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Chapter 87 The Uninvited Guest (Seeking First Subscription)

"It's a petrified lizard! Weaken!" Richard quickly cast a Weaken spell and shouted to alert his teammates.

A cloud of gray mist enveloped the petrified lizard's head and instantly disappeared into it. Just as the petrified lizard was about to launch a follow-up attack, it felt a sudden weakness in its limbs.

Richard's sword-and-shield skeleton rushed up to the petrified lizard and swung its iron sword down hard.

"Slow spell!" Richard cast another spell.

Mastering the level of slow spells allows for such rapid execution!

Suddenly, the petrified lizard felt powerless again, as if it were stuck in a quagmire.

The attacks from the sword-and-shield skeleton made the petrified lizard very uncomfortable, forcing it to put down the "fresh and juicy food" it was carrying in its mouth.

Courtney escaped this ordeal and struggled to crawl toward Ram.

Although Ram is weak, he is really good to her!

The petrified lizard's drastically reduced speed gave the rest of the team time to react. Andrea also got up from a distance and rushed over, but she was clearly staggering and seriously injured.

Ophelia, on the other hand, threw a dark red seed under the petrified lizard's belly.

At the same time, her crossbow bolt struck the petrified lizard's head, making two "clanging" sounds, but only barely scratching the skin!

Suddenly, the petrified lizard felt something rapidly rising beneath its body, but before it could perceive what it was, it was struck heavily on the head by a slash from Andrea's knight's longsword.

Blood spurted out immediately, and a deep wound was opened on the petrified lizard's forehead.

It seems that the knight's longsword in Andrea's hand is no ordinary item either. Well, he is the duke's illegitimate son, so he is never short of equipment.

But this deeply enraged the petrified lizard, and instantly, a petrifying ray was about to shoot out from its eyes!

In the blink of an eye, Andrea felt a pang of fear and instinctively raised her shield to block in front of her.

Instantly, the petrification ray struck the steel shield!

The material on the surface of the steel shield began to change abruptly, and a dark shadow rapidly spread out.

"Drop the shield!" Ophelia shouted.

Upon hearing Ophelia's warning, Andrea immediately recalled that the petrified lizard not only possessed the physical strength of a Grand Knight, but also had the innate magical ability of petrifying eyes.

The next second, Andrea immediately threw the shield away. "Thump!" The shield, which fell to the ground, had been petrified, turning from steel into stone!

Seeing such power, Andrea looked frightened and immediately dared not go forward.

Although he was brave, he wasn't brainless. Even though he was a mid-level knight, he was still made of flesh and blood. To use his flesh and blood to resist witchcraft was foolish!

Just as the petrified lizard was about to rush towards Andrea and get rid of the troublesome tin can, it suddenly found itself unable to move. It turned out that it was tightly bound by a black vine.

Richard saw that Ophelia's Bloodthirsty Vine had already imprisoned the petrified lizard, so he immediately ordered the skeleton soldiers to lure the petrified lizard from the front. After two fierce slashes with their swords, the sword-and-shield skeleton soldiers attracted the petrified lizard's attention.

Andrea was responsible for flanking maneuvers.

The Bloodthirsty Vine grew longer and thicker, tightening its grip. The sharp thorns on the vine slowly pierced the petrified lizard's hard, thick skin, drawing out its energy-rich blood.

This was the first time Richard had used the Bone Summoning Staff's Piercing Shadow Curse.

The next second, a thick black fog suddenly appeared above the petrified lizard's head and instantly merged into the petrified lizard's body below.

Immediately afterwards, Richard began to unleash his trump card, Shadow Grip!

After being cursed by the chilling shadow, the petrified lizard instinctively sensed something was wrong, as if some aspect of its body's defenses had been suddenly removed.

Suddenly, Richard's Shadow Grip, a huge dark elemental hand with a diameter of more than two meters, transformed from a palm into a fist and struck at lightning speed.

The petrified lizard was in grave danger and barely managed to avoid a fatal blow to its head, but it was struck hard on the side of its body, causing a mass of flesh and blood to burst out.

With the prior application of the Piercing Shadow Curse, the petrified lizard's defense against dark elemental damage was reduced to almost zero, so Richard's attack caused excessive damage.

Without the Piercing Shadow Curse, Richard's attack wouldn't have caused such great damage.

However, this attack also shattered some of the bloodthirsty vines that were wrapped around the petrified lizard.

A terrifying scream was heard from the petrified lizard as a large hole was blasted into one side of its abdomen, almost exposing the bone and its internal organs.

However, thanks to its strong vitality, this was not enough to kill it immediately.

The petrified lizard knew that it had to fight for its life; if it didn't escape now, it wouldn't be able to escape!

Fortunately, there was an underground river just a few dozen meters away. If I jumped into the river, I could escape this disaster.

The petrified lizard's body suddenly began to grow larger and redder, its blood flow accelerated, and its muscle fibers expanded rapidly. The bloodthirsty vines that had been tightly binding it could no longer hold on and burst open one by one!

In an instant, the petrified lizard broke free of the Bloodthirsty Vine, smashed past Richard's sword-and-shield skeleton and Andrea, and fled in panic toward the underground river!

However, after being hit by Richard's two consecutive level-zero spells, [Slow] and [Weakness], the petrified lizard's speed had been reduced to a pitiful level!

Before he could run more than a few steps, he was caught up by Andrea and the sword and shield skeleton.

The two attacked the petrified lizard's wound relentlessly, forcing the lizard to turn around and defend itself in pain.

As the petrified lizard roared, the team continued to bleed it while keeping an eye out for the trapped beast's deadly counterattack.

At this moment, Ophelia's giant beast-trapping plant, with its huge opening and closing top, also arrived beside the petrified lizard and began to swarm it.

Now, the situation has completely turned against us!

The petrified lizard's death is imminent.

Richard glanced at it, then stuffed the tube of Fire Dance Star and Silver Moon Dust he was holding back into his pocket.

Suddenly, he seemed to vaguely hear voices coming from ahead.

Richard's expression immediately changed, and he shouted, "Hurry up, kill them quickly! Someone's coming!"

"Hey, it sounds like there's a fight going on up ahead!" A girl's voice seemed to come from ahead.

As the two sides drew closer, Richard could vaguely see, through the faint light from the moss on the cave walls, that the other side also appeared to be a group of five.

No, two of them don't seem to be human!

Staggering, not like a living person, more like a walking corpse or something.

"Look, Jenna, they're killing the petrified lizards!" a short girl exclaimed excitedly.

Clearly, once the other side got closer, they also spotted Richard's team's prey.

"Wow! Really? Looks like we're in luck!" The red-haired girl next to them, named Jenna, immediately beamed with joy.

After all, killing a petrified lizard is worth 150 points, and the petrified lizard's brain and eyeballs can be exchanged for points. In particular, the eyeballs are essential items for making witchcraft items such as Petrifying Eyes and Petrifying Rays!

An eyeball alone can be exchanged for 80 points, and a brain for 20 points. So, killing a petrified lizard will earn you a total of 250 points!

But at that moment, the petrified lizard let out a mournful howl of despair, collapsed to the ground, and stopped moving!

[Is absorbable energy detected? Will it be absorbed?]

"yes!"

[Gained 5781 energy points.]

(End of this chapter)