The soul fire in Hel's eye sockets contracted slightly, as it keenly sensed the decrease in its own attack power. However, it did not retreat. Instead, it slammed its bone staff, and a dark gray healing light surged from its body—【Bone Regeneration】!
The overflow of healing instantly triggered the set effect, and the previously damaged shield was fully restored!
Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, and the Wildfire Spear thrust forward again, the tip tearing through the air with a sharp sonic boom, aiming straight for Hel's face.
This time, Hel didn't take the hit head-on. He activated the Shadow Swiftness ability on his 【Black Tide Boots】, and his figure transformed into a cloud of black mist, instantly teleporting a hundred meters to the side.
The black mist brushed past Lin Feng's side, and just as the Shadow Erosion effect was about to trigger, a stream of light suddenly shone from Lin Feng's leg armor.
【Shadow Steps】 triggered, and his evasion rate soared instantly. The black mist merely grazed his shoulder armor, failing to cause any damage.
A hundred meters away, Hel reformed his form and suddenly unleashed a silent soul shock, locking onto Lin Feng's mental sea.
There was no sound or light, but the air within a radius of tens of meters suddenly froze, and the purple clouds beneath our feet seemed to be held down by an invisible hand, ceasing their churning.
Almost at the same instant the Soul Impact was unleashed, Hel swung his left hand forward, and a jet-black chain shot out from his sleeve—【Ghost Chain】!
The soul impact struck directly at the mind, while the ghostly chains sealed off the body; the two controls combined sealed off all of Lin Feng's escape routes.
The moment the soul impact struck Lin Feng, the powerful negative resistance crushed the fear that was trying to intimidate his soul.
But the chain moved extremely fast, and the black chain, like a venomous snake, wrapped around his right arm with a "whoosh".
The 【Soul Binding】 effect bursts forth instantly, attempting to reduce his attack power by twenty percent and apply a heavy drag!
But Lin Feng's expression remained completely unchanged.
With a negative resistance of up to 85%, it was like an insurmountable barrier. The debuff of Soul Entanglement dissipated as soon as it touched his body, and the dragging control was completely negated.
Faced with the immense force of Hel's pull, Lin Feng was not pulled at all. Instead, he used the pulling force to turn the tip of his spear and launched 【Beacon Fire City】!
A fiery meteor-like spear beam tore through the sky, carrying a sharp sonic boom as it hurtled straight ahead and slammed into Hel's shield!
Although the spell deflection negated the stun effect, the enormous impact still knocked Hel back several meters.
Just as Hel was knocked back and lost his balance, Lin Feng activated the second stage of 【Beacon Fire Across the City】.
His figure transformed into a golden streak of light, following the trajectory of the spear's edge as he hurtled straight towards Hel!
Seven shots in one second!
Because the knockback effect reduced Hel's spell deflection efficiency by 50%, five out of Lin Feng's seven shots hit the target squarely.
The 640 shield points were instantly taken away, and the pale golden light membrane on Hel's body trembled violently.
Hel looked down at the spear tip that had pierced half an inch into his shield, and the flames in his eye sockets suddenly intensified.
It let out a low hum and released it once more—【Bone Regeneration】!
Seeing the rapidly recovering shield, Lin Feng's eyes suddenly narrowed.
What he cared about wasn't the shield's regeneration, but rather the timing of Hel's skill release and its incredibly short cooldown.
5 seconds.
This recovery skill has a cooldown of only 5 seconds.
Lin Feng instantly saw through Hel's tactical trump card. This was not a conventional glass cannon mage at all, but a "tank mage" with extremely high shields who constantly replenished his shields and health by relying on 【Bone Regeneration】.
If you don't use 【Awakening of Destiny】 to forcibly suppress its healing effect and reduce its upper limit, you simply can't break through this turtle shell.
After the mechanics were figured out, the battle entered a brief stalemate.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Hel created distance and unleashed a series of attacks with his bone staff, firing Shadow Bolt, Death Shackles, and Bone Spear in alternating beams to maintain high-frequency ranged suppression.
Lin Feng dodged continuously in the air. The 【Sky Chasing Boots】 granted him the ability to jump instantly within a hundred meters. Combined with an additional 30% evasion rate bonus, his figure left afterimages in the clouds, causing Hel's attacks to miss frequently.
However, Lin Feng also found it difficult to gain an advantage. Herl's spell deflection probability was too high, and with the damage reduction from 【Elemental Unity】, even if the spear's edge hit, the damage was reduced by more than half.
As soon as the shield value drops below 800, Hel immediately replenishes it with 【Bone Regeneration】 and then continues kiting.
The two fought from above the clouds to the depths of the azure sky, and then plunged back into the surging purple sea of clouds.
The deafening clang of metal clashing and the flashing light of magical explosions continued, the shockwaves tearing the surrounding clouds to shreds and scattering them in the gale.
Sunlight streamed through the cracks in the clouds, casting dappled and chaotic beams of light across the battlefield.
One hour later.
The two figures stopped fighting at the same time and faced each other from a distance.
Lin Feng's armor was covered with marks from the burning shadows, making him look somewhat disheveled, but his eyes remained sharp, and the golden flames on his Wildfire Spear did not diminish in the slightest.
His health is maintained at 60%. The Bloodthirst effect of 【Bloodthirsty Golden Hoop】 allows him to maintain his attack rhythm and has extremely strong survivability, so he will never fall easily.
On the other side, Hel's situation was much worse.
Its mana shield has thinned by almost half, and the 【Elemental Unity】 effect ended fifteen minutes ago.
The soul fire in its eye sockets flickered faster than before; it wasn't fear, but a warning from excessive mana depletion.
Its mana was less than 5,000. If the attack continued, once the mana shield broke, its remaining 3,000 health points would not be enough to withstand a few more shots from Lin Feng.
Hel stared intently at Lin Feng, slowly lowering his bone staff.
A moment later, it raised its skeletal hand and issued a silent command to all undead units.
retreat.
A low, desolate horn sounded from behind the sea of bones, and the undead army that was attacking the city began to retreat like the receding tide. The skeletons on the bone serpent slope stopped climbing and turned to retreat down the slope.
The necromancers hovering above the bone tide withdrew their magical shields and slowly drifted backward.
Hel gave Lin Feng one last deep look, the light in his soul fire dim and unclear, as if he were assessing him, or perhaps memorizing him.
Then, it turned and flew towards the rear of the undead army, stepping on the black mist, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the purple clouds.
Lin Feng hovered a thousand meters in the air, quietly watching the direction where Hel disappeared, and then glanced down at the undead army that was retreating in an orderly manner.
He did not pursue, but slowly lowered the tip of his spear, his body descending, and finally landed steadily on the edge of the battlements of the West Gate tower.
His breathing was steady, and the golden light around his body was slowly fading, as if the earth-shattering battle had never happened.
