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Finally, the last stone man fell. Arturia held the sword of victory, stopped on the spot, and exhaled a breath. Obviously, the continuous high-intensity killing also brought a sense of exhaustion to her.
Fortunately, the recovery ability of King Arthur Suit and Ymir Suit is amazing, even stronger than Hell Fighting Bear. In just a few breaths, she fully recovered, raised her sword again, and strode forward.
Only then did I realize that there was a layer of fog blocking the road ahead. As the last stone man fell, it slowly dispersed, revealing the road ahead.
Damn...it turns out that the reason why I won't let you move forward until you clear the level is to prevent Artoria from directly ignoring these stone men and choosing the easiest [jump level]. Although the approach is understandable, this intense certain act game is What happened to the sense of sight?
Besides, did Artoria act a little too hastily? In the previous battle, it was clear that she could dodge the attacks in front of her if she wasted just one more second, but there were several times when she braved the stone man's powerful fists to move forward, preferring to get hurt rather than waste time. She was quite like Jing Ke. Brave, but actually undesirable behavior for adventurers.
Originally, she didn't need to be hurt at all when dealing with these stone men. Although I know that the recovery power of my king with the artifact is amazing, which is true, but this attitude is not advisable. Now he is just an ordinary stone man. , it won’t be so easy when you encounter a stronger one in the future.
Perhaps Artoria had some difficulties that forced her to do this, this test. It's really not that difficult. The difficulty starts from the first level.
Immediately, there were several more encounters with the Stone Man tribe, which were no different from the first time. The difficulty is similar, but the number is slightly increased.
This phenomenon makes me feel strange. The difficulty increase is too small, unlike the little king's style.
But if you think about it carefully, since this test is completely based on the genocide battle of Lan Laluohe, then it will not deliberately increase the difficulty in such peripheral areas. It should be a real and perfect simulation of the battle hundreds of thousands of years ago. No matter the enemy or the scene.
When I was thinking this way, it was obvious that I had underestimated the integrity of the little king. I don’t know if it was the fifth or sixth encounter. Arturia made a slight mistake and did not have time to wipe out one-fifth of the small stone men in one fell swoop before the enemy came to their senses at the beginning of the battle.
As a result, it will take her one to several minutes longer. Only then can this battle end.
As a result, just when there were only about a hundred stone men left, victory was imminent, suddenly there was a loud buzzing roar, and hundreds more stone men shot out from the hazy fog.
Is this... support?
I was dumbfounded. No wonder Arturia was fighting in a hurry. It turns out that once a certain point in time is exceeded, the enemy will come to support, and based on my guess about the character of Little King, there must be more than one wave of support. Anyway, when a certain point in time is reached, the enemies will come to support. If you don't move quickly, there will be more and more enemies, and eventually the mountains and plains will be overrun, and you will have no choice but to retreat.
I guess it was when Artoria was just undergoing the test. She must have suffered a lot in this regard, and even the first battle on the first level left her stuck for a long time.
Why am I so sure? It’s very simple. It can be judged based on Artoria’s strength. With her current strength, even a small oversight can lead to the arrival of support. However, more than a year ago, her strength was far away. If it wasn't as good as it is now, I'm afraid there would be no way to kill all the stone men within the specified time. However, encountering the unlimited support of the stone men, they would eventually...retreat with hatred.
Unlimited farming of stone men... Thinking of this scene, I couldn't help but shudder. This setting has simply surpassed the difficulty of purgatory. Little King Arthur, you are really merciless to your successor.
As early as when she made a mistake, Artoria seemed to have anticipated such a result. Facing a new wave of support from hundreds of stone men, she did not show the slightest panic, and still maintained a fast rhythm, constantly adding one by one. The stone man fell down, and from time to time he swung out several rays of sword light to cut off the little stone man in the air.
Under Artoria's unhurried and rock-solid killing methods, the number of stone men decreased rapidly, and the new wave of support soon fell to her hands. Finally, before the next stone man support arrived, Artoria finally wiped out all the enemies, and the fog in front began to gradually disperse.
Seeing this, not only my king, but also Kalue and I exhaled hard and sweated.
Damn it, this is just the periphery of the Stone Man's realm. Does it need to be on the Purgatory difficulty level?
After killing this tribe of stone men, Arturia obviously paused and rested for a longer time, as if preparing for the next battle, and the momentum exuded from her body became more solemn.
Looking carefully at the route ahead, Caroline and I suddenly became alarmed.
No wonder Artoria's expression became more serious. It turned out that she had reached the next level of difficulty.
Back then, Lan Larohe was rampaging through the Stoneman tribe, killing an "S" shaped line. This was not a joke at all, nor was it an exaggeration at all, she just did it.
