MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

At least several thousand arrows came flying at him at the same time. If he was unlucky enough to get hit by two or three shots, he would be relegated to the floor even if he had the HP of a main tank.

Li Yi dashed up to Goska as quickly as he could, jumping onto its shoulder.

“Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!”

Prais’ Shoot at Random landed on Goska’s body instead. Each arrow dealt 5,000+ in damage, but none of it to Li Yi. Before Goska’s HP fell to zero, Li Yi would not lose a single HP.

Just like that, Li Yi avoided that powerful Shoot at Random skill that was capable of wiping out entire parties…

Without Goska to field off the damage, this segment would be very difficult to pass. A main tank would have to activate their Damage Reduction skill while also shielding their other party members from the arrows. There was absolutely no room for error.

After Prais’ Shoot at Random ended, it raised its arms up high and rapidly recovered his mana.

“Rage Hammer!”

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Rage Hammer’s attack range was 30 yards ahead of the user, and Goska’s ATK was much higher than Li Yi’s. It just took an instant for it to forcefully interrupt Prais’ mana regeneration move.

Li Yi leaped down from Goska, got back onto the Mermaid Princess and continued his hit-and-run battle with Prais.

Prais only had 1,200,000HP. Even though he had many complicated attacks, Shoot at Random was the only one that was difficult to dodge. The rest were direct-trajectory attacks, so as long as Li Yi was prepared for them, they were not difficult to avoid.

When Prais’ HP dropped to 600,000, his attack patterns began to change. He jumped down from the Deep-red Seahorse and made the seahorse pounce at Li Yi with jaws wide open, whereas Prais itself complemented the Deep-red Seahorse with attacks from the back.

The Deep-red Seahorse was not just his mount, it was also his pet.

The Deep-red Seahorse’s SPD was nowhere near the Mermaid Princess’, but this guy could use a long-lasting debuff that would definitely hit. Its effect was to reduce the target’s SPD by 50%. This debuff would persist until the Deep-red Seahorse was killed.

Li Yi controlled Goska again, and ignoring the Deep-red Seahorse’s attacks, he strode quickly toward Prais.

“Furious Strike!”

With a wave of that huge fist, Prais was instantly made dizzy. Immediately after that, there was a flurry of Rage Hammers. The HP above Prais’ head dropped rapidly. By the time the 20 seconds of Dizziness was up, Prais only had slightly over 30,000HP left.

This was also because Li Yi had held back. Otherwise, he would have killed him immediately.

“Shoot at Random!”

Prais unleashed the final version of his Shoot at Random. It lasted more than 1 minute, and Goska’s HP dropped by more than 500,000 before it stopped.

Li Yi leaped down from Goska. As he avoided the Deep-red Seahorse’s sneak attacks, he continued to deal damage to Prais. Soon enough, he heard a “mmrgh” as Prais fell to the ground in demise.

As soon as Prais died, the Deep-red Seahorse immediately bolted. With that, the second murloc boss was defeated!

It did not matter if the Deep-red Seahorse ran away or otherwise. If the player was lucky, they would also be able to loot the mount from Prais’ corpse.

When he was about to loot Prais, Li Yi rubbed his hands for a long time. He nearly reached out several times, but he could not bring himself to do it.

It did not really matter to him whether he could obtain the mount or not, but the fact remained that Prais was a Shooting Archer. This meant that he would drop equipment for Archers and even all sorts of rare Archery skills.

“Heart of the Archer, Will of Pet, Explosion Trap, anything will do. Just give me one…”

Li Yi muttered under his breath as he reached his hand toward Prais’ body.

“Smack!”

Just as his hand was about to touch Prais’ body, his vision suddenly went dark and he could no longer see anything.

“F*ck, a power outage?”

Li Yi took off his game helmet and cursed in disbelief.

‘A sudden power outage? How’s that possible?’

The last time he experienced a power outage was over a decade ago.

Just as Li Yi was about to kick the wall in frustration, he heard a loud whirring coming from upstairs. It was so loud that even the carpet began to tremor in tune.

“What are they doing?” Li Yi raised his head, surprised. Just then, something occurred to him, and he was dumbstruck.

‘Could it be… Has Jiaojiao moved in?’

It had been more than half a year since he had reset and turned back time. By his estimate, Jiaojiao and her mother should be moving in at around this time as well.

“Sorry, dear neighbors, but we need to renovate this house we just bought. We accidentally flipped the main switch a moment ago, but everything’s all right now. We truly are very sorry for the inconvenience.”

A gentle voice resonated from upstairs. It was Jiaojiao’s mother, Xie Qin’s voice.

So it really was them. No wonder the power went out, they were renovating…

Li Yi threw down the game helmet, washed his face, and ran out of the door, arriving outside Jiaojiao’s house.

“I’m the guy who lives downstairs. We’re all neighbors, so is there anything I can help with?”

They were going to become close anyway, so he might as well make it snappy and take the initiative. That was Li Yi’s current idea.

Xie Qin was taken aback for a second. She gave Li Yi a few more glances, sizing him up, before she said with a laugh, “Thank you very much, then.”

When Li Yi went in through the door, he did not see Jiaojiao. The only ones inside the room were Xie Qin and a few renovation workers.

Li Yi could not help with the renovation, so he helped by moving some furniture and other items upstairs. The truth was that Xie Qin had already hired others to do this, but she could not bring herself to reject Li Yi now that he had volunteered.

“Good going, young chap.” The porters gave the sweaty Li Yi a big thumbs-up.

