Chapter 35: The Nature of Battle

The Assassins stood still, their torn cloaks looking indiscernible in the smoke, and Green knew that the thing was nothing more than human-like. In the Monster Illustrated Book, Green has a deep image of this monster.

In modern times, hunters are not the only ones who hunt monsters, whether it is monster hunters trained by the Holy See or knights like Grimm, they are actually implementing their own logic and working hard to eliminate monsters. Knights have always been the backbone of this, and before the strengthening spell was not systematic, only people like knights who could strengthen their physical fitness could fight monsters head-on, which was the norm.

The knights were respected because they were the most respectful and honorable of all those who slay monsters. But the knights have always scoffed at the hunting methods of the hunters and even the hunters, and the knights are noble warriors, warriors who protect the people. And the hunters, who may be refugees, or shamans who are desperate to survive, and most of them are bloodthirsty and ruthless, often fighting their peers for the final commission. Their physical fitness is not as good as that of knights, some people may just look at the notes left by their parents, and some of them are even Muggles, and they don't know magic at all, but it doesn't mean that this group of outlaws can't fight monsters, Green knows that the center of magic technology is actually a collection of technology and magic, and this group of hunters is precisely the first batch of people who violate the ban and use technological weapons to deal with monsters.

In fact, this statement is not true, because humans always like to use weapons and tools to arm themselves, and humans who use sticks and cold weapons at the beginning will naturally use stronger weapons in their hands when facing stronger monsters. The so-called ban on the use of technological weapons is nothing more than an ostrich act carried out by the wizarding world that feels the development of science and stops itself.

When swords and clubs are not used, hunters will naturally pick up guns and explosives.

Hunters don't know magic, but with these technological weapons, they can actually rely on experience and skill to hunt monsters, but the efficiency and casualty rate are far inferior to those of knights and professional papal hunters.

Except for the Hive Assassins.

This monster is not the guardian of the hive, in the monster book and various research reports pointed out, this monster and the queen of the hive have no direct connection, it is not the queen's guard, but belongs to a higher level of monsters, and all modern monsters, its birth and origin are unknown, but in the initial hunting process, the knights' hunting process for assassins is far lower than those hunters like the rabble. Because this monster is almost immune to the attack of cold weapons, neither axe slashing nor knife slashing can cause great damage to the aggregate of this insect, but the hunters' explosives and burning shells are superior to this monster.

Knights encounter this kind of monster, either you are a famous knight, you have a family heirloom sword, you have a sophisticated magic weapon, you can rely on the power of magic weapons to quickly kill these insects, or you can only be consumed alive by these assassins. For a period of time, the knights and the hunters maintained a tacit understanding that only the hive assassins would never intervene in the hunters' bloody hunts, even if the hunters ended up hurting each other due to infighting. Of course, the Bein family is not one of these knights, they have a family heirloom of holy sword persuaders, and there is no difference between dealing with worm hive assassins and ordinary monsters, but at this moment, Green is not really a persuader in his hand.

Green hadn't dealt with these Assassins personally, they had been exterminated for several years, and it was estimated that while his grandfather, the Perfect Knight Gardebein, was still alive, these Assassins had already become a rare species, a rare monster that could not find a single sighting report for several years.

Five, Green inhaled the air mixed with grass and smoke from the hive, which was not very oxygen-intensive, but he needed such an action to calm himself.

These five assassins have already shown murderous aura to him at this time, but they have not acted, they should be waiting for the Hive Empress to escape, Green is not in a hurry, and rashly pursuing the Hive Empress now will only make him fall into a siege, and the immediate priority is to deal with the five assassins in front of him.

Green lowered the persuader slightly, he needed to concentrate, especially in this breathless environment, he shook his head, no wonder Ivor would be seriously injured here, not to mention the physical immunity nature of the assassins, moving and fighting here itself is extremely risky, the oxygen content here is extremely low, Green doesn't even feel that it is more suffocating to be on the top of Mount Everest without an oxygen mask than here.

A large part of Green's fighting skills cannot be used, no matter what genre of fighting technique, the coordination of breathing and body is the most important, and if you do not follow the standard breathing method to carry out activities, the only result is too fatigue and early exhaustion of physical strength.

Green paid attention to the movements of the five assassins, and found that although they were in a fighting posture, they did not attack immediately. Green knew that the Assassins had several ways to attack, one was in human form, where they would tear flesh apart with the blades in their hands, releasing blood, causing their prey to bleed to death, and it would revert to the form of a bunch of insects, sucking the blood of its victims in pools of blood. The other is the insect form, which turns into a pile of insects at the moment and eats the victim directly, but for some reason, the assassin does not like to use his own insect form in the record, and researchers have been studying whether the hive assassin is a collection of insects, or whether it is just a monster that can turn into a bunch of insects and cannot maintain the insect form for a long time.

