Chapter 295: Accident
Although he couldn't make a fire, the fresh snake meat and snake blood did not affect Shen Hao's appetite at the moment, he almost devoured the last bit of flesh and blood, and the unbearable hunger/thirst in his stomach was slightly relieved.
A large piece of python skin was strong and flexible, and Shen Hao wrapped it around his body to make an inner armor, and then turned back to a large number of snake holes on this cliff. The cave is apparently naturally generated, and although some of the locations have been smoothed by the python's perennial crawling, no signs of man-made carving have been found.
The cave is not high, but Shen Hao is still barely able to enter it with his prostrate body, and when he crawls to the depths of the cave, he unexpectedly finds a nest of snake eggs, there are seven or eight of them, which is a good thing to replenish energy. Shen Hao was naturally not polite, and swept away these snake eggs, and just when he ate the last snake egg, he suddenly found that in the depths of the snake nest built with dead branches, a light purple light was reflected.
It's the age of magic, and it's all about treasures. Shen Hao didn't hesitate to dismantle the entire snake nest, and only then did he pull out a large piece of something similar to cloth from the bottom.
Pulling this thing, Shen Hao climbed to the outside of the cave again, and only through the sunlight did he see clearly that this was actually a cloak with purple patterns on a black background and embroidered with countless mysterious symbols. Buried deep under the snake's nest, the cloak looked a little dirty, but there was not a single piece of damage, and when he brushed it lightly with his hand, a layer of lilac light flashed from the surface of the cloak, and it was the brilliance of this moment that attracted his attention before.
"I finally have a decent dress...... Shen Hao smiled bitterly, untied a few pieces of tunic made of tree bark on his body, and draped this mysterious cloak over his body. This thing was really extraordinary, it didn't look too big, but when it was put on it, it stretched out in a hula, enveloping Shen Hao's entire body under the cloak. A faint warmth penetrated into the body from the cloak, and the tired body seemed to have recovered a lot, of course, the greater reason for the recovery of physical strength was just the large amount of food that could not be brought to the table just now.
After moving his hands and feet, although this cloak covered his whole body, it did not affect his activities, so Shen Hao began to continue to climb towards the top of the cliff. Such a cliff is not visited by any people on weekdays, but fortunately, there are many strange trees and wild vines growing on the cliff, and the rocks of the mountain are also strong enough, so it is not difficult for Shen Hao to climb after recovering some of his physical strength.
Half an hour later, he finally climbed to the top of the mountain, and before he could look around and see his way clearly, a dark shadow suddenly obscured the sunlight above him. Almost relying on his keen battle instincts, Shen Hao rolled forward on the spot, the strong wind hit, and a huge black shadow swept past the position where he was standing just now, with an ugly cracking sound, and the hard mountain rock was actually grabbed into pieces by the other party.
Shen Hao had already turned over and stood up, with the sword in his hand in his hand, and looked at the enemy cautiously. I saw that it was a huge bird, with a body length of more than two meters and a wingspan of more than three meters. The feathers all over the body were shining gold, and the pieces were carved like gold. And on its eagle-like head, there is also a row of upturned feathers growing very openly, like a golden crown, which sets off this bird is even more unique.
"Lei Peng!" Shen Hao recognized it at a glance, and sure enough, it was the air overlord from Krulod. He was suddenly a little surprised and a little lucky, glad that he had climbed to the top of a relatively open mountain, otherwise if he encountered an enemy on the cliff, it would be really unlucky. I was surprised to find that there was only one Lei Peng who attacked, this beast was really powerful, but only one Lei Peng was sent to chase and kill him, which was a bit too big for Geler, who had fought him.
Lei Peng struck the air, seemingly enraged by the dishonesty of its prey, it raised its head and let out a high-pitched snort, and a golden light lit up on a row of raised feathers above its head. Then there was a thunderclap in the clear sky, and an arm-thick lightning bolt fell vertically, slashing towards Shen Hao below.
Shen Hao had already prepared, naturally it was impossible to be struck by it so easily, and when he saw the vision on its head, he quickly dodged and hid to the side. Lightning fell on the hill, and the rubble flew down, and a round pit the size of a basin and full of charred black appeared where he had stood.
Shen Hao changed his position, squinted at the pit, and roughly estimated the lethality of Lei Peng when he launched a lightning strike. Although it was also a lightning strike, whether it was Xin Suran's thunder magic or Ling Jiancheng's purple thunder power before, it was much more powerful than this blow, and it seemed that this beast was not as strong as expected.
