socalfunplaces Chapter 58 The Burning Flower Fairy
Chapter 58 The Burning Flower Fairy
As Luo Lan shook off the plant residue from his broadsword and prepared to lead the remaining zombies to the next point rich in chaotic energy, the muddy ground beneath his feet began to shake violently.
"Be careful. The monster itself is still active."
As soon as Victor's prompt left his mind, dozens of thick thorns covered with barbs burst forth from the ground.
Mimicry Flower Fairy is a rather unique existence among plant-type monsters. Its stamen can detach from its body and mimic the appearance of a highly alluring woman, while its true form is a giant man-eating monster plant rooted in the ground.
The flower fairy's [Entanglement Lv.4] activated without warning, and the wild dance of thorny vines caused the soil in the entire area to tremble slightly.
The skeleton dog leaped off the ground the instant the vines sprouted, its limbs intertwined in mid-air, leaving a shadowy trail, and nimbly landed on a rock to its side and behind.
Before a slow-moving zombie could react, three thick vines wrapped around it at the same time. Its bones creaked under the pressure, and bone fragments burst out from the tightening vines.
Luo Lan reacted quickly, immediately ordering the remaining zombies to disperse and create distance, while he himself dragged his steel broadsword backwards, coordinating with the skeleton hounds to attack from both sides and charge towards the flower demon's enormous body.
In just a moment, relying on their overwhelming superior attributes compared to the Flower Fairy, the Holy Light Broadsword and the Azure Claws tore several fatal gashes into the Flower Fairy's body.
Severely injured, the flower fairy sprayed out a sweet, green sap from her body, dragging the corpse zombie she had successfully captured earlier and which had been crushed beyond recognition, and plunged back into the newly broken underground depths.
The ground closed up again, leaving only a damp muddy crack.
Inside the enormous digestive cavity of the underground flower demon, even if the prey is already a corpse, the flower demon will not refuse it and will digest it completely.
The viscous [acid liquid lv.3] was secreted rapidly, and thick, corrosive white smoke rose up, rapidly eroding the corpse that had been forcibly dragged down.
"Self-destruct."
Relying on the faint mental connection provided by [Dead Remains Assembly lv.1], Luo Lan murmured to himself.
"Bang!"
The muffled sound from deep underground was like a burp.
The shockwave from the explosion rose up from the crack in the ground, scattering black soil and gravel in all directions and tearing off a layer of the surrounding grass.
During the explosion, the [acidic fluid lv.3] accumulated in the flower fairy's digestive cavity was ignited when it encountered the sharp bone spikes wrapped in pale holy light!
"Eek—"
An extremely piercing scream pierced through the soil and soared straight to the dome.
The entire flower demon, engulfed in flames, surged out of the pit like a madman, wildly twisting its massive, carbonized body as it detached, and launched a desperate attack on Luo Lan.
Before it could close the distance even a little, a skeletal dog poised to pounce leaped onto the top of the flower crown, its eerie blue claws tearing the main stem in two, turning it into a pile of charred fragments.
With the death of this flower fairy, the low-level, mindless plant monsters that had been stirring around it all drooped their leaves and lost their ferocious aggression.
Most low-level Chaos monsters in the Rift are like this: those without intelligence act only on instinct, like the Walking Mushroom; those with intelligence command the next lower level of those without intelligence, like the Demon Wolf and the Flower Fairy.
Looking at the charred plant remains scattered all over the ground, Luo Lan, the instigator, never expected that a "self-destruction" would produce such a miraculous effect:
"Wow, this flower fairy is really good at burning things!"
The skeleton dog stood on a charred giant branch, the synthesized sound echoing smoothly in Luo Lan's mind:
Analysis: The strong acid liquid secreted by this type of monster has strong oxidizing properties. It is prone to deflagration when exposed to high temperatures, explosions, or other violent changes.
Luo Lan turned her head and glanced at a low-level plant-like magical beast not far away, whose flower core contained a pool of transparent liquid.
