Chapter 120 Skeleton Armor and Giant Mantis

[The host has chosen innovation, please specify another witchcraft or spells. 】

"Skeletons are manipulated by magic!" Richard was delighted and recited silently.

[The level of control over the skeleton has reached the limit and meets the innovation requirements. This innovation will generate a new zero-level witchcraft, which requires 14521 energy points. When the current energy points are satisfied, start innovating! 】

【Ding! Generate new zero-level wizardry: exoskeleton armor]

[Exoskeleton Armor: Consume mental energy to control and assemble skeletons around yourself or your friends, protecting them like a shield. The spell requires a witchcraft medium: a skeleton. 】

Later, the new witchcraft, the five witchcraft runes involved, witchcraft models, spells, etc. were also displayed.

Moreover, the witchcraft medium required to perform witchcraft requires a skeleton as before, and there are no other additional requirements.

Richard was immediately overjoyed. It seemed that the hard work these days had not been in vain.

After being surprised, it’s time to think.

Richard thought: "The name exoskeleton armor clearly reveals that it is also a zero-level witchcraft that tends to protect.

It is most likely due to the influence of the Dark Element Shield. After all, I chose to combine a defensive zero-level witchcraft with an attack-oriented sleight of hand. Based on this, the inspiration panel has carried out some kind of fusion innovation. "

Richard called up the panel and saw that the newly added zero-level witchcraft after the innovation was now displayed separately in the [Witchcraft] column: Exoskeleton Armor (entry 1%).

One good thing about the innovative wizardry is that you can get started directly without spending time on pre-processing or anything like that.

But think about it, isn't this what it should be? After all, the front part of the exoskeleton armor is: zero-level witchcraft dark element shield and magic control skeleton.

And with these two items, I have reached my limit.

Moreover, Richard guessed that with this new zero-level witchcraft, he would improve very quickly.

Because there is precedent in this area. For example, manipulating skeletons and summoning skeletons are only related to a certain extent, but when one of the two is at a higher level, the other will improve quickly.

In comparison, the correlation between exoskeleton armor, dark element shield and control skeleton is much higher!

It's a pity that there are not enough energy points now, otherwise, the improvement speed can be verified immediately.

Now that the new zero-level witchcraft is available, Richard certainly wants to try out its effects.

Ask Fingart to find a random fish-man skeleton as a medium for witchcraft.

As the spell sounded, the entire skeleton of the skeleton was controlled by Richard's mental tentacles and began to assemble along his body.

The skull part covered Richard's entire face, giving it a white fish head shape!

Huh! wrong! Fish head shape!

Also, his original skeleton was kept in the school and was not brought over. It was secretly found by Fingart, a skeleton of a former high-level fishman warrior.

"However, this fish head shape is really funny! Next time I have to find a human skeleton!" Richard secretly cursed.

The front defense of the chest is pretty good. The front chest is protected by dozens of ribs, but the back is hollow, similar to the evening dress of women in previous lives. The entire back is exposed. Overall, it is a semi-encircled defense.

But the defense of the limbs is obviously more awkward. For example, in the arm, only the ulna and radius are arranged parallel to the own arm, and the protection of the two slender bones is not even half-encircled.

However, if you don't think too much about practicality, this witchcraft is definitely one of the best-looking ones.

A few seconds later, Richard, dressed in skeleton armor, appeared in the room majestically, except that the shape of the fish head was a bit funny.

Richard thought for a moment. The owner of his skeleton was a high-level fishman warrior, so the hardness was high enough. From this point of view, the most practical response scenario for his skeleton armor should be to deal with swords, axes and other weapons. It's a slashing weapon, so it must have good protection.

The protection against arrows is much weaker, after all, there are too many gaps between the bones.

The defense against witchcraft is probably not very good, as splash damage cannot be defended at all.

So, for now, this is a new zero-level witchcraft with few application scenarios.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Come in!"

The person who came was none other than Fingart. Basically, except for Fingart, there were no other fishmen in the entire fishman tribe camp who would bother Richard.

Therefore, when Richard heard someone knocking on the door, he knew it must be Fingart.

What if it wasn't Fingart but someone who made a sneak attack? Hehe, the skeleton guardian behind the door is not a vegetarian either.

"Master, a warrior from our tribe found traces of a troll mantis in a keel fern bush in the Gray Fern Wilderness. Do you think it will?"

Fingart reported respectfully at the door.

After hearing this, Richard's eyes lit up immediately. He had been hunting monsters for three days in a row, but he had never encountered the troll mantis. This time he finally waited.

