Chapter 405 - 377: Killing the Swarm Leader

Now, Little Fei dragged a few hundred elite beetles across the riverbank and converged on Da Fei’s location. The sight immediately startled the flower demons watching by the riverbank, causing them to retreat in unison and vanish without a trace.

Hey, hey, hey, why are you all running away? I was counting on you to lend a hand! Well, no choice then, I’ll just take them on myself and show you how it’s done. Get ready to shower me with admiration!

As they got closer, Da Fei and Little Fei were about to meet. Da Fei quickly checked Little Fei’s current status,

—Growing reconnaissance spirit eagle (Little Fei): Small-sized spiritual leader creature, attack 50, defense 17, damage 20–21, life 166/199, mana 135, attack speed: 20, magic resistance 50%, command value: 0, stamina: 97/163.

Great, the life and stamina are enough for a big fight! As the battle was about to begin, Da Fei crouched under a tree, continuing to hide stealthily. Finally, Little Fei entered the range of Da Fei’s hero attribute bonus, and at that moment, Little Fei’s attributes soared dramatically!

—Attack 149 (+99. Including Ranger +39, Temporary Sentry +39)

—Defense 95 (+78)

—Damage 22–23 (Captain’s Sword’s land damage +1, God Slayer Demigod achievement +1)

—Life 210/243 (Lonely Brave Warrior’s hundred victories all-army life +2, Spider Demon two-piece set all-army life +4, Master-level Defense Skill’s Unlimited Vitality all-army life +2, "God Slayer" achievement +1, "Dancing with Gods" achievement +1, total 13 points, plus three plague antibody achievements total life +15%)

—Attack speed 24 (Captain’s Sword land +1, Speed Cloak +10%, Corpse Poison Antibody achievement +5%)

—Stamina 121/187 (three plague achievements increase stamina by 15%)

With a high attack of 149 breaking the bounds, even if these beetles have an impressive defense of 50, Little Fei still has an extra 100 attack points, which means damage increases by 500%, equivalent to 120 damage! Do these beetles even have 120 blood? Catch one and it’s down in a second! Plus, with the special effect of the Divine Artifact Necklace, damage is not a problem; it’s solidly at BOSS level.

The key is the defense; can it withstand the onslaught of these hundreds of elite beetles? Although Little Fei shared his God-level Reconnaissance Technique, lacking Intelligence Collection Skill, it couldn’t gather information on these beetles even after taking some hits. So an estimate had to be made.

Ordinary beetle’s attack might be just 1 point, but how much does the elite’s attack have? Suppose the elite here is impressive, with an attack over 30 points, reaching the basic level of an angel, and even now Little Fei has a 60-point attack-to-defense difference, which means damage is reduced by 75%. Then with Master-level Defense Skill further reducing damage by 50%, the total damage reduction is 87.5%!

But these beetles surely don’t reach an angel’s attack level. However, considering the attack-defense difference being between 60 and 90 is only about a 5% gap, let’s consider the total damage reduction at 90%!

So, how much damage do these beetles deal? Little Fei just took some hits, so there’s some understanding; let’s say these beetles break the sky with 10 damage, under a 90% damage reduction, their physical attack would at most only take 1 point of life from Little Fei! Meanwhile, Little Fei’s World Tree Fruit’s special effect can restore 2-3 life every second!

As for the beetle’s toxic skill? It posed no threat to the spiritual Little Fei, not to mention that Little Fei now also benefited from the three major plague antibody bonuses, plus the 10% physical dodge from the Evasion Talisman, 1 point toxin absorption from Nash’s Tooth, along with the high-speed dodge inherent in Flying Creature, and the effect of God-level Luck’s 15% biological special skill chance suppression. Little Fei was ready to fight!

Even if victory isn’t certain, it doesn’t matter; Little Fei has the high-fly special skill, can attack or retreat, unbeaten and without fear! In conclusion, everything was within Da Fei’s calculated control; it wasn’t mere impulsiveness. Even if it was before, it isn’t now!

Let the battle begin!

Little Fei circled in the air, suddenly accelerated to catch up with the tailing beetle, grabbing one with a claw! First, let’s kill one to gather some enemy intelligence!

—Boom! "-100!!" The beetle exploded, white fluid splattered! It was indeed a one-hit kill! Yet, atop Little Fei’s head emerged two damage figures, "-4", "-3"!

—System Prompt: Your Intelligence Collection Skill has acquired incomplete information about the "Giant Evil Branch Beetle"!

Da Fei was startled; Little Fei actually took a total of 7 points of damage? This exceeded Da Fei’s calculations immensely! Da Fei hurriedly opened the information panel to inspect the beetle’s data.

—Giant Evil Branch Beetle: Small-sized leader-level insect, attack? Defense 35, damage? life 100, special skill: Flying Creature, Spiky Body Armor, Death Self-Destruction, ???

Da Fei’s eyelid twitched; Spiky Body Armor and Death Self-Destruction? So, these two damages were caused by those two skills? Killing even a defenseless one costs 7 points of life, so there’s no way to battle these hundreds, right? Wait! This thing is leader-level? Seriously, a few hundred BOSS beetles all at once, is this wholesale?

