Before the operation, Lu Yao questioned Sarina again and again, repeatedly evaluating the Spell Worm’s combat power.
Sarina said, “That spell bug is called the Overwrite Bug and isn’t good at direct combat, but it’s got some tough abilities.”
“It can copy another me, and that me has powers comparable to mine, the only weakness is that it doesn’t last long.”
“Spellworms have thick skin and flesh and specialise in long-lasting battles, I won’t be able to tackle it in a short period of time, and I’ll fall into a stalemate when I’m dragged into a stalemate battle.”
“In addition to that is its other ability to fuse its body with its surroundings, like the first layer of the abyss, which is actually completely covered by its body. It can see every move inside.”
“Lastly is the nature of the spellworms themselves, they have a strong immunity to the damage or effects of the Flame of Faith, usually only taking half the effect.”
Lu Yao silently memorised it.
The three abilities of the Curse Worm: halving faith damage, copying, and fusion.
When Sarina met such an opponent, her advantages of high burst and high movement speed were restrained, and she was pulled into a tug-of-war of attrition by the Spell Worm, which resulted in her falling into a disadvantage.
After clarifying the enemy’s basic situation, Lu Yao mobilised the Copy Squad and officially set off.
The units involved in raiding the first layer of Spell Worms this time were: the Blood Knights, Sarina, Isabelle, and the Yeti.
The White God went to Tree Crown City, Phyllus sat in Saniro, and the Deep Lords continued their sea patrols, and there was a need for someone outside to keep an eye on and maintain order.
Lu Yao opened the portal, and the copy squad entered the Abyss.
The first level of the abyss gave birth to some more ghouls, although the number wasn’t too many, and the squad eliminated them along the way.
Soon they arrived at the seal.
Isabelle gave each of them the [Forest Sword] status in turn.
Lu Yao moved the mouse and began to unseal the seals.
A Flame of Faith fell from the chains and turned into the value of Faith in the upper right corner.
By the time all the flames disappeared, Lu Yao had added 31,000 points of faith.
At this time, the golden chains shattered in pieces.
The black vortex behind it bulged violently, and from within, a monster with a white body bulged out.
The monster had thick white hairs, like a large worm or some kind of reptile, and the white hairs covered its entire body, so that it couldn’t see its feet.
It had no ears or horns and wore a red mask on its head. The mask had a black stripe on its forehead, and underneath it were two large angry eyes, and underneath the eyes was a wide mouth that showed its teeth.
The top of its head displayed [Spell Bug LV92].
Lu Yao immediately called up the [Spell of True Sight] to check.
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Spell Bugs LV92】Rewrite Bugs
Life Value: 58375/58375
Mana: 14102/14102
Damage: 197
Defence: 181
Speed: 18
[Moving to cast spells]
Casting spells in mobile combat comes at the cost of slow speed.
[Multiple casting]
Ability to use spell abilities faster and more effectively.
[Life Mystery LV50]
Innately possesses an extremely high life value. Sees through the mystery of life and constructs the form of extra life with spells. Losses can be recovered naturally and slowly or with spells and props.
[Spell Worm]
The Flame of Faith only has a 50% effect on it, and has the ability to mobilise and store the Flame of Faith.
[Covering Mystery LV10]
Control is accomplished by gradually fusing with a certain individual or environment, and the override effect is related to the level of this ability.
[Rewrite Mystery LV10]
Duplicates an identical individual, giving it commands for a duration and degree of duplication related to the level of this ability.
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[Godhead]: None.
[Divinity]: shaky (0).
[Divine Body]: the Order of the Gods.
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As soon as the spellworms appeared, Tyrannosaurus Sarina took the lead and killed them with her bone sword.
She transformed into a moonlight sword blade, constantly weaving and chopping at the curse worm’s body, while not forgetting to remind the others.
“Don’t give it room to cast spells, it has to be suppressed the entire time, otherwise it will be troublesome!”
Facing the spell bug, Sarina showed a concentration and caution she had never seen before.
Without a word, the Blood Knight swung his sword to follow, and his first match with Sarina was incomparable. The two were always able to complement each other when there was a gap between each other’s attacks, not giving the spell bug a chance to pull space.
The Curse Worm’s normal form of attack was crashing, and it looked like an angry white bull as it crashed between the Blood Knight and Sarina.
Red damage values kept popping up above the heads of all three.
With the [Sword of the Forest] boost, the Blood Knight’s damage was raised to 195, and each attack dealt 14 points of damage to the Curse Worm.
