Sneak Attack
"One person is missing." Su Luo noticed that the number of participants in the current Dungeon displayed on the System Panel had decreased.
This Trait Dungeon will display the number of survivors in real time.
"Initially there were twenty participants, and almost an hour passed before one was eliminated. And Dungeon doesn't have a clear time limit, does that mean it will just keep going indefinitely if there's no winner?"
Following Su Luo's advice, Layton also equipped himself with an offensive wand and a defensive wand, quickly switching between them while expressing his doubts.
"There should be some time limit, right? Maybe the monsters will get stronger over time, or lava will gush out from underground... You've played those pixel adventure games, haven't you?" Su Luo chimed in from the side.
Flames flew, occasionally accompanied by a few Meteorites flying out, crushing a piece of terrain. At the same time, attacks came from all directions, crashing into the blood-red barrier and being neutralized.
"That's way too much! My father was a rancher in the West, a chronic alcoholic who never cared about me, but he gave me a game console for my eighteenth birthday. Unfortunately, I never even managed to beat Super Mario..."
Su Luo glanced at Layton's prominent beer belly and bulbous nose, and smiled with a hint of teasing, "Judging from your appearance, you haven't followed in your father's footsteps, have you?"
Layton laughed and began to ramble on, "I'd say half of it. Twenty years ago, the Federal Land Management Bureau came to my house to seize my farm and ranch, wanting to turn them into a nature reserve. It caused quite a stir. In the end, my father and his group of rancher friends drove them away with their hunting rifles."
"That's definitely a lot of freedom."
"What nature reserve? It's just that local councilors and capitalists want to acquire the land for real estate and Sun development, but they can't acquire it by force, so they've been harassing us through legal channels..."
This remark provoked Layton to start talking again. Su Luo felt a little helpless, but since she had nothing better to do, she listened patiently.
"... Until a few years ago, my father passed away, and his friends also died one after another. The land was constantly being encroached upon, and I also picked up my father's bad habits, starting to drink and smoke. Fortunately, I didn't get into tobacco."
"Hey, that old guy's really lucky, he doesn't have to struggle in this damn place."
Su Luo: "Please accept my condolences."
Gai Li Darwin: "My condolences."
The superfluous "condolences" made Su Luo and Layton turn their heads simultaneously. What came into their view was a magic wand emitting a faint purplish-black light in the distance.
"Goodbye, you two." Gai Li Darwin's tone was even somewhat polite.
As soon as he finished speaking, a white-purple energy ball silently flew to Su Luo and Layton's feet.
The next moment, a dark purple "hole" suddenly opened on the spot, from which came Screech and unsettling whispers from the depths of the soul.
Countless tumor-covered tentacles burst forth from it, their shafts resembling duck legs, extending and waving at incredible speeds, indiscriminately attacking everything around them.
Gai Li Darwin stood calmly not far away, surrounded by five faint crimson clouds—his defensive Spells.
That "hole" was naturally his masterpiece:
[Trigger Spark Bullet]
[Spell a spark bomb spell upon collision]
[Dharma Power Cost: 10]
[Impact Damage: 3]
[Flesh Portal (3)]
[A one-way portal opens, and evil flesh-and-blood creatures extend their tentacles.]
[Dharma Power Cost: 250]
[Casting Delay: +4.2 seconds]
[Recharge Time: +2.1 seconds]
Layton reacted extremely quickly, instantly teleporting away with a [Teleport Bullet], only having two layers of shield rubbed off by the edge of the tentacle.
Therefore, only Su Luo remained near the "cave".
Su Luo, who lacks teleportation Spells. "..."
Faced with the swarming tentacles, Su Luo's hand speed increased dramatically, instantly drawing her defensive magic wand.
With no pre-cast animation and only a negligible post-cast animation, Su Luo almost instantly depleted all the Dharma Power in her defensive staff, stacking twenty layers of shields. Combined with the thirty-odd layers of shields that originally surrounded her, Su Luo possessed a total of over fifty layers of shields.
Each Blood Shield can withstand 40 points of damage, Su Luo currently has a large shield with a total damage resistance of over 2,000.
This wasn't the end of it. Ignoring the tentacles that Spread upwards and constantly depleting her shield, Su Luo pushed off with her feet and retreated away from the "cave" at the speed of an ordinary person under the Dungeon's restrictions.
At the same time, he quickly switched back to his attack wand and adjusted his Spell setup.
[Wand]
[Dharma Power Mana: 324]
[Casting Delay: +0.12 seconds]
[Recharge Time: +0.39 seconds]
[Dharma Power Regeneration Speed: 69]
[Capacity: 8]
[Current Spell: Auto-Targeting, Gradual Acceleration, Flame Spear]
When using this wand, Su Luo had no pre-cast animation, only a 0.01-second post-cast animation.
Gai Li Darwin was slightly puzzled when he saw the shield sphere, which was originally dark red with a blue dot in the center, suddenly light up a blazing red at one end.
"Energy pillar?"
The next instant, a highly concentrated beam of fire shot toward him. As the distance increased, the firelight dispersed slightly, Gai Li finally saw the true form of the red "energy pillar".
Those were twenty-five flaming spears flying in parallel, appearing to appear simultaneously due to the speed of the spellcasting, shooting straight at him.
Furthermore, a continuous barrage of Flame Spears followed, bombarding the area at a terrifying rate of eight shots per second!
Although Gai Li Darwin was surprised by the number of attacks, he did not panic excessively.
Since the initial speed of the Flame Spear wasn't particularly fast, he calmly moved a few steps to the side, intending to avoid the Flame Spear's intended Disordered Trajectories, while simultaneously drawing his attack wand to intercept it.
On the other side, Su Luo successfully withdrew from the tentacle attack range of the [Flesh and Flesh Portal] by frequently switching between defensive and offensive staffs.
The entire process took only three seconds. His shield was depleted by thirty-four layers, and he suffered a total of about 1,700 points of damage, meaning that the portal dealt a terrifying 566 points of damage per second.
This Spell, Sparrow Eater, is incredibly powerful, dealing massive damage per second.
Su Luo quickly switched her magic wand to fully replenish her shield, then switched back to her attack staff to continue firing at the attacker.
At this moment, the Flame Spear flying towards Gai Li, under the [Gradual Acceleration] effect, continuously increased its speed. Just before reaching him, guided by [Auto-Targeting], the Flame Spear suddenly changed direction and shot accurately at him!
Gai Li Darwin, who also lacked a movement Spell, was taken aback and could only hastily switch to his defensive staff to add another layer of shield.
Although he intercepted some of them, the remaining first wave of eighteen Flame Spears hit almost simultaneously.