012 Flesh and Blood
Lothar's current location is the underground area of the Sanctuary of Langovich.
Not only the floor, but also the walls and ceilings were covered in filthy black mud.
Everywhere around was a huge cocoon-like object: the whole body was pitch black, and countless translucent blood-red pus pockets grew on the surface, one bulge, one bulge, extremely permeable.
One of the meat cocoons has burst.
Lothar knew that the stitched corpse had "hatched" from this flesh cocoon, and then crawled to it through the surrounding walls, through the many passages that resembled worm mouthparts.
The blood on his body dripped onto the filthy black mud, and suddenly caused a wriggling sound of Suosuo. Those meat cocoons seemed to have tasted the taste of boiling blood, and they were throbbing with excitement.
Lothar immediately took out a weak healing potion and poured it down.
The medicine quickly took effect, and the wounds on his body healed in the blink of an eye, and the bleeding stopped completely.
Although it is a waste to treat some minor cuts with magic potions, if the bleeding is not stopped in time, it is very likely to cause those undead monsters in the flesh cocoon to wake up early, which is not good.
Lothar breathed a sigh of relief and began to advance deep underground.
The underground area of the sanctuary was originally used to store valuables and to bury the faithful. It's ironic that it's now a hatchery for an army of evil undead.
After walking for about ten minutes, Lothar noticed that a large underground hall had suddenly opened up in front of her.
Huge meat cocoons were piled up everywhere in the hall, silently absorbing negative energy nutrients from the filthy earth and black mud, allowing the undead monsters inside to quickly grow into complete bodies.
The enemies to face in the Undead Scourge are the "non-mainstream" undead with a reproduction system similar to the Zerg, not the bone racks that are commonly remembered as necromancers resurrected from the graveyard.
In the middle of the hall was the key target that Lothar had to destroy.
It was a huge red flower.
Each petal is made up of a large mass of dark carrion. On the petals, the muscle textures and blood vessels are clearly visible, exuding indescribable disgusting and evil. The stamens were a foul-smelling mass of rotten flesh, like a pile of countless messy internal organs, with dense fat maggots wriggling on them.
The petals of this flower are closed one by one, and they are trying to absorb negative energy, nourish themselves, and grow rapidly.
"Rotten Flesh and Blood......" Lothar stared at the evil plant in the middle of the hall in the distance.
This thing is the source of filthy soil and black mud. Only by destroying the carrion and blood flower can the entire area be cleared of filthy soil and black mud. At the same time, the undead who relied on the filthy earth and black mud to supply negative energy nutrients also died out on their own.
Lothar briefly measured the size of the carrion blood flower and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, this carrion blood flower is only a young plant, and it is relatively easy to destroy." ”
As someone who has experienced an undead scourge, Lothar naturally knows the weakness of the carrion and bloodflower.
The resilience of this undead plant is extremely amazing, and even the carrion blood flower in the form of this young plant seen now must be destroyed by applying a destructive power of 12 energy levels at a time. Otherwise, the carrion blood flower that can directly absorb negative energy can be restored in the blink of an eye.
The destructive power of the 12 energy levels requires three three-ring attack spells to be released together. Of course, Lothar couldn't have cast the Triple Ring spell, but he had other options.
But now, Lothar has one more problem to solve - get to the carrion and blood.
Because of the strong negative energy influence, tens of thousands of scavenging scarabs were attracted and gathered in the hall.
The dense black crustacean creatures covered almost the entire hall, and even made it impossible for people to get their feet.
Although these scavenging scarabs do not attack Lothar, they are the best sentinels. Life is the creation of positive energy and the four basic elements. When these scavenging scarabs sense a living person approaching, they immediately cause a commotion and revive the undead creatures sleeping in their cocoons.
Lothar couldn't even deal with a stitched corpse, let alone the more powerful and evil things that might hatch from the cocoon.
But Lothar already had a solution. Although he had died several times in the Scourge of the Dead, he had died in the fierce battles against the Black Keep. He didn't know how many times he had completed the task of removing the carrion and blood flowers, and he had already summed up a set of quick and efficient plans.
Lothar took a packet of powder from the inside pocket of her mage robe and sprinkled it all over herself. This gray powder is made from a mixture of death knell grass and white bone powder, and it doesn't taste very good, with a corpse smell, but it can effectively hide the breath of living creatures on its body, hiding the perception of scavenging scarabs.
Lothar took a deep breath and walked into the hall.
"It's a good thing I didn't have a phobia of intensity, otherwise I would have fainted with fright." Lothar cautiously moved forward.
The scavenging scarab at his feet was unaware of his presence, and remained quietly lying on the filthy black mud, occasionally flapping its wings.
A quarter of an hour later, a tense Lothar finally walked in front of the carrion and blood.
An indescribable stench reached the nose.
"Miss Rotten Flesh Bloodflower, the takeout you ordered has been delivered. This is my first time doing this job, so please forgive me if there is anything inappropriate. Lothar smiled and took out a large wooden box from the dimensional pouch.
