Chapter 289 Self-destruction

When Gao Fei was hesitating, a dull roar suddenly came from inside the royal mausoleum, as if something was exploding violently.

Then, the huge and majestic pyramid began to collapse!

This ancient building, which had stood on the island for hundreds of years, fell apart in front of Gao Fei and others, collapsed into a ruin, and the rolling dust was flying all over the sky, leaving people with only regret and shock.

The game screen switched again, and the camera turned back to the Holy Axe Hall deep in the royal mausoleum.

Joseph Cooper drove the war terracotta alone, blocking the narrow tomb passage, and released "spider web magic" to the ground one after another, blocking this necessary path and delaying the frost giant's tracking as much as possible.

Unfortunately, the spider web trap is useless when facing a more powerful spellcaster.

Gelmir stood at the door of the Holy Axe Hall and waved his hand to create an ice bridge that was laid flat on the spider web.

General Schroeder led two frost giant warriors, stepped onto the ice bridge, and approached with murderous intent.

"Damn big guy! Try this again!"

The dwarf artificer saw that the "spider web spell" was ineffective, so he released the "fuel spell" on the ice bridge.

The ice surface was already very smooth, and the frost giant warrior who rushed to the front suddenly stepped on the slippery grease and fell on his back.

The dwarf laughed, manipulated the mechanical arm to raise the flamethrower, sprayed a flame at the ice surface, ignited the grease, formed a blazing wall of fire, and temporarily blocked the pursuers.

Immediately afterwards, Joseph Cooper did not hesitate to stimulate the reserve power, manipulated the war terracotta to raise his hand to point at the corridor of the tomb passage where ice and fire were mixed, and continuously blasted out "lightning beams".

The bright electric light crossed the tomb passage, first hitting the leading frost giant, passing through his chest, and then bombarding General Schroeder and another frost giant warrior behind him, like a string of candied haws.

The "lightning beam" finally shot at Gelmir, and was countered by the gloomy ice tower warlock.

The dwarf artificer had never expected to kill Gelmir. He continuously fired lightning and sprayed flames. Soon, the flamethrower's fuel was exhausted and the power stored in the war giant was also exhausted.

The dwarf, who had run out of ammunition and food, had no intention of retreating. He drove the war giant into the tomb and swung his war hammer to hit the frost giant.

"Stupid dwarf! You have caused us enough trouble!"

Gelmir was angry, slowly raised his right hand, and used the strongest professional ability of "Frost Warlock" to blast a highly compressed magic power out of his palm, which exploded violently on the chest of the war giant!

The extremely cold energy released instantly turned into countless crisscrossing ice spikes, which pierced the steel armor of the war giant and penetrated deeply into the cabin.

In the driver's seat, Joseph Cooper's body was pierced by several ice spikes, and blood flowed out along the ice spikes. His trembling fingers slowly reached for a red button.

A roar came from outside the cabin.

General Schroeder rushed over with the "Frost Inscription" held high, and thrust hard with both hands holding the sword!

Puff!

The giant sword pierced through the porthole of the war terracotta and stabbed deeply into the dwarf's chest.

At the last second before he was about to lose consciousness, Joseph Cooper finally pressed the red button, and the war terracotta exploded, turning into a huge fireball, and molten steel fragments splashed wildly!

The extremely violent explosion not only destroyed the tomb passage, but also damaged the foundation of the royal mausoleum, causing the entire building to collapse.

Unfortunately, the dwarf artificer risked his life to self-destruct the war terracotta, only killing two frost giant warriors, but failed to pull General Schroeder and Gelmir to death as he wished.

The moment the self-detonation occurred, the ice tower warlock noticed it, and without thinking, he instantly cast 3 rings of "Ice Wall Spell", creating a hemispherical ice cover five feet thick to protect himself.

The shock wave set off by the explosion destroyed the ice cover, and Gelmir himself was unharmed.

General Schroeder was bruised all over, but he survived with his strong physique and luckily saved his life.

The game screen cut back to the outside of the royal mausoleum again. Seeing the dwarf uncle sacrifice himself, Gao Fei felt indescribably heavy and even a little regretful.

If he had listened to Uncle Joseph's advice and waited for him for one more day, perhaps he would not have died here.

Gao Fei certainly knew that this was just a game, and the sacrifice of the NPC was also a pre-designed plot. However, from another perspective, life cannot be reloaded and it is useless to regret the missed things, but the game is different.

After all, we can still reload, right?

For a moment, a strong impulse surged in his mind. He really wanted to reload to two days ago and tell Uncle Joseph in person that he was willing to wait for him to go with him. The development of the next plot might be very different...

However, looking at the companions who survived the disaster beside him and looking at those tired faces, Gao Fei finally suppressed this irrational idea.

"Let's go."

Gao Fei jumped on the horse, shook the reins, and galloped towards the dock.

At the same time, he received a system notification that this long and difficult adventure on the Isle of Rest had finally come to an end.

"You have reached the plot milestone of this chapter, Star Plate Energy +1!"

Gao Fei's Berserker was upgraded to Level 9, HP +11, Proficiency Modifier +1, and learned the professional ability "Whirlwind Slash".

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Whirlwind Slash: Spend an attack action to attack all hostile targets within the weapon's reach at the same time.

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Since "Earthquake" and "Blood Roar" do not cause direct damage, "Whirlwind Slash" is the Berserker's first lethal AOE skill.

When activated, the weapon is swung in a circle, and all enemies within the reach are tested and damaged.

Considering the mechanism of "Whirlwind", this skill is very suitable for long-handled weapons to expand the killing radius.

For medium-sized characters, such as humans, the attack radius of most weapons is only 5 feet. A few two-handed weapons can attack enemies within 10 feet, such as spears, whips, spiked chains, greatswords, scythes, and great axes.

Yes, the weapon model of Olaf's Holy Axe is a long-handled great axe, which is suitable for launching "Whirlwind".

Large characters, such as frost giants, and Gao Fei's young red dragon incarnated with the help of "Dragon Warrior Heart", can use larger weapons with a larger attack radius.

The red dragon's natural weapons, including dragon claws, dragon teeth, and dragon wings, have an attack radius of only 5 feet, but the dragon tail can whip targets within 10 feet, and it can hit a row when it is swung. If combined with "Whirlwind", it can sweep the enemies within 10 feet around 360 degrees without dead angles by turning in place with its butt sticking out.

There is another way to play, which is to wield a great axe after becoming a red dragon, which can be discussed in two cases.

First, under normal circumstances, human characters can only wield a great axe with two hands, but a large red dragon can wield a great axe with one hand.

In this case, the size of the great axe remains unchanged, the basic damage dice is still 1d12, and the attack radius is still 10 feet.

The advantage of a red dragon holding an axe with one hand is that it can free up one claw to attack, make a spellcasting gesture, or use a magical device such as the "Ereid Gauntlet".