Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

The identification name of the half-human, half-plant monster is called "Alchemy Coupling Monster·Xierci". It is a sixth-order monster with a maximum level of 270, which is exactly the same combat professional level as the Dove-winged Man·Tetodaf.

Jiang Ran, who already had a certain understanding of the combat power of the Prison Star World, immediately understood why Tetodaf chose to escape so decisively after seeing the identification information.

Unlike Jiang Ran who always challenges monsters of the same level or even fights monsters of higher levels, most people in the Prison Star world will not fight monsters of the same level, let alone challenge monsters of higher levels.

This is also the reason why Jiang Ran's growth rate can surpass most of the natives of Prison Star.

Now looking at the half-human, half-plant monster wreaking havoc in the cave, Jiang Ran was indeed complaining in his heart about the guy's strength, but it was just a complaint.

Jiang Ran did have a way to defeat this monster, but considering that there were still many things to do, he felt that the best option was to resolve the battle with the lowest magic cost.

(Or... there's a way to avoid fighting...)

Looking at the vines flying around in the cave, Jiang Ran suddenly had an idea.

He relied on his advantage in speed and ran around the cave. The vines of the half-human, half-plant monster immediately kept up with the changes in Jiang Ran's movements. Some were chasing him closely, while others blocked his way in advance. Several times they almost tied Jiang Ran up. Fortunately, he used the Yama Knight Sword Lanzel to cut off the vines in time.

Then, after running for a short while, Jiang Ran used the all-around vision of his super-dimensional divine eye to confirm the situation around him in 360 degrees. Feeling that the time was ripe, he jumped to a pre-selected "position" without hesitation and waited motionlessly for the vines to rush towards him...

(three……)

(two……)

(one……!)

It happened so quickly that Jiang Ran used the "Shadow Escape Step" and "Double Shadow Escape Step" in succession in an instant, escaping from the encirclement of the vines in one breath. The vines that had no way to brake all crashed into the rock wall where Jiang Ran was just now, making a deafening roar!

The violent impact caused the entire interior of the cave to vibrate, and within seconds, the spot that was hit by the heavy blow cracked, and several huge rocks fell from it, exposing a passage leading to the outside world.

The real purpose of Jiang Ran's running in circles just now was exactly this. The plan he planned was to use the power of the half-human, half-plant monster to open a path for himself - a path that only Jiang Ran could get out of, and the monster itself could not get out of.

The current development of events has proved that Jiang Ran's idea was correct. This cave formed by the collapse is indeed not as solid as it looks. Next, Jiang Ran just needs to escape from the passage and he won't have to worry about this half-human, half-plant monster anymore.

Jiang Ran held his breath and concentrated, seizing the opportunity to break through the blockade of countless vines in one fell swoop, and ran straight to the passage that could collapse at any time.

However, just as he jumped over the half-human, half-plant monster, he accidentally dropped two bottles of high-level purification potions from his body, which hit the half-human, half-plant monster on the head.

Two bottles of advanced purification potion were not a big loss for Jiang Ran. What made Jiang Ran change his mind about retreating was the effect of the advanced purification potion on the half-human, half-plant monster.

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During the battle just now, the half-human, half-plant monster woman's head had been making shrill crying sounds. Jiang Ran understood this as a way of attacking to cause fear to the prey.

After the high-level purification potion was poured on the woman's head, the half-human, half-plant monster first let out a miserable wail, then collapsed on the spot, motionless.

The vines in the entire cave stopped moving at the same time, which forced Jiang Ran to use his all-round vision to confirm the situation of the monster. He was surprised to find that the originally crazy woman's head now had some human look to it, as if a sad mother was sobbing softly.

"Save me...someone...save me...is there any kindhearted person who can...kill me...?"

Intermittent sounds mixed with sobs reached Jiang Ran's ears.

This contradictory statement, which both wanted others to save her and kill her, solved the doubts that Jiang Ran had been unable to solve since she entered the cave.

(I see, that’s how it is.)

