I am God Chapter 18: :Demon Hunter
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There are more and more people here, and the houses are getting denser and denser. The houses are arranged together and form a circle around the huge hole.
A large animal pen has been built next to the canyon. When the herdsmen are grazing, they can see groups of velvet dragons running out along the canyon. The granary with a round spire is under construction, and carpenters are going up and down the ladder. Below, this is prepared to store food for later use.
A large area of forest outside has been cut down. In addition to farmland, plants that ride animals and poultry like to eat are planted. If you go further outside, you will gradually enter the scope of the weird vine-like influence, but for now Said, it is quite useful.
The food crisis has also been solved. Daily necessities are taken care of by the caravan, and the two sealed objects of the Coward's Lamp and the Gem Snail Cart maintain the connection between the channel and the outside world.
Helfas sat on the ground, folding his hands on his knees and looking at this place that came from nothing.
It is impossible to say that there is no pride in my heart.
“Having initially solved the problem of eating, living and living, it’s time to consider another aspect.”
Herfas’s current idea is to gather everyone’s strength to fight or even seal the dangerous existences they will face directly. Not to mention the unknown horrors and weirdness outside, just the roads in and out of the Full Moon Forest The weird things, big and small, were like sharp swords hanging over their heads.
Even if there is a cowardly light warning to avoid, there will often be hunters and incoming and outgoing teams disappearing on the way. Some can even know how they disappeared, and some just disappeared out of thin air, and no one knows where they are going. Where.
Not to mention that just dozens of miles away from the canyon, the terrifying and weird vines entrenched in the jungle and the earth, even Helfas did not dare to get close to take a look.
Helfas stood up and walked towards the hunter team's training ground.
Recently, he comes here whenever he has free time, even several times a day.
Because.
Recently they are preparing to take action on a new weirdness.
It is a very dangerous monster that is entrenched on the road in and out of the Full Moon Forest. Many people have already disappeared near it when they passed that path.
Herfas and the hunter team spent several months and huge costs to collect information on each other and determine the other party's danger level and specific scope of activities. At present, the characteristics and abilities of the other party have finally been successfully recorded bit by bit. Come down.
He decided to set out in a few days to seal this dangerous weirdness.
As soon as I walked into the training ground, I saw a group of young men wrestling and fighting. They used their hands, legs, and tails. Sometimes the Dragon Man's tail was more flexible and dangerous than his hands and feet.
They also practice attacking each other with wooden sticks, and the atmosphere looks fiery.
Helfas walked into a nearby hut and looked from the back door to the front. He could see a wooden board hanging on the wall with a map engraved on it.
Several people who had just joined the hunter team were listening to a strong middle-aged man whistling, imitating the other person to put his fingers into his mouth, and learning how to blow the whistle loudly.
Some people were drooling all over the place, which looked a little funny.
The training ground is very busy. In addition to the training of physical fitness and combat skills, what is more important is the memory of the whistle and the terrain of the Full Moon Forest, as well as various dangerous areas and strange traces.
The middle-aged man whistled loudly and harshly.
"Beep!"
"The sound is rapid and broken. This means safety..."
"Beep...this means danger...the longer it lasts, the more urgent it becomes."
"Let me ask, what should you do when you hear this sound?"
The middle-aged man raised a question at this time and asked the people below.
Someone immediately replied: "Go over and save people right away."
The middle-aged man above suddenly rushed down and slapped him on the back of the head.
"With your small body, who do you want to save? If no one else comes to save you, it's better. When you hear this sound, run away."
The room immediately burst into laughter.
"And..."
After learning how to whistle and remembering the meaning of the whistle, it is time to record the relatively mature route in and out of the Full Moon Forest.
When the middle-aged man in front of the room was telling this, he suddenly noticed Helfas behind him. He wanted to stop talking, but Helfas raised his hand to signal him to continue.
While Helfas was looking at the newcomers in the room, there was also a line of sight looking at him from outside.
A child was lying outside the wooden fence, looking inside through the gap, observing how the hunter team trained and the various facilities at the training ground.
Watching the heated wrestling and stick, spear throwing, bow and arrow training, and all kinds of weird facilities.
The child made a sound of surprise.
"Wow!"
Finally, the child's eyes suddenly caught sight of the man standing behind the house.
The moment he looked at the other person, the child saw the black-haired man turning his head to look at him keenly. Even though he was hiding behind the wooden fence, the other person's dark pupils still faintly penetrated the narrow space. Gap saw him as well.
