Chapter 1552 - 1549: Centipede Fear

Finally, Long Yijian drew the longsword loudly from the inner side of the Cross Shield and raised his right hand, shouting:

"——Battle start!"

Then he walked through the wide-open gate, with everyone following behind him.

The interior of the room was a rather spacious dome-shaped space, probably as big as the arena where Ye Qiu and Long Yijian had their duel.

The curved walls gradually extended upwards, only bending in and closing at a distant height. When all thirty-two people entered the room and naturally formed a standing formation——the gate behind them immediately closed with a loud bang.

Before the boss is defeated or all present are annihilated, this door shouldn't open.

There was a few seconds of silence among the crowd. Although they were always on alert on the wide ground, the boss still didn't appear. Time seemed to tense everyone's nerves to the extreme as it passed second by second.

"Hey——"

Someone couldn't bear it and uttered a sound; just at this moment...

"Above!"

Fang Wushang screamed sharply from beside. Ye Qiu hurriedly looked up.

At the top of the dome — there was something stuck onto it.

It was a very large and lengthy thing.

A Centipede —?

Upon seeing it, Ye Qiu instinctively thought this. It was probably about ten meters long. Its body composed of multiple segments reminded one more of a human backbone than an insect.

Each grayish-white cylindrical segment had a pair of sharp legs with exposed bones. Following its body forward, one could see the gradually thicker front end with a ferocious skull.

And it wasn't a human skull. It had four eye sockets arranged symmetrically on streamlined twisted bones with blue flames flickering in them. The protruding jawbone was lined with sharp teeth, and the skull had huge scythe-like bone arms extending outward.

The skeletal centipede, under all the fearful and wordless gazes of everyone, wriggled its countless legs and slowly climbed on the ceiling. Suddenly, all its legs stretched out wide — falling straight above the team.

"Don't stay there, quickly disperse!"

Long Yijian's sharp yell pierced through the frozen air, and finally, all members woke up and started to move. They hurriedly retreated from the spot where it was likely to land.

However, the three directly under the descending centipede moved slightly late. They seemed unsure of which way to go, just stopped and raised their heads upward.

"Quick, come this way!"

Ye Qiu shouted urgently. The three broke free as if released from a spell and began running towards Ye Qiu's direction ——

But… when the centipede landed behind them, the whole ground violently shook. This caused them to stumble, and the centipede's right arm — its scythe-like bone, just the blade itself was as tall as a person — swept across them.

The three were simultaneously chopped away from behind. As they flew in the air, blood spewed out, and then they landed on the ground.

"...!"

Once their bodies fell, they lay motionless; the three either fainted or… perished.

"————!"

Beside him, Fang Wushang held his breath involuntarily. Ye Qiu also felt his body stiffen intensely.

With just a single strike —— it caused such tremendous damage to them ——!

Training the body and one's strength should make them not so easily harmed by attacks; particularly with everyone here being exceptional experts, such simple physical attacks shouldn't cause significant damage.

"This is really outrageous… just one hit and…"

Fang Wushang murmured hoarsely.

The skeletal centipede that took three lives in an instant raised its upper body high, let out a thunderous roar, and then charged at a new group of people with incredible speed.

"Ahhhhhhh——!"

The warriors in that direction issued terrified screams. The bone scythe was raised once more.

At the critical moment, a figure suddenly rushed under the scythe, and that person was Long Yijian. He raised a giant shield to block the attack, the impact sound was nearly ear-shattering, followed by sparks flying everywhere.

However, the enemy had two scythes. The left wrist kept attacking Long Yijian while the right scythe was lifted to slash at a group of people frozen on the spot.

"Damn…!"

Ye Qiu charged forward recklessly, shortening the distance between them and the enemy as if flying in mid-air, rushing under the bone scythe that swung down with a roar, then blocked the scythe attack with the sword.

Immediately, overwhelming force was exerted on him. But — the scythe didn't stop there. It sparked while bouncing Ye Qiu's sword away, pressing towards him.

No, it's too powerful ——!

At that moment, a new sword sliced the air with pure white light, hitting the scythe from below. The impact sound rang out. Taking advantage of the scythe slowing down, Ye Qiu immediately pushed the bone scythe back with full force.

Fang Wushang, standing by Ye Qiu's side, looked at himself and said:

"With two people enduring together —— we can block it! Ye Qiu and them can do it!"

"Alright —— then I'll leave it to you!"

Ye Qiu nodded. As long as Wushang was beside him, endless strength seemed to well up inside him.

The bone scythe now switched to sweep horizontally, once again pressing towards Ye Qiu and Fang Wushang, but they simultaneously struck with a diagonal downward slash to the right. Their synchronized swords hit the scythe with two radiating beams of light. After a strong impact, this time the enemy's scythe was repelled back.

Ye Qiu shouted forcefully:

"The giant scythe will be blocked by us! Everyone quickly attack from the side!"

Ye Qiu's voice seemed to break everyone free from their constraints, the players roared, raised their weapons, and launched an assault on the centipede's body. Multiple strikes deeply cut into the enemy's body; only then did the boss's HP bar begin to decrease slightly.

However, soon after, the screams of several people echoed again. Taking advantage of the momentarily countered scythe attack, a glance revealed the spear-like bone at the end of the centipede's tail sweeping several people to the ground.

"Ugh..."

Eager to help, Ye Qiu, Fang Wushang, and Long Yijian, who was resisting the left scythe slightly farther away alone, had no spare strength to rush over.

"Ye Qiu..."

Ye Qiu glanced at Fang Wushang, who had called out.

——No, if we keep focusing there, we'll be in danger!

——You're right...—it's attacking again...!

——Block it with an upper left slash!