40: Chapter 40 The Heroic Boss with Clear Eyes

Even the usually composed Zhu Tongchen wore such an expression, not to mention the others.

Seeing those two damage numbers of over seven hundred pop up, Rebecca, Shen Qingci, and Lance all widened their eyes, their minds filled with question marks.

They hadn't even had time to react.

That heavily injured giant wolf was already screaming and jumping up and down.

"Awooo~~ Awooo~~"

While letting out shrill screams, it turned its head with a ferocious expression and opened its bloody maw to bite towards Lu Yang.

The two bone-deep sword wounds on its flanks were still spewing boiling wolf blood, and the intense pain completely overwhelmed the aggro pull brought by the Holy Pierce!

Rebecca's expression changed slightly, and a hurried exclamation came from beneath her faceplate: "Oh no! Lu Yang, watch out!"

The damage from just now was simply too high. After the giant wolf suffered heavy damage, its aggro overflowed on the spot, and even the Holy Pierce couldn't pull it back!

Iron Jaw on the giant wolf's back likewise felt the tearing pain and monstrous rage of his mount.

He gripped his lance tightly, cursing as he smashed it down towards Lu Yang's head. That nearly five-meter-long pitch-black lance descended from the sky carrying a muffled whistling wind.

"Damn little thing! How dare you hurt my little darling! I'll smash you to death! Smash you to death!"

Facing the giant wolf's bloody maw and Iron Jaw's attack, Lu Yang's expression didn't change at all.

Casually pressing down on the giant wolf's ferocious, foul-smelling maw, he tilted his head slightly to dodge the head-on strike of the battle spear smashing toward his head.

The battle spear landed on Lu Yang's shoulder, emitting a muffled sound.

"-0!"

A non-penetrating damage number slowly floated out from above Lu Yang's head.

Iron Jaw, whose expression was still quite ferocious just a moment ago, instantly froze.

Then his small, not-so-wise brain suddenly recalled that his thrown short spear from earlier didn't seem to have dealt any damage either...

Within a single second, Iron Jaw's gaze underwent a visible change.

From anger to bewilderment, from bewilderment to sudden realization, and from sudden realization to absolute clarity.

He yanked fiercely on the reins—made of some unknown beast hide—which creaked loudly under his thick fingers.

The giant wolf, which had still intended to frantically bite Lu Yang, was yanked so hard by this pull that its front hooves left the ground. Its huge gray-black body twisted in mid-air, and driven by Iron Jaw's will, its four claws scraped against the ground as it retreated more than ten meters before stopping.

Rebecca, who had still intended to snatch back the aggro, stopped moving when she saw this scene.

Shen Qingci and the other two had originally been a bit nervous, but seeing this scene right now, they were similarly left with blank expressions.

Lance opened his mouth, his round face full of an expression doubting life itself: "...Ran, ran away? A Hero-tier dungeon boss will run away?"

He felt that his worldview had shattered completely.

This was the first time he had ever seen a boss run away!

Shen Qingci took a deep breath, a look of shock welling up in her eyes as she murmured: "Yes... The bosses in dungeons also possess a certain degree of intelligence. Once they encounter an existence whose strength far surpasses their own, they will flee out of fear."

Speaking up to this point, Shen Qingci paused before continuing: "This kind of situation generally only happens when high-tier professionals enter low-tier dungeons. Because a boss with a certain level of intelligence that knows how to flee must be at least a Hero template. And for a professional of the same tier to make a Hero template experience fear is practically impossible!"

Hearing Shen Qingci's explanation, the other three flickered their gazes uncertainly.

They turned to look at Lu Yang one after another, their eyes filled with shock.

According to Shen Qingci's words, Lu Yang's strength had evidently reached the level where he could make a Hero-template boss feel fear and instinctively want to run away!

Just what kind of strength was this?!

Then Rebecca was so angry she laughed.

She glared somewhat irritably at the vigilant Iron Jaw not far away, gritting her teeth as she said: "Isn't that just bullying the soft and fearing the hard?! Thinking the four of us are easy to bully? But getting scared again when he sees Lu Yang??"

Lu Yang knew that Hero-tier bosses would run away; after all, the last time he cleared the welfare dungeon, Gu Feng had run away too.

But he hadn't expected that he had only tried a melee attack slightly without even doing much yet, and this boss was directly frightened.

Isn't this way too cowardly?!

Back then, Gu Feng had at least been kited by him for a while and had only thought about fleeing when it truly had no other options left.

Did this guy just run away right after getting hit once?

One can only say, truly worthy of the Goblin race.

Even as a Hero-tier boss, it is cowardly without exception...

