Chapter 5 Danger
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"Is it really okay for you to leave? What about the wolves here--*With *dream*small*say wwwlā" Zero lay on the grass and laid out in a big letter. Xiaoxue came to her side, licked Zero's face with her tongue, and responded with a "uh-woo".
"Well, I don't understand what you're talking about. Zero continued to stare at the sky in a daze until a large human face appeared in front of her.
"Don't get so close all of a sudden!" Zero jumped up in fright, just in time to knock Lelia who suddenly appeared.
"Don't stand up suddenly!......" Lelia said, covering her nose in pain.
"Your bad taste is a copy of the Rhine. ”
"Who made us mother and daughter? ”
"Anyway, you consumed so much mana, and you're still so energetic. "In last night's battle, Zero saw Lyria's powerful magic ability, and last night's consumption should have bottomed out her magic power.
"The amount of magic doesn't have that much effect on a person's mental state, but I can only use one level 5 magic at most now. ”
"Then what are you doing with me? Zero turned his head and saw Ai Xue grazing with Xiaobai not far away.
"Would you like to lend me your weapon?" Lelia pleaded.
"This is Ai Xue's thing, you have to borrow it, go ask her. "Zero threw the burden to Ai Xue, and she has been clinging to herself since she saved Lelia with this iron knife last night.
"Well, I'll do the magic, and you can use it to defend yourself. Lelia took two steps back, looking eager to try.
"Aren't you lacking in magic......"
"Just think of it as a rehab exercise, I won't be embarrassed for you. Lelia said with a grin.
"Okay, I've got you. Zero got up from the ground and took a posture of response.
"Ready, let's go!"
Without any spells, a huge floating ballball of water appeared behind Lyria.
"Take it!" Lelia ordered, and countless instantaneous water balls smashed into Zero's body like a storm.
Zero realized that the one-man tall water balloon behind Lelia was actually her reserve ammunition depot.
Fortunately, it was just a water polo technique, and Zero breathed a sigh of relief. Even if such a water balloon is hit, it will not feel pain, but it will just get wet.
Although the water balloon attack is ferocious, Lelia's attack method is very simple, and the trajectory is easy to predict, and it is enough to break them one by one with her current skills.
The moment the knife touched the water ball, the technique was scattered, and the water element condensed into the water ball returned to nature and disappeared without a trace.
"Sure enough, as I guessed before, this knife has a very high-level demon-breaking effect. "Lelia didn't stop firing water bombs, trying to find out how this phenomenon happened.
To be precise, before Zero's blade touched the ball, the magic was already scattered. No, it's erasure. It was as if nothing had happened, and there was no trace of water around Zero.
"It's really amazing, just like the 'Twin Commandments' described in the legend, but it's a pity that I don't use water magic that is more advanced than the Spinning Energy Sword. "Lelia vaguely sensed that the water elemental gathered by the magic had returned to nature, or in a completely dispersed form.
"Twin Commandments, what's that?" you can tell from the name that it's probably a very powerful weapon, but Zero doesn't know what it is.
"The legendary-level weapon that ranks first on the Legendary-level weapon list of the Kailan Continent can erase the influence of a qiē fighting spirit and magic, and it can almost be called an invincible being. However, the book was written just like the novel, and many weapons could not be proven to be real, but the book was very entertaining, so it was constantly reprinted, so that many things that had been completed in the last 100 years were also added. For example, the highest masterpiece completed by Princess Chrissy in the field of alchemy, the unsurpassed ultimate alchemy revolver - the light of the god of fire, is also included in the list of legendary weapons, this one did exist, but then disappeared. ”
"First ......" Zero recalls the mysterious person who sneaked into the room at night before entering school, and it was clear that she knew the weapon, and it was a relic of Evae's mother.
In this way, Ai Xue's life experience seems to be even more confusing. Things seemed to be getting interesting, and Zero was still a little excited.
"But if you think about it, it can't be this. "Lelia took advantage of the distraction and took the iron knife, "Whether it is weight or appearance, it is just an ordinary knife, and it is not engraved with any special magic array, maybe there is no enchantment, so where is the mystery?"
