Chapter 196: The Swamp (5)

"Run!"

"Run, run, hurry!"

The elf pulled the bowstring, and out of the corner of his eye glanced at another boat behind him, Cremar standing at the stern, the wind pulling his robes straight, and the caster gestured and threw flames that spread out among the crowds of bipedal dwarf dragons that were following them closely, engulfing four or five dwarf dragons, overturning a dozen, but hundreds more still on their heels.

This was their fourth day in the swamp, and the spring of the year the swamp changed very drastically, and some places were completely different from the elves' memories, and because they could not walk all the way on the swamp that was large enough to carry the reed boats, a certain distance required apprentices and mercenaries to come down and pull the boat with the multi-legged lizard, but fortunately, under the guidance of the elves, the reed boats made by humans were stronger and more reliable than the reed boats of the black-footed halflings, so there was no problem that the ships leaked or even partially fell apart after being violently pulled。

There were also marshes that were vast, but the toads would not step into them in any way, even if they were tempted with sour berries, and when they were severely drunk by the elves with their whips—after a little probing, as Kerry had thought, those marshes were extremely sinister traps— Although the surface of the marsh was calm and waveless, it was covered with small white flowers of fine velvet and a huge whirlpool, and countless delicate silt with strong stickiness slowly rotated in one direction, and no one knew where they went, and once they fell into it, whatever it was, would be devoured as fast as a hungry giant. No one knew how these whirlpools were formed, whether it was due to nature, such as the collapsing river, or magic, and the half-dragon, half-demon mongrel they encountered outside the village of Cavehorn, who had used some spell to carry a swamp over the village to seal off the entire village.

They also saw with their own eyes the strange sight of a swamp whirlpool in formation, about a hundred feet from the caravan, which had been a gentle grassy knoll covered with a thick layer of moss. There were hundreds of slender gray trees, but in an instant, without warning, the water suddenly rose and rose and rose above the moss and trunks about a quarter of the way above the ground (and they later found out that it was not the water that rose but the grass knoll that sank), and then more, and strangely enough, the trees did not fall over, but remained straight. Until the murky swamp water swallowed the green canopy, and the water around them churned like a boil, and the people on the reed boat almost stopped breathing, but soon, before they unconsciously suffocated to death, the swamp seemed to have exhausted, and the floating stumps and dead leaves were silently swallowed up, and the water surface was calm again, perhaps before the glory of Rosada left this land that had been cursed by countless humans. Tiny white velvet flowers will once again cover the empty water, and future generations will never know what dangers lie beneath the swamp.

Because of this, the caravan's journey was slowed down, but it was only for two or three days. Elves' keen senses were able to catch the slightest wind, the direction of the reed ship - if there was also a Google Map on this plane, one could see that the line was almost straight after removing a few obvious circles.

Of course, even a dragon may not be able to complete the journey in the snowy swamp without incident. Kerry had already led the caravan to avoid the hideaways of several behemoths he knew, but with the marlin that had not caused any damage to the caravan except for two poor schoolboys, they had only encountered some minor trouble. The only thing that wasn't so easy to deal with, including the scavenging birds and swamp crocodiles, was a combination of a vine of dread and a few clumps of creeps - luckily, the vine of dread wasn't derived from the blood of a demon or devil or a mage, so it had no spell casting ability and couldn't mix with the intractable trolls - If it weren't for the young (you can't even call it young) mage with the fluff on his face stupid enough to cast a lightning beam, their previous battle would have ended much sooner.

"Electricity only strengthens the creeps and the vines of dread and heals their wounds," said the lich hidden in the shell of the living, after casting a spell that sent a blazing flame to the arrows fired by the elves and mercenaries, "didn't your mentor teach you?"

His voice was so faint that it was almost inaudible, but it sent chills all over the mage's body.

That night another mage came looking for Cremar and apologized to him, indeed, the young mage was still a novice - it was his first job since leaving the Mentor, "I taught him not to use lightning spells against creeping monsters and vines of dread," the old mage with white hair said apologetically, "he was a little too nervous to forget." He winked at Kremall, "I've ordered him to copy 'No lightning spells on Creeping Monsters and Dreadvines' a hundred times." ”

The former undead didn't see this as a reason at all, and he felt that throwing the little mage into the vine of dread was the best way to teach, no matter who it was.

The caravan lost nine more men to the Creep and the Dread Vine, three of whom were dragged deep into the swamp and could not even recover their bones, and the others, although they were pulled up in time along with the Creeps that wrapped around them, their bodies had been pierced by these greedy carnivorous plants, and their hollow tentacles pierced into the human body, taking root in the bones, sucking the flesh and marrow, and people could cut off the parts that remained outside the body, but there was nothing they could do about what was inside- You can't cut him open and rummage through them - in this case, it's hard to save them even with healing potions and magic, and they've been torn apart alive by the Dread Vine, which may have originated from an orc, and you can find some orc traits in it, such as barbs like fangs and claws from its roots.

There were also a few wounded, including the older mage, but not for his own sake - before they were about to break out of the radiating range of the Dread Vine, the monster silently roared and threw a ball of creeps at them, targeting the mages still suspended in the air, and to the lich's utterance, the youngest of them could only wave his arms and shout like a priest of Flo, unable to fight back or defend - In the end, it was his mentor who had to pay the price of an arm to fish him out from under the creeping tentacles.

