In the dark cave, Liu Li and his party of six were moving forward cautiously. The Dark Caverns are rich in black elements, but unlike the swamps in the eastern part of the Empire, the environment here does not have a clear rejection of other kinds of elements. Mages who major in any Yan ** method here can cast spells, but it's easier to major in black. Liu Li guessed that this situation was due to the different reasons in the two places, but she was not sure.

The tunnel was so quiet that no one could hear anything but their own and their companions' footsteps as they walked. Liu Li didn't use magic lighting, this time he was the only caster in the team, although the spiritual power required for lighting was negligible, but it was not such a waste, after all, he still had to maintain the entire team's psychic communication network. In fact, this is the correct way to open the spell of psychic communication, and Liu Li, who has been promoted to the second order, can already build a psychic communication network of less than ten people without affecting his own spellcasting.

However, it is naturally impossible for the group to move forward in the dark, the light blue aura emitted by Bluman's Heroic Spirit is enough for them to see everything in front of them clearly, and the lighting range can even reach twenty meters away, Eve's escort captain is walking in front of the team with a confused face at the moment, and he feels that there seems to be something wrong with the strange use of the Heroic Spirit.

As the group moved forward, they listened to Hill's briefing on the situation. The path they are taking now has been explored by the "Gray Horn" mercenary group, and it belongs to a relatively safe tunnel, and the frequency of shadow beasts appearing in this tunnel is not high, and even if they do, they are usually relatively weak.

"Be careful, it's their territory beyond that. Ciel's hand brushed over the mark left in the tunnel by Grayhorn's companion, who had lost his life during the previous expedition. The life of a mercenary is like this, I don't know when I will meet death. Although Ciel knew this well, he couldn't stop grieving, the mercenary who had died was Vika, who had faced the Shadow Beast's surprise attack with her before, but lost his life in the ensuing battle.

Not spending too much time mourning his dead companion, Hill led the procession onwards. The group has heightened their vigilance, and from here on, they may face the Shadow Beasts that are attacking at any time.

"Be careful, I hear a voice. There was a slight sound of footsteps, and a squirrel's warning came from the psychic communication network. Liu Li spread his spiritual power and spread out along the tunnel, and finally vaguely noticed the light and vigorous figure. He had to sigh again at the strong hearing brought by the four-channel ears, the distance between the shadow beast and the team was still more than fifty meters, and the squirrel could detect the existence of the other party so easily.

Everyone's weapons were unsheathed and waiting. The two semicircular crystals covered with animal skins in Liu Li's hands were tightly combined with a gentle "click" sound to form a giant shield with a diameter of more than one meter. Then he crossed the crowd with his shield and stood at the front of the line. As the shadow beast approached, Liu Li's perception of it became clearer, and Liu Li knew that this was not a newly grown demonic beast, but an individual in the group who were better at fighting.

Liu Li instructed Hill to guard his back, lest other shadow beasts go around the rear of the squad through the cave in all directions to raid at the rear. This is also his protection of this female mercenary, with Hill's strength, it is not enough to resist the attack of the enemy that is about to face, although she is a mercenary who mainly defends with heavy shields, but after all, she is not a formal warrior.

Lin double-wielded a double-edged heavy axe, standing behind Liu Li, ready to surprise or fill in at any time. Her petite size brought her great convenience, and the huge shield in Liu Li's hand could completely cover her, making it difficult for enemies who attacked head-on to discover her existence, while she could use her far more powerful than ordinary people to unleash a thunderous blow by surprise.

Compared to Linlai, the squirrel's concealed actions are more thorough, and the figure of this cat lady can no longer be found in a flash, if it weren't for the presence of her in the psychic communication network, everyone would think that this girl disappeared out of thin air. The hidden skills inherited from Kevin made her feel like a fish in water in this kind of cave with insufficient light, and now that she has mastered martial arts, she has also made up for the last shortcoming of her lack of combat power.

Eve and Bluman's Heroic Spirits are in the middle (acting as lighting by the way), while Toru is assigned to guard the back road with Ciel. There is no way, since he has promised Owen to ensure the safety of the heir of the "Gray Corner", Liu Li can only make this arrangement despite his own opposition, no matter how he says, he can't let him face an enemy he has never seen.

The Shadow Beast's patience was not good, and it was only driven by curiosity to perceive the light coming from a distance at first, but it did not expect that it was a handful of humans who had intruded into the territory. And now that it had discovered the intruder, it hadn't thought much about why humans were here, and its brain capacity was not enough to tell how the team in front of it was different from what it had encountered before.

Facing the shadow beast that swooped over, Liu Li did not choose to dodge. Judging from the size, the shadow beast that appeared in front of the team was a prime-aged individual, and Liu Li had the heart to try the other party's strength. Lowering his center of gravity, looking at the demonic beast that pounced in front of him in the blink of an eye, Liu Li did not retreat but advanced, raised the giant shield in his hand, and pushed it over.

The speed of the giant shield suddenly erupted made the shadow beast stunned, it was not that it had never experienced a battle with a human, nor had it never seen a human with great strength, but it did not expect that this seemingly thin person in front of it would choose to confront it head-on. The claws slashed down, slicing through the skin of the giant shield's surface and striking directly at the hard elemental crystals.

