Chapter 582: The Book of Talisman!

Shuise Yantou cleaved with a single sword strike, sending the Venom Mist Scorpion flying, interrupting its venom mist technique once again.

The Venom Mist Scorpion shrieked fiercely, stood back up, and attacked Shuise Yantou wildly. The ground shook violently as Shuise Yantou stood firm like a rock amidst raging waves.

Shuise Yantou successfully delayed the Venom Mist Scorpion for about five seconds while it began to accumulate venom mist again, its abdomen swelling gradually.

Under the fierce attacks from the players behind, the Venom Mist Scorpion’s health dropped to around 6%.

“Infernal Execute!”

Still ineffective.

“Just a little more! Everyone push harder!” Nie Yan anxiously shouted in the team chat. The situation was extremely urgent. If their strong controls or powerful interrupts could be maintained, they might manage to kill the Venom Mist Scorpion. If not, they would soon face a fully healed Venom Mist Scorpion again.

Then they would be completely hopeless.

We must hold on!

Nie Yan glanced at his skill bar. Most of his skills were still on cooldown. This wasn’t the Illusory Realm, so the cooldowns for these skills were quite long. Right now, he was helpless against the Venom Mist Scorpion.

As the Venom Mist Scorpion was about to release its venom mist, Cui Can Daoguang, standing in front of it, suddenly roared. A powerful current surrounded his large shield, forming a strong vortex in its center.

Air Shield!

Cui Can Daoguang executed a heavy sweeping strike. With a loud bang, the shield struck the Venom Mist Scorpion’s head, knocking it sideways.

The Venom Mist Scorpion’s body convulsed painfully.

Air Shield was one of Cui Can Daoguang’s advanced combat skills, with a cooldown of three full days. This seemingly unremarkable skill had an extremely powerful effect—it could interrupt any ability, making it Cui Can Daoguang’s trump card when fighting bosses.

“I don’t have any more skills left either. The lower-level ones are ineffective against this guy,” Cui Can Daoguang said with a bitter smile.

Air Shield successfully delayed the Venom Mist Scorpion for three seconds.

Everyone had used up nearly all their skills, feeling like they had exhausted all their tricks. No one could successfully kill the Venom Mist Scorpion due to the massive level gap, making the success rate of execution extremely low.

The Venom Mist Scorpion’s health was reduced to about 3%, nearly depleted. At this point, its entire skin turned bright red. Despite enduring heavy magical attacks, its health slowly started to recover.

When the damage output was too low, situations like this often occurred—the recovery speed of the Venom Mist Scorpion’s health after using a skill surpassed the players’ attack output.

“Everyone, use AoE spells!”

“But we might hit our own people!”

“Never mind, just cast!” Nie Yan shouted. If the front-line warriors died, they could be resurrected. But if they couldn’t kill the Venom Mist Scorpion, they would all die!

At this moment, Daotou Dage Qi Zai waved his staff. After completing a chant, a giant beam of light descended from the sky, striking the Venom Mist Scorpion. Where the holy light met its body, white smoke rose from the monster, and damage numbers over ten thousand floated above its head.

Clerics’ Holy Purification was highly effective against evil creatures.

Then, a barrage of AoE spells rained down from the sky, bombarding the Venom Mist Scorpion. The front-line warriors were instantly wiped out by these spells. Fireballs rained down, forcing the Venom Mist Scorpion to the ground.

Cui Can Daoguang and Shuise Yantou quickly retreated.

“We’re almost there!”

“Come on, everyone!”

Under the relentless AoE spells, the Venom Mist Scorpion’s health finally began to drop slowly.

It was down to about 2% health—it was about to die!

Despite the heavy AoE attacks, the Venom Mist Scorpion still slowly moved forward.

“Warriors, Paladins, charge it! Don’t let it escape!”

Nie Yan shouted. One after another, warriors and paladins charged at the Venom Mist Scorpion, continuously ramming into it, blocking its advance with their bodies. One by one, warriors fell to the ground. Cui Can Daoguang and Shuise Yantou charged in as well, inevitably following in the footsteps of the other warriors.

At this critical moment, every second of delay was worth it.

As the Venom Mist Scorpion was about to die, it opened its mouth and spat out a ball of black mist. The black gas quickly spread, and its health began to recover again.

If it wasn’t interrupted now, it would be too late.

Seeing this, Nie Yan’s heart sank. He glanced at his skill bar—Spinebreaker was finally off cooldown.

Nie Yan cast Divine Arbiter on himself, used Instant Strike, and entered the AoE zone. He struck the Venom Mist Scorpion from behind with Spinebreaker, interrupting its venom mist mid-release.

The Venom Mist Scorpion entered a crippled state.

