Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 87: Subdue the Night Shadow
Of course, it takes some time to gather these men from the "Hell Volcano" and "Valley of the Wind" to the "Abyss" - Taotao and Qitlei's flying speed is naturally not a problem, but Khufu and Dizang and other "walkers" are not that fast, and Xiaobai and Feiying are just floating, and they are not good at moving speed. Taking advantage of this gap, I personally went to the "Blood Pool" to have a good chat with the blood lich Temur - when I was forced to admit its "inheritance rights" of the blood lich under the "pressure" of the bat demon Tika, we had an agreement: I would not attack it and the group of blood witches it controlled, and in exchange, it must help me find the location of other blood witch royal families. Now that so much time has passed, it should have been familiar with the inside story of the blood witch royal family, but it still didn't reveal any news to me. No matter what the purpose is, it is clearly "passive sabotage". If I don't put a little pressure on it, it will definitely continue to play dumb with me.
According to my reconnaissance, Tianxing and Qiushui Changtian have already mobilized their forces to attack the nearby blood witch territory. Maybe I can get a "blood witch royal robe". Even if other functions may not be applied due to physical reasons, at least it can increase the upper limit of mental power several times. With the "witch crown" on the head, it is quite practical in the "dead soul space". My equipment in the human world is already very "shabby", and I don't want to be surpassed by other peers in the "dead soul space" and weaken my reputation as the "world's number one undead wizard". At the same time, the "ghost dragon challenge" planned by Hades may also require me to fight in person, so it is still necessary to strengthen the power of "mental attack".
I have had several experiences before, and I am too lazy to talk nonsense with Temur. It is useless to threaten these guys who will not cry until they see the coffin. Only the absolutely tyrannical threat of force can force them to surrender. I immediately ordered the army of corpse witches stationed around the "blood pool" to move forward together and invade the blood witches' sphere of influence. Because they are "friendly forces", the blood witches guarding the territory dare not take the initiative to attack, and can only be forcibly "driven" back step by step.
Temur came over quickly and found me, but I didn't talk about business, just chatted with it casually, but the corpse witches under my command did not stop, and continued to move forward, constantly compressing the range of blood witches' activities. In fact, this is not bad. The smaller the territory, the easier it is for me to control it, so as not to cause any trouble. Until Temur saw that the situation was not good, he took the initiative to mention the other blood witch royal family, claiming that he had a little clue, as long as a few days later, he should be able to determine their approximate location and give me a positive answer, and made a solemn promise, I stopped the invasion of the corpse witch army. But he did not withdraw from the occupied blood witch territory, stationed in place, and said that when there was definite news, I would consider withdrawing the troops, and continue to keep pressure on Temur, so that it would seize the time to deal with this matter with all its heart.
The human world has also been in a state of uproar these days. Although the "Holy War of Light" against our Tongxin League has ended long ago, the aftermath is still not over. The "official writers" who tend to the light and dark camps used "Tian Media" as a battlefield to launch a fierce verbal battle, discussing the successes and failures of both sides from different angles. The leading figures of both sides also stepped forward and made public statements, trying their best to elevate themselves and belittle the other side. For a time, "Tianxia" was in a state of uproar. It seemed to me that the "martial arts" had come to an end temporarily, and the light and dark sides intended to use "literary battles" to continue the secret competition. However, for the "Resistance Alliance", these were just appearances intended to paralyze the Light Senate led by the Supreme Honor . The struggle between the light and dark camps ultimately depends on the strength shown by both sides. A brilliant victory is far better than a thousand words, and it is the most convincing argument. Therefore, under the cover of fully supporting and helping us rebuild the Tongxin League, Long Xing Tianxia mainly stood in front of the stage to conceal the truth, while Da Mo Fei Ying and Qing Wu Fei Yang were secretly planning to destroy the Prairie City in the Southern Continent and the Cathedral of Light in the City of Love in the Northern Continent again. After Beijing City in the Eastern Continent, they strived to successfully implement the "peaceful seizure of power" plan in the other two continents and have an open base, in order to establish the impression that they can compete with the Church of Light.
The merits of all the members of our Tongxin League who participated in the war have been reported to the system by Long Xing Tianxia in the name of the board of directors. I am naturally the one who has made the greatest contribution. Although it has not been approved yet, it is estimated that there will be no problem in exchanging one or two "pseudo-artifacts". It should be of some help for the upcoming "Nether Dragon Challenge" and the promotion to the eighth-level profession. It can also be regarded as a disguised compensation.
I don't participate too much in the decision-making of the Dark Council. Those are not my strengths and I can't play a big role. It is more practical to improve my personal strength as much as possible and become an invincible "war fortress". I took Khufu and the others into the "bottomless abyss". Even the ghost royals Xiaobai and Feiying, who have no entity, were also affected by the "gravity" and needed to consume more physical strength to stay floating. It is difficult for the foreign undead to persist in the fierce battle in the "bottomless abyss" for too long. Setting up an ambush and striving for a quick victory should be the best tactic.
