Upon discovering the intruders who had trespassed into its territory, the black bear roared and charged towards Zhou Momo, who was in the lead.
As the black bear charged, the two-second casting time expired, and Liu Nian's delayed spell hit it first.
Its figure froze, and its movements instantly slowed down.
[Spell enhanced by Judgment, level +1]
A system notification suddenly sounded in my mind.
Upon closer inspection, the speed has indeed decreased significantly compared to before.
This prompt greatly boosted Liu Nian's morale. After calculating the distance between them, he took a few steps back and began to cast a curse spell to increase the damage.
The casting time is still two seconds, but this time the curse has a small area effect. The increased damage curse envelops the ghoul and the black bear together.
Looking at the red cloud floating above the heads of the black bear and the ghoul opposite him, he thought that this must be the effect of the curse.
After the black bear's slowed pace hindered its progress, it deviated significantly from its intended path, which allowed Zhou Momo to escape the curse.
She seized the opportunity and strode towards the black bear surrounded by ghouls, her fire axe flashing as it struck the bear squarely in the kidneys.
The axe pierced the cursed black bear's waist smoothly, and blood flowed from the wound.
After landing a successful blow, Zhou Momo did not linger for credit. Instead, she nimbly twisted her waist and retreated from the black bear's attack range.
Last time I couldn't even break through the black bear's defenses, but this time I actually managed to break through them. I have a chance.
Zhou Momo thought to herself.
Looking at the panel, Liu Nian saw that the attack had taken away five points of the black bear's health, indicating that it was going to be another long battle.
His eyes were fixed on the panel, but the chanting didn't stop. He pointed and cast the fear spell again.
The spell failed this time, and an immunity buff appeared above the black bear's head.
Elite units are unaffected by mind-based magic.
Without the control of fear, the only way to buy time is through slowness.
Liu Nian calculated that the damage would increase for about thirty seconds and the slow effect for about fifty seconds.
While he was calculating, the black bear was hit by Zhou Momo's axe again.
Enraged by the repeated blows, the black bear swatted away one of the ghouls surrounding it with a single claw, inflicting two debuffs: broken ribs and bleeding.
Seeing the ghoul with its chest caved in, it instantly lost its fighting ability!
The two dagger-wielders couldn't get a chance to help, so they pulled out a row of throwing axes from their backpacks and used ranged throwing attacks to do nothing.
Taking advantage of the lull after the black bear's attack, Qian Shiming also went around to the side and left a scratch on the black bear's back.
Without changing to a warrior class, my strength is a bit low, and I was forced to lose one HP on my stats.
Liu Nian's summoning of ghouls shocked them for a moment, but now they are finally able to unleash their true fighting power.
It seems they have adapted to the debuffs and tactical changes brought about by Liu Nian.
Your summoned creature has been killed.
It turned out that the ghoul that was hit by the black bear had died from excessive blood loss, but the remaining ghouls continued to scratch and gnaw at the black bear fearlessly.
After applying two more debuffs, Liu Nian began summoning ghouls to appear.
The other three looked at Liu Nian with envy; this was the advantage that came with a profession.
Only Zhou Momo was secretly alarmed. This reckless way of consuming mana would soon deplete his mana, and then how would he fight the black bear?
Since they were there to help, it wasn't appropriate to say anything to them, and their side hadn't fully revealed any information about the monster.
Unaware of Zhou Momo's concerns, Liu Nian quickly summoned a new ghoul to appear.
With the amplified damage buff, the ghoul can deal 3-5 damage per attack. Otherwise, unless you roll the highest attack power, you can barely break its defense, and you have to hope that the black bear rolls the lowest defense.
The two walked around the black bear, and the ghouls bore almost all of the bear's attacks.
But something unexpected still happened. After the black bear swatted away a ghoul, Zhou Momo took the opportunity to go up and try to attack it again.
The black bear's claws moved with lightning speed as it unleashed a furious attack.
Seeing the black bear already in front of her with its claws, Zhou Momo used her protective true energy skill.
