Chapter 184: 7.22

'Giant Demon King || Level 120 || HP 100% || Passive: Eternal Death || Passive 2: Great Demon Overwhelming Power.'

ZeroCheat, Yunyu, and XuanLake were prepared to face the Giant Demon King. XuanLake drank a potion to recover his health before, so they were still in full health. However, this time, they were extra careful.

Because if they get killed by this monster meant real death. The Giant Demon King opened his mouth first and then spewed hellfire towards their direction. 

ZeroCheat acted first. He chanted a defensive skill that he had practiced with Yunyu, "Rock wall!" 

He summoned a wall made out of a rock, and then Yunyu followed by chanting a spell, "I shall cover you! Shabon Spray!" 

From his hand, Yunyu shot many bubbles that covered the rock wall, making it wet, thus giving it resistance to fire attack. 

The fierce hellfire did nothing towards the rock wall, which made the Giant Demon King angry. He roared as he destroyed the moistened rock wall with his claw. The debris pushed them back because the giant claw would kill them instantly. 

"Brother Zero, we should try that combination!" Yunyu suggested, "Gemstone attack!"

ZeroCheat nodded. They were still trying to find a way to attack efficiently because they couldn't make the slightest mistake. ZeroCheat smashed the ground with his rock hammer, and a big boulder emerged from the ground.

Yunyu used his skill first, "Come forth, engulf this rock and transform it to gemstone!" 

Yunyu's hand glowed with bright light as he channelled it to the boulder. After a moment, the boulder turned into a huge diamond, "Now, Brother Zero!" 

ZeroCheat nodded. He swung his rock hammer and chanted his attack before hitting the boulder, "Our love is as strong as a diamond. Take this, diamond dust!" 

ZeroCheat smashed the big diamond, and it shattered into uncountable sharp stones. Those sharp diamonds attacked the Giant Demon King continuously. Since it had a light attribute, the Giant Demon King actually took damage.

'Giant Demon King: HP 90%.'

"Good job, Yunyu!" ZeroCheat praised. Yunyu nodded and praised back, "It's a good job for you too, Brother Zero!" 

Meanwhile, XuanLake was watching how these two lovebirds were so in unison with each other. They even already had many attack combos. XuanLake's heart was burning with jealousy, but he hid it because showing it right now would only make ZeroCheat suspicious. 

Thus, wearing his perfunctory smile, XuanLake said, "ZeroCheat, Yunyu, I will help!" 

ZeroCheat and Yunyu, who had been doing this by themselves the whole time, finally looked at XuanLake. They knew that XuanLake was a deadly finisher, but he was not an excellent player to slowly chip the boss' health bar. Thus, ZeroCheat replied, "You should save your mana and wait until we can finish him. Your attacks are all close-ranged, right?"

"No, I also have a few projectile attacks!" XuanLake said enthusiastically. He flew up and summoned his sword, "I will try this! Air Slash!"

XuanLake slashed the air continuously and creating a gust of wind that would be strong enough to slice a rock in two. The Giant Demon King hadn't recovered from the Diamond Dust attack from ZeroCheat and Yunyu. When he got attacked by the Air slash, he also took some damage and got angrier. 

'Giant Demon King: HP 86%.'

The ultimate monster roared and attacked XuanLake with hellfire. 

"XuanLake!" ZeroCheat reactively jumped in and used his rock dome to protect them from harm. Both XuanLake and ZeroCheat were thrown after the rock dome was destroyed by the sheer power of Demon Lord's hellfire. 

"Arggghh!" ZeroCheat got hit the hardest because he was trying to shield XuanLake.

'ZeroCheat: HP 85%.'

'XuanLake: HP 85% .'

"Brother Zero, Brother Xuan!" Yunyu yelled out loud. 

The Giant Demon King looked at Yunyu and laughed maliciously. He used his claw and attacked Yunyu, "Yunyu, run!" ZeroCheat warned. 

Yunyu saw the shadow over his head, and he rushed, trying to escape the attack. But he was not fast enough, and his back was scratched. Although he was able to avoid instant death, it was enough to inflict a grievous wound in his body, "Arrhhhh!" Yunyu groaned in pain. 

'Cutiepie69: HP 50% || Debuff: Grievous Wound.'

"Yunyuu!" ZeroCheat hurried towards Yunyu, who sprawled on the ground, groaning in pain as the grievous wound inflicted a burning sensation on his back. ZeroCheat hurriedly placed Yunyu on a stone slab quite far from the Giant Demon King. 

"Brother Zero, it hurtsss!" Yunyu complained. 

"Here, try to drink this!" ZeroCheat chugged a high-grade potion in Yunyu's mouth. Yunyu drank everything, but his health stayed at 50%. The grievous wound prevented any kind of healing to the inflicted. And the debuff could not be cured until the player left the Desecrated Land and went to the healing temple.

ZeroCheat felt guilty because he couldn't protect both Yunyu and XuanLake, but all he could do right now was to slay the Giant Demon King with XuanLake without Yunyu's help. Because there was no way, Yunyu could chant any skill while he was in terrible pain. 

"I'm sorry, Yunyu. I will slay that Giant Demon King soon and take you to the healing temple!" ZeroCheat said. Yunyu pulled the hem of his shirt and warned, "Don't! I can still fight with you guys! It's too dangerous if you go alone!"

Yunyu was already contemplating whether he should blow his cover in front of Brother Zero and slay that Giant Demon King easily. But before he could decide, ZeroCheat already walked towards the Giant Demon King again, and XuanLake followed.

XuanLake crouched beside Yunyu before he followed ZeroCheat. He whispered, "It must have hurt, don't worry Yunyu, I will defeat that Giant Demon King for you."

Yunyu stared at XuanLake and begged him, "Please stay safe! Please return back to me with Brother Zero too!"

XuanLake's smile dissipated. He rubbed Yunyu's head again and replied, "I will try."

XuanLake finally followed ZeroCheat against the Giant Demon King, who waited for his enemies. ZeroCheat summoned a new weapon, a silver shield with a light attribute.

ZeroCheat was still a bit suspicious towards XuanLake's feeling for Yunyu, but in this life and death situation, they were comrade! Besides, XuanLake had shown good cooperation for three life and death battles. ZeroCheat was assured that XuanLake wouldn't do something crazy.

"Alright, Xuan, we need to slay this monster quickly, so we can save Yunyu quickly!" ZeroCheat said. XuanLake nodded with a thin smile on his face. He summoned a long sword that glistened with intense light energy emanating from the sword.

"This is a level 100 Light sword that I've enchanted way before but never use. I can kill that monster with few slashes as long as you create an opening for me," XuanLake said, "You should try to provoke the Giant Demon King first."

"Okay, I trust you!" ZeroCheat nodded. 

He stepped in and prepare himself with a few enchantments and activate his passive, "Enchant shield! Enchant defence! Passive Activated: Light Shield!" 

After he finished preparation, he bravely used his ultimate skill, "You shall focus on me and only to me! Permanent Provocation!" 

The Giant Demon King suddenly moved his head to the shining tank, ZeroCheat and focused all his attack towards ZeroCheat. The Giant Demon King spewed few hellfire balls towards ZeroCheat, which he tanked with his light shield.

"I can't hold this for long! XuanLake, you should finish the demon soon!"