After being suppressed by the Seven-Star's Sanction, the Blue Fire Crow King's flames posed virtually no threat to the group. Furthermore, thanks to Shi Feng's timely warnings about the timing and direction of the fire breath, not a single member of the team had been hit.
However, the Blue Fire Crow King's true power only emerged in its third phase.
The group had fought the Blue Fire Crow King dozens of times, always getting stuck at the third phase.
Now that the Blue Fire Crow King had entered its third phase, everyone couldn't help but feel tense.
If this were the Hard difficulty Blue Fire Crow King, they wouldn't have worried. After all, their combat power had improved by more than a single tier, making it trivial to clear. But this was Hell Difficulty, and the skills would naturally be enhanced.
The Blue Fire Crow King let out a furious roar, and a full eighteen Blue Fire Crows descended from the sky.
Compared to the Hard difficulty third phase, the Hell Difficulty third phase not only activated at 70% health, but the Blue Fire Crows started out as Leaders from the very beginning…
On Hard difficulty, they had only been special elites at the start, and individual members of the main team could each handle one. But Leaders were a completely different story—fewer than ten people in the entire raid could handle them.
Moreover, the Hell Difficulty Leader-grade Blue Fire Crows had even higher health pools, a full 900,000 HP each—200,000 more than their Hard difficulty counterparts. This pushed the DPS requirements to an absolutely absurd level.
Keep in mind that the Blue Fire Crows' growth skill only needed two minutes to evolve them into Lord-grade creatures, at which point they'd become even harder to deal with. And the total HP of all eighteen Blue Fire Crows amounted to a staggering 16.2 million…
"This boss is just shameless," Hei Zi said, his expression grave.
On Hard difficulty, the Star of Light he'd been holding in reserve would have been somewhat useful. But against 900,000 HP, even the Star of Light wouldn't make much of a difference.
"Everyone, activate Power of Darkness!"
At Shi Feng's command, the entire team activated Power of Darkness, boosting their stats by 30%.
As the main tank, Ke Le's health skyrocketed to just over 20,000, while Shield Warrior Ye Wumian's health reached 19,000. Both their damage output and reaction speed improved dramatically.
With the Seven-Star's Sanction suppressing the boss and Ziyan Liuyun providing healing boosted by the stat increase, the three of them could hold the Blue Fire Crow King for a short time.
"Banjiu, go establish aggro on the Blue Fire Crows. All casters, listen for my command—use your AoE skills!" Shi Feng said calmly.
Banjiu, the Guardian Knight with over 17,000 health, immediately rushed into the flock of Blue Fire Crows and used Iron Will, drawing the attention of all eighteen Blue Fire Crows in range.
Then Banjiu cast Protection Blessing.
The first-tier Protection Blessing reduced damage by 70%—far superior to the 50% of the zero-tier version—and lasted slightly longer as well. A full 20 seconds.
But Leader-grade Blue Fire Crows were no joke. With eighteen of them, a single peck dealt nearly 500 damage to Banjiu. Fortunately, at most six Blue Fire Crows could attack him simultaneously, meaning one wave dealt roughly 3,000 damage total. For someone with over 17,000 health, this was hardly a threat.
As healing spells rained down—one after another restoring 1,000 to 2,000 health each—Banjiu's HP was easily stabilized.
The only issue was that Protection Blessing could only last twenty seconds. Once it expired, he wouldn't be able to withstand the damage from six Blue Fire Crows.
"Good!"
Shi Feng smiled, found his position, and unleashed the Sword of the Heavenly Wheel Cycle. Golden holy swords descended from the sky one after another, immediately locking down all eighteen Blue Fire Crows.
A wave of 4,000+ damage numbers popped up, with critical hits dealing over 8,000. Of course, Banjiu standing in the middle took damage too—this was the drawback of using AoE skills inside a dungeon. But thanks to Protection Blessing and Iron Will, he only took around 700 damage, which was negligible.
But Shi Feng wasn't satisfied.
"Hei Zi, cast Guardian of Light on Banjiu," he said.
Guardian of Light made the target immune to all magic damage, reduced physical damage by 80%, and restored 5% of health per second for 20 seconds—an absolutely godlike survival skill.