Chapter 1562: Chapter 951: Slightly Better Performance (Part 2)
The Izalis Witch has now disappeared.
In its place, at the center of the field, stands a towering giant tree entwined with countless twisted tentacles, and a humanoid fiery phantom that brings a massive sense of oppression to the entire area.
The Chaos Breeding Ground has appeared!
The reaction from the Skyrim Strategy Group was identical to that of Temude and the others—shock, shock, and more shock—followed by attempts to launch attacks against it.
However, the difference was that they first chose to attack those two extremely conspicuous flames.
Under Tami and the others’ distraction, the magicians fired a volley of Giant Soul Arrows and Luminous Stone Comets, precisely hitting the first flame and instantly extinguishing it.
The Chaos Breeding Ground let out a hoarse shriek, a sound like hundreds of dry branches snapping simultaneously, causing the entire giant tree to tremble violently; this was clearly a hit to a weak point.
"I knew that had to be a weak point!"
Luluwo’s voice rang out triumphantly. In her approach, when dealing with large-sized monsters, attacking the most conspicuous part is always the way to go!
However, the Skyrim Strategy Group did not celebrate this small victory because they had also summed up other strategies for challenging the Boss Monsters in the Sain Dungeon, such as—
When a monster’s weak point is broken and it doesn’t die, it will surely fall into a berserk state.
"Don’t stop!" Luluwo’s chains pointed to the remaining flame on the right side, "There’s a second one, get it while it hasn’t reacted!"
The fifteen members of the Skyrim Strategy Group immediately shifted direction. Led by Tami, they charged to the right, followed closely by Berto and Mila. Even while running, the magicians didn’t forget to chant, and the azure glow from their magic wands traced starlight paths during the run, a scene picturesque enough to screenshot as a wallpaper.
They already discovered during earlier probing that the tentacles of the Chaos Breeding Ground are impervious to attacks and can regenerate at super speed, so they wasted no time on futile attacks, focusing solely on charging towards the final flame.
As they were about to reach it, the Chaos Breeding Ground recovered from the stiffness of its weak point being hit and immediately activated the arena mechanism that had previously stifled Temude and his group.
Starting from the base of the Chaos Breeding Ground, severe tremors caused cracks to spread in a web-like fashion in all directions, with tiles shattering into pieces with a "crack" sound. Large swathes of tiles were lifted by the tentacles beneath them and began to crack and rise, while new tiles emerged below, and the Chaos Breeding Ground’s flames started moving. Thick smoke began to obscure vision, seeming to shift the situation unfavorably for the adventurers.
But the Skyrim Strategy Group was faster.
"So it’s changing the terrain."
Luluwo showed an understanding expression. The Crystal Elder would also change the battleground, but apparently without the Chaos Breeding Ground’s level of commotion.
Whether it’s the Crystal Elder or the Chaos Breeding Ground, once an opponent starts changing the battleground, the fight cannot be prolonged.
Because no matter the form the battleground becomes, it will inevitably disadvantage the adventurers!
So what they had to do was swiftly resolve the battle before suffering any setbacks.
Mechanisms? Sorry, we’re in a hurry!
The tentacles of the Chaos Breeding Ground frantically surged towards the right side, trying to erect a new barrier before the flame to block the adventurers’ path before it completely left the floor tiles.
Luluwo’s chains swung out first, throwing Berto, who pulled out a Holy Mark, toward the tentacles. In mid-air, he completed a prayer, his hands abruptly transforming into powerful dragon claws at the cost of consuming massive magic power, tearing the tentacles apart.
This is [Prayer: Dragon Claw]!
Luluwo and Mila moved to intercept the other proliferating tentacles, meanwhile, Berto’s eyes took on a more golden hue, with the Flying Dragon Yakir’s shadowy head emerging above him, seemingly about to release [Yakir’s Flame].
The Chaos Breeding Ground whipped him away with a high-speed tentacle; Berto’s downfall lay in the abysmally slow casting speed of Dragon Prayer, yet by this time the magicians had already reached a suitable position, initiating an offensive from all directions amidst the continuously cracking tiles.
Their equipment was much lighter than that of Temude’s group, allowing the floor tiles underneath to hold up longer, an unexpected advantage!
At this moment, the tentacles and flames of the Chaos Breeding Ground erupted, engulfing all the magic in a deluge of crimson flames and tentacles, a sight as overwhelming as a forbidden curse.
It locked onto all attacks in that instant and fully intercepted them, demonstrating to the adventurers an impenetrable absolute defense!
"Heh, I understand now."
Luluwo chuckled suddenly, muttering to herself, "The tougher the defense, the more it shows its weak point is really afraid of being attacked... Tami!"
"Got it!"
In a spot no one noticed, Tami had disappeared from the battlefield for a while. When he responded again, he was already above everyone else.
The invisibility magic’s effect ended, revealing Tami’s figure as he planted that flame firmly underfoot, revealing that all other attacks were merely distractions for this moment.
Without hesitation, Tami swung his sword down decisively, cleaving the flame beneath him with a single stroke!
The Chaos Breeding Ground immediately let out a second hoarse shriek.
It was sharper, more piercing than the first, and the entire giant tree trembled even more violently, with Chaos Flames erupting massively from its body, displaying such a tragic scene that one might even feel a shred of pity.
Only now did the special arena mechanism that had tormented Temude’s group kick in, but the Skyrim Strategy Group no longer needed to cater to it!
Yet, no cheers for victory arose; witnessing the still shaking but not yet turned to ash and disappeared Chaos Breeding Ground, everyone knew the worst-case scenario had unfolded.
The Boss Monster has a Second Stage!
The Chaos Breeding Ground went berserk.
The two flaming giant hands formed by tentacles smashed into the ground with force, causing the entire arena to tremble violently, and the air temperature to rise rapidly.
As if being hatched anew, the tree branches enveloping the flaming humanoid shattered completely, and the fiery phantom broke free from its confines, surging in size several times over, as if a Flame Giant descended onto the world, gazing down upon the adventurers amidst a field already cracked into a complete "blossom".
The bricks beneath their feet ceased to fracture, as they were upheld by tentacles, transforming into a "flower" encircling the flaming phantom from all directions, suggesting they were about to partake in the final showdown under such circumstances.
A more dazzling flame ignited beneath the Chaos Breeding Ground, situated at its very center, directly beneath the fiery phantom.
The ground no longer shattered, the flame ceased to move, and the smoke didn’t appear again.
Yet, the difficulty of breaking that flame seemed to soar.
"So this is the final form of the Izalis Witch?"
Luluwo observed the twisted form of the flaming humanoid, which continued to twitch unnaturally, as if plagued by suffering merely by existing.
No wonder Klarna requested the adventurers provide the Izalis Witch with a swift ending; this form must undoubtedly be a torment to them.
"Gollum..."
Luluwo swallowed excitedly, clenching her fist.
Perhaps, just maybe, they could triumph over the Chaos Breeding Ground holding a King’s Soul on their first encounter?
That honor would far surpass defeating the Hundred-legged Demon for the first time.
With that thought, she held nothing back, pulling from her pouch the [Residual Shadow of the Silver Tears] and smearing it on her face after imbuing it with magic power.
"Transform!"
Instantly, she transformed into a formidable figure with an eagle head and human body, boasting wings on its back.
She had transformed into a remnant character known as [Guardian]!
"All units, charge!"
