Li Nuo gave an order, and the Spirit of the Rock raised his fists and slapped them on the ground.

Layers of dark gray rock emerge from the ground, blocking the entrance to the tunnels that the burrowing machine has drilled out.

The yin wind in the narrow space suddenly dissipated, and even the noise from the shadow chrysalis became much lighter.

Li Nuo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't take it lightly.

He commanded the Rock Spirit to construct more rock layers, firmly sealing off the front, back, left, right, and up and down directions.

An airtight enclosed space that soon surrounded Li Nuo and the Spirit of the Rock.

Li Nuo listened.

The noise was barely audible, and it didn't move any further towards itself.

He nodded to himself, knowing that his on-the-spot operation had worked.

Li Nuo gave the Rock Spirit the order to "stay vigilant", and brought up the system interface in his mind.

[System News:]

[You consumed 2.1 million energy points to launch a harmless deconstruction of the "Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon"!] 】

[Harmless solution constitutes work!] 】

[You have obtained the panel information of the "Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon":]

Name: Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon

Type: Shadow creature

【Battle Level】

[Land] is predicted to be level 45

[Underwater] is predicted to be level 10

【Features】

1. Shadow deformity

The concept of living beings includes living people, undead spirits, beasts, magical beasts, plants and trees, and other individuals in various life forms.

Shadow creatures obtain shadow energy by devouring and decomposing living beings.

Shadow creatures love creatures that are rich in death energy, natural energy, rebirth magic, and blood magic.

They are not very interested in creatures rich in thunder, lightning, water, wind, and rock and earth energy, and generally do not devour such creatures if they have no choice.

Fire-based energy, pure light magic, silent magic, and all other magical energy with a spell-breaking effect are disgusted by shadow creatures.

2. Lightless Rebirth:

Shadow Chrysalis will turn into Shadow Fragments upon death and respawn in a specific lightless zone.

A unique shadow circle delineates the location of the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon's rebirth.

3. Shadow Recoil:

When casting a spell on a shadow creature, the shadow creature automatically applies a negative emotion-enveloping "Shadow Psychic Shock" to the source of the spell.

If you can't stop casting the spell in time, or if you don't use the "Psychic Shield" to resist the "Shadow Psychic Shock", then the "Shadow Psychic Shock" may breed potential negative desires and even negative personalities.

4. Shadow Grid:

Physical resistance is at least 90%.

Immune to Nature, Wind, Water, and Geo Energy damage.

Lightning and Fire have -10% resistance to energy damage.

Resistance to magical energy with spell-breaking is 50%.

Absorbs 100% of Shadow Energy damage, meaning that all offensive Shadow Spells heal Shadow Cocoons instead of damaging them.

5. Sneak away

Shadow creatures are perfectly able to mask their own energy fluctuations.

Only detection methods that specifically target shadow energy can detect the existence of shadow creatures.

【Skills】

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Action skills

Devouring Creatures:

Choose a target that is no higher than level 40, devour it, and continuously dismantle it for the next 24 hours, converting it into Shadow Energy

Shadow Trap:

Catch your target with a magical net woven with shadow energy. In the absence of light and low light, the net has a very high hit rate, and will always take effect when targeting targets up to level 40.

The Shadow Trap can be forcibly dragged into the body when dealing with living beings. When dealing with non-living targets, use Shadow Energy to quickly dissolve the target.

Shadow Shift:

Consumes Shadow Energy from your body, travels freely through lightless zones, and is immune to physical damage and most control effects. In Shimmer Zone, this ability has a chance to fail. In bright light environments, this skill has a greater chance of failure.

Shadow Mind Shock:

Inflicting negative emotions on the mental level of the target, nurturing the target's desires and dark personality.

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Passive skills

Creature Sniffing:

Automatically senses surrounding creatures with a sensing range of 600 meters. This passive ability ignores terrain.

Killing Intent Perception:

Automatically perceives killing intent, with a sensing range of 600 meters. Upon sensing the killing intent, the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon will immediately activate the "Shadow Shift".

(Other skills omitted)

【Weaknesses】

Hindering Action-Level Weaknesses:

The bright light environment can effectively limit the ability of shadow chrysalis cocoons to move.

Critical Weakness:

Magical energy, lightning and flame energy with spell-breaking effects, which can effectively kill the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

One-Hit Kill Weaknesses:

Thunder, Fire, and Silence spells with magic power exceeding Shadow Chrysalis Level *10,000 can instantly kill Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

【Precautions】

Please note!

