Chapter 161 A Seamless Combo

Among all of Huang Yunshuo's skills, his absolute favorites were the knockback from the rocket launcher and the Cruising Stomp learned from Ggegloro.

Needless to say, the knockback was the signature soul skill of the Frost Cold Eagle, bar none.

The Cruising Stomp, however, was both thrilling and visually stunning. Its displacement distance was immense, its stomp damage brutally high, and the area-of-effect stun was nothing short of a divine skill. Most importantly, it guaranteed follow-up damage.

Once the Cruising Stomp landed successfully and the target was group-stunned, he instantly gained a three-second window of uninterrupted damage output!

Was it satisfying?

Without a doubt.

The cooldowns for these two skills were 30 seconds for one and 100 seconds for the other. To be honest, considering the overpowered power of both skills, these cooldowns were negligible.

Yet, who wouldn't have ambitions?

Ocean's Voice possessed the outrageously overpowered Life Mirage with a cooldown of 1,800 seconds, and she naturally wished for equipment or titles that could reduce cooldowns. He felt the exact same way.

Imagine if, just imagine if one day the cooldown of Cruising Stomp was reduced to only 3 seconds—no, less than 3 seconds, let's say 5 seconds.

A five-second cooldown would be enough for Huang Yunshuo to stomp all over the battlefield, leaving hundreds of enemies completely helpless against a single man.

If the knockback cannon also had a mere three-second cooldown, it would be equally invincible.

It offered both mobility and crowd control. Unless an opponent possessed a Super Armor state activated through a solid defense skill like Ye Piaoxue, they would invariably be affected by the knockback cannon.

Otherwise, if Huang Yunshuo desired, such a short cooldown could trap a single person within a tiny circle for the rest of their life, unable to ever escape. That was the sheer monstrosity of the knockback cannon.

"Forget it, stop daydreaming."

Huang Yunshuo shook his head. "Although Piaoxue's Solid Defense has increased in power, its cooldown is still a hefty 600 seconds. I really hope that taking down Utor today drops three cooldown-reduction titles for us."

"Keep dreaming!" Ye Piaoxue retorted snappishly, wondering why he bothered entertaining such unrealistic thoughts.

Still, she had to admit that the cooldown for Solid Defense was indeed excruciatingly long. It was fine for solo PKs, but in team battles, it had to be strictly relegated to a strategic utility skill.

Earlier, relying on Solid Defense in the Space-Time Odyssey dungeon, she had successfully lured and killed Wushang, Magic Wheel, and Yue Lingqing one after another. That success involved a measure of luck, but also inevitable factors.

It was lucky because the physical conditioning of Ye Piaoxue's mecha pilot body far exceeded that of ordinary people, granting her lightning-fast reaction speeds that allowed her to activate the skill just before the two masters could land their attacks.

It was inevitable because both Wushang and Magic Wheel had engaged Ye Piaoxue in solo-style combat. When it came to single combat, as long as there wasn't a massive gap in attributes, Ye Piaoxue genuinely feared no one.

After all, Knights were fundamentally a class built to take a beating.

If the cooldown could be reduced, even by just two minutes, it would be wonderful. Waiting out a 600-second cooldown was enough to drive someone crazy.

As the last Raven Slave collapsed to the ground with a miserable screech, Utor, who had been trembling in terror just a second ago, suddenly puffed up with arrogance. It strode toward the trio with heavy steps, loudly bellowing its scripted lines.

"This little bastard is an absolute joke compared to Ggegloro—no, it's a joke among jokes."

Amused by Utor's idiotic posturing, Huang Yunshuo could tell that Ye Piaoxue and Ocean's Voice were both itching for action, desperately wanting to charge in alongside him to beat up Utor. Unfortunately, for the sake of the drop rate, they would just have to continue spectating.

Cruising Stopped!

Initiating with a massive leap, Huang Yunshuo crashed violently down onto Utor.

