MMO: Pierce Heaven Til’ It Breaks

The sword and the staff rapped Babarossa’s skin, shaving off 1,235HP in total. Neither the healer nor the main tank ran back, however, both dying with one slash of Babarossa’s sword.

‘Here goes nothing!’

After the ranged attack, Li Yi rushed forth and put his life on the line.

“True Overlord Arrow!”

“Extermination Arrow!”

“Smack! Smack!”

The two arrows flew straight for Babarossa, one after the other…

He had no choice but to unleash the True Overlord Arrow, but the subsequent Extermination Arrow was Li Yi’s real killer move!

[Level 20 Extermination Arrow (Learning Requirement: Level 20 Elimination Arrow): The upgraded form of Elimination Arrow. When the target has less than 20% HP, there’s a 100% chance of exterminating the enemy. When the target has less than 30% HP, there’s a 50% chance of exterminating the enemy. When the extermination fails, the power of the attack will be reduced to that of a normal attack. When the target has more than 30% HP, the extermination will not take effect, and the user will suffer a punishment where the character cannot be controlled for 6 seconds.]

Babarossa had 150 million HP left, and the True Overlord Arrow could reduce that a little further, just enough for the Extermination Arrow to take effect.

However, even Li Yi was not sure if the Extermination would work. After all, Babarossa’s HP was still over 20% its max value, so there was only a 50% chance of Extermination. Their success rates were still very much in the air.

It was do or die!

“Smack! Pfft!”

The Pheonix Flames penetrated Babarossa, and the Extermination Arrow flew directly in its wake. The health bar above Babarossa’s head diminished rapidly and finally fell to zero…

The Extermination was a success! He had killed Babarossa with one hit!

“Psshh—”

A red skull appeared above Li Yi’s head. It proved that the Extermination Arrow had worked!

“We made it! Hahaha, we made it through!”

“We did it, hahaha…”

“The f*ck, was that an instant kill? What the heck was that?”

“It had more than a hundred million HP! I couldn’t see, what happened?”

Li Yi’s killing the boss with one arrow generated shockwaves all around.

Just then, Little Elf from the Magical Realm resurrected Nirvana Inaction, and then Nirvana Inaction used Group Resurrection to revive everyone.

Babarossa was dead.

It held its shield in one hand and its sword in the other. Even in death, it did not move from its original spot, and its body did not collapse either. It just stood there, the same as before.

“This boss is OP…”

The members of the party still felt slightly creeped out looking at Babarossa, who remained standing after death.

Li Yi glanced at Babarossa and then turned away. Babarossa’s body was not glowing, which meant that it did not drop anything at all.

Both Babarossa’s Sunsword and its Shield of Kannon were potential drops, but the drop rates were so low they were practically negligible.

“Rest right here for an hour, and then we’ll proceed!” Li Yi commanded.

Babarossa was not the gatekeeper boss of Kannon’s Heart. There was an even stronger boss after it: Bahanuq, the one known as the Sword of Kannon, a prince from Kannon’s final days.

Brother Windcloud Nine frowned deeply.

They only had two days left. Two days later, their progress in this dungeon would be reset, so if they could not defeat the gatekeeper boss within two days, everything they had done before would amount to nothing.

On the other hand, Li Yi was brimming with confidence. “Relax, as long as we can make it to the gatekeeper boss, I’m 90% sure we can beat this dungeon within a day!”

Brother Windcloud Nine asked, “How’s the gatekeeper boss’ strength compared to the Shield of Kannon’s?”

“The Sword of Kannon is stronger than the Shield of Kannon,” Li Yi replied honestly.

Those words were enough to deflate everyone in the party.

It may not have been so bad if they just a little more time, but now they only had two days left. How were they going to beat it?

After all, defeating the Shield of Kannon alone took seven whole days.

How many days would it take for them to defeat the gatekeeper boss, who was even stronger?

“Is there a bugged way to beat the gatekeeper boss?”

“Nope.”

“Then how will we beat it?”

“Normally, duh. Don’t ask anymore, I’ve never beaten that boss before either. If you keep asking, even I’ll feel deflated,” said Li Yi to Brother Windcloud Nine, lowering his voice.

“F*ck!”

As soon as Li Yi’s words got around, everyone’s mouths fell open, and they looked at him blankly.

“Are we seriously finished this time?”

“No way…”

“I…”

The entire party fell silent.

…

An hour later, the party had recovered their strength and were back on their way. There was no end to the monsterlings in the Kannon’s Heart Dungeon, and once they entered the Black Forest Fortress, the humanoid monsterlings appeared so frequently that the party nearly had a mental breakdown.

They came, wave after wave, like a hoard of locusts. As soon as the players cleared a wave, another immediately took its place, and before they finished the second wave, yet another group came running…

There were just too many monsterlings. Li Yi and the others spent more than five hours killing them at the entrance to the fortress, but they could not even take one step forward.

“F*ck, what are these? Infinite monsterlings?”

“Just kill them. I don’t know either.”

“Dark Wing, what the heck is this?”

“Commander, what the f*ck’s up?”

“Just kill them. I don’t know either…”

In truth, Li Yi had always known that there would be many monsterlings in the Black Forest Fortress, but he could not tell his party members everything just yet.

