12: Engage in fierce battle against the Lord-level Mechanical Minotaur King.

Boom!

The Shadow Minotaur's thick bovine legs leaped into the air, its massive dark shadow falling toward Lin Yue. Once hit and sent into a float, a series of strikes from the Minotaur King would await Lin Yue.

Lin Yue predicted the attack range in advance, rolling to evade while holding his staff and quickly casting a spell.

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Another Minotaur King was drawn over and immediately launched a Frenzied Charge, slamming into Lin Yue's shoulder.

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...Lin Yue retreated immediately to open up some distance, while continuing to bombard with Chain Fireball.

As long as he didn't get hit by crowd control Skills, taking a little damage wouldn't affect his damage output.

With his current health and the lifesteal ability from his staff, the possibility of being killed in one hit was negligible.

While dodging, he frantically unleashed Chain Fireball. Finally, the first Shadow Minotaur fell.

The rest of the battle became much simpler. Within a few minutes, all five Minotaur Kings had fallen, dropping Materials all over the ground.

After quickly tidying up, he continued toward the next floor. This was the final floor of the Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins.

Just as he stepped inside, he felt the air temperature was extraordinary. Looking up, he saw a ten-meter-tall mechanical monster.

Mechanical Minotaur King (Lord): Level 10.

health: 2,000,000/2,000,000

Attack: 1288

Skill: High-Temperature Flames, Fatal Axe Strike (stun), Mechanical Shield.

Lin Yue's pupils constricted slightly. Two million health, and only three Skills—the number of Skills had actually decreased.

Don't be fooled by the fact there were only three Skills; they formed a trinity of control, shield, and damage output—it had everything it needed.

lord-rank monsters are much harder to deal with than boss-rank monsters.

Boom!

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Dark Fire

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Good luck; the first attack triggered the Dark Fire effect. Even with reduced magic defense, the damage output fell below four digits, showing that the mechanical bull's defense was extremely high.

However, in the next second, Lin Yue witnessed the terrifying power of the mechanical bull.

The steel bull's mouth opened wide, and rolling flames spewed out, directly covering a 120-degree fan-shaped area.

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The range was too wide, and Lin Yue didn't escape in time. In five seconds, 6,500 health was burned away.

This was truly the height of absurdity, beyond any reason.

If this were an ordinary player, getting sprayed would mean an instant kill; they wouldn't be able to react at all.

Even Lin Yue, with his health as high as 50,000, could only last 40 seconds within the range of the High-Temperature Flames.

This was terrifying. Aside from Lin Yue, almost no Level 10 player could survive in this environment.

This is the purgatory level difficulty.

Seizing the gap when the Mechanical Minotaur King was releasing flames, Lin Yue hid in a blind spot and began to counterattack.

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Burning Effect

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The Beginner Spell Combo, which had been upgraded to two stars, now had a 10% chance to trigger. Lin Yue was lucky; this hit directly dealt over four thousand damage, and his health recovered by four hundred points.

Every time the Mechanical Minotaur King breathed High-Temperature Flames, it would last for 15 seconds. As long as Lin Yue avoided the fan-shaped area in advance and stood in the blind spot, he could maintain a steady output.

He continuously attacked the Mechanical Minotaur King.

Seeing that several High-Temperature Flames failed to kill the "bug," the Mechanical Minotaur King swung its massive ten-meter steel axe fiercely at Lin Yue.

Fatal Axe Strike!

Anywhere within a ten-meter radius of the mechanical bull would be subjected to a frantic beating. Once hit, a player would fall into a long stun, and then the Mechanical Minotaur King would take them out with a wave of High-Temperature Flames.

Dodging repeatedly, he backed out of the Mechanical Minotaur King's attack range, narrowly avoiding being hit by the giant axe several times.

He let out a slight sigh of relief. As long as he wasn't stunned, this Mechanical Minotaur King wasn't that terrifying.

Although its health was as high as two million, killing it was only a matter of time.

While attacking and dodging Skills, his health gradually recovered under the lifesteal effect of Embrace of Nether Fire. With two million health points, theoretically, as long as Lin Yue wasn't killed instantly, ten percent lifesteal could restore up to two hundred thousand health.

