Chapter 3341 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Forty-Four)
Chapter 3341 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Forty-Four)
The warm firelight reverberated in front of Elaine's eyes, and he could feel his burned eyes gradually recovering.
In the distance were the sounds of fierce fighting, the roar of lightsabers, and the sound of some huge and heavy weapons hitting the thick carapace. Apparently, the steam crabs attacked Daniel quite crazily, but Daniel repelled them one by one.
Elaine didn't know how long it would take for his eyes to recover, and to what extent they would recover. He only knew that if this continued, Daniel would meet that guy - the Steam Crab King.
The defense system controls the monsters in the Atlantis dungeon to continuously attack intruders. If these little monsters are continuously killed, after reaching a certain number, the boss of this layer will appear and try to attack with greater violence.
Retreat intruders. From the observation of several levels of mazes that have been entered before, this is the pattern.
The steam crabs on the fifth underground floor of Atlantis are quite difficult and powerful enemies, so when they appear, they are not as numerous as the miscellaneous soldiers on the previous floors. They are small in number but elite. It also means that as long as they are killed, they will
A small number of elites will attract the big bosses at this level.
Ten? Twenty? Forty? Elaine is not sure. The number of ordinary steam crabs he defeated before was probably around thirty or forty. He forgot to count. Then that guy - the steam crab king -
— will suddenly appear. Unreasonably emerge from the suddenly cracked earth.
Elaine knows that the current Daniel is definitely no match for the Steam Crab King, and Daniel cannot be allowed to deal with the Steam Crab King alone. At least he has to wait until Elaine's eyes are cured and he can return to the battlefield.
"Don't, don't fight too fast!" Elaine then shouted: "It will alarm their leader, you, you can't handle it alone!"
"Well..." Daniel snorted, but agreed: "Okay!"
He still used very exaggerated attack movements, driving the Void Scimitar to sweep across a wide area, hitting several steam crabs at once. But it was a feint attack, only imposing and not fatal. The steam crabs simply used shield-like attacks.
The thick left pincer blocked the attack.
This was exactly what Daniel wanted - to use attacks to lure these enemies to surround him, and at the same time use flash to avoid the enemy's attacks to delay time.
His [Flash] (short-distance teleportation) is very useful in this situation. Although the Steam Crabs are very agile and can swing their spear or sword-like right pincer at high speed, their range is very short.
Because crabs themselves are creatures that can only move laterally. Even if they become monsters, their basic characteristics cannot be changed.
If steam crabs want to move forward or backward, they must coordinate several pairs of lower limbs and make a jumping posture. In other words, they cannot actually walk forward or backward at all, but are constantly jumping forward and back. They jump
The speed is much slower than the speed at which they move laterally.
And the funniest thing is that although these steam crabs can move sideways quickly, they can't attack their backs and left sides with their right claws. In other words, Daniel only needs to flash towards these locations and pay close attention to the steam crabs like hammers.
Using the generally slow and heavy left pincer, you can safely dodge attacks.
Of course, there were a lot of steam crabs, twelve in total. Being attacked by so many steam crabs, Daniel had things he couldn't take care of. Occasionally, he would be scratched by the right claws of some of the steam crabs swinging at high speed.
He could feel not only the burning pain of scratching flesh on the wound, but also a kind of burning heat. Because the bodies of these monsters were already very hot, the heat of their shells was about the same as that of the red-hot rocks near the crater.
High heat will also affect wound healing, because high heat will denature proteins and further damage cells in the wound. As the Green Knight, Daniel's self-healing ability can almost make small wounds on his body disappear in a minute, but now these
The small wound remained for at least ten minutes.
These crabs are a bit difficult to deal with...especially when you have to deal with twelve of them at once.
Daniel couldn't help but activate the void sword again and killed one of the particularly annoying steam crabs. Just like making a kebab, he used the sword to pierce its body from below.
He thinks that killing one of the crabs will make his battle a little easier, and it shouldn't attract more reinforcements... right?
No. More wild steam crabs appeared.
It was as if the system could detect changes in the population and would never let the intruders sit idle. One steam crab died, and three more steam crabs came running from a distance.
Daniel felt that his abilities were insufficient. He had fought with many crazy monsters and had long been accustomed to being besieged. But he had never encountered monsters with such powerful offensive and defensive capabilities and so suitable for group activities. Steam Crab
Not only will they fight alone, they will even help their companions defend themselves; when their companions attack, they will also choose the perfect opportunity to sneak attack Daniel who is busy dodging - which can be said to be quite cunning.
Daniel's constant flashes also require consumption of physical strength and magic power. As a demon-free person, he has fewer free photons in his body than ordinary people, so it is really too much to consume like this.
Has Elaine's eye been healed yet? The young Silver Knight glanced in the direction of the cavalry in confusion. He was obviously using healing spells to heal his injuries, so why did it take so long?
Daniel remembered what Elaine said about losing his sense of taste. Elaine did not simply lose his sense of taste due to illness, but because his absolute realm was collapsing, he gradually lost his five senses. Maybe his low self-healing ability also caused the loss of his sense of taste.
It is related to the collapse of the absolute field. If it is true, Elaine's eye injury may take a long time to be cured, but it is very likely that even if it is cured, there will be sequelae.
Elaine, that guy, may not have much time left.
