Jiang Qiao was entangled with the most troublesome BOSS in this Abyss Hunt.
"The BOSS has only five percent health left!"
Jiang Qiao shouted loudly to the players around him. The armor on the elite of the Annihilation Legion had already shattered, exposing his body full of magical runes.
"Damn humans!"
Airey raised the Engraved Longsword bestowed upon him by his master, intending to release a magic capable of causing an area strike, but a tank rocket suddenly hit his back.
The violent explosion made Airey stagger forward a step, the burning pain on his back making him feel extremely humiliated!
"The BOSS seems to have lost its super armor!"
"Is it possible to enter the second phase?"
The surrounding players' whispers flooded into Airey's ears, his whole body already covered with all sorts of hideous wounds.
Airey had been fighting with this group of strange... eerie... no, they couldn't be called humans, they should be referred to as some other kind of creatures for almost an hour.
His Longsword couldn't inflict any injuries on these guys, but what kept Airey fighting was the fact that he could use the Longsword to kill these guys!
Although saying kill might not be accurate... When Airey slashed down with his Longsword, there was a certain chance of turning these guys into tombstones.
But what good did it do to kill them?
"Priest!"
"Priest! Any priests around? I'm bleeding out; I'm about to die!"
"One Resurrection Technique for one silver coin! Pay me, and I'll heal you!"
Airey looked up at a player he had just personally slain. His health had already hit zero, turning him into a tombstone, but this tombstone still continuously shouted.
A 'human' dressed as a priest rushed towards the tombstone. Seizing the opportunity, Airey tried to release dark purple flames from his Engraved Longsword towards the priest.
A warrior with a large shield blocked the priest and shielded him from Airey's flames.
"Look here, you bastard!" The warrior shouted, and not long after, Airey, in rage, lifted his Longsword and struck the shield fiercely.
The warrior couldn't withstand Airey's immense power, and the ground beneath his feet began to collapse.
When Airey saw the priest once again release a Resurrection Technique, resurrecting the player he had painstakingly killed, Airey was driven to the utmost fury. His anger caused him to raise his sword once again and strike the shield.
The surface of the warrior's shield showed signs of denting...
"The warrior seems to have successfully taunted!"
"The warrior was seconds away from death! The BOSS's attack is just too insane."
Airey felt bitter beyond words, as did the players, especially Jiang Qiao, who was a mage.
Airey wasn't susceptible to the warrior's taunting skill and had no aggro meter set. He was a seasoned warrior with his own combat experience and thoughts.
So, in this hour, Airey noticed that while these players could resurrect infinitely, the players with the priest class played an extremely crucial role.
First, kill the healer in a raid!
Airey had learned the essential skill of all game BOSSES. In this hour, he had been chasing the priests within the player team nonstop, killing any priest who healed without a second thought.
It could be said that this priestess bore the full brunt of Airey's hatred. He succeeded twice, killing her twice.
Airey thought this would lock down these guys' high recovery abilities and their ability to resurrect continuously.
But the problem was... There were still other players playing as priests.
And what made this BOSS despair even more was that the special instance of Deep Abyss Hunt allowed players to corpse run.
Airey watched as the warrior he just killed was resurrected once again under the Holy Light released by a priest named Jia Nai Bu Jing Jia. The emotion of numbness inexplicably filled his heart.
"You all... must die!" Airey's whole psyche seemed to be in disarray, or perhaps he had entered a frenzied state as he lifted his Engraved Longsword.
Purple flames quickly gathered on the Longsword. He was ready to release the last skill of his life but had forgotten one thing.
When BOSSES were casting, it was the best time for players to increase their damage output.
Once again, dozens of skills rained down on Airey, this time causing him to fall to his knees completely, and the flames gathered in the Engraved Longsword dissipated like the wind.
At this moment, players' attacks no longer worked on him. Jiang Qiao walked up to this lord-level BOSS, who was kneeling, trying to prop himself up.
But Airey's body was covered in, knife wounds, gunshot wounds, blunt force trauma injuries, bleeding wounds, burns, and a series of various strange injuries.
Even a body as strong as level 35 couldn't withstand the accumulation of so many horrific injuries.
'Annihilation Legion Vanguard·Airey, Abyss Lord-level BOSS, level LV35, health: 2/433150.'
This was the data Jiang Qiao saw at that moment.
Airey sensed something. He looked up at Jiang Qiao's stern face, suddenly letting out a mad laugh. After the laughter stopped, he stared at Jiang Qiao.
"What are you things?" Airey asked.
"Isn't it clear? We're just a group of players running an instance." Jiang Qiao raised his Magic Wand, made a motion as if swinging a baseball bat, and directly hit the lord-level BOSS in the face with the tip of the Magic Wand.
Jiang Qiao saw the lord-level BOSS's front tooth fly out under the heavy hit from the Magic Wand.
'You hit Annihilation Legion Vanguard·Airey with a normal attack using the Magic Wand, causing critical damage. Annihilation Legion Vanguard·Airey's health -2.'
Airey collapsed to the ground under this heavy blow, his consciousness fading, but his maniacal laughter never ceased.
"You can't protect this weak world," he said, spitting blood. As his body gradually became transparent, he used a mocking tone to speak to Jiang Qiao.
"Protect? No... Our reason for taking you down is simple. First, you have a health bar. Second, you drop epic and special equipment." Jiang Qiao squatted in front of the lord-level BOSS and whispered, "These two reasons are enough."
Health bar? Dropping epic and special equipment? What were those things?
Airey probably would never understand it in his lifetime. His whole body turned to dust and disappeared.