Terraria: Cruel World Legends

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The three people and the beast stood on the platform together, using a defensive and offensive method to defend against the enemy monsters during the solar eclipse, with significant results.

Due to the advantage of the venue and the appropriate equipment, it was not difficult for the three of them to resist the solar eclipse. The walking monsters that could not launch long-range attacks were firmly controlled, and the few alternative monsters were quickly killed by concentrated fire.

During the solar eclipse, enemies dropped a lot of novel essence drops, but since it was difficult to find the time to collect them, the three could only watch from afar and wait until the solar eclipse was over before collecting them.

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After slashing out several pure sword energies to smash a rapidly flying deadly ball, Xi Yao looked down at the eclipse enemies gathered below, and inexplicably felt a sense of disappointment with a complicated meaning.

Not long ago, when Xiyao heard about the solar eclipse monsters from Elias, he thought they were very scary... But now it seems that they are nothing more than a bunch of ground-based close-range monsters trapped below and unable to come out. The ranged monsters will be killed instantly when they show their heads. A few special ones, such as fatal balls and vampires, are also killed as soon as they are noticed.

Xi Yao took the time to look at his pocket watch: 5:07 a.m., the solar eclipse would be over in only twenty minutes. Thinking of this, Xi Yao came to his senses and decided to seriously wait for this period of time.

At this moment, Xi Yao noticed that a vampire bat was approaching quickly. Before he could slash out with pure sword energy, Elias, who was one step faster than him, fired a volley of arrows and turned the vampire into black smoke.

That's right, a gun is faster than a knife.

Then Elias looked down at the enemy monsters gathered below, and the corner of his mouth curled up with some disdain: "I didn't expect that the actual experience of the solar eclipse would be so easy."

Xi Yao looked up at the strange solar eclipse in the sky. Elias also looked over. He thought for a moment and then suddenly seemed to remember something and spoke:

"Oh, I forgot to mention that there is a special enemy in the solar eclipse. It seems to be a giant..."

But before Elias could finish his words, suddenly, a terrifying-looking moth the size of a palm crawled onto his face. Although he was wearing a mask to protect it, it still startled Elias. He quickly stretched out his left hand and crushed it to death, then shook off the remaining limbs in his hand.

"What were you about to say?" Xi Yao turned his head and looked at Elias.

"Oh, I said there might be a giant moth monster appearing during the solar eclipse."

"Giant moth monsters..." Xi Yao muttered, and then asked: "Do they appear often?"

Ellis thought for a moment and said, "According to the records, this is a monster that rarely attacks people. Most of them wander around under the strange light of the solar eclipse to find a mate. They move in pairs and mate to give birth... It is worth mentioning that the gestation period of this moth monster is extremely short, and its fertility is particularly amazing."

...Before Elias finished his words, a moth as big as a basketball suddenly flew over at high speed from a distance. It quickly crawled onto Elias's left hand, and its hard tentacles kept stroking his skin.

Seeing this, Elias shook his hand violently to shake off the giant moth, then raised his gun and shot it into pieces, scattering them on the ground.

Xi Yao looked at the moth that was blown to pieces by the explosive bomb and asked, "Is this the giant moth monster you were talking about...?"

"No, although this one is also quite big." Elias shook his hands. He got goose bumps all over his body because of being crawled by such a moth. He shook himself to come to his senses.

"But the giant moth monster I'm talking about is the kind that can kill people. This kind can only give people goose bumps at most." After saying that, Elias looked at his left hand that had been crawled by moths twice in a row, and noticed that there were still fragments of the small moth left on it.

"Oh, I see. I just crushed a little moth to death, and then its parent came to me to settle the score, and I got the whole thing?"

"Maybe." Xi Yao looked around and noticed a nail-head enemy monster appeared below, so the three of them directed their fire at it. After all, the nail head was enough to pose a threat to them.

...However, just after the three of them worked together to quickly kill Nailhead, Bilan, who had been lying quietly beside Prism, suddenly stood up, looked in one direction with some excitement, then screamed towards the sky, his bright eyes fixed on the distance.

"What's wrong?" Prism saw Blue's excitement and turned to look in that direction in confusion, but she didn't see anything. Blue was still staring at the distance, and then heaved again.

Xi Yao frowned slightly and quickly looked at Elias: "Elais, how big are the offspring of the moth monster?"

Elias thought for a moment: "Hiss... The reproductive system of creatures like moth monsters is relatively complicated. They can usually reproduce right after they are born. However, the giant moths I mentioned are giant moths that have developed into adults. They can directly give birth to moths the size of basketballs.

For now, I will call basketball-sized moths medium moths. If medium moths reproduce before they develop into giant moths, they will give birth to normal-sized moths, and vice versa, they will give birth to the same medium moths.

However, this small moth loses the chance to become or give birth to a medium moth as soon as it is born. No matter what, it will only give birth to small moths, and then fall into a cycle... This kind of law is quite complicated and difficult to understand, right?"

Xi Yao looked into the distance and shook his head: "I just asked you a question, and you explained so much to me... However, during your explanation, the giant moth monster you mentioned has already arrived."

"Huh?" Elias was stunned.

"And there are two of them." Xiyao continued. Elias looked over quickly and saw two giant moth monsters as big as motorcycles flapping their wings and flying towards him.

It seems that Azure had noticed the moth monster in advance and made a roar to alert the three people.

"Get ready." Xi Yao swung the pure sword energy at the moth monster. Prism quickly realized the current situation, stepped back a few steps and threw out the Spear of Destiny. The Spear of Destiny turned into a golden beam of light, illuminating the darkness ahead.

Elias was stunned, looked at the remains of the small moth on his left hand, and then looked at the fragments of the medium-sized moth on the ground, a little confused: "Is this...kill the small one to get the big one, kill the big one to get the giant one... ?

(Change 1: Use [Paralysis] in front of the Moth Monster Flower)