Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 40: The Cliff of Eternal Life (2)
Appearing at the entrance was a group of fanged druids, led by the Cowbryan trio.
Nearly a hundred fanged druids poured into the vast underground cliff platform, controlling a large swarm of wind snakes to launch indiscriminate attacks on all targets on the platform. Both the undead and the Corrupted Treants are the targets of these fanged druids.
Thassarian didn't expect to encounter this group of strange intruders at this time, the elite troops he brought had been severely damaged, under the reckless attack of those forest elves, only the last flesh puppet remained, and the remaining skeleton generals worked hard to protect those dark mages and corpse witches, and the last necromancer who survived from the vines of Voldan had fled back with both hands and feet, hiding in the part closest to the rock wall and directing the undead to support and survive.
"Why are there undead here?" Anna Cordra glanced at the undead, who had never seen an undead creature here since they had followed Nalarex to the Wailing Cave (Raylight and Keldila were captured). In fact, the Wailing Cave could not meet the conditions for the birth of the undead, because of the Jade Dream Realm, the natural power in the depths of the Wailing Cave was very strong, and the corpse could not absorb enough death power to resurrect as an undead spirit in this environment.
Cobline drew another spear from his back, and the precise throw was clearly his handiwork: "It doesn't matter! No matter where these undead come from, our plans cannot be changed! ”
"Looks like Waldan the Eternals has completely lost his mind!" Pisas's weapons were a short axe and a small round shield, a habit he had developed as a warrior, and even after learning the way of nature from Nalarex, he did not abandon his fighting skills as a warrior. ”
Thassarian's provocation had left Waldan the Eternals completely under the control of his fury, the dark forces affecting his mind, and the corruption of the Abyss even worse, the ancient Treant had lost its plant form and transformed into an outright abyssal monster.
The torches in the hands of the fangs druids illuminated the entire underground space clearly, and Anna Cordra raised her hands flat, and the green light slowly danced in her palms, which lasted less than ten seconds before being extinguished: "The forces of nature here have been corrupted by darkness, and I cannot connect with the minds of the Eternals. ”
"Then we'll have to take his body back, I can feel the power in his body, it's enough for the ritual!" Without hesitation, Cowbryan made the decision to order the fanged druids to attack Waldan the Eternal.
In the face of these elves who suddenly jumped out to stir up the situation, Thassarian chose to retreat, from the attack just now, these sudden appearance of long ears had already made their attitude clear, it was obvious that they would not regard these undead as allies. He retreated into the formation that had been reduced by nearly half, allowing the undead to slowly retreat out of Voldan's attack range.
Thanks to the crazy Treants and Wood Spirits, the creatures who had been brought to life by Waldan's influence separated the undead from the elves, and Coleine was clearly unwilling to waste his already stretched strength on them.
The King of Fangs and the Fanged Druids cleared a clearing on the other side of the platform, pulled out some herbs and unknown bone fragments and began to set them up, Anna Codra instructed the Fanged Druids to place the improvised props in the right places, and Pisas led some of them to fend off the forest spirits who attacked them.
The arrival of the fanged druid caused the furious Waldan to change his aim, and the light from the flames caused the treant to turn his attention to them, venom and xylomas raining down and thick vines shooting out.
Cobryne took out two thorn seeds from his body, activated them with his own magic power, and planted them at his feet, and in less than three seconds, the thorny strips with spikes grew madly out of the dirt, as if to compress a lifetime of growth in just a few seconds. The thorn strips continued to fork, thicken, twist, and eventually entangle with each other to form a wall of thorns.
The wall of thorns didn't look solid, less than a meter thick, but it was enough to easily hold off the xyloma shells from Voldan, and even the poisonous sap couldn't hurt the thorns in the slightest.
The dark forces not only eroded the minds and bodies of these druids, but also gave them some mutated abilities. What Cowbryan performed was just a thorn technique that ordinary druids could do, using the power of nature to catalyze the seeds of thorns, and the vitality of the seeds burst out in a short period of time, and the thorns that grew could not only be used for defense, but also under the control of the druids, they could be used to restrain the enemy and create opportunities for the druids. And after the mutation of the dark power, the thorns that were born from Cowbryan gave birth to dark attributes, not only the appearance is more distorted, but the thorns themselves also have a certain ability to resist poison and corrosion.
But these poisonous sap and xyloma cannonballs are just Voldan's tentative attacks, and what he relies on most is the vines that grow on his body, these vines that have been corrupted by the abyss not only have their own consciousness, can make various movements like poisonous snakes, but also have strong defense and aggression, while being bound by these vines, some spikes growing on the vines will also control the vines to tighten automatically, and directly strangle the prey.
Then a figure held most of the vines down. Pisas skillfully blocked the stabbing of the vines with his small round shield, the short axe looked inconspicuous, but it was enough to halve the hard vines, which made Cobryen breathe a sigh of relief, and he was worried that the crazy thorns he had spawned would not be able to stop the vicious-looking vines.
"Alright, Pisas, come back quickly!" Anna Kordella placed a magic crystal in the center of the circle, replaced the magic line with the juice of herbs, and replaced the magic node with a specially calcined bone fragment, Anna Kordella finished laying out the simplified circle by herself, and stood in the center of the circle, and the eight fanged druids who still retained a certain amount of sanity stood on the magic node of the circle according to their respective positions, "Cow Brien, it takes two minutes to activate the circle, I can't be disturbed!" ”
"Just do your own thing!" Cowbryan threw his last spear, skewering a tree man and a forest spirit with a sugar gourd, and nailed him firmly to the ground. Then, his hands were clenched together, and a blood-red aura enveloped them.