"Assemble the manpower and bring your tower shields and fishing nets! We will set off in half an hour." Richard said resolutely.

"Yes, Master!" Fingart bowed respectfully and slowly exited the room.

The shape of the murloc's tower shield is similar to that of humans on the surface, but the materials are quite different. It is made of the roots of a rather heavy and hard ironwood fern as the skeleton, and then covered with several layers of a kind of dark water lake. Specially made fish skin from plastic fish.

The skin of this fish is like the rubber that Richard used to make tires in his previous life. It is extremely tough. Ordinary knights need to chop it several times at the same wound with their long swords before it can be split.

The skin of this rubber fish can be further toughened if it is professionally nitrated and dried by the fish tribe.

In addition, the fishing net is also made of vines of a mutant man-eating vine. After being soaked in a special liquid of the fish tribe, it is very difficult to cut.

These two things can be said to be the key to killing the troll mantis. They are the blood and tears experience summarized by the fish tribe when they hunted the troll mantis.

After all, the prophets of the fish tribe have tried to make the extremely difficult potion of the mutant heart, and the loss of raw materials is also quite expensive.

So, this time Richard can be said to be standing on the shoulders of the fish prophets. Hunting the troll mantis is a big bargain.

The troll mantis is different from the monsters that Richard killed before. It has wings!

According to the servant Fingart, the troll mantis moves very fast. Once it finds that it is no match for its opponent, it will immediately flap its wings and flee, and no one can catch up with it.

So it is necessary to bring multiple fishing nets to trap it layer by layer in the battle to restrict its movement. Otherwise, even if it can be defeated, it will definitely not be able to stay.

Moreover, the troll mantis has a strong desire for revenge. If it cannot be killed, it will turn around and cause trouble for the fishman tribe after it recovers from its injuries.

In this regard, the previously powerful blind fishman tribe has suffered several losses.

After everything was ready, Richard and his dozens of people set off fully armed and rushed to the dragon bone fern bush where the troll mantis appeared.

A few hours later, after the group connected to the mutant crab demon controlled by the soul-eating demon spider, they arrived at the dragon bone fern bush in a mighty manner.

"Master, in the past, when our tribe hunted the troll mantis, we always looked for a small valley in advance and ambushed in advance. Do you think we should find a suitable place first?" Fingart whispered on the side.

"Valley? Why not find a cave? Wouldn't it be easier to restrict the movement of the troll mantis?" Richard couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Master, this troll mantis is cautious by nature and rarely enters a cave that restricts its flight."

"Then hurry up and find a suitable valley. By the way, should I let the mutant crab demon hide aside first? Otherwise, as soon as the mutant crab demon appears, the troll mantis may start to run away." Richard nodded.

"Wise master, praise you!"

"Okay, stop flattering and get busy with your work."

Because there were other fishmen present, Richard specifically told Fingart not to call him master and not to be overly restrained, but Fingart still secretly called him master, which made Richard angry and funny.

After all, his external identity was just a "wandering wizard" hired by Fingart.

Therefore, it is understandable that Fingart was polite to him, but nodding and bowing was a bit too much, which could easily be seen by other fishmen. Richard, who wanted to stay hidden behind the scenes, still needed to pay attention.

As Fingart arranged dozens of fishmen warriors, after careful search, they soon found a narrow valley that could be used as an ambush point.

A group of fishmen warriors, according to the division of labor, were divided into several teams, such as the net-casting team, the tower shield team, etc., and ambushed at various locations in the valley, while the three senior fishmen warriors were dressed unusually thickly, holding special tower shields, and preparing to welcome the troll mantis in the valley.

The mutant crab demon was arranged by Richard in a depression near the entrance of the valley in the downwind direction, and a large number of broad-leaved ferns were deliberately placed for cover and camouflage.

Seeing that everything was ready, Richard pointed the Skeleton Summoning Staff forward, and a huge light green inverted pentagram magic circle instantly appeared on the ground in front of him. Three skeleton archers and a skeleton berserker quickly crawled out of it.

This time, Richard considered that he already had mutant crab demons as meat shields, which must be enough, so he did not choose to summon skeleton guards holding swords and shields.

Because if the mutant crab demons can't hold on, it would be useless to summon more skeleton guards.

So this time he specially summoned three ranged and one melee.

The skeleton berserker had a very important task this time, which was to help Richard test the protective ability of the skeleton armor, because in Richard's judgment, the skeleton armor should be the most suitable for dealing with the scene in front of him - the slashing of the troll mantis's "big knife".

At this time, Richard began to tiptoe forward and observed the troll mantis eating not far ahead.

