Liu Nian felt as if someone was calling out in her sleep, but she couldn't hear clearly in her drowsy state.
When I woke up, it was already bright outside. Looking out the window, it was a beautiful sunny day.
After a quick wash, Liu Nian, with a sausage dangling from his mouth and a backpack slung over his shoulder, walked out of the house. "Apocalypse is apocalypse," he thought.
Today, Liu Nian plans to use her front door as the center and radiate outwards to the three surrounding buildings to maintain a relatively large safety zone, so that she won't be worried every time she comes home.
The road to the supermarket on the east side has been cleared, and there are still three directions left to go. The buildings in urban villages are generally quite dense, so the cleanup wasn't particularly difficult. Also, considering it was the weekend, there weren't many people home.
While clearing away the scattered infected at the intersection, Liu Nian kept a close eye on his surroundings. Now that his summoned creatures were powerful enough, the once invincible infected were reduced to mere experience points. After another infected was hacked to pieces by the skeleton army, a figure wandering around the street corner caught Liu Nian's attention.
The figure was about two meters tall, with horns on its forehead, scarlet eyes, and four limbs on the ground, its skin a fiery red. Its strong, powerful limbs easily tossed aside obstacles such as cars blocking its path.
At this moment, the creature also spotted Liu Nian on the street. When their eyes met, they both saw a strong fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
“I’ve never seen this before. It’s a power-type creature with unknown intelligence,” Liu Nian analyzed as he backed away.
"fear"
Seeing the horned monster hurtling towards him, crashing through cars and kicking up dust, Liu Nian raised his hand and unleashed a fear spell. (The creature was officially named the Horned Monster.)
[Judgment Failed]
After a two-second casting time, the system notification sounded.
"Are you even capable of this?" he said fiercely, looking at the skeleton army that was being knocked around and staggered in front of him.
A series of "crack" sounds rang out as skeletons were repeatedly knocked away, sending bone fragments flying. With the earlier skeletons providing a buffer, the following skeletons continued to surround the horned monster with their shields raised, effectively slowing it down. Once the horned monster was brought to a stop by the skeleton shield wall, the two ghouls circled around it.
The ghoul on the left reached out with its claws to grab the horned monster's abdomen. The monster was struggling to break free from the shield wall and was caught off guard when its claws pierced its abdomen. After striking successfully, the ghoul did not stop and immediately withdrew.
The long-horned monster had ten claw marks slashed across its abdomen. In pain, it stretched out its long arm and swung it at the retreating ghoul. The ghoul couldn't retreat in time and, seeing the thick forelimb growing larger and larger in front of it, had no choice but to bend its arm to block and prepare to take the blow head-on.
The horned monster's forelimb slammed into the ghoul's arm. The ghoul felt as if it had been hit by a train and was instantly sent flying several meters away like a golf ball, crashing into a building on the side of the street.
Seeing the ghoul's miserable state, Liu Nian calmly raised the ring in his hand and faced the horned monster. Before he could even unleash his teeth, Tiffany beside him had already finished casting the spell. With a wave of her staff, a small figure bending over and panting flashed above the horned monster's head.
Standing two meters tall, much taller than the skeleton, Liu Nian seized the opportunity and sent his "teeth" flying towards the horned monster.
After successfully releasing her "fatigue" spell, Tiffany began preparing her "poison" spell.
The horned monster tried to avoid the teeth's attacks, but the skeletons were too tightly guarded, trapping the monster in place and preventing it from breaking through the shield wall. It could only watch helplessly as the teeth bit into its body. The attack power of 5-8 was only enough to blast open a lump of flesh on its chest.
The long-horned monster seemed to be enraged by Liu Nian, its eyes turning blood red. It swung its arm even harder at the skeletons holding up shields in front of it, clanging and clanging, the shields making a series of teeth-grinding sounds.
Just as the skeleton in front of her was being pushed back, Tiffany beside her finished casting the "poison" spell. A poison symbol flashed above the horned monster's head, and then its whole body turned dark green.
While the horned monster was unleashing its full power on its shield, the ghoul on the right slashed several more wounds across its body, tearing its skin to shreds. The ghoul on the left shook off the dust, got up from the street, and darted behind the horned monster.
Five seconds later, the poison spell took effect. The horned monster shuddered as if it had been electrocuted, and blood spilled from the corner of its mouth.
Under the effects of poison and fatigue, the enraged longhorned monster was unaware that its stamina and life force were slowly draining away, and continued to attack the shield wall in front of it tirelessly.
The ghouls behind him took the opportunity to harass him incessantly, while the mages bombarded him from the front, leaving him battered and bruised in no time.
After missing five fangs and taking three bone spears from Tiffany, the horned monster on the other side was now in a terrible state. Not only was one of its horns broken off, but its back was also ripped open by ghouls, exposing its heart protected by its ribs.
At this moment, the shield wall formed by the six skeletons was also teetering on the brink of collapse. However, the horned monster's attack frequency was getting slower and slower, and the poison attack that was launched once every five seconds was also reaping the horned monster's fragile health.
Finally, in its last attack, the horned monster's life came to an end. With a mournful cry, its massive body slammed heavily against the shield wall. This slam was the final straw that broke the camel's back, crushing all six skeletons beneath it.
[Congratulations to player Liu Nian for successfully defeating the horned monster and gaining 30 experience points.]
The system notification sound came late.
Without a hint of joy, Liu Nian sacrificed the horned monster's body to summon back three skeletons. Lady Tiffany, having failed to replace the destroyed skeletons, presumably exhausted of mana, was listlessly following Liu Nian. The ghoul, meanwhile, was happily devouring the broken pieces of flesh to restore its life.
Liu Nian picked up the card dropped by the horned monster on the ground; it was still a resource card.
【Dried bonito】Note: Come and bite me if you dare!
Looking at this ridiculous supply card, Liu Nian was on the verge of tears.
Before they could move forward any further, the commotion caused by the horned monster drew the infected lurking in the shadows to surround them.
"They've come at the perfect time, saving me a lot of trouble." Liu Nian said with a smile as he watched the endless stream of corpses slowly approaching from all directions.
Before the horde of zombies could surround them, Liu Nian jumped onto a large truck parked on the side of the road not far away and pulled Tiffany, who had exhausted her magic, onto it.
The main battlefield was chosen here. Watching the infected straining to encircle the truck bed, Liu Nian pulled out his long-unused spear. Skeletons and ghouls engaged the infected under the truck; Tiffany was simply giving up.
With the spear having a distance advantage, Liu Nian prioritized dealing with the infected individuals near the perimeter to prevent them from using the corpses of their companions as cushions to climb onto the vehicle.
"Want to eat meat? If you want to eat meat, you have to work hard first." Liu Nian said, piercing through an infected person who couldn't squeeze into the front row with a spear.
A skirmish ensued.
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