Chapter 605: Da Dou’s Bitter Struggle
Although earth elementals normally had racial magics that could penetrate walls and flee through the earth, their lairs had many tunnels and passages dug into them.
Because drilling through walls and fleeing through the earth cost physical strength and using racial magic depleted their magic crystal’s power.
As elemental beings, they should be thinking of every possible way to accumulate power into their magic crystal. Not only could it be used to cope with critical situations, more crucially, the magic crystal’s power could help them break through their life level.
Da Dou didn’t have a good experience digging his way into the cave.
He was a giant with a massive body and couldn’t freely move in these tunnels.
As a matter of fact, earth elemental tunnels were better than dwarven passages, which were narrower and caused giants to shrink back at the sight of them.
If it were possible Da Dou wouldn’t have dug his own tunnel. But he had no choice, and to him, it seemed the big guy was in imminent peril, and he had to race against time to save him.
If he were too slow, he might only find the big guy’s corpse.
Gold battle qi condensed into a giant hand, wildly tearing earth into the air as Da Dou expanded his underground passage.
At the same time, Da Dou also expended divine power to use the flame divine spell to bake the earth elementals attacking him.
Battle qi and divine power were being fiercely depleted, but Da Dou’s battle intent was staunch and unwavering.
Ding.
His fist smashed an earth elemental ambushing him from behind, then quickly took something out of his Packing Bag.
This was a rare gold level storage device; the Packing Bag also had an additional effect: it could keep things fresh.
Under normal circumstances, magic chef dishes had a short expiration date. Usually, it was to be eaten the day it was made, and occasionally it would last two or three days.
The longer time went on, the more the magic power of these magic dishes would dissipate, leading to their tumbling quality. This was the best scenario, more often, the magic power would be jumbled, and it would poison people who ate it.
But the Packing Bag could extend the expiration date of food to an extent.
Da Dou took out a dish from his Packing Bag.
It was a Candied Potato!
This was a gold level magic dish.
Da Dou tilted his neck, opened his mouth, and shoved down the entire Candied Potato.
After chewing it a bit, he swallowed it with a gulp.
His depleted battle qi was instantly replenished at a very swift recovery rate.
Battle qi was easy to replenish, while divine power was difficult to do so. Prayer was the main way but now was not the time for that.
After eating the Candied Potato, Da Dou took out some magic rainbow candy.
He didn’t peel back the wrapping due to time, deciding to throw them into his mouth wrapped instead.
He used his hard teeth to firmly crunch them into fragments, then swallowed again.
Blarg~
Da Dou’s complexion suddenly twisted.
So sweet!
The magic rainbow candy was quickly digested in his belly.
All kinds of magical radiances immediately rose from his body. Within a few seconds, Da Dou was empowered by kinds of amplification magic that affected his speed, endurance, defense, perception, and more by a small amount.
Da Dou took a deep breath, then continued to dig deeper.
The tribe chief had commanded that the earth elementals resist with their lives.
They formed a defensive line and used their racial magics together to reinforce the land.
Numerous silver levels disturbed Da Dou. He had to use more gold level battle qi to excavate the soil and enlarge the tunnel enough for Da Dou to walk through.
Racial magic – Earth Thorn.
Earth thorns suddenly appeared from nowhere. With plenty underneath his feet, along the narrow tunnel walls, and shooting down from the ceiling.
Da Dou had no choice but to use a gold level defensive battle skill to shield his body.
Most of the thorns were stopped, but a few penetrated Da Dou’s battle skill and cut into him.
This was the earth elemental’s homeland, it was their nest, and where they reproduced. It was only natural they operated and arranged it with utmost care.
The deeper the tunnel went, the stronger the defenses were and the more powerful the deployments.
There were many earth elementals living in the Magnet Archipelago, and they often had conflicts, arguments, and even fought against each other.
After all, the Magnet Archipelago was surrounded by the boundless ocean and the soil was finite, so earth elementals had to compete for resources to survive and grow.
Hong Zhu was behind Da Dou but maintained a long distance.
After finding Da Dou the right place, she also snuck into the tunnel.
“An angry giant really is scary.”
“He’s wounded!”
“It seems the stolen small giant is really important to him.”
Hong Zhu guessed at the relationship between Da Dou and the big guy while picking up the earth and magnetic earth elemental essences and magic crystals along the way.
“I’m rich!”
“Helping the giant find the enemy’s old nest was the right decision.”
“He surprisingly didn’t collect any of the silver level magic crystals, he really is heroic.”
Da Dou was focused on the big guy’s safety, and he didn’t dare to spend the brief time it would take to grab the magic crystals.
Hong Zhu smirked as Da Dou madly charged head, these gains were quite beneficial.
“Why hasn’t the gold level tribe chief appeared yet?”
“Now that the earth elemental tribe has their attention on the fire giant, I can go to their treasury and take away their valuables.”
