Chapter 72: "Beast Plague"

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The word beast plague is not unfamiliar to people living near the Warcraft Forest, and is even very familiar.

Because of its proximity to the Warcraft Forest, almost every month, some Warcraft will come out of the forest and come to the human world because they are excluded by the clan, or in search of food, or because they realize the truth that "the world is so big, I want to see it".

And because most of these monsters have strong offensive and destructive power, every time they appear, they will be accompanied by a variety of disasters, so the word beast disaster has been widely spread in countries or regions near the Warcraft Forest.

Although human countries issue missions through mercenary guilds and send mercenary organizations to patrol regularly to eliminate demonic beasts that invade the human world, basically everyone who lives near the forest has had the experience of encountering demonic beasts.

As a result, in these countries, animal disasters have gradually become a topic similar to talking about the weather.

"Hey, did you run into a beast plague today?" This has almost always become the main greeting phrase between friends near the forest.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that most of the beast plagues are extinguished in time by the countries hired mercenaries, so that the people living near the forest can live a decent life, which makes the word beast plague less frightening and becomes a topic of joke among friends.

No one in those countries close to orc territory would dare to greet others and say, "Did you see the orc army today?" "β€”This is the worst curse!

It's just that even if the beast plague has been reduced to a very low level by the mercenaries working together, for some people, the beast plague is still an extremely terrible disaster.

Tokta, the merchant, is one of those who fears a beast plague.

Be the leader of a small and medium-sized caravan. Tokta's main life was to lead the Tokta caravan he founded to travel north and south along the trade routes, transporting the local products collected near the Warcraft Forest to the port of Elna, which is close to the Sheen Territory, and then selling the goods to caravans that specialized in waterways to earn the difference.

As for how much caravans could make by selling goods to other countries along the Grey River, Tokta was not interested in knowing, he just knew that the caravans that traveled to and from the Grey River were not only often attacked by demonic beasts in the water, but also had no less chance of encountering robbers along the way than on land. In addition, many countries also set up cards along the way to collect tolls in the name of inspection, and it is estimated that after the goods are sold, there will not be much money left.

Comparatively speaking, although the journey from the vicinity of the Warcraft Forest to the port of Erna takes a long time, and the money is not much, but because of the frequent travel, the experienced Tokta can avoid a lot of trouble, and it is much easier to worry than the caravan escorted by water.

However, accidents always happen, especially in this section of the distance close to the Monster Forest, the chance of encountering a beast disaster is too high. Even if Tokta chooses the right time with his rich experience, he still can't guarantee that he won't encounter a beast plague.

And it seems that due to the recent disturbances in the depths of the forest, the frequency of animal disasters seems to have become higher than in previous years.

As a result, when Tokta, who was not too lucky, left the forest, his caravan was attacked by demonic beasts three times, and even Tokta's caravan lost four hired professionals (professionals do not have to be mercenaries, some professionals will accept jobs such as bodyguards, guards, etc.).

Thinking that the journey had only just begun, and that if the losses continued, he would be severely understaffed, Tocta, riding on the back of his beloved old horse, clasped his hands in front of him and whispered, "O god of light." Your believers pray to you that the souls of those fallen warriors may enter your kingdom. Pray that you can shelter our caravan and make it to the end of the road safely! ”

As soon as the words fell, Tokta felt that it was dark, and Huo Ran looked up to find that a huge black shadow had tumbled down from the mountain next to him!

Rumble! Tokta felt the mountains shake for a while, and as soon as he looked up, his face instantly lost its blood, because what appeared in front of him was an earth demon bear!

In ancient times, because the various races were just beginning to grasp the power of magic. The mature Earth Demon Bear was rated as a ninth-order demonic beast at that time! And now the Earth Demon Bear is almost equivalent to the top magical beast second only to the Earth Walking Dragon and other dragon beasts!

Of course, Tokta, who often reads the "Warcraft Journal" released by the Mercenary Guild, can see at a glance that the earth demon bear in front of him may still be thousands of years away from maturity, in other words, the other party is only in the growth stage at present.

However, even the Earth Demon Bear in the growth stage is not something that the caravan guards led by Tokta can deal with!

Because a recent record shows that trying to deal with a growing Earth Demon Bear. It takes at least a team of more than twenty silver-level mercenaries to deal with it, and the mercenary group that killed the Earth Demon Bear last time was ultimately victorious at the cost of heavy casualties.

