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Chapter 172 - 81: Mantis Lord, Sudden Cardiac Arrest! Lao Ju’s Defense Break: Who Can Really Get Through This Game?_3

Chapter 172: Chapter 81: Mantis Lord, Sudden Cardiac Arrest! Lao Ju’s Defense Break: Who Can Really Get Through This Game?_3

"I still say the same thing, this game is really simple! Everyone should download it and give it a try."

As his words fell, it was as if he had triggered some sort of mechanism.

The floor under the little knight abruptly shattered, and the entire insect fell with the force of gravity.

He appeared in a spacious room.

In front of the little knight, there were three thrones built on tall platforms, standing as if they were royal seats.

Three slender but imposing mantises each occupied one, each holding their cheek with one hand and sizing up the uninvited guest who had brazenly intruded.

The exits on both sides were also blocked at this moment by iron walls that had fallen down.

It was as if a cage had trapped the little knight.

The floor mechanisms at both ends sprang into action, replaced by sharp spikes.

The space left for the little knight to move around was only half the size of the screen.

It was obvious that he had blundered into a boss battle in this area.

"Dang!" Exciting BGM resonated with drum beats like thunder.

And in the game, the little knight showed no fear, turning to face the three leaders.

"Gong!"

He bravely pulled the bone spike from his back, ready to confront the enemy head-on!

"It’s actually been a while since I fought a boss, and I’m a bit itching for action."

"We’re at full health and full mana right now, and during the boss fight we can even hand-cast to heal ourselves. After so many trials, our technique has become very skillful."

"The chances of one-shotting this should be pretty high."

Wang Laoju said this,

when the lone Mantis Lord in the middle took the lead in striking, gripping a sharpened spear, and leapt down from the platform with a bound.

The spear pierced the cold light, coming at the little knight straight from the side.

"Holy shit! That’s a fast spear!" Wang Laoju’s gaze widened instantly!

This was the first time in the last few hours of gameplay that he felt such an overwhelming sense of oppression.

The speed was too fast!

Almost too fast to react to.

In a hurry, he pressed the jump button and took off, barely grazing the Mantis Lord’s charging attack by the edge.

What he didn’t expect, however,

was that unlike the previous elite monsters or bosses, where you could trace every attack.

Once you got their rhythm, after a few deaths, you could always grind through.

But this damn Mantis Lord could actually flash!

After a missed strike, it turned into a streak of white light and vanished on the spot.

In less than a 0.5 second gap, it reappeared.

The place it appeared in was mid-air, with no fixed landing point,

but tracking the little knight’s position.

Wherever the little knight stood, it would flash to that area and then thrust down fiercely with its spear.

The speed was incredibly quick!

After Wang Laoju managed to control the little knight to dodge left and right to barely escape the spear attack,

his expression was no longer as relaxed as before, and even his palms began to sweat.

It was hard to imagine that a designer could create such a strong sense of oppression in a 2D action game, and with a chibi-style artwork at that.

To the point where Wang Laoju’s confidence in his own skills from just moments before was now slowly disappearing.

Just dodging the boss’s attacks was already quite embarrassing,

let alone finding time to strike at the boss.

But what nobody expected,

even with this difficulty,

seemed to be just a beginning!

Soon, the Mantis Lord clung onto the wall beside him, charging up and swinging his spear.

A glowing ring was launched, like a high-speed spinning doughnut, closing in on Wang Laoju.

"Goddammit, not only are you fast at moving, you can flash, and you have skills too?" Wang Laoju was shocked.

And at this moment, what let all the viewers feel a full load of malice,

was that the difficulty of this boss fight was still increasing!

The doughnut itself wasn’t released very quickly, and the player could dodge or jump to avoid its range.

But the nastiest thing about it was that it could persist for a certain amount of time, and continuously track the little knight’s position.

Since touching it would reduce health, its presence would further reduce the little knight’s maneuvering space!

And at this time, the Mantis Lord launched his attack once again!

Above was the doughnut, spikes to the left, and the Mantis Lord’s attack coming from the right!

This time, it was a dead angle!

Unavoidable.

Already a bit flustered, Wang Laoju was poked back several steps by the Mantis Lord’s thrust and fell onto the spikes next to him, losing health once more.

By the time he finally jumped out of the hole,

the next onslaught from the Mantis Lord carried a chilling force as it plunged down from mid-air like a straight silver lance!

"Bang!!!"

With the screen shaking violently,

four health bars were instantly wiped out!

The last health bar trembled incessantly, as if reminding the player of the imminent danger.

Wang Laoju glanced at the nearly 2000 Geos in his pocket.

This was what he had scraped together bit by bit along the way.

If he died here, it would all be for nothing.

So he panicked, dodging in a rush,

trying to find a chance to heal.

The blood-returning skill took about two seconds from casting to completion and could provide one health bar’s worth of recovery.

In normal circumstances, it would be over in the blink of an eye.

But in this boss fight where even one second seemed too long,

he couldn’t even find a moment to heal.

"Snap!"

As the saying goes, the more one panics, the more chaotic it gets.

Finally, due to a misstep in Wang Laoju’s positioning,

the little knight’s life was pierced through by a spear and ended there!