A black shadow was emerging over the forest, slowly cruising forward.

As it progressed, the protocrystals suspended in the forest gradually broke away from the gravitational pull of the earth and roared into the sky.

Fang Yu hurriedly ran to the platform on the left side of the front saddle bridge, and looked up to see a floating primordial crystal flying over his head. And such scenes abound in this forest at this moment, and there is even a small mountain of crystals suspended not far away, and a layer of floating soil below is peeling away and rustling.

This is the resonance effect caused by the enrichment of the earth-attribute etheric mana, and if you look up, you can see the source of the resonance, the huge side-hole creature that slowly moves forward in mid-air, the rock shark.

It looks a lot like the bull shark on Earth, with a broad and thick torso and a spindle-like streamlined body, but it is like a dark cloud, and its body is many times larger. The skull bears a long, blade-like horn that occupies at least a quarter of its size, followed by a craggy hard layer from the abdomen to the back.

The hard layer is not a bone plate or wart, but a real rock, and the long horns of the rock shark are filled with an abundance of earth-attribute ether, which attracts the same crystals to enrich around it, and from its juvenile stage it coexists together, eventually forming a solid armor.

And this is also the origin of the scientific name of the rock shark -

The rock shark apparently hadn't noticed the tiny creatures of the forest below, and was swimming leisurely forward, occasionally raiding villages and camps, but humans themselves were not on top of its usual diet.

At this time, Fang Yu also saw the 'companions' in the forest. There were three teams of adventurers, one of which had medium-sized pack beasts like them, but they didn't have as good carpentry as Luo Yu, and the pack beasts only had saddles on their backs, no platforms or pack houses.

The pack beast was supposed to be the Aquinn Grey Sloth, an ugly man with a gentle personality. This creature inhabits the warmer hills of giant trees, and it is obvious that it has never seen such a creature as a rock shark, and it is a little uneasy, and it is hesitant to let the orcs drive it away. In desperation, the group had no choice but to jump off the pack beast and approach this direction on foot.

The Grey Ridge Negative Hill Beast here also suffers from this problem.

But fortunately, there was also Attila, and the elven girl jumped on the neck of the giant beast, buried herself in her arms and hugged the docile giant beast, whispered to reassure it, and used the power of the druid to calm it down.

In this way, at least Fang Yu and the others don't have to go down to the ground to walk-

Those adventurers looked in this direction with some amazement. Druids are one of the few professions that require true faith, and the goddess Améa has never agreed to open up her divine powers to the Electors, so there have always been few followers of Emmeia among the Electors.

Except, of course, the Unbeliever Raven Druid - Fang Ou looked at Attila and subconsciously remembered the Silver Puff Druid he had encountered in the Elven Ruins. The latter was undoubtedly a crow, the Overseer, and he thought of the Nighthawk Elector on the other side.

If he had the chance, he would have avenged the day's revenge, both for himself and for Elsa.

At this time, Parker also ran back from a distance, catching up with the steps of the Grey Ridge Negative Hill Beast, jumping nimbly onto the rope net with an arrow step, and grabbing the rope net from the outside to climb to the platform. Luo Yu and Tianlan, who had already landed on the platform, grabbed his short fat arm with one hand and pulled the Paparal crossbowman up.

As soon as Parker climbed onto the platform, he lay on the ground like a big meat bun, panting for breath and looking at the others with only dripping black eyes. "I've negotiated with them that we'll distribute the loot according to the amount of contributions, and the merchants have agreed to buy the big one. But we don't have magicians and naturalists, so we'll have to wait for them to set up the ground and lure the rock sharks to lower their heights. ”

He said breathlessly.

Everyone nodded, the contribution point system is a set of effective distribution methods formed in the past ten years, and it can be regarded as one of the many changes that the Elector has brought to this world. It began as a verbal rule, but the goddess of commerce, the protector of the spirit of the contract, saw that this was an opportunity to increase her influence, and stepped in to establish a set of universal rules in the form of a contract of the gods.

To put it simply, after the parties to the contract swear to each other in the name of the goddess, this distribution will receive the attention of powerful beings from the underworld, and if there is a violator, it will most likely not end well.

Fang Yu looked up at the other adventure groups.

The number of several adventuring groups is not large, the number is in twenty or thirty, and the few are not much more than their team. However, they are indeed the smallest of the several adventure teams, not to mention that there are three trainees and a large number of life professionals, which can be called a model of soy sauce adventure group.

