Extraordinary Puppet Master

Although a group of people deliberately lowered their voices, it still reached Amiya's ears clearly. She herself didn't care much and listened with great interest.

The adventurers traveled in this relaxed atmosphere.

Area E-01 is a plain with a wide view. As the only way for all adventurers to enter the ruins, most of the monsters here have been eliminated.

Until they left the E-01 range, the team encountered nothing decent. Occasionally they encountered a few lone beasts emerging from the grass and rivers and were easily dealt with.

You can also see other adventure teams on the road. The mercury mercenary group who is leading the way will take the initiative to have short exchanges with these teams and ask if there are any changes in the environment ahead.

After about six hours like this, the large army passed through the E-01 area and plunged into the D-01 Shadow Gobi.

After entering D-01, the vegetation gradually became sparse, and there were jagged and strange rocks everywhere along the way. The howling wind hit the strange rocks and made waves of horrifying low howls.

"stop!"

Freeman suddenly shouted loudly, and the team stopped immediately.

The adventurers who were joking and chatting one moment, all drew their weapons the next moment, quickly adjusted their formations, and scanned everything around them vigilantly in case enemies suddenly appeared.

Amiya saw their reactions and nodded in her heart. These adventurers seemed scattered, but all of them were experienced in many battles. Almost all of them had explored the ruins and came back alive. Their vigilance was first-rate. One.

As soon as Freeman called a halt, everyone immediately went on alert and stopped smiling.

When the team stopped, Freeman observed the desert ahead for a while, then took out a pocket watch and checked the time.

Then he came to Herbert in the center of the team and asked for instructions: "Sir, we have arrived at the Shadow Gobi, and we may encounter a large group of evil creatures at night.

Should we move on, or camp and rest for the night until daylight tomorrow before setting off? "

Herbert looked at the day in the sky and asked: "How long will it take before the day disappears?"

Freeman also looked at the day in the sky, made some guesses in his mind based on experience, and replied: "About four hours."

After hearing this, Herbert calculated the next route on the map and said directly: "Speed ​​up, four hours is enough for us to enter the ruins of E-03 Redwood Town, and we will camp there tonight!"

Freeman nodded and quickly returned to the front of the team.

"Everyone cheer up and cross the Shadow Gobi as quickly as possible. Be careful on the way!"

Immediately after the order was conveyed, the whole team changed their casual style like a spring outing in E-01.

After plunging into the jagged pile of strange rocks, they began to speed up, only conserving a certain amount of physical strength to wait for emergencies. The team's speed more than doubled in one fell swoop.

Along the way, everyone deliberately avoided the shadows of strange rocks. There were countless shadow figures in the shadow desert.

This is a shadow-like evil that usually lurks in the shadows. It is usually in a deep sleep during the day, but becomes active at night.

The prey that emerges from the shadows and sneaks up on them is hard to guard against. There are even legendary shadow people in the central area.

D-01 No one knows how many shadow people there are in the Shadow Gobi. They only know that the passing adventure teams have killed one after another. However, countless shadow people still appear every night, and they can't be killed no matter what. .

Some people speculate that there may be a spatial passage leading to Si Chen's "novel writer" divine realm in this Gobi. Si Chen's power spreads here, leading to the continuous birth of shadow figures.

Although the Gobi is desolate, the terrain is flat, making it easy to travel.

In order to avoid unnecessary battles, the entire team marched along the periphery of the D-01 area, preparing to go around it and reach the ruins of E-03 Redwood Town as soon as possible to spend the night.

During the day, the Shadow Gobi is relatively safe, as long as you don't commit suicide and take the initiative to step into the shadow of those huge strange rocks.

The team walked fairly smoothly, but as time went by, the day fell little by little.

The aura of more than a thousand living people is as obvious as the lights in the dark night, and it can easily attract evil creatures to attack.

Four hours passed by in a flash, and the vegetation along the way gradually became lush. It was only two kilometers away from E-03.

All the adventurers held their breath and concentrated. Not only did they not continue to accelerate, but they deliberately slowed down to adjust their status to prepare for the enemy.

The cold wind howled in the lifeless Gobi Desert, pouring into the holes of the giant rocks and then quickly coming out from the other side, playing a strange and desolate music.

This weird atmosphere made everyone nervous.

