Chapter 31: Battle of Duoduogongti Cunzi (Part II)

"The battle plan is not complicated. Since the enemy is divided into three waves gathered separately, our priority is to crush one part of them during the first wave of the attack," Jier said, standing in front of the group.

Aoni took the initiative to ask: "Sir, there are three waves of enemies; which one shall we strike first?"

Jier found some stones on the ground to represent the layout of the village ahead. Pointing to a stone on the west side of the village that represented the monsters, he said to everyone: "This one on the west. This wave of monsters happens to be near the west gate of the village. Once we charge in, we can engage these monsters as quickly as possible."

"After defeating them, I require everyone to withdraw as quickly as possible and assemble outside the village. I will ride my horse alone to lure the wave with the largest number of monsters, while you all follow the village wall and enter from the south gate to pursue the other small wave originally on the east side of the village. During the second stage of the battle, with me absent, I require you, Aoni, I require you to do your best to ensure everyone's lives, rather than pursuing the defeat of the monsters."

Aoni braced himself and nodded to show he understood.

"In the battle plan, to ensure the main force of the second wave of monsters and the smaller third wave on the east side do not merge or communicate, Tusi Brothers!" Jier called out.

Two of the three brothers, Zhongtusi and Xiao Tusi, immediately stepped forward and responded: "Present, Knight Jier."

"I require you to set off now and sneak to the roofs of the houses on the west side of the village to lie in ambush. Hmm, take the three archers from the team with you as well. The five of you will hide, and after the main body of monsters is lured out of the village west gate, use your bows to delay the third wave of monsters, thereby allowing Aoni and the others to take a detour and catch up to the last wave of enemies. In the subsequent battle, try your best to use bows to delay those new monsters with blooming heads, and try to create opportunities when killing this type of monster. Understood?"

"Easy, Knight Jier."

"Leave it to us."

Immediately, the Tusi Brothers called over the three qualified official archers in the team, and the five of them ran quickly toward the village to the north.

The entire battle had to be rushed, trying to finish before dark. He did not know about the monsters, but in any case, they humans were not good at night fighting. Of course, Jier had no problem, and the Dwarfs on the side were even more adept at fighting in poor lighting conditions.

"Aoni, once you have crushed the third wave of monsters, immediately occupy the Cunzi West Gate. I will lead the monsters in a circle and bring them back. Although the village wall is very crude, having it is better than nothing. Let us rely on this crude wall and kill all these remaining monsters there!"

"Understood!" Aoni replied affirmatively. Others wanted to cheer before the battle, but Jier saw this and immediately stopped their behavior: "Wait until after the victory to cheer; for now, please hurry. As for the reward for defeating monsters that everyone is most concerned about, this is how I feel."

Jier paused for a moment before stating the issue all the Warriors were most concerned about: "The strength of ordinary Parasitic Vine Monsters is limited; they are one Silver Coin each."

Everyone was a bit disappointed, but it was acceptable. After all, many of them had already fought this type of monster in the refugee armed Militia team before and knew that relying on bow fire alone could kill these monsters with limited mobility and combat power.

"As for the monsters with plant branches growing out of their heads, they are one Gold Coin each. How about that? Are you satisfied now?"

Only then did everyone break into smiles. There were eight such monsters. Although not many, and far fewer than the number of Defeated Soldiers before, the spoils of war from this type of monster were also scarce, so even for the eight Gold Coin reward, Jier felt a bit of a sting.

"Finally, there is the type of monster you are most concerned about, the ones with heads full of blooming flowers. This type of monster seems to be the leader of the monster group. I do not know why such a monster appeared alone by the roadside earlier, but their strength is indeed formidable; the reward for each of them is five Gold Coins! Do not think about killing one alone; that is not very realistic. The bodies of these monsters have undergone some deep modifications and are no longer the bodies of weak ordinary people."

"Stay alert, and do not just focus on fighting over monster heads and lose your lives! Especially you, Aoni, who is in command; if anyone in the team dies, I will come looking for you!"

After listening, everyone followed Aoni and walked quickly in formation toward the village to the north. Before mounting his horse, Jier gave instructions to the others: "Siter, you are responsible for commanding those remaining here. Mr. Zuojigela, please prepare for some medical treatment; I do not think that not a single person will be injured. Also, can you handle possible monster parasitism?"

Zuojigela was a bit flustered: "If it is a common parasite that enters the human body due to diet, I have corresponding Herb and Potion to handle it, but this kind of parasitic plant that I have never seen before, I am sorry, I do not have the confidence to handle it. On this point, I dare not boast to you, for fear of delaying your affairs, Knight, and the lives of the Warriors."

