The first priority of hunting is to find suitable goals.
But fighting is not the case. Rotao's people regard those who challenge powerful prey as honor, and the scars left in the fierce battle seem to be their medals.
Every lion on the grassland has experienced at least one such battle, the moment they transformed from a kitten into a man.
Reed hid under the shadow of a rock, looking at the battle situation below - he narrowed his eyes, and after much experience of such a battle, he lost the passion of the past, and only gentleness and indifference remained in his silver-gray eyes.
He grew up before he learned how to distinguish between truth and lies, and then he gradually understood many things.
He slowly stood up, and the metal ring engraved with glorious surnames on his mane jingled as he swayed. Reed stretched his claws behind him, firmly grasped the hilt of the holy sword, and pulled it out inch by inch.
The short beards were waving their long arms to swing the disordered minions out. The power of the gray tree people was highly rated and almost reached level A, which gave them an overwhelming advantage when facing these small creatures. But their movements were very clumsy, and each time they waved their arms, they could only force the narrow, blue and blue shadows to retreat a little.
Only a few monsters were swept by its branches and claws, flew out and hit the rock wall, and fell to pieces.
The cracked crystals shattered into the ground, but no one would look at them. They gradually lost their luster and turned into inconspicuous gray stone pieces, sleeping among the dust.
At this time, a gray light flashed in the darkness, and a pointed rock rose into the air under the guidance of the crab-shaped monster.
The disordered minions seemed to be intentionally luring the short-bearded to attack. The tall gray tree man waved his branches and slapped the three crystal monsters high. But before it could be happy, the pointed rock in the air suddenly drew a line and flew towards it, passing between its arms that had no time to retract, hitting its chest.
The tree man let out a painful roar, lost his balance, and fell down on his back.
At that moment, the crystal monsters in the canyon seemed to have found an opportunity and rushed up like a faint blue tide.
"Protect it!" Yamatolan shouted when he saw this.
The summoners immediately surrounded the fallen short beards and raised their large shields to form a front. "Change the flail!" The warrior team leader issued an order, and the iron guards were all weapon masters. Wen Ling threw away the spear in his hand and took off the flail with a meteor hammer from behind.
In positional warfare, chain weapons pose a more threat to these agile creatures than spears. After a period of battle, they finally mastered some tricks to fight these monsters.
The tactics worked quickly. Once the wielding chain hammer entangled the opponent, the iron guard behind him pulled it hard, causing it to lose its ability to move. Someone on the left and right immediately stepped forward quickly and smashed their crystal-shaped heads with one hammer.
Compared to the amazing agility of these monsters, the power provided by their body shape is only average. This is an obvious weakness in front of the Iron Guard who is good at power.
The rangers also replaced the cone arrows with armor-breaking ability—
"The magician is out of the line."
Yamatolan slashed a crystal monster with an axe and shouted again. He saw that the consummate Cancer was walking out of the canyon, which was their real threat.
The only healers in the team gathered together to release a few recovery magic at the fallen beards, but the divine ether had little effect on the tree people. Everyone couldn't help but look at each other. Aimeya did not accept the false believers, and there were no druids among them.
The short beard slowly shook his head and supported himself with an arm to sit up from the ground. "Humans, you are no match for them. Let me stop these things, and you continue to escape along this canyon-"
Alisa turned around when she heard this.
The tall tree man said, pressing his hand on his chest, and a green light oozed out from under its gray-white bark.
This scene seemed familiar to the people of the Holy White Stone Guild. The people from Hydra in the distance also noticed the movement here and couldn't help but watch it.
Everyone couldn't help but be silent. Although they had known each other for only a moment, the two gray tree men had already sacrificed their lives for them or were ready to sacrifice their lives for them. If they were stronger, why would they be like this?
But they knew very well, what's the point even if they could block one or two waves of attacks?
People couldn't help but turn their attention to Yamatolan, their leader.
"Maybe we have a way?"
Yamatolan sighed and looked at the tall gray tree man. He wanted to step forward and stop the other party, but he understood that they could not do this.
