Chapter 54 -54-A Legionbreaker-Tier Boss!

Chapter 54: Chapter54-A Legionbreaker-Tier Boss!

A Boss had appeared!

Although that arrow had been terrifyingly powerful, it was still not enough to instantly kill a Lv50 Rudy.

He quickly snapped off the arrow shaft protruding from his chest and sprang back to his feet.

His gaze locked firmly onto the direction the arrow had come from.

The Dark Realm army slowly parted to either side.

A tall woman emerged from behind the monsters.

She had dark-purple skin.

Her long silver-white hair was tied into a high ponytail, with its ends nearly reaching her waist.

Her narrow eyes resembled two pale-red gemstones.

Long, pointed ears protruded from between her strands of hair.

Her slender body was covered in skintight black-crystal light armor.

Two curved daggers hung from her waist.

The longbow in her hands had been constructed from Dark Realm crystal and the bones of an unknown beast.

A Dark Realm elf!

Rudy recognized her immediately.

"Nightstalker..."

"Selena."

The woman stopped walking, her crimson eyes settling on Rudy.

"Mountainburner Rudy Ironstone."

"After all these decades, you’re still just as difficult to kill."

The two had clearly fought each other many times before.

Rudy raised the Mountainburner Greatbow once again.

"You personally left the Dawnstar City battlefield."

"Was it just to intercept this Expeditionary Army?"

A faint smile appeared on Selena’s face.

"You brought too many recruits."

"If they’re all allowed to mature, they’ll cause the Dark Realm a great deal of trouble."

The instant she finished speaking, both of them released their arrows.

Boom!

A flaming arrow and a black-crystal arrow collided in midair.

The resulting shock wave instantly cleared everything within several dozen meters.

Rudy’s arrows possessed greater power.

Selena, however, was far faster than him.

Her body continuously flickered across the battlefield.

Every time she reappeared, she fired a lethal arrow from a completely different angle.

Rudy’s flaming arrows bombarded the ground like heavy artillery.

Vast sections of earth were blasted apart.

Yet he could never truly hit Selena.

In only a few moments, several more wounds had appeared across Rudy’s body.

"Endbringer!"

Rudy shouted toward John,

"Get over here and help!"

Selena had just dodged another flaming arrow when she laughed softly.

"The great hero of humanity needs to ask a child for help?"

She glanced at John.

"And a mage, no less."

Before her words had even finished—

Selena disappeared.

A black shadow flashed across John’s vision.

The woman crossed more than a hundred meters in an instant and appeared directly in front of him.

Her right hand released the longbow.

Her left drew one of the daggers at her waist and slashed straight toward John’s throat.

She moved so quickly that only a streak of silver-white light remained.

"Danger!"

Rudy’s expression changed drastically.

Selena’s strongest ability had never been limited to archery.

She was also a top-tier assassin.

Once she closed the distance on an ordinary mage, that mage had almost no chance of surviving.

The dagger was already cutting toward the side of John’s neck.

A silver-gray rift abruptly unfolded.

[Void Shift!]

The blade passed through an afterimage.

Selena’s pupils contracted slightly.

John had already appeared behind her.

The Void Staff slammed heavily into the ground.

Bang!

[Overcharge triggered!]

[Cleave triggered!]

A circular shock wave erupted violently.

The ground collapsed downward.

Selena flipped backward several times, lightly tapping the tips of her feet against several flying fragments of rock.

Her entire body seemed weightless as she retreated several dozen meters.

The shock wave passed so close that it nearly brushed against her body.

Several cracks were torn across the edges of her black-crystal light armor.

After landing, she did not immediately attack again.

For the first time, her crimson eyes became serious.

"The aura of the Void."

"Who exactly are you?"

John rested the Void Staff across his shoulder.

"Your surname wouldn’t happen to be Vayne, would it?"

Selena frowned slightly.

"Who is Vayne?"

"Do you use a crossbow?" John continued asking.

"I use a bow."

"Do you like tumbling around on the ground?"

