Chapter 0419: Spider Forest
Under the dim starlight, the jungle around the Sick Wood Forest was unusually quiet.
Not only were there no trace of the large carnivorous jungle creatures, but even the birds and insects were gone. The whole Black Forest is like a tomb, and the dead silence is terrifying.
The original uplifted earth hill of the diseased wood forest has disappeared, and the collapsed pit has swallowed up hundreds of tons of earth, sand, and dead trees, making the place a complete pile of rubble.
However, at this moment, in a corner of this pile of rubble, the strange sound of rustling continued to be heard. At first, the sound was as weak as a gopher secretly burrowing, but gradually, the sound became louder and louder.
Boom......
With a furious loud bang, a strange monster with a short neck and short tail, which looked like both a wyvern and a griffin, broke through the mud and emerged from the ground. It was muscular and powerful, with sharp teeth and claws, but its hard gray skin was covered in horrible scars.
It burrowed out of the ground, shook its body violently and shook off the dirt on its body, and with a long hiss, its thick hind limbs kicked vigorously, and its majestic body flew into the sky again.
Circling quickly twice on the pile of rocks, the two-legged Wyvern King raised his neck and let out a long hissed of grief and indignation, turned around and went straight to the high cliff where he was living in the east.
And not long after it disappeared, a dark figure appeared next to the hole that exploded.
In the light of night, the soft and flexible body of the dark tentacle monster was almost impossible to see, and only a huge black shadow could be seen dimly.
After hesitating for a moment, the dark tentacle monster's figure slowly floated up, and quickly fled into the distance under the cover of night.
It was originally a guy who liked to be alone, and the fall of the beast tide would undoubtedly have the least impact on it. However, considering the possible revenge of the human wizard next, it felt that this forest was no longer a safe place.
It's time to think about relocation!
With the idea in mind, the Dark Tentacle Monster shuttled through the endless darkness, its body getting farther and farther away.
And just as they were moving away, a large mouth exploded again somewhere in the pile of rocks, and the demon hunting spider Tula came out of it wrapped in a huge web cocoon, and disappeared into the forest without looking back.
This time, it took a full hour for a new change to appear in the rubble.
With a crunch, a layer of mud suddenly collapsed, revealing a huge hole that curved and coiled. Immediately after, figures of different shapes came out of it and lined up near the entrance of the cave, as if waiting for some big man.
The last one to come out of the hole was, of course, Grim.
After the bloody battle just now, although Grim was a little tired, his strong desire for harvest still supported him to continue fighting.
Grim's height of 2 meters was by no means the tallest among the group of black shadows, but the moment he appeared, all the black shadows leaned over slightly and bowed to him.
Grim's gaze slowly swept over this group of 'people', a team of less than twenty people, but it covered three identities: disciples, subordinates, and slaves.
"Meryl, you take Kodar and the harpy, as well as the leader of the manticore and the two manticores, to the Twin Towers Mountain, the lair of the furious giant baboon, and if it goes well, visit the harpy's home on the way back......"
"Understand, don't worry, teacher!"
"Gargamel, you take Sabrina and the snake demon and the three manticores to the red stone of the Medusa lair first, and then take everything you can take with you on the way back......
"Leave it to me, master!" Gargamel let out his trademark smirk again.
"Alright, the rest of you will come with me to the spider cave in Tula, and let me see if that guy has gone back to his lair!"
"Yes!" the three demon dogs responded weakly.
It was just controlled by people, and it needed to go on an expedition to the lair of the monster lord Tula before even the wounds in his body healed in time, which made it unhappy no matter what. However, the situation is stronger than people, and now that its life and death are in the hands of that human wizard, it has no other choice!
A simple detachment, three human wizards with three groups of quasi-witches, monsters and manticores, such a team encounters those fleeing enemies, even if it doesn't take advantage of it, it will not be easily overturned by the enemy. After all, several monster leaders know each other, and after this battle, it is also clear what family background is left under the opponent's hands.
So after weighing the pros and cons, Grim decisively dispatched the main force of the Wu Tower to do his best to scavenge some useful resources for himself.
Of course, the Witch Tower's place of life should not be too empty. Therefore, Grim left the forest demon behind, coupled with the assistance of a group of wizard apprentices such as Am, if the witch tower is not released, it will be difficult to attack only the few remaining monsters.
Therefore, after waving goodbye to everyone, Grim stepped onto an adult manticore, and with the three demon dogs, Anguga, went straight to the spider lair of the monster lord Tula.
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The spider nest of Tula is actually a huge cavern.
The location is about 200 miles north of the Sick Wood Forest in a valley.
Along the way, Grim sat on the back of the manticore, looking down slightly at the forest below, and the amount of life breath that could be detected within the range of his spiritual perception had been sharply reduced to a point of deep sighing.
