Chapter 57: Reconnaissance of Friend and Foe
Early in the morning of the first day, Roger officially entered the Swamp with his troops.
This is only the edge of the Everglades region, and the difficulty of the "road" is far beyond Mum's imagination, and even Roger's face is white and blue after making some mental preparations.
As far as the eye can see, the entire ground is covered in black mud, and if you are not careful, you will fall into a mud pond or swamp. Coupled with the lingering white fog and all kinds of demonic beasts lurking in the mud pool, Roger finally understood why this large swamp area called the Misty Swamp was a famous murderous place on the mainland!
To be honest, Roger initially thought that the place was named the Misty Swamp just because of its proximity to the Misty Forest. But now it seems that the truth may be the complete opposite! The fog in the Misty Swamp is much thicker than that in the Misty Forest!
At a distance of more than ten meters, it is already white, and this is only the outer edge of the misty swamp!
Because it is the periphery, the fog here is not as heavy as it seems, and the sunlight that faintly penetrates the fog can still see the ground situation in this vicinity. But there is a faint necromancer toxin in the mist, and staying in this kind of place for a long time will still cause discomfort to the body.
However, Roger's troops, except for the Elemental Legion, were druids, completely ignoring the effect of such a little undead poison.
Roger kept trying to use the druid's abilities to communicate with the plants and animals hiding nearby, but in his perception, there was a dead silence around him, most of the plants had died, and the animals were probably corrupted by the aura of the undead, and they were already semi-undead creatures who refused Roger's contact.
In this case, the swamp that could have been more or less safe by simply finding the way by twigs and the like has become a silent killer, and if you accidentally step on the wrong side of the mist, you may quietly disappear into the swamp.
Roger was once again glad that he had chosen to come with the Elemental Legion, if it was an Elven Legion, it would obviously greatly affect the combat effectiveness in this environment.
With a light breath, Roger ordered the Thunder Elemental and the Storm Elemental to form a team of two or two, ten groups into a team, and divided the two hundred flying elemental soldiers into ten brigades, and scattered in all directions to search for the traces of undead creatures and reconnoiter the path.
In the mist, the air element, like the ghost class, can detect when the opponent is not aware of it. Of course, the air elements cannot detect ghosts mixed with the fog, and the ghosts cannot find air elements that have no life characteristics.
However, neither the Thunder Elemental nor the Storm Elemental looked like an elemental soldier suited to serve as a sentinel in this situation. Not to mention the crackling thunder element, where the storm element passed, an obvious hollow belt was directly formed in the fog.
Roger could only hope that the sentinels of the undead creatures would be skeletons instead of ghosts, so that the air elemental soldiers might still have a chance to discover the undead forces.
The five rock elements are exploring the way at the front, and the rock elements that can absorb the power of the earth and regenerate their bodies can clearly perceive where the road can be walked, where the bottom is swamps and mud ponds, and in the face of the swamp crocodile and other magical beasts that are affected by the power of the undead, the rock elements with the double blessing of Roger and Tuna can also easily solve the enemy.
Since the aura of the same type will be used by the stronger side when it covers each other, Roger lent the Vulcan Sword and the evil shield to Tuna, and gave Tuna the blessings of the attack aura, defense aura, and defense field aura, while Roger himself opened the attack field aura and the logistics field aura, which Tuna did not have.
To be honest, being completely compared to his own subordinates in terms of offensive and defensive attributes made Roger somewhat disappointed.
However, the rock element under the leadership of Tuna, who is equipped with the Vulcan Sword and the evil shield, is probably strong enough to fight even if it encounters a seventh-order class, and it is really not too easy to deal with these swamp crocodiles that are only ** level after being corroded by the breath of the undead.
The Flame Elemental and the Ice Elemental protected Roger and the others who sat on the shoulders of the Rock Elemental in the middle. However, it was too hot in the front and too cold in the back, which really made the druid elders uncomfortable, and Roger and Mom and Tuna didn't care, but Tuna was somewhat resistant to sitting on the shoulders of the rock elementals.
Of course, in this case, it was obviously impossible for Roger to let Tuna walk on her own, and after making eye contact with Roger for a while, Tona obediently sat on the shoulder of the rock elemental.
The rock element under Tuna's seat is obviously more stable than that of Roger and Mom, which really makes Mom a little envious.
She's a little "dizzy".
Considering that he would go deep into the swamp, Roger handed over the white horse to the middle-aged elf sentry with a straight face to help take care of it before entering the swamp. After seeing the white horse with unicorn blood, the middle-aged elf sentinel's attitude towards Roger was much better.
Now Roger also sits on the shoulders of the rock elementals.
After all, no matter how difficult it is to get hold of a white wildebeest with unicorn blood, similar to a unicorn that is only willing to get close to a pure maiden, a wildebeest domesticated by elves with unicorn blood is only willing to be ridden by rangers and druids with pure natural breath.
This is enough to prove that Roger is a true hero of the natural family.
