Chapter 118: Silver Pine Forest 1
"It's funny, they really think of us as adventurers. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Naomi walked in the jungle, constantly brushing away the oncoming branches, and said with some interest. "These free spirits are nothing more than that."
"Don't underestimate them, Naomi." Sergeant Mina took her words and explained to her, "These free undead, they are more terrible than the other natural scourge undead. ”
"They have the intellect, they know all the shortcomings of our human beings, and they know us very well. They may become our worst enemies in the future. Mina said worriedly.
"So, the Legion Commander wants to establish a city here, and the purpose is also to contain them, right?" Naomi asked Mina curiously.
"That's it!" Scarface interrupted the conversation between them, "This is not something we need to discuss now, and we don't need to know this now. ”
"Now, getting our mission done is the first priority."
"Alright, Captain." Naomi sticks out her tongue at Scarface's back and grimaces. Then he turned to look at Mina, covering her lips and smiling secretly.
Mina smiled and shook her head, not saying anything.
In Mina's eyes, Naomi is the youngest sister among them, a younger sister who needs to be taken care of, so it is acceptable to have a proper atmosphere.
Hamilton tapped his head with his hand as he followed the team to the horses. The sheep transformation technique just now still had a little effect on him, and even after all this time, his head was still a little groggy.
The mage's sheep transformation technique, although it is a low-level spell, but the harm and effect of this spell is very large, when the sheep transformation technique temporarily turns the enemy into a small animal, then the enemy has no defense during this period of time. The caster will be as fragile as a small animal, and a simple blow will kill him.
Unless the mage disables the magic, or the caster is killed on the spot, the magic will not be easily removed.
If so, then these transformation spells are too powerful, but they are not.
First of all, the Transfiguration Spell itself is a spell that is still being explored, and if the mage does not master the Transfiguration Spell well, the success rate of the spell will not be very high.
Moreover, some powerful people and warriors with their own strength can exempt these mages from the transformation spell by their will alone, and the casting of this spell also takes a certain amount of time, and in the melee and the battle with the mage, this transformation spell often has little chance to be cast.
It is relatively common for Hamilton to assassinate mages. This is also a favorite of thieves and warriors when facing mages, once the mage is close, they will not have a chance to release magic, most of which requires gestures to be released. At the same time, the mages will also prepare some spell scrolls, on which some protective magic is stored to face this unexpected situation, but if the talisman magic scroll they carry with them is broken, then the mage can indeed only wait for death.
"Thank you, Harrow." Hamilton walked up to the archer and thanked him. "Thank you for saving my life, more than once."
Hamilton looked at the taciturn archer in front of him and thanked him.
"We're a team." Harrow glanced up at him, then lowered his head and chopped the branches and leaves in front of him, "Don't say this kind of thank you again in the future." ”
The shooter in front of him didn't mean to say more, and Hamilton didn't hold on. Harrow came from the First Legion, and Hamilton didn't know the specific situation, but now it was all a legion, and sooner or later he would know the details.
Under a large tree that can only be hugged by several people, eighteen war horses are being tethered here.
"Wait." Mina stopped everyone, "Give me a moment, and I'll be right away." ”
The crowd stopped and began to watch as Mina got to work.
Mina began to circle around the tree where the horse was tethered, and from time to time she bent down to pull something strange out of the grass and put it in her bag.
Some of them are crystal-like things, some are large traps, and some are knick-knacks made of layers of wire.
These traps are placed irregularly at all, and they are simply put on when they think about it.
In the end, Mina carefully dug out a few round things from the four corners and carefully put them into her backpack.
Scarface can feel that the things that Mina put into the bag contain a powerful killing power, which is a strange feeling, anyway, if you step on it...
"Hey, Mina, what happens if you step on it?"
Someone asked this for Scarface, and Steven, a big man, asked with a smooth head.
"Will my shield be able to withstand these things?"
"Alright, everyone can come in." Mina beckoned to them, smiling and brushing her hair, "If someone or some other creature steps in." Well, you'll see that there are already intruders lying here. ”
"What if the beast comes in?" Naomi asked with interest.
