Chapter 36: Exploring the Cellar
The darkness of the ground is like a monster that devours the light, and even the burning torch can only emit two or three feet of light, and then there is a seemingly endless darkness outside, waiting for the end of the intruder's disorientation.
Sophia, who was afraid of the dark, followed closely behind Caterina and did not dare to fall for a moment, and the female knight seemed to be a little better, but she was also on guard to prevent sudden danger.
These people Li Ang is the most calm, the darkness under the effect of the battlefield map can not blind his perception at all, and every grass and tree within the effective range will be continuously fed back to his mind with his footsteps.
He turned around and handed over a short sword, which was Jeff's sidearm, which he had "borrowed" casually.
"You still hold it, the knight can fight with his fists," Caterina said, her hands hanging at her sides, and if you look closely, you can see that the back of the hand is covered in bloody scars.
"But you have weapons to maximize your combat power, don't you, and we need your protection. β
With these words, the knight girl silently took the dagger and was about to stand at the front of the line.
"No, you stand in the middle and protect Sophia, this is my home field," Leon smiled slightly, "Listen to me." β
Even if she couldn't see his expression, the confidence in her tone made Caterina slightly stunned, and she hesitated for a moment and didn't insist anymore.
Li Ang strode forward without the slightest pause, turning straight like flowing water, and then he stopped, puzzled: "Something is wrong, nothing has been found at such a distance, and the walls on both sides are gone, there will be such a large area in the cellar?"
"Do you have dark vision?" Hearing the information revealed in Li Ang's words, the knight girl was a little surprised, "dark vision" is not only the talent of some dark creatures, only mages, priests and other people with similar abilities will have it, but at least those are at least second-order and above professionals, how did this young man do it?
Could he be a creature of darkness? Caterina immediately dismissed the absurd imagination.
"Hmm...... Almost, almost!" Li Ang hurriedly coped, even if the other party was a companion who had experienced a life-and-death battle together, it was impossible for him to reveal his special identity, which was not about trust, but a subconscious protection of himself.
Caterina was silent, she knew that everyone had some secrets, including herself, so unless she said it voluntarily, not asking more was the key to getting along.
Sophia was still accustomed to not thinking about any anomalies in Leon, and she continued her question: "Some monasteries will build tombs and cellars in one place, but the entrance from the church altar is usually close to the cellar, so this is really rare!"
Originally, I thought that this "treasure hunting trip" would not encounter unexpected situations, but there were two second-order demonic beasts outside, and the reality inside was unknown and unpredictable, and this was the so-called "medium danger Cheng dΓΉ" The ruins of the attribute panel were based on what conditions made Li Ang very puzzled.
Now Katarina's strength is at most half of what she usually is, Sophia is also weak, not to mention Jeff, the brown-haired "uncle" has not woken up yet.
As for Leon himself, he made a good discovery, his health value was still slowly rising after Sophia's recovery effect, and he did feel that the pain in various parts of his body was gradually relieved, could this be the benefit of more than 10 points of physique?
But the strength is also more than 10 points, is it reflected in the movement of carrying an adult man with easy steps......
He was thinking about it when someone entered the range of the battlefield map.
The feedback in his mind was peculiar, the man was hunched up, his arms were hanging loosely on both sides, and his legs seemed to be seriously injured, and one of them was bent strangely backwards, but he seemed to have no feeling at all, just limping slowly and approaching.
"Zombie!" these two words suddenly popped into Leon's mind.
"Attention! 10 meters in front of you, there is one, no, two zombies!" he reminded.
"Zombies, what's that?" the other two girls were a little strange.
"It's a moving corpse! more and more, now there are five!" Leon sensed the zombies in front of him, they had begun to gradually form a scale.
When the jumping fire could hit the "zombies", Sophia whispered, "It's a carrion!"
"Where did you learn that phrase?" Caterina glanced at Leon and walked to the front without waiting for an answer.
"You and Sophia are on your side, against these dark creatures, it's my home turf," the knight girl straightened up.
β...... This woman is okay with everything else, but she is too competitive," Leon knew that this was what Katerina had said before she fought back.
However, Caterina is right, the carrion is a low-level undead creature whose corpse is invaded by the power of darkness, and the knight is naturally restrained from such creatures, so it is most appropriate for her to deal with it at the moment.
