Chapter 72: Spike Spike Spike

Boom! Rumble! Boom! Rumble!

The earth puppets were getting closer and closer.

With every step, all 70 earth puppets stepped out together, and the ground shook continuously.

Although the momentum was astonishing, their movement speed was indeed very slow.

Gu Qing summarized: "Earth puppets have high attack, high defense, high health, and fast attack speed, only their movement speed is slow. They will use long-range Stone Spike spiritual techniques, and we can kill them by smashing their heads, right?"

"Exactly, that's a very accurate summary."

"We can't capture these things, right?"

"We can capture them, but it's very difficult for us to do so now. Just kill them with full force."

Gu Qing nodded: "Understood. How shall we fight? Split into two groups and attack from both sides of the earth puppet formation? That way we can always outnumber them and hold the advantage."

Zhao Chi nodded:

"Splitting into two groups is fine, but we can't fight them head-on right now.

"We have to lure out all their skills first, just like fighting the lightning elements earlier.

"Gu Qing, Tang Ruan, you take the female soldiers up first to attract the earth puppets' attention.

"Each of them should only be able to use Stone Spike about 3 times; after that, they can only fight in close combat.

"The female artisans should keep some distance. You don't have leather boots, and your feet are very fragile, so don't approach rashly.

"Otherwise, one Stone Spike could ruin one of your legs.

"Lure out all their skills first, then we can kill them. Go!"

"As you command!"

Gu Qing and Tang Ruan each took half of the female soldiers and rushed to the two sides of the earth puppet formation.

The remaining female artisans also followed from a distance.

Leaving Zhao Chi alone in place.

Zhao Chi didn't mind at all.

If it weren't for them, Zhao Chi's current results would be about the same as Yang Xiong's, ending at the ghost stage.

Being able to reach this seventh stage, given his current strength, he couldn't play much of a role anymore.

Zhao Chi was currently following a command route, and his skill was Encouragement.

But the time to use it hadn't come yet.

Their morale was not bad.

[Zhao Chi's army morale]

[Gu Qing] 90%

[Tang Ruan] 96%

[Female militia] 85%

[Female artisans] 81%

Although morale had dropped slightly, it was still high enough.

The female soldiers split into two teams and quickly approached the two sides of the earth puppet formation.

Seeing this, the earth puppets also split from the middle, turning into two teams on the left and right to meet the attack.

Their steady pace was finally broken.

The vibration of the ground lessened a lot.

Gu Qing was charging when she suddenly felt something arching out of the ground in front of her.

Just like when the Taoyuan humans were born.

Gu Qing immediately dodged.

Whoosh!

Instantly, a 1-meter-high, thigh-thick conical stone spike broke through the ground, stabbing sharply upward.

The speed of the stab was very fast.

It almost grazed Gu Qing's thigh.

"30 meters..." Gu Qing shouted back: "I was attacked by a Stone Spike, it was about 30 meters away, the speed is very fast, everyone must watch the ground!"

The voice was loud, and everyone heard it.

Tang Ruan said: "Everyone be careful, we are about to enter the 30-meter range."

Whoosh!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

As soon as she finished speaking.

The female soldiers on both sides saw the ground boiling at the same time.

Like boiling water, it started to bubble.

But what came out were not bubbles, but sharp stone spikes breaking through the ground.

The appearance speed of the stone spikes was very fast, and not everyone could dodge them.

"Ah!"

"Oh no."

"Woo..."

"My foot!"

"It's too fast, I was stabbed."

"It doesn't seem to have broken through the defense?"

A few female soldiers jumped high.

It wasn't that they wanted to jump, but they were stabbed up by the stone spikes.

Light shone in Gu Qing's hands: "How are you?"

"I'm fine, it didn't pierce through, just bumped the sole of my foot, there's a bit of impact pain."

"I'm fine too, with the defense bonus of the leather boots and stockings, this stone spike didn't pierce our feet."

"Is that so? That's good." Gu Qing crushed the light in her hand.

Since they weren't injured, it was just damage to the durability of the leather boots, so there was no need to waste spiritual power on healing.

Gu Qing didn't know how much damage these stone spikes could cause.

But looking at their sharpness and the speed of the upward stab, the power should be quite significant.

However, these female soldiers had all reinforced their defense, and even the lowest Level 2 female soldiers had 42% reinforcement.

Plus the 37.5% defense reinforcement provided by the stockings, the overall defense of their feet reached 79.5%, close to 80%!

Those Level 4 female soldiers had their additional defense increased to 91.5%!

Their foot defense was extremely strong.

It practically turned their leather boots into iron boots.

Tang Ruan said: "How annoying, it almost stabbed my crotch. Everyone, use your shields to protect your crotch area."

Gu Qing was stunned, and after thinking about it, she also lowered her shield.

Zhao Chi looked at the sharp spikes appearing in front, like shark teeth, feeling very nervous.

But he could only trust those women now.

He considered retreating and climbing the defensive tower to counterattack.

A large number of stones had been moved to the defensive tower in advance, which could be thrown downward.

But this test had modified the rules; if the enemy wasn't eliminated within 30 minutes, they would be eliminated.

This made the hard-built defensive tower lose much of its utility.

Perhaps this test was mainly to test the students' frontal combat ability, and it didn't encourage the use of defensive towers and traps.

Then so be it.

Even if it wasn't used in the test, it could be used in territory battles later, so it definitely wasn't built in vain.

At the same time, Zhao Chi also felt a bit ashamed that he couldn't do anything now.

But it didn't matter.

He had already understood this world, and in the future, he would have plenty of time to improve himself.

He believed that in the next battle, there would definitely be room for him to perform.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The stone spikes kept stabbing upward as the female soldiers moved.

At the same time, female soldiers kept jumping up, landing, jumping up, and landing.

Zhao Chi observed the number of people, and almost one-third of the female soldiers jumped up each time.