Cave Refuge

That fellow is merely larger in size, but it doesn't mean that he is slow-witted.

Although with his size, it's hard for him to directly attack Dong Tianyu, he can still interfere with Dong Tianyu's attacks on him.

As long as he prevents Dong Tianyu from frequently causing him harm, with his thick hide and extremely quick recovery rate, even if Dong Tianyu occasionally inflicts some damage, it wouldn't significantly affect him.

Just as Dong Tianyu was confronting those four giant arms, many martial artists suddenly launched an attack on the monster's abdomen.

The giant Eight-Armed Monster standing in the water had the sea surface at the level of its midsection, so those martial artists who were riding Companion Spiritual Treasures on the sea surface, when attacking the monster, specifically targeted its lower back or abdominal area.

While Dong Tianyu had just initiated the attack, they did not respond in time, so they stayed in their original positions.

But when they realised that the purpose of Dong Tianyu's initiative was to delay the monster's speed toward the Magic Capital Base, those martial artists immediately took action to assist.

After all, the martial artists who could come here at this moment were essentially residents of Magic City, and if the monster were to really barge into the Magic Capital Base and wreak havoc, the properties they bought and their families could suffer irreparable losses.

Having experienced numerous base relocations, they were fully aware of the Officials' attitude towards housing damage; as long as the ownership of the houses is transferred, any issues that arise later, whether man-made or natural disasters, are completely ignored by the Imperial Court.

Because the base is gradually expanded in planned phases, the earliest batch of houses built are generally located near the coast. Thus, if the monster lands and damages the Magic Capital Base, their coastal properties would inevitably be the first to suffer damage.

It is both a public duty and a private need for them to protect the Magic Capital Base's properties as well as their own from damage.

As the martial artists on the water joined in, those few giant arms that were originally focusing on Dong Tianyu's actions now continuously waved their trunks at those martial artists who were frequently attacking it.

Although each attack by those martial artists caused much less damage compared to Dong Tianyu's, there were simply too many martial artists launching attacks from the water.

Under most circumstances, unless the elephant never resists, the scenario where ants kill the elephant by sheer numbers is almost impossible.

But while many ants cannot directly kill an elephant, they can significantly affect the elephant's movements.

At this moment, whether it was Dong Tianyu hovering mid-air on his sword, or those martial artists riding Companion Spiritual Treasures on the sea, everyone knew that their attacks wouldn't directly kill the adversary.

Yet they still acted without hesitation; their main purpose was to disrupt the opponent's movements and prevent it from approaching the Magic Capital Base.

At that moment, those martial artists on the water didn't only attack the monster's back; some who rode Wave-Breaking evolution of Companion Spiritual Treasures accelerated and rushed to the front of the monster.

After reaching the designated position, martial artists dismounted from the Companion Spiritual Treasures and like dragonflies skimming the water, they charged directly at the monster's abdomen.

It's unclear if those martial artists had a pre-arranged plan, but all of them on the scene simultaneously rushed towards the body of the monster.

Maybe the huge creature realized that these martial artists, who practically appeared as tiny as ants to him, not only did not flee but summoned their companions to attack him together.

Thus, the somewhat angered monster directly hunches down into a squat, and the waves raised by the squat significantly affected those martial artists charging at it from the water.

Dong Tianyu had a doubt when he was watching movies as a child; why during a scene where many surround and attack one, do the attackers still apply the tactic of fighting one by one.

The scenario where they go up one by one, only to be counter-killed by the protagonist, brought excitement while watching the protagonist struggle and win, but when placing himself in the antagonist's perspective, he would feel frustrated by his minions' lack of intelligence.

The saying 'strike while your enemy is sick' applies here, as the martial artists launching an attack from the water managed to grab the monster's attention and even caused it to halt its progression, squatting atop the water, making its eight arms more adept at striking those who approached from the water.

At this point, Dong Tianyu would not act like the minor minions in dramas, standing by as others attack and only moving after his teammates had fallen.

Thus, when Dong Tianyu noticed that the several giant hands had shifted away from confronting him and changed their alert target, he had already picked his next target to attack.

The reason Dong Tianyu did not act immediately is not that he, like those minor drama minions who surround but duel the enemy one-on-one, had no immediate impact.

Rather, he awaited an opportune moment to strike, essentially using the others as bait. When those several giant hands moved to attack those martial artists on the water, Dong Tianyu looked for an opening when the big fellow could not defend, to deliver a powerful blow.