In the end, Lin Mo had thought soloing a Tier 3 BOSS would be easy.
Using 1 point of forced damage each time and relying on time to stack damage was indeed feasible.
But Lin Mo had overlooked one thing. Other than the newbie BOSSes in the starter villages, basically all BOSSes in the Divine Oracle had self healing.
As a level 30 Tier 3 BOSS, the Insect Shaman's healing was not considered high, only four ten thousandths per second.
But when calculated on the huge base of 380000 HP, it still gave the Insect Shaman a massive 152 HP of recovery every second.
Even if Lin Mo pushed his attack speed to the limit and attacked four times per second, adding in the poison damage and soul burn from his equipment effects, his DPS was only 9 per second.
The damage he dealt was not even as much as what the Insect Shaman healed.
As a result, after several minutes, the Insect Shaman was still at full HP.
Lin Mo, who had finally seen a glimmer of hope, fell back into despair.
"Even the level 15 Tier 2 newbie BOSSes in the major starter villages require a hundred thousand players working together, and only a very few villages manage to kill them."
"Relying on just getting stuck in a map bug to solo a level 30 Tier 3 big BOSS really is a bit of a fantasy."
Lin Mo could not help but sigh in disappointment.
But then, a flash of inspiration suddenly hit him.
'Wait!'
"Even with the 44 percent defense reduction from the SSS Ice Snow Extreme Cold Grasp domain, I still cannot damage the BOSS."
"But what if I stack the defense reduction from Extreme Cold Grasp together with the BOSS's own charging state defense reduction?"
Lin Mo realized that the weakness of the Insect Shaman revealed by the SSS Eye of Insight was not completely useless.
The Insect Shaman exploded insects once every 60 seconds, and for 10 seconds after each explosion, it would enter the charging state, during which its defense was reduced by 25 percent.
But just like the 44 percent defense reduction from Extreme Cold Grasp, a mere 25 percent reduction was still not enough for Lin Mo to break the BOSS's defense.
However, Lin Mo had never tried combining Extreme Cold Grasp with this charging state before, stacking the defense reduction to as high as 69 percent.
"It should be worth a try."
Thinking this, Lin Mo took advantage of the moment right after the Insect Shaman finished one round of exploding insects and entered the charging state.
Ice Snow, Extreme Cold Grasp.
Heaven Slaying, Seven Star Volley.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
With the Insect Shaman as the center, the two SSS tier skills burst out.
For a moment, ice and snow filled the sky.
Starlight scattered everywhere.
Above the Insect Shaman's head, a large amount of blood red damage numbers popped up.
-1.
-552.
-568.
-585.
-336 poison damage.
-200 soul burn.
"It really can break defense."
Seeing damage higher than 1 finally appear above the Insect Shaman's head, Lin Mo was overjoyed.
With this whole combo, plus a few basic attacks woven in.
In the short three seconds that the Extreme Cold domain lasted, Lin Mo had dealt a total of 9527 damage.
He had instantly shaved off a full 2.5 percent of the Insect Shaman's HP.
"Holy hell."
Lin Mo was shocked by his own damage.
Even though it was only three seconds, once the Extreme Cold domain disappeared, all of Lin Mo's damage would go back to the forced 1 point again.
And he could only get this kind of burst once every minute by combining Extreme Cold Grasp with the charging state.
But even so, to Lin Mo, this was a huge breakthrough.
"Based on the BOSS healing 190 HP per second, it heals 9120 HP per minute."
"If I can steadily deal 9527 damage every minute, then after offsetting the healing, it is equivalent to me taking 407 HP off it every minute."
The stability was absolute.
Because the resistances of a level 30 Tier 3 BOSS were too high, Lin Mo did not land a single critical hit in that round of attacks.
So the 9527 damage he had just tested was the guaranteed minimum.
If a few crits appeared, it would go even higher.
"Even if we calculate using the minimum 407 damage, besides those three seconds of burst doing 407 damage, during the remaining 57 seconds I can keep the forced damage at 9 per second, which is another 513 damage."
"Added together, I can take 920 HP off the Insect Shaman every minute."
"Based on the Insect Shaman's 380000 HP, that means in about seven hours, I can kill it."
When he reached this conclusion, Lin Mo was ecstatic.
Because he would become the first player in Oracle history to cross nine levels and solo kill a level 30 Tier 3 BOSS at level 21.
The last time he was this excited was when he scratched out an SSS tier talent code at a lottery shop.
"Seven hours only."
"Trading that for a Tier 3 big BOSS is worth it."
"Let's do it."
Once he decided, he did it.
Lin Mo did not dare to stop for even a moment.
Normally, he used the fastest possible speed to keep attacking the Insect Shaman.
Every time the Insect Shaman used Exploding Insects, he used Extreme Cold Grasp together with the charging state to reduce the Insect Shaman's defense by 69 percent.
Then for three seconds, he went all out.
Making sure his output was pushed to the absolute limit.
The facts proved that Lin Mo's number crunching was completely viable.
After covering the Insect Shaman's healing, all the damage Lin Mo dealt could still steadily take around 900 to 1000 HP off the Insect Shaman every minute.
Watching the Insect Shaman's HP bar steadily drop bit by bit, Lin Mo could not help but think.
"The Eye of Insight really is a good thing."
If not for this SSS tier Eye of Insight that could accurately reveal the Insect Shaman's weakness, how could Lin Mo have known that the Insect Shaman had this charging state.
After all, at any time, the damage Lin Mo dealt to the Insect Shaman was only forced minus 1. Whether the Insect Shaman was in the charging state or not, he had no way to tell.
Unless by coincidence, he happened to use Extreme Cold Grasp while the Insect Shaman was in the charging state.
But earlier, when he realized that his forced damage could not keep up with the Insect Shaman's auto healing, Lin Mo would probably have already given up on this BOSS and crushed a return scroll to go back to the city.
He would never have had the chance to discover this at all.
So, Lin Mo relied on the map bug, standing on top of the ten meter tall stone pillar, and using the tactics he had researched to slowly wear down the BOSS.
———
At the same time, on the other side.
Under Wang Junjie's leadership, a total of three thousand Chaotic World players had all accepted the quests and entered the first floor of the Insect Nest Dungeon.
They formed teams of five, spread out through the huge spider nest, hunting level 20 Venom Spiders and collecting venom bottles.
At this time, the strategist Chaos Zhuge analyzed.
"At this speed, by the time all of us reach the tenth floor, Rulebound will probably have already killed the BOSS."
Wang Junjie frowned, "Then do you have any way to speed things up?"
Chaos Zhuge pushed up his glasses and said confidently, "Have each team focus on one person and let that person complete the quest first and immediately move to the second floor."
"The people who reach the second floor form teams again and still focus on one person to complete the quest and enter the third floor."
"Repeat this process. By sacrificing 80 percent of the people on each floor, we can filter out 20 percent to reach the tenth floor at the fastest speed."
"Nice. As expected of my strategist," Wang Junjie said in delight, "Reward him. Five hundred thousand."
Chaos Zhuge wished he were a woman so he could tie up his hair and kneel before Wang Junjie.
"Thank you, Brother Jie."
Wang Junjie laughed loudly, "Rulebound, just you wait."
"If I still let you eat this BOSS from the Insect Nest Dungeon, I will livestream cutting off my d!ck."
As soon as he finished speaking, a lackey beside him said.
"Brother Jie, it seems you said that last time too."
"Spread it. Brother Jie has two of them." [T/N: LMAO!]
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