Jiu’er’s excessively resolute posture even made the skeleton guards pause for a moment.
Apart from a chest wrap, she was already only wearing an open robe. And after she sliced open her chest and abdomen, blood spurted out from within her.
Her health immediately dropped to half and continued to slowly deteriorate.
And at the moment Jiu’er was injured, strange dark red patterns lit up on her abdomen—
They were like charcoal, seductively bright, and scorching deep red curse patterns.
The curse pattern that was cut in half burst forth with an even more powerful force—a visibly high temperature steamed from her abdomen, making the air around it blur and boil.
Jiu’er let out a deep breath.
A jet of white steam shot out from deep within her throat like an arrow. She swung her axe outward, flinging the scorching blood onto the ground, splashing in a semicircle.
The next moment, she leaped high into the air again.
Due to the intense movement, the blood that burst forth finally brought her health down to less than 40%.
And while Jiu’er was still in the air, her whites of the eyes instantly turned black, while the black pupils turned blood red.
Vast power surged from the patterns on her abdomen—like a second, more potent heart, pumping endless strength into her limbs and bones.
This was Berserker’s professional skill, "Embrace Death"!
"Embrace Death LV1: The closer you are to death, the harder it is to die. For every 10% decrease in health, temporarily +1 to one of the attributes: strength, agility, or constitution; if health increases, the temporary attributes will be returned. This buff activates when health is below 40%; when health is above 40%, the buff is calculated normally but does not activate."
The moment her health dropped to 40%, Jiu’er gained six temporary attribute points.
This time, she randomly received three points of strength, two points of agility, and one point of constitution!
And as Jiu’er was about to leap at the old man, a loyal skeleton guard quickly stepped forward, lifting its heavy shield high, attempting to intercept her like a tennis ball.
But in the next moment, the muscles in Jiu’er’s arms bulged, and the rupturing of blood vessels beneath her skin created a network of dark, root-like patterns on her arms.
Her bloodstained axe chopped down vertically.
Easily, it shattered the skeleton guard’s metallic shield!
A massive impact sound was accompanied by dust flying in all directions.
The immense force created a horrifying crater in the shield of the skeleton guard, splitting it to both sides.
And the guard itself, thrown off balance by the tremendous force, staggered backwards two steps and fell to the ground.
The surrounding players had already retreated to either side.
In fact, the phrase "Don’t come near me" was not shouted for the monsters.
—But for the players.
Jiu’er knew she could not maintain combat for long... especially since the enemies could not provide her with blood to recover.
So the moment she launched her attack, she had already activated all her buffs:
"Full Force Strike LV7: Use all your might to deliver an extremely fierce attack. Your next attack gains a 30% bonus to the strength check, consuming three times the stamina."
"Blood Kinship with the Enemy: Weapons stained with your own blood cause significantly increased damage when attacking the enemy (the lower your health, the greater the damage boost); weapons stained with the enemy’s blood significantly increase your health regeneration rate when attacking yourself (the lower your health, the faster the regeneration rate)."
And the moment Jiu’er landed.
She pushed hard with her legs, propelling herself upward again!
Her abdominal wound was still bleeding, staining her clothes red.
A crimson shadow flashed by quickly, and with one axe blow, she sent the skeleton guard’s head flying, which had fallen to the ground!
But its movement did not stop. Even without its head, it still tried to struggle to stand up from the ground."
"The head isn’t its weak point—"
The successfully engaging Lin Yiyi shouted.
She deflected the skeleton guard’s attack with the steel pipe in her hand with ease, redirecting it toward another skeleton guard’s knee. Then she caught the attacked skeleton guard’s strike and deflected it back to the first skeleton guard’s neck.
Afterward, she suddenly swung the club, hitting the same two spots.
With clear ringing sounds, the cracks from her attacks widened.
Just one or two more hits at the same spots would easily shatter their bones—
So Jiu’er didn’t hesitate.
She first chopped off both arms of the skeleton guard at the shoulders with her dual axes, then retreated and followed up with several more chops at the knees.
Then she launched a Full Force Strike—splitting the flung skull vertically in two.
She was as skilled as if she were chopping ribs while preparing food.
While she was butchering them, another skeleton guard had already charged her, attempting a sneak attack—but that was all it was, an attempt.
The loud noises they made moving made it impossible to hide their intentions.
Jiu’er, empowered by her temporary attribute points, didn’t even bother to parry without looking back.
She didn’t even defend—
Just crouched slightly, held the axes with both hands, and slashed in all directions in a quick spin!
The low angle of the attack left the shield of the skeleton guard behind her completely useless against this strike.
Its shinbone was instantly shattered—and that was when Jiu’er started to evade the attack.
Her way of dodging was to charge toward a nearby enemy!
The crimson figure dashed swiftly once more.
Three balls of wax, burning with high heat, were spat at her!
The amount of wax was enough to drown a bathtub.
But Jiu’er had initiated a charge, she couldn’t stop now.
So her already blood-red eyes glinted with a trace of ferocity, and instead of dodging, she accelerated even more!
She would at least take one of them down!
But the child had already noticed that the creature, akin to a candle-hound, had broken free from the ritual—
It had finished summoning!
A rock wall rose from the ground, blocking the spurting wax outside.
The viscous flames quickly spread over the rock wall.
But by then, Jiu’er had already reached the attack position.
She didn’t initiate the attack with her shoulder and elbow to unbalance the enemy as she did when she saved Si Anke before.
Instead, just before entering the attack range, she slightly lifted the axe in her hand.
With the momentum of the charge, she diagonally brought down the axe.
The skeleton guard facing away from her had its shinbone shattered by her attack.
The rock wall grew from the ground—from Jiu’er’s previous position all the way to where she stood now, leaving behind a rock wall over two meters high and the width of a palm that blocked all the wax attacks still spraying outside!
Even controlling such a large-scale stone deformation, the child’s right arm holding the sword still trembled a bit.
He involuntarily cried for help, "My lord! We can’t deal with this one!"
Annan’s voice rose calmly.