Suddenly, her face changed, "4 Elemental Enchantments?!How is it possible!"
"Hey, lost your soul?" Zero had already gotten used to Lelia's startle. Speaking of which, isn't this senior sister's psychological tolerance a little too low?
"Just lend me a study, okay? Lelia's voice trembled.
"Uh, okay. Xiaoxue, let's go find Ai Xue. "Zero couldn't bear to see Lelia like this. Just let her study it carefully.
2.
"Well, I don't know how this is done. Reluctantly, Lelia returned the knife to Zero. She'd spent the whole day studying the weapon, and nothing else had come of it except that it was evenly distributed with the elemental power of the four major attributes, and that it was able to eliminate magical phenomena in a very strange way. However, Lelia speculated that perhaps the enchantment of the coexistence of the four elements was the source of the mysterious demon-breaking power, and before that, she had never heard of an alchemist who could attach the elemental power of the four attributes to the same part of the same item.
However, Lelia is not an alchemist, and her understanding of enchantment is still only at the level of common sense, and of course she can't study this complex thing, so she has to give up for the time being.
The next day, the group packed up and set out on the journey again. The task of carrying the luggage fell gloriously to the Earthwalker, a level 3 monster that looks like a lizard and is about the size of a crocodile, unable to use magic, but has a lot of strength and walks relatively smoothly, and is also one of Lyria's summoned beasts. For example, the traveling backpack that had been carried by Ales before was securely tied to the body of the Earthwalker. At the same time, the velociraptor is also on standby by Lelia's side.
After all, further down the tunnel, danger may be encountered at any time, and all personnel must always be in a fighting state.
"Anyway, if we encounter a level 7 Warcraft, can we beat it?" Zero is still more worried about this problem, his strength is only level 2, and when he encounters a stronger Warcraft, he can't even make up the knife. But now that he has this magical knife in his hand, he is still very confident in terms of magic defense, "I don't know if Xiaobai will have the same effect on Warcraft above level 7." ”
Zero knew that Ai Xue still had at least one hole card in her hand. If you can't beat it, will it work to make peace?
"I don't think it's too much of a problem. Warcraft is different from humans, although Warcraft of the same level tend to be stronger than humans, but this is limited to the beginner and intermediate ranks, and many high-level Warcraft are not promoted through cultivation, but are born with strength. Their understanding of strength is often not as thorough as that of the high-ranking powerhouses of humans, so level 7 monsters are not as powerful as level 7 warriors or magicians. If it's just one, we can still win with the strength of our team. Leonard gave his answer.
"Ask Xiaoxue where this is now. Ahlers said to Ai Xue.
Ai Xue nodded, and after a moment, Zero began to make a sound.
"Inside, we have just left the territory of the wolves, in front of which is the colony of bear-like demonic beasts, and the leader is an earth demon bear, whose strength is probably stronger than Xiaoxue. Ai Xue communicated with the Snow Wind Wolf while reporting the useful information she had just learned to everyone through Guò Zero.
"Is it stronger than that...... Fortunately, fortunately, it should still be within the range of level 6, but the bear-type demonic beasts are different from the wolf-type demonic beasts, they are born with huge strength, rough skin and thick meat, and if there are a lot of them, it is still quite troublesome. ”
"Inside, Xiaoxue also said that these blind bears usually clash with the wolves, and although there is no big fight, the wolves are always on the weaker side. If possible, it also wants to teach the arrogant bears blind a lesson. "Ai Xue is now able to communicate with the Snow Wind Wolf normally, although Xiao Xue does not understand human language, but when Ai Xue communicates with it spiritually, it can still understand Ai Xue's meaning, and at the same time, it can accurately express its thoughts to Ai Xue. This is enough to see that Xiaoxue has a very high range of wisdom, and its growth space is still quite large.
"Bear paws are a rare delicacy, and if you can get high-grade bear skins and bear bile, they will be worth a lot of gold!" Leonard said quippedly, as if he had set his sights on a bear den not far away.