Tokta knows what kind of professionals in the team are, although they are professionals, but most of them are rookie professionals who have just entered the bronze rank, not to mention the combat effectiveness of these people compared with excellent mercenary groups, even a slightly famous mercenary team can easily overturn their own people!

In this case, when Tokta faced the Earth Demon Bear, he could only subconsciously make a gesture to his subordinates not to act rashly, at this time, Tokta could only pray that the Earth Demon Bear that fell from the sky was full today and did not plan to add food, and at the same time was in a good mood and did not plan to attack humans.

However, Tokta suddenly found that although the Earth Demon Bear in front of him stood firm when it landed, its state at this time was a little strange, because after three or four seconds after landing, the Earth Demon Bear actually stood in place and shook its head from side to side, which made Tokta feel a little dizzy from this guy.

Then, after finally getting rid of the dizziness and seeing clearly that a large number of humans had appeared in front of him, the three or four meters tall Earth Demon Bear raised its head and let out an earth-shattering roar at the Tokta caravan (well, it looks like Tokta prayed to the God of Light that this guy was in a good mood and seemed to have failed again)!

His back was wet with cold sweat, and Tocta suddenly realized that he was so close to death at this time. However, when he feels the danger of death, he has a keen sense of observation. Tokta noticed something very strange, that is, he suddenly noticed that the Earth Demon Bear's face seemed to have a stain that resembled a shoe print.

It's like...... It's as if the Earth Demon Bear was kicked by someone!

Bang bang bang! Several soft sounds sounded, and Tokta searched for prestige, and found that there were seven women wearing all kinds of strange but very gorgeous magic robes that jumped in front of the Earth Demon Bear at some point, and everyone was holding a strangely shaped weapon and seemed to be ready to compete with the Earth Demon Bear (pots and pans, brooms, all weapons)!

"Roar!" The Earth Demon Bear roared. At the same time, the earth began to shake with this roar!

"Not good! Ground Split! Hurry up and get close to the nearby trees, only a large tree with dense roots can slow down the effect of the ground split! Tocqueta shouted, then turned and dismounted, led the horse, and ran to a leafy tree by the side of the road.

In his experience, with such lush foliage, the roots must be very well developed, and should be able to counteract most of the damage caused by the Earth Splitting Technique.

But Tocta had only run two steps before the earthquake stopped, and he heard the cute girl in the golden magic robe and her beautiful golden hair tied into a double ponytail among the strange professions shouting to her companions, waving the staff in her hand like a dead branch, "I have destroyed this bear's magic through magical interference!" Dare to play earth magic in front of the old lady, it seems that the magic backlash just now hasn't given this guy a long memory! ”

Then, just as the Earth Demon Bear was about to wave its claws to attack the female magicians, a girl in an aqua blue robe with short blue hair waved a blue shape in her hand. The handle was a little short, and a magic wand resembling a rice bowl was fixed at the tip, and he snorted in a somewhat weak tone: "The water is entangled!" ”

As a result, the Earth Demon Bear's limbs, including its raised front paws, were entangled in a large stream of water rising from the ground.

As if feeling that the water was entangled, it was impossible to restrain this powerful earth demon bear, and the blue-haired girl raised her hand and snapped her fingers and whispered: "Frozen!" ”

Then the water that bound the Earth Demon Bear quickly turned into ice, making it impossible for the Earth Demon Bear, which was known for its strength, to break free for a while.

"Oh my God, who are these people?!" Tokta was almost stunned, he could naturally see at a glance the extraordinary features of the group of women in front of him: "When did the magician cast spells so fast?!" If all the magicians in the world can cast spells so quickly, is there still a way for physics professionals to live?! ”

It was clear that Tocta's surprise was a little early. Because at this time, a circular space door suddenly appeared in the sky, and a heroic woman wearing a silver-gray battle armor appeared next to the space door.

"Is this an angel descending from earth?!" Tokta, who was struck by all kinds of surprise, just thought about it when he heard the woman say loudly behind her in a somewhat thick voice, "Hakoa. How did you open the space door into the air! Damn, how can I go down so high! ”

Tocta, who said that the "angel" spoke in this tone, said that he could no longer understand.