This annoyed the owner of the caravan.

However, the loss is tolerated, and although they grieve about it, they do not feel depressed or panicked. After freeing themselves from the slow-moving vine monsters, they continued under the guidance of the elves, and after spending the night harassed by only a few marlin, they galloped all morning uneventful - but a few reckless mercenaries alarmed a group of bipedal dwarf dragons as they competed with the schizogill eels below the surface for a red-billed crane.

This creature inhabits reeds or mossy grass, and is the size of a sturdy male turkey, but judging by the name, they are not harmless little cuties, and for souls from another plane, the velociraptor in the movie Jurassic Park is about three times smaller and probably looks like this, their saliva is poisonous, their claws are sharp, and their mouths are full of barb-like teeth. Their dark green skin is covered in scales, muscular, and webbed on their hind paws, but the most frightening thing is that they are not one or two living alone - the elf Kerry describes them as reminiscent of the otherworldly soul of cockroaches - and when you see one, it means that there are a thousand of them around.

The bipedal dwarf dragons that were alarmed by the mercenaries were about two thousand, and even if it was a turkey, two thousand was enough to make people feel terrible, not to mention that these turkeys had hyena-like habits and teeth, and they had no concept of territory. As long as their stamina allows, they will chase their prey across the swamp, and similarly, they have no desire to be full or picky eaters. Bipedal pygmy dragons ate everything, from the healthy, wounded, dead, to rotting. Although their stomach capacity is a little worse than that of the little devil in the bottomless abyss, they also have sulfuric acid gastric juice, and even metal can digest it. Excreting while eating is not unacceptable to them. Worst of all, they have humanoid intelligence and know how to use tactics - when they encounter a large prey that needs to be chased by a herd, only one part of them will chase after it, pecking at the feet or tentacles of the prey, while the other part will maintain a steady speed and keep it away, and so on, and only when the prey shows a flaw, they will rush up, tear open the abdomen, burrow into the anus, eye sockets, nose or any other weak place.

They are very capable of jumping, if they are now on a reed boat with a black-footed halfling, then the dwarf dragon can jump into the boat with a slight jump, and the current reed boat is more than a man high, and they can only climb up like a monkey with a crocodile head, the leader of the dwarf dragons- A gnome dragon with shiny scales, about the height of a human's waist when standing, chirped commands, and some of them began to gnaw at the bottom of the reed boat, while others rushed forward and tried to bite off the rope of the multi-legged toad pulling the reed boat, which was how the reed boat was thrown off.

The dwarfs immediately surrounded, and the lone ship looked like a chicken bowl surrounded by hundreds of turkeys - and it was true, for the dwarf dragons, it was indeed full of delicious food.

The caravan master glanced at Kerryben, and even he couldn't say that he stopped the other ships to rescue them.

"How many people are in that boat?" asked Kerryben, shooting an arrow through the three dwarf dragons that were trying to jump into the boat, and they plunged headlong into the filthy swamp water with their arrows

"Sixteen. The caravan master said, with a slight look of anxiety, that the men on the boat were almost all apprentices—and of the kind that would soon come in handy, and that he had nurtured them for nearly ten years, not to add food to the bipedal dwarf dragons.

At this time, the black-haired spellcaster suspended in the air fell, "I'll go." He said.

"What's in that boat?" asked the caster.

The caravan master was momentarily confused, but he immediately understood what the caster was asking: "And pyroxene," he said, "and some furs," his mind spun so fast that he could almost hear the whirring wind: "You can discard it, if you can...... Save those people, the goods don't matter. ”

"How many pyroxenes?"

"A thousand pounds, and it's all rubble, not very valuable. The master of the caravan said, "...... Also, I'm not doubting you...... But do you need a helper?" "Mages also cooperate when they can, especially when facing many enemies, two pairs of eyes are better than one.

"He?no!" said the otherworldly soul categorically, knowing that the caravan master was referring to the young mage, that his mentor would have to wait until tomorrow to cast spells, and that even if it were, it didn't want to have more pig teammates.

He flew back into the air, and as he passed Leona and Memey's ship, he saw Birdwin, because this ship lacked strong male relationships, it was the most dangerous in the beginning, but now the people on board were almost all safe, they were concentrated in the center of the ship, missing an arm, but the former paladin, who could still wield his broadsword like a feather, was steadily guarding the rear and the left and right sides. A few of the mercenaries cleverly drew their tenacious nets so that even if the dwarf dragons climbed aboard the ship for a moment, they could not break through their defenses, but the mercenaries' swords could pierce their stomachs through the nets, and Leona stood at the bow of the ship, clutching a longbow - it was from the hands of the Serris, the collection of the caravan's master, and the bow was held in gold-plated copper, and the bow was made of a tree that was said to shed blood, and it was heavier than a normal longbow, the string was twisted with silk rope, and the arrow was loaded with a three-edged copper tuft, with a pronounced backlash.

What Leona did was make sure that the rope that connected the hull to the multi-legged toad wouldn't be bitten by the swarming biped dwarf dragons, her archery skills might not be as good as the elves, but they were enough to convince most humans, and it was worth mentioning that she was able to shoot the bow left and right, a skill that not everyone can have.

The spirit of the other world casually dropped a spell that made the rope greasy, and several hapless dwarf dragons immediately fell to the ground, and Leona laughed and made a thank you gesture to him. (To be continued.) )

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