There are ways to strategically avoid these gargoyles. You can either do everything you need to do while the Soul Lamp is still glowing bright yellow, or leave first and wait for the light to turn bright yellow again before coming back in.
If you don't want to waste time, you can team up with others to clear this stage. The gargoyles' strength and speed aren't that outrageous. Three or four ordinary people with little combat experience should be able to take them all down with just a few minor injuries, even if they're armed with holy weapons.
But that's the uncertainty of the supernatural world. You can't foresee the dangers here, so you're unsure when to enter, let alone your teammates. It's hard to say whether you can even find anyone else!
Jiang Ran didn't want to waste time leaving the Holy Church. If he did, wouldn't he be back on the same starting line as everyone else?
Kindred's Mark: Wolf!
Jiang Ran missed Gwen again. If that little guy were here, the two of them could easily take care of all these flying ghosts.
Jiang Ran has not found Gwen yet, and their contract remains stable, which means that Gwen has not encountered any danger.
Let's take it one step at a time!
Jiang Ran swung his sword, slashing down one gargoyle after another while nimbly dodging their attacks.
These creatures are all at the lowest level of the bizarre creatures, but there are enough of them to make them very difficult to deal with if they only had the effect of the Thousand Jewels. But with the addition of the Holy Weapon, it's a completely different story.
Because the sacred weapon can turn a gargoyle into dust and disappear as soon as it touches its body, this restraint is almost overwhelming.
As the last gargoyle turned to dust, Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief. He needed to hurry!
Jiang Ran stepped onto the stairs and arrived at the second-floor corridor. All the rooms on the side of the corridor were tightly closed and the doors could not be opened. Jiang Ran tried them one by one until the seventh door, when he was able to easily push it open and enter the room behind it.
This is a huge room, or rather, all the rooms are connected together. In fact, all the doors in the corridor lead to this room, but this particular door just happens to be able to be opened.
Jiang Ran was speechless. It turned out there was only one room.
The room was filled with rows and rows of bookshelves that reached the ceiling, but these bookshelves were empty, with no books in sight, and instead covered in dust.
Of course, we can't conclude that there isn't a single book at all. After all, Jiang Ran can't notice all the bookshelves at a glance. What if some corner was overlooked?
Jiang Ran walked slowly through the study. Several bookshelves that were particularly eye-catching had English letters engraved on them that were hard to understand. What puzzled Jiang Ran was that these letters didn't seem to be there before; instead, they looked like they had been engraved by someone else.
Something's strange...
In the center of the study is a square reset button. According to the instructions below it, pressing the button will close the door of the chapel.
Well, actually closing it doesn't make much of a difference, since you can just put your hand on it to keep the door open. The only purpose might be to mislead others into thinking that no one entered the church first.
Just as Jiang Ran was about to press the button, he suddenly realized something was wrong!
If he can mislead others in this way, is it possible that someone will arrive at the church first and mislead him in the same way?
call out--
A sharp arrow pierced the sky and flew in!
Jiang Ran's copied "Impregnable Fortress" was triggered, and he immediately dodged behind the bookshelf, the next arrow piercing the bookshelf precisely!
"There really was someone..."
That guy was using a crossbow from the Holy Weapons? It seems that a crossbow and arrows are indeed a weapon. Jiang Ran had to admit that she was quite capable to be able to arrange the armory as if no one had ever been there after taking the weapon.
After the first sneak attack, it won't be so easy to hit the target again, especially in a place like a study full of obstacles!
But what is the purpose of the other ghost story tellers attacking Jiang Ran? Could it be that she has Jiang Ran's bounty poster? No, that's impossible, because the two sides did not share locations!
You have acquired the Copy talent: S-rank - Area Observation.
[Effect: The user can view the location of anything within a 20cm radius, centered on the object being viewed. The user cannot move while viewing. The viewing time is determined by the user, ranging from a minimum of 5 seconds to a maximum of 7 seconds. A single copy can be used a maximum of three times.]
I know everything... cough cough, well, not really.
"This ability... seems to belong to that girl from 'The Sun Never Sets'?"
Mo Sheng, an S-class ghost storyteller from the Kingdom of the British Empire, seems to have entered the same world as Jiang Ran along with Han Xiaodong, namely the Abyss Cruise, but Jiang Ran doesn't have a very deep impression of her.
But Mo Sheng didn't have Jiang Ran's bounty, so why would she kill Jiang Ran... That makes sense, maybe she wasn't even here to clear the level. Clearing the level was Han Xiaodong's job, and Mo Sheng's job was to clear obstacles for Han Xiaodong!
It wasn't until Mo Sheng made his move that Jiang Ran was able to copy her talent, which shows that she had been hiding in a corner a hundred meters away. The study was also large enough that Mo Sheng didn't hesitate at all when he discovered Jiang Ran and shot an arrow directly!
Killing Jiang Ran would simply mean being kicked out of the world, which was perfectly acceptable to her!
Jiang Ran didn't know what she used to cover the light of the soul lamp, but he remembered the location from which the arrow flew, left the soul lamp in place, and disappeared into the darkness.
Mo Sheng was able to arrive at the Holy Church so quickly, most likely by locating it herself. After arriving, she didn't continue searching for clues but instead ambushed Jiang Ran here. It's really quite something for her!
The problem is that Jiang Ran can't kill her yet, otherwise he'll lose his chance to clear the level, which is really frustrating.
call out--
Mo Sheng used his ability again to locate Jiang Ran and fired an arrow!
Jiang Ran was prepared. The moment he heard the arrow, he immediately lay down. The arrow whizzed past his head. If he had been even a fraction slower, he would have lost his life!
"That girl is ruthless!"
Jiang Ran stopped hiding and charged directly in a zigzag pattern toward the direction of the arrow's sound. Mo Sheng couldn't accurately pinpoint Jiang Ran's location in the darkness; he could only hear the whistling wind.
She fired the arrow again, and unsurprisingly missed.
"You've used up your three chances, haven't you?"
Jiang Ran raised her hand and brought down the crossbow. A layer of golden light appeared on the surface of the crossbow to prevent it from being cut. However, Mo Sheng could not withstand such heavy force, and the crossbow bolt fell from her hand!
"Behave yourself!"
Jiang Ran grabbed Mo Sheng's hands and pinned them to the ground in a locked position, firmly subduing her!
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