……

Zizizizi!

The sharp grinding sound came one step ahead of the picture, and at that moment, it was as if hundreds of brushes were brushing the smooth floor in unison.

Matthew immediately reminded:

"Be careful, it's a swarm!"

Samantha and Clegg were equally slow to react, and almost at the same time, Samantha's body began to skyrocket, and two seconds later, a strong, shiny feathered beast was stuck at the gate.

She took the initiative to catch up and withstand the first wave of the wild serpent larvae!

Clegg's body lit up with two strange lights, red and blue.

Red light is an outward trait of the Orc's unique "Madness", which can make an orc more powerful.

Only the blue light was something Matthew hadn't seen before.

……

"Insight: You noticed that Clegg (Juggernaut candidate) used 'Level 1 Frenzy' and 'Juggernaut Meditation'.

Level 1 Frenzy: Clegg has +2 Strength/+1 Dexterity, increases related decisions by 20%, and gains "Vulnerable" and "Reckless".

- Vulnerable: Clegg loses an additional 15% of his health when he takes damage;

- Recklessness: Clegg can gradually lose his mind during the fight.

Juggernaut Meditation: Practitioners of the Way of Juggernaut possess greater self-control than ordinary orcs, and they are able to maintain a calm mind and a state of sobriety during meditation, even during periods of madness.

The "recklessness" in Clegg has been removed."

……

This is equivalent to enjoying the high stat bonus brought by madness, and being immune to the biggest side effect of madness.

As for "vulnerability".

Juggernaut wasn't originally a tank, it was a serious high-damage, high-resistance, high-immunity, melee expert but crispy class.

Don't look at Clegg as an orc, look burly, in fact, her health is not much higher than Matthew's after quantification.

Juggernaut's real strength lies in the fact that he is a triangular warrior with full evasion, resistance, and output.

Hence the line of people.

The only one who can be qualified for the front row position is Samantha's changed beast.

The two daughters have obviously cooperated for a long time.

The wildlings got stuck near the gate, fending off the first wave, and Clegg swung her two long, thin knives back and forth through the swarm.

She kills insects with such efficiency that she is like a meat grinder chopping meat.

Soon.

The first wave of bugs was wrenched by her.

But no one relaxed, because the movement in the gate continued, not only were the larvae approaching, but there were also many infected and even the guards were converging in this direction.

In order to relieve the pressure on the female orc Clegg.

Lyra and Bing stepped forward, each blocking one direction, sweeping Samantha and Clegg while also killing some of the fish that slipped through the net.

Matthew, of course, was not idle.

As early as the first time Samantha transformed, he began to tear the scroll-

The tenacity of the bear; The power of the bull; The elegance of a cat; The Wisdom of the Owl...... But anyone who can improve his attributes will be hung up on the orc female swordmaster.

sword protection; Negative Energy Shield; Thorn Shield...... On the Tandu side, Matthew also gave Samantha a full seat.

Plus Samantha's own "hardened feathers".

The beast's "innate armor" is approaching 13 points, and it is almost close to the shield guardian with a small shield.

Just tearing off this scroll will cost a small 200 gold coins.

It must be false to say that you are not distressed.

But as soon as the battle broke out, Matthew would never save money, not to mention that his pockets were still full because of the A1 project.

A few days ago, he went to the Alliance Mall to buy goods once, and found that the price of the things there was indeed cheaper than the crucible house, and the quality was good.

In addition to adding a bunch of combat scrolls.

Matthew also took down the "Dragon Fire Talisman" that he had been thinking about.

With this thing, Matthew's win rate against mage units will increase a lot.

Just after tearing the scroll.

Matthew suddenly found himself with nothing to do—

The gate is too dead by the Owl Beast, and his vision is limited, except for adding buffs to his teammates and symbolically throwing a "frost path" on the ground to slow down the speed of the bugs, he really can't do much.

Of course, Matthew has no guilt about it.

He knew that the scrolls he tore off would greatly improve the combat power of the front row.

"The true caster's way of fighting should be so boring but elegant."

Matthew paddled with peace of mind.

However, this scene was quickly captured by Ella.

"Matthew, you seem to be as laid-back as I am."

She stopped on Matthew's shoulder and whispered.

Matthew immediately retorted:

"Why!"

Just now, at this time, a frenzied guard with a few rusty door panels rushed out of the gate!

Although those door panels were rusty, they were unexpectedly strong, and because of the terrain, the orc female swordmaster couldn't kill it for a while!

Samantha's incarnate beast fought against it a few times, and its body staggered a little.

The druids weren't purely front-row after all.

Even with the protection of "hardened feathers", Samantha is a little too resistant.

