Chapter 48: Great Tree Demon Leader
A staff fell.
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Shadow Ambush triggered.
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The Great Tree Demon's HP instantly dropped to just a sliver.
The Great Tree Demon wanted to resist, its vines just lifted but hadn't fallen yet, when Li Xiang's staff fell again.
The powerful effect of the boots of brutal beating's attack speed +1 was demonstrated.
With more than one attack per second, for Li Xiang, who possessed powerful damage, his off-the-charts output was once again raised to a new level!!!
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「Ding! Killed the ordinary Monster 'Great Tree Demon' by skipping levels, gained Experience x10237」
Thud.
A crisp sound appeared.
Li Xiang looked at his experience points and grinned.
"That's quite a bit of experience."
"I'm still short of over a million experience points to level up. Let's see, killing 115 more Great Tree Demons should be enough."
Li Xiang picked up the equipment dropped by the Great Tree Demon and took a look.
【Tree Demon Light Clothes】
Quality: Whiteboard
Part: Top
HP +345
Physical Defense: 95
Durability: 100
Required Level: 20
Restriction: Assassin
【Comment: Clothing made from the Great Tree Demon's thick hide, possesses decent defensive capabilities.】
After reading, he casually tossed it into his backpack.
"Next."
Li Xiang looked around, and only after searching for a long time did he find another Great Tree Demon.
He only found it when the Great Tree Demon actively attacked him.
After beating the Great Tree Demon to death with a few staff strikes, Li Xiang smacked his lips.
"Fighting like this is too inefficient..."
Great Tree Demons don't move, they stand still and attack with vines. The main difficulty in killing them is finding them.
If I go deeper, it's said to be the territory of magic Monsters. The quest requires 100 Physical Monsters and 100 magic Monsters each, so killing 100 Great Tree Demons here is quite suitable.
"Need to think of a way to kill a large number of Monsters..."
After pondering for a minute, Li Xiang had an idea.
"The Great Tree Demons can't break my defense at all."
"So... I can totally attract a large wave of Monsters, then wait for them to hit me. Great Tree Demons deal ranged Physical damage, so after attracting a wave of aggro, as long as I stand still within their attack range, they can Counter Blood themselves to death!"
Having decided on his plan, Li Xiang immediately started moving.
The Great Tree Demons' camouflage was perfect, basically no different from ordinary large trees.
If one were to distinguish very carefully, they could tell the difference.
But Li Xiang didn't want to do that.
How inefficient would that be!!!
Li Xiang's method was to swing his root staff and knock on each large tree one by one.
Knock once and run.
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Next one.
-12144!
Critical hit triggered, Rage effect triggered, critical hit rate increased.
Next one, keep knocking.
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Shadow Ambush triggered!
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Next one!
...
In less than a minute, dozens of vines were waving above Li Xiang, delivering a 'disciplining' from the vines!
-0
-0
-0
...
A long string of -0 damage values appeared.
Li Xiang just stood there, yawning.
Around him were large groups of Great Tree Demons who had shed their camouflage, revealing their ferocious faces and relentlessly lashing at Li Xiang.
In stark contrast to the large patches of -0 damage values on Li Xiang were the large patches of -1468 damage values appearing on these Great Tree Demons.
A single Great Tree Demon only had 15340 HP.
They could be killed by Counter Blood in 11 hits.
Their attack frequency was roughly once every 2~3 seconds. Calculating at once every 3 seconds, it would take 33 seconds.
The Counterattack effect had a 50% trigger chance, and didn't trigger every time Li Xiang was attacked.
Calculating based on being hit twice to trigger one Counterattack, that would be 66 seconds for a Great Tree Demon to be Counter Blood to death.
In reality, from the moment a Great Tree Demon started attacking Li Xiang until its death, it took less than a minute on average.
There were always some unlucky Monsters that triggered the Counterattack effect every time they attacked Li Xiang.
The Counter Blood effect and Counterattack effect linked together, large patches of damage values appeared, and the Great Tree Demon group's HP plummeted almost collectively.
After the first 33 seconds passed.
Continuous kill notification sounds began appearing in Li Xiang's ears.
「Ding! Killed the ordinary Monster 'Great Tree Demon' by skipping levels, gained Experience x10237」
「Ding! Killed the ordinary Monster 'Great Tree Demon' by skipping levels, gained Experience x10237」
「Ding! Killed the ordinary Monster 'Great Tree Demon' by skipping levels, gained Experience x10237」
...
Two minutes later, Li Xiang's ears were quiet.
Checking the combat log.
He had killed 37 Great Tree Demons, contributing over 370,000 experience points to Li Xiang.
"Continue!"
Li Xiang immediately repeated the tactic.
Ten minutes later.
【Ding! Divine-grade ability 'Blessing of the God of Combat' condition met: Attacking 'Great Tree Demon' triggers instant kill!】
Looking at this system notification, Li Xiang grinned.
"Killed 100, the quest log also shows that the requirement to kill Physical Monsters is complete."
"Next, it's the magic Monsters."
Li Xiang immediately stepped deeper in.
Just after walking two steps, he heard a roar coming from not far away.
Li Xiang's heart stirred.
"Is it a BOSS?!"
He immediately rushed over.
A minute later, pushing aside a patch of bushes, Li Xiang saw the source of the roar.
A giant tree demon, much larger than the Great Tree Demons, was constantly lashing the ground with thick branches.
Checking attributes!
【LV20. Great Tree Demon Leader】
Quality: Black Iron BOSS
HP: 143080
Physical Attack: 1399～1438
Physical Defense: 1145
Magic Defense: 1455
Skills: Vines Across the Sky, Summon Great Tree Demon
【Comment: As the leader of the Great Tree Demons, it is enraged by the deaths and injuries of its subjects!】
"Black Iron BOSS!!!"
"Level 20! It can be instantly killed with one Ending Swing!"
Li Xiang immediately prepared to go up and instantly kill the BOSS.
Just as he was about to charge out, a group of players ran out from the opposite bushes.
"So lucky! It's a Level 20 BOSS!!!"
"No one here, the BOSS belongs to our Wild Guild!!!"
"Go!!"
"......"
On this side, Li Xiang stopped and searched his friends list for notes containing 'Wild Guild'.
After searching, he found nothing.
"Hmm... Not in my friends list, I can openly steal it."
Li Xiang had principles.
If the other party was one of his customers, then he would have to sneakily steal it, at least cover his face or something, to save face for them.
If they weren't customers, then it didn't matter.
As for whether they would become customers in the future...
Hmm? What does that have to do with now?!
Having decided on his course of action, Li Xiang looked towards the battlefield.
These Wild Guild players were generally Level 10 or 11, which was already Elite level at this stage.
Especially the Warrior leading the group with the ID 'Kuangye Xiongqi', who seemed like the leader, was already Level 12. He was wielding a pair of battle axes, and his equipment was quite complete; he looked like an expert.
As soon as Li Xiang's thought appeared, several vines from the Great Tree Demon Leader directly landed on Kuangye Xiongqi.
Snap! Snap! Snap...
A series of damage numbers appeared on him.
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-777
-810
...
The figure of Kuangye Xiongqi, who had just raised his battle axes, instantly turned into white light.
"Holy crap!! President!!!"
"The President died!!"
"Are we still fighting?"
"The President sent a message, telling us to retreat!"
Under Li Xiang's astonished gaze, the Wild Guild players were gone in no time.
"So... cowardly?"
"Perfect."
Li Xiang walked out of the bushes and charged forward, swinging his root staff.