Chapter 8 The firelight guides the direction of the climb
Just as many adventurers were having a meeting, Zhao Qiankun looked up on the trunk of a raised lump, and in front of him were numerous spiders.
These spiders are divided into several types, of which vary in size and shape. Among them, the most numerous and the smallest one is the size of a car, with thick carapaces all over, eight long legs strong and sharp, and barbs are tightly inserted into the bark; the larger one is twice as big as the smallest one, with longer legs and more poisonous fangs; the largest one has a longer torso than the bus, and the two front legs have alienated into pliers, which looks even more dangerous.
There are hundreds of devil spiders, large, medium and small, and they just surrounded Zhao Qiankun.
But Lao Zhao didn't take them seriously at all: "I originally wanted to surf the third floor and then go up, but the old man Wuji said that the fourth floor is a lie in another world, which makes people feel curious... At worst, go up and take a look first, and then come back and play..." As he said that, he pinched the joints of his fingers and smiled grimly at the countless big spiders in front of him.
"This...this is..." Xun Yiming, who was looking at the trunk from afar, suddenly widened his eyes and saw a fire suddenly burst out on the trunk as big as a mountain!
"What's wrong?" Others also noticed the strangeness on the trunk. A few seconds after the firelight appeared, a rumbling sound came over. Then, larger pieces of firelight began to explode on the trunk. Then, one after another, a series of rumbling sounds came, as if a string of thunder was blew!
"Someone is fighting on the trunk!" Elemental dancer Kidman shouted: "And there is a flame mage, a very powerful flame mage! The scale of this flame explosion is very terrifying!"
The elemental dancer Kidman said this, which shows that the author of the firelight is indeed not simple!
Looking at the sparks that kept blooming, everyone was hesitating for a moment. They could clearly see such a large formation and such powerful masters attacking the trunks. It should be a good opportunity for them to help, but it is several kilometers away from the trunk. The terrain of the canopy is complex, and there are many insects blocking the road. Even if they are not afraid of it, it is difficult for them to arrive at the first time...
While hesitating, the fire had disappeared, leaving only a large area of burnt bark.
"It's over?" Everyone looked at each other, and it only exploded for a few seconds? Could it be that the mage was killed by the devil spider?
Kidman frowned, raised his hand to hold it in snatch it, whispered a few words to the air in his palm, and then spread his palm and blew it.
Fengxun, this is a very biased wind-type magic. It stores sounds in the airflow and can spread hundreds or thousands of meters away. It is one of the effective magical methods for short-distance transmission.
Generally, the wind message of the wind magician can only be transmitted one way, and it will dissipate after hearing it. However, Kidman's wind message is different. His control over the wind element is very exquisite. The wind element is condensed but not dissipated. After listening to it, the other person can reply and bring it back!
Sure enough, a ball of wind magic wave came soon. Kidman took it and listened to it, frowned, and said seriously: "Captain Ryan happened to be near the trunk of the tree. According to him, after the flame exploded, hundreds of burnt devil spiders fell down, but no one was seen..."
"Is it the human side that won?" Everyone stood up. The devil spider is different from the first layer of ants and the second layer of worms. Those are all vegetarians. The devil spider is a real carnivore. It has a higher food chain and a larger size. It is bound to be impossible to have too many!
More than a month ago, multiple mad dragon-level teams formed a coalition force, preparing to find a point to force a breakthrough. There were only a few hundred devil spiders blocking that time, which failed many mad dragon-level and tiger-level masters, and they didn't even see the face of the master of the level...
But the wave of flames just now killed hundreds of devil spiders? If this is true, it may be the best opportunity to climb the four-layer canopy!
Thinking of this, everyone could no longer hold back and stopped opening and rushed towards the tree trunk!
All the first-class experts present, the soldiers ran with all their might, and the mages accelerated themselves, while accelerating while paying attention to avoiding resin and cannibal flowers. When they encountered bugs blocking the road, they directly gathered fire and instantly lost. Finally, they rushed to the trunk within a few minutes. Sure enough, they saw many burnt devil spiders lying on nearby branches and leaves!
"Captain!" Kidman stepped on the Hot Wheels to Ryan, who had been waiting for a long time: "Didn't you go up and take a look?"
The tall Ryan shook his head: "I tried it, but look at it..."
Kidman looked up and saw that the bark on the trunk was charred. From more than ten meters high, the thick bark was even burned out, revealing the bare and charred wood...
"Burned?!" Kidman said in surprise: "The bark of the World Tree is dozens of meters thick and very tough. How could it be burned directly?"
