171. Dragon hunting
Standing on a huge rock and looking into the distance, it is hard to imagine that the valley in front of you, which is nearly 100 square kilometers, is sinking below the horizon, where the water that flows down from Mount Eramokus gathers, forming hundreds of large and small waterfalls on the fault-like rock walls around the valley, and the excess rainwater from the swamps also flows into it through streams and dark rivers.
It seemed to me that the valley was home to so many rivers that it should have formed a large lake, but the valley was green and covered with lush rainforest, and these trees joined together to look down on the valley like a blanket of grass as far as the eye could see.
A ruin is hidden in the dense jungle, and only a few broken walls can be seen, which are covered with green moss, and it is difficult to see that it is a remnant of ruins without looking closely.
Inzaghi, a lizard nobleman of the Guzahr tribe, led us here, and we stood on a high stone cliff with a panoramic view of the entire valley.
Five wyverns hovered over the valley, these wyverns all looked to be adults, with a wingspan of about twenty meters and a body length of at least ten meters, their bodies showed a blue-green color, and their bellies were buttery yellow, and the wyvern in the wild swamp had a slender neck and a single horn on the dragon's head, soaring over the valley.
Between the valleys are dozens of cylindrical raised stone beams that have weathered rocks growing out of the rainforest, and five wyverns expertly fly between them.
Many years ago, dragon creatures have completely disappeared from the territory of the Grimm Empire, and now if they want to hunt dragons, the Empire is more willing to go to those subordinate planes, because the Barbarian Swamp belongs to the sphere of influence of the Swamp Clan, and the people of the Grimm Empire want to enter the depths of the Barbarian Swamp to hunt dragons, which is far less free than in other planes.
Standing on a windy tree, Nathaniel said with emotion, "Yes, this is it, this is it...... I remember when we walked into the rainforest from that side, it turned out to be a valley, and we just walked through the dense woods, and we didn't notice it at all. ”
"Brother, that'...... That...... Is that a dragon ......?" the teenage girl Amy hugged one of Nathaniel's arms and stared wide-eyed at the flying dragon in the distance.
A group of barbarian slaves are also squatting on the edge of the cliff, they seem to be discussing the taste of dragon meat in each other's ears, I heard that the Nebru spider overseers like to eat wurms very much, so in the eyes of these barbarian slaves, this group of wyverns must also be extremely delicious, but adult wyverns probably have the strength of the early fourth order of demonic beasts, so those dragon meat is not so easy to eat.
Standing on the top of the waterfall and looking at the flowing river makes you feel a strong sense of vertigo.
The rain in the wild swamp was so abundant that when the river flowed into the valley, there was no lake in the valley.
Inza ...... These rivers all converge here, why don't they form lakes?" I asked, standing on top of the boulder, to the lizard nobleman Inzaghi behind me.
Nathaniel, who was standing on the side of the Windy Tree, quickly translated the words.
Nathaniel's lizard language has improved a lot in the past few days, and he is able to translate my casual words very fluently.
Inzaghi cautiously poked his head out from behind the rocks, glanced at the wyverns in the distance with some fear, grinned, and said a string of lizard-man words to me with a bitter face, and Nathaniel translated for me: "There is a large fissure in the wooded area near the northern part of the valley, through which the water of the valley flows deep into the earth. ”
Then Justes came up and stood under the boulder and said, "It's ready over there, do you want to start now?"
I turned my head to see the barbarian slaves lying on the edge of the cliff, and it seemed that they wanted to use this place as an ambush, eight hundred barbarian slaves were discharged almost a kilometer from the edge of the cliff, and each barbarian slave was armed with a heavy crossbow.
Because they are preparing to hunt dragons, these barbarian slaves are very cautious to put on the Nakma Black Iron Demon Pattern Structure, not that this armor can block the dragon's breath, but this Demon Pattern Construct has a twenty percent increase in power attributes, for these barbarian slaves, the strength increase on the magic pattern structure can increase their strength as a whole by a level.
Inzaghi couldn't help but stick out his forked tongue and lick his lips, as long as he was not a fool, he could naturally see how powerful these barbarian slaves were.
