Chapter 158: It Really Doesn’t Deserve the Hell Difficulty Title, Weak Monsters and Weak Boss!
After killing a few more monsters, Lin Moyu finally leveled up.
As planned, he summoned ten new skeleton warriors before leveling up, replenishing the summoning space.
This brought the number of skeleton warriors back to 140.
He didn’t use the spirit power gained from leveling up yet.
Not knowing what the boss would be like, it was safer to keep the spirit power in reserve, as it might be useful.
The team continued advancing. Without realizing it, they had cleared the dark world.
The difficulty of monsters in the second half hadn’t changed, they just became more densely packed.
Basically they faced two or more monsters at once each time.
Encountering four or five at once was normal.
Lin Moyu felt nothing about this, since the skeletons were doing all the fighting in front.
The gold medal fighters skeleton warriors, gold medal mages skeleton mages.
They knew no fatigue, felt no pain, and feared neither life nor death.
There were no more dedicated workers than them.
"Moyu, don’t you feel it’s gotten brighter here?"
Ning Yiyi suddenly spoke up.
Lin Moyu had already noticed the difference. As they killed more and more monsters, the previously pitch-black environment was indeed brightening.
Light was no longer completely devoured. Standing here they could even see light on the distant horizon.
Not only was it brighter here, but the boss statue was also emitting a faint glow.
Ning Yiyi asked puzzledly, "Though it’s glowing, why do I feel it’s gotten blacker?"
It had indeed gotten blacker.
Now it was like ink, so black it reflected light.
Each time a monster died, black energy dispersed into the air.
Part of it disappeared to who knows where, while another part entered the statue.
The monsters’ deaths seemed to be some kind of ritual trigger to awaken the boss.
As for the dispersing black energy, Lin Moyu felt it seemed to be flying towards the human side.
Lin Moyu was certain his observation wasn’t wrong, "As we eliminate the Abyss-type monsters, the Abyss power is weakening and human power is strengthening."
"And when we kill the Abyss monsters, some energy flows into the statue after they die."
"The dungeon looks simple, but the hardest part may be this boss."
Lin Moyu didn’t think a Hell dungeon would be this simple. There must be difficult parts.
If it was just like this, those teams could just carefully lure monsters over and kill them one by one.
Forget a full 12-person team, even Shi Xing’an’s team could clear it with some effort.
Ning Yiyi also felt Lin Moyu’s judgment wasn’t wrong.
The truly difficult part of this dungeon should be the boss.
In the Nightmare difficulty Shi Xing’an described, there weren’t changes like this.
And Nightmare difficulty didn’t have the scene they saw at the beginning.
If there was, he definitely would have mentioned it.
Shi Xing’an was meticulous and described their clearing process in detail.
Some parts matched up, but some were completely different.
This showed that Hell difficulty and Nightmare difficulty had completely different mechanisms.
The final boss statue wasn’t that big, only 30 meters tall.
Though still very tall, it wasn’t like now, reaching 100 meters.
Generally speaking, the larger the size, the stronger the power. Lin Moyu became increasingly cautious.
Now that it was a bit brighter, Lin Moyu could see the monsters. Ning Yiyi could finally relax her big eyes.
So far, this dungeon wasn’t difficult at all.
This was the most abnormal thing.
How could a Hell difficulty dungeon be so simple?
The monsters were killed one by one, their numbers dwindling.
The sky grew brighter and brighter.
The darkness had almost completely disappeared.
Only a few scattered monsters remained.
The boss statue had become indescribably black.
Blacker than the darkest ink by several times, and emitting a faint light from its center.
The statue had begun to shake, seemingly about to awaken.
As soon as Lin Moyu killed the last few monsters, it would fully awaken.
Lin Moyu’s expression was solemn as he said to Ning Yiyi, "Go to the foot of the mountain, don’t come over."
Ning Yiyi knew her presence might become a burden for Lin Moyu. "Be careful then, stay safe."
After speaking, Ning Yiyi obediently ran to the foot of the mountain, hiding behind a large rock with just her little head peeking out.
With no more worries, the skeleton warriors quickly cleared out the remaining monsters.
When the last monster was killed,
The darkness of the Abyss side completely disappeared.
The statue began to rumble and move.
Thick fur grew on the black statue, turning it into a black furry monster in the blink of an eye.
