Chapter 0275: Harpy Kingdom
The battle with the Winged Lion is actually more like a game!
The two sides did not break out into a desperate fight like a fish to the death.
The floating battleship struggled to maintain a thick defensive light film, flying at a constant speed in the dazzling colors of witchcraft in the sky, little by little, away from the hunting area of the winged lion.
Adult winged lions also seem to be only training young winged lions to fly and hunt. Although it will ferociously pounce on the defensive light film from time to time, more often it will just circle around the floating battleship, constantly roaring and threatening.
The two sides fought and walked, and when the floating battleship flew quickly over a rushing river, the winged lions stopped the pursuit, hovered in mid-air and roared a few words, and finally turned around and returned the same way.
It can be seen that this small river more than ten meters wide should be the dividing line between them and another group of monsters. Once they cross the line, I'm afraid they will directly provoke a bloody war between the two monster communities!
After freeing itself from the entangled position of the Winged Lion, the floating battleship finally began to accelerate slowly, continuing to move quickly through the Black Forest along a fixed channel.
According to the wizards of the Silver Alliance, the floating battleship will soon come into contact with the first dangerous place on this voyage, the Harpy Lair.
To be honest, the first time I heard that the first dangerous gatekeeper boss turned out to be a weak harpy, Grim almost didn't break his eyes.
How is this possible?
In his impression, this kind of harpie with a woman's head, but a vulture-like body, wings and sharp claws is simply a witchcraft fireball that can blow up a group of low-level monsters, how can it surpass the winged lion and the hill giant, and become a dangerous place on the waterway!
Apparently there are many wizards who have the same doubts as Grim.
So, the wizard of the Silver Alliance briefly explained to them something about the Harpy.
Yes, most of the harpy colonies encountered by wizards in the wild are indeed watery, and the birds are weak and a mess. One of the main reasons for this is that the Harpy colony near the human settlement is too small.
Those Harpy Banshee colonies with only about 100 people, not to mention wizards, are ordinary teams of mercenaries and adventurers, as long as they are well-equipped and well-prepared, they can be taken care of.
Because most of these colonies are low-level harpies who don't have any witchcraft powers. They had little ability to do but throw rocks and grab spears sharpened from sticks with their claws to launch a swoop attack.
However, the Harpy community also has a distinctive feature.
Once the colony exceeds 500, a bird-like witch with the power of witchcraft will be born. The feathers on their bodies have fallen off in large areas, and their torsos and heads have become more and more like human women, except for the wings on their backs and the claws on their lower limbs, which still remain in the form of vultures.
Once the colony exceeds 1000, a terrible witch leader will be born from the bird-like witches. This is a powerful spellcaster who is by no means weaker than a human female wizard, and has an assassin-like agility.
As for the harpy colony that they were about to come into contact with, it was a super large tribe with more than 10,000 members. As a result, the number of peculiar witches born in it has reached a staggering nearly 1,000.
With nearly a thousand bird-body witches with agile bodies and spell-casting abilities, such a large team is a force to be reckoned with wherever it is placed. Even a powerful monster like the Winged Lion would not dare to provoke the hordes of bird-body witches, otherwise they would be drowned in the other party's saliva in minutes.
Therefore, it is not the Harpy Colony that stands in front of them at all, but a terrifying Harpy Kingdom! It not only has a super-intelligent monster leader, but also has a small army with a complete range of occupations and a number of levels covering low, medium and high levels.
This also means that they have commanders, spellcasters, and an overwhelming number of ordinary warriors. So every time a floating battleship passes here, it means an adventure.
However, although the dangerous place is dangerous, as long as everyone works together, they can still pass smoothly, which is much better than going to the surrounding dead places!
At this moment, the floating battleship has penetrated 100,000 miles deep into the Black Forest. If you casually deviate from the inherent channel in such an area, you may break into the territory of a certain or a group of third-order monsters. With their strength, once they encounter an attack by a Tier 3 monster, the chance of being able to escape smoothly is almost zero.
Therefore, in the past hundred years, there have been three tragic incidents in which the floating battleship was shot down by a third-order monster and the wizards on the ship were completely wiped out. Although the Silver Alliance also sent top wizards to retaliate afterwards and join forces to strangle the troublesome third-order monsters, the wizards who had already died could only die in vain!
Therefore, even if he knew that the Harpy Kingdom was not weak, in order to avoid those more terrifying Tier 3 monsters, the Silver Alliance's channel could only choose to walk along the edge of the Harpy Kingdom.
…………
Three days later.
