Chapter 960: Seeking the Secret in the Heart of the Earth (33)
Chapter 960: Seeking the Hidden in the Center of the Earth (33)
At the same time, in the East African Plateau, in the underground palace of the Jilimanjaro volcano, the battle between Palamides and Evan continued.
After the two ice crystal colossas merged, with their boulder bodies as the center, they transformed into an ice crystal hydra composed of ice.
The nine heads of the Ice Crystal Dragon worked together, casting magic spells one after another, spitting out extremely sharp ice arrows without stopping. These ice arrows are terrifyingly awl-shaped, sharper than blades sharpened with the finest techniques, and each shot is enough to make a big hole in an unprotected person!
Such a fierce attack forced Palamides to find cover everywhere to dodge. But the corridors of the dungeon were not very wide in the first place, and the surrounding walls were carved out of hard volcanic rock, and there were smooth and almost no impurities. It's not easy to find cover in this kind of environment.
The big cat ended up having to hide behind the rocks of another fallen ice crystal colossus. He thought that the core of the colossus was completely shattered, and that it was long dead, and that even if he was near it, there should be no danger.
The continuous ice arrows hit the boulder, and Palamides felt uneasy when he heard the sound of the hidden stone. Now he can't leave here, and as soon as he gets out, he will be shot into a hornet's nest by a rain of ice arrows.
Thankfully, the Ice Crystal Hydra didn't seem to move. The rain of ice arrows it unleashed, while ferocious, had a fatal flaw: it was magic.
Since it's magic, the user needs to concentrate on it. It expends almost the same amount of concentration for both human and non-human species, and it does not mean that a particular race has a particular advantage.
The Ice Crystal Hydra continuously used such a powerful magic arrow rain that its concentration was almost all on the matter of [attacking], and it had no time to move another half step.
Or rather, Palamides unilaterally wished so. Otherwise, if this machine-gun-like ice crystal hydra can still move while firing a rain of ice arrows, the big cats have no chance of winning at all, and they can only wait to die!
Palamides cowered frustratedly behind the boulder bunker, trying to find an opportunity to fight back. But he saw an even more surprising scene!
The boulder that served as his shelter was also a "dead" ice crystal colossus, and something flowed out of the crack - an ice-blue fluid!
It squirmed, twisted, and moved as if it were alive, squeezing itself out of the Colossus's body!
No, it's not as if! It does have life! This thing is like some kind of slime monster called "Slime", moving autonomously! Palamides just used a powerful Mithril spear to assassinate the Ice Crystal Colossus with a single blow, and must have destroyed most of the magic crystals in the Colossus's body. But the slime monster wasn't completely dead, and a small fraction of it was left to crawl out of the cracks in the stone statue!
Paramidis remembered something.
Dark slime mold!!
During the Great War seven years ago, the Leopard Warriors saw this terrifying slime monster in the deepest part of the Dark Regions, in front of the last research institute of the Kitsune Clan. At that time, those slime monsters were artificially infected with shadows, which can be said to be spawned by the real yàn room, a ferocious biochemical weapon.
And now this slime mold, this "ice blue little thing" that appeared in front of Palamides, is obviously not infected by shadows, just ordinary slime mold creatures.
Is it because of the influence of the heterogeneous photons around them? These supposedly harmless slime monsters have obviously become ferocious, controlling these stones and ice cubes, attacking the people who enter the volcanic dungeon!
The strangest thing is that these slime molds seem to have some kind of intelligence! Not only are they able to use magic as a means of attack, but they can also communicate with each other, sharing the experience they have gained from the previous battle with their "kind"!
No wonder the same tactics don't work against these ice crystal colosses, no wonder they're getting tougher! As single-celled creatures, these [Ice Slimes] are very smart, or rather cunning! They have their own minds, their own intelligence! But... Single-celled organisms can be so smart?! What happened here is so unusual!
Palamides looked at the slime mold and fell into deep thought, but he didn't expect what happened next: the ice slime mushroom flew over and leaped towards the face of the leopard warrior!
"Wow!" the big cat was startled, and while scolding angrily, his body also subconsciously leaned back, trying to dodge the monster's flutter.
But the Ice Slime changed shape in mid-air, taking the shape of a large hand, stretching out its five fingers and grabbing at Palamides' cheek mercilessly!
