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Chapter 106 Elite-level Intermediate Source Beast: Shadow Troll

Sui An abandoned controlling the elemental statues, letting them attack automatically at the nearest point, and began to take over the illusion's position again, slowly moving it towards the source beast horde to forcibly lure away the thousands of source beasts.

Only after leaving the thick pile of source beast corpses did Sui An summon Sword Star and unleash three consecutive attacks.

The Firebird's coverage radius is only about eight meters, which is far from enough to clear out the 20-meter radius of the illusion beast horde.

After three shots, most of the accumulated source beasts were cleared out, and Sui An readjusted his position to enter the bombardment range of the elemental statues.

The scattered source beasts around the wall had already been mostly cleared out by the two people and three towers.

"Knock knock knock"

Erhu sat back down on the wall and knocked on the barrier: "Xiao Anzi, open the door. We need to restore it to prevent any accidents."

"Alright!" Sui An manipulated the barrier, opening a gap.

Erhu jumped in directly. Just as Fang Si was about to jump into the courtyard with him, a black beam of energy streaked across the sky, silently shooting from the darkness towards the gap.

"when!"

Fang Si suddenly turned around, and the source energy in his hand erupted, the dazzling platinum light forcefully blocking the black light.

When the light was slightly obstructed, everyone realized that it seemed to be a three-meter-long black spear.

The immense impact was terrifying. Even Fang Si, who could beat the erhu to a pulp, couldn't withstand it and was pinned to the courtyard by this terrifying attack!

"boom!"

A tremendous roar erupted from the courtyard, terrifying everyone present.

"elder brother!"

Fang Nian ran forward with a look of terror in her eyes. After the dust settled, Fang Si's figure reappeared in everyone's sight. His waist and abdomen were bright red, and there were even traces of blood on the ground.

Sui An shouted from above, "Get on stage for treatment!"

"Don't rush, let's see what kind of source beast it is!" Fang Si interrupted Sui An. He knew Sui An's injuries. They weren't serious; he had just been grazed on his waist and abdomen, which was at most a superficial wound, but there was a lot of bleeding.

"Are you really alright?" Sui An asked with some concern.

"It's alright!" Fang Si shook her head and began to activate her source energy to protect the wound. Sure enough, the blood stopped flowing.

Seeing that Fang Si had brought his injuries under control, Sui An said no more. He looked down at the detection station, which was still completely still despite its ability to detect objects 300 meters away.

Either the attacker is 300 meters away, or it has a means of stealth.

The erhu player next to him pulled up the spear that was shining with a black light from the ground, only to find that it was rapidly dissipating.

"It's not a real weapon, it's a source energy shaping weapon. I've never seen anything with this level of power. Could it be a level five source beast?"

"It's not level five, the energy source is level four!" Fang Si shook his head. "It's just that the impact of the projection was too strong, I couldn't stop it!"

"With such a long range, such power, and such grip strength at level 4, I think it's likely a troll!"

Erhu frowned even more deeply: "Trolls? There are many kinds of trolls. Which kind can throw such a source energy spear?"

"It's a Shadow Troll!" Sui An's voice came from above. He put away the booklet in his hand, his voice certain.

"Shadow Trolls are level 4 elite source beasts when they grow up. They live in small groups and their innate skill is to condense dark energy spears, which can be used for close combat as well as throwing at medium range. The dark energy spears can remain in place for a period of time after leaving their bodies, which is why they can be thrown."

"As for its immense strength, it must be a male shadow troll, more adept at combat, and its kill risk is close to that of a lord."

If it's a tribal chief or leader, then it's a lord-level difficulty kill.

Sui An's gaze swept over the completely vanished dark energy spear, and he said solemnly.

"By the way, this 'medium distance' refers to a distance starting from 500 meters!"

As soon as Sui An finished speaking, the detection station below sounded again, and behind countless white and green dots, a point of orange light quietly appeared.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, four more points of light quietly appeared behind the orange light, and the five points of light gathered together, shining brilliantly.

"Hiss, is the whole troll family here?" Erhu didn't even bother to keep an eye on the detection station and jumped onto the watchtower in a few steps.

Sui An had already put down his binoculars. He had just seen the appearance of the five tall trolls. The leader was nearly three meters tall, and the rest were all more than two meters tall.