It is not difficult to lure a rock shark to lower its altitude. Because they live in a sea of clouds, their eyesight is extremely poor, and they can even be said to be half blind. However, the tip of the nose of the rock shark has highly sensitive organs that can emit a resonant wave through a single horn, and use the ether echo to sense obstacles ahead, search for food, and avoid danger, which is somewhat similar to that of bats, but much more efficient.

The lure works by utilizing a special type of food that rock sharks love – a special resonance crystal. Magicians and naturalists can make these crystals and use them to lure them to the surface to feed.

Fang Yu soon saw that the adventurers had completed their preparations.

To his slight surprise, however, he saw two acquaintances among them—if he was not mistaken, the slender girl carrying the box was none other than Sylvid, and the maid beside the girl was also standing beside her.

It's just that they and the adventurers don't seem to be all the way, and the two of them stand from a distance, watching this scene. She also seemed to see Fang Yuan's direction, but at this distance, she probably hadn't recognized Fang Yu and the others for a while.

Fang Yu subconsciously shrank back—the other party's goblin costume was still in his hands, although he knew that it was a bit delusional and immoral—but he still couldn't help but hope that the other party would simply forget about it.

That couldn't be better.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and just as he was thinking so crankily, he suddenly saw Sylvid look over here with some surprise. Tianlan also exclaimed in surprise, "That seems to be Sister Sylvede, right?" ”

A black line on the square plover.

But he didn't have time to think about it right away.

Because the adventurers over there have already made preparations and successfully placed the bait. The rock sharks in mid-air sensed the abnormality on the ground, and the resonance crystal was an irrepressible temptation for them, although they were slightly puzzled, but in the end, the thirst for food still prevailed, and with a flick of their tail, they began to turn to swim towards the forest.

It slowly lowered in height, and its spindle-shaped body was clearly visible, with two pairs of fins swinging like wings, one in front and one in the back. It has a large, meniscus-shaped mouth that is somewhat hideous, and the corners of its mouth are coldly curved back slightly.

It was at this moment that five or six rays of blue light shot out from the ranks of adventurers in the distance, cutting through beautiful arcs and exploding on the top of the rock shark's head like a salute flower. Seeing this scene, Fang Yu was slightly surprised—these people were quite well prepared.

"What's that?" Tianlan asked with some curiosity.

At this moment Red came out of his pack house, and the lionman had gone back to the house to fetch his weapon, a huge double-headed sword fighting equipment, which was now in his hand. He heard the question of sky blue, looked in the air, and the dazzling blue light reflected in his silver eyes, and then he answered:

"Wind crystals."

Fang Yu also happened to explain: "It is a crystal magic spell created by a magician, and after exploding, it can disrupt the flow of air in an area and create a turbulent area. This crystal magic spell is extremely useful in aerial combat, and some small floating warships cannot ignore turbulence zones. ”

As if to confirm his words—

As soon as the blue light exploded, the rock shark began to struggle violently, trying to get back into the air, but it was too late. The staggered turbulence deprived it of its ability to control the currents, and instead it flew lower and lower, its belly grazing almost a tall canopy of metasequoia.

It was like an airship crashing to the ground, and a loud sound of trees breaking could be heard in the distance.

And at this time, the battle officially began.

The first to strike were the ranged Drafters—rangers, crossbowmen, and gunsmiths—firing bows and arrows, or loading bullets, with a squeaky sound. "Putting ——!" There seems to be a configuration such as a shooter captain in the adventure group, and there are also people who command in unison, and in a volley, the arrows fly into the air like a black wall, hitting the torso of the rock shark head-on.

But before Sky Blue could scream, he saw that most of the arrows had been bounced off by the solid rock shell on the latter's body.

Fang Yu opened the battle window, and he could clearly see a gray number, although dense, but the highest was only about ten points. The rock shark's rock shell is very thick, and according to the armor value, it is more than tens of thousands of points.

Not to mention that the armor value is considered an efficient life in Aitalia, and it also has a hardness and damage immunity value, so I don't know if I will fight until the Year of the Monkey.

And it is obviously impossible to expect a bow and arrow of this strength to penetrate the armor value and directly cause concussion damage to the rock shark itself - although the rock shark is only a creature of less than level 20, the physical strength of monsters is generally far beyond that of humans, and in terms of toughness alone, it is not impossible to be equivalent to a melee caller above level 30.

The shooters are clearly aware of this, too.

However, their first round of shooting was originally just a trial, and in the second round of attacks, they all switched to the 'Explosive Shot' skill. The Explosive Shot uses a special cluster of unstable crystal arrows and bullets that explode on impact, dealing secondary damage, making it a great choice against high-armor units at this level.

