Chapter 987: 307. Shadows surge
Under Noland Lee’s command, the Rock Spirit raised its stone fists and slammed them on the ground.
In the underground space, a layer of dark gray rock emerged on the ground, sealing the tunnel entrance dug by the Ground Drilling Mechanism.
The chilling draft that filled the narrow space dissipated at once, reducing the noise emanating from the shadow pupa cocoon to a mere whisper.
Noland Lee let out a sigh of relief, but he did not let his guard down.
He directed the Rock Spirit to construct more rock layers, tightly sealing every direction – front, back, left, right, up, and down.
An airtight enclosure quickly surrounded both Noland Lee and the Rock Spirit.
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Noland Lee listened intently.
The noise was almost inaudible now, and it wasn’t moving towards him anymore.
He nodded to himself, recognizing that his quick thinking had taken effect.
Noland gave the command to “stay on alert” to the Rock Spirit and brought up the Systems Interface in his mind.
[System Message:]
[You have consumed 2.1 million energy points to launch “Harmless Deconstruction” on the “Shadow Pupa Cocoon”!]
[Harmless Deconstruction Successful!]
[You have obtained the panel information for “Shadow Pupa Cocoon”:] noveldrama
[Name] Shadow Pupa Cocoon
[Type] Shadow Creature
[Combat Level]
[Land] Predicted as 45th level
[Underwater] Predicted as 10th level
[Feature]
1. Shadow Aberration:
The concept of life creatures includes living humans, the undead, wild beasts, magic beasts, plants, and others that exist in various life forms.
Shadow creatures gain shadow energy by devouring and decomposing life creatures.
They prefer creatures rich in death energy, natural energy, rebirth magic power, and blood magic power.
They show little interest in creatures rich in thunder and lightning, water, wind, or rock and soil energy. Without other choices, they generally will not consume such creatures.
Fire energy, pure light magic, silence magic, and all other magic energies with a Breaking Law effect are loathed by shadow creatures.
2. No Light Rebirth:
Upon death, the shadow pupa cocoon will turn into shadow fragments and be reborn in specific dark areas.
A unique shadow array determines the location of the shadow pupa cocoon’s rebirth.
3. Shadow Recoil:
When a spell is cast upon a shadow creature, it will automatically inflict “Shadow Mental Impact” on the source of the spell, laced with negative emotions.
If casting isn’t stopped promptly, or if “Mental Shield” isn’t employed to withstand the “Shadow Mental Impact,” then it might foster latent negative desires or even negative personalities.
4. Shadow Innate:
Physical resistance is at least 90%.
Immune to damage from natural, wind type, water clan, and rock and soil energies.
Resistance to energy damage from thunder and lightning, flames, is -10%.
Resistance to magic energy with the Breaking Law effect is 50%.
The absorption rate for shadow energy damage is 100%, meaning all offensive shadow spells will heal the shadow pupa cocoon instead of harming it.
5. Hidden Trace:
Shadow creatures can perfectly conceal their energy fluctuations.
Only detection methods specifically targeted at shadow energy can discover the existence of shadow creatures.
[Skills]
– Active Skills:
Devouring Beings:
Selects a target of 40-level or lower and devours it, continually decomposing the target over the next 24 hours to convert it into shadow energy.
Shadow Net:
Captures the target with a magical net woven from shadow energy. In areas of darkness or dim light, the net has a high success rate and is guaranteed to work on targets of 40-level or below.
The Shadow Net can forcibly drag life creatures into itself in the event of combat, or quickly dissolve non-life targets with shadow energy.
Shadow Transfer:
Consumes the creature’s internal shadow energy to traverse freely in areas without light, becoming immune to physical damage and most control effects. In areas of dim light, this skill may fail, and in intense light environments, the failure rate of this skill is even higher.
Shadow Mental Impact:
Applies negative emotions on the mental level to the target, fostering desires and dark personalities.
– Passive Skills:
Life Sensing:
Automatically senses life creatures in the vicinity, with a range of 600 meters. This passive skill ignores terrain.
Intention of killing perception:
Automatically senses killing intent within a range of 600 meters. Upon perceiving killing intent, the shadow pupa cocoon immediately activates “Shadow Transfer.”
(Other skills omitted)
[Weakness]
Movement Impediment Weakness:
Intense light environments can significantly restrict the movement capabilities of the shadow pupa cocoon.
Fatal Strike Level Weakness:
Magic energies with a Breaking Law effect and thunder and lightning, flames, can effectively harm the shadow pupa cocoon.
One-hit-kill Weakness:
Spells of thunder and lightning, flames, and silence with a magical power exceeding the shadow pupa cocoon’s level*10000 points can instantly kill it.
[Note]
Be aware!
Your mental magic can only immunize against its own magic backlash, not against the shadow pupa cocoon’s “Shadow Recoil.” Please ensure the “Mental Shield” is active to avoid the impact of “Shadow Recoil.”
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The deconstruction results were as detailed as ever.
As Noland Lee read from top to bottom, he had a rough understanding of why Louisa and other hired wizards failed to detect the presence of the underground demons.
The reason was none other than the skill combination of “Shadow Transfer” and “Killing Intent Perception”.
At the first inkling of killing intent, the shadow pupa cocoon would activate “Shadow Transfer,” instantly moving to a location far away from the wizards.
Unless strong light is established in advance, catching the shadow pupa cocoon is nearly an impossible task.
Besides, the innate “Hidden Trace” feature of shadow creatures also poses a troublesome issue for the wizards.
Shadow, in other words, the shadows.