Now it seems that they are more inclined to the latter, like the high-blooded bloodlines who can roam freely in bat form or even blood mist form, which is just a state for a short period of time.

At this moment, Green heard a rustling sound, similar to the sound of poisonous bees walking around in other places in the hive, but this sound made Green's heart tighten, because this sound was slightly different from the sound of poisonous bees moving, for example, in addition to the sound of insect legs sweeping the ground, it was also mixed with the sound of carapace rubbing, and there was no such carapace on poisonous bees.

At this moment, Green reacted, he turned around suddenly, directly ignoring the five hive assassins in front of him, but turned around directly, leaving his back to these five hive assassins, and a snow-white blade was stabbing from his back, Green turned around, just in time to see the black and thin face of the hive at the moment, and the puzzled look on this thing's face, this thing can actually make such a humane expression?

The blade and the persuader intersected, and a large spark erupted between the blades of the two, and Green used his strengthened physical strength to press the assassin's blade back, because he could hear the five assassins behind him also move, not only five assassins here, but six, five were just in front of him to attract his attention, and the last one was wormed and quietly approached behind him, and then returned to its original form to attack him. In the report that Green has read, the hive assassins have never appeared in groups, and they are all single activities, so this kind of ecology with the sneak attack is known to Green for the first time, if it wasn't for the fact that this hive assassin made a huge mistake, then his sneak attack is likely to be successful. Funny

It wants to hide the sound of its actions in the sound of the poisonous bees, here is a poisonous beehive, it is full of the sound of the poisonous bees, its ideas and plans are perfect, but there is a huge flaw in it, that is, the insect species transformed by the hive assassin is a beetle, not a bee, although the sound of this group of beetles mixing together and squeezing each other is subtle, but for a knight who has strengthened his hearing, the difference in sound is really very different.

The Hive Assassin was so intimidated by the force of this push that it couldn't stop backing away, and here Green used the most appropriate method, if he attacked the Hive Assassin directly with his blade, then the Assassin would turn into a bunch of insects and dodge the sword blow, and if it was only pushed with force, it would often maintain its human form to regain its balance.

The hive assassin didn't expect this human to be so powerful that it could make it all retreat, but instead of attacking with the weapon in his hand, the human reached out with his other hand, and a strange small iron pipe was pointed at him.

The firing pin was fired, the tail of the bright red bullet was hit hard, and the countless silver-etched magic arrays hidden in the barrel of the gun immediately lit up, and in the light of the magic array, the original vermilion bullet suddenly melted and turned into liquid flames, and then these flames were like normal substances, quickly undergoing the process from liquefaction to vaporization, and in the process, the volume of this flame continued to expand, and it was restrained by the barrel, and could only spew out from the muzzle of the gun.

A roar of rage, like the breath of a fire dragon, a raging wave of heat and flames shot out, and rushed towards the hive assassin in front of him, the assassin realized the danger, he quickly turned into a mass of insects and scattered, but this flame flew faster than it, and the beetles were immediately stained with this activated flame, and suddenly burned.

After doing all this, Green didn't have time to confirm the life or death of this hive assassin, he turned around suddenly, the persuader waved in front of his chest, a sound of gold and iron, five sharp blades were shot away by him, Green waved his other hand and aimed forward, and the five hive assassins obviously knew the power of this weapon, and before Green's muzzle had returned to the right, their forms had all collapsed, turning into five tangled beetles, scattered in all directions.

At this time, Green gasped, feeling that his hands and feet were numb, his strengthening could support him to fight in an extremely hypoxic environment, but it did not support him to be able to move so violently and at high intensity, just a few strokes had already made his eyes burst into Venus, black light appeared in front of him, and his consciousness began to trance, Green bit his lip tightly, he knew that once he fainted here, then it was really a god who could not be saved, even if the assassins did not move and lost their strengthened magic bodies, they would quickly suffocate.

Only now did he have the energy to pay attention to the hive assassin behind him, ignited by the king's beard, it let out a miserable howl, and its figure kept changing between insects and humans, but the scarlet flame was like a maggot attached to its body to suck blood, it could not get rid of it at all, it howled, and continued his surreal magical dance in the hall of the hive, if there was a religion and dance that sang and worshiped fire, then its branch was undoubtedly a frightening dance of fire and fear of death.

The flame of the king's beard is not an ordinary high-heat flame, this flame is quite different from the ordinary physical flame, this flame is more like a conceptual flame than the physical glowing flame, that is to say, this flame is not only a physical phenomenon, it itself is a symbol of the "substance" of flame Although this is a misconception of the ancients, it does not prevent alchemists from extracting this concept, of course, magic itself is based on distorting reality, so this flame can not only burn in this lack of oxygen, once it ignites the target, it will be like a gluttonous ant, stripping the host's flesh and blood.

