A black shadow is emerging over the forest, slowly moving forward.
As it moved forward, the original crystals suspended in the forest gradually broke away from the gravity of the earth and roared into the sky.
Fang Plover hurriedly ran to the platform on the left side of the front saddle bridge, looked up, and saw a floating original crystal flying over his head. And such scenes can be seen everywhere in this forest at the moment, even not far away
There is a crystal the size of a small mountain suspended, and a layer of floating soil below is peeling off, and the sand is falling.
This is the resonance effect caused by the enrichment of earth-attribute etheric magic power. Looking further up is the source of the resonance - the huge side-hole creature that is slowly moving forward in mid-air - the rock shark.
Its appearance is very similar to that of a bull shark on Earth, with a broad and thick torso and a spindle-shaped streamlined body, but it is like a dark cloud and its size is countless times larger. There is a long blade-like horn on its head, which at least occupies its body shape.
A quarter of the length, after the horns grow, is covered with a rugged hard layer from the abdomen to the back.
The hard layer is not bone plates and warts, but real rocks. The long horns of the rock shark are filled with abundant earth attribute ether, which will attract the same crystals and enrich them around it, starting from its infancy.
They coexist together and eventually form a solid armor.
And this is also the origin of the rock shark’s scientific name——
The rock shark has obviously not discovered the tiny creatures in the forest below, and is swimming forward leisurely. Although it occasionally attacks villages and camps, humans are not part of its common diet.
At this time, Fang Yu also saw the "travelers" in the forest. There were three teams of adventurers, one of which had a medium-sized beast of burden like them, but they did not have the excellent carpentry like Luo Yu, and the beast's back
There are only saddles on it, no platform or packhouse.
The beast of burden should be the Aquin gray sloth, which is extremely ugly, but has a gentle personality. This kind of creature lives in the warmer giant tree hills. It is obvious that I have never seen a creature like the rock shark, and I am a little uneasy. Let the beast master do whatever he wants.
They hesitated to drive them away. In desperation, the team had to jump off the beasts of burden and approach this direction on foot.
The Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast here also encountered this problem.
But fortunately, there was Attila. The elf girl jumped on the neck of the giant beast, buried her body and hugged the docile giant beast, whispered to comfort it, and used the druid's ability to calm it down.
In this way, at least Fang Plover and others don’t have to walk in the fields——
The adventurers looked in this direction with some surprise. Druid is one of the few professions that requires true faith to choose. The goddess Amaya has never agreed to open her divine power to the chosen ones, so it has always been rare among the chosen ones.
Followers of Amaya.
Of course, except for the unbelieving Gray Crow Druid - Fang Pulver looked at Etila and subconsciously remembered the Silver Shadow Druid he had met in the elf ruins. The latter was undoubtedly a Gray Crow
, supervisor, he then thought of the other party's Nighthawk Chosen One.
If given the chance, he would definitely avenge himself, whether it was for himself or Elsa.
At this time, Parker also ran back from a distance, catching up with the steps of the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast. He jumped onto the rope net with a lunge, grabbed the rope net from the outside and climbed to the platform. Luo Yu and Luo Yu, who were already on the platform,
Tianlan grabbed his short and fat arm with one hand and pulled up the Papalar crossbowman.
As soon as Parker climbed onto the platform, he lay on the ground like a big meat bun, panting heavily, looking at the others with his dripping black eyes. "I have discussed it with them, and we will distribute the spoils according to their contribution later."
, those businessmen have already agreed to buy this big guy. But we don’t have magicians and naturalists, so we have to wait for them to set up the site first to induce the rock shark to lower its height."
he said breathlessly.
Everyone nodded. The contribution system is an effective distribution method that has been formed in the past ten years. It can also be regarded as one of the many changes brought by the Chosen to the world. It was just a verbal agreement at the beginning.
Later, the God of Commerce and the protector of the spirit of contract, the Goddess Roman realized that this was an opportunity to increase her influence, so she stepped in and established a set of rules that are universally applicable in the form of a divine contract.
To put it simply, after the contracting parties swore an oath to each other in the name of the goddess, the distribution will attract the attention of powerful beings from the underworld. If there are any violators, there will probably be no good consequences.
Fang Plover looked up at the other adventure groups.
The number of people in several adventure groups is not large, most of them are twenty or thirty people, and the few are not much more than theirs. However, their group is indeed the smallest among the several adventure groups, not to mention that there are still more people in it.
With three trainees and a large number of life professionals, it can be called a model of soy sauce adventure group.
