Chapter 198: The Ogre with Mushrooms on His Body
As the saying goes, the sky is high and the birds fly, and the sea is wide and the fish jumps. After entering the Arathi Heights, as the supreme commander of the entire army, Leo can do as he pleases, without worrying about anyone hindering him.
After receiving Pasonia's warning, Leo has been thinking about what to do if he enters the Arathi Heights. After some thought, he made up his mind.
Careful analysis, making a plan, doing everything possible to implement it, trying to achieve the identified goals, knowing where to make trade-offs, in Leo's view, this is a decision.
There are nobles in the Kingdom of Stormwind who unite to kill themselves, which makes Leo feel a sense of crisis, and the kingdom allows these nobles to send themselves into the Arathi Heights, which makes Leo feel a little cold.
Whether it is the Grand Duke of Berval or the precocious King Anduin, they all consider the overall situation of the entire Stormwind Kingdom, and will not affect the stability of the kingdom because of individuals. No matter how much they admired Leo, once Leo's interests conflicted with the entire kingdom, Bervar and Anduin Jr. would not hesitate to abandon him.
To say that he wanted to dedicate himself to the Kingdom of Stormwind, Leo did not have such an awareness.
Leo is very different from when he first left the Stormwind Kingdom and came to the wetlands.
As a powerhouse of the Legendary Realm, not counting Pelision, he also has three beast pets of the Legendary Realm and a plant pet of the Legendary Realm, and he has hidden two epic bone dragons, so he is naturally full of confidence with such strength.
In the past, if the Storm Kingdom gave up on him, he would still worry about what he should do, after all, his strongest would be no more than the strength of a high-level warrior. Not to mention this kind of strength, wandering in this world full of dangers, even if he goes to seek refuge with others, no one will necessarily pay attention to him, maybe it is possible to kill him directly for the sake of his relationship with the Storm Kingdom.
And at this time, at that time, he is now going to join a certain big force, and others will not drive him away even if they don't want to see him, not to mention that he can also let the bone dragon pretend to be a mechanical dragon, making people think that he has the ability to create more epic combat power.
It's not a matter of just brushing the prestige of the Storm Kingdom, people can't hang themselves from a tree, as the so-called Three Holes of the Cunning Rabbit, except for the Storm Kingdom, you must establish ties with other forces.
Now entering the Arathi Heights is an opportunity for Leo, an opportunity to establish contact with the kingdom of Araso, to put it in layman's terms, Leo is ready to brush up on the prestige of the kingdom of Araso.
However, there is also a skill in brushing prestige, knowing that someone has revealed the news to the undead, and on the way to the Valley of Refuge will encounter the encirclement and suppression of the undead army, he is stupid and stupid to plunge into it.
Doing things is about ways and means, and Leo is now ready to pay attention to the way of doing things, directly ignoring the kingdom's order to go to the Valley of Refuge, and only taking the latter meaning - to find a way to rescue the Arathso coalition army.
So, he led his team in the direction of Deadwood Village.
Although they didn't understand what Leo wanted to do, everyone had made up their minds to follow Leo, and no one had any objections, anyway, Leo said they would do it.
The Deadwood Village in the Arathi Highlands is located in the lower right corner of the Highlands and is a large gathering place for the Deadwood Trolls in the Highlands.
Before the fall of Fort Riptide, Deadwood Village was inconspicuous, but after the Arathso coalition retreated to the Valley of Refuge to continue resisting the army of the undead, the place became important as the center of gravity of the entire Arathi Heights battlefield shifted. This is because Deadwood Village forms an equilateral triangle between Deadwood and the Valley of Refuge where the Arathso coalition forces are located, and the Undead in Hammertown, the stronghold of Arathi Highlands.
In order to ensure the safety of Deadwood Town, the undead can either fight on two fronts, or change from a large-scale attack to strategic defense, or divide a part of their forces to defend Deadwood Village, anyway, no matter what they do, the pressure on the Valley of Refuge will inevitably be reduced.
Taking advantage of the fierce battle between the undead and the allied forces of Araso in the Valley of Refuge and having no time to worry about it, this is Leo's plan, and there is one place that cannot be bypassed to carry out this plan, and that is the Hall of the Stonefist.
As one of the two strongholds of the Ogre clan in the Arathi Heights, the place occupied by the Stonefist Ogres under the command of Cogre is a hall to put it mildly, but it is just a big cave.
Don't underestimate it just because it's a cave, the size of the Stoneken Hall is worthy of its name, as it houses more than 5,000 ogres living in it.
The strength of the Stone Fist ogre is not weak, and in terms of numerical level, they all belong to level twenty-six or seventeen creatures, and their strength is very close to that of high-level fighters.