The Shadow Beast miscalculated the sturdiness of the giant shield in Liu Li's hand, and the sharp nails on its claws directly shattered under the burst of power the moment it made contact with the shield. In unbearable pain, it let out a low roar, and used the shield as a pedal to catapult towards the stone wall on the side, in a vain attempt to bypass the giant shield with flexible movements, and directly attack Liu Li, who was hiding behind.

It was naturally impossible for Lin to let this demonic beast get her wish, and rushed straight out of the cover of the giant shield in the direction of its rampage. The twin axes in his hands were raised high above the top and slashed downward, landing directly at the side of the Shadow Beast. If these two axes are split, with the powerful power of this Lori with the blood of a giant, it will be more than just disemboweling. It's not so much that Lin is chopping, but that this Lori is completely attacking the enemy by "smashing".

The sturdy shadow beast could naturally sense that it was in danger, and it forced a twist in mid-air, and although it did not completely dodge the two slashes, it was only slightly injured. The sharp blade of the axe sliced through its fine scales, leaving two long, narrow wounds on its body, nearly ten centimeters deep. However, on the body of the monster that was more than three meters long, this wound did not have much effect on its movements. The action of the horizontal pounce remained the same, and it tried to use its strength to fight back on the stone wall, but it only shifted the target from Liu Li to Lin's body, and compared to the pain of breaking its nails, it was obvious that the pain from the two wounds on its body made it more mad.

At the moment when the shadow beast borrowed the strength of the stone wall and reflexively wanted to pounce, two daggers, one long and one short, stabbed straight into its eyes from top to bottom. The lurking squirrel finally finds an opportunity to attack, and the first move is to kill. The already extremely sharp dagger had the power of the martial art "Penetration", and at the moment when the shadow beast was about to counterattack, it stabbed at its vital point from an angle that was extremely difficult to dodge.

Sensing the danger of the sudden attack, the Shadow Beast reacted unpleasantly, pressing its head downward, and its fluttering action remained unchanged. It knew that it would be difficult to attack the enemy from this angle, and that it would have a chance to fight back only if it rushed out. Two daggers stabbed into the Shadow Beast's back, and the sharp blades plowed two wounds more than a meter long into its back, blood splattering.

"Liu Li, hurry up, a companion heard its cry just now. The cat's ears on top of the squirrel's head twitched, keenly aware of the impending appearance of a new enemy.

Hearing the warning from the squirrel from the psychic communication network, Liu Li also knew that he couldn't grind anymore. With a mistake in his hand, two twenty-centimeter-long grips popped out under the huge round shield, and then split into two and held in his hand, the edge of the giant shield was already extremely sharp, and now it turned into two hand axes. "There has to be a quick fix. Liu Li said secretly in his heart, not to mention that there are new enemies about to appear, and the weapons in his hands can't be used for too long, otherwise there are likely to be problems in the structure. Although the design of the giant shield is exquisite, only the main body is made of elemental crystals, and the mechanism at the grip is still relatively fragile compared to the whole.

Liu Li jumped up, went up and down with Lin, and slashed at the flying demonic beast. The four axe blades cut a cold crescent moon in the dark tunnel, and it also contained the power of the martial art "Shock".

The Shadow Beast finally knows what it means to be invincible with two fists and four hands...... Well, the two claws are invincible to the four axes, and knowing that it cannot be spared, it does not give up this attack, and has repeatedly borrowed its strength so that it cannot continue to adjust its posture. The ferocious beast targeted the petite Lynn with a petite human that did far more damage to it than the guy who flew at it, and the downward attack allowed it to exert its own strength, allowing it to make its own choice.

It's a pity that the shadow beast's reaction was completely expected by Lin, although this loli likes to fight head-on with her opponent, she is not lacking in combat wisdom. Lin lowered her body and let the demonic beast's blood basin mouth widen, and at the same time, the double-edged heavy axe in her hand met its claws, and her hands shook, and the force on the heavy axe changed from "shock" to "heavy", and the offensive continued to slash towards the demonic beast.

The shadow beast's movements suddenly stagnated with the claws and the heavy axe in Lin's hand, Liu Li naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and the semicircular hand axe was castrated, slashing down along the wound ploughed out by the squirrel. At the same time, with a movement of his mind, several sharp spikes formed by the dark elements appeared in mid-air, shooting towards the demonic beast that had not yet landed.

Liu Li knew that the outcome of this battle was already doomed, and he had the intention to try the effect of magic on the dying demonic beast to lay a good foundation for the next battle, and he had not used spells before because of temptation.

The demonic beast that was directly hit by the hand axe let out a dying wail, but Liu Li was shocked in his heart. The sharp spikes formed by the spiritual power of the second-order mage encountered a certain obstacle when they stabbed on the fine scales of the shadow beast, although it was not ineffective, but Liu Li could clearly perceive that the dark elements on those spikes directly dissipated at the moment when they pierced the shadow beast's body. It seems that this kind of demonic beast that lives in a black element-rich environment has a lot of resistance to the black ** method, although it was expected for a long time, but I didn't expect that the power of the black ** method can be reduced by as much as 20%.

The companions summoned by the dead demonic beast also came into everyone's field of vision at this time, and the team was one after the other, and the two shadow beasts were not inferior in size to the one that had just been killed. Everyone knows that the battle is not over, and now is not the time to relax.