I saw a giant mantis that was magnified dozens of times, holding a steel-brisled wild boar weighing hundreds of pounds with a pair of barbed forelimbs, eating with relish. The strong upper jaw in the mouth easily tore the thick wild boar skin.

The giant mantis was similar to the mantis in Richard's previous life. It was light green all over and had excellent concealment in the jungle.

The most eye-catching thing was, of course, its pair of "big knives" with a row of hard and sharp saw teeth on them. If it started to chop, Li Cha felt that even the special tower shields and fishing nets prepared by the fish people would not last long.

Secondly, it was the pair of light green broad wings on its back. If you look carefully, you can vaguely see that there is a pair of inner wings as thin as cicada wings under the big wings, which means that the giant mantis actually has two pairs of wings.

Richard thought to himself: "It seems that what Fingart said is true. Judging from bionics, this kind of large and small wing structure is very conducive to short-distance sprint flight and sudden change of direction.

The troll mantis must move very fast and dodge flexibly.

In this case, the original luring plan I arranged has to be slightly changed."

It seems that hunting troll mantises also requires great attack power from the hunter. If it lasts for a long time, it is easy for it to escape.

However, with the mutant crab demon, Richard's strength is that he has a strong point. At present, as long as the troll mantis is led to the preset battlefield, it is likely to kneel.

Richard arranged the three skeleton archers in a straight line between the valley and the troll mantis.

"Swish!" The skeleton archer closest to the troll mantis aimed three arrows at the abdomen of the troll mantis.

This is exactly the bow and arrow secret technique of Richard possessing the skeleton archer and performing multiple shooting!

"Dang! Dang! Dang!" The troll mantis reacted very quickly, and the two "big knives" turned and flew, instantly knocking away all three arrows, and none of them hit the body.

Richard's pupils shrank when he saw this!

"What a fast speed!"

The troll mantis, whose feeding was interrupted, was obviously very angry at the skeleton archer. In an instant, it threw away the steel-bristled wild boar clamped in its forelimbs and rushed towards the skeleton archer. With a flap of its wings, it instantly crossed the distance of dozens of meters in less than two or three seconds.

At this time, the first skeleton archer turned around and ran just four or five meters before being caught up by the troll mantis.

The skeleton archer hurriedly raised his bow to parry, but it was useless!

"Shua shua shua!" The sharp and serrated huge forelimbs chopped dozens of times in a row. After three seconds, there was only a pile of chopped bones left where the skeleton archer was originally.

Richard gave the skeleton archer a dark element shield in advance, which only allowed him to last two more seconds!

That's right, it only lasted two more seconds!

It's not that Richard's extreme dark element shield is not powerful, but the troll mantis's "big knife" chops too fast. Within one second, it chops more than ten times from all angles.

Who can withstand this!

"Hiss! This attack power is amazing!" Richard's expression was sluggish.

After killing the skeleton archer, the troll mantis showed a very anthropomorphic satisfied expression on his face, which roughly meant: "You dare to disturb me while I'm eating, I'll chop you to pieces!"

The fish people in the distance saw this scene and thought that the "wandering wizard"'s lure plan had failed, and they were a little discouraged.

Suddenly, the second skeleton archer arranged by Richard shot another arrow closer to the valley.

Hearing the sharp sound of breaking through the air again, the troll mantis turned around instantly, and with a speed so fast that the afterimage could be seen, "one knife" chopped off the sneak attack arrow!

This sneak attack again made the troll mantis instantly furious. This time, two pairs of wings flapped at the same time!

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

This time, the high-frequency vibrating wings took only more than a second to cross the same distance and rushed to the second skeleton archer.

Under the violent "big knife" cutting, Richard, who was not far away, seemed to feel the sharp airflow coming at him, which made him shudder.

In an instant, the second skeleton archer followed the first skeleton archer's footsteps and was chopped into bone residue.

The previous one was chopped up to make pork ribs soup, but this one was chopped too finely, and it was estimated that it could only be used to paint the wall.

Richard couldn't help but sigh: "Guys, let's go back to the Undead Realm and rest for a while. I'll avenge you later!"

It seems that the troll mantis, who was attacked for the second time, was really angry!

However, this also allowed Richard to observe on the spot that the speed of the troll mantis's full-strength attack was really amazing!

When the troll mantis was about to turn around and leave again to continue eating, the third skeleton archer who was originally hiding at the entrance of the valley started again

"Swoosh!"

This made the troll mantis go crazy instantly, so without thinking, it flew towards the valley where the third skeleton archer was, as fast as thunder!