Volume 4 Chapter 23 Good Luck (3)
The demon corpse was just about to choose someone to devour, but when it saw someone taking the initiative to provoke it, it was no longer polite. It let out a ghostly howl and flew towards me, with its claws flying, trying to tear me into pieces!
I am known as the best fantasy fighter, how can I not have some skills? With the help of the impact of the mount, Tiger Soul drew a natural arc, and when it touched the opponent's claws, it was immediately shaken. The demon corpse was so strong that the unicorn's charge was abruptly stopped by it, but the demon corpse was not feeling well either. After its trick was broken, the recoil force also made it retreat three steps.
The demon corpse was furious and opened its mouth to spit out a large cloud of gray mist. Immediately, the air was filled with corpse gas and a foul odor. This thing was extremely poisonous, and the stench was three times worse than that of cleaning a toilet, making people avoid it as much as possible!
I couldn't stand it either! I covered my nose with one hand, pulled my horse back and ran away. Damn, I've never been so embarrassed before!
The demon corpse naturally didn't want to miss the opportunity. It caught up with me from behind and grabbed me on the back with one claw. A huge force came and I was almost thrown off the horse's back. My HP dropped by more than 2000. Damn it, this guy is much more powerful than the golden silkworm demon!
However, compared to the time when three people fought hard against the golden silkworm monster, the advantage this time is that we have more people on our side. Xiao Wu seized the opportunity very quickly. While I hurriedly rushed to challenge the monster corpse, she was directing the battle and sending five of her ten guards to assist me. These five people arrived one step later than me. Seeing that I was being chased by the monster corpse, one of them rushed forward first and stopped the monster corpse. Although he was far from its match and was killed instantly at the first encounter, he bought me time to escape and take medicine. As Xiao Wu's bodyguards, these soldiers' main responsibility is to protect the commander from harm in battle. They are usually trained for this point. The fact that they did not rush up together but only sent out one person was exactly the clever thing: when facing an opponent who is too powerful to resist, rushing up together may not have any effect. On the contrary, if the opponent is triggered to use powerful skills to kill all five people instantly, the loss will be too great. Instead, sacrificing one person to buy time and protect important people - such as me now, successfully escaping is more important for the guards than killing the opponent. If five people use the same trick, they can save me at least five times, which is much better than all five of them dying at once.
I waited until its HP was restored to full value, turned around, and launched a Hundred Ripping Stabs at the demon corpse. After all, the power of Tiger Soul was extraordinary. Even the demon corpse had to be wary of it. It pulled back quickly, and although it avoided some attacks, I took the initiative. In a round of rapid attacks, every slash of Tiger Soul hit its blind spot, forcing it to continuously change its body position or block. In a short period of time, the demon corpse was unable to free its hands to fight back. My martial arts have become more and more mature!
The demon corpse finally reacted and realized that it couldn't exert its full strength if it was attacked this way, so it took my two slashes without dodging or blocking, and then it clawed at my face with one claw in a situation where both of us were injured!
This time it was my turn to have a headache. I barely turned sideways to avoid the head, but was clawed on the left shoulder, which hurt deep into my bone. The attack and defense of the demon corpse were far superior to mine. I would suffer a great loss if I used attack against it, and I would be killed at any time. Therefore, I had to retreat. Another guard came up and launched a suicidal attack on the demon corpse, buying me time to heal.
At this time a priest also came to help. Under his advanced healing skills, my HP recovered quickly. He also added "blessing" and "protection" to me, which greatly increased my offense and defense. Seeing another brother sacrificed for me, I was furious. I shouted, and swung my sword again!
This time the demon corpse didn't wait for me to get close to it, and used the skill "Phantom Sky Ghost Claw". Countless claw shadows whizzed through the air and came towards me. I had no choice but to activate the Hundred Rifts that I had just charged up. This skill could have caused serious damage to the demon corpse, but I used it to save my life and finally offset most of the attacks. However, the gap in strength between the demon corpse and I was too big, and I was still hit more than a dozen times. My HP was immediately reduced to the bottom. If I hadn't had an extra guard on my body, I would have been killed instantly by this move.