Jiang Ran suddenly turned around and changed direction, jumping directly from the wall on the side of the cave to the front of the half-human, half-plant monster, then put the Yama Knight Sword Lanzel back into the scabbard.

The silly loli wanted to say something at this time, but when she felt Jiang Ran's serious attitude, she could not help but shut up and continued to be her audience quietly.

Jiang Ran was unarmed, staring at the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Xierci" and approaching her step by step from the front with steady steps.

However, the half-human, half-plant monster that seemed to have regained its sanity did not maintain its sanity for too long. It soon became crazy again and controlled those vines that were as hard as metal to launch a fierce attack on Jiang Ran again.

This time, Jiang Ran no longer dodged. Instead, he summoned a black shadow clone at his side, and then asked the black shadow clone to carry the beast horn giant sword, using the hard sword body of the beast horn giant sword as a shield to block the attack for him.

In addition, he also summoned a second shadow clone, letting this shadow clone hold the Yama Knight Sword Lanzel, and simply slash without activating the blue flame to help the other shadow clone cut off the vines that were too late to block.

However, even with the protection of these two black shadow clones, more and more vines still penetrated the tacit defense and headed straight for Jiang Ran.

When he was about to lose his ability to dodge, Jiang Ran used his fourth-level skill "Shadow Prison Space" without hesitation, and in one breath, he blasted all the vines within a ten-meter diameter around him into ashes.

At this point, the distance between Jiang Ran and the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Xierci" has entered his final shooting range. With the activation of the "Shadow Escape Step" skill again, Jiang Ran came in front of the half-human, half-plant monster in one fell swoop. At this time, he already held the Shenwu·True·Soul Blade·Soul Severance in his hand.

(Shinwu·True·Soul Blade·Soul Severing - Soul Slashing Mode)

As Jiang Ran activated the skill, the blade, which was invisible to the naked eye, entered an endurance attack mode that ignored physical defense. Then, he activated the next skill without hesitation, unleashing the full power of this magical weapon in one breath.

(Shenwu·True·Soul Blade·Soul Break——True·Soul Flash)

In a flash, thirteen "soul clones" appeared around Jiang Ran at the same time, and then all disappeared in a moment.

The reason they disappeared was not because Jiang Ran lacked magic power, but because only a tiny bit of time was enough to kill the "monster" in front of him.

9.249 - A Story

Faced with an attack that it could not defend against, the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Silci" was unable to offer any resistance, and was subsequently killed by the special effect of the divine weapon "True·Soul Blade·Soul Severance".

To be more precise, until it was killed, this half-human, half-plant monster had not yet figured out what had happened to it.

The last thing it saw was a dozen or so ghostly figures flashing before its eyes, and then, without feeling any pain, its body inexplicably collapsed.

At the moment of death, the head of the woman growing on the body of the half-human, half-plant monster stopped crying miserably, and an incredible sad smile bloomed on her face, and then she closed her eyes forever.

"Rest in peace, suffering soul."

Jiang Ran put away his magic weapon, stared at the "monster" that had returned to eternal peace for a while, then turned and left the collapsed cave.

Whether it was his extremely wasteful fighting style of magic power or his wasteful behavior of not even digging for magic stones, it all ran counter to his original idea.

The stupid loli watched Jiang Ran's every move and wanted to speak several times but held back.

Although this silly loli is usually a bit silly and heartless, she is still very sensible when it comes to being serious.

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In the eyes of Silly Loli, what just happened was more of a redemption than a battle.

The mystery that had been in Jiang Ran's mind since he entered the cave was finally solved just now.

Less than an hour ago, Jiang Ran followed the trail left by the Dove-Winged Man Tetodaf and arrived at the entrance of the cave.

Jiang Ran knew very well that Tetodav must have set a trap in the cave, but in order to get rid of this guy as soon as possible, he still chose to follow him into the cave and give it a try.

