Deep within the Purgatory Volcano, no one mourned the death of Sun Xing.
After the invincible phase of the BOSS ended, Wan Ye Weiyu led the others and began to unleash their long-range skills one after another at the upper body of the woman on the giant flower.
-169!
-428 (Weakness attack)!
-172!
...
Seeing all kinds of skills hitting the BOSS yet its health bar didn't budge at all, they were overwhelmed by an unimaginable sense of helplessness. And when comparing it with the terrifying damage dealt by 'Shadow', they could better understand to what extent 'Shadow' had developed by now!
"Weiyu, all of you stop attacking."
"I'll calculate the damage and take down the BOSS in an instant." Qin Feng said calmly in the team channel.
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the team was shocked.
"Calculate the damage?"
"Take down a Diamond-level BOSS in an instant?"
"But this BOSS should still have one more phase, right?"
After hearing Qin Feng's words.
Although the others in the team were nervous, they still stopped their attacks.
At this moment, the 'Nightmare Meter' on everyone's body had already accumulated to 32%.
Qin Feng, due to having 15 points of all superior resistances from the Devouring Spirit bloodline, had a lower 'Nightmare Meter' than the others, but it had also reached 27%.
There was no doubt about it.
With the damage from the players in the team alone, it was impossible to defeat the BOSS before they fell into a nightmare!
So, they could only rely on 'Shadow'!
Since they were in the same team, even though Qin Feng was in an invisible state, the others could still see his figure.
At this time, Qin Feng was extremely calm!
Nine years of experience from his previous life had already made him thoroughly familiar with all the damage calculation formulas in the Forsaken God Game.
"To skip a phase and take down the BOSS in an instant, we must ensure that we can instantly burst down the BOSS's last 12 million health points."
"We can only rely on the ultimate skill with the highest single damage, 'Scarlet Blade', combined with the active 'Throat Slit' effect of Graceful Liberation."
Since the Scarlet Blade had an execution effect.
When releasing the Scarlet Blade, the lower the target's health was, the better.
But it must be ensured that after releasing the Scarlet Blade once, the BOSS's health would not be lower than 12 million, otherwise, it would enter the invincible health-lock phase again...
"Shadow of Slaughter, Graceful Liberation, Scarlet Blade."
"After releasing the Scarlet Blade once, the BOSS's health must be a little over 12 million."
"In this way, we can directly take down the BOSS with the throat-slit damage as high as 380% later..."
Qin Feng had a hunch that his current damage was still not enough.
While throwing out 'Shadow Blades' towards the BOSS to clear the buffs that occasionally appeared on the BOSS, he was silently calculating the damage in his mind.
"The Scarlet Blade deals blood elemental damage and is affected by the basic elemental attack."
"My basic elemental attack power is 3,399 points."
"The legendary effect of the Black Light Shield, when I have a damage-immune shield on me, increases my basic attack power by 30%... which is about 4,400 points."
"And I'm in the level 21 invisible state. Each level of the invisible rank grants 335 points of hidden-breaking attack, which adds up to about 7,000 points. I can also release 'Quiet Concealment' first and then gain another 800 points of hidden-breaking attack..."
"The blood elemental attack attached to the Scarlet Blade is 10,400 points."
"All added together, the basic damage is 22,600 points."
"Then calculate the damage bonus..."
"Multiplied by three for the class passive, multiplied by three for the weakness damage, and multiplied by 2.8 for the backstab damage, resulting in about 570,000."
Immediately after that, he calculated the elemental resistance and damage reduction rate of the BOSS.
Qin Feng's Bone Spikes could reduce the target's elemental resistance by 30%.
It had 37.5% of ignoring elemental resistance on its own.
The leather armor 'Gift of Black Flame', although its effect on the Diamond-level BOSS was halved, stacking 5 layers of black flame also reduced the target's elemental resistance by 17.5%.
All added together, it was 85%.
In addition, the other casters in the team also had skills to reduce elemental resistance. With all these effects stacked together, the BOSS's elemental resistance was almost negligible.
He only needed to consider the 'damage reduction'.
"Based on the previous damage calculations, even without elemental resistance, this BOSS still has a damage reduction rate of about 70%..."
"So, without considering the damage increase from the execution effect, the actual damage of Shadow of Slaughter plus Scarlet Blade, added up four times, is 570,000 multiplied by 4 and then multiplied by 30%... which is 684,000."
"Finally, we need to calculate the execution line of the Scarlet Blade..."
This was the most complicated step, but it wasn't difficult for Qin Feng.
The Scarlet Blade had the maximum execution effect when the target had 30% of its health remaining, increasing the damage by 200%.
According to Qin Feng's experience, the damage increase effect of this kind of execution line was usually linear.
So it was roughly that for every 1% reduction in the target's health, the skill's damage increased by 2.86%.
Qin Feng's mind was working frantically.
Soon, he reached a conclusion that he needed to release that series of skills when the BOSS still had 14 million health points left to maximize the damage!
"Attack when the BOSS has 14 million health points left."
"The execution damage increase of the Scarlet Blade is about 175%."
"684,000 multiplied by 2.75, and the final actual damage is about 1.9 million."
"Just enough to leave the BOSS with 12.1 million health points and prevent it from entering the health-lock phase!"
Having calculated this far.
Qin Feng frowned.
Because he found that...
If the actual damage of the Scarlet Blade was 1.9 million, the 'Laceration' damage per second would be 7.22 million.
There was still a big gap compared to the 12.1 million health points needed to take down the BOSS in an instant!