Your Psychic Spell is only immune to its own Spell Retaliation, not to the Shadow Cocoon's Shadow Recoil of Chrysalis. Make sure that the Psychic Shield is active to avoid being affected by Shadow Recoil.

…

The results are as detailed as ever.

Li Nuo looked down from above, and probably knew why Luisa and other hired wizards couldn't find any trace of the underground monsters.

The reason is none other than the skill combination of "Shadow Transfer" and "Killing Intent Perception".

As soon as it senses the killing intent, the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon activates the "Shadow Shift" and teleports away from the wizard.

Unless you have a bright light in advance, it is almost impossible to stop the shadow chrysalis cocoon.

In addition, the "Stealth" trait that comes with shadow creatures is also a headache for wizards.

Shadow, i.e. shadow.

The biggest characteristic of shadow creatures is that they are silent.

They are perfect for masking their energy fluctuations.

Within the scope of Li Nuo's energy perception, there were only rock and soil energy fluctuations caused by soil and rocks in all directions.

If he hadn't heard the noise of the shadow chrysalis cocoon, he wouldn't have been able to detect the other party's presence.

That's where the shadow creatures get a headache.

Li Nuo's gaze swept over the "weakness" column.

Against shadow creatures, it's best to use the magic of silence, fire, and thunder.

Coincidentally.

Li Nuo has these three kinds of magical energy in his hands.

In confined underground spaces, the use of fire and lightning energy is somewhat dangerous.

Silence is the right choice.

Li Nuo reached into his magic pocket and took out his "Sword of Silence".

During his promotion from the first ring to the third ring, the "Sword of Silence" also grew from a dagger to a short sword.

Li Nuo held the "Sword of Silence" in his right hand, mobilized the magic of silence in his inner body, and poured it into the hilt of the sword.

Using the "Sword of Silence" as a medium, Li Nuo re-unleashed the "Magic Shield".

Only this time, the energy used by the shield changed from rock and earth energy to silent magic.

The original "Rock Shield" dissipated as brown points of light, replaced by a gray magical mist.

The thin mist clings to Li Nuo's skin, forming a layer of "Silent Shield" with weak physical resistance but high spell resistance.

After determining that the Shadow Chrysalis was not an invincible enemy, Li Nuo planned to harden it head-on.

Killing the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon was secondary, and Li Nuo mainly wanted to see where the Shadow Chrysalis would be reborn.

Didn't the deconstructed panel say:

There is a shadow circle that delineates the respawn location of the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

Li Nuo wanted to find this shadow circle and try to deconstruct it.

It would be great if you could get a way to summon and manipulate the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

With the goal of "Finding the Shadow Circle" and approaching the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon, will it trigger the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon's "Killing Intent Perception"?

Leno was curious about the answer to this question.

He erased all thoughts of "killing the shadow chrysalis cocoon" from his mind and gave the rock spirit the order to dig a tunnel.

"Bang bang ..."

The Spirit of the Rock swung his fists and slammed them at the floor beneath his feet.

Every punch it hits, it forms an arc-shaped pit.

After three consecutive laps, the vertical passage can be extended down a distance of about one meter.

The regular sound of percussion, carried down the soil and rocks to a depth of 100 meters, successfully attracted the attention of the shadow chrysalis cocoon.

"Rustle! Click! ”

Familiar noises came to my ears again, but this time, they were noticeably much higher-pitched.

Probably because of the Silent Shield, the Shadow Chrysalis reacts violently.

Li Nuo held his mind and restrained the discomfort caused by the noise.

The good news is that instead of deliberately trying to kill the shadow chrysalis cocoon, you really deliberately avoid the other party's "killing intent perception".

The group of shadow chrysalis did not activate the "Shadow Shift" to move away from him because of Li Nuo's approach.

"Bang bang ..."

The Spirit of the Rock has no mind, is a pure tool, unaffected by noise.

After nearly a minute of continuous high-intensity punches, with the crisp sound of a stone slab breaking, the ceiling above the head of the shadow chrysalis was shattered by the spirit of the rock.

"Whoa..."

Gravel fell, smoke and dust drifted.

"Rustle! Click! ”

Several shadow chrysalis cocoons hissed wildly in unison, and the faces inside the body appeared like waves.

Leno wields the Sword of Silence and uses it as a wand.

He bent his elbow and flicked his arm, the tip of his sword slashing a semi-circular arc in front of him, and unleashed the "Silent Sword Technique" that he had not learned for long.

