Problem Girls Strategy

"Ah."

"Jiang Zao, don't you have [Elemental Armor]? Why do you still think we can't defeat the lord-level monsters?"

“Meihui, fighting a lord-level monster underground is completely different from fighting on the ground. The biggest impact is that we can’t use your trump card. The pit collapse caused by the explosion magic can bury us alive.”

Huihui shuddered at the thought of the consequences: “I…I better not use explosion magic in a place like this.”

"Just so you know, Pekolim, let me draw out your void and we'll get ready to go in."

"Yeah, no problem!"

Holding the silver sword in his hand, Jiang Zao applied the [Elemental Armor] with a thought, and then he walked in front, leading the way, wearing armor with a tattered black scarf and holding the silver sword.

"Illumination!" Kaede waved her magic wand and summoned a ball of light above everyone's heads that illuminated the surroundings.

Chapter 289: Sword Qi is Cool

As soon as he entered the magic crystal pit, a dark and depressing atmosphere hit him. The soil here was very hard, and even if Jiang Zao held a void weapon, he could only leave a shallow scratch on it.

Relying on the light of Kaylu's [Illumination Technique], everyone moved forward cautiously and slowly. Jiang Zao originally thought that they would have to go at least deep into the pit before encountering the honey spider, but he never expected that he would hear a noise above his head just after walking a dozen meters inside.

Honey spiders, pink all over and about half a meter in diameter, were densely packed and hanging upside down above everyone's heads. When they realized their whereabouts had been exposed, they immediately jumped down from above and opened their sharp mouthparts to pounce on the prey on the ground.

"ah!!!"

Except for Pekolim, the other girls screamed in fear, which was normal. Even Jiang Zao was frightened when he saw such a big spider.

Without any hesitation, he gathered the unearthed element barrier to block everyone's head, and shouted in a low voice: "Close your eyes!"

The honey spiders slammed into the barrier like dumplings, making a series of "bang bang bang" sounds.

The pitch-black sharp gauntlet was raised high, and a ball of light elements was constantly gathering in the palm of the hand.

"Refraction causes blindness!"

A bright flash suddenly appeared in the pit, and the honey spiders howled in pain.

Having lived in the dark environment of the magic crystal pit for many years, their eyeballs were very sensitive to light. Suddenly, they were attacked by the strong light from Jiang Zao. The fragile eyeballs of some spiders burst directly, spraying out the purple blood unique to monsters.

The originally orderly attack rhythm was disrupted. The honey spider, whose eyes were severely injured, began to rush around like a mad dog, and the venom it sprayed accidentally injured many of its companions.

Jiang Zao did not give them a chance to regroup. He threw a javelin mixed with light and thunder elements at the enemy: "Prismatic javelin!"

After piercing the body of the first honey spider, the elemental javelin did not continue to fly. Instead, countless sharp spear heads pierced out from it and instantly pierced through the monsters in the overhead area.

After clearing the honey spiders above his head, Jiang Zao did not stop. He turned into an efficient killing machine, constantly harvesting the lives of the honey spiders on the ground in flashes of lightning.

"Okay, open your eyes." A hoarse metallic voice came into their ears, and the girls opened their eyes one after another. What they saw were a large number of honey spider corpses and the black armor in their hands whose electric light had just dissipated.

"So fast..." Kailu walked to a spider corpse and checked its wounds with the end of her magic wand: "You actually used the two elements of light and lightning. Is this a new magic?"

"It's not quite right to call it a new magic. It's an attack method that comes with [Elemental Armament]."

Jiang Zao integrated all four skills of the Holy Sword Armor in the "Warframe" game into [Elemental Armor]. As for why he did not use the skills of the Shadow Holy Sword.

That's because he thought it would be cool to have a dark-looking armor using light power.

"You have so many strange ideas."

“Call it a fancy idea.”

Using the wind element to push away the spider corpses piled on the ground that blocked his way, Jiang Zao condensed a javelin and threw it at the top of the pit in the distance. This attack did not hit any honey spiders.

"Are there no other reinforcements..."

"Maybe this is the first line of defense they set up."

Huihui carefully avoided the cold spider legs on both sides and asked, "There is no pit map, and you don't even know the distribution of monsters?"

"Yes, every time the Honey Spider Queen is defeated, the terrain inside the Magic Crystal Pit will change."

"Wouldn't it be extremely difficult to find the Spider Queen?"

"You can describe it that way." Kokoro nodded and found that Jiang Zao was collecting seven-color crystals from the magic crystal pit. She asked him curiously: "Master, these crystals do not contain any magic power or elements. They are just beautiful in appearance. Why do you want to collect them?"

"There is no such mineral in my original world, so I want to get some to study."