It is not difficult to induce rock sharks to lower their height. Because they live in the sea of clouds, their eyesight is extremely poor, and they can even be said to be half-blind. However, rock sharks have high-sensitivity organs at the tip of their noses, which can send out a resonance wave through their horns, sending ethereal waves into the air.
It uses echo to sense obstacles ahead, search for food and avoid danger. The principle is somewhat similar to that of bats, but it is much more efficient.
The principle of bait is to use the rock shark's favorite food - a special resonance crystal. Both wizards and naturalists can make this crystal and use this crystal to lure them to the ground to feed.
Fang Plover soon saw the adventurers completing their preparations.
But what slightly surprised him was that he actually saw two acquaintances among those people - if he read correctly, the slender girl carrying the box was Sylvie who had left without saying goodbye before.
Well, next to the girl stood her maid.
It's just that they and the adventurers didn't seem to be in the same group. The two stood far away, watching this scene. She seemed to have seen Fang Plover's direction, but from this distance, she probably didn't recognize Fang Plover for a while.
Wait for someone to come.
Fang Yu subconsciously shrank back - the other party's fairy construct was still in his hand. Although he knew that this was a bit delusional and immoral - he still couldn't help but hope that the other party would simply forget about it.
That would be perfect.
Unfortunately, it backfired. Just when he was thinking so wildly, he suddenly saw Sylvide looking this way in surprise. Tianlan even shouted in surprise: "That seems to be Sister Sylvide and the others, right?"
The square plover has a black line on its head.
But he immediately had no time to think about these issues.
Because the adventurers over there had already made preparations and successfully placed the bait. The rock sharks in mid-air noticed the anomaly on the ground. The resonance crystal was an irresistible temptation for them. Although they were slightly confused,
In the end, the desire for delicious food took over, and with a swish of his tail, he began to swim towards the forest.
It slowly lowered its height, and its spindle-shaped body was clearly visible. Two pairs of fins, one in front and one in back, were swinging like wings. It had a somewhat ferocious, crescent-shaped mouth, with the corners of its mouth slightly curved backwards.
It was at this time that five or six rays of blue light shot out from the team of adventurers in the distance, drawing beautiful arcs and exploding on top of the rock shark's head like fireworks. Fang Plover saw this scene and slightly
Somewhat surprised - these people were quite well prepared.
"What is that?" Tian Lan asked curiously.
At this time, Red walked out of his pack house. The lion man had gone back to the house to get his weapon - a huge double-headed sword, which was currently in his hand. He heard Tian Lan's question
, looked in the air, the dazzling blue light reflected in his silver eyes, and then answered:
"Wind Crystal."
Fang Yu also happened to explain: "It is a kind of crystal magic created by magicians. After it is exploded, it can disrupt the air flow in an area and create a turbulent area. This crystal magic is extremely useful in air combat.
Some small floating warships cannot ignore the turbulence zone."
As if to prove his words——
After the blue light exploded, the rock shark immediately began to struggle violently, trying to get back into the air, but it was too late. The intertwined turbulence deprived it of its ability to control the airflow, and instead it flew lower and lower, with almost all its belly covered.
Passing by a tall forest canopy of metasequoia.
It was like an airship falling to the ground, and a loud sound of broken trees was heard in the distance.
At this time, the battle officially began.
The first ones to take action were naturally the long-range selectors - rangers, crossbowmen and gunners. They fired bows and arrows, or loaded bullets, and there was a squeaking sound. "Put---!" There seemed to be an archer captain in the adventure group.
A similar configuration, with someone under unified command, fired a volley, the arrows flew into the air like a black wall, and hit the rock shark's torso head-on.
But before Tian Lan even shouted out, she saw that most of the arrows had been deflected by the solid rock shell on the latter's body.
Fang Plover opened the battle window and could clearly see a field of gray numbers. Although they were densely packed, the highest number was only about ten points. The rock shark's rock shell was very thick, and based on the armor value, it was probably more than tens of thousands of points.
Not to mention that the armor value is considered to be highly effective in Aitaria, and the hardness itself has a damage-resistance value. If you continue to fight like this, you will be beaten until the end of the year.
It is obviously impossible to expect a bow and arrow of this strength to penetrate the armor value and directly cause concussive damage to the rock shark's body - although the rock shark is only a creature of less than level 20, the monster's physical strength is generally
Far superior to humans, in terms of toughness alone, it is not impossible to be equivalent to a melee selector above level 30.
The shooters are obviously aware of this.
However, their first round of shooting was just a test. In the second round of attacks, they all used the 'explosive shooting' skill. Explosive shooting uses a special unstable crystal arrow cluster and bullets, which hit
The target will then explode, causing secondary damage. At this level, it is the best choice for dealing with high-armor units.
