Chapter 12: The Battle in the Dark
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Beyond the glowing ground was a thick dead darkness, but at this moment, in the dead darkness, there was a faint squeaky noise. The cries mingled with the roaring footsteps, getting closer and closer.
"Do you need to put your helmet away?" Catherine took off her helmet and let her long black hair fall over her shoulders, "And can't you make a sound?"
"No, you don't. In the darkness, the light in Pannis's head could be seen moving, as if shaking his head: "They are blind and cannot see the light." As for the sounds, we have camouflage powder on us, and in their senses, we are just a few lonely monsters. With a lot of delicious food in front of them, they don't pay attention to a few monsters from high places. โ
"So we just need to sit here and rest and leave when they're full?"
"Yes, I'm afraid it will be a little long, though. Pannis silently calculated: "It sounds like there should be three thousand to four thousand burrowing apes, which is considered a small group." It probably takes more than half an hour for them to be full. Hopefully, there will be another spore outbreak soon, as long as it erupts once, this group of monsters will leave a large number of corpses and flee, hiding far away, and will not dare to come back for a few days. Most of the monsters here have their own territory, but this monkey and another rock wall beast are the most troublesome, and they are in groups and wandering around, making it difficult to avoid them in advance. โ
"It's coming. Catherine, who had the best eyesight, was the first to notice that in the darkness at the edge of the spore carpet, countless shadows were constantly shaking, more and more shadows, and the squeaks were getting denser and denser. At first, the shadows were only devouring the spores on the ground at the edges, but it didn't take long for a large number of impatiently waiting shadows to crawl into the light to eat.
The Black Shadows are a group of monkey-like creatures, but their hair has fallen out, making them mistaken for humans at first glance. Their skin was already white, but it was even whiter in the light of the spores. Under the pale skin, the muscles swelled strangely due to the pollution of demonic energy, and even broke the skin, making the skin full of cracks, revealing the black-brown flesh under the skin. Occasionally, they hear a sound from above, and when they eat with their heads down, they will prick up their ears and raise their heads, and you can see their twisted and hideous faces, and their pure white eyes without pupils are facing the place where the sound comes from, pausing and continuing to eat.
"It's disgusting. Lina pursed her lips in disgust: "Miss Ben thought that the demonized brown bear she met last time was the most disgusting monster, but she didn't expect that there would be even more disgusting, and it was a group." Hey, Pennis, shall we just watch them eat?"
"I can't help it, I can only wait. You can take the opportunity to rest for a while, but don't let your guard down, after all, you haven't set up a defensive magic array yet, just recover your strength. Pannis's eyes were still fixed on the demonic caveman ape below, and he replied casually. Before the words fell, Vivien let out a surprised sound, and when she looked back, the light of the two hedrons on Vivien's helmet flickered a few times and disappeared completely.
Finding that the spars illuminated by several people were exhausted and extinguished, only the spar on the top of Pannis's helmet was still providing a faint light source, Catherine nodded clearly: "It's okay, the crystals are just running out, let's change them quickly." Pay attention when changing, change the front one first, and then change the one on the top of the head every once in a while, so that you won't completely lose the light source in the future like now. โ
Pannis turned his head, glanced at Catherine in surprise, and then looked back at the group of monsters below, not knowing what he was thinking.
Vivien did as she said, and changed the two hedras unskillfully, put on the helmet again, and tentatively turned her head left and right to test whether the hedron on the front was working properly. But just as the head turned, a huge white human face appeared on another umbrella cover nearby, and the two blood-red eyes on the big face reflected the light of the hedron in the past, full of weirdness. The mouth of the human face was wide open, and it let out a silent roar at several people.
"Enemy attack. Vivien exclaimed, and a spear of flames flew out of her hand and shot into the gaping mouth of her pale face.
"Don't. Close your eyes quickly. Pannis, who wanted to open his mouth to stop him, was a step too late, and the spear of the flame instantly crossed a distance of more than twenty meters, hitting the center of the open mouth, and then exploded into a ball of fire.
Halfway through the fire spear, Vivien realized that she had done something wrong. On the other side was not a giant human face, but a monster. The monster's body is like a flattened lizard, flattened on the umbrella cover, the limbs on both sides are exceptionally strong relative to the body, the tips of the limbs are shaped like bird grasps, and the sharp claw tips like knives tightly grasp the edge of the umbrella cover, posing as if they are about to jump. As for the human face that Vivien saw, it was just a pattern on the monster's back that was extremely similar to the human face. The fire spear hit the position of the open mouth on the pattern on the monster's back, and the raging flames suddenly exploded, and the dazzling light filled the entire space, and the stimulation from black to bright made Vivian and Lina's eyes turn white, and they couldn't see anything clearly for a while.
Fortunately, Catherine reacted the fastest, and immediately closed her eyes when she heard Pannisy shout to close her eyes, and did not open them until the explosion was over, undisturbed by the flash. Realizing that she could still see things, Catherine drew her sword and glanced back at Lina and Vivien, and was relieved to find that they both opened their magic shields to protect themselves as soon as they couldn't see anything.