Seeing this, Matthew immediately raised his hand, and the tip of the deadwood staff was aimed at the enemy.

The next second.

He struggled to recall Rhaeggar's face in his mind's eye.

Whoosh.

A gray light shot out smoothly.

"Dissociation"!

The gray light struck a door panel, and the latter dissolved silently, revealing a large patch of red and white rotten flesh on the chest of the Wild Guard.

Clegg pounced, both knives plunging into the chest of the Guard, and sliced smoothly in both directions.

Whoosh!

In the flash of white light, the mad guard was dismembered by her, and in terms of technique, she was indeed very skilled.

In the end, though, it was Matthew's "Estro's Claw" that ended the life of the mad guard.

"Look, critical damage!"

Matthew made a joke about Ela.

Ella pursed her lips disdainfully.

On the contrary, Clegg took the time to look back and praise:

"Well done."

This flattered Matthew.

However, he also felt in his heart that these two spells were released just right.

Dissociation pierces the armor, and Estelo's claw closes its head.

In Ella's opinion, this process is an understatement, but only teammates in the front row know how timely and thirst-quenching this kind of magic support can be.

Another point that Matthew was pleased with with his performance was –

He gradually mastered the rhythm of unleashing the spells he had learned in battle.

For Matthew.

Spells given by the system are just like playing the game by skill, just like those low-level druid spells that you get by doing quests.

However, the spells you have learned must follow the laws of real-world spell casting.

Just as he and Rhaegar described.

He must maintain a high level of concentration in the battle and overcome all kinds of discomfort in order to successfully cast the spell.

The process is not simple.

That's why he was more willing to use his wilderness form to fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

But standing still is not Matthew's character, he prefers to master something of his own, and he doesn't want to be a guy who leaves the system and is a waste.

For now.

He is on the right path.

All that's left is the accumulation of time and experience.

"Hopefully, the next time I release the dissociation technique, I won't need to remember Rhaeggar's face."

Matthew thought from the heart.

With the concerted efforts of everyone, the battle near the gate gradually drew to an end.

Guards and infected people fell one after another.

Only a large number of larvae remained crawling out of the tunnels, trying to infect the organisms in front of them.

Although the Wild Worm Larvae could not cause harm to the crowd, it did slow down their progress.

As the swarm of insects gathered more and more near the gate, some bugs even squeezed towards Matthew's side.

Matthew watched for a while and decided to clean up the mess:

"I'll count to three, and you'll get behind me in a moment."

As he spoke, he took out a black umbrella the length of his little thumb from his bag and flicked it gently.

The small umbrella was suspended in the air, turning over a dozen heels, and its size became larger and larger.

Not much.

The black umbrella turned into a translucent, bullet-shaped single-sided shield that could cover five to ten people!

……

"Hint: Using Roderick's Magic Umbrella, you gain a 180-degree magic shield (about 4th level of strength)"

……

Roderick's magic umbrella.

This is the second magic item that Matthew recently purchased, and together with the Dragon Fire Talisman, it has eaten Matthew's tens of thousands of gold coins in total.

This magic item is from Roderick, the Guardian of the North.

Roderick is a master of both prophecy and protection spells.

The magic umbrella he originally made was able to resist legendary spells.

And Matthew bought a copy of the screws in Roderick's factory - no, a copy made by the enchanted apprentices.

But this thing also sells for more than 5,000 gold.

The magic umbrella has a constant reduction and magnification technique, so it is easy to carry;

When unfolded, it can resist 5 Tier 4 pure attack spells, and the effect is very solid;

The magic umbrella also has a wild camping function.

After opening, you can conjure up a tent with space folding technology on the spot, and the space in the tent is not small, so it is convenient to do anything;

In addition, Matthew also encountered a discount promotion when he bought -

Buy a magic umbrella and get three free tickets to Roderick's Prophecy Castle.

Matthew had heard of this.

If he can prostitute the prophecy spell three times, he will naturally not miss it.

After the reminder is complete.

The rest of the team agreed.

Only the orc female swordmaster said proudly:

"I know you want to clear the field with magic, but I'm not afraid of magic, you just release it!"

Matthew didn't try to persuade her.

After shouting 321, Lyra and Ah Bing escaped directly into the shadows, and Samantha, who had the last experience, also turned into a leopard and jumped back in time, and Ella hid behind Matthew's back.

The next second.

……

"Hint: You cast a blended spell—

Corpse Explosion (Harmony of Moonfire): During each corpse explosion, the corpse will sputter a cloud of moonfire in all directions, dealing burn damage to all attachments!"

……

Bang!

The white light, which symbolizes the moonfire, and the gray light, which represents the explosion of corpses, blend with each other.

