Chapter 22 The Situation

"What do you all think?" After roughly understanding the situation on the battlefield, Blood Corpse God, who was less patient, was the first to throw out a question.

Before he could finish, Demon Head replied without hesitation, "I can't. My power's origin is similar to his, I can't hurt him at all."

芙灵 Fu Ling thought for a few seconds and then replied, "I'm confident I can 'injure' him, but 'killing' him is another matter entirely..." She paused, then continued, "With my power alone, to kill him in a single, instantaneous strike... absolutely impossible. And that attack 'sufficient to injure him'... its power would definitely force Wang Tanzhi's technique to stop. At that time... the freed Dou Mo (Fighting Demon), even if injured, could annihilate us all while fighting and recovering."

"Hmm..." Blood Corpse God listened, pondered for a moment, and scrutinized Dou Mo for a few seconds. "What if... I use a very fast speed to bite off his head and swallow it..."

"Don't even think about it." Before he could finish speaking, Billy interrupted, "Dou Mo isn't the kind of creature that dies from losing its head... The humanoid appearance doesn't prove anything. So, don't use the thinking of 'ordinary creatures' to look at him, assuming that he has so-called 'fatal weaknesses'."

"You mean..." Samodir said, "To kill him, you have to kill him with one blow, and blast him into dust?"

"Not necessarily," Billy continued. "One blow or ten thousand blows... as long as you can exhaust all the energy contained within him, you can kill him."

"Basically, empty his health bar," Xiao Tan added in a timely manner.

"Mm," Billy responded. "Good example. Speaking of which... using your interdimensional traveler's concepts to explain, this problem should be simpler..." He paused for a second, then looked at the others and began to explain. "First, let's assume... Dou Mo has 1000 health points, 100 defense points, and 100 magic resistance. And most of us here have attack power below 20 in our normal state. So, normally... all of our ordinary attacks on him, whether physical or magical, will 'not break through his defense'. No matter how many times we hit, the damage dealt is zero."

"We can only use some explosive, special methods to increase our attack power to over 100 at a certain time or a certain instant. Only then can we deal some damage to him. However, how much damage can this 'defense-breaking' damage do? It might be 50 points, or it might be 100 points, but it's absolutely impossible to cause 1000 points of damage after breaking through his defense."

"So, does that mean we can kill him by hitting him ten to twenty times with an attack that can break his defense? That's not right either, because Dou Mo, like most of us... also has self-healing abilities."

"Of course, I've never witnessed his ability - I've never even seen Dou Mo injured. But according to Dian He Wang, the god and demon sides fought countless times when they fought against Du Shen in the past. Among them, there were naturally many battles in which both sides were hurt, and after so many battles... they still couldn't kill each other, so Du Shen could only think of sealing Dou Mo. From this point of view, Dou Mo's recovery ability must be the strongest level. If we can't continuously inflict more damage than his recovery efficiency in a short period of time and continue until his 1000 health points are exhausted, then we will be the ones who die in the end."

"According to your description, Dou Mo has quite a few things in common with some Bosses from Robot Wars..." At this time, Xu Huaishang couldn't help but complain from the side.

The NPCs didn't pay much attention to her words, mainly because they didn't understand what Robot Wars was...

"Tch... So you mean, everyone here, facing this 'suppressed' Dou Mo, still has no means to kill him?" Blood Corpse God organized his thoughts and asked in a rather unhappy tone.

"Although I'm unwilling, my judgment is indeed... that 'we'... have no way to do it." As Billy spoke, his eyes slowly moved and looked towards the three necromancer knights on the side.

"Sorry." Xiao Ling had already understood the unspoken meaning of this NPC from Billy's eyes and the emphasized "we", so she replied directly, "We three 'interdimensional travelers' also do not have the ability to kill Dou Mo instantly." As she spoke, she looked at Xu Huaishang again, "Judging from the current situation, Sister Shang shouldn't be able to do it either. If she could kill Dou Mo... then she would have already done it before we came, so..." She shrugged her shoulders, "I'll just ask..." She turned her head to look at her fiancé, who was scratching his dandruff, and continued, "Xiao Tan, if you can free your hands, do you have a way to kill Dou Mo?"

Xiao Tan had already been thinking about this question when the others were talking, so he answered quickly at this moment, "My Yan Shi (【叹】's effect, creating black flames that devour all matter on the physical and non-physical levels according to the user's will) should be able to break his defense, but if according to what you said, he might not die even if his head is cut off, then... putting aside whether his recovery speed and the black flame's corrosion speed are faster, let's assume that the black flame is slightly faster... he can completely get rid of the corrosion by simply severing a limb."

"I understand..." Hearing this, Taliom, who hadn't spoken for a long time, stroked his chin and laughed, shaking his head. "Hehe... It seems, we still only have one choice."

Everyone knew what he meant by "choice" - to defend this area and wait for Feng Bujue to return.

On the other hand, just as these leader-level NPCs and Ruo Yu and the others were joining forces with the monster kingdom's forces and discussing strategies, the redundant soldier legion in the sky... was also continuing to accumulate its power.

A few minutes ago, these redundant soldiers were already ready to launch, but fortunately, the sudden appearance of the "Gate of Howls" allowed the Sweepers' tactical control system to have a new reaction, thus delaying the attack.

But this "delay" was not endless.

At this moment, the number of redundant soldiers in the sky had almost reached saturation. Looking up, the "cloud of soldiers" was so thick that it was impenetrable. Under this premise, even if there were still many unknown factors in the battle analysis, the redundant soldier legion would not wait any longer.

Therefore, the Sweepers, whose numbers had returned to more than fifty, decided to issue the order for a general attack after confirming it through collective consciousness communication.

And just as that order was about to be issued...

"Sorry to keep you all waiting." A cheap, full-of-himself voice, amplified by the [Deceptive Pocket Watch], resounded throughout the battlefield.

Even the redundant soldiers with low intelligence knew who was coming...

As countless eyes looked towards the source of the voice, a man with a wicked smile on his face, wearing a purple long suit, appeared on the city wall.