Chapter 122: Battle of the Shadow Dragon (Part II)
A dragon's tail is more than just a cosmetic decoration when necessary. Sakshorthus is a shadow dragon with an absolute body size, as well as muscular strength to match his size.
Its skeletal spiky tail blew a terrifying wind at the trio of drow, orcs, and dwarves, but the dwarven warrior stood up in time to prop up his elbow on the ground, and the eyes in his sockets saw the oncoming attack, so he reflexively raised the tower shield of his left arm, and stepped forward to pass the two companions beside him—
Then there was a tooth-aching thud!
"Oh?" Saxother frowned in a slight surprise as he saw the heavy rectangular tower shield strapped to the dwarf's arm, stubbornly blocking his dragon's tail sweep, though the stubborn will betrayed trembling and reluctance.
Koto relied on the dwarven's famous stake to stand on his feet, and his arm that raised the tower shield trembled, feeling that Angdor, the bandit leader he had fought in the battle in the Shadow Cave of the Spotted Axe Forest, was very "gentle" compared to this dragon.
It took Angdor's double-edged axe a whole battle to smash him out of breath, but Saxother only used such a blow that he could hear the bone in the arm that bound him to the tower shield seem to make an unpleasant crunch at the moment just now.
It's like a "click......
Oops, oops, terrible......
The pain tore at the dwarf's nerves. The warrior of the clan quickly realized what was happening to his arm, and immediately clenched his teeth, as if he had swallowed a fireball into his throat, and held back the pain he felt, and half a second later opened his loud voice again and burst into a roaring roar: "Uhh ”
There weren't any other lines in the roar, but it seemed to be enough to express the stubborn stubbornness in the warrior's heart.
Koto actually told a little lie to everyone. He had seen an adult white dragon on the plateau before, but he had not confronted the white dragon head-on with his fellow brothers, because the dwarf was forty years old and about four hundred years old, and he had actually just turned forty-five years old this year, and in the past days, it was actually the adult clan warriors who were protecting him, where was it his turn to protect others at that time?
In this way, this battle was actually his first experience of fighting a giant dragon in person.
Danger, tension, the scythe of death roams by your side at any moment...... But at the same time, it's so exciting!
Challenge the dragon - what a glorious glory?!
So Koto screamed to keep his excitement alive. Fearing that he had forgotten about it, he could barely swing his left arm smoothly, so he simply threw away the war hammer in his right hand and removed the tower shield from his left arm as soon as possible, replacing it with his right hand through the two straps on the back of the shield, so that he could continue to cover his companions behind him in the next battle.
While the dwarf switched shield-wielding hands, the jaybird continued to hold the lute in his hand and maintain a musical spell called Courage Sonata to help the dwarven warriors and orc monks beside him resist the dragon power released in the eyes of the shadow dragon.
Stone Fist clenched his big fist and thought about what he should do. He was a warrior monk, but he didn't have a very effective means of fighting to defeat monsters far larger than himself before cultivating the power called "qi" in his body to the extreme, and then he used the tower shield erected by Koto as a cover to rush out from the side, trying to temporarily distract the shadow dragon from the dwarf.
The Orc Monk is still quite confident in his movement speed and agility.
Saksother's dragon's eyes radiated contempt at Stone Fist, which began to run around it, and he said stupidly, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed Urs from the other side of the battlefield with a greatsword at him.
The young man's eyes burned with a scarlet color that symbolized rage, and his body was in a state of Brute Force and Light Spirit, two 2-ring priest spells that would grant their recipients a total of +4 Strength and +4 Agility for a duration.
The agility amplification and fast-moving class trait make him fast. The black-haired brute charged straight at the shadow dragon's flank, but he did not hide his actions in the slightest, and did not forget to shout as he ran, "Come here, coward!" ”
He called an arrogant dragon a coward.
"Ignorant worms!" Saxoch Thorston ignored the orc warrior monk and the dwarven warrior with a wounded arm around him, and flicked his head and spewed a pitch-black dragon breath at Urs's head.
A black mist of breath came to his face.
Urs estimated that he should be able to dodge, but in order to achieve a certain goal in this battle, he simply directly crossed the past with the opponent's spitting weapon, in order to consume the shortest time to get close to the opponent's feet.
