Chapter 138 Hell Hound
Goblins are very crazy. Firstly, this is their nature, and secondly, due to their numerical advantage, their arrogance will be infinitely magnified.
What’s more important is that some of the projected goblins really enjoy this madness without actually dying.
There will also be losses when a projection dies. In addition to the sacrificial items, the experience level will drop significantly, which will cause the attribute points obtained by upgrading to be wiped out, indirectly reducing one's own strength.
However, this level loss phenomenon is not so strict and harsh. In other words, if there is no level, there will be no further deduction after the projection dies.
However, the levels of low-level monsters are generally not high, so they cannot be upgraded and there is no regret in keeping them. This situation makes low-level monsters far less cautious than high-level monsters when facing the projection of life and death.
"Puff~!" The hand axe smashed a goblin's head.
"Are all necromancers so powerful nowadays?" Pine, who was wearing heavy armor and holding a hand axe, whispered to Mu Hua, who was holding a machete and killing goblins with his bare chest.
Low-level goblins are very weak, at least in Pine's eyes. Not to mention the lowest-level goblins, even the big goblins can be killed by Pine with his bare hands.
But these goblins are not without lethality, especially when they besiege him. Pine can be injured or killed by constant stabbing and slashing with his daggers and axes.
A weapon is a weapon, and a blunt knife is still a knife. It may be easy to break, but the basic point of weapons and equipment is that they are made of magic metal, and the basic characteristic of magic metal is that it erodes magic.
Without considering magic, it is basic common sense to use armor and shields to counter swords, guns, axes and halberds, so there is no need to explain more.
Not to mention humans, even demons, if they don't have some special abilities, cannot completely ignore the swords and axes. The sharp arrows on the battlefield are no less dangerous than exorcism bullets.
That's why Pine had to put on heavy armor and fight the goblins to the death.
But Mu Hua, wearing only a pair of trousers and with his bare chest, did not seem to use any defensive magic, and just fought hand-to-hand with groups of goblins.
Pine swore that the goblin that a black-armored skeleton general had just torn off Mu Hua's body had been gnawing at Mu Hua's shoulder and stabbing Mu Hua with a broken but sharper dagger for a long time.
He swore he was not mistaken.
But Mu Hua was fine. That body with magic patterns all over it, wow, he was really thick-skinned.
"Roar~!" A strange dog the size of a brown bear rampaged around Mu Hua.
Like a bully dog that has been magnified dozens of times, this strange dog that can bite off half of a goblin's body is Monday who has evolved into a hellhound.
Although there is only one letter difference between the hellhound and the hellhound, the appearance of the hellhound is like two different creatures.
It was larger in size, with a broad, flat yet sturdy body. When its bloody mouth opened wide, the corners of its mouth could reach its ears, and its dark red skin already had rough magic patterns on it that were the color of magma.
The bone armor on its head seemed to have melted into the skin, making the hellhound's head bigger and more ferocious.
There seemed to be bone spurs on the back that wanted to protrude from the spine, a thick neck, and two thick horns like ramming horns growing on both shoulders.
In terms of the overall image, this is a monster. If someone who has no idea what a hellhound is sees it, they will definitely not associate it with a dog at the first time.
"Boom~!" A hot air wave hit, and a fire ring exploded in all directions with Zhou Yi as the center. The fire ring spread, and many monsters within a diameter of more than ten meters were blown away and ignited by the fire ring.
Even the black-armored skeleton generals summoned by Mu Hua nearby were affected by the fire ring. The black-armored skeleton generals roared and burst out gray-black blood energy, dispersing the flames that had stained their bodies.
Vermillion Nova, the Hellhound's innate magic, is similar to the Death Wave attack form that Mu Hua cast earlier. The elemental activity has reached the middle level, and the diffusion has impact force. It is a range attack magic that does not distinguish between friend and foe.
Unless you have a strong affinity with fire like Mu Hua, anyone involved will be affected by the fire element.
The fire ring was very conspicuous on the battlefield. As the battle came to an end and their numbers dropped sharply, the remaining goblins showed a tendency to flee.
Everyone stayed away from the hellhounds that were trampling on the Scarlet Nova, and the heat wave also caused Tabitha and the others to stop chasing the goblins.
"Is that demon really okay?" Gravichi walked to Tabitha and looked at Zhou Yi who was beside Mu Hua with a serious expression.
Goblins are not afraid of humans. Even when facing humans who can easily crush them to death, they will still show their teeth most of the time.
Goblins are the orcs whose character is closest to that of demons, but perhaps because they suffered so much torture from demons in hell, they are very afraid of demons.
Mu Hua had asked Zhou Yi to restrain himself earlier because he was worried that the goblins would flee in large numbers. It was not until the goblins showed a tendency to escape that Mu Hua let Zhou Yi go and attack.
"Don't worry, Monday is your cousin's day," Tabitha said to Gravizi.
"Follower? That's a hellhound. How could Mu make it sign a slavery contract?" Gravichi was surprised. The hellhound is a notoriously stupid demon.
"Who knows?" Tabitha spread her hands.
She knew that Monday evolved from a black dog into a hellhound, but she didn't go so far as to explain it to Gravizi and the others.
The battle was over, and the remaining goblins on the battlefield were either dead or escaped. He ordered the black-armored skeleton general to stop chasing, and Mu Hua, holding a machete, joined Taibesha and the others.