Ryan snorted coldly: "There is such a bare tree trunk, and there is no place to catch it if you want to climb!"
This is also one of the reasons why the three-layer arborists have been unable to conquer them.
The previous arborists were all active around the trunks. Although the adventurers and their battles would also extend to the trunks, they could still be drawn down to attack as long as they were patient. However, the devil spiders were particularly suitable for climbing on the trunks and were accustomed to living in the gaps in the bark. As long as the adventurers did not climb up the trunk, they would not show up, and they insisted on attracting adventurers to fight in an unsuitable environment, which was very uncomfortable.
Now, even the bark is gone, and adventurers have nowhere to climb.
Kidman nodded: "I'm going to use gravity for everyone!"
As he said that, Kidman chanted a spell, and a magic wave swept across everyone. Among the more than 50 masters present, each of them felt a unique suction force coming from under his feet. He raised his legs and stepped on the vertical trunk, but found that it seemed like he was walking on the flat ground, his body parallel to the ground, and he could easily walk up the trunk along the trunk!
"I am really worthy of being an elemental dancer!" Everyone exclaimed. The previous Fengxun and the current gravity spells were both very erratic and difficult to master. However, he was not only familiar with it, but also more powerful than ordinary people.
Everyone walked up the trunks, and only the Red Moon Group and the other three were left behind.
"Captain Jessica blocked my spell with anti-magic magic..." Kidman looked at Jessica, and Ryan glanced at her with a squinted look: "Why, don't you want to accept the favors of your old comrades?"
"No need!" Jessica snorted coldly, raising her hand to condense elements, and magic waves enveloped her. Then she saw her hair grow wildly, and soon reached the length of the mopping floor. Jessica took out a knife to cut off her long hair and distributed it to Jueying and Weirley. The three women were wrapped around their soles and stepped on the tree trunk, as if they were ridden by Kidman's buff magic, as if they were walking on flat ground.
Life magic, as the name suggests, is the magic of studying life. In the eyes of ordinary people, life mages are synonymous with advanced doctors. But in fact, in addition to treatment, life magic also includes the improvement of various physical functions, bursting out human potential, and having high abilities. It can even temporarily change the physiological functions of the human body and obtain abilities that it did not have!
For example, underwater breathing, such as resisting toxins, making nails harder, making teeth sharper, and even allowing the blood to contain toxins, allowing the stomach and intestines to digest foods that they could not eat. Although these are only temporary effects, they can play an important role in combat!
Just now, in addition to growing hair, Jessica also made the hair ribbon have an adhesive effect similar to insect legs. After wrapping it around her feet, she naturally walked on any terrain!
"The inefficient approach... It's true that it's a woman's opinion!" Ryan snorted coldly, and walked upwards on Kidman's spell, and Kidman just looked back at Jessica: "The Life Master is indeed well-known. I'm sorry I didn't join the Dragon Knights earlier, so that I might have the chance to work with you..."
"You're too early..." Jessica snorted coldly: "If you are more mature and see Ryan's character clearly, you may not choose to join his team." After that, Jessica and the other two walked up the tree trunk, but deliberately avoided Ryan's route.
Kidman shrugged and followed.
Everyone climbed up along the trunk and soon came to the bald area. Although the bark of the World Tree is flammable, the wood in the middle is extremely hard and heat-resistant, especially the main trunk. The Adventurer Guild once tried it. Ordinary steel weapons cannot even be left with scratches, and the Blazing Fire Sword is difficult to burn. The black charcoal that everyone is stepping on is basically the burnt bark attached to it...
The trunk between the two canopies is only a few hundred meters long. Looking around, from the top of the three canopies to the bottom of the four canopies, it is almost charred, which means that the team climbing trees should have completely rushed through the defense of the arborists!
"No, those guys have already rushed to the fourth floor, right?" Some adventurers analyzed, and Ryan shook his head and rejected: "No, this layer of devil spiders are particularly suitable for climbing in the trunk environment. The layer master and the guard monster will also appear at the bottom of the fourth floor. Even if the burnt marks touch the fourth floor, it does not mean that they have broken through the layer master's blockade! Let's follow and take a look!"
As he said that, Ryan rushed forward with a meteor hammer, and Kidman and other masters of the Dragon Knights followed closely! Other adventurers followed and headed towards the fourth floor along the burnt bark!
Along the way, in addition to the burnt bark, there are also many charred worm corpses stuck to the trunks. Those who can be burned by such fierce flames and keep the entire corpse are basically devil spiders at the level of the guard!