"Ah!"
The child, who had his hands on the wood, was suddenly frightened and took several steps back.
He looked nervous, then turned around and ran away, disappearing without a trace.
Helfas saw that it was a child and didn't care.
For the children in the tribe, the training ground is indeed a very mysterious place. There are often children peeking outside, but the hunters at the training ground sometimes train dangerous weapons such as bows and arrows and spear throwing. , so it will drive them away.
But that’s how children are, the more you don’t let them see it, the more you tell them of the danger.
The more they want to get closer to danger.
After everything was over, Helfas walked into the house and talked with the middle-aged man.
The other party is the leader of the hunter team and one of the first people to come here.
He asked: "Are you ready? We will take action in a few days."
"The caravan will almost be back by then, and the merchant will bring her sealed artifacts to participate in this sealing."
The middle-aged man nodded: "It's ready, don't worry!"
"However, Lord Helfas, there have been some problems on the road leading in and out of the Full Moon Forest recently."
The middle-aged man turned to face the map board, pointed to a place near the big hole and said.
"The original road cannot be walked because the weird roots of the giant vines sometimes sweep over this side, which is very dangerous."
Herfas asked: "Did something go wrong? Has its power increased, or has it moved its position?"
The middle-aged man said: "It's not clear yet."
Helfas stepped forward and pointed to a place in the Full Moon Forest.
"Go here from now on. I have walked here before and it was very safe."
"Even on a full moon night, the opponent's power still has not completely covered us."
“It’s just that the tunnel road is not easy to walk, and it’s still pitch black.”
There is a cave and tunnel.
When Helfas first arrived here with the young dragon man from the Weaving Tribe, he stayed in this cave, and the other party told him that he could walk directly through it.
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The child ran back to the place where he lived, closed the door nervously, and hid on the bed panting.
This is obviously a bunk bed, with the beds connected together, and the beds are not big. It seems that the people living here should be some children.
But at this moment, he was the only one in the room.
He was a little nervous and a little excited.
He spread his hands on the bed and looked at the roof above his head. He was breathing heavily, his forehead was sweating and his face was red.
His eyes revealed disbelief as he muttered softly.
"Training to hunt weird..."
"They can really hunt weirdos, it's really amazing."
"Weird...so scary..."
He rested for a while and then ran out again. He carefully crossed the canyon and came to the farmland outside.
A group of children were peeling breadfruit shells here and helping with farm work. He squeezed in and was immediately discovered by everyone.
"You ran to the training ground and took a peek again?"
"How's it going? What did you see?"
"You will be caught one day."
"You will be finished by then."
The child said: "I saw Master Helfas, he seemed to have seen me."
When he said this, the crowd exploded.
"Then you're screwed, you were caught peeking."
"Lord Helfas will punish you."
"Let you run over and take a peek."
"You will be kicked out."
The other children started making noises, and the child who had just peeked suddenly became nervous. He lowered his head and did not dare to speak, and stared blankly at the ground.
After a while, tears flowed down.
In the evening.
Herfas sat at the door and looked at the sun, thinking about something at the same time.
Suddenly, he saw a "sneaky" figure.
A child was hiding in a corner of the room and secretly watching him, but he didn't dare to come over at all. When he realized that Helfas had seen him, he immediately turned around and wanted to run away.
Helfas waved and said to him.
"Come here."
The child stopped immediately, but unlike the speed with which he ran away, he moved sideways when he came over.
Didn't dare to face Helfas, and didn't dare to raise his head, as if he was about to face some terrible trial.
Before Helfas opened his mouth, the child suddenly wiped away tears and said while crying.
"Lord Helfas, please don't drive me out."
He asked: "Why do I want to kick you out?"
Child: "I peeped at the hunters' training, and the other children said I would be kicked out."
The black-haired man pursed his lips: "You did something wrong, but you won't be kicked out."
The child raised his head with red eyes: "Really?"
The black-haired man asked: "Why are you peeking at the training?"
The child said: "I want to be a hunter in the future."
Herfas: "It's not that easy to be a hunter. Our hunters are not just for hunting wild beasts."
The child raised his head, wiped away his tears, and his expression became serious: "I know, we still have to deal with the weirdness in the forest."
Herfas laughed: "It is very dangerous to fight against weirdness, and it is not something ordinary people can do. It requires mastering many abilities."
"Is there anything special about you?"
The child put his hand into his mouth and blew hard.
"Look, I can also blow the whistle."
