Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 164 Is Lingge hated?
After entering the fourth floor, the density of monsters increased significantly, and they were often seen roaming in the corridors in groups of three or five. In addition, new types of shadow beasts appeared.

One type is a giant bat hanging upside down from the ceiling. It has a hideous appearance and is covered with dark fur. It almost completely blends into the darkness. Even with the light of a lantern, it is difficult to illuminate its silhouette. Only its scarlet eyes, like two enchanting rubies, reveal the owner's location.

They usually acted in groups, launching attacks from a distance visible to the naked eye, opening their huge mouths full of sharp teeth, and roaring sharply from their throats. Conical sound waves swept through, covering the entire corridor. This penetrating sound wave attack could not be blocked by the holy sword, so it could only be endured by force.

[Giant Sound Shadow Beast: HP 250/250, a shadow beast that is good at using sound waves to harass the enemy. It flaps its huge bat wings and cruises in the depths of darkness. The sudden loud sound has the power to penetrate the eardrum. It will not approach until the enemy is exhausted by the continuous sound waves, and will tear it apart with its sharp teeth and claws. It is very cautious. The weak point damage type is falling damage, the weak attributes are fire and thunder, and there is no shield coverage. ]

There is also a wasp with two huge stingers. They also act collectively, but in greater numbers, often attacking in groups of more than ten or twenty. Their formation is usually neat and tight, like a well-trained army, not messy. When launching an attack, they will follow orders like the army, and even use tactics such as harassment, guerrilla warfare, cutting, pincer attack, infiltration and charge. The coordination between them is precise and seamless, without any delay, as if they are not separate individuals, but secretly controlled by the same will.

[Patrol Shadow Beast: HP200/200, good at teamwork, relying on tacit tactical cooperation to defeat the enemy's shadow beast. Due to the dominance of the swarm's will, the speed of receiving and executing commands can even be faster than the reaction speed of humans. Therefore, it can always switch different tactics before the enemy responds, achieving absolute suppression. Once more than half of the troops are lost, they will retreat and look for other patrol teams to replenish their troops. If they cannot be eliminated all at once, they will face a continuous offensive, which is very difficult. The weak point damage type is falling damage, the weak point attributes are light and wind, and there is no shield coverage. ]

The two new shadow beasts were both aerial creatures that could fly and fly very fast. One had to concentrate very hard to catch them, and even then, attacks would often miss. Combined with the assault-type shadow beasts and swarm-type shadow beasts that had appeared before and were now appearing more frequently, the difficulty of the strategy suddenly increased by a level.

Not only did she have to be on guard against attacks from dark corners, or disgusting sharp tongue attacks and slime deceleration on the walls, but she also had to be careful to deal with the swarms of bees from the sky and the unpredictable sonic attacks. All of these caused a lot of trouble for Olvera. It was not until half of the lantern's burning time had passed that she reached the first corner. Looking back, she could still see the stairs she had come from. The door leading to the fifth-floor arena was open, and a little light was faintly visible.

Finally, Alice couldn't bear to watch it anymore and couldn't help but say to her, "Don't just use the holy sword. Are you going to just leave the new weapon you just activated to collect dust? Take it out and use it!"

Olvera then remembered that she still had a holy book.

"Holy Scripture..."

"You have to learn how to switch weapons. This is the core mechanic of the game!" Alice, the developer, taught earnestly, "Although the Holy Sword has high output, its attack range is very narrow. Even if you charge it for a combo, it can only hit enemies in the middle distance at most, and the damage will be reduced. It is not suitable for dealing with those Zubats and Beedrills. So at this time, you have to learn how to switch the Holy Book and use elemental magic to blow them into pieces. Do you understand?"

It was a completely wrong choice to use the holy sword to deal with long-distance enemies, because you had to sprint to close the distance before using jumps and double jumps to attack the enemy. In this process, a lot of health was consumed. Moreover, jumping attacks cause stiffness, and most enemies flying in the air are more flexible, so it is difficult to guarantee a hit rate. From Alice's observation, Olvera could barely hit five out of ten swords, with a hit rate of half, which wasted a lot of output. Compared with the lost health, it was obviously not worth it.

Ovira followed her instructions and switched her weapon to the Holy Scripture - Elemental Ruler. She held it in her hand but seemed a little embarrassed: "I don't know how to use magic."

She was already accustomed to the operation of the holy sword - Broken Steel Oath, and now she was suddenly switched to a completely unfamiliar weapon and had no idea how to operate it.

"It doesn't matter. You didn't know how to use combos at first, but now you're very skilled, right?" Alice said confidently, "Besides, there's Ling'er here. He'll teach you how to use it, right Ling'er?"

Another member of the team was silent for a moment, then asked, "Why do you think I can use magic?"

"Because it's your weapon." Alice's tone seemed to be a matter of course: "I set it up when I was developing the combat system. Every time a new weapon is activated, the corresponding hero will teach the player how to operate the weapon, so..." She didn't finish her words, but Lingge understood.

It turns out that all the inexplicable knowledge in my mind was caused by you.

He wanted to rub his brows, but he couldn't do it now, so he sighed silently and turned to Avra ​​and said, "I'll teach you."

"Ah? Ah, okay." Ovella hesitated, her tone not quite confident: "Well, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Ling?"

Ling Ge: “…No need.”

Perhaps due to her personality, the princess treated him much more politely than she treated Alice. Not only was the person involved aware of this, but even the usually thick-skinned golden-haired maid could easily see it, so she gloated and said, "You are being disliked, Lingge."

Lingge ignored her, but Avra ​​was quite uneasy when she heard this, and quickly explained: "It's not like that, I don't mean to hate Mr. Lingge, it's just, just..."

I just think he's hard to approach.

"It's okay." Alice interrupted her thoughtfully, "I can understand your feelings. After all, this guy is expressionless and cold, and always likes to say pessimistic things. Although he has some substandard qualities, they are not obvious enough. It's normal that you can't accept it... Ah, I didn't say anything bad about you, Lingge, I'm telling the truth, right?"

Ah this.

They are obviously all bad words, right?
Ovella closed her mouth silently, not giving Alice the chance to make things worse.

Lingge also knew that continuing to dwell on this issue would only make the golden maid more arrogant, so he also shut his mouth and stopped talking. The tacit silence between the two made Alice unable to find a breakthrough. After entertaining herself for a while, she found that no one paid attention to her, so she chose to stop in a huff, claiming that she was just joking and had no intention of making any innuendo or explicit remarks.

As for credibility? Just take it seriously.

After she settled down, Ling finally had the opportunity to teach Olvera how to use this new heroic weapon, the Holy Scripture - Ruler of Elements.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)