The silent mana reserves in the mana viscera fell, and arcs of gray light flew out from the tip of the sword and swooped down on the nearest shadow chrysalis cocoon.

"Poof."

Before the shadow chrysalis could spit out the Shadow Net, it was cut off by the gray arc of light, and exploded like a ruptured bubble, splashing large swaths of jet-black slime.

This mucus is not really "mucus".

They are actually the bodies of dead shadow chrysalis cocoons, made of shadow energy and the remains of living beings.

With a wave of his hand, Li Nuo threw out more than a dozen "tracking markers" and landed on the slime of the shadow chrysalis cocoon.

At the very moment when the "tracking marker" was placed, the slime scattered on the ground turned into black smoke and burrowed into the ground, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

[System News:]

[The [Tracking Marker] x15 you just placed has been destroyed by Shadow Energy.] 】

"Huh? My mark is gone so soon? ”

Li Nuo was slightly stunned, turned his gaze, and looked at the only three shadow chrysalis cocoons left on the scene.

He was about to swing out the gray arc of light, but he saw the three shadow chrysalis convulse and burrow into the ground as black smoke.

"Ah, that's bad. I accidentally got killed. ”

Li Nuo patted his forehead and sighed to himself.

After his "Tracking Marker" was destroyed, the idea of killing another Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon was born in his heart, and he tried to use the "Tracking Marker" to find the Shadow Circle again.

It was because of such a subconscious thought that the shadow chrysalis sensed the killing intent and escaped with the "Shadow Transfer".

Li Nuo shook his head with a dumb smile, a little helpless.

It couldn't be helped, it was his instinctive reaction.

Maybe he had to try a few more times before he could restrain his subconscious killing intent.

Li Nuo restrained the regret in his heart, came to the place where the shadow chrysalis disappeared, and leaned over to check.

There are a total of four shadow chrysalis cocoons in the front and back, and they all move downward when they turn into black smoke.

Li Nuo can be sure of this.

He took out five Ground-Penetrating Machines and manipulated them to burrow downward from five different directions.

The Ground-Penetrating Spirit's movement speed is faster than that of the Rock Spirit.

After about 3 minutes, the fastest drilling machine reached a place 150 meters below.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

It's coming, it's coming.

The noise of the shadow chrysalis is here again.

Leno stopped manipulating the other four Drillers and focused on the one that heard the noise.

He followed the voice and commanded the Ground-Penetrating Machine to move forward.

"Wow~"

The drill drilled into the air, and a round notch in the wall appeared in the magical vision.

Along with them, there were three shadowy chrysalis cocoons that shimmered faintly and fluorescently.

Li Nuo was slightly excited for half a second.

He glanced back at the Spirit of the Rock, thinking quickly.

"With the Psychic Shield and the Silent Shield, the Shadow Chrysalis is not very difficult to fight. In this case, the rock spirits can rest for a while. ”

Li Nuo snapped his fingers and lifted the "Rock Spirit Summoning Technique".

He unleashed the "Death Flight", which turned into a slender black band of light and burrowed into the narrow round hole left by the Ground-Penetrating Robot.

Shuttling all the way through the circular pipe, Li Nuo soon came to the shadow chrysalis cocoon.

At this time, the ground-drilling machine spirit has been completely destroyed by the shadow chrysalis cocoon.

It turned into a puddle of black slurry, piled up on the ground, black bubbles appeared on the surface, and spit a fishy smell.

When Li Nuo arrived, a shadow chrysalis cocoon had just sucked the thick slurry into his body.

Li Nuo didn't say a word, raised his hand and swung a sword.

Silent magic erupted from the tip of the sword, forming a gray arc of detached mana waves that quickly passed through the shadow cocoon's body.

Li Nuo found the right angle this time, and swept the two shadow chrysalis cocoons at once with a gray arc of light.

"Poof... Poof..."

Two cracking sounds rang out at the same time, and jet-black slime splattered in all directions.

Li Nuo did not throw out the "tracking mark", but shook his left hand in front of him, and used the rock and soil spell that he had been in hand for a long time but did not use much.

"Rock Imprisonment"!

Earth-brown rock and earth energy, appearing out of thin air near the jet-black slime, rapidly weaving rock cages that hinder teleportation and movement.

"Bang bang ..."

There were several crisp sounds, and the fence of the rock cage connected with the door frame, forming an enclosed space that blocked all the retreats of the black slime.

