LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 742 - 742: Reinforcements of the Monster
Chapter 742: Chapter 742: Reinforcements of the Monster
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle~
Suddenly, mounds of soil rose from the ground and beetles began to burrow their way to the surface, charging madly at the monsters. Each beetle was fearless in the face of death. Some didn’t even contribute anything to the attack, getting instantly squashed by the BOSSes, but as more and more beetles appeared, they finally started to injure the monsters.
BOOM!
A sewer cover suddenly flew into the sky, and an Abyssal Beetle the size of a small car, brandishing two large claws, burst forth from the sewer opening.
Its body, like a bomb, blasted a pit over three meters in diameter at the mouth of the well. Behind it, tides of beetles swarmed out.
Over these past few days, the hive had been producing beetles round the clock. The number of beetles had long exceeded one hundred thousand. Although most of them were ordinary beetles at level twenty-five, there were also more than a thousand elite beetles at level thirty.
More importantly, these beetles were fearlessly marching into death. Even when they were crushed by the BOSSes, they would take a bite of the BOSS’s leg just before dying, dealing a trivial amount of damage.
It was exactly this tiny bit of damage that, when accumulated in large quantities, could pose a lethal threat to the BOSSes.
BOOM!
A sewer cover in another direction was lifted up, and two Abyssal Beetles crawled out from it, charging toward the BOSSes.
These days, the hive had hatched another two Abyssal Beetles. It had deployed all the Beetles it had now. In the sewer, only a lone nest remained, which any ordinary person now could pose a lethal threat to.
However, at this moment, everyone’s attention was focused on the Manor Castle, and nobody was paying attention to the nest in the sewer.
The Abyssal Beetles possessed strong tanking properties, and under the effect of 1000% increased vitality regeneration speed, they were all like invulnerable roaches. A group of BOSSes surrounded it and constantly attacked it. In the end, these BOSSes often didn’t die under the attack of the Abyssal Beetle; instead, they died under their own attacks. The passive skill of the Abyssal Beetle in group battles was simply divine. Many BOSSes were killed directly through damage reflection.
“There’s only twenty minutes left, everyone hang on!” Song Jian yelled.
At that moment, banging sounds were heard from the south side of the city wall. Cracks had started to form on the originally sturdy wall.
The south side faced the Protection Black Mist, and no monster had ever rushed out of the black mist before. But now, as the monster siege was about to end, the south side finally showed movement. Large groups of stone people walked out from the Protection Black Mist, joining the attacking ranks.
With no one defending the south side, the city wall held on for less than five minutes before a large hole was blown through. Countless stone people swarmed through the hole and charged towards the Manor Castle.
“Is this… Is this the monsters’ reinforcements?” a player yelled, his face full of shock.
At that moment, Song Jian was dumbstruck, staring at the system notification.
System: The Defense Stone Spirits from the Protection Black Mist have joined the attack. If the defense is successful, the area of the Protection Black Mist near the south city gate will integrate into the city’s defense system, and the city lord can set the conditions for entering and exiting the Protection Black Mist!
“What? I can control the passage through the Protection Black Mist?” Song Jian’s face was full of shock. Everyone knows that the biggest limitation to the development of Doomsday City is the Protection Black Mist surrounding the city. Without reaching the second and even the third tier of Combat Power, entering the black mist is almost impossible.
Even though the City of Hope Alliance has established Transmission Arrays to other cities, greatly weakening the restrictions of the Protection Black Mist, the limitations of using the Transmission Array are also quite numerous. The most significant impact is that trade caravans cannot travel between various cities via the Transmission Arrays!
If they cannot cross the Protection Black Mist, Song Jian cannot set up his own caravan, and caravans from other cities cannot enter. All goods can only be transported through the Transmission Array in small quantities, which is too costly.
If it weren’t for the city construction task, Song Jian would not have allowed so many people to use the Transmission Array to purchase materials. The cost of transporting the needed materials for the collection task through the Transmission Array is several times the value of the materials themselves!
If he can freely cross the Protection Black Mist, Song Jian can form his own caravan. The honey wine of the barracks’ small town is an item he has been longing for.
“Phew, let’s complete the task first. If we can’t resist these monsters, everything else is irrelevant!” Song Jian took a deep breath and thought to himself.
Just then, a tremor came from the Pet Space. Upon checking, both the little stone man and the Black Dragon had awakened at the same time, completing their rank upgrades.
The little stone man had fully grown from a child to the height of an adult, from being just over a meter tall to nearly two meters. Its body, made up of pieces of hard granite, now showed an outline of muscles. If not for its distinctive simplistic features of a stone man on its head and face, it would look no different from a fully-grown man.
Summoning the little stone man, it immediately rushed towards Song Jian, making “gulu, gulu” sounds from its mouth.
Song Jian quickly stopped it. When it was smaller, it wasn’t a big deal, but now with a stone man who was nearly two meters tall rushing towards him, it felt terrifying to even think about it.
“Since you keep making ‘gulu, gulu’ sounds, let’s just call you Gulu!” Song Jian patted Gulu on the shoulder and said.
“Gulu, gulu~”
The upgraded stone man Gulu was now a level thirty-five elite BOSS with tier one Combat Power. Sensing that Song Jian was in the middle of a battle, Gulu waved his right hand, throwing a stone the size of a millstone into the monster crowd.
Song Jian’s eyes lit up. It seemed that Gulu’s stone throwing skill had also upgraded. It used to take at least three seconds to form a stone, but now, the throwing had become an instant skill, and the stone thrown was much larger than before.
BOOM!
The stone smashed into the crowd of monsters. It was like a bomb, causing a violent explosion, and the monsters within a radius of two to three meters were all blown away.
“The power is much greater than before, and it has changed from a single-target attack to a group attack!” Song Jian exclaimed joyfully.
Perhaps sensing that Song Jian’s mood had become more cheerful because of the stone man Gulu, the Black Dragon became restless and eager in the Pet Space. It had just ranked up and was itching for a fight, continuously sending Song Jian its desire to come out and battle.
With a thought, Song Jian brought out the massive Black Dragon, over ten meters in length, hovering over Manor Castle, instantly shrouding the entire castle under a shadow.
ROAR~
An earth-shaking dragon roar echoed. The monsters surrounding the Manor Castle, whether they were BOSSes or regular monsters, all trembled and stopped their attacks, looking up in fear at the Black Dragon.
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PS: Thanks to “Su Poman” for gifting 100 QiDian coins~