A black shadow was emerging over the forest, slowly moving forward.
As it advanced, the original crystals suspended in the forest gradually broke away from the gravity of the earth and roared into the sky.
Fang Plover hurriedly ran to the platform on the left side of the front saddle bridge, looked up, and saw a floating original crystal flying over his head. Scenes like this are common in this forest at the moment. There is even a small mountain-sized crystal suspended not far away. The layer of floating soil below is peeling off and falling.
This is the resonance effect caused by the enrichment of earth-attribute etheric magic power. Looking further up is the source of the resonance - the huge side-hole creature that is slowly moving forward in mid-air - the rock shark.
Its appearance is very similar to that of a bull shark on Earth, with a broad and thick trunk and a spindle-shaped streamlined body, but it is like a dark cloud and its body is many times larger. There is a long, blade-like horn on the head, which occupies at least a quarter of its body length. After the horn grows, it is covered with a rugged hard layer from the abdomen to the back.
The hard layer is not bone plates and warts, but real rocks. The long horns of the rock shark are filled with abundant earth attribute ether, which will attract the same crystals and enrich them around it, from its infancy. They coexist together and eventually form a solid armor.
And this is also the origin of the rock shark’s scientific name——
The rock shark has obviously not discovered the tiny creatures in the forest below, and is swimming forward leisurely. Although it occasionally attacks villages and camps, humans are not part of its common diet.
At this time, Fang Plover also saw his "fellow travelers" in the forest. There were three teams of adventurers. One of them had a medium-sized beast of burden like them, but they did not have the excellent carpentry skills of Luo Yu. The beast of burden only had a saddle on its back, without a platform or a carrying room.
The beast of burden should be the gray sloth Aiquin, extremely ugly but gentle in character. This kind of creature inhabits the warmer giant tree hills. It is obvious that it has never seen a creature like the rock shark. It is a little uneasy and hesitates no matter how much the beast master drives it away. In desperation, the team had to jump off the beasts of burden and approach this direction on foot.
The Gray Ridge negative hill beast here also encountered this problem.
But fortunately, there was Etila. The elf girl jumped on the neck of the giant beast, buried her body and hugged the docile giant beast, whispering comfort and using the druid's ability to calm it down.
In this way, at least Fang Plover and others don’t have to walk in the fields——
The adventurers looked in this direction with some surprise. Druid is one of the few professions that requires true faith to choose. The goddess Amaya has never agreed to open her divine power to the chosen ones, so there are always few followers of Amaya among the chosen ones.
Of course, except for the unbelieving Gray Crow Druid - Fang Plover looked at Etila and subconsciously remembered the Silver Shadow Druid he had met in the elven ruins. The latter was undoubtedly a Gray Crow, the overseer, and he then thought of the other party's Nighthawk Chosen One.
If given the chance, he would definitely avenge himself, whether it was for himself or Elsa.
At this time, Parker also ran back from a distance, catching up with the pace of the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast. He jumped onto the rope net flexibly with a lunge, grabbed the rope net from the outside and climbed to the platform. Luo Yu and Tian Lan, who were already on the platform, grabbed his short and fat arm with one hand and pulled up the Papalar crossbowman.
As soon as Parker climbed onto the platform, he lay on the ground like a big meat bun, panting heavily, looking at the others with his dripping black eyes. "I have discussed with them. We will distribute the spoils according to contribution value later. Those businessmen have agreed to buy this big guy. But we don't have magicians and naturalists. We have to wait for them to set up the venue first and lure the rock sharks. lower the altitude."
he said breathlessly.
Everyone nodded. The contribution system is an effective distribution method that has been formed in the past ten years. It can also be regarded as one of the many changes brought by the Chosen to the world. It was just a verbally agreed rule at first. Later, the God of Commerce, the protector of the spirit of contract, and the Goddess of Romance realized that this was an opportunity to increase their influence, so they intervened and established it in the form of a divine contract. established a set of principles that are universally applicable.
To put it simply, after the contract parties swore an oath to each other in the name of the goddess, the distribution will attract the attention of powerful beings from the underworld. If there are any violators, there will probably be no good consequences.
Fang Plover looked up at the other adventure groups.
The number of adventure groups was not large, some were around twenty or thirty people, and some were not much more than their group. However, their team is indeed the smallest among the several adventure teams, not to mention that there are three trainees and a large number of life professionals, which can be called a model of soy sauce adventure team.