After releasing the thunder and lightning, Lei Peng seemed to need to regain his breath, so he circled around and launched another dive towards Shen Hao, trying to use its sharp claws and sharp beak to deal with the enemy. Despite Lei Peng's huge size, his diving speed is faster than that of ordinary eagle birds. The claws of steel, cast like gold and iron, reflected the sunlight and exuded a breathtaking sharpness, enough to claw, and if the force of the rock fell on a human's body, it could tear the human body into two pieces with a single blow.
Shen Hao was shrouded in that mysterious cloak, but this time he didn't dodge it, but Lei Peng, who rushed over, couldn't see his expression clearly through the cloak, and he couldn't see that his right hand had reached behind him at the moment, holding the hilt of the sword in the stone.
Lei Peng's speed was not much slower than lightning, and in an instant, the sharp claws had appeared on the top of Shen Hao's head, and the sharp nails snapped suddenly, making a sound of gold and iron clashing, but it was a void, and there was only an afterimage left in the original position of Shen Hao's head.
Lei Peng's wings swayed in a gust of wind, and he was about to take advantage of the situation to soar into the sky again, but a black sword light pulled out a dark arc and slashed at its waist and abdomen from the bottom up.
Although Lei Peng is a flying bird, but that golden feather is not only beautiful, as in the war sequence of the Krulod Empire, it is enough to match the existence of the cyclops, it not only has strong speed and attack power, but the defensive ability of its feathers can also be comparable to the best material chain mail.
However, not to mention the chain mail, even the heavy knight plate armor created by the dwarven craftsmen was as fragile as a piece of paper under Shen Hao's great strength and the perverted weight of the sword in the stone. Just seeing the blood flash, Lei Peng's wings split into the air, but only drove his front half of his body into the air, and a large amount of blood and broken internal organs swayed into the air along this force.
Lei Peng glanced at the broken part of his body with incredible eyes, and let out a sad cry from his mouth, he could no longer control his body, and fell into the abyss with a whirl. Shen Hao bent down and picked up the half of his body on the ground, and threw it down the mountain casually, and the sword in his hand shook off the blood stain and then withdrew under the cloak.
Crurod's pursuers appeared, so he had to flee faster. In fact, this place has entered the strategic buffer zone of the Three Kingdoms, but since Lei Peng has chased here, it is no longer safe here. Erathia is now in flames, and Shen Hao naturally doesn't want to go back, so the only way out seems to be to go to Tartaglia, the country of swamps.
Walking on the way down the mountain, Shen Hao began to search for the history of Tartaglia in his mind. This mysterious kingdom has not been around for a long time, and is said to have emerged only after the Continental War a hundred years ago. The war was fought so fiercely that the twenty kingdoms of different sizes on the continent were left with only seven empires left after a thirty-year war.
But the war was too tragic, and many races who were unwilling to join the war secretly escaped into the mountains. Later, a mad magician appeared in the magical kingdom of Bracada, who began an experiment against the laws of nature in order to make up for the lack of a strong melee race in his country's combat classes, he captured a large number of magical beasts, used magic and potions to disassemble them and synthesize them again, in an attempt to create enough creatures to compete with the legendary dragons.
But in fact, his experiment ultimately failed, not because of external reasons, but because Bracada succeeded in building the Temple of Babel and summoning the ancient titan Titans to descend. And the Titans, whose mission is to maintain order, immediately terminated the magician's experiments that violated the way of heaven.
The magicians involved in the experiments were imprisoned, and the strange creatures created by magic were banished to a wild place known as the Death Swamp. However, the Titans did not know that the originally dead swamp was already inhabited, that is, the powerful beings who lived in seclusion here to escape the war.
So, these reclusive creatures accepted the banished mutant monsters, and although there were still some estrangements and frictions between them, at the same time, they finally united and worked together to establish a kingdom centered on the Death Swamp, with a council composed of four intelligent races, including humans, to jointly govern the country. That's where Tartaglia comes in.
Despite the legend of Tataglia's founding history, Shen Hao's mind still defines the country as a place of ignorance, danger, barbarism, and chaos. A large group of strange creatures who don't know what breed and don't have much common language live together, and the manager is also a relatively loose organization, if such a kingdom has a high order, Shen Hao will definitely not believe it. He wouldn't want to go to Tatarlia if there was a better option, but now that the pursuers were approaching, he had to find someone with enough weight to keep Korurod at bay for him.
The way down the mountain was relatively smooth, Shen Hao hunted a flower deer drinking water by a stream, and this time he lit a fire and made himself a cooked meal. It's not far from Tataria, and if Krulod doesn't want to go to war with Tataglia, their pursuers won't be able to show up so brazenly.
However, accidents often happen unexpectedly. When Shen Hao saw the huge Beamon Behemoth roaring into an array of golden bulls, he finally understood the reason why the Krulord Empire was called a war maniac.
These damn orcs have actually declared war on Tartaglia!!