In fact, the original dwarf master Vattara was not so much "sitting" on the back of the white horse, but it was more appropriate to "hang" on the white horse, but in order to take care of the old dwarf's face, everyone subconsciously ignored that topic.
After all, the old dwarf can't even reach the stirrups, and it really hurts the dwarf to say it.
While protecting Roger and the others, the flame elemental threw fireballs at the place where the undead aura gathered from time to time, causing the fog to disperse a lot.
The ice elementals in the back didn't make any moves, but wherever they passed, the mist condensed into water vapor, making the remaining rock elements behind the hall wet.
The group entered the swamp at a much faster speed than expected. Roger and the others, who were sitting on the shoulders of the rock elemental, ate and drank on the rock elemental, but after about three hours, they would stop for half an hour or so for everyone to take care of their personal hygiene, and the rest of the time they had been on the road. Day and night, even sleeping at night and the group rested in shifts.
But only two days after this kind of day, Mom really couldn't stand it, she was really dizzy from the mount.
So on the evening of the second day after entering the misty swamp, with the cooperation of the storm element and the rock element, Roger and his party successfully found a large piece of solid ground and set up camp.
A pot of hot soup was prepared for Mom, a little spicy curry rice for the Druid Elders, some rough gems for Tuna, and Roger himself had dinner.
It was a curry rice that, like the Druid Elders, wasn't spicy at all. Roger has always felt that curry rice that is not spicy cannot be called curry at all, but unfortunately the druid elders are really unacceptable to spicy, they prefer sweets, so Roger can only settle for it.
Sprinkled some chili-like condiment powder on top of the curry rice, Roger tossed it slightly, and ate it.
After all, in the process of marching, Roger himself must also lead by example, so Roger, who has always had a high demand for food, can only eat now.
But while eating, the chopsticks in Roger's hand slammed down.
Fish, hooked.
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and Roger continued to eat curry rice as if nothing had happened. Maybe it's because of the better mood, but now Roger feels that curry without spicy flavor is not unacceptable.
On a dead tree not far from Roger's camp, a crow stood quietly on the tree, its blood-red eyes waiting for Roger's camp.
The crow looked at it silently for a moment, and then suddenly spoke.
"Druids, still with the Elemental Legion? In this way, the poisonous fog is completely useless, and you really have to rely on the sea of bones to drown these people? Trouble......"
The hoarse voice was clearly a male voice, hoarse and deep.
The crow shook his head and spread his wings and flew high.
In the position where the crow was originally standing, a "mist" slowly moved, and followed behind the crow unhurriedly.
Faintly, you can see that the "fog" actually has two hands.
It's an elemental creature!
Air element
Race: Elemental
Rank: Fifth Order
Class Traits: Flying, Air Immunity, Spirit, Wind Shield.
As a variant of the air element, the strength of the air element is not even comparable to that of the air element. However, the air element has a special ability: the spirit body.
The ability of the spirit body actually refers to the discrete state of elemental life before it is completely formed, in this state, the elemental life can ignore half of all damage, but when the elemental creature is formed and formed, it will naturally lose this ability.
However, the air elemental is different, it has been a spirit state since its birth. In addition, the spirit state of the air elemental is closer to the disembodied effect of the ghost class.
As long as the air elemental does not manifest itself, it will be as difficult to detect as the ghost class. The air elemental has an advantage over the ghost class because of the elemental life's identity.
Ghost classes can also be discovered through means such as undead power and soul detection, and the air element? Each caster will be able to spot the location of the air elementals, which are slightly denser than usual, but are generally "natural". Who would have known that there was a gas elemental creature with a very low elemental reaction hidden there?
Since Roger recruited this qi element, he directly positioned it as the best reconnaissance class, and this expedition, Roger brought a full twenty air elements, but he was not blessed with the hero's certificate. In order not to let the air elementals get lost due to the loss of the hero's connection, Roger made a simple contract with each air elemental.
Just like those top-level awakened troops, these air elements that are only the fifth order can be enjoyed.
So along the way, Tuna, who is the Elemental Lord, noticed something unusual, and no one else discovered these scouts that had been hidden from beginning to end.
The crow was quite alert, and looked back from time to time. However, in its eyes, there is nothing but fog around it.
The crow slowly flew into a large swamp.
This swamp area is quite extensive, and the fog around here seems to be much thinner, and the swamp crocodile can be faintly seen in the swamp.
Normally, creatures with eyes will be careful to avoid this place.
After all, a thick, dry bone that exposed the swamp suggests that the swamp may be hiding other dangers.
The raven flew cautiously around the swamp before plunging into the mist above the swamp.
The place where the crow disappeared had a slight magical reaction, which was very light, but the air elemental that had been following behind it was still carefully stopped in mid-air.
Enchantment.
Caught your tail. Seeing Roger eating curry rice, he showed a smile of unknown meaning, and Mumu, who was drinking the soup with a bitter face, couldn't help blushing and hurriedly drank the soup.
PS: I add more to the routine that I want to be close to my heart and prepare!