Main Volume Chapter 100: Purifying the Rotten Soil
"Watch out, evil creature, meow~"
"Holy light shines, meow~"
"I won, meow~"
Although the three cats were only level 1 and had not eaten the upgrade materials in Zhang Yun's backpack, they were very efficient in purifying the undead. In just half a minute, they eliminated all the undead on the street, including the immortal high-level zombie.
After all, except for the undead zombies over level 30 on the whole street, the rest of the undead are just scattered ordinary skeletons of level 20. Their attributes are not much higher than those of the three cats, and they don’t have any troublesome talents and skills. Naturally, they are no match for the three Templar Cats.
Although the undead zombies are of high level, they have no resistance to their light attribute skills. They will die if they are hit by a sword blessed by holy light, so they are not a threat...
Thanks to these constantly pouring undead, the three cats were all upgraded to level 15 or above, and several light-attribute restraining skills were also upgraded to level 3, with their range and power improved.
Now if they encounter other elite undead, as long as they are not special beings like the Black Knight that are extremely difficult to deal with, they can fight and have a great chance of winning.
If faced with a dense sea of undead in other areas, these three cats can rely on their own strength to hold on for a while. They will not evaporate instantly once they are overwhelmed by the undead like they did before at level 1.
In fact, Zhang Yun was preparing to upgrade them just now, but they jumped down too fast, and he stretched out his left hand to the backpack but didn't have time...
Zhang Yun didn’t pay too much attention to this small problem. Anyway, the cats won the fight and their levels were upgraded, which was enough.
What he cared about was that a large area of the rotten soil around Meow Meow had been eliminated. Not only did the color change back to its normal khaki color, but no new skeletons crawled out from the ground.
"Eh?"
"So we can use the light attribute skill that restrains the undead to clear away the rotten soil?"
After a pause, Zhang Yun frowned again: "Well... it's a bit troublesome. The entire city is very large. If we only rely on the holy light purification of the meows, the efficiency will be very slow."
"Unless there is a large-scale AOE that can cover the entire city..."
At this time, Zhang Yun remembered the "Purifying Light" skill scroll that was dropped when he killed the Undead Mage before. It seems that this thing is a large-scale AOE skill?
Unfortunately, because he has not learned the skill, Zhang Yun does not know the specific attack range of it, so he must let a follower learn it first.
"Wait for me first!"
After Zhang Yun finished speaking, she instructed the crane to fly down from the sky and come to the three meows standing in the middle of the street.
At this time, Lily was standing next to them, with a greedy look on her face, and she was kneading the ears of one of the cats lovingly. It was obvious that she liked this furry creature very much.
The cat knight who was touched had a look of despair on his face: "Hey, little brat, don't touch my ears, meow~"
Lily continued to touch: "Hehehe..."
The knight meow looked at the other priest meow and sage meow and said angrily, "Damn it! Aren't you two going to save me? Meow?"
The Sage Meow and the Priest Meow said in unison: "We can't save her. She is much stronger than us. Just go with peace of mind. Sacrifice your small self for the greater self, meow~"
Knight Meow was full of questions: "Meow?"
Soon, the humbling moment ended as Zhang Yun flew down.
He stopped Lily from constantly ravaging Knight Cat, and then gave the skill scroll of "Light of Purification" to Knight Cat, allowing it to learn the skills in it.
[Warning! Templar Cat Knight's level has not reached 30! Occupational level has not reached the required level 15! Unable to learn "Light of Purification"! ]
Seeing the prompt, Zhang Yun did not hesitate and directly took out the experience crystal and the water of the goddess, and gave the energy contained in them to the knight cat, raising the cat to the personal level 30 and the professional level 15.
He used the skill scroll on Knight Cat again.
[Tip: Templar Cat Knight has learned the skill "Light of Purification"! ]
[Purifying Light: LV1, active skill, releases a purifying light with a large range, causing huge light damage to all dark creatures in that area, and cannot cause any effect on non-dark creatures, with a long cooldown time.]
[Casting range: within 20 meters centered on the player.]
"Well?"
“Only 20 meters?”
"The cooldown time is also longer than that of ordinary skills. It takes half an hour to use it once. It is not suitable for long-term battles..."
Zhang Yun touched the back of his head. It seemed that the skill of Purifying Light was no longer effective in dispelling the rotten soil. He had to find another solution.
Summon a hero with high starlight attributes?
Or should we add more low-star attribute followers, and then do a carpet cleanup to slowly eliminate the rot?