"Blood boiling!" The blood-red aura flew out with Cowbrien's voice, and it sank into the bodies of the wind snakes that were biting with the corrupted treants and forest spirits, and the wind snakes that were only more than a meter tall quickly expanded their bodies after absorbing this blood-red breath, and the scales on the surface of their bodies were also dyed with a layer of light red, and even the skin membranes on both sides of their bodies were glowing with red mist.
The boiling blood in the body of the wind snake made these beasts no longer think about their own life and death, and one by one rushed to those corrupted treants and forest spirits like believers shouting Alahu Akbar, whipped them with their tails, tore them with poisonous fangs, and even directly exploded their bodies, their blood splashed on these monsters, and they made a hissing sound like boiling hot water, and at the same time, from the pits on the forest spirits' bodies that were corroded by blood, it can be known that these blood also have extremely strong corrosiveness.
Hundreds of wind snakes relied on this method to clean up those corrupt treants and forest spirits, and even the immortal Waldan was affected. The ancient treeman, corrupted by the power of the abyss, grabbed the wind snakes that rushed at him and stuffed them into those round mouthparts, which made him suffer a lot, and the boiling poisonous blood that exploded directly in his body made Waldan can't help but let out a painful and crazy roar.
But this was not enough to mortally damage Waldan, this ancient treant not only had a huge size, but also the natural power absorbed by tens of thousands of years also gave him a very strong life force, which not only helped him resist the power of the abyss for tens of thousands of years, but also allowed him to obtain a very special mutation after being corrupted by the abyss.
The corrosion from the poisonous blood caused large swaths of the epidermis on Waldan's body to fall off, and in the light of the fire, the body that was originally composed of tree trunks could be seen to have turned into a wriggling mass of strange tissue, these things that looked like flesh and plant fibers seemed to have their own consciousness, beating without interfering with each other, like huge hearts.
The frenzied Waldan raised his palm, and unexpectedly dug a large piece of strange tissue directly from his body, and threw it at Cowbrien. These strange things scattered in the air into several pieces, and when they landed, they seemed to have a life of their own, and some stubby tentacles grew on the surface, driving them closer to Cowbrien.
At this time, fools know that they can't let these things of unknown origin come close to them. Cobrien reached out and grabbed a thorn in front of him, and under his control, the thorns that originally formed the wall quickly branched out of the roots and branches, preventing and restraining the strange flesh and blood.
However, there was no lightness on Cowbrien's face, but a sense of fear: "Pisas, come and help me, these things are devouring the thorns of madness, they are extracting my magic!" ”
Pisas immediately rushed up to cut off the thorns that branched out, losing Cobrien's magic supply, and the thorns that had firmly bound the strange pieces of flesh were devoured rapidly, and Pisas even found that the pieces of flesh had grown a little bigger.
"Damn, what the hell are these!" Pissa's axe split one of the pieces of flesh, but inside it was a network of wood-like fibers, and after squirming in place for a while, the split pieces of flesh split into two separate entities, continuing to move closer to Cowbrien.
"Can't let these things get close to the circle!" Cowbryan said loudly, but the mad thorns that spawned could not stop these pieces of flesh at all, only became their food, and Pisas also proved that the weapon had no effect on them with the attack just now.
Not only that, but Cowbryan then tried a few other things, such as summoning vines to throw these strange pieces of flesh off the cliffs, or summoning flames to ignite these things, but none of them had much effect. Whenever more than half of the pieces of flesh were lost, Waldan would dig a piece from his body again and refill the battlefield, and the flames would have little effect on what appeared to be full of burning materials, and only the surface of these strange pieces of flesh would form a scorched layer.
Fortunately, the movement speed of these pieces of flesh is not high, relying on the vines summoned by Cobryn and the shield of Pisas, the fangs of the druids managed to support Anna to complete the control of the circle.
The circle with a diameter of nearly two meters began to shine with a green light, which was the embodiment of the power of nature, and Anna stood in the center of the circle, guiding the circle to continuously draw natural energy from the vicinity.
When the green energy was so thick that it stuck to Anna's palm like a liquid, the female druid chanted the last byte and pointed her hands at Waldan, and a beam of green energy pierced through the space like a laser and struck Waldan's head.
As if sensing the threat of this beam of energy, Waldan opened his mouth suddenly, and there was no tongue in the empty mouth, only a mouthpiece that seemed to be alien, and this mouthpart quickly expanded, laying countless layers of magical shields in the direction of the beam.
Although each shield only blocks the beam for less than a second, when the shield shatters, a new layer always appears, and the beam moves slowly like a snail crawling.
"Quick, the circle will only last a few minutes, and Waldan must now use all his strength to maintain the shield! Hurry up and destroy his core! ”
Knowing that time was pressing, Cobline and Pisas were no longer left behind, and after a wild roar, the King of Fangs transformed into a huge wind snake, his expanded membrane made him capable of short-distance flights, and his long tail stretched out, curling Pisas behind him and flying towards Waldan.
The still alive fanged druids spontaneously formed a defensive line to block the pieces of flesh from approaching the circle, and the brutal attack and defense caused these fangs druids to lose nearly half of their manpower, most of them died from Voldan's vine volleys.
The huge wind snake circled in mid-air and slammed directly into Waldan's head, its long fangs piercing into the skin of the ancient tree man, and the powerful toxin directly caused the strange flesh around the fangs to appear in large black spots, and then turned into a pool of rotting blood.
Pisas reached out and jumped on top of Voldan's head, he wanted to find the core of the Treant, and only by completely destroying the core could he end the life of Waldan the Eternal.