Chapter 57: Targeted Preparations for Hell
On the same day that the Council Guard Legion arrived safely in Jikur, Xue Hua also got the information he wanted most from the mimic chicks who had infiltrated Trivank, and that was information about the Demon Legion's targeted deployment of the swarm troops.
Two mimic chicks risked their discovery and forced their way into a stone temple-like palace that Xue Hua and Isha had suspected for a long time, and then they discovered that the temple contained a large number of undead monsters and strange demons.
When this image information was transmitted back to Xue Hua, he could easily identify the undead monsters as something that would have only appeared in the fourth act of the game: the Forgotten Knight/Mage.
The spooky demons are also quite recognizable, and they are also the mother of monsters from the fourth act of the game.
These creepy monster clones immediately alerted Xue Hua, and he finally understood what kind of idea Mephisto had in mind to restrain the swarm.
In the game, the Forgotten Knight is definitely one of the most troublesome and dangerous monsters in close combat.
The reason is that not only will they put a shield on themselves (the shield of bones), but they can also throw all kinds of curses at you.
Aging, Attack Retaliation, Resistance Reduction, Weakening, Life Stealing, and Damage Amplification, are used by almost all Necromancer's Powerful Curses.
In reality, through some campaign information, Xue Hua found that these Forgotten Knights and Forgotten Mages were not only a big trouble for melee professionals, but also a threat to ranged professionals.
Because in this world, this kind of monster and giant demon are the Praetorian Guards around the Three Demon Gods of Hell, they are scarce in number but quite powerful in destructive power.
The Forgotten Mage is able to apply curses to ranged targets, and the Forgotten Knight has a special ability called "Blasphemy Aura".
The Blasphemous aura poisons opponents who approach and attack the Forgotten Knight, and the toxin is so powerful that this monster will appear to be a terrifying sight wherever it goes.
These two monsters are indeed very dangerous to the swarm, especially the Oblivion Mage's attack against the curse.
Imagine that when the swarm is attacking the city, a group of forgotten mages suddenly appear on the opposite side, wave their hands and sprinkle an attack anti-devouring curse on units such as stinging snakes, spear hunters, etc., and then put curses such as damage deepening or aging on the cockroach jumping insects in the front row, and the swarm that is caught off guard will definitely lose a lot.
Although the Thunderbeast is not afraid of curses due to the strong mental resistance in its body, it is not possible to take down Kurast alone.
On the side of the Demon Legion, there are still a lot of air forces, and the thunder beasts that have lost air and long-range reinforcements will not last long at all.
And there's also the Mother of Evil, a monster that, although not as strong as the Forgotten Knight and the Forgotten Mage, is also a very, very troublesome monster.
Some of them are like the swarm hosts before the Zerg evolved and upgraded, and they are the kind of mothership-type units that are not very good at fighting themselves, but can hatch a large number of mobs to overwhelm their opponents.
The thing it hatches is called the "Evil Child", which is a very disgusting and evil demonic monster.
Each of these things is about the length of an adult's leg, but its face is a bloody mouth full of sharp fangs, and if you are bitten by an evil child, it will soon be hordes of evil children coming from all directions to knock you down and nibble you all.
The Mother of Evil produces the Children of Evil very quickly, almost comparable to the swarm host (in reality), so you must kill the Mother of Evil quickly or wait to be "drowned in the sea of the People's War"!
However, once the Mother of Evil begins to produce the Children of Evil, they instinctively hide at the back of the battle line, and with the Forgotten Knights and Forgotten Mages protecting them, it is even more difficult to suppress the explosion of the Children of Evil by killing these monsters quickly.
"Damn it! I didn't expect Mephisto to be really willing to work hard to deal with the swarm! Actually transferred all the clones of his Praetorian Guard, isn't it afraid that something will go wrong on the front line of the second world? ”
Xue Hua gritted his teeth hatefully, and while ordering the mimic chicks to withdraw quickly, he began to discuss countermeasures with the commanders in the mind of the main nest.
"The special psionic mode, damage feedback, is very troublesome, and new swarm units must be evolved to remove the negative psionic status."
This is Abbather's suggestion.
However, the problem is that the genetic records in the swarm gene pool do not have any information related to "purification", and it is even more difficult to create a new class with a purification effect out of thin air without the support of genetic information.
And most importantly, it's too late!
"The number of biters is endless! A little loss is not enough to worry about! Don't worry about battle damage, the biters will move forward to clear all obstacles for you! ”
This is Zagara.
To be honest, in fact, its words are indeed the right way for the current insect swarm, completely drowning the opponent with the endless insect sea offensive, and the loss is not even bothered to look at anything, anyway, after the worker bees eat the opponent's corpse and local resources, there will be new resources to hatch a new batch of insect swarms.
But helplessly, Xue Hua was used to living a hard life, and he was still a little unaccustomed to letting him be extravagant suddenly.
However, Zagara heeded Zagara's advice, and it was unclear what the swarm's greatest strength was Mephisto was indeed targeting the wrong place as the swarm army was rapidly surging from the hidden hatcheries in the rainforest.
In case it really didn't work in the end, Xue Hua closed his eyes, shrank into the king worm's abdominal sac, and directly forced the violent soldiers all the way over.
If you want to specialize in operation, strategy, tactics, and strategy, how can labor and management be unreasonable and flip the table?!
However, this method is of course the last resort, because if it is really done, the insect swarm will suffer considerable losses, and this loss is still quite painful for Xue Hua, who has not yet found a resource star that can be mined freely......
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but set his eyes on Stokoff, the commander of the swarm fleet, who had not spoken.
It has been a long time since the swarm fleet re-anchored and explored the resource stars in the star zone around the shelter world, although this time is really nothing for interstellar travel, but Xue Hua, who has been trapped by the resource shackles and can't let go, wants to hear some good news from the fleet commander.
"Stokoff, have you made any recent discoveries? What about resource stars? ”
"I'm sorry Juggernaut, but all the planets and even asteroid belts in the vicinity of this world have been proven to be worthless by the Inspector King Bugs and Worker Bees, and placing hatcheries on those planets is a completely cost-effective move."
Stokoff replied with some regret.
When it saw the disappointed expression on Xue Hua's face, it suddenly reported to him a new discovery in the fleet a few days ago.
"We've had a Spotworm observe a green planet that appears and disappears about four standard intervals from the local star sector, and our next plan is to prepare to explore the planet's sector.
If the information on the planet is true, we will have a good chance of finding a cluster of planetary belts rich in resources. ”
"Really? That's great!
Forehead... Wait, don't you run into a giant tentacle monster like Planet One again? ”
Xue Hua was overjoyed for a while, and then suddenly remembered that the swarm fleet had encountered before, and the genetic sequence of the giant monster that used the entire planet as a camouflage had not yet been fully deciphered by Abbathhar.
"Because of the distance, everything is still unknown, and we have to get close enough to the target before we can make an accurate judgment."
Stokoff did not arbitrarily answer Xue Hua on this question, but was very cautious about the need for more detailed information.
Its caution made Xue Hua appreciate it very much, so Xue Hua nodded with satisfaction and said: "Go ahead, go and explore it well, but you must be careful, there may be a highly intelligent civilization in this universe that is not friendly to us." ”
"Understood! Dominate! ”