"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!"
Mullet flapped his wings forcefully, yelling at the top of his lungs as he darted through the dark underground cavern.
Jom, who was still trying to figure out why his summoning spell suddenly went wrong, was caught by his feet.
"It was fine summoning the Leaping Fish …"
Jom was swinging back and forth like a pendulum, looking as if he would be torn in half by the giant centipede-like ancient automaton soldier that was following closely behind him.
"Is this the time to worry about this?" Murlett, who was still fleeing in panic, yelled.
Although Jom knew that it was not the right time for him to be worrying about it, players would always go online and ask for the reason when a spell failed.
Fortunately, he didn't have to worry for long before Vanke, who was also surfing the web, answered.
[Vanke Norej: The Swamp Leaping Fish is a very common swamp monster. According to Tierra's official monster danger level, it's probably a low-grade monster, and is within the range that normal humans can deal with. The Swamp Monster, on the other hand, is a high-tier monster, the same level as the dangerous Swamp Fish.]
[Vanke Norej: But not many know that the Leaping Marsh Fish and the Swamp Monster are actually the same species. In fact, the Leaping Marsh Fish is a monster with high growth potential. They shed their skin once to three times a year, and every time they shed their skin, their body size and various abilities would improve significantly, before finally growing into a Swamp Monster that's even larger than a bear.]
[Vanke Norej: But that's also why the Leaping Marsh Fish's larvae are very tiny. I've seen a few that aren't even the size of a mouse, and they live off of insects, although they don't look much different from an adult … The Leaping Marsh Fish you first summoned was probably a larva.]
Although Jom was the smarter type compared to Torre, he was still a little dumbfounded when he was suddenly given a biology lesson.
Even so, he roughly understood that the [Swamp King] skill could only summon smaller monsters to fight for him.
"Plus, the ancient automaton soldiers are constructed and aren't afraid of poison at all, and [Miasma] wouldn't work on them. That means I can only rely on [Swamp] …" Jom muttered to himself.
"Watch out!" Mullet suddenly yelled.
Jom looked down and saw that the cannons on the heads of the ancient mechanical soldiers were already glowing blue!
The next moment, a lightning-like beam of light shot out from the muzzle. After twisting a few times, it brushed past the two of them and hit a large rock not far in front of them.
With a flash of light, the stone disappeared into thin air.
"Gone?!" Mulet was stunned.
"No, it's still there," Jem had a clearer view. "It's just shrunk!"
"Become smaller …"
Only now did Mullet realize that the enemy was a monster with the ability to shrink. "If we get hit, can we shrink back?"
"It's hard to say, but we might be dead before that."
Jem replied coolly.
The ancient mechanical soldiers' ability to shrink their weapons was definitely different from the gods' unreasonable divine power transformation that could ignore common sense of physics. However, certain types of magical abilities would still be restricted by physical constants.
The human body's metabolic rate was directly related to its surface area. After a human body shrinks, its metabolic rate cannot keep up with its surface area. Theoretically, it needs to eat constantly to survive, but in the end, the digestion rate cannot keep up with the speed of eating, and it will still starve to death.
The only reason Jem and Mulet could still move normally was because they were believers. Even though they worshiped different gods, they were still protected by divine power to a certain extent. They were resistant to the laws of nature, so they wouldn't die so easily.
However, if they took another shot and shrank to the size of a speck of dust, then they could only wait for death.
Jem was fine, he could still revive even if he died, but Mulet would really die. If he died, who could prove that Jem was the reinforcements sent by the wise man, and not the murderer of the wise man and Mulet?
So Jem could only be cautious, he started to order Mulet to dodge, trying his best to prevent this mission from suddenly becoming hell mode.
Fortunately, the ancient mechanical soldiers' miniaturized cannons couldn't be fired in rapid succession. For a long time after the first shot, the enemy could only use its axe legs to hack at Mulet's group who were flying in the air.
After a while, it would turn around and fire the miniaturized cannons again.
When they dodged the third shot, Jem's face was already showing a confident smile.
"I see, I think I understand now."
"Huff huff … I understand … huff huff huff … what?"
Mulet, who had to fly around to avoid the enemy's attacks, was half dead from exhaustion, he was panting heavily as he asked Jem.
"Even though this thing has a certain degree of self-judgment, it is very inflexible, its attack pattern is also fixed …" Jem answered. "In the Church, these things are known as beasts that can be crossed, no matter how destructive they are, they are not to be feared, they are simple enemies."
Just what kind of abyss is the Church in!?
Mulet couldn't help but scream in his mind.
These terrifying ancient weapons are just simple enemies?!
"Then … then what do we do?" Even so, Mullet had no more energy to spare. He could only try his best not to fly too slowly. At the same time, he hurriedly asked.
"Fly towards the direction we fell from!" Jem answered without hesitation.
"That … huff huff huff … over there!"
Mulet tried his best to change direction, he weaved through the ancient mechanical soldier's axe-like legs, then flapped his wings and flew towards the direction.
As expected, the ancient mechanical soldier immediately turned its gigantic (to Jem's group) body much faster than before, it wanted to head towards the tunnel they fell from and seal it in advance!
"As expected …" Seeing this, Jem immediately smiled. "This thing still has some lingering fear of the seal, it wants to stop us from returning to the upper level!"
"Seal? … Is it the Wise One's seal? "Mulet immediately understood what Jem meant.
"That's right, don't you think it's strange? This thing could create so many drones while it was sealed, and it even purposely created this place to attract us to go in and shrink itself … Can this really be considered a seal? "
Jem's eyes flashed. "Of course not, it must have escaped from the seal, the route it took to escape is the tunnel we fell from! Once it realizes that we want to return to the upper level, it will definitely try to stop us! And at that time, our chance will come! "
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