41: Chapter 41 Lu Yang, are you using a drop rate cheat?!
As the sound of the horn echoed, a series of wolf howls rang out from the depths of the darkness.
The howling went from far to near, initially echoing faintly between the rock walls before quickly becoming clear and sharp.
Soon after, four giant wolves rushed out from the darkness.
The giant wolves stood over 1.5 meters tall at the shoulder, with dirty grayish-white fur, mouths full of sharp fangs, and eyes filled with ferocious, murderous intent.
[Cave Gray Wolf (Elite)]: Rank 7, Health 500, Attack 50
Clearly, this was a summoning skill that could summon four Cave Gray Wolves to assist Iron Jaw and attack opponents.
However, facing Shen Qingci and the other three, who possessed powerful talents, these four Rank 7 elites were basically free kills.
Rebecca rushed up at the first instance, her golden longsword sweeping horizontally as an arc of light enveloped all four gray wolves, pulling their aggro completely.
Immediately following, Shen Qingci's ice ball descended from the sky, exploding with a boom in the middle of the gray wolves; before the four Cave Gray Wolves even had time to launch a single attack, they were thoroughly dead on the spot.
"No! My little babies!"
Seeing that the four gray wolves he summoned hadn't even lasted a single exchange before turning into corpses, Iron Jaw's eyes turned bloodred as he let out a heartbreaking howl.
The giant wolf beneath him let out an even more shrill and angry roar, finally stopping its escape and launching a frantic attack toward Rebecca.
During the previous pursuit, whenever her skill was off cooldown, Rebecca would greet the giant wolf's rear with [Holy Pierce], which also resulted in the giant wolf's current most hated target being Rebecca.
Seeing that the giant wolf finally stopped running, Rebecca's eyes lit up as she laughed, "Well-timed!"
She separated her legs, sank her center of gravity, and assumed a defensive posture. Her half-shield steadily blocked the giant wolf's charge and also warded off the lance smashing down from above.
Zhu Tongchen, with considerable tacit understanding, circled behind the giant wolf's rear and began frantically stabbing the giant wolf's rear.
Shen Qingci also launched her attack at the first instance, with Spells like ice spears and ice cones slamming one after another onto Iron Jaw's breastplate, bursting open clusters of fine ice crystals.
Iron Jaw's damage was indeed very high; even though Rebecca could block most of the attacks, she still lost around three hundred health points per second.
This was still under the premise that Rebecca had the 15% damage reduction from Unyielding Holy Body.
If there were no such damage reduction, the damage per second would have to increase by about fifty points.
Although the damage Rebecca received was not low, Lance's equipment was good, and the quality of the healing Spells was high. Milky-white healing lights fell one by one onto Rebecca, maintaining her health line within a safe range.
With Rebecca acting as an iron wall holding the front, Shen Qingci and Zhu Tongchen only needed to peaceably deal damage.
Both of them possessed very strong Soul Talents, and their output capabilities were likewise not low.
Their combined damage per second could even reach eight to nine hundred.
Although they couldn't compare to Lu Yang, it was still considered pretty good.
Given Iron Jaw's health, he could be killed in at most a few minutes.
Very quickly, Iron Jaw's health dropped to 50%.
Just at this moment, a trace of red light suddenly flashed in Iron Jaw's eyes, and his gaze crossed the front line, locking firmly onto Lance located at the very back.
He roared angrily, "Damn healer, I should crush you little thing first!"
He pulled the reins and charged toward Lance.
Seeing this scene, Lance's chubby round face turned pale instantly.
The giant wolf's four paws scratched the ground, almost transforming into a gray-black afterimage as it instantly crossed a distance of thirty meters, charging straight to the front of Lance.
Iron Jaw raised the nearly five-meter-long pitch-black lance, carrying a dull whistling wind, and fiercely smashed it down toward Lance.
Although Rebecca reacted at the first instance, activating her charge skill to rush back, her speed ultimately couldn't match Iron Jaw's. Having only run halfway, the lance had already smashed down onto the [Holy Light Shield] surrounding Lance.
-491!
Under a single strike, a massive damage figure floated from above Lance's head. His shield shook violently, its light instantly dimming by more than half, almost being shattered on the spot.
The fat on his face trembled along with it, and he hurriedly took a few steps back.
Just as Iron Jaw intended to launch a second attack on Lance, Rebecca had already arrived, her golden longsword fiercely stabbing into the giant wolf's already scarred rear.
[Holy Pierce]!
This instantly enraged Iron Jaw, who turned around while cursing and swearing, smashing the lance back down toward Rebecca.
Only then did Lance let out a long breath, feeling his legs go slightly soft.
Fortunately, the equipment on his body wasn't bad, and his skills were considered quite strong.
If it were an ordinary healing class professional, a single lance strike like this would probably result in instant death.
Of course, a Nightmare difficulty dungeon was fundamentally not prepared for ordinary professionals.
If ordinary professionals overestimated themselves and entered a Nightmare difficulty dungeon, they were simply courting death.
Seeing Iron Jaw begin attacking Lance, Lu Yang had originally tensed his body at the first instance, ready to rescue at any time.
