As the footsteps got closer, everyone could finally see the enemy's appearance in the dim environment.
They were a group of humanoid monsters with crocodile heads, but their skin had turned black and ulcerated, and their eyes, heads, and backs were covered with black, slender tentacles like worms.
It's so crowded and quite creepy.
"It's the polluted Crocodile..."
Rahn suddenly spoke up.
Chen Lun looked at the crocodile people rushing in from all directions with his eyes slightly narrowed.
'They were supposed to be living in a settlement in the spirit world, but were probably suddenly polluted and became what they are now... Unfortunately, the Crocodiles are intelligent spirit creatures that are close to humans, but they are no longer worth saving. All that is left of them is a gradually decaying shell.'
"kill!"
Chen Lun gave orders to the team members in a deep voice.
Team members Rane and Sibe immediately took a step forward, their bodies emitting dazzling golden light.
They spread their arms and shouted to the scorching sun.
Buzz!
Several golden beams of light descended from the sky, illuminating the surrounding environment and covering the Crocodile Warriors in the front. The hot breath of high temperature rushed towards them, and more than a dozen contaminated Crocodile Warriors evaporated and died on the spot.
'Solar Sequence Five - Son of Light...'
Chen Lun glanced at the two team members and thought to himself.
He had already learned about the team members' information through the files given to him by his superior McCaughrean, so he was not surprised at this moment.
The strength of these polluting creatures in front of them is not strong, probably only at the level of Sequence 8 transcendents, and very few have reached the middle sequence, but they cannot be the opponents of the investigation group one.
The Imperial Inquisition is the highest military agency. Even though Chen Lun's team has less than ten people, they can easily deal with such a wave of pollution.
Wells and Federica each took out their own weapons, a spear and a straight sword. They had sharp eyes and a wave of their hands, covering the blades with a layer of purple light. They then moved as fast as rabbits in the dark environment, dashing through the tide of pollution.
Every slash and thrust could easily penetrate Crocodile Shi’s stratum corneum and destroy his soul.
These are two Moon Sequence Five Black Knights.
As for Mathison and the other two, they did not dare to be perfunctory in such a situation. They each used their own sequence ability to join in the fight.
Mathison turned into a skeleton zombie to cover Rocky and Melis behind him. One of them chanted spells and manipulated the air to form a big hand, forcibly "grabbing" a dozen crocodile warriors together. One of them held a longbow and shot out a huge stream surrounded by starlight to carry out covering bombardment.
Soon, hundreds of crocodile warriors that attacked were killed by everyone. Their bodies disappeared in the dim environment without leaving any trace, as if they had never existed.
From beginning to end, Chen Lun just stood there and watched without taking any action.
The team members turned back with relaxed smiles on their faces.
It seemed that this small number of enemies was not even enough for them to warm up.
Mathison cast a disdainful look and said sarcastically:
"Dear Captain Jack, why have you been standing here and not joining the battle? Are you afraid of those crocodiles? Or are you being lazy?"
"I just believe you are strong enough to handle it."
Chen Lun glanced at him lightly and said calmly.
Seeing that the situation was somewhat tense, Laen quickly asked:
"Captain, I don't know how long that spiritual turbulence has been here. Before we arrived, it must have brought a large number of polluted creatures to the human world. Should we follow the turbulence to clean up the monsters... They may have already wreaked havoc in the empire."
Chen Lun turned his head and looked at the huge black vortex in the distance, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"You are right, Rahn. Although our mission goal is to investigate the source of the pollution, when encountering a situation like this, the stability of the empire must be the top priority."
He retracted his gaze and said to everyone:
"But we must first find the pollution source nearby and eliminate it, so that we can solve the problem from the root... Logically speaking, since there are polluting organisms of this scale, there must be a pollution source."
"Yes, Captain."
The team members responded.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Lun led the team to search near the turbulence, and after several attacks by contaminated organisms, they finally found the source of the pollution.
Similar to what Chen Lun had seen before, it was a giant "strange egg" tens of meters tall, covered with a thick dark green cuticle, uneven all over, with densely packed long legs underneath, carrying the giant egg and moving slowly.
