The Legend

7. The Blue Boss [I]

The second floor was also empty; it's unclear when, but the monsters here have all been cleared out.

"Damn it, what happened here?" Teagan muttered, glancing around at his surroundings.

"Where else could they have gone? It must have been cleaned up." Ryan was deflated, feeling quite regretful.

"Damn it, let's keep on looking." Teagan was unwilling to give up and stepped into the depths.

"Nothing here, let's go to the third floor instead." Ryan followed behind.

As they were walking, suddenly Teagan shouted. "Boss!"

Ryan was startled and quickly asked, "Where?"

"There!" Teagan pointed to the entrance on the third floor directly ahead.

Ryan looked in the direction Teagan was pointing and indeed saw the shadow of a monster. From a distance, the monster was hunched over, wrapped in a gray robe, and leaning on a wooden staff. It was slowly wandering around the entrance to the third floor.

"Be careful, don't get too close." Teagan became more vigilant and walked forward cautiously.

"Is it a boss?" Ryan was skeptical. He wondered why no one was fighting it if it really was a boss. Where had all the players who were leveling up here gone?

"It must be true, there's no mistake." Teagan was convinced that he hadn't misread it.

The two got closer and closer to the boss, until they were within 10 yards of it, before stopping. Upon checking the boss's attributes, they were immediately filled with surprise and delight.

Skeleton Priest (Blue Boss)

Level: 20

Health: 18000

Magic Attack: 300

Defense: 270

Skill 1: Heavenly Fire

That was a real boss! However, what surprised Ryan and Teagan even more was that the boss's health was only one-third remaining, around 6,000.

It was obvious that the boss had been attacked.

"What's going on! The boss only has a little over 6,000 HP left!" Ryan was still confused.

"What else could it be? Some people tried to fight this boss. In the end, they all got completely crushed by it." Teagan sighed, already understanding what had happened.

Teagan was right. A boss that hadn't been defeated yet had indeed spawned on the second floor of the Dark Palace, attracting countless players to flock there. Even players leveling up on the third floor came to fight the boss after hearing the news.

But as Teagan said, these players were far too weak. They had the audacity to think they could defeat the boss. Unfortunately, it was a level 20 blue-named boss, using magic attacks, and was extremely powerful. Countless players were killed in an instant.

Ryan and Teagan had just stepped into the second floor of the Dark Palace when they arrived just in time to find that all the players had been wiped out. This gave Ryan and Teagan a huge advantage.

"Ryan, if we can take down this boss, we won't have to worry about potion money for the next two weeks." Teagan's intuition told him that this boss was spawning for the first time, so the drop rate was extremely high. If they actually got a few pieces of level 20 blue gear, they were guaranteed to make a fortune.

"Teagan, how are we going to fight this?" Ryan was not confident at all. Regardless of how much health the boss had left or whether it had been attacked by other players before, in the current situation, there were only the two of them on the second floor of the Demon Temple. One was a berserker warrior and the other was a destruction warlock. Both of them were level 15 and their equipments were terrible. 

It was absurd for them to think they could take down this boss.

"Take your time, don't rush. I bet those people who didn't kill the boss earlier were too hasty. They probably underestimated the boss's attributes. Besides, their teamwork was poor, and they were too selfish." Teagan's analysis sounded very plausible, and in reality, it was quite accurate. If a hundred players were fighting one boss, who would get the loot? 

So, out of a hundred players, ninety-nine were selfish, and before even killing the boss, they had already killed a large portion of their own teammates.

Ryan listened with a half-understanding mind, thinking to himself, no matter what, I have to fight this boss. I'd rather die than let it go.

"Ryan, I'll go first. You wait for your chance. I'm wearing trash gear, so it's okay if I die. If things look bad, stay away and don't come and get yourself killed. Wait for me to come back before we fight again."

"Alright." Ryan agreed verbally, but he didn't really mean it. Even if Teagan was killed, he still had to take the risk, otherwise it would be a waste of his level 15 blue weapon. Moreover, the other players might come back. 

Teagan concentrated intently, and with a flick of his scepter, summoned the giant white wolf again. After becoming a warlock, one can learn a basic summoning skill. However, summoner warlocks later learn many skills to enhance their summons and continuously level them up. Destruction warlocks, on the other hand, usually have summons that are merely for show, serving only a superficial purpose.

Teagan changed the giant wolf's status to follow, and then walked step by step toward the boss. When he was about 5 yards away from the boss, he suddenly cast a plague poison array.

Instantly, a perfectly round formation appeared within 10 yards of the boss, with a huge purple poison banner at its center, faintly emanating a hazy purple mist.

This skill was very powerful for Destruction Warlocks! It was a wide-area attack that could poison all targets within the area for a certain period of time, causing them to continuously lose health, become blind, become confused, and have their resistances greatly reduced.

Immediately afterwards, the boss turned a light purple color, as if possessed.

The boss immediately became alert and spotted Teagan. It let out a strange roar and raised its wooden staff, unleashing a large ball of fire. With a bang, it struck Teagan.

Teagan was instantly reduced to low health and was almost killed.