However, once the unstable crystal is infused with mana, it becomes extremely sensitive and can easily explode. Therefore, when using this skill, shooters need to use a special magic plug-in 'Delay Injection Device' to set the injection time of mana.

This is a typical high-tech job.

The shooter needs to have an accurate judgment of the distance and the flight time of the projectile, and even the way to avoid the target, otherwise the delay fuse is set too early or too late, which will lead to shooting failure. If the crystal explodes too early, it will reduce the damage or even fail to hit, and too late will cause the crystal to be damaged and unable to activate.

Although the blast shooting itself is only a level 5 skill, it can only be learned after the Recruiter invests 160,000 experience in the shooter field. However, due to the particularity of this skill, except for professional recruiters, those who really master this skill generally have to wait until about level 20.

It is also for this reason that blast shooting is called an introductory skill for shooters in the community.

Mastering it, you will also enter the threshold of the shooter.

Fang Yu used to watch Miss Capet shoot with explosives, but there was no trick in the latter's hands, and it seemed to be no different from ordinary shooting, so he didn't find it difficult in his own right.

But today, this round of shooting opened his eyes.

The first round of blasting bolts was quickly projected—

A dazzling firework exploded on the left and right sides of the Rock Shark, and since the Rock Shark did not anticipate the attack in advance, but only maintained a constant speed, attacking such a target is basically equivalent to attacking a stationary target for professional shooters.

But it is this stationary target, and its hit rate can be described as miserable.

First of all, the detonation rate is less than three layers, and in the detonation of these three layers, almost all of them are close misses. Of course, there is damage when it misses in the near future, but its damage is measured according to the distance, and Fang Yu couldn't help but be speechless for a while when he saw that piece of damage was less than three digits.

You know, the armor damage generated by the Demolition Shot should be at least five or six hundred at this level.

Of all the people, only Parker hit a 127 damage. The latter even danced with joy and said triumphantly: "Did you see, did you see!" I hurt the most - the master crossbowman of the Paparalls, the king of the nightingales of Sanshak! ”

Even Sky Blue praised her, but her compliment did not make Mr. Paparal happy. Because what she said was, "Wow, that's lucky!" ”

"What does it mean to be lucky," Parker jumped to his feet in anger, waving his little short hand, "It's technology, it's technology, you know?" ”

"Hurry up," Tianlan interrupted him, "Look over there, that big guy has turned around, don't let it come to us!" Hurry up and shoot it again! ”

Parker was speechless, and could only use his short chubby hand to adjust on the magic furnace. After the time-delay device lit up slightly, he lifted the crossbow and aimed at the rock shark in mid-air.

And by this time the others were almost ready for a second round of shooting.

But it was at this moment that Fang Yuan came over and pressed down his heavy crossbow - after all, crossbow bolts with unstable crystals were still very expensive. He really couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply said, "Three o'three." ”

Everyone was stunned, and the Paparal looked at him with wide black bean-like eyes.

"Brother Ed, what did you say?" Azure asked.

"Three o'clock and three gears, then I'm sure to crash into it!" Parker said loudly, and calculated with his fingers: "No, no, no, the crossbows of the Paparals are all saved by frugality, and it takes at least one, two, three, or three meals to exchange for a blasting crossbow!" ”

And how could he, as a professional Paparal crossbowman master, listen to an alchemist? If the news got out, his reputation in Sanshak would be ruined, if at all.

Attila just jumped off the beast's head, and she looked into the distance, where others had already fired a second round of blasting arrows.

But this time it was even worse.

The rock shark had already anticipated the danger in advance, and its body was slightly on one side, which suddenly made all the shooters' attacks miss. Expensive blasting bolts are like fireworks shot into the air, and although the fire is extremely bright, the actual effect is almost equal to zero.

Parker couldn't help but open his mouth wide when he saw this scene.

"Or, do you want to listen to Brother Ed?" Tianlan was also a little hesitant: "What if Brother Ed's luck is better?" ”

Hearing this, Fang Yu broke out in a cold sweat, what does it mean to be lucky?

The Paparal man pondered for a moment, and replied with great righteousness, "All right, but if you don't shoot, it's not the fault of the Paparal crossbowman master. Remember, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Paparals! ”

After solemnly stating, he raised the heavy crossbow in his hand, and then went back with his backhand to adjust the plug-in on the magic channel. But before he could stop, Fang Yu reached out and helped him move another half a square.

It used to be 3.3, but now it's not necessarily.

"Quick," Fang Yu withdrew his hand and said to him, "It's now." ”

Parker took suspicious aim at the rock shark and pulled the trigger—

……