Ahead lies the swampy lands of the south of the Crimson Lands, home to the Blacktooth Serpents.

Close to the endless sea, the low-lying terrain is often flooded by seawater, so the ground water network is crisscrossed, and many strange-shaped plants rely on this salty and humid environment to survive, forming a dangerous place covered with a reddish fishy mist.

Rollin's Ares coalition forces cleared all the way to the edge of the swamp, where they were attacked and had to pause to set up camp.

Although the gods can quickly build a strong and safe camp with the help of their divine powers, it will cost a lot of Force power and is not a good deal, so this kind of temporary guard post is built little by little by the warriors cutting down swamp plants.

The coalition forces numbered more than 2,000 men, and the camp was very large, although it was only temporary, but it took three days to complete the construction, during which time a large number of scouts infiltrated the swamp to investigate the interior.

The poisonous gas in the swamp was rampant, and it was difficult for ordinary scouts to hold on for a long time, and they had to retreat after going deeper than fifty miles at most, and in just half a day, the situation near the camp had been basically discovered, and there were some dangerous beasts, but there were no traces of black-toothed snake people.

The Blackfang Snake Man is the overlord of the swamp and the main target of the coalition forces. And this is the opponent's home turf, if you can't find the opponent and don't know the opponent's situation, the camp is always in danger.

To this end, Rollin formed an advance army of twenty elite warriors, led by one of his own incarnations of the god of war's right hand, all the way to the depths of the swamp.

On the first day, Luo Lin led the team to go deeper than 100 kilometers, and there was no trace of the black-toothed snake man all day. Until late afternoon. When the blood-red sun in the sky was about to set. Something like a camp finally appeared ahead.

A few scouts sneaked closer, circled around the camp, and then came back to report: "My lord, it is indeed a camp, and there is a nest made of grass and trees, but there is no human figure in sight, it seems to have been abandoned. ”

"Abandoned?" Rollin thought about it for a moment and decided to go into the lair to see what was going on.

The crowd soon reached the entrance to the lair. There is a small lake here, and the nest is built around this lake, mixed with dead branches, vines, leaves, grass stems, etc., and there is only one top to shade the rain and sun, but below is a muddy field, and you can see many serpentine traces on the mud, but the traces are blurred, and it is obvious that it has been some time.

Rollin felt it carefully for a while, but did not find any breath of life in this lair, and the scouts around him also carefully probed. After making sure there were no traps around, a group of people entered the inside of the lair.

The small lake in the center of the nest is about twenty meters wide. The water inside is so clear that you can see the bottom at a glance, and when you throw a stone into it, it makes a 'clatter' sound, and it is about four meters deep.

Walking around the lake, there are no creatures in the lake, no aquatic plants, no fish, let alone black-toothed snake people.

"Lord, there are a large number of traces of the life of the black-toothed snake people in the lair, but there is no one, only this one has been found." A scout came up to report that he was holding a brown egg in both hands, about the size of a basketball, with a hole in the shell broken, and a very foul smell coming out of it, which made people smell sick, and the surrounding warriors instinctively covered their noses.

Rollin also held his breath, asked the scout to put the egg on the ground, and used his sword to pick some of the holes in the eggshell, and with a 'bang', an extremely fishy smell of decay rushed out, and at the same time, a large amount of thick green liquid flowed out, and the surrounding warriors instinctively retreated.

Luo Lin provoked a few more times with his sword, and the contents of the eggshell were completely revealed, this was a snake man embryo that died halfway, the strange thing is that its body did not rot, but it seemed to be a little tight and swollen, it seemed that there was a force in the body to support his body, but on the surface of this swollen body, many strange rune traces could be vaguely seen, these traces were not born, but seemed to be carved the day after tomorrow.

These runes are very peculiar, Luo Lin doesn't know it, there is a trace of breath flowing on the runes, giving Luo Lin an incomparably strong sense of darkness devouring, just like the abyss, under careful perception, this violent feeling suddenly rushes up, even Luo Lin feels that there is a moment of trance in his mind.

"Very evil rune, this rune seems to have devoured all the essence and spirituality of this snake man hatchling. But why would the snake people do such cruel things to their young? Rollin was puzzled.

"Could it be the eggs of some other snake tribe?" One scout speculated that the Blacktooth Snake people in the swamp were also divided into many tribes, similar to the situation in the Withered Plains, where the clans were often feuding with each other.

"There is such a possibility"

Before Rollin could finish his sentence, he heard a sudden and detonated exclamation from a warrior who was scouting the lair, and the warrior suddenly flew out of one of the lairs, his face pale and a thick look of horror remaining.

"What's going on!?" Rollin rushed straight over.

The warrior was already clutching his chest and began to vomit, pointing to the inside of the lair as he vomited, and although he could not speak, the horror on his face had already told everyone that there was something terrible in the lair.

Luo Lin's heart was also tight, these scouts had seen big scenes, and ordinary things couldn't scare them at all, what was there in this lair that made a warrior who was almost indifferent to life and death have such a violent reaction?

Mentally prepared, he led a few scouts into the largest lair.

This nest is a little different from the others, its roof is semi-circular, enveloping all sides, and it has a large space inside, about three meters high and ten meters long and wide. The ground was also damp with mud, and the air was filled with a smell similar to the snake egg just now, and the further you went in, the stronger the smell became, and when you went to the innermost, the eyes of people who were almost choking on the smell hurt a little.

The light here is very dark, Luo Lin used a simple light technique, under the light reflection, you can see an open hole, the hole is about a meter square, the strong fishy smell is coming from this hole.

