Chapter 182 Overwriting Worm

 Before the operation, Lu Yao repeatedly asked Salina to evaluate the combat effectiveness of the cursed insects.

Salina said: "The curse insect is called the overwriting insect. It is not good at direct combat, but its ability is very difficult to deal with."

“It can copy another me, and that me has abilities comparable to mine. The only weakness is that it doesn’t last long.”

“The Curse Bug is thick-skinned and good at protracted battles. I won’t be able to deal with it in a short time. If it is dragged into a stalemate, I will be at a disadvantage.”

“In addition, it has another ability, which can integrate the body and the surroundings. It is like the first layer of the abyss, which is actually completely covered by its body. It can understand every move inside.”

“The last is the characteristic of the curse insects themselves. They have a strong immunity to the damage or effects of the Fire of Faith, and usually only suffer half of the effects.”

 Lu Yao remembered it silently.

 The curse insect has three abilities: faith damage halved, copy, and fusion.

 When Salina encounters such an opponent, her advantages of high burst and high movement speed are restrained, and the curse insects turn her into a tug-of-war of attrition, resulting in her being at a disadvantage.

 After clarifying the basic situation of the enemy, Lu Yao mobilized the dungeon team and officially dispatched.

The units participating in the strategy of conquering the first level of curse insects this time include: Blood Knight, Selina, Isabel, and Snowman.

White God went to Canopy City, Philus sat in Sanilo, and the Deep Sea Lord continued to patrol the sea. Someone outside also needed to keep an eye on and maintain order.

Lu Yao opened the portal, and the dungeon team entered the abyss.

 Some more ghouls were born on the first level of the abyss. Although the number was not large, the team wiped them out along the way.

 Soon they arrived at the seal.

Isabel gave everyone the [Forest Sword] status in turn.

Lu Yao moved the mouse and began to unlock the seal.

 The flame of faith falls from the chain and turns into the faith value in the upper right corner.

 When all the firelight disappeared, Lu Yao had gained 31,000 points of faith.

 At this time, the golden chain shattered into pieces.

　　The black vortex behind suddenly swelled, and a white monster bulged out from it.

The monster has thick white hair, like a big worm or some kind of reptile. The white hair covers its whole body and its feet cannot be seen.

 It has no ears or horns, and wears a red mask on its head. There are black lines on the forehead of the mask, and below it are two big angry eyes, and under the eyes is a wide mouth with bared teeth.

 It displays [Curse Insect LV92] above its head.

Lu Yao immediately called up the [Curse of True Vision] to check.

 …

 【Curse Insect LV92】Overwriting Insect

 Health: 58375/58375

 Mana: 14102/14102

  Damage: 197

 Defense: 181

 Speed: 18

  【Move casting】

 The cost of casting spells in mobile combat is slow speed.

  【Multicasting】

 Can use spell abilities faster and more efficiently.

  【Mystery of Life LV50】

 Handborn with extremely high health. See through the mysteries of life and use magic to construct extra life forms. After loss, you can slowly recover naturally or use spells and props to recover.

  【Curse Insect】

 The fire of faith only has 50% effect on it, and it has the ability to mobilize and store the fire of faith.

  【Covering Secret LV10】

 Complete control by gradually integrating with a certain individual or environment, and the coverage effect is related to the ability level.

 【Replication Secret LV10】

 Clone an identical individual and give it a command. The duration and degree of copying are related to the ability level.

 …

 【divine head】：none.

  【divine】: crumbling (0).

[God's Body]: God of God.

 …

As soon as the cursed insect appeared, the tyrant Salina took the lead and attacked with a bone sword.

 She turned into a moonlight sword blade, constantly passing through and slashing the body of the cursed insect, while not forgetting to remind others.

 “Don’t give it space to cast spells, it must be suppressed throughout, otherwise it will be very troublesome!”

 Facing the cursed insects, Salina showed unprecedented concentration and caution.

 The Blood Knight followed up with his sword without saying a word. He and Selina cooperated very well for the first time. The two of them can always complement each other in the gaps between each other's attacks, without giving the curse insects a chance to take space.

The curse insect's normal attack method is to hit. It looks like an angry white bull, bumping back and forth between the Blood Knight and Selina.

Red damage values ​​​​continuously appear on the heads of the three.

