After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

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After advancing for about six hundred meters, an exceptionally large black crab came into view.

Compared to the ordinary murderous crabs with a body length of three meters, this black armored giant crab measured a full five meters.

Its carapace was dark and glossy, like a small hill clad in heavy armor, radiating a steel-like sheen all over.

Beneath the black armored giant crab were a pile of adventurer corpses, mangled and trampled beyond recognition.

The evil aura of the magical creature was like a cluster of vigorously burning black flames, impossible to ignore.

Lin Da gripped the trembling hand of Monica and said, "Don't be nervous, you can do this!"

The black armored crab general, level 20.

A purple rare level magical creature.

Its combat power was higher than the goblin chieftain, with an astonishing health point total of 50,000!

But Lin Da's heart was calm, lacking the tension he had faced when confronting the goblin chieftain.

Back then, he was only level 13, hadn't exchanged his equipment, yet he had managed to kill the goblin chieftain with 30,000 health points.

Now with the Phoenix Tail Flower Bird Gun switched out for a cannon, and he himself wielding the Azure Sword, having also suited Monica up in full purple gear...

The overall combat strength of the team had increased by more than double.

Monica also had a 50% damage increase against shell-type creatures, and the damage from each of Big Lolita's shots would easily exceed ten thousand.

No matter how powerful the black armored crab general was, it wouldn't withstand five shots from Monica.

It simply wouldn't be enough!

Lin Da confidently led his team members closer, only to discover that a rock-level squad was already there.

But when he had been commanding in the operations hall, he hadn't dispatched any other teams here.

This 'rock-level' area should only have the Phoenix Tail Flower team.

Lin Da thought doubtfully.

Looking closely ahead.

It was a squad comprised entirely of beastmen.

The badge they wore on their chests had a red heart as the background symbol, not a dove.

A supporting adventure team from Red Heart City?

Lin Da was somewhat surprised.

The team had a total of seven members.

Two front-liners, responsible for drawing the black armored crab general's fury.

Four ranged attackers, dealing damage.

And one dedicated support, a healer.

Although the opposing team was also at rock level, the pressure Lin Da felt from them wasn't intense; the highest level among them was estimated to be around 20.

Some team members' level auras were only slightly higher than his own, probably around levels 18 or 19.

The situation on the battlefield was extremely tense.

This adventure team was struggling to deal effective damage to the black armored crab general.

Their team members had terribly poor compatibility with this magical creature!

The two archers couldn't penetrate the hard carapace of the black armored crab general.

The archers' 'penetration series' was resisted by the murderous crabs, just as Lin Da's poison series had been.

The other two mages were fire mages.

Fire attacking water was a self-inflicted struggle.

They, too, faced a reduction of 50% in damage.

The strength of the murderous crabs lay just there, in their ability to resist various types of damage.

Lin Da saw pitiful numbers rising above the head of the black armored crab general: -300, -400, -370...

And a single frenzied strike from the creature could cause the frontline warrior to spit blood, their faces reddening and veins on their foreheads nearly bursting.

Lin Da took a quick glance and immediately understood the battle situation.

Just relying on this team, even if they could defeat the black armored crab general, the casualties would be heavy.

On the battlefield, the greater situation took precedence; he didn't mind leading the Phoenix Tail Flower, cooperating with this team from Red Heart City.

"I'll help..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a 'thump'—an arrow landed right before Lin Da.

If he had taken half a step further, the arrow would have hit his boot!

"What do you mean by this?"

Lin Da furrowed his brow, anger evident in his eyes.

Monica and Kafni's expressions changed as well, becoming alert.

"Sorry, this is the prey of our 'Giant Rhino Adventure Team'."

A beastman with a hound's head, holding a crossbow, sneered and gestured somewhere else: "Please leave."

"Was it you?"

Lin Da felt the houndman looked familiar.

A memory suddenly surfaced; he remembered, "Mos?"

The houndman called Mos hesitated for a moment, then looked carefully at Lin Da: "It's you?"

The two had met once before at the Adventurer's Guild in Red Heart City.

At that time, Monica was wearing a cardboard box, and Mos mocked her to simply roll back home and stay there.

The two had a somewhat unpleasant conflict.

Recognizing Lin Da, Mos's attitude grew even worse. He raised the crossbow in his hand and bellowed, "If you want to defeat such a black armored giant crab, find your own; don't covet ours. Leave at once!"

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Lin Da kindly offered help, only to be met with suspicion, which led to his expression turning cold.

"Let's go."

Without another word, Lin Da, holding Monica's hand, hurried forward, towards the presence of Leader Level Magical Creatures.

Kafni viciously flipped the middle finger: "Shar Pei Beastmen, I hope the magical creatures fuck you to death!"

Mos sneered, "Our Rock-level Squad would never lose to a Level 20 magical creature. Just don't be jealous, that's all!"

"Jealous my ass!"

Kafni spat out a mouthful of saliva in contempt.

The Giant Rhino Adventure Team was obviously among the weaker Rock-level teams. Kafni's Divine Power could sense that Mos was only Level 17. Those who were fighting ahead? Only four were Level 20, the rest around Level 18.

They were clearly the lucky dogs that passed the 10th floor of the World Tree, yet they believed it was their own strength that got them through.

That kind of thing happening to the muscle-brained Beastmen was pretty normal.

"Two Archers and two Fire Mages fighting aquatic Shell-type Magical Creatures, seriously, I'm lost for words. They can't even break the shells, what a joke. Are they crazy for materials or what?"

