When we walked to the entrance of the cave, the thick yellow smoke was still pungent and suffocating.↖
Raven silently activated [Shadow Form], his whole figure became blurred, his skin turned gray, and the [Ultimate Ice Guard] leather armor he wore also turned into a dull color, and his whole person became a ball.
A semi-foggy shadow incorporeal body.
In the shadow form, Raven could not attack, but as long as there was a gap, Raven could pass through it like smoke. From a closed air hole next to the main cave entrance, Raven found a vent the size of a fingernail and got in.
Along the winding small cave, which was only the size of a fist, Raven headed straight into the depths of the cave.
After walking about a hundred meters, Raven came to the main trunk of the cave. With the help of the half-elf's natural dark vision, Raven saw layers of bat corpses on the ground. The further he went deeper into the cave, the smaller the corpses became.
Raven could no longer see the corpse in places where no sulfur grass balls had arrived.
Just as Raven guessed, all the survivors took refuge deeper.
After walking down for more than a hundred meters, the smell of sulfur here was very weak. You could see a dozen mephits wearing similar gas masks helping each other clean their bodies.
The mephits create many special items for their own use, such as this breathing mask: This mask covers the face of the user. It is assembled from goggles and a bag of alchemical substances, allowing the wearer to breathe for up to 4 hours.
Wearing this mask provides protection from harmful fumes and inhaled toxins. The mask also allows the wearer to survive underwater or airless environments.
This is probably what kept the Mephit from being choked to death.
Death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be escaped.
The group of idiot mephits tried to put out the burning sulfur with buckets of water, probably because the sulfur caused a serious flowing fire or violent boiling splash when it met the water.
So most of these mephits have burn marks on their bodies.
Raven roughly estimated that these mephits only had about three-fifths of their health remaining.
That's enough!
Kill it while it's sick!
Raven quickly switched from [Shadow Form] to [Shadow Flame Form]. The shadows near his body quickly deepened, and black flames burst out from Raven's body, wrapping and protecting Raven.
System prompt:
"You enter [Shadow Flame Form]. In this state, you gain 10 points of total resistance, and all creatures that hit you with melee attacks suffer 20 points of fire and necrotic damage."
At the same time, Raven directly released a charging phantom, and tried his best to keep in sync with the phantom's movements.
Yes! Raven practiced [Basic Phantom Wind Step] during battle.
Raven has long discovered that the speed of practicing martial arts skills in battle is three times that of training. No matter how much you train, it is useless if you can't use it in battle. If you use it in battle, then there will be no problem in training.
The mephit were stunned by Raven's surprise attack.
They couldn't imagine how Raven could bypass the sentries they arranged. They screamed loudly, firstly to alert their companions, and secondly, to release harsh sound waves to attack Raven.
"The Mephit launched a Will roll [Despair] against you: If you succeed on the Will roll with a difficulty coefficient of 16, you will avoid the mind-affecting effect of this sonic wave. Otherwise, you will be in trouble on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, and skill checks.
You suffer a -2 morale penalty on your check and weapon damage rolls. The effect will last for 20 seconds while the mephit concentrates on sonic interference with you."
"Your [Iron Will] feat provides you with a +3 Will save bonus... During the check... you passed the Will save, and you are not disturbed by the mephits' sonic attacks!"
The immunity attribute that Raven had accumulated all this time came into play. This gave Raven the foundation to explode with all his strength.
Phantom Clone Slash!
With a silent chant in his mind, Raven released three more phantom clones while running at high speed.
The four clones of one body all attacked the magic bat man.
Even though the Mephits seem to be very powerful, they are blood-cow-type peak bronze-level monsters. In fact, they are just a group of powerful but inexperienced bastards.
When have they ever seen a person split into five in an instant and then kill them all together?
Before the mephit man could show his shocked expression, the figures of the five Ravens suddenly sped up, and the five Black Moon Blades hit the mephit man in no particular order.
Two knives penetrated the eyes, one cut the throat, one pierced the heart, and the other entered from the left temple and came out from the right temple.
Raven actually ignored the Phantom Swordsman's [Three Dragon Bite] and [Four Dragon Bite] standards and directly played [Five Dragon Bite]!
The system prompts Raven and he doesn't have time to read it. He knows that his proficiency in [Three Dragon Bite] must be rising rapidly.
The mephit man next to him was stunned. He was stunned for three seconds before he raised his fork high and tried to hit Raven on the head.
The fork, a strange two-headed weapon invented by the mephits themselves.
Raven was not interested in this kind of excellent weapon, which was equivalent to +1 Bronze level equipment. For Raven, the only purpose of the forked stick was to train him in [Iron Flash].
