At this time, Zhao Xu telepathically signaled to Vivian. She immediately nodded, took out a handful of gold coins from her arms and stuffed them into the arms of the two players who were guiding her.
"Your reward." Vivian said in a cold voice.
After saying that, she raised the Holy Avenger in her hand again and flew towards Zhao Xu in front.
Now her goal has become to help Zhao Xu get those brass treasure boxes.
"Brother, are we still following?" Ranger Jianyu asked tangledly.
Looking up, the entire flat nest is filled with countless mutant scorpions that are densely packed. Some positions cannot accommodate them and can only be stacked in staggered positions.
These mutant scorpions seemed to have received mysterious instructions and crawled into the central lair from the countless corridors in this maze.
If Zhao Xu and Vivian hadn't had the ability to fly, it would have taken them more than half an hour to squeeze through the scorpion's escape hole.
"We retreat from other entrances. This is no longer something we can intervene in." Warrior Beiguo picked up the gold coin purse in his hand. I am afraid there are no less than fifty gold coins in it, which is enough for their harvest tonight.
"only?"
Ranger Jianyu looked at Zhao Xu who was killing people at the entrance of the cave and couldn't help but look envious, "We may not be able to follow them."
"How about a little ambition? We players want to follow the big guys among the players. If you join the NPC now, you will be looked down upon." Warrior Bei Guo said righteously.
"One day, we player mages will all be as powerful as this NPC mage."
The warrior's eyes seemed to be lit with blazing light.
As for Zhao Xu at this time, he kept waving his wooden stick crazily.
Because his Fearlessness, Rhinoceros Charge, and Staff each brought double damage, he did not encounter a giant monster at this time. Zhao Xu also saved one of his spell slots and no longer activated the ability of the Rune Staff.
Just relying on his two abilities of fearlessness and rhinoceros, he has already allowed himself to deal damage as high as 60 HP with one blow. It depends on who you see.
The only thing required is that he has to rely on his charging ability to activate it.
Along with Zhao Xu's own flying ability, he was like a steel warrior, constantly running rampant at the entrance of the cave.
Everywhere he goes, there are huge sticks waving, not very fast, but also full of chaos, and there must be something to gain.
Slowly, the corpses of mutant scorpions began to gather throughout the entrance of the cave.
And these mutant scorpions, even if they are reincarnated as humans, still find it difficult to understand why this mysterious man in front of them does not seem to have great swing strength, and the speed of the club body is similar to that of ordinary people -
He could actually kill their mutant scorpions so easily.
There are many warriors in the world who can defeat Shi Hui with one force, but this is definitely the first time that an 8-power mage like Zhao Xu has fought in close combat.
The only way for all players to pile up damage is their own strength and weapon enchantment, and then the special ability of the paladin "Slay Evil".
Unlike Zhao Xu, every time he attacks, the damage is tripled or quadrupled.
The average person would only be able to perform a perfect performance to achieve the near-peak "crit" damage, which would only be twice that. Only the legendary giant scythe could barely manage four times.
Unlike the man in front of him, it was as if the sword had four times the critical strike, turning the Arthur world where warriors struggled to survive into the "real Arthur Unparalleled".
Even if Zhao Xu triggers a critical hit himself, the damage can be doubled, reaching five times the peak HP of 100 HP.
"I'm coming." Vivian also rushed over amid the tide of scorpions flying in the sky.
Her body was already stained with a lot of juice sprayed after killing insects, which was no different from Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu looked beside him. The ultra-small mutant scorpion that was still emerging from the ground wrapped itself around his thigh without paying attention.
The speed at which they spewed out completely exceeded the speed at which the two men were strangled.
Even if Zhao Xu freely activates the sword energy of the "Cloud of Blades" on his body to kill, it will not help at all.
Even those mutant scorpions that attacked were always lucky enough to attack Zhao Xu's weak points, successfully breaking through the barrier of his mage armor and breaking through the defense.
But in the end, it was successfully blocked by the meteor glow inspired by Zhao Xu's star cloak.
"Enter the cave entrance." Zhao Xu shouted.
After confirming the brass treasure chest and successfully picking it up, his goal began to change, and it was no longer just to fight to the death to obtain life energy.
As Zhao Xu's figure broke into the deep passage, he suddenly found that it was filled with turbid aura, and densely packed waves of scorpions were spread throughout every corner of the passage.
If you are allergic to insects, you will faint when you see this scene.
Only Vivian, who was born in an abyss with even harsher environmental conditions, could be as careless as Zhao Xu and kill all the way.
Zhao Xu activated his sword energy every round and continued to charge forward.
At the same time, he hammered every mutant scorpion blocking the road to death with his own wooden stick, until the whole corridor was filled with that fishy smell.
It was also the first time that Zhao Xu discovered that repeated mechanical slashing could make his hands numb even if he was not a machine.
After catching up with the speed of the mutant scorpion midway, he successfully intercepted the second brass treasure box.
He barely regained his morale and continued to fight towards the end of the passage.
"President, I'm afraid this is not the answer?"
Vivian shook her head and shook the sweat from her hair.
For some reason in this winter season, the heat gushing from the earth's veins was much higher than before, making them all sweat.
"Um."
Zhao Xu also sighed. At this time, he could already feel the soreness and numbness in his hands, and then it would become a tingling sensation.
"I'm afraid the fireball technique won't be able to clean up much at this location." Vivian helped Zhao Xu analyze.
A fireball with a radius of 6 meters only clears a 12-meter corridor, and the entire circular area is basically wasted.
