Chapter 0465: Battle Under the Cover of Night
The Black Forest is never quiet at night.
In the depths of the shadowy darkness, there are unforeseen dangers lurking everywhere.
The jungle beasts that go out to hunt at night, the vampire vines camouflaged in the vines, the sour swamps that look like meadows on the surface, but are actually the habitat of ugly ghosts, and the fierce predators that roam the depths of the forest like ghosts......
If you add in the legendary polluters, monsters, and monsters, it all comes together to form a real wild world of species and resources—the Black Forest.
Sixty kilometers north of the Flame Throne Witch Tower, this is a territory occupied by the Abeebees.
The night was late.
But here, it is still a tense and busy scene.
Bands of bee-man warriors with quenched spears and bows and arrows flapped their wings in and out of the forest, many still holding their prey in their hands. Most of them are ordinary jungle creatures such as horned sheep, coyotes, and apes, and they can also be seen with berserk apes, scavengers, and human mercenaries every now and then.
Normally, each beeman team consists of fifteen beeman warriors.
According to certain rules, they walk through the Black Forest thirty miles around their nests, carefully and meticulously searching for prey to hunt. Whenever they encounter a jungle beast or other monster that has come out to hunt, it is a sign that a battle is inevitable.
Because of their terrifying aggressiveness, almost none of the bee-man teams that returned to their nests were full, and the worst team even had only four bee-man warriors to return. But without exception, they all brought back some loot to some extent.
Built in the middle of a dense forest, the Bee Bee Man's lair is a strange and magical structure that resembles a beehive.
It is also the Bee Queen's maternity ward, a special space for her to produce and nurture her herd.
Ordinary bee-men are not eligible to enter the hive, and only a few specially selected bee-man attendants can gather around the queen, serving her to eat and take care of the newly hatched eggs.
The incubation cycle of a beeman is very short, and it only takes a short seven days for an egg to hatch into a beeman warrior from birth. So as long as the food is plentiful, a hive can produce bee-man warriors at an almost explosive rate.
According to the way the wizard's power is divided, the power of the average beeman warrior is only 0.7 points. But don't look at their individual strength is very weak, as long as they gather a certain number, their danger will skyrocket.
With wings to fly, and a masterful skill at quenching poison, he can launch ranged attacks with a bow and arrow, and can hold up a three-pronged spear to launch a dive attack in close combat. Stacked on top of each other, combined with a steady stream of numbers, once the Abel Bee people gain a foothold, they can quickly become the dominant force in the nearby forests.
In this vast and boundless Black Forest, except for monsters with thick skin and strong combat power, such as giant barbarian elephants and bipedal wyverns, which they dare not provoke, the rest of the creatures and monsters are almost on the predation list of the sub-bee people.
Therefore, during the time that Grim left the Flame Throne, the number of sub-bees who had no natural predators to control them was almost exploding rapidly. And their disorderly growth undoubtedly greatly threatened the newly established peripheral forces around the Flame Throne.
In just seven or eight days, Gargamel had received news of the death of two foreign apprentices and a dozen mercenaries. For a time, the thirty or forty miles around the Flame Throne were classified as extremely dangerous areas, and the Witch Tower even issued a ban on approaching this area.
However, the appearance of an overly powerful group of monsters around the Flame Throne is not a good thing in any way. Therefore, on the one hand, it was ordered to prohibit mercenaries and low-level apprentices from approaching the hunting area of the Abes, and on the other hand, Wuta also issued a clean-up mission internally, calling on high-level apprentices to clean up these disordered monsters in a planned manner.
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Near a small, narrow mountain stream, an encounter has just come to an end.
A lone red flame tiger with a body length of 3 meters and a weight of 300 kilograms became the prey of the bee-man predator.
The dead Red Flame Tiger lay motionless on the forest meadow, its bright yellow body covered with red magic patterns was full of black short arrows, and there were even two broken spears around its neck.
The Beeman Warrior's weak strength was not enough to kill the rampaging Red Flame Tiger, but the poison on their weapons could. So the unlucky lone Red Flame Tiger in front of him was poisoned alive!
However, the Red Flame Tiger's berserk fireballs also caused great damage to the Swarm Predators, with four Sbee Warriors unable to dodge being torn apart by the explosion, and three Swarm Warriors who died from the Red Flame Tiger's terrifying bite and flaming tail while diving down.
The remaining eight bee-man warriors also took some fire damage, but that didn't stop them from happily cutting through the body of the Red Flame Tiger and then transporting the tiger meat back in batches.
