Chapter 300: Chapter 189 - The Intense Battle with the Legendary Star Spirit_2
Lin Xun’s mind was abuzz with speculation.
"These ’Legendary Star Spirits’ sure have it rough. Expected to work themselves to death in life, and to continue working after death."
[’Legendary Star Spirit - Thunder Beast Mammoth Lonca’ opens its huge mouth, a ball of flesh that reeks of a strong, foul odor falls to the ground.]
[...]
[The giant beast signals to you to step into the flesh and begin the grand and glorious evolution!]
[You look at the crack in the flesh, remembering your last death experience, and hesitate.]
[Will you go forward to squeeze into the crack for modification, or refuse the modification and attack the giant beast?]
Lin Xun took a deep breath, looking at an item in his inventory.
[’White Dwarf Star Potion’ (Item) A glass bottle filled with a grayish-white liquid. Simply shatter the bottle, and the liquid will instantly evaporate, producing unknown effects.]
[Using this item will cause a severe ’weakening’ effect on the Stars creatures. This item is only effective on normal, elite, and legendary creatures of the Stars faction, and will not work on demigods, false gods, or deities of the Stars faction.]
He had obtained this item after defeating the president of the Multivision.
Probably the president of Multivision was worried that using the ’Ring of the Stars’ would summon a powerful Stars monster, hindering him from successfully taking the path to divinity, so he prepared the ’White Dwarf Star Potion’ to deal with powerful Stars monsters.
However, the severity of the ’weakening’ effect described in the item, and how much it would affect the Legendary Star Spirit, was still an unknown.
What worried Lin Xun was that even if he used the ’White Dwarf Star Potion’ specifically meant for Stars monsters, he might not be able to defeat the giant beast given its terrifying strength....
"There’s no other alternative strategy at the moment, so I must try it!"
He clicked on the ’Reject modification and initiate attack option’, and then clicked on the potion!
[You hurled the ’White Dwarf Star Potion’ in your hand in front of the giant beast!]
[With a ’crack’, the glass bottle filled with the gray-white liquid shattered, and a cloud of gray-white smoke billowed, covering the huge form of the beast.]
[A roar of surprise and anger came from the smoke...]
[Star man! What are you doing! Why is it feeling its strength slipping away!]
Lin Xun’s eyes hardened.
He quickly switched his shell and gave orders to the Valkyrie.
[You possess the shell of the ’Knowledge-seeking president of the Direct View Association!]
[You quickly retreat, moving away from the lingering smoke.]
[You raise your wand, silently chanting...]
[A pure white Knowledge Grating sprung up from the ground, protecting you within it.]
[’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ flaps her wings and takes off. She draws her longbow, murmuring a melody. Countless tiny characters flow onto the ’Arrow of Slaying the Dragon’!]
[You look at the smoke that’s about to dissipate in the distance and raise your wand again, chanting...]
[...]
[As the smoke gradually dissipates, a deafening roar resounds through the hall.]
[’Legendary Star Spirit - Thunder Beast Mammoth Lonca’ roars upwards, its huge underjaw tusks barely missing the ceiling of the hall, lowering its head, point four cross-cutting tusks to you and charges!]
[For some unknown reason, its charge wasn’t as impressive as you imagined. The huge beast moved slowly, much like an aged, flickering candle.]
[But even so, with its enormous size, it still moved rapidly towards you...]
[As you watch the approaching beast, you notice a change to its once glossy black chitinous shell, it now showed signs of decay.]
[’Combat Angel - Valkyrie’ releases her bowstring, shooting an arrow surrounded by characters, transforming into a white dragon attacking ’Thunder Beast Mammoth Lonca’!]
[The arrow pierces through the chitinous shell like a shooting star, burying itself into the giant beast’s body!]
[The green blood splashes all over, ’Thunder Beast Mammoth Lonca’ stumbles mid-charge, its pained roar is deafening.]
After Valkyrie acquired the ’Knowledge Melody’, her arrow attacks were no longer pure physical damage, but carried a dual damage of Knowledge Magic.
