Chapter 448 Complex Environment
Until Mingyue City, Xu Lai and his party were very safe.
When passing by Mingyue City, although Yu Lan looked reluctant to leave, this time she did not pester Xu Lai to follow.
No way, the influence of the Bone Moon is still there.
In the entire vicinity of Mingyue City, there should be no other living creatures except them, so every once in a while, there are always skeletons approaching.
Dill was more responsible for patrolling Mingyue City, and he also personally led the team to eliminate all nearby threats.
Therefore, more of the construction work in Mingyue City actually fell on Yu Lan.
Knowing that this was the escape route prepared by Xu Lai for himself, Yu Lan could not push this matter out.
Fortunately, the mine is underground, and Mingyue City also reserves a large amount of materials. The infrastructure construction only needs to arrange the farmers to work.
The most Yu Lan can do is take a look and plan.
Not tired, but boring and lonely.
It's a pity that Xu Lai couldn't even find the captain's order or the general's order in the temple's redemption list, which can be used to recruit creatures.
Xu Lai also asked about Bello's talent. He and Andy Yin really have nothing to do with each other.
Bello's talent is the specialty of horse thieves. He can subordinate horse thieves, thieves and other professions and recruit units, and his attack, defense and speed will be strengthened.
Furthermore, Bello's talent only came after he bathed in dragon blood and advanced to a high level. Before that, he had no talent.
His two sons were also bathed in dragon blood. They were extremely talented, but they had not yet developed any special skills.
Taking Naaru into the dungeon, Xu Lai was worried at first that Xiaolan would be repulsive to Naaru, but apart from not allowing Naaru to approach, Xu Lai did not show any other hostility.
This trip is not an outing, it is a mission.
Therefore, they moved very quickly in the areas that had been explored near Mingyue City. Even if they saw skeletons wandering around on the road, they passed as quickly as possible.
I was really entangled and had no choice, so I asked Naru to lead three Holy Light Knights and charge several waves.
In order to show his strength, Naaru is always happy to do this kind of thing.
The smaller group of skeletons can be dispersed by four knights charging back and forth a few times.
There is nothing we can do about a large group of skeletons, and everyone needs to work together.
The dungeon has a big disadvantage, that is, it is not suitable for cavalry to expand.
The roads in the underground city extend in all directions, and the vast area can be compared with the plains. It is not only suitable for building a city, but also a super city at the level of a national capital.
However, the narrow place is so narrow that only a few people can pass through.
If the knights are charging at high speed and suddenly encounter such a narrow intersection, they will huddle together and no one else will take action.
This is also the reason why Xu Lai doesn't want to bring out the large troops. The more people there are in the underground city, the more troublesome it will be.
When you encounter thousands of skeletal undead like this, they block an intersection. You either have to clean them up, or you have to go back and find other roads.
Such wild monsters, Xu Lai can clean out as many as he can in one Doomsday Judgment.
After all, there is no hero bonus. Except for some giant creatures with extra lives, even the 7th and 8th level wild monsters cannot withstand the power of a Doomsday Judgment.
However, a spell like Doomsday Judgment is very powerful and consumes a lot of money. Of course, Xu Lai cannot just let it go for fun.
The key is that Xu Lai still cannot control the casting range of Doomsday Judgment. With one spell, it is easy to provoke all the wild monsters within a radius of more than ten kilometers.
It would be okay if he was burned to death directly. It would only give Xu Lai more experience.
If there is a dungeon force nearby, and they have a hostile relationship with Xu Lai, they will definitely go crazy if they are burned like this.
Especially the underground passage was so twisted that Xu Lai had no idea where his magic was.
Even if he had ideas for these dungeons, he might still fall short because he was alerted in advance.
Fortunately, it is not difficult to deal with these skeletons. Among these skeletons, the highest level ones are a few giant skeletons. The only advantages of these level 5 undead are that they are strong and have relatively high health.
The unified shortcoming of the undead is that they have no intelligence at all, not even comparable to wild monsters.
At least the wild monsters have fighting instincts, such as knights and infantry. In one-on-one combat, Xu Lai's fighting skills may not be as good as theirs.
The undead have nothing but just rush towards any living creature like crazy.
It would be good if there is a necromancer to control it, but if not, as long as it is a living creature, they will attack without hesitation, and they will not stop fighting.
The key point is that the undead do not have morale attributes, and they do not need to eat or drink. If they pester you, they can last forever.
This kind of characteristic cannot be tolerated even by the dungeon forces belonging to the same evil camp.
In the recent Moon of Bones, countless dungeon forces have ceased operations and voluntarily given up some peripheral territories in order to clear out all the undead near the territories.
