Chapter 621: Slaying the Golden Rabbit King

Marcus sprang into action without hesitation.

Using Wanderlust, he immediately set up two teleportation arrays in midair as a safety net, then layered every available buff onto himself before summoning the two Sea Demon Souls.

"Attack!"

At his command, the two Sea Demon Souls moved in from opposite sides, flanking the Golden Rabbit King. The moment they drew its attention, both struck it with Taunting Light, triggering their passive Enfeeble at the same time. The Golden Rabbit King’s attack and defense immediately fell by 20%.

"Pebble, go!"

Marcus urged Blackie forward, charging straight at the Golden Rabbit King with Pebble. The rabbit was still engaged with the Sea Demon Souls and had yet to shift its attention toward him, allowing Marcus to close the distance without interference.

He was within thirty meters when the Golden Rabbit King finally turned its head. Its eyes locked onto Marcus, and it prepared to strike. That was when the passive ability of the Mask of Nameless Fear activated.

Nameless Fear.

The rabbit’s stats dropped by another 15%.

-195,000.

A massive red damage number, nearly two hundred thousand, exploded above the Golden Rabbit King’s head. Marcus did not give it a chance to recover and immediately followed up with another skill.

"The Ascendant’s Domain!"

-130,000.

A golden wave swept across the battlefield. With Ascendant’s Domain active, Marcus entered his full-power state, while the Golden Rabbit King’s stats were reduced by another 10%. The resulting damage tore another 130,000 HP from its health bar.

The Golden Rabbit King was down to 970,000 HP.

’Nice.’

Marcus’s eyes lit up. Everything was going according to plan. He immediately unleashed the Mask of Nameless Fear’s ultimate ability.

"Roar of Fear!"

Unfortunately, the attack missed.

The Golden Rabbit King answered at once. Its body spun violently, and a massive carrot-shaped projectile came whirling through the air toward Marcus with terrifying speed.

-3,200.

Marcus barely reacted.

Even without his Divine-tier Adamant Shield equipped, his fully enhanced stats and the rabbit’s numerous debuffs meant that the attack could only deal around three thousand damage. His health regeneration alone restored roughly 1,700 HP every second, and with the additional recovery provided by the Blood-Root Pills, his regeneration climbed to just under 3,000 HP per second.

’Damn.’

He had barely taken any meaningful damage. His health bar had hardly moved at all.

’Amazing.’

This was the advantage of being a Knight. Defense and survivability were his greatest strengths. Even a Mythic Beast could hardly put a dent in him, and unlike a pure tank, Marcus’s offensive power was nothing to scoff at either.

"Five Arrows Simultaneous!"

Marcus and Pebble unleashed the ultimate ability of the Blazing Explosive Arrows together.

The arrows streaked through the air like fiery dragons, one after another slamming into the Golden Rabbit King. Explosions erupted across its golden body, engulfing it in waves of fire.

The combined barrage from Marcus and Pebble dealt around 200,000 damage, with each hit averaging roughly 4,000 damage.

Marcus was more than satisfied. The Golden Rabbit King was a Mythic Beast, yet he was still dealing more than 4,000 damage with each hit. He could hardly ask for more.

The poor rabbit’s health had already fallen to just over 770,000 HP, and its attacks were doing almost nothing to Marcus in return.

"Heh heh..."

Marcus grinned and pressed the attack without giving it a moment to breathe.

"Black Eagle’s Fury!"

He and Pebble spread their Black Eagle Wings at the same time, unleashing twin tornadoes that roared toward the Golden Rabbit King. Then Marcus gave another command.

"Attack!"

While he and Pebble continued tanking the rabbit’s attacks, Marcus rapidly cycled through his weapons and summoned reinforcements. Five Royal Sorcerers appeared first, followed by Lyanna, Camillo, and Goldie, all of them charging into the battle behind the raging tornadoes.

"So busy..."

