Chapter 15: The Rock Lizard
Midnight. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoNortheast of the city of Berdell, a cave in the Thorntooth Mountains.
Mo Li deflagrated copper, aimed at the neck of the lizard in front of him, and swung it out.
The large, seemingly clumsy monster swayed its body with a sharp swing and slashed at the vital parts in time, and the blade landed on its back armor, which could easily cut off the short blade of the iron sword, but left only a white mark on it.
Mo Li secretly screamed, and before he could retreat, the thick lizard tail had already drawn from the left side, and as soon as he raised his left arm, a strong force surged and whipped him out.
"Ahem!"
Mo Li got up again, and once again returned to the state of confrontation with the lizard. Because he protected his body in time, he was not injured, but it was not easy to feel either, the strength of this monster was too great.
He swallows iron, keeps sodium and iron burning, cancels the power of copper, and recovers as enemies circulate.
At least half an hour has passed since the start of the war.
That's really ...... I don't know what to say......
According to the middle-aged man, Moli quickly found the cave. Along the way, you can see several huge lizard corpses from time to time.
It seems that the man did not lie to him, and the other party did hunt the crystal lizard here to obtain the crystal. At that time, Mo Li put the last bit of doubt behind him, optimistically thinking that he would be able to carry a large bag of Crystal Club Bodel City tonight.
Not far into the cave, he saw a geodron lizard and pounced on it without hesitation.
And then...... This is where it is now.
Isn't it said that "it's easy to hunt"? Where is it? No wonder no one comes to hunt except that guy.
Mo Li had already scolded that person ten thousand times in his heart, and at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder, those dead lizards were really killed by that person?
Even against the four members of the Moon Blade Knights, he can at least be evenly matched, but in front of this lizard covered in carapace, he has not taken advantage of it at all. If that person can easily hunt these monsters, then it can only be said that his strength has far surpassed that of ordinary blood clans.
The difficulty of the crystal lizard is not only that it is strong and thick, but also that it is naturally capable of using illusions!
Mo Li stared at the enemy in front of him, slowly moving around it, and the other party also slowly turned his body, always keeping his head facing him. The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and suddenly, he noticed that the lizard was no longer following him.
He quickly backed away. The illusion effect of the geodron lizard is almost exactly the same as his, according to previous experience, what is in front of him at this time has become an illusion of the enemy, and the opponent's body has been in a state of temporary invisibility, and it is likely to be attacking him.
The strength of the crystal lizard is very strong, but fortunately, the wisdom is not high, and after repeating it a few times, Mo Li has already figured out the opponent's attack routine.
He detonated the sodium, increasing his reaction speed to the maximum. Although he didn't turn around, most of his attention was behind him, and after a breath, the lizard's massive body emerged from behind him.
The triangular head slammed into Mo Li's back, and the action seemed clumsy, but it was actually very powerful. Most of the lizard's body is composed of various ores, and the weight is amazing, this attack is tantamount to a huge hammer suddenly crashing into it at a very close distance, and the previous few times, Mo Li could only rely on the deflagration copper to block it.
But this time, the enemy attack fell in the air. Mo Li, who had been prepared, did a backflip and jumped into the air like an acrobatic trick, dodging the impact of the opponent.
Then, the body fell, and he rode right on the lizard's back.
This time, you can't hide from it, right?
Mo Li grabbed the lizard's back with one hand, and raised the short knife with the other, deflagrating the copper, and the lizard's neck was just ordinary flesh and skin, and it was the only place where his knife could pierce it.
The enemy also realized the danger, and writhed his body and rushed forward, trying to throw Mo Li off his back. But as soon as it ran a few steps, Mo Li's knife had already accurately pierced its neck, and the sharp blade pulled horizontally, and a huge wound suddenly appeared on the lizard's neck, and silver-white blood gushed out.
The geolizard struggled forward a few more steps, and finally stopped, no longer moving.
Mo Li stood up, looked at the prey in front of him, and smiled. In any case, his efforts were at least not in vain.
He was worried about how to knock the crystal off the lizard's back armor, but after the enemy died, a thin crack appeared between the different minerals on the back armor, and the blade was inserted into the crack, and he quickly pried off a cluster of crystal crystal that was crystal clear.
Mo Li didn't rush forward, but found a corner to sit down, swallowing a piece of iron to recover his strength, while slowly cutting the crystal in his hand into small pieces with a knife.
At the same time, he was thinking about his next plan. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to move on.
First of all, since he has already come here, he can indeed get crystals, although the difficulty is far more than expected, but if he gives up, he will not find any other way to obtain crystals.
The more important reason is that he already has crystals available in his hands, and as long as he carefully plans his strategy, he should be able to kill the geolizard quickly with the crystals.
With this in mind, Moli stood up and continued his march deeper into the cave.
