A God-tier Counter-damage Priest, I am the Master!

174: People died at the start of the game.Nether Vortex!

Sensing a threat, Bai Tian decisively struck first, launching a powerful area-of-effect burst skill toward the location Little Dragon Zombie had discovered.

With a thunderous ”boom,” the magnetic field formed by the Nether Vortex acted like a giant meat grinder, drawing in the player corpses within two hundred meters and instantly crushing them.

However, surprisingly, this powerful skill failed to force out any enemies.

While Bai Tian was hovering in mid-air, confused, a blood-red fleshy tentacle suddenly shot out from the ground beneath him like a bolt of lightning, lunging straight for him.

Bai Tian immediately released a 10x amplified Cold Abyss Shield for protection.

But shockingly, the blood-red tentacle ignored the shield’s power, piercing right through it and striking Bai Tian in the chest.

Though his physical body was unharmed, Bai Tian felt a piercing pain in his soul.

[Soul Damage: -210,000!]

A damage number instantly popped up.

Immediately following that, [80x Rebound: -16,800,000!]

Although Bai Tian was heavily injured, his 80x Rebound ability dealt even more massive damage to the unknown owner of the blood-colored tentacle.

”Aow!”

A shrill scream echoed from deep underground; the unknown monster hidden there had clearly been severely wounded.

It quickly retracted the blood-colored tentacle, while Bai Tian took the opportunity to rapidly refill his health and cast a 20x amplified Body Strengthening Technique, instantly boosting his vitality to a staggering 4.38 million.

Just then, with a loud ”bang,” a strange blood mist suddenly exploded and spread from the ground below.

Within the blood mist, a humanoid unknown monster slowly emerged.

Its health bar had already lost one-third; evidently, Bai Tian’s attack just now had caused it significant damage.

After glaring fiercely at Bai Tian, the unknown monster split countless blood-colored tentacles from its body and plunged them into the numerous player corpses nearby.

”What on earth is this thing?”

Bai Tian was secretly amazed.

Due to the thick concealment of the blood mist, he was temporarily unable to see the detailed information of this unknown beast.

Bai Tian didn’t dare to be careless. He immediately buffed himself with a 20x amplified Cold Abyss Blessing, then instantly cast a Cold Abyss Burst toward the monster.

[Magic Damage: -120,000!]

The unknown monster’s intelligence stat was clearly not weaker than Bai Tian’s; the skill did not trigger a secondary freezing explosion.

However, with a 20x amplification, Bai Tian’s base magic attack was as high as 460,000. Even after using the Cold Abyss Burst skill, he only dealt 120,000 damage to the monster once.

Just how exaggerated was this monster’s magic defense?

What made Bai Tian’s pupils shrink even more was that the monster actually split out countless blood tentacles again, frantically absorbing the player corpses on the ground. In just a few short seconds, its health returned to full!

”Aow!”

With a roar, the unknown monster whipped out another blood tentacle, sweeping toward Bai Tian like a gale.

But how could Little Dragon Zombie stand by and watch its master get hit?

It proactively flew forward, bravely blocking the strike.

[Soul Damage: -0!]

Seeing this, Bai Tian was stunned. What was going on?

How could such a ferocious unknown monster deal zero damage to Little Dragon Zombie?

Could it be because Little Dragon Zombie is a zombie and has no soul, so the monster can’t hurt it?

The unknown monster was also stunned; it hadn’t expected its attack to be ineffective against Little Dragon Zombie.

Since the unknown monster couldn’t damage Little Dragon Zombie, there was naturally no way to trigger the Rebound through damage sharing.

”You step back first.”

Therefore, Bai Tian had Little Dragon Zombie retreat while he quickly launched rapid basic attacks at the monster.

As long as Zan Po was triggered, no matter what level the monster was or how much health it had, it would be an instant kill!

However, after several of Bai Tian’s attacks landed, a string of [-MISS, -MISS, -MISS, -MISS...] popped up.

This left Bai Tian dumbfounded.

He was as high as level 45, yet the MISS rate of his basic attacks against this unknown monster was over 80%!

Only one out of every ten attacks could hit.

The unknown monster wouldn’t just take hits for nothing. It immediately split out even more blood tentacles, churning the air to form a storm as they all stabbed toward Bai Tian together.

Facing such a dense and terrifying attack, Bai Tian did not choose to dodge. Instead, he allowed them to hit him.

At the same time, he continued to relentlessly use basic attacks on this unknown BOSS.

Five consecutive blood tentacles hit Bai Tian simultaneously, dealing [Soul Damage: -210,000, -211,000, -212,000, -211,000, Critical -424,000!]

This instantly took away over a million of Bai Tian’s vitality.

However, the 80x Rebound was also triggered immediately!

