Age of Adepts Chapter 398: Plague Forest
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With a clear master-slave relationship, Gargamel is no longer lazy about this trip.
With his special ability of Potion Master, small-type monster smells the smell of the herbal bag hanging on his Sorcerer Staff, and hides as far away as possible. This also allows the expedition to avoid a lot of unnecessary battles!
But Gargamel's sorcerer medicine obviously only works on monster, and it has no effect on ordinary jungle beasts. And this time is the moment to reflect the value of this group of mercenary.
Ordinary beasts, the three of Love, and Neil, a half-slinger hunter, can do their best. If it encounters a large-scale herd attack, Sablina's horrific combat power of the mechanical girl will be completely released. No matter how terrible the beast is in her hands, it is just some scattered and rotten meat that can be slaughtered at will.
If it is not to avoid disturbing the overly powerful monster, Sablina can even kill the entire wolves with more than 200 by one person without any injuries.
Sablina, with Witchcraft strength guardian, is already almost Revered God-like horror in the eyes of adventurers, but in the presence of two Adept , she often dare not breathe, and obediently obey their orders. Even if the body is thin and withered, Gargamel, which seems to be blown down by the wind, drives the mechanical girl to be so arrogant and unscrupulous.
With the full cooperation of Gargamel Adept , the team's traveling speed is naturally countless times faster. In just 3 days, they were led by Love and others to the destination of the trip.
When we first arrived here, we didn't act rashly. The team planted camp near a hidden canyon.
Sword and shield warrior Lowy took Grim and Gargamel two Adept to a small soil slope, and peered into the mysterious area half a mile away through the gap between dense forest trees.
Plague Forest!
This is also the name given by the locals to this black forest area that covers 50 kilometers.
The only reason why I get this title is that the trees here seem to have a strange disease. All the leaves are withered and withered, and they look sick.
Seriously speaking, Plague Forest is actually a small earthy mountain, the highest point is only 200 meters. The summit is flat and soothing, there are no overly steep peaks. The entire mountain is covered with thin, oscillating ancient trees, the leaves are half yellow and green, and they look quite weird.
The ancient trees on the mountain are not very tall. Under the thin soil layer, large metal rocks are exposed from time to time, reflecting the light of the stars under the sun. The roots of ancient trees are difficult to stretch between soil and rocks, and expose is already out of the soil in many places.
The earth is brown and brown with a touch of scorching yellow. It seems that underground is slowly revealing an infinite heat, turning it into an small-type oven. The ancient trees on Tushan are baked semi-coke cheese. If this heat is intermittent, it gives them an opportunity to survive. I am afraid that the entire Tushan will become a bare, barren land!
Grim and Gargamel look at each other and nodded silently.
It can be seen from the morphology of the area of Plague Forest that there is indeed a heat source in underground. And if you want to find out the cause of the heat source in detail, you can only explore at the risk.
"There, there is a hole in there and there, both are narrow and small enough for an adult to bend over. In that direction ... there is a slightly larger hole, but it is terrible everywhere Bats, it's hard for outsiders to get in without alarming them ... "Lowe is indeed an adventurer who lives here all year round. Even in dangerous areas like Plague Forest, he is also very familiar.
But obviously, his understanding is also limited to the superficial layer of Plague Forest. As for the world below Tushan, it is not the area he can reach at all!
Fortunately, Grim has already obtained some information from dryad, otherwise it will only be a bit hard to take a risk. Even with the Grim's self-confidence, if the blackened eyes of two eyes hit the manticore group, the gray face is light. Without paying a price, even with his strength, he will have to peel off the skin!
Here, in fact, even if the adventurer team has completed the commissioning task released by Grim. As for in-depth underground exploration Underground World, this is not a task that ordinary adventurers can complete. Even if Grim offers a lot of Magic Crystal rewards, Lowe will not be stupid enough to lead his teammates into the nest of a group of monster.
Magic Crystal is good, but you still need to have a life flower is really good!
For this, Grim does not force it, just ask them to maintain this temporary camp on the ground. The real expedition members are still Grim, Gargamel and Sablina.
In the evening, when the sky darkened again, everyone gathered in camp suddenly heard a strange sound.
A large number of nocturnal bats swarmed out of a huge cave at the foot of Plague Forest, and the huge number even blocked the nearby sky. They fluttered around the sky, and when they gathered a sufficient number of them, they suddenly swooped into a distant mountain like a dark cloud.
