Chapter 25: The Race to the Death
The shadow of death looms over the mercenary group.
Although mercenary is a high-risk class, the Blue Enchantress hasn't lost manpower in a mission for a long time. The loss of two brothers at once left everyone in grief.
But death has only just begun......
The mercenary group evacuated very quickly, a group of five mercenaries, keeping a distance of two or three steps from each other, moving forward cautiously, always on guard against sudden attacks from underground.
The mercenary group had only gone a few hundred meters before attacks followed.
The ground at the end of the line suddenly collapsed, and a giant gray worm burst out.
The vigilant mercenary spotted the attack for the first time this time, and while his eyes had been paying attention to a mercenary in the rear, he pulled the trigger of the steel crossbow in his hand to the bottom while making a warning sound.
Three bolts fired at close range flew towards the Demon Eater with great force.
Three dull sounds came in succession, and the arrows hit!
However, the speed of the Demon Eater has not slowed down in the slightest.
Traveling underground for many years, the Eater's skin is rocky and wrinkled, making it difficult to damage a weapon of pure strength such as the Steel Crossbow.
The other four mercenaries in this group also turned around and shot as soon as they heard the warning, and the bang, bang, bang sound kept coming.
The continuous firing only slowed down the Devourer's attack slightly, and it still had a few crossbow bolts stuck in it, but the target was still the mercenary at the end of the line.
The Blue Enchantress's mercenaries were well-trained, and when they saw that the crossbow attack was ineffective, they threw away the steel crossbow in their hands almost at the same time. One of the shield-wielding mercenaries stepped forward to block the front, and the other four mercenaries quickly drew their respective blades.
The shield-wielding mercenary only had time to lift the round shield in his hand slightly, and the Demon Eater slammed into it.
What the mercenary didn't expect was that the moment the Demon Eater hit the shield, the big mouth of the black hole that he had opened again, and almost his entire head was cracked, swallowing the shield in one gulp, along with the mercenary's entire arm.
The massive devouring force pulls the mercenary's body towards the devourer's mouth. One of the mercenaries next to him was quick-eyed, slashed his arm and slammed his body to the side.
The Demon Eater was more than four meters long and the thickness of a bucket, and the three mercenaries surrounding it took the opportunity to slash the head of the Demon Eater with their axes in their hands.
The full force of the three mercenaries slashed at the Demon Eater.
It's just that for the hard skin of the Demon Eater, the attack of the third-level martial artist can't constitute fatal damage at all, and each blow only cuts a small wound on the Demon Eater's body, but the pain completely angers the Demon Eater.
The Demon Eater swayed its body, then turned its head sharply and slammed at one of the mercenaries like a snake pounced.
The pounced mercenary staggered back, but how could he retreat faster than the Demon Eater? I only felt that a flower in front of him, a big mouth full of tiny small teeth was already in front of him, and at that moment, death had come, and the mercenary was so frightened that he froze on the spot.
At the moment when the worm's mouth devoured him, the huge head burst open in front of his eyes, and yellow-brown blood splashed all over his face.
Having picked up a life in front of death, the mercenary suddenly collapsed on the ground.
It was Elf Ilaya who struck, and only his arrows could be so fast.
It's never a good thing that Ilaya made a move so early!
The death of this demon eater also kicked off the prelude to the swarm attack.
From time to time, huge bugs suddenly emerge from the ground and attack the mercenary group, sometimes even two or three demon eaters at the same time.
The attacks became more and more intensive, and no matter how careful the Blue Enchantress mercenary group was, the casualties inevitably increased.
The third-level mercenaries are not opponents of the same level of Warcraft at all, only Keynes, Iraya, and Angus, a few warriors above the captain of the war, can effectively kill these bugs, and even Adeline's fire magic is greatly reduced against these bugs.
These bugs are so weird that they move quickly underground, relying on the heat emitted by the organisms to locate the target of their prey, so they can always choose a place to sneak out of the surprise and attack the mercenary group.
Sometimes the crater even appeared directly at the mercenary's feet, and the mercenary only felt that the ground under his feet suddenly emptied, and the next second it fell into the mouth of the demon eater.
Keynes rushed left and right to protect the whole team, and as long as there was a bug outcropping, he would immediately rush over to kill it, even if it was a second slower, a mercenary would die in the worm mouth.
The mercenary group is struggling to move forward, having killed thirty or forty bugs along the way, Tony and Angus are already panting, Adeline's fireball is getting smaller and smaller, but the attack of the demon eater has not weakened in the slightest.
Arthur and a few musk oxen have been kept in the center of the team, closely guarded by the entire mercenary group. At the beginning of the battle, Arthur had shot two arrows at a nearby bug, but the damage dealt to the Eater was not as much damage as a crossbow bolt fired at close range.
Seeing that from time to time there were mercenaries he was familiar with were injured or devoured by demon-eating insects, Arthur felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and at that moment it seemed to be back in the orc camp, watching his companions being selected and killed, but he could only pray that the next one to be chosen was not himself.
Arthur pursed his lips, the green veins on the back of his bowed hand exposed.
Tony stabbed through the jaw of a demon-eating worm, thrusting its cracked mouth back together as he turned to Keynes and shouted, "Boss, think of a way, the swarm should be chasing us, and you will never be able to escape the hunting grounds of these bugs." ”
Keynes leaped over and slashed Tony's bug below the head.
Keynes stuck the tip of his two-handed greatsword into the ground, his grip on the hilt, but his eyes looked at the musk oxen guarding the middle of the group.
Because of the fear of mission items, equipment, and attacks that come at any time, the mercenary group has not been able to move fast, but if you give up these things and escape with all your might, the Demon Eater Worms moving underground will not be able to catch up with the warriors running on the ground.
Keynes gritted his teeth and made a decision in an instant, "Tony, Angus, you two carry the box on the back of the musk ox in the middle, and we'll rush out quickly." ”
"And what about the rest?" Adeline couldn't help but ask.
"Leave it alone, rush out first!I'll open the way, Ilaya will break off, everyone will follow me and rush out with all their might!" Keynes gave the order to retreat.
The Demon Eater attack continued, but the entire mercenary group was on the run. This is a race against death, and there is only one ending for the mercenaries who have fallen behind!
There were many insect corpses left on the running mountain road, and sometimes there were mercenary ......