After just walking a few hundred meters, Levi felt that he might understand the difficulty of this copy.
Not only because of the harsh environment or powerful demons, but also because of some dangerous natives in this dungeon.
For example, now, countless monsters whose specific faces cannot be seen clearly, surrounded by a certain amount of darkness and thick fog, as well as partially shattered phantoms, are rushing towards them like a tide.
They approach quietly, absorbing the sounds and light around them as they pass by.
This resulted in the fact that at the very beginning, even the Zygmousers, who were best at reconnaissance, were unable to detect the presence of the other party, and several of them were killed one after another.
It wasn't until Luna was the first to be alarmed that they knew that such a large number of special enemies were approaching.
However, Luna's cooing sound did not spread very far, because the other party's absorption of the sound was unexpectedly far away.
But despite this, Li Wei still received the alarm and immediately ordered his troops to attack.
Then they discovered that these enemies were surrounded by darkness. Because they were surrounded by a large number of phantoms and darkness, most of their attacks were like mud and water, making no waves at all because they failed to successfully hit the opponent's body.
Even if there are occasional successful hits, the damage is not high.
Both the opponent's physical defense and magic resistance are ridiculously strong, and almost all of them are equivalent to ordinary level 5 enemies.
At the same time, their attack method is also quite special. They extend many cold tentacles from their mist-like bodies, either whipping or entangling them. Occasionally, they will try to drag their own melee troops into the darkness around them.
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All allies attacked will suffer physical damage, cold damage and shadow damage at the same time.
Among them, enemies who are larger and obviously stronger will also have negative status effects such as slowing down and weakening when attacking.
And probably because of the sound and vibration caused by the fighting here, not long after the fighting started, new enemies continued to come from all directions and besieged them.
Their appearances are all kinds of weird, some are humanoid, some are beasts, and some are like random things put together, but the only thing they have in common is that they are surrounded by darkness, fog, and phantoms.
Resist beating.
Levi suddenly frowned. These monsters are not like the devil's army. They have a limited number and are so difficult to deal with. It will not be good if the time drags on.
However, after careful observation, Li Wei already had a rough guess in his mind.
He immediately and decisively asked Lily to use level 3 magic - Flash Explosion.
Although these guys have weird attack methods and very special appearances, they are both mist and phantom, but aren't they actually just elemental creatures?
Maybe we should call them mutated phantom elements? Well, it’s not quite accurate. Their phantoms look more like they can only be used as passive skills, so are they mutated shadow elements?
Lily was naturally the first to respond. After being assigned to the Dark Territory, she knew that unless she performed really well, she would probably be relegated to a second-tier role in the future and would not be able to follow Lord Levi to fight in various places.
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But now, she finally has a chance to show off!
With a scream, the still gray magic burst out, but the dozen or so phantom elements that were affected all screamed in unison.
The large fog surrounding them was dispelled, revealing their true form.
Their upper bodies are humanoid, and their lower bodies are dragging dim bodies that float like mist, but overall, their appearance is not much different from the appearance of some mid-to-high-level elemental creatures.
Moreover, their body shape and appearance will also change with the change of class. The stronger they are, the closer they are to humanoids. This is also a characteristic of most elemental creatures.
I don’t know why, but almost all creatures will try their best to pursue the human form after possessing a certain amount of wisdom and strength, perhaps because the number of human gods is the largest.
Lucia suddenly shouted with a little surprise: "Levi, I know this kind of monster. They are shadow elements. Their strength will be strengthened in the dark, and they also have incorporeal characteristics like ghosts!"
"But ordinary shadow elements don't have phantoms. They should also be affected by the special environment here!"
Levi suddenly laughed. Now that the opponent's weakness has been clearly understood, what else is there to say?
Except for some heroic warriors from the kingdom of the gods, almost all creatures with incorporeal characteristics are from the evil camp!
After Li Wei gave the order, many of his subordinates began to change their battle strategies.
He himself directly used skills such as ice storm and fireball transformed by holy power, while Cindy turned to special skills such as Spear of Pure Goodness or Mind Explosion.
Some stronger and advanced priests began to use the Ghost-Breaking Elegy to try and force the opponent to temporarily transform into a physical entity.
In this way, your own warriors and other physical units can deal damage to them very effectively.
Holy Light Archon has also begun to use strong light rays. They are of a very low level and only have this offensive skill. However, they are very effective against the shadow elements. They can also dispel the darkness and fog around the opponent.
In addition, the attacks of the blood elf spellbreakers can still be effective.
Although their skills have low attack power, they are extremely versatile. So far, except for some legal units that can cast magic shields, almost all other units will be harmed by them.
Similarly, weapons such as Elegy and Alduin began to replace light-enchanted weapons, and many archers also used scrolls such as Arrow of Light.
As Li Wei's power and financial resources continued to grow, the various combat materials he equipped his subordinates became more and more abundant, so that no matter what kind of enemy they faced, they could fight them more effectively.
As a result, the advantage of the shadow elements was wiped out almost instantly.
Although their own strength is quite good, they are basically 4th level large shadow elements, sometimes mixed with a few stronger giant shadow elements, and even 6th level shadow element elders.
However, facing Li Wei's and others' raging offensive, it was still difficult to last long.
Levi also changed a variety of magic, and finally concluded that in addition to the light system, their resistance to the ice and electricity systems was relatively weak, but their resistance to the fire system was a bit strong.
Seeing that although the number of shadow elements was still very large, it could no longer pose a real threat to his side, Levi slowed down his movements slightly.
In fact, at his current level, killing these monsters, which are generally lower than level 5, will already result in serious experience loss.
Unless he slaughters hundreds or thousands at once, the experience value will not change much, and he has gradually reached a certain bottleneck.
If you want to level up as soon as possible, you still have to challenge powerful enemies.
