The Hall of Yama map has gatekeeping BOSSes set in the Third Hall, Sixth Hall, and Tenth Hall.
Players who get the first kill on a BOSS will receive generous rewards.
Up ahead, a large blood demon, its entire body flayed, fresh red blood flowing all over it, was swinging a gigantic mountain-splitting axe that looked like it could cleave heaven and earth, as it walked out from the main hall.
ROAR!
Even from several hundred yards away, its roar sounded as if it were right next to them, deafening.
One look at this BOSS, and it was clearly not something to mess with.
But—
"As long as we kill this BOSS, we can clear the Third Hall and get the Incubated Clone Scroll."
Driven by this intense desire, Lin Mo's blood started surging through his entire body.
Seeing the corpses of blood demons scattered all around, the Blood Demon BOSS's rage instantly spiked.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
Amid thunderous roars, it swung its mountain-splitting axe and charged straight toward Lin Mo and Ning Xi.
If this were outside, facing a BOSS-level monster like this would only make Lin Mo feel excited.
But inside the Hall of Yama map, with its triple aura, Lin Mo didn't dare be careless in the slightest.
He waited quietly for the BOSS to enter attack range.
Lin Mo activated Eye of Insight:
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[Blood Emperor · Bel] (Physical · Tier 4 BOSS)
— Level: 58
— Physical Attack: 18800
— Physical Defense: 6300
— Magic Defense: 6000
— HP: 2,550,000
— Skills: Blood Physique (B-rank), Blood Frenzy (B-rank), Blood Assault (C-rank), Blood Frenzy Slash (C-rank).
— Weakness: When its healing is completely blocked, the damage it takes increases by 30%.
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Fortunately, it was only a Tier 4 BOSS.
Its strength was even lower than the Dark Ruler Lin Mo had killed back in Blazing Ember City.
In theory, the lower the BOSS tier, the lower its kill value. For Lin Mo, that wasn't something worth celebrating.
But right now, ignoring kill value, all Lin Mo wanted was to kill this BOSS as quickly as possible and get the scroll.
So, under Lin Mo's command, Strong-Maned Pig gripped his nine-toothed rake and rushed to the front line to hold the BOSS's aggro.
ROAR! ROAR!
Blood Assault!
Blood Frenzy Slash!
Slash! Slash!
-14986!
-15543!
The BOSS's damage was extremely high.
Even Strong-Maned Pig, with his talent granting 50% final damage reduction, was getting knocked back repeatedly.
However, with 440,000 HP plus a 440,000 shield, along with continuous HP recovery per second and shield regeneration per second, holding against the Blood Emperor's attacks shouldn't be a problem.
With Strong-Maned Pig able to stabilize the BOSS, from behind, Lin Mo and Ning Xi launched their offensive.
SSS-rank Ice · Extreme Frost Grip!
SSS-rank Blazing Sky · Starfire Prairie!
SSS-rank World Ender · Storm Arrow Rain!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A volley of arrows fired all at once.
Under the barrage of SSS-rank skills, a huge wave of damage numbers popped above the Blood Emperor's head:
-66524!
-74865!
-36564! -54846 (Crit)! -54846 (Crit)!
The 100% damage increase from the A-rank magic scroll Dark Devour was truly terrifying.
It allowed Lin Mo to remain completely at ease even against a Tier 4 BOSS with triple aura buffs.
At the same time, Ning Xi, with the 100% damage boost from Dark Devour and her tenfold damage talent, was also dealing considerable damage to the BOSS.
A-rank Fireball!
A-rank Ice Spike!
A-rank Gale!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
-46988!
-47882!
-49966!
The Blood Emperor also had a healing-on-hit skill, Blood Physique.
Fortunately, its healing wasn't as outrageous as the regular blood demons.
After all, the BOSS already had extremely high HP. If it healed 5% of its max HP every time it was hit like normal blood demons, combined with the Third Hall's aura boosting recovery by 100%, that would mean 10% max HP per hit.
With 2.55 million HP, one touch would heal it for 255,000. Even the game designers wouldn't be able to kill it.
The Blood Emperor's Blood Physique effect restored 0.5% of its max HP when taking damage. With the Third Hall aura bonus, that became 1% max HP, roughly the same effect as Strong-Maned Pig's Bloodbath · Iron Wall skill.
Based on its 2.55 million HP, that meant 25,500 HP recovered per hit.
But the damage dealt by Lin Mo and Ning Xi per attack both exceeded that healing amount.
So even factoring in its healing, they were still dealing solid damage to the BOSS.
This BOSS fight was easier than Lin Mo had expected.
With Strong-Maned Pig firmly tanking the Blood Emperor up front, with Lin Mo and Ning Xi going all out, in less than ten minutes, they had reduced the BOSS's HP to 10%.
Just as victory was within reach, at the exact moment the Blood Emperor's HP dropped to 10%, suddenly—
Buzz!
A burst of blood-red light erupted from the Blood Emperor.
Seeing this, Ning Xi said in surprise, "Did the BOSS go berserk?"
"Not berserk," Lin Mo said in a low voice, "It triggered its passive skill, Blood Frenzy."
Throughout the entire ten-minute fight, the Blood Emperor had never used this skill, to the point Lin Mo had overlooked it.
[Blood Frenzy (B-rank): Passive. When the Blood Emperor's HP drops below 10%, it automatically triggers, instantly restoring 10% of max HP. No cooldown.]
Combined with the Third Hall aura's 100% recovery boost.
At that moment, a massive green healing number popped above the Blood Emperor's head.
+510000!
"Damn!"
Seeing the Blood Emperor's HP, which had just been brought down to 10%, rebound to 30% in a single breath, Lin Mo couldn't help but curse.
If it were just a one-time recovery, it wouldn't be a big deal.
The real problem was, "This Blood Frenzy skill has no cooldown. Doesn't that mean every time its HP drops to 10%, it'll trigger again?"
At that moment, even Ning Xi felt despair.
"This turns into a dead loop. There's no way to kill the BOSS! Brother Lin Mo, what do we do?"
"There's only one way to kill it," Lin Mo calmed himself and analyzed, "We have to one-shot it the moment its HP reaches the threshold of 10.1%, before Blood Frenzy can trigger."
As unbelievable as it sounded, it made sense.
Because given the current situation, there were only two possible solutions.
"The first method is to completely block the BOSS's healing."
Lin Mo said, "But right now, A Li's talent only provides a 20% healing block. Maybe when her quality reaches Ancient Immortal tier, it can reach 100%, but we can't wait that long."
"The second method is to kill it in one hit, not giving the Blood Emperor any chance to trigger Blood Frenzy."
Ning Xi frowned slightly, "Even at just 10%, based on the BOSS's HP, that's still 255,000."
"Even with a hundred stacks of Dark Devour buff and 100% increased damage, we still can't deal that much damage."
"At this stage, who could possibly deal such high damage, especially against a Tier 4 BOSS?"
Just as Ning Xi found it hard to believe, Lin Mo, as if already certain, said firmly, "There is one person."
"Who?"
"Mutual Destruction."
"Ling Xiao."
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