The fisherman druid is in another world

Chapter 761

While Black Robb rode the newly minted Reaper Oberon, slaughtering the freaks and acquiring fel energy in Lennarzer, Hamel led his team, displaying exceptional professionalism and advancing swiftly and cautiously.

Their destination was Orl, an uninhabited town about 120 kilometers away from Lennarze City.

The original residents of Orl Town had either died or fled, and the action team took a liking to it and transformed it into a stronghold with some post station functions.

Sufficient manpower is always kept there, not only to ensure the safety of the stronghold, but also to carry out renovations and constructions as much as possible to give it some of the characteristics of a magic fortress.

According to the pre-arranged action plan, regardless of whether the operation goes smoothly or not, the team will first go to Orl town on their return journey.

Even if the team is scattered, Orl Town is the default regrouping point.

For now, Hamel has no plans to make any major changes. Whether it's a mysterious enemy or pursuers from the Chaotic Stairs, if they come, they'll rely on the defenses of Or Town; if they don't, they'll rest for the night and set off early the next morning.

In the afternoon, strong winds brought in dark clouds, and soon it started to rain. It wasn't particularly heavy, but it looked like it wouldn't stop for several dozen hours.

Hamel and his party trudged through the mud, had to contend with the ever-present and treacherous hunting party, and had to conceal their tracks as best they could, making their task extremely stressful and demanding.

But they still managed to reach Orl before dark.

"Brothers, you're all doing a great job. Hurry up, eat and rest..." Hamel set the tone, and naturally, the staff left behind guided them to the canteen and dormitory.

The intensity of the activity was extremely high throughout the day, and even a superhuman physique would feel overwhelmed and in dire need of rest.

Hammer and Lemve are in good form.

However, due to Abed's absence, the two had to take on the defense work. The first step was to personally inspect all the facilities in Orl, both to have a clear understanding of the situation and to identify any omissions or deficiencies, adding or removing some arrangements as needed to adjust the focus.

The two worked for another two hours, until night fell, before they were finally satisfied. Lemvi ate something simple and then went to rest.

Hamel chose to work the night before, and ate a late dinner that lasted several hours, chewing slowly and deliberately, seemingly to kill time, but in reality to conserve his energy.

He has a special talent: eating so slowly that he can consume several times more food than a normal person would in a meal, and he absorbs it all very well, including replenishing his energy.

But today, Hamel did not enjoy his meal as much, because he was restless and anxious.

He both hoped that the mysterious enemy would come rashly so that he could take advantage of the arrangements in Orl to give them a good beating, and he also hoped that no enemy would harass him at night so that the action team could have a full rest.

In this way, he can feel more at ease knowing that the team members will be in good condition when they set off tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Black Robb, whom he longed for, was fast asleep.

His daytime mental energy expenditure was also far beyond normal, to the point that even with the restorative abilities of a god, it would be better to get a good night's sleep rather than continue working day and night.

Therefore, with the disconnection and trusteeship, Blackrobo decisively took a break, determined not to carry his fatigue into tomorrow.

Oberon, meanwhile, sealed himself in a crudely constructed stone coffin, sleeping soundly as if in a fetal state.

The night rain is eerie, and the evil spirits, which become even more active at night, roam around, leaving streaks of poisonous green light in the wilderness and among the ruins. Their sinister and eerie nature is quite in line with the descriptions of evil and calamity in folk legends.

Moreover, the evil spirits have grown stronger over time. If survivors cannot return to a well-protected shelter or safe house with strong anti-detection capabilities before nightfall, and instead hide in secret using only temporary means, they will most likely be found by the evil spirits following their scent and then torn apart and eaten alive.

The evil spirits of the night possess abilities at least 1.5 times greater than those of the daytime, resulting in an overall strength boost that can be several times greater.

Especially for special infected individuals, these coincidences activate their own innate evil nature during the mutation process, giving them all kinds of supernatural abilities, equivalent to instant or silent spells, with considerable power and few limitations. If several abilities are combined, even high-level superhumans may perish if they cannot escape in time.

