noveltune Chapter 572 Lin Tian's Counterattack 2
Chapter 572 Lin Tian's Counterattack 2
Second shot.
Stellar rays
The beam of light shot out from the fingertip again, passing through the same spot.
This time it went deeper than the first. The beam pierced through the skin at the scar site, through the surface of the skull, and reached the interior of the skull.
The behemoth's health bar dropped another inch.
Its roar grew louder, the sound waves reflecting back and forth in the depression of the ice field, forming a visible sonic wave. The cracks on the ice wall widened further under the impact of the sonic wave, and fine ice chips fell from the ice wall.
Zhao Hao covered his ears, but he could still feel the sound seemingly drilling directly into his brain. His vision began to blur, his stomach churned, and he almost vomited.
The third shot.
Stellar rays
The golden beam of light poured into the same wound once again.
This time, something splattered from the wound—not blood, but some kind of glowing, ice-blue liquid. It was the behemoth's bodily fluid, not ordinary blood, but marrow fluid brimming with ice-attribute energy.
The marrow fluid splashed onto Lin Tian's arm, burning hot like lava, but in less than a second it turned from hot to frozen—the liquid would freeze the moment it came into contact with air, the temperature plummeting to tens of degrees below zero, capable of instantly cracking ordinary metal.
Lin Tian's sleeves were frozen stiff, and a stinging sensation came from the skin beneath the fabric.
He ignored it.
The fourth shot.
The wound is getting deeper and deeper.
What started as a scorch mark transformed into a hole the thickness of a finger, and then into a deep pit the size of a fist. The edges of the pit were charred black, and at the bottom, icy blue fluid continuously oozed out, accumulating in a layer like a small puddle.
The behemoth stopped shaking its head.
It stopped that futile, frantic attempt to shake its head off.
It quieted down.
This silence is more terrifying than the previous madness.
Zhao Hao saw from behind the ice rock that the giant beast's eyes had changed.
It didn't go out, it just changed color.
Previously, it was a fiery white, like two white flames. Now, the white has become even brighter, so bright that it's dazzling, so bright that Zhao Hao felt as if his eyes were being pricked by needles after just one glance, and quickly looked away.
The giant beast's scales began to stand up.
Each scale stood upright from the base like a fish scale, and white, cold air spewed out from the gaps between the scales. The cold air quickly condensed into ice crystals, which floated around the giant beast.
The effects of the [Extreme Cold Domain] are increasing.
Lin Tian could sense it.
His fingers began to stiffen, their dexterity decreased, and the strength with which he gripped the scales weakened.
This isn't damage that armor can withstand; it's an environmental effect that directly impacts the body.
The giant beast raised its head.
It emitted a deep, guttural sound from deep within its throat—a sound more like some ancient language, or the awakening of some power that had been sealed away for too long.
The sky suddenly darkened.
It's not that dark clouds are blocking the sun—there was never a sun inside this barrier to begin with.
Instead, a huge, rotating, ice-blue vortex appeared above the giant beast's head.
The vortex is over 100 meters in diameter, and its color changes from the center to the edge—the center is a dazzling white, then it becomes ice blue, then deep purple, and finally, the very edge is a dark blue that is almost black.
The vortex is spinning rapidly, drawing in large amounts of water vapor and ice crystals from the air with each rotation, condensing them at the center of the vortex.
Zhao Hao felt the temperature around him drop sharply.
It didn't just drop a few degrees, it dropped dozens of degrees. The air he exhaled turned into ice shards the moment it left his mouth, landing on his chest with a soft, rustling sound.
He looked down at his hands—his fingers had turned bluish-purple, and his knuckles were so stiff he could barely bend them.
But he couldn't care less about the cold, because system notifications were flashing wildly in his field of vision.
[WARNING: Frostbone, the Ice Giant, has dropped to 80% health and entered the first phase of its berserk state.]
[The Ice Giant is about to unleash its skill: Ice Crystal Storm.]
[Area: A circular area with a diameter of 200 meters.]
[Effect: Deals (Intelligence × 800%) points of Ice damage per second to all targets within the area for 8 seconds, and inflicts the "Deep Freeze" effect—reducing movement speed by 60% and attack speed by 50% for 5 seconds.]
Zhao Hao's face turned from white to ashen.
It wasn't fear, it was genuinely freezing.
He, a level 35 player, couldn't even last a second against the ice storm of this level 80 boss.
He wanted to run, but his legs wouldn't obey him. It wasn't fear; he was genuinely frozen. Sensation below his thighs was rapidly disappearing, and he felt as if he were being encased in cement.
The first ice crystal fell from the vortex.
That was no ordinary ice crystal, but an irregular, ice-blue crystal with a diameter of over one meter. Its surface was covered with sharp edges, each an angled facet that refracted dazzling light under the illumination of the light at the center of the vortex.
The ice crystals fell at an extremely fast speed, leaving a trail of icy blue flame, like a shooting star falling from the sky.
Target—Lin Tian.
Lin Tian loosened his fingers that were gripping the scales.
[Stellar Leap]
His figure transformed into a streak of light and vanished from the top of the giant beast's head.
The ice crystal struck the behemoth's own head—right where Lin Tian had just been standing—and exploded, scattering fragments everywhere. Damage numbers floated above the behemoth's head; they weren't zero, but rather displayed effective damage. The behemoth's skill didn't discriminate between friend and foe; it affected all targets within the area, including itself.
The beast's roar was tinged with anger.
It was searching for Lin Tian's location from the air.
The second ice crystal fell.
The third one.
The fourth one.
They didn't fall one after another, but poured down like a torrential rain, densely covering the entire area with a diameter of two hundred meters.
Lin Tian weaved through the icy rain.
His figure kept flashing – the cooldown time of [Star Leap] was extremely short, and each flash allowed him to instantly move from one location to another.
The first one fell from above, and he dodged to the left.
The second one came from the left, and he retreated.
The third one cut diagonally from the right front. He leaped upwards, and the ice crystals swept past his feet.
Every move he made was precisely calculated, without any unnecessary frills.
In Zhao Hao's eyes, Lin Tian was a golden light, constantly leaping, flashing, and turning back in the icy blue rain curtain. The ice crystals were like blind mad dogs, frantically chasing and biting him, but each time they were just a little bit short—a mere inch, a millimeter, a fingertip's distance.
The chance of being hit is not zero, but Lin Tian is trying to reduce that chance as much as possible.
Meanwhile, he was doing something else.
attack.
Each time he flashed and landed, as long as there was a brief moment to fire a shot, he would raise his right hand and fire a Star Ray at the deepening wound on the giant beast's head.
The fifth shot.
The sixth shot.
The seventh shot.
Every shot hit the same spot.