It's not difficult to coax a rock shark into lowering its altitude. Because they live in the sea of clouds, their eyesight is extremely poor, and they can even be said to be half-blind. However, the rock shark has a highly sensitive organ at the tip of its nose. It can emit a resonance wave through its horn and use ether echoes to sense obstacles ahead, search for food and avoid danger. The principle is somewhat similar to that of bats, but it is much more efficient.
The bait works by taking advantage of one of the rock shark's favorite foods - a special resonant crystal. Both mages and naturalists can craft this crystal and use it to lure them to the ground to feed.
Fang Plover soon saw that the adventurers had completed their preparations.
But what slightly surprised him was that he actually saw two acquaintances among those people - if he read correctly, the slender girl carrying the box was Sylvie who had left without saying goodbye before. Virtue, beside the girl stood her maid.
It's just that they and the adventurers didn't seem to be on the same side. The two stood far away, watching this scene. She seemed to have seen Fang Plover's direction, but from this distance, she probably didn't recognize Fang Plover and the others for a while.
Fang Yu subconsciously shrank back - the other party's fairy construct was still in his hand. Although he knew that this was a bit delusional and immoral - he still couldn't help but hope that the other party would simply forget about it.
That would be perfect.
Unfortunately, what happened was counterproductive. Just when he was thinking so wildly, he suddenly saw Sylvide looking over here in surprise. Tian Lan even shouted in surprise: "That seems to be Sister Sylvide and the others, right?"
The square plover has a black line on its head.
But he immediately had no time to think about these issues.
Because the adventurers over there have already made preparations and successfully placed the bait. The rock sharks in mid-air noticed the anomaly on the ground. The resonance crystal was an irresistible temptation for them. Although they were slightly confused, their desire for food finally took over. They swung their tails and began to swim towards the middle of the forest. Come.
It slowly lowered its height, and its spindle-shaped body was clearly visible. Two pairs of fins, one in front and one in back, were swinging like wings. It has a somewhat ferocious crescent-shaped mouth, with the corners of the mouth slightly curved backwards.
It was at this time that five or six rays of green light shot out from the team of adventurers in the distance, drawing beautiful arcs and exploding above the head of the rock shark like fireworks. Fang Yu was slightly surprised when he saw this scene - these people were quite well prepared.
"What is that?" Tian Lan asked curiously.
At this time, Rhett came out of his pack house. The lion man had gone back to the house to get his weapon - a huge double-headed sword, which was now in his hand. Hearing Tian Lan's question, he looked in the air, the dazzling blue light reflected in his silver eyes, and then answered:
"Wind Crystal."
Fang Yu also happened to explain: "It is a kind of crystal magic created by magicians. After it is exploded, it can disrupt the air flow in an area and create a turbulent area. This crystal magic is extremely useful in air combat. Some small floating warships cannot ignore the turbulence zone."
As if to prove his words——
After the green light exploded, the rock shark immediately began to struggle violently, trying to get back into the air, but it was too late. The intertwined turbulence deprived it of its ability to control the airflow. Instead, it flew lower and lower, and its belly almost brushed against a tall metasequoia forest canopy.
It was like an airship falling to the ground, and a loud sound of broken trees was heard in the distance.
At this time, the battle officially began.
The first ones to take action were naturally the long-range selectors - rangers, crossbowmen and gunmen. They fired their bows and arrows, or loaded bullets, making a squeaking sound. "Fire--!" The adventure group seemed to have a configuration such as an archer captain, and there were also people who gave unified command. A volley of arrows flew into the air like a black wall, and hit the rock shark's torso head-on.
But before Tian Lan could shout out, he saw that most of the arrows had been bounced off by the solid rock shell on the latter's body.
Fang Yu opened the battle window and could clearly see a field of gray numbers. Although they were densely packed, the highest number was only a dozen or so. The rock shark's rock shell is very thick, and its armor value is probably more than tens of thousands of points.
Not to mention that the armor value is considered to be highly effective in Aitaria, and the hardness itself has a damage-resistance value. If you continue to fight like this, you will be beaten until the end of the year.
It is obviously impossible to expect a bow and arrow of this strength to penetrate the armor value and directly cause concussive damage to the rock shark's body - although the rock shark is only a creature of less than level 20, the monster's physical strength is generally Far superior to humans, in terms of toughness alone, it is not impossible to be equivalent to a melee selector above level 30.
The shooters are obviously aware of this.
However, their first round of shooting was just a test, and in the second round of attacks, they all used the 'Explosive Shooting' skill. Explosive shooting uses a special unstable crystal arrow cluster and bullets, which will explode after hitting the target, causing secondary damage. At this level, it is the best choice for dealing with high-armor units.