I was at a disadvantage in the battle against the corpse monster, but Xiao Wu was very powerful. Under her skillful command, the Thunder Corps contracted its defense line and used the impact of the outer cavalry to disrupt the Yaksha's formation. They slowly gained a foothold and curbed the Yaksha's attack. She even had time to observe that the situation on my side was not good, so she managed to pull out more than ten people to form a long-range attack team to support my battle.
With the extra attacks from bows and magic, I finally had a chance to recover, and I fought and retreated, basically maintaining a stalemate.
The current situation is: the main force of the Thunder Corps is dealing with the siege of the Yakshas, and the cavalry is cooperating outside; Ah Huo and other swordsman teams are entangled with the Yaksha leader; I plus a small part of the people are fighting against the demon corpses. No matter which side wins and helps the other two sides, a decisive victory can be achieved, but the same is true in reverse. No matter which side fails, the whole army will be wiped out (only the cavalry team on the periphery has a chance to escape).
I couldn't help but regret that I only brought 500 men. If I had brought one more squadron, the situation would have been very different.
But it's hard to say. For some missions, the more people come, the more monsters there are. It doesn't necessarily mean it will be easier with more people. On the contrary, it may cause inconvenience in command.
The battle became fierce, the demon corpse suddenly used his mysterious power, and his body split into three, and the three demon corpses came towards us separately!
I was greatly shocked. I had seen this move when I killed the Tiger King before. However, the Tiger King's clone was an illusion, and had no attack power like a Taoist's substitute talisman. But I saw with my own eyes that two demon corpses pounced down separately. An archer and a magician screamed at the same time. They were both killed instantly, and I felt tremendous pressure on my tiger soul. Obviously, the one in front of me was not a fake. The demon corpse was so powerful that its three clones were all entities!
The demon corpse obviously knew that I was the one who posed a real threat to it. After killing two members and disrupting the formation of the long-range attack team, its two clones pounced on me from the left and right, making it clear that they wanted to attack me together and kill me instantly!
I felt a chill in my heart, secretly saying "bad luck!" However, the remaining three guards rushed up from beside me, each holding a demon corpse, and shouted at the same time: "Alliance leader, retreat quickly!"
I knew this was not a moment to be sentimental, so I suppressed my excitement and took advantage of the little time they had bought with their lives to turn my horse around and flee. The demon corpse instantly killed the three guards and flew after me. Its speed was even faster than that of the unicorn. It was about to catch up, but the long-range team had come to their senses and shot a volley of arrows and magic at it. Although it could not cause much damage, it did stop the demon corpse. The skills of the demon corpse's clone were undoubtedly powerful, but time was limited. After being delayed for such a while, it could no longer maintain its power. It could only let out an angry scream and then the three corpses merged into one, returning to its original form.
I turned around and saw that the combined demon corpse had blood in its eyes, blood oozing from the corners of its mouth, and was roaring continuously, looking more and more terrifying. But no matter how you looked at it, it looked like a wounded beast, a bit fierce on the outside but weak on the inside.
It turned out that the demon corpse's inner elixir exploded, and it suffered serious injuries, so many of its skills could not be used. Otherwise, if it had used a powerful skill similar to the Stone Man King's Whirlwind Slash earlier, all of us except me would have been killed instantly!
After a long battle without victory, the demon corpse exploded with ferocity, and regardless of its internal injuries, it brazenly activated the skill "Three Corpses' Souls". This skill was a heavy burden on both the body and the soul. The demon corpse barely managed to launch the move, which caused its injuries. At this moment, it was already at the end of its strength!
However, the situation is not necessarily favorable to us. The key is that on the outer front, the cavalry team is charging back and forth, and casualties are inevitable. The number of people is small to begin with, only about fifty riders, and one less is killed. In a short while, there are less than half left, and it is difficult to play the role of restraining the Yaksha group. The pressure on the defense line suddenly increased, and it is a bit difficult to support!
The turning point came with Ah Huo and his group. After such a long battle, they finally slowly depleted the HP of the Yaksha leaders. After killing one, they immediately went to help another group, which made them kill faster. Soon all eight Yaksha leaders were wiped out, and we had an extra strong force. Xiao Wu was wise and decisive. She did not let Ah Huo and others join the defense line, but instead ordered them to help me eliminate the demon corpses as soon as possible. It can be said that the best steel was used on the blade - more than 20 swordsmen put into the defense circle may not be of much use, but they can be of great help to us!
