Chapter 553: Climbing Mountains and Wading Waters

The dawn had not yet risen as they walked, but as they walked, the warm, but not dazzling light of the sunrise gradually enveloped the earth.

Then, after they had crossed the mountain range where Rivendell was, they looked out and saw a large mountain range hundreds of meters high in their sight.

After descending from the top of the mountain, they also entered a dense forest at the foot of the Misty Mountains.

It's just that they haven't walked out of this continuous forest from morning to night.

However, there has been no pursuit of the elves in the back, and of course, Gandalf has never appeared.

And as night fell, the dwarves naturally began to set up camp.

At this time, it was the turn of Ye Feng again, and under his spell, the thick earthen walls of 5 meters high on all sides slowly rose from the ground, forming a simple but very practical temporary fortress fortification!

After all, compared to the encounter in the wild, there is no doubt that the defense battle must be more advantageous!

Then, at dusk the next day, they finally walked out of the forest to the foot of the Misty Mountains, and began to take their first steps into the Misty Mountains!

In the next few days, they barely managed to reach the first mountain range, but as far as the eye could see, there were countless endless mountains waiting for them!

It's no wonder that Thorin kept urging the team to move along the way.

Indeed, just crossing this endless mountain range is not something that can be done in a month or two, after all, it is not like in later generations that it can be crossed directly by plane.

They had to climb mountain ranges from mountain to mountain, and if they came across some extremely difficult terrain, they had to make a big circle to get back to their original route.

It is worth mentioning that although it is the middle of summer, when they climb to the top of the mountain, they are covered in snow.

The temperature in the air is close to freezing!

Under such a temperature environment, if there is no help from the night forward, the dwarves must find a place similar to a cave to shelter from the wind and rain every day, otherwise, if they sleep in the wild, then even if these dwarves have a good physique, even if they are not frozen into ice sculptures, their bodies will not be able to bear it!

However, with the help of Yefeng, it is very different, he can summon four earthen walls out of thin air, blocking the cold wind blowing in all directions, as for the problem of starting a fire.

Don't forget his elemental spirit, the Flame of Yadyan!

As long as Yadeyan is summoned, as a living fire source, is it still easy and simple to make a fire to keep warm?

It is worth mentioning that in such a low temperature environment, it is definitely difficult to encounter a creature like a wild wolf again, but there is a saying that is very good, life will always find a way out!

In such a cold environment, there is still a scene of biological survival, under the call of the Dire Wolf King, more than a dozen wolf creatures gathered from all directions.

However, unlike the wild wolves I encountered before, these wolf creatures are covered in snow-white hair, and their body size is also smaller than normal wild wolves, which is the indigenous creature of the Misty Mountains - snow wolves!

After years of survival and evolution, their hair is at least twice as much as that of their close relatives, but thick hairs like theirs can only stay in such a cold environment, once they enter the hot area below the foot of the mountain, then they will be killed by the heat!

Under the guard of these snow wolves, the dwarves were also exempted from the matter of sentry as before.

And at this time, when the dwarves entered a state of rest, Night Blade was lying in the warm hair of the Dire Wolf King, and fell into a tangle.

Because he had heard that this Misty Mountain Range was known as the birthplace of the Orcs, and that the Misty Mountains were inhabited by a large number of orc tribes, large and small, who lived in tribes.

Wouldn't it be easy to run into some orcs?

It is precisely because of this that he deliberately set aside half of the summoning beast quota to be used on these half-orcs!

Although it is still very difficult to capture a large orc tribe with his strength, if it is only a small tribe of a few dozen people, relying on the alien soldiers under his command who are good at infiltrating and assassinating, it can really be said that it is as easy as a finger.

However, after so many days, let alone half-orcs, even the snow wolves would definitely not have met them if they hadn't been summoned by the Dire Wolf King.

As can be seen from the plot of the movie, it will be difficult for them to encounter a small-scale orc tribe after leaving the Misty Mountains.

However, the next journey was not as safe as imagined, so it was necessary to increase the strength of the summoned beasts under his command as much as possible.

