My Liver Experience in the World of Cthulhu

Chapter 140 Rock Breathing Technique

"I'm here," Crown responded happily to the call at the bottom of the steps. This time he grabbed Lorraine and squeezed out of the small door together.

"Haha, I knew you would be fine." Nick patted him hard on the shoulder: "Ms. Lorraine is here too. That's great. Captain Liya must be very happy. It's getting late, let's go back right away. "

The two teams joined together and quickly exited the castle.

During the retreat, there were no complications, and the few people walked out of the gate of Bran Castle smoothly.

At this time, Crown felt something moving in his backpack, and he knew it was the unlucky crow that had woken up.

Taking off his backpack, he released Fu Jin.

"Quack, quack", the black elf flew high into the sky again.

"Quack, quack," Fu Jin chirped quickly, circling behind everyone.

Crown suddenly turned around. He turned on his super vision and saw a dozen giant black wolves squatting on a high wall under the setting sun.

He drew his carbine from his backpack and aimed it at the giant wolf, then put the gun down again.

The wolf is a vengeful creature, and he will certainly not be able to kill all of these giant wolves.

At present, it seems that their mission will continue for a few days, and there is no need to add additional difficulty to the mission.After all, no one can predict whether killing a few wolves will attract more wolves to seek revenge.

The setting sun lengthened everyone's shadows, and the sunset dyed the earth orange. Everyone went down the mountain in a familiar way.

When they returned to the camp, Nelson and another team member Geo had already prepared dinner.

Nick asked while taking off his armor: "Is there any danger in the camp?"

"No, we just fought off some passing beasts," Nelson replied. "What about you? Is everything going well?"

"It's not going well. Crown is in danger. Well, Ms. Lorraine is in danger too."

While everyone was dining, the sun set and gray mist began to fill the air.

After the meal, Nick and Leah gathered information together while Crown practiced rock breathing at the edge of a nearby campfire.

Today he used the Giant Bear Breathing Technique to smash open the wall very efficiently, which gave him the idea of ​​practicing several more breathing techniques.

For him, there is no such thing as failure to master all the eighteen martial arts. On the contrary, since he has mastered high-level breathing techniques, practicing other breathing techniques will make him advance very quickly.

The Rock Breathing Technique he is currently practicing is proof. He has increased his proficiency by nearly a hundred points in just half an hour of practice.

[Rock Breathing Technique: 96/2000; Level [-]]

He didn't practice this breathing method directly after getting it. Today he just started practicing it and got started directly.

As the proficiency of the Rock Breathing Technique increases, the proficiency of the Fire Breathing and Dire Bear Breathing Techniques both increases slightly.

At this time, Lorraine came over and bowed deeply: "Thank you! Mr. Crown. Without you, I would definitely die in that basement today."

"You're welcome, teammates help each other."

"I am also a pharmacist. If you need to prepare a potion, you can leave it to me. You only need to provide the materials and I will prepare it for you for free. However, if it fails, you will have to bear the loss yourself."

"Oh, thank you, I will definitely come to you if I need you," Croun responded.

"Crown, come here," Nick waved and shouted.

The two responded and returned to the middle of the crowd.

Liya said gently: "We have compiled the information. We were in a hurry when we came back. We did not ask you in detail about the situation you encountered in the secret room. Now please tell us so that everyone can understand. Which of you will come first?"

Neither of them answered.

"Why don't you say anything? Is the situation complicated?"

"Let me tell you first," Lorraine said:

"Due to the relationship between controlling spirits, I can directly see the spirit body. When I first fell, I found that I was surrounded by many evil spirits, from all directions. However, there should not be second-level evil spirits, otherwise, I would have been trapped by them long ago. Killed, but there are a lot of first-level evil spirits.

It is difficult for me to kill one of them directly with a dagger attack. They attack very quickly. In short, if faced with so many evil spirits alone, a first-level transcendent has no chance of winning. "

Liya continued to ask: "Crown, do you think it will be difficult for a second-level transcendent to deal with the situation you are facing?"

"Well, it would be easier if the extraordinary person's ability happened to restrain the evil spirits, but it's not optimistic. There are indeed a lot of evil spirits, and I was exhausted when I first encountered them."

Crown tried his best to tell the truth objectively. Not everyone has the bug ability like him. Evil spirits can attack from all directions at the same time. When dealing with this, a person will inevitably lose sight of one thing.

Everyone began to discuss how to deal with this situation more effectively. Later, Team Liya bought some No. [-] holy water from Nick.

