Chapter 581: Danger Lurks (1/3)
The Iron Steel Tree is indeed an excellent natural abode.
The distance between the drooping hard air roots is about one to two meters, which will not prevent the soldiers from entering and exiting, but if there is a huge intruder, they will inevitably encounter a large number of air roots when they rush in.
There is a large tree hole in the innermost part. The tree hole is very large, with an area of 50 square meters and a height of more than 5 meters, the ground is dry and shady, and it is still made of stone, which is a natural wooden house.
This is a delicate combination of the special structure and natural conditions of the iron and steel tree, and its main body is also made of countless aerial roots.
From the traces, it can be seen that the tree originally grew on the surface of a large rock, but over time, countless aerial roots finally completely covered the rock and became entangled and continued to grow upward. The rocks wrapped in the air roots slowly crumbled under the continuous squeezing of the air roots, and perhaps another abyssal creature discovered this place on the way, so the rubble here was cleaned up, which formed such a wonderful dwelling.
Naturally, this natural log cabin became Rollin's command room, where Rollin, as well as five baby healing priests, adjutant Gorenson, and a dozen or so female warriors in the team lived. Of course, the dwellings of the female warriors were separated by cloth, which was a special care for the women, and the warriors had no opinion on all of them.
As for the accommodation of the other warriors, it was also very simple, the huge canopy of the iron and steel tree ensured that the rain from the sky would not fall directly, and they only had to tie a rope net between the two aerial roots, and a tarpaulin was torn above the rope net, which made it a very good net bed.
The fighters moved quickly, and soon, nets appeared around the command room. After leaving the necessary sentry posts. The soldiers who were tired from the march rested online. One by one, they wrapped their bodies and looked like a big silkworm chrysalis from a distance.
The warriors can rest, but Rollin and the priests can't, and they have to take one last step to make this a truly safe abyss.
In the command rune in Rollin's hand there was also a copy of the Luna divine power, which was used to build the initial camp, equivalent to the start-up capital that Eren gave to each demigod, before this fund was used up. If you can't achieve self-sufficiency in divine power, it only means that you are a demigod who is not capable.
Correspondingly, the fate of this demigod is not very good. Either be killed by the abyssal creature, and the soul tablet rune will be reincarnated after teleporting back, in the process, the soul may be greatly damaged, and even the divine fire will be dispersed and extinguished, then after reincarnation, it can only be an ordinary Holy Spirit warrior. Either he himself fled back with the warriors, but so on. Your team will have to become vassals of other powerful people.
In the very center of the camp, Rollin held his breath. Channeling the power of the moon god in the rune, a soft silver ball of light appeared, about the size of a fist, and as soon as it appeared, the soft and quiet moonlight filled the entire treehouse, and the light also directly transmitted from the iron and steel tree, shining on the warriors outside the treehouse. The warriors, who were still tossing and turning, suddenly calmed down, and fell into a peaceful sleep after a while.
The silvery glow began to float slowly, and finally floated on the roof of the treehouse.
As the altitude increases, the silvery moonlight also begins to diffuse. It can be clearly seen with the naked eye that with the appearance of the moonlight, the originally ubiquitous pale red light continued to fade until it was fifty meters away, and this hemispherical area with a diameter of one hundred meters became a safe abyss camp.
Of course, security is only temporary. The divine power given by the moon god could only last for a month, and after the power that Rollin had obtained from killing the arverhead man before, it had only extended the time by less than two hours.
So time was short, and after resting, they were going to start hunting the abyss.
The five healing priests brought out this time were naturally the followers of the moon god Allen, and their way of resting was very simple, the five of them knelt around the divine power light cluster at the end of the tree, their hands folded on their chests, their heads bowed, and they whispered the prayers of the moon god.
In Rollin's eyes, he saw wisps of soul power emerge from the priest and into the void. At the same time, there was also some divine power as thin as a cow's hair in the void returned, enriching the power in the priest's body.
It's a matter of faith, but it's essentially a transaction. Believers put all their spirits in the gods, and the gods give them peace. Of course, as God's apostles on earth, pastors will also receive some power to show the glory of God. In other words, these magic techniques are a means for God to attract believers, which can be regarded as an upfront investment.
Of course, this is the priest's business, and Rollin is naturally not nosy, he is the military commander of this hundred-man team, and his duty is to lead the warriors to defeat the creatures of the abyss, gain a foothold, establish a safe sentry, and push the footsteps of the nature gods to the lair of the god of madness.
