Mornings in the marshes come late, and heavy water vapor turns into either rain or fog at the turn of day and night. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 However, when the daylight struggles through the rain and fog to reach the lizardfolk tribe, all the lizardmen will still climb to the top of trees or buildings, close their eyes in the rain or fog and enjoy the sun's sleep, which is their unique way of resting.

Of all the subhuman species, the lizardfolk are recognized as the one that is the furthest from the concept of 'human', in fact, they are indeed only cold-blooded reptiles, only with upright walking and high intelligence, so they barely fall into the category of subhuman species, and even orcs are unwilling to admit that these cold-blooded erect lizards are objects that can be communicated with on an equal footing. Some scholars believe that this race was a low-level vassal bred by dragons in ancient times to enslave them, and in fact all the lizardfolk on the southern dragon island did. While the lizardfolk of other places have developed their own unique cultures and intelligence, they have very little to do with other races, and they seem to have the cruelty of cold-blooded animals, and they have a direct division of all alien species into two categories - food, and powerful predators to hide.

Although there are more ways to control body temperature as a sapient race, lizardmen still prefer the simplest and most direct way to bask in the sun, and every morning is their most comfortable and tired time to rest.

But today's comfort is destined to not last long. The rumbling footsteps were approaching, and the lizardfolk had little sense of hearing, but their sense of touch was unusually acute, and they could tell from the trunks and ground they touched that it was several large predators running towards it.

It's not a common occurrence, but it doesn't arouse much alarm among the lizardmen. There are only a few large animals in the swamps, and each one is incommensurably familiar to them, from their habits to the points of hunting. The lizardmen guards on the periphery took their bows and arrows and bone weapons, and quietly waited for the arrival of these uninvited guests.

The footsteps approached quickly, but after a while, seven or eight huge figures crawling quickly rushed into the lizardman's sight, it was the Creek Sloth, one of the most dangerous creatures in the swamp, this large predator that resembles an insect usually looks like a dead and lazy appearance, but now it completely shows a superb agility that does not match the size, like a tarantula that has been magnified hundreds of times and quickly moves its limbs and runs on the ground, the unique face shape still looks demented, but the eyes above it are unusually red。

Brook sloths rarely act in groups, and now this seems to be something wrong. The lizardman sentry in charge of the guard reported the situation with the high-frequency hissing characteristic of the lizardmen, and at the same time shot a bow and arrow and threw a bone short spear based on years of hunting experience. They have plenty of experience in dealing with these large beasts, and each lizardman sentry carries several small wooden bottles with them, which contain a variety of targeted venoms, ranging from lethal toxins that can cause local muscle and organ dissolution in a short period of time, to neurotoxins that can completely paralyze the flesh in the blink of an eye, and qualified lizardman warriors can instinctively pick the most effective type of venom to apply to their weapons when facing their prey and opponents.

Many bows and arrows and bone spears fell feebly to the ground under the thick fur and rapid movement of the ground sloth, but a small half pierced into the flesh of the relatively soft joints of the ground sloth. Lizardfolk warriors are as skilled and accurate as the most seasoned warriors, and have an extremely deep knowledge of any swamp animal, each of which requires a whole team of regular troops to deal with, but for the lizardfolk it is one of the daily prey. On the slightest touch of flesh, the weapon's violent toxins work within a few breaths, turning these ferocious large predators into piles of flesh waiting to be dismembered.

It's just that this time the situation seems to be a little different, the poison that has been tried and tested in the lizardmen's hunting career for more than ten years has not been able to play its due role this time, and the earth lazy who were injured by bows and arrows and short spears did not even pause and slow down a little, but increased their speed even more, and the wide soles of their feet were not affected by the complex swampy terrain at all, so that the speed of these large predators weighing hundreds of pounds was not inferior to the galloping horses on the plains, and they quickly approached the lizardmen sentry and then pounced on it like hunting insects.

There were no roars or screams, even the killing and death were silent in the cold, humid swamp, only the strange sound of tooth-aching muscles being sliced and screwed, bones being crushed, and lonely sounded. The scales and sinew of the lizardmen were not resisted by the strength and claws of the ground sloth, and they were crushed and sliced like crispy turnips, and these sentinel warriors maintained the coldness of reptiles, crushing and dismembering alive without a scream, only the crimson blood sprayed everywhere and the severed limbs that still twitched to tell of the misery of what had happened to them. The slothed faces were still sluggish, and only the fast, frantic movements and reddening eyes could tell that the animals seemed to be in an abnormal state.

