Beast Control: Starting from raising silkworms and becoming the King of Insects.

Originally, due to the mutual resistance between insects, and the fact that the insect needle skill only had a weak pain enhancement skill effect, when the carapace could not be broken, the damage of this skill to the sword-footed centipede could be said to be minimal.

But when the soldier ant leader's attack method was replaced by shadow arrows, the situation was completely different.

First of all, without the resistance effect of the same attribute, the attack effect of the same energy intensity will be more than doubled.

Secondly, the ghost attribute has certain erosion and penetration capabilities. Even if the blade-footed centipede cannot be broken, the damage from the shadow arrow can gradually penetrate into its body.

Under the circumstances, this round of shadow arrows hit the sword-footed centipede and almost fell from the root of the tree.

Fortunately, Ayou stopped his attack in time after a round of attacks, so the leader of the soldier ants spit out more than a dozen shadow arrows and began to be unable to follow up.

However, the crystal ant is not a pure energy attack beast. It knows that the attack effect of the insect needle is very poor, so it simply took advantage of the knife-footed centipede's unstable body and bit its tail.

With the help of the crushing skill, the crystal ant's bite force doubled. Although it was still not enough to seriously injure the sword-footed centipede, it also made several deep cracks in its insect armor.

Then, the leader of the soldier ants pulled hard and pulled the sword-footed centipede directly from the root of the tree.

Not to be outdone, the Blade-footed Centipede immediately rolled up the leader of the soldier ants with its curled body.

Kaka…

Feeling hundreds of pairs of blades rapidly cutting into his carapace, the body surface of the leader of the soldier ants quickly glowed with an earthy yellow light. This was the stone armor technique that could significantly increase physical defense.

This low-level defensive skill usually has no special effects. It simply condenses a layer of hard rocky energy to resist attacks.

The damage method of the knife foot strangulation is continuous cutting. Under the scraping of the knife foot, the layer of khaki stone armor continued to make a cracking sound, and at a speed visible to the naked eye. become thin.

However, with the support of the "Active Crystal" skill, the crystal ants replenished the shield energy faster than it was consumed, and the two sides formed a stalemate.

It has to be said that although the skill composition of Crystal Ant is a bit weak, the combination is very reasonable.

Energy siphon can restrain energy long-range attackers, and Stone Armor can be used to deal with physical attackers. He is also a gregarious beast and is not afraid of group fights. From a certain perspective, he can be regarded as an all-around player.

After a while, when the blade-footed centipede's insect legs began to overheat and wear away, and the strength of the strangulation weakened, the leader of the soldier ants immediately seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

This time, it spit out a dark brown crystal from its mouthparts.

As the leader of the soldier ants chewed up the crystal, a large number of thorns suddenly poured out from all directions.

It can also be seen from this wave of offensive that although the energy spurt skill has a single form, if enough energy is poured into it, it can also exert the power of mid-to-high-level skills by relying on the advantage of continuous firing.

After consuming an entire earth crystal, the soldier ant leader's instant burst of ground thorns was basically no different from the high-level skill Ground Thorn Stone Forest.

With its explosive power of being able to summon hundreds of thorns at once, if it were to happen a few more times, everyone would probably be pricked into hedgehogs.

Fortunately, there were a lot of sweet sap aphids nearby, so the crystallized ant leader was a little worried when he moved his hands.

Even though it absorbed a large amount of earth energy, it still avoided the densest areas of tree roots and places where sweet sap aphids gathered when it attacked.

But even so, Russell and his team and the pet beasts faced an average of more than ten ground thorns.

Fortunately for Ayou and Daolang, they both have the ability to fly. They only need to flap their wings to increase their height, and they can perfectly avoid ground-based attacks such as ground thorns.

In comparison, the situation of the Blade-footed Centipede is much worse.

After being entangled for this period of time, although the leader of the soldier ants was not really injured, he still felt uncomfortable with the tingling and soreness all over his body.

When this wave broke out, the leader of the soldier ants intended to escape its strangulation, so nearly [-]% of the summoned thorns were pierced towards him.

With the defense of stone armor and the fact that its body was almost entirely covered by the body of a sword-footed centipede, even if it swallowed the wave of thorns and was stabbed around, it actually did not suffer any damage.

The Blade-footed Centipede is not a human shield beast with high defense. In order to maintain body flexibility, its carapace tends to be thin and light. In an instant, it was pricked by sharp thorns, leaving numerous scars.