Adding his own 50,000 health, he had a total of 250,000 health to work with; it was just a matter of who would fall first.

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After about five minutes of continuous output, the Mechanical Minotaur King's health had dropped by five hundred thousand, yet not a single Critical Hit had been triggered.

Unlike the previous Minotaur Lord, 90% of this thing's body was a hunk of iron. It was basically encased all over, making it difficult to hit a weak point and increase the Critical Hit rate.

Furthermore, the Mechanical Shield Skill could reduce the Critical Hit rate, which was why after five minutes, the Mechanical Minotaur King's health was still as high as 1.5 million.

Where is the weak point?

While attacking, Lin Yue was also analyzing the opponent's weaknesses.

In his past life, he had left the Novice Village the day after reaching Level 10 and hadn't personally run this Instance, so it was normal that he didn't know the Mechanical Minotaur King's weakness.

"Since I haven't found the weak point, I'll just cover the whole body."

Lin Yue downed a mana potion. While his MP was recovering, he continuously released Chain Fireball on various parts of the Mechanical Minotaur King.

Chest, back, limbs, head—he didn't miss a single spot.

"Boom!"

Critical Hit!

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Two consecutive Critical Hit notifications made Lin Yue's eyes light up; he had finally found it.

At the back of the Mechanical Minotaur King's head, there was a disc-sized area encased in steel—that was its mechanical core.

Having taken Critical Hit damage, the Mechanical Minotaur King's attack frequency increased slightly; it felt a hint of a threat from Lin Yue.

"Boom!"

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Another Chain Fireball hit the back of the head, and the yellow Critical Hit damage appeared. This time, Lin Yue was absolutely certain: this was undoubtedly the weak point.

Now that he had found the weak point, the subsequent attacks were much simpler.

He only needed to keep aiming at the back of the head to land continuous Critical Hits.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

One fireball after another, like cannonballs, hit with precision and elegance.

Damage output efficiency instantly increased significantly.

Feeling a fatal crisis, the Mechanical Minotaur King's attack frequency increased even more, its mechanical gears creaking as it tried to kill Lin Yue quickly.

But Lin Yue's experience was too rich; he wouldn't give the Mechanical Minotaur King a chance to combo him.

Occasionally taking one or two hits, he could also quickly pull away; it was completely insignificant.

Ten minutes later!

"Ding! You have killed the lord-rank Mechanical Minotaur King. Experience +1."

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully clearing the Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins. A Server-wide Announcement will be made. Do you wish to hide your name?"

"No."

"System: Congratulations to player White Emperor for the solo First Clear of the Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins. This announcement is made to encourage all players to keep up the good work!"

"System: Congratulations to player White Emperor for the solo First Clear of the Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins. This announcement is made to encourage all players to keep up the good work!"

"System: Congratulations to player White Emperor for the solo First Clear of the Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins. This announcement is made to encourage all players to keep up the good work!"

...It had been less than an hour since the last System announcement, and now another Server-wide Announcement had appeared. All the players were stunned.

Just what kind of Prodigy is this White Emperor?

Why is it always him? This is too strong!

The various teams that had just entered the Instance and were still fighting on the second floor were also speechless.

"No way, White Emperor can clear the Instance alone? Half of our Elite Team already died on the second floor."

"It must be a King-level Talent; otherwise, he couldn't be this monstrous. Sigh, I regret not spending some money to roll for a talent at the beginning."

"Damn it, just one floor left! We were just one floor away from clearing it, and White Emperor beat us to it."

All the guild players in the Instance were now heart-broken. Since the First Clear of the Instance had been snatched, the rewards for their continued progression would be much lower.

Lin Yue smiled. The feeling of receiving rewards was still wonderful.

"Ding! You have completed the First Clear of the purgatory level Dungeon of Gloomy Ruins. Calculating rewards..."

"Ding! You have obtained Purple Rare Class Set +1."

"Ding! You have obtained Special Skill Book Gift Box +1, Elementary Skill Scroll +50."

"Ding! You have obtained free attribute points +100."

"Ding! You have obtained Gold Coins +50."

"Ding! You have obtained Legendary Weapon for your class +1."

...Accompanied by a flash of golden light, Lin Yue was stunned.

Damn, he actually got a gold legend!