Tens of thousands of jungle creatures were wiped out in the first battle of the Sick Woods, and the impact on this black forest was unprecedentedly huge. Although the creatures in the Black Forest are highly mobile, and the creature vacancies here are quickly filled by jungle creatures in the nearby area, the quantity and quality are definitely several notches lower.
And the density of jungle creatures also determines the number of monsters that this black forest can support.
If there are fewer monsters, the security of your own witch tower will be much higher, but the monster resources are a little lacking.
While Grim was silently in his reverie, the three demon dogs that had been running wild on the ground, Anguga, finally stopped at the entrance of a huge valley.
The manticore lion that Grim was riding circled, and the huge bat wings were wrapped in a howling wind, and it descended at Anguja's side.
Grim jumped off the manticore and took a serious look at the eerie forest in front of him.
Compared to the usual Black Forest, it should be called the 'White Forest'.
The valley chosen by Tula the Demon Hunt as its nest is filled with tall, straight trees, but the leafy canopy and shrubs, thorns, and vines that crawl the glade are rare, replaced by ghostly white cobwebs.
In the canopy, between the branches, between the trees......
In short, as long as there are gaps, they are covered with white sticky cobwebs and clumps of white cocoons, large and small.
Some of the white cocoons hang between the branches, some sink into the hollows of the trees, and some hang from the sides of the road, gently swaying up and down with the night breeze.
In some of the white cocoons, Grim sensed a faint breath of life, and most of the life in the white cocoons had been sucked dry and turned into terrifying dried corpses.
However, the anomaly is that Grim led the three demon dogs into the valley for hundreds of meters, but did not find any spider-like creatures!
All buried in the sea of magma?
As soon as the idea popped up, Grim himself dismissed it.
Tula was such a cunning monster lord who could never have done such a decisive thing. Its lair must still have enough spider henchmen to protect its home, and after it escapes from the ground, I am afraid that it will hide in its lair as soon as possible to recuperate.
If his guess is correct, it swept away Medusa before leaving, probably in the intention of recovering its strength. The only thing it doesn't know now is whether it's going to swallow that Medusa raw, steam, or fried.
When he thought of Medusa's gorgeous face and beautiful snake-like figure, Grim couldn't help but feel a sense of regret. It's too wasteful to eat such a 'stunner'!
Grim's black pupils flashed blue, slowly sweeping across the spider jungle in front of him, and the expression on his face gradually became solemn.
In his mind, every time he swept through a dense cobweb, elemental vision would scan a trace flow of energy in the cobweb. And the warnings of the chip are even more endless.
"Warning...... Warn...... Discover an unknown protective force field...... This protective force field can absorb spiritual power and block the penetration of spiritual perception......"
Hey, a cobweb that blocks mental perception?
Grim walked up to a tall ancient tree, reached out and grabbed the dense cobwebs that had overturned over the trunk and wrapped the ancient tree firmly, and tore it gently.
Sticky, tough, and tingled with a tingle that can paralyze the spirit......
If Grim were an ordinary jungle creature, if he hit such a spider web, he would probably be quickly drained of his spiritual vitality and become one of the many white cocoons here.
Grim tried hard, and with his strength of up to 3 points, he couldn't even tear these seemingly ordinary cobwebs. You know, the strength of an adult black bear in the Black Forest is only 3 points. 3 points of strength are enough to make Grim a humanoid beast in the jungle, capable of defeating most carnivorous beasts with his bare hands, even without any sorcery.
Of course, monsters like Earth Storm Bear and Iron Rhinoceros are not among them!
Grim snapped his fingers lightly, and a raging fire immediately ignited on his right hand that grabbed the cobweb. With the help of witchcraft, the cobweb, which was still tough and sticky like rhinoceros skin just now, immediately disappeared with a bang.
It seems that the flame is indeed the nemesis of this cobweb!
Grim's flaming palm stretched forward, and the cobwebs that wrapped the ancient tree in layers immediately melted away like boiling soup and snow.
Soon, the black, thin, and emaciated bark of the ancient tree was revealed.
Grim threw a punch without hesitation, and the sparkling iron fist directly smashed the outer skin of the ancient tree and penetrated into it.
Ancient trees are hollow!
When Grim pulled his fist out, purple and black blood spilled from the hole in the ancient tree, and countless small spiders poured out of it. Through the breach, Grim saw white bones and remnants of hair in the hollow cavity of the tree.
Grim's discovery also seemed to have touched the entire spider forest, and the terrifying corpses hanging between the treetops and branches suddenly moved strangely, and the movements were stiff and dull tearing the cobwebs on their bodies.
Once free from the shackles of the cobwebs, they flew over the tall ancient trees with the agility of a cheetah, and swooped down on Grim and the three demon dogs with a howl.
All of a sudden, the entire Spider Forest rioted!