As soon as Ah Huo and others joined in, my confidence suddenly increased greatly. I took the initiative to face the demon corpse, but I did not attack the vital points of the demon corpse. I just used Tiger Soul to chop at the demon corpse's claws to seal the opponent's attack power.
After the demon corpse was injured again and again, its combat power was greatly reduced, and it was unable to get rid of my entanglement. Ah Huo and others were not attacked, but focused on surprise attacks. Suddenly, sword shadows broke through the air, and sword energy was spurting out. With their attack power, it is certainly difficult for one person to pose a threat to the demon corpse, but with more than 20 people attacking at the same time, unless it is a Boss of level B or above, it will not be able to withstand it, not to mention the magician's lightning spell falling on its head!
After a fierce battle lasting more than ten minutes, we finally gathered our strength and chopped the demon corpse off before our front line collapsed!
As soon as the demon corpse died, the Flying Yaksha demons lost their leader and became panic-stricken. They actually fled faster than when they came. We couldn't catch up with them, so there was nothing we could do!
Although I failed to completely wipe out the monsters, which was inconsistent with the mission settings, the monsters should not have escaped in this kind of mission. This left me puzzled. Of course, I didn’t know that my participation had caused inexplicable changes in the entire mission.
So he ordered the team members to clean up the battlefield, and I accompanied the brother who accepted the task to the village chief to hand in the task. I didn't know whether it was considered completed. If not, we probably didn't have the ability to chase down the Flying Yaksha who had escaped to who knows where. We had to give up. Anyway, there was no guarantee that we would be rewarded with good things.
However, as soon as we entered the door, the village chief took our hands and thanked us profusely, saying that it was fortunate that we destroyed the terrible evil zombie, otherwise after tonight, the demon corpse would take shape, and not only would the entire village be wiped out, but the demon corpse would also lead a group of monsters to kill living beings everywhere, and there would be no one living within a thousand miles!
Then the village chief said that in order to thank us, he gave us a treasure that his ancestors had accidentally found as a reward. He then took out a box from a secret compartment on the wall and handed it to the brother with great care (the reward for the task he took was naturally given to him, and how to distribute it later was our own business, and the NPC would certainly not care).
"The Wolf of the North" took the box and opened it on the spot. A brilliant light shot out from the box. The light was not strong, as bright and soft as moonlight, but it overshadowed the bright lights in the room, showing that the things hidden in the box were extraordinary!
The northern wolf reached into the box and took out the treasure. It turned out to be a silk robe. He unfolded the silk robe with a flick of his hand. It turned out to be a women's robe with a unique style and pure white like jade.
Because the robe had no owner yet, anyone could see its properties. Beifang and I took a glance at it and exclaimed in unison, "Divine artifact!" Beifang the wolf was so excited that his hands were shaking and he could hardly hold the robe and box.
Name: Moon Shadow Robe
Category: Clothes (women's), artifacts (unclaimed)
Attributes: Physical defense 555-1111, magic defense 333-999, physical damage -35%, magic damage -50%, physical defense +30%, magic defense +40%, miss rate +200%, elemental magic immunity 25%, magic power increase 30% (50% increase under moonlight), light magic absorption 20%, abnormal status (freezing, paralysis, magic sealing, petrification, poisoning, etc.) immunity 50%, curse immunity, magic value limit +20%, magic value automatic recovery (10 points per second), additional skills: Yuehua Wuji
Weight: 15
Durability: 333/333
Equipment requirements: Spiritual power 33, magician only
What is a divine weapon? This is a divine weapon. This attribute is simply explaining to you what abnormality is! Although I have two divine weapons, the Cornucopia is too special to be compared. The Tiger Soul is incomplete and its attributes have not reached the perfect and strongest level. It is not just a little bit worse than the Moon Shadow Divine Robe!
What moved me the most was that this robe was specially made for Xiao Yi! And because it was a task reward, there was no need to identify it. It was just good luck and it came without any effort!
But this thing doesn't belong to me at the moment...
I thought about it and said to the wolf in the north in a deep voice: "Brother, put this treasure away first, and we will talk about it when we get back."