As the leader of the Barbarian Slave Ballist, since Justus proposed a dragon hunt on the edge of the cliff, I said, "Okay, let's bring those dragons over first, and test some of these dragons first." ”
Karantso was grooming the feathers on Deborah's white wings, and during Deborah's time in the rainforest, the Harpy spirit in her body was constantly awakening, most obviously regaining her wildness, and she was not only more aggressive but also more cunning when she flew in the sky.
"Deborah, you lure those wyverns over here, if you don't want to be swallowed by the wyverns, don't get too close!"
"Hmm!" Deborah nodded to me.
She stood on the edge of the cliff and stretched her wings behind her, and her black and white wings spread out, only flapping, and jumping down with her feet on the cliff rocks, Deborah's body drew a graceful arc on the edge of the cliff, first sliding down for a distance, and then like a dandelion held up by the air current, flying to the valley surrounded by green mountains and green waters in front of her.
As soon as she appeared in mid-air, a high-pitched dragon roar sounded between the stone pillars in the distance.
The coercion that burst out of the body of the high-level demonic beast almost scared Deborah from mid-air to the ground, but fortunately, she not only has the blood of the harpy in her body, but also the blood of the orc lion and tiger people, the indomitable fearlessness in the orc's bones is completely stimulated from the body, Deborah flipped two somersaults in the air, and flew up again, she didn't have much time to hesitate, and fled straight to the cliff on our side.
Five adult wyverns then sprang out from among the stone pillars of the valley more than a dozen miles away, flapping their wings violently and chasing Deborah.
For these wyverns, a harpy actually dared to trespass into their territory without permission, which was the greatest contempt for the wyvern clan, and every time those wyverns flapped their wings, their bodies could rush forward dozens of meters, and their bodies seemed to be able to form a layer of sound barrier when they flew rapidly.
Seeing the flying dragons approaching, Deborah was also so frightened that she flapped her wings desperately, and in her panic, she did not choose to plunge into the ambush circle, but flew towards the vast woodland behind the ambush circle, and plunged headlong into a lush forest.
The head of the flying dragon at the front had a single horn about a meter long, and when it was less than a kilometer close to the cliff, it seemed to feel that something was wrong, and it suddenly spread its wings to prevent its body from gliding forward, and flicked its tail violently, and its head stretched upward, trying to climb above the clouds.
It's just that they fly too fast, even if they spread their wings with all their strength, they can't stop the huge inertia of their bodies, and with a fierce hurricane, the wyvern rushing to the front still quickly approaches the cliff.
The wyvern that followed it blindly charged was even more unprepared, and inevitably overtook the wyvern in front, wanting to sweep over the cliff and pounce into the rainforest in front of it.
Mentor Heidi and I stood on a big tree on the cliff, and Erica was beside Miss Heidi, watching with admiration as she calmly drew the magic pattern circle.
The rhythm of our chanting spells was almost identical, and the magic pattern circle in our hands was almost identical, after all, I had studied magic with Heidi for three years, and under her strict teaching, I had learned her habits when casting spells.
With Heidi by my side, I certainly don't have to cover the woods with those 'frost' rune boards beforehand to change the environment and increase the power of ice magic.
At this time, I just need to follow the rhythm of Teacher Heidi and cast the 'ice wall' magic.
Teacher Heidi calculated just right, at the same moment when her spell paused, the five flying dragons had already rushed to the side of the cliff, and saw that the big tree under our feet lit up a huge six-pointed star magic array, and a seventy or eighty meter ice wall appeared in mid-air out of thin air, and those flying dragons crashed into it as if they had thrown themselves into a net.
The dragon's groan sounded loudly again, and the other four wyverns saw a huge ice wall appear in front of them, and immediately learned from the wyvern in front of them to desperately increase their flight altitude to avoid crashing headlong into the ice wall, but they wanted to brake at high speed, which was impossible.
At the moment when they flew to the top of the cliff, countless huge crossbow arrows with a very thin silk thread weaved a white net in the air on the edge of the cliff.
Of course, this is not a giant net used to catch dragons, but a demonic spider silk tied to the tail of a giant crossbow arrow, which has a 'wind resistance' on the shaft of the arrow, which seems to completely ignore the air resistance, shoots out from behind the rocks between the cliffs, and pierces the five wyverns.
The cyan dragon scales on the flying dragon can't stop the sharpness of the crossbow arrows at all, the dragon's blood splashes everywhere in the air, and the flying dragon with a body of more than ten meters is like a huge moving target, and almost every flying dragon has dozens of giant crossbow arrows connected to white spider silk.