Helfas couldn't help but laugh and shook his head.
“Just being able to whistle is not enough.”
The child stopped talking again and lowered his head a little disappointed, as if his ideal had failed.
Herfas: "You want to be a hunter so much?"
The child nodded slowly: "Yes!"
Herfas said: "Then let's start with your courage!"
The child raised his head: "Courage?"
He said: "If you want to fight the weird, you must at least be able to face the weird without retreating!"
Herfas told him.
"In a few days, we will bring back a monster."
"If you dare to face that terrifying monster outside the canyon without closing your eyes, I will let you be a hunter in the future."
Under the evening sun, the child walked back.
I walked slowly at first, then started running quickly.
He ran and jumped, as if dancing, and even stretched his hands high behind him.
Herfas called the farm officer, and he asked about the child just now.
"What's the matter with that child? He always seems to be alone?"
The farmer seemed to know the child: "The mother died on the way here, and it is said that she disappeared when she was near the swamp."
Children in this era don't know who their father is, because they grew up with their mother, and they followed their mother's orders and were cared for by their mother.
So even in hunting teams, most of the people responsible for combat and force are men, but the leaders are usually women.
For such a migrant child, losing his mother means losing everything to rely on.
Helfas nodded: "Are there many children like this?"
Farmer official: "There are quite a few."
He asked again: "How do we place children like this in general?"
The agricultural officer told Herfas: "We built a house for them to live in, and we usually let them help with things in the farmland and eat with us."
Helfas nodded: "That's good."
He stood up, feeling a little relieved and feeling that he had done something right.
"You did a good job on this."
The farmer was a little excited, but he had a word with Helfas when he left.
"By the way, Lord Helfas!"
"There is not enough water."
“As farmland expands, more irrigation water is needed. We now have to walk long distances to get water, which is very inconvenient and dangerous.”
“And as the population increases, more places need water.”
Herfas: "Don't worry, it will be solved soon."
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On this day, Helfas summoned everyone in the hunter team.
In addition, the members of the caravan also returned yesterday. At this moment, the merchant and his sons were waiting outside the canyon in a gem snail car.
After gathering all available combat forces, the group set out.
Crossing the farmland, we came to the foot of a mountain peak and entered a tall cave.
Go through the tunnel and come out the other end.
Herfas sits at the very top of the volute.
It was very high, even higher than some trees. From the perspective of sitting on it, he could faintly see all the movement around him, and the sunlight could shine directly on him.
Today, the strange thing they have to solve is named Black Marsh by Helfas.
This is also the second time that the hunter team has hunted monsters, and it is also the first time that they have collected information on their own and independently started to seal the monsters.
Under the sun, Helfas unfolded his scroll.
It not only contains information about the black swamp, but also a simple drawing of its form. Its main form is a ball of black mud, which usually lives in the water and looks like a black swamp.
Characteristic 1: Can create water flow out of thin air and control the water flow. The water flow can trap people or even drown them.
Characteristic 2: Eat human corpses to create black humanoid puppets. The puppets can make sounds to seduce people passing by.
Helfas memorized all the information about the strange thing, and even opened his mouth to simulate the sealing spell, thinking about the details of the whole process.
Soon, they arrived in front of the black swamp.
"Pour down the magic fire oil."
The leader of the hunter team arranged for people to go to various locations and pour down jars of grease. The greasy stuff spread along the water surface, giving off a choking smell.
Herfas has become proficient in extracting oil from the biphasic demonic insects in the form of trees, and has gradually normalized this method of strengthening attack methods.
With the experience of dealing with Hongsnail last time, the hunter team seemed much calmer this time.
Seeing that they were ready, Helfas immediately arranged the ritual stone tablets, and then summoned the biphasic demon insect form and rushed into the swamp.
"Bang!"
The target we have to deal with this time is obviously much sharper than Hongshuai.
As soon as Helfas showed his power, a loud noise erupted in the swamp.
Something is coming out.
It tears through the water, trying to escape.
But what followed was a fire burning into the sky. The flames that could not be extinguished by water directly caused the entire swamp to boil, and also covered the entire swamp.
Large swaths of water vapor billowed up, evaporating and heading towards the sky.
The monster immediately shrank back and fled back to the depths of the water.
But the water is also not peaceful.
A huge insect was looking for it, and the two monsters fought fiercely below, causing the small swamp to roll like a sea in a storm.
Finally, a group of black monsters couldn't bear it and rushed out again.
And a huge demonic insect was biting its body fiercely, and followed it out of the burning water.
