Chapter 41
That’s right, Jiang Yunu’s novice weapon is a spatula.
The system is delivered directly to your hands, and the touch is delicate and smooth.
It's also very heavy. You can tell it's a very heavy spatula when you hold it. If you really use it to cook, people with less strength will feel their arms sore after just a few swings.
“…”
Jiang Yunu held the spatula and exchanged glances with the elemental beast that had emerged from the bushes.
Elemental beasts have elemental crystal cores embedded in prominent places on their bodies, and their attributes can be determined by the color of the core. This elemental beast, which had just broken out of the bushes, had a green core embedded in its forehead, indicating that it was an earth elemental beast.
The elemental beast of the earth element looks very similar to the pangolin on the blue planet. Its scales are very hard. There is no need to test the hardness of those scales. Just look at it rushing out of the grass and knocking away the stones on the side. Several large stones were knocked out with crisp sounds and bounced off its scales, while the opponent's scales were not damaged at all, without even a small scratch. You can imagine how strong the scales are.
So the question is, how is Jiang Yunu going to fight the opponent with just a spatula?
Jiang Yunu analyzed a series of things in the elemental beast's brain, and only a few seconds actually passed.
While she was sizing up the earth elemental beast, its eyes moved from both sides to the front, also sizing up her.
Then the other party moved first!
The earth elemental beast probably felt that Jiang Yunu posed no threat. In its eyes, Jiang Yunu was no different from a piece of strange-looking stone. It dug the ground in front of it with its single front paw, then suddenly exerted force and continued to rush forward - Jiang Yunu was right in front of it.
It is not fun to be hit by such a scaly object. Jiang Yunu did not want to experience the experience of being knocked out of her breakfast in the game, so she moved quickly and dodged nimbly.
But it seemed as if Jiang Yunu had some kind of "target lock" buff. As soon as she dodged, the earth elemental beast turned and continued to rush towards her.
"Am I the red cloth used for bullfighting?" Jiang Yunu continued to dodge, asking sincerely from the bottom of his heart, "But hello? I don't think you are a bull either, right?"
Unfortunately, the earth elemental beast did not respond to Jiang Yunu's friendly greeting.
Although it does not have the shape of a bull, it has the momentum of a fighting bull and is determined to hit the red cloth. Unfortunately, the "red cloth" that it has set its sights on is Jiang Yunu.
The earth elemental beast seemed to be unable to see anything else. It chased Jiang Yunu persistently, rushing towards her again and again. The two nostrils in front of its narrow and long snout kept spewing hot air, and its throat was filled with irritated roars as the target kept escaping the range of impact.
"That's unreasonable." Jiang Yunu said, "You wanted to hit me, but I didn't let you. How dare you be angry with me?"
Having said that, Jiang Yunu is not an obedient "victim".
While being chased by the earth elemental beast, Jiang Yunu had tried to fight with her spatula. She swung her spatula and found the right time and angle to hit the earth elemental beast several times.
The good news is: this spatula is much more durable than she thought, and its hardness is comparable to the scales of elemental beasts.
The bad news is: because the hardness is comparable, her spatula is fine, and the elemental beast's scales are even finer.
The hard spatula hit the equally hard scales, making only a slight sound like metal collision. Jiang Yunu's knuckles were slightly numb from the slight rebound, but neither side was hurt at all.
This caused Jiang Yunu's first elemental beast battle - the game trial version - to fall into a temporary stalemate.
How on earth was she supposed to subdue this thing?
Jiang Yunu gave up on fighting the opponent head-on with the spatula, realizing that no matter how hard she tried to swing, hit, or smash it, it would be futile and would only waste her energy. Relying on her agility, she continued to dodge while brainstorming ways to break the deadlock.
Jiang Yunu's gaze slowly focused on the green crystal core on the forehead of the earth elemental beast.
Reiss Daniel said in the classroom that most elemental beasts have two or more weaknesses. Depending on the form and level of the elemental beasts, their "exclusive weaknesses" are varied and different.
However, among the wide variety of weaknesses, all elemental beasts also have a "common weakness" - that is their elemental core.
The elemental crystal core is both the elemental beast's weakness and where its energy converges.
As long as you can use the appropriate method to attack the elemental core, you can cause effective damage to the elemental beast, and may even subdue or kill it in one blow.
Jiang Yunu had been drowsy in class, not for any other reason than it was the last class in a full day. She was already feeling a bit overloaded with information, almost listening to Teacher Lei's lecture as a lullaby. Suddenly, she heard Reis Daniel discussing the weaknesses of elemental beasts and the keyword "combat." Suddenly, Jiang Yunu woke up and quickly pressed the speak button on her desktop.
Jiang Yunu stood up and asked excitedly, "Teacher, what is the appropriate way?"
The gentle and elegant teacher Lei waved his hand, and a three-dimensional projection of a huge book appeared out of thin air in the classroom.
"Although the 'universal weakness' is attacking elemental crystal cores, I think the smart students have already guessed that beneath any 'universal theoretical knowledge' there are countless further subdivisions of knowledge." Reiss Daniel smiled as he transferred the book to the terminals of the entire class. "Students interested in this content can read it in advance as a preview of the knowledge they will learn later."