The bodies of these five wyverns are constantly rising, but unfortunately these crossbow arrows are connected to extremely tough demonic spider silk, and they are stretched off by the force of flight, but unfortunately the body can not continue to rise after rushing to a certain high point, and the barbarian slaves on the cliff did not say that they would tear them off from the air at the first time, and at the moment when they stopped in the air, the second round of giant crossbow arrows shot out again......
I felt like blood was dripping from my heart, and when I saw the five precious dragon skins in front of me being shot with thousands of holes, I couldn't help but press my hand on my forehead, unwilling to take another look.
Teacher Heidi looked at the barbarian slaves on the cliff who armed themselves like black iron cans with great interest, raised her delicate eyebrows, and asked me, "This is the barbarian slaves hunted in the past four years?" It seems that the rumors in the city of El are true, and they all say that your falcon team is extremely good, but I didn't expect to catch so many!"
"Uh...... I felt that there was still value in reusing these barbarians, so I didn't put them to death, and later I participated in the Hiero Plane War, and bought a lot of scrapped bed crossbows in Tanton City over there, and later this barbarian slave heavy crossbow regiment. "I'm honest with Miss Heidi.
The battle was over after the barbarian slave fired the second round of giant crossbow arrows, and the five wyverns were tied into hedgehogs, they were far from the divine power of the Nibru spider overseers in the air, unable to break those demonic spider silks, and then they were pulled down from the air by eight hundred barbarian slaves, and these wyverns were so tightly covered in spider silk that they couldn't struggle even if they landed on the top of the cliff.
Holding the black heavy sword in one hand, Karantso jumped on top of the head of a flying dragon, which was still spewing poisonous flames from its mouth, but it was like a marionette at the moment, except for being able to spit poisonous flames in its mouth, every part of its body did not belong to it, and in front of Karantso, she could only slaughter at will.
Karantso stabbed his sword into the dragon's neck covered in green scales, and the dragon let out a desperate cry of despair, and the dragon's breath stopped.
Then Karantso hurriedly beckoned to several melon-eating crowds outside the battlefield, Helena, Becky, Anne and others were standing under a tree next to the cliff at this time to watch how the barbarian slaves hunted the wyvern, and when they were watching with relish, they saw Karantso beckoning them, thinking that Karantso needed their help, although they were still a little afraid of the wyvern who was struggling, but they still drew their weapons and ran over.
Karantso shouted loudly, ordering his more than 100 orc warriors to tighten the magic spider silk connected to the dragon's head, and those orc warriors hurriedly put down their weapons and dragged the wyvern to death, Karantso let Helena, Becky, and Anne stand in front of the wyvern.
Before Helena could ask what to do, Karantso stabbed a sword into the reverse scales of the dragon's chest, and then pulled out the black heavy sword, and a stream of bright red dragon blood gushed out from the wound on the dragon's chest, spraying the three girls covered in dragon blood......
"Hurry up and take off your leather armor...... Karantso reminded loudly.
Of course, the other four wyverns did not escape the fate of being bathed in dragon blood by orc warriors and barbarian slaves, dragon blood can greatly make the skin tougher, it is said that after bathing in the real dragon's blood, the dragon slayer warrior can almost be so powerful that even an epic weapon cannot cut it, and if you want to pierce their body, you must have the legendary artifact on the Roland continent.
These wyverns are just subspecies of dragons, and they are not even recognized by the real dragons, just as the Empire never considered kobolds, gnolls, and fishmen to be humans. The wyvern trembled violently, and then its body seemed to lose all its strength and went limp.
In order to prevent the 'Dragon Key' inherited from these flying dragons from being activated after death, the dragon corpses will be teleported to the mysterious dragon graveyard, Karancuo hurriedly beckoned the orc warriors to come over and disassemble the dragon corpses, and the barbarian slaves who planned to eat a bite of dragon meat naturally couldn't hold back any longer, and put down the demonic spider silk in their hands one after another, and everyone dismembered the flying dragons more than ten meters long......
"You rammers, collect all the dragon scales in good condition, don't waste a single piece, don't damage those dragon ......skins," Siren descendant Justus yelled at the barbarian slaves who were slicing flesh like crazy from the top of the cliff, covered in blood.