A few hundred meters away, the journey of the masters passed by in a blink of an eye. Just when they were only more than a hundred meters away from the fourth floor, they suddenly heard rustling sounds from all directions. Then dozens of guard-level devil spiders with double claws surged out of the cracks in the bark that had not been completely burned around, surrounding the adventurers!
"So many!" The adventurers said in surprise, and showed off their weapons one after another. The big monsters were not vague and rushed up to attack directly!
Although the adventurers present are all top experts, these devil spider guards are not vegetarians. Their terrifying levels of over twenty levels, their strong bodies, poisonous fangs, and the ability to spin silk and bind them make them the most terrifying killing monsters!
I didn't feel anything when I rushed on the road before. In this battle, the adventurers' weakness of being unacceptable to the local environment was reflected. Not only because the trunk is the home court of the devil spider, but more importantly, most of them stand on the trunk by gravity, which means that their feet cannot leave the trunk, at least they cannot be too far away. A few of them were so proud that they suddenly jumped up and fell to the lower level by the gravity of the ground. Seeing their fate, the adventurers were all careful in their pace, and those skills that needed to be jumped were basically useless!
But even in such a severe environment, adventurers still perform well!
Jessica is not stingy with magic. When the group is slowly treated, the group's muscles are strengthened, which greatly improves the overall combat power!
Xun Yiming's single sword was shuttled and back and forth among the spider groups. With his exquisite steps and tricky sword moves, he could always find the spider's weakness attack just right. The purple air on his body rose. With his extraordinary internal force, he would give priority to attacking the spider's legs and cut off several spider legs. The devil spider was unable to support his body, so he naturally fell from the vertical tree trunk! With this skill, a spider can often be destroyed by three or five swords, which is extremely efficient!
Kidman's flames in one hand and a hurricane in the other hand. With silver hair dancing, the dual-type magic flew out in a series. Every time he accumulates power, he can severely damage and even kill a devil spider!
But the mage was afraid of getting close. Whenever a devil spider tried to attack the elemental dancer, there would always be a strong man holding a big shield in front of him. This was the chief defensive warrior from the Dragon Knights, a real fifth-level warrior. The heavy tower shield was as light and flexible as a small wooden shield in his hand. It not only could withstand the fiercest attack, but also make the most destructive counterattack. With him, the elemental dancer would dare to output with confidence!
On the flank, a smart black shadow was also passing through the swarm of insects. The dagger in his hand was glowing green. A slight stroke could cause a terrifying wound. The venom on the dagger was highly corrosive, and even the shell of the devil spider could not resist it! This Shadow Dark, the leader of the Shadow Adventure Group, was a powerful assassin, and his artifact was even more powerful!
On the other side, a red figure was also flying up and down in the swarm, which was Jueying!
She is one of the few people who dare to jump up on the trunk, because the iron legs are hidden secrets, and can shoot out slender steel cables, nailing them to the trunk to help her move in all directions. In addition, her excellent balance rod and agile body style make even the spider's web difficult to capture!
All experienced and powerful adventurers present showed their own abilities against powerful enemies and showed off their strengths, but the most powerful one among them was the leader of the Dragon Knight Adventure Group, Ryan!
This powerful dragon knight is worthy of the reputation of the leader of the first group. He rushed to the front of the team. The meteor hammer in his hand seemed to have life. He flew up and down and could always hit the vital points of the insects just right. No matter how hard the carapace was, under his powerful meteor hammer, it collapsed with one blow, causing the spider slurry to splash and fall from the tree trunks!
It can be said that half of the dozens of guard devil spiders present were held back by him! Thanks to the active performance of the Dragon Knight, the remaining adventurers have the advantage in numericality, and can kill two or even three people steadily against one spider!
With the activeness of adventurers led by the Dragon Knight, the originally forty or fifty devil spiders were killed in the blink of an eye, which was the most exciting result since they tried to enter the fourth floor!
However, even so, no adventurer dares to take it lightly!
They have organized an attack more than once before, but they have encountered more than the spiders in the guards this time, but none of them have been smooth this time! The reason is very simple. These guards appeared before when the battle situation was the most intense. Before that, hundreds of minions and elites fought with them!
Although the minions and elites are not as powerful as the guards, there are enough numbers. With them holding the adventurers' footsteps and consuming the adventurers' physical strength, these guards can exert their maximum power. Their long legs, poisonous fangs, claws and spider webs will become the most terrifying killing tools!
But now, these guards are directly taking action, and there are still so many, which means that it is very likely that all the low-level spiders nearby have died, so what they face next is probably the final challenge...
Chapter completed!