Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 88: Xuanwu is Executed
Compared with Taotao, Qitlei and even Wuma, who are also at the eighth intermediate level, the attack skills of the ground-walking night shadow seem to be a bit simple, with only one "swallow whole", and it can only attack enemies close to the ground, which makes me a little regretful. However, for the undead with the "ground-walking" ability, if it is given long-range or more powerful attack means, I am afraid that its strength will be more than the eighth intermediate level. At least now I am not able to subdue it. In fact, this "swallow whole" skill is already quite good. The direct damage effect may be limited, but it has the effect of trapping the enemy, making it easier to take the next step, and it may not feel strange to treat monsters or NPCs, but if it swallows a player into the stomach, "chews" it over and over, and then spit it out covered with mucus... It really makes people cold just thinking about it, and I am afraid that no one will be willing to experience the taste of it.
Of course, it is not that easy to use "Swallow Whole" to swallow the opponent. If it is not in a special environment like the "Abyss", the pulling force caused by "gravity" will have a greater impact on Taotao. At its normal flying speed, even in a close fight, it is impossible for the ground-walking Night Shadow to surprise and succeed. If summoned to the human world, it will be powerless or have limited effect on those flying in the sky and running fast. However, facing slow-moving players, such as the Priest of Light, it should be able to pose a relatively large threat.
All things are difficult at the beginning. Although it was a bit troublesome to subdue the first ground-walking night shadow, with the first one, things will be much simpler in the future. When it recovers, go out together to find other ground-walking night shadows. It is responsible for entanglement with its kind and prevent them from escaping through "ground walking". Even if it is hidden underground, do your best to force the target to the ground to facilitate Khufu and others to besiege. It is definitely not guaranteed to be 100% successful, but there is no need to waste time to choose an ambush location and lure the target over step by step. It is still easy to encounter ground-walking night shadows. After three attempts, I finally succeeded in subduing the second one. After that, two against one, three against one... It is naturally more convenient to act.
As the number of my Night Shadows gradually increased, the efficiency of conquering them became higher and higher. However, after a few days of continuous activities, the other Night Shadows may have sensed the potential crisis and became more vigilant against our "hunting" army, and they would never attack us actively. It is estimated that they chose to hide underground and hide far away, which increased the difficulty of finding them. I could only let a group of Night Shadows sneak into the underground to find them, and then join forces to force them to the ground when they found the target. However, the nature of the Night Shadows is only used to acting alone. One is a dragon, but when they join hands, they are a group of insects. They are not suitable for such team cooperation tactics. The initial performance was full of mistakes and " terrible". They only knew how to rush around underground and didn't know how to better pursue and intercept and block the enemy's way. I need to constantly remind, command, correct, and even design and arrange their movements in detail to prevent the target from escaping. After many failures and a lot of time wasted, I was not only unable to further improve the efficiency of conquering in the next few days, but it became more difficult. Fortunately, this problem was discovered in advance, so we can take the opportunity to practice the ability of the underground night shadows to cooperate with each other to besiege the underground enemies. It can also be regarded as a practical exercise against the sacred beast Xuanwu. Otherwise, if it is exposed at the last minute, the losses will be great.
From the subdued Night Shadows, I also learned more about the general situation of the "Underground Abyss". The puddles that release "mines" are called "jellyfish", and the shadows that can "sneak" are called "crouching Night Shadows". Their overall strength is similar to that of the Night Shadows, and they are the three most common and most numerous undead races in the "Abyss". I am also interested in them, but in order to deal with the Black Tortoise, I still have to focus on subduing the Night Shadows for the time being. After things are settled, it won't be too late to come back and subdue them. In addition, unlike the "Hell Volcano", although the Abyss Dragon King Robinho and the Abyss Dragon Clan are the most powerful beings in the "Abyss", they usually just live near the "Black Water Pool" and practice in peace, and don't interfere with other undead races. This is undoubtedly good news for me and other necromancers - as long as we don't actively provoke the Abyss Dragon, we should be able to move freely in the "Abyss" and subdue several types of undead such as the Night Shadows, without having to bear the threat from the "higher level". Of course, perhaps this is also due to the limitations of the terrain of the "Abyss". The undead creatures living in it cannot leave. Even if they are subdued by the necromancers, they cannot follow us to fight in the "Dead Space" like the volcanic undead. The functions they can play are limited - the abyss undead should only be suitable for summoning and fighting in the human world.
With more and more ground-walking night shadows to help, I dismissed Khufu, Shaman, Xiaobai and the others and sent them back to their respective places. After all, there is still a long way to go. Facing many more powerful existences, they must not relax at all. They must also seize the time to train in order to further enhance their strength, so as not to keep up with my development and be eliminated.
After a few more days of hard work, he finally managed to train his group of ground-walking night shadows to a certain level. With dozens of them, they should not lose the big guy Xuanwu. Long Xing Tianxia also attached great importance to this matter. Bai Yunjian was personally responsible for the deployment. The participating professional players and various props and equipment had been arranged and prepared. They started to act immediately and strived to succeed at once.
