Chapter 18: The Leader-Class Creature, the Goblin Chief!

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A terrifying pair of blood-red eyes, massive fangs.
The hunched figure stood nearly three meters tall.
Clutching a heavy sword taller than Li Yao himself, each step caused the ground to tremble slightly.
Li Yao had seen this monster before in his high school textbooks.
A Goblin Warlord, the final boss of a difficult dungeon.
Li Yao cast an identification spell toward it, but only a string of question marks appeared.
The identification spell could only reveal monsters up to five levels higher than oneself; Li Yao was level 11, meaning this creature was above level 16.
Textbooks clearly stated that a Goblin Warlord was a level 15 boss creature.
Li Yao was secretly alarmed; in nightmare-level dungeons, even the bosses had been strengthened.
“Void Mantis.”
A low whisper, and the Void Mantis hidden in the shadows suddenly struck.
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Shadow Break, Taste of Fear, Void Stab—a seamless combo landed on the Warlord like flowing water.
Having killed all the goblins in the tribe, the Void Mantis’s strength had reached 960.
With such power, even a nightmare-level boss would surely fall.
This was why Li Yao dared to face the nightmare head-on.
After a painful howl, the Goblin Warlord raised its heavy sword to smash the Void Mantis.
But in the next moment, the Void Mantis’s body vanished.
The Goblin Warlord was intelligent; after a brief moment of surprise, it shifted its attention to Li Yao.
A terrifying pressure swept over him.
In the blink of an eye, as if teleporting, the Warlord appeared before Li Yao.
The heavy sword slashed down.
Though Li Yao knew he wouldn’t be hurt, the chilling sharpness made his hairs stand on end.
“Boom!”
The ground beneath Li Yao cracked deeply from the strike.
Seeing Li Yao unharmed, the Warlord seemed incredulous and swung its sword wildly.
At this moment,
The Void Mantis had already crept closer.
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Because the Warlord’s attention was fully on Li Yao, both attacks by the Void Mantis struck weak points.
Sharp claws left two deep wounds on the Warlord’s chest and left shoulder, deep enough to see bone.
Li Yao glanced at the health bar above the Warlord’s head and roughly estimated its health to be around 60,000.
Such a figure was no longer simply terrifying.
For a typical adventurer at level 15, strength barely breaks 200.
Considering the Warlord’s own defenses, breaking through was uncertain.
With 60,000 health, the Warlord would require over half an hour of uninterrupted output to fall.
“Get back!”
Li Yao shouted fiercely.

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The Void Mantis barely dodged the Warlord’s sword.
Its invisibility skill was still on cooldown, so it had to endure.
However, the Warlord’s next strike was imminent, about to hit the Void Mantis.
“Predator!”
Li Yao roared.
The Predator appeared, intercepting the sword and taking the hit solidly.
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“Strength should be above 400. Without skills, the Predator can hold on for a while.”
Li Yao’s mind raced.
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