Chapter 1 Embryo

Li Ang wasn't surprised, having already had a premonition. He glanced at the towering mud pillar arm.

With a thrust of his three-edged bone spear into the ground, he sent fragments of bluestone floor tiles flying towards the mud pillar arm.

The tile fragments struck the mud pillar directly, but even though they contained a small amount of ripple energy, they only slightly eroded a small portion of the mud upon impact, causing a puff of green smoke to rise before disappearing like a clay ox entering the sea.

They didn't cause much damage.

The Stonemason, who had already reloaded his ammunition in the distance, pulled the trigger towards the mud pillar wrist high above.

The rocket-propelled grenade hit its target and exploded, this time consuming a large chunk of mud.

But the mud pillar arm surged, rapidly drawing material from the swamp below like a water pump, instantly restoring itself.

It even had the spare capacity to continue hunting players, who were scurrying around like gophers, with vine crossbow bolts.

"I'll do it!"

Dong Fengpo took a rather strange device from his backpack and strapped it onto himself.

The main body of the device consisted of two rectangular metal boxes, with a small high-pressure gas cylinder installed above each box, and several metal ropes with arrow-shaped hooks placed in the grooves below.

Each metal box was connected to a straight metal longsword, with a button installed at the hilt. The metal boxes were connected by a strap structure similar to a posture corrector, worn on the torso.

When necessary, the user could press the button to activate the high-pressure gas cylinder, launching the arrow hooks and nailing them into a solid surface. Then, they could pull the trigger again to make the metal box retract the rope, swinging themselves around like Spider-Man.

This rare piece of equipment, called 【Litimobile Gear · Modified】, was extremely difficult to use. When swinging inside buildings, it was easy to crash into walls and get a bloody nose.

Dong Fengpo was only able to barely control it thanks to his agility attribute, which far surpassed that of ordinary people.

He pulled the trigger on the hilt of the sword, launching the grappling hook towards the ceiling, and retracted the rope, sending himself flying like an arrow, quickly approaching the mud pillar arm.

He was quite the sight, but the towering arm seemed to sense something. The surface of the slowly flowing arm rippled,

condensing into stone spears that jutted out diagonally like a dense forest, all aimed at Dong Fengpo, who was flying in mid-air.

The latter's pupils shrank. He immediately pulled the trigger, letting the grappling hook drag him to the side.

Zheng zheng zheng zheng—

After a brief delay, batches of stone spears shot out rapidly, like a stone rain curtain across the sky, relentlessly chasing Dong Fengpo.

Dong Fengpo used the Litimobile Gear to dodge frantically in the air like a fly, with the dense rain of stone spears chasing closely behind him, directly bombarding the walls and smashing out huge potholes.

Just as Dong Fengpo had attracted the embryo's attention, the swamp on the ground also underwent a change.

Countless low-lying plants and vines intertwined and twisted into a团.

This time, they did not generate vine crossbow bolts, but instead wove out a dozen huge humanoid skeletons.

The surrounding mud surged over, covering the skeletons and hardening rapidly, creating eighteen giant stone golems on the spot.

"Eighteen Bronze Men?"

Li Ang exclaimed in surprise. Forest Cat, who was dodging the vine arrow rain in the distance, shouted loudly, "The clergy of the Reindeer is swamp, plant, life and creation.

Especially after using the blood power of the Leslie family, it can control the soil and rocks.

A wisp of divinity is not enough to support its long-term, high-intensity combat.

The swamp is its source of power. We have to clear this swamp to interrupt the resurrection ritual!"

"Understood!"

E Wu Nian roared, his fists ignited with the Griffin emblem, and he slammed his fists forward.

The crimson griffin phantom rose from behind him, wrapped in raging flames, and pounced forward.

Three stone golems, with agility that was completely disproportionate to their clumsy bodies, charged forward and stood in front of the swamp, raising their arms in unison to meet the fiery griffin.

Boom—

The golems were pierced by the griffin phantom, and their stone arms were scorched red by the high temperature, constantly bursting out tiny sparks.

However, with each golem that the griffin projection passed through, it became more and more ethereal. By the time it impacted the swamp, it no longer had the power to burn the vegetation to ashes, and it collapsed and dissipated regretfully.

Dong dong dong dong.

Without giving the players a chance to catch their breath, twelve petrified golems rushed over, trampling on the bluestone slabs.

Li Ang pulled the trigger of his sniper rifle in an attempt, but the heavy bullet struck the head of a petrified golem, only blowing away a few insignificant pieces of mud, and the bullet was firmly embedded in the soil.

There were as many as three petrified golems charging towards Li Ang, and E Wu Nian, Stonemason, and Forest Cat were also entangled by the golems.

These stone giants attacked with great force and were extremely sturdy, impervious to water and fire. Physical attacks were difficult to be effective. Neither ripple energy, nor Drowning Assassination Technique, nor Bloodworm Crowbar could work on them.

Fortunately, the other teammates had special skills to deal with stone giants:

A golem swung its fist heavily at the Stonemason, who easily dodged it and chiseled back, striking the golem's arm and easily cutting off the opponent's entire arm.

The chisel in the Stonemason's hand was a high-quality tool. Its special effect was to melt rocks and soil, shaping the stones into the shapes he wanted.

In normal times, 【Sculpting Artist】 could only be used to excavate rock layers, mine, build basements, or build buildings in the wild.

But now, when encountering these stone golems, this tool came in handy, easily melting one golem after another into basic mud.

Forest Cat placed his hands on the ground, softening the bluestone floor into a liquid mud pool, trapping the golems in it. No matter how hard the stone giants struggled, they could not escape the fate of being swallowed by the mud.

The Stonemason cooperated with E Wu Nian and Forest Cat, and had the ability to kill all the stone giants.

"I'm counting on you guys."

Li Ang shouted to his teammates, put on his headphones, played the song "I Believe", and used his bg skill to greatly increase his jumping ability and slightly increase his airtime.

After a short sprint, Li Ang waved the long spear in his hand and propped it on the ground, and the whole person flew up and rushed towards the mud pillar arm.

Dong Fengpo, who was still floating in mid-air, saw Li Ang soaring into the sky, waving the long spear in his hand like an electric fan, accurately deflecting all the stone spears that were shot at him, and releasing 【Drowning Assassination Technique】 towards the inhuman embryo.

The release distance of this skill was as far as 200 meters, but the prerequisite was to see the enemy's position with your own eyes.

As the skill took effect, the embryo's body trembled violently, and clear water was constantly spewing out of its bloody mouth, and its intertwined arms also began to shake violently.

The rain of stone spears suddenly stopped, and Dong Fengpo, who was floating in mid-air, quickly closed the distance, raised the wine bottle and took a sip, and spewed a pillar of fire towards the embryo from afar.

The pillar of fire accurately hit the embryo's body, making its originally pale and smooth skin scorched and cracked.

Dong Fengpo wanted to take another sip of wine, but saw that the scorched inhuman embryo in the palm of the arm wriggled its body and roared at him: "Damn insects!"

The mud pillar arm suddenly tilted, and slammed down on him like a white jade pillar propping up the sky.

The Stonemason, who was still entangled with the golem below, was shocked. He had heard this voice before - it was Williams in the illusion!