Kafni caught up to Lin Da, complaining non-stop.

This deity was someone who couldn't stand the slightest loss and was vengeful by nature.

Lin Da also felt quite helpless: "There's nothing we can do about it. The materials from a Black Shell Crab General are worth about 200,000 gold. Even established Rock-level Squads only earn that much in a year."

The Giant Rhino Adventure Team thought it was a huge loss to yield the creature and share it with Phoenix Tail Flower.

But after all the Giant Rhino Adventure Team's efforts, they hadn't even triggered the second stage of the Black Shell Crab General. Over here at Phoenix Tail Flower, it would only take three shots from Monica.

Joining forces to fight the Black Shell Crab General, the real losers were actually Lin Da and his team.

They didn't need the Giant Rhino Adventure Team at all, and could easily kill the Black Shell Crab General by themselves.

They were willing to share the spoils because they saw the others as reinforcements.

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Mos, smug as ever, returned to the edge of the battlefield and stood with the Mages in the back.

"Captain, I drove them off. It was an Apprentice Squad. They ran scared when they saw our Giant Rhino's Rock-level badge, haha!"

Mos, trying to look cool, wiped his chin with his thumb, then spread his hands: "This Rock-level badge is really useful. If this were a few days ago, I'd have to argue with those people."

"Well done. You keep watch, don't let other adventure teams take advantage of the chaos to steal our gains," the captain of the Giant Rhino Adventure Team said. He was a Rhinoceros-man Mage named Lai Xi.

Lai Xi glanced at the Rock-level badge on his chest, his stern face softened, revealing a proud smile.

"Captain, are you sure everything's fine?"

Mos hesitated for a moment and looked towards the center of the battlefield: a five-meter-long giant crab was hammering its claws down on the Heavy Armored Warrior's Tower Shield. The size difference between the two was like that of a cat and a mouse. With each hit from the giant crab, the ground beneath the Heavy Armored Warrior caved in.

Even from several dozen meters away, the vibration of the earth reached under Mos' feet.

Just one pinch from those claws, and he guessed he'd crap himself.

"Can we, actually kill that magical creature?" Mos had his doubts.

"No big deal," Lai Xi's voice was calm and powerful, "Although this Black Crab is trickier than the Giant Carnivorous Flower on the ninth floor, we can wear it down. How can the intelligence of magical creatures compare to us Beastmen?"

"Exactly, no matter how fierce the magical creatures are, they are just a bunch of brainless things." Mos nodded deeply in agreement, feeling a lot more relaxed in his heart.

In this Beastman-constituted adventure team, there was also a member from the dolphin race of demi-humans, with a small black fishtail growing behind her head, just like a ponytail.

The girl hesitated before saying, "Lai Xi, I think we could cooperate with that team."

"Feiny, are you scared?"

Lai Xi said with amusement, "Even though you are the smartest in our adventure team, we absolutely must not let this Black Armored Crab General go. If we take it down, everyone in our adventure team can upgrade to more powerful equipment."

"I know this magical creature is valuable... It's just that the Giant Carnivorous Flower we subdued last time was actually suppressed by our two Fire Mages, right?"

Feiny, with a headache, pointed to the Black Armored Crab General ahead, "Such aquatic demons are not easy to kill, their carapace is too thick, we can't blast through."

Lai Xi shook his head, speaking with a tranquil voice, "No problem, with precision we can break through. We just need to keep attacking the same spot, and we will eventually break through."

The focus of the Giant Rhino Adventure Team's attack was the carapace near the head of the Black Shell Crab General, where a large number of white marks had been made.

It was presumably quite fragile; a few more hits and the 'crab roe' would burst.

"Roaring Charge!"

The front-line Heavy Armored Warrior holding a battle axe suddenly jumped up, striking the whitened part of the carapace.

"Good, it's about to break," Lai Xi said, clenching his fist in excitement.

Then, the next second, everyone was stunned.

Mos jumped around anxiously, "Brother Four, why did you wipe the white marks clean, what are you doing?"

It turned out that the Bull-headed Warrior, Brother Four, charged at the Black Shell Crab General's carapace covered with white marks only to... wipe it clean!

It was as if one polished dirty leather shoes with shoe polish, making them shine brightly!

Lai Xi's head buzzed, murmuring, "The white marks we finally produced were just... wiped away by Brother Four?"

The other members of the team were also somewhat dumbfounded, looking at each other, grasping their weapons, unsure if the fight was still on. Experience tales at empire

"Damn it!"

"Complete waste of effort, everybody, use your ultimate skills!"

Team leader Lai Xi, burning with a mix of anger and embarrassment, took the lead with the Flame Mage's level 20 ultimate skill, Fire Tornado.

It burned fiercely, and indeed had some effect.

The Black Shell Crab General, enraged, lifted its giant pincers and swung them like scissors, 'snip snip', before forcefully snapping them shut, the two pincers turning into two massive, sharp blades amidst the glow!

If Lin Da were here, he would realize: it was moving into stage two.

In its second stage, the Black Armored Crab General entered a berserk state, with increased attack power and faster movement speed.

Healers had to conserve their magic power, frantically healing the front line, or else it would be easy to lose members.

Unfortunately, the Giant Rhino Adventure Team didn't have the experience of subduing the Black Armored Crab General.

The huge 'blade pincer', with a momentum as if it could split heaven and earth, struck the Bull-headed Warrior.

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