Therefore, naturally, in order to perfectly simulate the battle of Blue Hero back then, Artoria also had to follow this "S"-shaped route to kill, starting from the end of the "S" and killing all the way to the head, that is, The location of Stoneman King City.
From just now to now, the route Arturia has passed is equivalent to the small arc route at the bottom of the "S" line. It is the periphery of the stone man's domain, and the difficulty has not increased much.
And next, the route that Artoria has to go through is the first big bend of "s". After passing this big bend, it will be straight into the hinterland of the stone man. The difficulty will increase geometrically every time, and then on to the third. The two big bends go deep into the core area of the Stone Man's domain. Once you reach this area, go forward for a while and you will reach the Stone Man King's City.
This is simply...how should I put it? It’s like a marathon and a triathlon.
After listening to Karen's rough guess. I was dumbfounded. It would have been impossible for the Hell Fighting Bear to complete this S-shaped killing route in one go. It would have been impossible for the Blue Lahoro Knight back then. He is truly an out-and-out murderous maniac.
Arturia continued to move forward and took the first big turn of the "S" route, which was like a sharp knife inserted straight into the heart of the stone man. Soon, she encountered a new wave of obstacles.
This time, the number of stone men has increased significantly. At a glance, they are already very close, and may even reach four digits, of course. As long as the enemy's support time is relaxed, quantity is actually not a big issue, the most important thing is quality.
Although as a complete tribe of stone men, there are also small stone men here, but at a glance. It is obvious from the comparison that, excluding the small stone men, the physiques of the big stone men have greatly increased.
The largest stone man in the tribe of stone men in front was only sixty meters tall, while the adult stone men in front of them were on average seven or eight meters tall. The tallest one is estimated to be over ten meters.
I don’t know if being over ten meters tall is a sign of strength for a stone man, because everyone’s attention was attracted to another stone man.
This stone man is not very tall, only six or seven meters tall, only slightly larger than the little stone man.
But on it. But it was burning with flames, and the stones that made up its body looked like stones salvaged from the lava. They were red and red, with a shallow layer of molten liquid flowing on the surface.
A stone man with fire attributes... I know it. Now that the stone man race has come into being, this kind of guy with a sense of instant vision is absolutely indispensable. After all, there are slags of glass.
Artoria's eyes also fell on this flaming stone man, but she didn't panic at all. After all, she had faced him countless times in the past year. It is estimated that except for the giant stone man and the stone man king, all the other minor characters had already There was no way to cause fluctuations in her heart.
The next second, Artoria once again struck preemptively, using the same old tried and tested method. She took care of the little stone men first. They were the weakest and could not pose a threat. This was true, but if they were not taken care of, they would also become A disgusting existence like a shit stirrer may hinder you at the most critical moment, so it is better to kill first to be safe.
After waving her sword to kill the little stone man, Artoria's second target turned out to be not the flaming stone man, but the largest stone man, over ten meters tall.
Similar to what I thought, after reaching the height of ten meters, the strength of the stone man has been greatly improved, but in front of Artoria, who can compete with and even defeat the World Power level stone man, he still looks not good enough. Kung Fu was also stabbed to the core, and the core in his body was shattered.
Immediately afterwards, Artoria killed the other stone men, still ignoring the flaming stone man whose whole body was on fire and who looked like he was pulling a cool figure.
Of course, the flaming stone man was not happy to be ignored. It roared and waved its fist. With a destructive power that was more powerful than a stone man of the same height, and accompanied by strong fire damage, it went straight to Artoria, overwhelming the sky and covering the ground. There is no hiding.
Arturia didn't hide, or even look back. The fierce flame fist wind blew on her, like a gust of hot wind, blowing away her snow-white knight's battle dress and the golden ponytail behind her. Dance.
Other than that, it seemed... it seemed... it seemed... it didn't hurt at all.
After thinking about it blankly, I suddenly realized.
No wonder Artoria didn't pay attention to the flaming stone man at all. That's it, that's it.
She is blessed with two sets of artifact attributes. If she doesn't even have this fire resistance, she would still be called an egg artifact. It is estimated that Artoria's current state is almost immune to magic attributes attacks, which is even more exaggerated than physical defense. Only opponents who are stronger than her, or enemies with special abilities, can use magic attribute attacks to cause huge damage to her.
The power of the flame stone man lies in its fire damage. If this damage can be ignored, then it is only a little more powerful than the ordinary six or seven meter tall stone man. No wonder Artoria ignores it at all. , because the stone man who is more than ten meters tall, or even the stone man who is seven or eight meters tall, is a greater threat to her.