——You obviously don’t have much time left, but you still force yourself to break into such a dangerous maze and fight against such terrifying monsters?
... He is simply seeking death. He is accelerating his own death.
Daniel actually couldn't do anything to help, he could only watch Elaine walk towards destruction step by step. This feeling of powerlessness was really annoying.
The Silver Knight boy was a little angry and began to use rougher fighting methods to deal with the steam crab army. We couldn't simply kill them, so wouldn't it be better to destroy their mobility? At least that's what Daniel thought.
Then, the big curved sword of the void suddenly stabbed out from the ground and chopped off several legs of one of the steam crabs.
Then the crab fell to the ground. Creatures like crabs need several pairs of legs to maintain balance and maintain movement. If one of the legs was cut off, they wouldn't be able to move, right?
Zhi——!
Daniel's wishful thinking was wrong again. As a result, once the monster realized that it had lost its ability to move, it immediately began to glow and prepare to explode. Half a second later, a scorching blast of wind set off, and the body of the monster exploded.
It even sputtered out the sharp fragments formed from the hard shell of its body in all directions.
Daniel flashed behind another crab and used the enemy as his cover, avoiding the blast and crab shell shells.
He himself was not injured, but the death of a steam crab meant that a new steam crab appeared. Now he had to face the attack of fifteen steam crabs at the same time, which became increasingly powerless!
The lost city of Atlantis is indeed not that easy to conquer. Or maybe Daniel still underestimates this ancient ruins!
Whoosh! An ice arrow hit one of the steam crabs. The sharpness and impact of the ice arrow could not penetrate its armor, but the deep cold attached to the ice arrow covered the surface of the steam crab.
A layer of white frost made its movements obviously slower.
It seemed that Edmund saw that Daniel was in a tough fight and stepped in to help - even if doing so would make the cavalry more likely to become an enemy's target.
Maybe it was Elaine’s idea...?
Edmund ran directly over to help in the battle, while the iron cavalry seemed to have deployed the most powerful protective shield and concealment system, lurking in place. When the two iron cavalry were close to each other, their protective shields and concealment systems
The system plays a complementary role. It is not as simple as one plus one equals two. It may be that one plus one equals three or even four.
As long as the iron cavalry does not move randomly, there should be no problem. In the worst case, Queeg can also make the two iron cavalry and the people on the iron cavalry all enter the [virtual] state, and there will be no problem.
Edmund, on the other hand, focused on assisting Daniel in combat, constantly releasing ice arrows and ice mist to slow down the movement of the steam crabs. The nemesis of these scorching monsters happened to be freezing. After being hit by ice arrows and ice mist, their movements
Visibly slowed down by more than double.
Moreover, the attack range of ice fog is very large. Although it has no lethality, it can quickly freeze multiple enemies.
Freezing is really useful. Daniel sighed in his heart. Unfortunately, he has not been trained in magic and does not know how to use freezing spells.
Having said that, he was originally a [Demonless One]. Although he gained talents such as teleportation after being transformed (reincarnated?) into the Dark Green Knight, he could forcibly use these (not quite regular spells) spells, but he could not use other regular spells.
I'm afraid it won't be used.
For formal spells such as fireballs and ice arrows, he probably wouldn't be able to use them even if he learned them, because he couldn't gather the free photons in the atmosphere to cast the spells.
So there is no need to think too much about this kind of thing. Let’s just do what we can do at the moment.
If it was frozen, he would be able to achieve the same effect. Daniel took out the bag of frozen rosin that Elaine had given him before and sprinkled some on the lightsaber.
A lightsaber is a blade composed of a powerful barrier that binds the torrent of photons. That powerful barrier is actually similar to the "shell" of a physical sword. If you sprinkle rosin on it, you might be able to combine the magic power of the rosin with
The barrier, and the photon flow inside the barrier react, turning into a lightsaber with a freezing effect.
Daniel's guess was correct. The rosin was easily absorbed by the blade of the lightsaber, and then the light emitted by the entire lightsaber changed from light purple to ice blue, and there was a chill.
Using this to deal with steam crabs should be able to delay time to some extent. Daniel's goal is not to quickly kill the steam crab army in front of them, but to delay as much time as possible so that the injured Elaine can heal his eyes and return to the battlefield.
So just rely on this to drag it down.
He used dodge to dodge the attack of one of the steam crabs, and then reached its back. With a sword, he aimed at several legs of the steam crab and slashed them. Then they were frozen to a crisp and slowed down obviously.
Speed. The freezing even spread from the steam crab's feet to half of its body, freezing half of its body.
In view of the fact that the steam crab whose legs had been chopped off before would take the initiative to explode, Daniel used flash to keep a distance from the half-frozen steam crab, fearing that it would explode. However, the steam crab did not explode, but instead dragged slowly.
body, waving the pliers viciously, as if protesting to Daniel five yards away.
It seems that if these crabs want to self-destruct, they need to heat and pressurize their entire bodies to a certain level. When the heat and pressure exceed the critical point, the steam in their bodies will tear their carapace apart, allowing them to self-destruct. But
If half of their bodies are frozen, heating and pressurization cannot proceed smoothly, and they cannot self-destruct.
"Good, we found the strategy!" Daniel shouted: "Anyway, freeze them!"