If Grimm's fire sorcery brought the most damage to the manticores, then Gargamel's constant smoke poison into the cavern was the most vicious means of cornering the other party.

Without Gargamel, the battle would have been protracted today. Grim might be able to keep the manticores in the cave and make it difficult to get out, and he doesn't want to get rid of them quickly. Seriously, the overall strength of the manticore lion group is two or three times that of Grim's side.

But there are never ifs and ifs in the world!

Reasonable tactics combined with the right people, coupled with strong execution, contributed to this perfect battle of winning more with less.

When several adult scorpion lions did not hit the 'stones' that stood in the way with their strong bodies and fierce will to fight, they were doomed to a tragic end!

The leader of the manticore lions was seriously injured and fled into the depths of the cavern, replaced by two young manticores. The strongest ones have already been injured and retreated, and they can only let the slightly weaker young manticore come out to attack.

And they're up against a Growler who has largely repaired his body, and a Grimm who has taken a back seat. A flesh shield and a fire witch, combined with the gag rotten and Gargamel, made it impossible for the two young manticores to replicate their previous bravery.

Before they could get close to the Growler, the two of them were beaten apart by a series of sorcery, screaming and screaming, and when they were finally able to reach the Stone Man, a 'great trembling' and they stopped eating again.

And then another baptism of witchcraft!

The two young manticores immediately knelt down, and if it weren't for the manticore lions behind them biting their tails and dragging them back, they would have died on the spot in the narrow hole.

At this point, it was time to curse Gargamel's insidiousness.

If it weren't for those smoke poisons, even if the manticores couldn't break out, they would have been able to defend the danger and block the hole to play a protracted battle with Grim. But it was Gargamel's presence that filled the entire cave with a suffocating and terrifying poisonous smoke, and the manticores had no choice but to use their flesh and blood to make a way out.

Of course, if the leader of the manticore is a little more fierce and cunning, he will first send a few young manticores out to take the lead, and let them play with the growler at the peak of their physical strength, and consume the strength of Grim's side. Then carry out the cluster assault of the elite manticore, then the probability of them breaking through is even higher.

After all, Grim's side only had the wizard-level meat shield of the Growler and the half of Grim's indiscriminate meat shield. Once the Growler is defeated, the whole situation is in a state of flux, and the festering is hard to contain!

Now after all, it is not as good as in the past, and without the heavy firepower of the Flame Tyrant, Grim's own strength can barely be on the side of the old wizards. If the Heart of the Flame Demon is unsealed, he may have the explosive power of an elite wizard in the short term, but after all, the time is only a short quarter of an hour.

With such strength, facing elite-level monsters, there is still a great danger of being overturned by the enemy!

But fortunately, under the confusion of many factors, the tactics he worked out by relying on the battlefield simulation of the chip were basically completed, and he finally took down this group of manticores without danger.

The 11 manticores were not blown up by Grim's violent fire sorcery, but were put down by Gargamel's poisonous mist potion one by one, and lay down in the cave and softened into a puddle of mud.

Even the badly injured elite manticore leader!

All the hair on his body was gone, and he was covered with bubbles and blood scabs full of pus and blood, and the terrible yellow water flowed freely, and the smell was full of pungent stench......

Grim, who had dispelled the poisonous mist and entered the cave, saw the scene in front of him, and he inevitably felt a little sad in his heart. Such a powerful corpric lion family, but it was easily taken down by a few of them, and it is still a little bizarre and incredible when I think about it now.

But looking at the poor manticores who were paralyzed like dead dogs, the pity in Grim's heart was only for a short moment. Immediately afterward, he shouted to Gargamel: "Hurry up and treat them!

In fact, he didn't need to tell him, after Gargamel got into the cave, he couldn't help but laugh out loud when he looked at the stilted group of manticores inside, and the sinister laughter like a night owl made people's hairs stand on end.

"Quick...... Fast...... Hurry ......up," Gargamel commanded, "Fill them with antidote and tie them all up for me......"

It's just that they are in charge of guarding the perimeter, and the mercenaries who can't reach out at all during the big battle swarm in, covering their mouths and noses with wet cloths one by one, and the pungent smell of potions can be faintly smelled on them.

With their assistance, the potion of potions, the ropes of ropes, in the blink of an eye, 11 manticores were tied by them, and they were unable to move.

