Retrograde Gaming - Chapter 52

Chapter 52: A Quick Wit

“Golkin will punish you!”

Upon seeing Li Huailin jump down, the boss, Chadmans, roared aloud. The fight had commenced.

“Hey! You’re a boss and you share the same line as your mobs? Are you serious?” Li Huailin couldn’t help and say this. The only difference was that Fire Elemental Chadmans said it at the very beginning of the fight.

Instead of charging towards Li Huailin, the monsters stood where they were, Chadmans and his two mobs started to summon fireballs.

Li Huailin was already fed up with these fireballs. The situation had become quite tricky now. Right now, he only had around 600 Health Points left. The two mobs together would deal around 140 damage to him. If the boss’ power equaled that of the two mobs, Li Huailin would be killed within two rounds of fireballs.

At this critical moment, Li Huailin rushed towards the boss and his sword swept the monsters. His attack had also hit the two mobs beside it.

-521, -560, -1130 (Critical Hit)

With the new sword, Li Huailin’s attack had improved. After seeing that one of the mobs got hit by a critical hit, Li Huailin immediately lifted his sword and killed it before its fireball was successfully summoned.

However, at the same time, the other two monster’s fireballs had directly hit Li Huailin.

-69. This was the attack from the mob.

-211. This was the attack from the Fire Elemental, Chadmans.

“Sh*t! This boss’ attack is way too high!” Li Huailin burst out.

Li Huailin already had 70 Fire Resistance points and his Magic Defense was over 60. Even with all this, the damage he received was still unbelievably high. He had no idea what other players who might chance upon this place in the future would do to survive.

Li Huailin lost half of his remaining health points since he failed to properly estimate the power of the boss. If he couldn’t figure a way through this, he would be killed very soon.

After looking up at the boss’ health bar, he found that his last attack only did around 2% of its health points. Maybe he would really lose this time…

The boss and the remaining mob couldn’t care less about what Li Huailin was thinking about. They immediately started to summon the next round of fireballs. Upon seeing that, Li Huailin quickly regained his senses and rushed towards the other mob.

-534

Unfortunately, it wasn’t a critical hit. But thankfully, Li Huailin’s attack still interrupted the monster’s spell casting, he managed to launch his second attack with ease.

Heavy Slash, -558

Li Huailin started to feel nervous now. Although his Level 1 Heavy slash, with its 5 points of attack added, couldn’t help that much, he still used it.

The Fire Elemental shouted, “Golkin will punish you!” before finally falling on the ground.

Meanwhile, Chadmans’s fireball hit Li Huailin again.

-209

Li Huailin hurriedly checked his health points and found that he had lost almost 500 Health Points. Due to the debuff, Burning, he slowly recovered and he still had 178 Health Points left.

Li Huailin knew that he would die if he got hit by Chadmans’ next fireball, he had to find a way to dodge it.

As he watched the fireball come into shape, Li Huailin started finding a place to hide in a hurry.

“Fu*k! This place has nowhere to hide at all! Not even a rock! I…” Li Huailin quickly burst out with complaints.

At this time, he saw the circle of magma around this area.

“I… I’m an idiot!” Li Huailin slapped himself in the face and instantly ran towards the magma around the platform.

Chadmans, the Fire Elemental, had also completed summoning its next fireball at this time. The fireball from the boss was much bigger than those from the small monsters. After targeting it at Li Huailin’s back, the fireball dashed right towards the latter’s direction. At this critical moment, Li Huailin lowered his body and slid down right into the magma. The fireball hit Li Huailin’s back at the very last second.

+850, -412 (Critical Hit)

“Sh*t! It was a critical hit! Fortunately, I have quick wits,” Li Huailin said to himself while panting inside the magma.

However, Li Huailin noticed that his health points were recovering at a slower speed when compared to earlier. After checking his status bar, he realized that the Fire Resistance set he wore had also worked when he was in magma.

