strokinit Chapter 625 Fierce Battle with Earl Twilight
Chapter 625 Fierce Battle with Earl Twilight
The Earl of Twilight was trapped in a circle of tanks, surrounded by shields on all sides, with Marcus's lightning waiting for him overhead.
"Output! Full power!" Marcus roared.
The firepower of three hundred men was unleashed once again.
The Twilight Earl's health dropped from 32% to 25%, then to 20%, and finally to 18%.
"His second phase will be triggered when his health drops to 15%," Roderick warned. "According to intelligence, he will summon Twilight Minions in the second phase, at which point we'll need to send some people to clear the mobs."
Marcus nodded and began assigning teams.
"Catherine, take fifty DPS to clear the mobs. Pull them up as soon as they appear and don't let them interfere with the main battlefield."
Catherine Morgan's voice came through the channel, brimming with fiery energy: "I've been waiting! I'll kill every single one of those mobs that spawns!"
Although she has her own guild "Red Rose" in Iron Curtain City, this time she brought more than a hundred elites to help Marcus clear the dungeon.
Their relationship was no secret in Iron Curtain City—they were allies and lovers, and when they argued they wanted to blow up each other's guilds, but when they fought, they were more in sync than anyone else.
Fifteen percent.
Earl of Twilight let out a sharp roar and slammed his hands down on the ground.
Six dark purple teleportation arrays appeared on the ground, and from each array emerged a Twilight Servant—one size smaller than the BOSS, wearing dark red armor and wielding a longsword and shield.
Six Twilight Minions, each a level 42 elite monster.
"They're here!" Catherine was the first to rush forward.
She gripped a blood-red whip in both hands, which crackled through the air before lashing the shield of the nearest Twilight Servant.
The barbs on the whip scraped against the shield, making a grating sound. At the same time, a crimson light spread from the whip to the servant—the life drain effect of [Crimson Whip] was triggered.
The Twilight Servant's health dropped by three percent, while a green healing number appeared above Catherine's head.
"That feels good!" Catherine grinned and lashed out again.
Fifty DPS players followed closely behind her, unleashing a barrage of skills on the six Twilight minions.
The minions' health is dropping rapidly, but the pressure on the main battlefield for the boss is also increasing.
With fifty fewer damage dealers, Count Twilight's health dropped much more slowly.
Furthermore, the BOSS gains a new skill in the second phase – [Shadow Spear].
A spear formed from pure shadow energy shot out from the BOSS's hand at a speed so fast that it was almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
The spear pierced through the shield of a tank in the front row, then through its armor, emerged from behind, and embedded itself in the ground ten meters away.
The tank's health was immediately reduced to zero.
"Resurrect!" Marcus said without even turning his head.
The priest immediately used a resurrection spell to bring the dead tank back to life.
However, the cooldown of Shadow Spear is only eight seconds.
One tank falls down every eight seconds.
Although the resurrection spell was in place, the resurrected tanks were losing equipment durability, potions were being used up, and everyone's psychological pressure was building up.
"Catherine! How much longer until we clear out the mobs?" Marcus roared.
"Two minutes! Give me two more minutes!" Catherine's whip cracked loudly, and a Twilight servant was already reduced to almost nothing.
"Too slow! Isabella, go help Catherine, freeze the mobs and focus them on attacking!" Marcus reassigned the tasks.
Isabella left the main battlefield and joined the ranks of those clearing out the smaller monsters.
Her ice wall and [Frostbite Domain] brought the six Twilight servants together, and Catherine and fifty DPS players unleashed their full firepower, causing the monsters' health to drop rapidly.
One minute later, the first Twilight servant fell.
Then came the second and the third.
The moment the sixth Twilight servant fell, the Earl of Twilight's body jolted violently, cracks appeared on his dark red robes, and his scarlet eyes dimmed slightly.
The third phase.
The boss still has 8% health remaining.
"He's entered the third phase! The intelligence says he'll go berserk in the third phase, increasing all damage by 50%, but reducing defense by 30%!" Roderick's voice remained calm, but his speech rate noticeably increased.
Marcus gritted his teeth.
A 50% damage increase means that tanks are very likely to be unable to withstand it.
But his eyes lit up—a 30% reduction in defense meant a significant increase in damage output.
This is a bet.
The gamble is to kill the BOSS before the BOSS kills everyone else.
"Everyone, listen up!" Marcus's voice drowned out the BOSS's roar. "Tanks, activate all damage reduction skills! DPS, activate all burst skills! Healers, heal to the max! Don't waste mana!"
"The BOSS has gone berserk, the tanks will be under a lot of pressure!" Jack Carnegie's voice was a little strained.
"I know," Marcus said, "but we're under more pressure to output. It's a question of who dies first."
He took a deep breath, and the lightning on his two-handed greatsword exploded even brighter, the electric light almost enveloping the entire sword in a blue pillar of light.
"Let's give it our all!"
Marcus was the first to rush forward.
The greatsword struck Earl of Twilight, unleashing a burst of lightning that reduced the boss's health by one percent.
But the BOSS's counterattack also came.
The combo of [Shadow Spear] and [Shadow Impact].
A shadow spear shot towards Marcus, who dodged to the side. The spear grazed his shoulder, leaving a charred mark on his shoulder armor.
Immediately afterwards, a shadow shockwave erupted from the BOSS, and Marcus was knocked back five steps, losing a third of his health.
"President!" Jack shouted.
"Don't worry about me! Hit him!" Marcus steadied himself and charged forward again.
Three hundred men unleashed their full firepower.
The BOSS's health dropped from 8% to 6%, and then to 4%.
But people are also falling on the Imperial Wall.
A tank was pierced through the chest by the Shadow Spear and died instantly.
One player made a positioning mistake and stepped into a corrosive area on the ground. If they didn't get out within three seconds, their health would be depleted.
One of the healers was hit by the shadow shockwave from the BOSS's teleportation, flew out and crashed into the wall, and was already a corpse when he landed.
The death toll jumped from eighteen to thirty-two, and then to forty-one.
"Three percent!" Roderick shouted. "He's dying!"
The lightning on Marcus's greatsword had reached its limit, and the entire blade was trembling, its buzzing sound drowning out everyone's shouts.
He raised his sword high above his head and then plunged it fiercely into the heart of the Earl of Twilight—the weak spot that Roderick had marked.