98: Who is the real boss?

The difference was that the Phoenix had more Clones, and when they exploded, they would also trigger a fiery tornado.

The damage looked quite substantial.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Yue narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed this Phoenix clearly didn't want to engage in a war of attrition with him.

The more it was like this, the more Lin Yue couldn't afford to be hasty.

He continuously unleashed Chain Fireballs.

Although the damage was low, unlike the Old Man, the Phoenix had no way to deal with the True Damage attached to Lin Yue's fireballs.

Furthermore, the Phoenix's main body wasn't very fast, giving Lin Yue plenty of time to kite.

As time ticked by, after five minutes, Lin Yue's health had stacked over twenty-five thousand points.

After ten minutes, Lin Yue's health had stacked fifty thousand points, and his spell power had increased by over twelve hundred points.

This was simply absurd.

Because the spell power increased, the Spell damage bonus increased accordingly.

Although after the weakening effect, each Spell now only added a little over three hundred True Damage, as long as he kept grinding away, the Phoenix's defeat was inevitable.

"Adventurer, I admit you have some skill. But if you think this is enough to defeat me, that's laughable."

As if sensing Lin Yue's thoughts, the Phoenix, having lost twenty million health, changed form again, reverting to its half-human shape.

The Magma that had flooded the entire Cavern had now completely covered the ground. Lin Yue had no place left to stand.

"Ding, you are affected by the Magma's continuous debuff. Your health decreases by 500 per second."

"Ding, you are affected by the Magma's continuous debuff. Your movement speed is reduced by 25%."

Since the entire ground had turned to Magma, although Lin Yue could still fight, he was now suffering from two debuffs.

His health was continuously decreasing, and his movement speed was lowered.

If this were any other player, it would basically mean game over at this point, just waiting to die.

But Lin Yue was different. He still had a thousand free attribute points saved up. Moreover, Lin Yue's base health regeneration reached a thousand points, so losing five hundred wasn't a big deal.

This time, the heart-protecting mirror was the key hero.

Negative debuff effects reduced by fifty percent. Without this special effect, Lin Yue would lose a thousand health per second, and his movement speed would be reduced by fifty percent.

The combat environment had become even more difficult.

His high movement speed of thirty-three points, now reduced by twenty-five percent, left him with only twenty-five points.

After just a brief thought, Lin Yue crushed two hundred free attribute points, increasing his movement speed by twenty, reaching fifty-three points.

After the reduction, that equaled forty points of movement speed, enough to handle the current fight.

Seeing that the Magma didn't affect Lin Yue too much, the Phoenix also knew that this Adventurer before him was not easy to deal with and had quite a few cards up his sleeve.

"In that case, I won't hold back!"

The next second, the Phoenix seemed to get angry. Its entire body burst into intense flames, and its main body split into three.

Three identical Phoenixes appeared in mid-air. Combined with the main body, a total of four identical Phoenixes appeared before him.

"Cheating, huh?"

This time, Lin Yue truly couldn't hold back. He pointed at the Phoenix's main body and cursed.

So, if you can't win, you just summon Clones.

This Clone ability is really useful!

Having witnessed the Old Man's Clone ability, Lin Yue knew that such Clones weren't much weaker than the main body and could change the course of battle at critical moments.

As if to confirm Lin Yue's guess, the four Phoenixes in mid-air remained silent, coldly spreading their wings and launching their attacks in unison.

Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens!

That's right, all four Phoenixes simultaneously used the Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens skill.

As soon as Lin Yue looked up, a dense, uncountable number of flaming feathers were ready to be unleashed.

Four times the flaming feathers, at least tens of thousands.

Can a human even dodge this?

Lin Yue felt his scalp go numb.

Facing one Phoenix was headache enough, but now he had to face four simultaneously.

This was unprecedented pressure for Lin Yue.

But things had come to this. Lin Yue could only brace himself and move forward, taking it one step at a time.

Dodging was definitely impossible.

He could only try to minimize the damage he received.

With a swift dash, Lin Yue quickly dodged towards another area. The coverage range of Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens was a full hundred meters. He had to rely on his movement speed to quickly widen the battlefield.

Sure enough, the first Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens crashed down. Lin Yue, a step ahead, unexpectedly managed to escape the attack range this time and took no damage.

Lin Yue's move was too sudden. One Phoenix in the air clearly didn't expect Lin Yue to have predicted its prediction.

But the Phoenix wasn't stupid either. Immediately, the second Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens fell, and the third one followed, sealing off Lin Yue's escape route.

This was where the Phoenix was clever. The four Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens attacks didn't land at the same time.

Because if they did, they could easily be dodged entirely.

Seeing no escape, enveloped by the massive red circle, Lin Yue could only start dodging the second Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens within the range.

This way, he could completely avoid the predicted third attack.

But would the Phoenix let Lin Yue off so easily?

Obviously not. With a wave, the fourth Phoenix Dance began a covering strike overlapping the second attack's range.

This created an incredibly spectacular scene. Endless flaming feathers transformed into streams of fire, like a crackling torrential downpour, wildly pouring down.

Boom!

Due to the wide coverage area and the attack density doubling.

The entire ground erupted in massive flames, while the underlying Magma also churned with countless fires, dealing secondary damage.

It looked like a fiery Hell. Anyone with trypophobia would definitely cry out in discomfort.

Several seconds passed. After the endless flames subsided, Lin Yue was half-kneeling on the ground, his clothes tattered, with unextinguished flames still flickering on his body, looking exceptionally wretched.

He hadn't dodged these two rounds of Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens. This wave had shattered quite a few pieces of his equipment, their durability depleted.

This could be said to be the most brutal battle he had ever fought. Even when facing the Old Man, he hadn't been this battered.

Apart from special equipment, five pieces of his gear were shattered, and none of them were ordinary equipment.

They were all rare-grade purple equipment, making Lin Yue's heart ache.

Moreover, while in his dodging state, he was hit by at least sixty flaming feathers.

Although it wasn't a direct hit from the main body, and the damage from the Clones' Phoenix Dance of Nine Heavens was reduced, he still lost eight hundred thousand health.

That was over half his health gone. If the damage had been just a bit higher, the Vibrant Life passive would have been triggered.

Lin Yue would have lost his last life-saving card, and the situation would have become the worst possible.

"He's still not dead?"

Looking down from above, the Phoenix was genuinely shocked this time.

This was the maximum power it could unleash within the rules. Under such a terrifying attack, this Adventurer below still wasn't dead?

Just how high is his health?

Just who is the boss here, him or Lin Yue?

For the first time since gaining consciousness, the Phoenix doubted its very existence as a Phoenix.