"Crash!"
The Biphasic Demonic Insect tore off a large piece of the opponent's body, while the remaining large piece was still trying to escape.
But at this time, the business officer who had been waiting next to him drove up on a gem snail car.
Her mission is to prevent weirdos from escaping.
Sometimes it is easy to defeat the monster, but it is difficult to let it be captured or not run away.
But fortunately, Helfas was fully prepared this time, and the cards in his hand were completely different from before.
"Slow!"
The strong woman sat between the two tentacles of the red snail monster, looking at the escaping black mud ball. The two tentacles first retracted, and then slowly started to move.
There was no sound, but an invisible wave spread.
And the strange looking black swamp slowed down immediately.
Helfas controlled the Biphasic Demonic Insect and stepped forward again, dragging it directly into the shore.
The demonic insect spits out fire.
Members of the hunter team on the side continued to add magic fire oil.
The weird thing wanted to escape, but was unable to struggle out under the power of the gem snail car. It could only twist its body slowly and feebly.
Its mud-like body was dried bit by bit, cracked, and then burned into a ball.
It even feels like burning it to stone.
It was at this time that Helfas started the ritual and began to chant the spell.
"In the name of a pillar, the strangeness in front of you is sealed."
"..."
Finally.
A ray of light fell from the sky,
The beam of light suppressed the weird body and swallowed it completely.
Then a black-gray kettle appeared in the light and slowly fell down.
[Sealed Artifact: Pot of Black Swamp]
[Ability 1: You can continuously produce clean water, and you can also control the water flow to attack others. 】
[Ability 2: Can pour out a black mire to trap the enemy. The person who is eaten will turn into a talking puppet. 】
After seeing this scene, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and then burst into cheers.
At first, he shouted success and win.
At the back, the cheers turned into a name.
"Herfas!"
"Herfas!"
"Herfas..."
Helfas stepped forward and picked up the black-gray kettle, holding it high, and everyone cheered even more intensely.
When returning, just before arriving home.
Helfas asked everyone to tidy up their appearance and formed a neat team.
"Release the Black Marsh."
"Then you take out a net and catch it, making it look like a captured prey."
"Tell everyone that this man-eating monster was sealed by us, and tell everyone of our achievements."
"Let everyone know that weirdness is not so scary."
Helfas stood in front of the team, looked at all the hunters, and expressed his expectations.
"From now on, you are no longer hunters."
The hunters lined up and looked left and right, not knowing how to answer.
Finally, the middle-aged man as the captain spoke: "Then what are we?"
Helfas said: "You are demon hunters."
He said it again: "Hunt monsters and weird people."
In an instant, all the hunters’ eyes were different.
They looked at the black-haired man in front of them, muttering the word witcher, and suddenly felt that they seemed to be a little different.
Even though they are still their former selves, after being given a special name, they are no longer ordinary.
From today on, they are no longer ordinary, they will create an unprecedented history.
Helfas poured out the Pot of Black Marsh.
A group of black monsters emerged, and then were caught motionless in a net by the hunter team.
They raised their heads and dragged their nets toward the canyon in the distance.
And in front of the canyon.
It was already a sea of people.
Almost everyone ran out, looking at the returning team and shouting.
"Look, I'm back."
"Lord Helfas is back with the hunters."
"What are they dragging?"
"It's so big, what is that?"
"It's a monster, it's weird."
Not only adults came, but also many children.
The children stood on the edge of the farmland, watching the mighty team dragging the strange thing that seemed to have no breath but still looked extremely scary slowly approaching.
Some children covered their eyes in fear, and some looked at the monster curiously. They wanted to step forward to take a closer look, but their bodies moved back involuntarily.
One of the children stood on the side of the road, staring hard at the team and the strange black thing.
He was also very scared, but he still stood by the road hard.
As the team approached, his expression suddenly changed.
He recognized it.
That was the weirdness that ate his mother.
He still remembered the dark swamp. His thirsty mother wanted to get some water, but she was rolled up by a ball of water, and then was eaten by the darkness under the water.
At this moment, the weird thing was dragged by the net and exposed to the sun.
He saw a black shadow standing by the water, waving to him.
"Child, I am mother."
"I am mother...I am..."
The voice was hoarse, like the worst nightmare.
"Weird...defeated."
In his eyes.
Under the sun, those dragging the nets were as tall as golden statues.
The black-haired man walking at the front of the crowd seemed to have a sacred color invisibly.