In just a few moments, the blue river monsters had charged over. They had no facial features, no limbs; their attacking core was the seaweed covering their bodies.
Qi Xu took the lead in attacking, spinning and leaping into the air, her twin blades carving silver arcs. The first monster's seaweed tentacles had just brushed her hair when they were shredded into dust by her blades.
But more seaweed exploded from the monster's body, instantly weaving into a dense net...
Qi Xu carefully rolled sideways to avoid entanglement, her crossed blades slashing toward the monster's core, only managing to leave a few white scratches on the blue gelatinous substance.
"They just won't die, dammit!" Xie Shaoning shouted loudly. His longsword had already pierced clean through a blue river monster, but after he pulled it out, the creature still retained its full combat capability.
Who could withstand this for long? At least 200 had jumped out of the box!
Jinwen Xingmangyue also furrowed her brows tightly. Even direct hits were useless.
Qi Xu retreated quickly, her boot soles scraping sparks on the slippery starry path. Dozens of monsters pounced simultaneously, their seaweed intertwining into a cage mid-air.
Qi Xu forcefully plunged her twin blades into the ground, using the leverage to propel herself upward. Her blades skimmed past the edges of the monsters, severing large swathes of seaweed. But there were too many river monsters. To her surprise, the severed seaweed writhed upon hitting the ground and even coiled around her ankles.
Their surroundings were completely packed with dense blue monsters, leaving no space to use "Scarlet Assault" to escape.
At the critical moment, Zhishi Naigai Bafentang whipped her lash over, providing a slight block, allowing Qi Xu to successfully dodge.
"Thanks."
Xie Shaoning was a bit panicked. "What do we do? Invincible Black Whirlwind!"
"It's fine, we'll fight. You're holding the front."
"Tsk, what kind of time is this for jokes! How do we actually fight them?"
Qi Xu already had an idea. She recalled Sweet Girl to the top of her head; in this situation, Sweet Girl couldn't be fully utilized.
She also had Little Seven fall back, then took some combustion-aiding powder from her backpack and forcefully scattered it over the numerous blue river monsters. She directly followed up by throwing a torch that wouldn't extinguish.
Instantly, the blue river monsters began to wail in agony. The dried seaweed ignited first, the eerie blue monsters contorting into bizarre shapes within the flames, emitting cries like a baby's wail.
From their burned-through gelatinous bodies, some dark red crystals even emerged!
But the scene was too chaotic; there was no time to scan and identify what these things were.
"So they're afraid of fire!" Jinwen Xingmangyue switched to a different type of arrow. As it shot toward a monster, the arrowhead burst into flame mid-flight.
The monsters' bodies ruptured one after another, the exploding blue fire darting through the starry hues like will-o'-the-wisps...
Xie Shaoning and Zhishi Naigai Bafentang didn't have fire-based attack methods, so they did their best to block and fight while desperately throwing matches.
Eventually, Xie Shaoning simply held the front line while Zhishi Naigai Bafentang focused on striking and throwing matches from behind.
Back when Qi Xu learned the assassins feared fire, she had collected a lot of related materials. She never expected she wouldn't use them on the assassins but would find a use for them today.
By the time nearly 200 blue river monsters were mostly eliminated, the four of them had completely turned into "almost charred little black figures."
Xie Shaoning, who had been holding the front line the whole time, had it worst. His freshly styled hair was almost singed bald, and he was secretly checking himself in a mirror, trembling with anger, looking quite pitiful.
Qi Xu found him amusing and originally wanted to tease him a bit more, but she suddenly sensed an intense energy fluctuation rapidly gathering.
Focusing her gaze, deep within the starry moonlit night, a monster covered entirely in eyes came charging out with a piercing shriek. One look at it gave all of them goosebumps simultaneously.
The group quickly moved, gathering inward while maintaining formation, all while thinking about how to break the situation.
Jinwen Xingmangyue even shot a flaming arrow at it, but the light emanating from its eyes directly melted the arrow!
Jinwen Xingmangyue exclaimed in distress, "Damn, it melted my arrow just like that!"
Her already not-wealthy purse was hit with another blow adding frost to snow. Every arrow she shot was supposed to be recyclable and reusable. The quiver made by the little goblin could automatically repair damaged arrows.
But if the arrow was gone, there was naturally no way to repair it.
Back then, Jinwen Xingmangyue hadn't been willing to buy too many, only getting 30 in total! So losing even one was heartbreaking!
Nevertheless, she quickly stowed the quiver, gripping her longbow ready for close combat—this was the versatility of the little goblin's craftsmanship.
A sharp spike materialized at the tip of the longbow, instantly turning it into a bayonet. Even the bowstring could emit sonic waves for attack. At this moment, Jinwen Xingmangyue suddenly felt that the 10,000 Survival Coins she spent weren't a waste.
Just as she was about to charge forward with her longbow, Jinwen Xingmangyue suddenly heard the light screen's notification sound and then stood frozen in place.
The other three didn't notice her abnormality, their eyes fixed intently on the multi-eyed monster. Sensing something amiss, Qi Xu quickly shouted a warning, "Careful, quick, close your eyes!"
The monster let out a fierce roar, and hundreds of eyes all over its body simultaneously erupted with blinding white light, like a runaway sun exploding within the confined space.
Hearing the warning, everyone instinctively closed their eyes, but still instantly felt an intense brightness, their eyes involuntarily tearing up.
Qi Xu felt a sharp pain in her eyes and realized this battle must be ended quickly, otherwise the longer it dragged on, the more disadvantaged they would become.
She threw a smoke grenade, twin blades in hand, and surged forward like a leopard under the smoke's cover.
Her target was the unusually large eye on the monster's chest—the only "blind spot" she had observed earlier that didn't frequently move.
However, the multi-eyed monster seemed to sense the threat, focusing all its attention solely on Qi Xu. All the intense light converged on her, and Qi Xu instantly felt a scorching heat far more intense than before.
It was an extreme, blood-seeming pain all over her body, but the pressure on her other teammates noticeably lessened.
Numerous long eyelashes covered with eyeballs suddenly shot from all directions, whistling through the air as if to completely envelop Qi Xu.
Little Seven let out a fierce howl, pouncing forward and directly stabbing several of the monster's eyes with its sharp front claws, blood flowing freely.
The Mountain-Conquering Tiger, which had been following behind, also attacked at the same time, though it went for the monster's back, its lethality not much weaker than Little Seven's.
Sweet Girl was gathering toxins within her body. Seizing the moment the monster was attacked from both front and back, she bit down on its head.
Zhishi Naigai Bafentang and Xie Shaoning also charged up immediately, but their target was the long eyelashes wrapping around Qi Xu. "As long as the green hills remain, there'll be no shortage of firewood." Defeating the enemy wasn't urgent; rescuing the person came first. To help block a crucial strike, Xie Shaoning braced himself and took the hit head-on, directly shattering a Lethal Protection Card.
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