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Chapter 259: Xerxus
Chapter 259: Xerxus
Chapter 259: Xerxus
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Above the draped figure, a name bar appeared.
[The King of the Night, Xerxus]
[HP: 100%]
Adam twirled his greatsword around as he approached the figure, but when he took his first steps on the platform, a figure emerged from a green mist right in front of him.
After the green mist cleared, the figure was clearly a skeleton with rattling bones, and it raised its bony arm to stop Adam from moving any further.
"Only one?" Xerxus raised his gaze, and narrowed it. "You dare challenge me, solo human?" "I dare," Adam said, cutting through the skeleton with a single swing.
"Humans grow more foolish with each passing winter." Xerxus rose to his feet, and picked up his cane. "I remember all the fights I've been through. Hundreds of them. Some I win, some I lose, but this is the first time I've been challenged by a solo human."
Adam wryly smiled. 'This is a floor that is extremely difficult for solo players to clear. It's because his annoying ability.'
"I accept this foolish challenge, human!"
Xerxus tapped his cane on the floor, and dozens of skeletons appeared all around him.
Unlike the skeletons outside the boss room, these skeletons were holding weapons and shields.
The skeletons launched their attacks, but Adam cut through them like a hot knife through butter. They were all soon just piles of shattered bones.
Xerxus waved his cane, and all those broken bones began to reform into complete skeletons once again.
Just like that, the skeletons were back alive.
Adam's eyebrow twitched in annoyance, and he smashed his blade through them once again.
However, just like before, the skeletons rose back up and continued to attack.
This was one of the reasons why fighting Xerxus alone was extremely difficult.
With a party, Tank could easily attract the aggro of the skeletons, and keep them busy. It was quite easy since these skeletons were quite weak.
While Tank kept the skeletons busy, the other members of the party would attract Xerxus.
Now, he couldn't do any of that because he was all alone.
Adam backed off while parrying the attacks, and when the skeletons came close enough, he flashed past them all, and cut through them effortlessly.
The skeletons crumbled to a big pile, but Xerxus was already waving his cane.
However, Adam instantly used Little God's insane speed to cross the difference, and smashed his sword against the cane.
The spell got disturbed.
However, Xerxus didn't look surprised even the slightest and pushed Adam back effortlessly with a powerful force.
Adam rushed back at him, and continued swinging his heavy-looking sword, but Xerxus blocked all strikes with his cane. None of the strikes came even close to hitting him!
At that moment, Adam did a step forward, and shouted. "Chi Strike!"
With his Chi Strike flying forward, Xerxus slapped his hand away with the cane, and then smacked it across Adam's face with a loud crack.
It sent Adam flying some distance away. A part of his skull suffered a fracture.
He quickly used one of the flasks to heal that, and rose back up, but he felt like he was a child fighting against an adult.
The strength difference was crazy high.
Xerxus tossed his cane straight at him, and stabbed the ground right between his legs.
It started glowing bright red, and then it multiplied into multiple canes, surrounding Adam in a ring of canes.
"The Corruption of the Night."
Starting from his feet, Adam started to slowly turn into a skeleton, as if his flesh were peeling off his bones. It was a grotesque scene.
The health started dropping at an alarming rate.
At that moment, Adam lifted his sword high, and cut through the ground, making big enough crevice for the canes around him to fall into.
The spell got disturbed.
Xerxus summoned the cane back to him, and swung it straight at Adam.
Adam placed his greatsword above his head, and blocked the cane, but the ground under him cracked, and he was forced down on his knees.
It didn't help that his legs were all bone and no flesh, so he was weak and easily overpowered by the force of the blow.
At that moment, wings sprouted from his back, and they smacked Xerxus off from him.
Xerxus spun around the air, landed on the ground, and slid across the platform.
Adam quickly drank some flasks to recover the flesh back on his legs, and once he did that, he took flight, and soared towards Xerxus to continue the battle.
Xerxus jumped straight at him, and smacked him off the air with his cane.
Adam crashed into the ground, but the wings took care of most of the impact, and without further ado, he went back to the air.
"Aahhh!" With a loud scream, he fell straight down at Xerxus and smashed his sword down.
"Great Skeleton Arm!"
Xerxus smashed his cane on the ground, and behind him, a gigantic skeleton arm manifested and appeared in the path of the greatsword.
Once the greatsword slammed into the hand, the bony fingers wrapped around the sword's blade, and stopped its movement completely.
At that moment, Adam looked Xerxus straight in the eye, and a hint of green began to appear
in Adam's eyes.
For a moment, Xerxus saw the ground behind him vanish, and he looked surprised for a second, but the illusion soon broke apart, and he noticed that the platform was still there.
However, that one moment of surprise was enough.
Adam flew past the skeleton arm, and slashed through Xerxus's chest with ease.
[HP: 88%]
Xerxus stumbled back, and looked at his bleeding chest, but it just frowned, and summoned more of the skeletons to attack Adam.
This time, there were about fifty of those skeletons, attacking Adam from all angles.
They surrounded him, and started tugging on his clothes, trying to drag him down on the ground, but Adam just took flight, took some of the skeletons with him, and then cut through their arms so they would let go of him.
Xerxus twirled the cane around him, and then summoned a skeleton-made chain from the
ground.
The chain shot through the air, and stabbed straight towards Adam, but he quickly placed his strong wings in the way, but the impact was still strong enough to push him back towards the double doors of the boss room.
"Argh..." Adam coughed out. 'How disgustingly powerful is he?'
He tried to use his Kiryoku to anticipate all the attacks, but his attacks just came so quickly
and unexpectedly.
'I don't want to give up yet. I'll try something crazy!'
Adam fell back to the ground, made the wings shrink back to his body, and then rushed
through the army of skeletons, cutting through them like nothing.
Eventually, he reached Xerxus once again, who gave off pressure so overwhelming that the
ground was almost shaking.
With his greatsword, he jumped to the air and slashed it down.
"Ground King!"
Xerxus placed his cane in the way, and as soon as the greatsword landed on it, the ground
under Xerxus broke and shattered.
While Xerxus was occupied by the greatsword, Adam slammed his feet against his chest and
shouted. "Chi Strike!"
The Chi Strike broke through Xerxus' defenses and wreaked havoc inside his body.
[HP: 83%]
The health was slowly, but steadily lowering!
"Heh." Adam grinned, but at the same moment, one of the skeleton chains smacked him away
like a fly, sending him flying across the room.