Sprinkling these things directly on the evil spirit is very effective, provided that the body of the evil spirit can be sprayed head-on.

After deliberating for a while, Team Nick went back to rest and prepare for the vigil in the second half of the night.

Crown was not sleepy yet. He felt that it was only 08:30 in the evening, so he continued to practice the rock breathing method for an hour before returning to the tent.

Then he meditated on the golden light mantra for an hour before going to sleep.

. . . .

Crown didn't sleep long before he was awakened by a burst of gunshots and shouts.

He sensed the time and saw that it had just reached eleven o'clock.

The gunshots were very intense, and Croun immediately released the Heart-Cleaning Spell and the Golden Light Body Protection on himself, then picked up the weapon and walked out of the tent.

As soon as he walked out, he felt a black shadow rushing towards him.

He immediately retreated to avoid the attack. He also saw clearly the true face of the attacker. He was clearly the big bat he shot last night.

He took a step forward, raised his sword and struck down before the bat monster could fully fly up, and cut off its head neatly.

The headless monster struggled on the ground for a while before gradually stopping moving.

In the sky, bat monsters kept swooping down. Croun made a rough calculation and found that there were at least forty or fifty of them.

The first-level extraordinary beings stood back to back, dealing with the attacks of monsters, while the second-level extraordinary beings were able to move freely.

Crown wields a sharp sword, and any monster that dares to attack him will be killed.

The situation was soon under control. The bat monster only dared to hover in the sky and did not dare to fly down to attack everyone.

Seeing this, Crown returned to the tent and took out his carbine. While shooting the monster, he also improved his shooting proficiency.

There were not many monsters left, and he was not even willing to target their heads, but only aimed at a certain bone wing node on their wings.

Under the continuous shooting of everyone, the bat monster rose up and disappeared in the gray fog, only occasionally flying from inside to the range of the light.But as long as a monster shows up, it will be attacked immediately by Crown.

While he was leisurely improving his proficiency, wolf howls came one after another not far away.

"Ouch", wolves howled fiercely from all directions.

Listening to the sounds, there are quite a lot of them.After a while, a pair of green and blue eyes appeared on the edge of the gray fog outside the campsite.

"These beasts have formed a group to attack us. Do you think we are easy to bully?" Jason cursed angrily and held up his sword.

"Ouch", a voice different from other wolves sounded from a distance.It was desolate and powerful, and the sound shook the world. It should be the cry of a wolf.

Immediately, the pack of wolves responded, and the howls of the wolves came together, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

"Bang, bang", Crown raised his carbine and started firing. Every time a bullet flew out, a wolf must fall.

As he began to attack, Lucas and others continued to shoot.

The momentum of the wolves gathering was broken, and the wolves began to jump into the light range of the campfire and oil lamps, attacking the people in the camp.

There were so many wolves that oil lamps kept being knocked to the ground, and everyone's field of vision became increasingly narrow.

Crown holds the sword in one hand and uses only the most basic sword movements to hunt the attacking wolves gracefully and efficiently.

In a horizontal chop, a wolf's head is cut in half horizontally; in a downward chop, the wolf's head is split in half vertically; in a thrust, the sword enters the wolf's mouth and comes out from the chrysanthemum, and the wolf is pierced into skewers.
When the wolves attacked, the bat monsters in the sky also began to swoop down.

What puzzled Croun was that the two beasts never attacked each other, but instead joined forces to fight against the humans in the camp. This made people wonder whether there was someone behind the two monsters.

There were not many extraordinary ranks among the wolves and bats, and they were quickly repulsed.

After seventy or eighty wolf carcasses were left behind, the howling of the alpha wolf was heard again in the distance. The wolves began to retreat, and the bats also flew into the gray fog again.

After the wolves retreated, they did not move away. Instead, they howled not far away for a long time.

The bats flew back from time to time to carry out suicide attacks. After being shot down by everyone with guns, they hurriedly left.

But before long, these bats will still come back.

Croun couldn't help but have a thought in his mind: 'This is obviously a tactic to exhaust the troops. '

Most of the night was spent with howling wolves and suicide attacks by bat monsters.Crown took some time off from his busy schedule to practice breathing techniques and visualize the golden light spell.

. . . .

When morning came and the gray fog dissipated, everyone else's spirits were a little sluggish, but Croun was still full of energy and smiling.

[Rock Breathing Technique: 736/2000; Level [-]]

In one night, my proficiency in the new breathing method increased a lot.

