CHAPTER 556: CHAPTER 276: DIVINE-GRADE BOSS_1

After a stroll around the Heavenly Trade Market, one minute quickly passed.

A figure reappeared beside Chen Mo. It was Zhui Yi, who had just completed his Realm Breakthrough Assessment.

Without needing to ask, Chen Mo directly synchronized his memory with Zhui Yi’s.

Suddenly, information about the Above SSS-level instance BOSS flooded Chen Mo’s mind.

[Name]: Azuras

[Identity]: Time and Space Controller (Incarnation)

[Talent - Time and Space Divine Origin]: Ignoring all anomalies, each time Azuras receives damage, all subsequent damage decreases by 1%, recalculated every minute. When Azuras’s life value drops to a certain level, it will restore its life to its maximum value using the power of time, also recalculated every minute.

[Active Skills]:

〖Universal Destruction〗: Azuras releases powerful energy, causing massive damage to all enemies and inflicting negative effects such as slowing down, defense reduction, etc.

〖Spatial Teleportation〗: Azuras instantly moves to any location, making it impossible for enemies to predict its next appearance.

〖Time Lock Chain〗: Azuras targets an enemy, freezing them in time for a period, gaining all their attributes during the freeze. When the freeze ends, the target’s attributes will be reduced to 1 point.

〖Energy Absorption〗: Azuras absorbs the energy of surrounding enemies to restore its own life value.

〖Life Link〗: Azuras links its life to an enemy. When the enemy is damaged, Azuras gains an equal amount of life recovery. When Azuras is damaged, the enemy will also receive the same damage.

[Passive Skills]:

〖Time and Space Body Armor〗: Azuras is protected by the power of time and space. If the damage that Azuras receives exceeds 1% of its maximum life value, it will be completely immune to that damage.

〖Chaos Domain〗: When Azuras is in combat, the surrounding environment will constantly change.

〖Mysterious Aura〗: The presence of Azuras puts pressure on nearby enemies, reducing their fighting ability. In addition, depending on the surrounding environment, it can gain different aura effects.

〖Endless Power〗: As the battle progresses, Azuras’s energy will never be depleted. Also, when launching an attack, it has a chance to deal infinite damage to units with lower Divine Power than itself.

〖Heart of the Starry Sky〗: Every time Azuras uses a skill, the power of its next attack will be enhanced.

[Divinity·Super]:

〖Everything is Void〗: Any attacks from units possessing this divinity will ignore the enemy’s defense, damage reduction, and shields, causing direct damage to the enemy’s body.

〖Stellar Collapse〗: Each time a unit with this divinity is damaged, it will erupt with the gravity of a collapsing star, causing massive damage to the enemy and resulting in severe control effects.

〖Endless Starry Sky〗: A unit with this divinity can transfer any damage it receives to the Endless Starry Sky.

The BOSS was Above SSS-level, and Chen Mo himself lacked sufficient Divine Power. Consequently, the abilities he gained from his SSS-level title, The God of Bravery, were unable to seal the opponent. The seal from his Godslayer Challenger title was similarly ineffective.

This meant that once Zhui Yi entered the instance, he had to rely on Moluo’s Brain. By frantically completing several tasks in advance, he managed to seal some of the BOSS’s most troublesome abilities.

The most troublesome abilities were its talent, the active skill Life Link, the passive skill Time and Space Body Armor, and the Divinity·Super ability, Endless Starry Sky.

With its talent, the BOSS would quickly return to full health unless dealt explosive, instant-kill damage.

However, its passive skill, Time and Space Body Armor, meant each instance of damage could not exceed 1% of its maximum life value; otherwise, the damage would be completely nullified.

This combination created an unsolvable defensive loop.

Apart from this unsolvable loop, the second most troublesome ability was its Life Link. Surprisingly, this skill wasn’t classified as a debuff but as a linking effect, making it impossible to break once established.

Being linked was dreadful. Attacking the BOSS became tantamount to attacking oneself. While the BOSS could use its Divinity ability to transfer away the damage it received, you would have to endure the full impact. In such a fight, the only outcome would be your death while the BOSS returned to full health.

Since its talent couldn’t be sealed, Zhui Yi had to settle for the next best option: completely sealing the other three problematic abilities.

Only after sealing these three abilities did Azuras become somewhat manageable.

However, its combat power was still far more potent than a typical SSS-level BOSS. Its Time Lock Chain skill had an Above SSS-level freezing effect, which Chen Mo’s Space-Time Pearl could not grant immunity to.

Although Chen Mo’s Space-Time Pearl was a divine artifact component, it was currently fragmented. Perhaps after being reassembled, it might regain its Above SSS-level power, but for now, it was clearly inadequate.

This was the crux of what made this BOSS so difficult.

Its high rank rendered many of Chen Mo’s abilities ineffective.

Conversely, most of the BOSS’s abilities remained effective, allowing it to severely suppress Zhui Yi.

Zhui Yi had a very tough battle against this BOSS.

Nevertheless, despite the BOSS’s strength, Chen Mo’s underlying power—channeled through Zhui Yi—was still formidable. Ultimately, Zhui Yi managed to defeat it.

Unfortunately, he didn’t trigger the perfect clearance reward.

Too much time had been consumed.

The BOSS’s Time Lock Chain skill proved to be the greatest obstacle to achieving efficiency.

Achieving perfect clearance meant an additional Above SSS-level reward, a significant difference.

After absorbing Zhui Yi’s experiences from the instance, Chen Mo’s mindset was calm.

Zhui Yi couldn’t achieve perfect clearance alone, but I can enter the instance with Zhui Yi.

If we team up, even if our combined strength is merely additive—one plus one equaling two, rather than something greater—our efficiency will still double.

Achieving perfect clearance shouldn’t be too difficult then.

Having thought this through, Chen Mo immediately recalled Zhui Yi. He then paid 180 million experience points and initiated his own Above SSS-level Realm Breakthrough Assessment.

Upon entering the instance, Chen Mo did as Zhui Yi had done: he first sealed one of Azuras’s active skills, one passive skill, and one Divinity·Super ability.

With these three key defensive abilities sealed, Azuras was left with only one rather troublesome skill: Time Lock Chain.

Originally, without this skill, Zhui Yi could have used the Dominator’s Power of the Dominator of the Undead. He could have absorbed all the Skeleton Monsters to significantly enhance his combat power and defeat the BOSS single-handedly.

However, with this skill in play, Zhui Yi didn’t dare. If he attempted it and the BOSS used Time Lock Chain to freeze him and steal all his attributes, it would be like lifting a rock only to drop it on his own foot—a complete disaster.

Zhui Yi alone would be completely countered by this skill. But now, with Chen Mo and Zhui Yi entering the instance together, they could adopt a different strategy.

If they both employed such a strategy, even if one was caught by Time Lock Chain, the other would remain free to act.

My plan is for Zhui Yi to use a Life-and-Death skill to lock onto the BOSS. That way, the BOSS can only attack Zhui Yi, its designated Life-and-Death target. This will leave me free to engage the BOSS one-on-one without any threat.