The sword flashed, and under the surprised gaze of the mephit, its hardwood stick, which was as hard as pig iron, was cut in half by Raven.
It was afraid, and its instinctive fear made it shrink back.
Raven didn't give him a chance to escape, so he rushed forward and struck a blow.
die!
System prompt:
"You single-handedly killed a Mephit with a challenge level of 36 and extracted the target's soul energy. You gained 1,300 killing experience points."
He was used to killing enemies at higher levels, but when an enemy of the same level suddenly appeared, his experience suddenly dropped. Raven was really not used to it. But mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. It was better than shooting a lot of Mephits to death like at the entrance of the cave just now.
It can't be blamed on Raven.
Raven released three rounds of phantom clones, and all the mephits present were wiped out by Raven. With this batch of experience, Raven rose to level 33.
After glancing at the prompt, Sylphy, who was previously downgraded because her master's level was too low, has also been raised to level 33. If we create shadow bee soldiers now, the initial level of the soldiers will be level 26. Now this
Bee soldiers cannot change their level unless they are promoted in battle.
Mephits are notoriously poor. In previous games, no money would be dropped from killing Mebts, and the treasures dropped would be calculated as half of monsters of the same level.
Raven had no time to clean up the battlefield and continued heading deeper into the cave.
The slope of the slope became gentler and gentler. After walking for more than fifty meters, we finally reached the bottom of the cave, where there was a large flat ground.
Of course, the focus is not just on the ground. Just when Raven was about to start a big fight, he received a warning from Sylphy.
"My lord, I did as you asked. All the servants who were guarding the entrance to the plane were killed. They died so horribly."
"Describe it."
Sylphy told Raven everything she sensed.
Raven pondered for a moment and cut off the spiritual connection with Sylphy.
"Is it really that guy?" Glancing at the stalactites above his head, Raven grinned: "I'll let you live a little longer."
Seemingly digging something on the ground casually, Raven returned the way he came.
Just after climbing about 200 meters, Raven suddenly stopped and did a backflip, dodging something.
The next second, there was another sudden stop and turn. This time, Raven rolled in a panic, rolling three times before stopping.
"Jie Jie...you are very powerful, boy Lei Wen." A ghostly voice sounded in the darkness.
Raven stood up, flicked the ashes on his body, and said disdainfully: "What? Do you want to see me panic? Or do you want to hear me yelling in terror, who are you? What on earth are you?"
"You..." The other party was speechless for a moment.
"It's just a breath-stealing monster. Apart from being invisible, waiting for prey to get close, pounce on it, and steal the air from the prey's lungs, what else can you do?"
When Raven revealed his identity, the breath-stealing monster was shocked, but after a few seconds, it smiled again: "You have good eyesight, you actually know that I am a breath-stealing monster. So what? I, Lord Alonso, am from the wind elemental world.
A living creature. To you, I am a ball of air like the wind. As an assassin, you have no means to attack me. So what if I fail to attack you in a sneak attack? I can attack you for three days and three nights without interruption.
If you don't escape once, you're dead. Hehe! Hehehe!"
"While you can still laugh now, just smile more. I think you will never have a chance to laugh again in the future." Raven responded coldly.
"Hahaha! Brat, what are you talking about? I will take away your breath later. I want you to watch your limbs lose air and die, and watch your flesh and blood wither. Hahahaha! Ah!
——How did you find me!?"
Suddenly, Raven jumped on him, threw something on him, and the breath-stealing monster let out a strange cry.
"Idiot! The whole cave is filled with sulfur powder. Wherever there is blank space, you will be there."
The breath-stealing monster was dumbfounded. It really didn't know that this was the reason why it had nowhere to hide.
It realized that it had to retreat, otherwise the situation might develop in a direction it did not want. It began to flee at full speed.
However, more sticky things were thrown out of Raven's hand and hit on its head. With each additional hit, its body became heavier. At first, it was just a ball of breath, but now it looks a bit like it is floating.
Half empty dough.
"What is this!?" The Breathstealer screamed and tried to break away from the icy atmosphere.
"This is Frostfire: an adhesive substance created by the mephits. It absorbs heat when exposed to air or moisture. Of course it also comes with a small amount of frost damage. This is not a big deal to the average human.
It's just for you... Hehe!" Raven smiled and approached the breath-stealing monster that was already floating slower than a snail.
He raised the Black Moon Blade in his hand high.
"No - don't kill me."
"It's too late!" Relying on the [Death Strike Bracers], Raven aimed at the looming core of the breath-stealing monster's aura, and pierced it with a knife without hesitation.