However, once the unstable crystal is injected with magic power, it will become extremely sensitive and easily explode. Therefore, when shooters use this skill, they need to use a special magic plug-in 'delayed injection device' to set the injection time of magic power.
This is a typical high-tech job.
The shooter needs to have accurate judgments on the distance, flight time of the projectile, and even the way to avoid the target. Otherwise, setting the delay fuse too early or too late will lead to shooting failure. If the crystal is too early to explode in advance, the damage will be reduced or even the target will not be able to hit.
If it is too late, the crystal will be damaged and it will not be able to start.
Although Explosive Shooting itself is only a fifth-level skill, it only requires the selector to invest 160,000 experience in the shooter field to learn it. However, due to the particularity of this skill, except for professional selectors, no one can truly master this skill.
People who are skilled in this skill generally have to wait until around level 20.
It is also for this reason that the community calls blasting shooting an entry-level skill for shooters——
Once you master it, you will enter the threshold of being a shooter.
Fang Yu often watched Miss Capet shoot with explosives in the past, but there was nothing fancy about this skill in the latter's hands. It looked like ordinary shooting, so he himself didn't think there was anything special about this skill.
Difficult place.
But today, this round of shooting opened his eyes.
The first round of explosive crossbow bolts was quickly projected——
A dazzling firework exploded on the left and right sides of Rock Shark. Since Rock Shark did not anticipate this attack in advance and just kept moving forward at a constant speed, attacking such a target is basically equivalent to attacking a stationary target for professional shooters.
.
But for this stationary target, its hit rate can be described as horrific.
First of all, the detonation rate is less than three levels, and among the detonations of these three levels, almost all of them are near-misses. Although near-misses also cause damage, the damage is calculated based on distance. Fang Yu saw that the fragments were not enough
The three-digit damage left me speechless for a moment.
You must know that the armor value damage caused by a full blast shot should be at least 500 or 600 at this level.
Among all the people, only Parker hit a damage of 127. The latter even danced with joy and said triumphantly: "Did you see it, did you see it! My damage is the highest - Master of the Papalar crossbowman
, The King of Nightingales in Sanshak!”
Even Tianlan praised her, but her compliment did not make Mr. Papalar feel very happy because she said: "Wow, you are so lucky!"
"What is luck?" Parker jumped angrily, waving his short hands and said, "It's technology, it's technology, do you understand?"
"Hurry up, hurry up," Tian Lan interrupted him: "Look over there, that big guy has turned around, don't let it come to our side! Come on, come on, shoot it again!"
Parker was speechless and could only adjust the magic furnace with his short, fat hands. After the delay device lit up slightly, he raised the heavy crossbow and aimed at the rock shark in mid-air.
By this time, the others were almost ready for the second round of shooting.
But at this moment, Fang Yu came over and pressed down his heavy crossbow - after all, the unstable crystal crossbow arrows were still very expensive. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply said: "Three point three."
Everyone was stunned, and the Papalar people stared at him with eyes as wide as black beans.
"Brother Ed, what did you say?" Tianlan asked.
"At three o'clock and three, we are sure to hit it!" Parker said loudly, and calculated with his fingers: "No, no, no, the Papalar people save their crossbow bolts frugally, use at least one,
Two, three - three meals can be exchanged for an explosive crossbow bolt!"
And as a professional Papalar crossbow master, how could he listen to an alchemist's instructions? If this matter spreads, his reputation in Sanshak will be completely ruined - if there is any
.
At this time, Attila just happened to jump off the giant beast's head. She looked into the distance, and others in the distance had already fired a second round of blasting arrows.
But this time it's even worse.
Rock Shark had anticipated the danger in advance and turned slightly to one side, causing all the shooters' attacks to miss. The expensive explosive crossbow bolts were like fireworks being shot into the air. Although the fire was brilliant, the actual effect was basically zero.
When Parker saw this scene, he couldn't help but open his mouth.
"How about you listen to Brother Ed and give it a try?" Tianlan also hesitated: "What if Brother Ed has better luck?"
Hearing these words made Fang Yu break into a cold sweat. What does it mean to have better luck?
The Papalar man thought about it carefully and replied righteously: "Okay, but if you miss, it will not be the fault of the Papalar crossbowman master. Remember this, and Papalar
The Lal people have absolutely nothing to do with it!”
After making a solemn statement, he raised the heavy crossbow in his hand, then went back and clicked to adjust the plug-in on the magic guide. But before he could stop, Fang Plover reached out and helped him move another half space.
It used to be three point three, but now it may not be so.
"Hurry," Fang Plover took back his hand and said to him, "it's now."
Parker aimed at the rock shark with suspicion, and then pulled the trigger——