Chapter 341: Endless Battle

If they were foolish, he would deal with them one at a time. If they all charged out together, he would use the panel to investigate them first, then take Hwi and leave so they could think of another plan.

Who would have thought that although only one had come out, it was not only high-level, but could actually resurrect as well?

Joo Joowon knew that this was thanks to the red mist, but he had absolutely no way to drive the red mist away.

After a short while, the stone marten stood up again. This time, its experience had become even richer, and it dodged their attacks with even greater ease than before.

Even though Hwi was an experienced hunter, his attacks could no longer hit the stone marten every single time. As for Joo Joowon, there was even less to say. Every time the spider silk appeared, the stone marten would immediately become highly alert, completely refusing to give the spider silk any chance to touch its body.

Unable to use any more clever tricks, Joo Joowon was not discouraged. He directly spread a web over the stone marten, completely trapping it and sticking it firmly to the spider web. Then, he picked up a huge rock nearby and used spider silk to tie it up, smashing it down again and again.

Even after the stone marten had been smashed into a bloody pulp, Joo Joowon still could not hear any notification indicating that it had been killed. This made his expression turn grim.

Could it be that all the zombies inside the red mist could resurrect infinitely?

Looking at the red mist that had begun spreading again, Joo Joowon could not help considering this possibility.

If that was really the case, then he could not continue wasting time fighting this Elite Zombie. That would simply be a complete waste of time.

Holding Hwi in his arms, Joo Joowon sat on a tree branch and fell into deep thought.

This red mist was far too strange. Who should he send to investigate it? And who actually had the ability to investigate it?

And what about Hwi? Although he had not gone deep inside, had any of the red mist gotten onto his body?

Joo Joowon glanced at Hwi’s status panel. It only showed that he was tired, with no other information displayed. Joo Joowon slightly furrowed his brows. He did not try to conserve his Mental Power and immediately began using divination to determine whether there were any hidden problems with his current body.

Although he had not gone deep inside, he had still come into contact with the red mist. If the divination showed that there was nothing wrong with his body, then Hwi should probably be fine as well.

After obtaining the result, Joo Joowon finally relaxed slightly. He then turned around and looked at the area covered by the red mist again.

Perhaps it was only his imagination, but he always felt that the red mist seemed to be thinner than before, and its range also appeared to have shrunk somewhat.

It was just that the change was so subtle that it would be difficult to notice without observing it carefully.

Joo Joowon compared the red mist in front of him with the way he remembered it looking before and discovered that this was not an illusion. He could not help letting out a sigh of relief.

At the very least, this meant that the opponent could not resurrect without limit. There was still a possibility of killing it, so things were not completely hopeless.

Otherwise, if the only way to completely deal with them was to eliminate the red mist itself, then the difficulty would increase drastically.

After all, what method could Joo Joowon possibly use to find the true source of the red mist and destroy it while being surrounded by one or two hundred monsters?

With each death, the stone marten’s resurrection speed also became slower and slower. However, Joo Joowon no longer tried to restrict its ability to move from various strange and unexpected angles. Instead, he used a much simpler and more direct method. He first used spider webs to restrain it, and then had Hwi attack it.

One spider web only consumed two points of Joo Joowon’s Mental Power, yet the effect it had at trapping the enemy was significant.

The stone marten’s huge body was right there, while the surrounding environment had gradually become more open after the repeated battles. There were also no obstacles around them, so once a spider web appeared, it was almost guaranteed to hit.

In this way, they killed the stone marten again and again. After being caught several times, the stone marten’s body surprisingly stopped developing in the direction of becoming larger. Instead, it began focusing more on increasing its agility.

Its gradually shrinking body finally allowed it to dodge the spider webs in time when they attacked, no longer allowing Joo Joowon to get his way.

Under this war of attrition, the stone marten finally became unable to hold out before Joo Joowon and Hwi did, and was completely killed.

[ System Notification: You and your companion pet jointly killed Elite Zombie Marten, gaining a total of 4,096 EXP. Your share of 3,078 EXP has all been stored in the Experience Pool. ]

Joo Joowon did not pay attention to what the system notification said. When he heard the notification sound, his tense mind finally relaxed.

The stone marten had not resurrected just once or twice. It had only truly died on its tenth resurrection.

With every resurrection, its experience in dealing with its enemies became richer than before. This targeted evolution quickly left Joo Joowon and Hwi in a difficult situation where they were running out of methods.

Because of this, they had to spend quite a lot of effort to kill it the final time, and it was nowhere near as easy as when they had killed it the first time.