Immediately, a pleasant music was composed near the gate.

Cracking sound.

Large amounts of plasma and bodily fluids were happily sprayed in the air.

Ten minutes later.

Matthew's magic umbrella was covered with red and green abstract paintings.

And on the ground.

There wasn't a single living bug left.

……

"Hint: You unleashed a perfect corpse blast, and you gained the following—

Corpse Blast*6 (Death Domain)

Desecration*2 (Sacred Realm)"

……

"Blasphemy is actually the sacred realm?"

Matthew was puzzled.

But what made him even more confused was that he used a spell to reconcile the corpse explosion and the moonfire, and as a result, he was judged to have blasphemed-

It was the corpse explosion that desecrated the moonfire.

Or did the moonfire desecrate the corpse explosion?

Matthew had never been fond of thinking about such philosophical questions, so he just glanced at them and drew his attention back to reality.

At that moment, he put away Roderick's magic umbrella.

Walk in the direction of the gate.

When passing by the orc female swordmaster, Matthew did not forget to throw a "clean and clean" on her.

The slightly embarrassed look on the latter's face was immediately relieved.

Samantha chuckled and whispered to her.

Matthew stood in the doorway and looked inside.

Directly in front of it is a hall where the insects have been killed, and a passage extends from the left and right sides of the hall.

The passage on the right-hand side is stuck deep into the underground rock formation, and it is estimated that it will not be able to get through.

All they could walk was the left-hand passage.

That passage is more like a corridor.

The rooms are arranged in a very symmetrical manner, some with the doors open and some with the closed.

The hallways smell of decay.

However, there weren't many corpses here, presumably because all the flesh that could be parasitized had been reduced to being part of the Zerg.

After a while, they decided to clean the rooms on both sides of the corridor to make sure that nothing slipped through the net.

Clegg and Samantha are in charge of the left.

Matthew and Leila are in charge of the right.

Bing and Ella were in charge of keeping sentry.

The four of them quickly went into action.

Matthew pushed open the first door next to the hallway, and the room was neatly furnished, except for a layer of dust on the furniture everywhere.

This is probably the staff dormitory of the laboratory.

The door is a separate shower room, with a small cooking station on the left-hand side, and a few steps further on, a single bed and a small bookcase, as well as a 1.5 meter desk, which make up most of the furnishings in the room.

Layla did a quick search.

Aside from a few personal items, there was nothing to gain.

Matthew found a stack of green bills in the drawer, which was obviously the currency of the Antu Empire, and it was not useful for Aindo for a while, but Matthew still pocketed it, maybe it would be useful in the future.

The two quickly left and went to the second room.

And then the third, the fourth......

Walk through the rooms one by one.

The bugs didn't meet a single one.

Except for a few stacks of green banknotes, there are even fewer harvests.

But Matthew is patient, he knows it's part of the fight and he has to make sure he has a good back to move forward.

Eventually, things took a turn for the worse when he arrived in the ninth room.

As soon as he entered, Matthew noticed that the room was much larger, almost two or three times the size of the rooms in front of him.

There is a bathtub in the shower, and a few steps forward there is a living room, and several flower pots are placed in the center of the living room, and the flowers in the flower pots are naturally withered, but the two oil paintings hanging on the wall show the status of the owner of the room.

In the master bedroom, the bed is also a double bed, and it seems that it is at least a senior researcher.

Matthew searched expectantly, and it turned out that he really turned out something!

In an open safe.

He found a large bundle of green bills, two thumb-thick gold bars, and a lot of dust-stained jewelry.

Matthew pocketed them, knowing that the two hundred gold coins he had just torn were back, and at the same time, he didn't forget to ask Lyla to take the safe as well.

Besides.

He also found a very small flashlight, a pen without ink, a diary, and a very small figure of a necromancer on his desk.

With a little perception, Matthew knew that these things were extraordinary.

……

"Hint: You obtained a Psionic Flashlight (Unidentified/Psychic Knowledge);

You get a fully automatic fountain pen (for the centenary of the Antu Empire);

You have obtained the diary of the deputy director of the laboratory;

You have gained "Constructing Necromancy" (Shrinking Constant)."

……

This thing is not a figure!

It's a real constructed necromancer!

Matthew took a closer look and found that his base was a skeleton soldier, with a thin layer of exoskeleton armor on the outside, and there were construction runes on the armor, which I couldn't tell if it was magic or technology, giving people a sense of stitching monsters.

"If the shrinkage is constant, I have the opportunity to zoom in on it and study its specific structure."

Matthew couldn't be more excited.

He then studied the flashlight and pen again, but unfortunately, like the psionic staff, the former would probably require a high-level appraisal scroll to see its use, and the latter would require more knowledge of the Antu Empire to judge its value.

