Shadow Covenant

Chapter 81 "Battle on the Beach"

Shark lizard.

The magical beasts living in the mountains are generally called "land sharks" in the folk, because they look like sharks with legs, with four razor-like claws, and bite like a great white shark. The upper and lower jaws of everything.

An adult shark lizard is about five meters long, about two meters tall, and weighs more than two tons. It has the tremor sense that all underground creatures have, and can capture slight vibrations fed back with a radius of 2 meters. It lunges forward and then leaps high, jumping onto its prey and attacking with all its claws. At the same time, its huge mouth full of fangs is particularly dangerous, and the creatures bitten by it are rarely able to break free.

In the mountain area, the shark lizard basically has no natural enemies, and it is one of the monsters that adventurers are least willing to encounter.

Though it's a solitary creature, it's a paragon of chaotic creatures—uncommunicative and brutish aggression will be the worst nightmare for the lucky one who encounters it.

However, each shark lizard has a hunting territory of up to ten square kilometers. A smart guide can judge the approximate location of a shark lizard in a certain area through the traces on the hillside. Probability, after all, they love ore more than human flesh and blood.

In addition, due to elf magic, it has a keen search ability for any valuable minerals and precious metals. Generally, it will leave that area after eating all the edible minerals in the local area.

Not surprisingly, this mithril rapier became the best bait.

but.

Woody looked at the big man who was constantly drilling out of the rock wall in front of him.

If it's fishing, he'd rather be air force forever...

This is the data of the Shark Lizard Beast.

"Shark Lizard Beast (Tier [-])."

"Challenge Level 7, Creature Level 12, Shark Bite Special Attack."

"The highest attribute is 22 points, the lowest attribute is 11 points, and the total attribute value is 85-95 points."

"Special expertise: bite attack, tremor perception, pounce."

"Challenge Difficulty: B+."

……

"It's a shark lizard! Come here quickly."

Looking at the monk girl walking towards him, Woody growled and warned.

His body is also constantly retreating.

"Lu shark? Got it."

Angelina understood for a while, but immediately expressed her understanding, trotting towards Woody, she had obviously heard of this monster from the folklore circulating in the south.

It took only two or three seconds from discovery to shock to departure, but it was enough for Woody and Angelina to just retreat to the entrance of the cave.

Along with the crushed rocks and mud brought by breaking through the ground, a monster with a streamlined body and a bullet head got out half of its body from the position they were sitting just now, and the slightly raised triangular fin just occupied the space. It reached the top of the cave, and its wild eyes stared at the two humans not far away, and the pupils were tyrannical and greedy.

Woody was holding the mithril rapier in his right hand at this time, watching the shark lizard vigilantly while retreating cautiously.

He knew that staying in the cave would lead to death, and the only way to survive was on the beach, but the rain was heavier, and he wondered if she could...

His eyes flicked across the monk girl, and his fighting instinct allowed him to quickly formulate a plan for how to deal with the shark lizard.

"Go! Leave here first, it may not chase out, if you really can't support outside, you go to the sea, just to get used to the feeling the storm brings to you, try to slowly try to treat every part of your body Control of parts..."

When the shark lizard beast's forelimbs were starting to dig the soil, Woody loudly informed the monk girl next to him against the sound of rain outside the cave.

At this moment, he didn't forget to teach Angelina the key points of knowledge to train herself.

In this way, even if she inevitably becomes an ocean giant shark, she can still try to use his method to control the rein of reason, laying a solid foundation for the next training.

The moment Woody finished speaking, he exited the cave and entered the world of torrential rain.

Angelina also took a deep breath and exited with Woody.

When the raindrops fell on her face and hands, due to the influence of the deep sea calling curse, her complexion was not very good-looking, especially when her body touched the rainwater from the ocean again, her inner impulse became stronger.

But now is not that time, beside her...

There was already someone standing beside her, coupled with his repeated warnings, her courage was far greater than before, and she began to run in the rainstorm, her blood seemed to be burning, and her fiery heart was thumping wildly in her chest.

In her sea blue eyes, besides the gloomy sky and the torrential rain, there is also the black silhouette running in the rain. He is as majestic as a mountain and rock, standing as tall as a pine...

Woody completely ignored the turmoil in the monk girl's heart. At this moment, his eyes were locked on the entrance of the cave just now.

Although he told Angelina that the shark lizard lives in the soil, it may hate heavy rain and will not chase it out.