【Name: Acid-corroding Throat Flower】
[Tier: Black Iron]
[Skills: Acid Lv.2, Spray Lv.1]
Luo Lan had encountered far too many of these mindless, low-level plant-like magical beasts along the way. He had deliberately avoided their acidic sap before, but now, Luo Lan's eyes lit up when he looked at it.
[So, the liquid these plants use to attack is flammable?]
Luo Lan took out some more Exploding Magic Crystals from his storage space and activated his skill again:
"Assembling corpses!"
As the command was given, the shattered bones and plant remains on the ground were reassembled.
This time, the amount of Holy Light consumed was very small, and the creations made were also much smaller.
Its main body is a bone sphere with an average diameter of about 20 centimeters, with an unstable orange-yellow bursting magic crystal sealed in the center. Several thin and flexible plant root tendrils are spliced on the outside of the sphere.
It looks exactly like a bizarre, bony spider.
"Go, Spider Minemen."
These little creatures, which Luo Lan named "Spider Thunder," moved with agility, twisting their vines and tentacles, and crawled at high speed along the muddy, tangled grass, following Luo Lan's command.
Taking advantage of their small size, they didn't have to face the plant monsters head-on like zombies. They easily slipped through the blockade formed by large vines, their target clear: the giant flowers whose corollas were filled with acid.
The moment it touched the flower crown, without any hesitation, the self-destruct program was launched.
"Bang! Bang! Bang..."
A series of deafening roars erupted on the second level of the Rift Ruins. Highly corrosive acid was blasted into the air, then ignited by the holy light bone spikes mixed in with the explosion.
Like adding fuel to a fire.
The plants that had been exposed to the acid were instantly ignited, and the fire spread rapidly, turning Luo Lan's path into a scorching inferno.
Having found the fatal weakness of these plant monsters, the speed of their advance using the "Spider Mine" tactic far surpassed that of the previous cumbersome "zombies".
Although each step of clearing a path consumes an expensive Bursting Magic Crystal, Luo Lan has no shortage of these right now, so exchanging surplus firepower for stamina and time is entirely worthwhile.
Under the relentless bombardment, Luo Lan pushed directly towards the exit of the second level of the Rift Ruins.
During this time, they encountered several nodes rich in chaotic energy, which were occupied by mimicry flower fairies.
The second flower fairy appeared in a dense area of purplish-red corollas in the middle of the flower sea, mimicking a kneeling posture on the vines, holding a small glowing flower in her hand, as if waiting for a weary traveler to take it.
Luo Lan circled far away from the radius of its vine tentacles, getting to its side and rear. He didn't even bother with the act of feigning weakness; he directly used Spider Lightning to unexpectedly blast its mimicry to smithereens, and then cleanly and decisively killed its struggling main body.
The third flower fairy was even smarter. Instead of making any more pointless mimicry, it directly used a large-scale [Entanglement lv.4] spell to block the path, mobilizing the entire area's plant community to act as roadblocks, trying to lure Luo Lan into an encirclement.
Luo Lan then had Spider Thunder blast in first, burning open a gap. The Skeleton Hound held them back from the flank for about two minutes. Luo Lan seized the opportunity to use [Sonic Shock] to widen the gap, cut through it, and finished them off with a single sword strike.
When dealing with the last flower fairy on this floor, Luo Lan still had the energy to keep "Spider Thunder" on standby, and quickly defeated it by relying on various monster skills and attribute overwhelm.
During this process, Luo Lan squatted beside each of the enormous flower demon corpses, repeatedly activating [Condensation] to devour their massive remains, along with the withered wildflowers and weeds around them.
[Chaos Essence +200]
[Current Chaotic Essence: 300]
It was a quick and easy task, and didn't take much time.
Then, they took out all the empty energy potion bottles and carefully inserted them into the flower fairy's digestive cavity, filling them with the remaining [Acid Liquid lv.3].
This highly lethal liquid has significant strategic value, whether it is used as a corrosive projectile or as an accelerant for fuel.
Finally, Luo Lan reached the end of the sea of flowers on the second level of the Rift Ruins.
Behind them, a scorching sea of fire had already erupted!