Chapter 859: Three Attacks
If skills didn't have upper threshold limits, they would become extremely exaggerated, and the combat system design would completely collapse.
For example, a C-grade skill that can ignore 10% of an enemy's armor—
If used on a monster with 500 billion armor—
That would mean the C-grade skill could ignore 50 billion armor!
That obviously makes no sense!
So every skill has a threshold limit.
Penetration, dispel, purification—all such skills do.
Don't think that just because you're covered in status effects, one purification from your teammate can clear them all.
It depends on the level and stack count of those abnormal statuses.
If you're bleeding 100,000 stacks, your healer would have to spam purification nonstop.
This is exactly why, even though the Demon-Slaying Legion has so many people with armor/magic resistance/damage reduction weakening skills, they still can't deal significant damage to the Void-Cracking Dragon.
"Ultimately, they don't have enough people with Sacred Artifacts…"
"If more of them had Sacred Artifacts, fighting the Void-Cracking Dragon would be easier."
Yun Man summarized from the side.
That wasn't wrong.
Against such ridiculous bosses, only the exaggerated traits of Sacred Artifacts can match up.
But Sacred Artifacts aren't cabbages.
Even among the elite Demon-Slaying Legion, only about a dozen have them.
And clearly…
The effects of those Sacred Artifacts weren't suitable for this raid environment.
The damage dealt to the Void-Cracking Dragon was just a drop in the bucket.
At this moment—
The Void-Cracking Dragon's buff stacks had reached 78%.
This made Molders and the others deal even more tickle damage.
"Looks like we'll have to give up. A shame—we finally managed to draw it out…"
The members of the Demon-Slaying Legion were quite disappointed.
Molders and the rest shared the same thoughts.
This Void-Cracking Dragon had lived for a long time and had grown very intelligent.
Normally, it stayed hidden in its fractured space and rarely emerged.
After all…
It was afraid of death too.
Any intelligent creature naturally has fear of death.
Now they had finally lured it out, only to give up due to insufficient damage output—how regrettable.
"Forget it, retreat!"
"As long as its damage reduction doesn't exceed 60%, we might be able to try."
"But now, with all its attributes rising, and the buff nearing max stacks, all penetration effects will become useless. No point wasting more time."
Molders could only give up with regret.
When they were suddenly transferred to the Forest of Death, they had trouble adjusting at first.
But the more enemies they killed, the more they adapted to the combat rhythm here.
They were all elites selected from across the kingdoms.
Being a prodigy doesn't just mean leveling fast—combat awareness also needs to be top-notch.
Hearing this, everyone nodded in disappointment.
But just as they were about to turn around—
Boom!!
An astonishing explosion rang out.
"ROAR!!"
Along with the furious roar of the Void-Cracking Dragon!
The retreating soldiers quickly turned to look.
And saw a trident wrapped in boundless sharpness thrust directly into the Void-Cracking Dragon's head!
That trident was small.
But the radiant brilliance it emitted was dazzling, like a giant spear of light piercing through heaven and earth—it shocked everyone.
Before they could even react—
Boom!!
A second piercing spear slammed into the Void-Cracking Dragon's eye!
"ROAR!!"
Struck twice in agony, the Void-Cracking Dragon could only raise its head and roar helplessly in fury!
But soon, its roar faded into silence, replaced by a feeling of terror!
It sensed something was wrong!
After those two attacks, it had lost 60% of its total attributes!
'Total attributes' included not only four basic stats, but armor, magic resistance, damage reduction, abnormal resistance, etc.
As the name suggests, 'total attributes' meant [all attributes].
How could it not be terrified?
"Look! The boss's damage reduction seems to have dropped! My poison DoT went from 20,000 per second to 1,000,000!"
A DoT-specialist Calamity Mage shouted in excitement.
"It's true!"
Others also reacted with joy.
The real reason they couldn't kill the Void-Cracking Dragon was that their damage was too negligible.
But now its defensive stats seemed to have been heavily weakened—that was the chance!
At the same time—
Many people were already scanning the surroundings—
Frantically looking for whoever threw those two attacks.
At that moment—
Boom!!
A third terrifyingly sharp attack descended!
This time, it was an enormous black flame fireball!
When it exploded, the sky was filled with black flames that covered the Void-Cracking Dragon and brutally suppressed its insane self-healing!
"Holy crap! I was wondering who was that strong—turns out it was Instructor Ling!"
Everyone followed the fireball's trajectory and spotted the tall figure far off in the sky.
No one could mistake that silhouette—it was Instructor Ling!
"Don't just stand there!"
"Now that its defenses are broken and its stats are weakened, finish it off!"
"Don't let it escape into the fractured space!"
Molders urgently shouted commands.
The team responded in unison and began their all-out assault.
One group focused on interrupting the Void-Cracking Dragon's cast time with control skills.
Another group purged and dispelled its buffs.
Another group used taunt skills to lock down the boss's aggro, making it focus entirely on them.
And the rest focused purely on DPS.
With clear roles and well-coordinated teamwork—
The Void-Cracking Dragon's health bar finally started to plummet.
Soon—
BOOOOM!!
After five minutes of fierce combat—
The utterly unwilling and despairing Void-Cracking Dragon finally fell with an earth-shaking crash.
"WOOOOOO!!"
The members of the Demon-Slaying Legion erupted into ecstatic cheers.
Naturally, they received a massive amount of EXP.
And lots of items, materials, and gear as rewards.
Even five SS-grade skill books for various classes dropped!
As expected of a world-class boss.
The loot was indeed excellent.
And far away, Ling Zhan's peak aura gradually faded with the end of combat.