Relying on his identification ability, Jiang Ran avoided the dangerous route inhabited by half-human, half-plant monsters, and then discovered a hidden path near the fork in the cave and found Tetodaf's hiding place.

When things developed to this point, Jiang Ran had already seen through Tetodaf's conspiracy. He knew that the other party had deliberately lured him into the cave so that the half-human, half-plant monster could get rid of him.

So, Jiang Ran took advantage of the situation and used the structure inside the cave to "send" Tetodaf to the half-human, half-plant monster.

However, Tetodaf is the chief master of Zhaoye Liuque after all, and he will not fall into the trap he dug so easily.

Relying on the weapon with a strange effect, the "Phantom Sound Rapier", Tetodaf finally escaped and even nearly buried Jiang Ran in the collapse inside the mountain.

Due to the distance during the battle, Jiang Ran was unable to identify the specific information of the "Phantom Sound Rapier", but judging from what happened during the entire battle, Jiang Ran speculated that it was those "visible musical notes" that played a role in creating the illusion.

Fortunately, Tetodav seemed to have little confidence in his own strength and simply took advantage of the gap in the illusion to escape instead of launching an attack in return.

If Tetodaf was determined to fight to the death, Jiang Ran felt that he would still be able to kill one or two of his shadow clones - but that was all.

So, in terms of the result, Jiang Ran still agreed with Tetodav's wit. If this guy hadn't run away, he would probably have died at his hands now.

However, even if Tetodav escaped, Jiang Ran did not feel frustrated at all. Instead, he thought it was quite good - because only by keeping Tetodav alive would Jiang Ran have the opportunity to win over the cat-man girl, Shiiki Ruri, to his side.

The "important intelligence" that Jiang Ran discovered in the secret base of Tetodaf this time will soon become his next secret weapon.

The topic has gone off track, let’s get back to the story of the half-human, half-plant monster, the “Alchemy Coupled Monster, Silci”.

Jiang Ran also discovered the same clues that Tetodav found, and used his identification ability to see more detailed information.

He saw clearly that the "Alchemy Coupled Monster Silci" was not a native monster, but an artificially created "Alchemy Monster".

An unscrupulous unknown magician constructed a magic circle that could fuse humans and monsters, and then fused the girl Silci with the pitcher plant monster, eventually creating the half-human, half-plant coupled monster in the cave.

To this day, the magician from that time has disappeared. He was either killed by the crazy monster Silci after the fusion and refining was completed, or he escaped to another place, leaving only the "Refined Coupling Monster Silci" with an extremely long lifespan still suffering in this cave.

As for the "purple crystal ball" and the "weathered bones", they involve another person - a magic equipment craftsman identified as "Fabio".

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Through his identification ability, Jiang Ran found out that the skeleton was a magic equipment craftsman named Fabio, and also the husband of the girl Xierci.

Although there were no clues or evidence to support his inference, Jiang Ran was still willing to believe in the possibility he had imagined.

Jiang Ran believes that the reason why the corpse of the magic equipment craftsman Fabio and his crystal ball appeared here is because this man had been protecting his wife until the last moment of his life.

Fabio did not have the ability to turn his wife from a monster back into a human, but he did not want to kill his wife just like that, so he set up a mechanism in the cave, lured his wife who had turned into a monster in, trapped her inside and prevented her from getting out.

Doing so can prevent the wife from harming innocent people and also protect her from being attacked by combat professionals.

However, trapping his wife in a dark cave like this was obviously very painful, so Fabio chose to spend the rest of his life with his wife.

The night cries of the "Alchemy Coupling Monster·Silci" turned this mountain range into the Night Crying Mountains. As for why no one has ever died here, it must be all thanks to Fabio.

However, after Fabio's death, the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Silci" became the killing tool of the Dove-Winged Man·Tetodaf. Then why is it that according to the rumors in the world, no one has died in the Night Crying Mountains?

Jiang Ran felt that there might be two reasons.

