Chapter 946: Retreat
Minar Forest – the eastern border
Faced with the sudden attack of metal beetles, Nask immediately swung the Battle Spirit Killing Halberd in his hand and rushed towards the five metal beetles.
Under the combined attack of Nask's unequaled spear and spear combo, the attack of the three metal beetles was blocked by Nask with difficulty, and it was barely able to stop the monsters' surprise attack.
However, there were still two metal beetles that attacked the Nebula Trio behind Nask at great speed from the left and right sides.
The experienced Lucio did not hesitate to unleash his stand-in technique, using the scarecrow with his own breath as a bait to lure the darkened metal beetle to attack the scarecrow.
Sure enough, the metal beetle was not a highly intelligent creature in the first place, and after the darkness, its thinking ability was greatly reduced, and the two metal beetles flapped their metal wings exactly as Lucio thought, and launched a fierce attack on the scarecrow.
Elaine was a little sluggish, but she was also an adventurer who often participated in adventure missions, taking advantage of Nask's arrest of the three metal beetles, and the other two metal beetles were attracted by the stand-in scarecrow, she immediately applied a blessing spell to herself and her teammates, and she raised the origin shield of the holy attribute and attached a divine protection.
At the moment when the brilliance of the blessing spell fell, Lucio did not hesitate to pull the crossbow machine and shoot a cracked lightning bolt, and after the lightning bolt hit the metal beetle on the left, the lightning carried on the bolt began to spread violently around, causing a small area of lightning magic damage.
With the blessing of all the attributes of the Blessing Technique, Nask first repelled the three metal beetles with a sweep, and took advantage of the seconds to repel the beetles, and applied the two status skills of Holy Fire and Extreme Defense to the whole team.
Immediately after, Nask raised the Battle Spirit Killing Halberd in his hand, used the Divine Spear Heavenly Lead, forcibly pulled the three metal beetles in front of him in front of him, and began to fight with the three metal beetles with the Peerless Spear and the Bear's Roar.
It looked as if the situation had been reversed with Elaine's buff spell, but the Nebula behind everyone clearly saw that the battle was not a close one.
No matter how strong Nask is, he can't kill three metal beetles with a level of nearly 100 in a short period of time, and the reason why Nask rushes forward and desperately drags the three metal beetles is to create opportunities for his teammates.
As long as two teammates do their best to kill one metal beetle first, and then the two of them work together to kill the other, it will eventually turn into a three-on-three situation.
In the case of similar levels, ordinary monsters cannot defeat human adventurers.
Except, of course, for boss-level monsters.......
However, something happened to Lucio's dumbfounded, and the Broken Lightning Crossbow Bolt he shot hit the metal beetle, although it broke through the outer skin of the metal beetle a little, but the range of lightning magic damage that the Broken Lightning Crossbow Bolt later activated did not have much effect.
"Lucio!! Metal beetles, like oak beetles, are resistant to lightning!! Nebula hesitated, then shouted at Lucio.
Hearing Nebula's shout, Lucio was stunned for a moment, then stopped firing the next Broken Lightning Crossbow and used the Wyvern Blaster instead.
The two metal beetles were unable to get close to Lucio's Wyvern Shockwave, and Elaine inflicted a magical rage on herself that increased the speed of her spell casting, and used the rogue play of teleportation and holy light to continuously drain the metal beetles' stamina.
In the end, Lucio shot two piercing arrows in a row, and the piercing arrows hit the weak eyes of the metal beetles, killing the two metal beetles that were barely breathing.
Subsequently, with the help of Lucio and Elaine, Nask also managed to kill three metal beetles in succession, and won the battle.
Looking at the joyful expressions of the three of them looking at each other and smiling, Xingyun couldn't help but applaud inwardly. Although the strength of the three of them is not strong, their cooperation is indeed perfect, and the tactics of breaking down one by one are also very well used, even if Xingyun's own team encounters the same situation, they can't find a better solution.
While Nebula was still immersed in the joy of the victory of the War Dragon Squad, Lucio came to Nebula with a complicated expression.