With my current ability, I can only summon the level 8 mid-level ground night shadow when I am in the "blood change" state. In order to be more confident, I chose to challenge Xuanwu two hours before the end of the day. The action spans two days, and I can perform four "blood changes" during the action, which lasts for two hours. At the same time, in order to further improve the efficiency of summoning, in addition to my urging "Touch of Death" to absorb the mental power of other magicians, I also equipped some water magicians to restore my health and take turns to cast the "transformation" magic to speed up the replenishment of my mental power. Two-pronged approach , not wasting every second. And I was highly concentrated, casting "Undead Summoning" as quickly as possible, urging or putting away "Touch of Death". There can be no stagnation, so I used two hours to summon a total of 32 ground night shadows, which can be called the most efficient summoning action of a single undead wizard so far. Every time I successfully summoned the sixteenth Earth-Walking Night Shadow before the "blood change" state disappeared, I would immediately fall to the ground, never to be able to stand up again - such a high-intensity action that required every second counts was really too tiring.
Thirty-two level eight intermediate-class Earth-walking Night Shadows will naturally not be of much use if they are allowed to confront the sacred beast Xuanwu head-on. However, they can only prevent Xuanwu from escaping from underground by using the "earth escape" technique. With proper command, Xuanwu's escape route can be blocked in advance and no fighting can be carried out underground. No matter how powerful Xuanwu is, he will be useless. A joint interception should be able to effectively cooperate with us to force it to the ground.
For Xuanwu, who is more defensive and moves very slowly, the battle on the ground is not suspenseful. With the help of the power of the large magic circle, 600 expert players, most of whom are long-range attacking, took turns to attack. Xuanwu, who is not very aggressive, was hit repeatedly and naturally chose to use "earth escape" to escape. Generally speaking, the direction Xuanwu chooses to escape is towards the mountainous area. In that direction, I focused on gathering 20 ground-walking night shadows, and the ones I chose to summon were all over 15 meters long. With their strong underground sensing ability, I successfully discovered the whereabouts of Xuanwu. All the ground-walking night shadows quickly gathered there. According to my command and arrangement, some went forward to entangle, and some were scattered around to be on guard, besieging Xuanwu heavily, making it hit a wall everywhere and having no way to escape. According to the accurate position of the Xuanwu I sensed through the ground-walking night shadow, the archers involved in the operation rushed over quickly, using special magic arrows that could cause damage to underground targets, shooting wildly, even if they accidentally injured the ground-walking night shadow next to them, they must force it out of the ground. This is thanks to the "Control of the God of Death". Due to the barrier of the ground, the spiritual connection with the summoned undead was affected to a certain extent. If it weren't for the function of the artifact, I really couldn't command the actions of the ground-walking night shadows so freely in the human world.
According to the setting, during the use of the "Earth Escape" skill, it is impossible to withstand strong attacks. Xuanwu was blocked by a group of ground-walking night shadows and had nowhere to dodge. He could only withstand the attack of magic arrows and was forced to cancel the "Earth Escape" state and drill out of the ground. At the same time, several ground-walking night shadows affected by the magic arrows were also forced out from underground and closer to Xuanwu. Probably because his escape plan was destroyed, Xuanwu's mood became worse. As soon as he appeared, he was extremely jealous of his enemy. He stretched his neck and opened his mouth to bite a ground-walking night shadow next to him who was about to escape underground, and refused to let go. The gap in strength between the intermediate level 8 and the holy beast was too great. Neither the tail whip attack nor the "swallowing whole" was useful. Xuanwu tore and bit, and kept shaking his head to make the ground-walking night shadow's body hit the ground vigorously. Unfortunately, although the creature struggled hard and we intensified our offensive, we were unable to help it escape from Xuanwu's "magic mouth", and it was tortured to death.
After several attempts, Xuanwu tried to escape by "Earth Escape" but was blocked by the Night Shadows. Our luck was a little better than his. The pursuit and interception by 20 to 30 Night Shadows was basically successful. There was no loophole for it to break out of the siege. Every time it was forced out of the ground by magic arrows. Of course, usually one or two Night Shadows would die or be seriously injured by its mouth and claws, but as long as we could successfully kill it, it was definitely worth it.
The black tortoise, who lacked a bit of luck, was finally killed. I used the "Soul Bead" as I wished to collect its dissipated soul. Of the six sacred beasts required to remove the first seal of the "Dead Scepter", only the water sacred beast Golden Dragon remained. The day of unsealing should not be far away. The dragons who participated in the operation did not suffer any loss. The black tortoise, which had a relatively low kill rate, dropped a high-level sacred weapon used by the warrior profession. At the same time, because the ground-walking night shadow effectively blocked the black tortoise's "earth escape", they could aim at the target and no longer spent a lot of magic arrows that could cause collateral damage to underground targets to shoot around. They could attack the black tortoise by chance and force it to show up, saving a lot of money and having a relatively high chance of success. It also saves costs, and Bai Yunjian, who is in charge of the operation, is so happy that he can't stop smiling for a long time. He keeps pestering me, discussing whether to use this tactic to cooperate more times to challenge Xuanwu. I am probably the only one in the world who has such ability. Even if other undead wizards can summon a large number of ground night shadows in the future, without the assistance of "Death Control", they will not be able to effectively command a group of ground night shadows to intercept underground.
