Chapter 23 The hunt begins
"Beating Willow" - one of the few hard nails that broke the various teams in the camp during the great exploration that lasted several days after the reservist sword-wielding found the altar, it was about five meters high, dark green throughout, and looked like a huge willow tree standing upright, with a slight difference, the main part of the trunk was deformed into a hideous and twisted human face, and the roots were not buried in the ground, but wriggled on the ground like some kind of worm, looking extremely terrifying.
According to incomplete statistics, at least three teams and nearly ten people were drained of blood by it.
The wicker hanging on its body and the tentacles under it are not only numerous, and can attack from multiple directions at the same time, but what is more terrifying is that they can be rigid or soft, although limited by inertia, the arc of the change of direction cannot be too large, but at the critical moment, as long as the deviation is so small, it is enough to make the previous prediction of the attacked person all fail, and even it is very likely to die because of it.
Combined with its tall and over-the-top form and indiscerning crux, the vast majority of teams list this particular demon as an unmanageable target - and the few that don't mind trying it out have either not yet taken action or have already fallen for it.
Neil is sure that there is absolutely no moisture in its toughness, its prestige!
But...... What's going on in front of you?
Cognition was subverted at this moment, and the silver-haired and purple-eyed boy could barely believe his eyes—the beating willow, several meters tall and with at least dozens of flexible branches and tentacles, was suppressed in a head-on battle...... Completely suppressed.
Moreover, he also contributed to it.
He, Corbock, Aina, and Hansen each restrained a part of the branches from four directions, and then watched as Judas rushed into the body of the beating willow, and as if he had foreseen the future, he perfectly avoided attacks from all directions in a posture like a swimming fish, and the broad-bladed broadsword in his hand was like a precise razor, and with every swing, it could cut off several of its roots.
Calm, elegant, and at ease.
It's hard to imagine anyone standing like a rock under the stormy onslaught, but Judas did, and the young man from Hemtika, who had survived the terrible war, was held back by them to single-handedly overwhelm the terrible demon that had destroyed several teams!
And for the foreseeable future, it will bring its sinful life to a successful conclusion.
That's exactly what they're here for!
Hitting the willow is the first, but it will never be the last!
Although the battle was very difficult, and the four of them did their best just to contain the dozens of branches of the demon, Judas couldn't cut off the tentacles faster than he could, but the victory gradually accumulated between these bits and pieces- It is true that the physical strength of human beings is far less than that of demons, but the threat of beating the willow is mainly on its large number of branches and roots, and now its dozens of branches are unable to defend itself, and the number of tentacles is constantly decreasing, and its offensive has shown some fatigue, like a toothless tiger, the threat is greatly reduced, and it is even no exaggeration to say that victory will only be a matter of time.
But there will be changes after all.
No matter how turbid and chaotic the demon's consciousness is, it still has the instinct to survive after all.
Without weighing the pros and cons, or even considering the switch between offense and defense, it simply realized that the death crisis was approaching, and was simply ready to clean up the hateful fleas that kept hurting it.
And so—
Dozens of branches contracted at the same time, which can be called a shade of the sky.
But no matter how much you cover the sky and the sun, it is useless to hit people - Judas seems to have eyes on his back, and at the first time when he changed his playing style, he retreated presciently, and dozens of branches were fast and slow, like whips falling from the sky, almost every time they hit the empty earth by a millimeter.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Flying dust obscured the vision, and the earth groaned.
"Be careful," said Judas, more accurately Amy Ulysses, exiting the sandy border, reminding his companions, "watch out for its final counterattack!"
In fact, this is somewhat redundant.
The reservist swordmen, including Neil, began to retreat as soon as the dust began to fill - after all, no one wanted to be swept upside down by the willow that broke through the dust, or skewered in skewers, or sucked dry.
"Are you sure?"
Neil asked, staring intently at the smoke and dust that were beginning to dissipate to prevent the beating willow from hurting people.
"This wave solves it. ”
The Glory One replied in the affirmative, and burst into battle the moment the smoke cleared.
Guided by him, Neil, Hansen, Aina, and Corbock followed.
Dozens of wickers stretched out in the sky, and hammered to the ground, accompanied by the rumbling of the earth, under the dance of sand and dust, the reservist sword-bearers relied on their numerical superiority to constantly cut the tentacles used by the willows for close defense, and the stench of juice overflowed like ink stains, drenching the earth into a disgusting dark green.
