Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 24:

"I never thought that one day I would go to visit a mud monster." Sui Xiong only felt a little funny looking at the gray swamp that had already come into view in the distance.

Yonil is a mutant ooze monster that lives in a large gray swamp. As a famous legendary monster in Ash Forest, it has a unique appearance and unique character, full of "different painting style" style.

Sui Xiong flew a little closer and saw it. It was a huge puddle of mud, creeping in the middle of the swamp. It was dark and shiny, showing a metallic luster that mud should never have, while the swamp below its body exuded a weird aura, neither rancid nor vicious, let alone any poisonous gas. It's like...hungry.

Sui Xiong has heard about Yonier. This legendary monster is powerful and gluttonous, but the recipe is quite wonderful—it doesn’t eat any known living creatures, and has no interest in food, vegetables, fish or meat. The only thing of interest is the bones.

What's even more amazing is that there are endless bones buried under the Ash Forest. So that every night, a large number of skeletons will appear, frantically attacking any living creatures around them.

So in the daytime, Yoniel always slept on the ground lazily. When it was dark and hungry, it would disperse into a number of mud monsters and attack on all sides, sweeping away all the skeletons that could be found, and feasting on it.

Thanks to it, in the depths of this ash forest, there is a safe area without skeleton activity. Many creatures live here, some of them wisely respect this huge mud monster as a patron saint, build an altar for it in the swamp where it usually rests, and purchase the bones of monsters as sacrifices.

The main source of these sacrifices is Longhou Town.

As Dragon Roar Town, whose main source of income is the hunting of monsters, of course it will not lack the bones of monsters. The intelligent creatures who believe in Jonil purchased various bones to sacrifice, and finally discovered that the patron saint of the sludge monster had a solid and simple requirement for sacrifices-the bigger the bone, the better, and the bigger it is, the more it likes it.

So they set their sights on the large monsters, so that the hunters in Longhou Town have developed a habit. If the large monsters are hunted, even if they are a little bit more troublesome, they have to tear their bones apart. Come back, or just drag it back entirely.

To be honest, since those creatures are so poor that they have to rely on Joniel to live, they naturally can't come up with any decent wealth. But the hunters in Longhou Town are mostly hospitable people, as long as they don't cause too much trouble to themselves, they are willing to help others.

Not only that, but there are also some forces trying to help Jonil, from time to time they give the hunters some money to help those people.

Among these, there is a snowflake with the pseudonym "Cold Tyrant".

So even if the followers of Jonil are so poor that they can only use wood and some rare ores as trading goods, they will always be able to exchange a lot of things, enough to sustain themselves life.

As he got closer to Jonil, Sui Xiong slowly lowered his height to avoid arousing hostility from the opponent. But he was obviously thinking too much. The mud monster under the sun was lying in the almost completely frozen swamp, lazily basking in the sun, motionless, completely ignoring his arrival.

On the contrary, a few gray intelligent creatures on the ground took up their weapons and made a guard posture.

Sui Xiong looked carefully at these creatures who believed in Yonier. They looked quite similar to humans, but their bodies were covered with gray-black dust. This layer of dust has special magical powers, which can maintain body temperature well, so that they can live normally in this icy world.

Their lower limbs are a bit short and the upper limbs are very long. They look weird. Although the head has a structure similar to the eyes and mouth, they can't see the eyeballs. There are only two surging mud, which is really weird.

Of course, this situation is not what normal creatures should have. In fact, they will only change to their current appearance when they are close to Yonil. When they get away from Yonil, they will change into another appearance—most commonly, they are wild men covered in thick fur.

Some powerful wizards have caught this savage and studied, but found that their bodies and bloodlines are essentially indistinguishable from humans. The reason for this strange phenomenon is that they are too close to Jonil and are affected.

In the vicinity of this legendary behemoth, the "world" itself has been distorted and turned into the appearance it is used to. Those intelligent creatures living near it were also distorted by its power and produced strange changes.

These intelligent creatures are not strong, not strong enough to resist this distortion, so they can't find their own changes at all. In their view, no matter if they are close to or far away from Jonil, they are still the same, there is no change. .

Even when they found out that they had become hairy savages in the communication with the residents of Longhou Town, they would not feel uneasy or worried, but took it for granted, not a big deal.

