When a BOSS goes berserk, it triggers a map-wide announcement. All players within the Shadow City map can receive it.
Combined with the battle notifications, Wang Junjie finally understood.
"This is the new skill the BOSS learned after going berserk?"
"As long as it kills me once, it adds one stack to this skill? One stack per kill. And the higher the stacks, the higher the BOSS's damage?"
At that thought, Wang Junjie suddenly seemed to come up with a way to deal with Lin Mo, and he couldn't help but burst into wild laughter, "Since I can't have this BOSS, then none of you can have it either."
"Anyway, I'm already level 0, and I've got nothing left on me. I'm not afraid of anything. I'll just feed this BOSS until it's stuffed so none of you can kill it today."
As he spoke, Wang Junjie's attitude flipped completely.
From being lifeless before, to now actively throwing himself at the Dark Ruler.
Smack! Smack!
Having just revived, Wang Junjie stood up, stuck out his butt at the Dark Ruler, smacked it while taunting with a punchable grin, "Come hit me!"
"Come on, hit me!"
Wang Junjie had completely lost his mind.
———
Meanwhile, Lin Mo, who had withdrawn from the BOSS's range to avoid its edge, used his SSS-rank Eye of Insight and instantly saw through the BOSS's move.
"The S-rank skill Dark Devour learned after the BOSS goes berserk. Each time it kills an enemy, it devours the target's soul, granting itself 1% increased damage, 1% damage reduction, and 1% skill range. This effect stacks infinitely, with no upper limit."
Hearing this, Ning Xi's brows tightened, "We can't let the BOSS stack this skill, or we won't be able to kill it."
But the Dark Ruler was still in its one-minute invincibility phase at the start of its berserk state.
Even if Lin Mo and Ning Xi wanted to take it down before the Dark Devour stacks built up, they were powerless.
By the time that one minute of invincibility passed, the Dark Ruler had already regenerated its HP from 10% back up to 15%.
And it had killed Wang Junjie more than thirty times in a row, stacking Dark Devour to over thirty layers.
Berserk state granting 30% to all attributes plus 30% damage reduction from Dark Devour, when Lin Mo and Ning Xi re-entered attack range, the damage they dealt to the BOSS dropped drastically.
A full combo of skills only reduced the BOSS's HP from 15% to 12%.
Still, at least it chipped away 3%.
While the BOSS was still within a controllable range, Lin Mo and Ning Xi unleashed full firepower.
But Wang Junjie wasn't having it.
"Want to kill the BOSS?"
"Hah! Not that easy!"
"With me here, don't even think about killing it!"
As he spoke, Wang Junjie even used his own body to block Lin Mo and Ning Xi's attacks for the Dark Ruler.
At the same time, the Dark Ruler activated another S-rank skill it had gained after going berserk.
Shadow Revival!
Whoosh!
As the Dark Ruler raised its greatsword high and let out a roar. In an instant, a beam of shadow shot from the tip of the greatsword straight into the sky.
Boom!
The sky exploded with a thunderous sound, and countless ghost-like black streaks of light rained down upon the earth.
The next moment—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
From all directions, across the ground of Shadow City, those Shadow Cavalry that had died earlier all stood up again.
Puchi!
The Dark Ruler cut down Wang Junjie, who was still sticking out his butt and yelling nonstop, then pointed its sword at Lin Mo and Ning Xi and shouted, "Kill!"
At the command, those resurrected Level 50 Shadow Cavalry mounted their shadow warhorses and charged toward Lin Mo and Ning Xi!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Lin Mo's SSS-rank ultimate, Annihilation · Storm Arrow Rain, combined with Ning Xi's tenfold-boosted A-rank Shadow Storm, instantly wiped out all the Shadow Cavalry.
But in just a moment, they all revived again for a second time.
"Looks like as long as the BOSS isn't dead, they'll keep reviving endlessly. Fighting them is useless."
Ning Xi looked at the Shadow Cavalry around them constantly dying and coming back to life, anxiety flashing in her eyes, "I'll hold them off. Brother Lin Mo, you go kill the BOSS!"
"No, you can't hold them," Lin Mo's expression burned with intensity.
Not to mention Ning Xi alone, even if both of them worked together, they couldn't restrain these Level 50 Shadow Cavalry with infinite revival.
Unless Lin Mo's ultimate had no cooldown and could be cast infinitely.
But that was obviously impossible.
In the urgency of the moment, Lin Mo thought of the only solution.
Without hesitation, he took off the golden command token at his waist: Advanced Command Token.
Seeing this, Ning Xi immediately saw through Lin Mo's plan and quickly tried to stop him, "No, Brother Lin Mo!"
"In a battle of this scale, your NPC soldiers will have a very high casualty rate. Once they die, you'll suffer severe penalties."
But right now, this was the best option.
Lin Mo lifted his head, looking past the Shadow Cavalry ahead toward the Dark Ruler.
Under Wang Junjie's constant "feeding," the Dark Ruler's Dark Devour stacks were growing higher and higher.
If this continued, the situation would spiral completely out of control, and the two of them would lose any chance of killing this BOSS.
Moreover, there were only eight minutes left before the Shadow Gate closed and the BOSS retreated.
If they couldn't kill the Dark Ruler, it wouldn't just affect the success of the A-rank hidden quest [Eradicate the Darkness].
More importantly: Lin Mo would also lose the one-of-a-kind divine pet he had finally gotten his hands on, the White Fox.
"As long as they don't engage the BOSS directly and only hold off these Shadow Cavalry, the threat won't be too great."
Lin Mo decisively raised the command token, "All troops, heed my command!"
———
At the same time, the thousand NPC soldiers stationed outside Shadow City received the order and rushed into the city.
Meanwhile, outside the city, countless bystander players who had come to watch the excitement had already gathered.
They had originally been unable to enter due to the NPC guards.
Now, seeing all the NPCs withdraw and enter the city, they immediately became restless.
"From the noise inside just now, a big BOSS must have spawned."
"Didn't you hear the map announcement? A berserk Tier 5 BOSS!"
"Holy crap! Let's go, brothers, hurry in and check it out!"
"Maybe we can even snag some loot!"
As they spoke, countless bystander players rushed into Shadow City, filled with excitement and curiosity.
———
At the same time, not far from Shadow City, in a Level 38 wild area: Demon Mountain Range.
Su Muqiu, who had just led a group of guild members there to hunt Level 38 demons for a quest, looked toward Shadow City.
Seeing the shadow light constantly shooting into the sky from within the city, and hearing the intense sounds of battle reaching all the way there, Su Muqiu's eyes burned with excitement.
"Shadow City… why is there such a commotion?"
"Could it be that the Tier 5 BOSS Lin Mo released from the instance last time has appeared again?"
"This is serious," Dragon Soul Yanyu said, "Notify the boss immediately."
———
Meanwhile, the northern part of Shadow City—
A large group of players with the [Blood Dance] ID arrived.
At the front of the group, the Level 35 Berserker Blood Dance Mad Warrior looked at the chaotic Shadow City ahead and said, "All of Chaotic World's forces have been wiped out. Wang Junjie failed to snatch the BOSS from Rulebound. Logically, the battle should be nearing its end, but instead the situation in the city is escalating. Something unexpected must have happened."
Han Ruoxi looked worried.
She immediately gave an order to the Blood Dance guild members beside her, "Everyone, follow me into the city!"
"Yes!"
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