Jier nodded; this was within his expectations: "I understand, you do not need to apologize. After all, with plants parasitizing the human body, the Priests of the church do not seem to be able to handle this well."

After speaking, he jumped onto his warhorse and told Xueya Site to look after his 'pet' Huimao Hu Li and not let the thing get lost. During this time, this Shapeshifting Monster had been very obedient, as if the sporadic licking of the monster blood left behind by the Tianxuecao Jier fed it had caused some changes in it.

But clearly, apart from being high-spirited and full of vitality, there were no other changes to the Tianxuecao, right?

Jier rode his horse at high speed, so he quickly caught up with and passed Aoni and the others who had left first, and was even faster than the Tusi Brothers and the other archers.

When the sunset was about ten or twenty minutes away from falling below the horizon, the Warriors had finally all arrived.

The Tusi Brothers led the men to sneak into the open Cunzi West Gate and lay in ambush on the roofs of the Farmer houses on the left and right sides inside the gate. Jier let the Tianxuecao wait on the spot, and after the Warriors who arrived on foot came, he personally led the team to charge straight at the eleven or twelve parasitic monsters by the water well on the west side of the village.

These monsters were still facing the sun, acting as if they were reluctant to leave, seemingly fascinated by the day of sunbathing, or perhaps they had not yet recovered their senses. So when Jier led the men to charge straight at them, many of the weak parasitic monsters looked dull and stupid, and were knocked down one after another by the Warriors, who chopped off their heads and hands.

Jier pointed to the two monsters by the well with plant branches growing out of their heads and issued an order: "Aoni, you command the others. Weier, Bawei, Sipulu, you deal with these two. The flower-headed monsters are left to me!"

For his main weapon, Jier only brought the Yue Shui Skull. At this moment, holding this blue axe, he leaped and, across the seven or eight-meter battlefield, performed a vertical cleave at that monster.

This guy was obviously reacting relatively quickly. It was unknown how it communicated with its other monster companions, but a large amount of floral fragrance erupted on the scene, and then at the same time, the monster dodged backward.

Jier missed with his axe, but he let go of the axe in his hand, letting the Yue Shui Skull, carrying the force of the vertical cleave, fly straight forward, catching up to the dodging flower-headed monster and severing its right arm with one blow.

He saw tiny vine roots extending from the monster's severed arm, seemingly trying to reattach it, but Jier would not let the opponent have its way. He immediately stepped forward and gave the severed arm on the ground a big kick, sending it flying far away.

With no hope of reattaching its arm, the monster immediately lunged at Jier. If it were an ordinary human Warrior, being lunged at by such a monster with great strength, no fear of injury, and no vital points, the outcome would mostly be bad.

But Jier did not care. He even opened his arms to welcome the opponent's lunge, and then Jier seized the opportunity, grabbed the lunging monster's left arm in mid-air, spun, and performed a shoulder throw, slamming it heavily onto the ground.

He then stepped on the opponent's chest and took the opportunity to draw the 【Heart Fire】 Magic Dagger from his waist, plunging the dark red blade into the monster's eye socket in one go.

"Scorching!"

With a sharp shout, the Magic Dagger inserted into the monster's blooming head erupted with high heat at close range. At this distance, the monster's core faced the Magic Fire directly, and almost instantly, scorching white flames emerged from the holes in the monster's entire head.

Jier hurriedly moved his finger away from the Magic Gemstone on the dagger, stopping the use of this magic weapon.

He pulled out the dagger and inserted it back into his waist. The monster's head had already been ignited from the inside, emitting smoke and flames.

"Hmph, hard head or not, sturdy or not, but after all, it is a plant monster; it really has no resistance at all when facing fire."

Jier mocked, reached out and grabbed the Yue Shui Skull as it flew back into his hand, and then used the axe to Heavy Cleave the monster's flaming head. This monster had tenacious vitality, and Jier was afraid it was playing dead, so he used the axe to completely split the head open, even splitting the plant Parasitic Core inside into two pieces.

Of course, the monster's torso was specifically cut down by Jier. The Water Storage Vesicle inside the opponent's torso were good things; whether the Herbalist used them to prepare healing medicine, or he simply used them as monster food to replenish water and accumulate Life Energy, they were all good.

Leaning on his Two-handed Axe, Jier did not participate in the other people's battles, but stabilized the whole scene, watching the Warriors kill the other monsters as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.

It was extremely easy for ordinary Warriors to deal with ordinary parasitic monsters. They were no longer the poor team that could not even produce a few pieces of Leather Armor when they fought parasitic monsters before. Now everyone wore Plate Armor that covered most of their bodies and held Soldier weapons made of steel. Moreover, after a sufficient period of eating and training, even if not everyone had muscles all over, everyone had become strong.

