually still be useful?"

His words reminded the Tall Instructor. "Do you still have experience points? Keep upgrading!"

The Round-faced Instructor reacted instantly and immediately prepared to operate. And right there, another attack from the boss arrived in an instant, directly hitting the Sword Puppet.

Moreover, this time the boss had clearly unleashed a powerful attack skill, its might making the Tall Instructor lying on the ground terrified. "It's over!"

The Round-faced Instructor was also filled with despair, and even felt some regret. Why didn't he upgrade faster just now and raise the Rank higher?

At merely Rank 45, it could barely block one attack from a Rank 69 epic-grade boss. If it were upgraded to a higher Rank, wouldn't it be able to completely withstand the boss's offensive and wait for the others to arrive successfully?

But the boss's attack was so fast that he couldn't react at all. It hit the Sword Puppet squarely.

Just when the two thought that the Sword Puppet definitely couldn't withstand it and was about to be defeated, a shield flickered in the Sword Puppet's hand, adorned with many spikes.

Bang! Bang!

The first sound was the boss's attack hitting and smashing into the shield.

The second sound was a seven-colored light flickering from the shield, directly reflecting the received attack back and hitting the boss's body.

Furthermore, this reflected damage seemed quite effective, catching the boss off guard and causing its body to suddenly tumble backward.

The Round-faced Instructor's face was filled with ecstasy. It actually had another trick? What a great treasure!

He took a sudden step forward, operated immediately, and began to frantically upgrade his Sword Puppet. "You consumed..." "You consumed..."

All the accumulated experience points were poured into the Sword Puppet. Only when the prompt indicated insufficient experience and it couldn't be upgraded did he suddenly snap out of it.

At this moment, the Sword Puppet's Rank had just reached Rank 50, activating the third equipment slot.

He hurriedly shouted to the Tall Instructor, "Old He, help me hold it off for a bit!"

He Zhongtang gritted his teeth, pulled a wooden figure statue from his bosom, and crushed it.

This was an epic-grade substitute item that could take damage on his behalf, provided it did not exceed 200% of his own maximum HP.

He had been saving it, planning to use it when challenging a nightmare-difficulty Dungeon. But since the other party's Sword Puppet was so capable and had even blocked several attacks for him, saving him a resurrection opportunity from his galaxy badge, he didn't need to be stingy.

A giant phantom enveloped his body, and he charged directly toward the boss. Bang! Bang! Knocked down time and time again, he didn't make a sound.

Only when he saw the item's HP status indicating it was insufficient did he shout, "I can't hold on anymore, are you done yet?"

The answer to him was a cold voice. "Beneath the sword, all are ants!"

He Zhongtang looked over in astonishment; it was the voice from the Round-faced Instructor's Sword Puppet. He was speechless. Brother, you spent all this time, just to make your Sword Puppet talk? Can such chuunibyou words even cause damage to the boss?

But the very next moment, the boss seemed to have suffered a great insult, and its eyes instantly turned red. It could clearly have killed He Zhongtang completely with just one more casual strike, yet it suddenly retracted its claws, twisted its body, and charged wildly toward the Sword Puppet.

He Zhongtang's gaze was blank. This works too? ...

The Round-faced Instructor watched the boss being drawn away and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Earlier, he had given the Sword Puppet an order to attract the boss's attention. He hadn't seen the Sword Puppet make any moves, but it had started reciting lines at the boss.

He had thought the Sword Puppet didn't understand his command and was preparing to try a different method. But as a result, he saw that after the Sword Puppet spoke, the boss was immediately enraged and charged over.

Looking at the System prompt, he suddenly realized. So, this was the Sword Puppet's innate skill [Absolute Taunt]. It's just that the intensity of this taunt was perhaps a bit too strong. He sighed in his heart, and then suddenly realized something else. Moreover, this was actually a rare taunt that could be activated from a distance? It's a bit strong!

While he was thinking, the Sword Puppet was already tangled in battle with the boss. Under his expectant gaze, the Sword Puppet fought more bravely as the battle went on. It not only blocked several of the opponent's attacks in a row but also swung the longsword in its hand, slashing at the boss.

The damage caused was even more astonishing to the Round-faced Instructor. According to the description, his Sword Puppet should be of the defense type. The shield and leg guards he had just equipped it with were Rank 50 epic-grade, possessing decent defensive power and a certain amount of damage absorption, which had greatly increased its own resistance.

Coupled with the Sword Puppet's own powerful innate skill, [Sword Intent Protection] Lv5 (automatically upgrades to the next Rank at Rank 60): Reduces physical attack resistance by 60%; Reduces Spell attack resistance by 30%; Reduces true damage attack resistance by 20%.

