owlsbooks Chapter 1400 Defeat and Advance
Chapter 1400 Defeat and Advance
In the damp cabin area filled with darkness and hostility, we saw the skinny figure flash behind Lei Xiao, and everyone around us looked helpless.
The spider silk that appeared suddenly was indeed too tough and sticky. It tied the body tightly and made it impossible to break free at all.
While stabbing Lei Xiao in the back, he felt the despair and powerlessness emanating from our people. The face of the skinny sixth-level figure became even more grim and vicious, and the sharp short blade wrapped in vast energy became increasingly cold.
The next second, the short blade turned into a cold light and penetrated the energy barrier unhindered, and then penetrated the body wrapped in leather armor in front of it.
"Hahaha, what a loser, just like that idiot just now!"
The hooded lord's pale face was distorted, and he laughed unscrupulously at our people: "How is it? Seeing your respected lord die is very despairing, right? Don't worry, it will be your turn soon..."
Before the Hooded Lord could finish his words, the skinny figure who had successfully backstabbed him apparently realized something, and quickly dodged and returned to the former's side in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
"What are you doing in such a hurry, you idiot?"
The Hooded Lord obviously noticed the abnormality of the skinny figure and said with a gloomy expression.
"Master, the target is not the real enemy lord!"
A hoarse voice sounded, and a trace of tension appeared on the skinny figure's withered face. He interrupted the hooded lord and said, "Retreat quickly, it's a trap set by the other party!"
"What stupid thing did you say?"
Upon hearing the voice, the Hooded Lord immediately looked towards the center of our formation.
I saw that Lei Xiao's body had collapsed to the ground, but there was no blood flowing out, just like a damaged golem puppet.
"This is……?!"
After seeing this scene, the grimness on the hooded lord's twisted face disappeared without a trace, and he reacted extremely quickly, immediately retreating at a high speed under the cover of the skinny figure.
At the same time, those silent giant spiders were flying around on the ceiling, apparently looking for new targets to bind.
"You just realized something is wrong now? It seems like you are the real idiot."
A voice as calm as water sounded behind the hooded lord, and the real Lei Xiao slowly walked out.
As for the bound "Lei Xiao", it was naturally the physical clone condensed by Lei Xiao using the "Phantom Thunder Clone".
With the enhancement of various blessing effects, even if the clone only inherited half of Lei Xiao's abilities, it is enough to be comparable to ordinary fifth-level strongmen. It even has the special aura of a lord and can be easily recognized by other lords.
Hearing the voice, the Hooded Lord immediately turned around, stared at Lei Xiao's face, and said grimly: "Boy, don't think you can compete with me by being clever. Your end will be exactly the same as that idiot just now!"
After saying that, the Hooded Lord's face showed a bit more fearlessness. While secretly controlling dozens of giant spider beasts to move towards Lei Xiao, he sneered.
Even if this guy managed to escape, what would happen? Don't forget that his subordinates are still tied up! In this case, even if this guy has three heads and six arms, he will definitely die!
"You don't think I'm the only one who can cast the clone, do you?"
Lei Xiao's face remained calm as he said calmly, "I'm sorry to make you despair."
As Lei Xiao's voice fell, all the figures that were bound on our side slowly dissipated and turned back into energy particles in the air, leaving only pieces of shriveled white spider silk remaining on the floor of the cabin.
This is the key to the new formation adopted by Lei Xiao, that is, all members are baits to attract the opponent to show up automatically.
Among our personnel, there are quite a few who are able to cast the clone function, and the other part have also been issued clone magic scrolls, so it is easy to do this.
After our clones disappeared, our real strong men began to walk out from behind Lei Xiao and the entrance of the passage one after another, completely surrounding the enemy in the center.
After seeing this scene, the hooded lord's already pale face lost all color and beads of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
Through the aura emanating from our strong men, he could already clearly sense that the opponent he was facing now was completely not on the same level as the idiot just now.
"My friend, judging from your bravery and wisdom, you should be the Lord of Daxia, right? Only the Lord of Daxia is so admirable!"
The hooded lord's eyes turned, and he took the initiative to extend an olive branch to Lei Xiao and said, "As the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. How about we join forces?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in weaklings. You're not qualified yet."
Lei Xiao obviously didn't intend to continue talking nonsense with the other party. He waved at his subordinates, indicating that they could attack.
But at this moment, the Hooded Lord was obviously well prepared. While he was talking, he had already controlled the giant spider monsters to aim at each of our men. As long as he covered our strong men with spider silk again, victory and killing would still be in his hands!
"Hahaha, idiot, I'm just stalling for time!"
While laughing sinisterly, the Hooded Lord suddenly thought about it and took the initiative to give the order to the giant spider monster to spray spider silk.
However, to his surprise, his pets did not follow the order, but continued to lie on the ceiling motionless.
In surprise, the Hooded Lord looked up and realized that all the giant spider monsters were pressed to the ceiling by an invisible force. The spider legs were twisted and deformed, and they could not move at all.
"Xiao Jie, the confinement barrier was cast well."
Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows slightly, and all our strong men rushed forward. A vast momentum swept over immediately, and in the blink of an eye, all the giant spider beasts were turned into powder.
"Kill that bastard for me!"
As the scene changed from extremely quiet to extremely dynamic, the hooded lord was obviously planning to fight to the death, and he brought his skinny strong men to attack Lei Xiao fiercely.
For a moment, the two men's eyes turned bloodshot with murderous intent, and they looked like they were determined to fight to the death.
But just as the two of them took a step forward, countless green magic vines swept in from all directions and instantly tied them up on the spot.
At the source of countless green vines, an old magician with wrinkled face held up his staff, his gray hair and beard dancing in the wind. It was Joniel, the old president of the Alchemist Guild.