The short beard shook his head, "You must leave before the watchmen arrive, otherwise nothing will make sense. But remember that we are not for you, but for the survival of this area. If you want to survive, go down this canyon-"
"watch dogs?"
The short beard was about to open its mouth, but it was at this moment that it saw a beam of silver light.
Not only it, the shield guards in the front row of the Holy White Stone also saw clearly that the falling light in the darkness - the Cancer, was moving slowly, passing through the pass of the canyon, slowly approaching in their direction.
It was like the tip of a spear with a cold light that penetrated straight from above the cliff and penetrated into its back.
That's the big cat man.
He finally seized the opportunity and pounced down from the cliff. The strong wind blew the long mane and flew wildly.
He held the holy sword in one hand, and his narrowed silver-gray eyes reflected an increasingly larger target. With the help of the falling force, he inserted his sword downward into the thick crystal layer.
The silver light flashed in the darkness, and the blade reached the handle. The next moment, Reed fell heavily on the monster's back. The huge structure sank down and then screamed in anger.
Its six limbs were fixed on the ground, shaking its upper body vigorously, trying to throw the invader off its back. But the Lion Paladin stretched out its claws and firmly fixed the gap between its armor, letting it shake left and right, and it didn't move at all.
But the opponent's movements were not blocked at all, which made Reed realize that his sword did not hurt the key points. According to fashionable terms, either the monster's health was too thick, or his sword did not even pierce the opponent's crystal armor.
Unfortunately, he couldn't see the damage numbers Ed and the others often mentioned, nor could he look through the battle records, so he could only seek help from Parker's communication crystal, who was not on his collar:
"What's going on with this sword?"
"Gray damage number, 372, Mr. Reid." He was responding to the voice of the Miss Naturalist.
Gray is armor damage, and the damage of this sword is even lower than the attack of the enemy in his hand, not to mention his power multiplier and the potential energy bonus falling from that height.
This only shows that the opponent's armor is also amazingly hard.
He changed his strategy, pulled out the holy sword from his back, brought out a piece of crystal fragments from between the crystal layers, and then swung a sword to slash at the position of his eye handle.
The blade cut off a large piece of crystal, and one of the other's eyes.
The latter's vision instantly turned halfway.
Cancer finally felt threatened, and stolen hard, and hit the rock wall on one side. Reed immediately let go of his claws and rolled down from it. He said that at that time, the Cancer hit the rock wall with a loud bang, and several cracks emerged from the rock layer, and sand and gravel fell down.
After the big cat man landed, he rolled through it and walked under it. The Cancer reacted and dropped his sharp limbs and claws in turn, but they all took a step slower than Reid. The Lion Paladin's movements were not as flexible as a knight, but like a sword dancer. It pounced forward to avoid the last falling limbs and claws.
Then he turned around and a sword, and the cold blade slashed across its limbs and claws.
"The goddess is above!"
Reed roared angrily.
The crystal made a shattering sound, and the giant's body suddenly tilted, losing balance, and with a loud bang, it hit the rock layer again with a slanted sound.
This dazzling battle almost made the people of the Holy White Stone Guild stunned.
This was a big cat that came out from there? In a blink of an eye, the huge crab that made them frustrated. Before they could even understand, the monster hit the cliff.
Alice's eyes were even more incredible and she opened her mouth.
However, although the structured Cancer fell, it did not lose its combat power. It still had five limbs and claws, which was enough to restore balance.
It slowly turned around, then raised a claw and swept towards Reid with a hammer. The big cat man lowered his body, letting the claw pass by him from above his head, and the giant claw swung a sharp rock to smash it.
Without Jita's reminder, Reed also realized that the other party's agility was not high. According to Ed and others, his dodge value and balance did not drop much.
However, after the sharp rock shattered, the stone flakes did not fall, but were suspended in mid-air. A magic circle lit up on the Cancer claws, and the next moment, the sharp stone flakes flew towards him like a blade storm.
"careful!"
