For a tank, the greatest achievement was to see that all the monsters' aggro was firmly controlled by them. No damage output profession would be able to draw aggro no matter how hard they tried.
This was the glory of a tank!
Therefore, Zhang Yang, Infinite Starlight, and Ten Net Night couldn't help but start to fight for aggro. In order to show their true strength, they didn't use Taunt skills other than when they started the fight. They were competing on basic skills and control of the monsters' aggro.
If their strength was about the same, then the difference in equipment would play a decisive role. Zhang Yang's damage output could crush the damage output professions. His aggro value was absolutely unsurpassed. If he wanted to, he could even pull the aggro of all eight monsters onto himself.
But he had to save some face for these two. So, Zhang Yang only pulled the aggro of the four monsters on his side. He didn't touch the other four monsters. As for Infinite Starlight, because he had two Divine Weapons, especially a Divine Weapon, his ability to generate aggro completely surpassed Ten Net Night's. He pulled the aggro of three monsters, leaving only one for Ten Net Night.
Of course, the best tank here was actually the Phoenix Pet. Not only was it completely immune to monster damage, it was also an AoE attack type. It had a unique advantage when it came to dealing with groups of monsters.
Under the strong firepower of the team, one of the Fire Elemental's HP was quickly reduced to less than 10%. At this time, a cast bar immediately appeared under the monster's portrait. It was self-destruct!
Zhang Yang couldn't wait for the monster to be released. He immediately blasted it with Broken Magic Strike. But this skill wasn't a magic skill, so there was no way to interrupt it! He quickly followed up with a Savage Strike. Instantly, the monster fell into a stunned state, and its casting naturally stopped.
Four seconds later, the monster still wanted to self-destruct, but it was already too late. How could it finish the five-second casting? It was only three seconds into the casting when it was surrounded and beaten to death. It raised its hands to the sky and turned into a fiery red elemental fragment that fell to the ground.
One by one, the eight Fire Elemental monsters were killed. But there was still one monster that self-destructed, causing a lot of damage to the team! Moreover, although monsters that self-destructed would give experience, since their corpses had been destroyed, there were no spoils of war.
Wei Yan'er opened the corpse. There was a pile of worthless junk, but she also obtained three fiery red balls.
[Fire Element Core] (Consumable)
Use: Deals 200,000 fire damage to all creatures within 10 metres and increases damage taken by fire attacks by 100% for 10 seconds. Effect cannot be stacked. Cooldown: 5 seconds.
Level Requirement: 200
"Wow, what a powerful bomb!"
"Compared to the Elemental Bomb made by Uncle Hundred-Shot, this is much more powerful!"
"It would be great if every monster could drop it!"
Everyone was overjoyed. This item only had a 5-second cooldown, and because it was an item, it would not conflict with the players' skills. 200,000 AOE damage was quite impressive! In theory, as long as there were enough of them, they could increase their DPS by 40,000. Moreover, the more monsters they encountered, the more terrifying the damage would be!
This was because it was a "tool" for monsters to self-destruct. Only monsters that failed to self-destruct would drop the Fire Elemental Core. However, the self-destruction of monsters was not easy to deal with. If Zhang Yang and the others did not have enough firepower, the only thing they could do when they encountered a monster self-destruct was to run backward and avoid the area of the monster's self-destruction.
Originally, Zhang Yang wanted to use the two Phoenix pets to lure the monsters and kill them in groups. However, everyone unanimously requested to collect as many Fire Elemental Cores as possible to use as bombs. Therefore, Zhang Yang gave up on the idea of killing in groups.
— — The purpose of killing in groups was to kill the monsters quickly. It was impossible to control the monsters, so it was impossible to collect the monsters' cores. They would definitely explode one by one.
The mountain path here did not lead straight to the mountain peak. Instead, it circled around the mountain and climbed up! One had to know that the Blazing Mountain was not small, especially at the bottom of the mountain. It was more than 20 kilometers in length, so one could imagine the number of monsters they had to clear!
However, the more monsters there were, the more Fire Elemental Cores the team could collect. Especially when everyone was familiar with the battle, a chain of control would naturally form. No monster could self-destruct under their eyes. All of them had to obediently contribute their Fire Elemental Cores!
Slowly, the number of "bombs" in everyone's backpack increased. Fortunately, everyone had at least 300 to 400 slots in their backpack. If it was still the same as when the server first opened, they would be crying!
After three days, the team had only advanced to one-tenth of the height of the Flaming Mountain. Although the distance of each lap was smaller as they went higher, they estimated that they had only completed one-seventh of the journey. It would take them 21 days to reach the peak, which was 7 days in real life.
Even if the boss was easy to defeat, it would still take 28 days to clear all four mountains, which was almost a month's time.
The Wind Orb could only be kept in Zhang Yang's hands for 90 days. Considering the 3: 1 ratio of time in game to real life, it was just enough! Therefore, Zhang Yang and the others could not do anything else for a month. They had to stay here.
