Chapter 168: Hundredfold Summoning!? (Three in One, 5/5)_1
Facing the BOSS's attack, Chen Mo had already waved the Magic Wand in his hand, activating the Berserker Shield!
In an instant, all summoned beings around Chen Mo, including himself, and all allied units were donned with a shield providing nearly thirty million Health! Moreover, these shields were permanent until completely depleted!
Considering the thickness of this shield, unless the opponent possessed a shield-breaking ability, even with an attack power in the millions, they couldn't hope to deplete it easily!
Chen Mo had never activated the Almighty Converter when fighting other BOSSes before. After all, the previous monsters had such low defensive power that they practically didn't require true damage.
However, this BOSS's defensive power was now significant enough to have some damage reduction effect. Not to mention, it also had a damage reduction passive that reduced damage even further.
Chen Mo had already sealed three of the opponent's abilities and had no more sealing methods to nullify its damage reduction ability. So naturally, he simply activated the Almighty Converter. There's no reason not to use a god-grade tool once you have it.
With Chen Mo activating true damage conversion, all damage dealt by him and the Skeleton Monster was instantaneously converted into true damage!
In just one second, a dense barrage of true damage numbers popped up above the Undead Mage's head, accompanied by numerous MISSes. Although the Global BUFF caused it to dodge a lot of damage, true damage still depleted over 600 million of its Health.
The poison explosion was also formidable. With several thousand layers of corpse poison easily stacked, about one billion of the BOSS's Health was instantly obliterated!
At this point, the BOSS's attacks on Chen Mo had no effect. Instead, the damage was transferred to the Skeleton Monster. This effectively triggered the Berserker effect of the shield on the Skeleton Monster, further increasing its attack speed. This caused the Skeleton Monster's damage output to accumulate even faster.
A few seconds later, the opponent's Health had already dropped by a third.
As for the Undead Mage's attacks, they were practically ineffective. It couldn't break the shield, nor could it summon more minions. In its impotent rage, it could only vent its frustration by continually firing Dark Energy Bombs at Chen Mo.
The only thing that could help it was the Global BUFF. But for it, the only useful Global BUFF now was Dodge. Against true damage, abilities like Thorns and Solid were useless.
It would be better off standing still. The more it attacked, the more it helped Chen Mo by stimulating the shield's effect, which continuously inflicted lightning damage upon it and triggered the Berserker effect. This only hastened its demise.
As the corpse poison stacked higher and higher, the power of the poison explosion grew increasingly terrifying! By the time 11 seconds had passed, the corpse poison had accumulated to almost 30,000 layers.
The Undead Mage's Health depleted by the poison explosion alone was fast approaching 100 billion. Additionally, the Skeleton Monster's damage, including some critical hits, amounted to tens of billions over those 11 seconds.
If not for its Dodge ability, it would have already been dead.
Its 118.3 billion Health seemed daunting, but in reality, it wasn't that difficult to overcome. The moment it became a training dummy, its fate was sealed; it wouldn't live long.
"Despicable Adventurer!!"
It didn't even last 12 seconds. In just a little over 11 seconds, it let out a wail as black mist emanated from its body, and it crumbled into a pile of withered bones.
"This is called human wisdom, how is it despicable?" Chen Mo made a sarcastic remark at the Undead Mage's remains.
As the Undead Mage was killed, The Heavenly Path's Hint also sounded.
[The Heavenly Path's Hint: You have successfully killed the 35th-level Guardian of the Mysterious Dungeon. You can choose one of the following three rewards! In addition, you can consume 1 bravery point to clear one Global BUFF, or allow your own team to obtain one Global BUFF.]
〖Reward One〗: Remaining time increased by 7 hours!
〖Reward Two〗: Replace the settlement reward of "Almighty Spiritual Fruit ×1" with "Almighty Sacred Fruit ×1"!
〖Reward Three〗: All team member attributes increase by 300%.
Should I boost my attributes?
Chen Mo thought for a moment. According to the Mysterious Merchant's previous hints, things only became truly monstrous after the 40th floor; there was no need to rush now.
Let's just choose the reward first.
The difference in attribute points between these two fruits was still quite substantial. An Almighty Spiritual Fruit increased All Attributes by only 10 points, while an Almighty Sacred Fruit increased them by 50 points. If it could be exchanged, he would naturally choose to do so.
[The Heavenly Path's Hint: Enhancement successful! Your reward at the end of this dungeon will be one SSS-level Gift Pack and one Almighty Sacred Fruit!]
[The Heavenly Path's Hint: You have successfully defeated the 35th-level Guardian of the Mysterious Dungeon. You have obtained seven bravery points. Your current bravery points are twenty-five. At the end of the dungeon, you will receive an SSS-level title!]
Oh? The hint changed. It directly told me what rank of title I could get.
The Heavenly Dao had previously been cryptic. He hadn't expected that after his points reached the SSS-rank threshold, it would directly give him the answer. However, Chen Mo had already heard this news, so this was merely a confirmation.
He paid no mind to this message, waiting instead for the black mist to appear. Sure enough, a plume of black mist soon emerged.
This time, a bare-chested, muscular Blacksmith appeared. Chen Mo didn't care if it was the same Blacksmith as before or his brother. Before the man could even begin his opening lines, Chen Mo bluntly asked, "Do you have the ability to upgrade the rank of my equipment?"