Chapter 59: The Tenth Floor, A Lord-Class Monster for the History Books!
Meanwhile.
On the eighth floor of the Tower to the Heavens, within the plane where Nie Yuan was located.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a deafening roar.
Massive chunks of ice peeled away, and the armored-vehicle-sized praying mantis monster in front of Nie Yuan turned into an ice sculpture and collapsed.
Nie Yuan panted heavily, sweat streaming down his temples and nearly blurring his vision.
"This time, I will definitely clear the ninth floor!"
As the youngest son of the Nie family, he had undergone an advanced class-transfer ceremony and, living up to expectations, become the only SS-grade class holder in the Nie family in recent years.
To this day, he had already attempted the second-turn quest sixteen times.
Without exception, not a single time had he achieved the perfect class transfer of his dreams.
Today was the time he was most thoroughly prepared.
With the martial arts exams just around the corner, this was also his final second-turn quest. No matter what, he had to clear the ninth floor!
...
The ninth floor.
[Killed a boss-level creature beyond your level, Gold-Horned Flesh-Eater Falcon, EXP +20%]
[Class holder EXP has reached 20 levels at 100%. You can level up after completing the second-turn quest]
[Void Predator has completed evolutionary devouring, gaining 23,000 maximum health]
Gold-Horned Flesh-Eater Falcon.
A level 45 lord-level creature inhabiting the high-level dungeon, Valley of Despair.
With a wingspan of ten meters, a sharp horn on its head, feeding on gold, its sharp edge could pierce through all things.
Within the Tower to the Heavens, it was merely a level 25 boss creature.
However.
As a fellow boss, the Gold-Horned Flesh-Eater Falcon was noticeably stronger than the Giant Sickle Mantis.
Such a fierce beast, in front of Li Yao, could not even leave behind a complete corpse.
Li Yao stood quietly before the vortex leading to the tenth floor, waiting silently.
Next up would inevitably be a lord-level creature.
Judging by its level, its attributes should be comparable to the Tongue-Ripping Empress.
Its actual strength might be slightly weaker.
As the final boss of the Purgatory-grade primordial dungeon, the Tongue-Ripping Empress possessed numerous stacked conditions and an extremely high status; even among lord-level monsters, she should be considered top-tier.
Whereas the lord monster on the tenth floor was merely the final boss of the Tower to the Heavens.
Unlike the former, it was not an elusive encounter.
As long as one could defeat the preceding stages, the tenth floor could be challenged once every thirty days.
In fact, as long as one chose not to claim the rewards, it could be farmed once a week.
The rarity of the two could not be compared.
At this thought.
Li Yao glanced at his three chess pieces.
He wondered if his current self could resolve this without activating the [Shackles].
Forty-five minutes later.
The cooldown for the Void Predator's [Evolutionary Devouring] ended.
Li Yao stepped into the tenth floor.
The next second.
He found himself inside a palace.
Stone pillars lined both sides in an orderly fashion. Li Yao's feet stepped upon a blood-red carpet, and at the end of the carpet stood a throne. Upon it stood a suit of two-meter-tall full plate armor, with a nearly two-meter-long iron hammer resting beside it.
The armor was completely sealed, with articulated finger joints and every detail meticulously crafted. Had it not been for the empty eye sockets, Li Yao would have taken it for an iron golem.
As Li Yao drew closer step by step.
The armor slowly rose from the throne, emitting a clanging sound of metal collision.
Virtually, an oppressive aura enveloped Li Yao.
"Is this the final lord of the tenth floor?"
Li Yao murmured softly.
The opponent's appearance looked somewhat familiar, and upon a second thought, he recalled the origin of this armor.
The Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry, which upon its initial appearance had been merely a level 30 wilderness boss.
In his memories, Li Yao had seen it in classic battles within his textbooks.
The opponent commanded a legion of monsters known to the world as the Heavy Cavalry Legion.
The Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry had once led this legion to capture a temporary garrison of an adventurer guild on the border of the Dragon Kingdom.
At that time, the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry was only level 35, while the strongest person in the garrison was a level 52 A-grade class holder who had completed the third turn.
The reason it was called a classic battle.