Xu Lai and the others were okay. Although their numbers were small, even Jian Yuan, who had the worst combat effectiveness, was not something these undead could break through. With the blessing of the Angel Alliance, Jian Yuan, who was only at level 6 but was still mainly responsible for reconnaissance, was wearing leather armor and chopped down the bones one by one.
Not to mention others, the Holy Light Knight didn't even bother to add blessings or punishments, it was just a single blow anyway.
There is another disadvantage of the physical profession, that is, no matter how fast they attack, they still have to cut with one knife, and they can only cut one with one knife.
The most comfortable ones are Giselle and Anna.
There is no sunlight in the dungeon, and although mushrooms are lit 24 hours a day, they cannot grow in many places.
So, Giselle finding any place is equivalent to hiding in the shadows.
Giselle, who is in the shadow, does not even need the arrows in her quiver. It is enough to directly use the shadow energy to continuously generate shadow arrows.
After multiple advancements, Giselle's Shadow Arrow is the same as the Wood Spirit Arrow. The arrow has a fixed damage of 16 points.
This damage is far lower than Giselle's Phantom Heavy Arrow, Phantom Long Arrow, etc., and it is not affected by the bonus of related skills.
This means that Xu Lai's ultimate archery skills and the attack power boosted by ultimate prayer are of no help to Giselle who uses the Shadow Arrow.
But 16 points of damage is already higher than the damage of most arrows.
Coupled with Giselle's level 8 attack power and phantom heavy bow, it is easy and enjoyable to instantly kill some level 3 and 4 skeletons without any bonus.
Of course, even so, Giselle still had to keep drawing and firing the bow, which was much more tiring than the knights.
But Giselle also has the characteristic of phantom arrows. Every time she shoots, she can generate at least 3 phantom arrows.
At most, it will not exceed Giselle's level, which is 8 branches.
Including one of the main body, at least 4-9 arrows can be shot every time the bow is drawn.
Of course, the part of the phantom arrow only deals 70% of the damage of the main body.
But the Phantom Archer still inherits the characteristics of the Phantom Heavy Bow, and does not have the weakness of half-arrow damage. Even the Phantom Arrow can still kill these skeletons instantly.
On average, Giselle can kill 6 skeletons every time she draws her bow.
Moreover, Giselle's agility is extremely high. She has an additional 9 points of agility bonus when she is in the shadow, which is equivalent to 48 points of agility.
There is also Xu Lai's speed talent, which increases the attack speed by 20% again. Under the influence of the Angel Alliance, morale is even better, and the attack speed is increased by 20% again.
At the same time, Holy Prayer also has a 25% attack speed bonus. This speed stacks up, and Giselle's hand is drawn out. She doesn't know how many times she can draw the bow in one second.
The arrows she can shoot by herself are at least equivalent to dozens of high-level archers. It is no joke to take one as a hundred.
However, even so, her killing speed cannot be compared with that of another person.
It's not Xu Lai. Xu Lai's one-handed weapon skill level is quite high, and he already has the skill of taking advantage of the situation.
But even so, using the skill once only takes up a small piece, so it is better to chop them off one by one, at least without consuming mana.
What is truly terrifying is Anna, whom even Xu Lai did not expect.
After a group healing spell, although no one lost a single hit point, the group of skeletons shattered into white bones.
Group healing is the Holy Light spell with the highest healing capacity, because it covers a very wide area, and the more people there are, the more cost-effective it is.
However, the healing capacity of the group healing spell is not high. Unfortunately, this time it is an undead unit, and the divine light spell naturally causes twice the damage.
Maybe level 4 and 5 undead, such as giant skeletons, can still rely on their health to survive.
But most of them here are level 1 and 2 skeletons. These level 1 and 2 creatures, which are worse than farmers, fell down in pieces under the influence of group healing.
The cooling time of the group healing technique is quite long, otherwise Xu Lai and the others would not have to do anything at all, they would just watch Anna doing it.
Anna’s captain characteristic is to shorten the casting time of the priest unit she manages by 25% and reduce the casting cost by 25%.
So even if the group healing spell consumes a lot of money, Anna can still cast it for several rounds, and Xu has mana potions here.
However, in addition to group healing, Anna also has a skill that is specifically designed to target these undead monsters.
The name of the spell is purification, and it can be released on living people, dead people, and people who have died and come back to life.
Releasing it on a living person can purify the negative status of the target. Releasing it on a dead person can purify the death energy on the dead person so that it can no longer be controlled by the necromancer.
When used on the undead, it also purifies the death energy on the undead, but the damage is not comparable to that of the healing technique. Even huge fifth-level skeletons can be directly purified.
As soon as this group of undead monsters appeared, the giant skeleton leading them was killed one by one by Anna.
Anna and Giselle can both absorb experience, including Naru.
Xu Lai simply retreated with the Holy Light Knights. Their efficiency was not high anyway, so just let Naru handle it and give all the experience to the two of them.
(End of this chapter)