A thick, sticky, and foul-smelling liquid flows on its surface, filled with mysterious pollution.
At the top of the dome, there is a circular arch, from which contaminated crocodiles continuously roll out. After falling to the ground, they quickly get up and wander around.
A small number of people accidentally walked into the turbulent flow and were swept away and disappeared.
Chen Lun looked at the circular arch on the top of the dome and knew that it was created by Didak, the son of the ancient god. He only needed to kill him to completely destroy this source of pollution.
"Rane, Sibe, Mathison, Rocky, and Melis... The five of you will be responsible for clearing out the wandering polluting creatures. Wells and Federica's target is the circular arch on top of the giant egg."
He immediately gave the order.
Mathison and the other two were ready to refute, but Chen Lun just looked at them coldly and said:
"It's okay to disobey orders, but think about the consequences."
"snort!"
Mathison had a grim look on his face. He turned around and led the two of them to rush towards the surrounding crocodile warriors, as if he wanted to vent his unhappy emotions on them.
The reason why Chen Lun made such arrangements is because Wells and Federica, as black knights, are like fish in water in this dim environment and can complete the task better.
Although this was the first operation of an investigation team, they cooperated well. With the support of Larn and other five people, Wells and Federica climbed up the giant strange egg smoothly and were about to attack the pale beetle carrying the arch.
But at this moment.
Chen Lun suddenly realized something and frowned.
He turned his head and saw the air in two places fluctuate slightly for a moment.
'Invisible enemy?'
Chen Lun's eyes narrowed.
His insight of 71 points allowed him to quickly detect the opponent's traces, and two tall, slender, ferocious figures slowly appeared in his sight—
They were two humanoid insects covered with barbs, with a metallic silver-white luster. One had two sharp horns on its head, and the other had folded wings on its back. Its arms were long and shaped like a mantis, and its two reversed limbs were as sharp and terrifying as scimitars.
They were moving silently, sneaking towards Laan and the other five people, as if they wanted to launch a sneak attack.
'Two sons of the ancient god, Didak...'
Chen Lun's eyes were deep.
He had been besieged by the descendants of the ancient gods at the end of darkness and knew their strength. Their physical strength was very strong, and even a mid-sequence extraordinary person would find it difficult to survive if he was caught off guard and hunted by Didak.
Chen Lun was about to kill the two Didaks, but he suddenly turned around and looked behind him.
'There are more coming this way, very fast...'
He stared quietly ahead, as if he could see through the dim environment, a series of hideous figures moving rapidly.
Chen Lun already knew the answer in his heart.
"Fourteen!"
Chen Lun turned around to look at the team members, thought about it, and then disappeared instantly. As the captain, he had to intercept the large number of Didaks in the rear, otherwise the team would face great danger.
As for the two Didacs that were about to launch a sneak attack, he chose to let the team members deal with them on their own.
If they can't even deal with such an enemy, then there is no need to continue the next operation. After all... In the dark world, there are far more Didaks than this.
Ten seconds later.
boom!
Chen Lun's figure instantly landed in front of the fourteen insect men. An abrupt stop caused turbulent air currents, causing them to stop their steps and movements. They stood in place, raised their strange heads, and stared at this strange human with several pairs of pitch-black eyes.
These Didaks have different shapes, different shells and sharp claws, some are more defensive, some are more offensive, some have wings and poisonous stingers, some have abnormally strong right arms covered with shells, like crab claws. Some are even curled up like a ball of spikes.
In short, it is difficult to understand their structure at the level of human knowledge.
"I haven't fought in a while, so I'll use you to warm me up."
Chen Lun said calmly.
His eyes immediately turned fierce, and the Balagu necklace on his chest suddenly spread out, spreading out countless iron wires, wrapping his whole body. But before that, his skin was already covered with pale scales.
Pale Knight form activated!
Chen Lun immediately displayed his powerful fighting posture, wanting to end the battle quickly.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The three-meter-tall pale knight stretched out his right arm forward, and a group of hideous snakes broke through the air and rushed towards the insect people like a flood!