But the shark lizards are not like the earth monsters, they are born under the earth, they are not afraid of water, after all, the flowing blood contains the memories of their ancestors galloping in the ocean.

Known as a land shark, this ferocious magical creature doesn't mind a rain hunt if the harvest is enough to impress its stomach for digesting flesh, ore, bones, and even magic items.

"Hey, it really stopped chasing!"

In the torrential rain, Angelina suppressed the throbbing in her heart. When she found that the shark lizard beast did not choose to chase it out as Woody said, but started digging holes on the spot with its claws, she couldn't help it. Live said.

I saw that the cave was already accompanied by a series of splashes of soil and gravel. In the blink of an eye, the huge body of the shark-lizard beast just fell into the sea like a mud cow, leaving only a deep-colored mound without a trace.

Also in the rainstorm, Woody also looked at the scene in the cave, but frowned.

He is not as naive as Angelina. Adventurers who have actually dealt with shark lizards know that this magical beast has the patience of a hyena. Sometimes you think it is gone, but in fact it has been following you, waiting Your oversight.

In a way, it has the same origin as the sharks cruising in the ocean.

Therefore, in less than two seconds, Angelina's reminder came through the rain.

"No! It hasn't left yet!"

The monk girl with extraordinary perception can capture the movement of the ground more accurately than Woody. The slight vibration from the ground can make her keenly aware that the shark lizard has not gone away, but is in the stratum under her feet. China is watching.

"It's here!"

Without Angelina's reminder, Woody also felt the vibration of the ground, as well as a gray line of earth and rocks flying up suddenly under the deep-colored mound in the distance, like a white wave breaking on the blue sea.

Woody knew that it was the movement caused by the shark lizard beast's fins breaking through the surface sand. This is also its favorite surface hunting posture for hunting ground animals, because it can jump out of the ground effortlessly, relying on super With strong jumping ability, it can easily pounce on enemies five to ten meters away, and its agility is greatly improved.

"Follow my steps! Come!"

Woody said in a condensed voice, separation in the rainstorm will only cause the two of them to be defeated one by one by the shark lizard, and forming a team is the most correct choice, not to mention that Angelina is also a monk with extraordinary perception, who can help him judge in advance Go to the position where the shark lizard beast attacks.

While putting on the gloves, Woody put on the winter wolf mask from the dimensional ring. Feeling the abundant power in his body, he quickly looked around.

The torrential rain and the dark sky made the environment very bad, but he still ran to a rocky beach based on his memory. There are many such rocky beaches by the sea, and there are many huge rocks. Strength is much harder than in the sand.

If the former is water, then the latter is like mud to it.

Angelina also staggered and followed behind him. She lost her balance with one hand and was far inferior to Woody. She was waiting to climb the steps of the pile of rocks. If she was not careful, she would fall down the one-meter-high steps. Fortunately, Woody With quick eyesight and quick hands, Di pulled Angelina back.

With a strength of 16 points blessed by magical objects, Woody can easily lift a monk girl who weighs less than a hundred catties with one hand.

At this time, the gray line, which the rainstorm couldn't stop, seized this opportunity by breaking through the waves.

Accompanied by a muffled sound slightly higher than the sound of rain, Woody's body tensed immediately, and he saw a sandy beach six or seven meters away from where he was, where the gray line stopped, and then accompanied by a strong There was a shock, and a lump of soil suddenly rose up on the ground, and then the shark lizard beast's huge, biting mouth was accompanied by flying gravel and soil, and rushed towards Woody and Angelina.

Facing the sudden attack, Woody's horrifying jaws were more than [-] degrees, and his body's fighting instinct directly made the seal on his left hand light up.

——"Shadow shelter."

His figure seemed to be blown away by the wind and rain in the shadows.

At the same time, he swung the monk girl who was about to be pulled onto the steps, and threw her, weighing less than ninety catties, onto the sand pile on the right hand side, just enough for her to avoid the attack of the shark-lizard beast. lap.

"go!"

The mithril sword in Woody's right hand shone brightly in the rainstorm, and he shouted angrily, facing the onslaught of the giant mouth alone.

The monk girl fell on the soft sand, quickly supported the ground with one hand, and got up in a panic. However, relying on the monk's breath index and extraordinary perception, she had quickly locked on the weak point of the shark lizard just now, and hurriedly returned to the ground. road.

"Its dorsal fin! Attack its dorsal fin!"

