Chapter 3339 The Trial of the Big Fool (One Hundred and Forty-two)
Chapter 3339 The Trial of the Great Fool (142)
The air coral is rippling and floating, moving irregularly at a speed that is neither fast nor slow, but elusive.
Except for the two inevitable stabilizing factors "they emerge from the ground" and "the part that emerges from the ground will inevitably be connected to the ground", the others are all uncertain factors.
There are so many uncertainties that the human brain cannot handle them. If you walk in this steam world without any protection, sooner or later you will encounter air coral and be cooked.
The group of people could only move very, very carefully, treating these high-heat air corals as murder traps that would kill them if touched, and avoid them.
Fortunately, Edmund, who has become a [Stalker], can release ice mist and even shoot ice arrows. Freezing seems to have an effect on air corals. Under the influence of freezing air, the movement trajectories of corals will change. They
As if he has self-awareness, he actively avoids the air conditioning.
Naturally, air corals cannot have self-awareness. Elaine believes that it should be a phenomenon of air convection. In other words, the cold air causes the hot air to flow, "blowing" the corals apart.
The ice mist can repel the air corals in a small area; the ice arrows are launched violently, and they can also "bump" a part of the air corals relatively violently before they completely melt and evaporate. This is good enough.
When necessary, Elaine thought that she might be able to transform into a human boy and use telekinesis to blow away those air corals that were too close.
However, these corals are linked to each other and have a mysterious mechanical affinity. Blowing away one strand of coral may cause another strand to approach, and even eventually lead to everyone being surrounded by a large number of air corals... So Elaine does not plan to act rashly at the moment.
The mechanical analysis required to calculate the flow direction of countless air corals in this space is very complicated, and it cannot be calculated by just relying on Elaine's stupid head.
...If I transform into a white fox, maybe I can barely do it?
Forget it. If it's not necessary, don't mess around. It's better to save your energy here and let Edmund's ice spells handle it.
Because Elaine knows what he is about to face. Soon he will have to fight "that guy", and he must fight in such a harsh and dangerous environment. Whether it is his opponent or the surrounding environment, everything is so dangerous
vicious.
Elaine turned into a white dragon and used a Luna steel sword coated with frozen rosin to clear the way. Although the freezing aura on the sword did not have as large an impact as the ice mist, if the air coral was very close, it would still affect the path.
Being repelled by a big sword is like touching something they hate. Elaine, holding a big sword in hand, will at least get a certain degree of safety.
Queeg seems to be the scholar Elaine. He took out a Luna steel spear from somewhere (this guy has a lot of weapons inventory! How much does Seglade love him?), and it was coated with frozen rosin.
, waving back and forth there.
But the way Queeg swung his gun didn't look like he was waving a gun. It was almost like a child teasing cats and dogs with a wooden stick... His actions were so funny that Elaine almost laughed.
He had known for a long time that the cloud-patterned leopard couldn't fight at all. Queeg's melee ability was a mess, only his shooting ability was slightly better, and it was only slightly better when he was wearing glasses. Queeg didn't like that.
The pressure of the glasses (it is said to be the feeling of pressing the bridge of the nose?), and he even refuses to wear glasses when not in combat.
In short, Queeg is a stupid and willful leopard. He doesn't have much ability to fight, so he can basically be said to be a liability.
...But it was this leopard with little ability that followed Elaine all the way to here when the people on the Dawn refused to help Elaine.
The white dragon man couldn't help but feel a sore nose and almost cried.
Now was not the time to be sentimental. He tensed his nerves again and paid close attention to the situation around him.
Edmund's Ice Mist and Ice Arrow skills were working as usual. Although the path they were traveling was tortuous and detoured to avoid the particularly dangerous large clusters of air corals, the current journey was at least not dangerous and they could continue.
The problem is that the surrounding terrain is becoming more and more uneven. There are strange rocks and strange rocks rising abruptly from the ground everywhere. The heights are uneven and the visibility is extremely poor. There are air corals peeking out from the gaps between the black stones. If you are not careful, you will be caught by these.
When I walked around the other side of the stone, I was scalded by the air coral that suddenly appeared.
The two cavalry flew about a foot away from the ground to avoid danger as much as possible - flying too high would be more dangerous, because the air coral in the air floats and moves to a greater extent, and the cavalry could accidentally hit it.
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"There seems to be nothing I can do to help..." Daniel complained. Apart from being responsible for driving one of the iron cavalry, he couldn't do anything. He neither knew how to use ice magic nor could he act like one.
Edmund helped open the way, and he didn't have a long-handled weapon like Elaine or Queeg, so he couldn't apply frozen turpentine to drive away the air corals.
"You, you will help. There will be a battle next." The white dragon man replied: "We should meet those guys soon."
"What are those guys?" Daniel couldn't imagine that there are creatures that can move freely in such a harsh environment. If there are, they must be monsters that can withstand high temperatures, right?
Snap, snap, snap, snap.
