ATPnovel Chapter 21 Nightmare Difficulty Challenge
Chapter 21 Nightmare Difficulty Challenge
Standing in front of the entrance to the "Grey Wolf's Den" instance.
Looking at the only [Nightmare] option, Lin Tian took a deep breath. The cold air, mixed with the sulfurous smell emanating from the dungeon entrance, rushed straight into his lungs, suppressing the instinctive tremor in his heart, but his eyes were as sharp as a knife.
"Fortune favors the bold, let's do it!" he shouted, confirming his choice without hesitation.
Stepping into the vortex, the space twisted violently, as if being thrown into a high-speed spinning washing machine.
When I opened my eyes again, it was still that familiar, narrow, slippery rock passage, but the atmosphere was completely different!
The light was compressed to the extreme, leaving only a faint phosphorescence seeping from the cracks in the rock wall, like a dying gasp, barely outlining the contours of the jagged rocks.
The air was as thick as blood plasma, and every breath carried a strong stench of decay and rust, so heavy it was almost suffocating, as if a huge rock was pressing on my lungs.
The scattered, pale bones underfoot no longer made a crisp cracking sound when stepped on, but rather a tooth-grinding "crunch-crunch-" sound, as if the bones were groaning in pain, with each step treading on the remains of the dead.
"Whoa—!!!"
In the darkness, countless blood-red eyeballs suddenly lit up!
Like a screen full of red LED lights, crimson dots instantly filled the entire field of vision, layer upon layer, endless! One hundred! A full one hundred!
The low howls of wolves coalesced into a wave of death, shaking the gravel in the tunnel and causing it to fall in a rustling sound.
Target: Plains Gray Wolf
[Level: 8]
[Rank: D+]
[HP: 1200/1200]
Attack Power: 90
【Speed: 40】
[Skill: Extreme Speed: Temporarily increases speed by 40 points for 20 seconds.]
Lin Tian's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart sank as if gripped by an invisible hand. But then, a chilling, almost boiling fighting spirit instantly dispelled the coldness.
"What's there to be afraid of!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Tian waved his staff.
"Summon the wolf pack!"
Awooo—!
Ten robust gray wolves with gleaming white fangs instantly appeared in front of Lin Tian, forming a defensive line! They crouched low and let out threatening growls.
Lin Tian controlled the wolf pack to form an encirclement in front of him.
"Fireball!" "Freeze!"
Boom—!
-3029
A massive, blazing fireball, like a miniature sun, exploded at the very front of the wolf pack!
The explosion, which expanded by 50%, instantly engulfed more than twenty gray wolves! The smell of burning flesh and blood filled the air!
call out--!
-1165!
The icy blue blast of cold air precisely struck a gray wolf that had activated its [Extreme Speed] ability and was about to break through the defense line, instantly freezing it into an ice sculpture!
Under the cover of a defensive line formed by the lives of ten summoned wolves, Lin Tian fought and retreated nimbly in the narrow passageway.
The 1.0-second cooldown of the A-rank [Fireball] has now transformed into a true storm of death!
The staff tip flashed with fire, and one after another, blazing white suns exploded in the wolf pack!
The deafening roar continued, each explosion accompanied by a blood-red death toll and mournful howls, as charred wolf carcasses quickly piled up into a mountain.
【Freeze】is like the most accurate sniper. Every time the icy blue light flashes, it will freeze a fish that tries to break through by speed, buying precious time for the fireball to clear it.
[Ding! Killed a Plains Gray Wolf (killed a higher-level enemy)! Experience +25!]
[Ding! Talent 'Enhancement' triggered! Gain 1 'Enhancement Points'!]
……
The summoned wolf pack suffered heavy losses due to overwhelming numbers and frenzied attacks, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
Lin Tian's eyes were cold. As soon as his mana recovered, he immediately waved his bone staff again: "Summon the wolf pack!" Ten more fully-equipped gray wolves roared and joined the battle to fill the gaps.
"Awooo?!" The gray wolves, blocked by the newly summoned wolf pack, seemed to be collectively stunned for a moment, as if to say: You can play like this?
When the last gray wolf was reduced to charcoal by Lin Tian's precise finishing fireball, the entire tunnel was a scene of devastation and scorched earth. The ground was cracked from the intense heat, the rock walls were splattered with congealed dark red blood and charred chunks of flesh, and the air was thick with smoky, almost impenetrable smoke.