They were secretly celebrating. They would still receive every penny, but they would do a lot less work for it. That was why they were more than glad to have a young idiot help them out…

After working for more than an hour, they finally moved everything upstairs. Li Yi was so exhausted that he stood there panting. He did not cut himself any slack when helping out, putting in every ounce of effort he could.

“You’re Li Yi, right? Thank you for your help. We’ll be neighbors from now on, so it would be rude for me to give you money. Next time, Aunty will treat you to a meal instead.”

“Sure.” Li Yi grinned.

That night, Xie Qin did not stay in that house. It was newly-bought, so although the refurbishments were complete, the smell from the paint still lingered, so it was basically uninhabitable.

Li Yi was utterly exhausted. Upon returning home, he took a nice long bath before putting on his helmet again and logging into the game.

The progress in the Tidal Throne Dungeon was refreshed every seven days. Even though Li Yi was forced out of the game by the power outage, his progress was unaffected. The only thing was that he had been teleported out of the dungeon.

When he returned to the dungeon, Prais’ corpse was still lying on the ground. Li Yi reached out his hand to loot it.

[Congratulations! You’ve obtained a Shoot at Random Skill Tome.]

[Congratulations! You’ve obtained a blue-quality Sharkskin Hat.]

Li Yi was speechless.

The Sharkskin Hat was not even as good as the one he was currently wearing. As for Shoot at Random…

He could be considered fortunate to have obtained the Shoot at Random Skill Tome, but to Li Yi, this was pretty useless.

He did not receive the mount either, so he would have to come back and farm it some other time.

“Wow, human, it seems like you left for a very long time. Do you wish to shatter the Magic Crystal Prais was guarding? If you destroy it, your HP will rise by 100%.” The murloc named Rudderman showed up again.

Li Yi shook his head. He had long since planned to defeat the Vile King and obtain the Hall Of Fame achievement, Zero Light ¹ .

Li Yi looked around him and began to frown deeply.

Since he had been offline for so long, the Big Murloc Goska had long since broken free of his control. Goodness knew where he was right now.

Trying to defeat the Vile King to achieve Zero Light, solo and without Goska was an impossible feat.

Li Yi rode onto the Mermaid Princess and wandered around the Tidal Throne Dungeon for a long time before he managed to find the big murloc somewhere in a corner.

Controlling him with the Magic Crystal once again, Li Yi headed toward the third murloc boss.

He could avoid destroying the 5 Magic Crystals, but the 5 murloc bosses had to be killed. Otherwise, a player would not be able to find the Vile King, no matter how long they searched. If the 5 murloc bosses did not die, there was no way the Vile King would show up.

The third murloc boss’ appearance was very strange. It looked like an octopus but it had the head of a bull. When Li Yi saw him, he was mooing away, lying on the ground.

The Octobull was one of the Vile King’s most successful experiments. He had high SPD and his bullhead was very good at sound wave attacks. His eight tentacles could regenerate infinitely, and most ridiculous of all was the fact that unless the player could destroy all eight tentacles at once, this guy would be unbeatable.

The body and bullhead had 500,000HP, whereas the eight tentacles had 300,000HP each. The tentacles that were destroyed would regenerate after 10 seconds, so anyone who wanted to kill the Octobull would need to destroy all the tentacles within 10 seconds of the other.

Li Yi piloted Goska and ran over to Octobull. With a Furious Strike, he rendered the Octobull dizzy.

The bullhead was dizzy but the eight tentacles could still move. However, before the eight tentacles could catch him, Li Yi had already ordered Goska to run away with his large strides.

“Goska, you fool, how dare you ambush me!”

The Octobull recovered from the dizziness and instantly grew infuriated. The eight tentacles spun like a windmill as soon as they landed, giving chase at a speed of 70 yards per hour.

Li Yi just kept running, while the Octobull just kept chasing. In this wild goose chase, Goska took more than ten hits, and now he had less 400,000HP.

Li Yi ran hastily, kiting the Octobull up to the fourth murloc boss before he finally stopped.

The fourth murloc boss was a High-ranking Murloc, a Dark Wizard. He was adept at using plain and simple Black Magic to attack the opponent. In terms of ATK, he was even stronger than the Vile King.

It was the High-ranking Murloc, the Dark Messenger, Ofrey!

It took too long to kill one boss at a time, so he may as well pull them together and kill them both at the same time.

“Furious Strike!”

Goska rushed forth and used the skill, aiming it at Ofrey. However, Ofrey was unlike the Octobull in that he was immune to all crowd control skills.

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The Dizzy effect could be nulled, but the damage was not going anywhere. With one hit, Ofrey lost 70.000HP as a result of Goska’s move.

“Goska, you idiot, leave me alone!”

Ofrey made his move as well. With a wave of his staff, he used Light of Destruction and took 20,000HP from Goska.

Ofrey had 1,600,000HP. The usual way to beat the encounter would involve a five-man party, each standing in different positions and taking turns to attack him. They could not afford to slip up or get greedy, because the moment he started taking damage, he would immediately use the Destructive Black Light to counter, and that skill would definitely hit.

Ofrey, with his infinite automatic counter, was almost god-like.

The Octobull did not stand around idly either. His eight tentacles moved at once, using the Whip skill as he lashed out at Goska.

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Whip may seem weak, but this move dealt continuous damage. Its effect was similar to Shoot at Random. If all the hits landed, the damage dealt would be extremely considerable.

Li Yi immediately led Goska into a retreat, avoiding the Octobull’s Whip.

On the other hand, Ofrey was raising his staff up high. His body floated slightly, a huge black whirlpool appearing above his head. This was a tell that he was going to use Asteroid Magic!

“Meteor!”

With Ofrey’s loud bark, countless meteors fell from the black whirlpool, crashing down like rain.