For example, the mole Zefu who was instantly killed by him caused his experience value to jump a bit.
But for an ordinary enemy like this, we should give more opportunities to our subordinates.
Both Cindy and Luna are in urgent need of a lot of experience points. They are both special professions, and their strength can change significantly every time they upgrade.
Similarly, Sally, Alyssa, Lily, and even Avalon and the blood elves are all working hard to reach their bottleneck as soon as possible and then get the chance to become heroes.
In fact, Li Wei has also discovered that as he successively occupied one city and one town, the mentality of many of his subordinates had changed.
In short, they are more confident about the future, so many times they don't even need to speak, they just work hard and work hard.
After thinking about it, he asked Paris Angel to try to use dispel magic on the shadow elements several times.
He wanted to confirm whether the phantoms around their bodies were the talents they gained due to mutation, or some kind of skill they used, or were they the benefits of some special items nearby?
After several experiments, Levi has been able to roughly determine that this is some kind of temporary gain state, so the dispel magic can be easily eliminated.
In this way, he immediately had some clues.
Seeing that the number of shadow elements began to decrease under his own attack, he also signaled to Cindy and others to hold back a little and not to kill them all completely.
Although most elemental creatures do not have emotions such as fear, they may choose to escape when the battle is extremely unfavorable.
Perhaps by then we can follow the clues and find the opponent's lair, and even give them the source of phantom power.
Others naturally had no objections, and they soon discovered that these shadow elements really started to escape, but they were running in completely different directions, in all directions.
If we pursue them and check them one by one, it will probably take a lot of time, not to mention whether we will encounter any dangers or enemies on the way.
After all, they only have about 500 people in total, so they can't spread their strength too thinly.
After a little thought, Levi chose to focus on tracking those beast-shaped shadow elements. Their instincts should still be greater than wisdom and rationality.
As expected, this had some effect, and they quickly tracked down multiple suspicious locations, including several lairs, several valleys, and a temple that seemed to have fallen from the sky.
Without any hesitation at all, Levi directly decided to go to the last location. Of course, the goddess's things were most likely to be in the temple!
While advancing, Li Wei also continued to send scouts to check the movements of the devils.
Unfortunately, there was almost no harvest, they just disappeared out of thin air.
It is obviously a dungeon that focuses on confrontation, but due to the special environment here, they have not been able to officially fight against each other until now.
But if he could obtain the goddess's treasure so smoothly, Li Wei wouldn't mind.
Soon, following Luna's guidance, they gradually approached a broken temple that was also dominated by gray and black.
Just like she said before, the temple seemed to fall from the sky. Coupled with the large amount of debris and a lush forest around it, they could not find the entrance in a short time.
In fact, we were able to discover the ruins here so quickly thanks to the monitors, who were flying in mid-air.
Although the trees here are very thick, probably because of their species, they are generally not very tall, and the tallest one is only about 10 meters.
Just when Li Wei was about to station the main force nearby and then have people check it carefully, Lucia suddenly warned: "Li Wei, wait a minute, there is something wrong with those trees!"
"Um?"
Li Wei didn't pay attention at first, but after observing it carefully, he also noticed something was wrong.
The Phantom Goddess was assassinated just a few days ago, and her temple and treasures fell here for a very short time. Why do these big trees seem to grow around the ruins of the temple?
Not to mention that the power of gods is not easily accepted by mortal beings, and he doesn't know when the phantom goddess will still have life or natural abilities.
So the most likely possibility is that these trees are disguised by some monsters!
Seeing that Levi was also suspicious, Lucia nodded towards him: "I suspect they are monsters unique to the shadow world - instant executioners!"
This involves Li Wei's knowledge blind spot. Except for a very small number of side magicians, the only people who know the most about the Shadow World are the followers of Mask.
But no matter what, it is always right to be careful first.
Fortunately, Lucia immediately gave a detailed explanation: "They look like parts of some big trees now, but in fact the stomachs of those monsters and those branches are actually their tentacles. They really fight like octopuses."
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"The bricks, stones, flowers and plants on the surrounding ground must also be part of the opponent's body."
"In addition to loving to devour corpses, they also have the ability to imprison the enemy's soul, so they are also called soul-eating demon trees!"
Looking at the dense branches and the ground pointed by Lucia, Levi also felt a little numb.
Good guy, no wonder these trees all look so short, with few exceeding 10 meters. But how many soul-eating demon trees are hidden in such a dense forest?
Thousands of heads? Or tens of thousands?
And let’s not talk about the strength, if you go straight into the opponent’s belly, isn’t this just like ordinary people trying to shovel the tiger, just to deliver takeaways?
"What are their weaknesses and strengths?"
Lucia clasped her fingers and said, "I don't like strong light, my movement speed is very slow, and I can't attack the air. I basically fall into a semi-sleep state before being attacked."
Then her voice changed: "But looking at the size of these guys, quite a few of them have been advanced, maybe even more than once, and their weaknesses may be made up for a lot."
"As for their strengths, because they have too many tentacles, their attack frequency will be far higher than that of soldiers of the same level, and those who lack strength may be dragged directly into their stomachs."
Levi frowned more and more. Generally speaking, the defenses of slower-moving enemies are not too weak. If you want to kill these soul-eating demon trees, it is much harder to go to the ruins of the temple than to cut down a forest.
Even if the opponent remains motionless and allows us to attack, we don't know how long it will take.
Forget it normally, but now there is an army of devils here.
However, with so many soul-eating demon trees as guards, there must be extremely important treasures in the ruins, which may be the ultimate reward of this copy.
Thinking of this, Levi suddenly had an idea.
If you can do a little bit of manipulation to attract the devil's army and let them fight, wouldn't it be beneficial to your side no matter who loses or wins in the end?