I watched his reaction nervously. According to the rules of our alliance, if such super-excellent items are obtained in collective activities, there is a distribution plan. In this case, the North Wolf will of course receive a generous reward, and the other brothers who participated can also share a share. If the Moon Shadow Divine Robe is converted into monetary value, the North can get about half. However, the value of the artifact is not trivial, and the half that is divided is a very huge amount. If a greedy person gets such a treasure, he will not have to randomly roll and escape without a trace, and then quit the gang and take the treasure for himself. Isn't it a pleasure! In fact, this divine robe is extremely important to me. As long as the North is willing to discuss, everything is fine. Even if I want to exchange it with the cornucopia, I will never say no!
To be honest, in the short one or two seconds before the wolf from the north responded, I did have the idea of killing and stealing the treasure. With my strength, it is not difficult to kill the wolf from the north in a second. With the existence of the cornucopia, there is at least an 80% chance that the Moon Shadow Divine Robe will appear. However, on the one hand, I really can't do such a thing. If I were not worried about gains and losses, I would never have such an idea. On the other hand, the love between Xiao Yi and I should never be tarnished by such shameless means. Otherwise, even if I get the Divine Robe, what qualifications do I have to love Xiao Yi? With her status, is she still interested in this virtual item worth "only millions"?
This thought flashed through my mind, and I was just feeling ashamed. The Wolf from the North had already made a choice that pleased me. He put the Moon Shadow Divine Robe back into the box, and then handed the box to me, saying, "I didn't expect to get a divine weapon unexpectedly in this mission. It's really a pleasant surprise, but the credit belongs to the Alliance Leader and all the brothers. Otherwise, how could I have the ability to kill the demon corpse and repel the Yaksha! I dare not steal the treasure for myself, so I'll give it to the Alliance Leader for safekeeping. I believe the Alliance Leader will not treat you brothers unfairly!"
I took the box and laughed, "Great! You are a good man who is not greedy when you see treasure. You are worthy of being a good brother of the Thunder Alliance! But how can you not be rewarded for your merits? If it weren't for the mission you received, how would we have the opportunity to kill the monster and get the treasure? I won't hide it from you. This artifact is very useful to me. Please forgive me for being disrespectful. But when I go back, I will make a fair assessment and pay you and the brothers the rewards you deserve!"
I led the team back to the Thunder Alliance. The news that we had obtained the artifact immediately caused a sensation. I was so excited that I didn't sleep all night. The next morning, I summoned profiteers and several professional businessmen from our alliance to evaluate the artifact in front of most of the Thunder Group members who participated in the mission last night. Because there is no precedent for the sale of any artifact, I had to use the price that someone quoted me to buy the Cornucopia as the standard. On this basis, I estimated the possible upward space if it was auctioned, and the final price was 3 million gold coins...
So he announced that I would pay for the purchase of the Moon Shadow Robe. Actually, I couldn't come up with that much cash, but luckily I got a lot of good stuff from defeating bosses some time ago. Among them, there were two pieces of Holy Spirit equipment worth 700,000 each, which I gave to the Wolf of the North as his reward.
The wolf from the north smiled at me and said, "Fortunately, this artifact was given to the leader to arrange. If it were me, how could I take out more than 1 million gold coins to give to my brothers! And I can't use the Moon Shadow Robe, so it's better to exchange it for two pieces of Holy Spirit equipment to play with, which is much more economical."
I am temporarily unable to pay the rest, but the Thunder Alliance is making money every day now, and over a period of time we have accumulated more than one million gold coins in the gang's treasury. I took advantage of my position as the leader to embezzle a little public funds (of course, I used my shares as collateral), and took out 1.5 million gold coins (plus the Holy Spirit equipment, a total of 2.9 million, and 100,000, which I should have gotten). According to the rules, Xiao Wu, as the battlefield commander, will get 50,000, and each squadron leader will get 10,000. For the remaining 1.2 million, 800,000 will be divided equally among the 500 members who participated in the operation, and 400,000 will be divided among the 1,500 people who stayed behind (those who did not sign up will get nothing).
Hehe, I finally got Xiaoyi’s betrothal gift, so our wedding should be soon, right?
