Chapter 57: Is this an Exotic Flame?

That eerie green flame was like maggots clinging to bones.

It clung to the Arcane Barrier, burning frantically and making a "hissing" sound.

Zhou Huai's heart sank.

The continuous damage of this flame was simply too high.

Fortunately, after Gandalf Advanced to Rank 14, his Mental Energy skyrocketed.

The shield value of [Arcane Barrier] also broke through the eighty-thousand mark accordingly.

For a short time, it could still hold out.

Seeing that the Three-Headed Skeletal Tyrant seemed ready to spit flames again,

Gandalf, under the control of the smart core ai, decisively raised his staff.

"[Forbidden Spell: Thousand Mile Ice Seal]!"

The frigid energy spread out once more.

The entire circular plaza was instantly covered by a thick layer of ice.

The Three-Headed Skeletal Tyrant's three newly opened heads, along with the flames about to spew forth, were frozen together within the solid ice.

The next second, the flames exploded in its throat.

-5871!

-8121!

The first damage came from Thousand Mile Ice Seal.

The second was the backlash caused by its own flames.

"There's even this kind of operation?"

Looking at this scene, Zhou Huai couldn't help but want to laugh.

This BOSS blew itself up.

"Roar—"

The Skeletal Tyrant let out a heaven-shaking roar, violently shaking its head and shattering the ice shards around its mouth.

In the eye sockets of the three heads, the dark green Soul fire beat violently, obviously having reached the extreme of rage.

Its rightmost head suddenly opened its giant mouth,

emitting a strange syllable like a giant ship's whistle.

In an instant, the scattered exotic beast skeletons on the plaza were summoned once more and began to rapidly reorganize.

In the blink of an eye, several bone giants up to five meters tall were formed.

These giants moved clumsily, but every step made the ground tremble.

They strode forward, charging towards Gandalf.

Zhou Huai's thoughts raced as he pondered a way to break the deadlock.

This was the trickiest BOSS he had encountered since acquiring a Clone.

None.

"Although the cooldown of Meteor Fire Rain is ready,"

"but that guy will definitely use a bone wall to block it."

"Thousand Mile Ice Seal can cause damage, but the cooldown time is too long."

Even with passive skills reducing the cooldown by 30%,

it still required a lengthy sixty-three seconds.

Wanting to grind it to death with this little damage would take at least a quarter of an hour.

In this quarter of an hour, Gandalf definitely wouldn't be able to hold out!

"Bang!"

As soon as the thought fell, a bone giant had already rushed close.

Its huge bone fist, carrying immense force, smashed fiercely onto Gandalf's [Arcane Barrier].

-5320!

An astonishing damage number popped out.

Gandalf's body flew backward like a broken kite, crashing heavily against the distant wall.

He struggled to climb up, and the smart core ai immediately manipulated him to add a new [Arcane Barrier].

But he hadn't even had time to catch his breath,

when the middle head of the Skeletal Tyrant once again spewed out that viscous torrent of green flames!

The flames accurately hit Gandalf, who had just steadied himself.

-21055!

A damage number sufficient to make any Professional of the same Rank despair exploded on the shield!

The newly born shield was instantly shaved by a quarter!

Not only that, the green flame attached to it once again, beginning to burn continuously.

-1052!

-1066!

-1049!

The flames on Gandalf became increasingly fierce, and the shield value plummeted at an alarming speed.

The situation was in extreme peril!

Zhou Huai's gaze locked tightly onto that Three-Headed Skeletal Tyrant.

"The head on the right controls the bone giants and the bone wall."

"The middle head spits flames."

"The head on the left seems to release things ineffective against Gandalf."

"The Breakthrough point is on that head on the right!"

A bold plan quickly formed in his mind.

"When Meteor Fire Rain is chanted, it will definitely use its right head to release the bone wall."

"At that very instant, freeze it with Thousand Mile Ice Seal!"

"Interrupt its casting!"

This required extremely precise timing grasp.

A second too fast, and Thousand Mile Ice Seal would hit first, alerting the enemy.

A second too slow, the bone wall would form, and Meteor Fire Rain would be blocked.

