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Chapter 4211 Ghost Fang Beastmen
Chapter 4211 Ghost Fang Beastmen
"I feel there is some danger on both sides, but the danger is greater on the right side."
Gray Porcelain pointed to the fork in the road on the right: "There must be a book demon here."
Then he pointed to the left: "If there isn't a large mechanism here, then it's most likely a book spirit."
Gray Porcelain had spent some time in the Echo Library, so its understanding of the level of danger was quite accurate. It had basically grasped the danger thresholds corresponding to Book Demons and Book Spirits.
Rabbit Girl: "Do we have both book fairies and book demons? Then let's do it the same way as before. Gabriel and I will go to the right, Angor will go to the left, and Gray Porcelain..."
Before the rabbit girl could finish speaking, Gray Porcelain raised her hand: "I'll stay here and wait for you."
Gabriel glanced at Gray Porcelain: "What a coward."
Gray Porcelain pretended not to hear.
Seeing this, Gabriel continued, "If we're going to do the Perfect Challenge, everyone will need proverbs, and you'll eventually have to face the Book Demon. Rather than panicking on the spot, it's better to experience it now."
Gray Porcelain muttered under his breath, "Everyone has a proverb, and you suggested it yourself. Maybe there's no such thing at all, and one person can just have a proverb."
Gabriel was about to say something when the rabbit girl interrupted him, "Alright, let's stop this pointless bickering and get down to business."
The rabbit girl grabbed Gabriel's tentacles and, without saying a word, dragged him towards the right corridor.
Angell also walked towards the left corridor, but before leaving, he patted Gray Porcelain on the shoulder and whispered, "Everyone needs proverbs, and on this point, I support Gabriel."
Although Angell only said this one sentence, Gray Porcelain understood what he meant.
Since everyone must take the proverbs, they must also face the book demon.
Complex thoughts flashed in Gray Porcelain's eyes. He lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
……
Angell walked into the left corridor with the gait of someone on a picnic.
Ingres felt it was more like a gallery than a corridor.
Moreover, it's a themed gallery.
The theme is: War.
The walls of the corridors on both sides are hung with paintings of different styles, one after another, each painting different. But the theme of all the paintings is war.
For example, a film with the theme of human warfare: "The Beheading of Morgan in the Clock Tower".
There is also a war painting with the main theme of the conflict between mermaids and sea monsters: "The Battle of the Sea Qin".
Even Angor witnessed a void war between wizards and mind mages: "The Chase Between Life and Gemman".
From the land to the sea, and then to the void; from humans to humanoids, and then to alien races; in this gallery of war, Angor saw all sorts of battle scenes.
The only thing I didn't see was... a book.
As Babaregon previously mentioned, in the area where the Book Sprite resides, the type of books that increase will determine the type of test the Book Sprite faces.
Angor's previous two attempts to defeat the Book Spirit did indeed follow this pattern.
But this time it seems a little different.
Without books, it's difficult to determine what kind of test the book spirit is testing.
but……
With so many paintings here, especially war paintings, could the Book Spirit's test actually be related to "painting" or "war"?
As Angell continued to speculate, he moved forward, getting closer to the location of the book spirit.
Although the lack of books made Angell feel uncertain about the Book Spirit's test for the first time, he was not afraid in the slightest.
As someone who uses cheat codes, even if he can't find the answers to the test in his surroundings, wouldn't he go outside and look for other people?
Just like when he had to choose between two statues, Angor chose Loren the stag.
In short, from God's perspective, no matter how obscure the test of knowledge may be, Ingres always has a way to provide an answer.
After a while.
Angell saw the glowing white ball of fluff—the book sprite.
As expected, he was dragged into a dim, black space.
Looking at this familiar black space, Angor couldn't help but mutter to himself, "The Book Demon's trial will be dragged into the pure white space. The Book Spirit's challenge will be pulled into the black space."
The book sprite is a glowing white glutinous rice ball.
The book demon is a black ball of smoke billowing from the page.
Combined with this clear black and white space, it's no wonder that Tretta felt that the Book Demon and the Book Spirit were very likely of the same race, just from different branches.
"What exactly is your relationship with the book spirit?" Angell tried to ask the book spirit opposite him.
But the book spirit remained silent, only relentlessly posing exam questions.
No, it hasn't given the exam questions yet; it's explaining the rules of the exam.
After Angell finished listening to the book spirit's story, his expression suddenly became somewhat subtle.
