Chapter 108: Phantom Onslaught (Seeking Recommendations, Seeking Collections!)
"This is the last set of torches. If we can't find it again, we'll have to go back." Fang Bie divided the torch in his hand into two, handing half to Xiao Yan.
"Let's use them sparingly. Just enough to light a path is fine. We should try to go a little further."
Xiao Yan nodded heavily as well. These three days on the road were not as easy as they had imagined.
Fang Bie looked at his backpack somewhat reluctantly. It was already filled with various stone blocks, mostly blocks from this place, and also some soul sand dug up along the way.
Soul sand is a specialty of Hell, a kind of substance similar to quicksand where people automatically sink when walking on it.
However, this sand is in black blocks, and just looking at it feels like it will suck in one's soul. Fang Bie took this stuff mainly for planting Nether Wart.
It is a kind of red plant, somewhat similar to a mushroom, that can only be planted on soul sand and must be placed in a Dark Area.
Nether Wart is an essential material for refining potions and is also one of the three materials Fang Bie needs to find on this trip to Hell.
If they really can't find the road to Hell Fortress, then they can only go back the way they came and, after preparing properly, start again next time from another road.
Although he knew this was a very common thing, and not every adventure could be successful, the shadow of failure still loomed over his face.
The entire Hell was red everywhere, whether it was the fiery red lava or the dark red Hellrock, even the torches they used for lighting were red, and the red radiance made them both feel a little depressed.
"Can I see something black?" Before Fang Bie could finish his sigh, a dark, blurry thing smashed towards his face, and at the same time, a wailing sound came.
"Bang!" Fang Bie reacted quickly, and with a swift lift of the wooden sword in his hand, miraculously blocked the attack. At the same time, he crouched down and hid beside a stone, peering out at the situation in the air not far away.
"Hell Phantom!" Xiao Yan also quickly took out stones from his backpack and very quickly built a simple Defense Formula in front of him. "Fang Bie, we're running out of arrows, and we still need to save them for Hell Fortress. What should we do?"
The expression on Fang Bie's face wasn't much better. Hiding behind the Defensive Tactics he had created, he desperately thought of a method.
Hell Phantoms are a kind of white monster that look somewhat like ghosts, but they are very huge, about the same size as the enormous Magma Cube from a few days ago, but exceptionally light, able to float in the air very easily.
It's like a large jellyfish that can float in the air, with an enormous head and barely visible claws, and no melee ability whatsoever.
It has almost no melee ability at all, but relatively speaking, it possesses a top three ranged attack ability in the entire World.
Except for the Wither and the Ender Dragon, no other creature can possess more powerful aerial suppression than it.
The title of 'Hell Bomber' was never just boasted about; it was summarized by players from one instance of blood and tears after another.
The reason Fang Bie and Xiao Yan used bows and arrows was not actually to kill the Phantoms through ranged attacks. These strange white creatures are very far away from them, and bows and arrows generally can't reach that height before falling.
Fang Bie was also very clear that he didn't know in which version the damage of bows and arrows to Phantoms had been directly removed. The most direct and effective way to deal with Phantoms is to use arrow collision to deflect its fireballs back.
Fang Bie had also tried directly using the weapon in his hand to hit the fireball away, but the difficulty of this attack was much, much harder than in the Game.
The flying speed of this fireball is very fast. Generally, when it arrives in front of him, he only has a chance to react and only a chance to swing his sword.
Fang Bie simply swung his sword, not hitting the fireball, but instead being hit by the fireball and the resulting explosion, which reduced nearly half of his Health Points.
Fang Bie chickened out at that moment. This was the closest he had come to death since arriving in this World. If he hadn't been wearing a set of Iron Armor, he might have lost at least 2/3 of his Health Points. (The damage caused by a Phantom's fireball is the same as a Creeper, which is 17 points, or 8.5 hearts. An ordinary Human or Monster only has 20 Health Points.)
So when the two of them encounter this kind of monster, they usually go around it. Fang Bie, relying on his decent bow and arrow skills, had managed to kill two or three Phantoms using that attack reflection method.
However, the two of them hadn't brought many arrows in the first place, and they still needed to save them for killing Blazes in Hell Fortress, so of course, they should save as much as possible.
That's why they were in this predicament. If they didn't solve this monster, they wouldn't even be able to leave here.
Fang Bie thought for a moment and still put away the bow and arrow in his hand. Things hadn't developed to an unmanageable point yet. He wanted to go out and try his conjecture.
Having used the Drawing Sword Technique so much, he was actually not used to using ordinary swords.
Fang Bie actually put away his usual [Silver Paper Bamboo Light] and instead took out an Iron Sword that he had barely used. The sword's durability had only dropped a little.
"You're going to block the attack again?" Xiao Yan was surprised. He originally thought Fang Bie had come up with a perfect plan, but he didn't expect him to mess around again!
"Do you still remember before, because you blocked that attack, you rested for half a day just to recover life?" Xiao Yan said, taking out his knife. "This time, let me do it!"
"I only need half a day to recover life. If you get seriously injured, you'll probably have to lie in bed for half a month like your master!" Fang Bie said, "I have a guess I want to test."
Without waiting for the young man beside him to continue speaking, he quickly darted out from the stone he was hiding behind. The roar, like an infant's cry, also sounded in the air.
"Weeping!" The annoyance level of this sound was even worse than those chattering villagers. Just hearing it in one's ears made one feel a burst of irritability.
"Hurl!..." At the same time, a long howl also rang out, and a huge sphere burning with flame flew towards the place where Fang Bie was standing.
"Come on!" Fang Bie gripped the Iron Sword in his hand. This time he didn't choose to block, but while the fireball was still flying in the air, he forcefully slashed out with his sword!
Fang Bie didn't care about the effect of his attack at all. Instead, he suddenly dropped down. Below where he swung his sword, the stone in that place had already been hollowed out, made into a tunnel that allowed for rapid descent.
The expected explosion did not come. Instead, a miserable howl like an infant's cry was heard.
"Hit it!" Xiao Yan waved his hand from the side. "I saw the Phantom light up in the air. It should have been hit by its own fireball!"
"Yes!" Fang Bie also raised his fist in celebration. At this moment, his palms gripping the sword were already soaked with sweat.
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