It stands to reason that the small-scale encirclement and suppression of the defecting elves would not use the Crypt Scorpion as a war unit. Why would Ke Kena bring it out
This also starts with Ke Kena's status in the family. This young and beautiful drow priest is the heir to be cultivated by the fifth family of Obalanel City. However, because she was still relatively young, she did not get the attention of the Spider Queen. Without the favor of the Queen of God, there would be no spider elves to help out.
Of course, the fifth family also raised a lot of private soldiers, but these private soldiers could not give Ke Kena any help during this siege, she could only rely on her lizardmen followers.
The reason is simple, the Spider God Queen issued an oracle, using this pursuit of the defecting elves as a test for her priests. Every participating drow priest can only rely on his own strength, and can have followers, but cannot have the help of family private soldiers and city guards.
Families at the bottom of the ranking will often send out high-ranking priests of the family, or even the mistress of the family. The families at the top of the ranking handed over the tasks to the next generation of heirs. High priests tend to have more followers and can summon more spider elves, while younger priests are relatively weaker.
However, drow are insidious and cunning, and they have all kinds of ways to get around the rules. This crypt magic scorpion is the cheating method of Ke Kena and the fifth family. Before she set off, the fifth family gave her the magic scorpion as an adult gift, which can be said to have cost a lot of investment.
If Kekena failed the trial and didn't catch any defected elves, she would undoubtedly be doomed. In the world of drow, there are no second chances. This is also the main reason why Ke Kena and Undini still choose to take risks, knowing that they are only half a day away from the dwarves' surface camp.
After the magic scorpion came up from the ground, it immediately launched an attack on the three apostles. The two large pincers in front of its body have a large attack surface. Although the steering is not fast enough, the slender and flexible tail completely makes up for this weakness.
For a moment, the three of Weiss were in a hurry to avoid the attack of the magic scorpion.
"I can't do this. I can feel two clusters of turbulent auras approaching rapidly in the mushroom grove behind. They should be the priests of these drow!" Romon floated in mid-air, and suddenly looked back vigilantly.
"Are you going to be driven out?" Weiss bit his lips tightly, his face a little gray. Since he was promoted to a high level, he has never felt so powerless, which reminded him of some unbearable memories that he did not want to look back on.
"You two go, I will stay and hold them back!"
However, as a mature apostle who has experienced life and death, these negative emotions only lasted for a moment, and were thrown away by Weiss, with a trace of determination on his face.
"No, team leader, if you want to stay, stay together. We have gone through so many mission worlds together, and we have already lived enough." Romon shook his head resolutely, "I don't want to change teams in the future, what is there to live like that? significance?"
"It's even more meaningless to die! If I stay behind, there is still a chance of escape. If you stay too, it will only be a burden!" Weiss shouted sharply, but there was a hint of relief in his eyes. In any case, it is enough to have such a group of companions to accompany me to the end.
"Oh..." Just as Weiss and Romon were arguing, the shield guard on the other side let out a painful growl.
His body swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye, almost instantly turning into a giant over sixteen feet tall.
The giant's skin was bronze-colored, with vertical and horizontal muscles. Although it was nearly five meters tall, its body was four feet thick, making it look a bit short and fat. The deltoid muscles on both sides of the neck are raised high, like bronze shoulder armor covering the shoulders.
Because the apostle's equipment is composed of laws, the change in the size of the shield guard does not affect the equipment wearing. Only the size of the tower shield didn't change. The tower shield, which was able to cover the whole body, looked like a gauntlet on the giant's right forearm.
"Ah..." After turning into a giant, the shield guard raised his head to the sky and roared, lowered his head and shoulders, and slammed into the crypt demon scorpion in front of him.
"Bang!" Amidst the huge impact, there was only a low-level savage impact, which made the demon scorpion hiss and back again and again. The scorpion's tail hook flashed black afterimages in the air, and then its highly poisonous tail needle could only leave white marks on the giant's body surface, but failed to break through the giant's defense.
Seeing this, the giant didn't hesitate any longer, and grabbed a scorpion's large pincers with each hand, and the two monsters were entangled and wrestled with each other like gladiators. However, the giant quickly overturned the crypt scorpion to the ground, rode on its belly, and beat the scorpion hard with its fists.
The crypt scorpion struggles in exasperation, and despite its size, it is not a creature of pure strength. However, the sharp claws and tail hooks on the side could not do anything to the giant, and they were beaten so loudly for a while.
It's just that the shield guard Newton's display of supernatural power did not make Weiss and Romon feel happy. Instead, there was a trace of sadness and pain on their faces.
No matter in any other world, the apostle's skills must follow one of the most basic world laws, which is the law of energy conservation. The price Newton paid was unimaginable for using this high-level skill that could compete with the arms of war with his second-level strength.
