Infinite Trial from the Giant

Not long after reaching the second level, the two encountered the sub-human monster, the Kobold, that Loki had mentioned.

A veritable dog's head, a half-human-high body wrapped in rags, and a blood-stained one-handed axe in his hand. Even if Loki didn't mention it, just by looking at this appearance, one could tell that this dog-headed man was much stronger than those black beetles, wild wolves and other monsters.

After the LV6 Gnoll refreshed, it shook its head first, and then its red eyes immediately locked onto Xia Tian and the other person.

'Roar'

A low growl came from his throat, and the next second the kobold opened his big mouth full of sharp teeth and pounced on him.

Compared to purely animal-like beast monsters like black beetles and wild wolves, sub-human monsters like kobolds are much more intimidating in appearance alone, not to mention such a ferocious pounce. Even Loki, who had killed countless kobolds in the closed beta, couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he saw the kobolds rushing towards him, and quickly put his newly replaced shield in front of him.

Seeing Loki raising his shield, Xia Tian took a step back.

Ever since he conquered the territory's BOSS, the giant toad, Xia Tian had already basically mastered the multiplayer cooperative combat method in this world - switching.

Under normal circumstances, using sword skills can indeed cause damage to monsters, but this damage is mostly reflected in the reduction of monsters' health. As for whether the monster will be stiffened by the attack, it still depends on the attack position. If the attack position is not ideal, the monster can launch a counterattack while losing blood, and the player who is not yet finished performing the sword skills will most likely be hit by the monster's counterattack. Similarly, this rule is also effective for monsters. Loki's tactical choice when dealing with the black beetle is the best example. He used a shield to block the black beetle's attack, and counterattacked when the opponent's attack only deducted blood but did not affect his own actions, which could gain great benefits.

However, not every monster is as easy to deal with as the black beetle. Some monsters with higher defenses will not be paralyzed for too long even if they block the attack. Or, even if the attack of a monster with higher attack power is blocked by the player, the player will still be paralyzed due to the strength of its attack. Both of these situations will make it impossible for the player to counterattack immediately or in time. When facing these types of monsters, the combat mode called switching will play an excellent role.

Just like when they were attacking the giant toad, the attacking team was divided into five squads, and each squad was divided into three groups. They fought in a cycle of two groups raiding and one group attacking. This was the simplest way to use the switch, using cooperation between teams to avoid the situation where they could not continuously counterattack or attack because their own stiffness time was too long or the monster's stiffness was too short.

Although apart from the giant toad, the monsters encountered so far, including the dog-headed man in front of him, have not posed any threat to Xia Tian, ​​and he can easily deal with it even if he fights alone. But Xia Tian has no intention of being a lone player. He has done his homework in advance and has read the relevant strategies and battles of the first-level BOSS. Xia Tian does not think that he can deal with the dog-headed lord alone. This is the case with one BOSS, not to mention the fifty BOSSes required in the additional goal. I believe that the arena also understands this truth, so the goal content released is only to participate in the battle, not to fight alone. In this case, Xia Tian thinks that mastering teamwork is absolutely necessary.

It was for this reason that, after conquering the giant toad, Xia Tian began to try to familiarize himself with Loki with this switching method of combat. Loki, holding the shield, would block the enemy's attacks, and when the enemy was briefly stiff after the attack was blocked, Xia Tian would attack again.

It has to be said that Loki was quite willing to play such a role, especially after his small round shield was replaced with a larger and thicker zither shield.

Leave the attacks to Xia Tian, ​​and I will just be responsible for blocking the attacks and maintaining my own physical strength recovery.

Facing Loki who raised his shield, the rushing kobold chopped down with an axe without hesitation, but was easily blocked by Loki's shield. Feeling the power coming from the shield, Loki immediately exerted force with his arms and pushed the shield forward. The kobold who was only half a man's height immediately lost his balance and staggered back. Before the kobold could stand firm, Xia Tian's figure had already rushed up from the other side, and the armor blade with the special effect of sword skills continuously chopped the kobold's neck.

A two-hit vertical slashing technique.

After the sword skills were over, Xia Tian retreated again without hesitation. When Xia Tian retreated, Loki behind him raised his shield and rushed forward again.

As if angered by Xia Tian's attack, the dog-headed man let out a terrifying roar, and a light flashed on the blade of the one-handed axe in his hand. Then he rushed towards Loki at an even faster speed than before, first chopping diagonally from the upper left to the lower right, and then following the original trajectory, swung the axe again from the lower right corner, and finally a stronger horizontal chop.

There were three "clang" sounds, and the three-hit combo from the kobold was blocked by Loki, who was familiar with the kobold's moves. The kobold who launched the three-hit combo also showed a huge flaw, and was naturally hit by Xia Tian who took over with a two-hit combo.

After just two rounds of attack and defense, the Kobold had less than a quarter of his health left.

"Loki, stand at the back." It was at this time that Xia Tian spoke to stop Loki who was about to replace him again.

Loki stopped and looked at Xia Tian blankly, then his eye twitched: "Didn't we agree at the beginning not to try these dangerous moves again?" The team has been together for a while, so Loki naturally knew very well what Xia Tian was planning to do now.

"I said that, but I didn't promise you." Xia Tian answered cunningly with a curl of his lips, "Don't worry, it won't take me too long."

With a helpless sigh, Loki stopped where he was, ready to provide support at any time.

Staring at the dog-headed man who had recovered in front of him, Xia Tian stretched out his finger and hooked it, saying provocatively: "Come on."

I don't know if it understood Xia Tian's provocation, or because being chopped by Xia Tian twice increased its hatred value, but the kobold became even more furious and rushed directly towards Xia Tian. The one-handed axe in its hand lit up again, and it chopped down diagonally as before. Xia Tian, ​​who was well prepared, dodged the kobold's three consecutive attacks very flexibly, but just after the kobold's last horizontal chopped attack, it did not fall into a stiff and flawed posture, but suddenly opened its mouth, stretched its head out and bit Xia Tian's head!