Chapter 54
There is no doubt that what is waiting for Jiang Yunu at the bottom of the valley should be the final round of the novice trial battlefield - the fire elemental beast battlefield.
Jiang Yunu stood at the top of the stone path and looked down for a few seconds. She spread her legs and began to descend along the passage split by the mountain.
The stone path becomes steeper as it approaches the bottom of the valley.
When the vertical height dropped to less than three stories high, Jiang Yunu could already feel the heat waves rushing upwards from the ground.
At the end, about four or five meters away, the stone path and the ground where the lava flows are basically perpendicular.
Jiang Yunu took hold of the protruding part of the nearby rock wall and tested the firmness of the rock wall at those raised parts.
She felt with her hands that the mountain wall was fairly solid, and the other nearby rock protrusions also felt firm. The rocks were embedded firmly in the mountain. Jiang Yunu decisively changed her method of descending the last few meters - she climbed up the mountain wall with her bare hands and then relied on rock climbing to descend.
Rock climbing is easy for her.
The stone wall in the holographic game was easier to climb than the wall of the deserted mountain on the isolated island. Jiang Yunu climbed to the bottom, about two meters from the ground, but when she looked down, she found that there were no suitable "support points" around.
She simply gave up looking for a fulcrum, leaned sideways against the rock wall, bent her knees slightly—and then jumped directly from her current position.
A gust of accelerating wind blew past her ears, and the white hair on both sides of Jiang Yunu's cheeks flew up, and then the flying hair swung back to her shoulders as she landed steadily on the ground.
The first thing she did after landing was to check the lava on the ground.
The lava on the cliff looked like a flame-colored spider web, woven onto the dark stone ground.
Looking closely at the flowing lava, they look like cracks on a turtle shell, dividing the dark stone ground into pieces of scales.
The magma is like blood flowing clearly between the scales.
Jiang Yunu stared at the lava field for a while, and she almost had the illusion that it was indeed full of life, and that the entire ground was pulsating slightly with the flow of this special "blood".
“…”
Jiang Yunu suddenly felt something was wrong, and she carefully sensed her surroundings again.
No, that's not right.
The ground is pulsating with the flow of "blood", which is probably not an illusion.
Jiang Yunu suddenly jumped away from where he was standing!
She reacted very promptly, and the next moment, the ground she was standing on broke!
The once solid rock seemed to transform into paper, like waves, in an instant. The ground undulated softly, rising and falling continuously. Then, it was as if something beneath the ground was attempting an impact. The first few impacts were merely probing attempts, but it had finally confirmed that this was the perfect breakthrough point, and finally, with a single, unstoppable force, it broke through the ground.
It was a stone giant covered in lava.
The scorching lava meandered down along his stone body, and the high temperature made a sizzling sound on the stone surface, but did not harm his body at all.
The stone giant came out from underground and broke through the ground. He originally coexisted with the underground magma. The high-temperature flames flowing through his body seemed to add a bit of strange vitality to his originally inorganic body.
Jiang Yunu is resistant to both cold and heat, but if she has a choice, she still doesn't like to get too close to anything that causes a burning sensation.
She sensed something was wrong with the ground in time and jumped away quickly from where she had been standing not long ago, but when the stone giant broke through the ground and appeared, the ground cracked and gravel and lava splashed together.
Jiang Yunu's collar was cut off when she fought the wind elemental beast, and a piece of skin on the back of her neck was exposed. She was burned on the neck by the sparks, and a small red dot immediately appeared on her skin, which was whiter than that of ordinary people and difficult to tan even if she tried to do so.
“…Tsk.”
Jiang Yunu lightly twitched the tip of his tongue.
She didn't reach out to touch her burned neck, but instead grabbed her spatula more carefully.
The burning and stinging sensation on the back of her neck was still there. Jiang Yunu stared ahead and saw the stone giant turning towards her, its two stone-ball-like eyes already looking at her.
Having already tackled the "pangolin", stabbed the "crocodile", and poked the "big bird", this was the first time that Jiang Yunu unlocked a humanoid monster in the game.
But how do you defeat this stone man who is made entirely of stone and doesn’t seem to have any “weaknesses” at all?
Before Jiang Yunu could figure out his tactics, the stone giant took action first.
The stone giant stretched out his two stone legs and walked towards Jiang Yunu with heavy steps.
Without a clear tactical plan, Jiang Yunu prioritized observation. She closely tracked the opponent's movements, anticipating their direction. She circled behind them on the rocky ground where the fiery lava still flowed, and quickly discovered that the Stone Giant seemed more difficult to "break" than the previous three elemental beasts. However, conversely, the Stone Giant also moved the slowest and had the slowest attack speed.
All elemental beasts have their own "attack range". People must be within this distance before they will start trying to attack.
The stone giant moves slowly and attacks slowly, but Jiang Yunu is much faster than the stone giant.
This also means...
"Does it mean I can 'fly a kite'?" Jiang Yunu said.
