Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Everyone stared in disbelief at Liu Nian, who transformed into a shooting star and stomped his feet firmly on the massive head of the bone dragon!

Snap!

A visible circular shockwave exploded!

The dragon's head was crushed to pieces in the blink of an eye under Liu Nian's furious stomping, just like a block being hit by a high-speed train!

"Woo..." The bone dragon Sapphiron let out a single whimper before its head and soul fire disappeared, and it was forcibly sent back to the space where it was located.

But that's not all!

After crushing the dragon's head and piercing its neck, Liu Nian, carrying the momentum of his fall, crashed heavily to the ground like a humanoid meteorite.

The moment of landing—

Thump! ...

Centered on his feet, a shockwave and a terrifying impact ring, mixed with violent energy, swept out in a perfect circle, close to the ground!

Wherever the shock ring passed, whether it was the Ice Skeleton Warriors, Frost Wraiths, or the newly risen Skeleton Mages, they all crumbled, vaporized, and annihilated instantly, like sandcastles in a raging storm!

Within a radius of thirty meters, everything was empty!

The shockwave rolled on, heading towards the central core!

Everyone gaped, as if they had forgotten to breathe and think, staring blankly at the man, at the shocking scene of him instantly killing the bone dragon and clearing the sea of ​​the dead with a single blow.

Even the lich's skills were disrupted and interrupted.

Wu Zhan's lips trembled slightly, his face flushed an unnatural red from excitement and shock. Finally, all his emotions culminated in a heart-wrenching roar that seemed to tear his throat apart:

"Liu Nian—Awesome!!!!!!!!!"

"Liu Nian is awesome!!!"

"Awesome!!!"

A thunderous roar erupted from the throats of every surviving team member, filled with the ecstatic joy of surviving a catastrophe!

Once again, he carved out a path to survival in the most ruthless and unreasonable way in a desperate situation!

however.

Standing beside the wreckage, Liu Nian showed no trace of joy in victory.

His gaze passed over the cheering crowd and the drifting ice dust, fixed on the black-robed figure who had quietly returned to the ground and was now standing silently in front of the azure energy core.

Kergardros.

The soul fire remained calm.

It was as if the destruction of the bone dragon Sapphiron that he summoned was merely an insignificant prelude.

"Annoying little bugs..."

The lich's jaw clenched and unclenched, his voice remaining icy. He slowly raised his staff, pointing it towards the sky.

"So..."

"Then I will grant it to you..."

The entire cylindrical hall began to shake violently. The energy flow on the walls became violent and chaotic, and debris rained down from the ceiling.

A chill, far more dangerous than ever before, began to spread.

"...Eternal entropy annihilation!"

"There are so many murals!" Liu Nian exclaimed, looking at the lich.

The next second—

A berserk beast incarnate!

"roar--!!!"

It was no longer the roar of a human.

It sounded like the roar of a wild beast from the wilderness!

Liu Nian's body suddenly swelled up!

Muscles wriggle, proliferate, and reorganize like living things; bones pop like beans, stretching and deforming wildly; vertebrae protrude segment by segment...

His facial features were elongating, his canines were becoming sharp and prominent, and his pupils were shrinking into dangerous vertical pupils, burning with a molten red-gold light. A savage yet violent primal aura swept across the entire area like a storm!

Just two seconds.

A ferocious beast, over three meters tall and wreathed in crimson flames and dark golden light, stood upright and took Liu Nian's place.

His crimson-gold vertical pupils were fixed on that dark blue energy core.

Then--

Bend your knees.

Stomp on the ground!

Boom!

Liu Nian, now in a berserk state, transformed into a streak of crimson-gold light, leaping toward the core with an indomitable momentum.

Just as the berserk Liu Nian lunged towards the azure energy core like a crimson meteor—

In the center of the battlefield, the lich Kel'Garderoth, who had always stood still as if integrated with the entire space, suddenly moved.

He raised his ice crystal staff high, and the soul fire at the tip of the staff suddenly went out, not disappeared, but collapsed inward.

"Buzz—"

A deep, soul-resonating sound erupted, centered on the lich.

In an instant, all the frost and death energy that was surging and raging outwards seemed to be seized by an invisible giant hand, and then rolled back wildly!

Like all rivers flowing into the sea, or like time flowing backward.

All the summoned creatures, having lost their energy, shattered into pieces...

A torrent of energy, powerful enough to freeze the soul, roared like a tsunami and surged toward the skeletal figure holding the staff high!

"Click, click, click..."

A series of teeth-grinding freezing sounds rang out.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, the lich's stark white skeletal body, starting from the bones in his feet that touched the ground, was rapidly covered by an incredibly thick layer of extreme ice that shimmered with countless eerie blue magical runes!

That ice layer was not simply frozen, but rather a crystallization of energy.

Every inch of the ice surface is covered with complex ancient runes, which wriggle and connect like living things, forming a terrifying sealing array that is self-circulating and self-reinforcing.

The ice layer is thickening and expanding rapidly!

One meter, two meters, three meters...

In the blink of an eye, a five-meter-tall, deep blue ice sculpture replaced the lich's original position and stood before the energy core!

The ice sculpture is crystal clear, and its internal structure is clearly visible.

At the core, Kel'Garderos maintained the posture of raising his staff high, his skeletal face turned upwards, as if roaring silently.

The two points of ghostly blue soul fire still burned in his eye sockets, but they had completely solidified, like ancient insects sealed in amber.

An indescribable, terrifying aura was emanating from inside the giant ice sculpture.

The air stopped moving, the light became viscous, and even the beating of everyone's hearts and the flow of their blood seemed to be suppressed by an invisible force, becoming slow and heavy.

System alarm! A crimson light flashed wildly in the sight of all players!

[WARNING! Ultimate mechanism triggered!]

[Guardian Lich Kel'Garderos unleashes his ultimate attack: Eternal Silence!]

[Countdown: 30 seconds]

[In 30 seconds, the 'Return to Silence Domain' will be released, performing 'Existence Erasure' (instant death effect) on all units within the domain that have not been assimilated by 'Eternal Freeze'.]

[Hint: Breaking the 'Eternal Ice Coffin' will interrupt this spell. Ice Coffin's HP: ???]

30 seconds!

Everyone dies instantly!

"Everyone—!!!" Wu Zhan's roar was completely distorted by urgency, so shrill it almost tore his own vocal cords apart. "Turn around! Attack that ice sculpture! Everyone the hell! Forget everything else! Use whatever you have! Highest damage skills! Throw them all out! Hurry!! Hurry—!!!!"

His mind went blank, leaving only instinctive commands.

Wasn't the difficulty of the dungeon boss supposed to be manageable? What the hell is this thing?! An instant wipe of the entire raid in 30 seconds?!

"Damn it..." someone cursed in the team chat, their voice trembling with tears.

"Are legendary-level monsters really that terrifying?"