He may as well let their imaginations run wild. After all, once the Shield of Kannon was killed, the dungeon was more or less in the bag.

The gatekeeper boss, the Sword of Kannon, was stronger than the Shield of Kannon, but since Li Yi was familiar with the story of the dungeon, he was not worried about it at all.

If they could just reach the boss, this dungeon was in their hands. Of that, he was certain!

Monsterlings continued to surge out endlessly inside the fortress. The main tanks on the front lines held them back while the healers took turns healing them. Even so, the supply would occasionally fall short.

Thankfully, the party had Li Yi and Qian’er. When the healers ran out of mana, the two of them rushed forth at the same time, using Raging Firestorm and True Overlord Arrow respectively, pushing the monsterlings as far back as possible. This bought the party a significant amount of time.

Li Yi and company cleared monsterlings for more than another hour before the fortress quieted down. No more monsterlings ran at them, and all that was left of them was the mountain of bodies piled on the floor.

Brother Windcloud Nine had a headache. “Where’s the gatekeeper boss? My god, we spent so long here. Can we still beat the boss in time?”

“I don’t know either, let’s just proceed.”

Even if Li Yi did know, he had to feign ignorance and command the party forward anyway.

They cleared monsters for an entire day and night while the party members took turns resting. Finally, on the noon of the second day, they saw the fortress’ gatekeeper boss.

The Sword of Kannon, Bahanuq rode on a black warhorse and had a two-handed greatsword strapped to its back. It stood on a high pedestal, looking down on the players coldly.

It wore green armor too, and its armor was the same design as Babarossa’s, too. However, it was slightly smaller in size, so it looked slightly weaker.

Brother Windcloud Nine asked Li Yi, “How do we fight ’em?”

Li Yi just pointed at Bahanuq. “Charge!”

Without organizing any strategy whatsoever, Li Yi charged right at it.

“Is the Kannon Empire doomed?”

Bahanuq surveyed the scene beneath the pedestal with bloodshot eyes, and then it slowly drew the two-handed greatsword from its back, leaping off the pedestal with its horse.

One minute later, Li Yi’s party was wiped out…

“F*ck me… This boss…” Brother Windcloud Nine lay on the ground but could not continue that line.

Flower Underpants sighed deeply and said nothing.

There was nothing else for him to say.

Bahanuq was just too strong. It rode on its black warhorse so it moved extremely quickly, and when it swung its two-handed greatsword, even main tanks could not withstand one of its hits. Brother Windcloud Nine already had a great deal of HP, 1 million in total, and even he could not survive one of its blows.

Bahanuq could kill a player with just a regular slash. If it spun its two-handed greatsword and drove it forth into a gallop, they would just have players dropping like flies everywhere the horse went.

The players could not do a thing against such a ridiculous boss…

Brother Windcloud Nine lay on the ground and roared, “What the f*ck is this? That motherf*cking power… The f*ck, one billion HP… No one can tank it, so how the heck do we beat it?”

Li Yi’s words only deflated him even further. “I don’t know either, let’s take some time to study it.”

They had less than 12 hours before the dungeon reset.

Corpse-running, resurrecting, and regrouping took them more than another three hours.

“You said we could pass as long as we see the boss, so now what?” Jiaojiao glared at Li Yi angrily.

“Let me think about how to beat it. I saw it on the official site, I think it was…”

Li Yi fell into deep thought. As for his 49 party members, half of their blood ran cold at the sight of him…

As they expected, five minutes later, Li Yi cleared his throat and said, “Anyone have any ideas?”

With those words, his 49 party members felt all of their blood run cold…

While the party was sinking into despair, a new round of rainbow-colored announcements on the World Channel made their blood boil over again.

[Player Tyrant Sword King the Fifth led his party and achieved the first kill of the Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods, putting an end to the demonic invasion of the Pantheon Continent. Let us rejoice for them!]

[Player Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut achieved the first kill of the Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods, putting an end to the demonic invasion of the Pantheon Continent. Let us rejoice for them!]

[Player Bai Xiaoya achieved the first kill of the Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods, putting an end to the demonic invasion of the Pantheon Continent. Let us rejoice for them!]

…

The rainbow-colored announcements spammed the World Channel, and while the system was posting such notices, no other players could say anything on the World Channel. In other words, they could only watch helplessly as those infuriating announcements cycled over and over again.

The Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods had been slain…

“F*ck!”

Many members of the party jumped to their feet in shock.

Even Li Yi was stunned.

He was 100% sure they could defeat the Sword of Kannon, but he never thought that Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut would actually defeat the Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods.

Were the Twin Demon Gods so easy to beat? What on earth was happening?

Wait, Tyrant Sword King the Fifth’s name was in front of Fluttering Snow Purple Water Chestnut’s. Hmm?

“Ding!”

Just as Li Yi was frowning, lost in thought, the Iron Alliance’s intelligence officer, Shen Lang, sent him a message.

“The Fluttering Snow Alliance killed the Fourth and Fifth Demon Gods.”

Li Yi replied, “Yeah, I saw.”

Of course, Shen Lang would not have messaged him just to tell him something that everyone already knew. The main point was in his follow-up sentence.

“Yesterday, Tyrant Sword King the Fifth-ranked up his Territory, and then he obtained a piece of divine equipment that increased his Territory by 2 ranks!”

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