Burning Lava: Regenerates 850 Health Points per second. (Resistance Deduction)

Although Li Huailin had jumped into the magma, Chadmans showed no intention to chase after him. Instead, its hands were still mustering up a new fireball. With how things were going, Li Huailin was no longer afraid of it. Chadmans had to spend 2 seconds in order to make each fireball, but since Li Huailin’s health points could recover 850 per second, he had nothing to be afraid of.

“Pa!”

The next fireball hit Li Huailin again. He wiped off the mark that was left on his body using his left hand and exclaimed, “Come on! Try your very best! Don’t treat me like I’m a delicate flower.”

“Pa!” The next fireball hit Li Huailin’s face.

“Bring it on! Bring it right on!” Li Huailin continued yelling at it.

“Pa!”

“If you have nothing new to show me, it’s my turn!”

When his health points were fully recovered, Li Huailin crawled out of the lava and made a mad dash for the boss.

-533, -1012 (Critical Hit)…

Li Huailin launched a series of attacks as fast as a flash of light. In a short amount of time, the slashes took away 23% of the boss’ health points in total. Of course, during this time, the boss was also feeding Li Huailin fireballs like it was crazy. Very soon, Li Huailin’s health points were rather low again.

“Just wait! I’ll be right back!”

When Li Huailin’s health points dropped to about 500, just in case the next fireball was a critical hit, he hurriedly ran towards the edge of the platform.

After carrying out this strategy two times, Li Huailin had taken away 50% of Chadmans’ health points.

“You’ll see the power of the Legion of Elementals!”

At this time, Fire Elemental Chadmans suddenly roared as it threw its hands over its head.

When the boss shouted, the platform started to vibrate. The platform had suddenly broken into eight pieces, all of them were in different shapes, the pieces scattered away from each other in different directions. At the same time, columns of magma started gushing out the floor, the magma pool was becoming increasingly active. Without floating any longer, the eight broken pieces melted into the magma, it became extremely easy to fall into the fire pool.

“That’s good. I don’t even have to run back and forth now.”

Li Huailin saw that under the boss, a small piece of the floor was left for close-combat classes to fight on. It seemed that from time to time, close-combat players would have to jump from one piece to another in an attempt to escape from the magma. Because of his fortunate bugged character, Li Huailin could completely skip this procedure, he could simply stand in the magma and attack the boss.

This convenience made Li Huailin’s attack even faster. After a few seconds, when the boss was only left with 25% of its health points, he displayed yet another new skill.

“The power of fire!” Fire Elemental Chadmans shouted. At the same time, a ring of fire formed around it and then fiercely expanded sideways like arrows shooting in different directions.

-237.

This skill might’ve been threatening to a party, but Li Huailin had nothing to worry about as a solo player. In fact, since the intervals between each fireball had become longer, from 2 to 3 seconds, Li Huailin didn’t feel pressure any more.

He had also noticed that there were several rocks around. He believed that those rocks were placed for players to avoid the fire rings. Thankfully, this was something that he had no problem with.

“Sorry… Your Majesty Golkin… I… I failed…”

When the boss’ health points dropped down to zero, Fire Elemental Chadmans raised its hands again and said its last line. Meanwhile, his body started glowing in a red light.

The entire cave started to vibrate and the magma around them started boiling. Rock pieces and sand fell down as if an earthquake was ensuing at the moment.

Li Huailin realized that the area was going to collapse.

“Bang!”

A corner of the place suddenly opened up and a secret passage was revealed. Meanwhile, Fire Elemental Chadmans’ body turned into pieces of red light and disappeared in the air.

The cave had also stopped vibrating.

System Notice: You killed the boss in Lava Crack, Fire Elemental Chadmans. 750 Experience Points deducted.

System Notice: Golkin Elemental Legion’s Favorability towards you has increased by 5. Current Favorability: Indifferent.

System Notice: Salant Elemental Legion’s Favorability towards you has decreased by 5. Current Favorability: Hated.

“Golkin Elemental Legion? Salant Elemental Legion?”

Li Huailin had never heard of these two names before. Somehow, the Favorability they had towards him was under Neutral.

Li Huailin decided to search information regarding them on the forum later to see if there were any relevant posts. The land title took priority first.