Lane swung his sword at the centipede again. This time, the sword hit its fang and poison started pouring out from that fang. The poison was very dangerous and now, it got out uncontrollably.
[5500/7000 Health. Centipede]
"Was it a crit?" Lane asked the demon lord.
"It was. If it wasn't, you wouldn't give a two hundred damage out of nowhere!" Buyer shouted as Lane dodged the flood of poison that was made by him breaking the fang of that centipede.
The centipede became more deadly. It moved faster and it became deadlier in comparison to the previous form. It was very very dangerous. That poison could kill him in a matter of seconds if Lane wasn't careful enough.
"Lane! Dodge!" Burt shouted as the centipede attacked him with one of its fangs.
Lame jumped in the right direction to avoid being stabbed by the fang of that centipede. He dodged the attack and moved to another direction and slashed the centipede with his sword.
The sword hit the shell of the centipede and barely cracked it. It dealt a decent amount of damage and inflicted bleeding debuff on the centipede. It'll reduce the health of the centipede by two every second.
[5000/7000 Health. Centipede]
But with that insane amount of health remaining, it'll take too long for it to die because of bleeding. Lane needed to do another attack and he needed to do it fast. He immediately slashed his sword at the centipede used his skill [Fast Blade] and immediately chopped the centipede using his sword.
It created a scratch wound that dealt roughly two hundred damage in total. The centipedes screamed and made a sound so terrifying that it made another debuff effect on Lane.
[Frightened: -30% On strength]
It wasn't a ruse or a rumor. It was real as hell. He felt that his strength was reduced to a certain level that his sword wasn't that strong either. It was very weak. So weak that every swing didn't feel as strong as before.
"Why my strength becomes so low?" Lane asked himself as he dodged an attack made by the centipede boss. The attack was a stab made by one of its feet. If Lane got hit by the attack, he would lose a hundred to two hundred health at once. It was the best idea to dodge it instead of tanking the damage by himself without any armor.
Lane ran away from that centipede boss, hoping that the boss didn't go too aggressive to him. It was a failure. The boss kept chasing him with its legs. For a centipede, the boss was very fast since it had a lot of legs and they were very big.
[4500/7000 Health. Centipede]
"Well, Lane, you better strike again," Buyer advised Lane to stop running. He had to fight the boss since it was his decision to summon the boss.
"Why?" Lane asked as he kept running from the centipede that kept chasing him down.
"It has a good amount of reward for beating it. Including EXP," Buyer said as Lane stopped running And faced the boss face to face. They looked at each other in the eyes.
Lane was determined. He would do anything he could to kill that boss without getting any more damage since her health was low enough that one critical strike was more than enough to kill him.
"[Fast Blade]," Lane changed the skill and he moved his sword faster at the centipede. It cracked the shells of that centipede and the crack opened widely and revealed the inside of that centipede.
It was a critical hit. The centipede health immediately dropped down to half of its original health. Lane caught a breath as the centipede was raging in pain uncontrollably and attacked anything around it, including the other monsters around it.
[3500/7000 Health. Centipede]
Little did Lane knew, the boss was through a phase change. Like any game, the boss had multiple phases. For this centipede boss, the boss had two phases and this boss had entered the second phase.
Almost every shell of that centipede cracked and a small fang appeared from the insides of that centipede. The tip of that fang was poisonous and the centipede moved faster than before. It was bad, really bad. Lane only had a little chance before he realized that he was in a very bad situation.
"Lane! Watch out for the poison needle!" Buer said and the centipede's fangs that were in the inside of its inside grew bigger. The fang turned into a pointy sharp projectile and they were heading to Lane direction.
Lane noticed that quickly and hid behind a large stone that was enough to cover his whole body, but he was a little bit late. Some of those poison projectiles were stuck on his body and gave Lane stacks of poison debuff.
[Intermediate Poison Debuff. -20 Health per 8 seconds. 48 Seconds]
The projectiles were burrowed deep inside Lane's skin and it made a very nasty cut on Lane's skin. It burned Lane's skin like fire. It was very painful. "It burns and it's hot! Shit," Lane said as he tried pulling the projectiles out of his skin, but it just gave more duration to the poison debuff. The only option was to kill that boss quickly or Lane would be doomed.
"If you kill the boss, there's a major reduction on the debuff, but you have to kill it!" Buer shouted inside Lane's head.
Lane readied his spell that was under cool-down period. [Fast Blade], Lane slashed his sword at that centipede and dealt another two hundred damage. The centipede inflicted [Thorned] debuff. In short, 20% of the damage dealt was inflicted back to Lane.
[Status]
[Level 14]
[1000/8000EXP]
Name: Lane McFarlane
Race: Human
HP: 400/900
MP: 200/200
Strength: 30
Perception: 10
Endurance: 25
Intelligence: 1
Agility: 35
Damage Resistance: 130
Magic Resistance: 80
Class: [Null]
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