The lizardmen who were originally going to sunbathe in the back also woke up, and the sharp high-frequency hiss could be faintly heard in the air, one after another, these cold-blooded subhumans who had long been accustomed to killing and facing wild beasts panicked, some immediately rushed out to help, and some quickly burrowed into the lair and took out more lethal weapons such as hammer axes and long knives.

In the case of the failure of the poison, even the lizardmen, who have long been accustomed to fighting with these swamp monsters, are powerless to stop the crazy earth sloth, although two earth sloths were slashed under the stone hammer bone axe of the lizard people, more of them rushed to the lizard crowd and went crazy to kill, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen lizardmen were torn to pieces by these terrible large predators. These creek sloths are not only similar in body structure to insects, but also have explosive power and agility in their actions that are difficult for ordinary animals to achieve, so they can become the most dangerous animals in this swamp. Compared to this, the agility and strength of the lizardmen are far superior to that of ordinary humans.

At this time, the plants in this large area are desperately struggling to grow upwards as if they have come to life, and at the same time desperately spreading their bodies towards the earth sloth. A vine or two and weeds didn't matter to the ground sloth, but hundreds or thousands of weeds and vines quickly lured the mad creatures into a quagmire, slowing down or even stopping their movements, and soon becoming a few wriggling balls of grass.

On the high platform behind him, a lizardman covered in bone ornaments waved his cane, and all the plants seemed to follow the rhythm of the cane in his hand. This is the witch doctor among the lizardmen, and the cleric is often both the spiritual leader of the sub-human tribe and the most powerful combat force, and at this time he stood up in time to finally hold on to the scene.

Suddenly, the lizardman witch doctor seemed to suddenly feel something unusual, and suddenly looked up in a high direction, and at the same time, with a wave of his cane, the countless bones hanging on his body broke away from the shackles of the leather rope and quickly combined in front of him to form a huge floating bone shield.

Before that, though, an arrow went into the lizardman witch doctor's eye socket. Almost as soon as he looked up, the arrow hit him in the eye silently, without the slightest sound of the wind whistling or the like, so fast that it exceeded the lizardman's dynamic vision, as if it had been stuck in the lizardman's eye socket at all, and the combined bone shield that floated up in the air had been formed in the blink of an eye, but it didn't even touch a single tail feather of the arrow.

The lizardman witch doctor fell to the ground and retreated, but he did not fall, the floating bone shield still covered him tightly, the lizardman had a solid transparent carapace on his eyes, and the eye sockets were extremely small, which could not be considered critical, the arrow was obviously stuck in the skull, and it was not fatal.

But in the next moment, a loud bang finally shattered the silence of the swamp in the early morning that had not even disturbed the previous killing, and the head of the lizardman witch doctor exploded violently, and the hard skull was only half lifted, but the brain marrow and blood together were splashed all over the ground in a radius of more than ten meters like a salute, and the only eyeball spewed out dozens of meters high. It wasn't until the bone shield floating in mid-air disintegrated and scattered, and the body of the lizardman witch doctor fell to the ground, that the eyeball snapped and hung on the branch of a dwarf tree.

All the lizardmen stared at this scene in a daze, as if they were all stunned by the loud noise, until a few seconds later, when the earth sloths struggled out of the vines and weeds that were gradually loosening, and some hurriedly waved their weapons and slashed at the ground sloths, while others picked up their bows and short spears again and rushed in the direction where the arrow came.

Many of the languages the lizardmen use to communicate are beyond the frequencies that ordinary animals can hear, so the scene still looks grim, except for the faint sound of a rapid whistling wind. Suddenly, the subtle whistling was much faster, and the lizardman's movements suddenly accelerated, as a hazy stream of water vapor condensed in the air, and then suddenly converged in one direction, revealing a vague figure standing on a tree in the area covered by the vapor.