Under the ’weakening’ effect, Valkyrie’s strongest hit caused considerable damage to the BOSS.
[’Thunder Beast Mammoth Lonca’s’ eyes are bloodshot, it turns and charges at Valkyrie!]
[You say the last syllable of the spell...]
[Raise your wand, dazzling starlight bursts out!]
[The entire hall was filled with dazzling starlight, echoing with the painful howl of a massive beast.]
[When the starlight extinguished, the upper part of the ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’s’ shell was already cracked and peeling, revealing the twisted muscle tissue underneath.]
[’Thunder Beast Mammoth’ roared, turned around, and charged at you again!]
[The Valkyrie pulled out an arrow shrouded in swirling air, and shot again...]
[’Legendary Star Spirit — Thunder Beast Mammoth’ has suffered minor injuries!]
[It gives up on you, who is about to be trampled into pulp, and charges at the Valkyrie again...]
[You lift your staff and mutter a spell...]
[...]
"Dealing with such a brainless BOSS is easy, as long as the Valkyrie and I keep pulling its attention and take turns dealing damage, we can have this BOSS chasing its own tail."
The advantage of a Mage lies in the ability to deal high damage from a distance, with the strong support of the Valkyrie, the effectiveness of this strategy is brought to its extreme.
However, the ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’s’ health bar is ridiculously long.
Two powerful arrow attacks plus a legendary skill ’Light of the Meteor’ could only cause ’minor injuries’ to the BOSS.
Without the weakening effect of the ’White Dwarf Star Potion’, it would be a tall tale for Lin Xun to defeat the BOSS with kite strategy.
[Endless starlight blooms!]
[You feel somewhat tired!]
[The beast changes its target again, and the Valkyrie fires her arrows as before.]
[However, her ’Arrow of Slaying the Dragon’ and ’Arrow of the Gale’ are still stuck within the body of the beast. She can’t retrieve her arrows until the ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’ dies, so she can only use regular arrows to damage the beast.]
[This time, the fired arrow didn’t pierce the ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’s’ shell!]
[You look closely in shock, only to see that its chitinous shell is gradually regaining its original color. The frequency and the amplitude of its steps are increasing, and its charging speed is also getting faster and faster!]
[You realize the ’weakening’ effect of ’White Dwarf Star Potion’ is slowly fading.]
[Arrows that have not penetrated the shell cannot damage the beast and of course, cannot distract it from its target.]
[You murmur spells, watching helplessly as the charging beast approaches!]
"Damn it, the duration of the potion effects was so short!"
Lin Xun hardly had time for complaints as he had to face a crisis.
[You hurriedly stop chanting and dismiss the ’Knowledge Grating’. Interrupting a powerful magic makes you dizzy and bleed from the nose.]
[You sustained minor injuries!]
[You don’t care to wipe away the blood and run instead...]
Can a Mage outrun a ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’?
Of course not!
Lin Xun quickly acted, opening the inventory and moving the ’Abyssal Lantern’ to the Valkyrie’s equipment slot.
Once the Valkyrie took the ’Abyssal Lantern’, she could attract the attention of the massive BOSS with its special effects and thus keep him from becoming the target.
[Your Watcher is too far away to change equipment!]
"Damn this rigged game, it’s screwing me again!"
[The deafening footsteps grow closer from behind. You are about to be crushed into a pulp by the ’Legendary Star Spirit — Thunder Beast Mammoth’.]
Lin Xun gritted his teeth and operated quickly.
[You possess the shell of the ’Forsaken ancient dancer’!]
[You take graceful dance steps and open a pair of dim eyes...]
[Starlight sparkles in the hall. Your shell skill ’Blood Shadow Dance’ gains a boost from the ’dark shadow’, making its concealment effect greatly enhanced!]
[Realizing you’ve disappeared, the ’Thunder Beast Mammoth’ angrily roars and continues its charge due to inertia. Unbeknownst to it, you, while in stealth mode, have changed direction and are far from its back.]
"Thank goodness I got rid of the defects of the ’dark shadow’, if not, I would be toast by now."
Lin Xun breathed a sigh of relief, finding the situation extremely thrilling.
