74: Chapter 74 Boss Group
"Oh my god, am I seeing this right? All... all of them are BOSSes?"
"Wuu wuu... It's over. There's no choice but to return to the Novice Village now."
Some people in the crowd began to lose heart.
Before them was a dense, dark mass. The Guardian of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, the Troll Chieftain of Stranglethorn Vale, the Demon Butcher of the Wilderness of Suffering, and the Geo Hypostasis of Liyue Forest had all arrived.
And there wasn't just one of each; there were too many to even count.
But it wasn't without a pattern; it was clearly a team composed of BOSSes arranged from low to high level.
The lower the level, the greater the quantity. It looked like there were over 300 Guardians of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.
Conversely, there were fewer than a hundred of the highest-level Geo Hypostasis.
But this was still enough to annihilate the entire Chang'an City.
"Jiang He, how do we fight?"
Li Dabiao rushed over to ask.
Although the battle plan he customized had been very effective, allowing them to survive the first six waves of the beast tide.
But for this seventh wave, it was clear that his battle strategy was no longer effective.
At this moment, Jiang He's mind was racing.
He began analyzing counter-strategies based on his knowledge of each BOSS.
Then, he immediately shouted:
"All mage teams, switch to Fireball Technique to counter the Geo Hypostasis!"
The method to restrain this BOSS was fire-attribute suppression.
Although the Geo Hypostasis's attacks were terrifying, they could barely hold on under strong fire-attribute suppression.
And while the lowest-level Guardians of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda were numerous, they were not impossible to resist.
Currently, they could only rely on numbers to win.
However, the most difficult one was the Demon Butcher. Although they had luckily killed him last time.
That was purely an accident; he didn't believe that a few sentences of Taunt could draw away his aggro.
Even if it could, it was useless. There were over two hundred Demon Butchers on the field; they couldn't just send a team up to engage in a verbal shouting match, could they?
Next, the Troll Chieftain was even more difficult.
It had almost no weaknesses; one could only win by relying entirely on solid combat output.
Soon, a new battle plan was formed.
Bai Luoyao and Gu Qingming would lead the mage teams to focus fire on the Geo Hypostasis.
The teams of Zhao Yun, Blood Blade, and Li Dabiao would battle the Demon Butcher.
Jiang He and Old Demon would battle the Troll Chieftain.
The remaining freelance players would collectively slaughter the Guardians of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda.
In an instant, hundreds of thousands of people swarmed toward the BOSS horde.
Although the number of players far exceeded the number of beasts in this tide.
They were completely crushed in terms of strength.
Jiang He was also aware of this, but there was simply no better plan at the moment.
Less than three seconds after the battle began.
The chat channel started flooding with death notifications.
Watching the death messages scroll by endlessly, the players became completely bloodthirsty.
"Damn it, I'm going to fight you to the death!"
"Take it down!"
In the crowd, apart from the sounds of battle, there were also the players' curses directed at the BOSSes.
At this moment, Jiang He was weaving back and forth among the herd of Troll Chieftains.
He had just tried it; a single hit from his blade could deal about 15,000 damage.
But the Troll Chieftain before him had a health pool as high as 150,000.
And facing these hundreds of monsters, even if his attack was high, it was just a drop in the bucket.
"Old Demon, continuous crowd control! Don't let them slip past!"
"Understood."
Old Demon was surrounded and protected by dozens of knights, continuously using crowd control spells.
Although it had some effect.
But once the control duration expired, they faced the deaths of a large number of players.
Although after dying, they quickly rushed back from the respawn point to continue protecting him.
But the BOSS still seized the gap, backhanding two punches to empty Old Demon's health.
Old Demon's death meant the Troll Chieftain lost its restriction and instantly pressed toward Jiang He and the others.
In just an instant, dozens of people were swallowed into the beast herd.
Several white lights flashed by, and the entire team was wiped out.
[Ding, player death detected. Would you like to recharge 1 Yuan to resurrect on the spot?]
After Jiang He's health hit zero, he had intended to wait to resurrect and continue the fight.
But instead, he received a recharge prompt.
He was overjoyed and did not hesitate.
"Recharge."
Jiang He resurrected on the spot, but the next second, before he could launch an attack, his health hit zero again.
This was a bit tricky.
The location where he resurrected was right in the middle of the monster herd.
As soon as he appeared, he was immediately greeted by hundreds of attacks.
[Ding, would you like to recharge 1 Yuan to resurrect on the spot?]
"Damn it, recharge."
After appearing, he immediately activated Invisibility Technique, planning to escape the herd first.
This time it was good; he wasn't killed by the monsters.
But he discovered that without his aggro, the herd began to charge crazily toward Chang'an City.
Jiang He was shocked.
They absolutely could not let them pass; the back row was the fragile mage and priest team.
Once the Troll Chieftain rushed past, with the mages' and priests' defense, they wouldn't be able to withstand even a single hit.
Jiang He gritted his teeth and backhanded a slash at the nearest Troll Chieftain.
Then the Invisibility Technique failed, and he was swallowed by the monsters again.
But this time it didn't have the effect he expected; it only drew the aggro of a small portion of the monsters.
A large group of monsters was still charging toward the city.
"Retreat quickly, the monsters are pressing in!"
Someone in the crowd shouted.
With that shout, the mage team completely lost their footing.
Originally, they were barely maintaining a balance while resisting the Geo Hypostasis.
Although the fight was very slow, due to the fire-attribute suppression, the Geo Hypostasis couldn't act effectively and could only passively endure attacks.
But seeing the Troll Chieftain suddenly attacking, most of the mages subconsciously stopped attacking and chose to retreat.
This instantly gave the Geo Hypostasis a chance to breathe. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Geo Hypostasis launched earth-attribute attacks.
Instantly, the entire area outside the city shook violently.
With several loud booms, sharp earth spikes shot out from the ground!
Just one wave of attacks instantly killed hundreds of mages.
Due to the sharp decrease in numbers, the firepower also became much weaker.
"F*ck, don't run! Keep hitting it with Fireball Technique for me!" Gu Qingming was so angry that the veins on his forehead popped; he had almost fainted when he saw most of the mages stop attacking and run.
Before he could even call them back, he was directly killed by the Geo Hypostasis's skill.
"All mages, return to your positions! Don't run around!" Jiang He, who had just resurrected, shouted immediately.
Immediately the next second, he was killed by the monsters again.
At this point, he couldn't remember how many times he had resurrected.
[Ding, player resurrection count has reached 300. Would you like to recharge 10,000 Yuan to gain 3 minutes of invincibility?]
Invincibility?
Jiang He's mind went blank. There was such a good thing?
"Recharge."
Jiang He resurrected again, and in an instant, his body was enveloped by a shining golden shield.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several monster attacks struck violently.
However, a striking line of golden characters floated above his head: [Damage Immunity].
"Holy crap? Awesome!" Jiang He was overjoyed, and then his feet moved rapidly.
After breaking free from the herd's control range, he immediately activated Blood Speech Technique.
He was determined to draw the monsters' aggro back.
But then he discovered that he had misjudged the situation.
The monsters before him seemed to have completely lost the concept of aggro.
They were in a completely mindless state, only focused on charging crazily toward the main city.
Jiang He looked up at the huge timer in the sky.
There were 13 minutes left on the countdown.
The time was just past half, but the average level of the players had dropped by more than 10 levels.
This was equivalent to saying that, on average, everyone had died at least 50 times?
Just at this moment, Jiang He saw Blood Blade and the others who had just walked out of the city gate from the respawn point.
He immediately shouted loudly: "There are 13 minutes left, sell your blood!"