Dozens of arrows and short spears rained down on the man at once, but the figure flew out like a weightless ghost with a slight touch on the branch, and most of the bows and spears missed, and even a few that came close to him were blown away by a sudden stream of air around him. Relatively speaking, the figure was more concerned about the water vapor that enveloped him, and although it was relatively slow, it persevered in following him and trying to envelop him, even the air currents around him could not blow it away.

"How long do you want to wait?" the figure roared in the leap, a voice that seemed to distract from the power around him to conceal his form, revealing the unmistakable appearance of a young orc dressed in leather armor and armed with a bow and arrow, as well as a young orc with towering eyebrow bones and pronounced canine teeth.

This roar finally made another force that had been hidden erupt, and several mercenary warriors who were draped suddenly appeared next to several lizardmen who were trying to deal with the big sloths as if they were coming out of the air, and the swords in their hands slashed down unceremoniously, and immediately several lizardman warriors who were caught off guard were in different places. These warriors were obviously prepared, knowing that the lizardmen had a tenacious vitality and an extremely high tolerance for pain and serious injuries, so they aimed directly at the head and neck.

"Andrews!"

"Andrews is with me!"

Showing traces, these mercenaries immediately burst out with full combat power. As mercenaries continued to rush out of the air that had nothing in the past, the roar of Andrews, the god of war, rang out one after another. Almost everyone who eats outside with a sword is a pan-believer in the Temple of War, and in the event of such a head-on battle, the shouts of praise to Andrews become almost a fixed sound.

The god of battle is never stingy with those who are really keen on fighting, and with their pious shouts and battles, these mercenaries can really feel the strength of their muscles increase, their reactions are getting faster, and the weapons in their hands seem to be more comfortable with them, according to the level of enthusiasm and concentration of each person on the battle itself, as well as the blessings they receive in the temple of the god of war, the degree of this gain varies from high to low, but it does have a considerable overall increase in combat effectiveness.

There were as many as twenty or thirty mercenaries who suddenly appeared, and they did not stealth themselves, but seemed to rush out from behind a cloaking barrier that also concealed their figures. And the barrier that covered them was obviously not in such a close position as the lizardmen all the time, as if they had sneaked all the way here after the sloth. This sudden burst of raids had an excellent effect, the lizardmen were trying to deal with the ground sloths that struggled out of the weeds and vines, and were slashed by this burst of raids from the side, and those ground sloths also took the opportunity to break free and continue to rush towards the depths of the lizardmen's lair, but they ignored the mercenaries around them.

Under the double onslaught of the ground sloth and the mercenary, the lizardmen could only let out a rapid low hiss and fled backwards. The nest is mostly covered in dense vegetation, but the occasional outcropping of the rocky outer wall and general topography suggest that it is based on a man-made complex, with the lizardmen rapidly retreating deeper into the complex, followed by the frenzied earth sloth.

"Hurry up, everyone, keep up, everyone keep up! The high-grade tenacity potions and emotional enhancements on those ground sloths can only last for another five minutes at most!"

Along with the mercenaries around her, Stephanie, dressed in a smart uniform, shouted as she ran forward with the mercenaries and the ground sloth. It was she who was able to lurk here to give these lizardmen a surprise attack with such a five-ring range of invisibility illusions. Of course, it is impossible for ordinary arcane to let so many people hide the perception of the lizardman under normal circumstances, whether it is the vibration of the feet, the sound of breathing, or the smell, these are not simple illusions that can be concealed, especially since these lizardmen also have clerics. But it's another thing to have the help of the ground sloths who charge ahead, and a few alchemical potions that have already been prepared, along with mind-disrupting arcane and a few auxiliary gadgets, have turned these fearsome heavy predators into reliable trailblazers and attention-grabbing tools.

Using the omnipotent arcane to fight head-on is already a very imbecile performance, and it would be an insult to the arcane itself to throw it as an alchemical explosive or acid to inflict direct damage. Stephanie never felt that the so-called 'battle mages' in the Legion who only mastered a few lethal elemental spells were true arcanists, and titles like 'Arcane Coolie' and 'Arcane Porter' were more suitable for them. Now this situation is an excellent proof of this, if it is a head-on battle with the destructive elemental arcane, whether it can defeat these hundreds of lizardmen is another matter, maybe it will also be damaged under the lizardmen's dangerous poisonous arrows and bone spears, and it is possible for the mercenaries to break their morale and flee directly, but in a slightly roundabout way, this seemingly invincible lizardmen's lair was immediately washed away.

