Chapter 162: Black Snake Invasion, The Forest Witch’s Pet!

Seeing the skill effects of [Extreme Ice Bloom], Cao Xing's pupils constricted.

"So powerful!"

This skill combined area-of-effect damage, crowd control, and a terrifying damage coefficient!

Twelve ice pillars attacking, plus the detonation damage.

If detonated in the middle of a monster horde, it would likely take away a large amount of monster life on the spot!

Cao Xing clapped his hands together and clicked to learn it.

[Successfully learned skill: Extreme Ice Bloom]

Then, he checked the attributes of that blueprint.

[Intermediate Elemental Arrow Tower Blueprint: Can upgrade the Basic Elemental Arrow Tower in the territory to an Intermediate Elemental Arrow Tower]

[Attack Power: 541 ~ 569 (25% chance to add 110 elemental damage)]

[Attack Interval: 2 seconds / 1 time]

[Maximum Range: 1200 meters]

[Armor: 100 points]

[Durability: 4500 / 4500]

[Footprint: 20 square meters]

[Building Height: 18 meters]

[Construction Materials Required: Basic Elemental Arrow Tower, Wood * 500, Stone * 300, Iron * 100, Mithril * 5, Intermediate Elemental Crystal * 5]

…

Seeing the attributes of the Intermediate Arrow Tower, Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction again.

Compared to the Basic Elemental Arrow Tower, the damage and maximum range of the Intermediate Arrow Tower had been greatly improved.

Especially the range, which had doubled!

Given Cao Xing's current territory size, as long as he didn't continue to expand, a single Intermediate Arrow Tower could provide all-around coverage.

"Not bad, not bad, this haul is truly great!"

Cao Xing put all these things into his backpack with satisfaction.

Then, he led everyone out of the resource room.

After arriving outside, the advancement of the three Wild Boar Warriors was already in its final stage, and the aura on their bodies was constantly growing.

A moment later, the aura of two of them stopped abruptly.

Only one person's aura continued to rise.

A system notification appeared.

[Your territory member: Rabino has successfully advanced to an Elite-level creature, learned new skill: Twin Blade Waltz]

The one who broke through successfully was Rabino.

The other two looked dejected.

Cao Xing encouraged them, "Don't be dejected, one failure is nothing."

"Follow me, and each of you will have the opportunity to improve again."

Hearing Cao Xing's encouragement, light returned to the eyes of the other two Wild Boar Warriors.

Rafael spoke first: "Lord! I will take you to open the rest rooms of the other Wild Boar Warriors now!"

After speaking, he came to one of the stone doors and began to chant a strange spell.

At this moment, Cao Xing couldn't help but ask: "Are the spells each of you mastered different?"

Rabb replied embarrassedly: "Lord, these passcodes are only fully known by the tribe leader."

"The reason we know them is because we eavesdropped on them…"

"I eavesdropped on the passcode for the resource room, and Rabino and the others eavesdropped on the passcodes for other places."

Hearing this, Cao Xing rolled his eyes.

Good grief, so that's how it was…

Meanwhile, Rafael had already opened the door.

Rumble!

Just like the resource room, there was a giant stone passage here as well.

Having tasted the sweetness of success, Cao Xing became somewhat expectant.

He followed Rafael inside to search.

Inside were rows of rest rooms.

However, apart from some damp, blackened quilts and other sundries, there were no other gains.

Cao Xing didn't think much of it and walked straight out.

Rasbi also went over to open the door to the food storage room.

As expected, the remaining food inside had all spoiled and rotted.

It could be said that they came away empty-handed again.

At this point, only the last one remained—the [Tribe Leader's Room] that Rabino had mentioned.

With two consecutive areas yielding nothing, Rabino himself was a bit apprehensive.

Cao Xing encouraged him.

Rabino breathed a sigh of relief and went over to open the stone door of the tribe leader's room.

Behind the stone door was, as usual, a giant stone passage.

Passing through the passage, Cao Xing saw a room fully furnished with furniture.

Stone bed, stone table, stone stools.

And in the corner, Cao Xing saw a storage chest.

His eyes lit up immediately, and he walked over quickly.

[Discovered Wild Boar Tribe Leader's Storage Chest (Blue), do you want to open it?]

Seeing the system prompt, joy appeared on Cao Xing's face again.