Lin Tian glanced at the three remaining summoned wolves beside him. They were covered in blood, their wounds so deep that bone was visible, and they were whimpering and almost unable to stand.
Without hesitation, he swung his staff again: "Summon the wolves!" Ten spirited new wolves with bared fangs replaced the remnants of the army, standing proudly on the scorched earth.
"Scout ahead!" Lin Tian gave the order, and the wolf pack immediately dispersed, cautiously walking at the front, stepping over the piles of wolf carcasses, and heading deeper into the den.
As Lin Tian passed through the tunnel filled with the aura of death and stepped into the second, more open cavern, he felt as if he had crashed into an invisible wall formed from pure killing intent! The biting cold almost froze his blood!
The pool of murky, foul-smelling blood in the center had expanded several times over, bubbling with thick, sticky blood.
Surrounding the blood pool were thirty colossal beasts, each the size of a calf, with muscles bulging like iron blocks and fangs gleaming coldly!
[Target: Gray Wolf Elite]
[Level: 8]
[Rank: C]
[HP: 2500/2500]
Attack Power: 150
【Speed: 50】
【Skill:
Extreme Speed: Temporarily increases speed by 40 points for 20 seconds.
Consecutive Claw Strike: Attacks three times consecutively, each dealing 120% physical damage.
Thirty cold, cruel, and bloodthirsty gazes instantly focused on Lin Tian! The air itself seemed to ignite from this palpable killing intent!
There was no prelude, no probing!
Almost at the same instant that more than twenty elite gray wolves locked onto their target, their hind leg muscles suddenly bulged, unleashing their [Extreme Speed]!
Their figures blurred instantly, turning into streaks of gray-black afterimages that tore through the air, their speed soaring to a terrifying 90 points!
From all directions, up, down, left, and right, it was like a net of death woven together, almost sealing off all of Lin Tian's space to dodge, and it fiercely pounced on him with a bloody wind! The cold light of the claw blades connected in the dim cave!
"Hiss... such speed!" Alarm bells rang in Lin Tian's mind!
This speed far exceeded his 46-point movement ability, and summoning the wolf pack wouldn't have been enough time to surround and stop him!
At the critical moment, a cold glint flashed in Lin Tian's eyes, and his staff burst forth with a dazzling icy blue light, locking onto the elite gray wolf charging at the forefront, its fangs almost touching his nose!
"Freeze!"
call out!
The icy blue cold current hit its target precisely!
-1165!
The fierce elite was instantly frozen into a huge block of ice. The immense inertia caused it to smash into the flank like a battering ram, knocking over two of its close-following companions and creating a brief gap of chaos in the dense charging formation!
"Fireball!"
Boom! ...
The blazing white fireball slammed into the frozen elite wolf and its overturned companion!
The blast radius of an A-level fireball is already huge, and now that it explodes in a relatively dense group of elites, the damage is instantly maximized!
-3029! -3029! -3029! …
The chain reaction of explosions engulfed seven or eight elite wolves, blasting them to pieces! The scorching heatwave even forced back the subsequent charge of the wolf pack!
"Awooo!" The elite gray wolves let out angry and painful roars, and their offensive faltered.
Lin Tian immediately commanded the wolf pack to charge forward and engage in close combat. Under the cover of the wolves, he acted like a highly accurate artillery platform, unleashing a barrage of [Fireball] spells and precisely targeting and eliminating those who attempted to flank or were too fast.
Inside the cave, firelight and frost mingled, wolf howls and explosions were deafening, and the battle instantly intensified!
The elite wolf's [Continuous Claw Strike] tore deep, bone-revealing wounds into the summoned wolves, forcing Lin Tian to frequently resummon them, rapidly depleting his mana. However, relying on the terrifying destructive power of his A-rank fireball spell, each explosion cleared an area.
In the end, after paying the price of summoning the wolf pack several times and wiping them all out, all thirty elite gray wolves turned into cold corpses at Lin Tian's feet.
[Ding! Killed a Plains Gray Wolf (killed a higher-level enemy)! Experience +25!]
[Ding! Talent 'Enhancement' triggered! Gain 1 'Enhancement Points'!]
[Ding! Killed a Plains Gray Wolf (killed a higher-level enemy)! Experience +25!]
[Ding! Talent 'Enhancement' triggered! Gain 1 'Enhancement Points'!]
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