Despite his complaints, this Dragonoid leader still had a certain level of strategic knowledge. The monsters killed by the White Phoenix team were basically cannon fodder troops like the Snow Kobolds. Together with some old and weak Gnolls, most of them were ordinary trash.
Almost half of the monsters had died in battle, but only a few dozen elite monsters had died. Of course, the Kobold leader Mibo was the most unlucky. He was lured back by the vengeful Butcher because he lost a Spike Spell and was chopped to death. He was the only leader to die.
The advantage of the monsters in numbers was completely useless in the ice cave terrain that the White Phoenix team had deliberately created. Therefore, the Dragonoid leader Nakitas sent away a group of weaklings to deplete the strength of the White Phoenix team and at the same time make room for the real elite troops.
The Dragonoids and Draconoids drove the Ground Dragons, Elite Gnolls, and other vassal races to charge at the ice wall. Some of the injured Kobolds were trampled over by their allies because they did not make way in time.
Boom, boom!
A series of dull sounds were heard. The combined force of a few Elite Ground Dragons caused cracks to appear on the ice wall.
"Gaaawooo …"
With a roar, the Gnoll leader Hogg leaped high and slashed down with the scimitar in his hand. With the infusion of force, he forcefully created a two-foot-wide gap in the ice wall. This was an ice wall that was more than a meter thick.
More than a dozen strong Elite Gnolls rushed over like sharks that had smelled blood. They waved their claws and blades continuously, constantly cutting open the ice and quickly widening the gap.
With a loud boom, the ice wall was surrounded by monsters and collapsed.
The two sides clashed.
"Sister Qiao, cast Soul Rhythm! I'll let Delifa hold this Gnoll back. Shu Yi, follow me and focus fire on that Draconoid Boss! "Bai Xiaowen said in the team channel.
Qiao Rui nodded. She raised her emerald soul bamboo flute and the faint sound of the flute spread. All enemies in a large area began to suffer the weakening effect of the Soul Rhythm.
In a flash of light, the Soul Catcher Delifa appeared. She put her hands together and then separated them, and a spiritualized spear appeared. A poisonous snake-like spike pierced towards the throat of the Gnoll Leader Hogg.
Hogg simply looked down on this Banshee that was only at the Elite Level. He swung his scimitar, intending to parry the spear. Although the Jackalan leader was a wild beast, its combat skills were not weak. It had become an instinct after countless killings. Once the parry was successful, Hogg's scimitar would quickly slash along the shaft of the spear, and his entire body would quickly close the distance, making the opponent's polearm unable to display its advantage.
Moreover, Hogg even felt that he didn't need to be so careful in battle. How much strength could an elite enemy have? If the parry was successful, the opponent would definitely be stunned by the recoil damage. At that time, all he had to do was to slash at him.
However, when Hogg habitually parried with his scimitar, Delifa's wrist suddenly shook slightly, and the spiritualized spear suddenly trembled. The tip of the spear turned into a few cold stars and covered the vital parts of Hogg's upper body.
Hogg's parry this time undoubtedly failed. Delifa's spear changed its direction and stabbed Hogg in the chest. Apart from the damage to his vital parts, he was also hit with a severe bleeding status.
This was not the suppression of Agility, but the suppression of combat skills!
"Awoo!" Hogg's ferocious nature was stimulated by the sight of blood. He howled and jumped up, raised his scimitar with both hands, and slashed heavily.
Delifa pulled out her spear, flapped the wings on her back, and very agilely moved to the side. Hogg's attack was successfully dodged. Delifa used the inertia of the opponent's attack to suddenly press down on Hogg's scimitar. Hogg's scimitar suddenly accelerated and slashed into the ice, creating another crack in the ice.
This slash seemed powerful, but in fact, it exposed a huge flaw. By the time Hogg pulled his scimitar out of the ice crack, Delifa stabbed him with her spear. This time, the spear directly pierced his throat. Although the severe bleeding status effect could not be stacked, attacks aimed at vital parts of the throat ignored defense.
Qiao Rui looked at Delifa with some surprise, and said in the party channel, "This Banshee is very powerful. If she had Hogg's Strength, I'm afraid those two spears would have been enough to kill him instantly. "
Bai Xiaowen said, "Delifa's polearm combat skills are indeed very strong. She may have reached the limit of the Awakened level, which is Level 10."
Previously, Delifa had demonstrated her powerful melee combat skills in the process of killing the Snow Wolf. However, the Snow Wolf was, after all, weak. Bai Xiaowen could only deduce that Delifa had a polearm combat skill that was around Level 8.
