Chapter 356 - Deep Sea Octopus Commander (Evolving)
Chapter 356: Deep Sea Octopus Commander (Evolving)
“Tsk, tsk. It’s just a weakling in the end! Scared me a bit there!”
Feng Luo, who was standing outside the VIP area, focused his gaze on the unusual building behind the cave with a serious expression while the other players breathed a sigh of relief!
The players initially thought that it was a Commander-grade monster that would turn the tide of the battle or, even worse, completely wipe them out. However, now they found out that it was a Level-35 Commander monster whose HP was only around the 30,000 mark. And now, it was suppressed to the point that it couldn’t even fight back! This was a Commander monster that certainly didn’t live up to its title!
When long-range players concentrated their firepower to attack, the damage dealt was, naturally, quite considerable. The female Desert Nighthawk Commander above the cave was already covered in injuries. It continued to shriek in agony as its HP bottomed out!
The Scout player who loved to gloat looked excited. He shouted as the sci-fi style submachine gun in his hands let out a flurry of energy bullets with a blue glow. “Hurry! It only had less than 20 percent of its HP left! Haha! A Commander-grade monster infected by the virus has a certain percentage of dropping the permanent Enhancement Potion when it dies!”
The other players were basically thinking the same thing! Players with long-range attacks no longer cared about the other infected monsters. Instead, they focused their bullets, skills, and any other means of attack on the Commander monster’s body!
As for the infected monsters charging in from the sky tunnel, as well as the seven or eight infected birds in the sky, many melee combat professions—individuals who couldn’t attack the female Desert Nighthawk Commander—were there to deal with them.
Ta! Ta! Bang! Boom!
A variety of colors coming from energy skills and special bullets occupied half the space of everyone’s vision!
In this sort of situation, no one noticed an eerie change that had occurred ever since the female Desert Nighthawk Commander emerged from the cave. The cave had been producing infected beasts continuously in the past, but it had stopped spitting out newly infected beasts.
The reddened eyes of the remaining dozen infected beasts became panicked as soon as they arrived. After that, one after another, they ran at full speed toward the platform!
At the same time, seven to eight infected birds seemed to have also detected some sort of danger. Initially, after being infected, their instinct was to attack the players on the ground. However, at that moment, their instincts had been suppressed. They all flew quickly into the sky!
And as these things were happening, a dark shadow shot out into the sky from the large cave!
Boom!
Just as the female Desert Nighthawk Commander’s HP was almost emptied, a large brown tentacle with a diameter of two meters covered in suckers flew out of the cave of the main building. It spanned a distance of around 10 meters before catching and wrapping around the body of the female Desert Nighthawk Commander that had only a little bit of HP left!
“Auuuuuu!”
The female Desert Nighthawk Commander let out a shriek of despair! It was crushed and wrapped up by the powerful tentacles! As for the final round of skills and attacks aimed at the female Nighthawk Commander, they either missed or hit the dark brown tentacle.
“What?”
“What’s going on?”
The unexpected turn of events caught the players awaiting their loot on the platform by surprise.
The large, wet tentacle extending from the main building did not retaliate; instead, it retracted in the blink of an eye, dragging the corpse of the female Desert Nighthawk Commander along with it!
Beep, beep, beep…
As this was happening, the recon meter of the Scout players suddenly started making quick, high-pitched warning sounds!
“What? Another warning!?”
“Could this be a Quasi-Boss?”
The expressions of the players on the platform changed. Some of them were still engaged in battle with the infected birds and beasts that had charged toward them, which was why they didn’t notice that the warning sign on the recon meter was still a yellow warning, indicating Commander-grade monsters!
“Although it’s not a Quasi-Boss… It looks like we’re in trouble this time!”
Feng Luo, already focused on the outside of the cave, managed to obtain information through the Eye of the Thunder scope the instant the tentacle appeared.
Infected Deep Sea Octopus (Solo-type Commander. Evolving). Level: 50. Species Code: TZY-39485. Estimated HP: 300,000!
Although the information was simple and brief, it was enough to change even Feng Luo’s expression! A Level-50 Commander-grade monster, which was a lot higher than the Level-35 female Desert Nighthawk Commander! Although levels in War did not directly correlate to combat strength, judging by its 300,000 HP alone, it was clear that this would be a difficult Commander monster to deal with!
But that wasn’t what worried Feng Luo. What really bothered him was the word “Evolving!”
A Level-50 Commander that was still evolving… If it succeeded in its evolution…
“It’s a Level-50 Commander-grade monster called Deep Sea Octopus! But, f*ck me! Its HP is 300,000. Moreover, it has an ‘evolving’ status!”
The Scout player also obtained information on the monster inside the building using his Detection skill. After finding out the information, he shouted out his findings, causing the expressions on everyone’s faces to change!
“300,000 HP? And a Level-50 Commander monster?”
Even a Level-50 Elite-grade monster with 300,000 HP would be incredibly difficult to deal with, let alone a Commander-grade monster. Moreover, it was a Commander monster with such a huge size! The tentacle alone was over 10 meters long, and the root of the tentacle was at least as thick as two to three humans. And, one ought to remember, an octopus had eight tentacles!
As for the origin of the Deep Sea Octopus, one did not have to think much to know that it was most probably a food material. However, at the moment, the situation on the platform seemed to have been reversed!
“F*ck! Why are you guys still talking over there? Hurry up and help over here!”
However, as the group of long-range attackers became distracted, the melee fighters became annoyed! Although the birds had escaped, the infected land beasts—which numbered around a dozen, originating from the sky tunnel—had already reached the edge of the platform. A few of them had even jumped onto the platform! Clearly, they were trying to escape from the Level-50 Commander-grade monster. At that moment, they were charging at the melee players’ line of defense without any regard for their lives!
In the end, the melee fighters’ HP dropped significantly, with one Light Armor Warrior falling to the ground!
Although the Level-50 Commander-grade monster had frightening stats, its target at the moment seemed to have only been the female Desert Nighthawk Commander. It didn’t even retaliate after getting hit by the players’ attacks.
To the melee fighters, even if the Level-50 Commander monster would come to “eat” the players after it digested the female hawk, they should still, at the very least, first take care of the monsters before their eyes!