Five thousand stone fist ogre, this power cannot be underestimated. But this force was slaughtered.
The green mushrooms that broke through the ground, and the gray-green gas that wafted out of the mushrooms spread through the cave when the Stonefist ogre was not looking.
The ogre's body contaminated with gray-green gas appeared with ugly spots, which the ogre didn't feel like at first, but after a while, an unbearable itch made them involuntarily scratch their skin.
This scratch is a problem.
The ogre was fine, the more they scratched, the more they felt itchy, as the force of their tickling increased, blood marks appeared from their bodies, and then these blood marks expanded in the ogre's more vigorous scratching, and when Cogresh sensed that something was wrong, more than half of the ogres in the entire cave had scratched themselves to a bloody blur.
"You idiots, stop scratching!"
Kaugresh shouted at his men, but he found that his words had no effect, and the men who had captured him into blood were still scratching at their bodies.
What can I do?
Just as Cogresh was running his own few intellectual cells, a new situation happened.
The ogres who had caught themselves the most suddenly screamed, and Kaugresh followed the sound and saw that green mushrooms had grown on their bodies, and after these green mushrooms grew, the originally fat bodies of several ogres deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye, but in a dozen breaths, they were so thin that only a layer of skin and flesh was left wrapped in bones.
This scene scared Kaugresh out of his mind.
What the hell are those mushrooms, it's so terrifying!
Just as Kaugresh was frightened, some more ogres sprouted mushrooms, and their screams resounded throughout the Hall of Stonefist.
The remaining ogres were uneasy, looking at their companions in horror, not knowing when they would become one of them.
"We can't stay here, let's get out!"
With that, Kaugresh opened his feet and ran towards the mouth of the cave, the ogre still hadn't figured out what was going on with his men.
The leader had run away, and the other ogres had done the same, but they didn't notice that a palm-sized green mushroom grew in the middle of the road from time to time on the road to the outside world.
It is not surprising that the frightened ogre trampled the green mushrooms without noticing.
The more green mushrooms that are trampled on, the more gray-green gas will be emitted, and the number of ogres with physical problems will increase.
"Damn, who is framing us! Who would dare to provoke the mighty ogre! ”
Kaegresh roared angrily, and when he reached the exit of the Stoneken Hall, he found that the ogres guarding outside the cave were gone, leaving only a large green mushroom field. Moreover, several walls of white bones covered with bone spurs appeared at the exit of the cave, sealing the entire path out of the cave.
The enemy hiding in the shadows has sinister intentions, and he intends to trap me and my ogres in the cave. Seeing this, Cogresh made such a judgment.
"Why are you screaming so loudly, does it show that you have a loud voice?"
A teasing voice sounded, and Cogresh looked in the direction of the sound and saw a human riding a large grizzly bear. Behind this human, there are thousands of human soldiers in formation.
This group was none other than Leo and his three thousand dragon blood soldiers.
It was this group of humans who orchestrated the attack on their own tribe!
Thinking of the tragic situation of his subordinates, Kaugresh red-eyed, the ice element in the ogre leader's hand converged, and a cold ice arrow snapped into the bone wall blocking the way, knocking out fine cracks in the bone wall.
This ogre's ice arrow is powerful enough, it seems that he has the strength of a high-level ice mage, no wonder he can move freely in the poisonous gas of unstable mushrooms, but under the constant erosion of poisonous gas, how long can you last?
Leo, who was sitting on the back of the grizzly bear, just looked at Kaugresh who was trying to break the bone wall with an ice arrow with a playful eye, and did not make any moves.
A cannibal mage whose strength has reached the level of a high-level warrior is very powerful in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Leo it is nothing, and he is too lazy to do it. Not to mention that Kaogresh may not be able to rush out before the poison, even if he does, someone else will do it, and Verri, who is also a high-ranking fighter, is not pretty.
"I just saw that you ogres usually eat too much meat and have too much greasy in your body, so you kindly gave some mushrooms, why are you so excited? Want to thank me? In fact, there is no need, I'm a person, I have always been kind and don't expect to repay. ”
Just because he didn't bother to move didn't mean that Leo's mouth wouldn't move, he kept stimulating Kaogresh in a mocking tone, so angry that the ogre even slowed down the speed at which he could gather mana.
An angry Kogresh didn't notice that his body had begun to appear ugly spots due to the long time spent in the gray-green mist, and these spots were spreading rapidly.
It didn't take long for Leo's playful eyes to appear as an ogre leader covered in ugly spots, his name was Cogresh.
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(I'm going to be ready to put it on the shelves after pushing it, I'm so worried in my heart that I'm going to pounce that I don't even know what my surname is?) )