Chapter 11: The Horror Insect King
Led by Leo, we finally came to the cave in the heart of the Swamp of Pain. Outside the dark cavern were corpses, and everyone had a sense of foreboding.
Leo tells us that these are supposed to be orcs from the Thunderhammer tribe.
Faennes lit the torch, which he shone into the cave. This is a bottomless cave, but fortunately, the air in the cave is still circulating.
So our soldiers divided into two roads, one way to stay outside the cave, and all the way to the cave ** to see what was going on. In the end, Kelvin, Mayfair, Shaman Leo, Makarov, and a part of the mercenaries remained outside the cave.
Frant, Nataya, Avina, Faennes, Lother, and Ivena and a team of veteran mercenaries decided to go deep into the cave and find out.
By the faint glow of the torches, we pushed deeper into the cavern. As we went deeper, we discovered that this underground cavern was surprisingly large.
However, we do not notice that we have become prey in the eyes of others in the darkness at this time.
The gates of Saglo collapsed under the gaze of all the orcs, and each orc was deeply shocked by the huge monster in front of them.
It was a giant centipede that had just emerged from the ground. For a time, the battle of the orcs reached the most difficult moment. Whether we can survive it depends only on whether we can completely get rid of the root cause of this black wave.
Balk wields a double battle axe, and he can only pin his hope on us. In order to win, you must persist in fighting to the death.
"Oh no, something is keeping up with us. Faennes, who was at the front, said to us
The light was so dim that the rest of us didn't notice it. Faennes's reminder that we are ready to fight while we move forward.
Kelvin was not convinced, and he wanted to go down to the cave like we did. But Faense said he was too young and it was better to stay outside.
Unbeknownst to Kelvin, however, this is a swamp of pain, and no place is completely safe.
Without paying attention, about a dozen giant green swamp poison frogs surrounded Kelvin and them. The mercenaries start a battle with the poison frogs, who are also considered to be experienced in battle, but they are all splashed with the venom spit out by the swamp poison frogs.
As soon as the venom hits the skin, the skin immediately blisters and festers.
Many of the mercenaries fell one after another, in pain. Makarov immediately intervened, and Mayfair immediately used purification to detoxify the mercenary.
Makarov alone faced a dozen swamp poison frogs, and the bouncing power of these swamp poison frogs was quite amazing. It was indeed tricky, and Makarov seemed to be struggling.
Kelvin used a firearm to hit a swamp poison frog that was about to pounce on Makarov, who looked back at Kelvin and didn't say anything.
Makarov activated the shield of blades, unleashing the Infinity Blade. The cold light of the Dao Dao shot towards the swamp poison frog, and the corpse of the swamp poison frog in one place at a time.
Makarov fell to the ground weakly, still a little powerless for him, and he was in danger of being consumed by the magic of the Wings of Destruction.
After Mayfair took care of the wounded soldiers, he immediately came to treat Makarov, and Mayfair couldn't care about the overdraft of physical strength and magic at this time.
Makarov looked at Kelvin weakly and whispered thank you.
A heart frozen in fear is slowly melting.
At the same time, we in the cave are not much better.
Suddenly, there was a scream, and a senior mercenary walking behind the team was instantly pierced through the chest.
I looked out over the torch and saw a monster with a spider on the bottom half and a human woman on the top.
"It's the Spider Banshee!" said Evenna
Everyone immediately began to fight the group of spider banshees, numbering in the hundreds, and we ran deeper into the cavern as we fought.
These spider banshees are so agile that we simply can't shake them off.
Many of the mercenaries were killed by these spider banshees, and if it weren't for the arrow that Avina shot at the critical moment, I would have almost died.
Soon, in the midst of a difficult battle, and with the light of our minds, we were left with less than twenty men.
At this moment, a huge hole suddenly appeared in front of me, and the light shining down from the gap in the surface also made the place much brighter.
We turn our backs to the entrance of the cave and engage in a duel with the Spider Banshee catching up. But it seemed that the spider banshees were afraid of the light, and they seemed to be afraid of the hole as well, and they scattered and fled and disappeared into the darkness.
"Let them run, it's important for us to get to the root of the Kuroshio. Faennes said
"I guess this is it. Lother said
Eventually, we decided to go into the hole. Many years later, Leo, who became the Great Shaman of the Orcs, called the monster we were going to face next, the Terror Insect King Zulfao, and spread the story of this time.
Of course, Leo didn't see the corpse until we had dealt with the terrifying insect king. If he saw Zurfao alive, he would have been even more surprised.
Once you enter the hole, the light inside is very good. By the faint light, we were all stunned by the scene in front of us.
The monster, ten times larger than the Cyclops, lay there and fell asleep quietly, and we did not dare to breathe for fear of waking him up.
Later, Faens tells us that these are supposed to be the Archae, because this giant monster known as Zulfao is the same as those spider banshees.
They are all human beings with the upper body and the body of a spider with the lower body. It's just that those spider banshees are only slightly larger than humans, and this Zurfao's size is terrifying.
Zulfao was the last king of the Ancients, and only one male of the Ancients was the king, and the others were all women. These spider banshees can only thrive by relying on this king.
This Archae king never really dies, they just keep getting new life unless they are killed. Because they will eat a large number of spider banshees at the end of their lives, then form a cocoon to wrap themselves up before gaining new life.
We saw that on the other side of the cave, it turned out to be the exit.
But even if we knew about the entrance, we wouldn't be able to get in, because the hole was a huge and dense cobweb.
There were countless orc corpses and spider banshee corpses hanging on it, as well as some unrecognizable remains.
We exchanged eye gestures, and we wanted to hunt this big guy while he was asleep.
But when we actually started, we realized that it was all too simple.
With a violent shaking, the giant monster is slowly waking up......