[Carrion Mole: Skilled at digging, it excavates long tunnels underground, connecting them into a vast subterranean world. It drags corpses back into its burrow and slowly feeds on them! Because it feeds on rotting flesh all year round, its entire body carries deadly toxins. Once bitten, it will be fatal.]
[P.S.: This thing's strongest attack isn't its poisonous claws or fangs, but the fact that you never know where it will pop out from! It can also collapse the ground, causing people to fall into its tunnels and ultimately be bitten to death.]
Ethan looked at the densely packed red exclamation marks all around him.
He fell into deep thought.
This tyrant in front of him was even more ridiculous than he'd imagined. It had directly summoned creatures from land, sky, and underground all at once.
If there had been an ocean here, Ethan would have even suspected that the tyrant could summon sea, land, and air all together.
At this moment…
Caw! Caw! Caw! Caw!
A flock of dark crows suddenly appeared in the sky. Ethan didn't even need to count them. Just by looking at the dense cluster of small exclamation marks in midair, he could already estimate their number.
If it were daytime, that number of dark crows would probably be enough to blot out the sky.
'This amount…'
"Gulp!"
Ethan silently swallowed.
'How am I supposed to fight this?'
'Use tycoon arrows?'
With this level of density, and with them being aerial units, aside from tycoon arrows, there really weren't any good offensive options.
His Fireball Technique still wasn't mastered enough. There was no way he could deal with this many birds at once.
Hidden in the shadows, before the tyrant's other servants arrived, he would kill as many as he could.
Whoosh!
After jumping onto a tree, Ethan set his bow, then aimed at a dark crow in midair. A tycoon arrow shot out instantly.
Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The moment the tycoon arrow was fired, it began rapidly splitting apart.
From a single arrow, it turned into dozens, then finally split into hundreds and thousands of arrows, shooting straight toward the dark crows.
"Heh, face the storm!"
Ethan sneered from his position on the tree branch.
However, when the first tycoon arrow pierced through a dark crow's rotting flesh, yet failed to cause even the slightest damage, Ethan was completely stunned.
'What is going on?'
'What the hell is this?'
Clink! Clink! Clang!
As the first tycoon arrow passed through its target, more and more arrows followed, piercing through the dark crows one after another. Yet the crows seemed completely unaffected, continuing to sweep toward Ethan.
And because Ethan had just fired an arrow and exposed his position, the dark crows sped up even more as they flew toward him.
At that moment, Ethan didn't dare stay where he was. He immediately jumped down to the ground, then ran in the opposite direction of the crows and climbed onto another tree to hide.
In that short span of time, the dark crows had already all swarmed onto the tree where he had been.
Thousands upon thousands of dark crows wildly engulfed the dead tree.
But since they couldn't find Ethan, a large portion of them simply settled onto the dry, blackened trunk to rest. It was only then, that Ethan looked closely at the dark crows, whose bodies were nothing but skeletons and feathers, and finally understood why his tycoon arrows had failed.
'So this is it.'
These birds had long since lost their flesh. Because they had been feeding on corpses for so long, they had turned into something like living dead.
They could be called undead crows.
Without flesh, the arrows naturally passed straight through their bodies. Only the rare shots that struck their skulls could knock them down.
But even then, they were merely knocked down, not killed.
The moment the tycoon arrows hit the ground and reverted back into a single arrow, those dark crows that had been shot down simply flew back up and rejoined the flock.
However, fortunately, these dark crows relied on their eyes to find prey.
So with Ethan wearing his invisibility cloak, it was difficult for them to track him. This was probably his only advantage against them for now.
"ROAR!"
The tyrant let out a loud shout.
Immediately, the dark crows, upon hearing its call, turned into a black mass and flew back toward the tyrant.
The tyrant then grabbed at the rotting flesh on its own body, flesh so decayed it was already peeling off in chunks, tore it off, and tossed it into the air.
Caw! Caw! Caw!
Countless dark crows rushed toward the rotting flesh, frantically scrambling to eat it.
Some of the crows even attacked each other over the meat, pecking so violently that feathers were torn loose. Feathers filled the sky, drifting down like black snow.
The chunks of rotting flesh that should have fallen to the ground were instead held aloft by the swarm of dark crows, never dropping.
Endless dark crows tore at the flesh nonstop.
Rip!
Until the flesh was torn into several pieces.
Large chunks were still fought over by countless crows, while smaller bits were quickly swallowed by one or two crows. After eating, the mass of black energy inside their bodies visibly grew stronger.
'Black energy?'
'Is this what dark creatures feed on?'
Because Ethan had also seen this same black energy within the tyrant's rotting flesh.
'It seems… These dark crows are attracted to this kind of "food".'
And he had once seen this kind of black energy in a certain type of food before.
'Maybe...'
Ethan's eyes suddenly lit up.
But before he could even begin to put his plan into action, more sounds came from not far away.
Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!
A mass of footsteps was rapidly approaching his location.
That was, Ethan looked toward the direction of the sound.
[Corpse Wolves: A mutated type of wolf. It's said their ancestors were wolves from the dark world that escaped from the Plague Continent. Later, they bred with wolves from the mist world, producing a new species, corpse wolves! They feed on corpses. The longer a body has been buried, the more they prefer it. Like dark crows, they have no flesh, only a mass of dark energy sustaining their life.]
[P.S.: These corpse wolves usually appear in packs. If you encounter them, the best option is to run.]
"..."
Seeing the corpse wolves appear from another direction, Ethan felt completely helpless on the spot.
Before one wave had even settled, another had already risen.
Scritch! Scritch!
Crack! Crack!
Beneath the large tree where Ethan was hiding, the sounds of digging began to echo.
No need to guess, that had to be the carrion moles finding him.
Pop!
The moment the first carrion mole poked its head out, Ethan could already be certain that this was another enemy that couldn't be dealt with using tycoon arrows.
Because just like the dark crows and corpse wolves, these carrion moles were nothing but skeletons as well, their lives sustained only by that mass of black energy inside them.
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