The jet-black slime that should have turned into a black mist and burrowed into the ground was now scurrying around in a rock cage like a headless fly.

"Very good, very good, this is the capture of your body fragments."

Li Nuo smiled secretly in his heart, and threw a thought of "I'm going to kill you" towards the only remaining shadow chrysalis at the scene.

It wasn't until this moment that Li Nuo was born with killing intent.

Doing so successfully triggered "Killing Intent Perception".

The shadow chrysalis turned into smoke and disappeared from Li Nuo's eyes.

Around Li Nuo, there was no longer a threat to him.

Li Nuo stared intently at the rock cage.

The black slime in the cage maintained a restless posture, but was never able to break through the blockade of the rock cage.

The information fed back by the Deconstruction Technique revealed that the so-called "Body Fragments" were actually the corpses of the Shadow Monsters, which could be detonated by the "Evil Explosion Technique".

Li Nuo nodded in satisfaction, knowing that he had a powerful hole card.

He pulled out a pen and paper and wrote a letter to Professor Erica, asking some questions.

Shadow spells, shadow creatures, shadow magic items, anything that comes into contact with "shadows" are considered dangerous in the Unas Ring.

According to the Wizarding Law Enforcement Department, at least 5 out of 10 wizard criminals who wreak havoc on Cahill have mastered shadow magic.

Becoming a wizard criminal due to the negative emotions of shadow magic has almost become a truth in the shadow magic world.

The Silent Girl should have some experience dealing with shadow magic.

Li Nuo wrote to Erica at this moment to ask how he used the body fragments of the shadow creature to find the location of the shadow circle.

As it stands, it's likely that the shadow circle was planted by wizard criminals.

After sending the letter, Leno went to the rock cage and waited for a reply while observing the black slime inside.

"Rustle... Click, click..."

There was noise again.

Li Nuo listened carefully, not the movement in the rock cage.

He looked down at his feet, where the sound came from.

"Rustle. Click. ”

The noise is much clearer, and it is getting closer, in the spirit of Linuo.

Li Nuo raised his eyebrows, and silently said in his heart, "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you."

A strong killing intent bloomed in Li Nuo's heart.

But the noise did not disappear, but accelerated towards Li Nuo.

"Rustle! Click! ”

The noise suddenly amplified as if it were close to your ears!

Li Nuo's heart jumped, and the alarm bell sounded, knowing that things had changed.

It's likely not the timid Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon, but some other shadow creature!

Li Nuo guessed right!

Like a sturdy cheetah, several black shadows jumped out from under the ground and stopped steadily near Li Nuo, forming an encirclement.

"Rustle!! Click!! ”

An almost frenzied noise exploded in the underground space, coming from these monsters.

"What is this??"

Li Nuo held the "Sword of Silence" in his right hand, and took out a magic orb in his left hand and held it in the palm of his hand.

Bright lightning rays radiated from the magic orb, illuminating the entire underground space.

The hideous appearance of the monster was presented in front of Li Nuo's eyes.

It is a centipede-like multi-legged monster about the size of a lean wilderness wolf, with a pitch-black body and a body made of intense shadow energy.

On their backs, a row of spikes protrude upwards from their backbones, and charred skulls hang from the spikes.

The heads looked anguished, their eyes darkened, and their mouths opened to roar, as if they would never sleep.

This terrifying scene made Li Nuo's scalp tingle slightly.

He immediately activated the deconstruction technique.

[System News:]

[You spend 2.6 million energy points to initiate a harmless deconstruction of "Crawling Fear".] 】

"Crawling Fear..."

Li Nuo quickly scanned the enemy's panel information.

Creeping Fear has "Shadow Shifting", but does not have "Killing Intent Perception".

Moreover, their combat level in the land environment has reached the level of level 50, which is higher than that of the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

This all suggests that Creeping Dreads are shadow creatures that tend to fight, rather than the shadow chrysalis that focus on devouring and decomposing living creatures like the Shadow Chrysalis Cocoon.

"It seems that the shadow creatures and the shadow magic array I am tracking have formed a complete system. Among the shadow creatures, there is a clear division of labor, and each has its own duties. Is this man-made, or is it spontaneous by shadow creatures?"

Li Nuo steadied his mind and confronted the nightmare of fear in front of him.

Perhaps fearing the silent magic on him, the five Creeping Fears that surrounded him did not attack in the first place. (End of chapter)