Hiss!!
The fourteen Didaks were furious, feeling that they were being provoked. They raised the "weapons" that had grown on their bodies and rushed towards Chen Lun.
Both sides moved extremely quickly, and their shadows were barely visible in the dim environment.
There were continuous loud muffled sounds, like continuous bombings.
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"Watch out! Rocky!"
Mathison's heart suddenly jumped, and a strong intuition made his scalp tingle, as if a disaster was about to happen. He noticed a slight distortion in the environment from the corner of his eye, and subconsciously warned his companions.
But Mathison was still a step too late. When Rocky realized something was wrong, a sharp scream was heard behind him.
stop!!
The extremely fast slash fell like a bolt of lightning, hitting Rocky directly on the back and splitting him in half on the spot!
A two-meter-tall silver-white ferocious figure stood on Rocky's body, with blood dripping from its mantis arms. It raised its sharp blade, stretched out its slender tongue to lick the blood, and then let out a hissing sound of pleasure.
"Damn it! Everyone be careful! There are still enemies!"
The white-bone ghoul that Mathison transformed into roared.
When Rane and the others heard his shout, they were shocked and quickly killed the Crocodile Warrior in front of them. They retreated dozens of meters and stood back to back.
Just as Mathison finished speaking, a slashing blow appeared from his side, and with a puff, it cut off his strong left leg!
The armor covered with bones was as fragile as porcelain and shattered in an instant!
Blood is gushing out!
Mathison cried out in pain and staggered involuntarily.
The other insect man that attacked him showed up. It seemed to have a strong fighting instinct. When Mathison showed a flaw, it seized the opportunity, unfolded the wing membrane folded on its back, and carried it flying with high-frequency vibrations, circling to the side of Mathison's head, and its mantis arms suddenly fell off.
Rest, rest, rest!
The sharp slashes were impenetrable, and Mathison could only barely raise his arms to block them, but he was soon covered in blood.
At this moment, Meris, who was not far away from him, saw this and immediately pulled the turquoise longbow in his hand to its full length, and shot out an arrow that was as bright as starlight!
Whoosh—
The Didak insect man who was attacking Mathison fiercely didn't even turn his head. His body swayed slightly and he passed by the flow.
boom!!
The Starlight Arrow fell behind Mathison, causing a violent explosion.
Mud and dust flew everywhere, and the floating psychedelic mist exploded and turned into flying atomized light spots.
The two Didaks seemed to have an unknown means of communication. They turned around in tacit understanding and rushed straight towards Meris, as if they knew she was a greater threat.
The female team member's face changed slightly, and she quickly raised her hand and waved it. In the floating starlight, her figure was hidden. This is one of the sequence abilities of Star Sequence Five - Charm Demon, which achieves the effect of "invisibility" by deceiving the opponent's cognition.
However, the several pairs of black compound eyes on the faces of the two Didak insect men kept turning, and soon locked onto an empty space and rushed straight towards it.
"Damn it! Come help me!"
Meris's frightened voice rang out, the bowstring crackled, and several starlight arrows appeared out of thin air and shot towards the insect man.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The Didak insect man moved left and right at an extremely fast speed. After dodging most of the arrows, he raised his mantis arms to slash at the remaining ones, making crisp clanging sounds.
Sparks flew and the Starlight Arrow was broken into several pieces.
The explosion still occurred, but two insect men quickly emerged from the smoke, their silver-white shells not even damaged! This shows how terrifying their defense is!
Their speed was not affected much, and in just a few breaths, they arrived in front of Meris, who appeared with a panicked expression.
At this time.
The ground shook.
Suddenly, a huge stone centipede sculpture emerged, rustled around and rolled up the two insect-men, carrying them to one side and crashing them into the ground.
Boom!
Rocky crawled out of the hole where the centipede emerged from and brushed off the dust on his body.
"Rocky!"
Meris breathed a sigh of relief.
"Rocky is not dead..."
Laan and others were surprised and delighted.