The Negative Energy Dragon's Breath Spray took away 30 HP in a second and a half, and a system prompt popped up in his mind to make him realize that he was immune to a Constitution Drain damage while taking Negative Energy Magic Damage.
This reminded the young man of a 5-ring spell called "Dead Cloud Technique" for a moment. The effect of the Dead Cloud is to create an area covered by a poisonous mist, so that the living creatures in the magic area will be drained of the 1d4 value of the constitution attribute once the exemption fails, and the interval between exemption tests is about six seconds, and the unlucky ghost with a low health dice may die directly.
Saksotherus' Spit Weapon also deals negative energy damage in addition to draining energy, which seems to be trickier than Death Cloud at the moment, but fortunately, this level 25 quest boss with a boss-level template does not have a mage class level of its own.
It is important to know that the challenge difficulty of the caster boss and the non-caster boss is completely at two different levels. The shadow dragon in the deepest part of the shadow ruins didn't know any formal spells other than a few spell-like abilities of the illusion system that he mastered, which was already the biggest news for Urs.
If it were a mage dragon, Urs wouldn't want to come to trouble it so early!
In other words, it wasn't too wrong for Koto (or the Jaybird) to call him just a big reptile with wings.
And the young man holding the giant sword finally got his wish at this time, and rushed out of the range of spitting shadow mist to the hind limb foot on the right side of Sakthothus's body, and the smile on the corner of his mouth seemed to be about to expand to the root of his ear for a moment, making his cheek, which was already covered with a scar, suddenly reveal a trace of hideousness, and the black giant sword in his hand immediately slashed forward-
[Perform a hit check...... Your attack hits the Shadow Dragon Saxorthus]
[Perform damage verification...... Damage Breakthrough Target's Armor]
[You deal 21 Slash Physical Damage to Saxorthus, the Shadow Dragon]
After receiving the three power attribute bonuses of brute force, cursed blade, and expert rage, the explosive power of Urs's sword slash reached 32 points, and even the dragon scales of the shadow dragon could not resist the young man's fierce slash, and the pitch-black blade sank into the ankle of the dragon's foot.
One of the most notorious "pedicures" for giant monsters is the "pedicure tactic", which is executed by an agile attacker constantly hovering at the feet of the giant monster and attacking the latter's legs and feet, accumulating damage while achieving the tactical goal of disrupting the opponent's mind and creating an opportunity for the rest of the team to act.
Ursin said that he was also a good "pedicure technician" in the game, but he didn't make a special trip to give this "big reptile with wings" a pedicure today, after all, 21 points of health damage is enough to cut down an ordinary human, but it is nothing for a level 25 shadow dragon boss like Saksotherus.
The young man just wanted to completely anger the extremely arrogant dragon, as he had done in the past in the game.
Saksothers realized that his (self-thought) great body was hurt by the worm, and then he became impetuous and angry, and the other leg of his body, which had not been cut by Urs, lifted up and stomped on the ground, and the huge figure disappeared from everyone's eyes for no reason.
Urs knew that Sakshorthaus had not really disappeared from his eyes, but had stepped inside the "Shadow Gate".
The Shadow Gate is a 4-ring illusion spell and a spell-like ability that allows the caster to escape into the frame of a spell in an emergency, disappearing in place as if by magic, but in fact it is only a momentary invisibility that allows them to readjust their position and tactics within the duration of the invisibility effect.
Sakhosus could not bear the defilement of his noble flesh by the weapon of a worm. It said that it was almost time for the curtain to come to an end, and then in the blink of an eye, it put another layer of "mirror shadow" and "hazy magic" on itself, and then planned to use its illusion ability to quickly end this farce with the bugs.
And then suddenly—it seemed to hear a "snap" in its ears, like an invisible hammer smashing abruptly on itself, but what shattered was not its body, but all the illusionary effects attached to it.
A thump from the magical plane.
Its spell-like effect has been cracked by some higher magical power!
"What's going on?!" Saxothers' figure was suddenly revealed, and the entire process of invisibility was only flickering, as if the charged magic lamp had suddenly lost power.
This was a change it had not anticipated.
Seeing this, Urs knew that Gloledon had finally made a move......