In the breath index of the monk, in the rainy night, the surface of the skin is shining with the same metal cold light as the secret key long sword. Its dorsal fin position is particularly eye-catching in dim vision.

But Woody's brows were not the slightest bit happy when he heard it. Among the saints, the weakness of the shark lizard is well known to adventurers, but whether you can attack it is another matter.

He was within the attack range of the shark-lizard beast at the moment, but relying on the reaction force of throwing off Angelina, he stepped on the ground with his right foot, rolled sideways, and avoided the terrifying huge mouth.

Then, Woody saw that where he was originally, a gap had been gnawed by the giant beast. It gnawed rocks like eating cakes, with extremely terrifying bite force!
Woody didn't speak, but a long steel sword appeared in his left hand.

- "Two-Weapon Combat"

Although it was not as good as the piercing silver light's extraordinary rapier, one more attack was better than nothing.

And to deal with this kind of monster, he must use all his strength, dual weapons can allow him to respond to attacks more quickly.

All he can rely on is himself!
Generally speaking, it is easier to deal with Sharks with a ranged class in the team.

After all, whether it is sharp arrows or spells, it is easier to attack the shark lizard's dorsal fin than melee combat.It is the tenderest part of the shark lizard beast's meat, and it can cause a lot of damage to this kind of behemoth if it is attacked.

"Come on then!"

He was looking at the monster and growled in his heart.

After Woody knew that he had become the prey of the giant beast in front of him, his mentality was not affected. Instead, a kind of paranoia caused the fighting spirit in his body to boil at this moment.

This should be regarded as his first hearty battle after being exposed to the curse of corruption.

The reason why he was able to play among the saints for ten years was also because of the extreme touch of close combat, which allowed him to personally experience the refreshing feeling that he could not feedback in the interstellar battle group.

Fighting is his destiny!
And the shark lizard turned its head very displeased that this weak humanoid creature was able to escape its pounce. The cruel pupils embedded under the thick metal plate looked towards Woody, and it was dissatisfied on the one hand. Shaking his head, he spit out the broken stones in his mouth, and at the same time looked at the human beings in front of him.He directly ignored the one-armed girl on the other side.

After all, from its point of view.The human holding the extraordinary rapier in front of him was more delicious and chewy than the female who had nothing but one less hand.

After the shark-lizard beast spit out all the stones, its pair of gray pupils the size of pyroxene began to cruelly look at the human who just rolled over and stood up from the beach, as if it was more sweet to delve into that part, but it did not forget, according to the ancestors The memory inherited by the bloodline is the clarion call to start the hunt.

I saw the shark-lizard beast opening and cracking near the base of its ears, with a full [-]-degree mouth full of blood. The terrifying sound wave will suddenly turn into a strong wind, engulfing the cold rain all over the sky, and gushing towards the prey.

Woody is fearless of the wind and rain, and his eyes are fixed on the front limbs of the shark lizard. Unlike other creatures, although the shark lizard has sharp claws on all four limbs, most of the land movement relies on the pair of forelimbs.

As long as you are careful with this, you can dodge most attacks.

……

The rain became heavier, and the icy sea breeze carried heavy rainwater that did not belong to this location, washing the muddy beach. ,

The tremors on the ground came again, accompanied by the rumbling sound of breaking ground.

Woody rolled sideways nimbly again, dodging the shark lizard's pounce. This was the fifth pounce he had avoided in a hundred breaths.

The result was that the originally bundled black long hair was messy due to tumbling, sticking to the sides of the cheeks indiscriminately, and the originally clean hunting suit was full of gravel. Fortunately, the surface of the hunting suit was treated with waterproofing. Not particularly heavy.

But at this moment, he still looked extremely embarrassed.

As a price, his extraordinary rapier pierced two small holes in the thick armor of this land mad shark.

——"Swordsmanship · Thorn hit successfully!..."

——"Additional mithril feature (+3) magic damage...deals 15 points of piercing damage to the target..."

……

Compared with ordinary steel long swords, the +1 Extraordinary Rapier can still cause a certain amount of damage to the Shark Lizard Beast's body, but he only found two opportunities to attack. The attack he launched on the tail while the head was on the head, and another time stabbed it in the right foreleg.

After two times, Woody couldn't find the rhythm of the attack, because the shark lizard in front of him had already entered a state of anger due to the pain. After the collision, he stopped immediately and flicked his tail and rolled. Woody was almost scratched. Now he wants to Getting close to the shark lizard has to bear the risk of injury.