It wasn't a knowledge test?
Instead, it was the rarest kind of battle in the Book Spirit's trials...
But thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. The entire gallery is full of paintings of war, and war is essentially a struggle, so it's normal for the book sprite to give a battle question.
To be honest, although it's a combat-themed game, it's different from the kind of combat in Book Demon.
According to the book spirit, in this battle, the challenger only has three chances to attack, and the intensity of each attack is locked within the range of an ordinary person's strength.
In other words, supernatural abilities cannot be used in this battle.
Without using supernatural abilities, challengers must launch an attack at the right time to defeat the enemies created by the Book Spirit – the Ghost Fang Beastmen.
Upon hearing this request, Angell raised an eyebrow slightly.
As far as he knew, the Ghost Fang Beastmen were one of the barbarian races of the Wilderness Realm, and ranked among the top of the hundred-level barbarian races. Even the minors were considered extraordinary beings.
It's clearly not the right level of difficulty to use the power of an ordinary person to confront and defeat a supernatural being.
This is even more difficult than the test of the Book Demon.
While Angor was still wondering, the Book Elf had already summoned the Ghost Fang Orc.
It is about two meters tall, with light yellow skin, an extremely robust and powerful physique, and wears gray cloth armor with iron plates.
Judging from his back view alone, it's hard to tell that he's an orc.
However, if you look at its face directly, you'll immediately notice something unusual, because it has clearly deformed fangs. Its lower jaw is naturally exposed, and two spike-like fangs curve upwards, fitting perfectly against its cheeks.
Its underbite gives its bite a wild, rough feel.
This is the Ghost Fang Orc, a ferocious barbarian with skin as thick as a wall and fists strong enough to shake the earth!
However, after the ferocious Ghost Fang Beastman appeared, he did not attack Angor, but stood in front of the Book Elf like a puppet.
Dull and silly.
At this moment, the book spirit suddenly spoke again: "If the attack is placed in the wrong location, it will not cause any damage to the Ghost Fang Beastman. If the attack happens to be in a weak area, it will cause at least a hundred times the damage to the Ghost Fang Beastman."
"When you confirm that you want to start the battle, please say to me: Start the battle."
After saying that, the book sprite returned to its human-machine mode, and no matter how it was called, it seemed not to hear it.
Angor was already used to the book spirit's mechanical nature and wasn't surprised. However, after listening to the book spirit's explanation, Angor finally understood the core of this battle.
To put it simply, the Ghost Fang Orcs are a classic example of a game design mechanic-based monster.
The fact that it's a mechanic-dependent monster means that there's no way to reduce its health using any other method.
The only way to kill it is to break its mechanics.
How do we break the mechanism?
The answer was given in the book spirit's words: attack the weakness.
As long as you attack the Ghost Fang Orc's weak point, you can deal a hundred times the damage!
Angor had previously felt something was amiss because it was almost impossible for mortals to harm extraordinary beings. But now, the emergence of the hundredfold weakness attack has slightly altered this impossibility.
Angell finally understood. Although this Book Spirit test was disguised as a "battle," its core was no different from the previous two tests; it was still an examination of one's knowledge base.
The key knowledge being tested this time is very clear: the challenger's depth of understanding of other ethnic groups.
Like this question right now—what are the weaknesses of the Ghost Fang Orcs?
Once we know the weaknesses of the Ghost Fang Orcs, this battle will be much easier.
And Angell actually knew the answer to that question.
Or rather, he didn't know it at first, but a painting in that gallery provided the answer.
The painting depicts a chaotic battle among barbarian tribes in the wilderness, and is titled "The Conflict of a Hundred Classes".
It depicts a story from the wild world: the wild god Ohmado proposed to rank the various tribes of barbarians into "hundreds" in order to regulate tribal order, and only the strongest hundred tribes could be listed.
The painting captures the moment when all the races, after a series of battles, finalized their rankings among the top 100.
In this enormous painting, three demon-toothed beastmen appear.
A fang being attacked.
One of his fangs broke off and was pierced in the chest by other barbarians with a spear.
One was an orc lying dead on the ground, its two fangs shattered.
The painting depicts three demonic beastmen, all of whom are associated with "fangs." Moreover, the demonic beastman who has fallen to the ground and died has all his fangs broken. From this, we can roughly deduce the answer.
Fangs are the weakness of the Ghost Fang Orcs!
