Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

"A mutated level 4 rock golem, Wang Zhen, be careful!"

Erhu leaped up from the wall, his voice urgent, as if he saw an even more powerful rock golem hurling boulders at its territory and then charging toward Wang Zhen.

The chaos in the territory caused Zhao Feng's expression to change. Without taking a break, he looked down at the watchtower and, seeing that the two were unharmed, rushed out of the territory.

Sui An hurriedly scrambled to his feet from beneath the watchtower, still shaken as he watched the watchtower vanish into light behind him.

Wang Hu jumped down as well, but his watchtower remained unharmed and was not hit.

The two quickly climbed up the wall and saw a nearly 4-meter-tall rock golem running towards their territory.

Although this puppet is much larger than the previous level 4 puppet, it doesn't feel like it has reached level 5.

The reason Erhu cried out in alarm was that this guy's appearance was completely different from the puppets made of yellow rocks in front of him.

The stones that make up ordinary golems are a mix of gray and yellow, with various rock patterns on them, and they look extremely dull.

But this one was made entirely of transparent crystals, some large and some small, with countless bright yellow energy swirling within them, reflecting golden light and shadow. Standing among the group of rock golems, it was far too conspicuous.

Although it's unclear how this behemoth emerged from the almost completely closed gap, the power of that stone-throwing attack was clearly far superior to that of an ordinary level 4 puppet.

But judging from what Erhu and the others said, it didn't seem to be a level 5 source beast.

"Don't go in yet!"

Sui An shouted, "These three actually want to go up there? How am I supposed to beat them if you go up there?!"

Upon hearing Sui An's shout, they immediately stopped in their tracks.

The crystalline rock golem had also run this way for a while, but suddenly stopped and stood in the middle of the field. Instead of rushing over like the low-level source beasts, it began to condense a huge stone between its arms.

"Damn it, die!"

Sui An felt a surge of anger rising in his chest. "You said you were careless and reckless earlier, which is why you almost died!"

But this time I obediently hid inside the energy shield, and I still almost died. Is there no justice in this world?!

He even doubted whether his secret treasure could withstand the enormous rock.

"Damn it!"

The flaming sword in the night sky was faster than a stone; the huge stone had barely been thrown when the seven-meter-long sword had already pressed down upon it.

The Flame Sword, capable of killing level 3 and injuring level 4 rock golems, has finally met its match on the front lines.

The greatsword shattered the projectile in mid-air, but stopped abruptly above the crystal golem.

The puppet was surrounded by a dazzling yellow source energy, and its two rocky arms suddenly grew several times larger, managing to stop the seven-meter-long sword energy.

However, the impact of the sword energy still pushed the giant puppet several meters away, and after shattering the source energy on its huge arm, it transformed into a firebird and flew away.

However, due to the Firebird's special mechanism, the second attack dealt very little damage to the crystal golem, and only one Firebird grazed the huge rock body.

The rock, over 4 meters tall, was thrown backward, slammed to the ground by the unexpected secondary impact. Several crimson flames coiled around its surface, igniting the yellow energy on its body and rapidly eroding it.

This attack ultimately failed to destroy the crystal puppet, and it didn't even suffer any major damage. It struggled to its feet.

The crystal golem's intelligence was severely affected by the blood moon, but it still retained its instincts.

Instead of cutting off the burning source energy, it controlled the source energy around its body and surged towards the flames on its body, trying to extinguish them.

However, the crimson flames on the body surface do not burn the body, but only the source energy. This approach not only failed to extinguish the flames, but also caused the crimson flames to spread out and burn even more fiercely!

Seemingly realizing that it could not be extinguished, it gave up trying to extinguish the fire and began to raise its hands again, attempting to condense the large stone once more.

However, the crimson flames surrounding it caused its source energy to be constantly burned away, making the source energy extremely unstable, which resulted in several failures to fully condense the projectile.

Seeing this, Wang Zhen and his two companions did not go up directly. Instead, they dispersed and guarded the large rock golem from a distance, holding their weapons, not daring to make any rash moves.

The effects of the Sin Flame come from the territory's buildings, and it won't make you immune just because you're teammates. If this flame gets on you through your own energy attacks, then things could get really messy.

So it began to charge toward its territory!

Having wasted so much time, the second sword appeared again. It tried to block it using the same method as before, but its source energy was no longer sufficient to support its interception.

The tip of the greatsword struck its chest, sending dust flying and creating a huge dent in the ground.

This time, even more sinful flames appeared all over its body, almost covering its entire form. Countless sources of energy, like crude oil, were fiercely burned by the sinful flames, with flames leaping several feet up, which was truly terrifying.

"This mutant seems a bit special~" Zhao Feng carried the big sword and walked a little further forward, looking thoughtfully at the flames in the pit.

Erhu whispered to Wang Zhen for a while, and seemed to understand somewhat, so he said half-jokingly.

"According to the classification of games we play, this should be the super mage among rock golems. Its source energy capacity is significantly greater than that of other level 4 rock golems."

"So, this 'Sinful Flame' effect is significantly more powerful than the other level 4 puppets!"

The crystal golem in the pit gradually stopped struggling. After being intensely burned by the sin flames for nearly 40 seconds, the flames on its body were getting lighter and lighter. Sui An was preparing to strike a third time when Wang Zhen loudly stopped him.

