Volume 1: Dance of the Black Dragon Chapter 15: Santazak on his way to death
"This one should be safe." Looking at the Sword of Dawn that was using the ogre's corpse to wipe the blood off the giant sword, the Midnight God of Magic suddenly said quietly.
"Oh, so confident? Just because the first two bosses were so weak?"
"Of course not. It was a bit unexpected that the two bosses in front were so weak. I originally thought it was some kind of trap, and the other party was misleading us to make us careless, but I suddenly figured it out just now."
The Midnight Magic God held up a finger. "Murphy has not received any resources from Xingyao Company. I have studied his live broadcast videos. He always leads the way in every battle and relies on himself. I thought he liked to be in the limelight, but now I realize that it is because he has almost no decent subordinates."
"Isn't he very strong? He has built such a great reputation all by himself."
Midnight Mage nodded. "He is indeed very strong, but only outside the dungeon. As we have analyzed before, his talent points are definitely crooked. His dragon breath and flying abilities are far superior to ordinary dragons, but other aspects are definitely flawed. That's why I put together such a lineup to deal with him. He can't fight in melee combat, or at least his melee combat is not very strong. With you here, it is enough to completely overcome his melee ability, and my barrier can restrain his dragon breath. What else can he do? Dragon language magic? I have never seen him use it.
I won’t bet everything on this one, I came here with 70% certainty of winning—now it’s 90% certainty.”
The Dawn Sword nodded slightly. "That's a good analysis, but never be careless until the last moment. Since this guy can survive until now, he must have his own unique skills."
"Of course, don't worry, we have used all our strength to deal with it this time. He will definitely not survive tonight. Let's keep moving forward."
The team passed through the obsidian hall and came to a staircase on a spacious platform. Several monsters blocking the way put up a symbolic resistance before being shot to the ground. The adventurers quickly rushed up the stairs, and a hall filled with skeletons appeared before their eyes.
This hall seemed to be some kind of sacrificial site, with an altar in the center and skeletons of various humanoid creatures scattered around it, including goblins, kobolds, ogres, humans, and even dragonmen.
A huge magic circle-like object was engraved on the ground, forming a sunken ditch covered with black dirt formed by dried blood.
The whole hall was filled with an eerie atmosphere, making one wonder if they had traveled through time to a horror survival game. A gust of cold wind blew, and some timid adventurers began to shiver.
Chi Yang: "Fuck, this game company is so awesome."
decade: “How do you say that?”
Chiyang: "Such horrific game scenes have not been banned, mom, I'm so scared!"
Orange Lemon: "Shh, keep your voice down, don't seduce the boss."
Following the direction pointed by a priest in the team, around the altar, a dozen Dragon Cult priests in black cloaks were praying loudly. An old man with similar but more gorgeous attire was standing on the altar, wearing a dragon bone helmet and opening his hands, as if performing some mysterious ritual.
The third BOSS of the Dark Dragon's Lair is Santazak, the high-ranking priest of the Cult of the Dragon.
"Hey, it's the Dragon Cult priest. He didn't even arrange the young black dragon to be the gatekeeper boss."
Midnight Mage showed an expression of not having expected it. "Isn't it obvious? Hildesanks is just a smaller version of Morpheus. That guy will definitely not give us such a chance to practice. But it doesn't matter. We have practiced before anyway."
That 's right, in the past month or so, this team had conducted boss battle drills against Morpheus and several of his subordinates , and the targets of the drills were similar bosses in other copies. Because of this, they had previewed the tactics and abilities of these bosses, so they were able to kill the first two bosses so easily.
As for Morpheus, they had also had drills, but that time they were facing a catastrophic red dragon BOSS, which was only at the second level of disaster level. It was much weaker than Morpheus in strength, but they were both dragons and could breathe fire, so at least their fighting styles were very similar.
That battle gave them a lot of experience.
Dawn Sword shook his head. "I hate these priest monsters. They pray to their gods all the time and always do some weird things. When we enter the BOSS battle, everyone hurry up and try to kill it quickly."
After saying that, he waved his hand, and the team formed into a fan-shaped formation and approached the BOSS.
At the same time, Murphy was also paying attention to this final BOSS battle.
[System prompt: The Dragon Cult priest Santazak used the battle strategy 'Sacrifice Summon' to sacrifice the existing BOSS and other friendly units on the field to summon a higher-level BOSS.]
Murphy was stunned for a moment. If he understood correctly, was Santazak going to sacrifice himself?
Although Santazak was just an NPC and they were not even familiar with each other, he was still touched.
At this moment, the adventure group has entered the BOSS's hatred range.
Santazak suddenly raised his head and looked at the people in the distance with a weird smile. To everyone's surprise, unlike the two foul-mouthed bosses before, this old boss was actually quite kind.
Santazak (Dragon Cult priest): "Hehe, welcome to the Sacrifice Hall, two heroes and brave adventurers, you are honored to witness a sacred ceremony, the once lost god will once again show its miracles.
It is not easy to pray for this miracle. It requires great sacrifice and courage. I have never been able to make up my mind to make such a sacrifice, but your arrival has given me a reason that I cannot refuse. Following the order of Lord Morpheus, I will stop you at any cost. In this case, please bear witness!
Blessing from the ancient gods, Dragon God Amahamut, answer the prayers of your humble servant and bring your will to this world! Infuse my decaying body with your great power. "
As Santazak's tone became more and more passionate, an invisible force lifted him up into the air. The Dragon Worshipers who were kneeling on the ground praying began to pray frantically. The prayers soon turned into screams. Their flesh and blood quickly dried up and turned into mummies. The gushing blood turned into red energy and gathered towards Santazak.
The Sword of Dawn subconsciously wanted to rush forward to interrupt the ceremony, but found himself completely unable to move. Not only him, but everyone's perspective became that of a bystander.
This thing actually has cutscenes...
This is also one of the benefits of the dungeon mode. No matter how impatient the hero is, he has to wait until the villain completes his transformation before he can start fighting.
In full view of everyone.
All the blood energy was absorbed by Santazak, and his body began to swell. Something was wriggling under his skin. With a puff, a dragon wing pierced through the skin on his back and extended out.
Puff, another dragon wing came out. Most of the two dragon wings were bones, and only the parts close to the torso had a little wing membrane. His limbs also began to mutate, the skin was torn, and the flesh and blood expanded, just like a balloon that was getting bigger.
In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a terrifying dragon-like creature.
It was obvious that he did not have enough flesh and blood, and most of his body was made up of pale bones, looking twisted and incomplete.
Santazak (Dragon Cult priest): "No, the sacrifice is not enough to complete the ritual. I need more sacrifices! Since life is not enough to complete this great body given to me by Amahamut, I will use death to fill this body."
The strange dragon spread its wings, and countless breaths of death surged out from the surrounding bones and gathered into the body of the strange dragon.
The breath of death merged with the previous flesh and bones, turning into more pale bones, filling the gaps in the flesh and blood. When everyone finally finished watching the cutscene, what appeared in front of them was a terrifying monster that was difficult to describe in words. It was a giant dragon made of bones, shrouded in the black breath of death.
'Step into Death' Santazak (Skeleton Dragon) Level 80: Disaster Level 3, HP 195,000.
