Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 118: Defeat

   Just as Lawrence raised his pistol and threw an exorcism bullet into his head along his eye sockets, and completely killed the nearest Kobold zombie, a huge change took place in the battlefield of the siege of the spider.

   "Squeak--" After hearing this scream, Lawrence turned his head and looked at another battlefield across the pond. As a result, he clearly saw a crown of holy light full of sacred energy appeared on the head of Paladin John, and the first 1/3 of his sword had already penetrated into the middle of the spider's body.

"[Crown of Punishment], it seems that John took a good opportunity this time." Lawrence recognized the moves used by the paladin. This kind of holy light moves naturally has a powerful killing effect on this spider that looks like an undead creature. force.

   The truth is also true. As the sword blade was drawn out, the black blood of the big tent gushed out like a fountain, and along with the filthy blood gushed out, it seemed to have the power of a spider, and the spider's movements suddenly became dull.

   "Continue attacking, don't stop." The warrior Reso shouted loudly, while he vigorously swung the axe in his hand and slashed the spider's other front leg. Because the spider was suddenly injured and his movements became sluggish, his next few axes successfully cut to the same place and smoothly removed the spider's right front leg.

   In this process, the spider surrounded by the center has been trying to break through. But every time it had the intention of rushing out of the battle circle, it would be blocked by the magic robot, John and Cogg, holding the shield that exudes holy light.

At this time Kogg had already got into his magic robot. As the battle became fierce, especially after the shock of the soul just now, he gave up manipulating the magic robot outside, but went directly into the robot and used the robot. The runes, enchantments and metals on his body protect his fragile body.

   One hand of the robot became a fast-rotating chain saw struggling to cut all parts of the spider it could touch, while the other hand exposed a single-shot enchanted howitzer that fired from time to time.

   After several failed shocks, the spider stopped waving his paws wildly and stood there, then lifted his upper body and quickly moved its big claws, and made a clicking sound.

   "Boom..." An invisible shock wave suddenly erupted from the spider's head, and immediately the surrounding dust was stirred up, and all nearby plants fell to the surroundings with the spider as the center.

"Soul shock--" John shouted, but the soul shock released by the desperate spider at this time was far greater than the one just now. Only John and Kogg hiding in the magic robot completely avoided the influence of this trick. .

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the spider immediately rushed towards the other side of the woods, while Reso and Raqqa who had been blocking there were all dizzy due to the spider’s soul impact just now, and there was no way to stop them. Spider trying to escape.

   bang, bang, bang..., seeing this scene, Lawrence immediately changed the target of attack, pouring all the remaining three bullets in the pistol and a prepared magic missile onto the spider's head. They all successfully hit the target, and the eyes on the spider's face exploded into black blood.

   In the previous battle, John also used his sword to smash an eye of Le Spider. So now the spider has only one yellow eye covered by dirty blood, and almost completely loses his eyesight.

   The severe pain and sudden blindness made the spider lose the last chance to run. It began to wave its paws around trying to keep the attackers away from him.

"You guys hold it now, pay attention to keep your distance from it." Paladin John yelled. As the most experienced person in the squad who faced such monsters before, he immediately yelled and hoped to go forward and pick up the cheap Cog. . Because he knew that this kind of beast's counterattack when facing death is the most terrifying. "I'm going to help Lawrence now."

   Lawrence is now facing a crisis, because he just focused his fire on the spider and gave the zombies a chance to get close to him. So now he can only dodge very embarrassedly, and occasionally use magic to attack those zombies who are too close to him.

"Next time you must learn a skill related to hand-to-hand combat, especially the use of a certain cold weapon." Lawrence thought while evading the poisonous claws of the zombies. He did learn some hand-to-hand skills before, but the problem is now. It's that those skills with bare-handed combat are really not suitable for fighting with these rough-skinned, powerful, and poisonous guys.

   "Hold on, Lawrence." At this embarrassing moment, John's voice quickly moved closer, and then a holy light flashed, directly cutting off the neck of the zombie closest to Lawrence.

   "Nice work." Lawrence said, and at the same time he took advantage of the loopholes in the encirclement circle to directly destroy half of the skull of an apprentice-level zombie with a [magic missile] at almost zero distance.

   Soon, John held up his shield and knight sword and started to attract attention in front, while Lawrence fired magic on the zombies a few meters away from behind him, destroying them one by one.

   These instinctive zombies who lost command did not have much room for struggle when facing Lawrence and John's restraint of their combination. Soon Lawrence and the others successfully killed the remaining 14 or 5 zombies.

   At this time, the battle on the other side of the pool was almost over. Under the repeated and flexible blows from the outside of the other three players, the heavy damage that the spider had just suffered finally made it unable to sustain it. At the same time, because of the irreversible damage caused by the holy light attached to John's sword just now, it can no longer suppress the toxin that Raqqa put into its wound just now.

   Under the double blow of toxins and wounds, the spider's movements became slower and slower. Especially after several attempts to pretend to be dead and try to induce everyone to attack, but no one took the bait, it consumed too much power. So when Lawrence and John rushed to the battlefield, the spider had become very difficult to move.

  【Magic Missile】, Lawrence released his magic after getting close to the spider, and John cut off the spider's paw that had become fragile due to the decline of magic power.

   At the same time, after Lawrence and the others returned, the others also changed the tactics of the fight just now, surrounding the spider with all their strength to release their attacks~lightnovelpub.net~ let their attacks hit the spider's body like raindrops.

   These attacks left large and small wounds on the spider's body, and even caused the entire spider to spray black dirty blood around like a shower.

   Looking at the spider falling and struggling to stand up in a pool of black blood, Lawrence knew he was set to win this time. Even if the opponent is an official-level extraordinary monster, but it has suffered such a serious injury, and the puppet zombies that can be used are cleaned up, it will not be able to recover.

   Less than half a minute after everyone tried their best, the spider uttered a scream accompanied by a very weak mental shock, then its paws fell to the ground, and then he could not get up again.

Lawrence felt that the white shadow in his mind had absorbed an eight-legged black soul from the spider. After a few breaths, a much smaller white soul flew out of the white shadow, and then surrounded After turning around Lawrence, he disappeared into the air.

   "Are you—purification?" The others didn't seem to have seen what he was doing, but John, who was standing next to Lawrence, noticed this scene. "Do you warlocks still have this ability?"

"I don't know, and I have never seen other warlocks who can do this trick. But I know that after becoming a warlock, I have automatically mastered this ability. By the way, what did you just call my ability—purification "Lawrence said slowly, considering that he was a little worried about what would happen to his method of extracting monster souls when others discovered it, but now it seems that the Paladin, as the incarnation of justice, does not seem to oppose his practice. .

   "Of course, what you do is to purify the evil soul. This is a very sacred thing." Arthur explained to Lawrence looking at Lawrence's blank face.