Caterina took a breath and said, "Holy Strike." β
Even in the darkness, a faint silvery-white light could be seen, and the first few carrions immediately showed signs of dissolving, bending in pain, roaring silently, and eventually turning into a puddle of sewage on the ground.
The knight girl had also used the "Holy Strike Technique" a few times before, and Li Ang didn't feel much power, until he was dealing with the necromancer at this moment, he found that it was so sharp.
But before he could rejoice, he found that more and more carrion monsters appeared, and there were more than a dozen of them displayed on the battlefield map alone, and he didn't know how many there would be in the unknown darkness behind.
He immediately informed Caterina of this discovery, and the knight girl pursed her lips tightly and said, "It's okay, I can deal with it, you just have to watch!"
After saying that, she sent out another "Holy Strike Technique", and then before the carrion monster that was hit melted away, she slashed into the group with a short sword.
After a few seconds, Caterina retreated, and she killed four of the carrion, and her body began to be painted.
In the following time, she cast three "Holy Strike Spells", entered and exited the group twice, and killed nearly 20 carrion monsters, but there were still more monsters in Leon's perception.
Caterina gasped sharply, a total of five "Holy Strikes" had almost exhausted her body, but as a junior second-order knight, except for the only skill with a divine effect attached, melee attacks were not enough to make up for the numerical gap.
The rotting corpse monsters themselves have no life and consciousness, and only survive by a trace of soul fire in their bodies, so ordinary broken hands and feet can't stop their pace at all, and the so-called "morale" is not applicable at all, not to mention that the breath of life is like a beast seeing raw meat for them, and the attraction is incomparable, so the hordes of rotting corpses continue to move slowly and strangely, and their hands are stretched forward as if they can't wait to feast.
"Sophia, think of a way, you're a priest!" Leon knew that it was useless to do it, and said to the blonde girl beside him.
Sophia had just cast a micro-healing effect on Caterina and pouted, "I'm a first-order apprentice priest, and the offensive magic can only be learned by a second-order official priest or priest......
Since there was no way here, Li Ang anxiously looked at the knight girl who stubbornly insisted on not retreating, and quickly analyzed it in his mind.
"Holy Strike!"
Caterina's voice was hoarse, her legs were a little weak after the sixth cast, her teeth were already biting her lips to blood, and she cursed herself in her heart.
"How come it is that since I met this kid, I can't play a role at all! Locke Town was saved by him, I can't kill the stinky bat, and even the low-level necromancers can't do anything here, where did I go in the past! I don't want this!"
Her movements began to stiffen, ignoring the approaching horde, and only stabbed mechanically with a sword.
Suddenly, a big hand grabbed her wrist, and Leon's calm voice came to her ears, "Stand back Katarina, I'll deal with them." β
Leon took out the remaining half of the bottle of kerosene, ripped a strip of cloth from Jeff's body again, wrapped it tightly around the bottle, lit the strip with a torch, and threw it forward.
With a "bang", a large area of flames rose from the center of the carrion group, not only engulfing dozens of carrion monsters, but also illuminating the entire space.
It was a large hall, surrounded by countless decaying simple coffins, most of which were empty, and it seemed that the missing corpses had been transformed into rotting corpses.
At a glance, in addition to the ones that were destroyed by the knight girl and are burning in the fire, there are hundreds of them left!
This scene made Li Ang's confidence be extinguished at once, and he couldn't be happy even if he was constantly brushing out experience points in front of him.
"Retreat......" Before he could finish his sentence, there was a shock behind him, and he was surprised by the sudden appearance of a line of experience points in his field of vision.
"Gain 200 XP"
This number was glaring in a field of 15 experience points, and Leon muttered to himself, "The bat was killed by a spider?"
The shaking was getting louder and louder, and a large chunk of sand and gravel was falling down from the top of the entrance, and Leon felt like a piledriver was working it.
"The spider is coming......" he could almost imagine the giant spider smashing into the ground with its powerful long legs.
Hearing this, Caterina immediately woke up from her mechanical state just now, she grabbed Sophia's hand and pulled it in front of Leon, and said, "Take Sophia and Jeff away, I can still drag the spider for a while." β
"No, I'm still figuring it out!" Leon disagreed.
"There are too many monsters! Go to the entrance, I'll drag the spider, you get out!"
After the knight girl finished speaking, she turned around and rushed out.
"Smack!"
Although Sophia was very nervous, she was immediately stunned when she saw Leon, who had always been a good talker, suddenly slapped Caterina in the face.