Chapter 273: 226 No Next Round! (Second Update! Ask for monthly tickets!)
Lord of the Dark Night descended, plunging the entire scene into a mass of dark fog; this is its direct release of the field effect "Nightmare", with an aura and oppressive feeling cranked to the max!
The Lord of the Dark Night is a mythical beast that controls dreams, and its capture method is extremely difficult—it only has a chance to trigger the mythical beast dungeon at a fixed time late at night.
"Ahhh, a mythical beast in the second round!"
"This must be Joker's strongest mythical beast!"
As a very rare Dark-type Paru, the Lord of the Dark Night might have a species value as high as 690, ranking among the top tier deities. However, its HP is lower than a normal Paru's, with all the extra points invested into speed and damage.
Fortunately, the field effect "Nightmare" greatly enhances its evasion rate and also significantly lowers the opponent's attack accuracy, which nearly makes Joker's Lord of the Dark Night invincible.
The conventional solution is to dispel the dark effect before the Lord of the Dark Night's offensive ends, or to adopt a recoil strategy to whittle down its HP. Even so, at least two Parus will have to battle, and often Parus are instantly killed by the incredibly swift Lord of the Dark Night without much chance to fight back.
"Go, Lord of the Dark Night! Use Shadow Assault!"
The speed of the Lord of the Dark Night was maxed out, taking the advantage of attacking first to strike Thunder Emperor Jex, reducing its HP by one third in a single blow.
Don't be fooled by the significant drop in the health bar; this was Thunder Emperor Jex with species values only slightly inferior to the Lord of the Dark Night and all of its stats maxed out!
In front of the Lord of the Dark Night, it was clearly difficult to withstand the attacks, but the weather effect "Spring Rain" stacked with the field effect, allowing Thunder Emperor Jex to recover some HP.
The current weather conditions were still favorable for Thunder Emperor!
By risking the release of Thunder skills to firmly control the Lord of the Dark Night, there might still be a slim chance...
Just when everyone thought the next step would be a battle of mythical beasts slamming into each other, Fang You made an unexpected choice and switched his Paru tactic, summoning a new Paru to face the Lord of the Dark Night.
"Go, I choose you—"
Cluck·Cluck·Chicken!
"Ah?"
"No way!"
"Is he actually going to use Cluck Cluck Chicken to fight against the Lord of the Dark Night, this kid's gone mad?"
Fang You's move caused an uproar among the audience, with no one expecting him to give up Thunder Emperor Jex, whose stats were maxed, and instead use the Cluck Cluck Chicken tactic against the Lord of the Dark Night.
And this Cluck Cluck Chicken wasn't even Fang You's prized Star Defender Cluck Cluck Chicken but a regular max-level N-tier Paru·Cluck Cluck Chicken!
"To counter me with something like this... don't underestimate me!"
The Cluck Cluck Chicken summoned by Fang You had 0 damage, but it was extremely insulting.
"Kill it! Lord of the Dark Night!" Stay tuned with empire
Cluck Cluck Chicken number one, exited the battle!
Fang You seemed to have anticipated this result, calmly continuing to summon Cluck Cluck Chickens.
Cluck Cluck Chicken number two, entered the battle!
"Fine, fine... so it's a grudge match, huh!"
Thus, Fang You summoned max-level Cluck Cluck Chickens three times in a row to fight against the Lord of the Dark Night.
"You really filled your team up with these things to fight me!"
Wang Zihan commanded the Lord of the Dark Night to keep attacking the Cluck Cluck Chickens.
Of course, some seasoned Paru Trainers had already caught on—
"He's using the lives of Cluck Cluck Chickens to stack up the debuff layers of 'Spring Wind and Rain'!"
The debuff effect of "Spring Wind and Rain" is to lower the opponent's damage and defense, and this effect can stack.
Still, it's hard to bridge the enormous gulf in species values between the Cluck Cluck Chickens and the mythical beasts.
"Don't waste any more time; your struggling looks so ugly."
Wang Zihan knew that the only two Parus left for Fang You were Thunder Emperor and Star Defender Cluck Cluck Chicken, and with four Parus of his own yet to enter the fray, the Lord of the Dark Night was undoubtedly not going to lose to such riff-raff.
It was time...
With a small wave of his hand, Fang You decided to summon his contractual Paru—
Come out, Star Guardian Gugu Chicken!
Accompanied by a golden, shiny variant of the Gugu Chicken, it made its entrance onto the battle stage.
As Fang You summoned the Star Guardian Gugu Chicken, he immediately chose to activate the unique skill of the Star Guardian Paru—
Star Transformation!
Under the effect of Star Transformation, the Gugu Chicken became a starlight-dazzling, golden crispy-skinned chicken!
"Damn, it's the Star Guardian Gugu Chicken!"
"Didn't we just see that? Why are you shocked all over again?"
"It didn't use that golden skin in the first half! It actually looks pretty cool!"
"Struggling in vain will not help! Even the Star Guardian Gugu Chicken can be slain by me! This is the strongest Paru from the King of Paru! Go, Shadow Claw!"
But it only managed to take away half of Star Guardian Gugu Chicken's HP.
"How... How is this possible? How did he do it..."
Wang Zihan could hardly believe the scene unfolding before him.
It wasn't killed in one hit.
"The reason is quite simple."
Fang You said indifferently, "Take a look at the status bar of the Lord of the Dark Night."
After four rounds of debuffs, the Lord of the Dark Night's damage and defense were reduced by 40%.
Star Guardian Gugu Chicken has the golden trait of "Flock Together," which remains in effect even if the Gugu Chicken falls, coupled with the all-attribute boost effect of Star Transformation, bringing its attribute panel close to the level of a second-tier divine beast. This combination turned the tide and made the impossible possible.
"What does that matter... You still can't hit me!"
Wang Zihan wasn't without tactics; he knew what he had to do next round.
If he could just replace his Paru next turn and re-summon the Lord of the Dark Night, he could clear all the debuffs from it...
Wang Zihan wanted to employ a confusing strategy to deceive Fang You.
"Next round, you'll still be taken down by me!"
"Sorry, there won't be a next round."
Fang You spoke calmly.
The biggest advantage of N-level Paru is that the energy gauge fills up very quickly, and Star Transformation directly provides half of the energy gauge boost.
This meant that the Gugu Chicken, having taken a solid hit, was now ready to amass enough energy to unleash its secret ultimate skill!
And at this moment, some of the more experienced Paru Trainers started to realize Fang You's ultimate goal.
"No, no, something's off! The ultimate skill of Gugu Chicken... it's a big deal!"
"What's so big about it? Isn't it just a normal damage skill, with not even a high multiplier?"
Indeed, Gugu Chicken's skill "Heavenly Descend of the Divine Chicken" is a straightforward damage skill.
But while being straightforward, it also has a small trait.
A seemingly inconspicuous trait, yet at this critical moment against the Lord of the Dark Night, it could turn the tables—a special effect—
Yes, that's right, it's the guaranteed hit!
Accompanied by a chorus of "gugu gugu gugu gugu" calls, a huge golden bomb egg descended from the sky, landing right on top of the Lord of the Dark Night's head!