Chapter 51: The Flaw in Shared Life!
The enhanced Skeleton Warrior leapt high into the air and suddenly seized the Bone Dragon as it was flying backward. In the next instant, the massive Bone Dragon was slammed to the ground by the Skeleton Warrior, who was still smaller than the dragon’s claw.
Boom!
The earth instantly cracked beneath the impact. Descending from the sky, the Skeleton Warrior used its terrifying strength to pin down Cacus firmly. Every time the dragon tried to flap its wings and soar back into the sky, the Skeleton Warrior pressed it down with a single sword strike!
At this moment, the battlefield was split into two zones.
Crack...
On the other side, Franklin watched as his Ice Shield began to crack, on the verge of shattering. He had no choice but to descend from mid-air to avoid becoming a sitting target for the undead legion.
Seeing this, Su Mubai pointed his withered wooden staff.
“Burn!”
-2568
Level 1 “Burn” dealt negligible damage, but Su Mubai was not after damage — he was after the effect of the Cursed Crown.
[Notification: You have inflicted the Doom Curse on “The Forgotten — Franklin.” In five seconds, it will deal magic damage equal to 800% of your spell power, with a chance to summon a Doomsday Sentinel lasting five seconds.]
[Notification: You have inflicted the Poison Blood Curse on “The Forgotten — Franklin,” negating the target’s health regeneration for five seconds.]
“Damn it, it’s my Cursed Crown!”
Being cursed by his own equipment, Franklin was probably the first to suffer such a fate. After all, although Su Mubai now wore the Cursed Crown, before killing Franklin, the item had been forcibly requisitioned.
As the Ice Shield shattered, Franklin slammed his staff into the ground. In the next moment, a circle of icy blue energy surged, sweeping a hundred-meter radius around him.
“Ice Hell!”
[Notification: You are affected by Ice Hell, movement speed reduced by 30%.]
Then, the soul fire blazing in Franklin’s eyes flared up again. A jet of pitch-black light shot from the tip of his staff, striking Su Mubai’s body instantly.
Death Ray!
-960,000!
“Hahaha, you were careless! With this Death Ray strike, your fragile human body is doomed!”
Franklin let out a hoarse laugh as his attack seemed to take effect. But immediately after, his expression froze.
“What? How much health do you have?!”
Not far away, the human’s health bar hadn’t dropped a single bit!
How was this possible?!
Su Mubai glanced at the shared life bar—96,000 damage barely dented it.
An epic-level boss, and this is all it takes?
“Life Sharing! You’ve actually learned such a rare skill!”
Franklin suddenly realized something. Su Mubai’s soul fire flickered with shock.
An S-rank skill — was it really that surprising?
It seemed even an epic boss hadn’t seen much of the world.
“Looks like there’s nothing left.”
Shaking his head, Su Mubai lightly waved his hand.
“Finish him.”
The skeleton legion launched a fierce assault immediately.
Feeling his life slipping away, Franklin frantically swung his staff, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes.
Life Sharing was strong, but it had its flaws!
“Death Wither!”
Enduring the skeleton legion’s onslaught and losing millions of health, Franklin finally unleashed his ultimate attack.
Amidst the overwhelming energy shockwave, a blood-red rose pattern faintly appeared, shrouding the entire battlefield.
At the same time, Cacus roared to the sky and flapped his bony wings.
“Bone Cage!”
Crack, crack, crack...
A cage of bones rose from the ground, imprisoning the Skeleton Warrior.
Then, countless bone spikes swept across all targets on the battlefield.
“Bone Spike Hell!”
Whizz, whizz, whizz!
Boom!
In an instant, Bone Spike Hell and Death Wither erupted simultaneously.
-48,000, -48,000, -39,500...
-31,862, -37,003, -38,987...
Damage numbers appeared all over the skeleton legion.
Su Mubai’s pupils constricted sharply. He realized his shared health bar had dropped by a quarter in an instant!
Keep in mind, his shared health pool now stood at a staggering 200 million!
At this moment, Su Mubai snapped awake.
Although powerful, Life Sharing was still only an S-rank skill and far from invincible.
If someone used a strong enough AoE skill to wipe out all the skeletons at once, he would die too!
Granted, the shared health pool had doubled due to his profession's catastrophic trait, but this applied only when he himself took damage.
In other words, when he took damage, the shared health bar dropped, and the linked skeletons divided only half the damage.
But when skeletons took damage, the shared health bar decreased by double.
Seeing the skeleton mage reduced to a sliver of health, Su Mubai broke out in a cold sweat.
If not for his increased strength and the skeleton legion’s doubled health, these two bosses’ combined attacks would have instantly killed every skeleton except the Skeleton Warriors.
Although the presence of the Skeleton Warriors prevented the two epic bosses from threatening Su Mubai’s life directly, it was still a wake-up call.
“I can’t be so careless anymore.”
With that thought, Su Mubai recalled twenty Skeleton Warriors back into the summoning space.
This was how he would counter large-scale AoE attacks.
The skeletons inside the summoning space also provided him with shared health, but they wouldn’t be hit by the enemy’s AoE attacks.
To kill the skeletons inside, one would have to attack Su Mubai directly and drain his shared health bar!
Twenty Skeleton Warriors provided 30.48 million shared health points. With one resurrection, that doubled to 60.96 million—more than enough to handle these two bosses for now!
For the time being, Su Mubai had to use this method to patch up Life Sharing’s weaknesses. He was determined.
After finishing exploring the Forgotten Land, the first thing he’d do was earn enough money to refine Life Sharing!
He already had a vague plan.
He couldn’t afford the third tier of Catastrophe yet, but money—that was another matter.
Even more shocked than Su Mubai was Franklin nearby.
Dumbfounded, he watched in disbelief.
He and Cacus had joined forces but couldn’t even wipe out the skeleton mage summoned by their opponent?!
What kind of monster was this human?
Elsewhere, the Skeleton Warrior, with terrifying strength, shattered the Bone Cage and once again pinned down Cacus.
At the same time, Su Mubai’s cold gaze turned toward them.
That heart-stopping energy descended once again.
Death Gaze!
“Roar—!”
In an instant, Cacus let out a terrified scream, flapping his wings wildly as if he’d seen some dreadful presence.
[Notification: You used “Death Gaze” on Undead Bone Dragon—Cacus, and your life rank is higher than the target’s.]
-32 million!
A grayish eight-digit number appeared, instantly reducing Cacus’s maximum health by 40%!
Two curse effects were also applied to him.
Meanwhile, Franklin found himself in dire straits.
He saw in horror that the Skeleton Warrior directly before him had suddenly doubled in size.
Death Drain Feedback!
[Notification: You consumed 300 Death Qi points to enhance the target Skeleton Warrior’s main attributes by 600%.]
This time, neither could fight back.
Within less than a minute, Franklin, having exhausted all means, fell dead before Cacus.
Yet when the system notification sounded, Su Mubai frowned.
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