At this time, a woman's answer came from behind the space door: "I'm sorry, I forgot to calculate the horizontal displacement!" Usually, when this kind of thing happens, I use flying skills directly. Or. Shall I reopen it again? ”

"It's okay! When U-sama falls, I'll pick it up! Below, a woman wearing a blue-blue magic robe and long cyan hair with curls stood under the space door, waving her hands and jumping to attract the idea of attracting the people inside the space door, and then the very lively girl was smashed on the head by a woman wearing a silver-white magic robe with beautiful blonde hair full of luxurious temperament......

Tocta's has been completely confused by this group of people. Because it was really hard for him to imagine that such a group of people who were full of disobedience would form a team and appear in front of him to fight the Earth Demon Bear...... That's right! Earth Demon Bear!

At this time, as if he felt that he was being underestimated, the earth demon bear suddenly exerted force, and with the strong magic fluctuations emitted from its limbs, the ice that locked its limbs finally shattered into pieces with a clatter.

However, before the Earth Demon Bear could exert its might, a burst of flames accurately hit the Earth Demon Bear's chin, and the sad Demon Bear directly fell on the mountain wall next to the road with a backflip.

"Millie, stop making trouble! Hurry up and apply the light body technique to U-sama! Judy also hurried to perform the anti-gravity technique! "The blonde woman skillfully commands. Then, the big man at the door of the space, who was like a goddess of war, jumped down from the space door with a magical glow.

"U-sama, this time the position is almost the same, right?" The blonde woman asked the moment the "goddess of war" landed.

Yes, the person who is regarded as a female god of war by Tokta is Sui Yu!

And the blonde woman, naturally, is Philomena!

"Hmmm! Finally in place! This is already within the scope of the mission area! You can kill! Sui Yu stretched out his hand and nodded to the void in front of him a few times, and then nodded to Philomena.

β€œOK! Kill! ”

With Philomena's order, the Earth Demon Bear, who had just been hit by a fire explosion and burned his jaw, shook his head and stood up and was about to cast a magic attack when the space next to him flashed. Hakoya had already appeared at the side of the Earth Demon Bear, and at the same time, the huge scythe also slashed at the Earth Demon Bear's body!

"Whew!" The intense pain made the Earth Demon Bear let out a terrible scream, and then a compressed wind blade and an ice arrow were thrown into the Earth Demon Bear's mouth!

The screams stopped abruptly, and the Earth Demon Bear honestly closed his mouth this time and stared at a pair of fierce eyes intending to fight with the war queens, but as soon as he took two steps forward, a figure flashed behind it quickly, leaving only a wound that was not too deep.

But the Earth Demon Bear suddenly found that its right hind leg began to lose consciousness rapidly, and then because its body balance was destroyed, this big guy pushed the mountain of gold and collapsed to the ground like a jade pillar.

Just when the Earth Demon Bear struggled to get up. A woman dressed in pink stood in front of it, and the Earth Demon Bear subconsciously looked up at the humans in front of him, and then the pink-clothed ninja Kanami stabbed two shurikens into the eyes of the Earth Demon Bear at the moment when the Earth Demon Bear looked up to observe!

So with a strong sense of pain, the Earth Demon Bear opened its mouth again and let out a miserable scream, and this time it was Sui Yu's hidden sword spear that pierced the Earth Demon Bear's mouth!

After experiencing restrictions, sneak attacks, and blinding, under the cover of the war queens, Sui Yu finally succeeded in coming to the Earth Demon Bear and ended the life of the Earth Demon Bear with the spear of the hidden sword, although it seems that Sui Yu is very dangerous to get close to the Earth Demon Bear, but after experiencing several cooperations. This way of killing monsters has proven to be the best mode of killing monsters.

Not only can Sui Yu seize the experience of the final blow and obtain more abundant explosive items, but also let the battle queens see Sui Yu's incomparably heroic back......

Well. The latter is the key!

After killing the Earth Demon Bear, the work of dividing the materials was handed over to Ai Xue, Kanami, and Fanny, who had just run over and was still out of breath, while Sui Yu walked towards the caravan that had been affected by the battle.

Accidentally let this caravan be affected, although it did not cause any serious consequences, but after all, I have to apologize to some extent.

As a result, Tokta had just woken up from the shock of the Earth Demon Bear being easily killed by the group in front of him. was said by Sui Yu: "I'm sorry, I accidentally got you involved in the battle!" "I was deeply shocked.

Tuokta really couldn't understand why Sui Yu, as the leader, was so polite to him with such a strong team, and even took the initiative to apologize to him.