With the blessing of [Forest Sword], the blood knight's damage is increased to 195, and each attack can cause 14 points of damage to the curse insects.

 Salina's damage reached 347 points, and one sword attack can consume 166 health points of the curse insect.

 Compared to these two extremely fast melee apostles, the Cursed Insect suffers a lot from its speed. Not only does it move slower, but its attack speed is also sluggish.

However, relying on the powerful panel value, it can still cause continuous blood reduction to Salina and Blood Knight.

 Lu Yao is more concerned about the ability of the curse insects.

After a moment of fierce fighting, two figures appeared around the cursed insect.

These two people are completely replicas of the Blood Knight and Tyrant. When fighting, their movements are not slow at all, and they are not much weaker than the two genuine apostles.

 Lu Yao clicked on one of the white copies.

 …

  【Copy LV83】Blood Knight·Naved

 …

 Their various statistics can reach about 80% of the original version, but they cannot reproduce the special abilities of the original version, such as the [Enchantment] of the Blood Knight. But relying on its thick body, the replica was enough to hold down the two apostles.

Lu Yao noticed that the curse insect consumed about 2,000 mana points during the two casts of [Copy Secret]. It can also use this ability multiple times, and is indeed good at fierce battles.

While trying to get rid of the carbon copy, Salina warned the blood knight: "Don't get entangled with these things, they will disappear after a while. There is no point in fighting them, you have to attack the curse insect itself."

 At the reminder of the tyrant, the Blood Knight changed his strategy.

 He blocked two clones by himself, allowing the Tyrant to use its burst damage to continuously kill the curse insects.

　Not long after, the carbon copy disappeared.

Lu Yao counted the time and found that [Replication] would last about a minute and a half.

At this time, Isabel in the air held the [Natural Secret Word] and said: "Sir, [Spell Guess] cannot guess the ability to restore the cursed insect, and the deduction cannot be used."

Lu Yao felt a little regretful.

 He also thought about letting Isabel use the magic book to secretly learn some abilities.

These [Copy] and [Cover] are both very practical skills.

Since it doesn’t work, then don’t think too much about it.

 Kill the curse insects directly.

 Lu Yao was not in a hurry.

At first he was a little uneasy. After all, according to the tyrant Salina, the curse insects were the top monsters that fed on gods, and they were not afraid of miracle bombs.

 Looking at the results on the panel, it is just 50% damage reduction, not immunity.

Lu Yao also tried it out.

 One bolt of lightning can knock out exactly 20 points of the curse insect's health.

 As long as he wants, he can kill this cursed insect anytime and anywhere.

 He can now get the faith value of less than 60,000 points.

 Including the 30,000 faith obtained by unlocking the seal, the net expenditure is only about 30,000.

 As long as he is able to eat the curse bugs, he will not be prepared to use Isabel's [Unstable Hat Trick]. If it is reversely enhanced, the gain will outweigh the loss.

Lu Yao just didn’t want to waste too much power of faith. He hoped that the apostles would work harder to reduce the health of the cursed insects as much as possible. No one knows whether killing the cursed insects will make back the money.

This is considered a long-term investment, preparing to open the second layer of the abyss.

While Lu Yao was thinking, the Blood Knight had already killed the two replicas of the second batch.

And Selina's moonlight sword blade has been surrounding the cursed insect. The old enemy was extremely jealous when they saw it, and the red damage value on the top of the cursed insect's head never stopped.

  The overwriting insect's health has dropped to about 37,000 points.

Lu Yao yawned.

Alright, you guys have a little more fun, and if it doesn’t work, I’ll take action again.

 Just think of it as leveling up.

 There is no LV92 monster out there for these two powerful apostles to practice with.

 After a few seconds, Lu Yao realized something was wrong.

 A state of [chaos] appeared on Blood Knight Nevid’s head.

 He is still fighting with the third batch of carbon copies.

 Lu Yao clearly saw that there was an extra line of description in Navid's data panel.

 …

  【Under coverage】

  Coverworm (6417/12544)

 …

　　Blanched!

 You're going to poke my apostle in front of me, right?

 Since you don’t respect martial ethics, then no one should play.

Lu Yao reminds the tyrant to get out of the battle, and then clicks the mouse to select the target.

  【Lightning】×1900!

　　Died!

 (End of this chapter)