Chapter 540: Chapter 540: Wilderness Poisonous Bee

“Wild Poison Bee, Level 25, Vitality Points: 3000/3000, Characteristics: Enhanced Defense, Enhanced Toxicity, Skill: Poison Sting;”

These wild bees were resilient with high defense; even with the sharpness of the Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword, it was still challenging to break the monsters’ defenses all at once. A single slash only sent these bees flying, and once they paused slightly in mid-air, they instantly recovered and continued to launch their toxic stings at Song Jian.

Pfft pfft~

The poisonous stings hit Song Jian’s body, held at bay by his Ghostly Leather Armor, producing a muffled sound. Numbers representing damage floated above Song Jian’s head, in the range of fifty to sixty points each time.

Although this type of damage was bearable for Song Jian, the simultaneous attack of the three bees also made it hard for him to hold on for long. His only option was to finish the fight quickly, rapidly casting his sword skills one after another towards these bees. Thanks to the aura aspect of the Sword Control Skill, Song Jian’s Invisible Sword Qi now reached almost three hundred points, enough to support him in casting all his skills at once.

Smack smack smack~

Three lightning-fast Sword Qi strikes hit the same bee, finally breaking through its defense, and with a “pop” sound, the bee’s entire body exploded with a light yellow liquid splattering everywhere, filling the air slowly with a light sweet fragrance.

As the rest of the bees felt the death of their companion, they became even more crazed. A layer of crimson glowed on their dark bodies, increasing the frequency of their poison sting attacks, which hurt Song Jian significantly, reducing his vitality rapidly.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~

With both wild bees firing their stingers, Song Jian felt as if a line of soldiers was firing at him simultaneously.

Plop~

With a soft sound, Song Jian felt a numbness at his neck, followed by a burning pain spreading out from it, making him inhale sharply.

Flash Thunder Strike!

Sword Silk!

Sweeping Sword Style!

Traces of dark red streaks appeared in the sky as the Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword swung through the air. Each attack took away more than three hundred vitality points from the bees. Song Jian noticed that the Flash Thunder Strike, which causes lightning damage, and the accumulatively damaging Sweeping Sword Style, did particularly high damage to these defensively enhanced bees. But his previously unbeatable Light Strike did only moderate damage.

Song Jian changed his strategy, started to apply sword techniques specifically and simultaneously activated the Frost Shield, completely protecting his body.

More than a minute later, the two wild bees were finally cut in half by Song Jian, falling on the ground, their bodies twitching slightly.

Out of the three bees, only one dropped wild honey and nothing else. The bee’s bodies could have been used to extract some materials using a skill like the Dissection Technique, but Song Jian had acquired this technique too late and its level was still only one, rendering it unable to decompose the bodies of the level twenty-five wild bees. So he had to leave the bodies to gradually burn to ashes.

At this point, the burning pain on Song Jian’s neck was intensifying. He could feel a hot breath gushing out from the wound, like a wildfire trying to spread to other parts of his body. But it was quickly crippled by a refreshing energy from his mind.

Upon opening the battle damage information panel, Song Jian saw a screen filled with poison damage.

System: You have been affected by the fire poison damage of the Wild Poison Bee, losing 30 vitality points per second. This damage triggers the talent skill “Thick Skin,” reducing the damage taken. Final loss: 15 vitality points;

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This sort of fire poison damage message, flickering more than a dozen times without stopping. Every few seconds, a fifteen-point damage would pop up above Song Jian’s head.

“These wild bees are far stronger than regular level twenty-five monsters. I wonder how the innkeeper managed to gather so much honey.”

The fire poison on the wild bee’s stingers was so potent that even the talent skill “Thick Skin” couldn’t negate it; it could only weaken the damage. Even an elite-level boss would probably not have such strong poison damage.

Song Jian touched his neck, where a small lump was emerging, one-third of the stinger that had hit his neck was still protruding from the wound.

Song Jian took hold of the tail end of the stinger and yanked it out forcefully, instantly pulling out the finger-long stinger from his neck.

After removing the poisonous sting, the fire poison damage Song Jian was receiving gradually weakened until it was finally suppressed by the talent skill and slowly faded away completely. At this point, Song Jian’s vitality was just over five hundred points.

“These three bees deal almost as much damage as a level twenty-five elite-level boss. With so many wild bees, it’s going to be a slow and steady process to whittle them down one by one,” Song Jian exhaled. For now, he had only found out that these bees were not very resistant to lightning damage, yet, they had high resistance to both fire and holy damage;

“While skills like Sweeping Sword Style, that pile up force, also deal considerable damage to them, it seems I should use Flash Thunder Strike and Sweeping Sword Style more when attacking them,” thought Song Jian.

He glanced at the long sword in his hand and with a thought, the golden long sword shadow on his Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword suddenly materialized, while the dark red Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword turned into a shadow, attached to the golden sword conducting a faint golden glow.

“Since they are resistant to fire damage, let’s see if gold attribute damage can break their defense.” Song Jian thought, looking at the Golden Demonslaying Sword in his hand.

After sitting down and fully recovering his vitality, Song Jian, with the fire element elf in control, triggered three wild bees again;

Sweeping Sword Style!

The Golden Demonslaying Sword fiercely slashed against the hard shell of the bee. With a slight flash of light, a smooth cut was made on its shell. The bee let out a shrill scream and, trembling, lost control over its body and plummeted to the ground;

“The effect is good!” Song Jian’s eyes lit up, and he immediately started to swing the Golden Demonslaying Sword in his hand like a madman, attacking the three bees;

Golden Demonslaying Sword (Gold), One-handed Sword, Equipment effect: Attack 87-96, Critical Hit +5, Strike Back +3, Evil-destroying +1, Attack Speed +7, Gold Attribute Damage +35, Excellent Strike Rate +10%;

The damage of the Golden Demonslaying Sword was slightly lower than the Crimson Fire Heart Ape Sword, but the bees had no significant resistance to the golden attribute. Added with the increased critical hit and excellent strike rate, the bees were frequently incurring massive damage. It took just over thirty seconds for Song Jian to eliminate all three bees.

Picking up the two pots of wild honey dropped by the bees, excitement budged in Song Jian’s eyes as he looked towards the stone forest.

There are many types of monsters in the game, and each one has its distinct features. When players encounter a monster for the first time, they will carefully probe the characteristics and weaknesses of the monster. Once mastered, they can develop highly efficient hunting methods specifically tailored for that monster, turning it into an object for leveling and collecting items.

After having probed twice, Song Jian had also discovered the characteristics and weaknesses of the Wild Poison Bee. The efficiency of the second hunting round had improved at least twofold compared to the first round.

Excitement filled Song Jian’s heart. Hearing the buzzing in the stone forest, his ears began to find it pleasing.

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