Although the best host for the alien is a humanoid, although the beast as the host is slightly lacking in both physique and intelligence, the alien is an alien after all, its innate killing instinct and body that can be called a killing machine, even if it is a beast alien, it is definitely a top-level existence in the food chain!

Therefore, thinking of this, Ye Feng can only use a large number of hatched beast aliens to enrich the strength of the summoned beasts under his command!

At present, the number of summoned beasts he has recruited has reached 29, so he can still summon a full 26 beast aliens to fill the scale of his summoned beasts.

It is worth noting that the Alien Queen has already laid an alien egg every 2 hours, so as long as it does not participate in the battle, it can lay a total of 12 alien eggs in a day, and it has been almost a month since he entered this mission world.

If calculated in this way, the alien queen has also accumulated nearly 300 alien eggs, so that even if all the alien summoned beasts under his command are killed by then, as long as he is given a certain amount of time, then he can instantly recover to all the full summoned beast quota in a short time.

Of course, there is also a certain restriction on the upper limit of the number of eggs laid by the Alien Queen, that is, the upper limit of the size of the Alien Queen's spiritual attribute X10.

The spirit attribute of the alien queen is 40 + 5 points = 45 points, if calculated in this way, then the upper limit of the alien queen's spawning is 450 alien eggs, when the alien eggs it lays reach this number, unless the alien eggs it laid before die and disappear and hatch, otherwise, the size of its alien eggs is only stuck on this number.

Later, Yefeng also left the camp with the dozen or so snow wolves, and after walking to a relatively secluded place, he began to tame the recruitment.

However, there were more than a dozen snow wolves, and in the end he only recruited half of them, of course, not because he couldn't continue to tame the recruitment, but because he always had to think about the young beasts in these snow wolf lairs, if he recruited all these snow wolves, then what would happen to these possible young beasts?

Especially in such a special environment!

As the saying goes, you have to leave room for everything you do, leave a little room for others, and maybe leave a broader world for yourself.

It's like those monsters in the cultivation of immortals want to ascend to the immortals against the sky, so the heavens will often rain down thunder tribulations at this time, although often at this time, 99% of the monsters are difficult to survive.

However, the number of the Great Dao is 49, but one of them is still a glimmer of life left for the robbers!

After recruiting 9 snow wolves, Ye Feng also immediately took out the alien eggs for hatching, and under his control, the face-hugging insects quickly completed the parasitic work.

It wasn't until a few hours later, with the absolute domination and coercion of the Alien Queen, that he also successfully tamed the 9-headed snow wolf aliens.

In this way, he can recruit up to 17 Xenomorph soldiers as summoning beasts.

After taking care of these things, he then gently returned to the camp to rest, after all, he didn't know how many mountains and mountains to climb in the future!

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After persisting in climbing for nearly half a month, Ye Feng no longer remembered how many mountains they had climbed, anyway, he just remembered that they had just climbed from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and immediately climbed back from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.

I don't know how many mountains I've crossed over and over again!

And in the past half a month, they still haven't encountered half of the creatures, in fact, from the previous time the Dire Wolf King called to a group of snow wolves, in the subsequent journey, there was no more calling for snow wolves and other creatures!

And the only thing he can gain from this long journey is the proficiency of his skills.

In between breaks, he also casts some skills from time to time to increase the proficiency of skills, and the proficiency of these skills has also increased significantly.

Even the proficiency of the skill of crafting magic skill scrolls has increased by 13 points, and has now accumulated to 43,500 points.

After all, when the team stopped, in addition to casting skills to increase proficiency, he took out a canvas brush to paint, sometimes it could be a cute snow fox of a flashing snow elf, and sometimes it could be the snow-capped mountain top!

Or maybe they saw the dwarves getting along with each other and felt that scene of that good memory engraved under the canvas.

It is precisely because of this that the dwarves know that Nightblade has another identity besides the Jungle Ranger Wizard - the wandering painter!

It is worth mentioning that when he painted personal portraits of the dwarves, the friendship between him and these dwarves actually increased to a certain extent.

With his high charisma bonus, he must have more favorability than the average contractor.