Fortunately, the amount of venom mist it released wasn’t much and was quickly purified by the Clerics and Paladins.

If they didn’t finish it off now, it would cause trouble again! Nie Yan launched Shadow Phantom Strike, followed by Backstab. Damage numbers floated above the Venom Mist Scorpion’s head as its health continued to drop.

The mages at the rear dared not stop casting. AoE spells raged in front of Nie Yan, filling his vision with fire, making it impossible to see clearly. He could only attack based on instinct.

Nie Yan had no idea how much health the Venom Mist Scorpion had left—he could only do his best.

Meanwhile, Tang Yao chanted a spell. Suddenly, a massive flame formed in the sky, several times larger than the Venom Mist Scorpion. With a thunderous crash, it struck the Venom Mist Scorpion, causing a damage number of over thirty thousand to float above its head.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Many players in the Cowhide Tribe were enveloped in white light—indicating they had leveled up.

“Did the Venom Mist Scorpion die?” one player asked in disbelief.

“The system says it’s dead!”

Several players who had been tense the entire time finally relaxed as they saw the Venom Mist Scorpion fall, collapsing from exhaustion.

“Boss, the Venom Mist Scorpion is dead!”

Upon confirming the Venom Mist Scorpion’s death, Nie Yan quickly exited the AoE attack zone.

The mages finally stopped casting. After several seconds of AoE spells, everything calmed down. The Venom Mist Scorpion’s corpse in the center was charred beyond recognition.

The scene ahead was a massacre—around the Venom Mist Scorpion’s body lay at least three to four hundred corpses. Not a single warrior remained alive. Only a few paladins and rogues survived. The melee units had been completely wiped out. If the Venom Mist Scorpion had still been alive after this AoE barrage, they would undoubtedly have been wiped out. Fortunately, the worst-case scenario didn’t happen.

Everyone let out relieved smiles.

Nie Yan also exhaled in relief and walked toward the Venom Mist Scorpion to collect the dropped items.

“Clerics, resurrect your teammates. Everyone else, recover in place,” Nie Yan said. He searched around the Venom Mist Scorpion’s body and picked up three pieces of equipment, two gems, and two quest items. The Venom Mist Scorpion had dropped quite a lot—it was a major loot event.

Nie Yan examined the three pieces of equipment—two of them were over level 100. One was a level 100 epic greatsword with over 3000 attack power. If it could be embedded with requirement-reducing gems, it would be an excellent weapon. The other was an epic robe for mages, significantly enhancing spell damage. The last item was a special item—Shield Ring, which could cast a shield spell. Nie Yan already had many rings, so this was more suitable for a shield warrior.

These three pieces weren’t what Nie Yan needed. He glanced at the two gems and his expression changed—among them was a dazzling emerald gem.

After a closer look, he confirmed it was the Emerald of Vitality.

With the Emerald of Vitality, Nie Yan could synthesize another Longing Necklace—what a profit!

The other two items were quest items. One was a blueprint for a griffin cage, detailing its crafting method—exactly what Cui Can Daoguang and others had been searching for. The other was a thin piece of parchment, covered in mud, looking ancient and worn, with strange symbols written in an unknown script.

This item might easily be mistaken for trash and discarded if found in an unremarkable place. However, since it dropped from a level 110 lord monster, Nie Yan naturally paid attention.

System: You have obtained the Lexicon of Alessia.

This item was bound on pickup, and Nie Yan hadn’t received any related quest clues, so he had to put it aside for now. He decided to study the script on it and head to the library in Karol City to learn it—he would probably be able to read it after that.

Nie Yan placed the Lexicon of Alessia and the Emerald of Vitality into his bag. As for the other items, he let Daoguang and the others take and distribute them.

In addition, Nie Yan distributed some guild contribution points to each team member.

Groups of mage players sat on the ground, recovering their health and mana. Clerics walked forward, resurrecting the fallen teammates one by one. Cui Can Daoguang and others revived, recovered slightly, and walked toward Nie Yan.

“How did you train your skills? How could your Stun skills be so insane!?” Cui Can Daoguang and others looked at Nie Yan, asking. To control a level 110 lord monster for such a long time, the skill effect was just too powerful.

Sun and Wang Zhetian also looked at Nie Yan. They were equally curious. They all used Stun and Bash skills, but the effects of their skills were vastly inferior to Nie Yan’s.

“It’s level 8 Stun,” Nie Yan replied. He had no reason to hide it from them.

Cui Can Daoguang and others inhaled sharply. They understood what a level 8 skill meant. Normally, skills like Stun would take at least a year or half to reach such a high level, unless one trained day and night without rest.

They exchanged glances. With level 8 Stun, it was no wonder the effect was so strong.