Chapter 269: Chessboard, chess pieces, team fight!

"Clang!"

A bell tolled,

and the Space Tombstone rippled outward,

covering the entire underground laboratory.

Most monsters possessed displacement skills.

Although the Space Tombstone couldn't forbid them from using them,

it could greatly limit the displacement distance.

During the battle, a tiny mistake could become the fuse for defeat!

The no-fly zone brought by the Space Tombstone.

It was just like a chessboard,

covering the chess pieces and the twenty monsters.

Li Yao stood in the back.

This time he didn't command;

he relied entirely on the chess pieces to perform on their own.

Tiger Armor and the Devourer

were like scouts,

charging into the pile of monsters without fear.

The Devourer relied on its terrifying HP to tank the monsters' damage,

and its size grew larger and larger,

propping up the ceiling until half its body was exposed outside.

Tiger Armor relied on its super-high speed to dodge most attacks, as if it were a dragon swimming through the monster horde!

Kha'Zix was like a cunning assassin,

roaming the edges of the team fight,

seizing opportunities to go in and unleash a combo.

No monster could withstand Kha'Zix's damage;

one combo, and these Leader-tier monsters would almost all lose more than half their HP!

The Immortal Thunder Mouse was more like a battlefield medic;

wherever it was needed,

it would transform into lightning and dash over.

After stunning them with electric therapy, the Immortal Dew Thunder would follow up.

As for the Dark-Wing Black Dragon and the Blue Bird,

the entire chessboard was snowing and burning—all their handiwork.

Various controls and area-of-effect damage emerged one after another.

These twenty monsters had no ability to resist at all.

Soon, one died at the hands of Kha'Zix.

"No EXP?"

Li Yao asked in confusion.

It seemed it was similar to the Goblin Ten Elders;

only after all were killed would the loot and EXP increase drop.

With one dead, the resistance became weaker,

leading to the second death,

and then more and more would die!

Under the blockade of the Space Tombstone, even wanting to run away looked extremely clumsy.

Once isolated,

they would soon be preyed upon by the mantis!

"Now I'm just missing a physical sustained output unit."

Li Yao looked at the battlefield and muttered.

Although the Dark-Wing Black Dragon and the Blue Bird were also sustained output types,

they were better at super-large-scale output.

For sustained damage against a single target,

he only had Tiger Armor's fists and the Dark-Wing Black Dragon's breath.

They were strong,

but not like Kha'Zix's burst,

which was strong enough

to be suffocating!

Li Yao kept two finished items from the Cloud Top,

both of which were sustained output types.

"If I haven't contracted that hero before level 40,"

"I'll just have to go to the trading market to hunt for skill books."

Li Yao calculated secretly.

The last monster had its head severed by Kha'Zix's blade.

The system panel refreshed accordingly.

【Cross-level kill of a Leader-tier creature, Akasia experimental monster, EXP +5%】

"Another 5% EXP!" Li Yao said pleasantly surprised.

Up to now, the EXP bar had reached level 35, 33%.

This leveling speed, no one else has it!

"Let's go, the last two floors."

"The next floor is the mechanism floor. You all brought agility potions, right?"

Li Yao turned back and asked,

only to find that all the students, including Shang Shang Yana, were looking at him as if he were a monster.

No matter,

let them look.

He was used to it anyway.

Crushing twenty Leaders was a fantasy to them,

but to Li Yao, it wasn't worth mentioning at all.

If it were twenty Lord-tier,

relying solely on chess pieces might be a bit strenuous,

requiring him to summon the Vanguard and Void Sea Worms to assist.

If it were twenty Named-tier,

even Li Yao would fall into a bitter battle,

needing to use all his means to have a chance to kill them all.

Li Yao pondered,

then called out to Shang Shang Yana

and walked toward the entrance of the sixth floor.

Clearing 【Abyss Fortress】 required bringing your own agility potions;

this was common sense.

If they didn't bring them, that was their business,

having nothing to do with Li Yao.

Shang Shang Yana came to her senses

and hurriedly followed Li Yao.

Even though she knew in advance that Li Yao was strong,

the scene of Summoned Beasts vs. a monster army still left her particularly shocked.

Jumping into the sixth-floor space,

the strategy was correct;

the sixth floor was the mechanism floor.

As latecomers,

they had the lessons learned by predecessors.

These mechanical traps that looked despair-inducing

only required two potions to pass through safely.

One bottle of high-level agility potion,

one bottle of freezing potion.

Freeze some mechanisms, then pass through at high speed.

Shang Shang Yana took out the freezing potion she had prepared long ago,

carefully freezing some specifically noted mechanisms according to the strategy.

Just as she was about to take the agility potion,

the Devourer swallowed it in one gulp!

"Ah!"

This bite came too fast,

making Shang Shang Yana unable to help but let out a cry of surprise.

Li Yao, who was beside her, asked irritably: "What are you screaming for?"

"Uh, nothing, nothing."

Shang Shang Yana's small face flushed slightly, and she patted her chest lightly.

"A bottle of high-level agility potion is nearly two hundred points."

"You shouldn't have many points, right?"

The Devourer braved the bombardment of these machines and swaggered toward the front.

These damage values, which would easily take half the HP of a professional,

were nothing but a drizzle in the eyes of the Devourer.

Throughout the entire passage, the Devourer even had two-thirds of its HP left.

This was still because its size was too large,

causing all those indiscriminate strafing attacks to hit the Devourer.

The Devourer opened its mouth and spat the two of them out.

"Thank you, big bug."

Shang Shang Yana bowed to the Devourer, covering her neckline.

Then she turned to look at Li Yao and smiled:

"Student Li Yao, don't worry."

"The battle for supremacy rewarded over ten thousand points, so I still have quite a few left."

Li Yao, however, didn't believe it:

"Even if it were ten thousand points, these days, you've been paying me along with those students."

"That shouldn't be enough, right?"

"My sister supported me a little."

Shang Shang Yana stuck out her tongue, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Don't give them to me later; I'm not short of those points," Li Yao said indifferently.

"How can that be?" Shang Shang Yana waved her hands repeatedly. "Everyone is scrambling to have Student Li Yao lead them, and the price isn't high; others have all paid."

"You are not 'others'."

"Besides, you've done so many things; added together, it's enough for those points."

Shang Shang Yana stood frozen in place,

her whole person as if she had crashed.

The words Li Yao said afterward,

she didn't hear a single syllable of.

She only heard that sentence:

"You are not others."

Her entire small face turned as red as a ripe apple.

Li Yao suddenly touched Shang Shang Yana's forehead.

"Do you have a fever?"