In a short time, the roots were cut off, and the battle entered its final stage.
Although the human form is very different from the beating willow, the damage that the Order's heavy sword can cause is undoubted, and after struggling and resisting to no avail, in the midst of a huge roar, the tree demon that destroyed several teams fell, and lost the chance to stand up again forever.
It's dead.
After establishing this, Amy Ulysses finally had a chance to exhale a cloudy breath.
- It's so tiring.
The battle often lasted more than an hour, and he took on most of the pressure alone, and if it weren't for that almost predictable fighting instinct, I'm afraid he would have been dragged down by this big guy.
Sure enough, it was somewhat reluctant to challenge a monster of this level with the physical fitness of a normal person.
......Although he had personally participated, looking at the huge corpse that had fallen to the ground, Neil still couldn't help but feel a little unrealistic in his heart, "Are you really human?"
"What do you think?" asked the Glory-Honoring in a cold voice.
"Well, when I didn't say it. The silver-haired boy shrugged his shoulders and staggered the topic of the faux pas, "However, I really didn't expect this battle to be so simple. ”
"It's not easy at all. Aina retorted, "The intelligence gathering in the early stage, the formulation of the battle plan, and the combat power of Judah itself, as long as there is a link missing, maybe we will be the one who will fall here today." ”
"That's right," Neil nodded, "it's just ...... I was expecting a tough fight. ”
The special demons that are avoided by the camp team are all powerful characters, and although the reserve sword-wielders are not helpless to deal with them after forming a team, they are undoubtedly dancing on the tip of the sword, and they will capsize like a small boat in a storm at any time.
And although this battle is enough to be called a vicious battle in terms of the length of the battle or the intensity of the battle, it is difficult to be difficult, and everything is not beyond the scope of the script, they acted completely according to the initial combat strategy, and there were no accidents.
It's so smooth, so smooth that it's not real at all.
Neil knew why, of course—Judas, the only survivor of the Hemtika Academy, possessed out-of-spec combat prowess, far superior to the average graduate in terms of combat experience and physical fitness, and with his instinct to foresee the future, he was even more monster than a monster - and he even suspected that this guy could even defeat Beater Willow alone if necessary.
To put it bluntly, most of the pressure of this battle is on him, and the four of them are just playing in the corners, making up for the output, and the impact on the battle situation tends to be almost none.
"Judas is very strong," even Hansen knew who had won the battle, "and we just had to trust him." ”
"—I will lead you to victory. ”
Neil still vividly remembers the look on Judas's face when he said this, and now ...... After seeing the combat power of this young man who had returned from hell with his own eyes, he felt a little more real in his heart.
If it's him...... Maybe, not impossible.
The silver-haired teenager narrowed his eyes.
Words can be used as an opportunity to convince a person, but what really convinces the heart is hard power.
"Rest for half an hour," Amy knew about their interaction, he liked the atmosphere, so he didn't interfere too much, just took out the remaining half of the healing potion, "If you need to come to me to get it, please be sure to stay in good condition." ”
"What about cleaning up the battlefield," Cockcock raised an eyebrow as he paused his gaze on the scattered remains of the Treants, "such a big guy, we can't take all the materials from it." ”
"Take away the most critical core," it is true that the reservist sword-bearers receive an elite education, but the education of the glorious ones will only be more high-end and more elite, "and the wicker on it, which is also a good thing - as for the rest, it is just some harder wood." ”
"Yours is the real thing. Corbock gave a thumbs up.
"The wicker on the beating willow is a really good thing, but it is not easy to cut because it is stronger than steel, and it is close to ten meters in length alone, which is extremely inconvenient to carry," these wickers should be given as gifts to the lucky ones who found it - the beating willow is only our first goal, and every subsequent battle will not allow us to have any distraction. ”
Yes, every single one.
The Glory One has drawn up a total of seven attack targets, and beating the willow is only the first, just one ...... Appetizer.
He had to thank the team that cleaned up the surroundings, it was thanks to their continuous development that these special demons with extremely high scores would have such detailed information, whether it was their combat methods or the general range of activities, there was no need to deliberately collect them, all he needed was to get there, find them, and ......
Kill them.
His hunt has just begun.