NOVEL NEXT Chapter 181: Where's My Food?
Bai Pu used the Detection Skill from the Nine Chapters.
Crimson Wings (Enhanced Leader Level 6)/ Inert Potion
Species: Humanoid Species/ Mutant
Attributes: Power ???, Agility 90, Endurance 41, Spirit 25
Skill 1: Flesh Shield: Crimson Wings gains an extra 700 points of Life Value.
Skill 2: Soaring (Unavailable due to damaged wings)
Skill 3~8: Blood Sucking, Raging Fury, Super Wave Shock, ???
"As expected, her Endurance is her weakness." Bai Pu felt relieved. Although 41 Endurance is quite high for a Mid-level Awakened, and along with 700 extra Life Value, Crimson Wings' total Blood Volume is significantly higher than Bai Pu's. But this doesn't change the fact that Crimson Wings is a "glass cannon."
Because 41 Endurance means Crimson Wings only has 41 Armor Value!
The Inert Potion made by Qin targets and destroys Crimson Wings' Endurance, reducing it by 15 points.
Reducing the Endurance Attribute won't lower Crimson Wings' existing Life Value upper limit, but it will further reduce her Natural Armor Value by 15 points, leaving only 26!
The reduction against Physical Damage is only about twenty percent!
Bai Pu drew out the Sharp Long Saber, charging forward with large strides, wielding a direct chop without any fancy moves!
A trace of disdain flashed in Crimson Wings' eyes, a layer of blood light emerged on her body, accelerating suddenly! Bai Pu's attack seemingly landed, but it struck only an afterimage.
Based on Bai Pu's Perception, he received a notification of the activated skill of Crimson Wings.
Raging Fury: Crimson Wings enters a frenzied state, increasing (25) Movement Speed and Attack Speed, lasting 30 seconds. During this time, each successful Blood Sucking extends the duration of Raging Fury by 30 seconds.
The afterimage was not a skill but a retinal afterimage caused by extremely high Movement Speed!
This is Crimson Wings' proudest advantage, speed!
Her agility already stands at 90 points. With the increase from Raging Fury, it equates to having 115 points of agility in Movement Speed and Attack Speed!
This is why even Hidden Snake with 80 points of agility can't keep up with her movements.
Once Raging Fury is activated, she's truly as swift as a ghost, appearing like Instant Teleportation to someone like Bai Pu with low agility!
In an instant, the raging attacks from Crimson Wings surged like a tide, enveloping Bai Pu! Bai Pu had to rely on the wide-area defense of the Spider Demon Tower Shield and the deflecting of his Long Saber to barely hold on, all the while counting seconds in his mind.
If Bai Pu weren't tough enough and if the Spider Demon Tower Shield didn't have high Durability, he might have died within three seconds under the claws of this fearsome Enhanced Leader Level monster!
Just like Misfiled from the Hidden Snake Team, an Elite Tank.
But now, five seconds have passed, ten seconds have passed.
Fifteen seconds, and Bai Pu still stands strong like a reef in the tide.
Nevertheless, Bai Pu's body surface showed many fine, small blood marks, like being cut by a small knife, with threads of blood seeping out.
Because the wound wasn't deep, and coupled with Bai Pu's high Endurance, the muscles automatically tightened on the injured part, preventing a large amount of blood loss. Someone with lower Endurance would probably be drenched in blood by now.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven…"
Bai Pu patiently counted down.
Raging Fury's thirty-second duration was about to end!
This skill consumes a large amount of "Blood Energy" (a temporary energy name by Bai Pu) from within Crimson Wings, so she must absorb enough blood during the duration to maintain the Raging Fury state!
When Bai Pu counted down to 7, Crimson Wings suddenly opened her mouth and let out a howl! In the tremor of the transparent air ripples, Bai Pu felt a ringing in his ears and a dizziness, his body stiffening in place.
Super Wave Shock!
