usatvline Chapter 384 Watching the Battle
Chapter 384 Watching the Battle
The river is no longer the territory of monsters. There is no fog blocking it, and the vision has returned to normal. Things 200 yards away can be seen clearly.
After running forward for a few minutes, a roar like thunder came from the front, low and fierce, full of oppression.
Then, the sound of fighting rang out. The dragon and the monster were already fighting not far away.
Brooke looked around and saw a patch of dense waterweed near the center of the river ahead. Brooke waded in, the water just reaching his chest. Observing from here, the distance was just right.
At 200 yards, hundreds of demonic beasts surrounded the massive ancient dragon. Ranged attackers like the Bull-Headed Priest, the Golden-Clawed Fox, the Jade-Faced Fox, and the Taoist Priestess released their abilities continuously, while melee fighters like the White Boar, the Woma Warrior, the Bull-Headed General, the Fire Dragon Cult Leader, and the Green Spider surrounded the dragon and hacked away at it.
But they can only deal one or two hundred damages. Even the assassination launched by the Origin War Spirit can only deal 500 damages.
The scales of the ancient dragon shimmered faintly with golden light. For an ancient dragon with divine armor and a health bar of 1 million, the monsters' attacks were like tickling. The dragon simply wanted a drink of water. Being constantly tickled, it couldn't drink peacefully.
The giant dragon spread its huge wings and a gust of wind suddenly blew up, like a qigong wave and a resistance fire ring, which shook all the surrounding monsters away dozens of yards.
The monster leader and the humanoid monster were the first to stabilize their bodies and rushed up again.
The ancient dragon extended its sharp claws, pinning down a Pangu War Spirit in front of it. The dragon took a deep breath, its abdomen bulging. Then, opening its mouth, it unleashed a stream of searing, flaming dragon breath at its feet, instantly forcing the surrounding monsters back. The dragon's breath lasted for several tens of seconds, and then the flames dissipated, leaving the Pangu War Spirit, with its 10 million HP, completely annihilated!
"Howl~~~" A howling and urging sound came from behind the herd.
The three most powerful high-level Warcraft, the Dreadlord Davenger, the Death Knight Arthas, and the Lich Kel'Thuzad, are commanding and supervising the battle from the periphery.
The monsters surrounded them again and started to kill them with blood levels of 100 or 200.
A fireball was spit out from the ancient dragon, instantly killing a bull magician with 3 health points in the distance; the dragon's tail swept across, and a Minotaur General with 6 health points behind it was instantly blown away, and more than half of his health points were knocked down. The Minotaur General had just stood up when the dragon's tail smashed down again, and the Minotaur General was killed without a doubt.
New monsters immediately filled their places. There were so many monsters, and they attacked non-stop, using both melee and ranged attacks. At any given moment, over 30 monsters could continuously damage the dragon. Although each attack only knocked off a few hundred HP, the cumulative effect was enough to cause considerable damage.
In just one minute, the monsters had sapped the dragon's health by over 1. The Ancient Dragon's health bar dipped slightly, but that was a negligible loss for a dragon with over 50 million HP. Over 1 of the monsters besieging the dragon had already perished. While most of them were minions, the three strongest, high-level monsters could no longer wait.
"Tomb~" With a low groan, the lich Kel'Thuzad behind the herd stepped into the battle circle.
The lich stopped about 20 yards from the ancient dragon, raising his hands and waving them. Black threads, like raindrops, appeared in a large area around the dragon. The ancient dragon suddenly showed pain. The golden scales covering its body began to dim, its sacred armor corroded, and its health rapidly decreased by hundreds of thousands.
"This is the Lich's ultimate move, Wither and Decay. It has a strong corrosive effect and will continuously deduct health by a percentage." Yuan Bufan explained beside him.
The ancient dragon roared angrily and flapped its wings again to blow away the surrounding monsters. It soared into the air, flew out of the range of the Wither and Decay skill, and pounced towards the lich Kel'Thuzad again.
The ancient dragon's belly bulged high and began to accumulate strength.
Dragon Breath!
The scorching flames shot out at the lich. The lich endured the damage and retreated quickly while putting on frost armor for himself.
The dragon hated the lich so much that it would not let it go easily. It ignored all the other monsters and kept chasing the lich with dragon breath.
The damage from the dragon's breath was too great, even the Lich King, with 1200 million HP, couldn't withstand it. Just as his HP was about to drop to zero, a black light suddenly flew towards the Lich King, causing his HP to rise significantly, and the Lich was saved.
"This is the Death Coil of the Death Knight Arthas. It can heal fellow comrades or cause damage to the enemy." Yuan Bufan said.
The ten seconds were up, but the dragon's breath didn't stop, still gushing out. This time, the charging time was significantly longer than before.
Seeing that the lich's health was about to run out, the dreadlord Davenger waved his right hand, and all the monsters stopped attacking. At the same time, the ancient dragon's breath suddenly stopped, and its body fell directly from the air.
Brook had seen this skill before, it was hypnosis, but he didn't expect it to be effective against dragons.
Just as the dragon was about to fall, it suddenly woke up. Its resistance was extremely strong, and although hypnosis was effective against it, the duration was greatly reduced, lasting less than a second.