"Nebula, tell me the truth, who the hell are you?" Lucio casually made an excuse and pulled Nebula under a large tree to the side, and questioned Nebula.
Xingyun blinked his big watery eyes without hesitation, and pretended to be stupid: "I'm Glaar. Nebula! Who else could I be? ”
"Don't give me a calf! You are also from Treasure Island, how do you know the details of the monsters in Shenmu Village? Shenmu Village is a hunting ground for high-level adventurers, and a second-rate adventure team like ours can only guess at most about the types and distribution of monsters, and the weaknesses and resistances of monsters. Lucio continued to ask Nebula with a serious expression.
Nebula didn't speak, instead pulling out a long black strip from his pocket and aiming it at the metal beetle corpse that Nask and Elaine were packing.
"Metal beetles, animal-type monsters. Level seventy-six, movement speed is average. It can use thunder magic to attack, and its metal wings are very sharp, and it has lightning resistance......." A machine-like female voice came from the machine in Nebula's hand.
Only then did Lucio react, and it turned out that Nebula was holding the newly listed monster book developed by the Earth Defense Headquarters in cooperation with the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce.
It is said that the opening of the Monster Book was carried out two years ago, but due to the variety of monsters, the record of the Atlas is relatively slow, even if more than a dozen adventurers above the level of one hundred and twenty joined forces, it took two years to perfect the Monster Guide, and the information of the Monster Book covers most of the monsters below level one hundred and twenty, which is undoubtedly a great benefit for adventurers who are running around to fight monsters.
However, due to the slightly high price of the Bestiary, the three members of the War Dragon Squad were unable to buy it, and they originally planned to use the bounty given by Nebula to buy it after completing the task of escorting Nebula.......
Lucio was relieved, after all, Nebula was a master in the alchemy field, and he had deep pockets, so it was not surprising that he had a monster book.
Nebula didn't know what Lucio was thinking, but he just watched Lucio keep staring at the monster book in his hand, and Stared at Nebula's heart a little furious.
Xingyun was stunned, handed the monster book in his hand to Lucio, and said to Lucio: "Lucio, you can hold this monster book!" It can detect signs of life within a radius of 50 meters, and if a monster appears, as long as you point the camera of the Pokédex at the monster, the Pokédex will immediately tell you the basic information of the monster. This is also for the sake of my life, so you are welcome........"
Nebula's approach is actually not wrong at all, Nebula now only has six printing skill cards left in his hand, and he can only fight for a moment at most. Now the most mobile in the team is the dexterous crossbow archer Lucio, in the absence of a flying hero in the team, Lucio is the best scout, let Lucio carry the monster book, there is no harm in everything.
Of course, the reason why Nebula knows that the metal beetle has thunder attribute resistance is not because he uses the Bestiary, but because Nebula himself is an ice and thunder mage, so he will naturally understand those monsters with ice attribute resistance and lightning attribute resistance.
What's more, when Nebula was forced to study by Hans before, he had seen the materials of metal beetles and other monsters in Shenmu Village in the magic library.
Lucio hesitated for a while, but still took the monster book handed by the nebula, after all, there may be other monsters encountered in the next escort mission, and you can know the weakness attribute and resistance attribute of the enemy monster by using the monster book, which will be of great help to the task, and it will be a big deal to return it when the mission is completed.
After a while, Nask came to Nebula and Lucio with the material backpack on his back, and Nask patted the material backpack and said to Lucio and Nebula, "What are you two talking about?" I've put away the horns of the five metal beetles, let's hurry up! ”
Nebula looked at the backpack that Nask was carrying and was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Nask was not a wealthy adventurer.
There are generally two types of space equipment for containing items, one is a material backpack, and the other is a space ring, because the production materials of space rings require rare magic materials such as star stones, moon stones, and sun stones, and the moon ring and sun ring are generally only owned by nobles, magicians, and wealthy adventurers.
Due to the rarity of magicians, the Star Ring refined with Star Stone and the Moon Ring refined with Moon Stone will be uniformly distributed by the School of Magic after the strength of the magician reaches a certain level.