Two beams of azure light surged from beneath her feet and finally coalesced in front of Zhou Momo. This move increased Zhou Momo's defense and provided her with an extra shield.
The moment the skill was unleashed, the bear claws struck, instantly shattering the true energy, and Zhou Momo was sent flying by the blow.
Qian Shiming was shocked and ran over, abandoning the black bear: "Momo, are you alright?"
"Go back, I'm fine," Zhou Momo said, getting up from the grass and suppressing her churning blood.
My left shoulder seems to be immobile, damn it!
Zhou Momo got up, stretched her body, and thought with annoyance.
With the main force of the four injured, the heavy responsibility of eliminating the black bear fell on Liu Nian's shoulders.
As for the other two who threw axes, let's ignore them.
After summoning the ghoul once again, Qian Shiming also withdrew from the battle.
Looking at his violently heaving chest, sending him forward to attack was no different than sending him to his death.
The black bear was also in bad shape at this point; its health had dropped to 120 and its stamina to below 100.
It had deep and shallow wounds all over its body, and the entire bear skin was tattered.
Being surrounded does indeed consume stamina. Getting injured, attacking, and moving all consume a certain amount of stamina, and you cannot use skills when you run out of stamina.
Let's just keep going. It's actually easier for me without them getting in my way.
Aside from needing to maintain a certain distance when casting curses, you can attack freely at other times.
Black bears have no offensive capabilities; once slowed down, they become nothing more than stationary monsters.
The wounds multiplied under the ghouls' attacks, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.
After unleashing its final claw strike, the black bear was killed when the ghoul ripped out its heart.
This time, the black bear brought Liu Nian 120 experience points. It seems that Tiffany in the dark space does not enjoy experience point sharing.
It seemed that the black bear had dropped two cards. Seeing the four people opposite him looking delighted, Liu Nian walked towards the black bear.
"How should we divide the spoils?" Qian Shiming whispered, watching Liu Nian's retreating figure.
"Hmm..." Everyone was stumped for a moment.
Humans are inherently selfish; when interests are involved, many friends and relatives turn against each other, let alone strangers.
Seeing Liu Nian walk to the black bear's side, dragging the ghoul's corpse, everyone was at a loss for words.
Qian Shiming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He thought the man was going to get the cards. Luckily, he wasn't, otherwise he wouldn't know how to stop him.
They needed to submit the bear paw as evidence. Seeing that Liu Nian didn't intend to speak, the four of them put the cards and crowns into their backpacks and began to cut up the bear paw.
It was another Pyrrhic victory, with a total of thirteen ghouls killed.
Having no strength left to dig a hole, Liu Nian laid leaves on the ghoul's body as a makeshift grave.
"Is the mission complete?" After finishing these tasks, Liu Nian walked towards the group and asked.
Judging from their appearance, it seemed like they were chopping down a bear's paw. Bear's paw seemed to be a good thing, and Liu Nian's thoughts went astray.
After exchanging glances, it was Wang Ziqin who spoke first: "Yes, thank you."
"Then the contract is complete here," Liu Nian said.
“Okay.” Wang Ziqin was unaware of Liu Nian’s thoughts, so she didn’t know how to refute him.
He stopped talking. Now that the contract was complete, there was no need for him to stay. As for the black bear's loot, that belonged to the employer and had nothing to do with him.
Liu Nian turned around, got on his motorcycle, and drove away.
"Speak!" a man dressed entirely in black robes said, his voice calm and still, seemingly devoid of any emotion.
"My subordinates went back to the village and investigated. The one who killed the divine messenger was a professional, to be precise, a necromancer. His summoned creatures had been simply buried. Moreover, judging from the traces at the village entrance, his means of transportation was a motorcycle, and judging from the tire tracks, it was an unregistered vehicle."
“But…” the man who identified himself as a subordinate said hesitantly.
"Please feel free to speak."
"But the tire tracks on the road were covered by the tracks of other vehicles, so I cannot confirm his last destination."
"The only places nearby that can accommodate a large population are Wushuang City and Tianxia Society. Send the order down to all members to do their utmost to find the sacred object before the ceremony."
"yes"
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