Lu Li instructed for the two Main Tanks who were at critical HP to be healed back to full . He then sent a small group out to Revive those who had fallen .
Fortunately, Shadow Impact had a cooldown and couldn't be cast whenever . Otherwise, Lu Li wouldn't dare to bring this group of level 40 players to fight a level 50+ Boss .
With a 7-8 level gap, there would be a significant amount of bonus damage dealt . The situation would be so delicate that if something went wrong, the party would be wiped .
When the Boss' HP dropped below 50%, its attack rhythm increased . In this state, Hex not only could cast Shadow Impact, but also had a skill called Chaos Hit .
Chaos Hit – targets that are hit by this attack will be put into a state of confusion and will attack their teammates . Also creates five clones of the target .
If you were hit by this skill, you would become the Vile Priestess Hex's minion, and there would be six of you .
The five clones would each have one of your skills . If you were DPS character like a Mage, it would be Frostbolt, while if you were a Warlock, it would be Shadow Bolt . However, these mobs were usually rapidly dealt with as they were unable to heal .
If the target was a Healer, things would be even easier . Instead of attacking their former teammates, they would choose to heal the Boss .
However, if the commander was hit and the players couldn't deal with him in time, it would only be a matter of minutes before they were wiped .
Many big guilds had specific strategies for fighting Vile Priestess Hex .
In order to complete this phase as quickly as possible, Lu Li chose to begin using the Skulls filled with Resentment .
Although the previous stage was difficult, as long as they could maintain control of the Boss, there was little chance of wiping . As such, there was no need to use this item .
However, it was a mistake to think that there were many of these Skulls filled with Resentment . They looted many corpses at Jinth'Alor, but the drop rate for this item was so low that they had only collected ten . These ten might not even be enough, and Lu Li still had to watch out for Hex's Berserk form .
On command, the designated players threw their Skulls, which hit the Vile Priestess Hex one at a time .
Once these heads touched her, they immediately exploded into a cloud of gray smoke which was absorbed into her body .
Hex let out a shrill cry .
A debuff immediately appeared over her head – Armor Pierce .
"Keep going; don't stop! We need to maintain five stacks!" Lu Li shouted .
Armor Pierce was a useful debuff that would significantly increase the amount of damage that the Boss took . Unfortunately, this state only lasted for five seconds and most players could only two skills in this time .
After stacking another five Skulls, the second debuff appeared – Root .
Root's effect prevented Hex from moving, but she was still free to cast her skills . Hex was a Ranged Caster, so this debuff didn't really affect her .
Although a flurry of Skulls had hit Hex, many of them didn't have any effect . Square Root 3, who initially thought that they had quite a few skulls and had urged Lu Li to use them, was now completely silent .
However, it was interesting to see all the different debuffs of Dawn on display .
In addition to the previous Armor Pierce and Root, there was a following series of debuffs including Silence, Curse, Fatigue, Sickness, Cripple, Slow, Fear, Sleep, Charm, Dazed and Disarmed .
Some like Coma, Disarm, Sickness and Fatigue were useful . They prevented the Boss from attacking, or would reduce their damage and Armor .
There were some that didn't do anything, like Slow . It would have been better to reduce Hex's attack speed rather than her movement speed .
Of course, having these effects stacked together still helped .
When the Boss' HP dropped below 40%, she attempted to summon another demon when she was suddenly hit by Fear .
As a result, Hex stopped attacking and began to aimlessly run about . Amidst the chaos, it casted Shadow Impact before it could fully recover .
In that moment, there was a small group fighting the Boss made up of light-armor professions . The results were obvious…
Ten players died and seven were left at critical HP .
As luck would have it, the DPS players couldn't get out of the way and the seven remaining players didn't have enough time to recover .
After this unfortunate event, there were only one to two players left .
Lu Li let out a cry of distress before instructing the Main Tanks to pull the Boss away so that some of the Druids could Revive the stronger players . However, there was no way they could Revive them all . The Druid Resurrect skill was limited and there was nothing they could do after they ran out .
On the ground, there were more than fifty corpses that were still lying on the ground . Lu Li hastily Revived some of the ones nearby .
There were some small mobs around the area, but they weren't too problematic as they were outside the range of the Evil Priestess .
The other guilds had no idea . Even if they caught wind of it, they would still see the difficulty of their situation . No one could get in and no one could get out .
In the second phase, they had lost many players and had also used up 80% of their Skulls .
Phase 3 began when Hex fell to 20% HP and was a little simpler . Apart from the Chaos Hits, there were some other skills that dealt a lot of damage over an area .
Even so, they still couldn't afford to be careless . Bosses in Dawn could counter-attack, and would even have tricks at 1% HP .
Naturally, Lu Li wasn't the kind of person to do things carelessly . Those who didn't know what was happening thought that everyone was going to get wiped . However, everyone else kept fighting and prepared themselves for whatever ridiculous things Hex decided to throw at them next .
In fact, there were no major incidents until it reached 5% HP .
Azure Sea Breeze was struck once by a Chaos Hit . Dealing with six Azure Sea Breezes took a lot of effort, but fortunately, he only had a lot of HP . He could tank a lot of attacks, but he couldn't kill anyone .
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