Chapter 68: The Great Bear of the Earth

  In this small spring day, everyone answered in a friendly and joyful atmosphere of advancing meal, about a quarter of an hour passed, suddenly a loud "bang" sound entered everyone's ears, and with this huge sound came, there was also a violent tremor on the ground.

  The long-term mercenary life made those mercenaries aware that making such a big commotion must be a big shot, just didn't know which one. Hopefully, it's someone with slightly higher strength, so they can get a better price when they go back. The five mercenaries thought this in their hearts. According to their overall strength, they absolutely have the power to blast high-level 7th-tier magical beasts! As for 8th-tier sacred beasts, although they couldn't beat them, but at this level, even if they wanted to see one, it's not certain they could, so they didn't worry about the incoming beast being too much for them.

  They were in a hurry, not knowing what kind of demon beast it was. However, in the divine consciousness of Little Meteor and Little Spring, the huge and dynamic creator had already been revealed. A brown bear with a ferocious appearance, over 3 meters tall and more than 1 meter wide on its shoulders. On the chest of this bear, there was a large V-shaped mark that showed its extraordinary nature. A 7th-tier high-level demon beast! Little Meteor and Little Spring had learned human language and writing, but when it came to demon beasts, apart from some common ones, they couldn't name any others. Watching the giant bear sniffing around with its nose as it walked, Little Meteor knew that this was another "guest" attracted by Little Spring's roasted meat. It was simply invincible, actually attracting a high-level demon beast that had been hibernating nearby! Little Meteor was completely speechless.

  "Oh my god, the Great Bear of the Earth! It's an adult!" Just as the giant bear came into everyone's line of sight, Glarey started shouting out loud, his tone filled with surprise, concern, but more so excitement. Perhaps he was thinking about how much money he could make by selling its fur or magic core. He didn't know about the fur, but a 7th-tier earth-attribute magic core, according to Lorry's introduction, would sell for at least over 2 million gold coins!

  They 5 people divided, each person can get more than 4 million, which is indeed a considerable income. Even in Xiaoliuxing's mind, Luoman, who has a relatively stable personality, is also smiling, let alone others. And Xiaoliuxing also learned the name of another demon through Gerali's mouth.

  With the temptation of Da Di Zhi Xiong, he can't even bother with the delicious food in his hand now.

  "Parker and Huo Meng will attack first, Na Hou will take advantage of the situation on the side. I and Gela will go down and entangle with it. The Earth Bear's skin is very thick, everyone try to attack its head, and be careful of its magic attacks. It's best at earth thorn magic and physical attacks. Huo Meng, when the time comes, you attack more, its skin may be hard but it's still afraid of fire. Try to hit one place repeatedly, if it gets burned, it won't be worth anything."

  Roman is indeed the captain, before the attack, not only did he assign tasks well, but also detailed the precautions and information about the opponent to everyone, so that everyone had a bottom line in their hearts and was more confident in the upcoming battle. This performance also made Xiaoliu look up to him even more.

  After Roman finished speaking, everyone began to fight according to what he had just said. Archer Park took out his bow and arrow, aiming at the target, waiting for it to enter the shooting range before firing. Mage Huo also started chanting magic, and Xiaoliang clearly felt the energy fluctuations around his body. Thief Nake, on the other hand, hid behind a tree, preparing to launch a sneak attack.

  Two warriors were ready with their weapons, prepared to go at any moment. The great bear of the earth was still about 300 meters away from them. This was not the best attacking distance for archers and magicians. Xiaoliu Xing and Xiaochuntian had never seen a battle between humans and magical beasts before, they were very curious, and both stopped eating barbecue, their eyes wide with excitement, ready to watch a free action movie.

  When a demon reaches the 4th rank, it has some wisdom. When it reaches the 6th rank, its wisdom is almost equal to that of humans. As for the 7th rank demons, there's no need to mention them. When Roman and his group saw the Great Bear of the Earth, the Great Bear of the Earth also saw them.

  Perhaps it didn't expect to encounter humans, the small meteor clearly saw it stunned for a moment in its divine consciousness, but soon disappeared, replaced by an excited expression. In Roman's eyes and others, it was equivalent to a very impressive wealth, on the other hand, in the Earth Bear's eyes, Roman and others were just a sumptuous feast. Perhaps due to its considerable confidence in its own strength, the Earth Bear not only didn't turn around and leave after seeing Roman's battle preparations but instead rushed over even faster.

  When they were about 200 meters apart, Parker first shot out the arrow in his hand, aiming directly at the left eye of the rapidly running Earth Bear! And the speed was also very fast. Then came a string of basketball-sized fireballs from Huo Meng. As for Parker's arrow, the Earth Bear disdainfully stopped running and crushed it with its left paw. As for those fireballs, it didn't use its paws to slap them again, but chose to defend itself.

  Because Parker's arrow flew much faster than Flame Mong's fireball, when he snapped the arrow shaft, the fireball was still more than a dozen meters away from him. At this time, it calmly swung its hands in front of its body, and a three-meter-high, two-meter-wide earth wall suddenly rose up, blocking the fireball in front of it. 5th-level earth magic - Earth Wall Technique. Looking at that earth wall, Little Streamer thought to himself, if he were to build a house with this technique, it wouldn't take more than a few swings!