"According to common sense, there should be a certain number of black bears and brown bears in the forest here. Ai Xue also said just now that their leader is a level 6 earth demon bear, and except for it, the rest of the bears should not use magic. However, their defenses will also be very strong, and small magic will not be able to deal them substantial damage, and they will be in the same stalemate as they were when they fought the wolves before. "Lelia is not optimistic about the act of provoking the fight.
"This is different from before, the wolves attacked prepared and premeditated last time, but this time we are on the side of the initiative, I believe that with the barren brains of the Earth Demon Bear, we would not have thought that humans would take the initiative to attack them. At that time, we will only need to face a small number of enemies without worrying about being flanked from all sides. Besides, as far as I know, bear-like monsters are not creatures that like to live in groups, and although they are confined to this area by the Earth Demon Bear, they should not share the same hatred for each other. ”
"I didn't expect you to know so well. Lelia was amazed at Leonard's vast knowledge, "I didn't even think of this, it seems that I'm still not up to the standard as a summoner." ”
"You just lack practice. Leonard replied with a smile.
"Alright, hurry up, I'm going to eat bear's paws." Ahlers urged, half-jokingly.
Along the way, we did encounter a lot of bears of different sizes and colors, but basically as soon as they saw the velociraptor behind them, they were so frightened that they ran away. Occasionally, one or two unconvinced people came up and slapped the velociraptor a few times, and they all covered their mouths and ran away. However, there are also one or two stubborn ones, that is, they want to face off with a muscular brother like a velociraptor Guigang, and the result can be imagined-
"When are we going to start cooking bear paws?" asked Zero with two huge loot loot.
"It's not a picnic, I'm talking about playing, you really believe it. Leonard was speechless at Zero's naivety.
"You just said that bear's paws are a rare delicacy. ”
"That's true, but you know the occasion. We're going deep into the bear-like monster colony right now, so we can't afford to be attacked for every meal. In addition, you are too old to take these two, and you have to eat the tender ones if you want to eat them. ”
"That's it. "Actually, Zero is not as stupid as Leonard thinks. She just figured out this way to ease the atmosphere, anyway, there is Xiaoxue here, plus this large number of living people, isn't it a hand to take down a slightly stronger Earth Demon Bear. Little case, la...... Huh?
At this time, Zero suddenly found that he was in the same situation as Ai Xue—there was no sense of crisis.
Why?
Could it be that because he is Ai Xue's guardian, he has been influenced by Ai Xue?
If you don't understand, forget it, don't think about things you don't understand.
Let's consider the issue of a sense of crisis.
Okay, we're deepening our exploration of the Warcraft Forest, which should be closer to the heart of the forest than it was before.
It's just that it's been so long.,I haven't met the boss yet.,Those scattered miscellaneous soldiers are really hard to make Zero interested.。
"Hey, these guys really don't have a lot of togetherness. Zero's mind shifted to another topic, and when she saw that the bears passing by only knew that they had escaped, but none of them seemed to report to the leader, she felt more and more that the battle with the Earth Demon Bear might not be as difficult as she thought.
Most of these mob-level blind bears have been let go, and for now, the team's target is the grizzly bears above level 5, which tend to have their own territory. Grizzly bears are much stronger than ordinary brown bears, and can also use some ground magic to strengthen themselves, and their combat power is mainly reflected in its powerful claw strikes, and if they are slapped by the grizzly bear, the result is likely to be instant death.
"It's a grizzly bear, up!" The hapless bear was enjoying the warm sunbathing in a sparsely foliated clearing when he suddenly killed such a group. Before it could understand what was going on, it couldn't see the sun tomorrow.
"It's too easy, is this bear really level 5?" Looking at the trio of Leonard, Ales and Carl who were cutting and skinning the big guy, Zero had three black lines hanging on his forehead. It's obviously doing bloody and violent things, and I don't know why it makes people feel so happy from a distance.
"Hey, Sylva, can you change your weapon next time, or just don't shoot? Carl looked at the neat three scratches on the bear skin he had just peeled off, and knew that a good piece of material had been wasted, so he had no choice but to throw it aside.
"I'm sorry, that's all I have. Do you have any comments?" Silva flashed his steel claws, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"It's here again, isn't it? Don't keep straining your face and smile more. Leonard came to Silva's side, pinched Silva's face with both hands, and pulled out a strange smile, and the tension disappeared in an instant.