Gargamel wasn't so kind, and gave them a complete detoxification. Once they are out of the poison's control, they can break free from these ropes woven with wire vines in minutes with the natural strength of the monsters. Therefore, Gargamel took out some 'improved' antidotes, which not only saved their lives but did not allow them to fully recover, but also infiltrated some terrible toxins into their lungs by the way, so that they could be controlled later.

Such a living group of manticores was suitable to be subdued and accepted as the future guardians of the Witch Tower, so Grim gave Gargamel the task of subduing the manticore, and he himself dived deep underground alone, where he found a huge cave complex and a lava well.

In fact, as soon as he stepped into this cave, Grim sensed a strong aura of fire element. The entire group of karst caves that stretched for two or three miles was shrouded in dazzling red light, and the air was filled with a suffocating smell of sulfur. And the source of all this comes from a lava well with a diameter of 5 meters in the center of the cave!

It is a lava well that leads vertically to the depths of the earth, and when you look down from the mouth of the cave, you can see a sea of churning and shaking magma. The wellhead is about 50 meters away from the magma sea, and the surrounding stone walls are volcanic rocks that can resist the invasion of magma, and it is also a natural stone for building a fire witch tower.

Grim grabbed the wand and jumped into the sea of lava below. With some of the fire immunity brought by the Body of Flames, he initially explored the shallow layers of the lava sea below, and was then shocked.

This should be a natural 'lung'!

Just as people need lungs to breathe, the underworld needs a channel to communicate with the energy of the surface world. The furious volcanic area is one, and more so, 'lungs' like this.

They are hidden all over the continent, even at the bottom of the Endless Sea.

Through winding and hidden passages, it dissipates the heat of the earth to the surface, and then sucks the ubiquitous elemental energy into the depths of the earth.

And here, it is obviously a natural 'earth lung' dominated by the fire element!

Its existence, for a fire witch like himself, its value is even more obvious!

So Grim immediately left a witchcraft mark near the lava well as a coordinate for future positioning, and then returned to the manticore's lair with great satisfaction.

And in the three days since Grim left, Gargamel has also made a major breakthrough in that regard.

Among the 11 manticores, 2 small manticores could not stand the threat of witch medicine and death, and finally lowered their heads in humiliation, let go of their hearts, and let Gargamel plant a soul mark in it. With the dual control of witch medicine and soul imprint, the life and death of the two little manticores are completely in the hands of Gargamel.

With 2 examples of the statement in front of them, the rest of the manticores also chose to surrender one after another and were freed. And the 2 elite-level manticores, including the leader of the manticore, would rather die than surrender. This undoubtedly made Gargamel look very angry.

However, after Grim returned, he went to talk to the leader of the manticore, and he reluctantly surrendered! There were two factors that prompted him to surrender:

First, Grim promised that it was a contract of employment, not a contract of slavery. This also meant that Grim would have to pay regular employment fees to the Manticore family in the future, which was tentatively set at 30 magic crystals per month.

Second, the offspring of the Manticore tribe are free. The manticore lion cubs born in the future are no longer bound by contracts and can live, reproduce and migrate freely, and wizards are not allowed to interfere!

For these two points, Grim naturally agreed, and the elite manticore leader led his partner to join his team.

After the Manticore's affairs were taken care of, Grim left Gargamel, Sabrina, and the potion apprentice Daniel in the Sickwood Grove, and then set out with the rest of the group on the return journey back to Songta Town.

As for the forest demon Ava, she has been hiding in the shadows and has never met with the mercenaries, so the rest of the team members don't know about her existence at all!

This trip to the Black Forest took twenty-seven days, and when the adventurer team returned smoothly, the entire Songta town instantly boiled.

The mercenaries who stayed in the town flocked to the inn to ask Lowe and the others about the details of this adventure, but the members of the team who received Grim's heavy money were silent, and they did not dare to easily divulge the news of their employer.

Grim only stayed in the small town of Songta for one night, and hurried back to his family the next day.

The first thing he did when he returned to the family was that Grim made a special trip to meet the head wizard of the family, Lord Sanaza, and sent her an internal application to build his own wizard tower.

This matter was promised to him by the Great Wizard Lord Sarupo after the last family plane war, so he was justified in mentioning it.

After not seeing each other for a few days, Lord Sanaza seemed to be in a very happy mood, and agreed to Grim's request, and quickly handed over the task to the Rank 2 Fogan Wizard.

According to Grim's later understanding, the reason why Sanazar was so happy was because the family's contact person in the Northland had already contacted Alice and received a considerable share of benefits from her.