The box contained six large bugs the size of two palms, with flat, silvery-gray bodies and two rows of black spots growing on their backs.
Named the Holy Light Leech, this large insect is a magical creature developed during the 9,000-year war to restrain evil creatures with strong regenerative abilities.
Now, this leech is dried and ground into powder, which is an alchemy material with a wide range of applications, and many alchemy workshops are raising it, and it is not difficult for Lothar to buy a few live ones in Greenthorn City.
Lothar takes out a light leech. Leaving the wooden box containing the anesthetic drugs, the leech immediately began to wake up, and its body kept squirming.
Lothar hurriedly placed the large worm on top of the carrion and blood flower.
Hiss!
As if encountering a terrifying natural enemy, the carrion blood flower trembled violently and let out a hiss.
Lothar continued, placing all the remaining five Holy Light Leeches on top of the carrion blood flower.
This large bug is most fond of sucking the blood of evil creatures. For humans, it is highly poisonous carrion and blood, but for the Holy Light Leech, it is the most delicious delicacy.
The Holy Light Leech greedily sucked the blood, and its body quickly swelled into a sphere. The silver-gray body began to bloom with radiant energy, and from a distance, it looked like a bright light bulb.
The carrion blood flower trembled even more, and the entire body began to shrink, and the surface was scorched with radiant energy, and a foul smell of green smoke was rising.
The Holy Light Leech not only inhibits the strong resilience of the Flesh Flower, but also constantly inflicts damage on it.
Lothar didn't hesitate either, raising her hand to shoot a tricolor ray at the rotten flesh of the stamen.
The Rotten Flesh Blood Flower was attacked, and the tens of thousands of scavenging scarabs on the ground began to stir, and the countless flesh cocoons around them also began to beat suddenly, as if in response to the pain of the Rotten Flesh Bloodflower.
Lothar knew she had to hurry.
Because of the pain of feeling the carrion and blood, the undead in those flesh cocoons will hatch faster.
With the Holy Light Leech's ability to suppress the regeneration of carrion and bloodflowers, Lothar only needs to output 6 energy level of spell damage in thirty seconds to be able to completely destroy it.
Four trichromatic rays only.
Chant incantations and mobilize mana.
The spiral rays of ice, fire, and electricity were intertwined and slammed into the carrion and blood flowers, destroying them to pieces.
Realizing that she was in danger, Flesh and Blood made a final struggle. It trembled and hissed, calling for the undead in the cocoon to hatch immediately and save it.
Brush!
A fleshy cocoon cracked in half, and out of it crawled out a pitch-black humanoid monster. It lay on the ground like a spider, its apricot eyes bulging out, locking Lothar firmly.
"It's a tyrannical ghoul...... Although this is also a very powerful undead monster, it can kill me five or six times with one piece, but unfortunately, it has no chance. ”
The last three-colored ray blasted into the stamens of the carrion blood flower.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, the shattered flower of evil exploded completely.
The rich negative energy is released instantly. Immediately afterwards, the filthy black mud on the ground began to disappear rapidly, and the original appearance of the underground buildings of the sanctuary gradually appeared.
One by one, the cocoons that have lost their nutrients quickly wither, turn into pieces of dry skin, and then crumble into a pile of powder, and finally decompose into the most basic particles.
The whole process takes less than ten seconds.
The tyrannical ghoul who was about to pounce on Lothar also screamed and turned to black ashes, and disappeared with the wind.
The sanctuary, where the demons were dancing wildly, was restored to peace.
Lothar breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense nerves were completely relaxed: "Next, it's to explore the entire Langovich Sanctuary." ”
After clearing the sanctuary of the undead monsters, Lothar began to explore the entire sanctuary.
In the main hall, Lothar found the mangled bodies of the mage couple and several followers. After Lothar escaped, the final battle was so fierce that the two mages even used some means of self-detonation to die with the undead.
Lothar found nothing useful on them, so she continued to explore the sanctuary, spending an hour walking through the huge building.
The progress of the Mystic Book has finally reached 100%.
"Scenario: Langovich's Sanctuary has been explored, and the Mystic Bestiary has reached 100% progress. The collection of the illustrated book is complete. ”
"You gained 5,000 XP. You've got an added bonus: language proficiency. ”
In terms of mystery, Langovich's sanctuary is a rare scene, while the white deer that Lothar encountered before belongs to ordinary mystical creatures.
Lothar checks the state of the characters and realizes that she has a linguistic specialty. This specialty allowed him to master all the languages from the heavens down to the abyss.
In a war-dominated continent like Freiro, the translator's expertise seemed useless. Moreover, since the Great Collapse, whether it is the Astral Realm or the Endless Abyss, or the Four Elemental Realms, they have all lost contact. There is even speculation that those planes have been completely destroyed in the Great Collapse. Therefore, no matter how many languages you master in the outer world, there is no use for them.
However, Lothar knew that it would not be long after the appearance of the Long Poem of Calamity, and those races that mortals thought would be extinct in the Great Collapse would reappear. At that time, the expertise of language proficiency will play an immeasurable role.