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Chapter 165 Shadow Creatures
Suddenly, at some point, a group of dark shadows rushed out from the darkness and attacked the caravan.

The soldiers guarding the edge of the caravan immediately rushed forward and fought with the black shadow.

Only then did Chu Cheng see clearly what the black shadow was.

Shadow Goblin (Normal): Level 22, 800 health.

But although it is called a goblin, it actually seems to have nothing to do with goblins.

It is about 1.23 meters tall, and not as thin as a normal goblin. Instead, it has swollen and twisted blue-black muscles all over its body. There are tumors on its shoulders, back, arms, etc., with twisting fleshy tentacles on them. Its arms are not like normal arms, but tentacles formed by twisted muscles.

Although these shadow goblins are ordinary templates, their health and attack power are higher than those of normal level 22 creatures.

The key is that there are a lot of them. In just a short while, Chu Cheng has seen hundreds of them within his field of vision. If those in other directions are included, the total number is estimated to be thousands.

Fortunately, the caravan had sufficient guards, with a large number of soldiers blocking the front, and many professionals could stay in the back and attack.

Fang Xi stood on the camel's back and cast a magic shield for herself. She continued to condense fireballs and throw them into the darkness. Large balls of flames exploded and tore through the darkness, but were quickly swallowed up by the darkness.

The advantage of the magic system can be seen at this time. With her spell level and the bonus of the Arcane Supreme talent, the power of the fireball is already over a thousand, and one fireball can easily kill a small area in seconds.

Occasionally, a chain lightning would explode in the group of shadow goblins, and a gust of electric snakes would shuttle through the group, turning the shadow goblins into charcoal when they touched them.

It was unclear about other directions, but in the section that Chu Cheng saw, there were seven or eight camel beasts with five mages in total. Various spells exploded, and shadow goblins fell down in groups.

"It doesn't look like a big problem."

But Chu Cheng was not careless. There should be more than just these goblins who dared to attack such a large caravan. There was a high probability that there were other monsters hiding in the darkness.

"boom!"

As soon as this thought came to mind, a heavy sound of footsteps was heard in the darkness. Everyone's mood sank. A manager of the Qiuye Chamber of Commerce who was in charge of their defense decisively took out a scroll and activated it. A beam of white light shot up into the sky and exploded. In an instant, infinite light exploded, quickly dispersing the darkness nearby.

Everyone's vision suddenly became clear, and they saw that a few hundred meters away from where they were dispersed, there was a group of shadow orcs who were taller than the goblins and were joining the battlefield.

Shadow Orc (Normal): Level 35, 1800 HP.

But this is not the point. The point is that behind the orc, a huge shadow beast with an extremely strange appearance is rushing towards him with heavy steps.

This shadowy monster has a human-shaped upper body, four legs and two huge tentacles in the lower body. Its head is a huge tumor with many deformed eyes on it. There are many tiny tentacles hanging behind its head that are wriggling, making it look extremely weird.

Shadow Behemoth (Horror): Level 52, 140 million health.

"Why does this thing look so disgusting?"

Not only is the perspective disgusting, but it also comes with mental attacks, which is too much of a counter-style.

At this time, the manager of the Akiba Chamber of Commerce who saw the situation behind shouted:
"Professionals, prepare to face a stronger attack. The shadow beast behind has a reward of 30 gold. Is there any team to take it over?"

"Our team picked it up."

Chu Cheng turned around and saw that it was a team from the same camel beast as him, and the captain was a transcendental professional.

There are five people in total, the captain is level 51 and a magician.

The other team members were all between 47, 48, and 49. The tank was at level 49, with extremely luxurious equipment and an exquisite shield in his hand. I didn't know if it was an illusion, but I always felt that the shield was glowing, with almost invisible ripples spreading out. "The professional team is ready to intercept the shadow orcs."

The caravan manager kept issuing orders and deploying troops.

A large number of professionals could not stand on the camel's back and watch the show, so they jumped down and joined the soldiers, ready to resist the stronger shadow orcs. Only ranged and magical players were allowed to stay.

Of course, this includes Chu Cheng, who spent 50 gold on travel expenses and does not need to join the battle.

Unless you are willing to join.

With the joining of many professionals, the Shadow Goblins, who were evenly matched with them, immediately began to collapse, but as the Shadow Orcs rushed over, the battle line was stabilized again.

At this time, the shadowy giant beast finally arrived. When it was about to approach the front line, the team that received the order did not stop. The captain raised his hand and pointed. A thick lightning bolt fell from the sky and hit the giant beast. It collapsed into countless tiny lightning bolts that covered the shadowy giant beast to form a lightning net, fixing it in place and unable to move.

Then he quickly took out two scrolls and activated them. The magical light fell on the giant beast, and its aura quickly dropped a little.

The tank charged forward with his shield raised, knocking two shadow orcs on the road away at an extremely fast speed, smashing heavily on the shadow beast, and quickly caught it with a series of combos.

Then several other teammates started to take action, with two ranged players and one magic player outputing crazily under the protection of another agile team.

Those who dare to leave the safe copy and mix in the dangerous foreign land are all elites, and their combat power is very strong.

Not to mention that the extraordinary magician could just raise his hand and blast down with a lightning spear, with a killing power of over ten thousand.

The other teammates have more than a thousand damage from normal attacks alone, and their archery skills can easily output four to five thousand damage.

Although it is based on two scrolls that greatly weaken the Shadow Beast's defense and resistance, its own combat power is indeed very strong.

But this does not mean that this shadow beast is too weak. Its resistance is also very strong. Several deformed pupils on its head constantly glow with dim light and shoot out rays of different colors. The melee tank was hit by several of them and quickly got several negative buffs on its body.

The huge body was raised and smashed down suddenly. A circle of shadow halo exploded more than 20 meters away. Several shadow orcs who were close to it were smashed to pieces on the spot, and the main tank suffered more than 2,000 damage on the spot.

Then the thick tentacles gathered strength, rapidly expanded several times, and slammed into the ground.

A second later, the ground within a radius of more than fifty meters exploded, and twenty or thirty shadowy gases spewed out, transforming into octopus-like tentacles that were more than ten or twenty meters high and slapped the surroundings frantically.

More than a dozen tentacles around the tank slapped down at the same time, and each tentacle could cause about a hundred damage each time.

"Change the fire!"

They seemed to be very experienced in dealing with the shadow beast. Instead of focusing their fire on the BOSS, they turned their fire to attack the intangible tentacles.

Chu Cheng wrote down their tactics. As a senior professional who often stayed in this world, it was definitely necessary to do so, and he could use them the next time he encountered them.

After several rounds of high-powered AOE and long-range bursts, the tentacles in the inner circle were quickly destroyed one by one, and the tentacles on the edge were unable to attack the central tank.

Chu Cheng quickly understood why they did this.

Less than a minute later, the shadow beast did the same thing and summoned dozens of tentacles again, but the tentacles summoned previously did not disappear.

This means that if we don't switch our fire to destroy the tentacles, they will only become more and more numerous, and the quantitative change will lead to a qualitative change, and even the strongest tanks will not be able to withstand it.

(End of this chapter)