Marcus glanced across the chaotic battlefield and could not help but marvel at the sheer number of skills and attacks flying around him. Yet he remained completely composed. His familiar combinations flowed naturally now, each skill following the last with almost no wasted movement.

For a moment, an idea crossed his mind.

’If I could chain all of these skills together into one seamless combo, I’d be unstoppable.’

The thought made him even more eager to experiment, but there was no time to indulge in it now. The Golden Rabbit King was already struggling to keep up.

Once he closed to within twenty meters, Marcus switched to the Mist-Tear Spear of Purity.

"Mistform Illusion!"

A second Marcus appeared beside him, the clone possessing 80% of his original strength. Marcus immediately spurred Blackie forward.

"Nightmare Charge!"

Marcus, Pebble, and the Mistform clone surged forward together, their momentum building as they thundered toward the Golden Rabbit King.

"Desperate Strike!"

With one fluid motion, Marcus hurled the Mist-Tear Spear of Purity.

The spear shot forward like a streak of silver, riding along the violent currents of the Black Eagle Fury tornadoes before smashing directly into the Golden Rabbit King.

The Golden Rabbit King’s Lucky Gold passive gave it an unusually high degree of luck, making critical hits and other powerful effects less likely to occur against it. But Marcus’s own luck was even more ridiculous.

They did not trigger the same Lethal Strike effect they had managed to activate against the Thunder Drum Beast, but all three attackers landed critical hits at the same time.

Nightmare Charge had also boosted Desperate Strike to five times its normal damage. Combined with the critical hits and the additional damage from Black Eagle’s Fury, the attack erupted with devastating force.

Another 200,000 HP vanished in an instant.

The Golden Rabbit King’s health dropped to roughly 550,000.

And just then, Marcus’s summoned pets finally joined the main assault.

Lyanna, his Wyvern Saint Knight, and Camillo, the Vixen Queen, both possessed Divine Beast potential. After reaching Level 50 and completing their second evolution, that potential was finally beginning to manifest. At their current level, the two of them could already fight a Level 50 Low-Tier Mythic Beast like the Golden Rabbit King head-on.

Even Goldie, despite being the weakest among them at only Level 9 as a Shadow-Stained Gryphon King, was still strong enough to hold the Golden Rabbit King back. It could not kill the Mythic Beast on its own, but surviving against it was no problem.

Each pet was capable of dealing roughly 4,000 damage per hit. With eight of them attacking at once, they were stripping away more than 30,000 HP with every round of attacks.

The Golden Rabbit King’s health was disappearing at an alarming rate. Enraged, the rabbit’s eyes turned bloodshot.

It suddenly abandoned caution and charged straight toward Marcus, clearly intending to rely on its powerful melee attacks to tear him apart.

Unfortunately for it, its movements were far too slow.

The Freezing Effect had already slowed it considerably, and the Frost Aura from Marcus’s Knight’s Frost Ring reduced its movement speed by another 20%. The Golden Rabbit King struggled to close even a short distance, making the ten-meter gap between them feel more like twenty.

Marcus did not even need to retreat.

He and Pebble calmly switched to the Mythic Artifact Ice-Fire Twin Dragon Hoe and continued their assault while the rabbit desperately tried to reach them.

"Ice-Fire Dragon Breath!"

The hoe’s ultimate ability activated.

Two enormous dragons emerged, one formed from icy blue energy and the other from blazing red flames. They twisted around each other as they roared through the air, the opposing elements spiraling together before hurtling toward the Golden Rabbit King.

Marcus and Pebble launched one dragon each, striking from opposite sides in a perfect pincer attack.

BOOM! BOOM!

Two enormous explosions shook the battlefield.

Ice and fire collided in a spectacular burst of energy, swallowing the Golden Rabbit King in the resulting blast. Another 50,000 HP was torn from its health bar, and the attack triggered its knockback effect, sending the Golden Rabbit King stumbling backward three full steps.