Ultimately.

Matthew opened the journal.

Unlike the researcher before him, the deputy director of the lab, Standlone, was clearly following a concise path.

He keeps a diary, but is often lazy.

His handwriting is even more sloppy and scary, and at the same time full of typos, Matthew often needs to look at it again and again, in combination with the context, to know what he is talking about.

……

"Corrupt Science Administration!

I had just made progress in my research on necromancy when I was robbed of my work by the bastards of the Emperor.

They parachuted in a new project leader, and I was directly transferred away, I was obviously an expert in constructing necromancy, but now I was sent to study what bullshit psionic energy is!

Psionics?

I'm a fart psionic!

I must write a letter and report the bastards who use the public for personal gain, otherwise it will be difficult to solve the hatred in my heart!

Forget it, let's be anonymous, I'm a family person anyway, and I can't be as casual and reckless as a young person.

Forget it, let's not write it, if they find out about me, I might lose my job.

My children may not be able to afford to go to a good school, my wife will leave me, I will become a space vagabond, and I may eventually be captured by the space necromancer unit that I have researched myself, and I will be a part of them when I die.

How ironic.

Fuck the empire!

Destroy!"

……

"A new batch of monkeys came to the lab today.

Come on.

Said to be monkeys, but in fact, a group of spacecasts with no identity were caught as experiments because they had been wandering around the Imperial Circle.

At first, the empire will be secretive.

Or say they're volunteers.

Either say they are condemned to death.

Now, they don't pretend, and directly say that this group of people is a special breed of monkeys, so that we can rest assured that we should be bold and not have a psychological burden to conduct experiments.

Have you ever seen a monkey that speaks as fluently as a human?

I haven't seen it.

Fuck the empire!

Destroy!"

……

"Tomorrow it is said that a big monkey will come, and I don't know what kind of nonsense this is.

I'm in a bad mood today.

Just fuck the empire!"

……

"Oh my God!

It's not a monkey, it's a thing of God's creation!

I feel like I've caught inspiration.

We seem to have found a shortcut to the Giza on the path of psionic energy!

Heaven bless.

I'm in a good mood today, don't the empire anymore.

It's just one day, not the next one."

……

At this point, the diary is empty, and the second half is empty.

Matthew didn't know what was going on with the deputy director behind him.

But things seem to have turned around during that time.

"What was the creation of the gods that gave them a shortcut to the study of psionic powers?"

Matthew was curious.

He knew that the Antu Empire must have made some progress, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to find these psionic items.

I just don't know why they were wiped out by the swarm attack.

In the midst of his thoughts, Matthew closed his journal and stepped out of the door.

Suddenly, a melodious singing voice came from the end of the hallway.

It was dark, as if a gentle and pitiful woman was calling to herself.

Matthew is a thriller who smoothly exempts from the seductive and mind-controlling effects that come with the singing.

Can be a second.

He heard movement in the opposite room, and Samantha suddenly opened the door and walked out, and she said to Matthew with bright eyes:

"Do you hear that? The Goddess is calling us! ”

said.

She walked steadily into the darkness.

Matthew and Clegg who came out of the door behind her looked at each other.

The orc female swordmaster immediately made a decision, rushed behind Samantha and slapped it down.

Samantha was directly stunned.

"Well, that's a good idea."

Although Matthew felt that the attack was a bit heavy, he also secretly praised Clegg's decisiveness.

"It must be the Zerg Queen!"

Clegg swears:

"It's a monster that's very good at mind control, and it doesn't have enough immunity ability, so it's easy to be controlled by the mind."

"We'll have to find a room to tie Samantha up, I'm afraid she'll wake up and still lose control."

Matthew nodded:

"Leave it to me."

With that, he and Clegg took Samantha to the deputy director's room, and Matthew took out a piece of magic rope and threw it to Bing.

The fire of the soldier's soul that got the rope was burning, he took a step forward, bent down and moved, and tied Samantha tightly in dozens of seconds!

……

"Hint: Your summon Soldier uses the ability "Rope Master""

……

Clegg silently looked at the tied up Samantha, always feeling that something was wrong.

Ella asked directly:

"Why do your skeletons do this kind of bondage?"

"Could it be that this is also otherworldly knowledge?"

Ma Correction wanted to answer.

It was at this time.

The song began again.

Matthew and Clegg's faces changed.

Because the voice seems to be getting closer and closer to everyone!

"I'm going to kill her!"

Clegg pulled out his twin knives and rushed out.

Matthew immediately asked Ella and Leila to stay here to guard Samantha, while he and Bing followed.

……

(End of chapter)