Beast Taming: Becoming a Bug-type Elite Four Member Starting with Silkworm Raising

Chapter 159 Encountering the Shadow of DeathSeeing the shadow of death turning into a ball of black air and flying towards him, Russell would be lying if he said he wasn’t nervous.

This is the first time he has faced this kind of battle alone, where he does not follow any rules and only seeks to achieve his goal by any means.

Judging from the way the shadow priest tried to cripple Russell’s arms just now, even if he still has some use value and will not lose his life for the time being, the possibility of being beaten to a disability is still quite high.

Furthermore, with the Shadow Cult’s disregard for pet beasts, as long as Russell loses, Ayou and Daolang will most likely be killed before he is captured.

If all the contracted beasts really died, even if he could escape from the clutches of the shadow priest, Russell would not be able to bear the consequences.

The relationship between the beast control contract and the soul is very close. Even just terminating the contract with the pet beast requires a long period of cultivation.

Sudden death backlash twice will most likely cause irreversible damage to the soul, and the ability to control beasts will almost be lost.

When that time comes, even if you have incredible beast-controlling talents, it will basically be in vain.

What’s more, Russell is essentially a very emotional person. Even if you don’t consider issues such as backlash, just seeing something happen to the pet beast you get along with day and night would probably make him sick.

However, the current situation was extremely urgent and there was no room for Russell to do any more psychological construction.

Within a few seconds of his hesitation, the shadow of death had already rushed in front of him brandishing a scythe. If he hesitated any longer, he would really have to sit back and wait for death.

Looking at the approaching black shadow, Russell, who had entered a fighting state, felt calm.

”The other party is only a fourth-level beast master, so I may not be crushed by him...”

After encouraging himself, he resolutely gave orders to the two pet beasts.

”Ayou, use the shadow-stitching arrow to attack the shadow of death. Daolang, you go and attack the opponent’s beastmaster.”

Even if he used the light of the street lamp to shrink his shadow as much as possible, Russell didn’t know if the shadow of death had any other means of attack.

After all, even the officials of the Beast Control Alliance know very little about these two mysterious pet beasts of the Shadow Order under the Fire Stealing Group.

If you want to prevent the other party from attacking you unscrupulously, you have to put pressure on him to protect himself.

Seeing that the shadow priest hadn’t summoned a second pet beast for a long time, Russell estimated that he didn’t have another combat pet beast.

After all, the strength of the fourth level is only at the bottom among shadow priests. If you live in the wild for a long time, you will definitely have to reserve a place to protect your pet.

After sacrificing a pet beast to create the Death Shadow, he was left with only two mature pet beasts, one offensive and one defensive. This situation was really normal.

This is also Russell’s biggest confidence now.

It is said that two fists are difficult to beat with four hands. After all, it is two against one. Who is afraid of whom?
Although the Shadow Sewing Arrow has little lethality, this skill that exerts a control effect on shadows has an outstanding effect on the shadow of death where the body is almost completely transformed into a shadow.

If they dare to come to the city to rob people, the Fire Thieves must have known about Ayou’s strength.

After all, Russell has fought in public more than once or twice. It is not difficult to know the general skills of his pet beasts.

Knowing that Ayou possesses a powerful attack method such as Nether Explosion, Death Shadow is not willing to deal with the shadow-stitching arrow that can cause him to freeze for two or three seconds if it touches him.

After being shot by Ayou with butterfly shadow multi-slit shadow arrows, it temporarily gave up its plan to directly attack Russell and hibernated back into the nearby darkness.

At the same time, Daolang was already flapping his wings and flying towards the shadow priest with his silver blade arm.

Facing Daolang’s attack, the shadow priest looked calm.

I saw the cloak on his body squirming, and his whole person seemed to have turned into a spirit state similar to the shadow of death.

In this case, the shadow priest’s physical immunity level was also increased to an absurd level.

Although as a human, he is still unable to ignore the slashes of the alloy claws, but with the help of the shadow cloak, the shadow priest only needs to dodge slightly to avoid the attacks hitting his head and main torso.

Moreover, the Shadow Order has been an organization that has existed to cultivate killers since ancient times. The shadow priests who can go out to perform tasks have all developed very solid fighting skills.

With the dual blessing of spiritual transformation and his own movement skills, the shadow priest seems even more flexible than Daolang who uses the Mantis Fist.

Daolang circled him and chopped at him for several times, but in the end he didn’t even get half of his hair off.

On the contrary, Russell’s side was forced into danger by the shadow of death.