But once the unstable crystal is injected with magic power, it becomes extremely sensitive and can easily explode. Therefore, when shooters use this skill, they need to use a special magic plug-in 'delayed injection device' to set the injection time of magic power.
This is a typical high-tech job.
The shooter needs to accurately judge the distance, projectile flight time, and even the target avoidance method. Otherwise, setting the delay fuze too early or too late will lead to shooting failure. If it is too early, the crystal will explode in advance, reducing the damage or even being unable to hit. If it is too late, the crystal will be damaged and cannot be activated.
Although Explosive Shooting itself is only a fifth-level skill, it only requires the selector to invest 160,000 experience in the shooter field to learn it. However, due to the particularity of this skill, except for professional selectors, those who truly master this skill generally have to wait until around level 20.
It is also for this reason that the community calls blasting shooting an entry-level skill for shooters——
Once you master it, you will enter the threshold of being a shooter.
Fang Yu often watched Miss Capet shoot with explosives in the past, but there was nothing fancy about this skill in the latter's hands. It looked like ordinary shooting, so he himself didn't think there was anything special about this skill. The hard part.
But today, this round of shooting opened his eyes.
The first round of explosive crossbow bolts was quickly projected——
A dazzling firework exploded on the left and right sides of Rock Shark. Since Rock Shark did not anticipate this attack in advance and just kept moving forward at a constant speed, attacking such a target is basically equivalent to attacking a stationary target for professional shooters. .
But for this stationary target, its hit rate can be described as horrific.
First of all, the detonation rate is less than three levels, and among the detonations of these three levels, almost all of them are near-misses. Although near-missing bullets also cause damage, the damage is calculated based on distance. When Fang Yu saw the damage that was less than three digits, he was speechless for a moment.
You must know that the armor value damage caused by the blasting shot should be at least 500 or 600 at this level.
Among all the players, only Parker did 127 damage. The latter even danced with joy and said triumphantly: "Have you seen it, have you seen it! I have the highest damage - the Papalar Crossbow Master, the Nightingale King of Sanshak!"
Even Tianlan praised her, but her compliment did not make Mr. Papalar feel very happy. Because what she said was, “Wow, what a blessing!”
"What does luck mean?" Parker jumped angrily, waving his short hands and said, "It's technology, it's technology, do you understand?"
"Hurry up, hurry up," Tian Lan interrupted him: "Look over there, that big guy has turned around, don't let it come to our side! Come on, come on, shoot it again!"
Parker was speechless and could only use his short, chubby hands to adjust the magic furnace. After the delay device lit up slightly, he raised the heavy crossbow and aimed at the rock shark in mid-air.
By this time, the others were almost ready for the second round of shooting.
But at this moment, Fang Yu came over and pressed down his heavy crossbow - after all, the unstable crystal crossbow arrows are still very expensive. He couldn't stand it any longer, so he simply said: "Three past three."
Everyone was stunned, and the Papalar people stared at him with eyes as wide as black beans.
"Brother Ed, what did you say?" Tian Lan asked.
"At three o'clock and three, we are sure to hit it!" Parker said loudly, and calculated with his fingers: "No, no, no, the Papalar people save their crossbow bolts frugally, use at least one, Two, three - three meals can be exchanged for an explosive crossbow bolt!"
And as a professional Papalar crossbow master, how could he listen to an alchemist's instructions? If word of this got out, his reputation in Sanshak would be completely ruined - if he had any.
At this time, Aitila just jumped off the giant beast's head. She looked into the distance, and others in the distance had already fired a second round of blasting arrows.
But this time it was even worse.
Rock Shark had anticipated the danger in advance and turned slightly to one side, causing all the shooters' attacks to fail. The expensive explosive crossbow bolts were like fireworks being shot into the air. Although the fire was brilliant, the actual effect was basically zero.
When Parker saw this scene, he couldn't help but open his mouth.
"Why don't you listen to Brother Ed and give it a try?" Tian Lan was also a little hesitant: "What if Brother Ed has better luck?"
Hearing these words made Fang Yu break into a cold sweat. What does it mean to have better luck?
The Papalar man thought about it carefully and replied righteously: "Okay, but if, if you miss, it will not be the fault of the Papalar crossbowman master. Remember this, and Papalar The Lal people have absolutely nothing to do with it!”
After making a solemn statement, he raised the heavy crossbow in his hand, then went back and adjusted the plug-in on the magic device. But before he could stop, Fang Plover reached out and helped him move another half space.
It used to be three point three, but now it may not be so.
"Quick," Fang Plover retracted his hand and said to him, "now."
Parker aimed at the rock shark doubtfully, and then pulled the trigger——
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