At this moment, all the instructors in the team stared and felt something. Herbert shouted directly: "Be careful underground, they are coming!"

However, before the words could be finished, Amiya jumped into the air.

Her hands danced and with a flick of her hand, six flying knives and dozens of blades wrapped in silver threads shot out from her body and spread in all directions like a goddess scattering flowers.

The mentor-level extraordinary beings in the adventure group also reacted and shouted: "Seal your shadow with your spirituality!"

Phew—puff—puff—puff—

Throwing knives and blades passed by dozens of adventurers like lightning, pierced into the ground beside them, and immediately erupted with soft sounds.

Immediately afterwards, painful wails came from the ground covered by shadows.

Not only her, but other mentor-level transcendental beings also took action immediately, hitting the ground with attacks one after another, seriously injuring or killing the shadow figures who were about to emerge from the shadows.

Only then did all the professional level adventurers react. After encountering the sudden attack, they did not panic, but calmly did what they should do.

Everyone immediately separated part of their spirituality to cover their shadows to prevent the shadow people from using their shadows as a channel to sneak attack on them.

Then gunshots rang out from the team, and illumination bombs were launched into the air, illuminating an area of ​​nearly one kilometer like daylight.

The light shone on the ground, dispersing the shadows and directly blocking the Shadow Man's attack channel.

"Leave the instructor behind, and the others will move forward at full speed!"

Herbert gave another order, and the more than twenty instructors in the team stopped and turned around.

Others continued to move forward. This time they no longer saved their energy, but ran desperately towards the E-03 area that was just in front of them.

Soon, the two sides distanced themselves, and in the distance, more than a hundred dark shadow figures emerged from the shadow-covered ground and rushed directly into the light range.

At this time, more than 20 Amiya people had adjusted their formation. Melee professions such as Herbert and the Purple Armor Warrior were directly in front of Amiya and other long-range magic professions.

Several wizards were seen chanting incantations quickly, and Amiya was not idle either. She took off the shotgun from her back and quickly replaced it with incendiary bombs.

boom--

Accompanied by a gunshot, a fire exploded among the crowd of shadows in the distance, and several shadows were burned to ashes in an instant.

Other mentor-level extraordinary beings also followed suit and issued fire spells or spells one after another.

In an instant, the fire in the distance began to spread to the surroundings at a speed visible to the naked eye, stopping the shadow man from charging.

At this time, several wizards had completely finished chanting, and the overwhelming flames swept forward, forming a terrifying wall of fire.

All professional-level shadowmen immediately stopped charging after feeling the huge threat. Their strength was not enough to withstand the fire wall.

But a mentor-level shadowman did not stop and rushed forward carrying the wall of fire.

The flaming black figure appeared directly in Amiya's field of vision. She immediately raised the shotgun, aimed and pulled the trigger in one smooth motion.

boom--

The burning shadow figure shattered in response, and exploded into several pieces of thick, pitch-black sludge that fell to the ground.

After a while of squirming, the mud bonded together again and returned to its human form, but the breath was weakened a lot. It was obvious that the shot Amiya had just suffered was not very pleasant.

The shadow man looked at the twenty-odd mentor-level transcendental beings opposite him, exuded a wave of fearful mental fluctuations, then turned around and dived into the wall of fire to return to his team.

On the other side of the fire wall, the number of shadow people was increasing, and more than three hundred of them had gathered. However, they felt the threat from the opposite side and did not dare to attack rashly.

The twenty-odd people in Amiya also stood quietly, staring ahead. Anyone who dared to cross the sea of ​​​​fire would be subject to their concentrated fire.

In this way, the two sides formed a confrontation. As time passed by, the large troops that had gone away rushed towards the E-03 area non-stop.

After about five minutes, Herbert felt that the time was almost up.

"withdraw!"

After giving the order, several wizards added a few more fully chanted spells to supplement the consumption of the fire wall, and then everyone left here without looking back and rushed towards the large army.

After another three minutes, Amiya and the others successfully caught up with the large army. The team was now out of the Shadow Gobi range, and everyone was relieved.

Amiya looked up into the distance and saw the outline of a ruined town appearing in her field of vision.

After everyone rested for a while, Herbert gave the order to set off.

The mighty team quickly moved towards the ruins of the town.