However, regardless of the Heavenly Sage boss, the Experience Points that these small monsters gave were incomparably rich — no one was stealing them! Moreover, the Fire Elemental Core was a very good thing. It could increase the players' damage by 40,000 points per second. How powerful was that?
The person who designed this place probably did not expect Zhang Yang and the others to be so strong. They could almost control 100% of the Fire Elemental Cores to prevent them from self-destructing. The rewards were so great!
Because of the stimulation from the Fire Elemental Cores, everyone did not mind the number of monsters here. They were also not afraid of vomiting from fighting these monsters all the time. Instead, they hoped that there would be more of these monsters! When they finally reached the peak, everyone had obtained about four or five stacks of Fire Elemental Cores — that was almost 1,000 per person!
"We can finally see the boss!"
When they turned around, everyone suddenly felt that this moon elder was farming the same type of monsters. They felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. If they had to fight like this for another month, they would definitely not do it!
However, a month of high-intensity combat had also allowed everyone to gain a large amount of Experience Points. Zhang Yang was currently at 78% of Level 211. Han Ying Xue, Wei Yan'er, and the other main players had also crossed the threshold of Level 210.
At the peak of this mountain was a huge circular altar. The altar was not tall, but it was at least 500 meters in diameter! In the middle of the altar stood a huge Elemental Monster. It was 30 meters tall and its entire body was dark red. Molten lava constantly flowed from its body, turning the area within 100 meters around it dark red. Although there was no trace of flames, it was definitely comparable to a red-hot iron plate!
This Elemental Monster looked like a human. It had hands and feet, but its face did not have any facial features, nor did it have any hair. Its entire body was that dark red molten lava that constantly flowed! In its right hand was a dark red hammer that was even bigger than the three of them combined!
[Flame Lord Gamus] (Heavenly Sage Leader, Elemental Being)
Level: 240
Health Points: 12 billion
Armor Points: 37330
Melee Attack Power: 370873 - 450873 (Physical Attack, but causes fire damage)
Skills:
[Land of Fire]: Turns the area within 100 meters into a forbidden land that can burn everything. All targets that enter the area will receive 300,000 fire damage every 3 seconds.
[Flame Hammer]: Attacks the target with a war hammer, dealing fire damage equivalent to 100% melee attack damage to the target and the targets around it.
[Flame Vortex]: Randomly places 10 Flame Vortexes. The Flame Vortexes will form after 2 seconds. All targets that are caught in the vortex will burn with fire. Every second, 10% of the target's Health Points will be deducted. Lasts for 5 seconds.
[Flame Fury]: Every player's death will provide Gamus with a 100% increase in damage.
[Elemental Toughness]: Recovers 1% Health Points every 30 seconds. The amount of recovery is not affected by any effects.
Note: The Flame Lord is formed from the Fire Source Orb absorbing the Fire Elemental Particles. It represents the power of fire!
"Looks like it's not that hard to fight!" Seeing the boss's skills, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
In terms of single-target attacks, the boss indeed had the strength of a Heavenly Sage. However, the reason why a boss was a boss was not because of how fierce its single-target attacks were, but because of its group damage! Judging from the boss's skills, it was just a Land of Fire. This was something that the team could not avoid. Although the Flame Vortex was very fierce and could deduct 50% of a player's Health Points, as long as they hid well, they would be fine.
As for the Land of Fire, each attack dealt 300,000 damage. With everyone's high-end equipment, they could absorb at least 10,000 damage, which was 290,000 damage in 3 seconds. In addition to the Flame Aura, which dealt 50,000 damage every 3 seconds, they could actually only deal 40,000 damage. Therefore, everyone's damage per second was 110,000. After the transformation, the four healers could definitely heal up to 110,000 damage!
Therefore, the key was to hide well from the Flame Vortex. If this skill was used to its full potential, it would definitely not be able to heal up!
Everyone reported the highest damage per second that they could achieve after the Inheritance Transformation. After doing some calculations, the total firepower of the team had actually reached 6.5 million damage per second! However, six of them had not reached Level 210. When fighting the boss, there would be a level suppression, which would cause the actual damage per second to be greatly reduced.
However, the main damage output members had all reached Level 210, so they would not encounter level suppression. Therefore, it was not a problem for the team to reach 5.5 million damage per second! Of course, this was including the two Phoenix pets, one Red Dragon, and Fei Ling and Sun Xinyu's Earth Sage Tier mount pets.
The boss's recovery effect was 4,000,000 per second, so the effective damage was 1,500,000. It would take 133 minutes to destroy the boss.
As the Inheritance Transformation could only last for 120 minutes, this gap of 13 minutes was a fatal blow! Once everyone left the Inheritance Transformation state, the team's damage output would at least drop by half. If the damage per second could not exceed 4,000,000, then the boss' Health Points would only increase!
Fortunately, the team had obtained countless Fire Elemental Cores along the way, which could increase everyone's damage per second by 40,000. 20 people would be 800,000 damage per second, which could completely make up for the 13-minute gap in damage output. (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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