Noticing the gazes of Shen Qingci and the other three, he gave a dry cough and said somewhat sheepishly: "Um... I was just planning to test out the damage. You guys go ahead, you guys go ahead. I won't make a move next."

Shen Qingci and the others had after all used quite a bit of brainpower and thought of many tactics.

He couldn't just ignore their efforts and kill the boss outright.

At least let them show off their skills.

After saying this, Lu Yang directly stepped back a bit.

Rebecca and the other three exchanged glances, and then Rebecca glanced at Lu Yang again, saying somewhat uneasily: "...Lu Yang, it's a deal. You are not allowed to make a move next!"

Lu Yang nodded and chuckled: "Unless you guys encounter life-threatening danger, I definitely won't make a move!"

Hearing these words, the four of them secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Otherwise, they would feel like they were completely useless.

Just like mascots!

A light golden radiance lit up around Rebecca once again, and the sun patterns on her white heavy armor burst forth with a soft yet scorching brilliance in the darkness.

She took a deep breath, brandished her sword and shield, and charged toward Iron Jaw once more.

Her platinum-interwoven figure pulled a bright trajectory through the dim cave, her steps firm and powerful as she recaptured the Aura a tank ought to have.

However, much to Rebecca's surprise, when Iron Jaw saw her charging over, he glanced warily at Lu Yang and unexpectedly yanked the reins without hesitation, retreating frantically while riding the giant wolf.

The speed at which Iron Jaw rode the giant wolf was extremely fast.

The giant wolf's four limbs were thick and powerful; every push could leap three to four meters away, and its gray-black mane was blown straight up by the wind during its gallop.

Even though Rebecca used the charge acceleration skill, she still failed to catch up, eating dust behind Iron Jaw.

Fortunately, Lu Yang expanded the range of his Frost Aura a bit.

The Frost Aura had a 30% slowing effect.

This allowed Rebecca to barely catch up to Iron Jaw.

She clenched her teeth, thrusting out the golden longsword in her hand. Holy Pierce was executed, carrying scorching Holy Light as it viciously stabbed into the giant wolf's buttocks.

The giant wolf let out an aow of miserable screaming as another charred sword mark appeared on its rear.

Its eyes were blood-red, wanting to turn around and bite Rebecca.

However, Iron Jaw grabbed the reins tightly, blue veins bulging on his two thick arms, forcing the giant wolf's head back to the front and continuing to flee.

Seeing this scene, Rebecca felt utterly numb.

No... she had used an aggro skill after all!

And it still wouldn't attack her?

Still running??

Rebecca gritted her teeth and said: "Qingci, slow it down! Then attack!"

Hearing this, Shen Qingci nodded: "Okay!"

If it were a normal battle, when the tank hadn't firmly established aggro yet, as a damage-dealing class, it would be impossible for Shen Qingci to attack at this moment.

After all, this was a real world. Once the boss's aggro locked onto her, even though her Ice Armor defense was astonishing, she wouldn't be able to block the boss's frantic attacks like a real tank.

But the situation right now was clearly not a normal battle.

Since the boss kept running away, she should indeed attack.

Besides... if she really encountered danger, there was still Lu Yang around.

She believed that Lu Yang would definitely save her.

Therefore, Shen Qingci didn't hesitate in the slightest.

She raised her hand and waved her staff, and a condensed mist of ice spewed from the blue crystal at the tip of the staff, whistling as it shot toward Iron Jaw.

Wherever the ice mist passed, the air frosted over. After it landed on the giant wolf, those four thick wolf legs instantly became covered in a thick layer of white frost, and its running speed plummeted by a large margin visibly to the naked eye.

At the same time, Zhu Tongchen also chased up from the side.

His steps were fast and silent, his figure looming in and out of the cave's shadows.

Because the giant wolf's rear position had already been occupied by Rebecca, he had no choice but to change positions. A dim light flashed across his two short daggers as he began to frantically attack the giant wolf's waist and abdomen.

The sound of daggers piercing into the gray-black fur was fast and dense, and high critical hit damage numbers continuously floated out from above Iron Jaw's head, mostly around three to four hundred.

Meanwhile, Shen Qingci also used her skills, continuously launching attacks against the fleeing Iron Jaw.

Iron Jaw's health steadily declined, and in just a short moment, it dropped to around 60%.

With blood-red eyes, Iron Jaw immediately picked up the dilapidated horn behind the giant wolf's saddle and let out a roar that was almost like a howl: "You guys are going too far!"

Then he blew directly into the dilapidated horn.

Woo~~

The muffled sound of the horn suddenly echoed through the cave. The sound was low and lingering, resembling the groans of an aged giant beast from the deep recesses of the earth, echoing within the hollow space.