“Shadow is insane? An incarnation of justice?”

The Great Calamity Underworld King froze completely on the spot.

Before it was beaten into the third phase, these skills of its were originally grayed out.

So it hadn't noticed that these skills had actually been sealed.

Then it glanced down at its skill bar…

Logically speaking, upon reaching the third phase, all of its skills should have become available.

But apart from this opening skill of the third phase, two of its other strongest skills were also sealed!

"I've never heard of such an Abyss Wither Curse skill?!"

The Great Calamity Underworld King was completely dumbfounded.

It only knew that Abyss skills included slow, silence, and the like, but absolutely not this kind that sealed skills!

If it were an ordinary Epic-grade BOSS, that would be one thing.

It would definitely have the 'Invulnerability' affix on its body, which could resist such control effects.

Silence counts as 'control', and sealing skills naturally also belongs to 'control'.

But unfortunately…

Great Calamity Underworld King · Hals happened to be a rather abnormal Epic-grade BOSS.

Because its 'old days catastrophe snake tooth' was too heaven-defying, as long as it carried this thing, Hals would lose the protection of its Superior Affix aura, including the 'Invulnerability' affix!

In its place was the effect of the 'old days catastrophe snake tooth', which cleared all Superior Affix gauges and statuses on its body every 5 seconds!

Normally speaking, this would indeed make the Great Calamity Underworld King stronger in combat.

Although it lost the Superior Affix aura, the values of the surrounding Superior Affixes weren't high, just stacking 5 points of 'Instant Death' and 'nightmare state' affixes per second.

As for the effect of the 'Invulnerability' affix, it was to resist control.

And as an Epic-grade BOSS, Hals's BOSS template came with very high control resistance; when encountering control effects from players, it could quickly adapt, render them ineffective, and directly become immune to the same control.

Unfortunately, it encountered Qin Feng!

Qin Feng's Abyss Wither Curse skill had already reached the 'Ancient-Grade'!

Starting from Epic, above that were Legendary and Mythical, and only then was Ancient…

This showed just how many tiers higher this skill was than this BOSS!

This made Hals's control resistance and adaptability to this skill become very, very weak!

Therefore, it wasn't that Hals was too weak; the problem was that Qin Feng was too strong!

If not for the effect of the 'old days catastrophe snake tooth', this Epic BOSS would have already been beaten into a 'nightmare state' by Qin Feng, crying for its parents…

Fortunately! Great Calamity Underworld King · Hals quickly discovered a blind spot.

"The duration of the Abyss Wither Curse is two minutes."

"This skill seal is about to end."

It continued to flee, wanting to stall for time.

But soon…

[Abyss Wither Curse!]

Qin Feng immediately followed up with another curse, sealing its three skills once again, and those were still the same three skills—who told them to be the highest-grade skills on Hals?

"???"

"This skill, it finished cooling down so quickly?"

Great Calamity Underworld King · Hals was dumbfounded on the spot.

In its memory, the cooldown time of the Abyss Wither Curse was ten minutes!

How did it finish cooling down in less than two minutes?

"Has this Assassin's cooldown speed exceeded 400%?"

"This is completely unreasonable!!"

How could it know that after Qin Feng's Abyss Wither Curse advanced to the 'Ancient-Grade', the base cooldown was reduced to only 100 seconds, and with 369% cooldown speed, the final cooldown only needed 21.3 seconds!

Even if Hals's BOSS template resistance and adaptability slowly took effect, making the duration of each curse seal shorter and shorter, Qin Feng could still completely maintain the curse effect.

As this giant skeleton BOSS was cursed and its skills sealed once again, it fell into a state of confusion.

It realized that ever since it encountered that human Assassin, everything that had happened completely defied its understanding and completely overturned common sense!

"Assassin! Let me go, and we shall mind our own business!"

"In that case, I can withdraw from this place and let all the transformed human players return to normal… otherwise, they will never be able to recover!"

Great Calamity Underworld King · Hals, with faint black fire burning in its pitch-black eye sockets, sneered at its surroundings!

Here it comes, here it comes. The corners of Qin Feng's mouth curled up slightly.

When an Epic-grade BOSS couldn't win, it would use various methods to make players lower their guard, or try to beg for mercy; in short, there would be all sorts of schemes and tricks.

The move the Great Calamity Underworld King was using now was naturally 'coercion'!

It was just a pity that Qin Feng simply didn't fall for this!

Experience told him that it was best not to believe a single word of the nonsense a BOSS spouted before dying, otherwise, something terrible might happen.

"If Big Eyes hadn't told me that as long as the Undead Royal Family is killed, the Undead converted by it can recover, I might have actually believed its nonsense."

Qin Feng remained unmoved.

When the health bar above the Great Calamity Underworld King's head turned red again, Qin Feng began his pursuit once more!

However, what Qin Feng didn't know was that this scene was witnessed by a player flying in the sky!

That was a female player riding a gray eagle mount, circling in the sky.

Although Qin Feng was chasing the BOSS all over the place, the female player was flying in the sky after all, so she had been observing the battle between Qin Feng and the BOSS…

Until this moment, she was shocked!

"Shadow is actually still attacking?"

"The BOSS said that if he kills it, those people who were transformed will never recover!"

"That's over two thousand people!!"

"To kill the BOSS and get the loot, Shadow is actually disregarding the lives of over two thousand people?"

"He is truly insane!!"

The female player indignantly opened her friend list and found a player codename with an English name.

Because the female player had an eagle mount and a wide field of view, the other party had approached her before, telling her that if she provided some negative information about the Great Xia Government or Shadow, they could give her a sum of Lifespan.

She hadn't agreed at the time.

But now she felt that this dirt on Shadow should be worth a lot, right?

Furthermore… she truly felt that Shadow was treating human life so recklessly, and this behavior must be exposed!

"If I don't say anything, no one will know that Shadow actually has a choice…"

"He might even be hailed as a hero after killing an Epic-grade BOSS."

"But what about those two thousand-plus people? Did they just die in vain?"

"And over a thousand more people have fallen into a 'nightmare state' because of him!"

"The domestic media is in cahoots with Shadow, so I can only expose this to foreign media to reveal Shadow's cruelty and inhumanity!"

For a moment, this female player thought of herself as the incarnation of justice!

Consequently, a message quickly spread across the internet.

The Epic-grade BOSS, Great Calamity Underworld King · Hals, has currently converted over two thousand players into 'Undead' skeletons!

According to the BOSS, if the BOSS is killed, these players will never be able to recover!

However, 'Shadow', in order to obtain the loot from the Epic-grade BOSS, has chosen to continue hunting the BOSS, completely disregarding those two thousand-plus converted players!

When this news spread, it caused an uproar on various forums!

The Great Xia Government reacted quickly and immediately refuted the rumors.

[Shadow has stated that as long as the BOSS is killed, the transformed players can all recover. We hope everyone will not listen to rumors or be deceived by hearsay!]