Leila is trying to escape for her life. She clung to the bag she had picked up and contained the important samples she had collected along the way. As long as these samples are brought back to the association's laboratory, after analysis, the distribution of magic energy can be known, and even some reasons can be found, which is a very important reference for the defense of the region. Mercenaries may not be understood by the layman, but for their research scholars, this is the most valuable thing.

A report based on data from field trips, and an analysis based on the data, is much more significant than killing a few monsters, even a moderately dangerous monster like a manticore. Leila has calmed down from her initial panic and despair. When she first discovered the hard armor piece dropped by the manticore, she began to have the instinctive speculation of scholars. No data is needed, and only empirical evidence of the color of the nails can determine the time of peeling, and it is possible to conclude that the manticore has recently been infested in the vicinity. It's not surprising to think of an attack in the town of Greenzhou that has just been quelled.

Instead, she was glad for Oasis Town. There is no manticore in this attack, otherwise there is one more enemy who can attack from the sky, and the difficulty of the battle will increase exponentially, and I don't know how many people will be killed or injured.

Leila could almost conclude that the surroundings of Green State were far more dangerous than most of them had imagined. It's just that she's reluctant to lead the team back — she knows she's supposed to, but the scholar's sense of mission and intellectual curiosity eventually prevails. When she smelled the smell of dragon eggs in the air and found out what Basha was doing, she realized that she was wrong. This matter is far from being as simple as she thinks.

A shadow swept over her head, and she shivered, almost instinctively.

As soon as I looked up, I saw that the manticore had swooped down from ahead.

Manticores are not those low-level spirits and possess a certain level of intelligence. Legend has it that they even make flutes and trumpets in the dark to lure unsuspecting travelers. After biting down and swallowing the lizardman bazaar, it has an appetite and is ready to feast on it. But after fighting with Sid and Ian for so long without results, seeing the three prey with little combat power running farther and farther, the manticore finally changed its strategy.

"Get down!" Ian's voice came from behind, and Lyra fell to her knees.

She was scared, but the cat-man's natural quick reflexes saved her life. At the same time, she heard a crisp sound above her head, in addition to the sound of the manticore's passing wind. Looking back, the spirit body that the young man had manifested with his psychic power was flying backwards with his sword across his chest for some reason.

Sid saw clearly, and as Ian shouted, Zack dispersed and resurfaced in front of Lyra, fending off the manticore's swooping claw strike with his sword. He was afraid that Leila would not be able to react and die. Manticores have claws like steel, and if they are not particularly hungry, they like to swoop down to grab their prey and then throw it away, and then re-grasp and bite it before it hits the ground. After such teasing, the dying, bruised prey was devoured alive.

Ian was preoccupied with the embodied Zach, and under the swooping attack of the manticore, he was also knocked out like a ball of paper. Ian didn't believe in his physical body to try, and the shock that Zach transmitted through his psychic power made his heart palpitate.

"Run, keep running!" shouted Sid, and moved toward Lyra with his two-handed sword.

The cat scholar gritted his teeth and, with the help of the other two investigators, got up and continued to flee.

Ian took advantage of the manticore's rise and hover, and quickly approached them as well.

The Manticore was in the air and hadn't figured out what was going on. It knew that it had missed its prey, but why did the blue spirit suddenly appear in front of it? It looked down and refocused on the prey in front of it.

The scholar was a little quicker, and after picking up Leila with his companion, he ran to the front before he knew it. In the manticore's eyes, this prey is the farthest away from her protector.

Turning around in the air, folding its wings, the manticore swooped down again with a roar of gravity.

The prey looked back at itself in horror, what a familiar sight! The next moment, his own claws pierced into her limp body, carrying her high into the air.

"Click!" the manticore felt its claws grasp something, but it was not soft at all, and it was not as warm as its prey should be. It couldn't help but look down, and it was the blue spirit that was tightly enclosed in its huge claws. It roared, turned its head to look at the ground again, and a human was picking up its fallen prey, which was supposed to be its own.

Ian squinted at the angry beast in the sky, stranded alone at the back of the line. This was the second time he had released the spirit and reappeared, and he counted it silently in his mind. Up to 12 ...... This was the limit he had summed up the last time he fought the bandits. Now, he and Sid have fought the manticore head-on, and both of them know whether they can kill the beast together. So all the actions, now are just to delay. As for how long and to what extent it can be delayed, and whether there will be miracles, no one knows. But as long as you live, there will always be hope.

The monster in the air hovered, as if it understood that the spirit in its hand could not satisfy its hunger, but anger drove it to not let go of its claws.

"Just don't let it go. Ian muttered with a malicious smile, the blue light in his eyes condensing.

He began to imagine what Zach would look like as a statue.