"Finally, another harvest!"

He clicked 'Open' directly.

[Opening successful.]

[Obtained: Tier 2 Wild Boar Warrior Recruitment Scroll * 12]

[Obtained: Tier 2 Elite Wild Boar Warrior Recruitment Scroll * 1]

[Obtained: Winter Pumpkin Seed (Green) * 27]

[Obtained: Amethyst Fragment (Blue) * 4]

[Obtained: Olivine Fragment (Blue) * 2]

[Obtained: Tribe Leader's Crown (Purple)]

[Obtained: Book · Song of Blood-Red Thorger]

…

"Haha! Twelve Wild Boar Warrior recruitment scrolls, and one Elite recruitment scroll!"

"This wave is a huge profit!"

Cao Xing was overjoyed!

The value of the items in this storage chest was quite high!

He looked at the attributes of these newly acquired items.

[Amethyst Fragment (Blue): Can be embedded in weapons or equipment, increases Constitution by 5 points, Magic Attack by 10 points.]

(A precious Amethyst Fragment, containing clear power fluctuations, requires Intermediate Forging technology to embed.)

[Olivine Fragment (Blue): Can be embedded in weapons or equipment, increases Physical Attack by 10 points, Magic Attack by 10 points]

(A rare Olivine Fragment, containing balanced fluctuations, requires Intermediate Forging technology to embed.)

…

"Not bad, I've opened three types of stone fragments in treasure chests before, these are of the same type."

Cao Xing continued to check.

[Tribe Leader's Crown (Purple): Special Equipment]

[Quality: Rare]

[Wearing Requirement: Wild Boar Tribe Leader]

[Attributes: Strength + 15, Agility + 15]

(Note: The crown of the Wild Boar Tribe Leader can only be worn after gaining the recognition of the Giant Vine and becoming the tribe leader.)

…

[Book · Song of Blood-Red Thorger]

[Item Attributes: After reading, can gain Strength + 10, Spirit + 10 attribute increase]

[Reading Time Required: 47 hours 54 minutes (Cumulative)]

[Click to read]

…

"Not bad, not bad, this Tribe Leader's Crown actually adds so much Strength and Agility, it's a pity that one has to become the Wild Boar Tribe Leader to wear it."

"And this book is the one that gives the most attribute points I've ever encountered, of course, it also requires the most cumulative reading time."

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

After checking the attributes of these items, he walked out of the tribe leader's room contentedly.

This trip to the Witch's Forest was truly fruitful.

Not only did it greatly increase his strength, but he also obtained some special items.

And they hadn't even explored one-tenth of this forest yet.

One could imagine how many opportunities this vast forest contained!

…

Before long, Cao Xing led everyone to gather in the central square.

He announced: "There are still more than three hours until dark, we will continue to explore the forest for a while, and then return to camp before dark."

Assam and the others replied one after another: "As you command, Lord!"

The four Wild Boar Warriors also said excitedly: "Oh! Wild Boar Warriors love exploring the jungle!"

Just as they were about to leave, Sarah in the darkness suddenly felt something was wrong.

She quickly materialized and appeared by Cao Xing's side, saying with a vigilant face.

"Be careful, Lord, I feel an evil aura approaching us rapidly!"

Hearing this, Cao Xing's expression also became serious.

Anything that could make Sarah vigilant was at least a Boss-level creature of the same rank!

"Everyone, be on alert!"

Following Cao Xing's order, everyone instantly prepared for battle.

The next moment—

Cao Xing saw a huge black figure drilling rapidly into the gap on the perimeter of the Wild Boar tribe!

That black shadow was covered with shimmering black scales, and its entire body emanated a black aura.

Wherever it passed, those plants and giant trees over ten meters tall were all knocked over by its body!

It gave people the feeling of a destructive force of nature!

Then, Cao Xing and the others saw a massive snake head!

The head of a black snake!

Its head was at least three or four meters long, and its body size even exceeded forty or fifty meters!

"Such a big snake?"

Cao Xing was astonished!

Meanwhile, the expressions of the others changed instantly.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

The black snake raised its head, flicked its crimson-to-black tongue, and stared at the crowd.

In its dark green snake eyes, a look of having spotted prey appeared.

Cao Xing quickly checked the attributes of this giant snake.

