Chapter 47: Kill
"Stop him!"
The players reacted in time and immediately launched an interception.
Lone Boat drew the Yellow Turban Bow and shot an arrow at the BOSS.
The moment Xu Feng was hit, he turned into black mist, dashed forward ten meters, decapitated one player, then reversed his sword to stab into another player's heart.
Too fast!
The two players were killed in an instant before they could even react.
Ye Li Meng, Mad Blade Old Wang, Street Slayer, Salted Fish Thrust, and others advanced instead of retreating, leading some players to fearlessly surround and block Xu Feng's advance route with a wall of human bodies.
Xu Feng shouted hoarsely, "Though I do not know how you are able to resurrect after death, as long as the Lord of the Stars dies, you running dogs of the Stars shall naturally cease to exist."
The players mocked him upon hearing this.
"Haha!"
"You're killing me with laughter."
"You think you can challenge Brother Yu?"
"Someone with a full bladder, hurry up and wake him up with it, but diabetics stay back, don't let him taste sweetness!"
"……"
As the greatest BOSS, Xu Feng's oppressive aura was strong, but the players sneered and provoked without showing any fear.
"Our Lord is not someone any stray cat or dog can meet. Pass through us first if you can!" Ye Li Meng charged forward with a slash.
Clang!
Xu Feng raised his sword to block.
With an ultra-realistic impact sensation.
Ye Li Meng felt his hands go numb.
This guy was not only fast but also extremely strong.
After deflecting the broadsword, Xu Feng swung his sword, and Mad Blade Old Wang tried a sneak attack from behind.
However, his broadsword struck nothing substantial and simply passed through a cloud of black mist before hitting the ground heavily.
A miss!
Xu Feng once again used his bizarre footwork, dodging Old Wang's attack and circling behind the unstable Ye Li Meng, thrusting his long sword straight for the heart, aiming to kill the warrior with significant attack power first.
0!
A muffled sound.
It felt like the sword hit an invisible armor.
It did not cause the slightest harm to Ye Li Meng.
"Dear god! That scared me to death! Thank goodness the talisman worked!"
Ye Li Meng broke into a cold sweat, realizing that this bastard's speed was terrifying, but he had luckily used a Taiping Protective Talisman beforehand, coupled with the warrior skill Iron Armor Technique, thus narrowly avoiding instant death.
Before he could recover.
Two more sword strikes landed.
The first was again blocked by the talisman.
The second pierced through the barrier, leaving a deep wound.
38!
The talisman was broken!
Ye Li Meng summoned all his strength and swept out a fierce slash, forcing Xu Feng back several meters and causing twenty points of damage.
In this lightning-fast exchange, if not for the talisman and Iron Armor Technique, even two lives would not have saved him!
The other players quickly surrounded Xu Feng and launched an assault.
Street Slayer took the chance to ask, "Brother Rui, what’s the situation, any findings?"
Black-Eyed Rui Ge analyzed, "This guy’s combat mechanism isn't complicated. He simply performs intermittent rapid movement, covering over ten meters each time. We need to spread out in a twenty-meter radius to form a blockade circle to prevent him from breaking through!"
"Although his displacement skill is too fast for us to react with our current abilities."
"But according to my observation, there's about a three to four seconds cooldown each time, and that’s our window to counterattack."
"Also, there's a sign before he activates his skills — whenever you see black mist emerging, prepare to defend or intercept immediately. Everyone, stay alert!"
Having been killed twice.
This was their third confrontation.
Rui Ge had roughly figured out Xu Feng's abilities.
Half of the players teamed up with villagers to continue dealing with the remaining butchers.
The other half gradually gathered to handle Xu Feng, with the twelve stronger players divided into four battle squads, each group composed of three players, forming a siege.
"Kill!"
"Victory to the Calamity Army!"
The other players launched brainless charges.
"Courting death!" Xu Feng deflected a sneak arrow attack, his longsword moving like a cunning viper, instantly killing two more players, while mist began rising from his body surface.
Black-Eyed Rui Ge, Ye Li Meng, and the others noticed this detail and realized the BOSS was about to activate another skill.
He would definitely prioritize targets within his movement radius who posed a high threat.
"Fall back and defend!"
The twelve core players, following the pre-discussed tactics, backed into triangular formations of three, each covering a 120-degree field of vision, forming a seamless 360-degree defensive perimeter.
Xu Feng turned into black mist, passing through several players ahead, but unable to get behind them, he had no choice but to attack head-on.
He thrust his sword straight at Black-Eyed Rui Ge’s throat, intending to first eliminate this somewhat troublesome commander.
So fast!
Even with a frontal attack!
Blocking or dodging was still extremely difficult!
Fortunately, Black-Eyed Rui Ge, being a high-agility Ranger, immediately used his weapon to guard his vital points.