After Stephanie chanted a few syllables, a three-ring 'lightning beam' arcane took shape, and an arm-thick lightning bolt came out of his hand and whipped into the mist in mid-air, and there was a burst of electric sparks jumping around in the crackling sound, and then the mist stopped in mid-air and began to dissipate slowly.

"When dealing with elemental type enemies, the current is the most damaging of the non-regular forces, because it is the power that directly converberates the solidity of the law convergence. Therefore, even the electric current, which does not actually cause much damage to the living organism, can be fatal to ordinary elemental beings. You can pay more attention when praying to the god of the wind element, and focus on learning some magic that can activate lightning. Stephanie seemed to be just a casual reminder.

The forest patrol soldier who came slowly was not grateful, but instead responded with a fierce expression with bared teeth: "I will naturally listen to the teachings of the wind, and I don't need you to talk too much!"

Stephanie frowned. The raid tactics were successful, and the role of this forest ranger named Phil was crucial, and it was not as simple as sniping the lizardman witch doctor. It was also her first time working with a magician user, and the combination of arcane versatility and profundity of magic was so effective that she was surprised to avoid all the lizardmen's perception and the sloth's perception of the ground sloth.

It's just that the attitude of this forest patrol is still as bad as ever. As if that conversation hadn't happened last night.

"It's okay, it's okay. A chubby face with a grinning smile came running over again, and it was Stanley, the leader of the mercenaries, the fat man on the run, holding a shield about the width of his body in his left hand, and an axe stained with the black and red blood of the lizardmen in his right hand, but smiling like a vendor who came to sell honey bread. "Master Motri, you see, Phil just has a bad temper, just a bad temper, don't mind. Didn't he do a very good job before? As I said, our professional quality is definitely not bad. ”

"That's right, that's right. Master Motri, don't worry. ”

"You're so good that you killed those long-legged lizards. Now we can rush up and get rid of them all. Be sure to prepare the arcane and give us the bows and arrows and spears to stop them. ”

There were also a few mercenaries who approached and smiled at Stephanie. The magical methods of this female mage undoubtedly gave them a great boost in confidence, and hundreds of thousands of Okin may be waiting in front of them, leaving everyone radiant and scrappy.

"Well, haha... Your mastery of arcane is really... Ha... It was an eye-opener for me. Wish... Hoho haha... I will be able to get your guidance in the future, in all aspects. A thin, small, shriveled and shriveled middle-aged man in his thirties and forties was also running out of breath while smiling all over his face. This is the mage Thompson in this mercenary team, and being able to have a mage exist is a reflection of the strength of this mercenary team. It's just that this mage is the kind of 'arcane coolie' in Stephanie's eyes, and he follows the simple and crude path of a Legion battle mage, and can only cast a limited number of lethal spells. In fact, this is also the norm for many low-level mages who do not have access to formal arcane learning and a lot of resources. At first, the mercenary mage was wary and contemptuous of Stephanie, but now he has a completely different face.

"Without further ado, it's important to keep up now, and take advantage of the situation to completely defeat those lizardmen. Stephanie looked ahead with a cold face and ran as best she could. The smiling faces around her made her feel like vomiting, although these faces were smiling happily and sincerely from the heart, but there was no kindness in them, just pure desire to inspire.

"They found the bait I left behind. The forest patrol soldier in the tree in front of him reminded coldly. In the distance, two lizardmen came out of the hole with two eggs the size of watermelons, which were the eggs of the brook sloth, and those brook sloths were attracted by these two eggs. These large marshland predators have little to no earth, and the only thing that can curb them is the extremely low fertility rate, which is why they also regard the defenseless eggs as extremely important, even if they are not their own, as long as they are not under the protection of their parents, the ground sloths will arouse the desire of other ground sloths to protect.

