Chapter 70 -70-Slaughtering a Boss with Black Holes!

Chapter 70: Chapter70-Slaughtering a Boss with Black Holes!

The enormous amount of damage was converted into healing.

The eight thousand HP John had just lost was instantly restored.

Only then did he turn toward his attacker.

Nessa stood twenty meters away.

Four short blades were held between her fingers.

A featureless silver-gray mask concealed her appearance.

John activated [Hunter’s Eye].

[Faceless Hunter · Nessa]

[Level: Lv35.]

[Rank: Legionbreaker-Tier Boss.]

[HP: 500,000/500,000.]

[Unable to fully appraise the remaining information!]

A Legionbreaker-Tier Boss.

Five hundred thousand HP.

John raised an eyebrow slightly.

"An assassin with five hundred thousand HP?"

"Have you misunderstood what an assassin is supposed to be?"

A system notification sounded at that exact moment.

[Hunter’s Eye has been used 100 times!]

[Voidwalker Hidden Trait triggered!]

[S-Rank Skill "Hunter’s Eye" is beginning its advancement!]

[Advancement successful!]

[You have obtained the SS-Rank Skill: Hunter’s Eye!]

[Hunter’s Eye]

[Rank: SS.]

[Effect: Allows you to view the complete basic panel, skills, talents, and abnormal statuses of targets no more than 50 levels above you!]

[When facing information-concealment abilities above SS-Rank, the appraisal results may be affected.]

John looked at Nessa again.

Her complete panel rapidly unfolded.

[Faceless Hunter · Nessa]

[Level: Lv35.]

[Rank: Legionbreaker-Tier Boss.]

[HP: 500,000/500,000.]

[Physical Attack: 10,400.]

[Physical Defense: 3,100.]

[Magic Defense: 2,800.]

[Agility: 6,200.]

[Skills: Lightless Stealth, Shadowstep Assassination, Four-Blade Strangulation, Darkveil Substitute, Deathbound Severance.]

[Talent 1: Backstab Hunt.]

[Effect: Attacks launched from behind a target are guaranteed to trigger a four-hit combo.]

[Talent 2: Darkblood Physique.]

[Effect: Maximum HP is increased by 100%.]

[Description: One of the most dangerous hunters in the Dark Realm army. She specializes in infiltrating enemy formations and assassinating high-value targets.]

So that was it.

Nessa originally possessed only two hundred and fifty thousand HP.

Her talent had doubled it to five hundred thousand.

Nessa was also staring at John.

She lowered her gaze toward the short blades in her hands.

Their edges had not bent.

However, when they struck John earlier, the feedback had felt almost no different from cutting into solid steel.

Four attacks.

Each one had dealt only two thousand damage.

For an assassin whose entire fighting style revolved around burst damage, this was nothing less than humiliation.

"I never expected to encounter someone capable of wielding Void Strength on a Human Realm battlefield."

Nessa slowly lowered her body.

"No wonder the legions Lord Grey dispatched were never able to capture this miserable city."

"However, you only survived my backstab because of the special equipment you’re wearing."

"What about the next attack?"

"Will you be able to withstand that too?"

The moment she finished speaking—

Nessa’s body abruptly faded.

Then she completely disappeared into the air.

No footsteps.

No presence.

Not even a shadow remained.

[Lightless Stealth activated!]

John immediately activated Hunter’s Eye.

His gaze swept across the surroundings.

There was nothing.

Even after advancing to SS-Rank, Hunter’s Eye still could not directly see through Nessa’s invisibility.

John tightened his grip on the Void Staff.

The most troublesome thing about assassin-type enemies was that they would never stand openly in front of him and fight.

Without knowing her location, he could not lock onto her.

No matter how powerful Void Spear and Fire Dragon were, he had no target at which to cast them.

"You don’t dare fight me head-on?"

John looked across the seemingly empty battlefield around him.

"Then don’t blame me for flipping the table."

He pointed the tip of his staff toward the center of the Dark Realm formation.

"Gravity Black Hole."

Buzz—!

A pitch-black dot no larger than a fist appeared out of thin air.

The surrounding light began bending inward.

The next second—

Terrifying gravitational force erupted!

[Domain Expansion ×2 triggered!]

[Gravity Black Hole’s effective area has expanded!]

[Current Effective Area: 400 meters × 400 meters!]

Every hostile target within four hundred meters simultaneously lost their balance.

Dark Realm soldiers were forcibly dragged toward the center of the black hole.

War machines carved two deep trenches across the ground.

Even entire sheets of surface rock broke free and spiraled into the sky.

It was as though an invisible colossal hand had peeled away the entire layer of earth.

Although Nessa remained invisible, she was still a hostile target within the skill’s range.

The first wave of damage landed.

Since it was the opening strike against a newly engaged target, Cleave triggered at the same time!

[Full-Health Hunt triggered!]

[Gravity Black Hole damage increased by 100%!]

[-12,950!]

[-12,950!]

[-12,950!]

Countless damage numbers rose above the enemies being dragged into the black hole.

A damage number also appeared above one seemingly empty patch of air.

John immediately looked toward it.

"Found you."

However, he did not attempt to launch a precise attack.

If one black hole worked, he could simply create several more.

"Gravity Black Hole."

"Gravity Black Hole."

"Gravity Black Hole."

Pitch-black dots appeared across the battlefield one after another.

The terrifying gravitational fields tore against one another.

Nessa’s invisibility did not break.

However, her body was tossed around as though she had been thrown into a washing machine spinning at full speed.

The black hole on the left had only just pulled her over when the one on the right violently dragged her back.

Immediately afterward, gravity erupted above and below her at the same time.

She could not maintain her balance at all.

[-12,950!]

[-12,950!]

[-6,475!]

[-6,475!]

Once her HP fell below 90%, [Full-Health Hunt] temporarily stopped taking effect.

However, with several black holes overlapping, enormous amounts of damage were still calculated every 0.5 seconds.

"Ah—!"

A scream that could no longer be suppressed rang out from between the black holes.

Loki and Rudy, who had been charging toward the battlefield to support John, stopped simultaneously.

They stared at the pitch-black vortexes violently tearing apart the earth ahead.

Then they looked at the Dark Realm soldiers, war machines, and enormous rocks being pulled into the sky.

Rudy swallowed.

"If we go over there now..."

"Will it be safe?"

Loki fell silent.

He had originally intended to save someone.

Now, it appeared that the Dark Realm assassin was the one who needed rescuing.

John still was not satisfied.

He stared at the continuously rotating black holes as a new idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

A black hole could attract physical objects.

What about spells?

John raised the Void Staff.

"Fire Dragon."

Four Fire Dragons appeared simultaneously.

One of them charged directly into a Gravity Black Hole.

The flames did not immediately dissipate.

Instead, the terrifying gravity dragged them into a continuous spiral.

The pitch-black vortex rapidly became stained crimson.

Large amounts of fire spread along its rotating trajectory.

Continuous fire-element burn damage was added to the previously pure gravitational damage.

[Special Skill Interaction generated!]

[Gravity Black Hole has absorbed the residual elements of Fire Dragon!]

[Gravity Black Hole has temporarily gained a fire-element burn effect!]

In the blink of an eye, the pitch-black vortex transformed into a rapidly spinning flaming black hole.

Every Dark Realm soldier trapped inside it burst into flames simultaneously.

[-19,425!]

[-19,425!]

[-19,425!]

Nessa’s screams also became much clearer.

"You can use it like this too?"

John’s eyes shone with excitement.