As Shi Feng deployed the Miniature World and its World Projection descended upon all of Poison Calamity City, Clodia found herself as if wading through quicksand—her speed, reactions, and stats all dropping by a noticeable margin.
However, as an upper-tier Legendary monster, Clodia possessed tremendous resistance to the Miniature World. Even with Shi Feng already at the intermediate Magic Master level, he could only suppress her stats by 15% at most, with no way to push it any further.
And once the Miniature World was fully deployed, the Gospel Ring followed close behind.
Every ranged magic Class on the rooftops received a visible stat boost, while the ninety-odd ranged magic players surrounding Clodia launched a frenzied assault.
Tier 3 Spell — Shadow Burn!
Tier 3 Skill — Lone Light Arrow!
Tier 3 Spell — Earth Spike Barrage!
...
In an instant, the area where Clodia stood was completely engulfed by spells and arrows. A chain of explosions shook all of Poison Calamity City to its foundations, the resulting damage landing squarely in the twenty-to-thirty-thousand range, causing Clodia's health bar to visibly plummet. Combined with the trap damage, their total output truly exceeded Clodia's combat regeneration.
The sight electrified everyone present.
Before, they'd had nothing but despair where Clodia was concerned—their damage couldn't even keep up with her combat regeneration, let alone kill her. But now that their output surpassed her regeneration, everything that followed would be simple. All they had to do was keep whittling her down.
However, draining Clodia's health was no easy task either. To maximize their damage output, Ke Le had to lure Clodia toward the traps laid around the area. Setting those traps took considerable time, their duration was limited, and the number of people within two hundred yards had to stay below one hundred. The positioning and timing this demanded from everyone was extraordinarily precise.
One mistake, and all their previous efforts would be wasted—because the boss's health would instantly reset to its full 5.4 billion, with her combat regeneration spiking to over ten million health per second. Even under the Miniature World's suppression, that regeneration would still hover near ten million per second, far beyond what a hundred players could hope to deplete.
Fortunately, every fighter on the scene was an elite of the elites—the weakest among them at the Flowing Water Realm. Under Shi Feng's clear commands, not a single person made such an error, and Shi Feng couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
A guild truly was blessed to have a team like this.
Even if their weapons and equipment fell short, the fact that everyone could perform their tasks with perfect timing and pinpoint accuracy undoubtedly made the challenge far more manageable.
Time ticked by, and Clodia's health bar continued to drop—slowly but surely.
95%... 75%... 50%...
The moment her health hit 50%, Clodia's movements changed abruptly. She slammed one foot into the ground, and the surrounding earth caved in instantly, spreading outward like a meteor crater. Dense death energy caused everything in its radius to wither and decay, covering a full forty-five yards.
In that single blow, everyone within range except Ke Le—who had activated a life-saving skill at the last moment—was instantly vaporized. Over a dozen Tier 3 experts evaporated in the blink of an eye.
After this move, Clodia let out a furious roar, and the surrounding death energy answered her call, surging madly toward her.
The pitch-black death energy coalesced into a phantom Nether Dragon towering over fifty meters tall, hovering in midair with wings that shimmered like black fog, silently gazing down at the players in the alley below.
Shadow of the Nether Dragon — Fierce Beast, Legendary, Level 120, Health: 6,000,000,000.
"You've got to be kidding me!" the group cursed at the sight of the Shadow of the Nether Dragon.
Fighting a boss only for the boss to summon another boss...
Fierce beasts were nothing like ordinary beasts or magical beasts—they were catastrophes given form. The most powerful fierce beasts were even more fearsome than dragons. The Nether Dragon Shadow before them might not match a true dragon in raw power, but it was more than enough to crush everyone's hopes.
After all, Clodia alone had been enough to terrify them all. Now a hundred players had to deal with two bosses at once—it was practically a joke.
Even though Clodia's surrounding death energy had weakened considerably after summoning the Nether Dragon Shadow, she was still far from manageable.
The Nether Dragon Shadow descended, and a single swipe of its claw shattered an entire house. The space within collapsed into a black hole, and a Tier 3 Elementalist on the rooftop—who couldn't even manage to dodge with Blink in time—was obliterated...
"This is bad! This boss's attacks come with Spatial Lock!" Hell Scream called out from a distance, his expression darkening.
Spatial Lock was absolutely lethal for magic users or anyone who relied on teleportation skills. Once space was locked down, players could only dodge with their own physical agility—and magic Classes were far weaker than melee Classes in terms of Agility and Speed.
In truth, once Spatial Lock was deployed, even an ordinary Tier 4 Legendary monster could one-shot Tier 3 magic players, let alone a Tier 4 Legendary Fierce Beast.
Just as the Nether Dragon Shadow turned its attention toward another rooftop of Tier 3 magic players, a bolt of azure lightning suddenly streaked across the air and slammed directly into the dragon's claw.
BOOM!
With a deafening explosion, the claw's strike was deflected, crashing into the street beside the rooftop and carving out a massive crater.
The blow sent the Nether Dragon Shadow into a blind rage, as though it had been provoked by an insect. Its crimson eyes locked onto the figure that had launched the lightning bolt, and with a sweep of its wings, a death-energy vortex resembling a tornado hurtled toward that figure.