There are not many undead in the "bottomless abyss", so they are sparsely distributed. There are many places suitable for ambushes. The key is to find an area without a swamp and with turbid gray fog nearby to hide the body. It is convenient to launch a siege, and it is also to avoid being attracted by the "underground giant worm" to notice it in advance, which will lead to failure under preparedness. There are many things waiting for me to solve, and I don't want to waste too much time on them. Especially the gray fog that I intend to use for hiding may suddenly dissipate or drift away from the original place. If I want to use it to successfully ambush the "underground giant worm", I really need a little luck to help.
Along the way, we encountered many obstacles while walking and searching. Puddles that release "mines" are easy to prevent. If you see bubbles constantly bubbling, just stay away from them. You don't want to cause trouble and provoke them. However, it is difficult to effectively dodge "underground giant insects" and "stealth shadows" - one is hidden underground, and the other is hidden and wandering around. Their strength is not less than the middle level of level eight. This is their home ground. Even Shaman and Xiaobai, who have relatively high perception abilities, have no way to detect their existence in advance. Fortunately, we are numerous and powerful, and our average strength is not weak. When we are attacked, we rush forward. After a brief fight, the opponent wisely chooses to retreat, and even fights to get a little injured, rather than entangle with us. Therefore, although there are constant troubles, as long as we act carefully and do not pursue aggressively, incurring "public anger" and causing siege, there is not much danger.
After wandering around, I finally found a place suitable for an ambush. I first explored every piece of ground nearby to confirm that it was solid. Then Khufu and the others hid in the gray fog, and the most responsive Shaman went to lure the enemy. Considering that the strength of the "underground giant worm" was still higher than it, in order to ensure that there was no mistake and the plan to capture it was successful at once, I personally went out with it to provide support and fill in the gaps when necessary.
After transforming into a bat, I avoided several provocations from the "stealth" shadow undead, and then I continued to transform back into human form, insisting on walking on the ground to attract the attacks of the giant insect undead lurking underground. I took every step carefully to avoid falling into the swamp that seemed normal on the surface. I followed behind it, moving forward along the path it had explored without danger, and did not transform into a bat to fly, so as not to consume too much energy.
As he was walking, Shaman leaned forward slightly, but he found a swamp. He quickly took two steps back and moved sideways to bypass the swamp trap. Just after taking two steps, the ground behind his body suddenly cracked silently, and a round black shadow quickly stretched out. Without waiting for the body to fully stretch, it rushed towards Shaman not far away. The black mouth, which was originally only more than one meter in diameter, suddenly expanded by more than twice, as if it wanted to swallow Shaman alive.
The target of the ambush has already appeared. In order to better implement the plan of luring the enemy and not to alert the "underground giant worm" or lose interest and give up the pursuit, once the target attacks, Shaman no longer evades by turning into a bat, but relies on his own agility to quickly dodge and move sideways, narrowly avoiding the sneak attack of the "underground giant worm". Then he immediately launched a counterattack, first performing "Evil Gaze", then "Phantom Shape" and "Ghost Claw Thirteen Attacks", and fiercely scratched the giant worm several times. However, the undead with earth attributes seem to have strong defensive capabilities. Shaman's claws only left a few white marks on the body of the giant worm shadow, which should be just flesh wounds and have little impact.
After being attacked, the giant insect reacted quickly. It stretched out its huge body for more than ten meters and moved sideways to wrap around Shaman. When Shaman jumped away, it turned around and pounced on him again with its mouth wide open. Although the giant insect was bloated and moved slowly on the ground, its movements were quite agile. If you hadn't fought with them several times and had some understanding of them, you would easily make mistakes and underestimate their abilities.
While fighting back, Samon also consciously retreated in the direction he came from, but the range was very small, and he never left the attack range of the giant insect. After a few entanglements, the giant insect's body had completely drilled out of the ground, about 13 or 14 meters long. Its big mouth just missed, and its spiked tail suddenly swung, sweeping straight at Samon who was still standing unsteadily, forcing Samon to leap up and jump far to the side.
The leap was not timed well, and he escaped the attack range of the giant insect. The giant insect stopped chasing him, arched its head towards the ground, and drilled into the ground without any hindrance. Shaman wanted to rush forward to attack, but was stopped by the giant insect's more flexible stinging tail. With insufficient strength, he could only watch it disappear into the ground again.
However, if it didn't sense the danger, the extremely aggressive giant worm would not let go of its prey easily. It did this probably to take the initiative and find a better opportunity to attack. I kept a certain distance from Shaman to avoid becoming the target of the giant worm's attack, while instructing it to slowly retreat. The giant worm moved very quickly underground, and as long as it was unwilling to let Shaman go, it would never be left behind.
Sure enough, not long after, the giant worm came out from in front of Shaman again and launched a surprise attack. Thanks to Shaman's agility and timely evasion, he was not injured. After a tug-of-war, Shaman could only add a few white marks on the giant worm. The giant worm used all means of entanglement, swallowing, sweeping, and stabbing, but could not hurt Shaman, so he chose to dive underground again and continue to look for opportunities to attack.
