The hardest part of strangling a manticore is keeping them under control.
Of the nine adult and young manticores, two of them have the strength of elite wizards, three of them have the same strength as veteran wizards, and the remaining four are basically new wizards.
With such strength, they can definitely crush Greem's team. After all, they only have Greem, an explosive elite wizard, and two veteran wizards, Gargamel and Forest Demon!
As for other adventurers and pharmacy apprentices, they are barely used as shields. If you want to rely on them to prop up a solid line of defense, it is no less than a mantis arm blocking a car, and the end must be miserable.
Therefore, the only way to defeat the strong with the weak is to set a trap and introduce these manticores into a narrow area to reduce their advantage in numbers. The reason why Greem dared to do this was because of his understanding of manticores.
Although the manticore can be regarded as a ferocious monster, after all, it has no long-range attack skills, which is the main reason why they have never been able to get on the stage! If it weren't for the special environmental advantages of the underground passage, their combat power would not even be as good as those bipedal dragons.
As dawn approached, the manticores that had gone out to hunt began to return to their nests in large numbers again.
As soon as they stepped into the underground passage, the two elite manticores in the lead became restless.
When Greem and Gargamel broke in in the past, they would try to cover up their scent and erase the traces left behind. But this time apart from them, even those adventurous mercenaries broke in with torches in their hands.
The strong human breath left in the passage and the burnt smell left by the burning torch are like a lighthouse in the dark night, it cannot be more obvious!
His lair was actually broken into by a group of humans
While the manticore leader was furious, he couldn't help but feel worried about the two young manticores who stayed behind in the lair!
Under its urging, all the manticores abandoned their prey one after another, flapped their bat wings, and rushed towards the depths of the ground following the scent left by humans. The more they fly, the more worried they are, because the way forward for human beings is directed at their hidden lairs!
This can't help but make the manticores very anxious!
Finally, at a critical intersection outside the lair, they detected the scent of the young manticore.
Mixed with the little manticore's aura are the scorched aura after the elemental flame burst and... a faint bloody aura!
The former portends the involvement of human wizards, while the latter... especially makes the manticores furious.
It took almost a quarter of an hour before they searched the lair, but found no trace of the enemy. And relying on their keen sense of smell, they sensed that the enemy did not flee, but instead wrapped up the little manticore and headed straight towards the deeper ground.
Led by two elite manticores, a male and a female, the group of manticores, who were dazzled by the rage, followed the scent all the way, and finally found two tightly bound manticores in an underground Jedi. The little manticore and a lot of clothes left by human mercenaries.
Just as they were frantically tearing at the ropes on the little manticore, Greem led Gargamel and the others to cover up from behind, firmly occupying the entrance and exit of this underground Jedi.
The so-called underground Jedi actually refers to a small area with only one entrance and exit, and no other passages inside. Such caves and caves are almost everywhere in the underground world, and it is also a kind of area that the underground expedition team both loves and hates.
If you are a member of an expedition team, it is undoubtedly the best place to camp if you can find such an area when the team is resting. As long as the only entrance and exit are blocked and special personnel are sent to guard, the team will not be attacked by surprise.
But if you encounter a large number of underground creatures, this kind of underground Jedi with nowhere to escape can easily make an expedition team wiped out. That's why their existence makes people love and hate, it's hard to choose!
And the underground Jedi that Greem chose for the manticore group was a funnel-shaped cavern, which had been stepped on many times, and there was no other passage to walk through except this only entrance and exit. The only entrance and exit is 4 meters wide and 3 meters high, which can only allow an adult manticore to pass through with spread wings, or two manticores to squeeze through.
When Greem discovered that the manticores had entered the urn, he immediately blocked their retreat from behind. As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, Greem released the Growler and the Rotten, letting the Rocky Growler block the way, while he and the Rotten were in charge of attacking from the side.
As for the other team members, they scattered around to prevent other underground creatures from coming to make trouble.
Gargamel, on the other hand, chanted and cast spells for a while, detonating the many traps that were lurking in the cave.
A large amount of wormwood and a small number of ghost mushrooms were ignited by the flames, and began to create pungent and choking smoke and horrible stench in every corner of the cave, as well as fungal spores flying all over the sky.
They quickly consume the air in the cave.
Since all the secret passages and cracks had been blocked in advance, the thick smoke and poisonous gas could not leak out, and the cave and the manticore group inside were completely submerged almost instantly.
Immediately, there was a huge cough like a mountain whirring and a tsunami and the sound of the manticores flapping their bat wings from the choking smoke, which was also mixed with the violent thunderous roar of the manticore leader.
