Chapter 23: The Leaf-tailed Lion
The forest path leading to Liminosi looks a little dilapidated, due to the relationship between the two streams and the fishmen, the originally prosperous road has become barren, and weeds have begun to encroach on the road, and it is estimated that this artificial road will be completely flooded in a few years.
The woodland here is called Darlins by the Liminosians, which means a rich forest, rich in products, and the number of magical beasts is much smaller than other forests, and most of them are in the center of the forest, so there are often civilians in the city who go to Darlins to collect mushrooms and berries when they have nothing to do, and subsidize their families.
In particular, after the rain, Darlings grows a mushroom that looks like an egret on a dead tree, which is commonly known as the white bird mushroom by the locals, and is used to stew soup with extraordinary deliciousness, and is a frequent guest on the table of the Liminosi aristocracy.
The road to Liminosi in Darlings was not wide, only enough for two carriages to travel side by side, and was somewhat infested by weeds on the side of the road, making the road even narrower.
In the middle of the day, Lelia and Vivien were tidying up the nearby grass to prepare for a campfire to cook, while everyone else went to the forest to find some fresh food, and Roy was the only one sitting on the wagon munching on a grain of jerky.
It wasn't a good feeling to watch others busy while they were enjoying themselves, and Roy felt that his mother, who was still on earth, was staring at him with stern eyes, a little awkward.
Nakia quickly picked a bunch of mushrooms from the forest, and carried them around in his wide magic robes, carefully.
Roy glanced at it, the corners of his mouth twitched, a large part of the mushrooms in Nagia's pocket had bright colors, and Roy also saw a fist-sized blue mushroom with a red ring pattern.
Just as he was about to say something, Nagia said first: "The mushroom in my arms has been detected with identification magic, it is edible, put away your ignorant eyes." Holding his head high, he glanced at Roy with contempt, and went to Lelia with the mushroom.
Roy quickly closed his mouth, after a day of contact, Nagia had relaxed, gradually revealing his original proud nature, but fortunately, he remembered that Roy was the employer, so he still had some restraint.
Looking at the mushrooms in Naguia's arms, Roy made up his mind not to touch them, not because he didn't believe in the accuracy of the identification magic, but because of the most basic law of human survival: if you can't eat colored mushrooms, you won't eat them.
However, Roy's steadfastness did not last for a few minutes, and the aroma of butter-roasted mushrooms had already hooked his mouth, and his nose fluttered one after another to inhale more of that rich and noble aroma, which even overwhelmed the hot stew in the pot, making people yearn for it.
Roy's performance was extremely restrained, but Nagia could see it, and she snorted softly, allowing Lalia to take a slice from the pot, blow on the cool air, and carefully put it in her mouth.
Lelia didn't stop Nagia from eating first, she could see that Roy seemed to be following Nakia and was not the kind he liked, so he treated Naguia with some respect, not to mention that these mushrooms were so beautiful that someone needed to try the poison first.
Nagia chewed the mushroom in her mouth, it seemed to taste so good that her eyes narrowed, and suddenly, her eyes widened, her right hand was raised, and a surging ball of fire emerged from the palm of her right hand, and she turned around, her eyes staring at a bush.
Roy had already turned his head, stared at the bushes and said, "Be careful! Something is leaning in. ”
Before Roy's words were finished, Nagia shook his right hand, and the fireball in his hand smashed in the direction of the bush, and his wrist flipped lightly with the force of the swing, and a fireball condensed again.
Klein and the others hurriedly pulled out the weapons in their hands and guarded Roy behind them.
Because of the need to concentrate on learning spells, the caster is much more outstanding than other professions in terms of mental power, and is also the most sensitive to some troubles, except for thieves and hunters who are full-time detectives.
And there are strong and weak spellcasters, so when there is a movement in the bushes, it is Nagia who reacts first and throws a fireball at the location of the change.
A turquoise figure jumped out of the bushes, deftly avoiding Nagia's fireball, falling limply to the ground without making a sound.
"It's a leaf-tailed lion." Roy reminded.
The so-called leaf-tailed lion is a kind of intermediate fourth-order demonic beast that looks similar to a first-level demonic beast flame lion, not so much like a lion, but more like a tangled vine with a lot of leaves, wide and fat leaves make up the body and limbs, the tail is an extremely long feathery leaf, a tender stem sticks out in the center of the head, and a red-colored fruit is open on it, which can spit out a sweet mist that paralyzes the enemy from the mouth, as well as manipulate plants within a certain range, and the talent spell is able to generate leaves that can explode and bombard the enemy.
The leaf-tailed lion has a very mixed diet, eating mushrooms, leaves, animals and even soil, often pretending to be a clump of plants, using the fruit of its head as bait to catch some small animals that like to eat fruit.
When the leaf-tailed lion landed on the ground, he hunched over, raised his leaf-like tail, and roared low at Nagia, his eyes fixed on the bonfire behind the crowd.
Roy knew that the leaf-tailed lion was obviously attracted by the aroma of the roasted mushroom, and originally just pretended to be a bush and watched from afar, but was forced to jump out after Nagia discovered it.
After the leaf-tailed lion in front of him jumped out, Klein took the lead, he held the sword in both hands and quickly ran towards the leaf-tailed lion's side, and Nagia also threw out the fireball in his hand, but the fireball drew an arc in the air and flew towards the left side of the leaf-tailed lion, echoing Crane's attack.
The fireball in Nagia's hand was the magic that restrained the leaf-tailed lion, and its body was extremely afraid of fire because it was made of vines, so it hurriedly dodged Crane's sword when it saw this, and at the same time its mouth opened, and a white mist spit out at Crane.
The blue light flashed on Klein's body, and the fighting qi in his body was injected into the long sword held in both hands and swung one after another, forming a huge sword wind to blow away the mist, and then slashed at the leaf-tailed lion, the leaf-tailed lion couldn't dodge, and was cut off by a sword.
At this time, Nagia's third spell had been completed, and she was seen holding her hands in front of her chest, and the power of thunder and lightning was accumulating in her hands, and at the same time, a pure black cloud appeared on the head of the leaf-tailed lion, and as Nakia put her hands together, a bolt of lightning poked out of the dark cloud and struck the leaf-tailed lion's head fiercely.
Thundercloud technique, a thunderbolt spell that magicians come into contact with when they are in the third order, except for those who are really talented, the vast majority of mages cannot master this special spell whose attack power is comparable to that of the fourth-order attack magic, and it is a magic that is often used by high-level magicians when fighting.
The thundercloud that emitted a lightning bolt did not immediately disperse as in the game, but became more condensed, only to see Nagia's hands clapped again, and the second lightning bolt followed the path of the first one directly on the head of the leaf-tailed lion.
Two lightning attacks in a row directly hit the head of the body, the leaf-tailed lion let out a terrible howl, and the vines all over the body quickly activated and detached, and the leaves on the vines emitted flickering fluorescence after detaching, only two flickering, the leaves exploded one after another, and Crane, who was closer to the leaf-tailed lion, had to retreat.
In the explosion, a miniature version of the leaf-tailed lion fled in a hurry, and the fruit on its head and the huge leaf tail had all fallen off.
Klein was about to chase after him, but Roy shouted and said, "Okay, that thing has also run away, there is no need to chase it, not to mention that there is already something left to make amends, let it live." ”
The smoke from the explosion slowly fell, and a red fruit appeared on the ground, the one on the head of the leaf-tailed lion.