She had already circled back and forth with the stone giant on the rocky ground several times and had a preliminary estimate of the opponent's attack range.
Every time, when the stone giant came within range and was deemed ready to attack, and began to slowly swing his stone fist, Jiang Yunu would move again, like an agile little leopard, and in the blink of an eye he would retreat from the stone giant's attack range.
The stone giant had just swung his fist when he found that the target had left the range. His stone fist, which had hit the air, could only pause in mid-air. He had to slowly retract it, then take another step forward and walk towards the target's latest location.
Taking advantage of the time when the stone giant retracted his fist and turned around, Jiang Yunu was able to increase the distance between them to four or five meters.
This action of pulling the elemental beast back and forth without letting the opponent actually touch you is called "kite flying" in the game.
Jiang Yunu kept herself in a state that made the stone giant "out of reach". When she continued to deal with the opponent for half a day, she felt a little complicated when she saw the stone giant staring at the air again and then slowly retracting his fist.
"If your goal wasn't to hit me," she sighed, "I'd almost feel like I was bullying an honest person... an honest elemental beast."
After thinking about it, she realized that the stone giant probably couldn't be called a human, so Jiang Yunu changed her words very carefully to show her respect for the other party's primitive species.
It’s a pity that the honest elemental beast...oh no, the emotionless stone giant did not feel this respect.
The stone giant only noticed that Jiang Yunu's movements stopped briefly. He took this direction as the new direction of attack, turned slowly on the spot, and walked towards Jiang Yunu again with perseverance.
While Jiang Yunu was maneuvering, in addition to measuring the opponent's attack distance, she was also searching for the stone giant's elemental crystal core.
The earth element crystal core is green, the water element crystal core is blue, and the wind element crystal core is amber.
The color of the element crystal core is consistent with the representative color of the element, so the fire element crystal core should be red.
In the first few rounds of circles, Jiang Yunu only felt that the stone giant was either the color of stone or the color of flames with magma still hanging on his body. After she pulled the other party around in another circle and looked at him almost 360 degrees, she suddenly realized that she had been overlooking one thing - the other party's elemental crystal core might not be hidden as deep as she thought, but might have been right in front of her, but she ignored it because of the interference.
Jiang Yunu's gaze fell on the magma on the stone giant.
The magma flowed on the stone body, but it seemed to be endless and would never flow away from the body.
Jiang Yunu had never carefully observed their flow direction before, and thought they were just decorative shapes on the stone giant. Now she stared at them carefully for a moment, and soon discovered that although they seemed to flow freely, their sources actually pointed in the same direction.
Jiang Yunu looked in the direction of the source again, and her eyes fell on the left shoulder of the stone giant.
On the stone giant's left shoulder, there is an area that is orange-red flame color, and the stone shoulder is covered with thick magma.
It seemed as if fresh magma was still bursting out from his shoulders, flowing down his body.
It's like there's a heart on the stone giant's left shoulder that's constantly spurting out new blood.
“…”
Jiang Yunu continued to circle around the other party while taking a closer look at that place. She was already 90% sure that that was where the elemental crystal core of the stone giant was.
The spatula turned a circle in Jiang Yunu's hand, and she turned another half circle. The stone giant was slowly changing direction, and when the movement was delayed, Jiang Yunu suddenly turned a second time - her previous move to distance herself was just a feint, which just led to the stone giant's follow-up movement.
Jiang Yunu took advantage of the fact that the stone giant was not as fast as herself, so she suddenly turned around and moved forward, quickly closing the distance between them. At the same time, she raised the spatula high, and when she was almost in front of the stone giant, she jumped up and chopped the spatula straight towards the opponent's left shoulder!
"Bang!"
The spatula shook from the spatula surface to the long handle. The metal collided with the stone, and the rebound force made the palm of the hand slightly numb.
Jiang Yunu still held the long handle firmly. She had already sensed from this chop that the feeling was different from simply chopping stone.
The crystal core was indeed on the stone giant’s left shoulder!
The stone giant's crystal core was attacked, and his movements became more sluggish. He took at least three seconds longer than before to adjust his movements, and punched Jiang Yunu in front of him.
Jiang Yunu only heard the sound of the wind. She had already landed on the ground after a successful attack. Relying on the advantage of her body shape compared to the stone giant, she lowered her head suddenly and went directly under the raised arm of the stone giant, avoiding the opponent's attack by moving.
The stone giant's fist missed again, and Jiang Yunu had already circled behind him.
Without hesitation, she swung the shovel again to chop at the stone giant's left shoulder!
Magma splashed up, and more red sparks fell on Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu doesn't like to get too close to anything too hot, but she can completely ignore this during the battle.
When the areas of his skin that were not protected by clothes were burned with red spots by the sparks, Jiang Yunu finally ended his "close dance" with the stone giant, and an object still wrapped in hot magma flew out from the giant's shoulder.
That was the first fire element crystal core that Jiang Yunu shot down.
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