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Chapter 71: Level 25 Wild Boss- Phantom Deadeye

Chapter 71: Level 25 Wild Boss- Phantom Deadeye

A palpable tension filled the canyon as Phantom Deadeye stood still, his glowing blue eyes sweeping over the battlefield like a reaper choosing his next harvest of souls.

The oppressive aura of the Level 25 Wild Boss was enough to make even the most seasoned players hesitate.

For a brief moment, everyone, the hunters and the hunted forgot their battle.

And then Noah grinned.

A feral, knowing grin. The kind that made anyone who knew him realize that someone was about to suffer.

Genevieve, sensing that grin, sighed. "You’re about to do something crazy, aren’t you?"

Caleb deadpanned. "That’s not even a question".

Aria cracked her neck, smirking. "Let’s hear it, genius".

Benjamin, still in full troll mode leaned in. "Oh, this is gonna be good, it better have some joke elements too!"

Noah smirked, looking around.

He already had the entire battlefield mapped out in his mind.

Their pursuers had stopped their chase, hungry for the Wild Boss drops. And that was exactly the weakness he needed.

"It’s a crazy idea but it’ll work!" He mumbled to himself, and then he looked at his teammates.

"Here’s the play," Noah said, his voice low and lethal. "We make the boss target them, let it massacre as many as possible, and when it’s weakened," his grin widened. "We take it out ourselves".

"So, to be clear," Caleb clarified, rubbing his temples. "We’re going to aggro the most dangerous existence on this battlefield, then trick it into doing our dirty work?"

"Exactly". Noah grinned. "SSS-Rank unique skills, SSS-Rank weapons, they mean nothing before the ultimate weapon, a Wild Boss".

Benjamin beamed. "My god, you’re evil. I love it".

Aria laughed. "Leave it to you to come up with the crazy strategies," she smiled. "But it’s a strategy I can get behind".

Genevieve sighed again, but a small smile played on her lips. "Fine. But if we die, I’m blaming you".

"Fair".

They were about to move when Benjamin raised a hand, stopping them.

They looked at him. "What?"

Benjamin chuckled. "Wait, there’s a joke here, there definitely is!"

"..."

"Don’t look at me like that, I’m serious. Ok, ok, now listen to this".

He gesticulated with his hands. "The art of War-Star, using a Wild Boss as a weapon".

"Haha," he laughed. "That hit the G-spot!"

Genevieve palmed her face, speechless.

Without saying a word, the others moved.

...

As soon as they moved, their pursuers noticed.

With inhuman speed, Noah led the charge, activating Aetherforge’s Rifle Form in one smooth motion.

And then in a single breath, he fired the first shot. Not at the wild boss, but near it.

Bam!

The bullet whistled past Phantom Deadeye’s head, not dealing damage but triggering its aggro AI.

A low, guttural growl emerged from the gunslinger’s throat as he slowly turned towards Noah. His fingers twitched toward his revolvers, and then...

BANG!

A lightning-fast draw and shot!

Before the boss could fully engage though, with a blink step, Noah vanished.

He appeared behind a cluster of enemy players. And just as Phantom Deadeye’s crosshairs locked onto him, he disappeared again.

Instead of chasing Noah, Deadeye’s programmed logic dictated that it target the closest hostile entity.

Which just so happened to be..., Cyber Crew’s vanguard.

BANG!

A single shot.

HP drained like a running tap...

And just like that, one of their warriors dropped dead.

Instant kill!

A brief silence, then chaos.

The hundred-man force instantly erupted into madness.

Chaos not because of the fact that the Wild Boss insta-killed a player, that was normal for a Wild Boss if the right conditions were met, but the chaos started because it shooting meant the boss fight already started.

Some immediately turned on Phantom Deadeye, desperate for the potential Wild Boss loot that would follow killing it.

Others tried to run, reposition, and re-strategize.

But Wild Bosses were not like normal bosses in Warstar, they weren’t designed for fair fights.

Phantom Deadeye moved like a ghost, flickering across the battlefield with impossible speed, his twin revolvers unleashing death in all directions.

Every shot landed. Every shot killed.

Every high-defense tank players crumbled instantly.

This kind of OP offensive ability..., it caught the players off-guard, bringing some of them back to their senses.

"Fall back...!"

BANG!

Another draw and shot.

The shot erased the caller mid-sentence.

Phantom Deadeye’s accuracy was God tier.

Someone activated a barrier spell, but Phantom Deadeye simply warped behind them and shot them point-blank.

Caleb whistled. "Holy hell".

