Chapter 17: Transforming Warcraft
() Marsh Island, one of the nine islands of Olopa, is a man-made island located in the ocean southwest of the continent of Morun, formed by the Poseidon using magic to raise the seabed. As the name suggests, the main terrain of Marsh Island is the swamp, and there is a mixed race known as the "Marsh Clan" living on the island, which is a vassal of the Poseidon Clan. In addition, there are all kinds of dangerous magical beasts on the swamp island, the most powerful of which is the hydra lizard.
It was a huge earth-type magical beast with great strength and rebirth ability, and its nine heads could attack multiple targets at the same time - this was the only impression that the inhabitants of the continent had of the Hydra lizard, however, the Hydra lizard that appeared in the Blood Mountains that should not be swampy at all was far more dangerous than everyone present had estimated.
The soldiers rushed forward desperately, but before their weapons could damage the monsters, they were bitten off by the giant snakeheads that danced wildly, screaming so hard that some of them even ignored the attack of the sword and swallowed the body that had been bitten in two.
The crossbowman and the priest tried to attack with arrows and holy light, but in fact it turned out that the monster was not a necromantic creature, let alone a vampire, but a living creature, and the silver powder and holy light in the shaft of the arrow had no effect on them, and although the sharp arrows could be nailed into the snake's head, the damage caused was minimal, as long as the snake's head was thrown a few times, the arrows densely inserted on it were thrown everywhere, and then the wound healed quickly at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.
Some soldiers tried to carry out a direct attack on the body of the monster, but most of them either died under the layers of blockade of the nine snake heads, or were swept over by the thick long tail, only Liao Liao and a few people successfully inserted the sword into the body of the monitor lizard, but the wound spurted dark green blood, these blood is extremely corrosive, those soldiers who bravely attacked the body were sprayed with blood, and they didn't even have time to scream, and they saw the armor and flesh being corroded into blood-red skeletons together.
In just a few minutes of siege, this force has already suffered more than 60 casualties.
"How should this battle be fought?" the commander was distressed by the deaths and injuries of his subordinates, and he habitually turned to Owen for help.
"I don't know. Owen shook his head, "This monster seems to have been artificially modified, and it can't be defeated by tactics alone. ”
"Holy!" the commander cursed.
On the other side, Cassius, who had been chanting incantations in a low voice, kept surging magic power over him. Originally, with his current magic cultivation, he no longer needed to chant spells to cast magic below the expert level, and the reason why he insisted on chanting was to strengthen the power of magic.
As the sound of the chanting spell ended, a cold breath shot out from the top of the "Endurance Grip", accurately hitting the black snake's head in the middle, and the entire snake's head was covered with a thin layer of ice, and the movement was completely blocked. This magic, known as Disintegrating Chill, disrupts the results of frozen matter, making it extremely fragile.
"Here's your chance!" the commander took the lead, swinging his sword and rushing towards the frozen snake head, and several infantry around him also responded to the commander's attack, focusing on the black snake head.
Under several heavy blows, the frozen black snake's head cracked several cracks, and finally shattered into a ground of ice slag. "It's done!" cheered the soldiers. It seems that this method is indeed effective, although only one snake head can be smashed at a time, but as long as you attack according to this method, destroy the remaining 8 snake heads one by one, and defeat this terrifying monster.
However, they soon find out that they are wrong, and they are very wrong. They far underestimated the horror of this monster.
I saw that on the body of the monitor lizard, the roots of the broken black snake head shook a few times, and the ice cubes wrapped in the turnover peeled off "Hua Lala", and the remaining 8 snake heads made a weird hiss at the same time, and the black snake head that was destroyed actually grew back in front of everyone's eyes!
Not to mention the ordinary soldiers, even the commander lost his words, he stood there dumbfounded, even though the attack of the hydra lizard attacked him, but he forgot to escape...... If it weren't for Owen's timely intervention, his life would have been left there.
Kicking the snake twice on the head, using the reaction force to increase the speed of the backward flight, Owen took himself and the commander to a relatively safe place. "Your Excellency Knight, retreat first and regroup your formation. Owen shook the commander awake in a daze.
"Okay, good...... the stunned commander replied blankly, and hurriedly gave the order to the troops, "Retreat!
The soldiers did not want to entangle with this monster for a long time, and when they heard the order to retreat, they spread their feet and ran back. But they did not lose the face of the professional soldiers, although they were repulsed, but it was not a chaotic rout, they lifted or carried the wounded around them, the crossbowmen lined up in a dense formation, concentrated their fire on the hydra lizard to fire crossbow arrows, interfered with its pursuit, covered the evacuation of their companions, and the priest treated the wounded as he ran. The troops retreated the way they had come and gone in a panic.
The hydra lizard behind did not catch up, and the nine snake heads were facing the sky, constantly roaring "woo za" and "woo za". After shouting for a few minutes, he crawled back into the pond and dived underneath.
The two running crossbowmen suddenly sank down and were dragged into the mud that appeared at some point, and the four soldiers next to them went to rescue them, but the mud area quickly expanded, and even they were implicated, and finally dragged into the mud, leaving only a series of bubbles.