A magician once bought a few slaves with money and asked them to live with Jonil for a period of time. After they changed, he managed to undo the change. This experiment was quite successful, but the slaves looked at the images that recorded their weird appearance at the beginning, and they didn't feel anything wrong. According to them, everything is normal and there is nothing strange at all.

The magician finally failed to contain the blazing fire of curiosity, and lived by Jonil himself. He used a lot of protective spells for himself, but there was no use for eggs. A few months later, he also became a monster next to Yonil, and a wild man with long hair elsewhere.

Fortunately, he still has friends, who brought him back in time and cured him.

His sacrifice is worthwhile. After this research, the magicians finally determined that the area around Yonil has undergone a change similar to the "Kingdom of God", and this super huge mud monster actually has a preliminary possession. Similar to the power of a god. It's just that its intelligence is too low to achieve its essential transformation-or that the speed of this transformation is very slow, so slow that it can hardly be observed, that's why this strange phenomenon has appeared.

Sui Xiong is of course also curious about this, but first of all, he has to communicate with the followers of Jonil and make them believe that he is not an enemy.

In fact, it's very simple.

The huge jellyfish waved its tentacles and took out a surprisingly large leg bone.

This bone did not come from any monster, but Sui Xiong made it himself. Anyway, it's nothing more than piled up with various minerals and nutrients, and it's no different from building a house.

However, for the followers of Jonil, this is an out-and-out gift. They immediately put down their weapons and happily stroked the huge leg bones that were almost as high as them on the ground, and exclaimed.

"My lord will like this gift very much!" said a creature that seemed to be a leader, "Guests from afar, Anning Swamp welcomes you!"

An Ning Swamp is the name they gave to this area.

It’s really safe here, as long as you don’t mind becoming a monster and your whole body and mind are twisted.

Sui Xiong, of course, will not be affected by Yonier’s power. He fell on the ground, reduced his size, chatted with the Anning Swamp residents who hadn’t found anything wrong with him, and took out food to share with them. .

The recipes of these residents have not become as weird as Jonil. They still eat and drink like ordinary creatures. In order to avoid contamination of food and drinking water by the ubiquitous negative energy, they dig storage rooms underground and use the purchased magic materials to create a warehouse that can shield the negative energy for storage.

The cost of doing this is not low, so clean food and drinking water are precious resources for them. Fortunately in winter, the snow and ice on the tree canopy in the forest is very lightly polluted and can be used as a reliable water source. But there is no alternative to food, it can only rely on purchases.

The batch of food that Sui Xiong took out was he made a special circle and went to the sea to fish. The quantity is quite considerable. For these people who live in poverty, it can be called a lot of wealth.

They happily lit the campfire, singing and dancing. Although the movements were weird or even strange, the joy was not faked. Sui Xiong was lying on a tree stump nearby. Seeing them so happy, he couldn't help but smile.

The day gradually passed, and when it was getting late, the followers of Jonil used various tools to drag the bizarrely large leg bone to a simple altar in the swamp. Because the altar is not big enough~IndoMTL.com~ they can only put one side of the bone on it.

After doing this, they worshiped and prayed to Yonier, and then went into the underground cave.

The winter night in the Northland is bitterly cold, even if it is changed form by the gift of Jonil, it is difficult to resist. Only by hiding in a relatively warm underground can we survive this long cold night.

When the moon rose, the huge mud monster that had been lying still throughout the day shook slightly, shattering an ice block that had accumulated on the body during the day, and then slowly squirmed its body and changed its shape.

In the center of the upper part of its body, mud-like substances slowly flowed and gathered into a human-like appearance. But his head looked like a giant octopus, and his arms had four tentacles, which looked quite weird.

This weird creature and Sui Xiong, who had turned back into a giant floating jellyfish, looked at each other for a while, and then asked.

The will is vague, sticky and soft, as if glue and mud are mixed, but fortunately, I can finally figure out its meaning.

Sui Xiong smiled, sent a friendly message, and reminded it to pay attention to the huge bones on the altar.

When Jonil noticed the huge bone, it immediately let out a joyful roar.

Just as it tried to eat bones, Sui Xiong took out another one and said that he had more.

So, the most powerful mud monster in the world, the unconscious patron saint of tranquil swamp, was so easily bought by a bunch of big bones.

When Sui Xiong left, this guy learned the first vocabulary in his life other than instinct.

Friends.