Chapter 0016: Omen
readx; Still the same fixed process, or the familiar route, Grim once again embarked on the road of inspection. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But today is clearly a little different.
As soon as he stepped onto the gravel path, Grim noticed something strange. Today...... These monsters seemed to be extremely excited, and they all behaved very unusually.
The first stop of the patrol is the Murderous Grove.
Before he approached the Murderous Woods, Grim was frightened by today's formation.
The scrawny and wrinkled killing tree is densely packed with scavenging crows. One by one, they stared at the scarlet eyes, and kept tilting their heads to look at Grim, but the strange crows were silent, not at all like their usual appearance.
Truth be told, being stared at by hundreds of scavenging crows at the same time would make even the most daring wizard apprentice feel creepy. What surprised Grim even more was the silence of the scavenging crows. In normal times, the noisy and piercing voices of a dozen scavenging crows are enough to disturb the chickens and dogs within a radius of 1 mile.
Can be ...... today
Looking at their posture, they look like they are waiting for a gluttonous feast.
The knowledge in Grim's mind tells him that these scavenging crows are only so quiet and patient when they wait for food. It is said that in the wilderness desert, these fellows can follow the dying traveler for days and nights, waiting for the moment when the other party will collapse.
Greem walked slowly down the gravel path to the "melancho welcome" of hundreds of scavenging crows, flanked by evil people with bad intentions.
"Chip, can you scan the surrounding environment? I want to know what's going on here!" Unable to stand this low, oppressive and almost frozen atmosphere, Grim finally secretly gave the chip an order.
"Drop, instant scanning task starts...... Establish a dynamic monitoring ...... for the surrounding environment Didi ...... Unknown source of odor is discovered...... Direction: Southeast...... Distance: 500 meters......"
Unknown smell?
Reminded of this, Grim took a deep breath and savored it slowly, finally discerning a trace of blood in the stale and damp mist. No wonder today's monsters look so excited! Even the bloody qi that they can detect is ten times more sensitive than their own, and of course they are even more agitated and restless.
Counting the days, today is not the "open day" once a month! Could it be that an outsider has sneaked in?
dudu1;
With a stomach full of questions, Grim swallowed a bottle of Ailan water, pulled up his hood and hurried straight to the southeast.
Ailan water, a special witch potion made from Ailan grass, can effectively close the pores of the whole body and eliminate the leakage of one's own breath. However, the time limit is only a short 2 quarters of an hour.
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Whispering Garden.
What was once a dead and peaceful abandoned garden has now become a terrifying and terrifying battlefield.
Before he could get closer, the terrifying screams of baby monsters and the piercing screams of the necromancy, as well as the shouting of curses from human mercenaries, had reached Grim's ears far away. Of course, what attracted him more was the rich and pungent smell of blood. Gradually, Grim approached the battlefield under the cover of trees and grass, and soon found a vantage point with a good view of what was going on in the field.
Two teams were fighting in the arena.
The attackers, of course, are the terrifying baby monsters and necrons who have gathered here, while the defenders are a squad of 17 mercenaries.
This is a team of capable mercenaries, all of whom are athletic and powerful. Their equipment is also not bad, ranging from large and thick shields made of hardwood, as well as small arm shields and round shields, plus almost a pair of bows and arrows in their hands, and of course it is not a problem to hunt ordinary monsters.
Unfortunately, it was the most terrifying monster in the Whispering Garden that surrounded them today, the baby monster.
The baby monsters have no legs, they crawl on the ground with a pair of sharp claws, and a long umbilical cord-like thing is dragged behind them. They are wicked and twisted, and although their bodies resemble human babies, their faces are full of stacked wrinkled skin, and their facial features are squeezed together, and their faces are ugly and messy.
Among the knee-high weeds and shrubs, these small monsters kept burrowing around, shrill curses one after another. And every sound of a baby's cry will trigger a terrified scream of human mercenaries.
Despite their short stature, all of them have a strength of no less than 5 points, which is comparable to the strength of an adult strong man. And their sharp claws are even more terrifying, leaving deep claw marks on them every time they fly in the air and are blocked by their shields.
But the worst thing is their infantile curse.
When Grim arrives, the baby monsters are trying to break through the shield defenses of the human mercenaries with their bodies.
One by one, the baby monsters used their claws to crawl quickly in the grass, and then took advantage of the volley to rush into the shield array surrounded by the mercenaries, but each time they were blocked back by the mercenaries who were waiting for them with their arm shields. There was even a baby monster who couldn't escape, and was nailed to the ground by the sharp arrows fired by the archers. dudu2;
The baby monster with its chest and abdomen nailed to the ground was still fierce, and as it dug frantically through the dirt with its claws, it half-propped up and let out a piercing infant cry at the nearest human mercenary.