Howler is a huge stone man with a height of 4 meters and a weight of 35 tons, and his body is also covered with a thick layer of rock armor. As the only human shield today, it gave up all attack opportunities, and only condensed a huge rock as a shield between the big hands of the rock, defending with all its strength.
It had just completed its defensive stance, when the smoke in the cave cleared, a violent and incomparable manticore hit the 'shield' in its hand with a swift and violent hurricane.
There was a bang.
The rock more than one meter thick was smashed to pieces in an instant!
The growler's heavy body jerked backwards, and the friction between the big rocky feet and the hard floor even produced dazzling sparks. And the adult manticore also hit his head badly, shaking his body and falling into a dizzy state at the entrance of the cave.
While neither side had reacted, Greem stood behind the growler, and threw an enhanced version of the lava fireball at the injured manticore's feet. At the same time, the rotting man's strong rotten acid ball also fell on the manticore.
It was as if a large pot of strong sulfuric acid had been poured on him violently, and the injured manticore was corroded by the strong acid while still in a daze, hissing mournfully. There was an abnormal noise of corrosion.
And in the next second, the lava fireball exploded, and the violent shock wave blasted the manticore into the air, causing the entire chest and abdomen to be bloody. As for the subsequent sputtering of lava fragments and magma splashing, it turned the inside of the cave into a terrible sea of lava that ordinary people could hardly stand on.
And just as this manticore stepped aside, a fierce wind howled, and a new manticore rushed forward with the momentum of wind and thunder.
This time the growler didn't have a rock 'shield' to protect him, so he could only use a pair of thick rock hands to resist the manticore's assault.
Boom...
There was another loud bang.
The growler's two stone hands, which were half a meter thick, were smashed into powder all over the sky. If it hadn't forcibly sunk the two stone legs into the rock floor, it might have been knocked into the air just now.
What a terrible power!
According to the monitoring of the chip, the impact intensity of the two manticores just now has reached an astonishing 135 degrees. This... This is already an attack strength that ordinary wizards can't reach!
And this manticore's physique and strength were far better than the first manticore's. After the violent impact, except for the bleeding from the head and the collapse of the fangs, it didn't fall into dizziness. Not only was it not dizzy, but at the moment when the growler's hands disappeared, and the empty door leaked, the scorpion tail behind it stabbed out like a gust of wind and lightning, and pierced fiercely on the growler's rock armor.
The four-finger-thick rock armor was pierced through, and the terrible poisonous needle, sharp as a hook, quickly injected the paralyzing venom into the howler's body. At the same time, the growler raised his right foot and stomped heavily.
The terrifying invisible shock wave immediately began to spread around it centered on it!
All the individuals who came into contact with the shock wave couldn't help jumping up on the spot, and the musculoskeletal tremors of the whole body were difficult to sustain, and they lost further resilience.
The manticore that was charging was obviously an elite guy, not weaker than the growler in terms of physique and strength. But it's a pity, when the paralyzing venom was ineffective, it also had to eat the opponent's 'Earth Tremor'!
If it were another manticore, it might take three or five fingers to get rid of this out-of-control effect, but for an elite manticore, its out-of-control is only a short one.
It's a pity that this finger is enough for Greem to launch an attack!
Never daring to hide his broom, Greem did not hesitate to use his strongest single-body fire-type witchcraft in the Voodoo Tome--Fire Core Molten Explosion!
With the blessing of the Destruction Flame Witch Staff, Greem's fire core meltdown can reach a super high attack power of 125 degrees, which is 10 degrees higher than before.
Don't underestimate the difference of 10 degrees, this is 10 degrees based on the depth of the defense!
In general wizard battles, each guy will try to add various elemental shields and witchcraft protection to himself. Under the layers of reduction, ordinary witchcraft attacks can't break through this defense, so they can only use the method of consumption to wear it down slowly.
And the higher the strength of a single attack, the more likely it is to break the opponent's defensive witchcraft with one blow, so the overflowing part of the elemental damage can only be fully absorbed by the opponent!
As for the elite manticore in front of him, the maximum witchcraft damage it can withstand is only 90 degrees.
Although witchcraft attacks below 90 degrees can cause some damage to the surface of its body, they still can't break through the protective force field formed by the powerful life energy, so it can't hurt the important organs and key parts in its body.
And this is the foundation to ensure that it continues to fight!
However, Greem's 125-degree flame nuclear explosion, even if it was reduced by more than half, the remaining 35-degree fire damage would actually affect its flesh and blood torso.