The little guys who are out in the day and night are finally out!
And not long after the bats were out at night, the cave that had just been silent suddenly heard a loud windbreak.
With a weird roar, a horrible manticore with a size as big as a rhino flew out of the cave. They circled in a half glide in the sky and fell down on a towering stone pillar near the entrance to the cave.
Lion-like majestic body and head, covered with hair tan, with a pair of leather-like dark red bat wings behind them, and behind them a terrible scorpion-tailed scorpion tail. The scorpion tail poison needle is raised high, and the end of the limb is flashing with a strange blue luster, which is not ordinary toxins at first glance.
Compared with the huge size of manticore, the bat wings on its back are too slim and thin. Obviously, they can't support them to fly high up in the air, nor can they fly quickly, but the manticore doesn't care.
manticore, after all, is a rare monster that lives in Underground World all year round. There is a narrow area and rugged terrain. If the wings are too large, it will be difficult to spread. Therefore, it only needs to use the batwing to glide at a low altitude, so that it can dive down to its prey.
One, two, three, four ... nine ...
Grim The three were hidden in a crack in a stone, and the smell of the body was removed with medicinal powder. The movements of the group manticore were closely observed.
A total of nine manticore, including large and small, but all of them are adult manticore and youth manticore who are good enough for hunters. This also indicates that there are two minor manticores remaining in the manticore nest below the cave.
After a while of arguing and harassment, Jiuto manticore was divided into three groups, and yelled in different directions. Although they are underground creature, Underground World food is too scarce, so they also need to come to the surface for a large-scale hunting every certain period of time to meet the new blood manticore craving for a lot of blood in the ethnic group!
"Let ’s go! Let ’s go to the two little manticore!" When the figure of the manticore group completely disappeared into the dark night, Grim waved and walked towards the huge cave entrance with two people.
Only from this starting point can we see that the Sablina as a coolie actually has a huge cloth pocket on its back, and it creeps inside, it seems to be some kind of living creature.
The first time you entered the cave, the strong, suffocating, pungent stench came to your face.
Hundreds of thousands of bats live here, making the air in the cave dirty, and the floor and stone pillars are covered with a thick layer of bat feces, leaving no place to stand.
Grim stood at the entrance of the cave, his eyes slowly sweeping through the dark space inside, and soon he locked an area.
The moist, cold air was blowing from there, and there must be a hidden passage behind the stalagmite crisscrossed stalagmites.
In Grim's elemental vision, infrared detection, low-light vision and ultra-distance touch are alternately used, and supplemented by Adept Spirit perception. The darkness in the cave is rapidly retreating and peeling. The stalagmites, which are as sharp as fangs, the pillars that lead directly to the top of the cave, and the hidden cracks hidden among the rocks ... all these slowly emerged from his mind, centered on Grim.
Multi-dimensional scene construction!
This is also as the strength of Grim's gradually grows, and step by step it gets enhanced visual perception ability.
In the past, Grim could only see objects within linear vision, but could not see things hidden behind walls or stone pillars. But now with the improvement of his ability and the increasingly powerful Spirit perception, his vision can even go around obstacles to see what he wants to see.
Of course, provided there is no energy interference or the walls are not too thick!
The birth of this ability also means that his future battles will have no dead ends. No matter the enemy attacks him from any position or angle, he can react, attack, defend, or dodge in the first place, and he can make a response that is more in line with his own interests from a more overall perspective.
"Come here, I'll take you in!"
Grim whispered a command, waited until Gargamel and Sablina came closer, reached out and grabbed their arms, then stood slightly, disappeared in a sudden burst of fire.
The next second, in the dark corner of a cave where the bats dare not approach, the fire rose into the sky, and the three Grim emerged.
Gargamel doesn't matter. With the powerful Spiritual Force, it can hold the vertigo of sudden space conversion. Sablina, as Pseudo-Adept apprentice, is obviously the first time to experience the strange Witchcraft of ‘Flame Teleport’. Suddenly she felt that her throat was dry, the scene in front of her was chaotic, and she took two steps. She held her breath for a while and then eased her.
"Let ’s go, there are two little babies waiting for us!"
Grim chuckled, and immediately dived into the dark underground channel.