Reborn with Infinite System Points, I Can Directly Change Item's Value-Chapter 43 --Slaying the Platinum-Grade Boss
The Riftmaw Stitchers remained hidden, watching their companion from the shadows.
Then, all of a sudden—
a dagger radiating crimson light appeared behind the Level 39 Stitcher.
[-49,187!]
A terrifying damage number burst forth.
Before the Stitcher could even react, several more slashes followed in rapid succession.
[-49,187!]
[-49,187!]
Thud!
With several heavy bodies crashing to the ground, the hidden Riftmaw Stitchers were all cut down by John alone.
[You have slain Riftmaw Stitcher Lv.39. EXP +30,000, gold coin +1!]
[You have slain Riftmaw Stitcher...]
A string of notifications rang out.
But John did not stop moving for even a moment. He immediately rushed toward the Bonewood Symbiotes hidden on the other side.
The creature still thought it was perfectly concealed.
Then it suddenly saw a figure charging straight at it.
Startled, its trunk split open, revealing a pale human face.
That face twisted with fury.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless white-bone branches lashed through the air,
trying to bind John in midair and strangle him alive.
Unfortunately for it,
John’s Phantom Blink had no cooldown at all.
[Miss!]
[-41,600!]
"Aaaagh!!!"
Pain contorted the pale face as it let out a shrill scream.
John showed no mercy.
He drove his dagger straight into the open mouth on that face.
Squelch!
The face shattered instantly.
The Bonewood Symbiote’s HP dropped to zero.
[-41,600!]
[You have slain Bonewood Symbiote Lv.37. EXP +30,000, gold coin +1!]
[You have plundered the B-rank talent: Whitebone Entanglement!]
Its massive bone-tree body crashed to the ground and crumbled into dust.
After finishing off the badly wounded Riftmaw Stitcher he had left alive earlier, John barely had time to catch his breath before a terrifying sense of danger suddenly rose in his heart.
Rumble...
The ground began to quake violently.
Every whitebone tree around him seemed to come alive, their branches writhing wildly.
John’s face changed. He blinked backward several times in rapid succession.
Just moments after he vacated his original position,
the blood pooled on the ground suddenly began to boil, and then a horrifying abyss split open below.
From within that abyss,
a colossal bone tree slowly rose—
nearly ten times larger than every other bone tree around it.
Thick blood mist swirled around its body.
On the trunk of the bone tree, the face of a hateful woman gradually emerged.
"The Boss is here?"
John’s heart gave a jolt.
He immediately cast Detection.
At once, the stats of the massive bone tree appeared before his eyes.
[Dreadblood Matron] Lv.50
[Skills]: Bonecall Rite, Devourbone Art...
[Description]: The source of the Boneforest. In its former life, it was the corpse of an ancient behemoth. It has occupied this place for many years, spawning countless bone trees and causing numerous adventurers to perish within its maw.
...
After reading the description, John finally understood.
So the entire Boneforest had been created by this Boss.
That meant the bone trees he had just killed were likely its offspring.
It was the death of those offspring that had awakened this Boss from its slumber beneath the earth.
"Only one hundred thousand HP? That’s not nearly enough."
John shook his head, feeling a little disappointed.
He had thought a platinum-grade Boss at this stage would be much stronger.
But now that he had seen it, it was only this much.
At that moment—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Dreadblood Matron had fully awakened.
Countless white-bone vines hanging from its body lashed out like tentacles, striking madly toward him.
At a glance,
the entire sky was densely covered by those white-bone tendrils.
There was seemingly no room to dodge at all.
But with a thought, John entered stealth directly.
Crack! Snap! Bang!
The countless tendrils struck nothing but empty air.
The ground below was smashed into powder by their barrage.
If those attacks had landed on a group of players, an entire guild raid would probably have been wiped out on the spot.
Invisible, John moved as calmly as if he were taking a stroll, shifting step by step as he rapidly closed in on the Dreadblood Matron.
Just as he was about to drive his blade into its body,
the Dreadblood Matron seemed to sense something.
In the next moment,
its countless white-bone vines suddenly plunged into the ground.
Then the vines abruptly severed themselves from its main body.
In the blink of an eye,
they transformed into brand-new skeletal trees.
Bonecall Rite!
The moment Dreadblood Matron used this skill, it summoned a large number of Bonewood Symbiotes.
Without exception, all of them were Level 35 elite-grade monsters.
A quick glance showed there were dozens of them.
Their vines intertwined in dense overlapping layers,
forming a shield-like wall in front of John.
Clearly, Dreadblood Matron intended to use them as protection.
"A cheap trick."
John gave a cold snort.
He did not stop for even an instant. He merely raised his dagger, angling its tip forward.
Slash!
The extremely sturdy wall of bone vines was instantly chopped into broken segments by the strike of his dagger.
But the elite-grade bone trees summoned by Dreadblood Matron were indeed troublesome.
They swiftly formed a fresh wall of bone vines,
shielding Dreadblood Matron tightly behind them once more.
"Ha..."
John stopped in place and let out a sigh.
"What a nuisance."
He raised one hand slightly, and arcs of electricity flickered over his fingertips.
Crack!
From high above, dozens of bolts of lightning suddenly descended,
branding the elite-grade bone trees with Lightning Chain marks.
Then John thrust out a seemingly ordinary stab.
His target was the nearest elite-grade bone tree before him.
[-53,211!]
[-53,211!]
[-...]
In an instant, dense waves of identical damage numbers burst out everywhere.
Under the equal-damage effect of Lightning Chain,
the HP of all those elite-grade bone trees dropped to zero in a flash.
John had wiped them all out with a single strike.
Seeing that scene,
the Dreadblood Matron finally felt fear.
Its massive body began sinking underground at once, attempting to retreat back into the abyss.
It wanted to run.
But how could John let it have its way?
Lightning Double!
In an instant,
more than a dozen copies of John appeared, surrounding Dreadblood Matron from all sides.
It no longer had any path of escape.
"Don’t struggle needlessly. Just let me plunder you."
All of the Johns raised their daggers at the same time.
Their figures flashed forward, closing in on Dreadblood Matron simultaneously.
Squelch!
[-500,970!]
A wildly exaggerated damage number exploded across Dreadblood Matron’s body.
With over a dozen Johns stacking identical damage together, the result was utterly terrifying.
Even with 100,000 HP, Dreadblood Matron was no sturdier than paper in front of him.
The dignified Level 50 platinum-grade Boss was instantly one-shot by John.
The enormous body of Dreadblood Matron shattered into dozens of pieces on the spot.
It did not even have time to let out a scream before it was reduced completely to dust.
The moment he killed it, a system notification appeared before John’s eyes.
[You have slain Platinum-Grade Boss Dreadblood Matron Lv.50. EXP +250,000, gold coin +1000, Fame +10,000!]
[You have plundered the S-rank talent: Deathcall!]
[You have plundered the S-rank passive: Poison Resistance!]