"He is not only a magic sequence five - Wither Carver, but also a member of the School of All Things. This is one of his abilities."
Xibe looked at Rocky who had "come back from the dead" and added with a chuckle.
The opponent's "corpse" slowly stiffened and turned into a pile of rubble.
boom!!
There was a loud noise.
The two Didaks quickly cut off the giant centipede statue, broke free, and rushed towards Meris again. But this time, Rahn and the others were already prepared. Although they looked solemn, they also determined the tactics through a brief exchange.
The bug-men are quite powerful, but they are not weak either.
Members of the Imperial Inquisition will not be afraid of any powerful enemy!
Mathison's broken limbs grew back, and he rushed to the front with a roar and a face full of resentment. Rane and Sibe used the sun god magic to illuminate the surrounding environment, and used high-temperature rays to burn the body of the Didak insect man.
Melis constantly used starlight to tamper with the insect people's cognition, buying herself time to dodge, firmly holding the opponent's hatred, and using the "kite tactic", while Rocky followed not far from her, releasing magic from his hands and falling on the insect people.
After several minutes of fierce fighting, the five team members finally ended the battle.
At the same time, Didac, which carried the circular arch on the dome, was also destroyed by Wells and Federica, and the source of pollution was completely eliminated.
Everyone gathered together, slightly panting.
Mathison turned his head and looked at the two silver-white hideous insect corpses lying on the ground not far away, and said in a cold voice:
"This damn bug is really hard to deal with. During the first investigation mission, did the people from the Orthodox Church also suffer attacks from this kind of monster?"
"Yes, many elite members of the Extraordinary Team died at their hands."
Federica nodded.
Everyone chatted for a while and suddenly realized that the captain was missing.
"Where's Captain Jack?"
Rahn glanced around but couldn't see anyone.
"Humph! He might have died in the sneak attack of this insect man!"
Mathison said, hugging his elbows.
"Maybe he is deserting the battlefield."
"You like to say bad things about me, don't you?"
At this time, a magnetic male voice came slowly.
Everyone turned their heads suddenly, but they didn't know when Captain Jack appeared behind them.
At the same time, everyone's expressions changed.
Especially Mathison, Rocky and Melis, their eyes were fixed on the several ropes dragging in Chen Lun's hands.
Because the other end of these ropes...
Each of them was tied up with a sturdy insect man corpse!
All in all, there are more than a dozen of them!
"Captain, you...what are you doing?"
Rahn asked, stuttering.
"Just now, this group of Didaks came in a menacing manner. After I noticed them, I went over to intercept them in advance to avoid greater chaos."
Chen Lun said calmly.
The team members glanced at each other inconspicuously, and saw deep shock in each other's eyes.
Is this Captain Jack's true strength...
They had already found it quite difficult to deal with the two Didaks just now, but the captain fought against these fourteen alone and won a great victory... How could he have done it without the power to crush them? !
The rumors are true, the captain is definitely a ruthless man who has killed the incarnation of a saint!
Mathison and the other two suppressed their inner shock, their breathing was not smooth, they lowered their heads involuntarily, not daring to look into Jack's eyes.
Chen Lun didn't care much about the reactions of his team members. He swung his hand, and the huge force directly threw more than a dozen corpses into the air, dropping them at the feet of the crowd with a bang.
"Their shells and sharp claws and fangs are all rare extraordinary materials. Take a short rest. Raen will take the materials and keep them. You can share them equally after the mission is over."
Chen Lun said softly.
"Yes...Yes! Captain Jack!"
Rahn took a deep breath and then spoke excitedly.
Chen Lun glanced at Mathison and the other two who looked like good kids and shook his head.
"You have done a good job. Now that the source of pollution has been destroyed, we can now go to the real world through the turbulence without any worries and eliminate the polluting creatures that accidentally entered the empire."
"Yes! Captain Jack!"
The team members responded one after another.
His tone was much more respectful than when they first met.
After all, through this incident, they also saw from the side that the captain of their team was definitely a strong man who was not easy to mess with...