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Hongsil’s Workshop

By: Shadovv

Hongsil served as an aide to the Three Sages in Mushin’s Tower, with a side hobby of creating automatons. Her newest masterpiece was Princess Bloodlust, but this automaton believed herself to be too brilliant and rose against her creator, quickly spurring out of control into a spinning, projectile-firing torrent of death.

Princess Bloodlust:

HP: 72,600,000

Has the exact same attacks as TE-1138 Heavenpiercer of Sundered Nexus. All of her attacks deal fixed HP % damage, meaning that higher defensive stats have no impact in this fight.

All players permanently gain the “Hongsil’s Huzzah!” buff, increasing Attack Power by 250 and Additional Damage by 12,000. However, Princess Bloodlust also has the “Malfunctioning” buff, reducing all damage received by 50%.

Machine Gun (90%/60%/30%):

As soon as Princess Bloodlust hits these HP thresholds, she will gain the “Little Princess Shield”, making her immune to damage. She then jumps to the center of the room, creating a blockable AoE slam that stuns, then ejects a small field around her that knocks anyone away. All players will also gain 5 stacks of the “Glitter Particle” buff which decreases by 1 stack whenever hit by the boss’s attacks.

Machine Guns racks at the edges of the room will become available. The guns have three skills:

• LMB: Fires a 16 meter conal spray of bullets that deals 25,820 x 3 fixed damage. This damage does not scale with the user’s stats, but bypasses the boss’s damage reduction and immunity shields.
• 1: Grants the “Shield” buff that makes the user immune to damage and heals 20% HP per second for 5 seconds. Has a 20 second cooldown.
• 2: Fires a 2×16 meter laser that deals 187,710 x 5 fixed damage. Requires at least one “Particle Shot” buff, and has a cast time of 1 second.

During the phase, Princess Bloodlust’s attacks changes:

1. A message warns “Princess Bloodlust prepares a Pretty Party Cluster Bomb” and she will deposit a Drill with 260,000 HP at the 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, or 9:00 o’clock positions. The Drill will shortly explode after landing, dealing damage to everyone and reducing movement speed by 50% for 10 seconds. Successfully destroying the Drill increases everyone’s movement speed by 50%. This is performed on the first and third attack rotation. At 30% she will fire two Drills in a row.
2. Releases a 14 meter AoE ground quake that knocks down. Getting hit by this will cause you to drop your Machine Gun.
3. Releases five waves of spheres all around that move outward, the spheres inflict 10% x 2 HP damage, and removes 1 stack of Glitter Particle even with the Shield. The spheres have wide gaps that can be maneuvered through and can be jumped over. This is the boss’s most dangerous attack, so use the Shield here.
4. Releases 6 small AoE ground quakes around her that aerial. Getting hit by this will cause you to drop your Machine Gun. On the second rotation she will do this twice in a row.
5. Releases 2 field-wide shockwaves that knock down but can be jumped over. Getting hit by this will cause you to drop your Machine Gun.

Shortly after phasing, a message warns “Hongsil has delivered Machine Gun Gift Boxes” and six red boxes will drop in, each providing a Machine Gun.

After one full attack rotation, a message warns “Hongsil has delivered Particle Shots” and six blue boxes will drop in, each providing a green bullet. Walking over this bullet grants one stack of the “Particle Shot” buff allowing the use of the Machine Gun’s 2 skill.

After the third volley of spheres, a message warns “Princess Bloodlust’s energy returns, releasing the Princess Power Ripple” and she will release a field-wide ground quake that does no damage and makes everyone drop their Machine Gun. All players will gain stacks of Particle Shot and the “Princess Power” buff which increasing Attack Power by 250 and Additional Damage by 2,000 for 30 seconds. The number of stacks given is based on how many Glitter Particle stacks are retained:

• 0-4 Glitter Particles converts to 1 Particle Shot, and 5 converts to 2.
• 0-1 Glitter Particle converts to 1 Princess Power, 2-3 converts to 2, and 4-5 converts to 3.

Afterwards, the boss loses her Little Princess Shield and knockback field and resumes normal rotations.