After being tied up tightly, the Hooded Lord still had murderous intent on his face and kept cursing.
The skinny strong man next to him was obviously more skilled, just like a slippery loach, using the dense energy barrier around him as a buffer zone, easily broke free from his restraints, and continued to rush towards Lei Xiao. His strength was at the sixth level, three stars, and it was obviously difficult for the sixth level, one star, Joniel, to successfully restrain him.
This time, a strong and agile figure came up at a faster speed. It was the ancient dark elf general Jace.
As soon as the two sides met, a fierce battle broke out. But before the skinny strong man with murderous intent on his face could even use his fists and feet, a thin sword had already pierced through him along with the energy barrier from behind, creating a big hole in his chest.
When the skinny strong man's expression was filled with surprise and confusion, completely frozen on his withered face, and then he fell to the ground with a bang, Xiao Jing's slender body emerged.
"Don't think you're the only one who can stab someone in the back. You actually dared to point your blade at the Lord. You deserve to die."
Looking at the shriveled corpse on the ground, Xiao Jing snorted coldly and shook off the blood on the blade.
At this point, the hooded lord was the only one left on the field. He no longer had the arrogance and recklessness he had just had. His crotch was wet, and a fishy smell emanated from it. His lips were trembling constantly.
Then, his bloodshot light-colored eyes widened, and his pupils began to dilate rapidly, and soon there was no sound.
"Your Majesty, he is dead."
Jace bent down to look for a moment, then nodded woodenly at Lei Xiao.
"It is ridiculous that such an ant-like existence wants to shake the Lord of Daxia."
Lei Xiao glanced at the corpses on the ground and ordered everyone to clean up the battlefield quickly.
During this process, Lei Xiao also checked some other corpses. They were obviously the same as the skinny strong man, that guy's subordinates, who were ambushing around this area, but they were easily eliminated by our strong men during the melee just now.
"My Lord, the silk threads of those giant spider monsters have all disappeared, without even a trace left."
Xiao Jing came up to Lei Xiao and said in amazement, "No wonder we didn't find anything just now."
"These guys must be the culprits in that area just now."
Lei Xiao nodded slightly and said thoughtfully: "As for why those special spider silks completely disappeared, it should be similar to the situation of magical creations. They can only continue to exist when those spider monsters supply energy together."
"Your Majesty is right. Those are not ordinary spider silks, but a very special kind of magic spider silk. They need to be continuously powered by spiders that have never been seen before. Once the power supply stops, they will naturally return to energy particles."
Shulter nodded in agreement, and then a trace of doubt appeared on his old face. "But those spider monsters are obviously only at the fifth level. Although their shells are relatively hard, it is not a problem for sixth-level warriors. From this point of view, the magic spider silk they create should only be effective against fifth-level warriors. Why can it also bind sixth-level warriors?"
As soon as Shuerte said this, the other strong men around him were all puzzled.
"The answer is actually very simple. It was naturally that despised culprit who did it."
Lei Xiao gently stroked his chin and replied, "First, he must have a talent for taming animals to be able to control those spider monsters. Secondly, he must also have the ability to enhance the abilities of monsters, which is why those fifth-level spider monsters are enough to pose a fatal threat to sixth-level warriors."
After hearing Lei Xiao's words, everyone looked surprised, but also felt a sense of awe in their hearts.
Those spider monsters are indeed silent and difficult to detect on the cabin ceiling. Fortunately, His Majesty the Human Race redeployed them in advance, otherwise we would not have won so easily.
Looking at the stern expressions of the crowd, Lei Xiao's face also became more solemn.
Indeed, this guy's talent is indeed very good, but fortunately he can currently tame and strengthen the fifth-level monster, otherwise he will definitely bring about a higher-level existence.
At that time, if we encounter the enemy again, it will probably be a hassle or even impossible to win.
"From this, it is not difficult to see that the talents of every lord here cannot be underestimated. They are probably the overlords in their respective sectors."
Just when Lei Xiao thought of this, the strong men had quickly cleaned up the battlefield and regrouped around the former.
"Okay, let's move on."
Following Lei Xiao's order, our group focused their minds and continued to move towards the depths of the cabin.
This time, our group's movements were extremely smooth. After passing through more than a dozen cabin areas, we did not find anything unusual.
During this process, we also discovered more and more cabin intersections. Some areas were even interconnected, making the entire City of Ten Thousand Ships like a huge maze, which made people feel dizzy.
Lei Xiao and the others only moved forward in one way, which was to keep moving towards the depths of the cabin and not touch other passages connecting to the edge of the cabin, because the deep part of the cabin was the most likely place where treasures were stored.
Of course, neither Lei Xiao himself nor our strong men know what will happen ahead, but at this critical moment, all we can do is to keep moving forward.
As he went deeper into the cabin, the cabin area he passed through became larger and larger. At the beginning, the area consisting of more than a dozen ships was already quite vast, but later on, Lei Xiao even passed through several vast areas consisting of hundreds of giant cabins, which was truly breathtaking.
At the same time, the sound of magic artillery fire from the outside world gradually became less frequent than before, and it sounded like the winners and losers had been decided one after another. This could be confirmed by the investigation of Gray Old and others.
According to the intelligence continuously transmitted by Gray Old, they have seen five different fleets, some large and some small. Three of them have suffered heavy losses in the bombardment of magic cannons and have sunk to the bottom of the sea one after another. This is only a part of the entire City of Ten Thousand Ships.
As for how many opponents there are in other directions, it is currently unknown, but what is certain is that the number of participating lords is obviously not small.
As Lei Xiao was moving deeper into the cabin, collecting and organizing information about the entire area, a force was also advancing at high speed in the other direction of the City of Ten Thousand Ships. (End of this chapter)