With the Taiping Protective Talisman’s boost, he barely managed to fend off the assault.
"Take my thrust!"
Salted Fish beside him had already prepared.
Salted Fish Thrust used his signature move and stabbed Xu Feng’s kidney, dealing a critical hit of sixty damage!
"Nice shot!"
All the players cheered.
Twisted Three Kingdoms was not purely a numbers game.
Even though Xu Feng's stats and level were much higher, a precise hit to a vital area could still result in an instant kill.
"Attack now!"
Black-Eyed Rui Ge shouted.
Xu Feng’s displacement skill was still cooling down.
After taking Salted Fish Thrust’s hit.
His mobility was visibly affected.
Now was the perfect time for a counteroffensive!
Street Slayer roared as he charged, slashing several times in succession but missing, and was then forced back by a sword that broke his defense.
Lone Boat seized the chance to shoot a cold arrow, hitting Xu Feng’s leg, further crippling his mobility.
The others quickly attacked too, inflicting numerous wounds on Xu Feng.
Humanoid BOSSes, compared to monster BOSSes of the same level, had more cunning techniques but were noticeably frailer.
Although several players died again during the group assault, Xu Feng’s health bar was already reduced by more than half.
"There’s hope!"
"Keep the rhythm steady!"
"If we win this, let’s have a huge massage party offline!"
"……"
The players fought more and more bravely, fearless of casualties, advancing wave after wave.
The BOSS clearly could not hold on!
"You lowly running dogs of the Stars dare to be arrogant before me? Today I shall show you the true power of the Abyss!"
Xu Feng let out a hoarse and frenzied roar.
Cracks on his body rapidly swelled with writhing flesh, exposing large amounts of blood-red muscle fibers.
His once gaunt body swelled by over fifty percent, and his left hand grotesquely mutated into a giant crimson claw.
"What the hell!"
"He’s suddenly gone berserk!"
"This guy has a second phase!"
"Hurry up and attack! Shoot him with arrows!"
Five or six arrows hit him but barely caused any damage.
Xu Feng’s defense and physique had been greatly enhanced.
The beast-like giant claw, with its wriggling muscles, instantly slapped Salted Fish Thrust, directly shattering his Protective Talisman and then inflicting over a hundred points of damage, killing him instantly.
Street Slayer’s blade lodged into Xu Feng’s flesh, causing only twenty points of damage, and then he himself was pierced through the heart by a sword.
Two key players were killed in the blink of an eye.
The players were all shocked.
"This guy’s second phase attack power is too strong. Our talismans are now useless!" Black-Eyed Rui Ge gritted his teeth and shouted, "Damn it, let’s go all out! Everyone with a Blood Sacrifice Talisman, activate it now!"
"We can only fight with our lives!"
"Success or death!"
"Victory for the Calamity!"
"Charge together!"
In his second phase, Xu Feng’s attack and defense greatly increased, but he lost his rapid displacement ability, so they did not need to worry about him breaking through.
Black-Eyed Rui Ge was the first to activate his Blood Sacrifice Talisman, his body instantly covered in blood, his life force rapidly draining but his attributes soaring.
He dodged a berserk claw strike and dealt a critical hit of forty damage.
Xu Feng retaliated and impaled him with a sword.
Black-Eyed Rui Ge, dead!
The other players followed suit, almost all activating their Blood Sacrifice Talismans.
Their speed and attack power surged, and they attacked Xu Feng like madmen, determined to take him down with them.
Before long.
The BOSS was left with just a sliver of health.
Xu Feng's resistance grew more brutal and violent.
His beast-like left hand, like a spring, repeatedly stretched and retracted, and the sharp claw beams tore apart at least seven or eight players.
His flexible right-hand sword also killed several players in close quarters.
Without the Blood Sacrifice boost.
The players probably could not have gotten close at all.
The lower Xu Feng’s health fell, the crazier his state became.
The player casualties became alarmingly high.
If this continued, they would be in real danger.
Finally, at the moment when Ye Li Meng and Mad Blade Old Wang were blasted away by the giant claw.
Lone Boat seized the opportunity.
Relying on his powerful battle instincts, he slid past an incoming strike and stabbed his sword accurately into Xu Feng’s heart along an existing wound.
95 (Critical Hit!)
【You have killed the Fallen Xu Feng!】
【Ding, congratulations to player Lone Boat for achieving the First Kill of Fallen Xu Feng, earning 800 Essence Points and 1200 Contribution Points as First Kill rewards!】
【Ding, you have leveled up to Level 6: +10 Health, +2 Strength, +3 Agility, +1 Spirit, +1 Will!】
"We did it!"
Lone Boat, whose life force had just drained completely, sighed in relief and collapsed.