"Don't let up. Pannis's shout rang out behind him: "This is the human-faced rock wall beast, the most united monster, and if it hurts one, the entire colony will not die." โ
As if to verify Pannis's words, the sound of sharp claws hitting the umbrella cover frequently sounded around the four people, and countless wind-breaking sounds in the darkness kept approaching the umbrella cover where the four people were.
Hearing an exceptionally strong wind approaching, Catherine's gaze turned to where the sound had come from. With the illumination of the head spar, two thick front paws suddenly stretched out from the darkness, grabbing Vivien's body with a strong impact. Catherine knew that although the magic shield could also defend against all attacks, it was the same as the Douqi shield, and every time it was attacked, it would bring a lot of damage to the mana of the releaser, so no one who was not a demigod wanted their magic shield to be attacked.
"Damn it. Catherine was caught off guard for the first time in such a dark environment, and it wasn't until the claws were about to touch Vivien's magic shield that Catherine's sword arrived in time to cut off the claws and cut off the attacker's head. But before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the wind sounded around Lina behind her again, forcing her to immediately turn to Lina behind her, killing the other attacking rock wall beast.
Fortunately, Lina and Vivien's eyesight also recovered, and they turned off their magic shield and joined the battle. Lina's right fingers tapped on her forehead and whispered a phrase of "Sacred Word Armor", an illusory armor formed out of thin air outside her body, looming over her body. After completing the protection, Lina pulled out the mace with her right hand and held it flat in front of her body, her left forearm was raised, her palm was pressed up against her body and supported on her chest, and the silver magic book hanging on the right side of her waist slowly flew up and hovered over the palm she was holding up, the height was just the height that she could read as soon as she lowered her head. The Dharma Book opens automatically, the pages are windless and automatic, and they are constantly opened, and a faint holy light circulates on the pages of the Dharma Book.
Suddenly, the turning pages suddenly stopped, and a faint light continued to rise from the spread pages, and Lina's eyes were full of reverence and reverence, staring at the open pages, reciting word by word: "The elements of the earth, in the holy name of Denya, command you to gather." The rising light continued to converge on the hammer held in front of her as she chanted, until it finally all burrowed into the hammer, causing the mace itself to glow faintly.
"Holy word, true sight. The pages of the Dharma book turned again, and Lina touched her forehead with the blunt part of the mace in her right hand, and the chanting sound sounded again, and she could only use it three times a day, and the true vision that could last for an hour each time immediately unfolded before her eyes. In the True Horizon, darkness is meaningless, and everything is divided into black and whiteโthe black of the entity and the white of the void. The two horizons can be switched at will, allowing Lina to completely ignore the darkness.
After all this, the eyes of the three girls made a brief contact, and Lina nodded, and actually took a few steps forward and pushed herself to the front of the line. Facing the impact of the monster, Lina wielded the light hammer in her hand as if possessed by divine power, and the seemingly light swing carried a devastating power, each hammer could smash the head of a monster.
Seeing Lina step forward, Vivien held the staff in her right hand and paused lightly on the ground, and a baby's fist-sized, exuding a bone-chilling silver orb formed at the tip of the staff, hanging in front of her. Stretching out her left hand and gently holding the magic bead, Vivien gasped a few times with obvious difficulty, leaned on the staff and took out a bottle of potion from the right pocket of her body and poured it down, only to sigh like relief and re-grasp the staff.
As Vivien regained her grip on her staff, both the orb and the staff lit up with a pale silver shimmer at the same time. When a monster pounced on Lina from the diagonal back, Vivien held the bead with her left hand and stretched out her index finger, pointing at the monster lightly, without chanting, but a cold ice trail was generated in the air, and three arrows condensed by ice pierced into the monster's head in the blink of an eye, and the impact of the ice arrow knocked the monster away.
Catherine got out of Vivien's front, and she was the fastest and quickest, constantly moving to the left and right and behind Vivian, killing every monster that rushed at her.
As time passed, the three girls finally understood the role of the hedron on the top of their helmets. Although the spar on the forehead can shine a little farther and the light is slightly stronger, the irradiation range is too narrow to even shine around you. The hedron on the top of the helmet can completely make up for this shortcoming, and the scattered light, although the range is only about three meters, can allow you to see the enemies within three meters around you.
Catherine, whose mission is to guard, is actually the heaviest burden, and monsters are constantly attacking from behind. But Catherine, who had become accustomed to fighting in the dark, was far more relaxed than she had at first. She quickly learned to try to throw aside the constraints of her vision and fight more with her sense of hearing and energy sense. Often, before the monster rushed within the visible range of three meters, a knight's sword infused with fighting spirit was already slashing at him. Even after becoming proficient, he sometimes has the spare energy to use the hedron light on his forehead to find enemies slightly farther away in the darkness, and a vacuum slash splits the enemy in half.
Similarly, Lina, although she has a true vision, she is more likely to switch to an ordinary vision, learning to fight in the dark with other senses, and only when it is really difficult, will she switch back to the real vision to relieve the pressure.
The three girls formed a straight line, and with only three people, they built a solid position among the countless demonic beasts, like a rock in the wind, and they were always strong despite the impact of the monsters.