Utor's reaction speed was actually quite decent.

In the microsecond that Huang Yunshuo landed on it, Utor unleashed a flurry of bites and claws, all of which landed on him—and miraculously, not a single one missed.

His health plummeted by more than half, but Utor's performance ended right there.

Because Utor had been entirely focused on attacking rather than dodging the moment Huang Yunshuo landed, its head took the full brunt of the stomp. A bright red damage figure of 110 points flashed above its head, instantly slicing a massive chunk out of Utor's health bar.

Casually casting Exuberance, Huang Yunshuo boosted both his attack power and agility along with the two women, hoping that the extra 10 agility points might trigger a critical hit.

With a combo, he thrust his spear twice. The second strike landed a critical hit, shearing away another 116 health points from Utor.

Charge.

The stunned and utterly bewildered Utor was sent flying backward from the impact. As the charge ended, Huang Yunshuo followed up with a piercing spear thrust, retrieved his weapon for another 61 damage, just as Utor's stun duration ended.

"You little bastard, there's no way I'm letting you wake up that easily."

Seeing Utor's murderous expression as it tried to regain its composure, Huang Yunshuo curled his lip. Didn't he still have another skill waiting for it?

Soaring Dragon.

Leaping backward and then rushing forward, he flicked his spear upward into Utor, then executed a reverse-grip thrust that knocked it back and stunned it for an additional second.

Taking advantage of the stun, he stabbed Utor once more. He had enough time left to land another thrust, but his body was already retreating backward, swapping his spear for the rocket launcher mid-retreat.

"I'll kill you!"

A furious Utor regained its senses, its entire body instantly erupting with fiery poison as it charged madly toward him.

Simultaneously, a swarm of blood ravens fluttered out from beneath its wings, cawing harshly as they spread out to blanket the area and envelop Huang Yunshuo.

"Fire Suppression!"

Instead of taking to the skies to widen the distance between them, Huang Yunshuo chose to unleash his ultimate right into the face of the oncoming Utor.

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!

A barrage of explosive shells detonated at close range. The blood ravens summoned by Utor were actually extensions of its own body; as they surged forward to devour Huang Yunshuo, the very first shell caught them head-on, injuring the entire flock and instantly shaving off another massive chunk of Utor's health bar.

As a line of ten shells slammed down consecutively, the fragile flock of blood ravens was completely obliterated by the second shell. The remaining six shells all poured directly onto Utor's head, blasting it backward like a kite with a snapped string while its health plummeted frantically.

"Caw—!"

To Huang Yunshuo's surprise, the raven-human hybrid wasn't completely knocked back by the artillery's force. Instead, it frantically flapped its wings, sacrificing every single feather on its body to explosions, and miserably dragged its battered, worsening-injury-ridden physique up into the air, causing Huang Yunshuo's final two shells to miss entirely.

Utor was utterly terrified.

At this moment, having all its feathers burned away, it looked grotesque to the absolute limit. Its beak was twisted, its eyes injured, and its bald wings connected to its arms looked both bizarre and nauseating. Fortunately, the angle prevented him from seeing the creature's backside; otherwise, Huang Yunshuo might have felt that this dungeon was treating him far too unkindly.

"Less than 5% health remaining, at most 50 points left. Oh well."

Huang Yunshuo found himself slightly conflicted about how he should finish this fellow off.

Would blowing it up with a single cannonball be a bit too uncharitable, considering how many times it had funded him?

"Dahuang, should I use a Holy Light to finish it off..."

Ocean's Voice trotted over, asking with an expectant look.

"Forget it. Why don't the two of you stand on opposite sides, turn on your video recording, and enjoy the show? Looks like this old man is going to have to show off his flair once more."

Huang Yunshuo made up his mind and spoke.

"Alright then."

Ocean's Voice casually tossed a prepared Holy Word onto Huang Yunshuo, pulling his health back up to 350 points.