[The Forest Witch's Pet: Bibi]

[Race: Beast]

[Level: 38 (Tier 4 Boss-level creature)]

[Health Points: 148310 / 148310]

[Attack Power: 5123 ~ 5331]

[Armor: 972 ~ 1015]

[Skills: Black Scale Armor (Entire body covered with hard scales, Armor + 400), Deadly Poison (Bites the enemy with its giant mouth, injecting deadly toxins, dealing 150% of attack power as damage per second until death, cooldown 40 seconds.), Venom Spit (Opens its giant mouth, using fangs to spit out two streams of venom, dealing poison damage to enemies, cooldown 2 minutes), Swift Assault (Instantly bursts with the power within its body, pouncing on enemies or fleeing at extremely high speed, cooldown 2 minutes.)]

【Serpent Berserk (Enters a berserk state, Attack Speed and Movement Speed increased by 50%, Defense decreased by 30%, effect lasts for 3 minutes. After use, falls into a 60-second Weakened state, all attributes reduced by 30%, Cooldown 5 minutes)]

【Dark Body (Special Skill. After activating this skill, the Black Serpent's HP recovery speed increases by 50%, damage received is reduced by 30%, Attack Speed and Movement Speed increase by 100%, effect lasts for 3 minutes, Cooldown 24 hours.)】

【Talent: Cold Resistance】

【Talent ②: Behemoth (Broke through the limits to become a behemoth with powerful vitality, HP increased by an additional 50%)】

(Description: A pet belonging to the witch of this forest. Because it was contaminated by a certain dark aura, it has become extremely manic and aggressive. Please handle with caution.)

…

"Good grief, a level 38 Boss-level Black Serpent!"

Yes, this guy is a serpent, not a python!

It also possesses poison attacks.

A level 38 Boss-level monster, this is far more terrifying than that Soul-Eater Demon!

Rabb, standing to the side, sensed the terrifying aura from this Black Serpent and swallowed hard.

"My Lord, I think I understand why the warriors of this Wild Boar Warrior tribe had to leave…"

Cao Xing nodded as well.

Clearly, the Wild Boar Warrior of this tribe had been targeted by this Black Serpent, forcing them to migrate.

At this moment, the Black Serpent's gaze swept over Cao Xing and the others.

The next moment.

Its body arched like a drawn arrow.

Then, it lunged fiercely toward them.

Boom!

It was hard to imagine that such a massive serpent could have such terrifying explosive speed!

Cao Xing commanded instantly: "Everyone, listen to my orders and prepare for battle."

"Braun, block it!"

Braun charged forward instantly and shouted.

"Unbreakable!"

He was actually going to use his level 20 strength to block the attack of this level 38 serpent!

Moreover, there was a two-tier difference between Braun and the Black Serpent; the gap in attributes between them had reached a terrifying level.

The serpent's head was about to make contact with Braun's shield.

A terrifying pressure surged toward him!

Bang!

The first collision between the two sides!

The Sacred Shield on Braun shattered, followed by the second layer, and then the third!

The three layers of the Sacred Shield didn't even hold the Black Serpent back for a single second!

And just before Braun was about to be sent flying.

He shouted: "The darker the night, the brighter the stars!"

"Glacial Fissure!"

At that moment, Braun slammed the giant shield in his hand directly onto the ground.

A terrifying cold aura erupted from the ground.

A glacial fissure suddenly appeared on the ground.

And this fissure was spreading at a terrifying speed.

Crack! Crack!

The terrifying cold aura instantly climbed onto the Black Serpent's scales and covered it in a layer of frost!

A [-477] damage value quickly appeared above the Black Serpent's head.

However, the damage wasn't the main thing; the main thing was that the Black Serpent's momentum had been halted.

Not only that, the frost on the serpent grew thicker, eventually covering its dozens-of-meters-long body completely!

The next moment.

Braun was sent flying backward.

And a terrifying damage value of [-3374] appeared above his head!

Seeing this, everyone gasped.

If not for the [Frost Magic Shield] reducing damage and the weakening effect of the three layers of the Sacred Shield.

This strike would likely have instantly killed a Tier 3 elite.

Although Cao Xing's expression was grave, he did not panic.

Instead, he quickly issued a series of orders!