Three people formed a small combat group. One held a shield to deal with the monster's lunges, punches, and kicks from the front, another on the side held an axe to chop off the parasitic monster's human hands and feet, and then the Warrior holding a sword quickly aimed at the monster's precise position on the human torso and stabbed the monster's parasitic human face to pieces.

Fearing it was not safe enough, the three of them took turns using their respective weapons to strike hard at the monster's parasitic human face, completely smashing it until the monster stopped moving.

Eight or nine ordinary parasitic monsters were dealt with just like that; it looked like they were all taken down in one charge. In fact, this was because the Warriors' weapons and equipment had been upgraded. If it were during the Refugee Team period, the Warriors would have had to tangle with the monsters for a while, not as easily as chopping melons and vegetables like now.

Weier and the others had a harder time. Unlike the human bodies parasitized by ordinary Parasitic Vine Monsters, these monsters had already begun human-body plant-based transformation under the guidance of the flower-headed monsters.

The first step was to spread plant roots throughout the bones and muscles in the human body, which was the first step of replacement transformation.

This made their strength greater than that of ordinary parasitic monsters. At the same time, these thin plant vines interspersed in the human body tissues also disguisedly strengthened the toughness of the human body, so that they would not be easily dismembered when slashed by weapons.

Sipulu was like this; one slash only split half of the monster's arm, which almost caused him to be grabbed by the monster. Fortunately, Bawei used an axe to strike the monster's body. Although he failed to split the monster's body and cause serious damage, he still used a heavy blow to knock the monster to the ground.

Speaking of which, another weakness of the parasitic monsters was exposed.

They had great strength and their bodies were sturdier than humans, but their weight was actually a bit lighter than the average person.

Often, it looked like an adult human had been parasitized for a while, but its weight was not even as much as a female of the same age, even though the body had not changed in height.

It was simply because the internal Viscera, brain matter, and a lot of human blood and body fluids were swallowed and digested by the monster as nutrients, which led to the change in their weight.

At this time, Bawei easily knocked back the monster with great strength with one axe, thereby rescuing Sipulu.

"Thanks!" Sipulu thanked him and swung his sword to advance again. This time he would not make the same mistake as before.

"Really, just thanking me with your mouth is not enough. Balinba, you owe me one! Remember that." Bawei held his axe and wandered outside the battle between Weier and Sipulu, ensuring at any time that he could intervene and give the monster a heavy blow.

On Weier's side, he used his agile footwork and precise swordsmanship to slice the Monster's fingers off one by one in a near-showy display, then raised his foot to crush them.

A smile played on his lips as he looked at this plant-based Parasitic Monster with contempt.

"Don't think that just because you're wearing a Human skin, you can fight against us Humans. You evil Monsters are still a long way from defeating us!" Weier struck again with his sword, slicing off a section of the plant branches on the head of the Monster he was fighting.

The Monster seemed to treasure these plant branches extending from its skull; every time this area was attacked, it would become extremely enraged and swing its fists at Weier in a fury.

But Weier had already retreated, and taking advantage of the opponent's reckless attack, he stabbed and shattered the joints of the opponent's arms with sword strike after sword strike.

"Stop toying with the enemy, hurry up!" Jier saw this scene and reprimanded him.

Weier immediately exerted force, side-stepping as he rushed past to sever the Monster's arm at the elbow with one sword strike, then nimbly flicked away the clothing the Monster was wearing, revealing a parasitic human face that had moved to the center of its chest and was almost entirely retracted into its body.

At this moment, the human face also changed; its surface turned black, and the expression on the face was one of anger.

But angry as it was, it was still pierced by Weier, who had seized the opportunity, with a lunging sword thrust that accurately impaled the Monster's Parasitic Core from the front of its body.

Sipulu's side also finished quickly.

After nearly suffering a loss just moments before, Sipulu put a little more strength into his hand, directly seizing the opportunity to sever the entire arm from the wound he had just slashed into the Monster.

After losing an arm, significant openings appeared in the Monster's entire offensive; an ordinary person would certainly not be able to catch such an opening, which was almost invisible and impossible to grasp, but Sipulu had his own unique perspective on combat.

He was too adept at seizing opportunities in battle; first, he slashed his blade directly into the Monster's chest and abdomen, but failing to find the enemy's core in one go, he immediately followed up with a kick, knocking the opponent away before its counterattack could reach him.

Meanwhile, Bawei had long been prepared, and from behind the Monster, he swung an axe straight toward the Monster's neck.

Bang!

But this Monster's skeleton had already completed its wood-like transformation at the cervical spine, and Bawei's axe only managed to cut halfway through the opponent's neck.

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