Because earth elementals could penetrate through walls and the ground, they could often collect many treasures and resources from the hearts of mountains and the depths of the earth.
Hong Zhu took out an alchemy device and began to investigate which direction the treasury might be.
Da Dou’s attack speed grew slower, and Hong Zhu didn’t want to get mixed up in this. She was only concerned about taking this opportunity to fish for benefits and snuck away in another direction.
After a short time, he came to a wide and empty underground plaza.
“This must be an important location to the earth elementals. Even if it is noisy outside, it must still have guards here.”
Hong Zhu grew more excited.
The guards were two iron level earth elementals, while Hong Zhu was a silver level, capable of breaking through them.
But Hong Zhu didn’t think about breaking in with force.
Although these two earth elemental guards were a level lower than Hong Zhu, they would be very difficult to deal with if they actually fought.
The reason was that earth elementals had a comparatively special life structure, they had nearly no fatal weak points. Their only fatal weak point was their magic crystal. However, their magic crystal could move anywhere in their body, and as long as the magic crystal held energy, it could be expended and absorb the earth elements around it and quickly mend the elemental’s body.
Hong Zhu took out three alchemy items and used then in succession, then with a pained look, she resolutely drank half of a gold level potion.
Hong Zhu quickly went invisible, and her aura dwindled to an absolute minimum.
Right in front of the earth elemental guards, she carefully entered this closed area step by step.
It wasn’t the treasury she was looking to find, but…a graveyard.
But Hong Zhu became more excited.
Because the cemetery was where dead earth elementals were buried, where they left behind their magic crystals!
Hong Zhu began to stealthily dig up the graves.
Most of the magic crystals that were excavated were full of elemental energy, but a few were badly damaged and had little or no energy in them.
But even these broken magic crystals still made for good magic power crystal materials.
After digging up 16 magic crystals, Hong Zhu triggered the alarm in her inattentiveness.
The two earth elemental guards became furious and instantly spurred themselves into sweeping the entire cemetery.
Hong Zhu was forced to show herself and fight the earth elemental guards.
During the battle, she searched for a chance to break out of the cemetery and escaped.
After the two earth elemental guards pursued her for a distance, they returned to their post.
A group of earth elementals were informed of this, and they chased down the fleeing Hong Zhu while bellowing repeatedly.
Because a few silver level earth elementals entered the battle, Hong Zhu’s circumstances took an abrupt turn.
She wanted to escape to the surface, but she noticed that the tunnel was blocked with silver level earth elementals.
“Go find the fire giant!” Hong Zhu thought harshly, changing her direction to go deeper into the tunnels.
Da Dou had broken through three defensive lines, destroying a number of silver level earth elementals.
Racial magic – Rolling Stone!
More than a dozen earth elementals used this racial magic together.
Extraordinary power burst forth, converging and combining with each other to condense into a gigantic rolling sphere of stone.
The rolling stone rumbled the earth as it tumbled towards Da Dou.
The tunnel walls were reinforced, and Da Dou, unable to evade it in time, was forced to clench his teeth and endure it head on with his chest.
The gold battle qi hand quickly crushed the rolling stone.
Da Dou raised his arms and ferociously slapped the rolling stone with his palms, causing it to stop spinning.
But the sheer size and faint divine script glittering on the rolling stone’s surface meant the rolling stone’s might was not diminished as it hit Da Dou in the chest.
Three or four of Da Dou’s ribs immediately snapped, causing him to cough out blood.
He withstood the sharp pain, growling as he used an offensive battle skill, and with a string of three explosions, turned the rolling stone to bits.
The earth elementals rushed back in retreat, establishing a new emergency defensive line.
Hidden from view in the dust for a moment, Da Dou knelt to the ground and gasped for breath.
He took out another thing from his Packing Bag.
The challenging assault had depleted his stamina, battle qi, and more gravely. His body was greatly wounded and blood flowed incessantly. His fractured ribs caused him constant pain that made Da Dou’s eyes twitch.
He took out a magic dish from his Packing Bag.
This simple task caused his arm to tremble.
The earth elementals were always known for their defense. And to defeat the silver level earth elementals, he had to use a lot of battle qi to thoroughly destroy their bodies. If some parts of them remained, he couldn’t be sure if their magic crystals were hidden in it and allow the earth elemental to avoid death.
This tunnel was extremely rich with earth elements and within two or three seconds, an earth elemental could regenerate to as they were before.
Da Dou was really tired and greatly depleted.
He devoured a magic dish and made every second count as he recovered.
His wounds quickly stopped bleeding and began to heal. His fractured ribs were put back together, his battle qi reserves soared from rock bottom, his mind was like a clear spring flowing into a desert, and he became bursting with life once again.
Using battle skills consumed mental power too. The more complex a battle skill was, the more mental power it took.