  Huǒ Méng seemed to know that Dàdìzhī Xióng would use this move to defend against his fireballs, and at the moment when the earth wall appeared, completely blocking Dàdìzhī Xióng, he curled up the corner of his mouth and revealed a smile that said "I knew it". At this time, the originally straight-flying string of fireballs suddenly split into two groups, one with only four or five fireballs, and the other with over ten or twenty fireballs.

  Those four or five fireballs, under Huo Meng's control, took the lead from the left, flying along an arc, bypassing the earthen wall and heading towards Da Di Zhi Xiong behind it. Under Xiao Liu Xing's all-around surveillance, he saw that Da Di Zhi Xiong was not flustered when faced with the sudden appearance of the four or five fireballs, and with a wave of his hand, several small conical earth thorns suddenly emerged from the ground and collided with those fireballs.

  At this time, the problem appeared. When he turned to face the first four or five fireballs, another batch of fireballs suddenly appeared behind it. Just as it had just eliminated a few fireballs and was feeling proud, they all hit its head and back! "Ahhh~~~" The intense pain made it involuntarily let out a loud roar, while its entire body fell backwards to the ground, trying to use this method to extinguish the flames on its body. And surprisingly, this method actually worked. The fire on its body went out after it fell to the ground.

  The Great Bear of the Earth, as an eighth-level magical beast, is especially renowned for its defensive capabilities. Although it was hit by over twenty fireballs, only a large patch of its fur was burned, giving off a slightly charred smell and causing some pain, but nothing too serious happened. If it were any weaker, it would have lost a layer of skin.

  "Rooooaaaar~~~" The Great Bear of the Earth was enraged, for it had been injured by those insignificant humans! A burst of yellow light erupted from its body, and instantly, numerous cone-shaped earth spikes emerged from the ground in front of it, each about 20-30 cm long. There were roughly 200-300 of them. The earthen wall that had blocked its path also vanished. As the bear let out another roar, all the earth spikes shot towards everyone with incredible speed, covering a distance of 150 meters in mere seconds.

  Due to the large number of thorns and their high speed, Roman, Glare, Park, and Huo Meng were all injured. The first three were slightly better off as they were naturally fast and had dodged many of the thorns. However, Huo Meng was not so lucky. As a magician, specifically a fire-type magician, speed was not his strong suit, and his physical fitness was also not great. Moreover, at least 90 of these thorns were attacking him alone.

  Who made the Great Bear of the Earth get hurt, who made the Great Bear of the Earth so intelligent that it recognized the culprit? It's hard not to receive special care. If Roman hadn't helped him block a few earth thorns at the most critical moment, he would have been finished by now! Even so, he was still hit by several earth thorns, and his body had several more holes, severely injured and fainted.

  Those present who were not injured were Xiao Liuxing, Xiaochuntian, and the thief Nahuo, who had hidden from the beginning. Nahuo was unharmed because he had not been taken care of. Xiao Liuxing and Xiaochuntian formed a protective shield outside their bodies when the earth thorns came, completely blocking those thorns. The four people in front did not see the protective shields of Xiao Liuxing and Xiaochuntian at all, they were too busy to take care of themselves and had no time to look back at Xiao Liuxing and Xiaochuntian.

  Only Na Huo accidentally saw the true yuan cover that appeared on the outside of Xiao Liuxing and Xiao Chuntian's bodies, which was similar to the protective cover of this world. He thought it was the latter's Na Huo, his eyes were stunned when he saw the true yuan cover, and then revealed a greedy expression. However, it disappeared immediately afterwards. Under the cover of the environment, he continued to sneak closer to Da Di Zhi Xiong, who was still raging.

  The mud thorn lasted for more than three minutes. In these three minutes, except for Roman who was protecting the weak Fire Mong, Glare and Park were both dodging the mud thorns while constantly adjusting their positions. Park kept moving towards the side with the bigger tree trunk, while Glare kept getting closer to the body of the Great Bear. Three minutes was enough time for Glare to walk 150 meters.

  With a loud roar, Glare's body jumped up, and his hands, which had been prepared beforehand, shone with a blue light as he swung his massive sword down towards the Earth Bear's head. The bear was forced to stop its relentless barrage of mud spikes as it gazed at the flashing blue sword, and hastily used its sharp claws to grab at the giant sword that was coming for it.

  Unfortunately, the situation was not as he had imagined. Just as his paws were about to touch the blade, the large sword suddenly turned and slipped away from his fingers. "Not good!" The Great Earth Bear's heart skipped a beat, and without thinking, it tilted its head back. Unfortunately, it was still one step too slow. The giant sword that had slipped out of its grasp struck its face with great force. "Puchi" A large gash about 4-5 cm long immediately appeared on its face. Fresh blood spurted out. "It seems the captain was right, its skin is not ordinary," Glare thought to himself as he looked at the results of his successful strike, "If it were an ordinary 7th-level magical beast, its head would have been split in two by now."