No need to think, the first one was passed directly. Not to mention that Zhang Yun could not afford the cost required, even if he really summoned a hero with high starlight attributes, he could not use them to directly purify the rotten soil in the whole city.
After all, all the light-attribute heroes that Zhang Yun remembered were mainly combat-oriented, and the large-scale skills they learned would be effective on everything, rather than unique skills like "Purifying Light" that were only effective on dark creatures.
Therefore, if Zhang Yun wants to clear the rotten soil all over the city, it means that he has to use high-star heroes to bombard the city with light-attribute skills, blowing up the city's ground and the rotten soil together.
Of course, there are special skills similar to "Purifying Light" that target dark creatures, but they are all small-range dispersal skills, and the maximum range is only a few dozen meters, which is slightly larger than the casting range of "Purifying Light".
There is no difference between the two effects, but the dragon diamonds and card drawing coupons consumed are very different.
So there is no way he would consider it.
As for the second method...
This is a relatively brainless option and is worth considering. Although the cost is a bit high, at least you have to summon thousands of light-attribute minions below three stars, but compared to the scarce resources spent on fighting for a high-star light-attribute hero, this loss is as cheap as mud.
Another problem is that this would be a very slow process, and it would take at least several hours to remove all the rotten soil from the desert city.
"But it's better than just leaving it alone..."
After thinking about it, Zhang Yun took off again and arrived at a safe high altitude, then put his consciousness deep into the warehouse to look for the low-starlight attribute followers that he had stockpiled before.
Soon, Zhang Yun found the most suitable follower for the current summon among the massive number of specific summoning cards.
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Name: Light Ball
Race: Magic Puppet
Inheritance: None
Title: None
Level: 1
Experience: 0
Health: 100/100
Stamina: ∞/∞
Personal attributes: Strength 2, Agility 1, Endurance 3, Intelligence 0, Spirit 0, Charm 0
Free attribute points: 0
Occupation: None
Skills: Holy Light Cannon (LV1, uses the inherent light attribute ability to release the light cannon, causing light attribute damage to the enemy.)
Equipment: None
Summoner: Zhang Yun
Faction: Temple of Magic
Overall qualification rating: one star (highest one star)
[Introduction: A special combat puppet made with light magic. It is insensitive to pain and fearless. It can move in perpetual motion as long as there is light, but it must have detailed instructions to act. Its main purpose is to be used by the Holy Temple to clear large areas of dark forces.]
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Light Ball, a one-star follower, belongs to the Temple organization just like the Three Cats of the Temple, but the three cats belong to the "Temple Cat Group", while Light Ball is a magic puppet made by the "Temple Magic Academy". The classification departments are different, so the forces they belong to in the introduction are different.
As a one-star follower, Light Sphere is just like Tidal Fizz, the kind of cannon fodder that can be thrown away after use...
No, it's even weaker than Fizz. After all, Fizz can be upgraded to 3 stars and become a special meat shield that can cheat skills, but it can only be the cheapest cannon fodder forever.
To be honest, Zhang Yun simply couldn't figure out at first what the official purpose of setting up this super-small fish was.
Use it to fight against a large crowd?
But their attack power is so weak that even if there are thousands of them, they can only give those BOSS-level creatures a slight blow.
Be a meat shield?
One AOE can clear the field instantly. Are you going to stand it alone?
Polluted card pool?
If you want to pollute the card pool, you should use 2-star and 3-star initial minions. These 1-star cannon fodders will never enter the card pool.
And now, Zhang Yun understood that these one-star cannon fodders that were given dozens of times were specialized followers used to deal with specific events, such as the large-scale dark rot that appeared now.
Their introductions have already explained all of this, but because they are too cannon fodder, they have not been seriously studied by players...
Then, Zhang Yun summoned a ball of light and ordered it to attack the unpurified rotten soil around the street. After confirming that their light attribute attacks could purify the rotten soil, he took out five sets of 999 light ball cards that he had accumulated in the warehouse for ten years and put them into his backpack.
"OK, now we just need to disperse the black cloud and spread the light balls around the city to let them clean up the rotten soil."
"It doesn't matter even if they are killed by the undead. As long as they use their skills on the rotten soil before they die and purify the rotten soil, their mission will be completed."
After thinking about it, Zhang Yun flew back to the sky and came to Lucina's side. He looked down at the street, looking for Ajid.