Jiang Zaoke remembered that the production of personal terminals required a large amount of rare materials, and special minerals from other worlds might be able to be brought back for optimization or substitution.

"Then we need to add the option of collecting minerals to our future adventures."

"There is no need to collect them deliberately. Once Coke and sanitary napkins are produced, we can use the money we earn to buy a large amount of ore."

"Let's not talk about sanitary napkins for now. Can Coke really sell at the same level as this?" Kailu didn't understand what was so good about such a stimulating drink.

Huihui was the first to jump out to defend Coke: "Kailu, don't underestimate Coke. People who like to drink it won't get tired of it even if they drink four bottles a day. It will definitely sell well!"

"Four bottles a day...like you did before?"

"That's right!"

"Why do I feel like it's addictive, just like some banned alchemical potions..."

Jiang Zao continued to throw the [Prismatic Gun] forward to clear the honey spiders ambushing in the dark. Hearing the conversation between Kailu and Huihui, he couldn't help but interrupt: "Don't call the drinks contraband. You have seen the production process of the prototype drinks. They are all legitimate ingredients, okay?"

"Oh... sorry, my bad."

During the conversation, the [Prismatic Pistol] was deflected by some creature for the first time. Jiang Zao stopped and protected everyone behind him. A calf-sized honey spider slowly crawled out of the darkness. It was dark blue all over and looked like a large shield with eight legs. Needless to say, the previous attack was deflected by it.

"Master, please be careful. These are elite honey guard spiders. They have extremely high magical defenses, and their shells carry acid that can corrode weapons."

"Corrosive weapons?" Jiang Zao thought for a moment, then thrust Pekorim's Void Greatsword into the ground with his backhand, clasped his hands in front of him and then quickly separated them: "Glorious Sword!"

He held a dazzling long sword surrounded by flowing light in his hand and pointed it at the Honey Guardian Spider in the distance: "If I pull the sword light, how will you respond?"

Although the Honey Guard Spider did not understand what Jiang Zao said, it knew that this was a provocation to itself, so it immediately let out a shrill scream to summon its companions, and then it rushed towards the enemy who dared to invade the pit with unstoppable force.

Sword energy was released as Jiang Zao swung the [Glorious Sword], like bright crescent moons bombarding the spider's fragile leg joints. He was not stupid enough to use sword energy to collide head-on with the shield body that could deflect the [Prismatic Gun]. In case the sword energy bounced back, he was not sure he could block it with a simple elemental barrier.

"puff."

The sword energy cut off the long legs of the Honey Guard Spider as easily as cutting vegetables. Having lost the ability to move, it could only let out anxious screams to call for its companions. In the shadows, the Honey Shadow Spider, which was emitting a purple glow, lit up its scarlet eyes.

Chapter 290 I Want You

The sword energy cleared away the densely packed Honey Shadow Spiders and Honey Guard Spiders like chopping melons and vegetables. Pekolim, who had no means of long-range attack, could only stand by and stare blankly with her greatsword. Kaede would occasionally release one or two [Grimm Explosions] to eliminate the fish that had escaped the sword energy defense by relying on the corpses of their companions.

A simple one-sided massacre made Jiang Zao realize that his current strength was far beyond what he had experienced when he first met the Sand Scorpion King. The improvement brought to him by [Elemental Armor] was even greater than he had imagined.

When the last wave of Honey Shadow Spiders fell among the corpses of their companions, the magic crystal pit was like the digestive tract of a giant creature, sucking the flesh and blood of the monsters into the soil, leaving only the special materials they dropped.

Witnessing this strange scene, Huihui swallowed her saliva in fear and said in a trembling voice: "We won't be digested like this, right?"

Kokoro comforted her, "Don't worry, this is the special mechanism of the magic crystal pit. Let's collect the special materials and move on."

"Then why didn't the previous Honey Spider become like this?"

"Maybe it's because... their level doesn't meet the requirements."

"That's right...that's true."

Everyone quickly collected the materials and continued on their way. It seemed as if Jiang Zao's presence in the endless deep pit prevented the girls from feeling so depressed. After all, he always exuded a calming and healing aura.

After about half an hour of continuous fighting, Jiang Zao discovered the power of the skill [Source of Life]. The sword energy that originally consumed physical strength to release was basically close to no consumption under the support of this skill. In other words, if he could find a way to improve this skill, it would not be a dream for him to have a crescent-shaped sword rushing into the sky.

The deeper they went into the pit, the fewer honey spiders appeared. This special situation that went against common sense made everyone more careful.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, a mocking laugh sounded in the pit.

"Haha~"

"Who!?" Jiang Zao's eyes focused, and the wind element spread out in a shape with the crowd as the center, pushing away all approaching objects.