The reason why the psychic power is powerful is that it can manifest the laws of the world within the user's understanding, which is why the war caused by the ancients is called the "War of the Fallen Gods" - being able to apply the laws of the world does not mean that anyone has the opportunity to use this power to become a god? Ian is very familiar with the concept of sharpness, and has personally tried a lot for the work of the blacksmith, and has a sufficient and rich understanding. But for "heavy", there is not much difference from an ordinary person's cognition.

Still, it was enough, and the plan he envisioned still worked. Ian took Zack, who was firmly grasped by the manticore and hung under the monster, and quietly changed his physical attributes through his psychic power. He imagined Zach as a heavy statue, how heavy was it? He remembered the iron gates at the gates of the city, the hill-like body of the rhinoceros, and the weight of the corpse carp mallet when it hit the stone wall......

Suddenly, the manticore only felt itself fall, and the spirit in its claws seemed to weigh ten thousand pounds, dragging it to the ground alive. The batwings on either side of the body instinctively struggled and flapped a few times, and the manticore fell to the ground with a bang. With a loud bang, Ian immediately returned to Zach's state and sprang out of the manticore's loose claws.

Sid was stunned, he didn't know what was going on. However, Ian had no time to explain at the moment, and the spur of the moment had actually succeeded, and it was considered extremely lucky, so he hurriedly caught up with Lyra while the manticore had not yet recovered.

The manticore on this side crawled up in a daze, and let out a low growl. It took a moment for its vision to regain clarity, but there was no prey in sight, and there was no strange spirit in sight. It wagged its tail and turned its head to see the backs of Ian and the men fading away. This time, the manticore stopped roaring, flapped its wings, and fluttered into the air.

It pulled up in height as it chased after Ian, but it didn't seem to be in a hurry. Observing from the air, it was maintained at a high altitude and a stable distance as if it were a companion. Sid couldn't help but look back from time to time.

"I don't feel good," cried the veteran, "what does it want to do?"

"I don't know. "Ian doesn't know about these monsters either.

Lyra ran in the middle of the group, "It won't give up," the cat said breathlessly, "The manticore is cruel and cunning, it hasn't been able to eat any of us except Bazaar so far, it must be thinking about something......"

"Whatever it's up to," Ian shouted, "get on the road, we'll still have a chance!"

Running down the road, Ian thought to himself that even if the caravans didn't want to help, he would drag them into battle and force them to do it.

However, the manticore did not intend to give them such a chance, and several people heard a hula above their heads at the same time, and the manticore flapped its wings to catch up, and the shadow of the monster covered several people who were running.

"It's coming!" Sid warned, and several investigators prayed to their Lord God in their hearts to avoid the bite.

But everyone, including Ian and Sid, was wrong. This time, instead of swooping down diagonally, it flapped its wings a few times, darted in front of them, and then smashed straight down to the ground below like a meteor. It had apparently estimated the speed of its prey, and the location of its landing, which happened to be Leila. With a bang, the manticore stopped less than a man above the ground and suddenly spread its wings!

Ian and Sid couldn't do anything this time, and the huge wind pressure blew everyone except Leila away. When Ian rolled three times and got back to his feet, he saw that Lyra's bag was being thrown aside, and she herself was held down by one of the manticore's claws.

The manticore finally got its hands on it! It looked around proudly, as if in a demonstrative hurry to leave with its prey.

"Let's go!" Lyra shouted to them under the manticore's paws, "take the samples I collected, go back to Greenzhou, and tell the president about me and Bazaar!"

Ian was stunned and thought: Shouldn't she have shouted for help?

Of course, the two mercenaries didn't know that although Leila was young, her familiarity with Warcraft was much deeper than that of ordinary people, and even some senior mercenaries sighed to themselves. She had long known what it meant to encounter a manticore - a mercenary at the Blackstone level needed at least a squad of seven or eight people to have a chance to kill, and at the Silver level, it needed at least four or five people. Ian and Sid, two Blackstone-level mercenaries who have just entered the industry for a short time, have been able to withstand the fact that there have been no casualties so far, which is already a miracle.

There was no fear in Lyra's eyes, replaced by a fanatical faith. She resolutely shouted, "Hurry up, my samples and records are more important than my life!" Seeing that Ian and Sid were not moving, she turned to her own investigators and shouted, "Take my samples and leave immediately!"

Investigators, who were also academics, seemed to understand her thoughts more easily, and one of them mustered up the courage to pounce on her bag.

Ian and Sid, however, had no intention of giving up on Layla, and were preoccupied with their watchfulness as they controlled Zach to begin to circle the manticore in three directions. Ian said in a low voice, "Nothing is more important than being alive to say anything stupid. He didn't have the energy to argue with the nerd right now, and all his mind was focused on the manticore. Any rash move could cost Lyra's life.