The cry was sharp and piercing, and it might just be an unpleasant murmur when it fell on the ears of others, but when it fell on the ears of the mercenary holding the big shield, it immediately plunged him into a terrifying "curse" effect.
The stout mercenary jerked away his shield, clasped his hands tightly over his ears, and cried out in horror: "Come and save me...... I can't see anything anymore......"
With the roar, his closed eyes suddenly left two lines of bloody tears, which made people feel terrified when they saw it.
There was a sharp thud in the grass, and two more baby monsters appeared, their ugly fleshy faces full of hideous smiles, and their wrinkled and muffled mouths opened and cried at the "blind" mercenary.
Blindness + madness + confusion!
Even full-fledged wizard apprentices can't resist the curses of the baby monsters, let alone these mortal-born human mercenaries. Before the mercenary's companion could knock him unconscious, he had already frantically knocked everything in front of him and stumbled out of the shield wall.
"No...... Bazar, come back soon......"
A middle-aged man dressed like a mercenary captain shouted in the back, but it was too late.
If someone looks down from a high altitude, they can see the grass around the mercenary team trembling rapidly, and the grass line targets that quickly fall directly at the mercenary who is running in a daze.
"Bazar!" a strong-looking man shook off his big shield and picked up his tomahawk and was about to rush to the rescue, but was stopped by the captain.
"Don't go, Tucker! it's too late......" The captain grabbed the strong man's arm with one hand, and looked at Bazar's distant figure from afar, full of pathos and helplessness.
Without his warning, soon, in the grass in the distance, the running Bazar was thrown to the ground by the infant monsters that kept rushing in. The miserable and painful hiss only lasted for a dozen fingers before it came to an abrupt end, leaving only the terrifying sound of the baby monsters frantically biting at the flesh.
Although the mercenaries could not see the scene of the baby monsters eating because of the wild grass, just looking at the constantly swaying dead grass and the terrifying sound that made their teeth ache and feet weak, it was still enough for their brains to make up even more terrifying pictures. As a result, the determination and fighting spirit that has been fighting to the death against the monsters to this day inevitably began to fall.
Woo......
dudu3;
Suddenly, a white fireball the size of a human head shot out from the center of the mercenary team, dragging a long black smoke tail wing, and landed like a cannonball on the area where the baby monsters were eating in groups.
In the next second, with a deafening cracking sound, the terrifying elemental flames swollen and engulfed the space around ten meters or so, drowning everything in the surging waves of flames.
With just one blow, the defenseless baby monsters lost about twenty. The 14 baby monsters at the center of the elemental fireball burst were instantly reduced to ashes, while those at the edge of the explosion area were more or less burned by the flames. For a while, the screams of the baby monsters resounded through the sky!
Fire sorcery?!
Grim, who was silently observing in the shadows, paused for a moment, his eyes wandered quickly, and soon found three suspicious targets in the center of the mercenary team who looked somewhat similar to himself.
The black hooded cloak covered their bodies tightly, and not an inch of skin was exposed, but judging by their size and skeleton, they should be 2 men and 1 woman.
Three wizard apprentices on the go?
Unable to look at each other, and therefore unable to estimate their specific strength, Grim did not dare to act rashly, secretly took out the witchcraft talisman, and reported the situation here to the wizard tower.
And in just a few moments, the baby monsters who had suffered a lot of losses actually called out the necromancers who were with them.
Of course, the necromancers who can live with the monsters are not low-grade goods like dried corpses and skeletons, but some consciousness bodies condensed by strong resentment and terrifying malice. They still retain their humanoid form, but they don't have real bodies, and their natural ability to transform between virtual and real at will allows them to ignore most physical attacks and defenses.
In appearance, they are a hazy shadow. The head is relatively clear, and the contours of the human face can be clearly seen. The arms were a pair of sharp ghost claws, like substance, but the lower half of the body was a blur, and from a distance, it looked as if the legs had melted into the void.
As soon as these guys rushed out of the jungle, a soul-stirring ghostly roar sounded in the sky, and the temperature in the field suddenly became a little colder.
With these dozens of terrifying necromancers that almost obscured the sky, the defensive circle that was able to hold on just now collapsed in an instant.
The necromancers who had blurred their bodies rushed into the crowd with impunity, ignoring the swords, shields, and spears in their hands, and scratching terrifying blood marks on them with their cold ghost claws. There were even some terrible necromancers who rushed straight into the mercenaries' bodies, occupying their bodies alive, and turned around to attack their companions.
With the gap they opened, the evil baby monsters continued to burst into the battle circle, destroying the mercenaries' will with their terrible words, and then dragging them into the grass one by one to eat.
The scene became more chaotic and bloody.
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