Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

The upgraded beast horn greatsword combines the magic cores of the "Goblin Fearless Warrior" and the "Adamantine Monolith", and is recast with the hard rock of the Diamond Monolith, which has greatly improved its power and performance.

While retaining the original special effects and skills of the Beast Horn Greatsword, the new Beast Horn Greatsword has the additional skill of "Strength".

After activating the "Strength" skill, Jiang Ran can temporarily increase his strength attribute by consuming magic power, and the strength skill will also act on the beast horn giant sword itself, greatly increasing its hardness.

(Let's knock on the door of this earth together, Beast Horn Greatsword Komono Kai!)

Jiang Ran activated his strength skill, holding the giant beast horn sword with both hands above his head, and then slammed it down to the ground!

This powerful blow immediately caused the ground to roar, causing the ground around the hit point to collapse!

(That’s exactly what happened.)

Jiang Ran quickly retreated to avoid being involved.

The reason why he used the giant beast horn sword to hit the ground was because he had already noticed the abnormality of the geological structure of this generation.

Due to the existence of the vertical mine, the surrounding ground has become extremely fragile. Jiang Ran confirmed through the identification ability of the Super-Dimensional Divine Eye that there is almost no support underneath the ground.

As the ground continued to collapse, Jiang Ran could gradually see the situation in the vertical mine.

His strategy of breaking the rules and directly destroying the terrain can only be done in this real world with a high degree of freedom.

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Outside the collapsed ground, Jiang Ran was observing and waiting intently.

However, after the surface ground collapsed, nothing else happened except the scattered heat.

(Is it because I didn’t make enough noise?)

Jiang Ran gripped the beast horn giant sword tightly and activated the strength skill again.

Since one heavy blow can't solve the problem, he'll hit you again!

This time, Jiang Ran injected more magic power, thereby gaining more temporary power attributes.

Even if the beast horn giant sword is as heavy as a lead block, he can still hold the giant sword, jump high, and then smash it down heavily!

This time, the strong impact seemed to have caused a chain reaction, and the continuous collapse caused the collapsed area to expand larger and larger.

Jiang Ran relied on his agility to retreat outside the collapse range in the first time. This time, he finally saw the reason why the black shadow clone died just now.

More than a hundred meters below the surface, in a pile of rocks shrouded in smoke and dust, there was a huge, ghostly red flame burning.

The high temperature generated by this ball of red flames continuously melts the surrounding rocks and soil, allowing it to continue moving underground.

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From the outside, the red flame ghost is about three meters tall, with a human-shaped upper body and a lower body floating like a ghost, about half a meter from the ground.

The skin of the humanoid upper body of the Red Flame Ghost is composed of flowing lava and burning flames, as if it were wearing a piece of armor that was always burning.

Its lower body is composed of a ball of inverted flame. The extremely high temperature distorts the surrounding air, making it difficult to see its true shape.

Even though they were hundreds of meters away, Jiang Ran could still feel the pressure from this guy and the terrifyingly thick density of magic power.

It now seems completely reasonable that the shadow clone was killed instantly when he encountered this guy.

Jiang Ran even felt that even if there were ten or a hundred black shadow clones attacking together, they would probably still be killed instantly.

The very existence of this flaming ghost is the demonic manifestation of volcanoes, lava, and magma.

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(Purgatory Demon Hephaestus... So all this is because of you.)

Jiang Ran used his identification ability to see the identity of this seventh-level monster.

It is really difficult for him to launch a challenge with his fifth-level strength.

Now, Jiang Ran has figured out the reason why the indigenous monsters fled.

However, the most crucial "Lava Magic Stone Essence" is still nowhere to be found.

Could the ore the Dark Rabbit Queen wanted be beneath the Infernal Demon? Jiang Ran looked at the guy who had completely ignored the collapse and was still digging down recklessly, and felt that this was very likely.

Is there a way for me to get the Lava Magic Stone Essence before the Infernal Demon?

Jiang Ran touched his hair and thought...

(Or, forget it?)

10.108 - Strategy

(Stupid Loli: Eh? Are you so stupid?)

(Jiang Ran: Yes, what else?)

Jiang Ran answered the silly loli like this, but he continued to take two steps forward, getting closer to "Purgatory Flame Demon·Hephath".

(Stupid Loli: Huh? You got the wrong direction, didn’t you?)

(Jiang Ran: You're right. Staying closer will give the "Dark Shadow Clone" more time to move.)

Jiang Ran's answer left the silly loli confused. His way of acting while pretending to be righteous made the silly loli unable to figure out whether Jiang Ran wanted to run or fight.

Jiang Ran's style has always been to ignore the silly loli once he gets down to business, so the silly loli could only exit the chat room cursing.

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Getting back to the point, Jiang Ran made full use of the casting range of "Shadow Behind" this time and summoned a black shadow clone thirty meters away from him.

In this way, the shadow clone stood within a hundred meters of the Infernal Demon Hephis as soon as it was "born" - would such an aggressive and reckless intrusion attract the Infernal Demon's attention?

Judging from Jiang Ran's observations, the Infernal Demon still did not take the suddenly appearing black shadow clone seriously.

The burning infernal demon was still digging downwards with full concentration.

It seems that the only thing in its heart is the "Lava Magic Stone Essence".

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Being ignored to this extent, Jiang Ran's face can be said to be like a certain country's food safety supervision, which is completely non-existent.

However, this is actually a good thing for Jiang Ran. After all, if the Infernal Demon directly attacks him in the face, he will be in trouble.

