Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 86: Using Earth Escape to Counter Earth Escape (2)
In this "holy war of light", on the surface, the Church of Light failed to completely destroy our United Alliance, which should be considered their failure. However, as soon as the battle was over, "Tian Media" immediately launched a "supplement" with pictures and texts to "describe" in detail the "dreary scene" of our United Alliance's base after the war - under the golden sign of "the world's number one mercenary group", there stood a meeting hall and four "watchman" magic pillars alone. In addition, the base was empty, and no buildings survived. In the eyes of neutral players who did not know the truth, such a result should not be much better than complete destruction. Even though the Dark Council responded quickly and published a statement in the "Supplement" on "Tian Media", announcing that the United Alliance officially joined the "Resistance Alliance" and that the "Resistance Alliance" would bear all losses and guarantee to rebuild the completely destroyed base with all its strength and restore its original scale as soon as possible. It also announced the specific plan for rebuilding the United Alliance signed by Long Xing Tian Xia and Xue Wu Xia, trying to strengthen the confidence of the middle forces in the "Resistance Alliance" and weaken the influence of the "white terror" of the Church of Light, there are still some "cowardly" mercenary groups that have restrained their actions, paying attention to keeping a certain distance from the " Resistance Alliance", and choosing to be aloof from the struggle between the two major forces of darkness and light. Therefore, for the Church of Light or the supreme honor of planning this conspiracy, this first "Holy War of Light" in "Tianxia" is certainly not a complete success, and even suffered considerable losses, but our United Alliance and the "Resistance Alliance" have actually paid a considerable price and cannot be regarded as having the upper hand. The "Holy War of Light" has left a deep impression on many players with its extremely barbaric and even brutal way of treating "pagans", intimidating those "good citizens" who do not want to cause trouble, and reminding them that the best approach is to remain neutral and keep themselves out of trouble, so as to weaken the influence of the "Resistance Alliance". Perhaps this is the most fundamental intention of the Church of Light or the Senate of Light to launch the "Holy War of Light".
Although the Tongxin League survived by chance, its foundation was completely destroyed. At present, it can be said that everything needs to be rebuilt, which disrupted all our development plans. Except for a few members who had other tasks, everyone else had to devote themselves to the reconstruction work to cope with the more difficult challenges in the future. It was naturally impossible for them to distract themselves from planning to help me challenge the other two sacred beasts, the Golden Dragon and the Black Tortoise. However, the unsealing of the "Dead Scepter" could not be delayed. After all, this was only the first seal. After experiencing the feeling of a set of "top-quality equipment", I looked down on my "rags" even more. It was even more important to unseal the artifact that was already in my hands as soon as possible, which was even more important than the first promotion to the eighth-level profession. After all, that was only a temporary benefit, but being able to hold one more artifact could benefit "for life". Therefore, I had to entrust this matter to Long Xing Tianxia, relying on Long Teng's strength to kill the Black Tortoise and the Golden Dragon. Anyway, he had no reason to refuse, both in public and in private.
At this time, I have met the conditions for promotion to the sixth level of the thief profession. I took the time to go to the Thieves Guild and applied for the task of promotion to the sixth level of the thief general. Of course, in order to increase my basic mental strength as much as possible, I still chose the most difficult promotion task. However, as the dead old man mentioned at the beginning, the promotion of the second profession will become more and more difficult. The difficulty of this promotion task is too great. It is not something I can complete at this stage - enter the Central Continent, find the "Pansi Cave" through the "Silk Road", and pick a complete "spider web" according to the requirements. Not to mention what I will encounter in the "Silk Road" or "Pansi Cave", the Central Continent is only open to players above the eighth level. I am not qualified to enter now. I can only put aside the matter of the thief promotion for the time being and make plans after I advance to the eighth level of the Undead Grand Mage profession.