Lin Moyu and the skeletons standing at its feet were like tiny ants, unable to see the top even looking straight up.
The blades in the skeletons’ hands weren’t even as thick as one of its hairs.
The opponent was so huge, Lin Moyu had never encountered such a large enemy before.
Its enormous size brought an incredible sense of pressure. Lin Moyu even felt difficulty breathing for a moment.
The boss grew thick black fur, looking like a giant black panther.
It looked exactly like the Abyss Demon King they saw when first entering the dungeon.
In fact, all the monsters they had killed along the way were seen in that opening scene.
The dungeon wasn’t the real Abyss, just monsters constructed by absorbing Abyss energy.
Their attributes and levels weren’t as good as real Abyss demons.
[Elemental Panther King (Hell-level Boss)]
[Level: 36]
[Strength: 15,000]
[Agility: 15,000]
[Spirit: 15,000]
[Constitution: 15,000]
[Skills: Elemental Explosion, Elemental Sweep]
[Traits: Extreme Speed, Greatly Enhanced Vitality, Greatly Enhanced Defense]
All four attributes were as high as 15,000.
The four attributes were balanced, just like the skeleton warriors.
The Extreme Speed trait gave it super fast speed.
Greatly enhanced vitality and defense greatly increased its survivability.
This boss looked exactly like the Abyss Demon King.
Its level was only 36, attributes reduced by several times. It could be seen as a simplified version of the Abyss Demon King.
Lin Moyu thought clearly that to deal with it, the first priority was to restrict its speed.
If they couldn’t restrict its extreme speed, there was no point in fighting.
Though the boss’s size was shocking, there were also many ways to take advantage of it.
Faced with agile skeleton warriors plus the Slow Curse, its huge size would become a hindrance.
Like the giant dragon seen during the career transition, it died under the skeleton warriors’ blades.
Ants killing an elephant was a common occurrence.
The Elemental Panther King fully awakened, lowered its head to look at the ant-like Lin Moyu, and suddenly let out a roar.
Fierce winds arose, four types of elements surging.
Fire appeared out of thin air, dancing in the wind.
Then thunder and lightning flashed, rain fell, turning into a sky full of ice arrows.
Four elements erupted simultaneously, an impressive display.
Just one roar revealed the Elemental Panther King’s extraordinary control over elements.
Bone Armor appeared, blocking all elemental attacks.
Skill: Slow Curse!
A red net fell.
The roaring Elemental Panther King’s voice immediately weakened.
Its roar dragged out into a long sound, like a cat’s meow.
Angrily, it swung a paw down at Lin Moyu.
With 20,000 agility plus the Extreme Speed trait, the Elemental Panther King had shocking speed. Even with the Slow Curse’s 40x speed reduction, it still wasn’t slow.
Unlike other monsters that moved in slow motion when cursed, it was still faster than Lin Moyu himself.
The panther paw fell like a mountain. Lin Moyu didn’t dodge.
With a huge boom, the ground shook.
The Panther King seemed to realize something was wrong. Its paw couldn’t press down.
Bone Armor flashed brightly, blocking its attack.
Lin Moyu stood motionless under its paw.
Looking at the attributes, the Elemental Panther King’s physical attack wasn’t much higher than the Outpost Guardian’s.
With Bone Armor, there was no need to fear.
As it attacked Lin Moyu, the skeleton warriors all jumped onto its body.
Grabbing its fur with one hand, they hacked down with their blades.
All 140 skeletons had climbed onto it in the blink of an eye.
Skills burst out simultaneously, red light illuminating the sky.
As blades fell, streams of black energy flew out from the Elemental Panther King’s body.
Flying towards the human side.
The skeleton warriors entered meat-chopping mode again, their blades clanging non-stop on the Elemental Panther King’s body.
Each attack released a wisp of black energy that dispersed into the air.
The skeleton mages joined the battle, surrounding the Elemental Panther King in the center like when fighting the Hell Outpost Guardian.
This way, the Elemental Panther King couldn’t attack all the skeleton mages.
After one round of mass skill bursts from the skeleton warriors plus one round of focused fire from the skeleton mages,
The Elemental Panther King’s size shrank significantly.
Originally 100 meters tall, it was now only about 95 meters, smaller by a large margin.
When its body was completely hacked away, that would be its death.
Weak! Too weak!
Lin Moyu shook his head slightly, feeling increasingly that something was wrong.