Chapter 129 -129-Deadly Damage Reflection!

Chapter 129: Chapter129-Deadly Damage Reflection!

Ice Rose twisted its head and glanced behind itself.

The nearby enemies were obviously just ordinary Darkkin who could hack at its shell for ages without taking off much HP.

So where had that sudden heavy hit come from?

Before it could figure things out—

an icy-blue light flashed again!

[Frostthorn Armor activated!]

Through the special connection established by [Mobile Health Pack], the reflected damage instantly traced back to the true attacker!

Crack!

An icy spike condensed out of thin air.

Then stabbed straight into Rogg’s chest!

[-51,200!]

[Attack Speed -50%!]

The grin on Rogg’s face froze instantly.

"?"

What the hell?

He had ambushed someone.

The other guy hadn’t lost a single point of HP.

Yet somehow, Rogg was the one who had taken over fifty thousand damage first?

Even stranger—

a bone-chilling cold had already spread throughout his body.

His arms suddenly felt heavy.

Even his movements had slowed dramatically.

John slowly turned around at that moment.

The two were standing extremely close.

Their eyes met.

Rogg: "..."

John: "..."

A brief silence followed.

John lowered his gaze and looked at the dagger still buried in his back.

Then he looked at Rogg.

A trace of disdain gradually appeared in his eyes.

That’s it?

A vein instantly bulged on Rogg’s forehead.

His face nearly turned red with rage.

He was a Citybreaker Tier assassin!

Someone specifically tasked with eliminating high-value targets.

That last attack had even been a backstab critical hit.

The original plan had been simple.

Even if it couldn’t kill John outright, it should at least force this mage to use some kind of lifesaving skill.

And yet...

John hadn’t even bothered dodging.

Instead, Rogg was the one who got stabbed.

"Damn it!"

"Does this bastard have some kind of damage-reflection shield?"

The intelligence provided by the Night King hadn’t mentioned anything like this!

Countless thoughts flashed through Rogg’s mind.

Black light flickered beneath his feet.

[Shadow Step!]

His figure instantly appeared more than twenty meters away.

He moved so quickly that only an afterimage remained.

...

Not far away—

two figures hidden within the shadows of the battlefield fell silent at the same time.

Cassius frowned slightly.

"What’s Rogg doing?"

Retreating after the very first exchange?

Sien’s voice carried a hint of disdain.

"Has he gotten rusty from sitting around too long?"

"He barely even got close."

Cassius watched for another moment.

Then he quickly noticed something was wrong.

"No."

"His attack was blocked."

"Endbringer’s life force barely changed at all."

Sien narrowed his eyes.

"A defensive skill?"

"Possibly."

Sien looked at Rogg, who had already pulled back.

The corner of his mouth curled slightly.

"Watch me."

"Wait—"

Cassius had only just tried to stop him—

when Sien disappeared.

"..."

Cassius’s expression darkened.

Could either of these idiots stick to the plan?

But Sien had already gone.

Now all he could do was see whether Sien’s attack worked.

His attacks were completely different from Rogg’s.

What Sien excelled at most was bypassing defenses.

True Damage.

Shield penetration.

Continuous burst damage.

As long as he got close to a mage—

the kill was often decided in an instant.

...

John had just raised the Void Staff,

preparing to keep Rogg from escaping—

when another warning suddenly rose in his mind!

Leviathan’s [True Sight] was permanently active as a passive skill.

Within fifty meters—

no stealthed unit could hide from it.

Another one!

John spun around.

"Fire Dragon!"

ROAR—!

A blazing Fire Dragon roared toward what appeared to be empty air!

Sien, still hidden in stealth, had his pupils contract sharply.

"He can see me?"

He pushed off the ground.

His figure abruptly shifted sideways.

The Fire Dragon blasted past him by inches!

BOOM!

A huge group of Darkkin behind him was instantly engulfed in flames.

Meanwhile, Sien used the opening created by his dodge to close in on John.

Two short blades left their sheaths simultaneously.

[Silent Flurry!]

Shing! Shing! Shing!

Three flashes of blade light landed almost at the same time!

[-61,874!]

[-64,217!]

[-60,793!]

John remained standing exactly where he was.

His HP bar was still completely full.

[Mobile Health Pack activated!]

Far away—

Ice Rose, still advancing toward the northern battlefield, suddenly shuddered violently.

"GUU!!"

Over sixty thousand!

Another sixty thousand!

And three hits in a row!

Its round eyes instantly widened.

All four legs stopped moving.

It turned its head and looked around in shock.

What was going on?!

Everything had been fine a moment ago.

Why was someone suddenly hacking at its butt like crazy?

Ice Rose instinctively tucked in its tiny tail.

Its head swung from side to side warily.

The nearby Darkkin saw it suddenly stop.

Thinking they had found an opening,

another group immediately rushed forward.

"Kill it!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Blades and swords struck its shell.

Ice Rose lowered its head and glanced at them.

Then it compared those attacks to the three sixty-thousand-damage hits it had just taken.

Disdain immediately filled its eyes.

You guys?

It ignored them and continued searching for the real bastard who had been "backstabbing" it.

...

On the other side—

Sien froze completely.

Three strikes.

All of them had landed.

And [Silent Flurry] came with a special effect.

It ignored ordinary defenses.

It ignored shields.

It dealt damage directly to HP.

Yet the mage standing in front of him...

Still had full HP!

"Impossible!"

Sien’s pupils contracted violently.

He instinctively took a step back.

What kind of ability was this?

Damage immunity?

Invincibility?

Right.

It had to be invincibility!

Abilities like that usually had limited durations.

All he had to do was wait until the effect ended before killing him!

Sien instantly found himself a reasonable explanation.

His feet flashed.

He rapidly pulled away.

John watched him retreat.

His expression had already turned somewhat unfriendly.

One assassin.

Then another.

Did they really think he was some fragile mage?

[Hunter’s Eye!]

Lock on!

A flood of information rapidly unfolded.

[Sien the Silent]

[Level: Lv50]

[Life Tier: Citybreaker Tier BOSS]

[HP: 2,150,000/2,150,000]

[Physical Attack: 67,200]

[Physical Defense: 11,800]

[Magic Defense: 10,300]

[Agility: 14,800]

[Talent: Silent Slaughter]

[Skills: Phantom Stealth, Silent Flurry, Shadow Step, Armor-Piercing Assassination, Deathflash Execution...]

[Special Passive — Deathshadow Protection]

[When HP reaches a fatal threshold for the first time, forcibly retain 1 HP and enter a state of Absolute Immunity for 3 seconds!]

John raised an eyebrow slightly.

Lv50.

Citybreaker Tier.

And it even had a 1-HP survival passive with temporary invincibility.

"Not bad."

He had assumed that all the BOSSes sent by the Dark Realm this time were Thousand-Player Tier.

He hadn’t expected them to hide someone like this in the shadows.

And if one had already appeared...

John swept his gaze across the surroundings.

There were probably more.

But first—

he would deal with the one in front of him.

John raised the Void Staff.

"Void Spear."

Buzz—!!!

Space suddenly trembled.

Sixteen black-and-gold spears condensed simultaneously!

When Sien saw them,

his expression quickly calmed again.

Projectile attacks?

That made things easy.

He pushed off the ground.

His body instantly appeared dozens of meters away.

And positioned himself perfectly behind a towering Darkkin Heavy-Armor Commander.