The damage range was large and the damage frequency was high.
Even skills like damage-absorbing shields had little effect.
The more than ten layers of Black Light Shield were shattered in less than two seconds.
The only flaw of this berserk skill was that... the single damage was relatively low!
According to the normal way of fighting, when the boss entered the berserk stage, players usually relied on continuous recovery abilities to endure this berserk skill.
Even Qin Feng originally planned to endure it by relying on shields and life absorption.
But now...
The Shadow Arc took effect!
"At this stage, there will still be many small monsters around."
"Sure enough, they all launched area-of-effect attacks..."
One by one, the skeletal monsters revived and got up, covering the whole field together with the boss's berserk skill!
At this time, Qin Feng could be said to be in the middle of a 'hail of bullets'. No matter how he tried to dodge, it was impossible to avoid the attacks.
The damage-absorbing shields on his body were quickly broken.
-214!
-274!
-198!
-425 (Weakness Attack)!
...
The damage wasn't high, but the advantage was the high frequency.
At the moment when the damage-absorbing shields were all broken, all these damages landed on Qin Feng's shield!
Since he had just used Instant Shadow Slash and Scarlet Blade, the shield bar on his body had already been filled up.
Now the composition of his health bar was:
[19,000 health points] + [190,000 shield points]
In the God Forsaken Game, unless otherwise specified, players could obtain a maximum shield value equivalent to ten times their health points.
Now, Qin Feng's shield value was ten times his health points, with a full value of 190,400!
And when he continued to take damage, a part of the shield bar turned into a gray area, which was the effect of the Shadow Arc.
In just an instant, Qin Feng received nearly five thousand damage.
The composition of his health bar became:
[19,000 health points] + [185,000 shield points + 5,000 gray shield points]
The gray shield points meant that these shields hadn't been actually deducted yet.
Merge into the darkness!
Qin Feng released the invisibility skill to offset the effect of the invisibility removal that would occur 1 second later.
Immediately after that, he released the already cooled-down Instant Shadow Slash, killed more than ten skeletal monsters, and at the same time, the generated shield value offset his gray shield bar!
The composition of his health bar changed back to:
[19,000 health points] + [190,000 shield points]
Night Ring Blade!
A large-area blade light spread, and a series of damage numbers appeared around again.
"There's no 'Immune' word."
"That means the boss has removed its invincible state..."
"Die!"
Qin Feng listened to the position of the boss, raised his hand, and launched a Scarlet Blade!
-748,000 (Weakness Attack)!
——
[You have killed the 'Spirit of Bones · Combination (Emerald-level)'.]
[You have obtained 128,000 experience points.]
[Congratulations! You have obtained 60 evolution points!]
[You have obtained 39.8 years of lifespan (tradable).]
——
During the process when Qin Feng launched the final blow, he was still hit by the raging bone spikes several times, and gray shield bars appeared.
But Qin Feng ended the boss with the Scarlet Blade, and the life absorption effect of the ultimate skill directly offset these gray shield bars!
And what this brought to Qin Feng was...
——
[Congratulations! You have perfectly (without taking damage, extremely fast) completed the 'Skull Ruins Challenge'!]
[You will obtain the perfect-level challenge reward!]
——
The appearance of this system prompt surprised Qin Feng a bit.
In the previous life, several people who obtained the flying mount 'Bone Sword Wyvern' only got ordinary rewards.
He had never heard of any perfect-level challenge rewards before.
"Right."
"The conditions for the perfect reward are to clear the level without taking damage and to clear it extremely fast."
"Not to mention the extremely fast part. Even in the later stage, when others faced bosses of higher levels, how could they burst out and kill the bosses in an instant like me?"
"As for without taking damage..."
"In the final berserk stage of the boss, it was impossible to not take damage at all!"
"Only I, because of the effect of the Shadow Arc, although I was attacked, the damage was offset before it took effect... which was equivalent to not taking damage!"
Whether it was health points or shields.
As long as damage was taken, it couldn't be considered 'without taking damage'.