He heard a girl's voice reminding himself that it was familiar, but Reed dared not be distracted, so he raised the holy sword and tinkled away the stone pieces.
However, each stone flake contains huge force, and it is not easy for him to resolve it. He can only block and retreat while forcing him to retreat, and soon left the melee range with the Cancer.
After the other party forced him away, he immediately let out a low-frequency scream, and pieces of dark blue light flashed in the darkness, which were the crystal minions surrounding him.
As described in the log, the upper Jingxie Beast can command the lower Jingxie Beast.
However, Reed stretched out his left claw, and a golden light pattern emerged, pushing several crystal claws that were approaching each other away.
At this moment, Yamatolan woke up as if she was dreaming and shouted: "Ranker, help him!"
The Ranger's team leader had already died, and he was in charge of himself at this moment.
The rangers also realized this opportunity and were no longer stingy. They opened the special quiver, drew their bows and arrows, and shot a rain of arrows in that direction.
The armor-piercing ability is extremely strong and extremely expensive, the fine gold cone-shaped arrows have the same effect on the crystal-layer armor of these monsters. The rain of arrows falling from the sky almost brought about a rain of death.
The broken crystal minions fell to the ground one after another.
Unfortunately, such opportunities are no longer possible. Otherwise, they only need to prepare dozens of gold arrows like those rich guilds, to effectively curb the offensive of these monsters.
But the Big Cat Man still seized the opportunity.
He turned around and rushed towards the giant monster-
The opponent's level is very high, and he is just overwhelming in terms of strength, but his clumsy movement limits its performance. Of course, it is also important that he cut off one of its limbs and claws first.
Although the monsters can use ground spells, they don’t work so well in close proximity. Of course, this is just about offense and defense. The Big Catman also feels tricky. The opponent protects his remaining claws well and does not allow him to get close easily.
He was about to think of a way to take another risk, and then—he heard a voice coming from the communication crystal:
"Mr. Reed, please back a little."
That was Fang Zhu's voice—
The Lion Paladin raised his head and happened to see the sharp rock protruding above the cliff. The structured Cancer had already arrived below the sharp rock in the previous rounds of battles. He was stunned for a moment, then understood Fang Zhu's intention, so he put away his long sword and retreated backward.
But what surprised him was that when he stepped back, the troll monster that originally made him think was very low in intelligence actually looked up very alertly.
Then it also saw the pointed rock protruding on the cliff top.
I don't know what kind of thought it was that prompted it to take such action. When it saw the pointed rock, it subconsciously took a step back.
A flash of light bloomed from above the cliff at this moment, and then there was a loud bang, and the rolling sand and gravel flew down from the top of the cliff. After this loud bang, the pointed rock slowly tilted and fell down in the second loud bang.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! People from the Holy White Stone Guild couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this scene.
Although they didn't see clearly whether the falling giant rock pressed the monster, it blocked the entrance of the canyon in any case and isolated the crystal creatures from the other side.
They are temporarily safe.
Seeing this scene, Short Beard couldn't help but pause and put down his hand pressed on his chest.
"Continue to clear the enemy!"
There were still some remaining opponents in the canyon. Yamatolan was afraid that his people would relax their vigilance, so he quickly issued an order loudly.
However, he put down the axe blade and raised his head, as if he realized that there were other people on the cliff. In his eyes, the man soon appeared above the top of the cliff.
The other party looked down from a high point, and then spoke in a voice that deliberately pretended to be rough and rough:
"Listen to everyone, we are mercenaries passing by. Do you need help here?"
Yamatolan thought he was having an absurd dream in a trance, so why did you pass by this place hundreds of meters deep underground? He looked up at the person on the top of the cliff who couldn't see clearly, but although the other party was extremely suspicious, they were at least humans, not monsters.
"Friends," he shouted, "as you see, we are in trouble."
"We saw it," replied Fang Ling, "Where are you going?"
Yamatolan wanted to say that we wanted to go back to the ground. But he was not stupid either. He understood that although the other party talked a lot, he also appeared in this place, and was mostly trapped below it like them.
