Chapter 136: The Death Fog Cavern (3)

Although he didn't quite understand what the dark-skinned Artoria meant, Zhao Tianhe had no mind to dwell on it under the current circumstances.

There were still two enhanced elites waiting over there!

"Come forth, Artoria!"

The female knight dressed in a blue dress appeared on the battlefield.

"Deal with those two first!" Zhao Tianhe pointed at the two enhanced elites that Tianxie had been engaging.

"Hey! Beautiful! Come help me first! Ah~~~~" Mole was being stepped on by one of the massive enhanced elites.

No one questioned Zhao Tianhe's choice. That guy wouldn't die anyway, and his combat prowess was complete trash; being able to stall one enhanced elite was already pretty good.

The physical structures of enhanced elites were vastly different from ordinary elite monsters, having undergone tremendous changes. Except for their inability to wield domains like bosses, there was practically no difference.

Of the two enhanced elites next to Tianxie, one stood nearly ten meters tall, with a well-proportioned physique rather than the disproportionately large legs of other Berserkers that made them look like all legs from the neck down.

This large enhanced elite possessed equally robust upper bodies and arms, and its fluid use of hands and limbs during attacks forced Tianxie to retreat repeatedly.

The other enhanced elite, by contrast, was even smaller than ordinary monsters, standing just over a meter tall. Yet its strength surpassed that of the other enhanced elite, and its skin gleamed with a metallic luster, clearly endowing it with astonishing defense.

If the other elite was a giant, muscular brawling kangaroo, this small one was like a flea. Its leaping speed was astonishing, and Tianxie simply could not capture its movement trajectory!

Every single one of its attacks tore a chunk of flesh from Tianxie's body!

These two enhanced elites, one large and one small, cooperated seamlessly, leaving Tianxie completely unable to fight back unless he risked further liberating the Evil God's power.

"Target the small one!" Zhao Tianhe shouted.

Simultaneously, his perception locked onto the flea-like small enhanced elite.

An average Grade-A Brave, even one specialized in agility, wouldn't be able to clearly see this creature's movement trajectory, but Zhao Tianhe was no ordinary person.

The moment Super Vision activated, the pupils vanished from his eyes. His entire eyeball turned pitch-black, and prominent veins bulged around his eye sockets, making him look somewhat like he had activated the Byakugan.

In reality, the effect was indeed quite similar. At this moment, Zhao Tianhe's dynamic visual acuity, visual range, and overall visual strength were probably comparable to the Byakugan.

Single-target curse spells could not be released without locking onto a target. An ordinary mage fighting this monster would probably have been restricted to area-of-effect spells, but Zhao Tianhe could still use single-target spells for locked-on attacks.

Thus, a stream of over a hundred curses cascaded down toward the little flea.

After enduring three or four Slow curses, the little flea's resistance finally broke, and its speed plummeted drastically.

Seeing this, Tianxie didn't hesitate for a second to swat it down onto the ground with a vicious palm strike!

The little flea shrieked with squeaks, rolling a few times before regaining its balance.

However, at that very moment, another wave of curses washed over it, and a figure materialized behind it.

Artoria directly triggered Mana Burst, arriving right above the head of the small enhanced elite. The Wind King Barrier erupted in her hands as she delivered a fierce, downward-thrusting smash from above!

Strike Air!

Enhanced by magical energy, the Wind King Barrier took on a faint cyan hue, and the resulting cyan shockwave struck the earth directly, blasting out a massive spiral-shaped crater.

As the pale cyan ripples dissipated, the little flea was pinned flat to the ground in an "X" shape, the metallic exterior of its body slightly cracked.

Propelled back into the sky by the recoil of the Strike Air, Artoria's expression was icy as she once more erupted with magical energy!

She stomped fiercely with both legs, the formidable power treading out circular air ripples in mid-air like surface ripples on a lake, while she herself held her sword with both hands and thrust straight down toward the little flea!

The brilliantly glowing blade pierced through the small enhanced elite's body. Yet this enhanced elite possessed truly tenacious vitality; even with its chest and abdomen pierced through, it still writhed frantically, trying to break free from the blade.

Adjusting her posture with the sword as the center, Artoria planted both feet on the ground, hoisted the small enhanced elite up, and once again burst forth with magical energy to swing her sword with all her might!

Boom!

The violent gale of the sword shattered the ground!

The little flea, which directly absorbed the full force of that slash, was cleaved cleanly in half...

Looking at the monster that was still twitching, Artoria frowned, stepped forward, and severed its head with a single stroke.

Once its defense was completely shattered, the physical durability of this dying monster plummeted drastically.

On the other side, freed from the interference of the small flea, Tianxie was finally able to concentrate on fighting the large enhanced elite.

Unfortunately, he was still at a disadvantage. The strength of a Grade-A enhanced elite was simply too formidable; its normal stat values likely exceeded one hundred. Placed in a standard native Brave party, it would probably take three or four second-class melee combatants to keep it under control.

For Artoria, however, this kind of straightforward war of attrition was actually quite simple.

Endowed with innate abilities and now equipped with some mana regeneration gear, her strength value could exceed one hundred and fifty points under a full-powered Mana Burst.

Nevertheless, to conserve mana, she chose to first close in on the opponent while waiting for Zhao Tianhe to apply curse debuffs.

The giant elite's movements stuttered for a fraction of a second, and the color of its skin shifted from pitch-black to deep purple—a sign that its defense and resistance had been drastically weakened.

Artoria arrived a dozen meters away from it, her body crouching slightly in preparation for an explosive charge.

The next moment, the ground shattered violently with a shockwave of stray gales, and Artoria's figure had already vanished and reappeared thirty meters away.

A dazzling arc of light flashed in Zhao Tianhe's eyes; even he hadn't managed to catch Artoria's motion just then.

The giant elite had been about to swing its fist to pummel Tianxie, but it suddenly felt its footing become unstable, unable to exert any strength through its legs, and crashed straight to the ground. Fortunately, it managed to extend its right arm to brace itself in time, though it was still kicked flying by Tianxie.

A massive severed sole, over half a meter tall, complete with the ankle and part of the lower leg, remained left behind on the spot—Artoria's single sword strike had cleanly chopped off the monster's right leg.

Having dealt with monsters for so long, Artoria's experience was already extremely rich. The vitality of these monsters was exceptionally tenacious, especially the larger ones.

Therefore, directly attacking targets that seemed like fatal weak points, such as the head or chest, would likely neither kill them nor cripple their combat capability; it was far more effective to target their limbs and organs instead.

"Thanks," Tianxie muttered, twisting his neck and spine. The tattered, decaying muscles on his body were pushed out by newly regenerated tissue and fell to the ground, the heavy, rotting mass making a crisp clacking sound as it struck the earth.

The battered flesh and blood ultimately dissolved into a highly corrosive liquid, burning deep pits into the ground one after another.

Seeing this, Artoria was quite astonished. Although she had heard Zhao Tianhe mention that this individual was possessed by an Evil God, she hadn't expected the Evil God's physical vessel to be so terrifyingly bizarre.