Chapter 1297 - 441: Reconnaissance and Deception (6k)_2

Chapter 1297: Chapter 441: Reconnaissance and Deception (6k)_2

"Something’s happening... It’s those spirit beasts again! Prepare for battle!"

The captain roared in a low voice and quickly flipped up to his feet.

Relying on the reaction from the detection spell, he had already identified the enemy.

It was a strange, unknown spirit beast they had encountered not long after entering this forest.

They were not listed in the Beast Taming Alliance’s database, and no similar species were found.

Not only had they reached a Tier Six level of strength, but their transcendent abilities were also quite varied.

Although they didn’t pose a lethal threat, they always caused significant trouble.

Every time they were about to find an opportunity to counterattack, this group of spirit beasts would decisively retreat, never giving them a chance.

After a short rest, they would return again, as if fixated on them.

In just a short span of three hours, they had already encountered five attacks, almost one every half hour, and this was clearly the sixth.

With his warning, the teammates quickly realized which spirit beasts the captain was referring to and struggled to get up.

Soon, they saw the enemies the captain was talking about.

They were spirit beasts about the size of a tiger, but besides the normal limbs of spirit beasts, they had several powerful tentacles, or perhaps tails.

These tails, growing from their backs, were especially strong, even serving as extra limbs for movement and combat, resembling spiders.

With their strange protrusions and somewhat fierce faces, they looked particularly ferocious.

Not only were they adept in melee, but these tails were also like magic wands with impressive elemental affinity, allowing them to cast and control elemental power.

Having battled these strange spirit beasts for a long time, they had figured out all their abilities clearly.

As they were about to approach, the first to encounter them were the spirit beasts they had summoned.

The summoned Tier Six spirit beasts saw the incoming enemy, and before they could react, the tentacle spirit beasts used the trees to advance quickly, pouncing on the summoned spirit beasts with their elementally charged tails.

In almost an instant, several tentacle spirit beasts attacked simultaneously, and the next moment, blood and flesh flew, and their summoned Tier Six spirit beast was torn to pieces.

But the tentacle spirit beasts did not pause for even a moment, their gaze locked onto them.

"Stick to the plan, don’t use high-power spells to avoid alerting higher tiers, move!"

The captain’s pace quickened, and as the last syllable fell, a magical impact was already thrown from his left hand, while his right hand held a sharp-edged metal magic wand.

As a mage from Wisdom Paradise, he knew relying solely on spells wouldn’t take him far.

Especially as a Spirit Mage, his capabilities were polarized; spirit magic was effective against normal enemies, but when encountering special ones, it could be disastrous.

After a near-death experience in a low-tier instance, he quickly learned wand specialization.

Of course, not for casting spells with the wand, but for smashing it into foes!

In fact, not just him, any Wisdom Paradise Contractor who reached Tier Six had some melee skills.

A mage incapable of melee couldn’t survive in Wisdom Paradise!

The captain quickly layered his body and wand with various magic radiance.

The heavy wand whistled as he swung it, and with various spells augmenting him, even though he wasn’t a contractor known for strength attributes, the wand’s power was formidable.

With the power of spells, the wand smashed into the approaching tentacle spirit beast, ready to knock them down and take them out one by one.

However, the previously effective magical impact failed this time; the tentacle spirit beasts seemed to emit a peculiar wave that forcibly nullified the impact.

The captain was surprised but had no time to ponder its cause.

Seeing the tentacle spirit beasts about to pounce and tear him apart, like the summoned spirit beast earlier, he could only swing the wand to strike prematurely.

Fortunately, he wasn’t alone in the fight.

Behind him, several teammates also brought out varied wands equipped with melee modules for support.

Various enchantment spells flew around, and the battle quickly reached a fever pitch.

After a fierce battle, a few attacking tentacle spirit beasts left chaos behind and retreated once more.

Several contractors were also injured significantly, watching them vanish into the dense forest, unable to pursue.

"Didn’t expect these spirit beasts to have learned tactics..."

A teammate took out his healing tool and used it, gritting his teeth either from pain or something else.

Earlier, he’d suffered because the "tentacle spirit beasts" feigned weakness, setting a trap.

"Not only that, but they also seem to have learned how to counter our spells. I couldn’t even release some spells before those beasts had already responded.

They’re too intelligent...

I didn’t expect hatred to drive such progress in these spirit beasts..."

Another teammate, after downing a potion, added with deep apprehension, attributing the spirit beasts’ evolution to hatred.