"No way!" Lin Rui said calmly.
Lusen looked at Lin Rui with deep emotion and said excitedly, "Lord, do you have such confidence in me? Do you believe I am the gifted man in the territory?"
"No! It's just that before you die, I'll give you a shot."
"Haha!"
"Haha! Give him a shot and replenish his kidneys." All the knights laughed.
But Lusen's indifferent eyes lit up, damage +10%, speed +10%, endurance +10%.
!!!
"Lord, please give me a shot in my kidney!"
The other knights looked at Lusen with surprise. Did this guy lose his mind?
Lin Rui also glanced at him, surprised. Usually, they avoided shots like the plague, wailing like ghosts. What nerve was touched now that he wanted a shot voluntarily?
"When the Roaring Beast Swarm arrives, you'll bear the brunt. Today you can get shot to your heart's content."
As they spoke, a large beast swarm was already thundering over from afar. These beasts had heads like sheep but bodies like wild boars, with eyes full of savagery and cruelty.
Lusen spoke with a bitter smile, "It's over! It's the Horned Beast Swarm, and there must be Stone-Horned Beasts among them."
Sure enough, shortly after Lusen's words fell, a large figure appeared weaving among the giant trees in the beast swarm, over ten meters tall, entirely muscle with a head of pure bone, a bloody mouth full of fangs, crushing mountains and trees along its path.
[Stone-Horned Beast · Excellence Level Wild Monster]
[Level: Tier One Level 10]
[Physique: 40]
[Intelligence: 10]
[Charm: 1]
[Will: 25]
[Soul: 3]
[Commander: 0]
[Fortune: 0]
[Life Value: 1500]
[Spiritual Energy: 100]
[Trait: Tough Body: A tenacious and powerful body, giving it extraordinary defense and life, life value +300, defense +20, physique increases life value by +50%]
[Huge Form: The Stone-Horned Beast's over ten-meter tall physique hides its vital parts under flesh, offering stronger resistance to human swords, life value +300, damage fixed -20, 10% chance to knock back the opponent on attack]
[Wild Roar: The forest's harshness forces all species to kill enemies for a chance to survive. The beast swarm's strength also means more chances to live. Roaring Beast Swarm exceeding 100, attack power +10%, Roaring Beast Swarm exceeding 200, life value +20%]
[Skill: Barbaric Charge lv3: The Stone-Horned Beast charges ferociously at opponents, boosted by its own magic power, speed +50%, damage +50%, causing 1 second of dizziness when hitting the target.]
There are three such Stone-Horned Beasts in the beast swarm!
Other horned beasts, though level 8 wild monsters, are also troublesome for the knights with life value +20% and attack power +10%.
Careless! The Beastman Warband was pushed to the edges because they are the weakest, with no Excellence Level powerhouse in the tribe.
As one ventures deeper into the forest, the monster's strength starts to increase exponentially.
Lin Rui could no longer stay at the back and organize. He grabbed his magic staff and charged at the beast swarm with the knights.
"40 physique, can't escape. Quickly clear the ordinary beast swarm, prepare to hold off the Stone-Horned Beasts."
Rushing into the beast swarm, Lin Rui experienced the joy of melee combat.
He kicked out, and the horned beast's huge body seemed to be paused, then flew through the air and crashed into a sturdy trunk.
He fully exerted himself while quickly bestowing all knights with fresh statuses.
The knights had a second layer of shield support, with a 30% chance every 8 seconds to gain a spiritual shield that absorbs 100 points of damage.
Lin Rui's partner, the Goddess of Fortune, also stopped her tantrums. The knights' shields shimmered brilliantly, illuminating the battlefield.
Despite the odds saying shield activation happens only 30% of the time every 8 seconds, Lin Rui's luck was off the charts, almost constantly keeping three out of five knights in shield eruption mode.
But this wasn't just due to Lin Rui's exceptional luck; the knights were tough under the 30% physical resistance, tough enough that with a defensive value of 100 points, ordinary horned beast damage couldn't quickly break the shield, allowing it to last for 5 seconds.
The accumulation of time boosted the shield shelter probability to over 60%.
The three Stone-Horned Beasts, seeing their kin being efficiently slaughtered by the knights, roared furiously and, disregarding potential collateral damage, charged forward, with three or four horned beasts crushed underfoot.
"Lusen, engage the one on the left! Roger, the one on the right! Lance, Lotte, stop attacking, head to Lusen's nine o'clock direction."
All knights obeyed orders without hesitation, swiftly finding their positions.
Lin Rui stamped down a horned beast and confronted the central giant Stone-Horned Beast.
[-23 (white)]
[-122 (white)]
Two white numbers appeared, the last 23 defense points of the Snow Ice Soul were instantly cleared, and the Immortal Brooch's 200 spiritual shield was deducted by 122 points, leaving 78 points.
Yet Lin Rui was not caught off balance in mid-air, using force on a tree behind with his right foot, with chips flying, Lin Rui leaped to Lusen's side.
[-1]
[+72]
Lusen's lost life value from the Stone-Horned Beast's hit was immediately restored significantly. Poor Lusen, during the crucial moment of engagement, didn't trigger the spiritual shield, otherwise, he wouldn't have needed that shot.
"Everyone, focus all efforts on the leftmost one, Lusen, distract the monsters, intercept the other two Stone-Horned Beasts, stop them. Roger, lure the rightmost Stone-Horned Beast toward the middle one, try to crash them together."
The monster lured by Roger crashed into another, their massive forms clashing like two small mountains, the ground shook.
Although their physique was strong, they still stumbled, staggering several steps, that several steps being over ten meters.
A large number of sturdy giant trees on the battlefield were knocked over, ordinary horned beasts' battered bodies scattered everywhere, blood, bones, and shredded flesh littered the ground.