"Assam, charge in and shred its defense!"

"Dabai! After Assam's Sacred Shield shatters, charge in immediately and use Mammoth Stomp!"

"Renice, use Storm Arrow Rain directly and inflict the Crippled status on it!"

"Hilda, be ready to use Capture Net and Soul Scream at any time!"

"Everyone else, follow me and go all out!"

The changes happened too quickly, and the pressure this Black Serpent exerted was terrifying!

Fortunately, with Cao Xing's command, everyone seemed to have found their backbone.

They executed Cao Xing's orders immediately.

Andrew entered [Owlbear Form] and began a bombardment!

Renice immediately unleashed a wave of Storm Arrow Rain.

Assam manifested a sword aura over ten meters long and slashed down four times in succession.

Including Hilda, Sarah, Putana, as well as the four Wild Boar Warriors and Dabai, everyone charged up!

Densely packed damage numbers suddenly popped up above the Black Serpent's head.

[-215]

[-247]

[-1754]

[-441!]

[-330]

[-257]

[-334]

…

The serpent's armor was too high.

If it weren't for Assam's Sword of Justice shredding 40% of its armor, the damage dealt would have been even lower.

However, despite this, the group's focused fire still took away over four thousand HP from the serpent!

Compared to its nearly 150,000 HP, this might be negligible.

But it gave Cao Xing hope for victory.

Meanwhile.

The frost on the serpent had already begun to crack!

It sounds slow, but in reality, less than two seconds had passed since Braun was swatted away and the group launched their first wave of attacks.

The control effect caused by Braun was already nearing its end.

The [Glacial Fissure] skill can control for 1 to 5 seconds.

Clearly, this serpent was too strong, and the control duration had been significantly reduced.

Cao Xing's gaze was grave as he ordered: "Do not retreat, continue with the second round of output."

Swish!

The group's attacks continued to pour down.

The serpent's HP dropped by another five thousand.

However, the control status on it had ended by now.

Crack! Crack!

"Hiss!!!"

The frost all over its body shattered, and the serpent hissed toward the sky.

It seemed the group's attacks had made it feel angry!

The next moment, it was about to launch an attack.

Just then, Cao Xing ordered directly: "Dabai, use Mammoth Stomp!"

Hearing Cao Xing's command, the Mammoth executed it without hesitation.

It rammed into the serpent, then raised its front hooves high.

Boom!

[-1023]

The next moment, a stun icon appeared above the Black Serpent's head, and its attack motion came to an abrupt halt.

Seeing this, the four Wild Boar Warriors, as well as Putana and the others who were frantically hacking away beside the serpent, breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they trusted Cao Xing, they were still a bit intimidated because it was their first time dealing with such a powerful creature.

Now it seemed that their new Lord was very experienced in handling this.

Before they could think much more, Cao Xing's voice appeared.

"Attack with full force!"

As the words fell, the group's attacks hit like a violent storm.

Cao Xing himself also raised his staff and gathered various spells.

Great Ice Spear and Ice Spike were released continuously.

Everyone was doing their utmost to deal damage to this Black Serpent!

The Black Serpent probably hadn't expected that after charging over aggressively, thinking it could go on a killing spree.

It would be controlled in place by this group of people using various strange moves in the first encounter!

After three seconds.

The Black Serpent's HP had dropped by twenty thousand!

At this moment, it finally broke free from the stun status.

"Hiss!"

The Black Serpent appeared even angrier; it hissed, and its giant tail whipped out fiercely!

Although Cao Xing had no hard crowd control left, he still didn't tell the others to retreat.

He commanded directly: "Don't mind the Black Serpent's attack, continue the output!"

"Sarah, throw the Obstruction Dagger!"

"Blot, Black Smoke Storm!"

Meanwhile, Cao Xing himself instantly condensed a barrage of ice arrows!

The Black Serpent raised its tail, intending to sweep away the group of bugs nearby.

With its attack power, a single casual strike could severely injure these Tier 3 Wild Boar Warriors!

However, because of Cao Xing's orders, these Wild Boar Warriors and Putana were all biting the bullet and dealing damage to this Black Serpent.

Only Assam's expression didn't change in the slightest, because he believed in Cao Xing's command.

The giant tail swept across!

A strong whistling of wind came to their ears!

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