Rollin glanced into the cave and immediately understood why the previous warrior had lost his temper. Even with his concentration. The pupils shrank suddenly. The whole person subconsciously took a step back.

The warriors beside him glanced inside, and at a glance, several of them retreated one after another, their faces turned pale, and some of them began to vomit like the previous warriors.

The entrance to this cave is not large, but it is in the shape of a small cavity and a large cavity, in the cavity inside. There were at least a hundred or so black-toothed snake people, adult warriors, women, and children, all of which had rotted and pus had accumulated in a thick puddle on the ground, and the common characteristics of these corpses were round eyes, sunken cheeks, and bursting pupils, and they must have experienced unspeakable pain before they died. The skin of each snake man was scratched, and it was scratched by themselves. The bones were exposed, the intestines were torn out, and they were sprinkled everywhere, and some people even gnawed their own flesh in their mouths.

This scene directly refreshed everyone's impression of the abyss.

After withstanding this initial sensory shock, Rollin couldn't help but think in his head, "Who did this?" Could it be cannibalism between snake people? Or is there something terrible in this swamp? ”

Mysteries poured into Rollin's mind, but there were no answers, and clues were needed.

'Huh', Luo Lin, who forced himself to observe this terrifying corpse cave, suddenly noticed something unusual, he found that in the center of this terrifying corpse pile, there was a black bead the size of a thumb.

The bead was unobtrusive, attracting Rollin's attention because it was 'growing', and it seemed to be sucking something from the pile of corpses.

It wasn't growing fast, but it wasn't slow, Rollin narrowed his eyes and was surprised to find that there seemed to be strange runes on the surface of the black pillar similar to the snake man hatchlings in the snake egg before.

Seemingly unwilling to be observed, the black bead began to shrink deeper into the cavern, as if to run away.

Luo Lin felt that the bead had a peculiar relationship with the snake egg outside, and with a thought in his heart, divine power gushed out, forming a bare hand, reaching into the hole, grabbing the black bead at once, and then pulling it out.

In the abyss, it is difficult for divine power to use this kind of magic-like power, and Luo Lin's move is still a means to start because the divine power begins to condense, but it is still very limited, and the power of this hand is very limited.

With this grasp, Rollin felt the black pillar resisting his strength, he pulled back, but the black pillar fled inside, and Rollin used all his strength to pull it out little by little.

As the black beads slowly left the pile of corpses, Luo Lin could clearly see that the beads and the corpses were connected into a black line, and there were hundreds of lines among the hundreds of corpses, which looked like black spider webs.

As the distance between the beads and the corpse pile was widened, the resistance of the beads began to weaken, but the black lines still existed, and none of them broke.

Seeing this scene, Luo Lin's heart moved, and he said to the soldiers beside him: "You go and get the snake man hatchlings outside." ”

"Yes, my lord." The scouts were eager to get out of the place as quickly as possible, and flew out, and after about a minute, two scouts walked in with the rotting snake man hatchlings wrapped in grass stalks.

"Stand back."

After everyone retreated, he took out his own sword to defend himself, and then controlled the black bead and threw it into the swollen and tense snake man's young body.

At this moment, a strange dark wave appeared in the air, and immediately after, the snake man hatchlings and the corpse pile in the cave began to change at the same time.

The body of the snake man juvenile began to swell and grow rapidly, and the pile of corpses began to melt, dissolving like a candle into yellow pus.

This change was so strange that Rollin commanded, "Stand back and stay away from him!" ”

At the same time, he raised a sword in his hand, and the sword qi surged, and all the roof of the nest was shaken away with a 'bang', and the light from the outside shone in, and the surroundings immediately seemed empty, and everyone retreated far away, observing the strange changes in the snake man's hatchlings from a distance.

"Pick up all the weapons, get ready, and attack if you don't see it right!" Rollin ordered.

Ahead, the snake man hatchlings had grown to more than two meters long, with knotted muscles on their bodies, and they looked very strong, and the four arms on their bodies looked extremely strong, these arms had no fingers, and the ends of the arms were naturally armed with weapons, all of which were spikes with barbs.

After about half a minute, the corpse pile had completely melted away, and the snake man larvae had grown to more than three meters tall, his whole body began to squirm, and his arms began to wave wildly, but he seemed to be out of order, he really couldn't stand steadily, and his eyes were opened, but there was no look in them, and he looked like an idiot.

"This is a corpse refining ritual, and this snake egg is the crystallization of the essence of the corpse." Luo Lin understood, he had the heart to test the physical strength of this grown snake man hatchling, and with a sword in his hand, a sword light flashed, and he cut through.

With this sword, he used seven points of strength, and such an attack could break through even the defenses of the abyss beasts.

"Poof~" is like a muffled sound like an old cowhide cracking, looking at the past, there is only a very inconspicuous crack on the surface of this guy's body, and this crack is closed in a blink of an eye, and it looks intact.

"Crossbow!" Lorraine was amazed at the body of the snake man's juvenile.

'Crash Crash! The scouts also attacked, but the opponent didn't know how to dodge, and the crossbow arrows were shot over, and the 'poof' sounded, and then they were all bounced away, and they couldn't hurt the opponent at all.

"What a high defense!" Everyone was amazed.

This is just a product of a failed corpse refining ritual, what if it is successfully refined? Rollin felt a little bad.

"Subdue it, take it back." Rollin ordered that if you want to deal with this kind of, you must first understand it. (To be continued......)