Genevieve muttered. "This is actually working".

Benjamin howled. "This is a war crime! I love it!"

Caleb’s eyes flickered. Even as he was excited, his mathematical brain could not help but rear its head as he already knew why this strategy was so effective.

These were casual players who played the game for fun.

Against truly skilled players, this strategy would not work but it was the fact that they were casuals that made the Phantom Deadeye so lethal against them.

He threw a glance at Noah. ’Did he account for this?’

’What am I even thinking?’ He shook his head. ’He definitely did!’

While all this happened, meanwhile, Noah had already moved on to step 3 of his plan.

While the Wild Boss went on a massacre, Noah’s team had strategically positioned themselves to avoid Phantom Deadeye’s detection while watching their enemies crumble.

In this situation, their vast game experience dwarfed their pursuers.

Every spell, every arrow, every bullet fired at the Wild Boss in their desperate resistance was wearing it down.

These players vastly underestimated the Wild Boss.

Having realized their mistake already, they were definitely calling for reinforcement from their guilds already but Noah already took that into account in his planning.

As the hunt continued, he kept a close tab on time.

’Just in time’. He muttered.

The last guild player finally collapsed before the Wild Boss’ tyranny.

And just like that, a 100-man player party was destroyed.

By the time the last guild player collapsed, Phantom Deadeye was already weakened. Its once-fluid movements were slightly sluggish, its health bar finally dropping into the red.

The Wild Boss was powerful, but not quite powerful enough to solo 100 players. There were 2 reasons why it achieved the feat.

First, Noah and his teammates’ interference.

Afterall, they were the ones utilizing the Wild Boss as a weapon.

And second, the group of 100 players was not a cohesive unit. They came from half a dozen different top guilds, and they were all competitors in the game.

They fight for dungeon clear records and in other areas of the game, Wild Boss kills not excluded.

Even as they fought against the Wild Boss, they put some effort into thwarting their neighbours’ efforts too. Afterall, if they could not get the Wild Boss kill, the last thing they wanted was their competitor getting the kill.

This was what held them back, emboldening the rampaging Wild Boss.

While they did all that, they forgot about their initial target, Noah’s crew. Instinctively, they underestimated the impact that just 5 players could make against a Wild Boss.

Noah took all of this into consideration when making his plan.

And now, it was their turn.

"Showtime," Noah declared as soon as the last guild player fell, grinning.

And then, they struck.

Aria flashed forward, her Blades of Aamon glowing as she unleashed a flurry of slashes at the Wild Boss.

Caleb’s summons lunged at its legs, disrupting its footwork.

Genevieve kept them alive with precision healing, countering the boss’s lethal attacks with her timely battlefield control.

Benjamin, ever the troll, shouted mid-battle. "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THIRD-PARTIED, HUH?!"

Against 100 players, Phantom Deadeye thrived but against just 5 players, this Wild Boss found itself struggling to dominate like before.

Phantom Deadeye fired wildly, its code struggling to adapt.

Noah was everywhere.

He switched Aetherforge rapidly between forms; twin swords to deflect bullets, battle lance for devastating melee combos, shield to block its ultimate attack.

Wild Bosses were terrifying existences in the game, even more terrifying than hidden bosses with ridiculous reserves of HP and MP.

But with the guild players already doing most of the job for them, Noah and his teammates had the tool to complete the job.

And then, after a rapid but chaotic battle where the 5 teammates dominated the Wild Boss throughout, it finally hit the climax.

BAM!

With one last Rifle Form shot to the head, Noah landed the killing blow.

The Wild Boss staggered.

It dropped to one knee.

And then..., it disintegrated.

Almost at the same time, a massive notification appeared.

[Regional Announcement: Wild Boss, Phantom Deadeye has been defeated!]

[You have gained XP!]

[You have been rewarded with drop rewards!]

After the Wild Boss disintegrated, there was a burst of golden light and then a massive black and gold chest appeared. The drop rewards.

Silence.

Only Noah’s team remained standing.

A hundred enemies dead, a Wild Boss slain, and not a scratch on them.

Benjamin burst into laughter. "Oh, man, this was beautiful. We just made so many people rage quit".

Caleb adjusted his glasses, impressed. "This entire plan was ridiculous. And yet..., perfect".

Genevieve sighed, shaking her head with a small smile. "I can’t believe that actually worked".

Aria wiped her blade. "This," she declared," was one of the greatest things we’ve ever done. Turning a Wild Boss to a weapon is next level". She laughed.

Noah? He simply stretched, smirking.

"Tch. Too easy".