Killing intent gradually appeared in Selena’s eyes.

"Nonsense."

"Then I guess you’re not her."

Although John was speaking complete nonsense, the golden patterns across the Void Staff continued lighting up.

[Overcharge Stacks: 7.]

[Overcharge Stacks: 8.]

[Overcharge Stacks: 9.]

Selena seemed to sense the danger.

Just as she prepared to move again, John had already raised the tip of his staff.

"Void Spear."

Buzz!

A black-and-gold spear shot forward.

Selena instantly flashed into a shadow several dozen meters away.

The Void Spear changed direction in midair and pursued her relentlessly.

She activated movement skills in rapid succession.

Her black silhouette continuously flickered across the battlefield.

The Void Spear repeatedly changed direction along trajectories that completely defied inertia.

Both sides were moving so quickly that ordinary players could not follow them at all.

More than ten seconds later—

The moment Selena emerged from another shadow, the black-and-gold spear pierced directly through her shoulder.

Boom!

[Projectile Amplification triggered!]

[Overcharge triggered!]

[Forerunner remains active!]

[-693,000!]

The spear carried Selena backward.

Her body slid across the ground for more than a hundred meters.

She quickly rolled over and dropped to one knee.

The black-crystal armor surrounding the wound continuously broke apart and fell away.

However, the attack had not dealt as much damage as John expected.

While moving at high speed, Selena’s body had remained covered in a thin veil of darkness.

Most of the Void Spear’s Strength had been redirected outward by that veil.

John activated [Scan] once again.

[Nightstalker · Selena]

[Level: Lv50.]

[Rank: Legionbreaker-Tier Boss.]

[HP: 310,000/1,000,000.]

[Physical Attack: 9,800.]

[Agility: ???]

[Physical Defense: ???]

[Magic Defense: ???]

[Skills: Nightveil Shift, Shadowblade Throat Cut, Lightless Hunting Ground, Darkmoon Snipe, ???]

[Passives: Nightfall Deflection, ???]

[Nightfall Deflection: While the target is moving at high speed, damage received from projectile attacks is greatly reduced.]

One million HP.

And she possessed a damage-reduction passive specifically designed to counter projectile skills.

This was the first time John had encountered such a troublesome high-Agility enemy.

A second Void Spear immediately shot out.

Selena began moving once again.

Although the spear locked onto its target, it still required time to travel.

As long as she maintained her high-speed movement, [Nightfall Deflection] would remain active.

Binding Chains was equally difficult to land.

There was an extremely brief warning before the chains emerged.

Selena could always escape the affected area the instant the ground began to tremble.

Fire Serpent was even less useful.

By the time its projectile formed, the target had already left her original position.

John attacked several times in succession, but only removed less than fifty thousand of Selena’s HP.

Instead, she seized the opportunity to hit him with two arrows.

[-12,640!]

[-11,870!]

[Impact Guard blocked the attack!]

His HP was quickly restored through Bloodthirsty Strike.

However, the feeling of being unable to touch his opponent greatly irritated John.

"You really can run."

Selena drew her longbow.

"Someone who possesses nothing but brute strength will never touch a true hunter."

"That makes sense."

John looked toward the other side.

"Rudy."

"Can you use that arrowstorm from earlier again?"

Rudy had already swallowed a high-grade recovery potion.

The wound in his chest had temporarily been sealed with battle aura.

He glanced at the status of his skill.

"I can use it one more time."

"Help me seal off her movement range."

Rudy did not ask what John was planning.

He planted both feet heavily into the ground and drew the Mountainburner Greatbow into a full crescent.

A terrifying heat wave spread in every direction.

Selena immediately sensed that something was wrong.

She raised her bow and fired several black arrows, attempting to interrupt Rudy’s charge.

John released Void Spears in rapid succession.

The black-and-gold spears approached from the sides, forcing her to continuously change position.

Several seconds later—

Rudy released the bowstring.

"Mountainburning Arrow Domain!"