Chapter 703: The Honorable Hunter
I quietly swept up the Iron Winged Bees behind me as I fled forward. My idea was that if I could kill all the Iron Winged Bees, I could force the Beehive down, but this would be another round of very difficult tug-of-war and attrition battles because there were simply too many Iron Winged Bees returning to the nest.
As I killed a batch of bees, the Iron Winged Bees seemed to have discovered the problem. They dispersed and began to surround us from all directions. This forced Milti, Lair, and Paris to continuously use AOE spells to deal with the surrounding bees, such as “Phantom Arrow Rain” and “Rainbow Spray.”
I could only absorb, not release. My magic power was starting to become strained. Even if the magic power of a single Iron Winged Bee was small, I should have absorbed thousands by now. If only I could secretly use magic…
At this moment, my eyes lit up. I saw Paris make a gesture that I was very familiar with. Well, isn’t that a coincidence? Isn’t that the “Poison Cloud Technique”?
A large area of emerald green poison clouds spread out behind us. The Iron Winged Bees that flew into the poison cloud started to fly erratically everywhere after emerging. Even if they didn’t die immediately, they would lose their ability to pursue due to the neurotoxin.
This is good. I’ve seen two different groups of people use this spell. The other was the group of ghouls from Sherris’s hometown. It seems that the “Poison Cloud Technique” is indeed a spell that is easy to learn and use, and everyone likes it.
First of all, it has a low level and is easy to get started. Then, the materials are easy to find; anything poisonous will do. It’s a rare large-area AOE among low-level spells, and its power is not insignificant. The toxicity is determined by the strength of the poisonous materials used. Theoretically, its power can increase by several levels depending on the materials used, even surpassing some high-level spells.
Paris using the “Poison Cloud Technique” was exactly what I wanted. I directly layered five layers of the “Poison Cloud Technique” onto that cloud. The originally somewhat sparse poison cloud instantly became almost impenetrable. The poisonous mist began to spread outwards continuously, and the Iron Winged Bees that passed through were now certain to die.
We don’t need to worry about spellcasting materials either. We recently killed a mutated Black Mamba. I obtained both the venom sac from its head and the venom sac from a centipede. We have plenty of poison now, so we can use it freely.
So, every time Paris used the “Poison Cloud Technique,” I quietly stacked four or five layers on top of hers. She was a little puzzled. Is this spell that powerful? But it’s hard to gauge the power of the “Poison Cloud Technique,” so she could only assume that the Iron Winged Bees were naturally weak to poison.
Indeed, many insect magical beasts are weak to poison, which is similar to what is written in textbooks. So Paris didn’t suspect anything and used the “Poison Cloud Technique” more frequently. I also took the opportunity to expend all my overflowing magic power while continuing to use “Life Drain.”
Soon, the pursuing Iron Winged Bees suffered heavy casualties under the massive AOE attacks. The Beehive was forced to send down more Iron Winged Bees to pursue us.
When the Iron Winged Bees crawling on the surface flew down, we saw the surface of the Beehive. It was covered with a new layer of metal, and the broken structure of the Beehive from the previous battle had also been repaired.
It turns out they were lying on the surface to repair the Insect Nest. These Iron Winged Bees secreted liquid metal like wax, then formed it into a beehive shape, and even grew a considerable amount of flesh and blood.
Soon, the Insect Nest discovered that it was not effective to simply send Iron Winged Bees down to pursue us, as the poison stingers were not enough to penetrate our shields, and they were met with various area magic attacks, only to lose their heads. So it began to sweep again.
Excellent, this is exactly what I wanted. Consume the bee swarm and attract its attention. When it’s almost depleted, I can force it to come closer for a decisive battle.
However, only I felt relaxed because I had the “Shield of the Twin Eagles,” which granted physical immunity. They were all struggling, constantly having to dodge the Beehive’s sweeping attacks while on the move to prevent their own shields from being broken, and also constantly replenishing their teammates’ shields. Even though I deliberately ran behind to attract firepower, they were in a very sorry state.
And then, at this moment, we suddenly heard the sound of galloping footsteps coming from beside us. Tandri’s voice reached us: “Young master, young ladies, those bee swarms have returned to the nest! You must be careful!”
What the hell! How did Tandri catch up? And what is he doing here? We all saw the bee swarms returning; his appearance is completely unnecessary. And he doesn’t have a shield. This is bad!
As expected, as soon as the bee swarm saw a new person appear beside us, without a shield, they immediately shifted their target to him. Tandri dodged the first wave of sweeping attacks with a roll, then raised his greatsword and hid behind it.
The greatsword, like a large door panel, completely concealed Tandri’s figure, but it was evident that he was struggling to hold it up. The rain of projectiles formed by the Iron Winged Bees shot at his greatsword non-stop, and the greatsword could be seen trembling constantly.
“You guys run! I can hold on for a while longer!” Tandri’s strained shout came from behind the greatsword.
“What are you doing?!” Milti and the others were shocked and angry, forced to stop and attack the Beehive again in an attempt to save him. But by stopping, they were surrounded by the bee swarm. Although they still had shields on, they were already covered in Iron Winged Bees.
“Young master, young ladies, you run! I can’t hold on for long, but this can be considered me fulfilling my contract to protect you!” Tandri shouted. Although Paris quickly gave him a magic shield, he still let out a few pained groans, seemingly having been stung.
This guy actually wants to stay behind as bait. Isn’t he looking for death? Besides, you’re just a hunter. Why are you trying so hard? Even if you wanted to curry favor with the noble children, you wouldn’t get anything if you died!
“No, we’re leaving together! Hurry up and run!” Milti raised her hand and conjured a strong wind, blowing away the sweeping Iron Winged Bees. Iron Winged Bees, not being bullet-shaped, were more easily affected by the wind.
They’re actually competing with each other. If this continues, everyone will probably die together. Luckily, at this critical moment, Older Brother Jayad directly said to me, “Okay, now!”
“Boom!” A thunderous roar came from the sky. Everyone looked up and saw lightning surging above the clouds. A pure white Hippogriff let out a long cry in mid-air, then plunged downwards.
Holy white lightning wrapped around its body, as if it were an envoy sent by God to judge sin, descending upon the mortal world.
By the time the Beehive realized something was wrong, it had already tried its best to adjust its position to avoid it, but unfortunately, the huge metallic nest suspended in mid-air was too obvious a target and couldn’t be dodged.
Moreover, no Iron Winged Bees shot out from the nest like bullets to retaliate in the sky. The Beehive had been constantly distracted by us, and it never expected a threat from the sky.
A large swarm of bees encircling the Beehive rushed forward, forming a thick layer in front of the Beehive, attempting to block the Hippogriff’s charge.
However, facing the Hippogriff engulfed in lightning from the sky, they couldn’t even last half a second before being collectively electrocuted and scattered across the sky.
The Hippogriff crashed into the Beehive without slowing down.
