Haka's name as Soul Reaver and Blood God didn't come out of nowhere, but the desperation of a horde of trolls crying out in fear.

In terms of frontal combat ability alone, Haka is far inferior to the pure hand-to-hand combat system, and its advantage is a variety of weird negative spell effects that can affect the state of the recipient, which is a debuff in the words of the barrage.

After suffering a loss, Merinthra changed her previous slightly aggressive combat strategy, first putting a layer of dream protection on herself and Stella Gossa, which could defend herself and Stella Gossa's soul-snatching attack to a certain extent.

On the other hand, in order to cope with Haka's special ability to provoke blood boiling through small wounds, Merinthra and Stella Gosa can only carefully avoid being cut out by Haka's various attacks.

This will inevitably lead to them not being able to let go of their hands and feet in the middle of the fight.

Not to mention the green dragon with weak melee ability, even the red dragon with amazing self-healing ability will have a headache when facing Haka.

Unlike the Black Dragon, which is able to resist enemy attacks with strong enough defense, the Red Dragon relies on a long enough health bar and health regeneration ability to constantly cycle between injury and healing.

Just as acid can inflict additional damage on a troll's ability to heal itself, Haka's blood corrosive ability is just right to restrain the red dragon.

Due to the lack of a main T on the front line, Stella Gossa and Merinthra could only maintain their maneuver to avoid attacks in air combat.

As a result, they don't have enough energy to attack and do enough damage to Haka, who also has incredible self-healing powers, in a short period of time.

Unlike the Red Dragon, which relies purely on its own healing powers, Haka's healing power comes from the "dedication" of the Evil Branch Troll.

Desperate, Hex finally fully agreed to Haka's unreasonable terms, including an evil spell that would link all the trolls present.

Through the corrosive blood that inhabits the Trolls, Haka can continuously extract life force from them to heal their injuries.

If you can't deal enough lethal damage to Haka in one go, you can only continue to deal enough damage to it until Haka drains all the life force of the trolls and can no longer heal itself.

And this is destined to be a long process, and according to Sarren's observations, the offensive firepower that Little Star and Merinthra, who need to be distracted to dodge the attack, is clearly not enough.

Of course, there is another way to break the tie for Sarena.

That is to kill all the trolls of the Evil Branch who have formed a soul contract with Haka, or to kill Hex, the master contractor who is the bridge between them, which is the task that Valera is doing at the moment.

As it turned out, Sarena's strategy of seeking stability was correct.

Hex had long expected that someone would target him for decapitation, and made some preparations in advance.

After all, the Evil Branch Trolls are the most powerful forest troll clan outside of the Amani Sect Master, and they have accumulated a wealth of heritage over the years they have been rooted in Hinterland.

Previously, Sarean had wondered why such a powerful Evil Branch Clan had only enshrined one Spider Queen, Shadra.

Now the puzzle is revealed.

It's not that the Evil Branch only believes in Shadra, it's that the other insufficiently powerful Loa have been robbed of their power by the ultra-utilitarian Hex and her followers.

Hex herself didn't incorporate any of Loa's powers, not because she thought she was strong enough to crush everyone, but because she didn't look down on those "weak chickens" Loa.

Hex is targeting Loashadra, a spider whose main body is located in the Zendarar Islands, a powerful demigod-level Loa.

However, she has never been able to find the right opportunity to seize Sadra's power.

Valera had just sneaked up behind Hex to launch a deadly assassination blow against her, when her experience and physical instincts suddenly warned her.

Valeera had no head, and she alertly followed her warning, unleashing the Shadow Shuttle ability while the attack had already been made, moving herself to a bush on the outskirts of the altar.

"Roar!"

Just as Valeera teleported away in a small area, a ginger plush claw suddenly poked out of the void, its sharp nails scratching exactly where Valeera had stood a second before.

After the blow missed, the owner of the claw paused in place rather unexpectedly, before retracting his claw and disappearing into nothingness again.