Sylva said as she wrenched away from Leonard's hands, "You're getting too far now!"
"What's the matter? Isn't it supposed to live in harmony in a place like this? Ever since Leonard got hold of a little secret about Silva, he grew to like the feeling of bullying.
"Look, what's over there......" Zero faced Leonard, cringe, gesturing at the behemoth behind him.
A huge black shadow enveloped everyone.
"This joke seems to have gone a little too far......" Even Leonard's expression began to tense.
3.
"This joke seems to have gone a little too far......" Leonard looked at the monster in front of him with a solemn expression.
I saw that the white wolf Xiaoxue quickly hid behind Ai Xue, revealing only a small head.
"Where is this a little stronger!" This real sense of oppression made Alers have to admit that the giant bear in front of him could definitely not be just a level 6 demonic beast.
"Looks like it's in big trouble. Looking at this behemoth like a hill, Zero couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp.
"Don't say it's useless, but it saw us slaughter a grizzly bear on its turf. The most important thing is to find a way to defeat it, and it can be seen that it has already made us hostile targets, and it is probably too late to escape. I had to fight against the water. Come out, Sunfire!" Lalia summoned her other level 6 contract beast, the Flame Bird, and canceled the summoning of the Earthwalker, scattering the parcels all over the ground, but none of that mattered, what mattered was how to deal with the immediate crisis. In the face of the huge bear monster, the velociraptor who has always been brave is also timid.
"Aleth and I draw its attention from the front, Lyria, let your summoned beast join the frontal battle, you prepare the attack magic in the back, Ai Xue, let Xiao Xue also prepare the long-range attack magic, Carl and Silva are responsible for protecting Ai Xue and Zero!" Leonard quickly rushed forward as he arranged his tactics.
"Understood. "Got it. "Understood. ”......
Everyone responded to Leonard's arrangement as soon as possible, and this was the second coordinated operation between the squads, which seemed to be much more skilled than the one against the wolves.
The Earth Demon Bear's movements are not as agile, and its huge body makes it difficult for it to defend against damage caused by Leonard and the others at the same time.
But the enemy will not wait stupidly for Leonard to cut them, and will naturally fight back. The Earth Demon Bear is a natural Hercules, and it is also the king of all bear-type demonic beasts on land, if you count the strength alone, except for the frost war bear that only grows in the extremely cold land of the north, the Earth Demon Bear has few opponents on the land.
I saw the giant bear swing a heavy blow to the ground, and it raised a thousand layers of sand. The pulsation of the earth made Zero feel his body unbalanced and fell to the ground suddenly, Ai Xue was fine, although she also fell, but she was supported by Xiaoxue's wind gust and was not hurt. Lelia wrapped her feet in a balloon of water and built a wall of water around her to protect herself from the sand and gravel.
And Leonard, they are miserable. Although he avoided the direct attack of the bear monster, he was still swept to the ground by the residual shockwave and flew backwards more than ten meters away. Leonard's back hits a large tree, and the leaves fall to the ground.
"I didn't expect to have so much strength. The big bear just hit casually, and the impact caused was already close to the collapse of Ales. Leonard stood up from the ground in severe pain, unable to imagine the consequences of being directly hit by the palm he had just received.
Ares was also not very comfortable, and now he regretted a little that he didn't bring the "Dragon's Breath Scar" with him, with the ordinary iron sword in his hand and the attack with a level 6 fighting spirit attached, he couldn't penetrate the defense of the level 7 Earth Demon Bear at all.
But at this point, there is no other way, in line with the belief that "water drops wear stones", neither Leonard nor Alers stopped attacking the Earth Demon Bear. They were expecting that maybe with the next sword, they could cut through the hard fur of the demon bear and inflict enough damage on it.
This qiē, Zero is in his eyes, but the battle with the Earth Demon Bear is definitely not a situation that can be changed by the addition of a level 2 assassin. Leonard: While fighting the Demon Bear, they lure it away from Zero and Evae's positions. While Zero watched the battle, he also felt even more strange about his condition.
