bookandnovel Chapter 78 I Avoid Its Edge?
Chapter 78 I Avoid Its Edge?
Shen Mo's talent in swordsmanship is actually relatively average.
One can tell a thing or two from the fact that he hasn't mastered the Void-Piercing Slash in more than half a year.
The reason he initially chose a knife as a melee weapon was because knives were easy to use and relatively inexpensive...
During his demon-hunting adventures, Shen Mo discovered that his real talent lay in shooting.
This can also be seen from his talent and abilities.
However, this talent alone is not enough for Shen Mo to master shooting to an advanced level in a short period of time.
Under normal circumstances, it might take several years of hard training to reach that level.
Compared to burying oneself in hard training, the efficiency of going out to hunt demons and strengthen oneself is far greater...
With his swordsmanship enhanced to the expert level, Shen Mo felt a sudden urge to use his skills.
But there was no one around for him to test his skills on, so he could only keep quiet and continue fishing.
Sprinkled into the flesh and blood of the demons, the Black Sand River once again boiled and surged.
Among the fish monsters scrambling for food this time, there was also a new kind of monster, a meter long, with a mouth full of serrated teeth and dark red scales.
That's a bloodthirsty carp.
Normally, they are low-level monsters in the Blackwater River basin, serving as food for monsters such as Blackscale Fish and Armored Crocodiles.
However, these bloodthirsty species become exceptionally aggressive when they smell a strong odor of blood!
Even a weak, bloodthirsty carp, under the long-term stimulation of blood, will become obsessed and attack monsters stronger than itself.
As Shen Mo threw more and more flesh and blood into the Black Sand River, the number of bloodthirsty carp began to increase rapidly.
Even the larger and more numerous black-scaled fish were gradually suppressed by the frenzied, bloodthirsty carp.
Shen Mo caught 15 blackfin bream, 5 pufferfish, and some other miscellaneous fish.
The fish that took the bait after that were all bloodthirsty carp.
And they bite the hook one after another.
In less than an hour, 21 were hunted down!
During this period, the chaos in the Black Sand River never ceased.
The entire riverbank was filled with a strong smell of blood.
Shen Mo not only gained 1 point of physical enhancement, but also accumulated 9 points of skill enhancement and combat technique enhancement!
However, he didn't get to see a single second-tier magical beast he had hoped for.
"That's not right. Why isn't such a strong smell of blood attracting even a second-tier magical beast?"
Shen Mo frowned inwardly, but he never stopped casting his line.
At this point, there's no need to bait the Black Sand River anymore.
The strong smell of blood made the monsters in the river restless, even causing them to kill each other.
Especially the bloodthirsty carp that go completely mad when stimulated by fresh blood.
Not only does it indiscriminately attack other magical beasts, but it also leaps out of the water from time to time...
Shen Mo cast his line into the river and waited for a while, but no fish took the bait.
Instead, he saw several bloodthirsty carp, seemingly driven mad, swim ashore and leap towards him, attempting to attack him...
Shen Mo's face darkened, feeling as if he were being mocked.
He immediately threw down his fishing rod, grabbed a knife, and began hunting the bloodthirsty carp that had come ashore...
[You have hunted 15 Bloodthirsty Carp, rewarding you with 1 skill enhancement point!]
......
[You have hunted a total of 445 monsters. Reward: 1 point of Battle Skill Enhancement!]
......
It killed five bloodthirsty carp that had come ashore in succession.
Shen Mo was about to kill the sixth one when he heard a clanging sound behind him.
Looking back.
But he forgot to reel in the fishing line, and as a result, a fish took the bait, and he was pulling the fishing rod into the river...
"Oh no, my fishing rod!"
Shen Mo turned around and rushed back, trying to save his fishing rod.
But at that moment, he felt a sudden jolt in his heart, as if he were being watched by something.
Shen Mo glanced around and immediately noticed something amiss.
The river was boiling, but his side remained calm and undisturbed.
Not only that, he also saw that the water surface seemed to be slowly bulging, as if something was brewing...
boom!
The attack came very suddenly!
The moment Shen Mo realized something was wrong and mobilized his holy power.
A jet of water as thick as a bowl shot out from where the water bulged and hurtled toward him!
Light Screen Technique!
Shen Mo's reaction was remarkably quick.
He successfully cast the Light Barrier spell before being hit by the water jet.
Holy light formed a barrier, blocking the water column.
But at the moment of collision...
By mobilizing holy power and maintaining the silence of the light barrier spell, one knows that the holy light barrier cannot withstand the impact of the high-pressure water column!
He immediately activated his sprint and, in the brief moment gained by the light barrier spell, dodged to the side.
His dodge also interrupted the supply of holy power to the Light Screen spell.
The fragile barrier of holy light shattered instantly under the impact of the high-pressure water jet.
It turned into golden specks of light and quickly disappeared into the air.
The high-pressure water jet that breaks through the light barrier remains as powerful as ever.
It flew more than twenty meters and hit a tree with a loud cracking sound.
Having narrowly escaped death, Shen Mo remained vigilant, instead focusing his mental energy on preparing a spell...
At the instant the high-pressure water jet is sprayed.
He saw a burly figure beneath the curtain of black water that had parted for a moment.
That is......
Boom!!
The water surface exploded, and a dark green figure more than three meters tall leaped out of the Black Sand River, lunging at Shen Mo with a ferocious expression.
The art of zombie movement!
Shen Mo instantly cast a motionless spell, causing the demon to freeze in place.
Then, with a swift movement, he dodged the monster's attack and turned to run.
They didn't even bother to grab their bow and arrows, and plunged straight into the dense forest.
That fleeting glimpse allowed him to see the monster's appearance clearly.
It was humanoid, covered in dark green scales.
It has webbed feet, but its head resembles that of an ape.
It is a third-tier magical beast—the Scaled Ape!
"I've been on the shore for so long, and I haven't seen any scaled apes approaching!"
The thought of how close the scaled ape was to him filled Shen Mo with lingering fear!
He originally only wanted to lure a few second-tier monsters to kill.
Unexpectedly, instead of encountering any second-tier monsters, they managed to lure out a third-tier monster!
"These monsters, possessing spell-like abilities, should have some degree of camouflage and stealth capabilities..."
I recall the layer of water film that flowed around the scaled ape's body after it broke through the water.
Shen Mo ran wildly through the dense forest, simultaneously using subtle clues to analyze the intelligence information of the Scaled Ape.
This scaly ape most likely migrated to the Black Sand River because of the demonic tide.
However, they did not immediately retreat to the depths of the Demon Realm after the Demon Tide ended.
Perhaps it is precisely because of its existence.
No second-tier monsters dare to come to this area...
Awooo—
An excited roar came from behind.
Shen Mo turned around and saw that the scaled ape had broken free from the effects of the zombie movement spell.
Its body was covered in a film of water as it burrowed into the dense forest and roared as it charged toward him!
"That damned beast!"
Shen Mo cursed and ran away with his head down.
But after casually chopping down a tree with a diameter of half a meter in order to stop the Scaled Ape, he was taken aback.
"Wait, why am I running?"
Suddenly stopping in his tracks, Shen Mo turned around, knife in hand, and looked at the scaled ape that was waving its claws and gradually approaching.
This is a dense forest, not a body of water.
Not only do I have a large number of enhancement points, but I also have holy arts and spells!
the most important is……
"A newly enhanced expert-level swordsmanship!" Gripping the sword with both hands, Shen Mo's face gradually lit up with excitement. "Should I avoid its sharp edge?"
......