Now, however, Delifa could still maintain the upper hand against Hogg, a high-level Boss whose attributes were superior to hers. Naturally, Bai Xiaowen raised his judgment of Delifa's strength.
After suffering several losses, Hogg finally realized that the Banshee in front of him was not easy to deal with. He abandoned his scimitar and pounced forward. As the blood-red aura spread, he used a combat skill — Frenzied Bite!
Although Delifa's melee combat skills were very strong, she only had the attributes of a Rare Elite (Strengthened Elite) Level 6. This was her weakness. It was impossible for her to fight a high-level Boss one-on-one. Hogg's pounce was extremely fast. It had exceeded Delifa's dodging limit. As a Psychic type Soulcatcher Banshee, if she was hit by this Frenzied Bite, she would definitely have a low HP. She might even be killed instantly.
However, Bai Xiaowen had been paying attention to the battlefield. When Hogg used Frenzied Bite, he reacted quickly and immediately airdropped a Skeleton Swordsman.
Delifa only took two scratches. The rest of the attacks were all eaten by the Skeleton Swordsman, who had a confused look on his face. The scratches caused bone fragments to fly everywhere.
Delifa flapped her wings and opened up a distance of five feet. Two bloody wounds appeared on her chest and abdomen. Blood was oozing out. However, she was very experienced in combat. She did not run away blindly. Instead, she took the opportunity when the Skeleton Swordsman blocked her scimitar and stabbed Hogg's eyes with her spear.
Puchi!
Hogg could not move during the Frenzied Bite, so his dodging was even worse. Although the attack did not hit his eyes, it hit his nose. It immediately affected his tear ducts and he let out a deafening howl of pain.
Bai Xiaowen smiled. The nose of a Gnoll was very sensitive. At the same time, it also meant that this was a very big weakness.
Seeing that Hogg had used Frenzied Bite and was less of a threat to Delifa, Bai Xiaowen divided more attention to deal with the battle in other areas.
The leader of the Dragonspawn, Blade Scale Striker Nakitas, was very strong. However, he was blocked by the Butcher, who had thick HP. Under the double weakening effect of Soul Rhythm and Rotting Toxin, this Dragonspawn Boss only dealt a few dozen damage to the Butcher. The Butcher could completely tank it.
This was also the result of Bai Xiaowen's [Insight] in advance. Nakitas' powerful skills such as [Heavy Crush] and [Cleave] could not be used in front of the Butcher. As for the [Frost Breath] … the Butcher was originally a big fatty with slow movements. He relied on the Rotting Toxin to disgust the enemy, so it was not a big problem for him to be slowed down by the Frost Breath.
The one that they really needed to pay attention to was the Half-Dragon Boss, Bucky. This agile leader lurked in the shadows since the beginning of the battle and did not appear. Instead, it took up a lot of Bai Xiaowen's attention. Insight showed that Bucky had a very strong explosive ability. If he succeeded in a sneak attack, even if it did not cause the White Phoenix team to lose members, it would at least cripple one of them.
On the battlefield, Bai Xiaowen's side was also at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. There were still too many elites from the Dragonspawn.
One of the reasons why the undead army was able to fight to such a stalemate was that the undead were not afraid of death — or rather, they did not have the emotion of fear. The more important reason was Bai Xiaowen's command. He could control the entire team to a single person.
One by one, the elite ghosts and spiders formed small teams to divide and disintegrate the monsters. In most areas of the battlefield, the main purpose of the battle was to delay, and in limited areas of one or two areas, they formed a combat advantage to annihilate the enemy.
As time passed, Gloria was still in a half-kneeling position. The vortex formed by the dark clouds continued to pour cold energy into the skeletal greatsword and into the bottom of the ice lake.
The battle was very tense. Most of the undead creatures had less than one-third of their HP left. Of course, the Dragonspawn monsters were not much better. Many of them had lost more than half of their HP.
The Gnoll Boss Hogg still had one-third of its HP left, which was more than 200 HP. Delifa, who was fighting against it, still had a healthy amount of HP, but the price was that the two skeletal swordsmen that Bai Xiaowen had airdropped as support were smashed into pieces.
It was time …
Bai Xiaowen suddenly raised his hand, and the Wrath Claw appeared behind the Gnoll Boss Hogg, waving its claws repeatedly.
Tear, bite, tear!