However, even the lowest-level Star Ring has at least one million gold coins on the market. However, the Star Ring can only hold one cubic meter, and it is generally only for adventurers to put a power of attorney, a contract, or a short weapon, equipment, etc.
Although the three members of the War Dragon Squad each have a Star Ring, the small space equipment can't hold much monster materials at all.
And the Ring of the Moon and the Ring of the Sun have a high price of 10 million gold coins and 50 million gold coins, which adventurers below level 70 almost don't even think about it, and for some poor level 70 adventurers, this price is enough to discourage them.
However, the material backpack is different, although the material backpack is a little larger and needs to be carried at any time, but after the compression of the spatial overlapping magic array, the general material backpack is enough to hold sixteen cubic meters of items.
In addition to the material backpack for placing monster materials, there are also mineral backpacks for ores and herb backpacks for placing herbs, after all, there will be some slight differences in the storage conditions of monster materials, ores and herbs.
The most important thing is that the material backpack is cheap, and more than 100,000 gold coins can be bought, and as long as you work hard, low-level adventurers can also do it for everyone.......
Just as Nask offered to move on, Nebula hesitated for a moment and proposed to Nask, "That ....... Captain Nask, while we haven't gone too far yet, I think we'd better retreat to Shenmu Village for now! We'll gather some more information on the darkened monsters, and we'll set off tomorrow morning......."
For Nebula, this is the safest way, as long as it takes half a day, the seal on the sealing glove can be lifted, and the one hundred and twenty level oneself plus one hundred and two ninety level helpers, even if they encounter the legendary Charizard and Gryffindor, they are not worthy.
Although Nebula sometimes does things without thinking about the consequences, it doesn't mean that Nebula can't think, the dark aura emitted by the darkened monster is somewhat similar to the dark aura of the black mage, and the nebula has basically determined that the darkened monster is the ghost of the black mage or his subordinates.
His own strength is sealed by the Demon Sealing Gauntlet, and if he encounters a black mage or a black mage's subordinates now, he may not even survive one percent........
Therefore, it is best to go back and wait for the seal to be lifted, and then notify the Knights of the Holy Land, and use the power of the Knights to uncover the conspiracy of the dark magicians.
After listening to Nebula's proposal, Lucio and Elaine both expressed their support for Nebula's proposal, except for Nask, who said that he could move on.
Lucio and Elaine felt a little uneasy about the monsters in the depths of the Minar Forest after seeing the Darkened Metal Beetle, even the outermost Darkened Metal Beetle was so difficult, wouldn't it be terrible if they encountered a large number of even more powerful Darkened Harvey and Darkened Centaurs.
Just as the three of them were arguing about this, several loud explosions suddenly came from near the entrance of the forest, and in an instant smoke and dust filled the air.
Before Nebula and the others could react, a brown-haired man holding an Odin halberd, wearing a blue dragon helmet, and blue and silver armor used flying leaves to quickly run in the direction where the four Nebula were.
Nebula immediately recognized this thirty-year-old uncle as the adventurer who had questioned the Tataman village chief before, and remembered that he seemed to claim to be a warrior of the eighty-second level........
After the warrior uncle ran past the place where the four Nebula were, he shouted to the Nebula Four, "Run! What are you still doing in a daze? ”
Listening to the sound of "buzz~buzz~buzz" flapping wings and the sound of "dong~dong~dong" little short legs stepping on the ground continued to sound, the four Nebulas noticed that there were many monsters hidden in the smoke and dust.
Looking at the bloody eyes that glowed red in the smoke that gradually dissipated, Nebula not only swallowed.
Hundreds, hundreds of darkened oak beetles and metal beetles!!
What an international joke!! Even if his strength recovers, he may not have just gotten so many dark beetles!!
Before Nebula could take a step forward, Nebula was grabbed by Nask, carried Nebula on his shoulder, and ran towards the depths of the forest without hesitation.
Lucio and Elaine also used jumping and teleportation to follow closely behind Nask in a hurry, and suddenly so many darkened monsters appeared, who could withstand it!!