He heard some kind of sound, the sound of something hard hitting the ground at a very high frequency. And the sound kept moving, as if it was the footsteps of some special creature.
He heard it right. Soon, a dark red guy emerged from the cracks in the rocks. It was about the same size as a human head and looked a bit like a crab. The little guy was covered in dark red rock texture.
It had a hard shell and was covered in steam. It was waving its left pliers, as big and blunt as a hammer, and its right pliers, as long and sharp as a razor, at Elaine and others in a demonstrative manner.
"Steam crab." Elaine raised her sword on guard and narrated without emotion: "Gong, a very aggressive monster, will explode itself when dying, everyone, be careful!"
Steam crab? It’s a perfect match for this scorching ghost place. It seems that Daniel was right. In the steam world on the fifth underground level of Atlantis, even the monsters that appear are highly heat-resistant and have thick textures.
Carapaceous creatures, or other creatures simply cannot withstand the scorching heat, and cannot survive here at all - if they accidentally hit the air coral, they will die.
Because Elaine raised his sword as if he was about to attack to attract the enemy, the steam crab immediately regarded the white dragon man as its primary target and pounced on Elaine.
But Elaine had finally made it through this maze and dealt with steam crabs. He could still deal with a mere steam crab. Before being attacked by the monster, he focused on defense and used his big sword as a big shield.
, blocking the attack of the monster with its sharp claws. At the same time, he drew out the Luna Steel Scimitar with his other hand and stabbed into the gap between the monster's armor.
Bang! The scimitar with the frozen rosin stabbed in easily, and left the frozen magic power in the steam crab's body, causing the right side of the monster's body to freeze. But the thing sensed its own injury and increased its size.
With the "fire power" of its body, more hot steam spurted out from the gaps in its body, and its originally dark red rocky carapace also began to heat up and shine, turning it into an extremely dangerous state.
It's going to explode! Explode!
Elaine swiped backhand with her Luna Steel sword, knocking the steam crab away before it exploded. Then the little thing exploded in the air, setting off a gust of scorching wind.
The air coral in the sky became unstable, and part of the coral was affected by the blast wind and gathered towards Elaine and the others!
Danger! Edmund fired more powerful ice arrows to force away the gathered corals. If he hadn't reacted quickly, the corals would have surrounded everyone in a few seconds and cooked them!
"Wow... Killing a little monster will put ourselves in danger?!" Daniel said in shock. The power of the explosion just now was actually not high, but the subsequent impact it caused was simply too terrifying.
"Anyway, be careful anyway!" Elaine wondered.
He originally just wanted to blow that thing away, but he didn't expect that the explosion of the steam crab would have such a big impact. The "environmental crisis" of this maze is really disgusting, and he must be more careful - if he is not careful, he will cause the team to
Total destruction.
The burden is heavy. If Elaine is alone, his body can be damaged no matter what, but he will not die anyway. But now he is not alone, and has companions to worry about. Thinking of this, his nerves became even tighter
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More wild steam crabs appear!
There are six in number. I am afraid that the explosion just now attracted them. Most of these monsters are the size of heads, and one of them is particularly big, about twice the size of other steam crabs. This kind of creature with a thick carapace, alone
Being twice as big, the defense and lethality will increase exponentially, which should not be underestimated!
Thinking that Elaine could not defeat these monsters alone, Daniel also jumped off the iron horse and came to assist the White Dragon in the battle.
As a result, the big steam crab immediately focused on Elaine, while the other five small steam crabs came to besiege Daniel.
"Go, go fight in the open space over there!" Elaine pointed to the open space on the side. The air corals there are not so dense. Even if the steam crab explodes by itself, the impact should be less!
Daniel nodded, and he and Elaine sprinted over to lure the six crabs away. When the two reached the open space and could fight more safely, the six steam crabs also rushed over crazily, waving them like swords.
The long and sharp right pliers are used for chopping.
Daniel pulled out his lightsaber and used the magic sword called [Death Thorn] to deal with the enemy. However, the five little crabs were incredibly agile and surrounded Daniel and attacked fiercely. One by one, they swept and then they stabbed, almost killing Daniel.
Unable to parry, the young Silver Knight tried to counterattack with his lightsaber, but his lightsaber was easily blocked by the crabs' left pincer. The left pincer could be wielded as a heavy hammer and used as a shield for defense.
Quite difficult!
In this case, wouldn't it be better to attack the places it can't defend?
Daniel made a fake gesture by swinging his sword, and at the same time raised his hand with his other hand.
Following his movements, the Void Scimitar stabbed out from the ground, piercing one of the steam crabs from the bottom of its belly with one blow!
After being knocked into the air, the steam crab instantly heated up and shone, and then exploded! Daniel at that distance would actually be injured by the blast and flames, but he could flash short-distance teleportation and directly flash back to the cavalry.
The safe area here completely avoided the explosion.
Just as the blast passed, Daniel flashed back to the remaining four steam crabs: "Okay, there are four left!"