Was because the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry used weakness to conquer strength, leading a hundred monsters below level 30 to slaughter every class holder within the garrison.
Ending in a tragic human defeat, it became a classic battle worthy of being recorded in textbooks.
It served as a warning to students.
Human beings were never the protagonists, and using weakness to conquer strength was not a human monopoly!
Of course, the Dragon Kingdom was not a place to be bullied at will.
When the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry became a level 45 lord-level monster, it was wiped out by powerful figures of the Dragon Kingdom, and the Heavy Cavalry Legion vanished along with it.
He truly had not expected.
Such a legendary lord monster would appear on the tenth floor of the Tower to the Heavens, serving as a final boss in a certain sense.
Li Yao cast an appraisal skill upon it.
As expected.
A level 25 lord, primarily a strength-based warrior monster.
Its attributes were weaker than the Tongue-Ripping Empress, but its skills were far more numerous.
"Clack, clack."
The sound of steel grinding echoed from behind Li Yao.
"A displacement skill?"
Li Yao neither dodged nor evaded, without even turning his head, he commanded his three chess pieces to launch an attack.
"Clang!"
Li Yao only felt his feet sink as the massive hammer swung with tremendous force, driving his entire body directly into the ground.
Meanwhile.
The three chess pieces seized the opening in the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry's attack.
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The Void Mantis possessed heaven-defying strength attributes, and the Predator dealt percentage-based health damage.
In comparison, in terms of single-target damage, the Blue Bird was far inferior to them.
However.
When dealing with powerful individuals, Li Yao had no need for the Blue Bird to deal damage.
The screen-wide deceleration skill played an irreplaceable role.
When facing bosses with super-high agility, only when the deceleration from [Glacial Storm] took effect would the Predator's deceleration skill have a chance to land.
Only then could the high damage output of the Void Mantis be infinitely magnified!
The three chess pieces could truly be described as indispensable.
If it were Li Yao before entering the primordial dungeon, he might still need to follow this routine to deal with the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry.
As for now.
Li Yao raised his hand slightly.
Ten Silver Moon Wolf phantoms appeared, and under Li Yao's control, they lunged straight at the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry.
Since it was a duration-based summoning skill, the Silver Moon Wolves had no health bars, biting fearlessly onto various parts of the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry's body.
Although every swing of the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry brushed away several Silver Moon Wolves, a few still remained clamped onto its body.
At this moment.
The third equipment attribute effect of the [Beast King Robe] stood out prominently.
All summons within a fifty-meter radius of the Void Mantis received an attribute boost; the greater the number of summons, the more pronounced the effect.
The attribute-boosted Silver Moon Wolves clamped down tightly onto the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry, dragging down its speed.
The three chess pieces would never miss such an opportunity.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
The sound of metal clashing was endless.
Countless attacks rained down upon the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry.
Even as a level 25 lord creature, it completely failed to withstand the firepower of the Void Mantis operating at full capacity, its health bar plummeting rapidly.
The Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry was not without resistance.
The skill deceleration from the Blue Bird and the Predator, combined with the physical deceleration from the Silver Moon Wolves, caused the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry's movements to become extremely sluggish, and all its attacks were intercepted by the Predator!
"Roar!"
Right at that moment.
The Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry let out an enraged roar, slamming its massive hammer fiercely into the ground.
"Boom-thud!"
In an instant.
Li Yao only felt several stars revolving around his head.
The ten Silver Moon Wolves and the three chess pieces were all stunned in place without exception.
The existence of [King's Majesty] allowed Li Yao to snap out of it shortly, immediately realizing the situation.
The massive hammer in the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry's hand was held high, its momentum steadily climbing, clearly channeling a supreme ultimate skill.
With almost zero hesitation.
Since the Blue Bird was a ranged unit and far enough away, Li Yao directly cast a protective shield onto the Void Mantis.
The moment the yellow light barrier appeared.
"Boom!"
The giant hammer smashed down fiercely, and an incomparable, powerful shockwave swept across all summoned creatures in front of the Human-Butcher Heavy Cavalry.
The ten Silver Moon Wolf phantoms were directly blasted away and dispersed by this wave of energy.
Two striking damage numbers appeared above the heads of the Void Mantis and the Predator.
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