As long as he failed to kill the BOSS in one go, the BOSS would enter the invincible phase and directly lock its health...
"Although I can time it with a BOSS's action and stack up the combo points to instantly release the Scarlet Blade three times..."
"But the total damage added up would only be 11.24 million."
"The damage isn't enough!"
At this time, the importance of teammates was demonstrated.
"Weiyu, save the 'Demon Hunting Mark' skill."
"When I tell you to release it, release it towards the BOSS. Remember to dodge its skills and don't die during that time." Qin Feng said in the team channel.
The Demon Hunting Mark was an exclusive skill for the Demon Hunter class and could be effective against any BOSS.
After applying the 'Demon Hunting Mark', any damage the BOSS received would increase by 15%!
There was no doubt about the skill's effect, but its duration was only 5 seconds while its cooldown was as long as 60 seconds, so it wasn't a conventional means.
However...
This skill could just make up for the little bit of damage that Qin Feng was lacking!
"Okay."
Wan Ye Weiyu nodded without hesitation.
"With the Demon Hunting Mark, I need to attack earlier..."
Qin Feng recalculated.
He reached a conclusion that he could take down the target when the BOSS had 14.3 million health points left.
Of course, there was also a commonly used little trick involved.
That was to time it with a BOSS's skill release action.
When the BOSS's health dropped below the health-lock line, if it was in the middle of releasing a skill, it would wait until the skill was released before entering the invincible health-lock state.
The skill release speed of Diamond-level BOSSes was extremely fast.
And the Nightmare Hell Flower in front of them, after Qin Feng's observation, had two relatively long skill releases that took about 0.3 - 0.5 seconds each.
During this time, Qin Feng could continuously release multiple skills to take down the BOSS.
Of course.
Even with the 20% skill release speed bonus from 'Dual Blade Mastery', Qin Feng could only release two skills at most during this short period of time.
Fortunately, the ultimate skill 'Scarlet Blade' had no cooldown time.
And a player's combo points could accumulate up to 100 points at most.
That meant...
Qin Feng could continuously release the Scarlet Blade twice!
"Then... here we go!"
Qin Feng kept throwing out Shadow Blades, constantly dodging the BOSS's skills during that time. The smooth upper body of the woman had countless flaming branches on its arms, sweeping across everyone around constantly, and the whole area was filled with magma and flames!
Whenever some buffs like increased attack, increased defense, or elemental resistance appeared on the BOSS.
They were all directly cleared by Qin Feng's 'Shadow Blades'!
The health of the 'Nightmare Hell Flower' was dropping rapidly.
17 million.
16 million.
15 million.
14.5 million.
14.3 million.
When the target's health reached Qin Feng's estimated value, Qin Feng had also stacked up 100 combo points. He observed the BOSS's actions and predicted its next skill...
For the next few seconds, Qin Feng didn't launch an attack or give any instructions. He was just dodging the BOSS's skills.
This made everyone in the arena, watching the constantly rising 'Nightmare Meter' above their heads, break out in a cold sweat!
Suddenly, 8 seconds later.
Qin Feng said in the team channel, "Now, Demon Hunting Mark."
Demon Hunting Mark!
Wan Ye Weiyu, standing on the surrounding stone platform, raised his hand and shot a crossbow bolt at the BOSS.
The crossbow bolt accurately hit the head of the woman's upper body.
Puff!
-519 (Weakness attack)!
[Demon Hunting Mark] took effect!
Immediately after that, a scene that shocked everyone appeared!
"Shadow of Slaughter."
"Quiet Concealment."
"Graceful Liberation."
"Scarlet Blade!"
Qin Feng leaped up, raised his hand and released three shadow clones, and then a series of skills flew out of his hands.
Four scarlet blade lights instantly landed on the smooth chest of the BOSS!
-536,000 (Weakness attack)!
-559,000 (Weakness attack)!
-536,000 (Weakness attack)!
-557,000 (Weakness attack)!
Four consecutive damage numbers popped up above the BOSS's head. Two of the damage numbers were a bit lower while the other two were a bit higher.
The two higher damage numbers were due to triggering a 40% chance of 1,040 points of water elemental attack, which came from the Diamond-level weapon 'Tide-Playing Blade'.
And this was also the margin that Qin Feng had left for himself in his calculations to avoid any accidents...
BOSS's remaining health: 12.11 million!
Qin Feng waited for 1 second...
Sure enough, the BOSS raised its hand and released a 0.3-second skill. Countless flaming boulders were shaken out from the surrounding lava river and flew towards the official players around!
During this short 0.3 seconds.
The 'Throat Slit' damage from Graceful Liberation burst out!
-2,037,000!
-2,124,000!
-2,037,000!
-2,117,000!
At the same time, Qin Feng held two daggers and released the Scarlet Blade twice in succession at the fastest speed!
-589,000 (Weakness attack)!
-615,000 (Weakness attack)!
...
Eight consecutive full-execution damages of the Scarlet Blade around 600,000 each.
Plus over 8 million 'Throat Slit' damage.
Just before the BOSS finished releasing its skill and before the lava branch-like arms around were about to land, over 12 million terrifying damage was dealt, emptying the BOSS's last health bar. The whole process was precise and elegant!
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[Players 'Shadow (Great Xia)', 'Wan Ye Weiyu (Great Xia)', 'Wu Chang (Great Xia)'... achieved the world's first kill of a Diamond-level BOSS and gained 60 reputation points!]
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A system prompt for the first kill rang in the minds of all players around the world.
At this moment, the whole world was shocked!