However, this inference still has some logical flaws, so for safety's sake, Angell decided to seek help from outside the field again.
The person seeking help is still Lu Luoren.
Although strictly speaking, the Ghost Fang Beastmen are not "fantastic creatures," they are, after all, non-human, extraordinary life forms, and Deer Loren should have studied them.
This is true.
Angel first contacted Behemoth, and then, through Behemoth's inquiry, obtained a definitive answer from Loren.
Luo Lun did indeed know about the Ghost Fang Beastmen, and he had even conducted in-depth research on the entire Hundred-Level Barbarian Clan.
According to Deer Loren, due to their unique physiological structure, the fangs of the Ghost Fang Beastmen are indeed their weakness.
If a fang is broken, combat power is reduced by half, and the user will most likely fall into a coma.
If both fangs break, the Ghost Fang Orc will die instantly.
However, this weakness is actually very difficult to attack because its fangs are extremely hard.
It's important to know that many people in the Wildlands know that the fangs of the Ghost Fang Beastmen are a weakness, yet the Ghost Fang Beastmen still managed to advance to the Hundredth Rank of Barbarians, which shows just how hard their fangs are.
Therefore, Luo Lun suggests that if you have the ability to cut off its fangs, then attacking the fangs directly is indeed a weak point attack.
But if you can't cut off its fangs, then you can only attack the Ghost Fang Orc's real weakness—the compensatory blind spot.
What is the compensation blind spot?
To help Behemoth understand, Luo Lun gave a very detailed explanation.
"The head structure of the Ghost Fang Orc is very abnormal. The underbite and upturned fangs make its jaw joints abnormally prominent. In order to support the heavy fangs, there is an extremely weak defect in the internal muscles on both sides of the neck, which are the locations of the fangs. This is the compensatory blind spot."
"This can also be understood as a defect in structural compensation."
"By striking it with great force or piercing it with a sharp weapon, the function of its fangs can be temporarily paralyzed, which is basically equivalent to cutting off the fangs."
After saying this, Lu Luoren added, "However, the Ghost Fang Beastmen themselves know that their necks are weak points, and unlike fangs, they are not naturally hard."
"Therefore, they wear thick neck protection devices when they go to the battlefield, making it generally impossible for anyone to attack their necks."
After listening to Luo Lun's account, Angor also recalled that the three Ghost Fang Beastmen in "The Hundred Classes War" did indeed all have thick neck guards.
but……
Angor looked up at the Ghost Fang Beastman next to the Book Elf not far away.
Its neck was completely unprotected, exposed wide open.
Having seen this, Angor already understood the solution to this mechanic monster.
Fangs are indeed a weakness.
Or rather, it is an overt weakness.
However, what makes the fangs a weakness is not the fangs themselves, but the compensatory blind spot that extends from the inside of the fangs to the neck.
To defeat this mechanical monster, he couldn't attack its fangs; instead, he had to attack its neck!
Having confirmed this, Angor did not hesitate any longer and said directly to the book spirit, "Initiate the battle!"
The next second, Angor's figure shot towards the Ghost Fang Orc like a sharp arrow.
Although his power was limited to the level of an "ordinary person," his speed was not limited. His powerful displacement ability allowed him to close the distance to the Ghost Fang Beastman in an instant.
At that moment, before the Ghost Fang Orc's murky eyes could even focus, Angor had already closed in on him.
"Roar!"
The Ghost Fang Orc let out a low growl, and his thick arm swung out with a whooshing sound, trying to slap Angor away.
But Angell was faster. He shifted his feet to avoid the arm, and as he twisted his waist, his right hand formed a sharp blade, which he precisely slashed at the left side of the neck.
With just one strike, the Ghost Fang Orc underwent a tremendous change.
His body swayed and staggered, as if he were drunk.
Without hesitation, Angor delivered another blow to the right side of the Ghost Fang Orc's neck.
The two attacks landed in just two seconds, and the Ghost Fang Orc's massive body crashed to the ground as if its bones had been removed, raising a cloud of fine dust.
It comes quickly and disappears quickly.
Shortly after the Ghost Fang Orcs disappeared, this black space also slowly turned into smoke and sank into the unknown depths.
After a moment of weightlessness, Ingres returned to the gallery.
The moment I stood still, I heard the book sprite's mechanical, monotonous voice—
"Congratulations, you have passed the test."
"I will create a positioning cursor for you."