Moreover, it wasn't until Artoria dealt with this flaming stone man that I discovered another reason. This flaming stone man is a little harder than ordinary stone men. My king seemed to have killed him instantly with one blow, but in fact it took a second blow to completely break through the flaming stone man's defense and destroy its core. It's just that her attack speed is so fast that two strikes look like one.
Reasonable tactical arrangements allowed Artoria to successfully annihilate the stone man tribe within the enemy's support time, but this was only the beginning.
As we go deeper into the hinterland, there are more and more stone men with attributes like the flame stone man, such as the frost stone man, the lightning stone man, and the poisonous stone man. Even some stone men with special attributes.
For example, the strength-enhanced stone man is brownish-red in color and has an extremely cool shape. You can tell it apart from the speed-enhanced stone man at a glance. The body is green in color and small in stature, as if it is afraid that others will not know that it is fast. The defensive stone man is more earthy in color than the ordinary stone man, and it is two extremes from the power stone man.
However, let’s talk about the biggest threat to Artoria. They are still defensive stone men, like those stone men with flame, frost, lightning and poisonous attributes. Because of Artoria's strong resistance, they can hardly cause any harm to her.
Power stone men, to use an old saying, have powerful attacks. It's useless if you can't hit your opponent.
The speed-type stone man is a little more difficult to deal with, but if you think about it, the stone man is already slow and has poor flexibility, so make him a speed type. That was just a dwarf pulling out a general. No matter how much his speed and flexibility were improved, his speed and agility were still limited, and he was still being teased around by Arturia.
There are only defensive stone men. The stone man's defense is already ridiculously high. If it is strengthened, it will be even more powerful. With Artoria's sword of victory, it will take more than ten attacks to put this kind of stone man away. On the contrary, isn't it true that the sentence [beep] is not earthy, but the combat power is five?
After killing all the way, although he couldn't be as clean and neat as Lan Laluohe, who could slaughter the city with one sword, he could still maintain a super fast pace without any sense of sloppiness.
However, after entering the hinterland of the second half, the number of ordinary stone men, the number of attribute stone men, or the number of enhanced stone men are constantly increasing. In addition to speed enhancement, these special stone men Apart from the shape, they all have one characteristic, that is, they are harder than ordinary stone men.
Therefore, even if she was not afraid, Artoria had to spend more time to deal with these special stone men. As a result, in the second half of the journey, she could no longer fight in the first wave like she did before. If you clear the level before support arrives, it often takes one or even two supports to wipe out all the stone men.
Afterwards, as the enemy's strength continues to grow, this number will definitely increase. Perhaps in the end, five or six supports will need to be eliminated to completely kill all the enemies.
The result of this is a huge consumption of physical strength, and when you get here, you can no longer have too much rest time after passing a small level. According to Kaluge's calculation, the next level will be completed after the previous level. The countdown to support starts immediately. If you rest in place for a long time, when you get to the next level, you will find that there may be tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000 stone men warmly welcoming you. Not to mention the sour feeling.
Therefore, how to accurately calculate the support time, retain the last stone man at this level to rest, and then kill this stone man at the last second when support arrives is also a science. There is no doubt that after more than a year of Destruction, Artoria has already mastered the essence of this knowledge.
Physical strength, patience, and making as few mistakes as possible, and finally accurate calculations, this is what this test is all about. Although compared with the first test, which had five major levels, it seems a little less interesting, but ...Isn't this nonsense? What the little king set up was a test of purgatory, not a game of eagle catching chickens. There is also fun to consider. Do you think she is working as a nanny?
Levels, levels, continuous levels, never-ending battles, how many stone men have fallen under Artoria's sword? I couldn't calculate it, I just knew that the piles of stones scattered along the way were enough to pave a long stone road.
Time went from morning to evening, and then from evening to morning, reincarnating several times. It took three days and three nights, with almost no rest, for Arturia to complete the journey deep into the hinterland.
At this time, even though she had a whole body of artifacts to provide powerful physical recovery, the mental and soul fatigue could not be repaired quickly and could only be healed slowly with time.
When the last stone man tribe was killed, Artoria no longer cared about the image of the Elf Queen. She sat down on the ground, looked up at the sky, and gasped for air, which showed how exhausted she was.
Carole and I no longer cared about whether it would interfere with the progress of the test, and hurriedly approached.
"Artoria, are you okay?"
"Don't worry, Fan, I'm fine. After passing this level, you will have a whole night's rest."
Looking at the still fog in front of me, I nodded, secretly thinking that after all the little king had not killed them all, leaving a way for his heir to survive, even if it was an extremely rugged path...
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