As soon as Resentful Orphan Hughes appeared, Duke Lan, a hundred ters away, imdiately detected its attributes. Seeing the ’Lord Level Creature’ title, along with strength, agility, and body attributes all above 70, Duke Lan’s expression was far from pleasant.
When Duke Lan saw that Resentful Orphan Hughes had a total of seven skills, he imdiately understood that this thing was a major boss from so world, summoned here now.
What really gave Duke Lan a headache was the ’Soul Infection (Aura LV.20)’, which dealt 5% of maximum life value true damage every minute. This thing could cause a chain reaction; if he was eroded by this aura for so ti, he might be instantly killed by Su Xiao with just a few attacks.
If Resentful Orphan Hughes were the only major boss, Duke Lan would be confident in dealing with it, but what about Resentful Orphan Hughes plus Su Xiao?
Duke Lan considered for only two seconds before turning around to flee, disregarding any duels or life-and-death splits. 1V1, he wasn’t sure he would win, let alone with such a ghostly thing summoned; this battle was pointless.
"Command: Suicide."
A swarm of chanical bees rushed towards Su Xiao. Su Xiao didn’t even look at the chanical bees flying over, as Resentful Orphan Hughes had already stepped forward.
Duke Lan was not slow; his agility attribute was already quite high, and his escape skill made his fleeing speed even faster.
Su Xiao didn’t pursue, even though the battle hadn’t started yet, there was already an opportunity for a brutal takedown.
Su Xiao took out the Spider Queen, crouching halfway on the ground, pulling the bolt, the crosshair aid at the fleeing Duke Lan.
Simultaneously locked on by Su Xiao, Duke Lan stopped in place, turning to look at Su Xiao.
Bam.
The muzzle of the Spider Queen expelled a burst of smoke, a bullet was fired from the smoke, heading straight for Duke Lan’s skull.
"Command: Guard."
Hundreds of chanical beetles appeared, forming a wall in front of Duke Lan.
Boom! Boom!
Two explosions followed, the first being the chanical insect wall in front of Duke Lan, the second being Resentful Orphan Hughes surrounded by chanical bees.
Seeing Su Xiao take out the Spider Queen, Duke Lan had already given up on fleeing, as he couldn’t escape.
Based on Duke Lan’s observations, it was a semi-automatic heavy sniper cannon, preliminarily judging its firing rate and power were not weak, and the bullet’s effective range was not short either.
After Su Xiao fired the first shot, Duke Lan roughly determined that to escape Su Xiao’s range, he would have to take at least 5 to 7 shots.
Not to ntion whether he could withstand those shots, every mont of hesitation when defending, that skeleton creature could chase after him. If entangled by that skeleton creature, under the enemy’s long-range and short-range cooperation, he couldn’t hold out for long.
What was even more terrifying was not the enemy’s long-range and short-range cooperation, but both getting close to him. At that ti, he would quickly face death.
Since escaping was impossible, Duke Lan decisively gave up fleeing. A chanical beetle appeared in his hand, about the size of a fingertip, blood-red throughout, and Duke Lan’s gaze at this chanical beetle was complex.
"I’m the strongest, I won’t die, I won’t die, I absolutely won’t die."
While Duke Lan muttered to himself, that blood-red beetle burrowed into his palm, and he received a large number of Apocalypse Paradise prompts.
[Prompt: You are parasitized by the chanical Insect King. Within the willpower, stamina, and intelligence attribute determination... any determination not passing will trigger an instant death state.]
[Stamina determination passed, the chanical Insect King has successfully parasitized one-third.]
[Intelligence determination passed, the chanical Insect King has successfully parasitized two-thirds.]
[Willpower determination passed, the chanical Insect King has successfully parasitized into your body.]
[Prompt: Due to parasitization by the chanical Insect King, power permanently -15, stamina permanently -20, life value permanently -200, intelligence permanently 15.]
[Prompt: The chanical Insect King will die in 30 minutes.]
[Prompt: Your mana value temporarily 3000, once the chanical Insect King dies, this bonus disappears.]
[Prompt: Your summons quantity and type limit have been removed, once the chanical Insect King dies, this effect disappears.]
[Prompt: Once the chanical Insect King dies, you will face another challenge in stamina attribute determination. Failure will trigger an instant death state.]
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A feeling of weakness struck, and Duke Lan used the ability he least wanted to use, allowing the chanical Insect King to parasitize himself, failing any of the three determinations during parasitism would bring instant death, and even if successful in parasitism, he’d lose many attributes.
Being parasitized had three benefits: intelligence permanently 15, mana value temporarily 3000, temporarily lifting the restriction on the number and types of summons present.
In other words, Duke Lan could summon all his stocked summons, as long as his mana value was sufficient. Duke Lan’s total number of chanical insect summons was 12,604, summoning all these would require 4,653 mana points.
Summoning over ten thousand chanical insect summons wasn’t Duke Lan’s most desired ability; what he wanted was the ability to lift the summon limit. Of course, Duke Lan didn’t really want to use this ability; using it nearly equaled mutual destruction with the enemy.
Though Duke Lan passed the initial three determinations, after the chanical Insect King dies, he would face another stamina attribute determination, one that would happen when he’s exhausted from battle with permanent -20 stamina, making passing the hope very slim.
This was Duke Lan’s first ti using this ability, and there’s a 98% higher chance it’s the last ti using it as well.
A bullet flew towards Duke Lan, his eyelids lowered, chanical bees appeared out of thin air, this ti not even with a summon gesture, directly summoned.
A hundred plus chanical bees ford a circle, perfectly blocking the bullet’s path.
Boom.
The explosion rang out; although the chanical bees couldn’t block the bullet, they used their powerful explosive force to deflect the bullet’s trajectory.
Whoosh~
A 17.36mm caliber bullet flew past Duke Lan’s ear, he even felt the heat from the bullet.
"Three versus one, but not anymore now."
Duke Lan took a deep breath, pushed to the brink by Su Xiao, as ’reward,’ he planned to send Su Xiao to hell within half an hour.
Moreover, if he could kill Su Xiao, Duke Lan might not be without a chance to survive. Against other enemies, there’s over a 98% chance he’d die after combat, but Su Xiao is different, Su Xiao is a Hunter of Reincarnation Paradise.
If Duke Lan completed the Apocalypse Paradise’s task, successfully killing an enemy Paradise’s Hunter, would Apocalypse Paradise let him die so aggrieved? Probably not.
An overwhelming swarm of chanical insects appeared: chanical bees, chanical dragonflies, chanical beetles, chanical fireflies, and dozens more.
Over ten thousand chanical insects appeared, from afar they looked like a black cloud, within the black cloud flashed red lights, the eyes of one chanical insect after another.
Seeing these over ten thousand chanical insects, Su Xiao imdiately sensed sothing was wrong. Hundreds of chanical dragonflies could already break the counter shield, if over ten thousand explode simultaneously, and he’s near the explosion center, he’d be obliterated in an instant. Of course, the likelihood of being blown up by over ten thousand chanical insects wasn’t high for Su Xiao. If things got bad, he could retreat to a distant point and let Hughes withstand the explosion.
"Ultimate Command-Integration."
Duke Lan clasped his hands; over ten thousand chanical insects gathered together, about 500 converged into a mass, quickly lting like ice, rging together.
Soon, over ten thousand chanical beetles vanished, 25 tal arrows appeared mid-air, precisely Phantom Bees.
The Phantom Bee beside Duke Lan drifted to join the group of 25 Phantom Bees, totaling 26 Phantom Bees.
"I don’t have much ti left, let’s begin."
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