It is humanoid, but its limbs are exceptionally thick and longer than those of a human.

It has a ferocious appearance, long fangs, almost black skin all over its body, scale-like armor on its chest and arms, and long black hair on its thighs.

Strangely, after launching a spear, the troll did not launch any more, perhaps because it did not see any human professionals outside the barrier.

Sui An did not intend to let them move forward any further, and tentatively summoned the initial version of the Flame Sword once.

But a strange scene unfolded; it seemed that the condensation of the Flame Sword alerted the five trolls.

The leading troll immediately stopped running, and a dark energy spear rapidly condensed in his hand. Before the Fiery Sword could fly out, he hurled it toward the location of the Sword Star Totem.

"boom!"

A tremendous roar resounded from the Thousand Winds Barrier. The dark energy spear, unstoppable in its advance, struck the barrier, causing the entire blue-white interwoven barrier to sway precariously. Countless dandelions floated and swayed on the surface of the barrier, making one worry that it would be pierced through at any moment.

However, the level 3 purple barrier was no longer the same as the effect Wang Zhen had when he was testing it. Even though this attack was comparable to an explosive source energy technique, it only made it teeter on the brink of collapse, but it did not break on the spot.

Even so, Sui An's expression changed, and he directly chose [Merge]. The other initial barrier rapidly expanded and quietly merged with the layer above. The shaking of the barrier was instantly smoothed out, leaving only ripples.

The dark energy spear had exhausted its power and began to fall along the barrier.

The first sword of fire had already been formed and was flying towards the leading shadow troll.

The Flame Sword was faster than the Dark Energy Spear, covering the distance of three hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

The four dark energy spears that were fired later were crushed in mid-air by the Flame Sword, while the leading troll raised his spear in an attempt to break the greatsword.

"boom!"

The Fiery Sword crushed the troll leader into the ground, causing the others behind it to dodge. Countless specks of dust flew up and dissipated into sparks in the air.

No one could see the troll leader below until the eight firebirds broke through, at which point a figure lying at the bottom of the pit could be barely seen, his fate unknown.

The trolls behind were hit by the firebird, and countless flames floated on their bodies as the source energy they used to try to block the damage was burned.

The source energy spears in their hands were instantly ignited by the sin flames, turning into torches that they threw to the ground on the spot.

"Awooooo!"

Miserable roars echoed from behind as the trolls thrashed each other, trying to extinguish the flames of sin, but the sixteen swords of fire had already reappeared.

The source energy was ignited by the sin flames. Without the weapon, the dark energy spear, and daring not to use source energy to protect his body, the troll's physical strength alone was no match for the small fire sword.

Each person had three Flame Swords, while the leader lying in the pit was given four by Sui An, and was pierced through on the spot.

The orange light on the detection platform went out rapidly, signifying that all five of them were dead.

"it's over?"

Erhu squinted, trying to observe the battle results more than 200 meters away, but he couldn't see them clearly.

Sui An nodded: "They're all dead!"

"This thing has an exaggerated attack power but average defense. If you get hit by it, you'll be dead for good."

"Amazing!" Erhu praised sincerely, thinking that if that hair had hit him, he would have died.

A being capable of killing oneself with a single blow was killed by Sui An in two blows. How could it not be formidable?

Fang Si's expression changed quickly. Even though the elite source beast Ice Crystal Giant had already demonstrated the power of the Great Fire Sword last time, he still felt that it was a matter of ice and fire being mutually restraining.

This time, when he saw the spears and torches lying on the ground, he realized that there seemed to be other things mixed in with them.

For example, a flame that can ignite source energy!

He wanted to ask the question several times, but his years of survival experience ultimately made him shut up.

Sui An glanced at the detection platform. The troll's attack was only a short while away, but a large number of source beasts had gathered around the illusion.

"Erhu, our initial estimate so far tonight is that the number of source beasts that have emerged from this rift has exceeded two thousand—"

"Really?" Erhu knew there were many source beasts, but he couldn't estimate their approximate number.

"Did you count them?"

Sui An's temples suddenly throbbed. He let out a long breath and smiled at the erhu: "What is the area of ​​a circle with a radius of 20 meters?"

"More than a thousand square meters?" Erhu made a rough estimate.