Saljan, who was distracted and looked after both sides, and Valeera, who had just dodged the attack, stared at each other at the same time.

"Good guy, you really have a backhand."

Through the Soul Link channel, Saljan told Valera about his guesses.

"Judging by the shape of this paw, it must be from some kind of big cat."

Sarjan calmly analyzed: "As we all know, felines are extremely sensitive and have excellent latent abilities. ”

"Hex, this guy should have expected that someone would assassinate him, and planted a dark mine for countermeasures around him in advance."

Valera said with a little solemnity: "Judging from the strength of the attack, this shadow should have reached a strength close to the peak of mortals, but ...... His or her powers seem to be a bit mixed and not perfectly mastered. ”

Sarjan sneered unexpectedly, "Isn't this strange, do you remember the way Amani treated Loa?" This is also the traditional art of trolls. ”

"You mean?" Valera responded abruptly: "Seal Loa's power in the mortal body to increase the strength? It's no wonder. ”

"Be careful."

Sarjan's golden dragon boy glanced vigilantly at the side of Hex, who was already on guard, and through his keen life force perception, Sarjan could vaguely sense that there was another powerful lifeform lurking near Hex.

"Judging from the scale of the evil branch trolls, there should be more than two Loa they can support, even if it is not as good as Amani, there is a high probability that there will be a high-end combat force that has usurped Loa's power to hide in the shadows."

"Heh~" Valera smiled confidently: "Now that I know Hex's hole cards, there is nothing to worry about, I will make her realize the insurmountable gap in strength between mortals and demigods." ”

Despite Valeera's rhetoric, Sareen is confident that she will not be careless in her battle-hardened arsenal.

This is called tactical contempt for the enemy and strategic attention to the enemy.

After mastering the power of space, Valeera's fighting style has become more flexible, as long as she does not underestimate the enemy, it does not matter whether she can kill the enemy or not, it is not so easy to catch her flaws.

In order to lure out the two rats hiding in the shadows, Valera chooses to risk using herself as bait.

Teleporting to the group of guards beside Hex again, Valilla voluntarily broke away from her stealth and threw a knife fan with two poisons in her surroundings.

Hex didn't expect the enemy to dare to be greedy even though he almost suffered a loss, and Valeera, who was extremely decisive, made the evil branch elites, including Hex, unable to react, and was hit by the dense knife fan skills.

As Sarren's powers escalated, Valeera, with the help of her alchemist, the Archmage Meria, further improved several of her usual poisons.

First and foremost is the most widely used slowing poison, in which Valera mixes in with the power of time that Saljan has imposed.

The slowdown effect of the poisoned person is far more effective than the normal slowdown poison, and the mobility will be severely affected by the power of time, and all movements will become slowed, even their thinking ability.

On the other hand, Valeera added the quick-acting poison to the liquid of the green dragon acid, which represents the power of dreams, a new type of poison that can cause damage to both the body and the soul.

"Ahhhh

”

The damage dealt by the blade itself was negligible, but the poison attached to it caused both soul and body pain to the troll who was hit.

The green dragon's acid has a strong restraining effect on the trolls' self-healing abilities, and the dream power against the soul can directly penetrate their mental defenses.

After a blow temporarily abolished the combat power of most of Hex's guards, Valeera, who pulled on the mask, stared at Hex, who was blocked by the human shield and narrowly escaped, with her eyes flickering with cold light.

Under the strong murderous pressure, Hex, who was assaulted behind by the Shadow Step and full of fear, finally couldn't help but take the initiative.

"Sankos, Mlik! Team up to take out this assassin! ”

"Roar!"

"Squeak!"

Two distinct animal calls rang out, and Valeera, who had just landed on the Shadow Walk, felt a sense of threat in her back.

"Cheetah and ...... Mouse? ”

With a hint of sarcasm in her eyes, Valera deliberately said in the language of a forest troll, "Your killer ...... That's it? ”