This kind of monster flesh and blood soaked in a strong elemental aura is a great tonic, and it is also one of the favorite foods of the queen beeman.
However, just as they were busy around the corpse of the Red Flame Tiger, a voice was heard from the forest not far away, and a humanoid creature hidden in a thick black robe appeared in the field of vision of the Beeman Warrior.
Mankind!
The other party is not only the human, but also the queen's favorite human spellcaster!
Because in this forest, the only ones who dare to run around in black robes are those so-called wizard apprentices.
The beeman warrior couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Buzz Buzz......
The bee-like wings flapped loudly.
The eight bee-man warriors threw away the bloody debris in their hands, grabbed their spears, and flew into the air in an instant. In order to avoid a possible sorcery attack by the human apprentice, several bee-man warriors spread out in all directions, quickly approaching the black-robed humanoid under the cover of dense branches and vines.
To their surprise, the black-robed figure did not try to escape, but tilted its head slightly, and a pair of strange dark green eyes shone through the shadow of the hood, glancing coldly at the beeman.
Although the situation was a little strange, the bee-man warriors still attacked the enemy according to the fixed process.
The first wave of shots, of course, was the semi-long-range poison bow and arrow.
Whoosh ......
Eight poisonous arrows passed through the gaps in the trees, and shot at the black-robed humanoid in a dense manner like locusts.
The other party didn't even have the slightest intention of dodging, nor did he cast any defensive sorcery, just stood there and let the poisoned arrows hit his body. Judging from the dull sound of the poisoned arrow entering the body, the other party was not wearing any metal armor under his black robe.
As a result, the eight bee-man warriors became even more excited, and kept firing arrows while approaching quickly. When they rushed to less than ten steps away from the black-robed humanoid, they threw away their longbows one by one, and swooped down with their three-pronged spears in their hands.
When the eight spears were inserted into the opponent's body in a piercing grinding sound, the black-robed humanoid suddenly erupted with a strange sharp insect hiss. The entire body suddenly exploded into a black beetle in the sky, instantly drowning the eight bee-man warriors in the terrifying insect tide.
It was the first time that the bee-warriors had encountered such a terrible counterattack, and they screamed in terror to pull themselves back up, but a strange layer of black beetles overturned on their heads, faces, bodies, legs, and even translucent wings.
What frightened them even more was the strange rustling sound of dense silkworms gnawing on mulberries, and the terrible pain that emanated from the limbs.
A few bee-warriors with strong bodies barely flapped their wings and flew, but because they couldn't see, they crashed into the branches and fell.
The bee-man warriors frantically struggled and fought back...... A number of black beetles the size of soybeans were crushed into blood sauce and poisoned into black water, but the remaining number was still enough to kill the eight unlucky ones who had no other sorcery abilities.
Soon, the forest was quiet again.
In the quiet depths of the dark forest, there was only a strange rustling sound of the eerie bones.
A moment later, the well-fed black beetles gathered together again and re-formed into Bilis's form.
The wizard apprentice who had won the first battle stood quietly among the blood stains on the ground, silently enjoying the pleasant feeling of sweet blood surging in his body.
Although the Alphabee Man is a monster, it has a mixture of bee and elf characteristics in appearance, and it is also a humanoid monster. If it had been placed in the past, with the character of Bilis, he would never have made such a cruel act of eating the other party raw.
But today, after fusing with the mutant worm mother, all this in front of me has become so natural, it's no wonder!
This is my ideal world!
Ever since the successful fusion, Billis's irascible and bloodthirsty nature has been forcefully suppressed by Grim. Although he had secretly eaten a lot of 'blood food', those weak humans didn't bring him much evolutionary energy at all.
In contrast, monsters steeped in elemental power are the most suitable for food!
Of course, those sweet and delicious human apprentices are also a food that will move around. But Grim's master had given a strict order that he could not feed on wizards and apprentices without permission. Therefore, Biliss could only forcibly suppress the urge to live in the witch tower to hunt, and under the instructions of his master, he came here to trouble the Yabei bees.
After eating, Billis continued to the depths of the jungle with heavy staggering steps. Behind him, a dense swarm of worms wrapped in fragments of flesh and blood followed him like loyal hounds.
The current Biliss has only barely completed the evolution of the insect body and has an undead insect body, but none of the mutant beetles that fought for him have been cultivated. In this way, he is undoubtedly extremely weak. Once he encounters those powerful monster leaders, he can only turn around and flee for his life.
So, it's time to find a place to build a hive!