"So, approximately how many small source beasts do you think would be needed to fill such a large circle?"

"More than a thousand—"

"Twice?"

"More than two thousand—"

"Pfft~" In the courtyard, a clear laugh rang out amidst the lingering echoes of thunder and lightning.

Fang Nian's delicate face immediately turned bright red, and she quickly turned around. Even Fang Si, who was pressing her waist, felt embarrassed. How could you laugh out loud? Erhu turned her head resentfully to look at Sui An: "Xiao Anzi, you are insulting me—"

"You asked for it," Sui An rolled her eyes at Erhu and ignored him, instead starting to summon new illusions.

The illusion was already flickering, a sign that it was about to dissipate.

Although the area outside the illusion is now crowded with source beasts, the subsequent supply has been greatly reduced, so there is no need to use Sword Star to clear it out.

Using illusions to hang the elemental statues and clear them is sufficient; it's unlikely that the illusions will overflow.

Even in split mode, these low-level source beasts can still cause small-area explosive damage, and it is entirely possible to kill two or three low-level source beasts at once.

"The numbers started to decrease at the end—it seems the main force has already been cleared out."

Fang Si stood on the watchtower, looking at the distant shadows, which seemed rather sparse.

Sui An glanced at Fang Si, but from his angle, he couldn't see the specific extent of the injuries.

"Are you sure you don't need me to get treatment?"

But Fang Si still refused: "No need, it's just a superficial wound. It will heal completely in a day or two once the bleeding stops."

"Okay."

Since Fang Si insisted, Sui An naturally said no more.

As time went by, the number of source beasts dwindled, and Erhu took the telescope to try to observe the rift from a distance.

"The rift over there has started to flicker. It's a three to five minute journey from the rift to this side. We should be fine in about six or seven minutes."

The erhu even let out a sigh.

"With this size of source beasts tonight, even the Zhao family's blue city wall would be in trouble. If thousands of source beasts swarm to the bottom of the city wall at once, even if they don't collapse it, they will be blasted to pieces."

Sui An glanced into the distance: "There should be some revenue being diverted to the other two companies over there, but I don't know how much."

"Why don't you just ask?" Erhu handed over the binoculars.

Sui An looked innocent: "Why ask? If something really happened, they would be cursing by now. The fact that they haven't come over to curse me means nothing's wrong." "What you said makes so much sense. I have no words to say." Erhu shook his head. He was no match for Erhu when it came to arguing.

About two minutes later, the rift in the distance closed completely.

Then the second illusion began to flicker, but Sui An was not prepared to summon a third time. The remaining low-level source beasts could not do much to the wall.

A few minutes later, the elemental statues completely cleared them out.

The next morning.

"Sui An, you should hire some ordinary people; this job is too difficult!"

Erhu, with a bitter face, pushed the cart and piled up heaps of source beast meat to the side. Last time it was ice crystal giants. Although each one was relatively heavier, it was easy to handle as a whole.

This time the quantity was three or four times that of the last time, and many level 1 source beasts were blown into pieces. However, it was not good to waste the meat, so the group pushed a cart to load the meat and piled it aside.

"You're right. It's too slow for just the few of us to work. Even though the three of you are stronger than oxen, your hands are still too short."

Sui An frowned as he looked at the mountain of flesh in front of him. He was indeed having a headache. If he told others, they probably wouldn't believe it. A territory that could kill so many source beasts would be exhausted by a pile of meat.

"Let me see if there's any way, but even if we hire three or five ordinary people, it'll be tough. They're not as strong as you guys, and their stamina is much worse."

Erhu said expressionlessly, "Isn't your amazing analogy a bit inappropriate?"

Did I say something wrong?

"Yes, but I'm not happy about it."

"—" Sui An shook his head. He knew that Erhu didn't hate working, but he would get annoyed by this kind of work and would rather go and kill source beasts.

"I wish there were some kind of robot~"

"Stop dreaming. Even the city lords have to rely on ordinary people to collect corpses and use Originium detectors to check the site to prevent them from secretly hiding Originium on the ground or on their bodies."

Erhu let out a long sigh. The blood of these thousands of source beasts was so strong that even a seasoned adventurer like him felt nauseous.

Fang Nian, who was standing to the side, had already vomited profusely, clearly because her brother was taking very good care of her.