Chapter 43: Thick Carapace
"Kill [Small Emperor Star Worm] Lv.21, skip the level kill, and gain experience points 4420."
"Fight powerful enemies and learn the trait [Thick Carapace]"
"Fight powerful enemies and learn the skill [Spike Charge]"
Ethan had never tried to gain so many experience points at once, and the moment he killed the Emperor Star Worm, a cracking sound sounded in his body, and a warm current rose from his limbs, gradually dissolving and shattering the ice-like things in his body. He could sense that there was still a thin film left before the thing was completely broken, and when it was completely shattered, it was time for him to upgrade.
Too late to check on the newly acquired traits, Ethan used his hands to shake the insect corpses out of the ground and continue to reinforce the barricades.
Because Ethan's strength and stamina attributes are both 6, this means that his backpack only has six spaces, and each space can only store six sets of items.
Ethan uses one block to store weapons, one block to store Xiao Huandan, and the other four blocks to store mana potions, but now it seems that 24 bottles of mana potions are not enough.
He took out a bottle of potion from his backpack and held it to his mouth again, while saying to the two people in front of him, "Lawrence, let one in." ”
Hearing Ethan's words, Lawrence stepped back a few steps to the side, and the rampaging Emperor Star Worm outside the gap immediately pouted its spikes and rushed in, and it was greeted by a little chill of the tip of the sword.
"Chris, collect the props on the ground." Dora commanded in the channel.
Christina gave the order, hung her rifle, and picked up the glimmering system props on the ground, and at the same time used the short knife on her waist to kill the face-eater that came in through the loophole.
Dora's eyes lit up at the sight of Ethan's plan, and a thoughtful look appeared on her face. She found that Ethan's placement of the insect corpse seemed random and disorderly, but in fact, it was precisely this disorderly action that made the insect tide unable to knock down the barricades under the repeated collisions.
Combined with the trait 'entomologists' that Ethan learned last time, perhaps it is because of the influence of this trait that Ethan can sense the movement of the insect tide, so the position of each stack is exactly the key position for the insect tide to exert its strength. During the battle with the second Emperor Star Worm, Ethan's occasional time to throw the insect corpses onto the pile of corpses that were about to collapse also confirmed her suspicions.
Although the Emperor Star Worm has a strong physique, the speed of its attack is not very fast, and the only thing that can threaten him is its mouthparts that pop out at an extremely fast pace. However, after Ethan learned the trait [Thick Carapace], this move of the Emperor Star Worm could not cause him much damage.
Although I didn't check the effect of this feature, judging from the sudden tightening of the armor on the body and the description of the feature, this feature should be a defense-enhancing feature.
Although the barricade composed of insect corpses moved inch by inch under the impetus of the insect tide army, and the top also rolled one or two face-eating insects from time to time, many face-eating insects drilled in from the gap, and the situation looked precarious, but this roadblock always maintained a state of dynamic equilibrium, and after some of them showed signs of imminent collapse, three or two insect corpses would fall from other places to fill the gap.
A minute later, Ethan finally killed the Emperor Star Worm by chopping its belly into several fragmented pieces with a single slash.
"Kill [Small Emperor Star Worm] Lv.20, skip the level kill, and gain experience points 4060."
"Meet the upgrade conditions, increase the level to 14, and gain a point of strength attribute."
However, at the end of the insect corpse barricade, there were finally signs of collapse, a pile of insects was opened, and several face-eating insects made the gap bigger and bigger in the sound of "bang".
After leveling up, the ice melted, and a sense of power filled his body, nourishing his empty body. The sheer amount of experience is so large that Ethan's remaining experience points still fill the upgrade progress bar by nearly a third after leveling up once.
Pick up the insect corpse in front of him and throw it into the gap, and at the same time grab a short spear weapon that has just fallen in his hand and throw it violently.
The broken insect corpse flew out, just blocking the gap, and then a flying spear pierced the corpse of the Emperor Star Worm, and nailed several face-eating insects to the corpse pile.
On the other side, the place that was about to move was also concocted, throwing the various weapons that Christina had collected, and suddenly making a wall of face-eating insects look like a shooting range, full of various weapons.
After doing all this, Lawrence's side couldn't resist it, and the two Emperor Star Worms pushed and squeezed, making it difficult for Lawrence to support and was pushed to the ground, but fortunately, Adeline had been waiting by her side and immediately filled the vacancy, but the two Emperor Star Worms still took advantage of this gap to crawl in.
The situation suddenly became panicked, Adeline was on the top of the gap, in front of several mutant faceeaters and emperor insects with teeth and claws, Adeline also distracted herself to pay attention to the situation of Clorence behind her, only hating herself for not having three heads and six arms.
Christina stepped forward, holding her dagger in front of Clarence.
Ethan, on the side, didn't panic as if he had expected all this. Leaping out in one step, the long sword swung out, scratching the heads of the two Emperor Star Worms, and at the same time diverting the attention of the Emperor Star Worms to him.
Ethan had already sensed the movements of the two Emperor Star Worms in the gap through the entomological scholar trait, and if he had the heart to stop it, he could have informed the team members in the channel, but he had his own plans.
When leveling up, you can restore your status and all skills will complete cooldowns. With the quicksand technique, Ethan was sure to deal with two Emperor Star Worms at the same time, and end the battle within 30 seconds, greatly reducing the pace of the battle.
However, if you put them in one by one, the process of killing the Emperor Star Worm will become very difficult and dangerous without the quicksand increase. As time passed, the barricades built up by the insect corpses were bound to be toppled by the insect tide, and at the current speed, Ethan guessed that this corpse wall would not last three minutes, and he must speed up the pace of the battle, weaken the power of the insect tide as much as possible, and save more Emperor Star insect corpses to repair the barricades.
Thinking did not hinder the movement of Ethan's hand, the quicksand technique was faster than the two Emperor Star Insects opening their jaws, and under Ethan's intentional control, the jaw fragments falling from the surrounding insect corpses were absorbed by him, and then violently exploded, shooting into the face of one of the Emperor Star Insects, affecting its perception.
On the other side, Ethan ejaculated out, piercing into the body of the Emperor Star Worm just as it showed its mouthparts, just like when the first Emperor Star Worm was killed, and it was successfully killed.
Seeing that his companion was killed, the Emperor Star Worm retreated strangely, turning around and walking towards Adeline who was on top of the gap.
After killing an Emperor Star Worm, Ethan noticed that the Emperor Star Worm seemed to turn its killing intent towards Adeline, so he hurriedly shouted in the channel: "Adeline be careful!" It wants to attack you! ”
After all, Lawrence was only a mortal body, and after the previous Insect Tide Attack, his body was already weakened, and coupled with the pain in his left foot and various parts of his body, he lay on the ground, and could no longer serve as the team's guard.
At this point, Adeline replaced Grassus as the shield in the team. As a shield guarding this square inch, once Adeline falls, there is only one fate for everyone, that is, ten thousand insects devouring the body, and the body is gone.