During breakfast, everyone discussed whether to continue to explore Bran Castle.

Liya said: "Everyone didn't sleep well last night. I think this state is not suitable for going there again. After all, there will definitely be a battle when entering the castle."

"I agree," Nick nodded, "I even wonder if last night was the fault of the new owner of the castle."

"Since you agree, let's have a good rest today and set out early tomorrow morning to continue our investigation. The Security Bureau has given us seven days, which is plenty."

Jason suggested: "I think we should move the camp farther away from the castle, so that even if the monsters in the castle really do something, we can still sleep more peacefully."

"That makes sense, let's do it." Nick stood up, "Pack up your belongings and let's get out of here."

. . . .

New camp, [-] p.m.

The straight-line distance from Bran Castle is more than ten kilometers longer than the previous campsite, and not far away is the Rhine River.There is no vegetation nearby and few animals pass by.

After Crown came here, he practiced the rock breathing method non-stop.

Today the two captains decided to suspend the detection. He had to take advantage of this God-given opportunity.

Jason and Nick chatted from a distance.

Jason asked in confusion: "Captain, has Croun always worked so hard? After such a long period of high-intensity training, he still hasn't broken himself."

The priest shook his head: "Crown's physique is special. He recovers very quickly in terms of physical strength and energy. When we moved from Zack Town to Cooks Town, everyone was very tired, but he was the only one who was still full of energy."

He paused and said with a bit of a smile: "Would you two practice your sword skills? Crown's swordsmanship is very strong."

"Really?" Jason didn't believe it. "You said that he followed you from an ordinary person, and he didn't have any foundation at the beginning. It's just that he can practice the breathing method so fast, and I don't agree that his sword skills are also very strong. "

"Didn't you notice his swordsmanship last night?"

"Of course I paid attention, but the enemy last night was very weak. I just saw that he was very fast with his sword. He had a very solid foundation in swordsmanship and his attacks were crisp and clean."

The priest smiled mysteriously and said, "You don't think he has shown a lot of strength, do you? I have seen how fast he can draw his sword, and it is much better than what he showed last night."

He recalled the night when he killed the wild boar monster. The sword in Kroun's hand flashed, and the entire sword was completely submerged into the monster's body, as if there was no resistance at all.

"Captain, I have to say that you have aroused my curiosity. Later, when he takes a rest, I propose to spar with him."

"Go ahead," Nick snickered in his heart, thinking, "If you don't show up with all your strength, you might lose miserably."

He still clearly remembers the scene when he was defeated. After more than 20 years of hard training, he underestimated the enemy and did not use his best fighting methods. He unexpectedly lost at the hands of a man who had been trained as a warrior for several months.

He may never forget the psychological gap at that time.

"Hey, Crown stopped. As usual, he will take a short meditation break. Go ahead, Mr. Jason Brown, and meet your challenge."

"No, it's Crown who accepts the challenge." Jason walked out confidently.

. . . .

A wave of warmth rose from his Dantian and spread to his limbs. A faint sense of joy came over him. Croun stopped his breathing training and summoned the golden wall.

[Fire Breath: 598/7000; Level [-]]

[Giant Bear Breathing Technique: 312/5000; Level [-]]

[Rock Breathing Method: 3/5000; Level [-]] (Your skin is tougher, better able to resist physical damage, and slightly increases elemental resistance. Note: Passive ability)
He upgraded the Rock Breathing Technique, the Flame Breathing Technique to increase proficiency by more than 200 points, and the Dire Bear Breathing Technique to increase proficiency by [-] points.

If you spend a day just training fire breath, you will definitely not have such rapid growth.

However, the upgrade of the Rock Breathing Technique this time has increased the proficiency of the other two breathing techniques, which is much less than the proficiency increase of the Fire Breathing Technique brought by the upgrade of the Dire Bear Breathing Technique.

This is also an inevitable phenomenon. Maybe one day, his practice of new breathing methods will not increase even a little proficiency in other advanced breathing methods.

Crown thought about the recent battles and decided to put the practice of flame breathing on hold and give priority to practicing the rock breathing technique.

He found that his attack was completely sufficient at this stage. More importantly, after the Rock Breathing Technique was upgraded, it was shown to be a passive skill.

This greatly exceeded his expectations, which meant that he naturally wore an extra layer of armor than others, without taking up any weight.

Just as he was trying to practice a few more defensive breathing techniques to build the thickest armor for himself, Jason came over.

"Crown, are you interested in sparring?"

(End of this chapter)