MMB Chapter 43 The False God, Phase 2: The Big One Is Coming!
Chapter 43 The False God, Phase 2: The Big One Is Coming!
The stats of the level 60 elite leader were right there, and the pressure was real and heavy on everyone's shoulders.
However, despite bearing the title "God," it is firmly bound by the word "fake."
If it were truly a cross-dimensional being, the system wouldn't be so considerate as to display a health bar.
In his cognitive system, the rules are very simple.
Once the health bar is lit up, even a god has to lie down.
The monster did not launch a physical attack. It raised its withered arms, and the black vortex that had replaced its facial features spun in the opposite direction.
The previously swallowed soul fragments were expelled, turning into a rain of grayish-white light that fell to the ground.
The human-shaped ashes on the stone hall's floor tiles, upon encountering the rain of light, rapidly reformed. Bones, flesh, and coarse robes were pieced together at an illogical pace. Hundreds of dead villagers rose again.
They no longer prayed, nor did they cry out.
Each person's body was covered by a layer of grayish-white energy shell, and their eyes had turned completely cloudy, deathly gray.
Xiao Qianyu brandished her spear and took command of the front line: "Contract the defense line, don't get surrounded."
As soon as the words were spoken, the resurrected villagers moved. They used no tactical formations, relying solely on sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemy.
They used both hands and feet to crawl and dash across the stone slabs, crashing into Zhao Leiguang's defensive position.
Zhao Lei slammed his double shields into the ground, and a wall of earth rose up.
The assassin crashed into the rocky shield, his head bleeding and his bones broken.
They disregarded their own losses, biting off their broken hands and crawling on the ground with their broken legs, using their own flesh to replenish the shield's durability.
"These bastards don't even feel pain anymore!" Zhao Leiguang gritted his teeth, bracing his shield against the ground, his legs carving two shallow furrows in the earth.
To catch the thief, first catch the king; this is the most basic tactical logic.
Wen Yue leveled the crossbow, its sights aimed at God's thick ankle.
The trigger was pulled, and three high-explosive grenades flew out in a triangular pattern, accurately hitting the target.
The flames died down. Not a single scorch mark remained on God's skin. A gray "0" floated out from above his head.
Xiao Qianyu vanished. A teleportation strike was activated. She appeared at the back of God's neck, the Crimson Lotus Goddess Spear, carrying maximum fire damage, piercing the bark-like skin.
The gun tip slid open, sparks flying. It was another gray "0".
God didn't even turn his head; he simply raised his hand and casually patted the back of his neck.
Xiao Qianyu was forced to interrupt her combo, forcibly twisting her body in mid-air and landing back behind Zhao Leiguang's shield.
"Immune to both physical and elemental defenses," Xiao Qianyu reported the test results.
Lu Yan stood at the very center of the halo, the Eternal Scepter continuously providing attribute bonuses.
He didn't rush to give orders, his attention was entirely focused on the battle log on the system panel.
Shen Xinglin, who was in the front row, was entangled by several assassins. "Thousand Transformations" swept his spear horizontally, and the blade sliced open the throats of three assassins.
The assassin's body collapsed, turning into gray specks of light and dissipating.
At the same second, Lu Yan noticed a line of small print that popped up in the log.
[False God: God suffers backlash damage, HP -3000.]
He looked up at God. The full health bar had indeed dropped by a tiny, almost imperceptible gap.
"Cease fire, ignore the big one," Lu Yan said, interrupting Wen Yue's loading of the grenade.
He extracted the battle log from earlier and shared it in the team chat.
Initially, people speculated that this was a dead end due to pure numerical superiority, but further analysis revealed that the system must have left a logical backdoor when designing such a super-powerful leader.
The level 60 panel is just a facade; the real core lies in the resurrected civilians.
Lu Yan pointed at the zombies crawling all over the ground: "We've figured out the mechanism. The reason this BOSS doesn't fight personally is because his lifeline is tied to these zombies. Attacking the main body is useless; it's in a forced invulnerability state. Every time a zombie is cleared, he will suffer a fixed amount of backlash damage."
Zhao Lei kicked away a suicide soldier who had pounced on the shield, then glanced at the panel: "So these things are just targets?"
"Frankly, that's exactly it." Lu Yan nodded. "So our mission is simple: kill all these villagers."
With clear tactical objectives, the operational efficiency of the first squad skyrocketed.
Lin Chuxue no longer held back; large groups of monsters were utterly helpless against her AOE attack mechanism.
In the extreme elemental environment of ice and fire, the assassins fell in droves.
Each time one falls, a fixed red damage number will appear above God's head.
Wen Yue switched to a wide-range, high-damage scattering quiver. The triggers of the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow rang out in unison.
She deployed a large number of scatter grenades, followed by a secondary detonation of high-explosive grenades. The shockwaves of the chain explosions swiftly and decisively annihilated the surrounding assassins. Shredded flesh and grayish-white energy shells were blasted into the air.
Xiao Qianyu's teleportation strikes created a dark red net within the horde of monsters. She specifically targeted the elite assassins with higher mutation levels and larger physiques. One shot, one kill.
Everyone else also performed their respective duties.
As the number of suicide soldiers decreased sharply, God's health bar plummeted to below 80%.
The false god could no longer remain still. A dull rumble emanated from the swirling vortex of his hollow face. He changed his strategy.
He no longer mindlessly ordered his assassins to charge. He lifted his foot and stomped heavily on the floor of the stone hall.
A circular shockwave spread along the floor tiles. Zhao Leiguang was forced back three steps by the shockwave, and the durability of the Earth Wall plummeted.
God clasped his hands together, drawing all the remaining assassins to his front. Grayish-white energy connected among the assassins, forming a broad shield of flesh and blood.
"He's reorganizing his defenses." Xiao Qianyu stopped attacking, her spear pointing diagonally at the ground.
Lu Yan glanced at the countdown; there were forty-five minutes left.
"Old Zhao, charge ahead and clear the way. Captain, prepare to break the shield." Lu Yan issued the new order.
Zhao Leiguang took a deep breath, and the Earth Pulse Twin Shields shone brightly. Savage Charge was activated. He transformed into an armored rhinoceros, crashing headlong into the very center of the flesh and blood shield.
The war continued. The ground cracked, and the powerful impact caused the flesh shield to momentarily weaken.
Xiao Qianyu had been waiting for this gap.
The flames on the tip of the Crimson Lotus Goddess Spear were compressed to their limit. Instead of using a teleportation attack, she took two steps forward and, using the momentum, hurled the spear fiercely.
The spear transformed into a red meteor, precisely piercing through the loose gaps in the shield and embedding itself into the core area where the most concentrated assassins were located.
A deafening explosion rang out.
The compressed flame elements were released in full. The high temperature vaporized dozens of assassins.
God's health bar suddenly dropped significantly, falling below 50%.
The battle has entered a phase of mechanized attrition.
God attempted to disrupt the first squad with attacks of various ranges, but Lu Yan's aura and Su Yunqing's abnormal healing power rendered these attempts futile.
Lin Chuxue and Wen Yue maintained an extremely stable AOE output. The number of assassins was decreasing.
When the last assassin was pierced by Shen Xinglin's spear, God's health bar dropped below 50%.
Then, the false god God began to shrink rapidly.
"Attention everyone, the big one is coming!"