But there is one thing that has been bothering me, that is how to restrain the "earth escape" of the earth-based sacred beast Xuanwu. Tongxinmeng has been used by it to escape twice before, and Longxingtianxia has also mentioned it to me - with the current ability of players, coupled with the cooperation of formations such as "Raging Flames" and "Roaring Earth", it is possible to deal with flying in the sky and running on the ground. At most, we need to invest a little more, send out stronger players, and buy the best props. However, this Xuanwu is quite troublesome. There is no prop or formation with enough power to threaten it hiding underground. If its "earth escape" cannot be effectively restrained, the success rate of killing Xuanwu is extremely low. After all, the sacred beast with "the best defense ability (or life-saving ability) in the world" is definitely not in vain. Of course, even if there is no way to restrain it, we can also try our luck and see if Xuanwu will get dizzy for a while and fail to escape using the "earth escape" technique. However, the probability of this happening is too small. I can't ask Longteng to keep challenging Xuanwu. Even if I have the financial resources, those expert players participating in the action are unlikely to waste too much time for me.
After much thought, it seems that only the shadowy undead in the form of giant worms in the "bottomless abyss" may be able to play a certain role. They live underground and have a strong ability to burrow underground. They are also extremely flexible underground, which is suitable for "fighting poison with poison". Use "earth escape" to restrain "earth escape" - during the use of "earth escape", you can't attack. As long as you use the "underground giant worm" to block Xuanwu's escape and force it to the ground, you can ensure that it will be killed. Of course, there is a huge gap between the ability of the "underground giant worm" and Xuanwu, but as long as you summon enough of them and use the "human sea tactics", you can definitely make Xuanwu have no way to escape and have to escape from the ground honestly.
It is not an easy task to subdue the "underground giant worms". Not to mention the special geographical environment of the second forbidden area "bottomless abyss", only a small group of elite troops can be sent to attack it. It is impossible to win by purely relying on "human wave tactics" as usual. The "underground giant worms" themselves are also very strong. I have tried to attack them before. It is estimated that they should not be lower than the middle level of level 8. At that time, I did not have the ability to subdue them by force, so I stopped harassing them. Now it is a good time to kill two birds with one stone. Subdue a class of powerful undead with unique functions to further enhance strength. At the same time, it can also help deal with Xuanwu. The problem was set for me by Robinho, the king of the abyss dragon, and it has to be solved by his men.
Although the "underground giant worms" also have strong "earth escape" abilities, they are different from the "cowardly" escape king Xuanwu in that they are extremely aggressive. Being underground, they are very sensitive to the movement of the surface. Once they sense something unusual, they will quickly drill out of the ground, pounce fiercely, open their black mouths, and try to swallow the target into their stomachs. The slender tail with spikes is also very flexible and can be swung to sting. Unless the system designs them as brainless idiots, they will also choose to escape with the help of the "earth escape" ability when the battle situation is unfavorable, which makes them very difficult to deal with. This is their habitual characteristic, but as long as they are used well, they can set a trap. As long as they seize the opportunity, they can be severely damaged lose the ability to escape, and they can be successfully subdued. There is definitely no way to severely damage the sacred beast Xuanwu in one fell swoop, but with my current strength, to deal with an eighth-level intermediate "underground giant worm", as long as the tactics are cleverly designed and the timing is grasped, it should still be possible to succeed.
To be on the safe side, in addition to Wu Ma, the "public enemy of the undead" who could not be exposed, I brought my most capable subordinates, including Khufu, Taotao, Qitlei, Shaman, Dizang, Gonzalez, Silando, Xiaobai and Feiying, into the "Bottomless Abyss". The initial plan was to have the agile Shaman serve as bait to provoke an "underground giant worm" to attack, while Khufu and the others would choose a place to ambush. Once the "underground giant worm" entered the ambush circle, we would launch a fierce attack together and make sure to make the "underground giant worm" lose its ability to move in the shortest time possible, unable to escape, and wait to be subdued by me.
However, knowing is easier said than done. To successfully realize the plan of conquering the "underground giant worm", you need patient preparation and a little luck. On the one hand, it is quite troublesome to find a suitable ambush site - there should be no dangerous quagmire swamp traps around, which is not conducive to launching an attack; there should be no other abyss undead activities nearby, so as not to interfere and cause twists and turns. On the other hand, there are relatively high requirements for Shaman - even if you are defeated, you cannot leave the battle, you need to entangle with the "underground giant worm" and slowly lure it into the ambush circle. After all, the ability of the "underground giant worm" is not fully understood, and the environment is complex, and you may encounter those shadow undead who can "sneak", which is a severe test for Shaman.