The troops were shocked by this incredible scene, but they did not realize that this was just a prelude. The surrounding landscape has changed dramatically, and the black rock surface, which was originally hard, dry, and full of stones, has quickly turned into a swamp full of mud and puddles.
"Is it ......" Cassius shuddered.
"What do you think of?"
After Owen said this, Cassius seemed to calm down, and then said his analysis and speculation: "Just when those snake heads kept roaring, I felt a strong vibration from the nearby elements. It now appears that those roars were not meaningless beastly instincts, but rather similar to the process of chanting incantations when we magicians cast their spells. The monster uses magic, and its magic is to turn the surface into a swampy place that is best suited to it. ”
As soon as Cassius finished speaking, he saw a huge black snake head suddenly poke out of the quagmire in front of him, and then the remaining eight snake heads poked out of the surrounding quagmire one after another, followed by a huge lizard body.
"This sucks......" Cassius broke out in a cold sweat. This hydra lizard can not only transform the surface into a swamp, but also move quickly underneath the swamp.
The offensive was no longer possible, the retreat was blocked again, and the disadvantaged force was already in a difficult situation.
Dawning Hills. Council Hall.
Everyone stared at the three-dimensional image in the middle of the council hall, except, of course, the black fox who was sleeping soundly.
"Mr. Orome. That's what your 'hydra' is capable of? Seems to be funny. Melissa watched with interest as the Hydra lizard fought against the invading humans, and after all this time in Dawning Heights, she hadn't seen the legendary Eurom's pet fighting.
"I don't think it's good. Muffer teased unscrupulously, "Back then, I didn't hesitate to cross the ocean to the swamp island to catch a hydra lizard, and I also specially made a swamp in the barren and dry blood mountains to raise this pet, and I have done countless practical things over the years, and it took so long to clean up such a few people." ”
"Cut, you might as well let me just rush out and slaughter those guys. "It's rare for Sparrow to share Muffle's opinion.
As the owner of the Hydra lizard, Orom doesn't mind what the fools think. In order to collect as complete a number as possible, Eurom will certainly not let this rare battle light yì end. He crossed Erlang's legs, put the book together and put it on his lap, and lay an open notebook on the paper, and at some point there was an extra quill pen in his hand, while looking at the battle scene in the three-dimensional magic image, he recorded something in the notebook. This is the style of a serious and rigorous scholar.
Over the years, the Hydra lizard's original strength and regeneration abilities have been greatly enhanced, with the addition of the ability to spray poisonous blood, terrain alteration magic, and draw energy directly from the ground, what else is there for Hydra to improve? Should we increase the ability to attack from a distance or move in space? The former has failed several times, and the latter is too difficult to transform. It's nerve-wracking. Forget it, let's talk about it after collecting the actual combat number jù this time.
Olrom has transformed this Warcraft pet "Hydra" for hundreds of years, but he has never been able to achieve perfection, not even Cheng Dù, who made him "satisfied", he can't find the root cause, so he can only further strengthen his observation. However, as the battle progressed, Eurome's focus shifted imperceptibly away from Hydra. Could that silver-haired boy with extraordinary skill but seldom make a move than Hydra would be a more worthy source of study than Hydra?, Orom smiled knowingly.
In fact, it wasn't just Eurom who noticed Owen, the vampire prince had finished smoking a cigar, and he lit another one, his eyes all the way to the three-dimensional magic image. From beginning to end, his focus was only on Owen, not the modified Hydra lizard or others.
Under the all-round attack of the Hydra lizard, the soldiers knew that they had no way to retreat, so they could only fight to the death, and as a result, they paid more casualties, but they could not cause any damage to the Hydra lizard, which was both offensive and defensive.
During this period, Cassius also used his magic to attack many times, he used "Disintegrating the Cold Air" to smash the two snake heads one after another, but before he could expand the results, the two snake heads were reborn one after another; although the magic of small power was fast, it could not hurt the Hydra lizard at all; and although a large-scale attack magic like "Maple Dance Frost Blossom" could attack the whole body of the Hydra lizard at the same time, it could not produce damage that broke the muscles and bones, and it was in vain. After several successive failures, Cassius trembled with rage.
"Isn't there a way to deal with this?" watched his men fall one by one, and the commander was on the verge of collapse, he had been on the battlefield before, but he had never seen such a monster, and he had never fought such a battle.
"Don't panic, there's always a way. You're the commander, and you can't let your subordinates see you crazy. "Owen is the calmest person right now, he is not directly involved in the battle, rushing forward is useless, it is better to watch and meditate on countermeasures.
"You say it easily! There is a way? There is a way, you say it! Now my men are bleeding and losing their lives!" As a commander, he could not leave his soldiers and run for his life alone, even if he was only commanding a small squadron.
"There's a way. Cassius, who was out of breath, suddenly said this.
Owen and the Commander looked at him at the same time. After a series of setbacks, Cassius's self-confidence was greatly defeated, and while he was depressed, he gradually calmed down, and his eyes flashed with hope.
"I don't know if this is possible, but it's man-made. Owen, I need your help. ”