[80x Rebound: -16,800,000, -16,880,000, -16,960,000, -16,880,000, -33,920,000!]

Instantly, it dealt over a hundred million Rebound damage to the unknown monster!

With a loud ”boom!”

The unknown monster’s health bar was instantly emptied!

Its body and the thick blood mist surrounding it exploded simultaneously, a shocking sight!

— ”(Ding-dong)!”

”(Congratulations to the player from the Da Xia Server Region — Brilliant for successfully defeating a lord-level Adult Vengeful Demon. Reward: 300,000 you tian points!)”

Immediately after, another ”ding-dong” sounded.

”(Your soul talent has leveled up. Rebound has been promoted to A-grade!)”

This unknown monster was actually a powerful Adult Vengeful Demon, as high as the lord-level!

Bai Tian was extremely shocked by this, but also filled with pleasant surprise.

Because his soul talent, Rebound, had finally leveled up again!

— [Rebound]!

(Super S-grade Soul Talent)

Current Level: A (0/1,000,000) Upgradable!

Effect: After receiving any damage, 160x of the damage can be rebounded back to the opponent.

Suppressing his excitement, Bai Tian quickly flew with Little Dragon Zombie to the spot where the Adult Vengeful Demon had died, only to find that the expected massive loot drop hadn’t occurred.

A dignified and rare lord-level Adult Vengeful Demon had only dropped two items: an angular Blood Gem as vivid as plasma, and a Blood Pill that smelled strongly of gore, seemingly condensed from flesh and blood.

”So stingy?”

Bai Tian speechlessly picked up the two items. Just as he was about to inspect them, he suddenly heard an urgent and familiar voice: ”Brilliant, take me with you and escape!”

Although Bai Tian didn’t see anyone, he knew it was the voice of Flowers in Full Bloom.

Clearly, she was in a state of invisibility.

Flowers in Full Bloom’s invisibility skill could not be seen through unless one was in a party with her.

While Bai Tian was a bit dazed, Flowers in Full Bloom had already sent him a party invitation, which Bai Tian immediately accepted.

Following that, a refreshing fragrance approached, and the invisible Flowers in Full Bloom directly grabbed one of Bai Tian’s arms.

”Don’t just stand there, hurry up and take me into the air to escape!”

She said urgently, ”There are two monarch-level Grievance Demons slaughtering the players!”

monarch-level?

Adult Vengeful Demons a whole tier higher than the lord-level?

Bai Tian’s heart skipped a beat. At that moment, a beautiful figure with a holy aura and a pair of snowy angel wings flew hurriedly past above Bai Tian’s head in a half-health state.

This figure was none other than the server’s top mage, Emil.

But at this moment, Emil’s angelic jade-like face was filled with a look of tension.

Furthermore, of the four Holy Angel Wings she originally possessed, only two remained. Clearly, they had already blocked two fatal hits for her in a short period.

Suddenly, with a loud ”bang,” another blood-covered Western man rushed out on a mount, looking panicked.

The Western man’s health bar was near empty, and he was frantically gulping down high-grade pills as he fled.

This person was actually the top-ranked warrior in the entire server, Winter!

Winter didn’t even spare a glance at Bai Tian as he rode his mount frantically away, following the direction Emil had flown.

”Don’t just stand there, take me away!”

Flowers in Full Bloom shouted anxiously, giving Bai Tian a hard pinch.

Bai Tian knew that Flowers in Full Bloom was a very steady person. If even she was this nervous, those two monarch-level Grievance Demons must be absolutely terrifying.

Bai Tian quickly put his arm around Flowers in Full Bloom’s slender waist, unfolded his Mana Transformation Wings, and instantly flew fifty meters into the air.

Looking down from the height, Bai Tian immediately spotted two blood-colored tornadoes dozens of meters high raging behind them.

Wherever these two blood-colored tornadoes passed, everything was swallowed without a trace.

In addition, dozens of players from various countries were struggling desperately in front of these two blood-colored tornadoes, trying to escape for their lives.

However, it was all in vain. Before long, these players were all sucked into the blood-colored tornadoes, leaving no bones behind.

”That terrifying?”

Bai Tian’s eyes widened, and he immediately flew forward with Flowers in Full Bloom.

However, those two blood-colored tornadoes seemed to have locked onto them, chasing after them with even greater speed and ferocity in the direction they were escaping.

While fleeing, Flowers in Full Bloom suddenly revealed a shocking fact: ”Bai Tian, things are bad. This game is getting more and more complex and eerie. People have already started dying.”

Bai Tian’s sword-like brows furrowed tightly: ”Dying?! What’s going on?”

His heart was filled with doubt and unease. It seemed that things beyond imagination were happening in this game world.