What about the sense of crisis? Why is there still no such feeling?
Why am I still so calm? Zero is a little confused.
Is it a delusion? Why can't I feel the horror of the Earth Demon Bear?
[Ai Xue, are you afraid?]
【......】Ai Xue did not answer, but Zero did not hear the cacophony of negative emotions that echoed in Ai Xue's heart.
She didn't tremble in fear because she felt the coercion of the Earth Demon Bear, and her eyes seemed to be watching a praying mantis fighting with a group of ants?
Zero doesn't know why he made such an analogy, maybe he was too nervous and insane.
While Zero and Ai Xue were in a daze, Lelia had already begun to prepare for the strongest water-based single damage magic she could unleash, the Level 7 Magic Ice Spike. Due to the dispersion of the effect of the water dragon wave's large-area attack skill, it can't do any damage to an enemy with super high defense like the Earth Demon Bear, and for it, the magic like the water dragon wave is just a tickle for it. Only higher-level single magic can inflict substantial damage on it. It's just that Lyria's magic power hasn't fully recovered yet, and it's a little far away from the Earth Demon Bear, so it will take a lot of time for Lylia to just gather the elements, let alone shoot this icicle out with enough force.
On the other hand, Xiaoxue is much more efficient at releasing magic. While Lelia was making preparations, Xiaoxue's two spinning energy swords had already condensed, and they immediately shot in the direction of the giant bear. The Earth Demon Bear, who was focused on fighting the person in front of him, obviously didn't care about the sudden two-shot thing. The spinning saw blade grazed the bear's abdomen, and it was bounced off its original trajectory. But Silva saw a glimmer of hope at this moment, and the giant bear finally had two blood marks on his abdomen!
"Good opportunity. When Silva saw the bear's expression of pain, she knew that the Snow Wind Wolf's attack had had an effect on it. Taking advantage of the bear's inattention, he also came to the center of the battlefield, aimed at the place where the bear's skin was opened, and launched a dozen claw strikes in a row.
The bear roared in pain and began to turn to meet Sylva, who had burst into battle.
Seeing that something was wrong, Silva immediately gave up the pursuit, and instead hurried to dodge the approaching bear claws. Even after dodging a direct attack, Silva was still crushed to the ground by the wind. The giant bear stepped on it......
Silva, who had already accepted the reality and faced despair, found that the giant bear's kick did not step on him?
"Is this?" Silva found herself in the mouth of a velociraptor in her mouth.
"It's so dangerous, I thought I was going to die. Silva, who had picked up a life, said with a palpitation.
"I won't be able to save you next time. Lelia ordered the velociraptor to hold Silva at her feet.
"Thank you. Silva said something from the bottom of her heart. Then he got back on his feet and continued to wait for the next opportunity to cut into the battlefield.
Although the Earth Demon Bear's speed and reaction were not very fast, and its bear paws could not hit anyone, no one could dodge the shockwave brought by each attack. As a high-level demonic beast of the earth element, its attacks naturally have the pulse of the earth, and it will suffer considerable pain just by being shocked.
"Ice Pillar!" Lyria, who had been forced to stop casting spells in order to save Silva, finally completed the chant of this powerful single ice magic, and the huge ice pick instantly condensed in front of Lyria, roaring towards the raging giant bear with a biting cold wind.
In a very different reaction from its previous reactions, the giant bear saw a threat in the size and speed of the icicle. At this time, its bulky body had long been unable to dodge this spike flying at high speed. It gave up on the attack on Ahlers for a moment, instead taking a step back and slamming its solid bear claws at the flying icicle. The icibel was forcibly altered in its original trajectory, breaking four or five large trees before finally stopping.
"Isn't it effective......" Seeing that long-range magic could not damage him, Leonard began to rethink his countermeasures during the battle.
The giant bear looked at the ice ballast on his paws, looked in the direction where the wind blade and ice picks were flying, and found Ai Xue and the others gathered there.
"Oh no, it's here!" Lelia turned pale, knowing that a few hundred meters away could be crossed in a few steps for a massive Earth Demon Bear.
Obviously, Ai Xue and the others have fallen into an extremely dangerous situation.