Abyssal Serpent

> "*It is said that there was a fabled mountain in the distant sea, which is called the residence of the immortals. Once, there was a mythical snake that caused chaos in the sea. The immortals appeared and sealed it under the ocean's watery abyss. The sea waves began to calm down, and there was no trouble for thousands of years.*"
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**Abyssal Serpent** is the Third alternate boss in *Gunfire Reborn*. The player can face against Abyssal Serpent in the Dinghai Bay at the end of the Duo Fjord once Yoruhime-Maru has been defeated three times.

After being unlocked the boss is randomly chosen each run, making it a 50% chance for Yoruhime-Maru and 50% chance for Abyssal Serpent.

## Battle

The Abyssal Serpent is actually a group of 4 different serpents that share the same  Health? bar. Each one is capable of attacking independently regardless of what the others are doing, unless they are moving or performing a group attack.

Every time a serpent attacks, it will dive back under the water, making it impossible to damage and removing all elemental effects and other status effects, such as Bleeding.

Any  Fire? weapon is the most effective against them since they have no  Shields? or  Armor?. Hitting their weak spots is an absolute must, since damage taken to the rest of its body is reduced by 95%. Aiming for the golden scales on the serpents is the easiest, since they become large, exposed targets after certain attacks. Their eyes can also be aimed at for critical hits, but are a far smaller target and do not have any good opportunities to hit them.

As the serpents' health gets low they will begin to perform group attacks which are far harder to avoid. However they also lose the ability to perform other attacks. After a series of attacks, either 2 at high health, 3 at low health or 1 group attack, the serpents will move to another location for their next attack.

### Reincarnation 9

On Reincarnation level 9, Abyssal Serpent's attacks will become more agile, giving you less time to counterattack.

The Wave Sweep attack and firing 3 Water Balls in rapid succession will occur more frequently.

### Attacks

Bite

Abyssal Serpent will mark the arena with a line indicator before lunging forward, hitting any player in the way with melee. Dashing to the side will avoid the attack.

This attack offers a great chance to attack its golden scales for critical hits.

Water Ball

Abyssal Serpent will stay in the water, then charge up and fire a large water ball, hitting all players within its area of effect. Dashing out of the circle indicator will avoid the attack.

At low health sometimes 3 serpents will perform a group attack, each firing a water ball in rapid succession. This makes it more damaging and much harder to dodge.

Wave Sweep

Abyssal Serpent will flail about in the water, causing a wave to crash through the arena, dealing high damage and knocking players back. Jumping will avoid the attack.

Abyssal Serpent will no longer perform this attack at low health.

Serpent Tongues

Instead of attacking, Abyssal Serpent will summon blue serpent tongues at the edges of the arena. These tongues will occasionally fire small water balls at the player, adding more attacks that need to be avoided. They have low health and can be killed easily otherwise.

Tongue amount scales to the amount of players, and Abyssal Serpent will no longer summon tongues at low health.

Abyssal Serpent will immediately move to a new location after summoning tongues, which can make future attacks appear from an unexpected direction.

Group Bite

Once Abyssal Serpent is at low health, they will sometimes bite as a group. All 4 serpents will bite at the same time in alternating lines, and then again in the places that they didn't hit.

Dash between the lines to avoid the first wave, then move to where the first wave was to avoid the second wave.

## Unlocks

Abyssal Serpent will unlock the following items:

* Break the Ice: when killed 2 times on elite or higher difficulty.
* Sucker Punch: when killed 3 times.

## Notes

* Deflection Shield may be a risky scroll to use in this battle, since certain attacks are considered to be within its 15 meter range, increasing the damage that they deal.