After repeating this process, the giant worm was very persistent, chasing Shaman and refusing to let him go. Shaman did not disappoint me, and fully demonstrated his ability. He did not transform into a bat, but only relied on agile movement to dodge the giant worm's attack. It was a close call, with only a few scratches at most, nothing serious. Thanks to the fact that the undead in the "Abyss" did not have the habit of "hunting together", we were able to gradually lure the giant worm into the ambush circle.
My luck was pretty good. After nearly two hours of delay, the gray fog where Khufu and the others were hiding did not drift away or dissipate, so everything could proceed according to the established plan. When the giant insect chased Shaman into the ambush circle and rushed out of the ground to attack again, I took the lead in concentrating 30% of my mental power to launch a "mental attack". At the same time, Khufu, Taotao and the others also rushed over quickly, desperately attacking the giant insect in the middle from all sides. Xiaobai and Feiying also launched the "Banshee Howl" at full strength against it to interfere with its thoughts.
At this critical moment, dazzling tricks are useless. In order to prevent the giant insect from escaping, the most effective way is to fight it in close combat, using sufficient force to severely damage it in the shortest time. The first to attack were Taotao's "Flame Dragon Wushuang" and Qitlei's "Fire Dancing Silver Snake", especially the flying fire dragon, which was twisted and turned under Taotao's control, trying to entangle with the giant insect tightly to restrain its movements to the greatest extent. Following closely behind was Silando, who curled up and "bounced" in order to rush to the giant insect faster. Khufu, Dizang and Gonzalez moved a little slower, but they could act as the second shock wave to ensure the continuity of the attack and not give the giant insect a chance to breathe.
The attackers were attacked in return. The continuous attacks caught the giant insect off guard. It was unable to fight back or escape. Especially the "thunder strike" from Khufu's fire bone staff made it tremble all over. It was obviously quite uncomfortable. However, the trapped beast still fought, and the giant insect was naturally unwilling to give in. It twisted its body and struggled hard, trying to turn its head down and drill into the ground, but it was always blocked by Tao Tao, who attacked its head specifically, making it unable to adjust its position as it wished.
Seeing the attack getting more and more fierce, the giant insect seemed to be anxious and ferocious. On the surface, it tried to turn around and drill underground. When Taotao rushed over to intercept it, it suddenly changed direction in the middle of the way and opened its mouth wide to pounce on Taotao. Although Taotao was stronger than Shaman, he did not have such a quick reaction and skills. He was unable and was swallowed by the giant insect.
Although the possibility of being killed in one fell swoop by undead of the same level is very small, I couldn't help but worry when I saw Taotao being swallowed by the giant insect and the fire dragon that had been entangled with the giant insect disappeared. At that moment, I launched another "mental attack" with 30% of my mental power. Khufu, Gonzalez and others also used powerful skills such as "Thunder Strike" and "Cut in Two" at the same time to consume the strength of the giant insect and rescue Taotao from danger.
The giant insect swallowed Taotao in one fell swoop, and immediately closed its mouth. The middle part of its abdomen suddenly bulged high and kept rising and falling, as if it was chewing vigorously. Despite the fierce attack of Khufu and the others, it refused to let go, but kept twisting its body and trying its best to fight back with its tail. It "chewed" for about one or two minutes, and then paused for a moment. Its body first shrank back, then suddenly stretched forward, opened its mouth, and with a "puff", it ejected Taotao, who flew out 10 to 20 meters and fell heavily to the ground.
Although Tao Tao temporarily lost his fighting power, Khufu and his companions took the opportunity to launch a series of fierce attacks, which also caused the giant insect to suffer heavy injuries. It tried to turn its head downward again and tried to dive into the ground, but Khufu took two steps ahead and struck it with a "thunderbolt strike", which deflected it to the side and prevented it from successfully escaping underground. As Dizang and his companions attacked with swords and knives, this became its last struggle. Its resistance became increasingly weak, and Khufu firmly watched the displacement of its head, making it impossible to escape by escaping underground.
The victory was already decided, I activated the "Touch of Death" to absorb the giant insect's spiritual power to completely deprive it of its ability to resist, and then went forward to sign a "soul contract" with it. As the mucus on his body gradually dried up, Taotao finally got rid of the restraints and spread his wings to fly again. It seemed that apart from being stuck for a few minutes and unable to move, there were no other side effects.
As I expected, with my current ability, I was able to successfully sign a "soul contract" with the giant insect. Its name is "Earth-Walking Night Shadow", and it generally has the strength of an eighth-level mid-level or higher. Its special ability is "Earth-Walking", which allows it to escape in and out at will, move underground flexibly, and has a strong sense of perception, and can sense the exact location of the target through the vibration coming from nearby. Its skill is "Swallowing Alive", which uses its huge mouth to swallow the target into its stomach, and continuously suffers strong acid and crushing damage for about two minutes. When it spits out the target, it will be coated with a thick layer of mucus, which can effectively restrain the target's actions.