Therefore, even the likes of Hamel and Lemve were unwilling to encounter the evil hunting party at night.

The same applies to Black Robo; the Reaper's nighttime battles with the Unholy are extremely inefficient. The Extraordinary Clones and Elementals of the 3rd Series are even more mortal, so they will also try to avoid traveling at night or launching night raids.

However, there were also those who were stubborn, such as the inspector Harun.

In the city of Lennarze, Harun attempted to use the Evil Device to contain the out-of-control monster 049, but due to external interference, the Evil Device was not only destroyed, but also turned its guns on the villains.

Fortunately, he sensed something was wrong and made a quick escape, thus saving his life.

However, even with sufficient reasons, and even with video or audio evidence, they still cannot escape the punishment of redeeming themselves through meritorious service.

On his way back to the branch, he received an urgent order to join the investigation team sent by the branch. After meeting up with them, he became the team's guide and returned to the Lennarze secret base at around 15 p.m. that day.

What they found instead was an enormous black sand pit with a diameter measured in kilometers.

The investigation team quickly launched a mapping operation and confirmed that the monstrous entity 049 was a major culprit in causing this destruction.

Harlan was speechless.

With his imagination, he couldn't fathom why the creature had returned from Lennarze City, nor could he fathom what kind of being could have caused the creature to be annihilated even in a near-suicidal super-burst state, thus completely obliterating the secret stronghold.

However, from a certain perspective, this can be considered good news that benefits him.

This incident did indeed involve a mysterious and exceptionally powerful enemy. Therefore, his act of fleeing when things turned bad is less likely to be judged as cowardice. It's not that he was unwilling to fight to the death, but rather that the enemy was too powerful and unknown. His choice to keep himself alive for future use, to provide intelligence, and to play a role later is reasonable.

After the covert strongholds were mapped, the investigation team made another trip to Lennarzer City.

More precisely, when the main force of the investigation team went to the secret stronghold, a portion of them had already scouted ahead to investigate the situation in Lennarzer City, to see if it was as reported by Harun and the audio-visual materials showed.

The actual situation was, of course, far more exaggerated and alarming than Harlan had reported.

After all, by this time, the Reaper Oberon's extensive harvesting had already ended.

His harvest was extremely efficient, yielding tens of thousands of crops in each round, for a total of seven rounds.

The loss of over 70,000 evil spirits at once, while not enough to reduce Lennarzer City to just a handful, still left a large number of their life force and evil energy drained, lying dead in the streets, alleys, and houses, clearly without even the most basic resistance. The scene was still quite shocking.

However, the unique nature of the Chaotic Ladder makes it exceptionally sensitive to certain information, including unknown top-level transcendents, super bursts that shatter the current ceiling of transcendent power in the prime material plane, and powerful phenomena of reaping evil.

The sudden incident that has occurred in Lennarzer has hit all three criteria, so the Chaotic Staircase must be thoroughly investigated.

In particular, the organization's upper echelons do not care about the lives of those below them; they are all cannon fodder, and even the most worthless have their uses.

Driven by both the carrot and the stick, the investigation team ignored objective facts and worked non-stop.

They did indeed possess advanced technology, and coupled with intelligence leaks from double agents and even multi-agents, the investigation team had a hunch about the Night God Society's operations team.

Specifically, there are also reasons for criticizing Robo.

If he hadn't forced the monster 049 to its complete breakdown in order to achieve the legendary proof of Oberon, the monster's mental fluctuations wouldn't have affected Hamel and his group.

It was precisely because Hamel and his companions were affected and infected by the distinct mental fluctuations of the dying creature that the Chaotic Staircase Investigation Team was able to use these mental fluctuations as a starting point to confirm the team's whereabouts.

In particular, the intelligence revealed by the spy gave the investigation team a rough direction. By combining the detailed and the general information, they were able to catch the action team's slight weakness.

However, the investigation team was several hours late and was groping their way forward. The rain also negatively impacted their search, so they inevitably had to walk at night.