If Ayou hadn’t activated the shadow form to increase the number of butterfly shadows, and used shadow-stitching arrows from all directions and angles to repel the attack of the shadow of death, the semi-impervious iron net on his body would have been completely chopped to pieces.

Fortunately, after observing Daolang’s attack on the shadow priest for a while, Russell also recognized the type of his protective beast.

It was a platinum-level rare pet beast—Shadow Phantom.

It is said that this pure ghost beast is born in the shadow of a dying person, and gains strength by devouring the host’s last vitality and despair.

Shadow Charm’s racial talent is called ”Shadow Synchrony”, which is also the basis for it to become a protective pet.

The simplest application of the Shadow Synchronization skill is to transform the body of the beast master into a spiritual body, which can greatly exempt physical attacks. It can also avoid abnormal conditions such as poisoning, fear, tracking, etc.

When Shadow Demon reaches a high level and his skill proficiency is further improved, Shadow Synchronization can also derive abilities such as small-scale shadow escape and suspended animation.

There is a Shadow Phantom nearby, so you basically only need to be wary of powerful energy attacks during the battle.

However, Shadow Charms also have a very obvious shortcoming, that is, they are born from death and are very hungry for the breath of life, so they cannot control their instinct to absorb the life force of the beast master.

If you want to contract a shadow charm without being too short-lived, there are many taboos that you need to pay attention to during the cultivation process.

For example, you have to catch certain types of pet beasts regularly for them to absorb their vitality, and you have to go to the cemetery to stay for a while from time to time to make your body more adaptable to the coldness of spiritual transformation, etc...

Generally speaking, Ying Mei is a kind of pet that is difficult to cultivate.

Seeing the appearance of Shadow Phantom, Russell was more sure that he did not have a second offensive pet beast.

A fourth-level beast master, even if he possesses some methods inherited from the Divine Court of Hope, should not have the energy to cultivate a third mature pet beast while cultivating Death Shadow and Shadow Charm at the same time.

As for the possible existence of a third young pet beast, Russell did not need to consider it.

In a battle where there is no mercy for each other, it is very foolish to send weak pet beasts to fight.

Once the pet beast is injured and bites back on itself, the side effects may directly lead to failure in the battle.

Unfortunately, seeing clearly the enemy’s strength is completely different from being able to defeat the opponent...

Even though it was confirmed that the shadow priest’s two pet beasts still had basic abilities, Russell was still in a state of being suppressed and beaten.

After several waves of surprise attacks on him to no avail, the shadow priest waved his hand and ordered the shadow of death to turn its spearhead on Ayou.

His meaning was obvious. Since Ayou’s constant interference prevented him from successfully attacking Russell, he might as well get rid of this moth first!

Moreover, the Shadow of Death seems to have turned violent, but not completely.

Once Russell shows signs of leaving the streetlight area and escaping far away, it will immediately use shadow escape to intercept him in the direction of his movement.

”Tsk... we can’t go on like this.” After being played with by the shadow priest like a cat and mouse for a while, Russell felt that he was being led to a certain defeat.

The battle seemed to have gone through more than one turning point, but in fact, less than 3 minutes had passed.

While the shadow priest was still strolling around dodging Daolang’s attacks, Ayou’s remaining energy was already running low.

Speaking of which, this should be the first time Ayou has faced such a high-intensity battle.

The Shadow of Death, which possesses the skills of floating and shadow escape, is not as easy to deal with as pure melee beasts such as Demon Dog and Blood-fang Greedy Wolf.

Every time it emerges from the shadows, it can crush at least two or three butterfly shadows with its wide swings of the sickle.

The amount of energy required to create a butterfly shadow with a certain entity is actually very high.

It’s just that the frequency of Butterfly Shadow being defeated in normal battles is low, and one round of release often lasts for half a day, so Russell has never regarded Nightmare Butterfly Shadow as a high-cost skill.

Today, facing the shadow of death, Ayou once again experienced the huge pressure of exhaustion of energy after a few months.

As a little crispy creature that doesn’t move very fast, if it loses the protection of Butterfly Shadow, it will probably be chopped down by the Shadow of Death in an instant.

On the other hand, the Shadow Priest and Shadow Charm were very full of energy and physical strength, and Daolang obviously had nothing to do with them for a while.

The matter has come to this, Russell must find other ways out!

However, the tension caused by the shadow of death passing by him from time to time prevented him from concentrating on thinking about ways to escape.

”You have to calm down quickly. The more nervous you are now, the more you will be at a disadvantage...!”

Knowing that this panic would not help him in any way and would only be counterproductive, Russell tried to take a deep breath, trying to calm down.

However, having an indomitable fighting mentality is easy to say, but very difficult to actually achieve.