Seeing that Rebecca had regained aggro and the battle was back on track, Lu Yang slowly relaxed.
One must know that Sister Shangguan handed these four people over to him; if he let someone die here, he would be a bit too incompetent.
Especially since Lance's talent was very suitable for team combat, and his future potential was quite high.
If he died here, it would be a huge pity.
Iron Jaw's health continued to decline. When it reached 40%, he picked up the dilapidated horn again and blew it.
This time, one more gray wolf darted out from the darkness. It was a chieftain Rank, clearly a size larger than the rest.
Although this increased Rebecca's pressure by a bit, under the focused fire output of Shen Qingci and Zhu Tongchen, that chieftain-Rank gray wolf was killed within just a few seconds.
Rebecca's health had also just dropped to 30%.
According to Rebecca's maximum health pool, there was still around 600 health left.
And 30% health also triggered Rebecca's 30% damage reduction, along with 3% life recovery.
The white light on her body flashed slightly, and her health line began to climb back up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Overall, it could be considered a narrow escape without danger.
When Iron Jaw's health dropped to 20%, he used a skill once more.
He pulled the giant wolf's reins, causing the giant wolf to rear up on its hind legs, its two stout front legs carrying the weight of its entire body as they heavily stomped onto the ground.
Boom!!
A roaring sound resounded accordingly.
A berserk shockwave diffused in all directions, directly spreading across a radius of twenty meters. The gravel on the ground was shaken into the air.
-392!
-599!
The former was the damage floating above Rebecca's head, and the latter was the damage floating above Zhu Tongchen's head.
This was still because Zhu Tongchen had reacted at the first instance when he saw the giant wolf rear up, realizing this might be a stomp skill, and directly used a speed-boosting skill to rush toward the outer perimeter.
When the shockwave struck, he was just located at the edge of the skill's range.
Even so, he still suffered a massive amount of damage!
Fortunately, he also had a [Holy Light Shield] with 500 health points on his body.
Overall, it was safe and worry-free.
As for Rebecca, this damage was still a completely acceptable value for her.
However, the stomp was only a prelude.
After using this stomp skill, a faint dark red glow suddenly flickered across the bodies of both Iron Jaw and the giant wolf.
Whether it was Iron Jaw or the giant wolf, their attack speed and damage both received no small boost.
In just a single second, Rebecca's health dropped by around five hundred.
Coupled with the previous stomp damage, she lost nearly one thousand health points almost instantly!
This frightened Lance into hurriedly casting another [Holy Light Shield] on Rebecca.
Ever since he confirmed that Rebecca's defense was strong enough that he could heal her without much pressure, Lance hadn't continued casting shields on Rebecca, precisely just in case, to keep a trump card in reserve.
Now was clearly the critical moment!
With this shield as a buffer, Lance finally had the opportunity to chant healing Spells to heal Rebecca, as streaks of white light pulled Rebecca's health line back up.
Rebecca, on the other hand, had a calm expression; she still had trump cards unused.
While stubbornly resisting the storm-like successive attacks from Iron Jaw and the giant wolf, she shouted, "The Boss has berserked! Speed up the output!"
Shen Qingci and Zhu Tongchen immediately went all out with firepower once again, outputting frantically.
At this moment, Iron Jaw's health only had less than three thousand points remaining.
With the two people's output capabilities, in a mere two seconds, the health left was less than a final thousand points.
At this time, Shen Qingci and Zhu Tongchen stopped almost simultaneously.
The four of them looked at Lu Yang, who was watching the show in the back, at the first instance.
"Lu Yang, quick, quick, quick, you come kill him! Your luck is good, the drops will definitely be higher!" Shen Qingci's pure and pretty face carried a bit of urgency, the crystal at the tip of her staff still flashing with cold light that hadn't had time to fade.
Lu Yang was stunned for a moment, then also smiled. "Alright."
He slightly unleashed the power of his dual halos, and the red-and-blue intertwined halo gently rippled, quietly reducing Iron Jaw's very last shred of health to zero.
His massive body, along with the giant wolf beneath him, collapsed with a crash, smashing a dull echo onto the ground.
[Ding! You have killed Goblin Knight ยท Iron Jaw and obtained: some experience, Iron Jaw's Dark Iron Lance (Legendary) * 1, Wolf-Summoning Horn (Legendary) * 1, Gray Wolf Leather Greaves (Legendary) * 1, Lance Charge (Legendary)ใ * 1.]
Rebecca shoved her faceplate up, revealing the pair of wide-open, deep blue eyes beneath her helmet as her voice changed pitch: "???? Lu Yang, did you hack the drop rates?!"
Shen Qingci was both surprised and delighted, tossing aside her usual restraint as her pretty face flushed red with excitement: "Ah!! Lu Yang! You're so amazing!!"
Hugging his staff, Lance's chubby round face was filled with shock and bewilderment as his worldview shattered: "F*ck?! Four Legendaries???"
Zhu Tongchen: "Hiss..."
A Hero-Rank Boss directly dropped four Legendary items!
And it was three pieces of equipment plus one skill book!
No Materials!
No sundries!
This completely refreshed their basic understanding of dungeon Boss drops!
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