And of course Jiang Yunu...hasn't had time to read that book yet.
After passing the book to his students, Reiss Daniel kindly reminded them, "Many offensive methods targeting elemental cores are directly linked to superpowers. By using superpowers, you can more easily attack the energy cores of elemental beasts."
As a freshman in the supernatural school who couldn't even take practical classes, let alone theoretical classes, talking about practical supernatural attacks was like hearing something incomprehensible.
...Of course, fortunately, in the game world, the game system prohibits everyone from using superpowers equally.
Jiang Yunu grabbed her spatula and dodged another charge from the earth elemental beast. Her gaze shifted from the green crystal core on the beast's forehead to her own hand.
In a combat environment where superpowers cannot be used, there must be a way to deal damage without relying on superpowers.
Jiang Yunu seemed to understand something.
The earth elemental beast didn't care what the "human-shaped red cloth" in front of it was thinking. It had already missed the opponent many times in a row. From its increasingly heavy breathing and its claws rubbing against the ground harder and harder, it could be seen that it was in a bad mood and was very irritable.
Its target seemed to be temporarily motionless, stopping right in front of it. I wonder if its physical strength was finally exhausted after the long chase.
But this was undoubtedly a good opportunity for the earth elemental beast. It immediately re-aimed at the opponent, stomped its two forelimbs heavily on the ground, and charged towards the opponent with its scaly body.
The target disappeared before its eyes again.
However, this time, the opponent did not dodge to the left or to the right.
The earth elemental beast that looked like a pangolin felt a sudden heaviness on its back.
The moment the opponent rushed over, Jiang Yunu jumped up on the spot with incredible lightness and agility, then exerted strength from his waist and abdomen in mid-air, turned in the air, aimed at the moment when the elemental beast suddenly stopped on the spot due to the collision, and landed steadily on the opponent's back.
The elemental beast was stunned for a few seconds before realizing what had happened. It immediately shook its head vigorously, shaking its entire body as well, trying to throw off the person who dared to get on it.
But as soon as Jiang Yunu landed on the elemental beast's back, she immediately clamped her legs together on either side of the beast's body, tensing her thighs and core, lowering her center of gravity slightly. She sat extremely steady, as if she had climbed onto the back of a wild horse in the wild.
Without relying on any external equipment to assist, one can only rely entirely on oneself and the incredible strength of the human body to tame and suppress it.
If Joyson or Zhou Jinxue were here, they might not dare to recognize Jiang Yunu at the moment.
She still had the same white hair, and was still a little thinner than her peers, with a figure that had not been properly replenished with nutrition. However, her face, which usually smiled and looked sunny and cheerful, was expressionless. Her eyes were lowered, fixed firmly on the crystal core on the elemental beast's head.
The earth elemental beast struggled and swung frantically, but could not get rid of the Jiang Yu crossbow on its body.
Jiang Yunu kept staring at its crystal core, fixed herself on the other's back, and then she raised her right hand holding the spatula weapon.
"I'm sorry." Jiang Yunu's voice was also flat, but his tone was still very polite. "The teacher really hasn't taught this lesson yet, and I don't know if what I did is right."
She insisted on the principle of following through on greetings, and after she said this to the earth elemental beast, the wrist of her right hand, which was raised in the air, flipped, and the angle of the spatula in her hand changed.
The hard shovel edge was aimed at the edge of the crystal core on the elemental beast's forehead, and it was shoveled down with force -
“——!”
The elemental beast raised its head, pointed its long and slender snout toward the sky, and opened its mouth wide, but no sound came out.
Jiang Yunu scraped off its elemental crystal core with one strike. The scales there were not as hard as expected, and the "scale armor" near the elemental crystal core was unexpectedly fragile, allowing her spatula edge to pierce it easily. Then, like flipping a flat fried egg out of the pan, with just a little skill, the green crystal core flew off the forehead of the earth elemental beast.
The pangolin-like earth elemental beast froze in place, then fell down silently.
When the elemental beast's body shook and fell, Jiang Yunu jumped off its back and stood on the ground again.
She reached out to catch the green crystal core falling from mid-air, glanced at the fallen elemental beast, and then looked at her spatula.
"Okay." Jiang Yunu felt a little bit of approval for his spatula. "Brother Spatula, it seems to be quite useful when you're shoveling crystal cores."
Jiang Yunu didn't know if the way she was fighting was right, nor did she know if her way of attacking the elemental crystal core was considered unconventional - but the teacher hadn't taught her yet anyway.
During the two hours in the simulator, Jiang Yunu spent half an hour getting familiar with the game's navigation for beginners, and another half an hour figuring out how to kill the first elemental beast on his own.
In the next hour, the game system may think that she is a novice wizard who can use a spatula to shovel elemental beasts, so "pangolin" continues to refresh in her novice battle map.
Jiang Yunu became more and more adept at shoveling. When she finally quit the game, her backpack was filled with four crystal cores, including the green crystal core she got at the beginning.
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