The Shark Beast even gave up on digging now, and started to rush like a big rampaging truck on the beach, and waited for Woody to leave a certain distance before choosing to march through the strata, rushing to the front to get rid of the land that he wanted to leave. The humans on this battlefield were suppressed back.

"No, we can't go on like this!"

Looking at the rampant sharks and lizards, as well as the increasingly violent rainstorm, Woody deeply understood that there was not much time left for him.

Although he is a demon hunter, he is not strong enough to compete with a shark lizard in extremely good physical condition in the cold rain of November. Whether it is blood volume, defense or attack, the giant beast in front of him is far stronger than him. He is much stronger.

Coupled with the harsh environment, although in the short term he can use his superb steps and superb agility to dodge before the shark lizard attacks, but in the long run, his physical energy will always be exhausted, and then he will fall. The moment of defeat.

As long as one second at night, the outcome of death will be settled.

But now he is fighting the shark-lizard beast, which can be described in one sentence.

It is like a dissatisfied woman who keeps asking for kisses from him, and his life quietly passes away in its passion again and again.

But...it is the victory after this kind of battle that is more memorable!
The fighting spirit in the golden snake pupils under the white-gray hair of Woody Winter Wolf's mask has not diminished sharply.

This time, facing the shark-lizard beast that pounced again without seeing any loss of physical strength, Woody found the opportunity, rolled forward, and passed the shark-lizard beast, and then moved towards its direction, all the way It is quite familiar to the pile of rocks.

His thinking was very clear. The height of the rock pile not only allowed him to easily reach the back of the shark-lizard beast, but also effectively hindered its collision posture.

And Angelina, should...

The white torrential rain covered his vision, and he could only see the outline of the rubble in the visible range. The figure of the monk girl had long disappeared. He tried to shout just now, but such a heavy rain, it is estimated that five meters away stay home.

The vibration from behind came again, and Woody knew that it wanted to speed up and pass him, thereby blocking his way, but this time, Woody's feet accelerated, and the accumulated physical strength exploded at this moment, and he would not let it rush to the ground again. in front of oneself.

With a jerk, Woody opened the distance between him and the shark lizard again.

He rushed towards the pile of rocks. This time, he climbed higher than the first time, and the roar behind him also made Woody aware that something was breaking through the ground.

"Shh!"

Turning sharply on tiptoes, Woody knew the key in the rain. He did not hesitate. Regardless of the wet ground, he used the steel long sword in his left hand and his left foot to borrow force from the rock wall beside him, forcibly reversed his forward pace and posture, volleyed With a few steps in a row, Woody's near-supernatural 19-point agility allows Woody to make many incredible moves, such as jumping three or four meters high with the help of a wall.

That's why he chose the rock pile.Because only here can he rely on the terrain to gain a high advantage and approach the back of the shark lizard beast.

From this angle, Woody can just see the big astonished eyes of the shark lizard directly below, staring up at him. The face under the mask of Woody's winter wolf in the heavy rain is extremely ferocious at the moment, holding the mithril long sword. His hands were even more bruised.

The fierce leap not only allowed him to avoid the shark's lunge, but also put his body on top of the shark's body for a short time. Taking advantage of the reaction force brought by the lunge, the shark could not move. , this is the best time for him to attack.

The Mithril rapier pierced through the heavy rainy curtain, and with the sound of the enveloping wind, it pierced fiercely into the relatively weak back of the shark-lizard beast.

With a buzzing sound, accompanied by the strong sound waves piercing through the torrential rain, before Woody wanted to push the extraordinary rapier that had pierced halfway into the shark-lizard beast's body again, an unrivaled force pushed He was dizzy from the collision, and his whole body was sent flying by a hard object, as if hit by a king-level dump truck. The steel long sword, the whole person uncontrollably flew upside down out of the rubble and rolled onto the sandy beach full of gravel and puddles.

--"Wow."

The severe pain in his chest made Woody cough up blood, and the cracking sound made Woody guess how many ribs he had broken.

However, none of this is as important as the moment.

Woody stared coldly at the shark-lizard beast about ten meters away, which was crazily hitting the rock wall. It was its reaction just now that threw Woody to the wall and was shot flying out at the same time.

This shark-lizard beast is obviously not feeling well, the Mithril rapier has been firmly pierced into its back, torturing its fragile nerves all the time, and the dark red blood is also oozing from its blue-gray skin, running along the The rainwater drained into the ocean not far from the rocky beach.

- "It's dead!"