Jiang Ran's current contradictory behavior of "wanting and not wanting" is actually easy to explain.

What he decided to "give up" was personally fighting the Infernal Demon Hephis. His new strategy was to use the shadow clone to lure the enemy away from their current position, and then he would find an opportunity to snatch the Lava Magic Stone Essence.

Can such a simple and crude plan go smoothly?

Jiang Ran himself was not sure, but in order to change his inevitable future, he had to grasp the key point of this turning point in his fate.

Even if he didn't know what the Dark Rabbit Queen was going to do with the 'Lava Magic Stone Essence', as long as he couldn't let her get it, Jiang Ran would have already won half the battle.

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(Go ahead and provoke this seventh-level monster.)

Jiang Ran's order was transmitted to the black shadow clone's brain in real time, if it had a brain.

Then, the black shadow clone rushed straight towards the Infernal Demon Hephaestus, wanting to teach him a lesson with his bare hands.

Will the Infernal Demon dodge?

Will the Infernal Demon fight back?

Just as Jiang Ran was speculating like this, the black shadow clone disappeared with a "swish".

(……ah?)

Jiang Ran had seen the black shadow clone disappear in this way many times.

Whenever the shadow clones' vitality reaches zero or their existence time ends, they will burst and disappear like soap bubbles.

However, when the black shadow clone disappeared just now, it was clearly still twenty or thirty meters away from the Infernal Demon, and the Infernal Demon did not make any attacking moves at all. Why did it disappear like this?

(It still has forty seconds left... In this situation, it can only be killed.)

(Was it because the Infernal Demon's movements were too fast that I couldn't see clearly? Or...?)

Jiang Ran fell into deep thought again.

The power of the Infernal Demon Hephis was far more unfathomable than he had expected.

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(Concentrated Mind)

(Hashrate Increase and Overload)

(Shadow Behind)

Daydreaming cannot solve problems.

Since he couldn't figure out why the first attempt failed, Jiang Ran decided to try again.

This time, Jiang Ran activated his skills to slow down the flow of time.

With his vision slowed down five times, he finally saw clearly how the shadow clone was destroyed.

Yes, the shadow clone did not disappear on its own, but was killed by the Infernal Demon.

This time Jiang Ran saw clearly that when the black shadow clone approached to about forty or fifty meters away, its body had already begun to slowly melt.

The reason for the melting is the extremely high temperature emitted from the body of the Infernal Demon, and the melting speed is about the same as ice cream left in the sun in summer.

When the distance was shortened to twenty or thirty meters, the melting speed increased significantly, and the surface of the black shadow clone began to burn.

However, all this did not last too long. In just a blink of an eye, the vitality of the black shadow clone could no longer withstand the high temperature burning, and then it shattered and disappeared.

Now, Jiang Ran finally understood why the black shadow clone disappeared "for no reason".

The power of the Purgatory Demon is surprisingly strong to this extent.

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(A passive skill… a large-scale continuous damage ability… really tricky.)

Jiang Ran crossed his arms and stared at the Infernal Demon in the distance.

The only thing he could be thankful for now was that the Infernal Demon had no time to pay attention to him.

Based on Jiang Ran's current understanding of the Infernal Demon, he estimated that once the other party dug out the essence of the Lava Demon Stone, Jiang Ran would not be able to fight it head-on for even a minute.

(We must hurry.)

Jiang Ran no longer hesitated and took action to solve all the difficult problems that required thinking.

This time he summoned three shadow clones in succession, which is the limit of the number of shadow clones he can keep existing at the same time.

The leading shadow clone held the "Corrupted Dragon Dust Bow", a new equipment upgraded from the "Fir Dragon Bow".

Master Han Bing of Yanji City added the magic cores of "Corruption-Detoxifying Rat King Ge Rui" and "Sand-Devouring Mad Scorpion" to the Fir Dragon Bow, allowing the Fir Dragon Bow, which originally only had a penetrating effect, to possess the characteristics of "corruption" and "sand and dust" at the same time.

Apart from this new equipment and a bucket of arrows, the three shadow clones had no other equipment.

Under Jiang Ran's command, the three black shadow clones deployed their formation, found a commanding height and began to attack the Infernal Demon.

At the same time, Jiang Ran hid far away and took out the "Invisibility Ball" to conceal his existence through optical illusions.

[Note: The Invisibility Ball, originally called the "Magic Optical Generator," is a device that can achieve optical invisibility. Jiang Ran previously obtained this item from the underground palace of the Demon Baron Yeku. For details, see chapter "9.144 - A Makeover."]

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As the taut bowstring was released with a "bang", the arrow with the dual properties of "corruption" and "dust" flew accurately towards the Infernal Demon.

However, just like the shadow clone that was killed instantly just now, the arrow was burned to ashes by the extremely high temperature before it could even touch the Infernal Demon.

And this was all within Jiang Ran's expectations.

After the arrow is completely burned, the enchantment on the arrow is automatically triggered.

A large amount of sand and dust contaminated with poison exploded like a smoke bomb and continued to drift towards the Infernal Demon.

In addition, subsequent arrows continued to fly, adding more poison and dust to the air around the Infernal Demon.

Suddenly, the bottom of the pit, which was originally empty, was filled with pollutants.

The extremely high temperature of the Infernal Demon cannot protect it from the erosion of these pollutants.

(By now you should have noticed someone attacking you... Hephaestus, the Infernal Demon.)