It was not easy for Russell and the others to deal with such a large-scale attack.

With the strength of the parasitic rusty snail, it is not difficult to block low-level skills such as ground thorns.

However, there are two highlights of the ground stab skill. One is that it has an entity, which can restrict the enemy's movement when it naturally dissipates or is crushed, which can be regarded as having a certain control effect.

In addition, the ground thorn can be stabbed from any position with earth elements, and there is no frontal flight trajectory.

The coverage of the bronze shield is limited, and it cannot cover all five beast masters and two or three pet beasts.

This also means that the rusty snail holds up a bronze shield against the crystal ants as it did before, and cannot perfectly defend against ground sting attacks.

Faced with this situation, Russell immediately ordered Xiao Qi to deploy the slime shield.

jiji-!
With a crisp insect chirp, light yellow mucus spurted out, and after absorbing the energy in the Earth Mother Crystal, it quickly turned into a thick earth wall, filling the positions behind and under everyone's feet.

As for the small corners that could not be covered, the nurse spiders filled them in with spider silk.

The next moment, dozens of ground thorns rushed out and pierced the three layers of shields.

After a series of stabbing sounds, although the shield around Russell was full of cracks and looked a little shaky, it finally held up.

Moreover, amid the constant attacks from a large number of low-level skills, its adaptive shield skill proficiency increased rapidly.

If this secret realm indeed has crystal ants as the core race, then their original energy is only insect type and earth type.

If the adaptive shield can be understood, Xiao Qi can also display good combat effectiveness when faced with the siege of ordinary crystal ants.

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However, resisting this wave of ground stings does not really solve the problem. As long as the leader of the soldier ants takes a breath, new skill bombardments will follow immediately.

"Russell, you have to find the specific location of the secret lake quickly. We can't win if we waste it!"

Feeling that the sword-footed centipede's condition was getting worse and worse, and that it could no longer withstand another wave of ground stab attacks, He Qiuer hurriedly said to Russell.

Hearing her words, Russell also frowned.

After all, the leader of the soldier ants is a serious sixth-level pet beast. Even if the attack skill level is low, if the stalemate continues like this, his side will definitely be exhausted first and reveal its flaws.

"You hold on a little longer and I'll find a way to break out."

After thinking for a moment, he turned back and said to He Qiuer.During the battle just now, in addition to giving instructions to the beasts, Russell had actually been sensing the specific location of the secret amber.

Now, he was absolutely sure that the amber was in the upper left corner of the root gap behind the ant colony, behind a slightly older tree root.

At Daolang's speed, it should only take a minute or two to rush from the current position to the root of the tree, then split the root with his blade arm to get the amber.

However, between the gap in the root system and Daolang, there are still five or six ordinary crystal soldier ants waiting in full formation.

With the strength of Ayou and Daolang, not only defeating them quickly, but at least repelling or bypassing these ordinary crystal ants are completely certain.

Of course, this all depends on the premise that the leader of the soldier ants does not come back to help his younger brother.

If this guy hadn't been entangled in his footsteps and interfered at every turn like he had just done with the energy siphon to crack the Netherworld blast, Ayou and Daolang would most likely be in danger themselves, not to mention getting the secret amber.

Therefore, Russell now very much needs He Qiu'er to display a stronger combat effectiveness, at least so that the leader of the soldier ants has no time to worry about his younger brother.

"Ten minutes at most. If we still haven't found it, we have to retreat."

Hearing this, He Qiuer didn't say much, and then took out a bottle of black secret medicine from his pocket.

This was a trump card that she had used before, but due to being poisoned by the Netherworld poison, the body of the parasitic beast collapsed too quickly, so she didn't have time to use it.

Compared with the all-round blessing of the Gu insect's violent talent, the strengthening effect of the secret medicine is much weaker, and it does not improve the overall attributes.

Unless extremely rare materials are used, the secret medicine can usually only increase the increase of a certain attribute for the parasitic Gu.

However, even this simple increase, as long as it is matched properly, can often produce the effect of one plus one being greater than two.

The black secret medicine refined by He Qiuer is called "Rancid Potion".

This secret medicine, which is refined from a large amount of poisonous materials, can provide powerful poisonous damage to parasitic beasts, causing any physical damage they deal for a period of time to be poisoned.

The sword-footed centipede is a pure physical attack pet that is known for its attack frequency. One round of killing with its sword-footed centipede can add hundreds of layers of poisoning effects, which can be said to be the perfect use of the rancid potion.