But when they looked around carefully, they found nothing.

The voice came from the void again: "Adventurers, keep going. I'll be waiting for you in the center of the maze."

"Hey, hey, hey, isn't the center of the maze where the Honey Spider Queen is?"

"Can this monster speak human language?"

"Kokoro, has this ever happened before?"

"This kind of thing is unheard of!" Kokoro frowned. She thought of a possibility and shouted to Jiang Zao who was in the front: "Master, this Honey Spider Queen might be a mutant monster!"

"Mutated monsters... that's a problem. How strong is the Honey Spider Queen herself?"

"The Queen herself is not good at fighting. Her strength lies in her ability to quickly breed various elite spiders."

"According to the theory of opposite mutation, this queen seems to have strong individual combat power, so the further you go into the pit, the fewer spiders there are."

"Then... let's leave now."

"I would like to leave right away, but Huihui, have you ever thought that since the Honey Spider Queen can inform us in this way, she will definitely not let us leave easily?"

"In other words, the only option left is a head-on confrontation..." Kael stroked her forehead, looking a little helpless.

"That's right. If you want to leave, you must defeat the Queen."

"My friend, if I ask you to use that when necessary, you should use it. Do you understand?"

Huihui did not respond. She knew that Jiang Zao said this to prevent the Queen from understanding his plan.

Everyone continued to move forward cautiously, not letting down their guard because of what the Honey Spider Queen said. Who knows if there were any traps set for them on the road.

When an oppressive atmosphere came from the front, everyone knew that they had arrived at the center of the maze.

Slowly walking into the bright central area, hanging on the thick spider silk, the half-human, half-spider Honey Spider Queen was clapping with her snow-white hands: "You are worthy of being the adventurer I have chosen. You refuse to let your guard down even a little bit."

Huihui stared at her uncovered upper body with serious eyes. Her oversized, pink and delicate pudding rippled with the clapping, which made her jealous.

Damn, why is a mutant monster bigger than me!

"Honey Spider Queen?"

"Oh? So this is the name I am called by the adventurers. Hmm... a little... not pretty enough." The Spider Queen descended to the ground with her spider silk hanging down. Her manners and speech were more like those of an elegant lady.

"I'm not interested in the aesthetics of monsters, but I'm curious why you called us to the center of the maze." Jiang Zao held the [Glorious Sword] and the Void Greatsword in his hands, guarding against the opponent's sudden attack.

The Honey Spider Queen stared at him with her violet eyes, and slowly uttered a few words from her red lips: "Because I want you."

"roll!"

"Oh~ You're so heartless..." She didn't show any anger but instead covered her mouth and giggled: "But I quite like your personality. The breath of life is so strong, it will taste delicious when I eat it."

"Dark Eclipse Thunder!"

Jiang Zao didn't want to be teased by this monster, so he used an ancient magic to test her strength. No matter how attractive her human body was, he could sense the strange life breath between the spider body and the human body.

Most of the human body of the Honey Spider Queen was shattered by the black lightning, but she still had a calm smile: "You can't hurt me like this, why don't you just surrender?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her human body returned to its original state, and the seductive aura she exuded was even stronger than before.

As expected...the upper body is similar to the bait of the anglerfish and is not an important part at all.

Jiang Zao ignored her endless chatter and turned to the girls and said, "Get ready for battle. The spider body is the main part, don't worry about the human body on top."

"Yes!" X4

"Refraction causes blindness!"

“Protection of Light!”

The dazzling light was confined by Jiang Zao to the area in front of him, catching the Honey Spider Queen off guard. She raised her tail and sprayed out several web-like spider silks forward while wailing. If the people in the Food Hall did not leave their original positions in time, they would definitely be caught in the spider web.

"Dark Eclipse Thunder!"

"Prismatic gun!"

The two completely different attacks of light and darkness collided with each other, but there was no explosion. The [Dark Eclipse Thunder] turned into a solid black prison. Pitch-black lightning formed iron bars to lock the Honey Spider Queen inside. The [Prismatic Lance] became the lightning in the prison, continuously striking her.

This is the uniqueness of ancient magic. Magic is no longer fixed in form, but can be transformed into what the user needs based on his thoughts.

Kaede took the opportunity to consume half of the magic power in her body and released [Green Explosion], accurately hitting the eyes on the body of the Honey Spider Queen.

“Ahhhh!! You damn ants!!!”

Chapter 291: Sage Time Anti-Charm

The originally plump and attractive snow-white body became tattered again under the bombardment of magic. The Honey Spider Queen had no intention to repair the bait. Although she did not rely on her sight to sense the figure of her prey, the injury to her eyes made her very angry. Her thick spider legs easily smashed the cage formed by [Dark Erosion Thunder].