Grim's first fierce battle after stepping aboard the floating battleship broke out in an unexpected encounter!
They had the bad luck of running into a hunting party sent by the Harpys.
It was a small team of no more than 30 people, and most of them were ordinary harpies. There are only two mutated banshees, one is a harpy assassin and the other is a low-level bird-body witch.
This group of guys who don't know what to do, obviously their own strength is very poor, even dare to take the initiative to block the road and provoke the floating warship. As a result, most of them were killed by a salvo from the wizards. But alas, the two mutant banshees managed to escape.
So the next afternoon, the floating battleship was surrounded by the Harpy Legion over a canyon!
The floating battleship, wrapped in a thick defensive light film, struggled to move forward.
Outside the egg-shaped light film, the airtight harpies swirled and flew around, and their piercing screams could literally burst people's eardrums.
Most harpies possess no elemental abilities, flapping their gray wings, clutching a sharpened wooden spear in their claws, and stabbing at the protective light film. Such an inferior attack may be effective against ordinary beasts, but it is a bit difficult to use against the defensive witch array.
Therefore, nearly a thousand harpies attacked for a long time, but they only caused the defensive light film to ripple like raindrops, consuming some of the energy stored on the spaceship. As for breaking the defensive witch array, there is not even a single stroke of the eight characters!
However, hidden in the sky of the harpy, there are some mutated special individuals.
Harpies are mostly gray birds, ugly and vicious, and have far more bird features than human features. Those who have mutated have lost the feathers on their torsos, leaving only some blue feathers on their joints, armpits, and some of the ends of their limbs.
Their skin is white and delicate, their bodies are delicate, their breasts are full and swollen, and their faces are unusually delicate and perfect. It's just that the pupils are scarlet like blood, the fingers are sharply curved, and there is a pair of sharp claws like hooks under the white and plump thighs.
Seriously, if you ignore the eye-catching wings and ugly claws, these bird-like witches can be called more perfect humanoids!
As far as Grim knows, there seem to be some ornithischian witches of mixed blood who have joined the local wizarding organization in the wizarding guild on the East Coast. They were all half-blood offspring of a union between a human wizard and an ornithophiles.
Of course, this also proves that the tastes of some human wizards are really not ordinary!
In order to drive away the harpy and prevent them from further destroying the defensive witch array of the floating battleship, the wizards standing all over the side of the ship attacked vigorously. Colorful sorcery exploded around the ship like a fireworks salute, engulfing the harpy into the elemental vortex.
A blizzard that enveloped half of the sky raged in the banshee cluster, and the cold wind coated each harpy with a pale blue frost on its body. Countless banshees flapped their short gray wings vigorously, but they felt the wings getting heavier and heavier.
Finally, the harpy fell into the sky with a long hiss.
Although they are out of the storm and will regain their ability to fly in a short time. However, the appearance of this blizzard disrupted the rhythm of their attack, causing confusion among the Harpy's ranks.
Not far from Grim's side, a wind elemental wizard unleashed a large area of wind magic. The previously transparent sky suddenly became dangerous, and invisible wind vortices were densely packed there. Any harpy that suddenly broke into the area would be twisted into pieces of flesh in a whirlwind whirlpool, raising a stinky mist of blood in its place.
As for Grim, he didn't use a magic puppet or transform into a fire demon, but took out a flame scepter and behaved like a decent fire elemental wizard, casting fire magic one by one.
On the one hand, he kept casting spells, chanting obscure sorcery spells in a loud and powerful voice, and summoned a pillar of red flame in the sky in front of him. Powerful flame ripples erupted from the pillar of red flame in circles, and every harpy that was caught in it would fall into the sky with a scorched head in the sky, even if it could not be burned to death for a while.
The feathers on her body were burned to pieces, and ordinary harpies were not capable of flying with bare flesh wings.
While continuing to guide the large-scale fire-based sorcery, Grim's body stood straight, his eyes lit up with flames, and from time to time he shot out a series of scorching rays with extremely penetrating power.
To deal with this kind of harpy witch who does not have a thick body and does not have strong scale armor, it is too extravagant to use Yang Yan rays, and second-class scorching rays are enough!
Laser-like scorching rays shot indiscriminately, and every harpy banshee that was pierced by the red rays would fall with a terrible wail. And at the same time as falling, their bodies will also be covered with gray-black ripples.
If the scorching ray just now hadn't hit the vital point and killed them, the poison blessed by the voodoo scroll would have killed them in an instant.
For a while, the bird feathers around the floating battleship were scattered, and flesh and blood flew sideways.
The Harpy was slaughtered by wizards!