"Stop hitting it! This thing's body might be worth a lot of money!"

"valuable!"

Upon hearing the keywords, Sui An's eyes lit up. He was standing far away, so his observation wasn't very clear, but he could tell that the big guy's body was transparent and glowing with golden light.

"good!"

"Buzz~"

Just then, the rift in the distance finally closed completely, and Sui An's heart was truly at peace this time.

The three of them worked together to take down the remaining rock golems one by one before finally reaching the large pit.

At this moment, the crystal puppet was completely still, and its source energy seemed to have been burned out.

Its body was truly like some special crystal, crystal clear. Even after being hit by two great fire swords, there was only some black dust on it, and no signs of melting at high temperatures.

Zhao Feng tapped the large sword lightly, producing a peculiar echo: "This body is truly special. If the Sin Flame hadn't burned away its source energy, I doubt I could have taken it down!"

Erhu also came over, looking somewhat troubled: "Just leave it here like this? The elemental core and source stones haven't been taken out yet; they'll probably come back to life in the middle of the night, won't they?"

"We need to break the crystals in the chest area and extract the core!"

Wang Zhen nodded. This wasn't the first time they had encountered this kind of elemental entity. The current state was just a dormant state, not a true death.

He raised his spear, about to make a move, but was stopped by the erhu.

"Hey, don't make the first move. Ask that kid first, or you might kill him and get no loot. These mutants are really rare."

"..."

Wang Zhen fell silent, clearly not very confident in his luck, and could only nod helplessly.

"Let's drag it back. It's a bit far from our territory, and I'm worried about leaving it there!"

The two men each grabbed one of the legs, while Zhao Feng supported them from above, and began to pull the crystal puppet out of the pit. It was only because all three of them were intermediate-level professionals that they were able to move the thing.

This is much bigger and heavier than that Dark Breath Silver Scale Beast!

It took a little more time for the three of them to drag the big guy to the front of the territory's wall.

Sui An and Wang Hu jumped onto the city wall, looking at the crystal-clear stone figure with amazement.

"It looks really good!" Tiger exclaimed in the most genuine way.

"Is it really expensive?" Sui An asked the most basic question.

Wang Zhen gave Sui An a simple eye roll and replied irritably:

"I just think it's valuable. Who knows the specifics? Why don't you smash its chest and take out the elemental core? See if you can get any loot."

"I?"

Sui An looked surprised: "My methods are all elemental attacks, they won't be effective against this kind of stone, will they even be able to shatter it...?"

"Then I'll do it? Don't blame me if there are no spoils!" Wang Zhen seemed to have already guessed this statement.

"No! Don't waste this opportunity!"

"I've thought of a method. Let's try it out. Help it sit up, and I'll try it with the crossbow!"

Sui An thought of his combination of flag and crossbow, which might work.

Erhu happily dug some soil and placed it on the back of the crystal golem, so that its chest faced the watchtower.

Sui An activated the [Victory Flying Cloud Banner], granting himself an enemy-breaking effect.

Breaking the enemy can concentrate the blessing effect on the first 10 attacks, resulting in stronger shock damage, which may have a special effect on this crystal.

Zhao Feng and Erhu had never seen the function of a flag before. When they noticed that Sui An had an illusory flag on his back, they looked over curiously, wanting to see what it was.

Sui An stood atop the only watchtower and fired an arrow at the chest of the crystal golem.

At such close range, with his archery skills, he naturally wouldn't miss.

"Ding!"

As expected, the crossbow bolt was deflected, leaving only a tiny scratch on the chest. However, the crystal-clear body emitted a strange echo, like the vibration of a musical instrument.

Sui An was not surprised. If a level 1 crossbow bolt could easily shoot this thing away, it wouldn't be worth him using two shots from a purple building to extinguish it, and it didn't even melt after taking two hits from a great fire sword.

The second arrow, the third arrow... even Sui An was about to give up, until the seventh arrow, when a slight change finally appeared on the crystal golem's chest.

"Sizzle~ Sizzle~ Sizzle~"

With a few peculiar, crisp sounds, several cracks quietly appeared on the crystal.

"It really works? What effect does the flag have?" Erhu asked in astonishment, clearly knowing that it wasn't the effect of the crossbow.

Wang Zhen had experienced this once and could roughly understand: "It can give you a special buff, making your weapon attacks have a shock effect, and the stronger the attack, the more obvious the effect."

"You've tried it?" Erhu knew immediately that Wang Zhen must have tried it.

"Yes, it can even increase your speed, making you run faster!"

"You rich lord, how does Little Anzi have so many good things? How do other lords become lords like this!"

Erhu grumbled and cursed from the side, thinking that these were all good things that Sui An had dropped himself. Only Wang Zhen and Zhao Feng exchanged a worried glance.

As they were talking, Sui An's tenth arrow had already hit its mark.

Finally, after accumulating the shock effect of 10 arrows, the incredibly hard crystal finally shattered completely, and the large crystal on his chest turned into countless tiny fragments.

A level 4 source stone and a special elemental core were scattered on the ground along with the fragments. When the fragments were completely dispersed, a purple light quietly appeared on the ground.

Holy crap!