On the one hand, Tetodav is the headmaster of the Teruya Ryuque, and he can fully utilize the advantages of the intelligence organization to manipulate public opinion;

On the other hand, the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Silci" seems to have a special skill that can absorb the person it devours and then create a similar puppet.

Just now, when Jiang Ran was fighting with the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Xierci", he stole this skill through the shadow stealing technique. Unfortunately, he himself does not have the devouring ability, so there is no way to verify it.

Regardless, with the death of the "Alchemy Coupled Monster, Silci," the terrifying rumors of the Night Crying Mountains will surely be forgotten by the world in a few years.

Jiang Ran was not angry at Tetodav's actions, but he would not let go of this enemy who had killed him in the future of death.

9.250 - The Mystery of Strength

On the way out of the Night Crying Mountains, Jiang Ran said nothing, and the silly loli was also unusually quiet.

This heavy atmosphere stems from the tragic "Alchemy Coupled Monster - Silci". Regardless of whether she is human or monster, such a tragic fate will make people sigh no matter what race the life is.

Perhaps influenced by this emotion, Jiang Ran rarely paid attention to the increase in experience points after defeating the sixth-level monster this time, and even deliberately used a magic-wasting fighting method to leave a complete corpse of the "Alchemy Coupled Monster·Xierci".

Although Jiang Ran didn't specifically mention these details, the silly loli still noticed them.

Silly Loli admires but is also a little worried about Jiang Ran's cold appearance but gentle heart.

She was worried that this young man, whose heart was not cold, might suffer a great loss one day in the future - whether inside or outside the Prison Star World, there would never be a shortage of heartless lunatics.

——(By then, if something like this really happens, I will help you...Jiang Ran.)

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The perspective switches back to Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran, who was busy thinking, did not notice that the silly loli was unusually quiet. His mind was now completely on "Dove-winged Man Tetodaf".

Because Jiang Ran spent too much time on the "Refining Coupled Monster·Xierci", when he came out of the cave, Tetodaf had already disappeared.

However, Jiang Ran did not think that Tetodav would just run away, because according to his judgment, Tetodav's series of actions and strategies had a "certain purpose".

Specifically, Jiang Ran believed that Tetodaf deliberately lured him to the cave in the Night Crying Mountains with the intention of killing him with the help of the "Refined Coupled Monster·Silci".

After this goal is achieved, Tetodav will show up to confirm the identities of these adders.

Therefore, if Jiang Ran's judgment is correct, Tetodav has finally carried out the plan to this point, and he will definitely not run away easily... Tetodav is more likely to hide outside the cave and wait until the battle is over before obtaining the information he wants.

Based on this judgment, Jiang Ran still used the skill "Shadow Master" when leaving the cave, using a bat as a "mount" to move.

However, just when he finally found Tetodaf's trace, he saw Tetodaf flying into the sky and flying to the distant horizon in the blink of an eye.

(Stupid Loli: Uh, you're not going to chase me, Jiang Yan?)

(Jiang Ran: No more chasing, I have other plans.)

Jiang Ran's usual riddle-like answer immediately aroused the silly loli's curiosity, but this time the silly loli finally grew a brain and did not continue to ask questions. She knew that this dead tsundere would not answer anyway.

Now the silly loli feels that it is a good enjoyment to think while watching Jiang Ran's actions. It is a good opportunity to see if her own ideas can keep up with Jiang Ran's strategy.

Moreover, even if he was wrong, as long as he didn't "say" it out loud to Jiang Ran, he wouldn't mock him. It was simply the perfect solution.

——(Hehe, maybe I deliberately didn't ask, and it made Jiang Ran feel itchy... As long as I don't ask, no matter how brilliant your idea is, you won't have anywhere to brag about it, hahahaha~!)

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The silly loli is very proud, but actually she is just having fun.

Jiang Ran had no time to think about bragging about himself at this moment, and pride and complacency had never been his style.

There were two main reasons why Jiang Ran decisively gave up chasing Tetodav.

The first reason was that he had very little magic power left, and if he continued to be in danger like this, there would be unpredictable risks;