The golden dragon, which is similar to the Eastern Dragon, has the ability to fly, and can practice both magic and martial arts. Its comprehensive strength ranks among the top of the sixteen sacred beasts. There is no good way to deal with it, and we can only follow the usual tactics. Lay out a "heavenly net" formation, and send a large number of air combat players to kill it. Whether it can succeed often depends on the overall strength and luck of the participating players. The success rate is generally low, and generally no "treasure hunting team" will choose it as a target. But this is mainly Long Teng's business - the first action cleanly killed the black tortoise, allowing them to obtain a high-level sacred weapon, which can be said to be a big advantage, and it also won me the initiative. Even if I failed twice on the golden dragon, I don't think there will be any complaints.
I naturally returned to the "Dead Soul Space", but I had to leave the "Abyss" temporarily to deal with the Blood Witch Royal Family's affairs first - they were invaded by my Corpse Witch Army, and a lot of their territory was occupied, which compressed their group of Blood Witches into a relatively small area. They were still moving forward slowly, further devouring their territory, but they dared not resist. If this continued, Temur, as the leader, would lose face. Between preserving himself and protecting his own people, the Blood Witch, who was seeking development in the cracks, naturally understood the interests involved, and dared not evade my request, and soon told me the information he had about the Blood Witch Royal Family.
According to Temur, it can only sense the specific location of the Blood Witch Royal Family with similar abilities. If the opponent's strength exceeds it by too much, it is impossible to know too much. As a newly promoted Blood Lich, although relying on the help of the Holy Land "Blood Pool", its ability has improved relatively quickly, but the soaking time is still short, and it is impossible to make much progress. Therefore, it has only determined the location of two ghost royal families so far. However, according to the detailed information it provided, one of them should be in the group of blood witches that Tianxing and Qiu Shui Changtian are preparing to attack. Naturally, I can't compete with them, so I can only choose another one. Fortunately, since both can be sensed by Temur, the abilities and ranks of the two Blood Witch Royal Family should be similar. As long as I can be the first to be honored as the Blood Witch Royal Family before Qiu Shui Changtian and others, I still have the upper hand.
The best scouts in the "Dead Soul Space" are naturally the Ghost Royal Family and Ghost Kings. It took Xiaobai several days to subdue the Night Shadow in the "Abyss". I just released it, and it would be bad to affect its tempering in the "Wind Cave". Fortunately, there is another ghost banshee Feiying, who led dozens of Ghost Kings to the territory of another Blood Witch Royal Family to carefully explore the real and fake arrangements there, so that I can take action.
Blood Lich is only the exclusive title of the royal family who guards the Blood Witch Holy Land "Blood Pool", not the unified title of all Blood Witch royal families. Qiu Shui Chang Tian and the others are preparing to besiege the same target as mine, both of them belong to the "Blood Emperor" lineage, wearing a "Blood Emperor Robe", one is Blood Emperor Dada Benon, the other is Blood Emperor Biqi, and the target I chose is Dada Benon who is farther away.
According to the reconnaissance of Feiying and a group of ghost kings, the number of blood witches is about 50,000. In terms of the number of races, it is not too large. Generally, according to the practice of the blood witches, the royal family's direct corps is at most 20% of the entire population, which is about 10,000. The other blood witches are "free people" and do not accept specific orders from Dada Benon. However, once they encounter an invasion by foreign enemies, all of them will attack the invaders in unison. With my current strength, I should be able to wipe them out completely, but in addition to obtaining the "Blood Emperor Robe", I also want to subdue as many blood witches as possible. Their strength is still above the corpse witch king. They should be the highest-level long-range attack race currently discovered and can be summoned in large quantities in the "Dead Spirit Space", which will be of greater help to me. If I summoned 8,000 blood witches instead of 8,000 corpse witches in the "Holy War of Light", I believe that those light NPCs would not break through so easily, and I would be able to earn more qualifications and merits.
In this case, it is not possible to kill a large number of blood witches. We still have to implement the tactic of capturing the king first and gathering an elite force for a surprise attack. As long as Dadabenon is killed and succeeded as the Blood Emperor, the other blood witches in the territory will give up resistance. However, even if such a strategy is adopted, we still have to face the 10,000 blood witches directly under Dadabenon. Usually, they are guarding near the Blood Emperor. The last time the former blood lich Douglas and the former fourth witch king Gravison left the territory to meet, they only brought a thousand elite blood witches with them. This is definitely a rare exception. If I want to successfully kill Dadabenon, I must not only go deep into its territory, but also be prepared for these 10,000 blood witches to intercept me at all costs.