Subsequently, they were targeted by the evil hunting team.

Aside from the first two groups, which were extremely reckless and almost wiped out quickly, the later evil hunting teams learned their lesson and focused on harassment, gradually increasing in number.

The investigation team also attempted to launch a surprise attack to annihilate a portion of them and deter the rest.

However, the actual effect was not good. The evil forces didn't care about being annihilated; whoever was chosen was simply unlucky. Those who weren't targeted, on the other hand, knew how to seize the opportunity and exploit their weaknesses.

This inadvertently achieved the effect of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao," preventing the investigation team from fully unleashing its power to encircle and annihilate a particular group.

After several back-and-forths, the investigation team did effectively eliminate a group of evil spirits, but the evil spirits who rushed to the scene filled the gap, and their numbers even increased.

Finally, the high-ranking superhumans in the investigation team used their trump card, a level ten forbidden spell, to launch a circular massacre. Except for the core members of the investigation team, the area within a radius of five kilometers was completely silent. Even insects and plants lost their life signs.

This is equivalent to a Saint-level Death Law area strike, which is indeed powerful, but the cost is also high. Two high-level transcendents who jointly activated the forbidden spell have essentially crippled their own strength. At the very least, they will be unable to participate in the next operation, and it will also leave huge aftereffects.

They don't have the natural authority that the Black Robb lineage possesses; to a large extent, they risk their lives to take the fall.

However, despite paying such a price, they still fell for Hamel's cunning strategy of having three burrows.

The Night God Society's operation was well-prepared; had Abed not been abruptly killed, their performance would have been even more impressive and composed.

The Chaotic Staircase Investigation Team, relying on its superior technology and reckless pursuit despite the risk of death, is most likely to fall into the traps they set.

In the middle of the night, instead of catching up with them in Orleans, they ran off to Nobi Town.

The entire investigation team, from top to bottom, had been feeling frustrated for the past half day and night. Now that they had found their target, they all wanted to have a good fight and vent their frustrations.

As a result, they charged into the town with a roar, only to be brutally bombarded by tons of alchemical explosives.

That's how it is—a cleverly designed outer packaging conceals a simple core of overwhelming power: a Big Bang, with no other tricks up its sleeve.

However, this situation resulted in heavy losses for the investigation team. The high-level superhumans were also blown up and some were even forced to give up their life-saving trump cards.

More importantly, these high-ranking officers are used to being treated like royalty, so there's no way they'd do the work of scouts or grunts during operations!

And so, the next morning, as the Night Gods Action Team set off again in the drizzling rain, the Chaotic Staircase Investigation Team was still resting near Nobi Town.

Moreover, they displayed the characteristics of pampered soldiers, called for support, and the related reports were fabricated by both superiors and subordinates, making it a magnificent and meritorious fabrication.

That's right, this is the chaotic staircase. Its style of doing things is often to start off well, and then quickly go awry, much like those Hollywood blockbusters that flop at the box office in their second week...

Meanwhile, Black Robo, having rested sufficiently, awakened Oberon.

He still didn't pursue it, but let it run for a while longer. He rode Oberon and used flight magic to rush over to help 3-1 Olaf.

Olaf's latest mission is to travel to a city called Syndicate to acquire rare supernatural resources left behind in a branch of a certain supernatural force that failed to evacuate in a hasty retreat.

However, when Olaf arrived at the scene, he discovered that the intelligence was outdated.

For some time, the evil spirits were not interested in extraordinary resources, but were keen on collecting and manipulating negative emotions to obtain evil energy for their own use.

However, as time went on, with the birth and growth of Special Senses (Special Infected Individuals), they have become able to utilize extraordinary resources.

Olaf's situation was that a dozen or so special senses had taken advantage of that stronghold, become very powerful, and liked to stick together, so he couldn't handle them on his own.

This situation is best resolved by Oberon, as it avoids any waste. Oberon can even reverse and restore rare supernatural resources that have already been absorbed and transformed by the Special Senses to a certain extent through the characteristics of the Annihilation Beast.