Sarina’s damage was even higher at 347 points, and she was able to drain 166 life points from the spell bug with a single sword.
Compared to these two extremely fast melee apostles, the Curse Worm’s speed was at a disadvantage, not only did it move slower, but its attack speed was also sluggish.
However, thanks to its powerful panel values, it was still able to inflict sustained blood reduction on Sarina and the Blood Knight.
Lu Yao was more concerned about the Spell Worm’s ability.
After a few moments of fierce battle, two silhouettes emerged around the spell bug.
These two were exact replicas of the Blood Knight and Tyrant. When fighting, they didn’t move at all slowly, not much weaker than the two genuine Apostles.
Lu Yao clicked on one of the white replicas.
……
【Replica LV83】Blood Knight – Nevade
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They were able to reach about 80% of the original’s stats in all categories, but they were unable to replicate the original’s special abilities, like the Blood Knight’s [Possessed Magic] did not. However, relying on its thick body, the replica was already enough to stall two apostles.
Lu Yao noticed that for the two casts of [Duplicate Mystery], the Spell Worm had consumed around 2,000 mana points. It was also able to use this ability multiple times, and it was indeed good at fierce battles.
While trying to get rid of the Duplicate, Sarina admonished the Blood Knight, “Can’t get tangled up in these things, they’ll disappear after a while. Fighting them is pointless, gotta attack the spellworm itself.”
With the tyrant’s reminder, the Blood Knight changed his strategy.
He stopped the two Replicants alone, allowing the Tyrant to apply its burst damage and continuously kill the Curse Worms.
It didn’t take long before the Replicants did disappear.
Lu Yao counted by pinching the time, the time that [Replica Writing] could last was around one and a half minutes.
At this moment, Isabelle in the air held the [Secret Language of Nature] and said, “My lord, [Spell Conjecture] is unable to guess the ability of the Restore Spell Worm, deduction is not available.”
Lu Yao felt a slight pity in his heart.
He was also thinking of letting Isabelle steal a handful of abilities with her magic book.
This [Rewrite] and [Overwrite] were both very useful skills.
Since it doesn’t work, there’s no more thinking about it.
Just take out the spellbugs.
Lu Yao was in no hurry.
Initially, he was a bit apprehensive, after all, in Tyrant Sarina’s mouth, the Curse Worm fed on the top monsters of the gods and wasn’t afraid of Miracle Bombardment.
As a result, when he took a look at the panel, it was just a 50% damage reduction, it wasn’t like it was immune.
Lu Yao also tried it.
A shot of Lightning happened to knock out 20 life points from the Curse Worm.
He could blast the spell bug anytime, anywhere, as long as he wished.
With less than 60,000 Faith Points, he could afford to take it out nowadays.
Counting the 30,000 faith gained from unsealing the seal, the pure expenditure would be around 30,000 or so.
With a steady diet of spellworms, he wasn’t going to use Isabelle’s [Unstable Hat Trick], in case the reverse enhancement would be more than worth it.
Lu Yao just didn’t want to waste too much Faith Power. He wanted the Apostles to step up their efforts and cut down the Curse Worm’s blood volume as much as possible. No one knew if killing the Curse Worms would make it back to the capital.
This was considered a long term investment to prepare for opening the second level of the Abyss.
As Lu Yao pondered, the Blood Knights had already killed the second batch of two Replicants.
While Sarina’s Moonlight Sword Blade had been encircling the Curse Worm, the old enemies met and slashed at the red damage values above the Curse Worm’s head without stopping.
The Overwrite Worm’s life value had dropped to around 37,000 points.
Lu Yao yawned.
Alright, you guys play a little bit more, and I’ll make a move when it doesn’t work.
It’s just for practice.
There were no LV92 monsters to be found outside for the two Powerful Apostles to practice on.
After a few seconds, Lu Yao realised that something was wrong.
The [Confusion] status surfaced on Blood Knight Nevid’s head.
He and the third batch of Replicas were still in a stranglehold battle.
Lu Yao, however, clearly saw that there was an additional line of description in Nevid’s data panel.
……
[Override in progress]
Overwrite bug (6417/12544)
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Blanch!
Gathering my apostles to my face is it!
Since you don’t speak of martial virtues, no one should play.
Lu Yao reminded Tyrant to get out of the fight, then clicked the mouse to select the target.
[Lightning] x 1900!
Give the master death!