The lizardmen obviously knew the reason for this, and the two lizardmen were about to run into the distance with the sloths in their arms, but the two arrows were faster than them, just like the one that shot the lizardman witch doctor just now, the two silent arrows, which did not make a trace of wind or be blocked by the slightest wind, pierced into the sloths in their hands as if they suddenly appeared, and then there was a loud bang, and the condensed wind pressure on the arrows exploded instantly, blowing the two lizardmen into a stumble, and also turning the two sloths into a sky of juice and spreading them on all the lizardmen around them。

There were still four earth sloths left, although there were many arrows stuck in their bodies, and the scars on their bodies were still bubbling with sauce-colored blood, but these strange predators that resembled insects and cold-blooded reptiles did not move slowly and hesitantly, especially when they smelled the breath of their offspring that suddenly became stronger, it stimulated all their remaining potential, and frantically pounced on the lizardmen over there.

Countless streams of water were pumped up from the wetlands and puddles on the ground, and then turned into a small area of heavy rain and washed down, washing away all the egg juice on the surrounding lizard people, but this method seemed to be a little late, and the few earth sloths did not hesitate at all, and plunged into the lizard crowd, waving huge claws to smash these reptilian humanoid creatures into the air.

"There's another magician, haven't you found it yet?" Stephanie shouted at the forest rangers in the trees.

The Ranger didn't reply, just jumped high and jumped onto another, taller tree as if he had no weight.

"Seems to be a magician who believes in the god of the water elemental?" Stanley carefully guarded his shield in front of him, and his feet slowed down imperceptibly. "It is said that these savage subhumans are accustomed to worshipping the gods of the elements. If there is an altar of the water elemental god in this lizard's lair, and the priest is added, it may be very dangerous......"

"No way. If it was a priest who was on the altar, wouldn't the power of magic be like that...... The reaction was also a little slow, as if it was a little strange......" Stephanie was also a little groaning and confused, but her feet kept stopping. "Don't worry about it for the time being, let's completely defeat those lizardmen first. This relic is ours!"

The mercenaries who could hear it were all shining in their eyes, and their charging steps were faster and more powerful, even more courageous than those ground sloths that had been manipulated by the arcane. Stanley and Thompson looked at each other, then at the blonde mage next to them, and both smiled even more.

"Huh, someone seems to be using the water elemental?"

On the other side of the swamp, Mu Qinyi, who was sitting cross-legged on a waterhole, suddenly opened his eyes and looked in one direction. There are countless splashes of water around her that are flying and spreading, constantly colluding with each other and changing into various forms, making her seem to be transformed into a world of water splashes within a few meters around her. But as soon as she opened her eyes and spoke, the splashes stopped flowing and danced, and turned into ordinary droplets and fell into the pool below.

"Hey, Mr. Feng, your method may not be able to succeed in a short period of time. Mu Qinyi stood up, walked ashore on the water, and looked at Feng Yinqiu with a little dissatisfaction. "If we want to use Shinto to find another way to reproduce the Dao of Shenzhou, this is not something that our realm can easily do. Maybe you can still try some of the most basic talismans, but this 'Five Directions Heavenly Rain Attraction Array' is also quite a clever Dao method in my Divine Water Palace, and I couldn't do it in the land of Shenzhou before, and now although I have gained a little on the path of Divine Dao, it is impossible to achieve it all at once. ”

"Then don't force it. I'm also in a hurry to make a quick profit, and I want to try to see if I can extend this detection range to a radius of twenty miles in one go. Feng Yinqiu also shook his head. "But what did you say about the water elemental magic just now?"

"Just now, when I was meditating, I seemed to feel that someone was using the water elemental magic in the far distance. I don't know the specific distance, maybe twenty miles away......" Mu Qinyi pointed in the direction she was looking at just now. "Do you want to go over and have a look? Maybe you don't have to find anything. ”

Ms. Mu said that she sensed that someone was using magic over there, but it might be twenty miles away. Do you want to go over and have a look?" Feng Yinqiu turned his head to look at Gao Wen next to him.

"Maybe it's a good idea, after all, we're getting nothing right now, it's the same everywhere. Gawain spread his hands without hesitation, but looked thoughtfully in that direction.

"Invincible brother, let's go over there......" Feng Yinqiu turned to the invincible king of the sloth on the earth not far away, the Sword of Benevolence.

"Don't disturb the man who is immersed in the ocean of knowledge. The Sword of Benevolence sat cross-legged, holding an arcane book in his hand, but he didn't lift his head, only waved his hand. "Do whatever you say, and go wherever you want. (To be continued.) )