Only then did Green realize that the Assassin's human form was its normal form, while the insect form was not. Because in Green's opinion, the beetles it turned into could be separated before the flames spread to all the bugs, but although this bunch of beetles wanted to disperse to avoid the flames, they ran back into the swarm again after scattering for a distance, they were not independent individuals at all, but an individual manifested in the form of countless individuals, they could not be separated for a long distance and a long time, and they had to close for a period of time, which caused the flames to spread to all the bugs.

"It's really ironic, the monster that makes the knights frightened, actually afraid of such a small bullet?" Green felt a little funny, there was no vanity under the fame, although he had not heard of this kind of monster, but through the record and Ivor's encounter, he imagined a hideous monster that was difficult to deal with, but it seemed that as long as he understood the way to deal with it, this kind of monster was no better than the armored corpse outside. Of course, this is because this hive assassin made a huge mistake, when he was not fatally injured but was pushed, this monster chose to keep the human form and Green at a distance, and this is exactly what Green needs, this weapon and warhead are not very stable, and it is very likely to be contaminated with their own body when used at close range, generally people who use this bullet need to bless themselves with a lot of magic to avoid flames, and Lin Moyang's gun is only equipped with the function of reducing the temperature of the gun body, and does not have a protective function, so Green must also dare to use this weapon after a certain distance away。 Green didn't know, of course Lin Moyang didn't have to worry about this weapon contaminating him, because his physique was special, although the high temperature of this conceptual flame would still burn Lin Moyang, it couldn't burn on Lin Moyang's body like this, that is to say, even if Lin Moyang was stained with flames, at most he would be burned, and he would never be burned to death, so the researchers of the Changing Sky Star Department did not install protective measures on the pistol at all in line with the principle of not wasting it, and these king's beard bullets in Green's hands were not ordinary flame alchemy bullets sold by the pilgrims before, this was the first batch of prototypes made using the body tissue of the Camara, which belongs to the masterpiece of bullets.

However, Grimm did not let his guard down, and after losing one of them, the group of assassins apparently knew that the humans in front of them had the ability to kill them, and they all retreated far away, not wanting to get close to Grimm. And this is also the shortcoming of this bullet, that is, the range is too close, although it needs to be used at a certain distance, but this distance is only a few meters, not too far, otherwise it will not be able to hit, in terms of range, the range of this bullet is far inferior to the flamethrower that appeared in World War II.

This gave Green a chance to breathe for a while, he slowly recovered his chaotic breathing just now, he clenched the long sword in his hand and said: "There are five left, after they are all solved, let's chase them, they should be able to catch up, no, they will definitely be able to catch up." ”

At this moment, outside the hive, Lin Moyang found that although all the poisonous bees had changed the direction of the attack, they had been constantly surging from all directions before, attacking Adonis, but at this moment, all the poisonous bees had returned to the hive like crazy, even though most of the area in the hive had been covered in thick smoke.

"Looks like Grimm has already caught eye with the Hive Empress, and these poisonous bees have already begun to go back to protect their Empress. Seeing this scene, Liliel stabbed Lin Moyang's waist and eyes beside Lin Moyang, and said with a smile. This time, Lin Moyang did not risk her life, which made her very happy, as long as Lin Moyang did not have an accident, no one else mattered, so she was not worried about Green, but was in a bit of a lively mood.

"Hopefully, that should be over soon. Lin Moyang replied that he was very worried about Green's safety, after all, he was a rare friend, and he was still a local tyrant friend.

"That's right, that ...... She seemed a little uneasy. Liliel suddenly leaned on Lin Moyang's ear and said affectionately, outsiders thought it was two couples whispering, but Lin Moyang said with a serious look on his face: "Continue to stare at her, no matter what she wants to do, at this time her plan is about to go bankrupt, then she will definitely take action." ”

"Cut, in my rare free time, Sueyang actually asked me to spy on an old woman, really...... I don't understand the amorous feelings!" Liliel rubbed Lin Moyang's face angrily, but she still walked to Skaha's side honestly after her petty temperament, her goal was of course to spy on the mysterious old woman. Skaha believed the old woman's words, so that they could not directly attack this old woman, Green also said that before figuring out the identity and purpose of this old woman, they could not take measures against her directly, otherwise they would change Lin Moyang and Liliel, the two black-bellied guys, they were not familiar with this old woman, although they couldn't kill Lin Moyang directly, but it was okay to use a little torture.

Now that the queen of the hive is about to be eliminated, Lin Moyang tried to think about it, of course he didn't know what happened in the hive...... I don't know the true face of this empress......