There was a soft sound of the glass bottle breaking, and He Qiuer hit the secret medicine on the sword-footed centipede from a distance. Its originally black carapace suddenly turned into a very strange deep purple.

At the same time, the knife-foot strangulation skill, which originally had no special attributes, also gained high toxin killing and corrosive effects.

Under the erosion of toxins, the energy consumption rate of the soldier ant leader's body stone armor increased by almost three times, and there was a trend of increasing faster and faster.

Startled by this sudden high amount of damage, the leader of the soldier ants quickly spat out another earth-yellow crystal.

But this time it did not launch a large number of ground stab attacks after crushing the crystals. Instead, it tried its best to replenish the running consumption of the Stone Armor Technique, for fear that the rows of purple poisonous blades would really cut into its body.

"Ayou, Daolang, let's go!"

Seeing He Qiuer's wave of explosions tightly entangling the leader of the soldier ants, Russell did not dare to waste any time and immediately ordered two pet beasts to rush towards the group of ordinary crystal ants.

Although he didn't know what side effects there would be after using the secret medicine, this method of increasing his strength exponentially in a short period of time would certainly not be unlimited.

The fact is as Russell expected, the side effects of the secret medicine are indeed not as obvious as the berserk rage, which will cause the parasitic body to collapse directly, but a parasitic Gu cannot withstand the effects of the secret medicine twice in a short period of time.

If the secret amber cannot be retrieved within the 10-minute duration of the secret medicine, I am afraid they will have to flee back to the other side of the stone bridge.

Moreover, the sword-footed centipede that He Qiuer is currently using is already in very poor condition. Whether it is to re-parasitize it or to temporarily repair its body using the special methods of the Gu Insect Master Clan, it will cost a lot of money.

After spending time with the He brothers and sisters, Russell felt that their characters were indeed not bad, and most of their previous criminal records were the result of being coerced by stolen fire balls.

Even in this situation, they tried their best to avoid direct conflicts with other beast masters.

Apart from pretending to steal materials and intelligence, the two of them only had records of a few minor injuries and one serious injury to an alliance beast master.

Especially He Qiu'er, who was willing to take on the future of the Gu Insect Master clan and enter the Black Dew Secret Realm at the age of [-], which can be said to be very responsible.

Speaking of which, the Gu Insect Master is also a pure insect beast master. If he can clear his name and recruit others, the Insect Master will be able to harvest the first batch of subordinate members with combat effectiveness.

This is a necessary help for developing an area and establishing a gym.

After all, no matter how powerful the owner is, he cannot personally handle all aspects of the industry that require the use of force.

It would be quite good to have a group of Gu Insect Masters working for the Insect Control House, even if we only consider the existing business, to escort or be responsible for security.

Moreover, the Gu Insect Master family has to choose a parasitic beast anyway. A novice Gu Insect Master can also parasitize a gym pet, and it will be very good to take on the training and testing work in the future...

Therefore, Russell's attitude, which was determined to win over He Qiuer, has always been very kind.

Considering that the growth progress of Parasitism Gu needs to be consumed every time he changes the target of parasitism, he still does not want He Qiuer to damage his own strength unless necessary.

Fortunately, the attack power of the sword-footed centipede is already powerful. With the blessing of the secret medicine, even the crystallized ant leader is completely unable to interfere with Russell.

Now, all he needs to consider is breaking through the ordinary crystal ants in front of him.

Ordinary crystal ants have also mastered energy siphoning skills. With the lessons learned just now, they will definitely beware of energy blast attacks.

Although these ordinary soldier ants are not capable of sucking away [-]% of the multiple netherworld blasts in one go, they cannot withstand their large numbers.

If all ordinary crystal soldier ants use energy siphoning together, Ayou's attack will still be firmly blocked.

There is definitely nothing Ayou can do to deal with this kind of pet beast, and a bad move will have side effects.

Therefore, the main task of capturing the secret amber undoubtedly falls on Daolang.

Sa-!
"I am confident that I can defeat these giant ants!"

Feeling the hesitation in Russell's heart, Daolang sent him a message full of confidence.

"Okay, Ayou, help cover, Dao Lang, charge in with all your strength!"

Seeing that the pet beast was so enthusiastic about fighting, Russell felt that it would be rude to be cowardly.

Following its command, Daolang and Ayou flapped their wings and arrived in front of the ordinary crystal soldier ants in a blink of an eye. (End of chapter)