"That evil creature seems to have fallen into a deep sleep on the plains west of the Forest of Hope due to its rash absorption of Divine Power. Its aura is so powerful that we dare not approach, and we don't know if it has woken up yet."
Hearing the nun's information, Chen Mo wordlessly glanced at the Forest of Hope he had just spent half an hour trudging through.
"Fortunately, I didn't continue to eliminate my divinity. If I had to run through this Forest of Hope again, it would probably take me another half an hour!"
After confirming the direction to the west with the nun once again, Chen Mo was ready to set off.
"Brave Sir, here is some Holy Water. Take it with you. It can heal your injuries when necessary."
[Holy Water of Hope]: Can quickly restore full Health and Energy. 10/10 uses.
Seeing the Holy Water the nun handed him, Chen Mo casually took it and tossed it into his expansion backpack. Given his current attributes, he wasn't too concerned about this type of recovery item.
Quickly entering the Forest of Hope, Chen Mo headed west. After running for a full hour, he finally got out of the forest.
"Goodness, the Forest of Hope is so long! This trial only has one BOSS, yet they give you 24 hours. There must be a reason for that!"
With that hour passed, Chen Mo only had a little over three hours left for his trial.
He quickly scanned the open plain in front of him, looking for the Pseudo-God Incarnation.
But he didn't need to look far. Just a kilometer away, he saw a large, pitch-black object spewing black smoke.
It clearly wasn't anything good.
Even from a kilometer away, he could tell it was huge. It must be even more massive up close!
Chen Mo cautiously approached to about five hundred meters, finally getting a clear view of this so-called Pseudo-God Incarnation.
It was a monster the size of an elephant, shrouded in black mist, wearing a horned helmet that covered half its head.
With a wave of Chen Mo's Wand of Shared Fate, he immediately summoned five hundred Skeleton Monsters of various professions nearby.
Although these Skeleton Monsters were of various professions, this really only affected their weapons and combat styles; they didn't possess any related skills.
Among these five hundred Skeleton Monsters, some wielded longswords, broadswords, axes, and hammers, while others used long spears, short daggers, bows, and Magic Wands.
As their summoner, Chen Mo could, of course, see them even in their invisible state.
He immediately arranged these Skeleton Monsters into two ranks, front and rear, based on their melee or ranged attack types.
Once this was done, he commanded these Skeleton Monsters to silently assault the Pseudo-God Incarnation, which was currently in a deep sleep.
"They're even giving us a free sneak attack! Watch me stack over a hundred layers of Corpse Poison on it in an instant!"
Chen Mo would never pass up such an opportunity to freely set up the optimal attack environment.
He directed the melee Skeleton Monsters with short-handled weapons, like daggers, to form the innermost circle around the Pseudo-God Incarnation. Skeleton Monsters with medium-length weapons, such as longswords and broadswords, formed a slightly wider circle. Finally, those with long-handled weapons, like long spears and long axes, created the outermost layer.
All ranged Skeleton Monsters were positioned at their maximum attack distance.
Once everything was properly arranged, just over one hundred Skeleton Monsters couldn't find optimal positions for a simultaneous attack. Although they were currently in an invisible state and lacked collision volume, allowing them to stack together and sneak in an initial attack before becoming visible, they would reveal their physical forms upon attacking. This would cause them to push each other out of place, disrupting the painstakingly arranged all-around attack formation. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to forgo the contribution of these hundred-odd Skeleton Monsters to ensure the remaining three hundred seventy could perfectly execute their attacks.
With all preparations done, another ten or so minutes passed.
Seeing time fly by minute by minute, Chen Mo naturally didn't dare to waste any. Once everything was set up, he immediately gave the order. Instantly, with a series of WHOOSHES, a barrage of attacks was unleashed!
BANG! BANG! BANG…
Before the Pseudo-God Incarnation could even react, a series of muffled Poison Explosions continuously erupted on its body!
[Heavenly Path's Hint: Your Skeleton Monster has stacked 100 layers of Corpse Poison on the Pseudo-God Incarnation, triggering a Poison Explosion and dealing 10,000 Poison Explosion Damage!]
[Heavenly Path's Hint: ...stacked 200 layers of Corpse Poison, triggering a Poison Explosion and dealing 40,000 Poison Explosion Damage!]
[Heavenly Path's Hint: …stacked 300 layers of Corpse Poison, triggering a Poison Explosion and dealing 90,000 Poison Explosion Damage!]
Normally, Skeleton Monsters aren't agile summons and attack slowly. But with the blessing granting a 100% attack speed increase, they could attack once per second. In that single second, Chen Mo was instantly flooded with three hints from the Heavenly Path.
With just over three hundred attacks, they had stacked over three hundred layers of Corpse Poison on the Pseudo-God Incarnation, directly obliterating 140,000 of its Health.
Although this amount of Health was negligible for the Pseudo-God Incarnation, which possessed a total of one hundred million Health, one mustn't forget that Poison Explosion damage scaled increasingly drastically with the number of Corpse Poison layers.
As the Pseudo-God Incarnation awoke, before it could even retaliate, the second wave of attacks from all the Skeleton Monsters had already landed.
The Heavenly Path's hints bombarded again.
Above the BOSS's head, four long lines of green numbers popped up consecutively!
-160,000! (Poison Explosion)
-250,000! (Poison Explosion)
-360,000! (Poison Explosion)
-490,000! (Poison Explosion)
The 370 Skeleton Monsters had stacked 370 layers of Corpse Poison in the first round; the second round of attacks directly increased the stacks to 740 layers.
This simultaneously triggered the Poison Explosion damage for reaching the 400, 500, 600, and 700 layer thresholds.
In just two seconds, the BOSS's Health plummeted by over one million!
Its total Health had instantly dropped by 1%.
More crucially, such a high number of Corpse Poison layers reduced all its life recovery effects proportionally. A mere 100% reduction would have already prevented it from healing, let alone the current 740% reduction.
Its Immortal Self-Healing Divinity and Bloodthirsty Heart Divinity were now like two useless abilities, completely ineffective.
However, this comfortable environment for stacking Corpse Poison wouldn't last forever.
As the Pseudo-God Incarnation woke up, it immediately began to retaliate in fury.
It had obtained Divine Power and was on the verge of becoming a supreme God! Yet, it had been ambushed by a group of the lowest-level Skeleton Monsters while sleeping. It was utterly enraged, and the aura around its body suddenly began to flare and condense.
"Could this be the 3-second charging animation for its Heaven Shaking Divine Might skill?"
Its opponent was furious, yet it was still unwittingly giving him another three seconds to stack Corpse Poison. Chen Mo, of course, wouldn't waste this opportunity. He quickly ordered the Skeleton Monsters to intensify their attacks, though he himself had no intention of attacking.
"Whether or not he triggered his talent right now was pointless. The Skeleton Monsters' normal attacks dealt pitifully low damage to the Pseudo-God Incarnation, which possessed the Unbreakable Golden Body Divinity. Their direct damage output wasn't needed; what mattered were the layers of Corpse Poison!"
"Three seconds was enough for all the Skeleton Monsters to attack three more times!"
With 370 Skeleton Monsters attacking effectively and simultaneously, in those 3 seconds, they added another 1,110 layers of Corpse Poison to the Pseudo-God Incarnation!