On the rock walls of the cave, there is an ore that emits a cold light, so although the cave is not bright, it is enough to see the surroundings. Every time Moli encountered a fork in the road, he carved a mark with a knife to prevent him from getting lost.
After walking a few forks in the road like this, he saw a second geodroid lizard, which was lying lazily in a corner and did not notice him. Moli carefully hid his body in the shadows and looked at the other party.
At a glance, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Fortunately, he didn't give up just now, Mo Li couldn't help but think so.
On the cave wall behind the lizard, there is a small piece of crystal ore growing, Mo Li was pleasantly surprised, and immediately thought that the crystals on the bodies of these lizards certainly did not grow for no reason, obviously because they usually eat these crystal ores, they will grow crystals on the carapace, and in this cave, it is estimated that there are still several exposed crystal ore veins.
If so, you'll have a good harvest.
Suppressing the joy in his heart, Mo Li thought about a new strategy for hunting the crystal lizard again, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with the planned burning order, he swallowed a bottle of sodium and a small piece of crystal that had just been cut.
"Crystal sodium copper crystal. He quickly recited the burning order in his mind.
The crystal ignited first, and then the sodium was also ignited, and while entering the stealth state, Moli's speed was also increased to the extreme.
He approached his enemy like a ghost, and at the same time, he took out a piece of copper and put it in his mouth, but he was not in a hurry to swallow it. It wasn't until he got close behind the enemy that he swallowed the copper and lit it.
The crystal's effect vanished, and his figure emerged from behind the lizard, and it was only then that the enemy sensed the danger, but before it could move, Moli's short blade had already pierced its neck.
The lizard let out a roar, and its massive body swung violently, shaking Mo Li away, and then sprang forward. At the wound on its neck, bleeding incessantly, it rushed a few steps with the wound, and suddenly became motionless.
But Mo Li didn't let his guard down, he knew that the enemy was not so easy to die, and the one in front of him was probably just an illusion.
Long before the war began, he had already thought of a countermeasure. After silently counting three times in his heart, Mo Li took out a crystal, swallowed it and lit it, just at the moment when the enemy reappeared, he entered a state of seclusion, leaving only an illusion body.
Sodium's effect is canceled out, and his movement speed suddenly slows down. But it didn't matter, the enemy, as he expected, did not run away, but happened to appear beside him, flicking his tail at "Moli".
But its target was wrong, and the tail passed through the body of "Moli" unhindered, and the real Moli emerged from its back, and stabbed it into its neck.
After a dying struggle, the lizard became Moli's second trophy.
He calculated the time, and this battle was less than a minute from the start to the end, which was more than dozens of times shorter than the first time.
Mo Li increasingly found that due to the particularity of the rules of alchemy, if the puppet can plan the battle strategy and combustion sequence in advance, it can burst out with a huge suppressive force in the battle, but if it is an unprepared encounter, it can often only take one step at a time, and once the choice of swallowing elements is not correct, it is easy to fall into a cycle of disadvantage.
Compared to the blood magic of the Bloodline and the divine magic of the Cult of the Stars, the Alchemy Eater is an ability with a particularly high upper limit and a very low lower limit.
While thinking about this, Mo Li harvested the crystals, this time the harvest was quite rich, if they were all cut into small pieces, it would be enough for him to use them dozens of times.
Crystals are different from iron and copper, not only are they rarely sold by ordinary merchants, but the prices are relatively high, so Moli decided to collect enough crystals at once.
Before he knew it, Moli had been in the cave for hours, during which time he had hunted more than two dozen crystal lizards and dug up two crystal veins. The cave was much larger than he had imagined, and he estimated that he was thousands of yards from the entrance, but there was still no sign of going to the end.
The leather bag he brought was almost full, and Mo Li pondered whether to go back the way he came.
But the moment he turned around, he saw a lizard crawling slowly out of the corner of his eye.
Unwilling to fight again, Moli dodged into the shadows, but when he looked at the lizard again, he noticed something unusual.
The lizard's body...... Flashing?
From the outside, it was just an ordinary geodroid lizard, but with every few steps it climbed, its body flickered a few times like an illusion.
Could it be a mutated geolizard?
Curious, he quietly followed, and the lizard in front of him was unaware, still walking slowly forward, turning three or four corners, and finally stopped at a corner.
Mo Li observed in the dark for a long time, and did not see anything else unusual in the other party, and after hesitating for a while, he decided to try to kill him.
I don't know if it's a mutant lizard or not, and if so, I don't know if it has other abilities, but when Moli made his plan, he had already considered the worst-case outcome, and he decided that the last person in the burning order would be sodium - if the situation was not good, he would run away.
Confirming that all preparations were ready, he swallowed the crystal and sodium into his mouth and flashed out.