He paused, looked at the short beard behind him, and then said, "This tree man said he wanted to take us to a safe place."
This is exactly the answer from Fang Yu and others.
He looked at the gray tree man. If he thought it was not bad, the place where the other party was going should be where the voice owner was before.
Fang Yu thought for a moment, and said in a tight voice:
"We can escort you to that place-"
He pressed his voice very heavily to avoid exposing himself, but due to the improper method of mastering it, it sounded like he was coughing up phlegm.
Ji Ta and Tian Lan almost bent over behind her laughing, and the naturalists were a little better, but the latter almost laughed and turned aside - so what the hell is the mercenary passing by?
Moreover, the sound of their leader pretending to be low was like a pigeon calling.
Tianlan burst into tears, and suddenly she widened her eyes, her face turned pale, and her mouth was breathless. Jita was so scared that she quickly patted her. The poet started to cough heavily and said unhurriedly:
"Ahem, I'm scared to death. Brother Ed almost laughed to death, haha..."
But behind, Xie Shita shook his head, and under Silmide's instructions, he walked over and handed one by one, and lifted the two little guys up.
Yamatolan was stunned for a moment. He suddenly understood what the other party meant and realized why the other party called himself a mercenary - this was simply taking advantage of the situation to rob.
But the other party did show corresponding strength in the previous battles, especially the Lion Paladin who fought against the Cancer, whose personal strength is far above them.
If these people are of this level, they will not suffer any loss if they are escorted.
He paused for a moment before saying, "I understand the rules of the mercenary world, and we will give you reasonable rewards."
With a sound, he heard the sound of something falling to the ground coming from behind him.
Yamatolan looked back and found that it was Miss Nightingale who didn't hold her knife. Alice looked at him nervously, and hurriedly bent down to talk about the dagger and picked it up.
But Yamatolan didn't think too much about it. He almost didn't hold his battle axe before.
But no sound came back from the top of the cliff.
Yamatolan frowned, thinking that it was too easy for him to agree, which made the other party feel that he could blackmail more.
However, he had made up his mind that no matter what the other party said, even if they all died in this place, they would never accept the other party's price increase again and again.
Their Holy White Stone Guild has a name and surname in this area.
But he was thinking too much—
Fang Yu did not answer, but turned around and heard the voice of the big cat man in the communication crystal:
"Ed, that more advanced Crystal Beast is nearby."
"What?"
"They seem to have learned a lesson. The landslides you created before did not bury them underneath," Reid's voice seemed a little serious. He held the crystal in one claw and looked around in the smoke and dust. "Do you still remember the things recorded in the log? I suspect that there are more advanced Jingxi beasts nearby commanding them."
Fang Yu became alert.
He turned around and looked to the other side of the canyon, but he almost cried out what he saw.
More faint blue lights appeared in the darkness in the distance. They were like fireflies, gradually gathering into a torrent, rushing in this direction.
More importantly, he saw many larger creatures breaking out of the ground under the loose rock formation, although he couldn't recognize whether those things were crystal beasts.
But obviously, they certainly weren't here to welcome them.
In Jita's previous analysis, the strength of the Crystal Cancer is close to level 33, and it is the more difficult one among this level creature.
As for the higher-level Jingxi Beast, what level should it be? Level 35? Level 40?
He took a breath of lightly, picked up the communication crystal with some seriousness and spoke:
"Mr. Reed, evacuate that place first."
...
After a moment of silence.
Yamatolan finally waited for the other party's answer. He saw that the man appeared on the top of the cliff again, looked at them quietly, and then spoke:
"The situation may change a little, everyone."
Sure enough, Yamatolan thought to himself that these damn greedy people were like vultures in the wilderness, wishing to peck at the last trace of carrion on their bodies.
He was ready to refuse.
In any case, they must at least die with dignity. He looked back at the tall tree man and thought to himself that he was a little sorry for the short-bearded gentleman.
Chapter completed!