Logically speaking, a small-scale siege of defected Elves would not require a war weapon like the Crypt Demon Scorpion. Why would Kirkner bring it out?

This also began with Kirkner’s position in the clan. This young and beautiful Priest Zhuo Er was the successor that the fifth clan of Obalan City had nurtured. However, because she was still relatively young, she did not receive the attention of the Spider God Empress. Without the Divine Empress’ help, there would be no arachnid Elves.

Of course, the Fifth Clan also had a lot of private soldiers. However, these private soldiers were unable to help Kirkner in this campaign. She could only rely on her Lizardman followers.

The reason for that was very simple. The Spider God Empress issued a divine decree, using this pursuit of defected Elves as a trial for her priests. Every participating Priest Zhuo Er could only rely on their own strength and could have followers, but they could not have the help of the clan’s private soldiers or the city guards.

Families ranked lower would often send out their high priests, or even their matriarchs. The clans at the top handed over the task to the next generation of successors. High priests tend to have more followers and can summon more arachnid Elves, while young priests are relatively weaker.

However, Zhuo Er Elves was cunning and cunning. They would have all sorts of ways to bypass the rules. This Crypt Demonic Scorpion was Kirkner and the Fifth Family’s method of cheating. Before she left, the Fifth Family had handed the Demonic Scorpion over to her as a gift for adulthood. It could be said that the investment cost was very high.

If Kirkner failed the trial and did not catch any of the defectors from Elves, she would undoubtedly be doomed. There was no second chance in the world of Zhuo Er, Elves. This was also the main reason why Kirkner and Wendini chose to take risks even though they knew that they were only half a day away from the Dwarves’ surface camp.

The Demonic Scorpion immediately launched an attack on the three apostles. The two large pincers in front of its body had a large attack area. Although it wasn’t able to turn quickly enough, its slender and flexible tail had completely made up for this weakness.

For a moment, Wei Si and the others were in a hurry to dodge the Demonic Scorpion’s attack.

“This won’t do. I can feel two powerful auras rapidly approaching from the mushroom forest. They should be the priests from Zhuo Er, Elves!” Romon floated in midair and suddenly looked behind vigilantly.

“Are you going to be exterminated?” Wei Si bit his lips tightly, his face a little gray. Ever since he advanced to a higher level, he had never felt so powerless. This reminded him of some unbearable memories that he was extremely unwilling to look back on.

“You two go, I’ll stay and stall them!”

However, as a mature Apostle who had experienced life and death, these negative emotions only lasted for a moment before being forgotten by Wei Si. A trace of determination appeared on his face.

“No, Guild Leader, if you want to stay, you can stay together. We’ve already crossed so many mission worlds together. We’ve already lived long enough.” Romon shook his head resolutely. “I don’t want to change teams in the future. What’s the point of living like that?”

“There’s no point in sending me to my death! There’s still a sliver of a chance that I’ll escape if I stay behind. If you stay here too, you’ll only be a burden!” Wei Si shouted sternly, but his eyes revealed a trace of satisfaction. No matter what, with such a group of companions accompanying him to the end, he could already be satisfied.

Just as Wei Si and Romon were arguing, the shield guard on the other side let out a painful roar.

His body expanded at a visible rate, turning into a giant that was more than sixteen feet tall in an instant.

The giant’s skin was bronze, and its muscles were crisscrossed. Although it was nearly five meters tall, its body was four feet thick, making it look somewhat short and fat. The deltoids on both sides of his neck bulged like bronze shoulder armor covering his shoulders.

Because Apostle’s equipment was made up of Laws, the changes in the shield’s size did not affect the equipment they wore. Only the size of the tower shield did not change. The tower shield that could cover his entire body now looked like an arm armor on top of the giant’s right forearm.

After turning into a giant, the shield guard raised his head to the sky and roared angrily. He lowered his head and slammed his shoulders towards the Crypt Demonic Scorpion in front of him.

“Bang!” The loud collision sound was only a low-level barbaric collision, causing the demonic scorpion to scream and retreat repeatedly. The Demonic Scorpion’s tail hook flashed through the air with black afterimages. Then, its poisonous tail needle could only leave white marks on the giant’s body, but it was unable to break through the giant’s defense.

Seeing this, the giant did not hesitate any longer. Both of his hands grabbed onto the large pliers of a demonic scorpion, and the two monsters tangled together like gladiators wrestling with each other. However, the giant quickly knocked the Crypt Demonic Scorpion to the ground, riding on its belly and fiercely beating the Demonic Scorpion with his fists.

The Crypt Demonic Scorpion struggled furiously. Although it was huge, it was not a pure strength creature. The sharp claws and tail hooks on his side were helpless against the giant, and he was beaten to the point of screaming repeatedly.

However, Wei Si and Romon did not feel happy about Newton’s power. Instead, a trace of sorrow and pain appeared on their faces.

