Too Powerful (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Arrived...

West of Rhein Town is a plain. On the plain are caves leading to many underground mines, as well as a wide lake.

The silhouette of a Demonic Beast can already be seen.

An Ironback Giant Lizard with countless sharp scales on its back.

Because the plain has very open visibility.

It can be seen from afar.

"Prepare for battle."

Lu Cang called out to everyone. The other three were inside the Dragon Rhino carriage.

Lu Cang himself was on the back of the riding Dragon Rhino.

Dragon Rhinos are indeed powerful creatures. If it were an ordinary mount, it would likely be trembling and unable to move upon sensing the aura of a Rank 2 Lord-class Demonic Beast.

Yet, the Dragon Rhino showed no fear.

According to Kumiloni, the Dragon Rhino's hide is tough enough to withstand the attacks of a Rank 4 Demonic Beast.

When the time comes, the Dragon Rhino can also be a significant force in battle.

It's also his capital for escaping.

However, it's not needed now.

The Dragon Rhino rapidly approached the Ironback Giant Lizard.

The Adventurer's Guild's commission slips not only detailed the requirements and rewards of the commission but also provided detailed characteristics of wild Demonic Beasts to be hunted...

Therefore, even though Lu Cang was seeing this lizard for the first time, he still had a good understanding of its combat methods.

His attack range was farther than the opponent's.

Lu Cang's current maximum casting range was 500 meters in a straight line. For Wind Blast and illumination, it would be even farther, but those two spells had no destructive power.

The moment the enemy entered his attack range.

Lu Cang raised his hand directly!

BOOM!

Spikes rose from the ground, instantly piercing the giant lizard's abdomen from below!

Its back was covered in hard iron plates; blades would even be deflected if they struck its back.

However, the Ironback Giant Lizard's abdomen was extremely soft.

Because it usually crawled close to the ground, it was difficult to attack its abdomen directly.

Therefore... attacks originating from the ground, like Earth Spike, were the most effective means of attack.

The next best method was to find a way to make it flip over.

The attack of "Charge Pillar" produced a remarkable effect.

Three pillars penetrated directly into its body.

One of the pillars even went straight through its chin, piercing its head.

There was no flashy, drawn-out struggle.

He only saw the Charge Pillars break through the ground, the giant pillars erupting from the earth!

It was instantly killed with a single spell.

The three people on alert inside the carriage couldn't help but swallow.

So strong...

After taking one spell, the distant giant lizard stopped moving. However, the cautious Lu Cang still cast three more Charge Pillars.

After thoroughly confirming it was undeniably dead.

He then had Zhou Er go collect the corpse.

"If you attack the weak point, is one spell enough?"

Lu Cang muttered softly.

Up to this point, Lu Cang still didn't have much practical combat experience against Demonic Beasts.

His most significant combat experience was fighting against the monstrously strong Izpalut.

Because his opponent was always Izpalut, Lu Cang's confidence, which should have been inflated, was frequently dealt a blow.

In Guishe Forest, he didn't know what kind of BOSS he would encounter, and Lu Cang hadn't thought through the tactics yet.

As for dealing with this Ironback Giant Lizard, he had too much prior knowledge and preparation time.

Lu Cang had even devised two tactical plans in his mind, along with countermeasures for unexpected situations.

Also, escape routes.

This was how Lu Cang thought:

I'll cast "Charge Pillar" first to attack its weak point.

If it charges at me, I'll use "Heavy Wall" to block its path, "Shadow Mire" to slow and cling to it, and "Poison Vine" to trap it...

If it uses ranged attacks, my barrier will block them instantly, "Heavy Wall" will block its ranged metal shards, and then I'll use "Curse Arrow," "Ice Shuttle"...

If it mutates, or if any strange special circumstances occur, I'll just turn and run, heading into the forest first...

Who would have thought... a single "Charge Pillar" to the belly would kill it directly?

Isn't it a bit too fragile?

One benefit of having Gatherers collect the bodies is that Lu Cang doesn't have to touch them himself.

If the Demonic Beast faked its death and came back to life, Zhou Er would be the first to suffer.

It sounds a bit unrighteous, but they were hired precisely to prevent accidents.

Besides, Lu Cang also delivered the finishing blow to ensure it was completely dead.

If it still didn't die after that, it would mean it could endure...

This world requires bodies to be collected as spoils of war, and Lu Cang can't always obliterate corpses until they're nothing but dust.

Otherwise, he wouldn't make any profit.

Furthermore, there was no intelligence suggesting this common Demonic Beast had the ability to fake its death. If he were truly that unlucky, he'd have been ambushed by now...

In a month of luck and harvest, he couldn't possibly be that unlucky, right?

This was all Lu Cang's inner monologue.

If these thoughts were known to the three people around him... they'd probably think Lu Cang had gone mad.

Isn't that a bit too cautious!

Does he really need to consider even Demonic Beasts faking their deaths?

Also, doesn't he have any idea about his nearly 200-level Transcendent Magic with triple casting?

If three casts of "Charge Pillar (LV:177)" can't kill a BOSS, then what are other mages' single "Earth Spike (LV:2)" worth?

Collecting the spoils of war didn't take much time.

Thanks to the Gatherers' unique [Rapid Dismemberment] skill, Zhou Er quickly extracted the useful spoils.

An extra Earth Crystal burst out from the monster's body, and a scale from its back, a good material for crafting shields, was also produced.

This single Ironback Giant Lizard yielded a profit of 2 gold and 32 silver. The commission reward of 75 silver meant nearly 37 silver had to be given to them.

Even so, he still made a net profit of 2 gold and 70 silver.

It seemed the influence of the Harvest Moon didn't just affect the inside of dungeons.

It also affected the drop rates of wild Demonic Beasts.

The Harvest Moon... what a good month it was. It seemed hunting Lords in the wild was a better choice than going into complex dungeons.

Lu Cang calculated.

The profit from one dungeon run was roughly equivalent to killing two Lords. Indeed, killing Lords was more cost-effective, with less worry about traps, and it was easier to escape.

Dragon Rhinos usually couldn't be brought into dungeons.

But there were no such concerns in the wild.

He could even cast spells while riding the Dragon Rhino, effectively kiting and harassing the enemy.

"Let's go, next one."

After collecting the spoils, Lu Cang had no intention of lingering and immediately set off to find the next target for subjugation.

Besides Lord-level Demonic Beasts, there were also many Tier 1 Demonic Beasts on the plains.

Such as Slimes, Caterpillars, Flower-tailed Butterflies...

Killing them yielded little, and not killing them posed no threat.

Lu Cang casually cast a few spells, using them to practice his Transcendent Magic and gain some extra experience.

In fact, along the way, Lu Cang had been casually using magic quite a bit.

For example, "Ice Shuttle" was constantly spinning on the roof of the Dragon Rhino carriage.

His magic power was inexhaustible anyway.

After about ten minutes of travel, he spotted another monster with a body like a scorpion and a tail like peacock feathers.

[Plume-tailed Scorpion]

"Prepare an antidote for me."

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