Consumes 30% of its own mana, increasing the three resistance reduction capabilities to 75% / 45% / 30% respectively, lasting 30 seconds, cooldown: 1 minute. This skill greatly reduced the damage the Sword Puppet received. While happy, he had also expected this.

But when equipping weapons, he had rummaged through his backpack, and sword-type weapons were very scarce. He only found a Rank 45 legendary rank weapon and put it on casually. The overall attack wasn't high, and he felt it shouldn't be able to break the boss's defense. But looking at the damage numbers displayed right now, it was actually no lower than his own!

After observing carefully, he realized there was an extra glowing ring beneath the Sword Puppet's feet. In front of him, a corresponding prompt also appeared. "Your bound [Guardian Sword Puppet] (Defense Type) is within the exclusive Domain of [Sword Domain Sovereign] and has received a certain degree of enhancement."

He looked at the Sword Puppet's panel again and found that its attack, defense, and HP had all increased by more than half. After calculating, it was nearly a 60% increase! This was also the reason why the Sword Puppet's attack power had greatly increased, allowing it to deal significant damage to the boss.

The Round-faced Instructor couldn't help but be somewhat alarmed. Such a powerful buff effect must be at least epic-grade, right? Moreover, the name [Sword Domain Sovereign] sounded very domineering; he wondered what kind of existence it was. Could it be that some big shot of the Sword Dao profession just happened to be nearby? But no matter how much he racked his brain, he didn't remember ever hearing such a title.

Whoosh! Just as he was racking his brain, a gust of wind suddenly brushed past his ear. He discovered it was the Sword Puppet being hit by one of the boss's true damage skills, causing it to flip over directly, with its HP dropping sharply. He didn't dare to be careless and hurriedly operated, activating the [Sword Intent Protection] skill effect. The Sword Puppet raised its shield to meet the attack again, holding off the boss's assault.

He Zhongtang watched the figure of the Sword Puppet constantly fighting with the boss, his eyes filled with envy. If he had known earlier that this thing could be so strong, he wouldn't have used his experience points to upgrade epic-grade skills. He definitely would have saved them to upgrade his own precious Sword Puppet. Unlike now, he could only watch someone else's Sword Puppet show off, while his remaining 10 million experience points could only raise his Sword Puppet to Rank 19, which was of no use at all.

Bang! He slammed his fist hard onto the ground. But because he aggravated his injuries, he winced in pain.

Just when the Round-faced Instructor's Sword Puppet had held out for another full 3 minutes and its HP was nearly bottoming out, several figures appeared like lightning. The rescue instructors had arrived!

Seeing that one of the two was seriously injured and the other was taking advantage of openings to attack, and there were no casualties, the black-faced man in the lead breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems this boss's strength isn't too strong, brothers, charge!"

He Zhongtang had originally been resting with his eyes closed, leaning against a tree. Hearing this person's words, he hurriedly shouted anxiously, "Don't underestimate the enemy, this guy is powerful!"

But by the time he spoke, it was already too late. A full four instructors rushed over in a swarm. They were hit squarely by one of the boss's AoE skills. In an instant, one person was stunned, and three were seriously injured. They were almost completely wiped out.

After quickly using a crowd-control removal skill to break free from the stunned state, the black-faced man hurriedly retreated rapidly. Looking at the Round-faced man, his eyes were full of disbelief. "Xiao Wei, such a fierce boss, how did you guys manage to hold it off?"

Wang Wei rolled his eyes at him. "My dear Brother Tao! Didn't you guys hear Old He calling out? Why are you all so dim-witted?"

The black-faced man scratched his head in embarrassment. His name was Tie Tao, the captain in charge of the field patrol area, and he was considered the person in charge of this group of instructors. Seeing earlier that the two people, whose Ranks and strength were lower than his, could hold out until now after calling for help, he couldn't help but make a wrong judgment. In addition to his regret, he hurriedly asked for advice. "How should this battle be fought? You take command!"

Wang Wei didn't stand on ceremony and immediately said, "Everyone, upgrade your Puppets first!" The others were stunned. Someone couldn't help but retort, "What's the point of that thing?"

Before Wang Wei could speak, Tie Tao's face darkened, and he glared directly at him. "What? You're not following orders?" His words were still very effective, and everyone immediately started to do as told obediently.

But not even a few seconds later, someone exclaimed, "This thing's upgrade experience is ten times ours, this is too much of a loss, right?" "Exactly, just at Rank 30 it already wants over 20 million of my experience points; that's enough to raise my epic-grade skill from Level 4 to Level 5!"