"Don't worry."
Zhao Xu comforted him. He was out of breath at this moment, holding one hand on the wall and leaning on his knees with the other, not caring that his hands were covered with sticky juice from the exploding insects.
Other mages have to be very selective when learning spells. Generally, spells with the same function will not be learned repeatedly.
Because copying spells is too expensive, the borrowing fee alone is 50 gold coins per page, and three pages for third-level spells. That means copying a third-level spell is 150 gold coins in vain.
Not to mention there is a cost of ink consumption for the transcription.
Because he had added too many spell slots to melee combat at the beginning, even if he could combine two second-level spells to become a third-level spell, he was still starting to struggle.
This also makes him look forward to when he reaches level 9.
If Zhao Xu's combat effectiveness at level 1 is 1, then his combat effectiveness at level 6 is now 10.
At level 9, he has potential points and unlimited spell slots, and his combat power is 1,000.
At that point, even if he had fought against the Nine Ring Master, he still had the confidence.
In an instant, after Zhao Xu had cleared some space in the corridor, after he stopped moving, countless small mutant scorpions appeared in front of him, filling his field of vision.
Those large and above mutant scorpions have felt the terrifying threat of Zhao Xu's wooden stick after sprinting, and began to avoid him.
At the same time, he constantly directed countless small mutant scorpions to pile up walls to block his path forward.
Although Zhao Xu felt like he was almost reaching the energy bottleneck after killing so much, he was now in a state where his strength had just been exhausted and he was completely exhausted.
The mutant scorpions around him rushed toward him crazily, trying to claw at him and attack him with their tail stings.
Then he was stopped by the armor and star cloak with difficulty.
"President, please step back first." Vivian whispered at this time. Now her mithril armor was broken at some weak joints, and she could successfully attack her with these damages.
It was only a slight injury, but she immediately healed herself using the holy warrior's holy healing ability.
On the contrary, Zhao Xu, a priest who was born with healing spells, has not successfully used healing spells several times in the four months since the server was launched.
It is completely opposite to ordinary priests who spend 80% to 90% of their spell slots on healing spells.
"No, no need."
Zhao Xu looked at his spell position, gritted his teeth and looked at the army of mutant scorpions in front of him like black clouds looming over the city.
"I'm going to start clearing the road, and then we'll fly over immediately. If we waste any more time here, we'll just be blocked." Zhao Xu warned.
He also didn't expect that the mutant scorpion mother in this lair would be so fertile, blocking their way with an army of scorpions.
"Okay." Vivian nodded solemnly.
Suddenly, the sand above Zhao Xu's head suddenly cracked, and then a whole nest of ultra-small and small mutant scorpions dumped directly on him.
It wrapped around him like a curtain of insect clothing, even turning and swelling on his body.
Vivian's eyes widened for a moment, and she hurriedly waved the sword in her hand, but she couldn't swing it down.
She knew that Zhao Xu was fine at the moment, but once the other person lost consciousness or fell into a helpless state, the mutant scorpion army in front of her would be able to easily bite him to death.
Zhao Xu, on the other hand, seemed to have lost all his strength like an old man, struggling to lift his arm that had been attached to many scorpions.
His middle finger barely passed through the swarm of mutant scorpions that surrounded him, and was exposed, pointing to the corridor ahead that had been blocked by the insect swarm.
"Lightning beam."
Vibrating electric light surged from his fingertips, and azure arcs of lightning shot into the sky and penetrated the two realms.
A long whip-shaped lightning beam of nearly thirty to forty meters broke through the void and reached the other side.
The gold, silver, copper and lead in all the ores along the way were instantly melted, and all obstacles were shattered to the ground.
The corridor that was airtight just now was suddenly cleared to a length of forty meters.
The mutant scorpions that were originally alive and kicking died in pieces under the lightning beam with a damage range of 10-60 (10D6), leaving not even the slightest ability to struggle.
They were no longer able to even perform the most basic twitches, and were just lost in place, turning into corpses, leaving behind scorched scars streaked by lightning.
"fly."
Zhao Xu rushed forward suddenly.
At the next blockage, another "lightning beam" penetrated the front, illuminating the entire dark passage.
Until the end, Zhao Xu rushed forward with all his strength.
The moonlight dimly shone on his tired but determined face. .
Dew and frost poured onto his robe and cloak, which was stained with mutant scorpion juice and had become shapeless.
Zhao Xu would definitely not be able to get rid of this nausea if he didn't take four or five showers after returning home.
But at this moment, Vivian immediately raised the long sword that shone coldly under the moonlight and blocked it in front of him.
She looked at the hunting cavalry in front of her, as if she was dead.
On the slope in front of the cave entrance is a heavily armored cavalry unit, led by two young men in the same uniform.
Surrounding them were crouched the super-large, giant, and even super-giant mutant scorpions that had originally escaped, and densely packed with other types of scorpions that occupied the entire hilltop.
Seeing the leading mutant scorpions bowing their heads obediently towards the two young men at the front, Zhao Xu immediately understood that this underground lair actually had an owner.
That is to say, the treasure box he said was placed by the family power behind this young man.
"How dare you take the treasure chest that our family has placed here without authorization? You two thieves haven't handed them back yet." One of the young leaders, who was pale and arrogant, shouted angrily.
"No, just kill them and take them from the corpses. They have touched family secrets and have no choice but to die." Another young man with a resolute face said.
He waved his hand directly, and suddenly the cavalry from all over the mountains and plains rushed towards them.
(End of chapter)