Because the God of Madness is a weak god with level 53 divine power, if he wants to do this, he requires Luo Lin himself to have level 53 divine power, so that he can rely on his own strength to resist the erosion of the divine power of madness all the time. This is the most important step, and other things such as food and equipment must also be self-sufficient.
Only then did he succeed in establishing a stable outpost.
At this point, even if he succeeds in the initial stage, even if he really enters the command level of the expeditionary force, he can be regarded as a prince, just like the god of winter and the god of hurricanes he met on the road.
This continued to evolve and expand the outpost into a base that could almost fight the Lord of Darkness like the Silver Fortress, and Rollin himself became a mainstay of the Nature God line, just like Alan.
Of course, this is very difficult.
After about five hours of rest, the scout who had gone out to investigate the situation returned, and he brought back the distribution of abyssal creatures within a radius of twenty kilometers and drew a map vividly.
The scout spread out the map and carefully explained to Luo Lin: "Sir, look, fifteen kilometers northwest of us, there is a dark gnoll lair, there are about 300 gnolls in it, and the battle is estimated to be one hundred and eighty people, which is our biggest threat. ”
The dark jackal, nearly three meters tall, stout, fast running, full of endurance, tough skin, the most terrifying thing is his mouth of steel teeth, the bite ability is amazing, as long as the warrior's weapon is bitten by him, it can be broken into two at once, if it bites the body, no matter where it is, it is the result of direct bite, and it is useless to have armor to protect it.
"Dark gnolls will go berserk, and after the madness, they will transform into jackals, and they are crazy jackals, they are not afraid of death, pain, and even if they are not knocked out, their strength and speed will be greatly increased, and there is no other way to stop them except to kill them." Adjutant Gorenson gave a very detailed introduction.
Luo Lin nodded: "It's indeed a big problem." However, we do not have the strength to deal with them for the time being, so we will always monitor their movements, and when we meet on the road in the future, we will avoid the front for the time being, and try to avoid a full-scale conflict. ”
This is also a helpless thing, the lack of strength to fight with others, that is not bravery, but looking for death. Of course, this strategy will definitely not last long, because their current camp must be within the activity area of the gnolls, and after a long time, the gnolls will definitely not tolerate their existence, and will definitely take the initiative to attack.
This requires Rollin to make his team strong as soon as possible.
The scout continued: "Ten miles south of the camp, there is a river, which is more than fifty meters wide at its widest point and about twenty meters at its narrowest point. We saw a twenty-meter-long Echinoderm Bay crocodile in the river, which is the overlord of the river. ”
"Echinoderm Bay crocodile, only twenty meters long?" Gorenson was stunned for a moment, then looked at Rollin: "Sir, the bay crocodile likes to live alone, twenty meters long, obviously a sub-adult individual, and is a good opponent." And crocodile's echinoderm is a very good armor material. ”
"Good." Rollin nodded, and then said to the scout, "You go on." ”
There were several other targets on the map, and Rollin waited for the scout to tell them all, so he could consider them all.
In the mouth of the scout, around the iron and steel tree house, there are a nest of jackals, a bay crocodile, a herd of eight thunder elephants, a black-striped forest python that can only see traces but not its shape, and a dark tiger that is also a dragon, and finally a pair of terrible blood-headed eagles that are raising fish cubs.
This area is full of dangers.
But it's not without good news.
"Here, nineteen kilometers west of us. It's a barren highland, and in the highlands, we picked this up. There were stones all over the place, and we suspected it was some kind of ore. ”
The scout placed a translucent dark green stone in front of Rollin.
Luo Lin picked up the stone and looked left and right, tried to scratch it with his fingernails, hung up some white powder, dipped it in a little and put it in his mouth and tasted it, a spicy bitter taste came from the tip of his tongue, which made Luo Lin's eyes light up suddenly.
Spicy, indicating that this thing is full of energy, this spicy taste is the stimulation of the tongue after the energy is exerted by tiny particles.
This ore is obviously a stable existence, but it still contains such active energy, this is really a contradictory existence, Luo Lin became interested in his heart, and secretly asked Zhi Brain: "Have you analyzed anything?" ”
Zhi Brain had already analyzed, and after hearing Luo Lin's inquiry, after three seconds, it gave the answer: "It's magic energy cold iron, which can be purified." Replacing the magic energy with holy energy through specific purification techniques can transform it into holy crystal cold iron, which is an excellent forging material. Weapons crafted from it are as powerful as Troll's legendary equipment, and have excellent counter-effects on abyssal creatures. ”
Luo Lin was overjoyed, and a smile appeared on his face: "This is a good thing." But our surroundings are too dangerous to clean up first. Let's get rid of this nearest bay crocodile for now. (To be continued......)