"Gravichi, call Mark and clear the area. I will deal with the bodies." Monday, who was a circle bigger than a brown bear, followed Mu Hua, and Mu Hua said to Gravichi.
"We? Is that okay?" Gravizi hesitated slightly, and quietly moved away from Zhou Yi's path. "Go ahead. These monsters have no effect on my level." Mu Hua waved his hand.
There are still many monsters that have not died yet on the battlefield.
By the way, the people that Mu Hua usually meets are often at level 200 or 300. In fact, people like Tabitha, Nick, and Paige are definitely outside the norm.
Just like Gravizi at this moment, a veteran demon hunter with more than ten or twenty years of experience, his physical fitness is close to 200, but his personal level is only 75. Mark and others are even lower in level than Gravizi.
It's not that Gravizi and his companions have been slacking off. The truth is that the levels of the monsters are also determined by their killing. In regular monster hunting, monsters with high experience also come with a very high mortality rate.
Even high-level goblins are often elite warriors in armor under the command of a goblin general. They often appear in groups. The best option for scattered human adventurers when they see them is to run away and report.
Without sufficient financial, material and human support, the blind pursuit of status will often lead to failure.
Mu Hua asked Gravichi to clear the field, meaning that he wanted them to kill the dying monsters on the battlefield.
This is equivalent to asking him to take Mark and others to gain experience. There is no such thing as team distribution of monster experience. Whoever stabs the last knife gets the experience.
After Mu Hua finished speaking, Gravichi didn't act pretentiously. He called Pine and the others. After confirming that Taibetha had connected the reconnaissance radar with the terminal, Mark also got out of the tank happily.
Even though Mu Hua seems to have never cared about his level, for most adventurers, finding suitable monsters to increase their levels is really a very important thing.
Several strong men were killing the monsters that were lying on the ground but not yet dead. They were particularly enthusiastic in stabbing the ogres that were still breathing.
Afterwards, several people also consciously began to pick up the dropped items on the battlefield. When they encountered some corpses with equipment on them, no matter whether they were damaged or not, they would strip them off first.
It is said that hell is infinitely vast and the monsters in hell are endless. These words are not just simple descriptions. The number of monsters in the courtyard can be said to be a human kingdom enjoying the demographic dividend. Group fights are the main theme of monster hunting in the courtyard.
The battlefield spanning nearly a thousand meters is quite large. Raven is responsible for reconnaissance, and the image of the bulky black-armored skeleton general picking up low-level magic stones on the ground is a bit funny.
The monsters that left behind corpses were piled up in one place waiting for Mu Hua to deal with them. Cleaning up the battlefield in front of them seemed to be more troublesome than the previous battles between them.
"It looks like we need to recruit some logistics personnel." Looking at the people busying around, Mu Hua said to Taibesha.
"There are too many people to recruit. Who would have thought that you could produce so many black-armored skeleton generals." Tabitha seemed helpless.
She also didn't expect that the fight between just a few people could be so wild. Her original plan was based on guerrilla sneak attacks.
But my cousin is actually leading a team of thirty or forty people. They are a team of death-defying warriors who can fight and carry heavy weapons and are not afraid of life or death.
Looking at the magic pattern on Mu Hua's body that had not yet disappeared, Taibesha reached out to touch Mu Hua's chest while speaking, but was pushed away by Mu Hua in annoyance.
When it comes to combat coordination, Mu Hua had already told Taibetha some necessary information about himself.
Taibesha has always been very interested in Mu Hua's body with magic patterns on it. The girl's drooling look made Mu Hua very unacceptable.
"What's wrong with your clothes?" Taibesha muttered angrily when Mu Hua slapped her hand away.
"Purgatory Arms can be understood as a means of storing magical power," Mu Hua explained.
Mu Hua did not tell Taibesa about the situation of the Purgatory Armed Forces, but Taibesa saw the clue when he cast the Death Wave earlier.
Mu Hua now mainly uses Purgatory Armor to condense keratin structure on his body.
It was just that it was more convenient and quicker to condense a set of regular clothes, and Mu Hua was reluctant to consume the magic condensed from his finger bones. The result was a death ripple that caused his clothes to explode again.
"You have so many tricks up your sleeve. What about Monday? Can you really evolve him into Cerberus?"
Charging magic? It's not magical. Although magic storage items are relatively expensive, they are not unavailable on the market, and many magic storage items are originally made by alchemists.
The name Purgatory Armed Forces may not sound so simple, but Tabitha is now somewhat numb to Mu Hua's magic.
Not knowing what she was thinking about, Tabitha stroked Monday's warm head.
Knowing that Mu Hua cares about Tabitha, Zhou Yi is very well-behaved in front of Tabitha.
"Cerberus? Oh, is it really that easy? There are three-headed hellhounds running all over the world in hell."
"The two-headed hellhound is too difficult to evolve. Even this hellhound is a resource that this guy obtained by selling himself to Tuesday as a mount." Mu Hua shook his head.
"Tuesday?" Tabitha mused.
Tuesday stayed in Mu Hua's body all day. In Taibesha's opinion, Mu Hua's summoned beast was related to her. Now Monday's evolutionary resources were related to her? At this time, Tuesday was definitely a rich woman in Taibesha's mind.
And Mu Hua seems to be kept by Tuesday. Compared to a long-gone ghost, his cousin seems to be a handsome young man, right?
Taibetha's expression became increasingly strange as she looked at Mu Hua.
(End of this chapter)