Tie Tao's eyes were also somewhat doubtful as he looked at Wang Wei. Usually, when facing this dignified old superior, Wang Wei was always somewhat timid. The other party not only had a higher Rank and greater strength than him but was also the younger brother of Tie Jun, a professor in the academy's combat department and a third job change Rank 92 Divine-Grade profession [Weeping Blood Divine Warrior]. Everyone both respected and feared him.

In normal times, if the other party acted like this, he wouldn't have dared to speak. But right now, thinking of his Puppet's improvement and actual combat power, a surge of courage suddenly welled up in his heart. "Trust me, use all your experience points to upgrade the Sword Puppet!"

Tie Tao turned his head and looked at Wang Wei's Sword Puppet, which was still struggling to hold on, lost in thought. Could it be that this thing is really that strong? He turned to the others again.

He discovered that the only defense-type profession had only blocked two hits before being thrown away by the boss. Coughing up blood, he was leaning against a tree side-by-side with He Zhongtang, constantly taking medicine to recover. The other two offensive professions, after realizing they could only deal negligible damage to the boss, were also looking dejected.

He immediately gritted his teeth. "Don't save any experience, upgrade the Sword Puppet entirely!" Although some still looked puzzled, no one voiced any further opposition. They also saw that relying solely on their own strength, they simply couldn't do anything to this terrifying boss.

Since the decision was made, the speed at which everyone operated wasn't slow. Among them, one instructor, like Wang Wei, had also reserved quite a bit of experience. He instantly upgraded the boss to Rank 50 and was already exclaiming in surprise. "Damn, this thing's stats are too strong!"

Wang Wei hurriedly called out to remind him, "Zhang Hang, hurry up and put equipment on it, let it go up and tank!" Zhang Hang nodded excitedly and began rummaging through his backpack.

It just so happened. He had a beloved nephew who had just graduated from Galaxy Academy this year. As a top-tier defense-type profession, he had joined the largest mercenary group in Huaxia, [Dragon Soul], at Rank 50. He had prepared several Rank 50 epic-grade equipment for him as a graduation gift, but he hadn't had the chance to meet him and give it to him yet. After thinking about it, he equipped them onto the Sword Puppet first.

After equipping it, he immediately sent a mental command, operating it to charge toward the boss. "Beneath the sword, all are ants!" As soon as the Sword Puppet got up, it spouted arrogant words, making the faces of the newly arrived instructors darken. What a chuunibyou line! This Sword Puppet wouldn't be just for show and useless, would it?

Just when they had just started to doubt it, Zhang Hang's [Guardian Sword Puppet] was already holding a Rank 50 epic-grade [Brilliant Great Shield], blocking in front of Wang Wei's [Guardian Sword Puppet]. The boss was snorting heavily through its nostrils, about to crush this little bug that had been pestering it for so long. But it suddenly discovered that it had been switched for another one. With a disdainful gaze, it casually swiped a claw down.

MISS! The floating damage number directly caused the entire scene to fall silent in an instant. Even Zhang Hang, who had just seen the panel after equipping it and had great confidence in his Sword Puppet, couldn't help but open his mouth wide, his eyes filled with ecstasy. The others were even worse. Tie Tao shook his head frantically from side to side, feeling as if he were hallucinating. The two leaning against the tree directly covered their faces in shame. It's over, they had been completely crushed by this Sword Puppet; they would be relentlessly mocked by Zhang Hang in the future!

While happy, Wang Wei also felt a sourness in his heart. Damn it, how is this guy Zhang Hang's Sword Puppet even more powerful than mine? I refuse to accept this!

Although everyone's expressions were different, and none had fully anticipated this result, the Sword Puppet's super-strong defensive power still made everyone collectively happy, seeing hope in defeating the opponent. Wang Wei then began urging other instructors who possessed [Fearless Sword Puppet] to quickly upgrade them and equip the Sword Puppet with suitable weapons.

As one after another of the offensive or defensive type Sword Puppets joined the battlefield, even if they were only upgraded to Rank 40 and equipped with weapons and gear, they could all play a small role against the boss. And when another instructor named Han Xiao's [Fearless Sword Puppet] was upgraded to Rank 50 and equipped with a Rank 50 epic-grade weapon, it made the boss's HP bar start to drop visibly.

With a full three [Guardian Sword Puppet]s tanking in the front, the boss had no time to cause damage to anyone else. The instructors also rallied their spirits, each showing off their unique skills. They started to stand their ground and output damage crazily.

5 minutes later. An earth-shattering roar caused the instructors and students passing by in the surrounding area to look over. ... Big chapter, requesting support!