One of the most obvious sequelae is that the giantization can only last for less than half a minute. After the skill duration expires, Newton will immediately fall into a weakened state where all attributes are halved and energy is completely empty, which means that he cannot regenerate and leave this place.
The shield guard is a man who is not good at words. When Weiss and Romon were arguing about who should stay behind, he immediately made a decision and told the two companions with actions, "I will leave the queen, and you go."
"Go!" Weiss shouted that word almost at the top of his lungs, and the pale figure covered in bone armor passed by the sides of the two behemoths like lightning.
However, Weiss immediately slowed down. When he realized that his other companion, Romon, hadn't followed, his expression changed and he looked back.
Behind the two tumbling and entangled monsters, Romon was still floating in the air, smiling and waving at him. At the same time, the calm voice of the black-robed mage also came from the team channel.
"Someone needs to stop those two drow priests, head, remember to avenge us!"
"Romon!" Weiss' eyes blurred instantly, and the white bone armor in his palm was crushed to pieces. The speed of his skimming increased a bit, and he never looked back at the battlefield.
"Hahaha, it's really wonderful, no wonder they are so nostalgic for these worlds!" The silver-haired elf put down the World Tree longbow, put one hand into his bangs to cover his face, and laughed wildly.
"One was still escaped!" He muttered to himself, revealing a pair of icy eyes between his fingers, "Without the outbreak of the high-level apostle, the loss of the drow has not broken the limit, it seems that there is no way to achieve it perfectly." Goal."
"Forget it, there will be a chance to meet again in the future!"
He put down his hands, bowed his body in frustration, hung his hands in front of his body, shook his head as if venting, and then jumped off the giant fungus, disappearing into the darkness. He actually no longer waited for the death of Romon and Newton, not even the possible bloody Rubik's Cube.
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As time passed, the noise of the Mushroom Grove slowly subsided. Romon and Newton died of exhaustion, and their bodies were swallowed by the seriously injured scorpion.
"What, that surface elf disappeared?" Wendini and Ke Kena were surprised by the report of a drow warrior.
They always thought that the silver-haired elves were coveting something from these human mercenaries, so they cooperated with the drow elves. Although they had ordered a few drow warriors to keep an eye on him in secret, there was really no one to monitor him in the battle just now. Unexpectedly, the surface elves took advantage of such a small gap and ran away.
"Mother Wendini, what do you think we should do next?" Ke Kena hesitated for a moment, but still asked the old priest.
The intensity of this battle made her cautious. The cunning and insidiousness shown by the surface elf also made her feel a little apprehensive. Now the number of lizardman cavalry has shrunk by more than half, and the crypt scorpion has been seriously injured again. She is no longer as confident as before.
Every drow is very cunning, involving their own safety, and Kirkna doesn't mind listening to Undini's advice at all.
"I think we can go back to O'Balanar. The two traitors have been killed, and the dwarves and human mercenaries who interfered with the trial have also been wiped out. It's a pity that I couldn't sacrifice the fallen demon hunter. , but there is no need to delay it any longer." Wentini sighed and said a little unwillingly.
Because of her previous commitment, the credit for the last few battles goes to Kirkna. Her original idea of pleasing the Spider God Empress by sacrificing Qin Lun was also shattered. The only gain is that she made up for her mistakes and wiped out most of the dwarf exploration team that killed a large number of spider elves, which should calm the goddess' anger.
"I agree!" Ke Kena breathed a sigh of relief, this is the safest way.
"Boom... Boom... Boom..." Just as the two drow priests integrated their team and commanded the remaining lizardman cavalry to exit the Mushroom Grove, a burst of shaking explosions knocked everyone to the ground .
"Hiss..." The seriously injured demon scorpion let out an uneasy neigh, trampled the two monitor lizards next to it to pieces, and turned around in place irritably.
"Firelight!" Centered on the area where the drow elves were located, thick flames and poisonous smoke rose from all directions in the mushroom forest.
"Aw..." The mushroom man's angry roar came from the flames, and the giant mushrooms twitched violently, and the pink mist with a sweet and greasy smell quickly diffused in the mushroom forest.
"A hallucinogenic spore cloud!" Wendini and Ke Kena's expressions changed drastically, and they each raised their hands, putting a layer of magical shields around them. The hallucinogenic spores of the Mycogrove are very difficult to immunize against, an ability that the Myconids rely on for their survival.
"Who... who..." An angry roar came from the depths of the mushroom grove, followed by heavy footsteps of "dong dong dong" from all directions.
"Giant Mushroom Man!" Wendini and Ke Kena's expressions changed drastically, they looked at each other, and immediately commanded the lizard man cavalry to break out to the rear.