But now, he could only take a gamble!

Soon, the cooldown time of Thousand Mile Ice Seal ended.

"Right now!"

Zhou Huai immediately issued the command.

The staff in Gandalf's hand was held high, and archaic syllables were chanted out.

The space above his head was torn apart once again, and the burning meteorite portal slowly opened wide.

Sure enough.

Below, the Three-Headed Skeletal Tyrant's right head immediately raised, preparing to summon a bone wall.

Just as it opened its mouth and the syllable was about to be uttered,

Gandalf's second Forbidden Spell followed closely behind!

"[Forbidden Spell: Thousand Mile Ice Seal]!"

The ultimate chill precisely covered the three heads of the Skeletal Tyrant.

Crack!

Three giant mouths were sealed shut by solid ice at the same time!

The bone wall that had just begun to condense lost its subsequent energy support, instantly collapsing and turning into bone powder all over the sky.

It succeeded!

Zhou Huai's heart was filled with wild joy.

In the sky, Meteor Fire Rain no longer faced any obstacles, roaring down and smashing fiercely onto the massive body of the Skeletal Tyrant!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Five huge meteorites exploded on its body one after another.

-6541!

-6890!

-6622!

-6710!

-6498!

A series of heaven-destroying damage numbers floated from the top of the Skeletal Tyrant's head.

Its long health bar suddenly vanished by half at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Agh—!"

The painful roar was muffled inside the ice block, appearing comical and powerless.

At the same time, those bone giants pursuing Gandalf also lost control, their movements stalling as they collapsed with a loud crash, turning back into a pile of shattered bones on the ground.

The crisis was temporarily resolved.

Gandalf gained a precious breathing space.

By the narrowest of margins, the very second before the [Arcane Barrier] shattered, he replenished a brand-new shield.

The subsequent battle entered a thrilling cycle.

Zhou Huai controlled Gandalf like an artist dancing on the tip of a blade.

Every release of a Forbidden Spell was pinned at the absolute limit of time points.

Every skill connection could be called flawless.

Under the baptism of another round of ice and fire,

this calamity-tier hidden BOSS, powerful enough to cause despair, finally let out an unwilling mournful cry.

Its massive skeletal body could no longer support itself, collapsing with a loud crash and shattering into countless pieces.

Following the fall of the Skeletal Tyrant,

massive amounts of experience points surged into Gandalf's body like rivers flowing into the sea.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host, Clone 'Gandalf' has increased in Rank to LV15!]

The golden light of leveling up illuminated this dead ancient battlefield.

Zhou Huai let out a long breath of relief, his back already unconsciously soaked in cold sweat.

"That's seriously abnormal."

To be able to make Gandalf, who possessed an SS-class class, fight so dismally—the strength of this hidden BOSS had exceeded his imagination.

In fact, if not for the fact that Gandalf had no Soul and was naturally immune to the BOSS's most eerie Soul attacks,

it was equivalent to making the Skeletal Tyrant cut off one of its own arms.

Otherwise, the outcome would still be unknown.

Unfortunately, what it ran into was a cheater like Zhou Huai.

Although the BOSS had been killed, the green flames attached to Gandalf had unexpectedly not extinguished yet.

Burning for a full five more minutes, they slowly dissipated under the continuous consumption of [Arcane Barrier].

Zhou Huai hurriedly controlled Gandalf to step forward and check the loot.

Amidst a pile of shattered bones, a blueprint flashing with purple radiance lay quietly there.

[Star-Moon Robe Forging Blueprint]!

Zhou Huai's heart surged with joy.

The Star-Moon Set had finally been collected to three pieces.

Besides that, there were also several precious Materials exuding a rich aura of death, all of which were core components for forging Advanced undead-type equipment.

Subsequently, his gaze was attracted by something right in the center of the Skeletal Tyrant's corpse.

There, a fist-sized dark green flame was quietly suspended in mid-air.

It had no temperature, yet it emitted a heart-palpitating aura as if it could burn everything to ashes.

Looking at that cluster of flames, Zhou Huai's breathing suddenly choked, and his eyes burst with unbelievable wild joy.

"This… Is this an Exotic Flame?"