The Sanctuary Cats on the ground continued to cooperate with Zun Ge and Lily, first killing the undead skeletons that continued to appear on the streets, and then purifying the rotten soil with light attribute skills.
Not long after, the Temple Meowth purified all the land on this street, and with the black clouds in the sky dispersed by the Wind Elves, no new skeleton undead appeared here.
And Akito hasn't appeared yet...
For this reason, Zhang Yun rode a flying creature to take a walk around the area, but still did not find Ajid. Instead, he discovered that many high-level undead that he had never seen before were rushing towards the bottom of the wind elf.
Skeleton archers, black warriors, skeleton knights, zombie hounds, undead beasts...
In addition, there are the high-level undead that Zhang Yun has already seen, including evolved skeletons that can upgrade the level of undead, immortal undead zombies, intelligent skeleton warriors, and so on.
They are also mixed in...
Seeing these troublesome undead creatures, Zhang Yun thought for a moment and did not rush back to inform Lucina and the others. Instead, he quietly moved towards the direction where the undead came from to check their source.
You don’t know until you see it, and it’s shocking. These high-level undead are either evolved from ordinary undead, or directly transformed after powerful professionals in the city were killed.
And they are forming very quickly. Even in areas without black clouds, high-level undead are constantly being generated.
Zhang Yun was so sure because he saw with his own eyes that a professional who had been resisting stubbornly was hacked to death by an undead who suddenly evolved into a skeleton warrior. After his death, his corpse was directly transformed into a black warrior, who then hacked another companion to death and transformed him into a skeleton archer...
"Be good!"
"Is this the work of those evolved skeletons?"
"What about the people from the professional guild? Will they be hammered to death? Are the people in the caravan safe?"
A trace of worry flashed through Zhang Yun's mind, and he quickly shifted his focus to the elemental elves who were closely protecting the caravan members. He found that they were hiding safely in the basement of the professional guild, and no one was injured or dead.
He shifted his focus to the elemental elves following the muscular man and found that these guys were fighting head-on against the high-level undead black warriors and were firmly guarding the door of the professional guild.
But it seems like they won't be able to hold on for much longer. They will probably abandon the professional guild immediately and hide in the basement.
Sure enough, just as Zhang Yun was thinking this, he found someone running out of the professional guild's house and saying a few words to the muscular man and others. Then they retreated while fighting and retreated to the test room where Zhang Yun obtained the magician profession.
Then, they used magic to blow up the door, temporarily delaying the undead army at the door, and hid in a secret basement.
"It seems there is no problem over there..."
"The problem is on my side..."
Zhang Yun frowned, looked down at the countless undead creatures on the ground, and said slowly: "Well, since Ajid won't show up, I don't need to wait any longer, let's just start dispersing the rotten soil!"
He ordered the spirit crane to fly forward, then took out the prepared light ball cards from his backpack, summoned them in batches, and dropped them from a height of several dozen meters.
The light balls fell to the ground like bombs. From such a high altitude, they would die immediately if they touched the ground.
However, they were still fearless, like the soldiers of the suicide squad. The moment they were about to land, they fired the "Holy Light Cannon" at the ground, causing some damage to the undead, purifying the rotten soil, and finally falling to pieces.
Soon, Zhang Yun purified the rotten soil of several streets, but he also lost hundreds of light balls and needed to consume ordinary resurrection materials to revive them.
However, Zhang Yun did not rush to revive the dead light ball, but continued to move forward and threw the newly summoned light ball towards the rotten land.
This is because, compared to the weekly salary spent on summoning the light ball, the ordinary resurrection materials needed to revive the light ball are more precious. Zhang Yun once carefully calculated the difference in value between the two...
In the next few minutes, Zhang Yun purified several more streets and lost hundreds of light balls again.
He frowned and muttered, "No, this efficiency is too slow. By the time I liberate the entire city, there will probably be only a few people left."
"Isn't there a quicker way?"
At this moment, the system suddenly popped up, bringing a glimmer of new hope to Zhang Yun.
【Hint: The black clouds have been dispelled! 】
[Hint: Complete the optional task (II), remove the large-scale magic of "Sea of the Dead", and get 500 gold coins, 30 dragon diamonds, 10 experience crystals, 10 goddess water, and the "Purifier of the Dead" special summoning card! ]
"I go!"
"I would have almost forgotten about it if the system hadn't reminded me!"
"But looking at this guy's name..."
"Undead Purifier..."
"It seems to be the same as Undine last time. Is it the follow-up countermeasure card for this mission?"