"Beautiful lady. Don't worry! It's a blessing to be able to see your Excellency's sassy and heroic posture in battle! ”

Tokta's words came out, and Philomena, who came with Sui Yu, immediately looked different, as if she wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

"Hey! You guys...... Never mind! In short, you remember, it's good to be pure masters! Sui Yu pointed his thumb to correct his gender on his chest, but when Tokta followed Sui Yu's thumb to look at the two metal protrusions on Sui Yu's chest, the expression on his face became even more weird......

Well, Sui Yu is already completely desperate that the aborigines can distinguish his true gender!

Later, after learning about Sui Yu's "bitterness" in wearing this set of armor, Tokta was a little strange why the Earth Demon Bear appeared here, so he asked Sui Yu and the others his own questions: "This season, the Earth Demon Bear should be in the depths of the forest to find its mate or take care of the cubs, it should rarely appear outside the forest, I really don't know why this guy is here!" ”

Faced with this question, Sui Yu is really hard to explain.

In other words, there are only two days left before the first ring of Sui Yu's serial mission to clean up the Warcraft, but the number of Warcraft kills in Sui Yu's task list has only reached seven.

As the time approached, Sui Yu found that if he continued to do the task according to the normal task process, I am afraid that this task would not be completed!

The real world doesn't look like a game world at all, and there are mobs on the side of the road to refresh. If you receive a similar quest in the game, you will always be able to find the mobs that are running a little far away to the road, and then complete the quest by killing these mobs.

But there are not so many refresh points in the real world, and it seems that because the kind receptionist lady temporarily switched a patrol route for Sui Yu to go to Karan Village, and this route seems to have just been patrolled by other mercenaries, so the encounters with demonic beasts are even rarer.

Therefore, Sui Yu was faced with the dilemma that the task could not be completed.

But the way is what people think, since there is no refresh point in the game in reality, but in the same way, there is no function in the game to limit the range of activities of the mob in reality, so Sui Yu decided to use this to cheat!

The specific method is very simple, that is, through the relay method, transfer the monsters in the Warcraft Forest to the scope of the mission and kill them!

Coincidentally, after the werewolf pine was placed, Hakoya also chased after her, so the team immediately returned to the Warcraft Forest to find traces of the Warcraft.

Luckily, in addition to finding a few demon wolves (the strength of the demonic beasts below a certain level is not counted), Sui Yu and they also encountered an earth demon bear who was digging a honeycomb.

So, the Earth Demon Bear that was targeted by Sui Yu was first chased out of the forest because the honey in his hand was snatched away by Fanny, and then he was teased all the way by Millie through flying magic, and finally came to a mountain close to the mission location, and then met Sui Yu, who had been waiting for a long time, and was kicked in the face by the latter and flew directly from the mountain to the mission location - this is why Tokta will see the Earth Demon Bear falling from the sky.

"Well, anyway, you just think it's a coincidence!" Sui Yu, who really couldn't think of an explanation, simply touched the back of his head and laughed dryly.

Tokta, on the other hand, naturally doesn't get to the bottom of things, and as a shrewd businessman, he naturally knows what to ask and what not to ask!

Then the two groups waved goodbye.

A few hours later, Toqueta muttered to his assistant, "Shall I ask them what they're doing?" ”

In front of Tokta, Sui Yu and the others were beating a huge wind snake. But according to Tocta's knowledge, the Wind Serpent should have stayed in its own cave in the forest to sleep on this somewhat hot day, and I really don't know why this Wind Serpent appeared next to this trade route.

The picture turned again, and Tocta muttered softly to his assistant: "Is this time the raging hippopotamus that can't do without the waterhole?" Isn't this thing never going to leave that waterhole in the Warcraft Forest? Why is it here again?! ”

At this time, in front of Tokta, a huge hippopotamus that had been transferred by Hakya's spatial magic was beaten by the war queens while rampage, and it looked like it was not alive.

The picture was still turning, and when he looked at the five poisonous flame scorpions blocking his way in front of him, Tokta said to his assistant with a calm face: "This time it's not outrageous, this area is indeed the territory of the poisonous flame scorpions!" ”

Seeing his boss's calm expression, the assistant weakly said to Tokta: "However, those people don't seem to be there?" ”

Tokta was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the group of female magicians who seemed to appear as if they were gods descending from the sky really did not appear, he immediately showed a shocked expression and exclaimed loudly: "Oops, all on alert! This time, TM is a real beast disaster! (To be continued.) )