Chapter 159 - 154 The Troublesome Spider Demon Worm Nest
Chapter 159: Chapter 154 The Troublesome Spider Demon Worm Nest
Chapter 159 -154 The Troublesome Spider Demon Worm Nest
The landing battle began.
The sailors lowered the two landing crafts from the brackets, each capable of carrying twenty-five small units. Da Fei landed with Selvia and a whole team of fifty Druids. As for the over one thousand Flower Demons and Forest Goddesses, and the two Charming Emperors, they didn’t need to board the ship, flying soldiers are indeed convenient.
On the island, there were countless demon eggs wrapped in blood-red cocoon-like water-barrel-sized containers scattered everywhere. As Da Fei’s troops approached, the baby spider-sized demons hatched immediately and attacked Da Fei’s troops, who stomped on them with glee.
Then came the assault on the demon nest in the center of the island, which was as tall as a few stories and constantly writhing like a black organ. Up close, it was quite intimidating. This demon nest should be considered a troop-building structure, right? Da Fei suddenly remembered that Anemone King structure he planted on the Undead Island back in the Newbie Village. It no longer appeared in his control panel. He assumed it just withered away.
And structures generally had ridiculously high defense, so it was likely going to be hard to damage, right? But since they were here already, they might as well encircle it. With the 15 righteous power attack bonus, they launched a strong dismantling, and barely managed a -1 damage.
What the hell! The game doesn’t show fractional damage less than -1, so it took several hits to accumulate just -1!
Indeed, the defense of this kind of building was astonishingly high, at least over three hundred points. Such a huge attack-defense difference meant Da Fei’s troops only dealt 10% of normal damage! If it were a crossbow cannon, which usually had high damage, it wouldn’t have been as affected, but for ordinary soldiers, it was just a pain!
Of course, despite it being painful, the large number of troops meant it wasn’t worth taking time to assemble a siege machine just for this. After all, assembling and dismantling machinery took twenty minutes, and conventional troops could end the battle in that time, right?
Around six or seven minutes in, and the demon nest’s health, which had who knows how many million hit points, was barely halfway down. Da Fei started to regret this time-consuming operation. The loss of the entire Jungle Hunter team in the storm was indeed such a heavy loss, greatly affecting the efficiency of clearing the field. But even if they had been there, they might not have been much faster. For a siege, heavy artillery troops or machinery were ultimately necessary.
When the demon nest had one-third of its health left, it suddenly screamed and spewed dozens of giant spider eggs into Da Fei’s Druid array. The eggs broke open upon landing, unleashing dozens of cow-sized giant spiders, and for a moment, poison fog and webs were everywhere, throwing Da Fei’s Druid army into utter chaos!
Da Fei’s eyebrows twitched in surprise! Elite monsters! Wasn’t this just a kindergarten? How could there be such things!
Selvia and the Forest Goddess’s healing golden light immediately flashed, yet even so, when three elites ganged up on one Druid, it was instant death!
Boom! A thunderstorm descended from the sky, and with the assault of over a thousand Flower Demons and the backup of the two Charming Emperors, the dozens of giant spiders were wiped out in an instant, leaving behind the corpses of more than ten Druids.
Looking at the mess-strewn battlefield, Da Fei was left utterly deflated! Damn it, this was definitely too much of a time-waster, he regretted it! Once this was done, he wouldn’t fight any more of these.
A flash of golden light.
—System Prompt: Your subordinate hero Selvia used Master-level Great Resurrection Technique, reviving sixteen Druids! Revived Druids are in a weakened state.
Ugh, already low on manpower from the dismantling, now they’re weakened. In any case, finish this! Surely this demon nest wouldn’t have any more tricks, right?
Finally, a loud rumble signaled the collapse of the demon nest, as if a blood pool were caving in, blood gushing downward. Da Fei let out a long sigh of relief. This venture, what a loss.
Huh? Wait a minute! There hasn’t been any system prompt for so long! Don’t tell me it’s not over yet!
Da Fei worriedly took a step back and immediately had his troops retreat significantly.
Just then, a sharp screech came from the collapsing meat mountain. Da Fei turned back in alarm to see a massive, truck-sized golden spider crawling out from the pile, accompanied by an endless tide of small spiders!
BOSS!!!
Ahhh! Da Fei spat a mouthful of blood! Why did other demon nests just quietly roll over and die, but this spider demon’s nest had to be so overly complicated and infuriating? If it were just one solitary boss, he might not even flinch; he also had two Charming Emperors with one thousand health each! But what about all those little spiders? Could he take them on? Or should he lead them to the shore to be blasted by the ship’s crossbow cannon?
At that moment, the giant golden spider suddenly spat out a large glob of slime that landed in the middle of the Flower Demon group, exploding into a skyful of white liquid, which promptly turned into shimmering silver threads, ensnaring the entire thousand-plus Flower Demons to the ground!
Da Fei’s hair stood on end! Damn it, what kind of magic is this?
So, he had to fight to the death? Otherwise, retreating might be determined by the system as a defeat, potentially causing the loss of these thousand Flower Demons!
Just then, a blaze flashed before Da Fei’s eyes, erupting with fire as a massive firebird soared forth!
—System Prompt: Your subordinate hero used Master-level Arcane “Summon Phoenix!” A Phoenix joined the battlefield to aid you in combat.
Anwen’s voice rang out from the ship, “Captain, fight! I’m supporting you!”