Woody looked at the constant impact on the rock wall, trying to throw out the sword inserted into its back, and felt relieved. If this continues, it must die the fastest, but after a while, in Woody's perception, The sand trembled uncomfortably again.

"Fuck!"

It's not that I let you cause harm, if you want to blame it, blame the sword!
Without looking, Woody knew that the shark lizard found that the rapier could not be thrown out, and began to launch a suicide attack on him, the culprit. Hearing the sound of breaking ground, Woody quickly endured the pain in his chest and moved to the side. roll.

His instinct undoubtedly saved his life. Just a second after he escaped from the concave bunker he was knocked out of, the huge body of the shark-lizard beast fell from the sky with a bloody mouth, directly smashing into the human-shaped pit. There was a big pit a few meters deep.

With lingering fears in his heart, Woody propped himself up with the fallen steel long sword, and hurriedly ran towards another part of the beach, because at this time, the nature of the game had changed.

It would be an idiot if it continued to fight, as long as it persisted until its rapidly passing physical strength, a child could end its life by then.

Apparently, the Shark Lizard Beast also understood this truth. It frantically rushed towards the human being that was not as big as its own claws. The wound of the stabbing sword and the flowing blood tortured its nerves all the time.

It will tear him apart!Crushed every bone of him!Suck every drop of marrow before swallowing!

Woody also ignored that his physical strength would decline more and more after being injured, but he knew that this was a game of endurance, and whoever could not support it would face defeat, so no matter how painful it was, he had to persevere.

It's a pity that the shark lizard beast's desire to attack is beyond Woody's imagination. It accelerated and expanded the wound on its back more than once, in order to let the exhausted physical strength recover from the pain again, and once again sent out strong fierce attacks on Woody again and again. Pounce and claw.

"Nima's!"

Woody couldn't bear it anymore. He knew that looking at the red-eyed shark-lizard with the blood flowing from his back now, if he hid again, it would definitely be a lose-lose ending. He needed another shark-lizard The beast is ruthless.

Either you die or I die!

But I don't know whether it's the dark sky or the rising waves. Woody, whose eyes are also red, can vaguely see that the sea surface on the right-hand coast is more turbulent than others, as if there is a giant stirring below.

Many thoughts crossed his mind, but this time, he chose to obey his heart.

So, the seriously injured and berserk shark saw that hateful human no longer chose the easy beach, but chose the sand near the ocean.

Looking at the human being whose speed suddenly slowed down, judging from the simple IQ of the shark lizard beast that he might jump into the sea, but at this distance, it can easily intercept it in front of the sea water.

As a result, the simple hunting thinking wrapped in a tyrannical posture, the shark-lizard beast escaped into the soil again, and the silver sword exposed on the ground kept leaving strands of blood on the surrounding land, and the rainwater trickling into the ocean mixed into the sea together.

hum!
Feeling the dusty dust line coming towards him again, Woody could only rush towards the ocean with one deep kick and one shallow kick.

roll!

Roll again!
Woody evaded the pounce of the shark lizard again and again, and at the same time got closer and closer to the ocean.

His judgment was correct. Although his physical strength was constantly being consumed, at least in this muddy beach environment, the shark-lizard beast couldn't make the same running posture as on land, and could only approach itself by digging the soil.

Now, it depends on who can last longer.

Woody's peripheral vision glanced at the ocean from time to time. The sea of ​​Thousand Sails under the torrential rain was full of waves, and now he couldn't tell which wave was more violent.

do not care!
Woody was concentrating on avoiding the attacks of the shark lizards again and again. With a short coastline of a few hundred meters, Woody felt that several days or even more had passed.

Finally, Woody was in a state of embarrassment and prepared to avoid a bite under the soil layer by the exhausted shark lizard.

On the surface of the sea where the waves have never stopped, a sharp blade appeared at this moment to break through the surging waves.

A huge black shadow surged up against the returning sea water.

And the shark lizard beast saw a bloody maw bigger than its mouth, and a pair of eyes that were more cruel and tyrannical than it, and the blue-gray back was full of vertical barbs.

——"Megalodon!"

The huge monster approaching ten meters leaped directly out of the water, then closed its upper and lower jaws, and instantly penetrated the armor of the shark lizard. With a flick of its thick triangular tail, it brought the several tons of prey and its body into the ocean.

Even before the Shark Lizard Beast had time to let out a roaring scream, it disappeared into the vast sea together with the surging waves...

(End of this chapter)