NOVEL NEXT Chapter 192 Everyone has realized! (Three in one, 5/5)_2
At the moment, all they received was plain Normal Attack damage, gaining no abilities in return. Their damage was only around 600 to 700 million per round of attack. Even if Yun Zhi had some ability to augment her army of Avatars, she could only increase this damage tenfold at most. That meant a single round of attacks could only drain the Health of up to 6,000 to 7,000 Skeleton Monsters, while the opposition had a whole 800,000 Skeleton Monsters!
Six to seven thousand at a time, how long would that take? It was far too insignificant!
The more critical issue now was that a single round of Normal Attacks from the enemy dealt over 400 billion damage to their side. Their total shield quantity was only 1,920 billion. It would only take a few rounds of attacks for the enemy to break their army shield! Comparing the two sides, the gap was clear.
Had it not been for the fact that the army shield could never be critically hit and also wasn't considered a unit, its current Health wouldn't have lasted nearly this long. Chen Mo also possessed the God-Grade Critical Strike Aura and an ability to designate a unit, increasing the damage all his Ghosts dealt to that target by a multiple of his own Level. If these were combined, this meager 1,400 billion Health shield would likely explode in less than a second.
In truth, Yun Zhi had already acknowledged that in terms of Avatar quality, hers couldn't compare to Chen Mo's Skeleton Monsters, which possessed third-transition level attack power. Her advantage, however, lay in her ability to form an army array. This allowed her 800,000 Avatars to achieve a qualitative leap beyond their original combat power. But now that Chen Mo had targeted her for a duel, her army's skills could only target Chen Mo himself. Furthermore, any attack landing on Chen Mo merely resulted in the death of a single Skeleton Monster due to damage transfer. This effectively nullified Yun Zhi's greatest advantage!
If it weren't for Chen Mo's own Death Light Compass, which stripped his Skeleton Monsters of their Immortal Ability, she wouldn't even have been able to destroy them.
Facing such a disadvantage, Yun Zhi knew her defeat was becoming apparent. Even though she had deduced from various signs before arriving that Chen Mo was no ordinary person and hadn't been overly careless, she still hadn't imagined he could be this powerful. Despite her ability to summon 800,000 Avatars to form a formidable army array, he actually had a way to counter it! What was particularly astonishing was that he countered it using a dueling tactic that normal Summoners would never employ. She would never have dreamed that such a method existed to neutralize her army array!
Seeing that her army array was still intact and believing she had a chance to escape, Yun Zhi prepared to retreat. But she seemed to have forgotten one crucial detail. As she turned to fly away, she suddenly felt as if something had grabbed her, rooting her to the spot.
She instantly recalled it—this Life-And-Death status also restricted the distance between opponents!
"Trying to leave now? Too late!"
Observing Yun Zhi's horrified expression, Chen Mo showed not a hint of pity. He immediately ordered his Skeleton Monsters to attack relentlessly. Moreover, he was continuously replenishing their shields in real time.
The actual speed at which Yun Zhi's Avatars cleared the Skeleton Monsters was even lower than she had initially anticipated. She had never expected Chen Mo to be able to generate such thick shields so quickly. With his maxed-out Pioneer and Tears of the Goddess, Chen Mo could recover 200% of his maximum energy value every second. His Extreme Calmness talent, boasting a 90% Cooldown reduction, shortened the Cooldown of Berserker Shield from the standard 30 seconds to a mere 3 seconds. Every three seconds, he could replenish the shields of all Skeleton Monsters to approximately 100 million Health. Consequently, some Skeleton Monsters whose shields had just been depleted found them instantly refilled, significantly slowing down the enemy's clearing speed.
While one side could rapidly break through the main army shield, the other's progress was much slower. The disparity was enormous. Furthermore, Chen Mo adopted an even more ruthless tactic. Relying on his Life-And-Death Emblem, which ensured he could only be damaged by a single unit at any given time, he charged directly into the enemy's army array. Whenever a Skeleton Monster was on the verge of death, he would recall the dying Skeleton Monster to his side and use its self-destruction damage to heavily deplete the Health of their army shield.
After a few more seconds, Yun Zhi's army array finally succumbed to the relentless barrage from the Skeleton Monsters. With a loud CRACK, the army shield shattered. On Chen Mo's side, only a few tens of thousands of Skeleton Monsters had perished by this point.
However, even without the protection of the army shield, the battle did not end immediately because Yun Zhi possessed a class-specific passive ability: as long as her Avatars remained, she would not take damage from Normal Attacks. This passive ability was somewhat similar to Chen Mo's Occupational Talent, but it was far less effective. While it completely nullified Normal Attacks, she remained vulnerable to Skill damage, area-of-effect damage, and status-effect damage. This was worlds apart from Chen Mo's talent, which prevented him from dying for any reason as long as his Undead-Summoning Items were present.
But for the time being, this ability at least managed to prolong her survival slightly. After all, Chen Mo's Skeleton Monsters could only perform Normal Attacks, and he currently had no intention of deploying the Ghosts that possessed Skills. If a Death Knight were killed, it would be permanently lost. The same applied to the Nine-tailed White Fox. His opponent, after all, still had hundreds of thousands of Avatars, making it relatively easy to destroy one of his more valuable Ghosts.