No matter in any other world, Apostle’s skill must follow the most basic law of the world, which is the law of conservation of energy. Newton used Tier 2 strength to execute this high-level skill that could contend against the weapons of war. The price he had to pay was unimaginable.

One of the most obvious sequelae was that gigantism could only last for less than half a minute. After the duration of the skill ended, Newton would immediately fall into a weakened state where his stats were halved and his energy was empty. This meant that he could not leave this place again.

The Shield Guard was a man of few words. When Wei Si and Romon were arguing about who should stay behind, he immediately made a decision and told his two companions in action, “I will stay behind and you leave.”

“Let’s go!” Wei Si shouted out the word almost with a hoarse roar, and the figure covered in pale bone armor flashed past the two behemoths like lightning.

However, Wei Si immediately slowed down. He noticed that his other companion, Romon, did not follow him. His expression immediately changed and he looked back.

Behind the two rolling monsters, Romon was still floating in the air, smiling and waving at him. At the same time, the black-robed mage’s calm voice came from the guild channel.

“We still need someone to stop those two Priest Zhuo Er. Guild Leader, remember to avenge us!”

“Romon!” Wei Si’s eyes instantly blurred, and the white bone armor in his palm was crushed into pieces. He flew at a higher speed, and he never looked back at the battlefield again.

“Hahaha, it’s really wonderful. No wonder they miss these worlds so much!” Silver-haired elf put down the World Tree longbow, stabbed his bangs into his face with one hand, and raised his head to laugh crazily.

“Still, one of them escaped!” He muttered to himself, his fingers revealing a pair of ice-cold eyes. “Without the explosion of that high-grade Apostle, Zhuo Er Elves’s loss has not broken the bottom line. It seems that he can’t achieve his goal perfectly.”

“Forget it, we’ll have a chance to meet again in the future!”

He put down his hand and bowed his body in frustration. He hung his hands in front of him and shook his head like he was venting. Then, he jumped off the giant mushroom and disappeared into the darkness. He no longer waited for Romon and Newton to die, and didn’t even want the Bloody Magic Cube that might appear.

…

With the passage of time, the noise in the mushroom forest gradually calmed down. Romon and Newton died of exhaustion, their corpses devoured by the heavily wounded scorpions.

“What? That surface Elves is gone?” A Zhuo Er warrior’s report shocked Wendini and Kirkner.

They had always thought that Silver-haired elf was coveting something from these human mercenaries, so they would cooperate with Zhuo Er Elves. Although they had already secretly instructed a few Zhuo Er warriors to keep an eye on him, there was really no one to monitor the battle just now. They didn’t expect that Elves would take advantage of this small gap to escape.

“Mother Wendini, what do you think we should do next?” Kirkner hesitated for a moment before asking the old priest.

The intensity of this battle made her much more cautious. The cunning and sinister expression of the Elves on the surface made her faintly fearful. Now that the number of Lizardman Cavalry had shrunk by more than half and the Crypt Demon Scorpion had been seriously injured, she was no longer as confident as before.

Every Zhuo Er Elves was very cunning and involved his own safety. Kirkner did not mind listening to Wendini’s advice.

“I think we can go back to O ‘Balenciaga. The two traitors have been ambushed and the dwarves and human mercenaries who interfered with the trial have been eliminated. Although it is a pity that we were unable to sacrifice the fallen Abyss Devil Hunter, there is no need to delay any longer.” Wendini sighed and said unwillingly.

Because of her previous promise, the credit for the recent battles rested with Kirkner. Her original intention to please the Spider God Empress by offering sacrifices to Qin Lun was also shattered. The only harvest was that she had made up for her mistakes, eliminating more than half of the dwarf exploration team that had killed a large number of arachnid Elves. She should be able to calm down the goddess’ anger.

“I agree!” Kirkner heaved a sigh of relief. This was the safest way.

“Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~” Just as the two Priest Zhuo Er integrated teams and commanded the remaining Lizardman Cavalry to withdraw from the Mushroom Forest, an explosion that shook the ground shook everyone to the ground.

The heavily injured Demonic Scorpion let out an uneasy hissing sound, stepping on the two giant lizards beside it and spinning around irritably.

“Fire!” With Zhuo Er Elves at the heart of the area, dense flames and poisonous smoke rose from all directions in the Mushroom Forest.

‘”Ah ~” The mushroom man roared angrily from the flames. The mushrooms twitched and contracted intensely. Balls of pink mist filled the mushroom forest with a sweet and bored smell.

“A hallucinatory spore cloud!” Wendini and Kirkner’s expressions changed drastically. They each raised their hands and put a divine barrier around themselves. Hallucinogenic spores in mushroom forests are hard to be exempted. This is the ability of the mushroom race to survive.

“Who is it?” A muffled roar came from the depths of the mushroom forest, followed by a series of heavy footsteps from all directions.

“Giant Mushroom Man!” Wendini and Kirkner’s expressions changed drastically. They exchanged glances and immediately commanded the Lizardman Cavalry to break out of the encirclement.