It is different from the professional guild adventure team that chose the moss swamp route.

The adventure team organized by Green Ghost Adventure Group and Iron Boots Adventure Group chose the water-eroded stone forest route.

The adventure team organized by the Blade Mercenary Group and the Hammer of War Mercenary Group chose the shallow lake route.

In comparison, the route chosen by the adventure team of the professional guild should be the most difficult to pass, but there are several master-level spellcasters in their team.

A [Ephemera Technique] solved the problem of difficult passage, and with Hussere and his gang of ferocious Behemoths opening the way, the group of people successfully arrived at the large cave at the entrance to the Lower City without even feeling any obstacles.

Although the water-eroded stone forest route is smooth to walk on, and you don't have to worry about falling into a swamp, the stone monsters that appear in the complex underground stalactite forest have brought great trouble to the Green Ghost Adventure Group.

The speed is extremely slow.

The shallow lake chosen by the Blade Mercenary Group is just a flat underground lake with water level only submerged to the knees.

But in addition to thousands of "immortal fish transformed into humans" in the lake, there is also a terrifying monster called "Cancer Man" hidden in some huge submerged puddles!

It's easy to say that the immortal fish transformed into humans. They are just weird humanoids with fish heads, humanoid limbs, and frog skin. This kind of creature will not continue to age after it grows into adulthood, so that the number of the population is extremely large, but the problem is

The individual combat power is not high, with an average of only about level 2.

Therefore, as long as there is no large-scale alarm to the immortal fish-turned-human tribe in the shallow lake, with the average combat power of the members of the Sharp Blade Mercenary Group and the Hammer of Fury Mercenary Group being above level 3, there will be no problem in passing here carefully.

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But the unlucky Blade Mercenary Group and the rest were about to leave the shallow lake when someone accidentally stepped into a puddle and disturbed a nest of sleeping Cancer Crabs inside.

These cancer crabs look like humanoid crabs with four limbs. The right arm is an extremely thick and huge giant claw, and the relatively short left arm is a human-like flexible claw. The whole body is covered with crab-like hardness.

And thick carapace.

The most important thing is that there may be abundant food in the shallow lake (immortal fish turn into humans). These cancer crabs have grown to very large sizes, with an average height of more than five meters. There are more than a dozen of them living together in a nest.

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These Cancers, who can be said to be giants, have a very lazy temperament and are not very aggressive. When they are full, they will hide in their nests and sleep soundly. They rarely come out to move around. When they are not hungry, they will attack

I don't care much about what's going on outside.

But no matter how Buddhist they are, if suddenly something wrapped in a hard shell (iron armor) like them falls from outside the cave and hits them, they can't react without any reaction, right?

The Cancer people who were woken up looked at the little thing dancing and struggling desperately to swim out of the water with bewildered expressions. They thought it was the neighbor's little crab kid who had wandered into the wrong nest. One of the Cancer people was quite kind.

It gently grabbed him with its giant claws and brought him out of the water.

Hungry and not-hungry crabs are two different creatures, but the people in the Sharp Blade Mercenary Group don't know this.

Seeing his companion who had lost his footing and fallen into the puddle, a huge monster emerged from its claws, and he immediately launched an excited attack on it.

The Cancer Man, who originally planned to just throw this weird-looking little crab baby on the water and go back to sleep, was frightened by the attack of the sharp-edged mercenary!

The giant claw accidentally exerted force, and with a click, it was dragged down by the iron armor and drowned half to death. The sharp-edged mercenary, who finally emerged from the water and had not had time to take two breaths of air, was cut in half... It was better to be drowned.

happy!

The sharp-blade mercenary, who had only his upper body left, screamed, propped up his body with his arms and climbed towards his companions. Behind him were large blood stains stained by the lake water.

Although the attacks from these ugly little crabs were neither painful nor itchy, the Cancer man, who was not very intelligent, immediately became angry when stimulated by the blood. He let out a roar of "Crack!" and waved his giant claws.

They came and swept through thousands of troops, causing heavy casualties!

The high-end combat power of the sharp blade mercenary group that arrived, although it stopped the Cancer people's rampage in time, it also aroused the Cancer people's anger.

The Cancer man, who originally planned to teach these little crabs a lesson and drive them away so as not to disturb his sleep, used his unique trick [Surge Wave]!

He swung his giant claws and hit the lake hard, not to mention the water column splashing into the sky with a roar, and the water waves also scattered the entire Blade Mercenary Group and the Hammer of War adventure team to pieces...

…This is a bad recipe!

The entire biological group in the shallow lake was alarmed. Countless slender but huge underground fish jumped out of the water. Their bodies, which were as long as oarfish, stirred up the lake water with their crazy twisting bodies.

It's like boiling.

This move [Surge Wave] is originally one of the methods used by Cancer people to hunt, but its attack power is very amazing. This move alone is enough to evaluate their combat power level to level 7 or above, which is the so-called "Master"

"The level belongs to truly high-level and high-risk creatures.

As for Calant, Old Mouse, Griffith, Hazel, Ann Redall and other sixth-level "masters", they are also called "quasi-masters". They are regarded as ordinary people's insecurities to these high-end combat powers.

Let's use the honorific title, just like "deputy director" is also "director".

Limited by the innate racial qualities, it is actually difficult for humans to step into the master class of level 7 or above, and there may not be even one out of 10,000 professionals.

This is because among the hundreds of thousands of adventurers and mercenaries in Stormwind City, there are only a handful of high-end combatants like Calant, and even fifth-level pirates like Blind Jet can become a powerful pirate company.

The leader of the group can be seen clearly.

However, rank does not completely represent combat power. It is just a standard used to vaguely measure the level of a professional. For example, Hussere... well, he doesn't count!

There are many cases where low-level combat power kills high-level monsters in battle. This also involves combat awareness, skill application, characteristic targeting... and other factors, and the most important thing is wisdom!

The relationship between a hunter and his prey is the same. An unarmed hunter will definitely not be able to kill a tiger with a head-on confrontation, but how many tigers, leopards, bears and other beasts have died in the hands of hunters?
Chapter completed!