Hogg's body shook, and he elbowed the Wrath Claw in the chest, causing the huge Wrath Claw to stagger and take a few steps back. However, this was also the final radiance of the setting sun. A lightning strike landed on its head, and at the same time, Delifa's spiritual spear whistled and pierced its throat again. Bai Xiaowen shot a bullet from dozens of meters away …
The Gnoll Boss Hogg died suddenly.
Delifa's wings flapped, and it immediately returned to the safest area, which was Gloria's side. She raised her hands high and began to chant.
"Souls that linger in this place, awaken! Return to the cold body, ignite the flame of the soul, with malice and hatred for the living, rise! … "
Bai Xiaowen finally understood what the so-called 10 seconds of preparation time meant. This awkward chant was a bit awkward …
With no one interrupting her, Delifer's chant ended smoothly. Within the range of her spiritual power, skeletons slowly stood up on the bodies of all the dead soldiers!
The skeletons on Hogg's corpse slowly sat up, and the soul fire ignited in their empty eye sockets. Creak, creak, creak. The new skeletons "looked" around, then raised their rusty swords and slowly walked toward the enemies.
Well, Bai Xiaowen didn't understand how this rusty sword appeared, so he could only attribute it to the effect of the spiritual particles.
Gloria's corpse resurrection was quite effective on this battlefield full of corpses. In an instant, more than 100 skeleton soldiers were summoned! Although these skeleton soldiers were only ordinary skeletons, there were so many of them.
This was Bai Xiaowen's backup plan, and also one of his experimental tactics.
Wrath Claw howled to the sky! All allies' attack power and attack speed were increased by 20%!
Bai Xiaowen's cloak — the Commander's Cloak — moved without wind, and the Command Roar was activated! All allies' damage was increased by 15%, and the damage received was reduced by 15%!
It seemed that in just an instant, the tense situation on the battlefield was broken. The Undead monsters, flashing with the red light of buffs, waved their swords and launched a silent charge!
The elite Undead monsters, who might have died in battle, survived under the effect of the Command Roar. The Dragonkin monsters, who were also in a state of low HP, were naturally not so lucky. After the new skeleton soldiers joined the attack, they were killed one after another!
However, just as Bai Xiaowen was about to make a comeback, a shadow appeared behind him. It was the half-dragon leader, Markey!
Stealth Break! Multiple Piercing! Poison Burst!
Markey had already thought of a set of combos. His initial target was Bai Xiaowen, the leader! However, Bai Xiaowen had been very careful. When he retracted his Spirit Power, it was as if it was solid. As long as Markey was within a certain distance of Bai Xiaowen, he would almost certainly be sensed.
Therefore, Markey had been holding back. He finally waited for Bai Xiaowen to be careless. He immediately went into Stealth and attacked from behind Bai Xiaowen.
A white light flashed, and Bai Xiaowen seemed to be dragged by an invisible hand. He flew across the battlefield to Qiao Rui's side. Qiao Rui had used the party skill, Pull. The reason why Li Shuyi did not use Pull was because Li Shuyi was fighting a few elite Dragonkin monsters. It was not safe.
Markey's dagger fell on empty air. He was furious. His body rushed forward like a snake, and he actually passed through the obstruction of two Undead creatures and chased after Bai Xiaowen.
"Sound Attack Array."
Qiao Rui's Soul Bamboo Flute was erected. A rune suddenly appeared on the ice surface and imprisoned Markey.
"I've been waiting for you."
Bai Xiaowen waved his hand. Li Shuyi, who was already prepared, quickly retreated. He activated Wild Charge again, and his target was the Half-Dragon Boss, Markey.
The Wrath Claw ran wildly with its four claws. When Li Shuyi knocked Markey back and entered an unbalanced state, its claws suddenly landed on Markey's shoulders. It exerted force and pushed him down. It activated its ultimate suppressive skill.
The Shadow Assassin activated Assassinate. The Skeleton Warrior raised its greatsword high and began to accumulate power. Li Shuyi finally activated the Devilfire Dance that he had been holding back for so long. His two swords pierced out rapidly with flames. Bai Xiaowen also began to shoot with both hands …
The White Phoenix party used perfect coordination to explain what it meant to switch targets.
Although it was a pity that they did not have the Butcher's Rotting Toxin to reduce their Resistance, as an Agility-type Boss, Markey's Defense and Magic Resistance were not high. Moreover, the Butcher had been the main tank fighting against the Dragonkin leader, Nakitas. He was unable to withdraw himself and did not rush over to join in the focus fire so quickly.
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