It is still too difficult for a technical geek of two generations to ignore the danger of having his hands and feet broken off at any time, or even his body being dislocated, and to calmly think about countermeasures.

The business of the Chongwu House is booming, and sooner or later, the beasts themselves will grow to a high level. Russell, who is growing steadily, should now be considered the group of people who are most afraid of death in the world of beast control...

At this moment, there was a faint sound in his pocket again.

grumble……

”Master, Xiaoqi will try his best to protect you and defeat him!”

Xiaoqi seemed to be particularly hostile to the shadow priest. Facing the powerful shadow of death, it uncharacteristically showed no fear. Instead, it sent messages to encourage Russell.

Feeling Xiao Qi’s belief in fighting to the end, the panic in Russell’s heart really subsided a lot.

”Tell me seriously, how many times can you resist an attack like that just now?”

After calming down, he solemnly asked Xiao Qi.

”twice……!”

After estimating the amount of slime he had left and the amount of iron sand that could be reused in the iron mesh, Xiao Qi firmly gave an answer.

”Okay, I believe you!”

Hearing this, Russell let out a sigh of relief, and then his eyes narrowed, no longer looking for the whereabouts of the shadow of death scurrying around.

The purpose of cultivating protective beasts is to allow the beast masters to focus less on guarding against sneak attacks in battle and to focus on the crucial frontal battles.

If you doubt the ability of a protective pet in this situation, it is no different than cutting off an arm.

After completely ignoring the shadow of death, he kept looking around, his brain working rapidly, looking for opportunities to reverse the situation.

After looking back and forth several times, Russell’s eyes finally landed on the mobile phone and emergency button not far away.

Under the premise that he could not directly defeat the shadow priest, the best he could do for himself was to call the police.

The fastest way to call the police is naturally to use communication equipment.

Although the shadow priest has been paying attention to Russell’s location, it is impossible to pick up these two things in the past.

However, the damage warning function of these two items can still be used.

As long as Ayou blows up the cell phone and the emergency button with a Nether Explosion, they can send an automatic alarm signal to Chen Nong to get the fastest support for Russell.

Then, his main goal now changed from ”how to escape from the shadow priest” to ”how to blow up the communication equipment unexpectedly”.

The shadow of death is very sensitive to ghost energy. If you directly charge Ayou to charge the ghost blast at that area, you will definitely be seen through at a glance.

Daolang, on the other hand, does not have long-range attack skills, and it is even less possible for him to reach the communication equipment before Shadow Escape’s Death Shadow.

Once the intention of destroying communication equipment to alarm is exposed, the shadow priest is likely to throw them further away.

By then, Russell’s last hope will be gone, and he will really have no choice but to be at the mercy of others.

If you want Ayou to complete the charging action without being discovered, you must first divert the shadow priest’s attention.

After thinking for a few seconds, Russell simply changed his mind, made a classic international gesture towards the shadow priest, and shouted loudly:
”Why are you so crazy? This is Senluo City, not the rat’s nest of your fire thieves. My butler’s mechanical beast will check the surveillance system regularly in 10 minutes. At that time, it will call the police for me. Just wait and eat. Go to jail!”

His quick and witty attempt to attract hatred was quite clever. He not only belittled the Fire Pirates and provoked a wave of hatred, but also pretended to be stupid and revealed a relatively specific time to call the police.

Regardless of whether the shadow priest believed it or not, at least these words were enough to attract his attention and make him step up his offensive against him.

Sure enough, as soon as these words were spoken, a cold light suddenly flashed in the shadow priest’s eyes covered by his cloak.

”Hehe, in 10 minutes, you are already lying on the Order’s transport truck with broken arms and legs.”

Although he still expressed contempt for Russell, he was obviously still a little anxious in his heart.

Under the command of the shadow priest, the shadow of death no longer attacked Ayou, but rushed straight towards Russell again.

The difference from before is that while the shadow of death swoops down, the shadow in front of the shadow priest also changes, like ramen, connected to the shadow of death from a distance.

Used in the middle of the battle, the target is still your own main offensive pet...

You don’t need to think too much to know that the shadow priest’s operation must have used some kind of combat beast-controlling talent that can enhance the combat power of the pet beast.

While the Shadow of Death turned its gun to attack Russell, Ayou also quietly charged up the Nether Explosion at the location of the communication equipment.

Chen Nong and others are equipped with special mounts and pet beasts. As long as they receive an alarm, they can arrive here within three to five minutes.

Whether the danger can be saved tonight now mainly depends on whether Russell can withstand this round of attacks. (End of chapter)