No one knows what it wants to do! But the big cat knows in his heart that since these monsters can control such a large piece of stone and transform into an ice crystal colossus to attack the enemy, their body control ability is estimated to be very strong!
Sure enough, the thing grabbed Palamides' face (the big cat still couldn't dodge it), and immediately reached out with something like a tentacle and poked into the nostrils of the leopard warrior!
Worst!
Palamides reached out and picked the damn little slime off his face. But this qiē was obviously in vain, because the body of the ice slime was soft and slippery, and it was covered with disgusting mucus, and no matter how much Paramidis reached out to pick it out, it was impossible to pick it off!
Oops! Awful!
The monster's tentacles probed deeper and deeper, and Palamides could clearly feel that it had invaded his throat! If it continued like this, it would inevitably crawl into Palamidas's head through the tiny tubes of the nasal nerve, and then control the body of the big cat!
Oops!
If you don't find a way to get rid of this damn slime, Palamides' body will be taken by someone else!
However, is there really a way?!It has penetrated completely into the throat of Palamides, and the disgusting tentacles are spreading everywhere!
Or maybe not!
Big Cat grabbed his Mithril spear in one hand and spun it around quickly! The dancing spear burst into a thunderous roar, a plug-in embedded in the spear that works with just a swing of the weapon.
(It must have hurt.) With a muffled sound, the hilt of the Mithril spear with high-voltage electricity had already slammed into Palamides' face.
He beat himself with his weapon, knocking himself into the eyes, and the scene was both ridiculous and pathetic!
But it works! No matter how ridiculous and shoddy, as long as a strategy is useful, it will do! The power of thunder and lightning instantly scurried around in the big cat's body, frantically destroying a qiē!
However, Palamides' constitution seems to be inherently tolerant of lightning, and he also has an organ that absorbs electrical energy, a "battery" compressed from a large amount of sparkle. This qiē prevented the big cat from being electrocuted by his spear, and the only thing that was electrocuted was the slime monster that was attached to the door of Palamides' face!
The high-voltage current actually lasted only a few seconds, and the power quickly weakened. These few seconds of high-voltage electric shock are nothing to the leopard warriors, but they are fatal to the ice slime mold. The slime monster was electrocuted and convulsed, squirting disgusting slime from its body like incontinence, and the slime smudged Palamides' face.
The surrounding storm seemed to be affected by the monster's struggle, and it stopped for half a second.
And this slime is dying. It struggled with dehydration, and soon lost its vitality due to excessive water loss, dried up and fell off Palamidadis's face, and continued to smoke after falling to the ground, as if it had been roasted!!
"Uh-a-cough cough-cough!!" As soon as the big cat regained its breath, it immediately coughed and vomited, constantly squirting snot from its nostrils and mouth... Or maybe the bodily fluids of that slime monster - it's a very touching scene!
He finally breathed a sigh of relief after cleaning his nose and mouth, although the smell of rotting eggs in his mouth made him want to vomit.
Knock knock ding! There was still a lot of noise all around, and the shooting of the ice crystal hydra never stopped for a moment. Palamides has just come out of one predicament, only to find himself still in another!
Another big question that he thought of couldn't help but make the Leopard Warrior's heart sink: Ivan!
The half-dragon youth also seemed to be suppressed by the rain of ice arrows, and had no choice but to hide behind another boulder for cover. And that boulder, needless to say, was another "dead" ice crystal colossus! If that thing had the same ice slime mold in its body, and the remaining slime molds (at least some of them) were still alive, wouldn't it!
That's right! From the very beginning, it was a planned attack! The Ice Crystal Hydra deliberately separated Palamides and Evan with a dense rain of ice arrows, and pinned them down behind two boulders, not to win the battle, but-!
Thinking of this, Palamides called out in a panic, "Ivan, be careful!!" "What did you say?!" The half-dragon youth's response came from ten yards away. The surrounding rocks were clanged with ice arrows, making it impossible for Evan to hear the Leopard warrior's reminder.
The big cat raised his voice again and shouted, "Be careful--stone-flow-out--something!-it's alive!!" "What?what's alive?" Ivan only heard half of it, and was feeling confused.
The big cat watched from a distance as there was a dark shadow behind Evan, and hurriedly shouted at the maximum volume he could make: "Behind you!!" "What?!" Before the half-dragon youth could understand Palamides's advice, a sticky mass had already swooped towards his face!