However, the dragon's breath was interrupted.
The monsters gathered around again, continuing their fight with the Ancient Dragon. The Lich took the opportunity to retreat to the rear, and the Death Knight healed it from time to time, quickly replenishing its health.
Another eight minutes later, the Ancient Dragon's health had been reduced to 8%. Although the damage was slow, it continued to decrease. Almost all of the monsters in the monster were dead, leaving only about 10 bosses and humanoid monsters.
The Lich's ultimate finally cooled down, and he stepped forward once more, unleashing Wither and Decay. The Ancient Dragon, reeling in pain, shook off the surrounding minions and was about to fly out of Wither and Decay's range when a meteorite suddenly crashed down from above, slamming it down to the ground and stunning it for 0.5 seconds.
Not only that, the meteorite actually stood up, transforming into a towering stone giant, its body ablaze with red flames, its eyes gleaming green, like a demon from the depths of hell. The stone giant swung his fist and delivered a powerful punch to the ancient dragon, dealing 1 damage.
"This burning stone giant was summoned by the Dreadlord using his ultimate move, named Hellfire. Hellfire's attack has 1 damage, and I heard it's a chaotic attack that can ignore any defense, including holy armor. This chaotic attack is somewhat similar to the holy attack of us human monks. And I heard that this Hellfire is immune to magic, and the dragon's breath burning may be useless against it." Yuan Bufan was well-informed and found out all this.
Chaos attack or not, the Elder Dragon took a mere 1 damage with a single blow. The real problem was the Lich's continuous release of Wither and Decay. Entangled in the Infernal Fire, the Elder Dragon couldn't reach the Lich quickly enough to interrupt the Wither and Decay. Despite the significant damage reduction provided by the Holy Armor, the Elder Dragon continued to lose health at a rate of 2 per second. This proportional health reduction dealt a particularly heavy blow to the dragon. Furthermore, the Holy Armor was corroding, weakening its damage reduction, and its health continued to decline.
After 35 seconds, the Wither and Decay skill finally ended, and the Ancient Dragon lost a full 1800 million HP, a full 15%, due to Wither and Decay.
The ancient dragon was enraged, ignoring the Hellfire Stoneman's harassment. Taking a deep breath, it released a powerful blast of dragon breath, sweeping across the circle of monsters surrounding it. The Fire Dragon Cult Leader, already low on health, the Green Spider, the Snow Demon King, along with Pangu Dao Soul, the Ancient War Soul, and the Primordial Magic Soul, along with the six other leaders and humanoid monsters, were all slain.
A small gap was created in the encirclement, and the ancient dragon was about to rush out.
Suddenly, the Death Knight rushed forward on his skeletal warhorse, raised his icy sword to the sky, and the six demon beasts, including the Snow Demon King and the Ancient Magic Soul, were all resurrected with full health! They blocked the gap again.
"Damn! Mass resurrection?!" Brook couldn't help but exclaim.
"This is not a true resurrection. This move is the Death Knight's ultimate move: Descent of the Dead. It can temporarily resurrect dead monsters. It has a certain duration, and it will automatically disappear when the time is up." Yuan Bufan explained.
"I see. Brother Yuan is really amazing. He knows everything."
"Hehe~ I specifically asked my guard friends in the right camp. The Death Knight, the Dreadlord and other powerful monsters are the main force guarding the right lane, so of course I have to find out about their situation. Otherwise, how could I dare to take on the exploration mission of the wild area on the right. In fact, these skills are the first time I have seen them. The skills of the most powerful monsters are really varied and very powerful!" Yuan Bufan said.
Brook was thinking in his heart that if the fight continued like this, the monster might really be able to kill the ancient dragon.
"Brother Yuan, if this ancient dragon is killed, it will reappear like a river crab, right?" Brook asked.
"Of course. Although the dragon is powerful, it is still a wild monster after all, and its refresh time is relatively long. The dragon-slaying equipment possessed by the powerful monks of the empire is all dropped from it."
"You just said that this ancient dragon lives on a steep mountain top that is difficult for monks to reach. Where exactly is it?" Brook asked again.
"No one knows exactly where they are. All we know is that they fly to the river in the Warcraft Battlefield every once in a while to drink water. Someone once saw them flying from the top of the mountain in the northernmost part of the canyon, which is blocked by a thousand-foot ravine, making it impossible for human monks to cross."
"Them? Are there more than one ancient dragon?"
"Yes, there are more than one. Sometimes it's an elemental dragon, which is slightly smaller and has less health. And this one with a larger head is an ancient dragon. They all have a chance of dropping dragon-slaying equipment."
"understood."
The two hid in the bushes, watching the battle between the monsters and the ancient dragon while chatting casually.
Brooke checked the time. It was almost noon. The ancient dragon still had a lot of health left, so it wouldn't be killed anytime soon. So, he said, "Brother Yuan, time's up. I need to return to the city to hand in my quest. Do you want to stay and watch, or come back with me?"
"I'll go back with you," Yuan Bufan said quickly. Although this place was covered in grass, it was not far from the monster and was not safe. He didn't dare to stay alone.
Brook inserted the last remaining scout ward (fake eye) in his backpack into the bushes and then started to return to the city.