But Qin Feng's Shadow Arc made him achieve the condition of 'without taking damage' as if he were cheating...
When Qin Feng completed the challenge.
A faint white light appeared in front of him. The light gradually became brighter and illuminated the surrounding environment.
Qin Feng narrowed his eyes a little and then saw that this was actually a spherical room made of bones. The Emerald-level boss 'Spirit of Bones' was a combination formed by countless bones.
There were dozens of arms and dozens of legs, holding dozens of bone blades in its hands.
On the ground, there were the corpses of skeletal monsters everywhere...
Qin Feng waited for several minutes and after confirming that the boss didn't move, he stepped forward and used the Greed Hand on the boss!
——
[Congratulations! You have obtained 60 evolution points!] * 5
[You have obtained 39.8 years of lifespan (tradable).] * 5
[You have obtained the 'Bone Thorn (Diamond-level)'...]
[...]
——
"A diamond-level assassin weapon dropped?"
Qin Feng was a bit surprised.
He directly checked it:
——
[Bone Thorn (Diamond): Assassin-type weapon. Physical attack power +255, elemental attack power +255, strength +40, spirit +40, armor penetration +30%, ignoring elemental resistance +30%. Equipment requirement: Level 20]
[Unique special effect: When hitting the target, it will additionally break 30% of the target's physical defense and all elemental resistance.]
(Note: Negative status effects on bosses above the diamond level will have reduced effectiveness.)
——
It was an armor-piercing blade.
Qin Feng thought for a while and took down the 'Pale Bone Blade'.
The Emerald-level 'Black Flame's Gift' leather armor on his body also had an armor-piercing effect, but after all, it was only at the Emerald level.
Once facing bosses above the Emerald level, the armor-piercing effect from the 'Black Flame's Gift' would be greatly reduced...
This was also the reason why Qin Feng changed the curse effect of the Ancient God's Stone Tablet from armor penetration to cooldown reduction.
If it was against bosses above the Emerald level, then the greatly reduced armor-piercing effect was almost equivalent to nothing.
If it was against Emerald-level or weaker bosses, Qin Feng could kill them in an instant anyway, so it didn't matter whether there was an armor-piercing effect or not.
But the 'Bone Thorn' was different.
The 'armor penetration' and 'ignoring elemental resistance' of the basic attributes wouldn't have their effects reduced just because the boss's rank was too high.
Because these were attributes that took effect on oneself.
Only the special effect would have its effectiveness reduced due to the boss's rank.
Moreover, this was a weapon that could exert higher attributes in Qin Feng's hands!
"The Legendary-level 'Dual Blade Mastery' skill will increase the basic attributes of each of my weapons by 25%."
"That means the 30% armor penetration attribute of this Bone Thorn is equivalent to 37.5%!"
"Adding the 30% additional armor-breaking special effect, the total armor-piercing effect is 67.5%!"
Armor-piercing effects from different sources could be directly stacked, with a maximum effectiveness of 100%.
In the middle and late stages of the God Forsaken Game, physical-type professions would stack 'armor penetration' and spell-type professions would stack 'ignoring elemental resistance', and basically, they had to stack them up to 100%, otherwise, when dealing with high-level bosses, it would be like scratching an itch.
Of course, the percentage armor-piercing and ignoring elemental resistance attributes on equipment were very rare.
They belonged to the most expensive type of equipment in the middle and late stages.
"Next... Open the treasure chest!"
"Let's see what the perfect-level challenge reward will give?"
Qin Feng stepped on the corpse of the Spirit of Bones and came to its head, where he saw a treasure chest emerging from the void.
The treasure chest was dazzling and it was impossible to tell what grade it was.
Qin Feng, as usual, put on the 'Believer's Pendant' and summoned the pious believers to explore the way.
It turned out that this treasure chest had no traps.
——
[You have obtained the 'Mount Bell (Epic-level)'!]
[You have obtained the 'Bone Rune'!]
——
The Bone Sword Wyvern that Qin Feng knew about was just an Emerald-level mount.
But the mount bell he obtained...
Surprisingly, it was an Epic-level one!