Da Fei’s eyes twitched in shock, summoning an eighth-level troop Phoenix! Only Master-level Arcanists could use this spell! It could only be used once a day, and the Phoenix’s power grew with the hero’s level! Mrs. Anwen, you are indeed grand and impressive!
—Phoenix: Neutral Elemental Life, eighth-level troop. Basic Attack 33, Basic Defense 33, Basic Killing: 30-50, Basic Life 800, Attack Speed 20, Special Skill: Flying Creature, Elemental Life, Flame Breath, Flame Shield.
The Phoenix was the game’s most special unit, seldom appearing as a wild troop. It commonly appeared as a summoning product of a Grandmaster-level Arcanist, its power linked to the summoner’s level. Thus, it had a baseline for its attributes. A high-level Arcanist’s summoned Phoenix would, of course, be overwhelmingly powerful, but its drawback was that if the Phoenix was destroyed, the Arcanist would lose all their Mana, making it impractical to summon a Phoenix lightly in large battles.
So, is there a more reliable tank than a Phoenix, a self-sustaining fire-shielded elemental being? Although Mrs. Anwen was only level thirty, and the summoned Phoenix might be rather weak, even then, it’s still an eighth-level troop with a thousand health, capable of boosting the defense to seventy or eighty points. As long as it held up for a few seconds, Da Fei’s army could focus fire and obliterate the boss!
Go! First, focus fire to kill the boss! The Phoenix charged the golden spider head-on, a blend of fire and poison fog bursting and intertwining! The Druid Army’s Magic Bullets and the Forest Goddess Army’s Flying Spears roared forth, followed closely by the Charming Emperors’ Flame Bombs.
In this first round of focused fire, Da Fei’s army dealt over a thousand points of damage to the boss! Watching the long strings of red damage numbers pop up above the heads of both the golden spider and the Phoenix, and the endless string of ‘Poison Immunity’ popping up above the Phoenix, Da Fei’s heart was in his throat!
As a boss monster, it was clearly in a different league compared to his own bosses! Da Fei had to take back his earlier joke, saying, “my two 1000-health Charming Emperors could still stand up to it!” Even against a player’s army, a 1000-health Charming Emperor wasn’t necessarily safe.
At this point, the Phoenix’s health was running low, while the swarm of small spiders had begun tearing into the Druid array!
Hold on! They had to hold on! It was the Phoenix, this godlike elemental being, that was immune to all poisons, able to withstand the boss’s poison mist. If the Phoenix fell, the consequences would be unimaginable! But under the current circumstances—
Da Fei suddenly realized that the Flower Demon Army, trapped in the web, had their magic bar activated! This meant that the web’s effects were beginning to wane, allowing the Flower Demons to cast spells!
Unleash the God-level ultimate move!
—System Prompt: Your vice-hero Selvia exhausted all her Mana to use the Master-level Meditation Skill “Magic Coordination,” temporarily increasing the Magic Power of all your casting armies by one point.
In an instant, a thousand Flower Demons shimmered and cast spells together, a swarm of bees formed a vast cloud above the battlefield, while the Druids glowed and raised their Thunder Light-flashing Magic Wands!
Basic swarm damage = 3+8×Magic Power, Advanced Thunder Damage = 32+15×Magic Power; so when the Magic Power value changed from zero to one, it meant that Da Fei’s Flower Demon Army’s damage tripled in an instant, while the Druid’s Thunder Damage increased by 50%! Such an absurd burst of instant magic output, if unsuccessful, it wouldn’t even be a kindergarten!
—Boom!!! Swarms and thunder interwove downward, and the small spiders exploded into a sea of blood flowers, the Golden Spider Boss screamed and perished instantaneously!
Is there no end!?
—System Prompt: You have destroyed the Demon Nest and gained 60,000 Experience! Reputation increased by 100!
—Task Hint: The current completion progress of “Attack Abyss Blood Pool” mission: Destroyed nest count 11/100.
—System Prompt: You defeated the Spider Demon Worm Nest Guardian and gained 70,000 Experience. You acquired a large loot item “Golden Spider Web”!
—Golden Spider Web: C-level strategic treasure, large hunting tool, fishing gear. Can confine one tactical position of enemy action, unable to be dispelled by magic. Large items cannot be carried by players. Can be equipped on ships or set up in trap mechanisms.
Looking at the bundle of golden glowing silk mass exposed from the collapsed demon nest, Da Fei let out another long breath of relief, this time truly assured. The ordeal nearly resulted in extreme danger! Damn it, wasn’t it just a fishing net? Oh well, it counts as a gain at least, and it can be mounted on the Flying’s support equipment position.
Like people, ships also needed equipment. Ship equipment usually comprised of figureheads, rammers, auxiliary sails, lifeboats, and the like.
Just then, a cold mist suddenly appeared in front of Da Fei, and a sharp voice rang out, “Well done! But it’s not enough! It’s far from appeasing my resentment! No matter what, kill them all, slaughter this worm lot!!! Wahahaha—”
—System Prompt: Your mission “Tree Elf Resentment” completion progress: Destroyed Spider Demon Worm Nest 1.
The cold mist dissipated, but the venomous laughter lingered. Da Fei stood dumbfounded on the spot! No matter what, couldn’t you stop giving me a hard time? I don’t want to fight any more Spider Demon Worm Nests! Damn it!
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