"No, there's dragon feces on it. Ordinary beasts and those magical beasts with intelligence would not think of coming here to eat our warhorses. ”
"And if it's the gnolls, or the undead." Mina pulled out two large bottles of reagents of different colors and said, "There's a powerful hallucinogen, and an anesthetic, and they've been smeared on all the devices here. The outermost trap ejects needles with powerful anesthetic effects that can inflict even young dragons. ”
"So—" Mina smiled and said no more.
"So! We hurried to rest and get ready to go. Scarface pulled his horse and fed it with the pies and beans he had brought with him.
Naomi rolled her eyelids and said helplessly, "The captain is really boring, can't you laugh?" I see you with a tense face every day, not tired. ”
Still, she untied the rope of her horse, took out the pie from her bag, took out something like salt, sprinkled it on the pie, and fed the horse to eat it.
Scarface turned around and looked at Naomi with a smile that was uglier than crying.
Naomi waved her hand in disgust, and Scarface laughed.
After a brief hour's rest, the scout team began their journey, continuing towards the Silver Pines Forest.
The Haru Gorge is more than 50 kilometres long as the main road connecting the Tirisfal Glade and the Silver Pine Forest. As the scouts progressed, the vegetation on the plains began to thinn, replaced by tall larch.
They can reach heights ranging from 115 to 130 feet at their tallest, with a diameter of 3.2 feet and a minimum of about 1 foot.
Their skin is mostly silvery-white, with oblique or nearly flattened branches, and a canopy ovate-conical.
Leaves inverted-lanceolate, apex pointed or obtuse, upper midrib not raised.
On the branches, their fruits are seen from time to time. Some are red, some are yellow, brown.
"These fruits are almost ripe!" Mina pointed to the red and yellow fruits on the larch, some oval and some oval.
"The red ones are still unripe, the yellow ones are ripe, and the fruits are food for most of the animals in the silver pine forests. They are also the best seeds, and the animals that eat these fruits will excrete the seeds from their bodies and regrow them in various parts of the silver pine forest. ”
"How do you know that?" Naomi asked, curiously surveying the environment.
"I used to be from Gilneis, and my hometown was in the village of Burning Wood under the Walls of Greyman." Mina said with a strange look, "I'm familiar with the Silver Pine Forest, and I'm still familiar with this place. ”
"Is there anything else to pay special attention to here, besides the scourge undead and the gnolls?" Hamilton asked.
Mina was a little speechless.
"Any questions?" Scarface saw her expression and couldn't help but ask.
"Let's settle down first, I'll tell you." Mina sighed and explained. "It's not good news, and I hope you won't like to hear it."
"Oh? Got a story?! Miss Naomi loves to listen to stories the most! Naomi said with great interest.
"Let's go, let's find a place to stay here." Scarface looked around, and it was out of the Haru Canyon. However, it is surrounded by tall larches and mantle plants and small larch trees that accompany them.
From time to time, some small animals flash in the forest.
"Come with me, I know where we can settle down for a while." Mina said, lifting her spirits.
The scouts mounted their standing horses and began to walk slowly towards Mina's prompted direction.
And at the edge of the jungle, some yellow eyes were staring at them motionlessly. Behind them, their big furry tails swept back and forth, hiding behind the trees, watching the uninvited guests. In their hands, they held bone sticks made from unnamed bones, and long lines of saliva ran from the corners of their mouths.
They are gnolls, and their fur is black and gray.
"Human! Humans again, and their meat is better than goblins? A jackal speaks fluent lingua franca.
"Eat... Eat meat... Zaru is happy! "A tall gnoll man who was 7.7 feet tall spoke the lingua franca intermittently with great difficulty, and his wide tongue tried to make it clear, with great difficulty.
"Let's go! Zaru, let's go back and tell the patriarch that when it's time to eat meat, we'll be able to get a little more!" The leading gnolls turned and walked into the depths of the woods.
Behind him, the gnoll named Zaru watched for a while before turning away.