Alright, I’ve encountered over a hundred crocodile BOSSs before, so meeting hundreds of insect BOSSs isn’t a big deal! Plus, their blood defense is honestly not three to four streets lower than Little Fei’s. If Little Fei faced off one-on-one against three or four of these, it might not even be a sure win, worthy of the BOSS title, fine! If it’s a BOSS, then I cannot let it go; I’ll fight as many as I can, and if not, I’ll just fly away!

Continue!

At this moment, the swarm immediately turned back to besiege Little Fei, and right at this time, a swarm of insects suddenly emerged from the recently burst beetle’s body, joining the siege!

Da Fei was dumbfounded! Damn, even after death, it still had offspring inside!

While still stunned, these newly emerged little flying insects immediately turned into stone after encountering Little Fei’s Petrification Aura, falling one after another.

Fortunately! Luckily, Little Fei had such godlike skills, otherwise how would ordinary folks deal with these beetles? Da Fei finally understood why those flower demons scattered upon sight of these beetles.

And in the brief moment Da Fei was stunned, Little Fei’s giant wings were already flapping open and close, freely engaging the swarm. In an instant, the sky was filled with a dazzling array of crushing strikes, tear strikes, along with damage numbers like -26, -56, -32! These numbers were the result of the swarm sharing the damage from the eagle strike. Little Fei’s head also displayed "-1", "-1", "-2", "poison resistance", "toxin absorption", "dodge" in a mix of red and green text jumping quickly.

Meaning, if Little Fei executed a group attack, it could reduce the spiky counter damage? However, the more beetles attacked, the more reflecting spikes counter damage would be received; the total amount of suffered damage hardly changed! These beetles truly weren’t suited for close combat; so how should they be fought?

Tear strike? Yes! We can only rely on Tear Strike now. Once Little Fei delivers a Tear Strike, it should immediately fly away and ignore them, just waiting for the enemy to hemorrhage to death! Tear Strike, under my Luck Body bonus, has a 16% occurrence rate. With Little Fei’s attack speed, two wing flaps in the swarm are sure to trigger a few Tear Strikes, perhaps with a luck strike on top!

Now, Da Fei quickly devised a guerrilla battle strategy, and after Little Fei executed a few tear strikes in the swarm, it immediately broke through to pounce on the swarm from another side. After seven or eight rounds of maneuvers, Little Fei’s life was running low too, but no worries, now Little Fei relied on the speed advantage from the aura’s reduced speed to lead the swarm in circles, while Little Fei had the World Tree Fruit continuously regenerating, and the swarm struck by Tear Strikes began to bleed non-stop!

As for taking high fly, that’s definitely not feasible; if pursued unsuccessfully, the other side might just escape.

Finally, when Little Fei’s life recovered over half, the reaping season arrived!

—Boom! Among the tailing swarm, a beetle finally ran out of juice, exploded violently, and fell, while the small flying insects that inherited its will soon turned to stone points and joined him!

Then, Boom! Boom! One after another, the beetles fell!

Da Fei laughed heartily! The tactic was successful! This was the victory of the Petrification Aura, the victory of the World Tree Fruit! But ultimately, it was my foresight and supreme intelligence that won the day; my success was well-deserved!

And at this moment, from the direction of the flower demon village, hundreds of flower demons were flying in, with the flower demon hero among them. Turns out they went back to get reinforcements just now! Haha, I knew you wouldn’t stand by idly, but these beetles are so dangerous, don’t rashly engage them, in short, don’t steal my experience! Especially Little Fei’s precious growth experience!

Now, those flower demons observed from afar outside the swarm, while Little Fei, whose life had restored to full, dove back into the swarm, making a clean sweep, and as his life was running low again, Da Fei was preparing to continue guerrilla healing when the flower demon hero called out: "Faraway hero, let me lend you a hand!"

As she spoke, the cluster of flower demons simultaneously acted, beams of green light descended from the sky onto Little Fei, instantly refilling his life and rapidly recovering his stamina.

—System Prompt: The Lumang Tribe’s army has joined the battle!

At that moment, Da Fei was dumbfounded!

Originally, reinforcements stepping in should have made Da Fei happy, but suddenly Da Fei wasn’t cheerful at all; he felt like a clown! What’s the big deal with the Petrification Aura, what’s the big deal with the World Tree Fruit, what’s the big deal with the tactics, ultimately it just boiled down to using a few Skill Points to learn Light Magic, increase some mana knowledge, maximize Healing Skill, and pump Little Fei full of healing, avoiding all this trouble, right?

Ah no no no! Da Fei immediately shook his head to dispel such clownish thoughts. The Petrification Aura is a No-fly Aura. Without the Petrification Aura, could Little Fei have flown across the river so boldly to lure the monsters? It’s like forgetting the first six cakes after being full with the seventh!

And with the flower demons joining to heal, the beetles who couldn’t harm Little Fei for a long time immediately shifted direction and swooped toward those flower demons who were standing ready!

Damn! Little Fei’s growth experience! Da Fei was anxious: "Little Fei, chase them down! Snatch as many kills as possible, one shot one kill!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)