Those things that cannot be restored will be transformed and accumulated through the natural appetite of the Old Ones, becoming the foundation for the next breakthrough.

There's not much to say about the specific battle; it was just like divine soldiers descending from the sky, cutting through everything like vegetables. Before the special agents could even react, Oberon had already leaped into the air and flown away.

Just as Tegan was feeling confused, angry, and annoyed, Oberon emerged from underground again, killed two more, and then used earth magic to pull the third one into the ground.

By the time the other special senses managed to pull the unfortunate man out of the ground, his lower body had already been sucked dry.

The special senses howled and assembled, back to back, guarding against attacks from all directions, above and below.

After waiting for a long time, the enemy still didn't make any new moves.

Just as they were getting impatient, a huge mountain suddenly crashed down from the sky.

It turns out that Oberon carved out a mountain peak, made it invisible, transported it from the air, and then threw it when the location was right.

Faced with such a quality blow, the special agents were simply not capable of withstanding it.

The main problem is that they lack any coordinated attack techniques and their ability to advance and retreat together is merely superficial, which is what Black Robo is taking advantage of.

Sure enough, the enormous object crashed down with tremendous force, and the group of special agents scattered in all directions like birds and beasts.

In Oberon's eyes, this meant that the enemy was once again being deliberately divided into smaller units, which immediately created an opportunity to attack them from multiple angles...

Thus, the special evil forces were caught in a dilemma: neither could they gather together, nor could they divide themselves. Black Robo took advantage of their lack of strategy and intelligence, and after several rounds, they were slaughtered and decimated, leading to a complete collapse.

The rest is even simpler. Olaf had been secretly making arrangements before 3-1, and now these arrangements are starting to take effect one by one. By delaying for a while or creating an opportunity, Olaf, with his abilities, can crush and annihilate them.

And so, the bloody yet subtly organized massacre gradually came to an end.

Oberon helped Olaf get what he wanted.

Black Rob did a rough calculation and realized that he had essentially earned an Oberon for free.

In other words, Olaf's actions have recouped the costs of various rare and extraordinary resources, including the evolution of the evil beast into a dreadful creature, the catalysis of the abomination, and the completion of the legendary proof of the ultimate killing ritual. There is even a slight surplus.

Oberon himself also used this warm-up battle to make some minor adjustments, allowing Black Rob's soul to better control this body.

Only then did Oberon begin his pursuit in the direction of the Night Gods' action team.

Meanwhile, the Chaotic Staircase Investigation Team, having completed its resupply and rest, embarked on a new phase with a fresh look and successfully caught up with Orr Town.

Then a fierce battle ensued with the troops remaining in Orl.

This time, the investigation team learned its lesson. Instead of rushing in headfirst, they used their superior combat strength and firepower to advance steadily. Along the way, whenever they sensed something was wrong, they called in alchemical artillery to bombard the area, blowing up any traps or mechanisms to smithereens.

The alchemical cannons used in the Chaotic Staircase are mortars, somewhat like those of a heartless cannon, with an exaggerated caliber, a generous amount of medicinal powder, and great power.

These shells bombarded the area relentlessly, akin to surgical intervention, gradually crippling the massive defense system.

But when the investigation team finally stormed into the town, they realized they had made another mistake.

If we use a surprise attack strategy to conquer Orr, we can save a lot of time and a lot of alchemical ammunition.

Now, however, they have been exploited by the Night God Society's action team, who have swindled them out of ammunition. Not a single member of the actual action team has been killed or captured.

Of course, the investigation team still had ways to make the report look impressive.

It has to be said that a significant portion of the members of the Chaotic Staircase have invested in deception.

The explanation that "excessive firepower was used, and one person lost control, resulting in the annihilation of hundreds of enemies without leaving any survivors" erases the truth of the failure to obtain any valuable follow-up intelligence.

With the addition of superb photography skills, the audio-visual recording can be made without any cuts, yet it perfectly matches the report...

(End of this chapter)