Suddenly, Bai Pu felt pain in his shoulders, and two sharp claws had already gripped them. The next second, the cold breath of this monster was hitting his neck, with Crimson Wings opening her fangs, biting into Bai Pu's carotid artery!
Blood Sucking: Crimson Wings grabs a target and extracts blood, causing progressively increasing true damage, and producing an equivalent healing effect for Crimson Wings.
With just the first second of those fangs sinking in, Bai Pu felt his vision darken.
This monster's Blood Sucking skill could cause true damage! And her entire slender body clamped onto Bai Pu tightly, utterly impossible to shake off.
Fortunately, Bai Pu had reserved Mad Rhino Luz on the side who didn't engage in the battle!
Mad Rhino Luz lifted his Two-Handed Heavy Sword, delivering a Power-up Slash, forcibly hacking Crimson Wings from the blood-sucking state and flinging her to the inner side of a rock wall!
This terrifying monster still had a piece of Bai Pu's flesh on her fangs, with blood gushing from Bai Pu's neck.
Luckily, his Endurance was high, meaning his muscle was firm, and his blood vessels' toughness and repairability far exceeded ordinary people! Under automatic muscle compression, the blood vessels tightened, stopping the bleeding.
Crimson Wings didn't absorb enough blood, and Raging Fury was about to end. She let out a sharp scream, suddenly darting to the side where her reserve food—a fragile human girl—was!
However, when Crimson Wings leapt to the side, the human girl was already gone.
Where's my food?
Crimson Wings let out a furious roar.
Well, you have to ask Mad Rhino Luz about that—during the twenty-odd seconds when Bai Pu withstood Crimson Wings, Mad Rhino Luz certainly wasn't idly staring. He had grabbed that human girl and tossed her out of the rock crevice!
Thankfully, outside, a Blood Spider caught her with webs, or else that human girl would've been severely injured if not dead from the fall.
Having found no target, Crimson Wings then charged at Mad Rhino Luz! This time, Bai Pu was already prepared, raising the Spider Demon Tower Shield in front of him, forcibly blocking her.
With these few seconds of delay, the crimson blood light lingering around Crimson Wings finally faded away.
Raging Fury state ended!
"Now it's my turn."
Bai Pu stepped forward, the blood-colored Spell gradually lighting up one by one on the Golden Ox Horn Armor, burning inch by inch! Blood Armor activated!
Of course, the Dark Attribute Magic Damage from Blood Armor isn't significant. What's truly useful for Bai Pu is the Level 4 Effect of Blood Armor: the effect of the Gravity Ball!
Even without a Shield, Bai Pu's Endurance is as high as 56 points, which can influence the surrounding enemies by 28 points of Movement Speed!
This 28-point impact on movement speed could be resisted by Crimson Wings' Level Suppression and template suppression, offsetting about 50%, but there will still be a 14-point impact on her Movement Speed!
Instantly, Crimson Wings' 90-point speed was reduced to 76 points, even less than Hidden Snake's level.
Especially since this 14-point speed impact isn't merely slowing down but also adsorbing towards Bai Pu's direction! Bai Pu could disrupt Crimson Wings' attack and movement rhythm by changing his position!
Along with Mad Rhino Luz's Ring of Shock reduction effect, combined, Crimson Wings' Movement Speed can decrease once more, down to about sixty points!
Under double decay, Crimson Wings completely lost her ghostlike speed from before, coming into the range where Bai Pu can normally attack!
Crimson Wings now found escaping the rock crevice an impossible task—with Mad Rhino Luz and Bai Pu standing like two City Wall pillars blocking her way!
Of course, Bai Pu's Blood Armor can only last for 120 seconds, while Mad Rhino Luz's Ring of Shock also has a brief duration that requires repeated spellcasting, which is a severe drain on his Blood Fighting Qi.
So should the fight drag on, allowing Crimson Wings to recover her 90-point Movement Speed, she'll have the capability to escape the crevice! Then where would Bai Pu find her?
"Therefore, this battle must be swift and decisive!"