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Chapter 365 Blood Clans

When Abel stepped in the stone door, a blood clan was charging at him . Unlike most blood clans that were red, the one that was coming at him was in gold . It must be the leader of the pack . Unlike the others, its entire body was flashing in bright, red light .

“Fire enhancement!”

Abel knew immediately when he saw the light that was flashing out of the golden blood clan . There was no point in fighting in close-range combat . With that mind, he drew his distance, then quickly drew a few “charged bolts” to the ground .

Under Abel’s command, the five spiritual guardian knights switched to their Harry Bows to fire at the blood clans . As for the spirit wolves, they stayed in front of Abel as his protective barrier . The poisonous ivy was told to remain underground until there was a good chance to strike . The crows were the only ones that were not given any instructions . They just kept flying around to try blinding the blood clans with their beaks .

As it turned out, the “charged bolts” were not very effective against high-tier hell creatures . Abel was just starting to notice that, but suddenly, the number of lightning arcs on the ground increased to being nine . The level of his “charged bolt” spell just went up from 6 to

7 .

The damage of his lightning attacks increased from 6 to 7 points . That might not seem like a lot, but his range of attack also increased . He was also dealing more “overall damage” to all of his enemies combined, which meant that while not a lot of harm was done to the blood clans individually, all of them were simultaneously weakened by the chip damage that he was dealing .

Not just that, but the lightning arcs could also zap the blood clans, greatly reducing their movement speed . Because of that, it was much easier for the spiritual guardian knights to aim at the same target . After Abel sent his signals, many of his enemies began to fall on the ground .

The golden blood clan was much more durable, of course . To protect its subordinates, it rushed towards the front to absorb most of the lightning attacks . That just made the other blood clans move a lot faster . Within an instant, they were actually running close enough to the spirit wolves .

Abel was trying to switch for another type of spell to attack with . However, the golden blood clan was strengthened with “fire enhancement,” making it and its subordinates highly resistant against fire attacks . This meant that fire-type spells were pretty much useless, despite them being his strongest offensive spells .

Abel decided to switch to “ice bolts,” which would cost him only 3 mana for each one of them . He could also shoot them out with both of his hands . While they were not as fast as his “charged bolts,” they were just as effective to slow down the blood clans . In fact, ice countered fire element hell creatures, so they could actually deal more damage to the enemies he was facing .

With one hand, he shot at the golden blood clan . With the other, he shot at all the other clans . Within a few seconds, he had shot more than a dozen “ice bolts” at them . While that wasn’t enough to stop them from rushing towards the spirit wolves, the spirit wolves could fight back with their sharp fangs and claws .

Abel focused most of his ice bolts at the golden blood clan, which was not stopping to get closer to him . When it was close enough to use its sharp ax, it knocked down one of the spirit wolves that tried to fight back . Yet, as soon as that spirit wolf went down, it revived when a purple light flashed across it .

Abel just used his “full-recovery potion” with his druid spirit . He wanted to save it for a better time, but if there was no spirit wolf to protect himself, the blood clan might just end him right here .

That being said, since the golden blood clan was confused about how its attack took no effect, it gave Abel a lot of chances to keep shooting them with his “ice bolts . ” It was far from being dead yet, but it slowed down enough from being able to unleash another fire-strengthened attack .

The golden blood clan howled as it tried to block the ice bolts with its ax . It was trying to cancel the freezing effect with its own fire element attacks . As unintelligent as blood clans were, this was actually a pretty effective method .

That was until Abel was shooting at it with both of his hands . Eventually, the ice bolts became too much for it to handle . Its body started turning blue from the frost . It was also moving a lot slower, which meant that there was more time for the summon creatures to attack it together .

With a loud, desperate scream, the golden blood clan gave up on trying to break through the spirit wolves’ defense . It started releasing a bright red beam from its chest, which quickly undid the freezing effect of Abel’s ice bolts . When it was free to move again, it tried to bypass the spirit wolves and go straight towards Abel .

Abel actually didn’t mind that . In fact, he even told the spirit wolves to back away from him . Black Wind understood right away, so even without him telling it to, it backed away to lure the golden blood clan away from its subordinates .

While knights were trained to not back away from a fight, Abel had to be smart when he was fighting a bunch of extremely aggressive hell creatures . This was especially true for the golden blood clan . Their fire enhancement technique would give it a 66-100% fire damage bonus in close combat, as well as a 100% increase in its attack frequency . It could easily one-shot Abel, so sticking to principle wasn’t exactly going to help him .

After the golden blood clan went away from its subordinates, it became much easier for the summoned creatures to sweep up the battlefield . The spiritual guardian knights quickly changed into their ice magic swords and shields . With the company of the spirit wolves, they quickly surrounded the blood clan troops and took an overwhelming initiative over them .

As for Abel, he could easily win over the golden blood clan with his speed . They were nowhere fast enough to land a hit at Black Wind, so all he needed to do was to keep attacking it with his ice bolts and dark-golden combat qi threads . After spamming the same attack for five minutes, the golden blood clan went down without being able to do anything .

While Abel did score himself a victory, he felt like his overall level was still too low . His spells barely did anything this time, and if they did, he would have to waste too much time to cast them repeatedly . If anything, it was his knight’s techniques that helped him the most, but relying too much on close-range techniques would only increase the chance of injury .

Once the spiritual guardian knights finished clearing up the rest of the blood clans, Abel went back to them and continued to advance down the dungeon . The deeper he traveled, the more suppressive the atmosphere around him turned out to be .

Suddenly, a large stone shelf appeared on the sidewall . There were skeletons inside . Their hands pointed towards the ceiling, as though they were reaching towards the sky in a desperate effort to live . It was a good thing that they weren’t moving, so Black Wind could just walk over the shattered bone pieces .

Right now, both the spirit wolves and the spiritual guardian knights were advancing through teleportation . It was the quietest way they could move while serving as Abel’s bodyguards .

The crows, too, tried to be as quiet as possible . Apart from when they detect any sort of danger, they wouldn’t just fly in the sky without making any noise . For the poisonous ivy, as long as Abel wasn’t paying attention to it, even he wouldn’t know where in the ground it was moving at .

So, after leaving out the oak that was floating in the air, Black Wind was the only one that was making noises . It was quite scary, but Abel was very pleased with the progress that he was making . In fact, he just stumbled across three coffins that were made of stones .

Shapes of human beings were carved on the lids of these coffins . They must’ve been what the people inside looked like when they were still alive . After encountering the wooden barrels, Abel was ready if this was another one of the hidden traps .

It had to be another trap . Still, while there might be poisonous gas or zombies inside, there could also be valuable items that could attract his interest .

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